skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But we shouldn't fight it by suspecting anyone and everyone. That's like suggesting that we should burn down entire villages, just because we can't be sure which of the local is or isn't an insurgent.
What websites am I missing? 
What fascinating websites am I missing?

I frequently read:
Hacker News
Ask Metafilter
Lifehacker
Slashdot
Smashing magazine.

What other sites are most like HN and aMF?
Yeah, but there you are only considering the limited subset of the population that actually owns a gun and buys rounds for it. Although the author of the post is American and I am not, which makes the likelihood of him knowing the difference bigger, I am pretty sure most of the people I know have no idea what the difference is between a bullet and a cartridge (fortunately there is Wikipedia).
I don't think there would be enormous amounts of money to be made from porting made-for-touch-interface driven apps to a mouse/pointer driven system.

iOS apps on OS X would feel terribly weird and out of place, since, again, they're made for an entirely different user interface paradigm.

They'll make a lot of money off the Mac App Store though; because the software on it will be great. As opposed to weird.
"Hacker News is my feedback form." :)
I'm not sure I believe it... technical users seem likely to install more apps than that (especially on Windows, where you need to install a bunch of things in order for it to be able to do anything) and every time I see a computer belonging to a "nontechnical" user it's full of little gizmo apps and cruft everywhere.

For every computer with 24 variants of Comet Cursor installed, there have to be three with just the bare OS to counterbalance it. I can imagine being able to use Ubuntu without installing a bunch of extra stuff, but I doubt that's what they were thinking of originally :)
no offense, but JIRA is not in the slightest lightweight. JIRA is extremely abstracted out to be whatever you want it to be. It's good for project management and for different projects that require different work flows, but you definitely need to spend time in setting it up to fit your needs.
wow! you must really be on heroin!

not even this study is arguing that heroin should be legalized, yet you do (and with a nonsensical argument like "it's my business")

it's quite safe to say that you can grow, produce and consume heroin for yourself pretty safely right now. it really is your business! until it's not, which is pretty fast.
Cyberduck is a very popular FTP client for the Mac, and Vuze is a fairly popular Bittorrent client on all platforms.
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How do you know it's accurate? Have you calibrated it? :)
So I enrolled for the November push and signed up for the Facebook group, all be it with a pseudonym, but I seriously fail to see the reason for the few sites that try to track and motivate me. With all due respect, the task sums up as a finger exercise and leaves me wanting more.

What is it that we need that a FB group can't do? Yes, that seems amateurish, but it does the job.
All very good points, and I think we agree on the major bits. Reading over my last post I think I might have been unclear on the main takeaway: desktop apps are fundamentally different from mobile apps.

If Apple lets us write apps that run on both platforms, I would expect the desktop versions to include substantially different resources and have fairly divergent codebases: different nibs, different build processes (perhaps with the disparate binaries packaged into one .app bundle), different interaction metaphors etc.

UIKit would be a kludge with multitouch trackpads, and downright useless without one all together.

This is largely true, but there's more to UIKit than touchesBegan:withEvent:. In particular, UIKit's view controllers/navigation controllers/table views could work quite well on OS X (and looking at iLife '09 and the preview of full-screen apps in Lion, this seems quite likely). Further, more iPhone apps use these classes than do advanced multitouch.

Again, this is not to say that writing one app that could conceivably run on both platforms will be at all easy; I still think the OP is way off the mark about that. But it's not unthinkable.
I don't see the point of targeting webkit only for a mobile app, when mobile opera still has such a huge market share. I can see a client thinking only webkit matters because they are their minds are wrapped around buzzwords and iphones. But that is not realistic thinking - that is the client having their heads in the clouds. They won't know better than a developer, so we can either entertain them and make something target bleeding-edge only, or actually make a mobile app that more devices can see. In this office it seems like everyone in the world has a phone with a webkit browser right on it, but I know that my personal community is not the world.
Signs at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear
Adobe has a track record of putting out terrible Flash plugins for Apple platforms and was way behind schedule on mobile. It's hard to blame Apple for not wanting to play guinea pig.
57 Things I’ve Learned Founding 3 Tech Companies
I love it how you're being downvoted (your excellent comment pointing out the flaw in this study was at the top initially) without a single refutation!

Speaks a lot about the values of this community and the karma system!
I worked out the first 5 PiB to be $462,336/month at the older pricing, and $433,433.60/month at the new rate.

Edit: fat-fingered a couple of columns. New figures are $449,536 and $433,423.36, for $16112.64/month savings, or 3.6%. All the savings come in the first 1 PiB.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AskGKJcfVVjPdFJKdTN...
It's like clockwork:

- a scripting.com link get submitted to hackernews

- the first 20 people get to read it

- the site crashes, leaving everyone else with nothing but the comments.

