skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you're saying Apple hasn't innovated as much as we think.

1. They didn't create their processor: I admit, I'm not really into the hardware side of Apple, but really? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A4 credits Apple as the designer of the processor (and Samsung as the manufacturer). Yes, they collaborated with another company (Samsung) and bought a third one (Instrinsity) to own the talent, but that's not the point. That's like saying EA didn't make its games because they bought other studios. Apple wanted to make their own processor, so it collaborated with the companies it couldn't/didn't want to buy, and bought the companies it could. The result is that A4 has an 'Apple' name and only Apple gets to use it. What is "though they managed to brand it" supposed to mean anyway?

2. By create, I assume you mean 'designed'. Nobody will argue that Apple didn't manufacture it. So can you tell me who did design the first retina display? And which phone first used it? (I understand that 'retina display' is just a branding of a very high resolution display, but for the sake of brevity, we'll call it 'retina display').

3. Yes, they're a software company. Yes, Samsung and LG are suppliers of their hardware. But Apple is the one putting those components together in a tight and neat little package that looks beautiful on the outside, and is powerful on the inside. Look at Samsung and LGs own phones. Why are losing share if they're so good at what they do? Apple is the architect, Samsung/LG the workers. Who deserves the credit?

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Apple did what it does best - sell you a product. Not parts; product. Apple always sells you a product. So instead of looking at each part and saying that Apple hasn't innovated there, look at the product as a whole and see what Apple has created that no-one else did.
Android's software is being pushed by Google, and the hardware - and so device drivers - by a few mobile device manufacturers including HTC.

MeeGo's software is being pushed by Nokia, and Nokia will also be the biggest provider of mobile phone hardware.

If Nokia are committed to MeeGo (and they've been making Maemo devices for years now and have done more-or-less right by that community) then I don't think device drivers are going to be an issue.

If other mobile phone manufacturers pick up MeeGo then there might be issues, but I imagine that no one will be interested until at least Nokia have shown that it's a viable platform.
Amazing. An old tradition that has completely failed to change in response to new technology.

You wouldn't want to use an aluminum ladder near power lines, of course. So how about fiberglass ladders? After searching on "firefighter fiberglass ladder" you get http://www.fireladder.com/fiberglass.html

There's no 50 foot model, like the one talked about in the video, but there's a 40 foot version. Costs half as much, and weighs half as much. It's non-conductive, and most importantly, it's made by a civilian contractor, so you don't have to run your own ladder building shop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth

"Wealth is the abundance of valuable resources or material possessions or the control of such assets."
I probably want to disagree on all 3 accounts. While they do sound good in principle they are not, in my opinion, major hurdles for anyone, lets see:

1) It is borderline trivial to come to US on an H1b visa and has always been so: as a former H1b holder I can hardly see how can government do anything here except to be more efficient (more streamlined procedures).

2) What is government supposed to do here exactly? If science and math graduates had comparable earning power prospects to law, finance and medical grads we wouldn't be discussing it. Besides, on a university level US schools are top notch.

3) Like what? I own a small business and haven't encountered any obstacles caused by the government. Getting customers, press and funding are by far my biggest headaches. And keeping in mind how notoriously inefficient governments are I'd hate to see them decide which powerpoint gets my tax dollars and which doesn't - leave that to VCs.

I'd ask Mr. Obama to invest into fundamental research, the kind of expensive, risky and long-term stuff VCs don't invest into. They built Internet to fight Russians and look how much mileage we've gotten out of it. Startups aren't building "new internet", they're in the business of making products on top of the existing one. Mr. President, give us some new shiny tech out of NASA/CIA/whatever and we'll get busy building next generations of googles and facebooks.
Before facebook, people thought their email was their online identity, they had all their friend and relatives in their contacts, why bother register on facebook to recreate all that?
I disagree.I don't use any of the social networking sites. It would be bit crude to assume that the only way for me to be verified is belonging to a social-networking site.

Please, no social networking verified user.
The Little Schemer
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/BTLS/
Totally agreed, don't underestimate the issue tracker build into github, it's superb.
almost all other web boards I'm on have some easy way for me to see responses to old comments. This would be a really useful feature for hn.
My take:

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2008/02/what-is-wealth.ph...

"Wealth is a measure of your ability to do what you would like to do, when you would like to do it - a measure of your breadth of immediately available choice."
jperla made a blog post about this a few months ago: http://www.jperla.com/blog/post/facebook-is-a-ponzi-scheme

His assertion's that it isn't investment making it a ponzi scheme, it's their customers who purchase advertising on facebook and see minimal returns.
If I can drive to my destination within about 10 to 12 hours then I'll avoid flying. I'm a pilot and love aviation, so this is a real downer for me.

