skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook knows what you told them about yourself. Google observe what you actually doing, and if you often visit tech sites then they should show you tech related ads instead of clothes and this is spot-on. The dating ad with women is just noise in their system (after all, if you are frequent in tech sites, you are statistically male... :)).
Why the * does this matter? Start sh* anywhere.
>Six months ago it was obvious to knowledgeable people that Android would surpass iPhone, and I'm pretty sure that was true a year ago, too, notwithstanding the occasional contrary opinion.

The dominant opinion was absolutely that Android wouldn't crack the iPhone's dominance. Of course it's all clear now though, and everyone has carefully adopted new positions.

>Some people want it to be market share even though the real name of the game is profit.

Wow, I care so incredibly little whether Motorola or HTC or Samsung makes boatloads of profit. In fact I think I would be a bit offended if they bragged about their great margins (who would clutch onto their copy of Windows and crow about how great a profit margin Microsoft made on it? That is just perverse). Profit margin, unless you're a material shareholder or have options, are irrelevant.

I care about the platform that I develop for, that I use, that empowers or limits us. That is what matters to me, and it's why I care. I don't care if Google doesn't meet their quarterly numbers.

>Comparing iPhone to Android isn't comparing apples to oranges. We're talking about one phone versus a host of phones on a host of carriers.

This is the new talking point, and it's a curious one. The strength of the iPhone all along has been paraded as the single vendor solution: It is consistent and high quality and you know who's behind it...what's with all this crazy Android fragmentation from who knows who?

That's been the line.

Now that's the weakness?
If you are trying to do a life style start up, New York is probably a good place. (i don't have anything against life style business). Most of the examples you gave,including the startup you work for are life style business. So sure they would be more practical and making money from day 1. But you're trying to do anything more ambitious, silicon vally is still the place to go.
"The people" are paying for it. I am not deluded into thinking the ADA is free. They pay in generally raised prices, somewhat slower economic development, and the projects that are never born because they couldn't comply with the ADA, which this project nearly fell under.

It is not anti-little-l-libertarian for a people to democratically agree to pay a little extra via governmental means to accomplish something the market isn't good at. It is anti-capital-L-Libertarian, but I'm not claiming that's what I am.

The real problem is not that our society thinks the ADA is a good idea, the real problem is that for things that like we allow ourselves to be systematically deceived that the cost of the ADA is zero, and we don't have to think about the costs and benefits. This is a pervasive problem; neither liberalism nor conservatism includes explicit concepts of analyzing things for costs and benefits, which is why I consider neither philosophy directly applied actually suitable for ruling us. It's a very good idea to have underlying principles for your governing philosophy but they must always be filtered through a worldview that acknowledges our finiteness.

(Also, I am a little-l-libertarian, so when I said I'm not pinning this on liberalism in general, it is not because I was not a wee bit tempted. It was because it wouldn't be fair or true.)
Mine has become the place I prefer to do my evening reading. Twitter, RSS, Instapaper, eBooks; my iPad is my coffee-table/bedside computer.
And what should he do? He plays the system that's there. At least he's honest enough to say the system that's there is tilted in his favor. But, I do ask the question seriously? Run for government? Fund progressive candidates who would raise tax on higher incomes?
Can you elaborate? I have learned to build IPA files, but I still require my testers to install mobilevprovision file separately. It would be nice if all could be packaged in one single file...
Thanks for voting. Just by the small sample thus far. We have 5 voted as frequent iPhone app buyers vs. 0 frequent Android app buyers, while 5 Android never bought an app before.

Overall this maybe way too small of a sampling, but maybe not? Appreciate the votes and continued votes. Would be great to get a huge sampling. thnx
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Folders have many sizes. They are used for a variety of purposes. Their presence can be seen at many places and in many situations. At certain situations, they are the best tools to deliver the required results. As with their usage, they have also grown a lot in terms of variety in the designs, sizes and shapes. We can get a specific folder for a specific purpose nowadays. The size A4 is a common size used in many offices. We can get an A4 document folder in the market easily. They provide the ease of use and save us the trouble of mismatching the documents.
user24,

Yeah, you got it right. I know I have to put a description on the front page. I'm primarily targeting the HN crowd so hopefully, they'll pick it up right away.
CDSs are being sold, but generally aren't available to small retail investors. An investor who is not accredited would need to hedge some other way.
A lot of what modern relief organizations are doing these days is called "capacity building", where instead of just airlifting American doctors into Haiti to bandage up the injured on a short-term basis, they work on creating more and better Haitian doctors.

The Gates Foundation, for example, has a strong focus on education, which is all about "teaching boys and girls to fish" and is really a prerequisite to a strong economy.

