skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully Tom was just trying to emphasize that he was a "MAC" user, but honestly, anytime I see someone claim to be a Mac user but write the product name as "MAC", red flags go off...

Personal experience: No dropped calls. As expected, there is a hit on performance (bandwidth) when testing download/upload. I go from ~3mbps / ~1500mpbs (via Speedtest app) to ~2mbps / 1000mpbs. This is north of metro Boston.

I know there are areas with much weaker signals. I visited California (Lake Tahoe) and found the area a total a hit or miss with AT&T. I would never buy an iPhone (or any phone) that was tied to AT&T. I have a feeling that a lot of people bought the phone first without checking how good/bad AT&T service is in their area...
FTC to probe Spokeo, a site that sells inaccurate consumer info to anyone
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Schools wish to prevent students from accessing certain information. Encrypted search could allow such students to escape detection/punishment if they access that information anyway.
Free? They claimed to have a full report on me, but wanted to charge 1$ for it.

I didn't particularly want to give them a dollar to see if they (as they claimed) knew who I was, my relatives, etc. But if anyone wishes to pay a dollar to determine whether they got 917-838-9491 correct, be my guest. Be warned that if they find less than 10 brothers and sisters, they missed some relatives. (At a guess they won't get any, or else they'll just get one brother.)
I'd like to see that happen in all countries. It a great democratic exercise, and with modern communication technologies, it's now a lot easier to do than before.

I don't have any illusions that it will change society much, but it probably can't hurt too much either.
I took his challenge, and succeeded, so I don't buy the theory that we're special because of our capacity for fantasy.

(I did it for SCIENCE!)
It's just a phone, but several hundred dollars spent on a faulty product is guaranteed to annoy people. I understand that a calmer attitude overall is a good thing, but Jobs' continual dismissal of real issues comes off as rude and uncaring. From a 3rd party, I'd say it's good advice, although I would also advise them to return the phone if it isn't working for them. However, coming from Jobs, it just seems rude, considering it's his company that caused the issue.
Roger Ebert (sort of) apologizes for his "Games are not art" statement
If they were actually that sophisticated, they'd be making better products.
Is the problem really that bad? I feel like this is just TechCrunch exaggerating to get a story. Three people I know personally are having no antenna problems, and I've heard the same from many others. Are they just lucky?
To the folks asking if it's a Mac app or a web app, it looks like the answer is "both." From the controls, it looks like it's built on top of Cappuccino from 280North, and being deployed on the Mac using Cappuccino's Native Host feature (http://cappuccino.org/discuss/2010/05/13/nativehost-run-your...).
Well, a recent example is the banning of meow-meow after someone allegedly died of it. The law was passed then a bit later the coroner reported that the drug was nothing to do with it. A lot of people criminalized for no reason, and instead of buying 99% pure drugs from the Internet, people instead bought 30% pure drugs cut with God knows what from a dodgy geezer in a club toilet in Brixton. Nice one Nu Labour.
The difference is that the article I mention is the bare URL, whereas the one you've submitted here has a load of crap on the end, namely:

...?
utm_source=feedburner &
utm_medium=feed &
utm_campaign=Feed:+wired/index+(Wired:+Index+3+(Top+Stories+2))

Without all that crap the duplicate detector would've worked as intended.

Again, the suggestion I made some time ago would've caught it:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012215
Gaming and I have an arrangement.

In university, I learned an important lesson about myself: I play to win. Ultra-competitiveness works great in a lot of areas of my life, but has a drawback: when I encounter a game that doesn't have an "end", I still try to win, whatever that ends up meaning in context.

At university, I learned about MUDs, and they sucked me in completely. I would ignore classes, exams, friends, and if it weren't for a cafeteria right next to student computer labs, I wouldn't have eaten much; all in the quest for another level, another "wizard" (programmer) position, etc. At one point, I had completely stopped playing MUDs, and started building them. Skills were acquired, languages were learned, computing cycles were stolen, and in retrospect I learned more about group programming, system administration, networking, and social systems from a couple of years of "slacking off" than I ever did from my formal education.

After two years of abysmal grades (in everything except CS), my university politely invited me to explore other opportunities for a year while I got my act together. (Which I did; I got married, launched my first startup, and went back to school. I repaired my previous damage by retaking a few classes, but then relocated for a better opportunity, and never did complete my Bachelor's degree.)

So, the arrangement: I'll play any video game that has a finite conclusion or obvious play break-points. World of Warcraft is completely out of the question for me (I'm sure I'd love it), but quick rounds of FPS or racing games are fine. Mobile games are perfect for me: quick distractions with almost no social interaction that I can pull out when I have downtime, and put away quickly when something comes up.