Dave, have you considered upgrading to a 56k modem? :)
Has anyone used Day Software's CQ5? Or File Repositories for Content Mgmt?
Has anyone here used CQ5 by Day Software? I heard that a few sites like DHL and McDonald's are using it for web sites. To this point, I hadn't though of using a file repository for data, I've always been in Database mode, but maybe HN can convince me that file repositories are just as good, if not better than databases?
Ask HN: Should I Meet With My Direct Competitor?
I'll save the full story for another time, but incredibly two things happened at a Halloween Party in Bombay:

1) The brother of the founder of my web app's chief competitor was there
2) We made that connection

He suggested we meet. My question: Should I meet face to face with the CEO of my chief competitor? If so, how do I approach it?

Pros: Could get his perspective on industry, have an interesting conversation, make a contact that could potentially help me.

Cons: May inspire preemptive competitive response. I'm not sure its good to alert someone before you throw a brick at them.

Here are some facts that may or may not be relevant:

1) I have a prototype ready, have raised some seed capital and will be raising a bit more shortly. I don't expect to launch the product until at least February. The competitor site is well established with 20M uniques per month.

2) They address a different niche in the market, though we overlap some (think Macy's versus Patagonia). They've positioned themselves for a different portion of the market, and appropriately addressing my niche would cannibalize their bread and butter. But I'd hate to underestimate them.
Tsar Bomba is my favorite. Is the developer making a political statement by defaulting the map to D.C.?
I am working on a full release of http://CharityAuctionOrganizer.com

A little removed from the tech-centric mainstream, but it provides a web based tool for managing fund raising auctions.

The site is live and functional now, with a full feature release expected by the end of the month.
In reality, if the guy went on to blow up a building, major media outlets would be calling for any government official that so much as came into contact with him to be brought before a firing squad (regardless of whether or not there was a real reason to suspect him).
I'm not.

The raw emotion controlling the interrogating 'official' is not reassuring to me at all.

Also, "live round"? Really?
I am almost in the same case. After months of procrastination disguised as reading about programming, I just launched my first completed project ever: my own blog written in Ruby on Rails. Just today ! http://hackiel.com/blog
Seems like a great opportunity to level up.
UV light would penetrate clouds better.

Indeed, aiming the collimated beam would be a problem, but not an insurmountable one. Given the bandwidth benefits and the relatively small size of the transmitter (compared to microwave), many small (cheap) satellites could serve the same purpose as an Iridium constellation.

It wouldn't work indoors, but neither do satellite microwave links. The reason cell tower signals reach indoors is signal strength. It's prohibitively expensive to place equivalent transmitters into orbit.
Mobile Developer for M2M Platform
Good point, though I think Angry Birds is one of the apps that would lend itself better to being ported from iOS to OS X. But like you pointed out, it would be quite different still.

Think about how different the official Twitter client would be for example. Refreshing the feed by dragging the list of tweets down; something that feels intuitive, just right, on the iPhone and iOS; would seem weird and retarded on OS X.

Or how about when you swipe over a Tweet (or any list-view item) to manipulate it? Works great in a touch/direct manipulation interface. That would be incredibly poor UI design on OS X. Astoundingly bad. Buttons and widgets would be oversized on OS X. Form factor and layout would be needlessly limited. Etc, etc.
A couple changes of underwear in the laptop bag and I'm good to go

Right, you're carrying something. It seems like the Christmas Day bomber wasn't carrying anything (aside from his bomb).
Hey, this is one of the founders of Ready for Zero (recently featured on HN). We have a simple webapp idea that might be fun to do on the side. If you're interested, mail me at nacho _at_ readyforzero _dot_com.
I haven't looked at GAE that much, but my main complaints are the language restrictions and the lock-in around developing for their platform. You can take an app written for Heroku and switch it your own hosting pretty easily - I don't think you could do that for GAE (I could be wrong though).
Twitter Begins Publishing Ads in Users' Streams
Bloomberg launches $2,000 Email Newsletters
Even if it is, the government would have easier access to and better control over an open-source stack than it would with Windows. It would also have a wider possible market because support vendors would not have to get Microsoft's blessing before providing services.
Learn Ruby or Python if you don't know one of them yet. They are rapidly becoming the go-to scripting languages, and you will not regret learning them.

(Plus, they're easy and stupid productive)
HTML5 is not 10-year-old tech.
Unfortunately, lost phone numbers, non-permanent home address and the lack of a white pages made it impossible.
Agree. See this article discussing the merits of the original 7 +- 2 statement:

http://tastyresearch.com/2006/08/30/debunking-the-seven-plus...
How to use Emacs to work with Mercurial
Bargaining Stirs Up Extra Brain Activity
That should be the most enraging part about the 'airline security'.

