skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think he is. According to comScore Palm managed to not lose market share in the last three months while Microsoft, Apple, and RIM lost a collective 5% to Google. In the long run and with HP now behind it I think that webOS certainly has the potential to become #3.

RIM has most of it's market in enterprise's and that certainly won't be easy to crack so in the short run I expect that RIM will remain top of the heap. But in the 5+ year horizon HP certainly has the relationships with enterprises through it's server sales to get their foot in the door and start shifting that mindset.

Apple will always have it's core (pun intended) of ardent supporters, but most of them already have the iPhone. The fact that they lost market share in the second quarter demonstrates that.

Android has such a diverse set of hardware vendors using it that it is destined to eventually take the top of the market.

In the short term 2-4 year horizon I don't see anything really changing except Android continuing to inch it's way up the ladder. In the long term iff HP/Palm manages to get some great hardware out it could move up as well but they really need to execute to make it happen.

*disclaimer: I have carried a Palm branded product since the Palm Personal (1995 IIRC) and currently carry a Palm T|X and a dumb phone. My preceding comments might be colored by my loyalty to the brand but I still haven't jumped to the Palm Pre yet.

ComScore info here: http://www.comscore.com/Press_Events/Press_Releases/2010/9/c...
There are a few not taken - I've got one that I only paid $9 for :)
As difficult a situation as Palm is in, I was reading that article thinking Nokia is in far worse shape. WebOS remains just a promising also-ran next to iOS, Blackberry, Android, and presumably WP7, but MeeGo doesn't even rate mentioning, and Symbian is a walking corpse.
It's timing to market was just fine. But two issues killed it, IMO:

1) The SDK took way too long to come out. I was ready to do some dev work on it. But by the time it came out, I had passed on it. SDKs must be ready at device launch, and the app store must ship with the device.

2) The advertising was horrible. The Pre should have been a huge seller with Sprint customers, but many didn't even know about it.
Just registered ftw1.com... I like this idea. I think there could be a few interesting applications.
It's interesting to see people on HN downvoting some for being responsible with information while upvoting those who advocate irresponsible disclosure.
Weird-looking Celebs after Plastic Surgery
These celebrities have overdone it, they are so obsessed with their looks that after numerous aesthetic surgeries they look like they have come out from a silly cartoon. http://www.sessionmagazine.com/weird-looking-celebs-after-plastic-surgery/
Ugh domain squatting is possibly the most morally bankrupt web-based business practice I can think of.
Ask HN: How does web Google Chat get the currently playing song in iTunes?
Is it a plug-in? or is it purely JavaScript? I just am completely stumped. Looking through the Gmail source is like looking at a fully compiled program too, its been confusing me for days.<p>Thanks.
Google Prediction adds multi-class predictions, continuous output & mixed input
The real joke is that philosophers do this, too. If your ethical theory doesn't quite fit with people's moral intuitions, most philosophers will argue that, in itself, is a problem with the theory.

This is why I don't put much stock in ethical theory--if intuition is a good enough moral guide that we use it to refute ethical theories, why do we need a theory? More damningly, on what other grounds can we possibly criticize an ethical theory?
Read my short guide to a good domain elsewhere on HN and for your own sake avoid domains with digits.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1659674
Years ago I worked with a government techie, a fellow who had written a masters thesis on W.B. Yeats. One day, as we were discussing the dim prospects for the line of proprietary minicomputers we worked with, he said, "Jim, I think we're fastened to a dying animal." (http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/3847.html)
I can't say much about the app as I haven't tried it yet, but my first impression of the web page are:

Who is this for? At first I thought it might be for doctors, to sort of "crowd-source" a diagnosis, especially from the phrase "investigate, deduce and diagnose real life in minutes." But the cartoon look and the word "game" suggest not.

Now I think it might be a "try to diagnose the problem" game for lay people (I mean, non-doctors). It does look like fun.

In the industrial first-aid training I've done, we practiced and were tested in various scenarios where we had to make a basic diagnosis and provide first-aid. If I understand correctly what your app is about, improving first aid skills might be an additional benefit of playing the game.
i know from reading reddit often that there are frequently highly-rated comments as replies that are several levels deep, and possibly have nothing to do with the original top-level reply.

i recommend sorting comments by "best", and then just cranking up your minimum score rating in your preferences so that comments under, say, 10 will not get shown.
I call BS on the test.

Interesting. You state that Casey Jones should divert the train, yet this will cause the death of the person trapped on the railway siding. This seems to be inconsistent with your belief that it is always wrong to cause another person's death. It is somewhat perplexing that you responded this way, since you do not believe that this course of action is necessiated by any general moral requirement to maximise the happiness of the greatest number of people. More of this later. For now, let's see what you make of the scenario below.

