skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe by HNers. I think a solid percentage of the general public at least vaguely knows about it, but most of my non-techie friends probably don't, or if they do they heard once and then forgot about it. It's certainly a screw up on Apple's part, but when you keep in mind that the rest of the world is seeing much less targeted news streams, I hardly think it's historical.
Happy to help.

One more suggestion that I see getting made a lot: forget signup, let me make a graph in one click. I wouldn't necessarily put it on the home page (have to think about it), but definitely make it so I can get to your software in one click.

Also, preload the graph that I get with data that is easy to erase, just so I can immediately see what a graph looks like. This is almost like putting a screenshot of the product, except it's infinitely better.
I would say that's bullshit.

Tried using a netbook to do some web development, and the small screen, keyboard and lethargic hardware made it very frustrating. Horrible compared to using a big monitor and powerful desktop.
With respect to Stack Overflow, I think they were an instant success largely because they are infinitely less douchey than their competitors, who put up barriers and paywalls to see answers.
I'm on an Asus EeePC 1000H and I adore it. I used to have another machine for gaming and other stuff but after I went about a year without turning it on I got rid of it. I like to plug mine into a larger external display and my wireless kb+mouse if I'm at my desk.

As far as my OS, yesterday it was a pretty heavily tweaked install of XP, today I'm trying out Ubuntu 10.04. Oh, and learning how to use Vim.

EDIT: I've also got a 1tb external drive for long term storage, and slightly smaller USB powered external for those other occasions.
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But in the Soviet Union the arrests were made to quota to feed the slave labor camps of the gulag - not because of anything the prisoners had actually done (of course, they had to confess).

There were some courageous Germans who chose to defy the Nazis (e.g. the White Rose group http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose) but that to me is quite different.

The overwhelming majority of Germans, if they didn't belong to one of the racial or political categories hated by the Nazis, had nothing to fear unless they chose to defy the state. Most didn't.
Actually, that is the point I'm trying to make!
Sure, because Consumer Reports is so prone to over-reaction.

Do you think they have some kind of anti-Apple agenda? I can understand why people were skeptical when Gizmodo started posting reports they culled from the Macrumors forums, but this is Consumer Reports. Just because your phone works fine doesn't mean that the issue does not exist.
Earlier this year somebody contacted me about selling a domain name called "timemanagementclass.com". It was vaguely related to some other projects we were doing and we thought it might be useful.

I negotiated hard with the seller and got him down to $200.

Then a week later somebody else called and said he'd wanted the domain and was too late in responding to the original seller. He WAS really in the time management space and really wanted the domain. So I sold it to him for $900.

There's a moral to this story:

1. Always negotiate hard and be willing to walk away if you don't get what you want. This takes a lot of emotion out of the process.

2. Don't dither around like the other buyer did. He was part of a large organization and to actually sell him the domain took almost 6 weeks.
As of April 2007, DRM-free iTunes songs are 256kbps AAC. Amazon MP3 is 320kbps MP3. Audio file formats are a highly-debated and subjective matter, but the consensus seems to be that “AAC is higher quality at the same bit rate, so you can use a smaller file to achieve the same quality as MP3” [1]. (Originally DRM-free songs on iTunes cost extra, but now they are the default.)

[1] http://www.planetofsoundonline.com/articles/compression1.htm...
Is it more profitable to work for people instead of continuing to build products? What do they hire you for - SEO expertise or programming ability?

And how much of your name-recognition is due to your blog, and how much is due to how much you comment on social websites like this? It seems to me your comment output far exceeds your blog output.
"Bats with frickin Napalm!"
My personal view: when they stop killing palestinians I'll stop comparing them to people in the pastw who killed people of a certain race.

My view on bias ignoring my personal view: "I didn't say being anti-X indicates bias for all X" - just being anti-Israeli indicates a bias against Israel? Seems you're being biased against the coverage because you're pro-Israel to me...
"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic"

Stalin
Their belief may serve their immediate needs.
Sorry, but those two didn't made lanterns and mattresses out of people. Hitler very much one-upped everyone in 20th century in terms of atrocities.

