skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting point:

'The trade-off is obvious. You win because you can show a bigger picture, which is important, and you lose because it just won’t fit in many pockets, which is important. It’ll go in most purses, though.'

Anecdote: I have a friend who's completely uninterested in gadgets. She's a professional comedienne and talks mainly about childhood in her routine. We're out at a pub one day and she pulls out a giant 5 inch Dell Android phone, browsing the full (non-mobile) Facebook with her fingers.

How did she end up with a 5 inch tablet/phone? She likes the comfy web browsing, and there's room in her purse.
I usually go for beer with other "geek" friends, complain to them. Another thing would be to do some physical work and shift all your focus on that, like building a dog/bird house or smth :)... bottom line: take a break and accomplish something your sure of than go back at it with higher morale.repeat if necessary.
I generally agree with his arguments. But, perhaps naive, I believe games can be immune to a lot of this. Gamers always have room for one more game if it's good. There is a sizable chunk of iOS users who pretty much use it as a game platform (toucharcade.com's forums are a good testament to that).

But at the same time, I've come across many excellent, well developed, beautiful games in the app store that 3 people have downloaded. So games for sure are not a magic bullet.
YMMV

For a pet project I wrote exactly the same component in Silverlight and Flex - I much preferred Flex even though I rather like C# as a language. Now that the fortunes of SVG seem to be reviving I see that as a better long term bet for what I want to do.

Personally, I think Silverlight is an irrelevance: hardly anyone uses it on the public Web and on internal applications there isn't quite the need to make things quite as pretty as Silverlight allows.
So, you don't know what email address munging is and still you're asking for an "an exceptional technical co-founder"? You think you're exceptional? I don't think so. Next!

All the best, anyway.
Worth the read even if only for the conclusion:

> [A] tablet is, crucially, a more shareable computer. A laptop, with its fragile hinge-ware and space-gobbling keyboard, is just not comfy to share. A tablet is easier to bring to the café, easier to hand across the table or along the sofa, easier to seize in the heat of the moment, easier to hold up in triumph, easier to set aside when you need to meet someone’s eyes.

> How big a market is that? Anyone who says they know is lying.
For selfish reasons, I love that it's 1024x600 instead of 1024x768. Means that all those hard-coded magazine layouts will break :)

I think we'll continue to see a lot of diversity in screen dimensions, which will continue to be a design challenge.
I've always wanted to get better at writing in english (my first language is portuguese). Unfortunately I'm too perfectionist to post things to my public blog regularly, so a private journal is a good alternative.

Try to build a habit, it helps a lot. I write (almost) every day, first thing in the morning, on a full screen terminal window with Emacs. I write whatever I want and then copy it to my Dropbox folder.

Before starting my writing habit I was spending a lot of time reading posts like "11 ways to write good headlines", "33 tips to better writing" and "10 ways to foster your creativity". Much more time than writing, actually. FAIL.

So, don't look for websites or programs; practice more. Read good books and analyse them.
Anecdote: I have Obstructive Sleep Apnea, which meant that for a good while I was getting virtually no REM sleep every night.

After I got it fixed, I was talking to my doc. He said that he had seen a couple people who were locked up due to psychiatric problems who actually were really suffering from sleep disorders. Once the sleeping problem was fixed, they no longer needed medication or institutionalization.

Powerful stuff, even if it's just second-hand stories.
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Stuff like this makes the US look so unbelievably backward.
I hope the bubble bubble is about to burst.
Right after a giant real estate bubble everyone thinks they know what bubbles are and can spot them. A bubble is defined by the existence of debt fueled poor investments in the more capital intensive higher orders of production. The consumer good industries suffer side effects of bubbles and their eventual busts but I can't think of a bubble that was created in the consumer good industry. It's just not capital intensive enough for that.

I don't see why people trying to start companies based on developing higher quality apps could ever be a bubble. If those companies don't end up serving consumers they'll go out of business which is not abnormal at all. It's part of life.
Screenshot of a control panel that caused a 40% jump in sales per month
I can't tell if this is tongue-in-cheek or not, but I'll reply seriously anyway:

When I want a carrot I grab one out of the fridge, grab the peeler off of the counter, pull my compost box out from under the sink and peel it directly into the compost. Why would you need a cutting board?!
Emacs Lisp uses dynamic scoping. Common Lisp uses lexical scoping by default, but allows dynamic scoping.
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Yes, don't expect any sort of financial sophistication from the peanut gallery. Just after Bernie Madoff, journos called everything they could think of a "Ponzi scheme".

Bubble is just today's word for "doubleplus ungood".
I think the iPad's form factor makes it a nice sofa device. To be truly portable it should've been slightly smaller. There's no way—I think—to hold an iPad with your hands and use both of them for interacting. One needs to support it with one's legs to fully use both hands.
I don't get this form factor at all. And all the other Android tablets seem to be the same. Why?