Also, unrelated side note: racing real cars is a hell of a lot more satisfying than racing virtual ones. :)

----

To djhworld's point: for me, it's not really about time management; I slice up my time pretty efficiently under normal circumstances. It's about a complete lack of self-control when gaming; competitiveness and hyper-focus on the goal win out over rational self-interest every single time.

(I don't suggest that my experience is typical, but that's how it's worked out for me.)
I'm an iPhone developer and I'm actively spending money advertising an underperforming app. So I'm dead set inside your target market.

I clicked around a bit on your site, but I don't really understand how it works for developers. Say I hand you $25. How many downloads will I get? How much of that $25 goes in your pocket? Will consumers really take $.20 to download a $.99 app? You compare your service to adwords and other advertising. Is there the potential here to make more than I spend, or is this more of a "brand awareness" thing with murky returns?

Looking at the 1.5 paragraphs for developers on your site I really don't get it. All I need is something that says "spend $25 and get X downloads on a $.99 app". I don't see why you couldn't find room for that sentence.
There are many decent programmers who've been using high-level languages like Perl/Python/Ruby/etc for so long that they don't even remember the last time they had to think about a linked list.
Imagine the problem was with ATT (not hard to imagine), and Jobs sends the CEO an email expressing his dissatisfaction, to which the CEO replies, "Retire, relax, enjoy your family. It is just a phone. Not worth it." I wonder how Steve would react.

He sure as hell doesn't market the iPhone as "just a phone," so how can he expect his customers to think of it that way?
Just depends on how you define "success" (although I think being acquired and gutted by Oracle is outside anyone's definition).
Well, that last comment about "Retire" seems a bit weird. He has problems with his phone so he should retire? Am I missing something? Is this a use of the word that my English-as-second-language brain is missing?
Dan Ariely on Education
Actually, getting a paid app for free is only a sweet deal if the app really has value-- and if it really has value, why are they paying me to take it?

I'm trying to understand your business model, I really am, but for the life of me I can't figure out why I (as a developer/owner) would want to pay people to download my apps-- except for testing purposes, of course.
Goes to show you how versatile modern programming languages are. I'm just starting to look at Python for a massive GREP-ing project (searching through millions of server log entries looking for some signs of suspicious activity) and I'm already impressed with the crafstmanship that went into creating it.
He's not dismissing the issue at all. I'm sure he's spent most of his days since the launch overseeing the response to the issue(s). I think he's more referring to people starting class action lawsuits days after getting the product and people spending all day furiously blogging, emailing him about it, etc. It's Apple, the product's flaws will eventually be fixed because their image is necessary for their success.
Then they changed something.

I had several Symbian phones (6260, 6120c) and the free space on C: was always somewhat constant. I installed most of the stuff on E:. During my use of the phones, I never had to reset or wipe them.

Of course, I switched to Android.
Ask HN: Hacker News-TV
I recently had shoulder surgery and it's left me stuck on the couch for a few weeks with nothing but my laptop and TV. Anyway, the question and idea:

Aside from on the internet, has a HN-esque TV channel ever existed, or, is anyone aware of a lesser-known channel that is HN-like?

Similarly, has anyone ever pondered such a startup?

A side note, anyone familiar with IDEO an their techniques for innovation would be aware of their emphasis on shadowing and role playing. Being put into a sling for 5 weeks will definitely force an inventive mind to start finding solutions to the new set of problems that arise. If you've never tried putting yourself in the shoes of your customer or client, or even role-playing for the sake of creating new ideas, I highly recommend it for it's creative power. If you have no other lead, put on a sling for a week (on your dominant arm/hand) and watch how crazy your mind goes with solutions to problems you didn't know existed.
I don't want to rain on their parade but with a design life of 90 days and the rovers still operating after 6 years (2160 days) this is an engineering failure. Why? These robots were way over built for their mission which means they probably cost much more than they should have. Its one thing to get lucky and extend a mission a few months past the design life but 24 times the design life means they could have been built for much less. I hope the design team goes back and learns from this and incorporates the lessons learned in future missions.
Will the Apple store readily exchange your iPhone 4 if it demonstrates this problem?
They're all there, check the print version: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/06/the-enemy-...
Point taken. I am currently iterating on the landing page so I'll try out a few different variances that don't mention the .10 cents deal.

Maybe I'll even try and find some relatively cheap A/B testing software, that would be a fantastic resource. Anyone know of any?

I'm assuming you mean "free app downloads" as in paid apps just downloaded for free? This would be very nice... sadly I can't seem to think of a way without a deep partnership with apple and the app store.
Why not just return the phone?

That's what people normally do when a device doesn't properly perform its primary function.
Ask HN: If you could enact one Law, what would it be?
With all the bickering in politics and inertia in many areas I've always asked myself what I would do in a position of power. How would I be different?