As for the count, there are reasons to believe that Hitler was direct cause for WW2 in Europe. That one took quite a bit more people than 6M Jews you seem to imply.
Al Qaeda magazine teaches bomb-making, other 'useful skills'
Back in 1995, I started dabbling with the web design in my final year of engineering. Back then, the web was a brand new world and I was having a lot of fun trying out new thing - as my first project, I created a fan site for the Calvin and Hobbes comic strip (Cool Calvin & Hobbes Collection - http://www.nivmedia.com/calvin).

After a few years, I moved state, degrees, jobs and stopped maintaining it. In 2005 I happened to check the web logs and noticed that it was still getting several hits a day. In a fit of nostalgia, I redesigned the whole site using the knowledge I had gained in the past decade (web design was always a hobby, not a job), and in the process added some Amazon links and some Google adverts.

I've barely touched the site since 2006, but it still consistently gets several hits every day and generates around $1-1.5k in Google ad revenue and $400 in Amazon revenue a year.

Nothing to retire on - but as the first site I ever created and for something I don't maintain, it still brings a smile to my face when the ad revenue arrives in my bank account :)
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True, but that's irrelevant.

My point is that few people buy electronics on impulse, without research, before walking into a store.
And you can combine that with guards picking up children by the ankles and dashing their brains out on the nearest building.
The basic premise behind the first point, "We have feature X", seems to be that someone could do the same thing better than you. Well, of course they could.

But the thing is, you've already done it. While some hypothetical competitor is trying to catch up to you by copying your existing feature and perhaps making incremental improvements with the advantage of hindsight, you don't need to stand still. You can already be building the next generation of newer and better things. You have exactly the same "public" hindsight to draw on in doing so, and you also have whatever beneficial experience your team accumulated from having done it once already. For any software project or anything with a significant user interface component, that experience can be worth a fortune.

So while "We have feature X" may not be a competitive advantage, "We have feature X NOW" certainly is, assuming feature X is something the market wants and you've done it well enough for the market to buy your product.

It's surprising to me that the author of the blog post, who sounds like someone involved in funding start-ups, doesn't seem to have got the memo about ideas being cheap and good executions being the valuable thing, nor to acknowledge any possible first-mover advantage if you have an important feature before anyone else.
I have an iPhone 4 and don't regret getting it, but neither of these easy and cheap fixes is really satisfactory.

Two of my favourite things about the iPhone are that it's slim and looks nice. The suggested fixes (in my view) compromise those things.

Plus, in the bumper case, 'cheap' isn't really good enough -- you're still paying extra money to make the thing work as it should.
Yes, I expected people on HN to not like the signup hurdle :-) I will definitely make it easier for people to try it out.

Preloading a graph is a good idea, will do that too.

Thanks so much for taking the time to write. I really appreciate it.
I was thinking in terms of quality, not quantity.
Why are they not suing for breach of contract, which (should / would) contain specifications on selling products regarding the market they would be in
Multiple Login's on the same page
We are at the stage where we are getting ready to integrate with a potential client and the topic of how login should work came up. Currently the potential client has its own proprietary login system, we have built our tool so that you do not need to login at all, you can purchase the product without ever logging into to our system. We only require your email address so we can send you a confirmation.

This is causing a technical challenge, the potential client wants us to integrate into their login system, however we think that building links to proprietary login systems for all clients is not scalable. The other option we have is to offer the clients two login's, which we think is stupid. The challenge with that is from a UI perspective, having 2 login's on the same page seems confusing and amateur.

Any advice?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willful_blindness
True, but they are also statical outliers - most big bosses don't understand the market or the tech.

And even then I wonder: what would Microsoft be if Bill had understod the internet? He blew the company on that one. Might somebody who would not have been so high up in the hierarchy see that one comming?
Very well said
Techcrunch is Gawker for people interested in startups.

