skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hmm...
I think many rationals problem is that they don't interact enough and then use their positive social interactions to social proof their bad ones.

Consider his first scenario where the person puts up his hand and says that they don't have the budget to do that.
The speaker might indeed be mad and likewise some others in the room.
Invariably there would be someone there that likes your outspoken or directness[just by the share number of people in the room, probability dictates it].

Now, if our rational guy stands there by himself and refuses to interact with others, the speaker and his allies will brand him as rude. Every move he makes, no matter how trivial would only be seen in this light.

If he had started interacting until he found someone who likes his disposition, he is then social proof by that person. Then he begins to climb a ladder of social proof. He would meet someone else who because that one person liked him they would like him too, and you can see how this spreads exponentially. Now, it would be just the speaker left hating him; well no actually, the speaker will now think his evaluation of the situation was previously wrong and that the guy is alright.[Appropriate reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments]

And if our rationalist is lucky he can turn his new found social proof into Authority by running for some prestigious position such as president. At which point, people will like him cause he is in that given position.

Being nice has it's only problems also. For instance, people would assume you want something from them if you start acting nice the first time you meet them.

Again, social proof can over come this problem of being suspecting of wanting something.

Social proofing can lead to what I call, the lovable Jerk. People who act in a way that undermines others but the general populous loves them so they are forgiven time and time again.

With that said let, me sum up my points. Being social proof will lead to people liking you but as a rational you only have a few people who naturally like you but you need to build from those few.[Appropriate viewing: Derek Sivers - How to start a movement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V74AxCqOTvg ]
I really wish Github charged by users and disk space only, and quit with the private repo count limit added on top of that.

We wanted to use Github at the (small) company I work for, but we have tons of tiny, low-traffic repos. Since Github limits repo count, regardless of how low-resource they are, we flat out cannot use them, period.

Bitbucket has the right idea - number of repos is completely meaningless. Make it unlimited and charge only by meaningful metrics, like user count. Unfortunately, their shift to that plan came too late for us, as we put in the effort of self-hosting. Still, there's that special something Github has that Bitbucket lacks, and we would still consider migrating to Github if only they dropped the arbitrary repo count limit.
As with all battery powered devices it depends. For me, I can't stand a dim screen so I take off all the auto power saving settings to keep the screen bright. If I am using apps it runs 4-5 hrs or so depending. I know fully charged the kids can get 3 movies out of it and then it still has some juice left in it. So for us, with the screen on full brightness we get from 4-7 hours depending. That said, I rarely go 4-7 hours without a charger available, we have the home and car charger so between the two it works out and is never an issue. I imaging if you darkend the screen significantly you could get to 10 maybe. One thing I have noticed is it does take longer to charge than the iPad.
Bullshit. Yet another fluff piece attempting to keep the American Dream alive. Even the briefest encounter with demographic statistics shows that poor stay poor, rich stay rich. In fact, in just today's Globe and Mail (Canada): http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/the-rich-really...
gitolite is a much-improved fork of gitosis, "backed" by Fedora for use in their repos, and IMO is much easier and nicer to setup to configure.
While I can understand not giving out details, to avoid gaming, this post as a result doesn't have much content! As far as I can tell, this is the entirety of the description of the change:

we developed an algorithmic solution which detects the merchant from the Times article along with hundreds of other merchants that, in our opinion, provide a extremely poor user experience

The explanations of what Google didn't do and why are informative, though.
Or overcome that limitation on a different platform? (Android, WinPhone 7, etc)? After all, I think a lot of the early interest in Android came from overcoming the limitations of carrier exclusivity (in the US at least) and form factor limitations (options for hardware keyboards, replaceable batteries, larger screens, etc).
-Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,279,589 tested so far.

Guess using Opera helps with my uniqueness! >_<
Also, many vendors these days will sell through Amazon.com. It's a lot safer purchasing through Amazon.com since they are very intolerant of bad merchants.

From the original NY Times article:

In other words, Mr. Borker is perfectly capable of minding his manners. And he does so, right now, with every order that comes through a store he runs through Amazon.com’s affiliate program. (He declines to provide that store’s name.) He handles those transactions like a Boy Scout because Amazon doesn’t mess around, he says — the company just kicks you off its site if you infuriate customers.
seems like there's still a lot of work todo, and a lot of room for growth. A survey of how people use their ipads, coincidentally from today: http://www.businessinsider.com/ipad-survey
Okay, but if they didn’t exist at all, why would we be better off? It’s not like the “people” here would suddenly all start making secure systems.
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But if we demoted web pages that have negative comments against them, you might not be able to find information about many elected officials, not to mention a lot of important but controversial concepts. So far we have not found an effective way to significantly improve search using sentiment analysis. Of course, we will continue trying.