Choosing to let 1 person die so that 5 can live does not mean I find that action moral. It's simply the better of two options.
How exactly did you work that out from what I wrote?
90% of potential cell phone customers aren't looking for a smartphone, they don't currently have any sort of phone and guess who makes all the cheap waterproof rugged phones.

hint - the next billion customers don't live near Apple stores.
Twain commented on the shortening distance between Cairo and New Orleans and suggested that eventually the river would run out of room and have to stick out into the Gulf like a fishing pole.
The ironic thing though is that Google feels slower with instant search. I feel like the experience I have is this now:

I'm tying in the search box and I see a whole bunch of results flying below. But by the time I get to the end of my text, I look down and there are no results, and Google is telling me to hit ENTER. I feel like I'm literally wasting seconds because I had an expectation of results, but instead got nothing instantly.

The UI is probably great for people who are hunt and peck typists. But I think most people will find it to hinder more than help.
I read an interesting paper on this phenomenon years ago (that we use morality to justify, not reason).

A summary (not written by me):
According to Haidt's (2001) social intuitionist model (SIM), an individual's moral judgment normally
arises from automatic 'moral intuitions'. Private moral reasoning—when it occurs—is biased and
post hoc, serving to justify the moral judgment determined by the individual's intuitions.

http://www.mc.edu/campus/academics/BIO/emotional%20dog%20rat...
There always seem to be unregistered 4-letter .com domains when I look. When I bought awio.com it was simply unregistered. Taking a sample of 500 names and then saying all of the hundreds of thousands of other names must be registered is just wrong.
As a person who hires coders I've been looking for something like this for a while. I think another helpful service you could provide would be to (for a fee) help non technical people describe the project in the way a developer would want to see it.
If there are Indian freelancers with verifiable high quality work, OSS contributions etc. they deserve to be able to compete on a level playing field with similarly qualified Americans. You could always design a filter for those people who for whatever reason were only looking for developers in their timezone/country/city
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The book "Ill Gotten Gains" by Leo Katz explores this subject in depth from the perspective of a lawyer. His thesis is that libertarianism can not be founded on utilitarianism, rather, it must have (and does) have a deontological foundation. It's a must read for anyone who finds this sort of thing interesting.

http://www.amazon.com/Ill-Gotten-Gains-Evasion-Blackmail-Kin...
I know it's not a 'medical device' (at least in current iteration) but have you read about the FDA taking a look at app stores? http://jkontherun.com/2010/08/31/fda-has-app-stores-under-su...
The acceleration curve makes so much sense to me, for some reason it feels right. Whereas I hate using Windows or Linux because it doesn't have the same sort of curve.

The touch-pads are extremely nice though. I have used Mac's since 2001 beginning with an iBook and since then find it difficult to use a mousing surface on other manufacturers laptops. It just doesn't have the same smooth feel, there is more resistance or it doesn't correctly pick up on my motions, the surface Apple uses to cover their touch pads is something special and different.
What's Going on with the Social Web?
I think the cartoon style removes some of the seriousness from the app. It looks well-designed but I don't think I'd use it (maybe I'm not the target audience but who is?).
It's an open source ad server.
I do not expect to get anyone skilled for $35.00.

Perhaps that's an ignorant assumption, but I don't think I'm alone in this.

Charge more.
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Its all about perception: The Canon Story
I suppose, it's not a trivial task to complete, otherwise it would've been done already, as I can only imagine that there is a lot of cash to get in that game.
Thanks for the clarification, pg!
I saw a javascript trick that would show the first letter of the password as you type it but then turn the letter into a dot after you type the next letter, just like a lot of mobile devices do. Seems like this would give some added sense of security / privacy.

Link: http://blog.decaf.de/2009/07/iphone-like-password-fields-usi...
How does it differ from real-estate speculation in your mind? Do you develop every domain name you purchase?
That's a pretty simplistic view, no? You don't believe causing a death is different than not preventing other deaths? Or perhaps it is different, but there is a certain moral penalty for letting a person die, and this is less than the moral penalty for letting 5 die? What if instead of 5, it was just a pregnant woman (1.5?)

Admittedly, that question isn't my favorite, as both options are relatively passive. How do you feel about the situations where a more active role is required? Would you push the man over the railing to save 5?
In Rainbows being a failure is the recording industry's spin and, as usual, once you stop taking the cherry-picked data at face value and look at the big picture, you find the complete opposite is true: http://techdirt.com/articles/20081015/1640202552.shtml
Another flaw in this sort of study is that there's an enormous disconnect between what we say we would do, and what we would actually do.

I might say "yes, I would push Chip/Tyrone over the rail", because I really do believe that's the best thing to do. But if I were actually faced with that dilemma and had to murder someone, could I do it?
It's simply the better of two options.