There has been some good coverage of this angle from This American Life(PRI) and Planet Money (NPR). Example: http://www.realmedicineblog.com/2010/05/29/haiti-this-americ...
Oh bullshit - I'm surprised you got as many upvotes given that this is supposed to be the entrepreneurial bunch (and our previous mega-thread involving Scott the useless college grad).

Boo hoo, so the economic sucks and you were lied to your whole life about how your employment situation was going to work. So? This does not excuse laziness and a crappy work ethic.

Perhaps their chronic unemployment stems from the fact that they meander through life rather than actively fighting for what they want. Japan isn't some third-world backwater, there are opportunities abound for people who are willing to work and fight for it - just like it still is in the US. The ones that sit and pout all day (like Scott, from the NYT article) are the ones who will never get out.
You're now suggesting that the authors of all of these studies failed to control the most obvious of outside factors?

I'm not sure why you are so resistant to these studies, but it's clear that no amount of scientific research is going to convince you that there are clear benefits to breastmilk.
I think this is actually a fundamental problem with not having downvotes. Tribalist things that would normally get half upvotes and half downvotes now just get upvotes. It's the same thing with the iphone/android stories. With downvotes, we'd be reading a lot fewer of them.
I love Teach for America.
Game changer for me. Somehow, the format lends itself to reading "properly" in a way a desktop computer does not. So I've actually started reading e-books instead of print and have gone through a ton of academic papers. I also no longer take my MBP out with me. I can present and do most things I want on the road with the iPad. It's also great for getting the "silly" browsing of the news, Reddit, etc, out of the way in bed or at the dinner table.
What's gibberish about it? I'm saying if you want to know if off-the-rack logos are, on average, better than custom-designed ones, you have to compare lots of them, not just one example of each. What's the problem with that?
Lots of great aviation possibilities, but overheating has been an issue for several I've talked to.
It seems like we might be heading into an era where questioning the methods of traditional Western education will become commonplace. This is exciting, as it cracks open the paradigm for smart people to analyze and modify. If we let some of the top creative, scientific minds spill their guts about schooling in a public forum, who knows what could happen?

What I worry about, however, are the fools who will use specific criticism of our implementation of education to fight education in the general sense. Every time I read one of these articles, there are inevitably dozens of comments by idiots who don't have any specific criticism of the system at hand, but would rather rail against the idea that learning is important. In fact, conflating the "Platonic ideal" of education with the American school system is exactly the kind of confusion that prevents anyone from making any progress in the first place.
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It'd glorious. I would much rather do any casual net browsing on the iPad because it's easier to read. Then throw in the fact that you can be much more comfortable, take it more places, and not feel like a dork sitting with a laptop while everyone else is watching TV. I loaded a whole bunch of family photos onto it which really becomes 'magical' when you're visiting relatives etc. It's also easy to pass around or crowd around.

Makes consuming academic papers and online lectures much more palatable (that's the main reason I bought it). I'm pretty fast at typing on it only problem is often I hit N instead of spacebar.

Not into the handheld gaming scene but it's got me back into online chess - iPhone screen was too small for that.

Not done a lot of book reading but on the other hand I installed a pagedump of Wikipedia for offline access, so as a reference tool it's brilliant (I also have a Python Docs app). Makes a good compliment to desktop computers for when you need a second screen for something. Or use it as a TV/radio.

And of course I'm sure many great apps will be invented in the future.

P.s. It's worth stressing just how great the battery is - genuinely lasts all day, greatly enhancing the portability factor
How does notification occur?

Do I log in to the site to see what is new? Or are notifications pushed to me in some way?
These stories are interesting. It seems the way to go, but they didn't clearly specify what the extra upfront cost was and what the payoff time was.
That's one way to keep from paying taxes.
Thomas is presumably artfully phrasing "If you can do organic SEO and AdWords well, you can make a lot of money, so why the heck would you enter bingo cards" to avoid hurting my feelings. He isn't wrong about the money, though my feelings are pretty much impervious. I mean, I sell bingo cards to elementary schoolteachers: it is highly unlikely you're going to say something I haven't heard in the last four years.

(Though if you want to compete, can you do picture bingo cards? I'll send you customers. They don't know what files are and they'll need to crop the images they want to use. If you want to teach them how to do that, they're yours.)
Whatta week! Like the startup gods put out an RFC for the SF/NYC rivalry!
The older Japanese population are pretty nationalistic. However, the Japanese corporations, not so much.
While 25K is nothing compared to what these billionaires might donate, it's still a lot of money and the United Way would be happy to accept your funds.

It also opens up the discussion of what burden 'normal' folks assume when their most basic needs are taken care of. How many HN readers donate at least 10% of their earnings?
If there's anything that's clear, it's that no one is masterminding the design of the US Education system.
Netflix streaming is awesome. It even works okay over 3G, which shocked me (and my data usage).

