skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the quote again:
"there's not much that most PC users actually do with their PC that they couldn't do with an iPad"

I've listed several things. What exactly is "not much" and what are "most PC users", I don't know. I've listed several things that a lot of PC users do.

I've given concrete things like Flash (or Silverlight). Not sure if there is JVM for it, but there's certainly no CLR. Of course these get dismissed as not being important.

Hardcore gaming. Apparently a niche industry now. It's an industry big enough to help drive PC sales, but apparently a blip for iPads.

Side-loading, USB keys, printing -- mere inconveniences, as minor as missing a mute button.

Didn't even mention things like watch DVDs or CDs, but that's old technology right? What about BluRay? Streaming over iTunes is the way better solution anyways.

Burning CDs/DVDs? Why would you do that when you can just put stuff on DropBox?

And then less concrete things like workflow difficulty. Such as the current browser tabs being ridiculously slow, and the fact that one can't have a spreadsheet calculating in the background while reading a report. Because clearly unless you do things the way Apple prescribed, you're doing it wrong.

The iPad doesn't fit this quote: "there's not much that most PC users actually do with their PC that they couldn't do with an iPad".

A FAR better quote is, "The iPad does somethings your PC does, but some things it doesn't do. OTOH, some experiences are better on the iPad. It's a different kind of device".
Okay, to a degree I'm playing semantics .. but silencing an opinion isn't the same as reaching a resolution. To 'quell' suggests a pointed action, which puts the purpose of quietening the critic's voice, above resolving the critic's concern.
Yes, and that's the reason given for this domain name being reclaimed. Drinking alcohol and women showing bare arms are both illegal under Sharia law, and the front page showed Violet Blue drinking beer and showing bare arms. It's difficult for many foreigners to know exactly what is and isn't legal under Sharia law, so it's difficult to know if a domain would be ok or not.

However nic.ly are now also warning they don't allow ownership of short .ly domains by foreigners, only Libyan nationals. This sounds to me like they want more money or an excuse to take down domains they simply don't like, but is a real problem if they ever decided they want in on the bit.ly action.

The vb.ly site owners keep claiming that the content may be adult but that the domain name isn't. This is a weak argument in my mind, and I believe there's a precedent of domain names registered exclusively for the act of malware propagation being taken down.
Jack Dorsey's life lessons
That mainly comes up at home and work where your data is over wifi.
I am not hesitant to follow-up via email. I sent one to the address you supplied above and it hard-bounced. Beside, what will my facebook user name provide you? You won't be able to see my account or phonebook page. Who is the "us" you are referring to? The domain you provided is company.com? Are you a facebook employee?

EDIT: I see from your HN profile you are affiliated with FB. Perhaps I am misunderstanding where to send you my info? samodio@company.com is returning an invalid address error.

EDIT 2: Sorry, Sam. I think I got my mail to you the second time around. Apologies.
I'm not sure that it has. Facebook will move slowly to add features since Groups isn't their core offering (and probably never will be). I think it'd be quite easy to differentiate yourself from Facebook Groups if you focused on adding features Facebook will not or cannot add (such as file sharing, legal or otherwise).
> I know RMS is a special case but it annoys me when people say/act as if they're too busy to properly respond.

As far as I know, RMS does properly respond. He simply tends to be as terse as possible. Some people mistake it for rudeness.
Thanks.

I've been running a local news site in Chicago for two years now. I eat/sleep/breathe local indie news. Those are my friends and colleagues.

No one's making any money.

Windy Citizen is just ramen profitable, and I'm seen as an example of a "success" when I go to conferences and the like.

Yes, hyperlocal sites could be the next step, but right now, with a few exceptions (http://thebatavian.com, baristanet.com) no one's making any money.

To run a hyperlocal site, you have to produce great content AND be an exceptional salesman. That's friggin' hard.

You have to do both of these because you'll never raise capital. It will be a lifestyle business. There's no YC for community news sites.

Here's the latest report on how this new generation of local news sites is just not getting it done on the business front (again, with a few exceptions):

http://newsosaur.blogspot.com/2010/10/community-news-sites-a...
I know this isn't what you asked for, but it sounds like you are trying to find a design that you will wedge your content into. Let the content dictate the design.
The biz model is the only thing that matters. Until it's there, this isn't a real answer to my question.

</guy who runs a hyperlocal web site>
Re: HobsonFiles.com

Isn't that a bit wide of a design? I would think that the average person would have to scroll left and right to see it all. I did, at least, and it took me by surprise.

Edit: In reference to the landing page.
Or: Why Slate thinks that socialism is better than the free market.
This is what Wikipedia, and a few other sources say, "Although Microsoft's implementation of the Windows API is copyrighted, it is generally accepted due to legal precedents in the United States that other vendors can emulate Windows by providing an identical API (but not an identical implementation in code) without breaching copyright."