The recent cargo bomb was missed despite multiple tips about that specific item as well!
Reddit. Particularly the AskReddit sub-reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/

The business sub-reddit is good, too:
http://www.reddit.com/r/business/
Even with a pen/stylus, handwriting is only about 30wpm. Moving to a finger would cut that in... half? worse?
Yes, I do. If you follow the references, no actual evidence is presented.
Brooke the Immortal: An American Child May Hold Secrets to Aging
I am committed to launching http://wellhubstudios.com, a ecommerce platform for wellness professionals, yoga studios. Appointment Booking and Class Scheduling....
My eris works great with its default settings...until I run a music player while trying to type. It would be great if they could dynamically scale the accuracy or something to keep response time up.
It might not be for everybody, and maybe you won't find it useful, but give it a shot and let us know. I've found tracking my progress on habits and goals to be motivating, and I've also found it helpful to have a friend keep me accountable. Imagine the Seinfeld Method [1], but social.

1. http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-se...
@yes
Yea its for the USA bound flights.
You've missed the point. I can generate a PDF/DOC in a minute. I can do it programmatically using a parser and a lib.

That's not what I'm getting at. The resumator thing is annoying.

People make note of far less serious UI mea culpas on here all the time. But when they want a job, they're suddenly willing to tolerate anything.

The hypocrisy here is astounding.
The default city changes on page load. Try refreshing, it's not always D.C.
"At one point, frustrated by the lack of training/knowledge of the people put in charge of protecting the US borders, I literally pulled out my guidebook and gave them a lesson in geography and in a sense, in reality as well. I showed them excerpts of the guidebook that spoke of friendly locals, must-see highlights and a generally safe environment for travelers."

I can only hope that this brief education opened the minds of his interrogators somewhat (and the thought that it might have gives me a warm and fuzzy, yet reservedly so, feeling inside).
It's not entirely clear to me that I don't want a person who crosses our borders in the circumstances that the author of the article did and carrying the things that the author of the article carried grilled to see if he cracks. Can you imagine what would happen if someone carried those things across a border, did NOT get grilled based on the "would be really inept" arguments, and then committed a terrorist act? We'd be calling for the screeners' heads, and quite probably would be right to do so.
Next time I'm planning large-scale terrorism in the US, I'll make sure to bring some Osama candy then so they'll assume I'm an idiot and let me go.
It's hard to realize the value of Facebook when you don't yet have friends all over the country (or the world).
When I could get my business partners to use Wave, we found it to be a very good brainstorming / organization tool. I still think there is an opportunity for someone to build a product on its open-source foundations: http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/
Only some ages (40+) and genders (female, possibly male, but not trans or any minority orientations) are protected in all of the USA.

Even those categories are not protected in the vast majority of the world. Plus, we need some kind of flourish to express the idea that a business is committed to equal opportunity.

I like "equal opportunity employer" for that, but it's been watered down.
Could Apple’s Past Help Us Predict Who It Acquires Next?
Google sues feds over Microsoft-centric bidding requirement
> No deception was intended

I didn't mean to imply that there was. Your reputation here earned you the benefit of the doubt:)
Ken Robinson - Changing Education Paradigms
One is a proprietary Web platform that can completely shut people out of a site and the other is a video codec. Apples and oranges if ever anything was.
From 3D teleconferencing to walkable virtual environments
Anybody know how to get Swype on Android? It looks like there beta is closed and it's not in the Android App store.
Foursquare - New York, NY - Looking for software engineers

Foursquare.com/jobs

I am on the BD team so please excuse my lack of technical info but here is the description for the server side engineer:

Reqs:
BS or MS in Computer Science or related field preferred
5+ years experience building products for fast growing web or mobile products
Strong Java experience or, even better, experience and/or interest in Scala
Comfortable with AJAX based websites, JavaScript and jQuery
Comfortable in a small, intense and high-growth start-up environment

I can tell you that we are heavily engineering group, but also looking for Product Managers, Community folks, and client developers (iPhone etc)

Its a great place to work and we are solving some exciting problems in the location space.
I agree that a tutorial would be useful, and that's exactly the problem.

From trial and error, people build up gazillion mental models of how certain things work. When I show you a bottle of red wine, you most likely know by glancing at it, how the bottle can be opened. That is because you've built up a mental model of bottle mechanics as well as different type of bottle caps and can map them to the new problem space (new unseen bottle).

When inventing something new, especially something as basic and "known" as an input method, you can greatly ease adoption by relying on existing mental models of things people already know, then map your new interface to that.

