skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "I love how you change the argument"

I think I've been fairly consistent in defending the core statement. You're the one who appears to be consistently misunderstanding the statements you take issue with.

To wit:
> "I don't think it can do most of what a PC can do,"

No one claimed anything remotely close to that. What was said was: of the things that most PC users do, most of it can be done on an iPad. (implicitly: usably well; not in that kinda-sorta-technically way that accompanies talks about windows slates, symbian phones, etc.)

How is it that you can recognize no-one expects netbooks to be PC replacements and you can dismiss their limitations due position as secondary devices, but you can't see the same of the iPad? A device that --unlike a netbook-- can't even be used unless you sync it with a primary PC?

> "It just seems that many iPad owners contort themselves into pretzels to prove that the iPad is more powerful than any other device at any price point ever conceived."

Again: No-one said anything remotely close to that in the article or in this thread.
not. reddit.
Hmm it expires soon. Keep an eye on that ;)
This essay is just precious. A quote which sums it up very well is: If you leave a bunch of eleven-year-olds to their own devices, what you get is Lord of the Flies.
Our startup aimed at college students is basically shot in the head by this :). Yesterday we even talked about how we could pivot and every one of those options is dead in the water. It's back to the (nearly blank) drawing board.
MMDOE56G, that's a Samsung 256GB SSD. [Sorry, I know I wrote 512GB and honestly I don't know why I didn't catch it before now.]
http://www.weebly.com - made by a small team, 2 1/2 hackers if you count myself as 1/2 time :)

we're very profitable.
This is a good move on their part, as it was a big reason why people didn't like Facebook, why I didn't like FB. I am still not getting an account, but one obstacle has been removed.
Wow! Do you do all the maintenance of these sites yourself?
Jason Santa Maria is the only designer whose rss feed I'm subscribed to. Check his porfolio for some projects you'll probably recognize.

http://jasonsantamaria.com/
This might be an overkill but how about geo-specific HN groups aside from the general one?

Bay Area Hacker News, San Diego Hacker News, etc.
Are you telling me there are only 3 people at Weebly? Now that is very very impressive.
Yeah it's called prisoner's dilemma. The strategy is called tit-for-tat. Bittorrent uses it to keep peers from misbehaving; look it up.
God damn, is childhood a tough time. Life seems really easy these days. Grade five felt about 10 years long.

Maybe I don't remember how bad it was, but I find myself thinking of the kids who were doing the bullying. The one guy became an alcoholic in High School because his dad needed someone to drink with during the day. School wasn't good, but when I got home I was mostly in the clear. It's hard to imagine how a child who felt constant fear and violence at home could do anything but impose those things on others.

I hope that I can instill in my children both the skills to resist bullying for themselves, but also the sense of justice to fight it when it's done to others.
Cisco Rolls Out Umi Home Video Conferencing System
QBASIC: I had a coding friend in elementary school and on the weekends we had QBASIC sleepovers. We stayed up til 3 or 4am making barely playable games and fake imitations of operating systems. I remember the vivid rush of excitement when something actually ran: almost unbeatable (only skydiving, burning man, camping, and some fun time spent naked have compared since).

Much more recently, learning OCaml after many years spent coding C++ was like a long drink of cool refreshing water.
But he probably was going to music venues to listen to records without the appropriate public performance rights.
What would an aggressive response look like? Did Google show restraint in any way with this? (Perhaps they could have made some counterclaims for Oracle's harm to their business in spite of the fact that Google doesn't make any money directly off Android?)

I think if this response seems normal, that's because aggressive smack-downs are the appropriate way to deal with patent trolls, and most software patent cases involve a patent troll.
Lots of markers on Google Maps
Release announcement : http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-announce/2010-Octobe...
But hopefully not the same colour scheme and general site layout ?!
The Arduinos are great. I have two of them. One is a DIY clone called "DorkBoard". Check it out.
Also have a look at the MSP430 based LaunchPad kit, its very cheap and available from Mouser.com.
One step toward wired human/machine interfaces
Although it's easier said than done, IMO your employer/coworkers really shouldn't be friends with you on Facebook. That's what LinkedIn is for. I know you can't control their friend requests and it would be odd to ignore them. Thankfully people are starting to figure this out in my experience; at my current job none of my coworkers (other than actual friends) have sent me friend requests on Facebook.

With that said, the same reasoning also makes me question the value of a HN Facebook group.
Broken meetings (and how you'll fix them)
How Executives Are Using Social Media
I actually do all those things. I've had interns but I'm the only full time tech guy. The company is 4-6 people right now, depending on how you count. You can call my title exaggerated if you like, but I don't know what else I would call my job.