I also believe the BCL is copyrighted too. I suspect that large chunks of Java libraries are as well.
Michael Caine is God (Inception Interpretation)
Because the patent system in the US, particularly software patent, is entirely broken:
http://www.bnet.com/blog/technology-business/patent-office-a...
To complete mhd's comment, at the same time (don't know if it is still how he works) he would only connect to the web once every 24h, batch fetching and sending mail (including the pages fetched by his daemon).

This meant a ~36h turnaround for his responses (average): he'd get your mail ~12h (average) after you sent it and would only (be able to) send the reply 24h after that.
How about:

"Hi, this is facebook, this time we've really learned from our past mistakes.

I know you've heard that before (several times in fact), but this time we actually mean it and we'll show you how and why.

To begin with, from now on we will detail the commercial activities that we engage in with your data and we will allow you to say yes/no to every individual transaction. We wouldn't be a commercial entity if we didn't find a way to make that to our advantage though, so here is the deal: Every time we have a commercial proposition you get a link in your email and a notice on your wall. You can configure to default 'accept', 'deny' or 'hold until confirmation'. If you default to accept and you do nothing the deal is on. If you default to 'deny' then the deal is off, unless you decide to accept anyway through the link on your wall. If you default to 'hold until confirmation' then you will only be able to proceed after the terms and conditions of this particular deal have been made clear to you and accepted by you through an extra confirmation step.

Our advantage in all this is that we hope you will visit facebook more frequently to check up on us.

Of course we hope that you will trust us with your data, but given our recent antics we fully understand if you want to put us 'on probation'.

As for the why part, we've decided that we'd rather make a bit less money in the sort term and be around in the long term as opposed to chasing you away or giving a competitor enough air-supply to make our lives miserable.

We sincerely apologize for our past behavior.

As another token of our newly found conscience we will create a board of 10,000 randomly selected users that get to vote on changes that will affect privacy in a negative way, the advice of this board will be binding on us. What with facebook now being larger than most countries we figure democracy is the best way forward. We're making this a sampled democracy rather than a representative one to limit the impact on the day-to-day dealings with our site, however if you want to you are always eligible to vote on any proposals the board votes on and your vote will count just as heavy as a board members.

This policy is effective immediately.".

That would win me over.
On the other hand, a Facebook user's list of groups that they've been active in within a month (or look at regularly) is probably very useful data.
I'll elaborate to answer what I think are the questions behind the question, since I answered them a hundred times in the last three days at the Business of Software conference and one more time won't kill me:

a) It makes bingo cards for elementary schoolteachers, which is one very specific problem a large group of people know they have, is close to trivial technically to solve, and for which almost all solutions suck. This makes it very achievable for one guy to tackle as a hobby project. (It eventually got to the point where full-time employment was my poor paying quirky hobby project.)

b) The business, as distinct from the application, works because over the course of four years I became very good at organic SEO and metrics-based optimization. These are broadly applicable skills in software (and marketing generally). Surprisingly few people can do them well.

c) No, I do not see myself being the bingo guy for forever. If you wanted to address a similarly small niche yourself, I would say it is a wonderful learning opportunity and has been lifechanging for me. I wouldn't recommend starting with bingo cards for elementary schoolteachers, because if you are capable of beating me at it your skillset is worth a heck of a lot more money than can ever be extracted from that market for that problem, but virtually any developer can find something similar and learn enough to make it work. The amount you learn from having your own experimental laboratory is better than grad school, and you get paid to study. I wouldn't particularly recommend that route if you take money from investors. Two models, vastly different lifestyles, pick your favorite.
Our experience in CT has been different. Journalists are happy to have a place-to-work-not-print because they've been watching print die a slow death for years. They want to work with other journalists, of course, but a roomful of journalists alone isn't an especially profitable company. You need a way to publish their content and you need a way for the community to pay for the value that local content creates. Typically, local business has an interest in the proliferation of said local content, so along comes the (local) sales team. Can the math work? So far, the indications we've seen are positive, but there's much work to be done.
Making him feel respected and improving his self-esteem? I remember how adults used to bullshit me and tell me that low-esteem was why so-and-so was probably bullying me and that I should pity him or at least try to understand.

Fuck that. I believe that there is a tiny tiny percentage of a chance that that is actually ever the cause of bullying.

Maybe I'm biased though. I was a "target" from grades 4-8 and didn't make a single friend until high school. It's a miracle that I'm as well-adjusted as I am. I knew others who weren't as lucky as I.