And BTW, here in SoCal we can't drive anywhere without encountering those interior "border" checkpoints, where the CBP guards do all they can to routinely circumvent the 4th. Just like TSA.

And please tell me what it is about! Security???
Going defensive so early in the game isn't a good sign for MeeGo
The alternative rumour/speculation is that Intel's holding back so it can use USB3 support as a selling point for Sandy Bridge systems.
"What is "though they managed to brand it" supposed to mean anyway?"

When the A4 was introduced a lot of the speculation regarding it was incredible. What was this amazing new processor, people asked?

Apple, it was widely perceived, was suddenly a world leader in IC with this amazing new technology.

Only it turns out that it was a last generation Hummingbird processor designed by Samsung, though that gives Samsung too much credit given that it was a standard ARM core with a standard PowerVR GPU.

Yet the myth persists.
Looks nice. Can you create tickets by email?
> non-monetary gains like prestige or autonomy

"Gains" obviously did not refer to strictly cash. Gains refers to anything you value. Cash is just a tool. I would go further than you and say the vast majority of entrepreneurs seek autonomy. Use occam's razor when interpreting the statements of others.
One thing I like a lot about HN's lack of comment replies is that a direct reply to one person is an indirect reply to the parent, and I think that's a valuable thing to keep. It saves re-hashing arguments in separate threads.
Right. Just plug it into a usb slot.
Anyone else avoided these post thinking it was about Torrent or something?
In under two years, no less! It shows what dedication, attention to the big details, and a clear _goal_ can get you.

"So long hyphen site."
It's not your overall average, but over a much smaller set (the last N comments, with N being a fairly small integer), 50 or 100 or so.
I am in a very similar situation and am slowly recovering from a depression due to such issues. For me at least, a lot of the advice here would have been terrible when I was in a worse state (presumably the OP's current state).
throw999, please contact me at my mail ID (it's in my profile), there would be a lot we could learn from each other, specifically I might be able to give you some useful tips since I've recently crossed that hell.
Yes of course it is possible and will get easier to transfer services. Question is will the 500MM users do it en-masse? FB would have to screw up pretty big for that to happen in the next 3-5 years, in which time, it MAY be possible to build an enormous multi-billion dollar (or even deca-billion $$) per year profit stream.
In that case you are prefiltering yourself in mere anticipation of potential acceptance from others. If everyone did that, no genuine posts would ever appear: everybody would be too concerned about how much others would like them.
I agree that having something on the front page is worth real money (a lot more than $100, in my opinion.) but I don't see the connection between having a high personal carma and getting something on the front page.

As far as I can tell, it's one user, one vote (I mean, except in the common case of dupes) to my knowledge, higher-carma users don't get extra points to vote up stories.
I'm sorry but Youtube questionable? Youtube is the next logical step for advertisement from TV. Also they're close to being profitable, and if Google TV actually gets some market it will propel Youtube into profitability.
Thanks! That's a very well thought out argument :)

The idea that facebook knows alot about me is somewhat scary :/

The problem I see is, people don't come on facebook to find stuff, they come to checkout what their friends are doing.

According to this link http://www.jperla.com/blog/post/facebook-is-a-ponzi-scheme, the ad revenue is coming from people "experimenting" with FB Ads. Soon they'll all realize that it doesn't work, and stop.
Happiness and health for you and those that matter to you.

If you don't believe that talk to a billionaire that just lost a loved one to some disease.
The HN copncept
So HN is just a collection and ranking of tweets by people around the YCombinator stuff, and few other popular tweeters? The value addition is just the "KARMA"?
The H1B process has gotten considerably more difficult in recent years. We've had two very frustrating rejections recently.
It's not useful because it has nothing to do with what you're hiring them for. Frankly, if I were asked to draw a picture, I'd probably walk out. If that means you don't want to work with me, then I probably wasn't going to enjoy working with you either.

I've been hiring game programmers for a long time now. I think there are plenty of other ways to evaluate the non-tech personality/team-player side of candidates. Start with talking to them.

I ask very blunt questions in this area. Will provide examples if folks are interested.
Just because something is complicated doesn't mean necessarily that it's more accurate or true (a funny illustration: http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/360419/a-dream-within-...)

I have constructed preference profiles with conjoint and other "complicated" methods many times for big companies and believe me: they only scratch the surface of human behavior, most of it is not valid.

Everybody may have his/her own reason for being an entrepreneur. I see this discussion and Arrington's article as well (besides maybe preparing the ground to quit:) more as an emotional discourse to justify why we do what we do. I have these discussions with my friend and bus. partner all the time and I really enjoy feeling superior to employees, but I know in the back of my brain that it's somewhat unfair.

Anyhow, as for myself, I love to do it because of the lifestyle, because I love to create something, because I can wake up late and work during the night, because I am in control of my professional life and decisions and perhaps most importantly because I hate to know what's gonna happen the next day, next month which is inevitable with a normal job.