Incidentally, this quote from Nick Denton applies to TC as much as it does Gawker:

“We don’t seek to do good. We may inadvertently do good. We may inadvertently commit journalism. That is not the institutional intention.”

http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/07/with-ad-revenue-up-35-gawke...
So the options are to apply duct tape/masking tape to a new $600 designer phone or pay the manufacturer another $30 for an off the shelf kludge? Call me silly, but I'd say that's reason enough not to buy it.
You missed my favorite one. B.F. Skinner had a WWII weapons program that trained pigeons for use as the guidance system of bombs ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon ). From a video I saw (but now cannot find) the pigeons were trained to peck at the shape of a warship. Then they would peck at video of a ship which worked to keep the bomb centered on the warship as it fell by directing the fins to where the pigeon pecked.
I thought Google didn't allow the Android Store for tablets yet? Am I wrong? If I'm right, this would be a really severe limitation.
Or how small your head is.
Hardly a secret!

Edit I’m not going to dignify the Apple jibe with a response (Apple is one in a million). But who hasn’t worked at a company where the guys on top seem resolutely determined to meddle for the sake of meddling or are so clueless that they sink the company? The VPs of a tech start-up I used to work for were so in love with themselves that they ignored the advice of everyone else, including me, a lowly junior developer, and continued using a fly as a mascot and the tagline "Your place to sell out" until they filed for bankruptcy.
I thought the real meaning of "competitive advantage" was simply having profits greater than the average in your sector.
got 9 spam emails a few minutes after signing up for this.
way to go superduper.
I agree with you that having a feature is useful now, which is why I specifically wrote in the article that it "isn't a long-term advantage."

Typically the "first-mover" advantage is one of marketing, not features. That is, you get a bunch of attention and hooked users so others have to compare with you and steal customers instead of having a green field.

Just having a "Feature" first can still be an advantage too, e.g. Apple's retinal display, but I still feel this isn't enough.

Also agreed that if you CONTINUALLY produce amazing unique features -- like Apple -- THAT is a competitive advantage, but just having one isn't.
So mine got downvoted? I should have added </sarcasm> there…
This is disappointing. I tried to log in, only to get a really obscure error message: "Use of this device is not enabled for your account." It turns out that only spotify premium is enabled for linux.
Mine is SOTEC laptop I bought at Nakano, Tokyo.
I guess the earths magnetic field is too weak to pick up?
They talk about 2 or 3 "gating" processes where a decision is made to go from idea to prototype or from prototype to production. I'm sure that Jobs/Gates don't get involved until you start hitting the prototype stage.
1. Macbook Pro 13". I prefer it to the 15" I used to have, as the most important factor for me is portability. The 13" is effortless to tote, and fits comfortably into even small bags.

2. Core i7-860 based hackintosh, Samsung 24" monitor. It's essentially a cheap Mac Pro. It has all the power and screen real-estate I need to complement the laptop, especially for 3D work (Silo, Maya), and music production (Logic). I write music that is heavy on complex effects chains, and I like to keep it all realtime, so I definitely appreciate the extra power, which I wouldn't be able to afford in a real Mac desktop.

Speaking of music production, I use a Focusrite Saffire soundcard, for its nice-sounding mic preamps, and KRK Rokit 8 studio monitors, which sound pretty decent. I've got some M-Audio MIDI controllers which are of decent quality and not too pricey.

Also, a friend gave me his unused Apple Keyboard, which I use with my desktop. I know, it's a small crappy keyboard, but that's the best part, it is a much more dynamic element of my desk space than a big, bulky keyboard would be. Also, I like the fact the layout is identical to that of the Macbook keyboard.
I have 3 MacBooks (Pro, Air and unibody white), and use as a primary machine the one that works (i.e. not in repair) -- currently, MacBook Air. I had to underclock it with CoolBook to 800 MHz so that it could work without overheating. I can't believe I spent more than $7500 for something like this.
Three things actually:

2.33 GHz Dual Core Dell with 2gb RAM and Win 7

1.6 Core 2 Duo Systemax laptop (15.4 widescreen) with 4GB ram and Win 7/Zenwalk Linux

Dell Mini9 with 2GB and Zenwalk Linux
Q: Any experience with brainfuck?

