skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great to read the story and interesting lesson about competing with giants.I'm a bit puzzled about one part of the post

>>Then, in June 2009, Nike finally did show up, coming pre-installed on every iPhone & iPod Touch. Unfair advantage, right?

afaik the Nike app was not pre-installed (by Apple or AT&T) on any iPhone. Am I mistaken on the facts or did I misinterpret the post ?

[edit] Thanks Maxawaytoolong, this is interesting. I'm a little disappointed that Apple did the pre-installation. However, I'm assuming that the pre-installation didn't help Nike too much, because most people wouldn't have discovered the setting and Nike's ads would have equally effective without any pre-installation
There are LOTS of women entrepreneurs in the US. Arrington is full of you-know-what, as usual. However, there aren't a lot of women in the "slave for a couple years, hope to grow big and get bought" arena... which, imo, isn't unreasonable.
Yeah she doesn't need or want the social features, but it seemed like there was a way to install without having facebook, twitter, etc. accounts. And I figured the Jolicloud UI might be a little more straightforward for her than the standard Ubuntu UI.
No female developers where I work, so that could be part of it. This conversation wasn't about anyone at the company.

And you're completely right, of course. I, honestly, was too shocked to react. I mean, flabbergasted. It's so... antiquated, like finding out someone resents the Union for that whole abolition thing.

In the days since, I feel bad not to have spoken up.
Not to mention that Azure was late to market and App Engine/EC3 and Heroku are all more mature.
In my experience even small businesses often believe their data/privacy is too important to hand over to someone else.
You should try using the forerunner with our site, http://ridewithgps.com - runkeeper, cyclemeter and the rest are definitely cool, but if you have a nice GPS watch you can avoid having to carry your phone. Though, if you like carrying your phone on runs then heck yeah, use runkeeper/cyclemeter/whatever app and sell the forerunner. Oh, and bug whatever mobile app to allow uploading to our service! There is lots of room for cooperation in the mobile fitness market, and I am excited to see how it all develops.

I say that
Thanks for testing out the omnibox API when it is still so difficult to use. We start out new APIs in experimental to get a feel for how they work before becoming stuck with them forever.
"He was bounced around to hospitals and homeless shelters for nine months, unable to see more than a few feet in front of him, until a charity raised enough money to have his eyes fixed"

Something is seriously wrong with the system.
Email is a reliable, negligible cost, vendor neutral communication system that's accessible to about two billion people worldwide. There has never been anything quite like that in history, and a mere handful of spammers (probably thousands, definitely not millions) are making it unusable. If those spammers had instead each gone on a local crime spree, any carnage and mayhem would have gone completely unnoticed by 1.99 billion of those people.
For 90% of the market though, that adds a $200 cancellation fee to buying a device which requires a contract (or forces them to delay their purchase for months). So that $299 Dell Streak actually costs me $499 (because I have to get out of my current contract), and I won't be able to get it at $299 until like next June or something, by which point the market may (will) look different.

Phones and non-phone personal electronics are different market niches, because they attract different clienteles. Maybe in a decade when unlimited data is like $10/device that'll change, but for the foreseeable future, most non-upper-class people aren't going to have more than one phone contract per person.
Arrington's article is a big old whitewash as far as I can tell. On the one hand he's saying "I don't know why women aren't in IT, stop blaming me" but then on the other hand his comments are full of vitriol. Everyone who's commented expressing a differing opinion has been "flagged for review", meanwhile shit like this: http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/28/women-in-tech-stop-blaming-... goes unchecked.

Which is the point of this article: The tech world is a very unwelcoming place if you're an outsider (and sometimes even when you're an insider, which Michelle Greer apparently is).
Why is anyone up voting 'agreed'? If you agree, just vote for the comment surely?
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No problem :) I've had fun working with it.