My life is over as soon as I am locked in a job + family + everyday routines + stop being curious and open. I would die. I would know how it is going to end, just wouldn't know when.

Just to avoid the latter and achieve the former I am risking right now nearly everything stable I have had in life (friends, family, nice job ($1M in 5-6 years), house, perspective of a relaxed long life)

(don't misunderstand the family part, i believe that is the most important element of a happy life, but it decreases your "degrees of freedom", if you see what i mean)

Ah, that was the word I was looking for, freedom :)
Use Vim Like A Pro
I recommend Kevin Phillips’s book Wealth and Democracy. One of the more interesting things I learned was that many of the pirates in the Caribbean in the late 18th century were sailing out of Boston and Salem, tasked by the US government with capturing British ships, and that many of America’s great early fortunes were earned from piracy.

http://books.google.com/books?id=sPHP4uUFQgEC&lpg=PP1...

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Anyway, how do you decide who is the thief when we’re talking about stealing from boats trading in plunder, slaves, or products produced by slave labor, as was the case for an awful lot of what got shipped around the Atlantic for many centuries?
"The San Francisco Fire Department has been "green" since before it was a fad"

I fail to see how making your own ladders is "green". Is the carbon footprint of employing two guys that maintain ladders, heating a shop, etc more-so then that of a company that can manufacture ladders at a larger scale? etc?

I live across the bay from SF, but if I was a resident of San Francisco, I would seriously consider this an inefficient use of public funds unless they had data to prove that wood ladders are economically superior to fiberglass ladders.
Any suggested languages? I was emailing a guy last week about learning C. My first developer I worked with (college buddy) was using Rails for my site but my current developer is using Drupal.
Wealth = how long you could sustain your current lifestyle (same expenses) if your income stopped, today.

EDIT: what I like about this definition is that it is not subjective and doesn't imply any need for comparison. As well, it conveys the idea that time and mobility are the new currencies, which I believe.

(the definition I use; read it in a french book by Olivier Seban)
According to the video, they prefer the heavier wood because of the high winds in the City.
I think you will never have a good definition, because if the answer is "what people want?" everybody want something different.

For my personal example, I do not have a lot (but a lot is here subjective) of money, enough to buy what I want (but I am frugal) and this enough for me to not think about money and have freedom of mind to think about my family, my friends and my startup. No million dollars bank account, but wealthy of experience, family with kids and friends (oh, and a lot of books, I love them).
It would be really helpful to have an icon appear on the top bar when there are replies to my comments in articles. Clicking on the icon would give a list of articles/threads where there are replies, easily openable into a set of new tabs. Re-loading a single article would remove it from the list and when the list would be empty the icon would disappear.
Understanding the High Cost of Data Breach
oh ok, thanks! I wouldn't know because it never went further than page 1 :)
VP8 is used by skype for video and VP6 (which VP8 is based on) was used by youtube for a while on many videos. They could have made millions of dollars by suing huge companies such as Skype and Google. Why didn't they if they had patents on them? Doesn't make sense.
On Android, you can long-hold the menu key to bring up a keyboard at any time. Maybe iOS has a similar, undocumented feature.
Well, I think you'd want to think carefully before pulling things out of HTTP and forcing HTTP to sit on top of a stateful, session-based protocol in order to achieve them.

The statelessness of HTTP is one of its major strong points, making it easy to load-balance and scale, more easily compatible with a wide range of middleware, etc. The redundancy involved in repeating certain headers is a design trade-off made for a reason.

There's a bunch of trade-offs here in the protocol design though, evidently. Coming at it from a security perspective seemingly leads to a different view of those tradeoffs than (say) Fielding has.

If you have an application with a really pressing need for stateful session-level protocol features though -- perhaps HTTP isn't the best choice anyway?
1) I personally don't mind if my up/down votes would be public.
2) Why would anybody want to hide their up/down votes?
3) That kind of data might be useful even if it's anonymized (detached from usernames).
4) If there is efficient aggregating algorithm, then final personalized weighted news lists could be shown as a final result, without exposing raw details to the public.
A number of people I've talked to that voted for him in the last election have been saying that they're unhappy with the president and Democratically led congress. There is a good chance that many on HN are unhappy also. They might not be vocal about it, because just stating that unhappiness doesn't accomplish much, and it really isn't an appropriate forum for politics. I personally will be supporting fiscally conservative candidates in the future that have supported small business and that I think would be good leaders. I hope that the days of judging candidates by charisma are over, and instead we look at track record. A track record of being a professor and community organizer is inappropriate for the leader of the free world during a time when support of business is imperative.
That's a bit oversimplified. The purchasing decisions that consumers make regarding Apple products are driven by the overall value of the complete product. That doesn't necessarily say anything about the individual components that make up each product.