I really wish there was a VLC client that could stream all video/audio I have on my LAN.
I had a boss who always pushed me away from low-probability experiments. Whenever I suggested trying something that was unlikely to work, he probed to see if the single low-probability experiment could be restructured as a series of 50/50 experiments. It turned a lot of failures into partial successes that could be applied to future problems.
I use my iPad every day for email and browsing. My wife and I pass it back and forth to play Small World and "still-iphone-only" Carcassone. My daughter swipes through photos and mashes on the piano app Virtuoso.

It's a purchase that I feel no regrets for making, even though it's a first version and the next iteration will be better.
Right on. Munching through volumes of text on the laptop now feels unnatural. I find myself shelving things off to Instapaper frequently, then later sitting down and actually reading as opposed to skimming ADHD style with the interweaved alt-tabs to Twitter, email, chat etc.

It also helps me be productive on my laptop because I can mentally associate work with the laptop and leisure with the iPad.
I love mine. For the first time I've been able to leave the laptop at home entirely when traveling - need restaurant lookups? Map where you are? The iPad does all of that, for much lighter, and is about a million and half times more usable than your standard netbook.

It's a "laptop lite" so to speak - for most basic uses it's brilliant. When I'm on vacation and I don't want to write code (or pen long, important emails), the iPad is pretty sweet. It's also gotten me reading again, which is a nice plus.

I have the 3G version, so it's also a really nice way to just chill out somewhere and check Facebook or something without having to worry about WiFi (or carrying a dongle).

Also: as an enthusiast photographer, I find it incredibly useful to show people photos. It's an incredible screen - better than most desktops and laptops have - and it's just perfect. I've had multiple pros express the same sentiments.
You're exactly right, many people have lost a lot of money trying to bet against the Japanese debt situation.

"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." -Keynes
I think within the context of globalization and internet, America should review, refine and rewrite its laws and destination.
Beautifully simple idea - never thought of the semantic value in a password, only the obscurity / secrecy value.
I have linked to scientific studies, and meta-studies, that indicate that the benefits are not clear and that more research is needed.

Except that they don't. That's why I quoted your link right back to you. While they say that for certain areas like a link to intelligence (which you will note I have not ever raised), they fully support numerous health benefits.

I should note that your link was a study of studies; one giant peer review done right before your eyes. It's pretty conclusive.

There is - supported by links that you submitted yourself - significant scientific evidence to suggest that breastfed babies receive health benefits that formula fed babies do not.

Ergo, breast milk is a better option for a baby. You've presented nothing to support otherwise, beyond your own personal bias.
You can't study for an IQ test.
Like others have said, I too use it in the morning and evenings, either in bed or at the couch. It's not a device for the office, but it excels at casual web & email (which is probably what 90% of the Internet population uses their computer for anyway).

Non-techie adults seem to be proficient after <5 min of explaining basic operations and I liken the intuitiveness of its interface to that of an elevator - once you've got the basic concept you're good to go.

I don't think the current iPad is itself a revolution, but I do think it's the first step.
1 to 10 a month = frequent
1 to 10 a year = few

I tried to make the poll simple, though doing so might have omitted more clear details needed?

I can change it. If need be.
Bought it for reading papers in pdf, does that reasonably well, though there is no good annotation software yet (with smooth ink). Not bad for movies. Cool feel of "100% interface." Completely lacks a viable input method (keyboard too small for touchtyping, too big for thumbs, and the pen apps just aren't there yet); input on the iPhone is far more comfortable.
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So where does his reasoning go wrong?
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I think Google gets it right most of the time (GrandCentral, Applied Semantics, DoubleClick, Urchin), but there are some cases where they disappoint (e.g. Dodgeball, Picasa). Thankfully the successes outweigh the failures.
Done; you'll get your notification letter as soon as I figure out how to mail things to Japan.

I'll get you next time, Patrick McKenzie. Next time!
A blog post about a blog post, or, getting hosed by HN, Scoble, and TechMeme
I like to keep the dinner table sacred... But it occurred to me the other day that's where speech recognition would be really useful. Prop the iPad up and tell it what websites to visit, dictate emails etc. Could be a viable mass market opening for voice recog tech (cause otherwise I tend to agree with that recent Spolsky blog - who really wants speech recognition interfaces?)
But downvotes just as often (or more often, I'd argue) create exactly the tribalism you describe. Restrict users to only a positive input mechanism and you'll drastically reduce bullying and other gang behavior.
Ask HN: How do you start development of your latest great idea?
I'm interested in hearing about how you aproach the initial development efforts.

Choosing technology. Do you go with what you know, or sometimes see it as an opportunity to try something new?