In that spirit, I would love to know what others here would do given the premise:

You find yourself in a position to enact one Law (or small number of related laws) - what would it be?

Without writing a thesis, being too legalistic, or being
too USA-centric, here is what I would do:

Like paying taxes, jury duty, I would also make it a legal
obligation to vote. You can abstain if you wish, or spoil your
vote, but you need to turn up in person to do so. You don't vote,
you pay a fine (much like a traffic violation...)

All those in office, or running for office, are forbidden from
any donations or gifts. Instead a legitimate candidate would
be given a set budget and a certain amount of ad and airtime in
the relevant locality - this would be reviewed every 2 years
to account for local costs (ex. New York versus Little Rock and
changes in pricing, inflation etc)

With that in mind, voting would take place over a long weekend
which in itself would be a national holiday.

Political candidates would be obliged to take part in publicly
accessible or viewable debates.

Yes, there are a ton of holes in the above and ideas that need much explanation, but you get the idea.

Okay - your turn...
Maybe this is dumb, but I opened this at work and it was a little more graphic and NSFW than I expected.
It seems crazy that modifying the machine doesn't invalidate any legal claim if it goes wrong (aka a warranty)
How did you come to that conclusion? I can only speak for myself.

I have been using iphone for 2 years now and I don't see myself getting another one. When I do get another phone (mine working just fine right now) I will move to android based device as soon as my contract is up.

And no I am not leaving because of AT&T, unlike most people my coverage has been fairly good even here in NY. The main reason I am leaving iphone is because I don't like being told how I can use my phone and what I can install, putting artificial limitations. And most importantly, I love having more than one choice.
Microsoft (obviously) uses Office internally everywhere. If you have the money to buy all the little couplings (full version of the Office 2010 suite, 7 Enterprise, Communicator, Communicator compatible VoIP phones, smartphones with Exchange support, etc.) it works very, very well. There's a lot to be said about the cloud, especially for single individuals that move around a lot, but Microsoft has a really enticing offer for businesses.
Don't know why you got downboated, considering you're correct, and that guy isn't.
I agree, although I meant my comment to be taken in general (there are so many of these apps, for so many different websites).

In the case of HN there actually has been another reader that fixed the mobile experience for free (as mentioned in trimski's comment): http://toadjaw.com/hn
Fight Club.
The Pursuit of Happiness.
The reasoning behind my current price structure is that I often find myself aimlessly wandering the app store and eventually download a few free apps and usually get suckered into a paid app. My site (assuming it grows) would provide a way to aimlessly get exposure to apps [...]

See, now that sounds much better than "get paid to try apps." Discoverability in the AppStore sucks, and is definitely an open problem to be solved. If you can build a search engine/review site/categorization system/whatever that can make it easier for me to find interesting Apps-- well, that's a business idea I can believe in.
Another blog claimed that Apple had approached this guy to tell him to stop posting videos of the death grip glitch and that's how the exchange started. He still comes off as a loon, but it seems slightly better if you know this was part of an ongoing conversation that he didn't start.
You're right, the answer is both, but we're not using Cappuccino.

We're using Cappuccino's theme Aristo, which I ported to CSS3: http://github.com/maccman/aristo

For the desktop implementation, we're using Bowline - a framework I developed for producing cross platform desktop apps in Ruby/HTML.
http://bowlineapp.com
Hell hath no fury like a fanboy scorned.
In my testing (Ubuntu 10.04 x64) there are tons of bugs. Bookmark import dialog box won't close, some pages crash when restoring the session after exit, it's much slower than chrome or firefox... Am I the only one seeing problems?
Actually, I think he's trying to wind up an irate guy who has got to him a little. The original email exchange is... heated. (http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/07/01/exclusive-conversa...)
200$ is a monthly salary for average middle class indians
That junk is automatically generated, and is frequently not noticed. It seems like it causes a large number of dupes both here and on reddit, but I think it's almost always an error. It's easy to forget or not realize that it will result in a repost because the system doesn't check for that. The trick of adding ?repost, etc is sometimes used to make a repost on reddit, but I don't think I've seen it here.

Also, I wouldn't argue that all reposts are bad. If it received 0 comments and votes, despite being an interesting article, perhaps a single, better timed repost is in order. I wouldn't suggest resubmitting it repeatedly, but I don't think that single resubmissions are more harmful for HN than good content being missed.
Conversation with Steve Jobs on the iPhone 4 antenna problems
Indeed. You don't get to sell someone a magical life-changing device that will make you breakfast in bed on Tuesdays and then dismiss it as trivial when a bit of user dissatisfaction comes along. Apple doesn't sell "just a phone" - they sell a brand, an experience, an identity. For Jobs to dismiss it as "just a phone" is somewhat disingenuous in light of his marketing approach.
Allowing an iPhone to bring you some joy is okay, but allowing it to make you deeply upset is stupid.
> The world is quickly crashing down around Apple fans everywhere.