Also, I'm 24 and I have a master's in CS...I'm not a "manager" in the sense I think you're thinking.
Oh boy, I love Lighthouse (worked for Bluenotion over the summer). Pure joy to use!
I thought that we recently discovered that the ancient secret is not reporting deaths. Aren't they "missing" 230000 centenarians?
Oops, I accidentally clicked on all vote options.
I don't want to take this too far off-topic, but: why Appleseed? I hadn't heard of them until just now.
Ah, my company isn't presenting - Evan Korth invited me when we met a few weeks ago and I'm coming mostly for networking reasons (and maybe a little light recruiting).
If it's such a useless metric, why is it always brought up as a clear example of Facebook's unmovable dominance?
I wonder if they're going to provide all revisions of all data you've ever given them, or just the most recent version. It looks like it's only the most recent stuff.

Just imagine the look on her face when your mother's cousin opens the zip file and sees every piece of profile text she's ever typed in it. Creeeeeeeepy.
The signal to noise ratio is a bit low...
Yes. Fortunately, I haven't touched boostcam.com in over a year and both SproutVideo and PhysicalFix only launched in the past few months but have both been pretty stable.I mostly spend my time building new features or dealing with customer support. Customer support is the largest time sink and something I wish I could delegate away.
Source code visualisation of LLVM development over 9 years: http://www.oriontransfer.co.nz/research/code-visualisation
Absolutely. The redesign was the first time I had heard of it and I instantly loved it!
I like the http://invoicemachine.com web app interface.
We use them in a healthcare environment for our production system and some database systems. The nightly processing for data extraction and reports showed significant improvement. Things that used to take over 10 hours are down to about 45 minutes. I don't know what the old drive speeds were for comparison, but they weren't more than a year or two old.

Our Server team is selective with the drives due to cost and making sure the problem area would really benefit from that type of drive.
Why Nice Guys Finish Last at Startups?
Tons of working features, a more well-defined roadmap, (much) more experience, and it's way easier to install (LAMP vs Rails). Also, Appleseed is a full social platform, that allows you to build components and extend it. Diaspora is more of a single application, it doesn't have any kind of modular framework to build off of. I don't think Diaspora will ever be dead in the water, but it just has so much catching up to do, and not small stuff, big architectural stuff that doesn't really benefit from the "many eyeballs" advantage of popular open source.
Whoa! I hadn't been on the site in ages. The design is nuts! I think it's beautiful, yes, but much less functional.
Maybe I'm old fashioned but I detest these people. I see them always in big book sales: they come in very early, hoard all the books that they think are valuable, and I mean hundreds of books and then scan through them nervously. In the end they pick their selection and leave the mess in a corner. Meanwhile, I do not have access to those books!
This is a nice set of site congratz
Thanks. You've successfully talked me out of this, for today anyway.

People often ask how other social networks will ever compete with Facebook. To me that's like asking how your house's living room will ever compete with the theater at your local high school.
Scanning your link,

It seems like the majority of the non-Facebook figure comes from Chinese language sites. Since social networking sites will quite likely be segmented by language for the foreseeable future, I don't think this really counts. In the English-language world, Facebook has serious network effect and you would be hard-pressed to combine all of FB's competitors into anything.

I agree dispersed social networking is coming... I'm not sure if "control" of data is the way to phrase the "problem"... Still, creating a dispersed network where each contributor controls where their data goes is a very hard problem.
As I understand it, Dalvik bytecodes have basically the same semantics as Java bytecodes, but this is not the case for other VMs or processors. I don't think the question of whether Dalvik is really Java or not is relevant to the Oracle/Google lawsuit, though.
It is fascinating how Plato's conflation of the True, Good and Beautiful still resonates 2500 years later and in fields that are not consciously philosophical.
Not quite. Chris (cofounder) works 100% on infrastructure, Dan (cofounder) works on finances and product. We have a full-time designer, a full-time analytics person, and a full-time "head of customer satisfaction".

Customer support for 5 million users also takes a bit of time, and we have several part-time support staff that help people with any issues they run in to.

Having said that, both of our full-time developers are amazing and get things done at a pretty incredible pace.
I understand color management very well, thank you. I have profiled and edited profiles for dozens of devices, from pre-press to proofing and through to production: litho, toner, wide-format UV, solvent, aqueous, and latex. Also displays, scanners, and DSLR studio environments.

My point is that in Firefox 4, sRGB is NOT being assumed, nor is it being assumed in Safari, or Chrome. In every browser I tested, those images are over-saturated on my high-gamut, profiled displays.

EDIT: According to my research, sRGB is the default color space on Windows only. That would explain my results. I am still amazed by this, and cannot understand why this should be so across all Mac browsers. I can only imagine this is because Windows defaults everything to sRGB, so there was no reason to implement this in-browser. Anyway, this just proves the point: Always tag your images, and don't assume the browser will default to sRGB.
That site has one of my pet peeves. At the top, there is a Flash element. Wanting to see the full site design, I allowed Flash to run on the page. What did I see?