A: No, but if you want, I can write you some CSS that looks just like it!
Work: Dell Optiplex 960 x3 on a KVM.
Room(Afghanistan): Dell Mini 10v Hackintosh / Asus EEE Box PC running Win 7 / Ubunutu 10.04
Home: iMac 20" from a couple of years ago / PowerBook G4 12"

The worst of them all is the freakin Dell Optiplex's at work, but what can I do? I love the portability of the Hackintosh and am thinking of installing Ubuntu on it as well, but I do love my Mac OS X.
To the contrary, a gigantic amount of funding is a millstone around your neck.

Frequently you have to pivot and head in an unexpected direction as you discover what the market really is. If you have a lot of funding, then you are unable to pivot in any direction that doesn't offer a fairly near term prospect of making enough money to justify your funding. It is even worse if the funding comes from a source that has the classic VC "strike for the fences" mentality - because they will insist on handsome returns on investment rather than just making their money back.

For a detailed explanation of the dynamics by which over funding prevents success, I highly recommend reading The Innovator's Solution. It is written in the context of an existing company doing a spin-off, but it applies in spades to startups as well.
Performance Tuning The Apache Web Server
Self-built desktop with a Q9550 CPU and 4GB RAM running Kubuntu. Dual 23" LCD montitors. I can dual-boot into Windows XP when I get gaming or flight-sim urges.

I also have a Dell E1505 laptop (also running Kubuntu) that I use when I need to be mobile.
>Apparently we're supposed to believe that in the middle of the war the Germans attacked their allies the Russians, starting an unwinnable conflict on two fronts, just to show how sneaky and untrustworthy they could be?

That's not fair. They explained it in the backstory - the Germans were short on fuel and needed full access to Caspian hydrocarbon reserves.
>best school's

Maybe.
I think navy nuclear culture has changed quite a bit for the better since then. All of the officers and petty officers I have talked to are at least as conscious of rad safety as the civilian techs.

On the radiology and nuclear medicine side, air force and navy techs seem a lot more rad safety conscious than the army people I have met.
Between Truth, Fact & Belief, lesser mortals will choose Belief because it serves their needs.
I bet corporation are going to do what Google has done for them on Youtube - get a cut of every activity.

So you'll be allowed to sell your Rolex on ebay, as long as the Rolex company get a percentage of the sale.

There are some really crazy rulings coming out of the courts lately.
Do you know any journalists? The ones I know are resourceful enough to know people with a variety of skills and connections. It's the nature of the job.
I'm a USCG licesned boat captain and I may suggest you start checking out some of the professional fishery oceanic graphic services as they have a much more accurate version of the actual spill as opposed to what you're seeing on the news

Check out Roffs in particular: www.roffs.com/deepwaterhorizon.html
Yeah, I can't feel it. In general I have to be really close to the source to feel any field.
Why ban specific uses instead of just charging appropriate prices for water?
Well, look at it this way: treaties don't blink into existence completely understood by all parties as perfectly fair without any loopholes or unnecessary concessions.
Payday UK without credit check bad credit holders as if good to get payday loans
I agree, that is stupid.

However, in this case it is properly the only course of action:

Can you even legally hire a 15? (no matter if he is still in school, we all know how valuable hs is).
17-inch MacBook Pro with RAID 0 Intel SSDs: http://paulstamatiou.com/how-to-apple-macbook-pro-raid-0-arr...

and a small Asus EEE PC (1005HA) with Ubuntu 10.04 for commuting/etc, usually tethered to my Nexus One with froyo.