Sorry for the language in this comment. This is something I have very strong feelings about.
It would be neat if there were some way to make this "debt" more visible to non-developers. At the moment it could be easily forgotten (by non-developers) after the initial deadline is hit, leaving no time to pay it back before the next "crisis" emerges.

The hardest part would be having some way to quantify the debt. But you could, at least, make a record of the corners cut, and make any accumulation extremely visible to management. Does anyone know of anything like this?
Many (most?) commercial font licenses prohibit embedding fonts via Cufon or other non-Flash solutions.

Typekit, Fontdeck, etc. are helping to fix this problem, but it takes time.
Status Plateaus
Who's suing who in the mobile business?
Yeah you are right. Eloquent Javascript is the best introduction I know - free or commercial. Most Javascript books I know aren't very good.
http://alpha.patterntap.com/collections/Tabs

I always start at PatternTap.com when I'm stumped on a design solution.
I was mistaken.

The sites I hadn't heard of aren't Chinese language sites but failed English language sites. But they are still failed sites. I don't go to my two Myspace pages, ever.
I'm pretty sure I read it on Boy Genius Report that Verizon had plans of implementing Voice over Revision A (VoR A) this year. That should take care of the simultaneous Voice/Data connection without having to wait for Voice over LTE.
While this arbitrage is fun and makes you feel very clever (as arbitrage almost always does). I'm not sure why this is framed as "Confessions." The author pretends this is some affront to books but books are one of the earliest mass produced commodities in existence (perhaps the earliest), this ease of redistribution is really one of the most important features of books.
Which other countries is US CDMA technology compatible with?
Sharia law doesn't necessarily enter into it.

You can't sell dildos and vibrators in Texas, and it's not because of Sharia law.

Hindu activists in India made death threats and stormed theaters because of a film about a lesbian relationship.

Sharia law is not the only reason for repressive attitudes toward sex.

I mean, really. They're, what, 30-40 years behind the cultural norms of the US, in this case? You don't really need to pin that on Sharia, when it's far more likely that it's just cultural.

It wasn't that long ago in the US that nothing was open on Sundays.
I'm amazed at how many words can come out of Ballmer's mouth without him having actually said anything...
Asteroid discoveries 1980-2010
Isn't that like saying "yeah, but it would have to work"? Seems like you should assume I meant that. In your scenario, the good recruiters would not stand out from the bad.
I think this would be more interesting if it included the behavior profile facebook keeps on you. I've read articles where they describe tracking every page you visit, when, how many times and for how long. Facebook is interested in knowing which of your friends you're paying attention to, who comments you read and which photos you like.

I would like to see their "file" on me. I would like that to be more transparent to users who don't realize it's being kept as well.

Google started doing something like this where they let you see (and delete?) the browsing and search histories they keep based on your gmail account, google cookies and advertising partners logs.
Looking up Evernote or Dropbox for account details while talking to Customer Care Reps for Cable/Gas/anything
It's not unprofessional to make a compromise in order to meet a short term practical goal. It is highly dependent on the context and the type of short cut taken, but some quick fixes are simply the most pragmatic option.

Great engineers, even in other fields, aim for the best results using constrained resources. Compromise is a key skill.
I think the link you wanted to post is actually http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/whos-suing-whom-i...

This is the one that everybody else has been tweeting all day, and it's so much better than the version you linked to - it clearly shows who is suing who as well as why and relative size of claims.
Basecamp, Wufoo, Reddit (If you are not looking at Visual Design but Good Design)
Ugh. If you're dealing with more than a few thousand bucks (or more than you care to kiss goodbye), spend a little dough and have an attorney draft the right document for you. Far too many of these do-it-yourself contracts go sour because, well, they're do-it-yourself.
Would love to know what others think about this. While I think I'm on the right track with my mindset, I'm curious whether others have similarly put themselves in their moms shoes. I'd also love to hear whether people are seeing a shift in their user demographics to more older women, or if only the big boys are seeing such growth.
"Perhaps you could share why you think Wikipedia is wrong? "

Sharia is a topic of highly emotional argument right now, with lots of bigotry, ignorance, and fear-mongering. That's enough reason to suspect Wikipedia might be wrong.

Wikipedia is terrible on anything like that. On things nobody much cares about, like the history of the Marvel villain MODOK, it's great.
It's not like HN is restricted. Who would want in other than HNers?
Yeah, that's a much better infographic. I haven't seen this yet. Post it!
I'd hate to miss the opportunity to meet/chat with someone brilliant because of geo-fragmentation.
Orkut is not really competing with Facebook. It's huge in Brazil, but has very few English speaking users left.
There's no point in having a zero-tolerance policy if you don't have any useful punishments to dole out. Some kids are afraid of getting detention, but the ones who aren't are the ones who are causing problems.

