skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's where I'd put my money, too. Several weeks ago I was sitting at my laptop and I wanted to scroll down on a web page I was reading. I instinctively wrapped my hand around the bottom-right corner of my monitor and brushed the screen with my thumb.

A week later I was in an Apple store and a young kid walked up to an iMac and said "ooh, I bet this is a touch screen". It wasn't, of course, but it made me wonder if Apple hasn't been quietly training a generation of people to expect to be able to touch the screen. Maybe that's what the much-maligned glass displays has been about: user preparation for the inevitable day.
http://carwoo.com/guarantee

We give people their money back for any reason if they aren't happy.
Maybe they will finally implement resolution-independent UI and release some Retina notebooks, who knows?

There's already a higher-resolution 15" MBP available, would be great to see more of that.
It will be welcomed by all three Mac users who happen to have a Zune...
I must admit, one thing I've become absolutely dependent on in Windows 7 is when you press Start you can do a quick lookup of the program you're after by typing a few characters.

Sure OSX has the Finder and Spotlight but it's not quite as quick and convenient, in my experience.

But my big request is this: implement the TRIM command in the OS to open up the SSD choices. This is long overdue.
I do this same thing (but with VMWare Fusion); the only significant drawback is the substantially slower disk I/O within the VM.

I spend all my time in an Ubuntu VM running XMonad, mainly so that I can use nice os x apps (mac end-user apps are just freakin' awesome, especially 3rd party apps) and so that I don't spend 2 days fixing my sound or my wireless card after an overzealous apt-get upgrade screws it up.

Ten years ago I considered it fun endlessly tweaking my OS to play nicely with my hardware, but these days, I just want to get stuff done. So, the Mac pretty much guarantees the host machine is running harmoniously since the OS and hardware were purpose-built for each other.
Law prof Eric Goldman: Create public database of cease and desist letters?
What's "viral" about giving your stuff away for free and hoping that the freeloaders will end up being a net win? Aren't we just talking about word-of-mouth marketing? Doesn't that work mostly when the words travel among paying mouths? Are you sure you aren't just putting a 2.0-ey spin on a simple problem?
When I select "restart" (edit: at least when installing system updates), the computer should save application state and reboot instead of every application asking me stupid questions like "are you REALLY sure you want to quit web browsing?".

I want to select "restart", go to the kitchen, get my dinner, come back, and the computer be rebooted and my applications restored the way they were before.

Also, the developer tools should include a good package manager instead of having to use Homebrew or Macports (both of which are flawed in various ways).
Your comments yesterday are appreciated but the asking for angel investors just seems a bit odd. If you feel investment distorts a market and that is bad, then every market is like this and in your view is bad. Beyond that investment is not a lottery in anyway.

We have built Grasshopper Group over 7 years with NO outside capital at all. I am all for talking with competitors and love many of them, but your view of "sugar daddies" and "investment lottery" is just wrong and makes you look bad.
I turn my WIFI on and off at lest 5 times a day.
svg can be pretty slow rendering on some browsers, specially if it's complex. So it really depends on the usage. It's like comparing it with jpg. It really depends on what you want to do with it.
I'd like to ask a follow up question: is there a good website that specifically tracks these things? I always seem to get news of them after the fact.
Nobody buys a Macbook Pro because of the hardware, it's all about the OS.
Isn't it a little arrogant to presume that another company should be able to find ways to effectively employ random people who don't want to pay money for their services? There really aren't big stacks of dishes in the back you can wash if you can't pay your tab.
Facetime compatible iChat would be nice.

More gestures for the magic trackpad.

Improved Time machine (I want all to see all previous versions of a particular file, not row through a timeline of a directory.).

Improved automation (Automator is still not natural enough, lots of clicky dragging.).

Frameworks start to encourage 3rd party applications to continuously auto-save like iOS apps.

Don't want to see but will probably see: Lots of "social" junk, like Ping for iWork or something that nobody will actually use.
What model? I have a 1000HE. Its portability and battery life are great for travel, but its form factor makes it painful for development (without an external monitor/keyboard/mouse).
Well, then a possible explanation is that people don't submit much projects to their website anymore and thus there are only "old" projects that are getting more and more mature and thus needing less commits.

I couldn't find any figure to back this though.

But I do remember that Ohloh used to be quite popular and I'm sure as hell that it's not anymore.
That's a great point. The perspective is much different between hiring people to do the best job possible in certain areas of your product/company (design, copywriting, accounting, etc.), and getting external advice from peers.