Is the Chromium Extension Group the best place for me to provide feedback on the omnibox API?
I agree. I'm just trying to explain that this assumption that other people will break off the conversation if they are not interested is central to how I've overcome my own social anxiety.
Nice post. I haven't used Runkeeper on iPhone, but on Android is "big and slow-moving" just as he says Nike is. Endomondo on the other hand is small and fast and seems to do all the same stuff. Interesting market segment to be in, I'm sure we haven't seen the last of the good ideas here.
This is right on the money. There will always be someone to compete with, and that competition does nothing but benefit the users in the long run. Even if you manage to best your old competition, someone new will eventually come along and challenge you to become better, or replace you because you couldn't.

Our main competitor landed a $5 million A round (we are bootstrapping and have no intention of raising money), but we still pull in $1500 a month in donations. It's not "a hell of a lot", but it's a lot when you consider the ratio of donors to purchasers. Yes, the smaller business can still do very well!
While Windows Mobile is in a sorry state, I'm not really too convinced by the rest of your list.

IIS is believe it or not a very good webserver, fewer exploits than Apache and just as extensible. And you can extend it with .NET-code. No need for that icky C to do that.

.NET is a very good development platform with lots of stuff happening. PHP? Really? Of all things horrible, you mentioned PHP? Microsoft at least had the balls to kill their MS PHP (aka classic ASP). Java? Seems like Oracle intends to kill it utterly. Python and Ruby? You mean those languages which also runs on .NET?

SQL Server is unimaginable better featured and stable compared to MySQL, plus it has tooling support which makes using PostgreSQL seem like the dark ages. And unlike MySQL its performance wont drop dead once your databases surpasses the system's available memory. People using SQL Server aren't doing "clever" things like "sharding", because it breaks relational integrity, and frankly, it isn't needed. SQL Server just works.

Microsoft does really have a lot of good stuff on the table. Maybe the FOSS options are sufficient for your needs, but that doesn't automatically apply to everyone.
You're in luck- web developers are a very easy audience to target online due to the wealth of content aimed at them. Stop screwing around with niche stuff like BuySellAds and get into some serious high volume media buys, especially on tutorial sites, JavaScript libraries Jquery plugins etc. You can also try big ad networks tech verticals, TribalFusion's is pretty good.
Feel free to email me if you have more specific questions.
I would have said photo editing too, but I've been watching my wife use Photobucket's web based image editor and surprised at how content she seems with it. I've used Photoshop so long that using any other 2d graphic app feels awkward, but the coming "web generation" might feel more comfortable using HTML 5 apps in the future.
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It's there, but is hidden until enabled in Settings.
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Brand recognition.
Google's JS5k Submission?
FYI, Google Docs got worse since you looked at it. It's now at about MacWrite (circa 1984) level. Oh, and it broke compatibility with old documents (something Microsoft knows not to do!).
Ask HN: What's up with the Google logo today? What does it mean?
>If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would say that we are all being trained to be docile robots in large institutions that are initiated and controlled by other people who are aware that there is an international class struggle, and they are afraid that we might discover we can do it for ourselves and toss them (and their tax breaks) over.

That is pretty much the theory put forward by John Taylor Gatto in "Underground History of American Education"[1] which is actually a pretty interesting book, even if I am not sure I buy everything he talks about.

Oh and unless he faked them, there are too many references from speeches from famous people to just completely ignore him. Which is always the interesting point...

[1] http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/
My step daughter is studying law and history, and has run Ubuntu on her laptop for the last 3 years. She's not particularly technical, but she loves it and has even converted some fellow law students from what I've heard. I showed her how to use LyX (a WYSIWYG LaTeX editor) and many of her professors have commented on how professional her papers look :)
Actually it pretty much was a horse race. How many PC manufacturers were there in the 80s? How many in the 90s?
Some of these speed-ups are possible in Drupal 6, or in Pressflow, the patched version of D6.

I look forward to migrating my first site from D6 to D7, and doing before and after benchmarks for a real-world site and it's data.
Google.com has an animated logo using an HTML/JavaScript particle simulator
I found this article lacking in concrete suggestions. What can be done to improve the situation? Should we paint the walls of CS classrooms pink? Hire female architects to design the engineering buildings on university campuses?