I can only guess: design by committee?
Classic. I did already see it here on HN a few months ago.
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Ping: It's even worse than it appeared
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Most of the times I've read something and had my "mind blown", it was something written respectfully and humbly, with the author taking their time to explain each of their supporting points.
With this nonsense, if a layperson wanted to ask someone more knowledgeable what these things mean, they would have a very difficult time, and would probably get laughed at when it is actually understood what they are talking about, leaving them with a bitter taste in their mouth and a lingering distrust for intellectuals.
Took me a minute for the penny to drop.

Lawrence Page asking how, in Java, to identify his "web robot" as, presumably, google.

Nice bit of history.
Didn't Google start a project on scanning all existent books to build a digital library? Maybe they derived their estimate from there.
Rate my iPhone app: cooking recipes as Gantt charts. Tell me what you think.
I define a bubble like this to myself: too much is invested into something compared to the revenue it will generate in the future. Now if we assume that 'developer time' is an investment from the developer, then we can discuss whether apps are a bubble or not. I don't know the answer, because I don't know the numbers. We should sum up all the revenues generated by apps and divide it by the sum of all develoment time invested into apps. If this number is very low then we may speak about some kind of bubble. If we assume that users will buy even less apps in the future, then we can speak about a bubble even more.
Emacs Starter Kit allowed me to finally switch to Emacs last year. Thanks a lot technomancy!

I keep my customizations here: http://github.com/dirceu/emacs-starter-kit
From my customizations, these are the most I use:

Pressing Return starts a new line at column 0, pressing Control j starts a new indented line. I prefer them the other way round, so I rebind:

(global-set-key "\r" 'newline-and-indent)
(global-set-key "\C-j" 'newline)

Also, very often I need to start a new line above or below the current line. So instead of Control e, Return to start a new indented line below the current line I use Control Return.

(defun next-newline-and-indent ()
(interactive)
(end-of-line)
(newline-and-indent))
(global-set-key [C-return] 'next-newline-and-indent)

And to start a new indented line above the current line, instead of Control a, Control o, Control i, I use Control Shift Return.

(defun prev-newline-and-indent ()
(interactive)
(beginning-of-line)
(open-line 1)
(indent-according-to-mode))
(global-set-key [C-S-return] 'prev-newline-and-indent)
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Mongrel2 uses a Ragel-based parser (Zed already used that technique with the first Mongrel).
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> I already have more books, e-books, journal articles, conference papers, magazines, e-zines, etc. to read than I can possibly buy and read in any reasonable period of time.

That's why I have made the resolution to read as few books as possible, and stopping there. I'm currently selecting the true classics such as Dale Carnegie's books.
It's not actually that simple. Indinero launched with Canadian banking support which is very difficult to implement (for example mint.com has just done it in the last couple of months). Kudos to them for considering the businesses north of the border.
Now I'm interested to know about the "Serious Security Bug" he reported in javascript, which you can see in his profile, but leads nowhere.
I wrote a blog post about my experiences with using an iPad to show software at networking events:

http://bens.me.uk/2010/ipad-software-demo-at-networking-even...

TL;DR - it works great, but stick to static screenshots for making the tour very quick.
If you want something that guesses indentation style automatically, you could try guess-style.el:

http://nschum.de/src/emacs/guess-style/
Honestly I think that the first comment made more sense than the article itself.
I want to start a undergraduate  college
I want to start a undergraduate college. I am interested in basic science , farming and have little bit of social care. Till now I was in search of my lifetime goal. Now I have decided to start a undergraduate college.

Thanks to HN
I doubt the speed argument. Typing takes way longer than a few eye movements anyway.
I started MeatballWiki (http://meatballwiki.org) just over 10 years ago to wax poetically about wiki culture, codify it, and try to reproduce it in other environments since I thought it was superior. However, Wiki cultures have been difficult to keep sustainable let alone easily reproducible.

All non-reproducing communities need both openness to attract new people faster than people leave, but closeness to protect itself from negative people. Most wikis lack an ability to close themselves off in a non-hostile manner (i.e. 'turtle mode'). You may laud the wiki culture method of keep order, but I've helped hundreds of wikis defend themselves with "soft security" (http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/SoftSecurity), and I found it is actually a cynical process.

In terms of keeping the culture going, since wiki process is based almost entirely in social custom, it requires a lot of human energy to teach newcomers and fend off attackers. Teaching requires more effort than physical-world communities because of the low bandwidth of communication on a wiki.

I think there might be a new evolution one day where some of the older wiki cultural principles will be reimagined, perhaps unknowingly, in media that has a better balance of human effort to community value. After all, healthy wikis are a wonderful experience so there is no reason they cannot continue to thrive and adapt.
I'm impressed by it all, except strangely the product name.