You're mentioning a piece of advice that changes your product, but even just having someone like the 37signals team say "sounds like a good idea", "looks good" can be enough for someone to keep going.
Ask HN: At Google do you need to answer how is that going to make money?
Google is a one trick monitization pony but as they said if you want one trick it is probably theirs. Other companies have been in similar situations before and died or declined due to this risk eg Yahoo or Myspace or AOL. So when pitching a new project at Google do you have to still answer the question how will this make or save us money like every other corporate? Recent investments in things like self driving cars would seem to indicate not to me. But then is this just for the founders and heavy hitters or everyone?
Macs are a lot more solidly-built than they used to be, but there are a few of things still keeping them from being competitive with Thinkpads. 0) They don't try to compete on screen resolution. The 13-inch Macbook screen is only 800 pixels tall, which is fewer pixels than my phone. 1) They're quite heavy. In particular the 13-inch is only marginally lighter than the 15-inch. 2) The glossy screens make them unusable outdoors.

Perhaps if you mostly keep your laptop on your desk this wouldn't be a big deal, but it rules them out for people who like to move around.
>Build the cost of talking/discussing/brainstorming into your overall price and this will no longer be an issue. Consider it part of your sales and marketing budget.

I couldn't agree more. And in fact, this becomes another unique selling point to you and your services. I provide free phone calls up to a reasonable point. If it's going to be a case of a 3-hour marathon conference call, I'll arrange to be onsite, which clients then don't mind paying for. If it's anything up to 45 minutes, I just eat the cost as sales and marketing.

I can't tell you how many times this makes an existing client willing to call me up and discuss possibilities for additional work because he knows it won't cost him anything. This lets me get in on the ground floor for new ideas so I can make recommendations and provide guidance.
Are you a Chargify customer? You have a lot of thoughts to share about how the service should work. For instance: why should Chargify not need that much support to begin with? Are you sure their business model isn't "get people to pay a premium for support"?

Are you sure you're not just piling on here?
bad server administrators? no optimization? no cache? static content served from apache servers instead of, for example lighttpd?

there could be many reasons
Given their success and popularity, that seems like a fair price.

How much do you think Steve Jobs could make in a day running a class like this?
Not in a drag race where he's driving a Yugo and you're driving a Ford GT. Unless you crash of course.
I'm concerned that the default approach to saving is making a request to the server. Defaults matter, and this default will lead people to ignore the 8 fallacies:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_Distributed_Comput...

N+1 across the internet will suck.

I assume it's early days, but please consider this issue. It's killed a bunch of otherwise interesting libraries.
What types of servers in terms of CPU cores and RAM? Microsoft's licensing structure makes it much cheaper to scale up instead of scaling out.
[FROM OP:] Goldman says: "For example, we could require trademark owners to send a copy of every C&D letter to a public repository, which would create a database of letters that could be monitored and scrutinized. Chilling Effects serves an analogous function, but it relies on recipients voluntarily contributing C&D letters rather than forcing senders to submit them."
Design, Deliver, Disrupt: Do You Get It?
Supposedly you can get the X201 with 1440x900, but they're usually out of stock. Probably worth waiting for though, since 1200x800 is pretty weak. The X200 is easier to get in high-res, so if the screen is more important than raw horsepower that's an option too.
F*king over our employees, one demoralized soul at a time.

I'm still in the corporate world.
Ask HN: Feedback our Startup Garmz.com - Start your own fashion label
Hi all,

i know several HN members have a family and/or professional background in the fashion industry so i am really keen to get feedback :)

We do Garmz.com
Garmz.com is essentially a webpage where you can start your own fashion label.

What we basically do is we provide online portofolios for upcoming fashion designers (think fashion students or young fashion designers).

They can upload their fashion designs and get feedback votings etc.

If we see demand for a product WE do the actual production and sell it in our webshop and in partner webshops.

We launched the very first version of our platform - nothing but an upload button - middle of june and recieved uploads from all over the world within the first week. (Hongkong, India, Brazil, USA, Kanada, Australia, Vietnam, All over Europe - like in a Bad Hollywood Startup Movie but for real)

We launched the Design pages end of July and recieved above 10k votes within the first few weeks.

The day before yesterday we published the very very first product and made it available for preorders.

We had the first pre-orders coming within the first hour we tweeted about it. But of course the payment system was broken. (GeekHighFive)

We are now shipping new products regulary and depending on pre-order we decide to do serial production for the stock or not.

We completely focus on the designers and try to do the products as good as we (or the industry) can.

The label in the back of the product is the label by the designer. We discuss the full prototype process with the designer to make sure we can realize the product in a way he imagines it to be. We share the revenue per piece with the designer (5% of shop price) but keep all the risk to us.

What we really want to do is to enable fashion talent.

We strongly believe that there are people out there with the ideas of the future of fashion and not the market possibilites to actually get them to the customer.