Google admits, and I agree, that this is a bad idea. But then why are they continuing to attempt it? Wouldn't neutral search results be better than those that favored a subjectively positive or negative business?
That's because innovation is a positive externality, people don't consider innovation when they buy an electronic device, but their choices do have consequences (which of course is the definition of an externality).

Econtalk did a great show about this and net neutrality:
Relevant excerpt from show: What is worrisome--because the Apple iPad is not as open as the cloud? As the PC. That's a market response. That assumes the market response incorporates all externalities. It doesn't. Classic externality for the consumer to prefer the fantastic interface of the iPhone to the long-term innovation. You wouldn't anticipate consumers making buying decisions today incorporating the long-term value of a more innovative platform. No reason for them to do it.
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/04/benkler_on_net.html
... 50 years ago that is (check their age).
toto!

http://cloudhead.io/toto
The average age of these men is 70+. They would have been starting their businesses or making important contacts before the Civil Rights Act of 1966, an era with limited opportunities for non-whites.
Oh forgot to tell you that I'm on a Mac... Even with Mono I prefer to stay native.
That's all you've got? "Fools blame their tools"? Who then, besides the people who wisely chose to eschew these particular tools, isn't a fool? Who's used them well, from 2000-2010?
Google’s headline is “Being bad to your customers is bad for business”.

I always thought “being bad” was analogous to “evil”.
"Black Friday. Cyber Monday. But have you heard of Octocat Wednesday? Probably not because I just made that up. Lucky for you we're also making up the prices around here for the next week."

Their copy-writing is first rate.
Just a thought - I've worked with a legally blind woman for a few years. She uses a variety of magnifying gadgets and devices during meetings to read handouts or lunch menus. I think that the present gen tablets are coming very close to being able to replace these expensive magnifying gadgets - and incorporate other technology.

A macro capable camera & some sort of lighting and suddently you replace one of these: http://www.independentliving.com/products.asp?dept=264&d...
This raises a question of how Apple will deal with "Made For iPod" interfaces that get increasingly generic. Right now they have a good framework for evaluating apps and hardware produced by one company to work together. They don't have a good way to understand hardware from company A working with software from company B.

What happens when someone wants to release a NES inspired D-Pad controller for iOS but wants to allow existing game makers to create apps that support it? Right now that is sort-of possible but it's very high friction.

Apple is a company who likes to build the whole stack from hardware to software; they feel like is necessary to create beautiful experiences. Will they compromise on this to facilitate a world where you can connect your iphone to any device in the house?

If they don't, progress may stagnate, hacks (like communication over wifi) will persist, and potentially they are giving up market share. Obviously they need to maintain the integrity and stability of the iOS devices but in my opinion they error too far on the side of caution.
I'm a little confused now that TechCrunch has a story up. It seemed from the discussion here that you were only making money from your affiliates, but you also charge upon conversion?

"Reward Level charges $5 per conversion, but if the company offering the reward is also a publisher with Reward Level’s widget installed, they only have to pay $2.50 per conversion."

Is this accurate?

If so, I might find it hard to justify paying $5 per conversion, especially for a .2-30% conversion rate increase. This means I'd be paying for every conversion, essentially spending what I'd normally spend and then $5 for each and every signup on top of that? No thanks. While this might make sense for some, it probably wouldn't make sense for those following the freemium model. Sounded great when it was "too good to be true," though.
Everything in this post is inline with my experience working on the platform over the past 10 months.

But they miss one of the worst offenses in my opinion: Applications which access certain APIs are required to be signed. If you want to run code on the device you must sign your app, even if it's just for testing during development. The signing process requires connection to THREE different RIM servers, which are notoriously flaky. This results in extreme delays (hours) which are hard to account for while developing. RIM has recently upgraded their servers or otherwise addressed this issue, but it is far from solved

Take a look at the 7-day (the times are mislabeled, I believe) charts on this page, set up by a third party, not RIM, for an example of their uptime: http://isthesigningserverdown.com/beta/
Are larger companies more or less brittle than smaller ones?
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"Improving algorithms" now involves writing a blacklist? Blacklists are fine, but please don't call them algorithms.
I know toto (and jekyll as well) but as I told you I can't afford hosting... And Heroku's network performance is really not good at this time (at least for Lisbon, Portugal, Europe with a 100MB Fiber Up-Down Link).
I think there's already been some slow moves in that direction - I recall the presenters on Top Gear playing with a couple of vaguely similar things, eg. a Lamborghini where you could cycle the appearance of the dials (so you could make it look like a "jet fighter" or whatever) and a Skyline that had a screen with heaps of different displays (g-force meter and what have you).