The name seems to throw me off for some reason?

The name would be perfect for targeting the spanish market but worldwide will it make sense?

Or am I being silly?
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The elephant in the room is security updates. Nobody releases them for Android at anything like the speed of any other operating system.

Which is why I want an official Android running on everything: no lock in, no planned obsolescence, no worries about what the code is really doing.
I've been doing stuff with the Facebook Graph API for the past week and I must say it's been the most frustrated development experience I've ever had. The documentation is so poorly written and out of date that it's virtually impossible to understand anything of it. Facebook development seems like a combination of black art and a bag of tricks. Not to mention that if you develop for Facebook integration there is no way to decently test your application. My guess is that this will severely impact the developer base for Facebook apps which will result in less and less companies willing to advertise on the platform.
Meh.

Microsoft have been consistently failing to impresses in the mobile space; I will wait till the actual product is released before getting excited.

Android devices are doing great, iPhone is doing great and it is not about a single product anymore. Developers and the ecosystem is very important in deciding the fate of devices in this space. I have a feeling that Microsoft may be already out of the game.
Competition is good and I hope this forces Google and Apple to continue innovating...

However, I've seen demos of this phone OS and it looks pretty awful to use. Maybe you have to be using it in person and physically holding the device to like it, who knows.
very few proxies support pipelining. You shouldn't be surprised at all. Try implementing pipelining in proxies and you'll figure that it isn't worth the effort.
Because Ubuntu is some how a reference in UI design?
Read "Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace" by Joseph Williams.

It is not one of those books like Strunk and White's that teaches you a set of arbitrary rules.

Rather, the author defines a set of general principles. Then he develops and illustrates those principles with good and bad examples. And talks about the exceptions to those principles.

Much of what separates really good writing from merely correct writing seems ineffable; it sounds the right note. Williams makes many of those seemingly indescribable qualities identifiable, so you can then recognize them in others' writing and learn to build them into your own.
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Isn't competition catching up for FB http://www.madina.com/
Most of them struck me as being poor riddles; 'here's this strange quasi-English quasi-Latin word which is usually a portmanteau; try to figure out from context what it means and how I derived it!' They wound up irritating me like the meaningless religious allusions and terms in _Neon Genesis Evangelion_ (and many other anime) irritate me.

Maybe there was a purpose in the novel's context beyond being a strange bit of parallel-worlds gimcrackery. I must've missed it.
Yeah, that is what Microsoft did (does). The result is most of the requests "look like" a desire to serve up viruses or spam.

A grammar is theoretically provable (yes, that is a double entendre). An ad-hoc implementation is not provable and exhaustively testing its validity is unrealistic for anything but trivial grammars.
this whole thing about information being more important than factories is a bit far-fetched.

I did not manage to see the presentation, but I suppose it depends as to how you define importance. We might always need farmers, wood smiths, brick layers. However, we know how to farm the land, build kitchens, houses. These things demand skill, but of a very low level.

Perhaps such things should not be placed in a hierarchical pyramid, but if they were, information would be right at the top. That is so as information, or rather innovation that comes from information and synthesis of information affects all that is below it in the hierarchy and is the hardest to get in that hierarchy.
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I hadn't but I probably should have. Reading through the pip documentation as we speak - if you have some quick pointers, don't hesitate to post them.
I used to think Wikipedia is neutral. Lately I've been kind of shocked - I don't know if this is a new development, but check out these two pages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Pinochet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro

Look at the tables of contents. If you didn't know better, you'd think Pinochet was more corrupt and murderous. But, Castro killed 10x as many people, tortured 100x as many, stole orders of magnitude more money and wealth...

There's 36 links in Castro's Wikipedia table of contents. Only four of them are mildly negative: 9 Controversy and criticism, 9.1 Human rights record, 9.2 Allegations of mismanagement, 9.3 Allegations of wealth.

There's 24 items in Pinochet's table of contents. 10 of them are very negative.

2 Military coup of 1973, 2.1 U.S. Backing of the Coup, 3 Military junta, 4.1 Allegations of fascism, 4.2 Suppression of opposition, 5 Arrest and trial in Britain, 7 Secret bank accounts, tax evasion and arms deal, 8 Human rights violations, 9.1 Demonstrations

If you didn't know better, you'd think Pinochet was a very bad man and Castro was a good man. But regardless of your politics, Chile is a much nicer place to live than Cuba these days, yet Cuba was a much nicer place than Chile before Castro came to power. Castro's policies destroyed Cuba. Whereas Pinochet has a mixed, but pretty good record. Hell, Chile just passed net neutrality laws last week.

A similar article is this one -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_surge

By almost all analysis and objective metrics, the 2007 troop surge worked. Violence went down, insurgency went down, attacks went down, crime went down afterwards. But if you look at the article, it's loaded with criticisms, opposition, and things unrelated to that particular military campaign. Then there's a quick blurb, "Interpretation of the surge's results ... Whether the surge led to the improvement in Iraqi security, or other factors caused it, is disputed by some."