The Team is part tech geeks, part fashion production and part economics. The HQ is currently based in Vienna but will move to London within the next months. The products and prototypes are produced in bulgaria. Prototypes are done in house by our team members.

Link: http://www.Garmz.com

TL;NR: crazy startup tries to change fashion. Does crowdsourcing of fashion labels and their designs. Does actual production. Shares profit with the designer.
This comment needs to be stickied, printed, whatever so that people can ALWAYS see it. This one bit of insight is key to what's happening with American technical talent and managers.

I see MBA students who would happily outsource their work and have no moral qualms about it. They will turn around and work for companies where they will outsource work because they are only thing about 1 thing - cost.

My wife's company is in the process of outsourcing their financial work. Utter failure. I can't even describe what a fucked up process it is with internal financial work being done in 2-3 developing countries. But why outsource it? So managers can cut costs enough to get their quarterly bonuses.
You're trying to attack something I never even said. OP was talking about the "enterprise", which is known for its low-hanging fruit of embarrassingly terrible software. You seem to be talking about specialist systems software for banks, medical engineering, etc. or even software in general.
I know iLife and Safari are updated outside the OS, but they are still shipped with new Macs. They are apart of the system you get when you open the box and plug it in. And they add to the frustration.

Essentially, I find it sad that my wife and I find it easier to email each other things rather than use something like iChat or file sharing. I can't count the number of times we're both online, but one can't see the other, or neither can see.

The problem is the foundation is mostly fine. They really need to start working on making the system easy to use though. Their are a LOT of areas were the polish is gone, and all you're seeing are warts.
Was signing up and realized I have a question on the very last page (choose a plan). Now every time I try going to the FAQ, it redirects me back to the sign up page. It's very irritating.

FWIW my question is: Can I switch from "need financing" to "don't need financing" after signing up? It seems like I can't even go to the previous page and switch it while I am signing up.

If not, can you add an option there which lets me get pricing for both options, because whether or not I get a loan depends on what rates they offer me.
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Hah. I did exactly the same thing. I usually use discount instead, though. To my understanding, it'd work to set _ENV's metatable's __index to a table w/ HTML tag generators. I've read about _ENV but haven't actually used 5.2-work4 yet. (I started using 5.2-work2 but they went and changed it again, so now I'm waiting until it's a sure thing.)

I agree that the syntax for first class funs could be more concise, but that's true of any language that requires a "return" keyword (i.e., is statement-based rather than expression-based). I think "fun x -> x + 1 end" would be better, but maybe that's just the OCaml talking.
Turn any Webpage into Chatroom / Video Chatroom
Jessica has an iPhone. I use hers to try out startups' apps.
Replace muslim by whatever (asian, nigerian, haitian, mexican, brazillian) and you have a generic immigrant profile. The only slightly unusual thing about this is being linked to another person of interest, but then with this loose definition almost everybody qualifies.
Don't ask customers to pay "a tiny amount". Ask them to pay according to the business value you believe your service provides, scaled to your business objectives (ie: eating, hot showers, customer acquisition).

What Patrick is saying over and over and over and over again is that you have to be willing to let the pathological customers go. One function of your pricing is to chase out the people who aren't driving your business, so you can concentrate on serving the people who derive the maximum value from your work.

Asking for small change is just about the worst thing you can do; pathological customers can afford it, and will immediately feel entitlement.
That's what sleep is for. The primary use of restart is resetting your computer's state, so it would be counter-intuitive to retain it.
Rate of innovation, too high? Displacing our humanity?
Have you tried playing with firewall settings? My wife and I had issues syncing our computers until we got the firewall setup right.

iLife isn't really part of OSX, even though it comes pre-installed. It usually gets a separate release on it's own so they can sell upgrades to people on older versions of OSX. The videos / iPhoto issue is annoying, but derives from the addition of videos to the iPhone. I'm not sure how they are going to handle that better.

It sounds like (based on this and a different comment) that you just don't like your Macs.
Using big servers would be what Microsoft's licensing model makes you want to do.
We need to get our iPad looked at, too. It constantly has problems, but my iPhone4 has no issues with local wifi connections. Between the iPad and the MBP, it's a crap shoot with connectivity.

I also complain to my wife that she needs to stop going on and offline all the time. She doesn't appreciate that. =)

Edit: For those that think no problem exists: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/ipad-wifi/
We have given people their money back for losing their down payment in a poker game.

Charging buyers means we are 100% committed to the consumer and not beholden to dealers unlike every site on the internet.
Clickable link: http://www.Garmz.com
Installed virtual box on the first day and running Ubuntu since then.The day i convince myself(atleast fool myself) that i haven't spent too many bucks for OSX, will overwrite the partition.
Yes, you can switch preferences once you finish signing up.