Those aren't near a fully programmable tablet but I think that's still a long way off since there might be regulatory problems, eg. maybe you have to be able to see the speedometer at all times. I'm not totally convinced I want a fully programmable display though anyway - I don't think that a million customisable settings would enhance my car. But I'm sure there are people who would like it...
I'm actually working on a college project getting OBD-II diagnostics to your i-device. Some amazing stuff avaliable already e.g: http://www.devtoaster.com/products/rev/
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We're doing some really awesome things with a number of technologies.. Our stack includes Python/Django, MySQL, jQuery, Java. We'd like to add at least two more people to the development team in short-order (more details here: http://elationemr.com/jobs.html).

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This is key. Another interesting observation is that in 2006 tablet manufacturers probably thought it vitally important that users could print
53. As a result of the wrongful acts of the Defendant, as described herein, RIM has suffered and will continue to suffer serious and irreparable harm, as well as serious and substantial damages.

While I think it's fair that RIM protect its BBM patents, I think that Kik has brought more interest to BlackBerry than anything else in recent memory.

Most people I know are behind Kik, some going as far as to say that they won't ever purchase a RIM product (again). So in that sense, RIM's actions against Kik may bring themselves more harm in the end.
Ah cool, combining that with those free one year EC2 instances would get you free and secure git hosting for a year. Don't you just love free offers?
Further thought: Actually, not being a programmer reinforces my original DSL point, not contradicts it. Part of the purpose of a DSL is to reduce as much as possible the "programming" part of the task so the domain expert can concentrate on what needs to be done.

I never said "this guy should have written a DSL instead", which I didn't say because it would be an asshole thing to say. I said that this task screams for a DSL, and that's only more true if this guy isn't a programmer.
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It's not just about replacing the functionality, it is more about combining the functionality with some other in a clever way that the dedicated hardware could hardly do.
For example: gps + web -> checkins
Another important thing is the form that allows me to have a camera everywhere with me.
Reaching better quality is only a matter of time.
WikiLeaks ousted by Amazon
According to a statement from Senator Joe Lieberman, Homeland Security Committee Chairman, Amazon.com has agreed to stop hosting WikiLeaks.
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#Anyone hear of dog? dog is better than cat..

dog http://ifconfig.me | egrep -wo '[[:digit:]]{1,3}\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}' | uniq
The real cost of the housing bubble. And probably where the current tech bubble originated.
Interesting -- I've been a happy site5 customer for years, though I've never needed much customer service.

Still good to know you are looking to draw from the right pools.
I'm trying to think of something where I'd need more computing power in my pocket - most apps seem to either have enough power in the device itself or draw the extra needed compute/storage from the cloud... just wondering what you have in mind.
And how would you go about ranking them then? alphabetically?

More research and trial/error never hurts.
I think 37Signals has done enough to support their particular opinions though, whereas I'm not sure you can say the same for axod, but I will stand corrected.
I was in before you edited your post.
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I agree with what you're saying, but I still can't help but feel you are missing the point I wanted to make (or perhaps you didn't miss it and simply wanted to add to it to tie it back to the article, in which case I apologize and you should feel free to ignore me).

Somebody made a judgement call and decided that X was more cost effective than Y. Somebody else is inconvenienced by this decision and complains about it. Saying that the complaint is invalid because X is a dirty hack is not, IMHO, a valid excuse. Saying (as you have) that it was decided that X was more cost effective than Y and that is why X was chosen is a valid excuse.

The only reason I'mpushing the point is because I hear those kinds of excuses all the time, applied to all sorts of things.
Or, I suppose, Jacquard cards replacing cams in the 1800's. There's a lot more history to this than it's easy to see today. But Fuller's insight, Good God.
http://pastebin.com/NmtPBDgK
"Lamborghini where you could cycle the appearance of the dials (so you could make it look like a "jet fighter" or whatever)"

Lamborghini Reventon:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBOPwHgpkFk (skip to about a minute in)

" Skyline that had a screen with heaps of different displays (g-force meter and what have you)"

You're thinking of the Nissan GTR:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXFSVoVqhYw
iPhones:
* Have the potential for Viruses (don't call it an exploit it's a jailbreak is not great security reporting)
* Reqquire backups done by the user to be safe from data loss
* Since I'm currently rocking a 3G running IOS4 -- are "clunky and slow"

Of your 5 points - boot up and software update are reasonable. The other 3 can be absolutely issues.
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Cool. Thanks for the feedback! I'll take a look in evolution.
* Crypto has made minimal contributions to actual user security for the last 10 years. It's hard to claim crypto "got us through the 2000's" when, for much of that time span, every platform in common use was vulnerable to flaws that ultimately yielded your OS kernel to an attacker.

