skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'll be interesting to see if people take up Android tablets the way they have with Android phones. My experience with the iPad suggests that a tablet is like a traditional computer in that the experience is dependent on the availability of quality apps. Right now, the Android Market is easily the weakest aspect of Android.
I think digital adds actual succeed in places where print ads fail miserably. More and more people are shopping online. Many people have paypal/CC/debit that they have/can use online.

Print ads do not drive you to the store to buy a product, however, online/digital ads bring a product to you; you can buy it right away. Of course there are ways in which the experience can be better, but not every thing is always perfect.
Now that I think of it, there are glass bottles in Germany which are not reused, wine and liquor. Actually those are the only two next to beer which still commonly use glass bottles. Everything else is pretty much PET, nowadays probably already mostly not reusable (despite a mandatory deposit for all bottles, no matter if reusable or not). It will be very hard for you to find anyone selling aluminum cans, though.
1) "Do you mean something like an automatic check-in based on your current location?" - gowall doesn't like this, see: , more of a reminder service maybe? It's open to interpretation what you'd do with the information once you could predict someones intent to check in.

2) Twitter leaves a lot to be desired for spontaneous event organization. What if all of your friends aren't on twitter, or you need a minimum number of people to confirm before, say making reservations? Twitter is still a tool that can get you part of the way there most of the time.

3) Thanks, maybe it'd start as targeting startups.

4) Clarification on this idea coming.

5) It's a huge interface challenge for sure, I hope someone figures it out.

Thanks for your feedback!
Cappuccino GitHub Issues App Update
Definitely not good enough. OS/2 would not even install on some PCs from IBM without major effort.
Well that's exactly my criticism: most of the author's objections boil down to "it's hard"

No, common English use of "it's hard" means something completely different from CS "hard". CS hard means NP-complete which to English translates as impossible. Impossible because of well understood mathematical reasons.

Quantum computers may solve it, indeed real life protein folding may have quantum computer-like properties.
I bike year round in Michigan. (In Grand Rapids, specifically.) My commute is about 4 1/2 miles.

There is a fair amount of cyclists here, but not that many ride in the winter.
Reddit Co-Founder Coming To Brooklyn, Wants To Invest In Your Startup
Thanks Tim - getting people educated is a major obstacle. It took American Idol to get people in the US to use text messaging.
Wait a second:

We want to change the rules of the game in the sourcing advisory market

OK.

Would you know of any design groups or startups who may want to collaborate with overseas startups?

Damn, if we only knew someone in the sourcing advisory market. They could answer your question, no doubt.

Seriously: the irony is killing me.
I'm only using Dropbox because it's free, all the paid accounts are overpriced IMO. For 3$/mo + S3 costs (~0.5$/mo) I have a JD account that includes auto-backup, multiple online disks in EU/US and multiple online drives.

Dropbox is using my money to subsidize the free users, I'm not getting 10$ of value out of it.
I'll be releasing something in the next week that will definitely scratch #2 off that list. Stay tuned.
Is this what they mean by iterative development? A lesson in customer specs.
I am very confused by this subthread. If you run the MacOS client, and you are a premium subscriber all your evernote data is locally available on your hard drive - it's unencrypted and easy to see and parse.
Can we be friends?
I think advocating mandatory national service is fundamentally wrong. You advancing the idea that the theft of a portion of someones life reasonable and good, in short you are advocating short-term slavery.

What does a person get out of national service? I think it'd be better instead to make high schools more difficult and let people start working and having a meaningful impact on the world earlier rather than later.

Other than that I agree with your post in general, I think the lack of a frame of reference/goal posts really sets people back. If everyone assumes that you wait till your 25 to start a business then they may wait till then; if they knew in the past that there were generals as young as 12 years old then twelve year olds may realize they can impact the world in a real way even at their young age.
At a presentation of my university (UCL), one of the presenters told us that, amazingly, she was able to detect clinical depression from an MRI scan with very high accuracy. To be fair, she was not able to detect mild cases, but I don't think the doctors can really distinguish between people being depressed because of an external and a physiological cause...

That was the most surprising thing I've heard in quite a while...
One answer is to use an analog to a land value tax. Call it a "domain value tax". The idea is to have the most productive user of that domain (judged by the one who has the most money) pay the efficient rate. This leads to perfect efficiency, however it means your company's domain might be highly bid up by someone else - not fun. We might not want ::perfect:: market efficiency here.

Shameless plug - My article on this:

http://www.nickpinkston.com/2010/04/domain-value-fees-cybers...
they don't...the difference is that with digital ads you get to track conversions...with traditional ads you don't.