The "stuck-in-the-signup-loop" thing is also something we're working on. It's a balance between increasing conversions and pissing some people off. We're probably going to switch to a version where you aren't stuck, though, but today we just went with the MVP :)
According to http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/apple/2010/07/01/mac-ssd-pe... :

"We started off this article making it intentionally limited in scope as we weren't expecting, in a OS that doesn't support TRIM, to find anything all that interesting. What we found was the exact opposite: an OS that doesn't appear to be affected by SSD performance degradation [...]"
The primary use of restart is to install system updates. Having my applications' states reset only means I have to go in and restore their states by hand every time Apple decides to release a new version of Safari.

I actually can't think of any time I've even used restart to reset my computer's state in the past couple of years.
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Ohloh shows scary decline in open-source project additions to Ohloh
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2003 called, it wants its stereotypes back.
Alternate title: how to get to HN front page three times in a week.
In the management/money-making/etc. field, I think many people are skeptical of the other experts as well. Sure, tons of companies will pay more than this to send MBAs to management classes, but it's not necessarily money well spent. This seems pretty similar to the quite standard management-guru book->speakingtour->workshops circuit, except that in this case the management guru is someone the HN community has heard of.

In technical areas, the courses are generally cheaper. For example, one day of SIGGRAPH tutorials costs $375. Of course, there you really are buying a tutorial from experts, whereas here you're probably buying networking as much as anything.
So, we're not allowed to reason about the security of Facebook's actual software, because you disagree with their business practices? Sorry, it simply does not follow that because they don't revere your privacy as much as you do that their service must be insecure.
Pirate radio: a revolt that just won't die
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Reminder: YC Q&A with Harj and Alexis in NYC tonight
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Macbook Pro runs Ruby and PHP without changing or installing a single thing.

That being said, from a personal experience, nothing increased my development more in the past 10 years than when I switched from a PC to a Mac.

The specific things I noticed were:
- Terminal was much more intuitive (as compared to command prompt in windows)
- Tabbing between windows on a Mac works much better for me as compared to windows.
- It forced me to learn more about how PHP actually works by forcing me to learn more Sys Admin stuff such as file structures, apache configs, vhosts, exim mail configurations, mod rewrites, and proper linking structures.
- Right out of the box I could run a full LAMP website on my local box.
- It allowed me to become a better programmer by teaching me to extend my application beyond the capabilities of PHP such as executing shell scripts, etc.

I can't stress enough how much of an impact a Macbook Pro had on my productivity and skill development.
"Two thumbs down." I'm not rating your comment or spotlight or the start button. Rather, that's my mnemonic for Command-Spacebar, which brings focus to the spotlight search field. I can launch Terminal in 5 keystrokes: CMD-Space t e ENTER. Is the Start button really significantly better?
I actually have trouble contributing to StackOverflow as much as I'd like. The community has gotten so good that most questions with my realm (Scala & Java) seem to be answered within 30 minutes. Since I only look for questions to answer a few times a week, I never find anything.

At least I can get points by asking good questions.
I'm actually using an OCZ Vertex II SSD with my Macbook Pro right now and I have nothing but good things to say.

Don't worry about trim, just get a drive that supports on-board garbage collection and dive in!
Really? That's what paying money for something signals to you?

My guess is that happy customers will tell their friends and use the service again when they buy another car. Those are both powerful incentives.

What incentive do they have to do a good job for you when they're just turning your contact information over for lead generation money?
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Except the guy previously built a bunch of other games over the years, which didn't have anywhere near that success.
Pitch decks are missing a key ingredient: history
Actually it's men with a wider curve. More mentally retarded and more geniuses are male. (FWIW)
Everything that is cool about Reddit at this point is what Redditors are doing with Reddit, not what Reddit is doing with its site. And isn't that how social media is supposed to work? Not just some notion that users are tools, that you'll crowdsource your way to being yet-another-traditional-media source (except without journalists)... social media should be individuals forming their own communities... communities of interest, communities of practice, communities of support -- all of which exist in Reddit (/r/SuicideWatch both disturbs and impresses me).

So the fact Reddit-the-software isn't changing that much doesn't seem like that big an issue, it's more like infrastructure. A major redesign would be negatively disruptive to the communities that are building there. Not that there aren't great things Reddit could do but isn't, but I think they are doing well at the most important stuff. If Reddit had 68 employees they not only would be fat, they'd probably fuck up a good thing.
Ask HN: What frameworks are you using with PHP?
What frameworks are you using with PHP in your startups ? Do you prefer frameworks for PHP ? What other tools due you use besides PHP ?