http://paul.posterous.com/reading-and-taking-notes-on-abooka...
After having spent quite a few years around not so well funded labs I can assure you that any piece of equipment older than a decade that still posesses a manual is a rare sight indeed.
Exactly, what bothers me is how they don't have to prove how many time the files were copied (from her computer to another, she didn't do the infringement when she first downloaded the song.) to make up that 1.92 million number. If we had a number say $10 per song shared (ridiculous number 10 times larger that the real number) then if they can prove she at least shared those file once, that's $240. But they can't prove that currently so... the damages are in my view totally in founded.
Bln.kr wants you to share the music you make
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Gtrot.com  announces top 10 most popular summer destinations for young travelers
Monday July 12, 2010 – Young travelers are heading overseas this summer, with London, Paris, and Barcelona ranking among the 10 most popular destinations, according to data released by gtrot.com today.

New York City ranked as the top summer destination among gtrot users, followed by London, Paris, Boston, Barcelona, Rome, Beijing/Shanghai, Buenos Aires, Madrid, and LA.

Along with this list, gtrot also released a set of crowd-sourced travel guides to the most popular cities.

“Our users are sharing trips to tens of thousands of cities,” said gtrot co-founder Brittany Laughlin. “We asked them about their best experiences in the top destinations, and the result is a set of ground-breaking guides to the restaurants, nightlife, and attractions you may not have heard of but shouldn’t miss.”

“These guides showcase the value of peer travel knowledge, and they’re just the beginning,” said Zachary Smith, co-founder and CEO. “gtrot already makes it easy for friends to share travel plans, and we’re focusing now on helping them share experiences as well. There’s no better guide to a city than seeing what friends and peers enjoyed when they were there.”

Users sharing a trip to a top destination have already received a free guide, said Smith, and the company will continue sending guides to new users who share travel plans on the site.

Contact

Brittany Laughlin
Co-founder, gtrot.com
Email: Brittany@gtrot.com
Phone: 646-807-9519

Website: http://gtrot.com
Blog: http://blog.gtrot.com
Twitter: @gtrot

About us: gtrot.com turns simple travel data – where you’ve been, where you’re going, and when – into a powerful social resource, allowing users to see where friends are traveling, who’s been to their destination, and which friends will be nearby. The company is currently working to turn real-time trip updates into streaming social travel guides.
There have been a few stories on NPR about HOA's that have been foreclosing on people for being a few hundred dollars behind on their HOA dues.

HOA's have a lot more power than they should, and there's been some push lately to create laws to reduce their power, but that's a pretty recent thing, and probably triggered by some HOA's getting desperate for money and becoming abusive.

They're capitalizing on the fact that we're trained to believe that our credit ratings are hugely important, and foreclosures trash them. With rental rates being as low as they are though, it's hard to see why I should tolerate this extortionist practice. If I can rile up some of the other owners to stand up to the management (not likely, I think they're largely sheep except for the one who's short-selling) I can probably put a stop to this, but otherwise, there's not much I can do other than stop paying my mortgage, let the HOA foreclose, and save raftloads of money by finding a place with relatively inexpensive rent.
Let me just present a hypothetical example where 80% of the public is better than the average.

Lets measure how good a driver is on a scale of 1-10, where
1 is the best, and 10 the worst.
We'll take a sample of 10. They have scores as follows.
1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 10, 10.

Now, the average is 28/10 = 2.8. 8 out of 10 people got a 1, i.e they did better than the average. In other words 80% of the people did better than the average.

This is a simple hypothetical example to show 80% of the people CAN be better than the average.

Sorry, but this always annoys me.
yeah, that's what I was thinking too. I already have a Kindle, and it makes more sense for me to do long form reading on my Kindle.
Is this page horribly broken for anyone else? I get 5 or 6 images, no text, and miles and miles of emptiness.

Using Google Chrome on Ubuntu.
The more people covering the spill the better, I'm going down in a few days and plan on taking a detour into Louisiana and seeing how many pictures I can take.
The high figures seem to result from the fact that the *AA argue that the file was _potentially_ shared with _millions_ of people around the internet. I wonder why they are not required to prove every single instance of downloading that they claiming damages from...
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