Text.

Just text.

At worst, it would have taken a PNG to produce the same thing, but they decided to create an entire Flash app devoted to displaying some text.
YES! Holy farking email spam! I just got back from a lunch meetup. Someone else had added me and I had hundreds of emails.

In a related note, Facebook needs to let you edit notifications via the mobile interface. I looked, and couldn't figure it out. I actually ended up pulling out my Mifi at the end of the meetup and logging on to Facebook with my laptop just so I could opt out. Wow.
Sure you have access to these second-hand books - at the going market rate on Amazon.
I love that site design. It's very clean and readable for me.
Yeah, I was really happy I had "Skip Inbox" enabled for my Facebook alerts filter.
If the company issues physical shares to the employee as they vest monthly, that is 12 physical shares per employee per year. If for instance, there are an average of 10 employees over 4 years that is 480 pieces of paper that will need to be tracked down at some point in time.

When the shares are needed, if even one of those people are missing and cannot be found, it adds a pain factor to the process. The physical shares need to be consolidated and accounted for at some point in time. Not everyone leads a stable life where they can be located at all times.

For the employee to physically hold the actual physical share in his or her hand is of no greater benefit than holding a photocopy of the shares along with the vesting agreement and any canceled checks used to pay for the shares. Physical shares can be forged just as easily as a photocopy if it were to go before a judge. It is like having 1 dozen green apples, vs. 1 dozen red apples in your hand. The difference being it is a lot safer for everyone to keep all of the shares in one place.
15 years of my IT career I've never lost any hard disc out of the sudden (~100). A HDD usually does make sounds, throws smart errors or shows signs (starting file system corruption).

SSD die just out of the sudden without any warning.
http://www.ratemystudentrental.com - student rental housing ratings and reviews; sells private-label housing portal version to colleges and universities.

http://www.leadnuke.com - B2B sales lead generation by monitoring online conversations.

Both built by me. Both make money. Not yet enough to support me full-time. Still consulting to bootstrap.
I got one when I bought my new laptop, and between SSDs and Windows Seven it has been the greatest productivity boost I've ever gotten out of a hardware upgrade in literally a decade. My machine now screams -- going from a cold boot I can get Chrome open before wireless handshakes are complete.
I thought we went over this with Google image search...
Actually I think this is one of those Flash-based font substitution tricks. Although I wonder why anyone would still use that now cufon is available...
Comet has worked since the old netscape days, it just wasn't called "comet" back then. Long polling works fine in IE6.
People may feel more open when they are sharing a .zip rather than 'logging in' - I know a lot of people that are still opposed to 'connecting' accounts - this avoids that connection, regardless of OAuth, straight username/password, etc.,

It's not clear to a lot of people 'what exactly' they are sharing when they link accounts, but when you upload a .zip, you are ONLY sharing what's contained in that file - there really is a big difference between uploading and linking =p
(Again, I'm the coder and he's the talent)

Funny, I would have considered you the talent ;-)
"The web"? He's asking how journalism is supposed to be funded, you're talking about how it might be delivered.
My sister is in four social networks other than Facebook. I don’t think it matters. (Five if you insist on counting MySpace.) She would pick Facebook if she had to.
Does trim work over raid-1? I was under the impression that trim isn't supported in raid at all yet.
This is correct (no support for TRIM), but the performance degradation is not very significant. I'm certain I've used all blocks on my SSD and it's still way faster than HD for random access. Sequential write is noticably slower, but that doesn't happen often -- copying a large backup, etc, but then I can do something else or get a drink while waiting. Random = interactive = fast.
I agree with you, and thaumaturgy below — it’s clear that they signed a 5-year agreement. But as Engadget notes in your first reference, contracts can be canceled, amended, and breached in many ways, and the two companies have had a number of chances to renegotiate over the last three years, including when:

- Apple adopted subsidized pricing soon after the first iPhone was released (to sell it at $399/8GB instead of $599)

- AT&T’s serviced proved spotty and unreliable for many at times

- the iPad was introduced with an optional AT&T 3G data plan

So it’s hard to know if the agreement is still in place, or if it means enough to prevent Apple from pursuing the large Verizon customer base.
A big deal with this may be due to upbringing and what part of the country/world you come from. While part of me dreams of being able to do this kind of work (I’m the exploration type), I can’t, since I can’t drive, limiting my searching ability. Regardless, my background keeps a nagging sense of impropriety of arbitrage in my mind. To my parents and my childhood role models, it’s not “real work,” since it neither creates anything new or abides by the “sweat of your brow” requirement my more religious acquaintances would demand.