Getting started on a prototype. Do you start on paper, i.e. some sort of design, or do you jump heads first into coding?

If it's a something with a front end, do you start with that, or do you prefer to start with the back end?

Any other insights, on how you attack your new ideas, are greatly appreciated.
You tried Air Video? It's good but you need to have Air Video Server running on your PC (free and painless enough).
"I am a little shocked that you're ready to turn it over to someone else."

I am very conflicted about it. I have spent thousands of hours developing and operating it - but I don't even have time to sleep right now with the work going into Nebula/Nova.

I don't want to turn it over to someone who would destroy the community. Any transition would require them understanding the community and a solid plan for how to improve it.
Ask HN: How do you focus your studies?
I think many of you out there are like me in that I am a super curious person. I love to learn about how things work and why they are so. Specifically, many areas of computer science greatly interest me. The downside to this is that I end up spending equal time on many different areas and am left being "decent" at a couple things but not "great" at anything, which makes me feel like I don't have a lot of value. I have the capability and the drive to be really good at something if I could just decide on a single path worth pursuing.

If you are/were like me, I want to hear your personal experiences in how you picked something to focus on and if you would do it the same way if you had to start over.

If it makes any difference, I am 21 years old majoring in CS. I have made it a point to try out CS classes in several different areas throughout my stay here. Also, I do not plan on going the PhD or large company route: I like the idea of startups.
If you are a project owner, you'll get notifications if somebody followed your project, posted on your project wall or commented on a post.

I'm still trying to figure out notifications for the projects you follow. Right now, the only way to view them is thru your home page.

My plan is email. I'll probably send daily digests of the projects you follow.
The title says "San Francisco" but the article only mentions "Mountain View, Cupertino or Palo Alto" ... ???

What kind of comparison is this?
My mother (almost computer-phobic) has been using it for months and now loves it. She uses it for e-mail, loading up pictures from her camera, and some music. Since she has poor satellite internet bandwidth, the iPad isn't very useful for video at her location.

I've been using my iPad extensively. My main apps are:

- Evernote with auto-sync to my MacBook Pro. It's great for simple note taking. Still wish it had a stylus and sufficient touch resolution.

- iAnnotatePDF and Goodreader for PDF reading. I use the former if I need to markup the text.

- Netflix. The streaming video is awesome if you have good Wifi.

- Dropbox. I loved my Dropbox account before, but with the iPad it's now irreplaceable. My 50GB dropbox account serves as my extended iPad disk system. Any paper, ebook, etc., can be opened in my iPad app of choice.

- E-mail and Safari, of course.

- Flixster, IMDB.

I have the cheaper 250MB 3G account and only use it when I'm away from decent WiFi.
That's where I'm at too. It doesn't cook your nuts like a laptop.
Please, you are being ridiculous. I would tell you that you mostly produce self-righteous bile to your face or anywhere else. Do you say data or 'STFU' to people's face?

You're arrogant and insecure. You lash out at others who question you. It's pretty sad.

People make assertions all the time, as you do, that are difficult if not impossible to verify. Sometimes the data is too hard to produce. You've noted yourself that real-world server data would be hard to produce. You might say admit that and be more humble about the fact that you've analyzed a micro-benchmark.
Exactly. The touch paradigm is completely different than the mouse and keyboard one, phone usage patterns are completely different than that of a Mac, the distance from the screen is different, proportions are all different... Imagine looking at a Mac application, that has to be displayed in ultra high resolution in a small phone, in direct sun or while running and trying to click that 3x3 millimeters button to close the window.

An application's phone interface has to be different than the desktop one, and since there is no programmatic way to adapt the desktop interface to the phone, it has to be rethought and then reimplemented.
Announcing Visual Studio LightSwitch
We already host usaspending.gov and a few other sites for non-NASA users - but our focus is on NASA scientists, researchers and engineers.

That said our work is open source, so others inside and out of government can adopt our work. For instance Rackspace has started OpenStack and it adopted Nova (our python powered compute framework).
I don't necessarily agree with all the points, but this was definitely an amusing post to read.

I think your feelings towards NYC are very similar with mine towards Toronto. Both cities are very similar, holding for the density ratio (NYC is at least x4 larger). I have complete faith in the Toronto startup community, though I don't imagine it'll reach the Silicon Valley scale anytime soon. Despite that, Silicon Valley's incredible density and concentration could be a disadvantage for some as much as New York's and Toronto's diversity could be an advantage.

I imagine the startup scene and tech industry will continue growing proportionally in hubs all over the world. Hopefully soon Silicon Valley wont be the only place where you can raise money on a crazy idea from useful investors with reasonable terms.

I also plan to resume my residence in Toronto someday.