* Meanwhile, most --- literally most --- efforts at deploying crypto have reduced security, by creating new attack surfaces riddled with easily-exploitable flaws.

I don't think this is a very tricky argument, although the place it leads you to may feel counterintuitive and wrong.
That's what I am considering now.
You just need to know the right places to look.

I'm a member of a private tracker that has cassette rips of 80s jpop - you probably won't find that on a general music tracker (much less an online store), but it's relatively common for a Japanese-music site.

if you try to get your hands on something remotely sophisticated and with musical substance, you will have a hard time finding it via the scene releases

I like how you propose that the music the majority of the world finds value in is trash.

Anyways, who said you had to get it from release groups? There are plenty of people who are perfectly able to use EAC on a CD they bought.
Haven't we been calling them tablets for ages? People have been designing around the idea of tablets for decades. They had the ideas for the applications of tablets fifty years ago. I'm not sure I understand what this article says that is in any way original.
Here's another good example of etherealization: With Skype one can get a US (and a few other countries) number that gets routed to my skype id.
Standing correctedly by the anchor.
The glossary is useful for deciphering some of the obscure acronyms.

http://apollo13.spacelog.org/glossary/
Wikileaks kicked out of Amazon's cloud
Here's the thing: people who aren't geeks often like and even prefer single-purpose devices. There is, as has been noted (see http://g4tv.com/videos/44277/DICE-2010-Design-Outside-the-Bo...), a "pocket exception", but for larger devices, people who aren't us are often intimidated or confused by devices that do many things.

And of course there are dangers in making a machine more general-purpose than it needs to be. Machines that are too general-purpose becomes more susceptible and sometimes tempting targets for hacking. (As usual, ground well-trod by xkcd: http://xkcd.com/463/, http://xkcd.com/801/)
why'd you take the data down? I was writing a scraper in order to make your underlying data into happy open and accessible data: http://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/stanford-dissertations/edit/
Think the most interesting part is that the Founder of Kik worked at RIM for 3 Co-Op terms. And two of them were on the Blackbery Messenger Team.
I believe some Windows 7 tablets might still experience these problems.
> If you asked someone to draw the screen of say http://godaddy.com from memory, they'd likely mainly remember the lovely lady wearing a 'godaddy' t-shirt. Is that the most important thing?

That's exactly the point. Isn't that something the GoDaddy designer(s) should know and take into account? They want people buying domain names, not drooling.

Again with GoDaddy, do you want a sexy brand image, a lead gen wet dream, people to quickly buy domain names in bulk, etc.? I completely agree that "important" isn't specific enough but it's up to you, as the designer, to figure out the balance.
FCC chief backs some rationing of Internet traffic
They're still the 4th result when searching for "discount designer sunglasses" -- so they have not been banned quite yet.
It's being reported that the US gov (read: Joe Lieberman) pressured Amazon to stop hosting the site.

Here is a more thorough update on this situation:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/01/wikileaks-websit...
Don't believe everything a random pundit on the Internet says. Yes, Germany has something like a Limited Liability company, since recently even without any required capital (beyond 1 Euro).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellschaft_mit_beschr%C3%A4nk... (literally: Company with limited liability)
Aha, so much for my plan then eh? Was just counting on what i experienced having a account from whenever the beta started. :-) Clever move by them.
ActiveMQ - Java, but it talks STOMP so you can use it with anything.

I'd go with 0mq or ActiveMQ, depending on your use case.

Though, these aren't distributed, as Kafka claims to be.
Giving invites to people you don't know is a bad idea, as you're responsible for them.

They have an irc channel for applications; take a look at http://whatinterviewprep.webs.com/ .
Readyforce, Menlo Park, CA

We're still kind of in stealth mode. Great company, fun team, interesting market, good leadership.

Looking for:

UI/Visual Designer
http://jobs.eurekahire.com/rf/requisition/detail/150

Sr. Product Manager
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Related: Steve Blank's hypothesis that dysfunctional families breed people for the chaotic world of startups:
http://steveblank.com/2009/05/18/founders-and-dysfunctional-...
Do you mean for general workflow tasks, or for creating documents given a set of data?

For workflow tasks, Automator.app on OSX is pretty great, even for non-programmers. There's probably something analogous on windows/other OSes.

For document generation... that seems like a fun weekend hack. I'm imagining some kind of more configurable madlibs-style app.
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Supposedly you can found a GmbH without a notary now. I don't know how well that works in practice, though.
"we developed an algorithmic solution which detects the merchant from the Times article along with hundreds of other merchants that, in our opinion, provide an extremely poor user experience."

The implication seems to be that they've found a way of programmatically identifying these offenders.
http://arXiv.org