Maybe one of the reasons for the gender disparity in software engineering in particular is that it revolves around logical analysis and direct steps from problem to resolution, while women are (stereotypically) more adept at emotional reasoning than logical reasoning. If so, what, if anything should be done to correct this?
Whoa. I've been on the Conduit site for about 2 hours now reading up and analyzing all of the apps. It is such an interesting platform. I've never heard of it in my life. I also come to the realization that I was in a generation where a toolbar equated to harassment.

100k Bing backlinks, 32 alexa rank, 8 pagerank, 47 compete rank(17mil uniques, 218mil visits). Somewhere around 4.3mil backlinks total.

Wait, what? Oh, right, your toolbar installer gives you a follow backlink to your domain. A quick yahoo site explore of backlinks to conduit consists of 90% spam/auto generated blogs/monetization in mind sites. I saw a few reliable new sources/sites offering the toolbar. It is an addictive platform once they suck you in to installing it. Easily adding features/gadgets to your toolbar is somewhat nice. They're currently sitting at the #11 spot in google, #9 on yahoo, and #4 on bing for "toolbar".

The Conduit site itself works on a freemium model with payment for toolbar installs/usage (scary). They make money by offering paid services/support/etc.

I'm going to attempt to work on a gadget tomorrow.

Sources:
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http://www.con...
All the fuckers who think they're better than everyone else because they're discovering language features that have been around since the mid-80s use ruby.
I see it in Firefox but not in Chrome from some reason...
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>The majority of applications were Java programmers who couldn't be bothered to a) read the instructions on how to submit their application or b) write a cover letter AT ALL.

Properly because if you simply send the same letter you can send the same to 10 companies in the time it takes to conform to the wishes of one company. And until you are ten times more likely to be hired that way, you are still ahead (unless you are Google, all a large companies are essentially the same, so it doesn't really matter where you get hired).

As for publishing a blog, you are hireing software engineers, not writers. Sure you expect them to be able to write, just as you expect them to be able to speak, but you don't hire speakers either.
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We are exploring non-ad based revenue models primarily, but, are open to tastefully done ads like you have described. We have plans on greatly enhancing our gear section (can you tell it hasn't been touched in two years?) to encourage more detailed inputs. This will let us do more relevant targeting. If we do ads, I want to attempt to only show ads that are beneficial to a user. Since we are location based, that means maybe only allowing local ads for users, or maybe any ad as long as it is a sweet deal. Users might not be turned off on ads if they are for 25% off stuff the want anyway.

As far as donating, I am working out how I want to handle early donors considering we are nearing the launch of paid accounts. We will be treating our early donors well, they will receive much more than they might otherwise for a normal paid account, but we haven't put any actual "policies" in place. I am constantly surprised by the levels of donations. We received a $200 donation at the end of last week from a single user! The average has been around $22.50 - I have intended on writing a blog piece on it, but haven't managed yet :)
Then you get grounding loops - not a good idea.

Connect all the drawers to a single ground, using only one direction (star, not ring).
If I were both flip and a conspiracy theorist, I would say:

"The first thing we do is kill all the economists and professional educators"
For me this issue isn't so black and white. If an engineer being paid $100k/yr pulled something like this, yes I'd say he's stealing from his employer. When someone making $2.85/hr does this, I'm not sure it's stealing. The employer has the ability to hire someone at an insulting wage, and the employee has the ability to make the situation a little more favorable for themselves.
When you're using gmail, you also dependent on the internet connection. And my opinion, for business email, having abc@yourcompany.com looks better than abc@gmail.com
Working for me. Running 7.0.514.0 canary build.
I haven't read Caplan and Dickens' full exchange, but I doubt that the present article adds much to the discussion. The author emphasizes two points:

1. A cheaper and shorter academic program will not attract a lower caliber of student as long as it is challenging enough.

2. "Many blue collar and service jobs have extremely boring and unpleasant elements that are hard for workers to avoid. If your goal is to signal conscientiousness and conformity, a year of good performance at McDonald’s is probably a better signal than a year of academic success at most colleges."