You feel this way, but many people will avoid switching the train.

The point of the experiments is to see if (statistically) more or fewer people are willing to switch the train based on the race of the people involved.
What Are You Really Worth?
I don't think $6 is hideously underpriced, considering that it is only an expansion. The core game costs $20. A third of the price isn't that bad a price point for game addons.
Where are the Canadian super angels?
As someone said below, alternatives are really limited, guess that's the result of inexistent competition.
There is really no profit motive to killing the OpenJDK. There is a profit motive for killing MySQL. Whatever else you want to say about Oracle, betting on their desire for profit is a pretty good prediction strategy.
Microsoft makes my favourite mouse which is the Laser Mouse 6000. When I heard that they would no longer be in production I bought a second one as backup in case my first ever failed. It is light, has two extra buttons one on each side and is an absolute joy to have.

Yes, it looks weird next to the rest of my Apple gear, especially since it is this silver black, but overall it is way better than any mouse Apple has ever released.
It is almost trivial to convert the main elements of a WordPress theme to a non-Wordpress Platform. It depends on the terms of the project, but likely means a reduced number of "look and feel" changes before completion of the project theme.
IPhone App Designs Reviewed: Critique Board and Lessons Learned
That explains the behavior of all the drivers as I cycle to work.
They are all moral philosophers and believe that by killing me they provide donor organs to save 6 others.

Maybe I need a cycling top that says "I don't carry a donor card"
I am a medical student. Your demo appears to be below the medical student level, so I am assuming that this is for laypeople to have fun while perhaps learning something. Is that the case? Is there a real demo? I'm not inclined to plop my email address into the form on your page, but if you get in touch with me I will take a look.
I think it looks fun and vaguely educational but I think you need to make it clearer that it's a game and smother the thing with disclaimers making it clear that stuff you learn in the game is no substitute for going to see an actual doctor - there have been way more frivolous law suits.
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Evidence that no matter how much you hedge and no matter how much you caveat, some tech publication will take anything you write and turn it into linkbait.

Alex's writing had none of the urgency this article attributes to him. It explicitly went out of its way to say that centralization vs. decentralization wasn't an immediate risk to the company; in fact, he questioned whether a decentralized Twitter could have focused itself enough to build #newtwitter, which he admires. The article also doesn't claim that Alex left simply because Twitter refused to decentralize.
Good tips. I advise the "radio test" to all of my clients.
It has a lot to do with Reddit in that Reddit was available, better, and already fairly well known. It's not like the article could possibly go "How Digg's Whatever Benefited Mixx.com". Reddit was basically standing there ready to soak up Digg users once masses of them stuck their heads up for long enough to notice that Digg isn't really that entertaining or informative, and other sites may suit them better.
The disappointing for most consumers will be that iPads require a computer to sync to itunes before you begin to use.

Apple must fix this soon, but that require the ability to connect OTA and probably redownload purchased content (without a mobile me account).

Ease up a little apple and you will add gasoline to the ipad fire.
Ok then, a similar effect :)
Xenophobia is a well-known behavioral trait, this study seems to indicate xenophilia exists as well (i.e., Americans being more accepting of American causalities than Iraqi).
Well, I think the search for an ethical theory is still valid. That's one of the main exercises of philosophy, taking a lot of particular data points (in this case, moral intuitions) and trying to find some overarching pattern or system. Just because we haven't found a consistent one yet (or even if such a system does not exist) it doesn't mean the search isn't worthwhile.
"experiment" is just a formal, controlled method for gathering observations.
I had the privilege of leading the team that created this app, and wrote a fair amount of the code myself. If you have any questions about the app, its development, or just anything at all relating to justin.tv on the iPhone, please feel free to ask.
I think anyone might find it confusing when they search for something specific and their words are automatically changed - except for spelling fixes.
The problem with showing users their passwords in plain text is that it makes stealing passwords easier for someone looking over their shoulder. However if you're SSL encrypting the communication, and are following good practices on the server, you aren't weakening any other part of their security.
ShiningPanda aims to be a little bit more than an Hudson in the cloud. It provides some built-in Python environments to run your tests, and allows you to easily plug some web 2.0 reports instead of console 1.0 outputs (coverage, code analysis, ...). If you need some extra dependences to run your tests (such as databases...), it's as easy as a click. And with a continuous deployment service, it's really a friend that helps you to safely send code (by testing it) from your source repository to your production site.
It happened for millenia before that, people were chiseled out of Egyptian and Roman monuments by later rulers.