Swype would probably work reasonably well without displaying the underlying keyboard, but I assume they do so to guide the mapping process.
Recently acquired BlindType does the same. I remember that they even state somewhere on their website, that the typing works without displaying a keyboard at all. Unfortunately the site is down after the google acquisition, but this youtube video illustrates the "typing without keyboard": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6eKm1gUnTE (skip forward to 1:02)
I'm in recruiting myself. If I would ask questions like this we would have been out of new employees very soon. Questions like this only intimidate the applicant and are much to complex for interviews. Also you seem to have the idea that you know the only "truth". This is ridiculous.
Google Wave is an excellent example of why it's so important to manage expectations. If it was released as being a nifty tool for early adopters, and given a few years to iterate based on user feedback, it could have lived up to its charge of becoming the new standard for collaboration and communication. Instead, it left people disappointed by promising everything before it was done cooking.

I'm still hopeful that the codebase will be worked on by the OSS community, and/or some enterprising hackers will come along and implement the core concept more effectively.
What percentage of the commits do these developers represent?
But he had already gotten off the airplane, and it's a lot easier to cause damage with a single bullet on an airplane than it is to cause damage with a single bullet while leaving an airport - so either he's so stupid that he'll carry the bullet onto every airplane, waiting for the chance, or he just forgot that he was carrying it, as he said.
> Nice to know that if they don't have any legal way
> of stopping you or coercing information out of you,
> they'll only resort to harassment and intimidation
> for a little while before letting you go.

The point of yelling at him, and repeating the question was an attempt to 'throw him off his game.' Hopefully, you'll get him frustrated enough that he'll let slip something that give him away. It's a hell of a lot better than waterboarding him in the back room at the airport.

> They love yelling, and it isn't because they want you
> answer or comply. Apparently yelling serves some purpose
> in itself.

Explained above. Granted they might be able to achieve the same result by using a line of questioning that keeps circling back in on itself with slight variations of the same question being repeated over and over again (sans yelling).
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The neat thing about iOS and MacOS, compared to Windows in VMWare, is that iOS apps are never 'emulated' on MacOS—they're 'simulated'. In fact, I'd wager that during its development, Angry Birds was run on a Mac far more often than on an iOS device. The iPhone Simulator is just a wrapper for x86 binaries linked against iOS frameworks.

If this is actually in Apple's plans, running iOS apps on MacOS wouldn't be much harder than making these frameworks first-class citizens... plus a whole lot of work reconciling the fundamentally different interaction, document, window, and application models. (Guess which of those 80 and which is 20. :)
Related

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1857210
You had to sign up back in the Spring, or get a new phone that comes with it.
It's RSS-enabled
I know this. Alcoholics also aren't trying to tell the world that it cleanses your kidneys.
Yeah, for me the first default city was Beijing.
If only people could understand. Usually when you say 70-80 hour weeks you're really saying..every hour I am not sleeping I am most likely working on my business....
err...wait I've had some working dreams that have help my business. So count some of those.
I don't see how the burqa has anything to do with it.
This looks terrible. Far more effort and error prone than simply using a regular keyboard on the screen.

And is there any evidence to suggest that it's a real problem in the first place? Most people can type pretty fast on phones.
Maybe it's me, but I don't see the downside to meeting him. It's not a good idea to alert someone before you throw a brick at them, but it doesn't sound to me like you are throwing a brick at them. You're addressing a different niche, and without knowing anything about what industry you're in, I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that the number of customers you are going to poach from each other is miniscule compared to the number of potential customers that are not buying from either of you.

In my last start-up, I had a good relationship with the CEO of my major competitor, even though I disrupted what was a very comfortable situation from him, and took a lot of business away from him-- and we were battling for the same, very small niche. I had a lot of respect for him, and entertained take-over proposals on several occasions.

So, my two cents: go for it. Be respectful and humble, share only as much as you are comfortable sharing, but be honest in what you do say.
My girlfriend is really jealous that I have Swype and she doesn't, I can't wait to see how she reacts to this.
There still isn't 100% GSM coverage in Asia - the most densely populated continent, let alone Africa and S. America. There are many many places that will never see GSM coverage. So I wouldn't write satellite communications off just yet.

Could you have predicted it in the 80s? Maybe, if you didn't have all this money to build exactly what they built.
maybe the other bidders were also people just trying to get the .com to turn it over to sal.
The news article is a bit light on all the details. I did some work for some of the people bidding and probably the best summary of who 'won' is in the GSA's (who supply the IT infrastructure to other govt agencies) press release found here:

http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/193441

Note that a lot of http://apps.gov is based around vendors built on Amazon EC2/S3 and Salesforce force.com platform. Microsoft is not a dominate player in government IT, in fact I probably see far more tax money going to IBM and/or Oracle every year if it makes anyone feel better. /s :)

It is true in the area of office apps that Google have an case here, but another way to look at this is that Google are mighty sore for having gone through all that security accreditation (FISMA) without winning more business. They put a lot of effort into the RFQ (as did Amazon, who did well out of this)