+ traditional ads have much higher production values and get to tell their message in 30 seconds, instead of just having a small banner to do it in
Very true. Just moving everybody into their own offices can destroy interaction. Its as bad as communicating solely by email.
Intel predicted the end of Moore's Law would come with 16 nanometer manufacturing processes and 5 nanometer gates, due to quantum tunnelling.
I think what you're seeing is that there is no "real economy" - there are lots of microeconomies, in each good or service you can buy. Over the last 20 years, we've seen massive deflation in the markets for consumer goods. My first computer, not quite twenty years ago, cost $2500 and was a desktop with a 20 MHz processor and 2 MB of RAM. I now have a phone worth roughly $400 with a 1 GHz processor and 4 GB SD card.

Meanwhile, there's been massive inflation in services, particularly health care and education. When my mom went to college, a $3000 National Merit Scholarship basically covered a whole year's tuition. When I went to college, tuition + room & board was roughly $40K/year, and is higher now.

People are responding to those price incentives, which is why you see people at the poverty level with blu-ray DVD players, iPhones, and netbooks, but with no health insurance or college education. Prices for consumer electronics have come down so much that it's worth more to them to spend half a month's salary on a phone that they'll keep for a couple years rather than try to get health insurance that they can't afford anyway.

Whether this is a good thing depends on whether you consider phones, computers, and entertainment to be more important than health care and education.
"This one's a render, but Google's Chrome OS table is REAL."

At least per their anonymous yet doubtless terribly reliable source.
This is where she addresses the change in housing. She doesn't discuss square footage, rather number of rooms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A#t=20m30s

This is where she addresses health insurance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A#t=31m10s

And here the additional risk with needing to take off work for medical care:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A#t=33m40s

Also, as she clearly shows in her book, a family needs a second worker to have a higher standard of living (bigger house, two cars, better medicine) than their parents.

This is not her view, nor what she argues with her data. You are certainly free and encouraged to interpret the data yourself, but it was unclear that you were giving your own view and not her's, which is what I found so confusing. This is why my approach to this conversation was one of correction, not discussion.

I tend to agree with her analysis of the data and feel that yours is misleading. I suspect that this arises from a difference in priorities or viewpoint that would be impossible to address in this space. You have, however, inspired me to read her book, so for that I thank you.
Why do people think that the 1st amendment gives you the right to say anything you want without consequence. It only gives you the right to say whatever you want without LEGAL consequence. It is a very important distinction. You have the right to say what you want, and I have the right to think or act based on what you say.

Maybe I'm having a bad day but I am sooooo sick of hearing this argument that people can say whatever stupid thing they want and then just shout "1st Amendment!"
No. But did Google have knowledge of the details of the IPhone before it launched?
One's political views are not as much of an issue as how one expresses them. Two people having a political argument will tactically try to find a place in their disagreement that they're comfortable with - maybe they will need to win the argument, withdraw and concede the point, or try to work out some compromise position. They will probably use the same tactics when they are disagreeing over something material to the workplace.
Here's a link to the authors' presentation:

http://www.academyhealth.org/files/2010/saturday/morrill.pdf
Could you cite a couple examples of "ancient traditions" whose inventors are still living?
This seems to be a largely western hemisphere phenomena. My girlfriend is South African and moved to Canada once we got serious and was amazed at how many of my friends lived at home with their folks even though they have full time jobs (most are teachers and unlike in the US, being a teacher in Ontario is a pretty sweet job). In South Africa, once you're 18 you're out the door and you learn to deal with it. The thought of being in your mid-20's and at home with your parents is tantamount to being water boarded for a South African.

But one of the commenters here hit the nail on the head: real wages are going down, cost of living going up, plus throw in a little stigma about "renting being for poor people" and you'll find young adults waiting to save up to buy a house and as a result getting out on their own later.
Implicit in the study seems to be the assumption that the development of ADHD would occur irrespective of developmental context. It could be that always being the least mature person in one's class helps cause ADHD-like behaviors (e.g., your peer group's conversation is less interesting, so you act up or become easily distracted).

Indeed, the whole study is predicated on ADHD being entirely genetic.
Can someone explain "tiltup" ?
Another Perspective on Yahoo
What do you want from Windows 8?
my bad :D

sourcing advisors are sort of like management consultants who help businesses with decisions on what to buy and from whom (they charge a grand buck for doing this too)
What's the best way to get rubygems with no other ruby packages on my system? Package manager, or dl and compile it?

My package manager wants to install ruby, irb, and a couple other 1.9.1 packages with it that I'm not sure I'll want after using rvm to install the 1.9.2 versions.
ok, so I'm hearing "simple documentation", "fast support response". Thanks for the examples so far.
I'm curious how they deal with probabilities very close to 1 or 0. Usually when people are doing bayesian things with probabilities they work in logistic space so that the precision of values close to 1 or 0 is effectively unbounded. That seems like a hard thing to do with an analog circuit.
I'm starving. Hail the Dear Leader!