The first point relies on intelligence and short-term effort being the relevant criteria. But Caplan's assertion is that conscientiousness and conformity are the characteristics that employees seek to signal. Those characteristics may be better evidenced by sustained effort. In any case, at some point, a distance run of increasing intensity but decreasing length becomes a sprint, a completely different sport. As you shorten the length of your education, eventually you'll get something that is more like an IQ test or other standardized test than a 4-year degree.

The second point seems to be totally unsubstantiated. If you take (present and former) fast food workers as your hiring pool, you find you've eliminated practically none of the loafers. That a potential recruit has both a PhD and a previous career at McDonald's could well be a sign of something good, but I doubt it could be concluded that the recruit was particularly conscientious during the McDonald's stage of his career. Work at McDonald's is closely supervised, requires little concentration, and never demands any effort outside of scheduled work hours. The necessary work ethic is not at all the same as that for the high-autonomy jobs sought by university graduates. The babysitting example is even more specious. Responsible for an infant, behind the wheel of a car, operating power tools, most functional human beings manage to bring to bear the requisite level of care. It's harder to do when lives aren't imminently at risk.

But the biggest fallacy is that manual labour is strictly harder than mental labour. Mental labour doesn't usually make you physically uncomfortable or physically tired, but in some important way, thinking is the hardest kind of work there is. At the very least, physical laziness and mental laziness in a potential employee are statistically independent events.
Confessions of A New Agile Developer
Ask HN: Should I ignore a cease and desist letter from our competition?
Our main competitor, mapmyride, sent us a cease and desist letter a while back demanding we remove our account importation feature. The feature downloaded all (or select) mapped routes from the users mapmyride account, and imported them into ours. It was done tastefully, with adequate time outs between requests and all that. Their objection was in our supposed violation of their TOS. Of course that's a load of bull, since I never agreed to their TOS. However, we pulled the feature as we were afraid of their legal budget.

Now that we have many more users (but still legal budget), I am less afraid of the consequences. However, I won't re-implement the functionality if it has a reasonable chance of tying me up in court, or otherwise wasting time/money. Does anyone have any experience with this? I understand most of you aren't lawyers and your advice isn't a substitute for adequate legal council, yadayadayada, but your input is definitely appreciated.

One last note: they can easily ban our servers IP and keep us from doing this. However, we are considering reimplementing the feature as a desktop application and making it generic enough to just archive a users content from a variety of these sites. No IP bans, and each user is violating their TOS. Our users are clamoring for this functionality, as many have 200+ mapped routes tied up on the site.
Really interesting (at least a few drinks into the night). I tried to click on the logo (obviously to no avail).

Anyone know if it has any deep meaning?
It takes the conversation equally off the rails to flippantly characterize the issue as "oppression".
I don't see it in ANY browser.
I have a friend who valet parks at an up-scale hotel, and over the years he's become pretty good at sizing up whether someone isn't aware that a tip is expected. So he's come up with a little code between his fellow employees. While the newb who doesn't know he's supposed to tip is waiting for his car, my friend loudly announces to a fellow employee as he hands him the keys to fetch some other customer's car "hey, he's already tipped, so he's good to go...". Without fail, the newb promptly pulls a $5 out of his pocket a few moments later...
They sell proprietary lock in? In terms of file formats, I mean.
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That should tell you all you need to know - if they can't come up with a rational coherent argument, it is properly because it doesn't exits.
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British PM refere to Bill Clinton “potentially sexual element"
My mother DOES use Ubuntu, and I've been called about problems 20% less in the past two years compared to previously, with her using Window XP. There's nothing difficult about it - her browser, email, camera and everything work fine. The interface is actually much more simple than Windows. What's the problem?
hmm.. a clever trick for non-chrome users to realize how slow the javascript in their browser is?
>A good example of this is that no matter how accomplished or rich a man is, he will probably be asked to laid down his life for children and women. That's not discrimination, but grim pragmatism

Once upon a time that was true - but since everybody is supposed to be equal now, you can bet that I am not going to do that. And I don't think that many men are doing that either.