Oh come on.
Habaneros: Now no one will dare use your keyboard either.
Funniest tweet I've seen for a while.
Spokeo is exceptionally creepy, but I'm not sure how it's any different from InfoUSA which has been doing something similar to this for years.
What is "mpbs"?
You're also confusing medium and message here.

Porn is the message. Games are a medium.

I would posit that any medium which can be used successfully for porn can also be used for art. If a medium can convey the subtle and unconscious cues effectively to our senses so as to manage to turn us on, then it can also be used for the myriad subtle cues used for high art.

There are also mediums which lack the fidelity to effectively convey porn, but which can still convey art. (Scratching in a 1x1 foot patch of sandy dirt with a stick, for example. It's easy to convey nudity or profanity on such a crude drawing surface, but none of that would turn me on.)
Thanks for the feedback let me right out a paragraph here and see if it explains better:

adsReloaded is all about getting downloads. Let's say you have a 0.99 cent app and decide you want to spend about $25 dollars on advertising. For paid apps the price you pay users is at least the price of the app (so for a 0.99 cent app the minimum payout to a user is 0.99).

Since your budget is about $25 dollars you take the CPD (cost per download = 0.99 in this case) and multiply it by the number of new users you want (let's say 20). This puts your total advertising purchase at $19.80. I take 25% (added to this number) + the price of one download (to moderate the campaign/test to make sure the question is correct). So the total campaign price for 20 users follows this equation: 19.80 + 4.95 (the 25% I take) + 0.99 (price of app) = $25.75

This $25.75 will get you 20 new users. Granted you will make back .70 cents per user so really it will cost you $25.75 - 14 (your profit) = $11.75 for 20 new users.

This may be murky brand awareness to you but I think there is also a "word of mouth" marketing piece here as well... and if you push it hard possibly even extra downloads from moving up the app ranking lists.

Does this help explain more?
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No. Your mileage will vary, of course: a large part of this is rumored to be tied to how strong your AT&T signal is, so it may be I live and work in areas of relatively strong signals. I very rarely have experienced a signal strength problem with iPhone 4, however. Admittedly, I was a little concerned at launch — if I tried hard enough I could reproduce the signal problem — but I've found it just hasn't mattered in normal usage of the phone.

I think it'll eventually blow over, and I think we're starting to see signs of this in the Apple press already. I suspect Jobs knows it's a relative non-issue and is trying to brush it off as such. Unfortunately, it is an issue new iPhone users are concerned about and his words sound callous in that light. It likely would make more sense for Jobs to sit on his words and instead quietly ship the upcoming 4.01 release, but hey, it's Jobs.
Its kind of amazing to me that no one has figured out an enterprise calendering system on par with exchange. I kind of limp along with Google's caldav but it can totally be hinky across various platforms.

I have to believe there's a YC entrant here.
Yes it is an issue, but no it's not that bad:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-review/2
> It's Apple, the product's flaws will eventually be fixed because their image is necessary for their success.

That, unfortunately, is their image.

They release flawed products, that eventually get fixed. The flaws are dismissed as not necessary, useless, or a waste. Eventually the features might get added, or the flaw fixed. All too often, I hear from Apple fans to wait until after the 1st generation.

So that's their image.

While I think a lawsuit is pretty silly this early on (thought not unwarranted if they knew about the problem before launch), a solid release would do their image better then always fixing flaws.
Steve Perkins, who traded $520m drunk, to resume career in Switzerland
Steve Jobs at D8:

“When this whole thing with Gizmodo happened, I got a lot of advice from people that said you’ve got to just let it slide. ‘You shouldn’t go after a journalist because they bought stolen property and tried to extort you.’ And I thought deeply about this, and I concluded the worst thing that could happen is if we change our core values and let it slide. I can’t do that. I’d rather quit.”

It's funny because my advice to Steve throughout this ordeal would be akin to "retire, relax, enjoy your family. It is just a phone. Not worth it."

Perhaps Steve should widen his perspective a bit and realize that it's much easier to accept something is "not worth it" when you don't feel like you're the one that's been wronged. He should know.
Microsoft Kin discontinued
Perhaps they did the math and 3.5" is the smallest that the UI elements are touchable.
Wonder if seeing sencha get 14m has anything to do with his decision
"I have bought just about every apple product made in the last 20 years and this is the 1st time I am ashamed to be a MAC fan."

That can't be true. Even the first generation iMac?
From http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/06/leaked-andro...

It's puzzling, and disconcerting, that developers and Android enthusiasts are forced to rely on leaks and rumors in order to piece together the development roadmap of a platform that is supposedly "open."
Firefox 4 with lots of speed improvements and inline SVG