This is why I believe in bringing back corporal punishment in schools. It shouldn't be used too regularly, but it's important that for every child there is a punishment which they really fear.
But what if they don't trust you until you can do things that they ask ? The difficult situation is people who do not trust you and ask you to do their own way until they do - not realizing that doing it their way is exactly what prevents you from doing your job. It is fairly typical in my experience, but I have not found a way to deal with it effectively.
I agree with most of the article. I am primarily a web programmer, but most of the projects I work on have or already had excellent designers work on them, which makes my portfolio projects that much more appealing.

However, I find your work-acquisition strategy a little shallow. The best thing I can recommend is to spend a decent amount of time crafting your message (even if its as simple as "I make websites for small businesses"). Consistency and clarity is key here over specialization.

Once you have a clear consistent message tell everyone, especially non-technical folks. As the article said, its a numbers game. By doing this, I have found clients through friends of friends who talked about me, twitter, and my mom even picked up a project for me at her book club.

If you can manage your own projects, I would branch out from just working with firms that already hire/manage designers/devs (freelance or not). There's an endless supply of businesses that hire contractors without having technical managers and then end up extremely unhappy (at the least). If you're competent, a good communicator and transparent with the client, you'll easily wow them over and over again. Further, these clients will pay consulting rates (min $100/hr) rather than designer/developer rates ($50-$75/hr).
An in-depth look at Pixar’s creative process
The UK also has Jewish courts.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7233040.stm
Understanding Your Audience
Foursquare Badges for Real Life Awesomeness
The quality recruiters do so. I personally just get swamped and neglect sending out updates.

Many times candidates are also applying for several roles and may not follow up on their own. I think the worst blunder is when a candidate desires feedback and gets only silence. Note that people, in general, hate delivering bad news "You were too weak on core Java / bad breath" and so avoid the conversation.

The recruiters in the field for several years (5+) sometimes place a candidate 2-3 x in new positions. Recruiters keep up with the rock-star talent, which is always in high demand.

It gets difficult to remember who does / is what if they are middle/average when burning through 200 profiles a day or 50 calls / day. Though I tend to do 50 / 10 for quality head hunting.
Iceland has second longest life expectancy but rather different food and lifestyle:
http://www.iceland.is/history-and-culture/Traditions/Iceland...
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Thanks for the feedback thus far; much appreciated!
Sharia law is based on two things:

1. Things from the Qur'an
2. Things from the Hadith (sayings of the Prophet)

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Modern Sharia law is based on three things:

1. Qur'an
2. Hadith
3. Fiqh (which is the interpretations)

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That's the issue. The Fiqh part is very different from region to region and from sect to sect. Often, the really obscure laws that are brought up in arguments (take female genital mutilation for example) are often part of the Fiqh than the Sharia. That's also why, like I mentioned before, "Sharia" can be very different in Egypt compared to in Saudi Arabia.
mailchimp is absolutely stunning!
There's a difference between using a 3rd-party service that provides a value to help deliver your site to your audience more effectively, and using a URL shortener that obscures your site and adds no value to your delivery.

Using a URL shortener also means if that URL shortener ever goes down or out, you just lost all those links to your site.
Paras, I know a great SEO guy, hit me up on Skype.
Most of the time it seems like it's whatever language I'm not using at that moment. :)

I work daily with Python, various build script languages, C++, assembly (in various flavors and dialects), and C#, and at the end of the day it isn't the language that makes me happy but the libraries and ecosystem available. These days it's C# and .NET+XNA that makes me happiest.
Probability that a number is prime
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I agree 100% with you: always tag your images.

Firefox doesn't assume sRGB for untagged images and graphs by default, only if you configure it on the advanced menu:
http://gearoracle.com/guides/firefox-color-management/

The point of the test is to encourage browser developers to give users choices on how untagged page elements are color managed, and the right choice is to consider then in sRGB space. Firefox is the only browser that allows this via the gfx.color_management.mode switch. This is important because not all page graphics are images and there's no way to tag a CSS element, for example.
So its all just affiliate revenue from the hotel bookings?
I like Quora and github. Nice clean designs.
Pete. I would not call you an atheist, but an agnostic. You are not emotionally attached to the idea that there is not and cannot be any god... but you simply accept the fact that we don´t have evidence to tell there´s one for sure.

I think this is the idea that Itistoday tried to say. That there is some subset of militant atheist who believe so strongly in science, that they do not accept any possibility that there is something that science cannot explain. Traditional religions being the forefront example of such beliefs, they develop an irrational hatred of anything related to that.
If you want device specs for the Verizon Apple iPhone:

http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=2548&c=verizon...

The database at pdadb.net has specs on a number of "known but unreleased" devices.
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Even if they miss 1000000 centenarians it would not significantly change life expectancy - their population is big.