For example, I suspect that people buy iPods despite the nonstandard Dock connector, not because of it.
The really amazing part about the Dodgeball story is that after leaving Google, the ex-Dodgeball team went on to found Foursquare.
Just as Apple is free to dictate the rules governing the App Store, anyone is free to voice their opinions with the purpose of influencing Apple's decisions. Yes, your way is simpler. In some situations, the non-simple way is the right decision.
Here's how avg. karma has affected my behaviour (including its before the latest change, moreso now):

My average at this moment is 7.64. By giving all this weight to avg. karma, the message from the site to the users is clear: "higher avg. karma is better, work to improve yours". In my case, this means I should make a comment only if I expect it to get 8 upvotes or more. This in turn means that I should not respond to replies to my comments, as they rarely get to 8+. I should also not reply to articles late in the game as it's unlikely to get to the threshold also. So what will I respond to? Early threads where I feel I can make a contribution. It is also unlikely that I will make 'eccentric' comments that are a risk in terms of votes, but may help break the echo chamber as this behaviour is not encouraged. The only other case I may make a comment is when I feel strongly enough about something that I am willing to take the hit, as in the case of this comment.

Now, many will say that I should ignore karma altogether and that I should just participate in the community as if it didn't exist. For one thing, this is orthogonal to the discussion here. pg has made this change to alter the community's behaviour, therefore he expects it to have an impact. Even if I chose to disregard it, nothing will change in the general case. Secondly, poster avg. karma affects ordering of comments and therefore the impact that your comments have. So it materially affects your experience in this community, and when I have something to say that I feel needs to be said, I benefit from it having the highest possible impact. This makes me care about avg. karma in all other situations.

On the other hand, submitting articles is not subject to such pressures, so I will happily continue doing that.
Disagreements over policy don't strike me as a good reason to blame Obama for uncertainty. The financial crisis and the oil spill would have existed if Obama wasn't president, and the gov't reaction would have been just as controversial. I definitely don't agree with everything Obama has done, but I think it's difficult to lay much of the blame at his feet. If anything, Obama has been more consistent in his approach than the situation demanded.
>2) What is government supposed to do here exactly? If science and math graduates had comparable earning power prospects to law, finance and medical grads we wouldn't be discussing it. Besides, on a university level US schools are top notch.

What about doing things to help more people reach this level? I don't have any suggestions in particular, and I think think that this is a hard problem, but it is certainly a worthwhile one.
Very interesting perspective, thanks!

If the only source of revenue is really as he says just people experimenting with FB Ads, realizing it doesn't working, then leaving, then it is indeed like a Ponzi scheme.
Did anyone else notice the $10 coke?
Pirates were robbers, not thieves. Thieves steal by subterfuge, robbers by force.

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Right now? Nothing, they're on the 'embrace' step.

In the past? Lots of stuff. There's an entire wikipedia article on this phrase, here's the examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace_extend_extinguish#Examp...
On2 (who Google bought to get the video tech/patents for vp8) were previously known as The Duck Corporation.
How about using 7 years for a life of not needing to work? Seems fair to me...
Ask HN: Anyone hack on a home automation/security setup?
I'm wondering if anyone has wired their home? I need to replace our thermostat, and I was looking at wireless thermostats, which got me thinking about how I'd like to do something with temperature sensors, maybe a security setup with an at-a-glance to see if all windows are closed/doors locked on a web interface. I'm wondering if anyone has done something like this and can recommend sensors, kits, etc?
Back when he capped downvoting to -4, I would definitely disagree with you, because that prevented serious negative outliners.

What if the average rounds everything under some threshold (say -10) up to that threshold? So your total karma can get totally trashed by one heavily-downvoted comment, but there's a limit to how badly your average gets hit.

But really, I'd guess that 99% of comments that go below -10 are clearly intentionally trolling, so it's probably not an issue.
Karma is like the star stickers that children get in kindergarden.
Yeah, I always go to the 'threads' link in my profile because I'm interested in keeping up with the conversations I was having. An easier way to see new replies would help.
does aluminum start to conduct at high voltage? Normally the oxide layer makes it a bad conductor.
Wealth is waking up this morning to a beautiful woman bringing me a cup of tea made "just so".

Philosophical sure, but wealth is definitely dependant on personal perspective.
Ok, lots of administrative suggestions here, which is good insight, I appreciate it.

What about collaboration and working with developers to incorporate their knowledge of sound programming structure and data architecture into the site? My site looks simple from the front end, but has a ton of stuff happening on the back end of things.

Excellent data management will be key for me and its something I need a lot of help with. The front end was easy for me to draw up but I need a great creative relationship with a technical cofounder to make the site as powerful as I'd like it to be.