See, it's easy.
The soy that vegans use to replace animal fats and proteins is horrendously grown here in the US. Most of our soybean crop is of a monocropped, GMO variety using heavy amounts of pesticides and fertilizers. See the recent articles on dead zones in the oceans due to excess nitrogen.

To insinuate that a vegan diet is better for the planet than meat is insincere. In the end it's probably a wash, for various reasons.
In hindsight I agree. But back in those days: a) most people didn't believe that, and b) the Linux community was developing distributions for tablets. And anyway the famous (in those days) techcrunch's tablet was not going to use any PC OS.

Anyway, the only point I was replying to was that Apple did have a lot of pressure back in those days to come out with their netbook or with something that covered the same niche, and some people even suggested that Apple should have lost in the tablet market because there were already a few offers around or soon to be.

In other words I was not discussion what made the iPad a success (if it deserved it, or any of those more hot topics). Simply that it's not true that Apple was not under pressure to present _something_, which is the point the OP was saying.
Review our startup: Shoply.com - the easiest way to sell online
http://shoply.com

Opening a shop and selling online is a monumental pain in the ass - it's complicated, time-consuming and expensive.
We wanted to tear down these barriers and make opening a shop quick, free and easy.

We've developed simple shopping software which anyone can use to be up and running selling physical and digital products online in minutes.
The software is completely decentralised and customisable so sellers can theme their shops as they please and have them on their own domains. The software is also socially integrated so you can push your shop to a tab on Facebook/easily leverage twitter to get the word out about it.

During the customer development stage it was made clear to us that apart from the tech side of things, driving traffic and generating sellers was an equally important problem which first time/small sellers had to deal with - to solve this we've networked all the shops together creating a centralised marketplace.

Buyers can quickly and easily search across all shops in our network. The marketplace helps buyers find products and helps sellers generate traffic.

To make buying from a shoply seller even easier we've networked buyers shopping carts together across all shops. Buyers can hop from shop to shop across different domains adding products as they go - when they're ready then can checkout in one quick transaction. All the sellers then get their share of the sale in real-time directly to their paypal account.

Our software is built using django and we've utilised Paypal's new Adaptive payment API to facilitate one-to-many real-time transactions.

For sellers we are software providers and traffic generators. For buyers we are a discovery engine and marketplace curator.

We're not looking to compete with the advanced self-hosted shopping cart companies. We are looking to help first time sellers, individuals and small businesses, get started. Think Tumblr for ecommerce. In terms of disruptive innovation we want to be a new market and low-end disruption.

Would love to know what you think.

If you have something to sell - why not open your own shop!

http://shoply.com
I don't think the article or the parent comment make any claim that ADHD is not a real disorder.

What the study is saying is that children who are relatively young compared to their peers are diagnosed with ADHD at a higher rate because their teachers report them acting in ways "consistent with ADHD" more often than their peers. The physicians use these reports as part of their evidence when making a diagnosis. The explanation is that these children are probably just less mature due to relative age. Their ADHD diagnosis rate is higher than the other group of children, who are essentially the exact same age, but relatively old compared to their classmates.
Ask HN: For API's, which developer portal / documentation is the worst?
Ask HN: looking for examples of bad developer portals. Bad design, bad documentation, just general badness. Which ones really blow?
This article is stupid and surly.

I have a feeling the hardship of the economic recession(s) will make a lot of people grow up at an earlier age than their parents.

This is a time of humility following a time of arrogance and complacency. A lot of good will come from all the bad that past generations have handed down to their children and grandchildren.
I liberally sprinkle my address everywhere (here it is again, spammers: avarab@gmail.com) and I don't have a spam problem. I get at most 2-4 messages per week that make it through GMail's spam filters.

Those are all glaringly obvious spam though, to the point that I've begun suspecting that they're just using me to confirm that suspected spam really is spam.
Before that he was one of the fathers of T (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_%28programming_language%29) which was pretty much the first production Scheme.
A distinct lack of backwards compatibility with broken old versions of Windows and a strong forward looking compatibility with web standards and modern character encodings.
It was the money ("our sales skyrocketed") that changed the company culture, not the building. It isn't hard to maintain an atmosphere of egality and shared sacrifice when there's no money to go around. Once the company is flush with profits, the founders are looking at a big payoff, and management is drawing full salaries, telling employees to continue on as if nothing as changed will eventually lead to discontent. Building a new office probably seemed like the easiest way to address all the complaints that had arisen after the company ceased being a startup, and became a success.
1st base, 2nd base, and 3rd base should be called home base when a runner is on it.
#2 (spontaneous events) is something the startup I'm with is building. If you are interested in being added to a private beta test, here's the link: http://vol.ly/?s=HN
Unfortunately the basic constraints on childbearing years still (basically) stand.
The W3C did go ahead with XHTML2. And everyone else, most notably the browser makers, realized that with such a broken W3C as would create such a monster, they’d have to make a new spec themselves if they wanted it to be reasonable... whence WHATWG and HTML5.