Paintings were also 'improved'. Washington didn't cross the Delaware standing up in an overcrowded boat striking a heroic pose while everybody else fended off icebergs - or at least if he did he was an idiot.
I tried it with much larger samples for that character distribution and have yet to find a single unregistered name. You can't say with certainty that it must be that 100% are registered but I think that extrapolating from large random samples is a pretty good way of making inferences.
This version of the "trolley" thought experiment is explored in the book I mentioned in a previous post. It turns out people will not choose to steer a trolley of people needing organ replacements into a healthy potential organ donor. Thus, most people really aren't utilitarians, even if they claim to be. Unfortunately, one of the chemical processes in the brain reverses this attitude when someone prone to road rage spies a cyclist.

A typical response is that these sorts of mental games are silly, but how people answer these questions actually forms the basis of legal systems throughout the world.
English, but I had a vintage Mercedes Benz years ago with the Blaupunkt radio and the name makes me nostalgic for a more innocent time (when I thought I could fix up an old Mercedes).
That is a moral code. The whole point of the question is whether your code is absolute: can you kill someone if the alternative is worse, or can you absolutely not kill someone regardless of the alternative?
I find the bit about Iraqis vs. Americans a bit superficial. As a liberal, I would consider collateral damage less of a problem when Americans die because all Americans are responsible for the present situation in Iraq, while most Iraqis are innocent bystanders. I view this as utilitarian: if people who start wars have a greater chance of death than people who don't start wars, this should in theory decrease the incidence of war.

Similarly, when we talk about Tyrone vs. Chip, this is a question of a poor man vs. a rich man. But more to the point, "Chip Ellsworth III" evokes a sterotype of the rich Connecticut blueblood, a parasite aristocrat.

A much more interesting study would actually look at people in different clothes, with different skin tones. This just measures people's reaction to someone whose father was overly proud of his lineage and is likely a rich socialite.

Obviously this says something about my politics, but again it doesn't necessarily say anything vis-a-vis deontology vs. utilitarianism. Again, my impression of the name "Chip" is that he's a worthless individual who contributes nothing to society.

However, even if we assume that both are model citizens, it stands to reason that the death of the hypothetical lower-class black man is going to put his family through significant hardship, while Chip's family has enough money that mostly people will be getting a sudden unexpected influx of cash. So the question really becomes: kill one man, or kill one man and ruin his family's chance at a decent life.
Maybe! It depends on the circumstances... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
+1

There's not much logic in that country list. I kinda understand (but not really) that Slovenia (my country, part of EU) is not listed there, but Austria, Switzerland, etc are also missing. That means I can't register and give you more feedback.
And now the name has a positive connotation. Powerful, in a way, because so many cultures identify with it.
So, you hadn't dived in a year, since your cert. You planned to be in over the cert'd depth, on your first post cert dive. In a group with one dive master, over a wall, which is tricky. And then there was peer pressure to not suck down air too fast. That's not really a recipe for success.
'“Clearly the name is confusing consumers,” said Audrae Erickson, president of the Washington-based group, in an interview. “Research shows that ‘corn sugar’ better communicates the amount of calories, the level of fructose and the sweetness in this ingredient.”'

But, Mz. Erickson, does it convey the damage that HFCS does to one's liver? Does it convey the increased risk of onset diabetes and obesity?

What a bunch of straw-man BS. This is a triple-insult to our intelligence. First by calling us confused, second by thinking that a name change will trick us into buying what we avoided before, and third, by acting like we can't see the real reason for this name change: to avoid well-deserved bad press.

I know a lot of people who are aware of the health risks of a high-fructose diet, and not a one of them is confused by the name. And those who are only peripherally aware of the health risks but still avoid the products, may for a brief period be confused by the name changed (ironic, isn't it), but as soon as they find out about it, they are going to be pissed off.

Truth-in-labeling laws are a good thing. They allow consumers to make informed choices. I would argue that, based upon these laws, deliberately changing the name of an ingredient to avoid bad press should be illegal.
Yet everyone who says this has a few domains they're sitting on and might use one day just as soon they get around to it...
You'd be surprised. Worldwide mobile phone ownership is up to 5 billion[0]. Meanwhile, much of the first world has already transitioned to smartphones.

If you wanted to jump on the cheap phone trend, you're ten years late. Whatever margins existed once are now gone. Nokia, the king of cheap phones, just fired their CEO and replaced him with a software guy from Microsoft. Apple, HP and Blackberry know exactly what market their fighting over.

[0]: http://www.poder360.com/article_detail.php?id_article=4704
This is really, really badass - amazing work guys!
I remember watching a documentary where they found that drivers are much more likely to cut off cyclists wearing helmets than those without helmets. They also measured things like average distance between car and bike when passing. If people see you not wearing a helmet they assume that you are unsafe and will stay further away from you.
> It's simply the better of two options

And that's why we call it utilitarianism.
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