Wikipedia is not neutral. It's edited by people who have more free time on their hands are and are more tech savvy. People with more free time who are more tech savvy tend to skew demographically, which is sad, it should be a neutral resource and would be better if it is.

Compare the Castro and Pinochet articles if you want to see it in action, you'd never realize that Pinochet was a much better and more effective leader. They both did bad stuff, but Pinochet did less bad stuff and more good stuff. His country was worse when he took power, and better afterwards. Cuba was much wealthier, prosperous, and better off before Castro, and is much worse now. It's a shame that this is misrepresented in Wikipedia.
By the way, if you have children I highly recommend reading Bronson and Merryman's book NurtureShock to get a good overview of the current research into cognitive development.
The biggest issue I see in the examples the author showed is the fact that ad-hominem attacks against the author were upvoted furiously. The "indirect venting" by pwn0cakes did seem indirect to me at first, because my frame of reference was the same as yours seems to be (that of a fellow HNer).

But now put yourself in the author's shoes. Then suddenly you can see how direct the comment really was, calling you a "fucking asshole". Not exactly the height of discourse here on HN. Calling names is a far cry from writing a one-sided article. It was only inflammatory in that he disagreed with most people, and said people are horribly sensitive about this topic.
Google says, its activation numbers may be understated because they only include phones that use Google services.

Are there Android phones that don't use Google services?
I agree you did the right thing especially because you mentioned him having a bad time, but allways taking any call from a special person no matter what... Imagine if you are talking to a good friend who is having a hard time and are interrupted because your brothers calls to aks if you want to come the game next sunday?
The article answers the question itself, so the title is rhetorical: develop them because folk are asking for them. This, plus the fact that the android market is growing very rapidly answers the question for me.
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Why don't you just keep a bag of carrots from the supermarket in a desk drawer instead? If put them in a paperbag instead of the plastic they usually come in (or else condensation will rot them), they'll easily keep for a week.
>all we have to do is up the sodium content to about 25% of that of a bag of chips, and kids will be gobbling them up just as if they were any other snack food

I thought the process was mince the food up, add salt, modified soya protein and flavour enhancers, some sunset yellow (or other diabolical food colouring) and then reshape the resulting mush into mini carrot-ettes.

Finish by frying in a vat of lard, dip in HCFS and then in sugar and crisp on the grill.

Voila, fast-food-ised carrots.
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Are small schools better? It might just be bad statistics.
Agree. My wife and I have a protocol worked out. I can ignore any call if I need to. If it's an emergency, she will call again immediately, and that means I'd better answer it.
When I was young we used to pick carrots from the field and wash them in the irrigator before eating them, good times.
Not everybody has the benefit of being a yc-backed startup.
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For those of us that end up making notes whilst trying to work out the timings for meals - this is genius and will save me lots of time. If I still had an iPhone I'd be all over this, but...

22 recipes doesn't seem like a lot - a way for users to submit their own recipes (webapp?) for use with the app would be fantastic.
For something like this, I'd guess there are 100+ quality articles on the web and maybe 500+ books that discuss it. Have you read/researched some of those and are just not finding helpful info?
What did you think about Shiny Tweet's columns?
The OS seems to be a love it or hate it thing. I love the way it looks in the demos, but I don't think I'll buy one. There are a few things that worry me, such as the lack of a removable microSD card, no true multi-tasking, and no copy/paste. My last 2 phones were Windows Mobile, but I recently jumped ship to Android with my HTC Evo, and I'm not going back. Microsoft had their chance, and they lost me.
There are several phones from obscure Chinese manufacturers that run stock android without any sort of Google blessing. Of course getting any sort of number on how popular these are is basically impossible.
>Think how a beautiful gift wrap elevates an average gift.

Beautiful gift wrap always makes me think "what a waste of resources" it's even worse if it's plastic.

I don't think we should be trying to trick people into following what we've decided they should eat.
I avoid sysadmin work when possible - it's not something I enjoy spending time on.

Setting up gitolite is dead simple - setting up a git server manually manually might be 'simple' compared to other tasks, but it's still unnecessary work. Creating new repos is as simple as changing the config file and pushing it - no need to do anything on the server at all.

I see absolutely no reason TO do it manually, and that's the decider.
Thanks for the reply. I am still looking for that one site if anybody knowns it. If it helps, one HN user was saying that the site-owner (another HN user) was running his service like a metered utility and should instead charge an baseline fee + sqr inch fee since it would make him more money.
As mentioned in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1400882, where I'll continue replying, such comments were "upvoted furiously" because people agreed with it despite its caustic wording. Could that be because the original article provoked such a response? I believe so. Plenty of food for thought.