Years later, XHTML2 abandoned by the world, the W3C decided it no longer wanted to be sidelined, and it begged for the HTML5 spec to be brought back under its purview. So that’s where we are now.
>The small time owners will have no problem paying that. Who doesn't have $20 a month for their blog? Eat one less taco bell meal and you are good to go.

If all you have is actual people you know reading your blog (and that's most people) there's no reason hosting should cost more than $5/month. For those people, 2/3rds to 4/5ths of the cost would be something that basically costs nothing, and is only priced because there needs to be a mechanism for assigning ownership.

I mean, where would all this money go exactly?
The biggest issue is you have to work out how important email is to what you do + achieve. If you are a developer, it's probably a distraction.

If you are a founder, entrepreneur or similar then your (filtered, non-spam, non-bacn) email is contextual to your business relationships and actually prioritizing your time to properly tend to it is important.

This whole "I have over 1000 unread emails, oh my!" crap just feels like bad email management and poor time keeping.

I filter away all twitter/facebook/plancast auto-notifications, intentionally avoid mailing lists unless there is an RSS option and keep very on top of spam using similar email address tricks (I tend to use <foo>@<mydomain> but it's the same deal).

So with the Spam and Bacn taken care of, I actually am left with a very manageable amount of ham ('real') email every day and so I set aside the appropriate amount of time to deal with it because it is all high-value messages.

Things work out fine, relationships are founded/maintained and I don't have to email people automatically telling them I couldn't be bothered to read their email in 14 days - which would make them look unimportant and me look like a bit of a douche.
Here is what it says in the credits (scroll down):

Inspiration: Beagle Bros “Peeks, Pokes and Pointers” chart for Apple ][ (+)

(+) links to this: http://www.lazilong.com/apple_II/bbros/
What if ISPs had to advertise minimum speeds?
What I hear most often is 80% of the energy consumed by a typical car is used during the manufacturing process.

It's also worth noting that many 80's cars got very good gas mileage. My first car, an '86, got low 30's, and with a tune-up some owners got higher than 35. So, be wary of the studies you read comparing new car mpg to old car mpg. My car got better or equal gas mileage compared to everything but hybrids like the Prius and Insight, and those are not representative of modern cars. I would bet the studies you have been reading have been comparing Insights (70mpg, and actually made since 1999) to 80's Corvettes (14mpg) or something along those lines.
Blank linked the word to http://www.tiltup.com/ (maybe after initial reader confusion) to provide context.

Looks to me like the miles and miles of low-rise office parks in Silicon Valley include lots of 'tilt-up' concrete-slab construction.
as a Hacker, I hope to be pirating this very soon.
The trouble with an IDE for the iPad is that it can't include a compiler unless it's only for jailbroken devices (which severely limits your market). I'm convinced there would already be several if Apple didn't impose that limitation, but an IDE without the ability to compile or run tests is kind of a hard sell.
HTML5 basically takes HTML4 and adds 3 tags: audio, video, canvas. These solve very specific issues, sound, movies, and drawing. HTML5 does not address some larger scoped problems related to HTML -- the biggest being that HTML sucks. It has always sucked, and it needs to go. It needs to be replaced with flexible, programmable XML.
I discovered that seeking through Sigur Ros on my car's CD player sounds pretty awesome (the skippy sound is how it seeks): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/173540/Misc/sr_cd_seek.mp3

And the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWMDfJEkQDs
Over the entire history of the site, one of our more clever types of ads has a 1.54% click through rate on 41 million impressions. The general subject area of the site: Coffee.
You guys are so right - your feedback made me reconsider the current approach and choose to go with MailChimp. Often it's so easy to get intrigued by an idea with interesting code to write ;)
Somewhat tangential, but related: does anyone else question age stratification, generally? In the days of the single room school, older kids would mix with and tutor the younger ones. Or perhaps, a teenager would apprentice in a trade with older adults. Households would span generations.

Now, we're segregated by age classification. You grow up only amongst kids your age. Adults work only with adults, and the grandparents are away in a home. Events where generations or age groups mix seem rare. I'm not enough of a sociologist to know whether there's anything inherently wrong with this, but it gives me pause.
> Typical members of an age group are by definition not immature relative to the average member of their age group.

I think the argument is: "what happens to the average of a distribution when you throw out one tail?"
those people can be on the free .web extension...or the .nets/.orgs. The new pricing would only apply to .coms.

as far as where money goes, infrastructure improvement.