TL;DR: I believe in “work smarter, not harder,” but most people I know/knew believe in the opposite.
On a voluntary, part-time basis, I used to run a second-hand store for my church. A good part of our sales were to second-hand book stores, second-hand furniture stores, second-hand CD stores, and second-hand (read: retro/vintage) clothing stores. I loved these customers - they came reliably and almost always bought something. They didn't haggle, and didn't ask for credit or for things to be held for them.

The guy who wrote this Slate article is doing a similar thing - being a regular purchasing customer of the places he frequents.
http://notarycrm.com - simple CRM for notaries (and an online directory for SEO-goodness)

http://www.mailfinch.com - on demand direct mail

Built by me and profitable.
Thanks for being an anynewbooker, and for the feedback.

> The first thing I go looking for is a synopsis. Amazon isn't always good at this, you should try to incorporate this somehow.

Unfortunately, I tried this one week and it didn't work. The emails ended up being very long, the click through fell down, and I received a few emails of complaints from people who liked the more compact email without descriptions, because they didn't feel obligated to read the whole thing.

It's possible that I may make this an option in the future, but at the moment I'm dealing with other items on the todo list.

> On your "staff pick" could you do a bit of a review?

This is a very valid suggestion and it will probably be implemented soon enough. I think even a one liner saying why it's our pick would help.

> Canada. Give me some Canada options eh! (I know, I know, bigger market etc etc)

I added this feature this week: http://blog.anynewbooks.com/2010/10/new-feature-for-internat... BTW, I'm in Canada myself. :)

> Keep up the nice work... I will buy books from this.

Thank you.
Sort by Registered Users. You don't even need the Chinese language site (QZone).

Habbo + MySpace + Bebo + Orkut + Friendster + Hi5 = 679 million. Assuming 50% cross-over (which is a very high estimate), that means 340 million unique users, for just six social networks.

And that is nothing to sneeze at.
That is still well below what I would think.
Love the Alfred app design. I bookmarked it when it first came out. It inspired me to do a very logo centric design for my web app:

<plug> http://www.HobsonFiles.com </plug>

So did http://mailchimp.com. I've always been impressed by how much personality their web app has while actually doing something very useful.
In the README, "vertice" is not a word, it should be "vertex".
Http://www.techi.com/2010/10/sonys-five-biggest-recent-mistakes/
It is, I admit, sometimes hard not to feel sorry for Sony.

The electronics giant, who own some of the most recognizable brands in the industry, is, to put it mildly, no longer the industry leader it once was.
The website states that you can reprogram any key you wish, even having the Backspace instead of the left spacebar.

http://www.trulyergonomic.com/benefits.html#Programmability
http://www.trulyergonomic.com/options.html#Model-109
Why I design for my mom
Wow great article thanks for the link. I don't know if I agree with the statement that nerds are separated from the pack by some sort of seperate value system. I remember all the middle-upper class kids that were attractive were automatically popular unless there was something very abnormal about them. Life is pretty harsh, if you are awkward or funny looking you START off placed in a box, which makes it much more likely over time to find comfort in a book/computer rather than "being like everybody else."

I think that a large component of feeling like you ended up with a different mindset due to "innate desire" is rationalization after being kicked out of the herd.
Let me explain more clearly (i) they quickly hoard together good books at the sale, cutting off access to other prospective buyers on location, like me, (ii) they buy a very small percentage of the books they hoard (guy in the OP says 1 in 30), the others books are just left in an unordered pile, so it's hard for other people to find them, and finally (iii) they create a mess for the sale organizers, I've heard many organizers complain about them and some sales won't let them in.

It's like a guy who runs in a cafeteria, gets all the good desserts and then tries to sell them to you.
I've had it happen twice, once in a laptop (the famous click-of-death, just like that, no warning at all), the other time in a server that was in a rack where the audible beep from the raid array wasn't heard and the monitoring utility was mis-configured so it was sending out its warnings to nobody at all.

The second one was pretty nasty because of course we only found out about that one when enough drives had failed that we couldn't recover any more, and as long as it worked it seemed to work perfect.

Of course there is no way to know how long that second one had been giving off warning signs, by the simple fact that several drives had failed it must have been dead a long time before we found out about it.

Lesson learned: after configuring a raid system test if your 'drive dead' signal actually reaches an operator.
I'm not putting facebook crap in my will.
He's doing solitary piecework that requires absolutely nothing from him other than his physical presence. Find the bar code, scan it, save or discard based on the result, over and over again. It's on roughly the same intellectual level as stuffing envelopes for a living.

Were I in his shoes, I wouldn't just feel bad about it, I'd find it soul-destroying.