skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just out of curiosity .. what do you plan to do when the month ends and you haven't sold all the shirts. Just sell them at a discounted price?

To be honest, although I love the concept I think no one would pay over $70 for a shirt and the few who paid $60 probably did it out of novelty value, but what do I know?
Trees do not grow to the sky. China has a lot of problems, among them pollution, corruption everywhere, the failed state banking and securities markets, etc. They will bump into natural limits to growth, as indeed they have already in some cases.
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Interesting analogy to the marathon runners.
I wonder which was a bigger factor in this acquisition, the merits of the business or the fame of the founder.
I can't find one. Which sucks because I had figured there was no point me writing one because someone else was going to. I figured someone would hack http://code.google.com/p/mobileterminal/ and make it an AppStore application.
Amazon music store is a little Anti-Web. It requires the user to download and install their "MP3 downloader" if they want to purchase albums.

Why isn't Amazon's "MP3 downloader" completely optional?
"If Microsoft did this, there would be a swarm of complaints, and rightly so."

In Cringely's interview of Steve Jobs from "Revenge of the Nerds", Jobs says that he doesn't begrudge Microsoft their success. It just bothers him that they have absolutely no taste.

I agree that Apple (particularly under Jobs) is no better than Microsoft in terms of wanting to lock in all of their customers and extract as much money from them as humanly possible. However, I do think that Apple (particularly under Jobs) exhibits outstanding taste in software and hardware design. In particular, the combination of iTunes and iPod, while striving to lock customers in and not playing fairly with others, is far more usable and aesthetically pleasing than all of the sorry attempts by Microsoft to solve the same set of problems.

I think the fact that so many people LIKE Apple's products is part of the reason why not as many people get upset at Apple's anti-competitive behavior.
"COPPER NANORODS: The tiny towers of copper atoms pictured here ... can actually help water boil faster when applied to the bottom of a copper pan."

That's certain to be in an infomercial for the new "Nanocookery" like of pans available for just 3 low payments of $29.99...

But wait, there's more! Get the new monowire cutter--yours free! It slices, it dices!
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Seems like truemors site isn't working. But 5 to 10 employees? You gotta be kidding me. This is probably a deal for them to get Kawasaki on their board to be able to get venture capital.

"Hey guys buy my crappy start up for 10-20 grand, so I can get back my investment of $12,000 that I paid to register those 500 domains, and I'll join your board so you can tell VCs you have the great Kawasaki on your board and get money!"
Then there's reason @ (@ comes before the letter A, right?) -

@) iPod is a closed proprietary gadget that can only be accessed using closed proprietary software. If iPod was open and standardized, the rest of your reasons would probably magically disappear.
On the surface, this appears to be a major shift in markets. But deep down inside, it's really a major shift in philosophy. No one clause better represents the difference between old and new thinking than:

...according to one attendee, who spoke anonymously because the sessions are off-the-record...
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Turns out he's not:

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/6351/iphoneua8.jpg

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/6964/triploggw5.png

http://ralovely.com/downloads/triplog1040.png
You can't set up a slick affiliate site that sells them on HackerNews very easily at a buck fifty each can you?

And that is a pretty slick affiliate site.
I don't understand. If iPod was "open and standardized" in 1991, how would Apple have built an iTunes Music Store that would have provided the same experience?

Or are you arguing that instead, they should have built something using the "open and standardized" components of the day, precluding almost all of the functionality that made it successful?
may be i can help - whats your email?
Might be an SSH app. Sure as hell will not be a Terminal app (unless if you jailbreak...)
"Sell to whom exactly?"

And buy what? I agree with Marc's core premise -- monolithic media is going down -- and I suspect that diversification is the answer. But there doesn't seem to be clear information on where the media markets are headed. Stuff like Hulu and iTunes offer up some clues, but not enough to bet a billion dollar empire on...
I commented on their wiki earlier asking if they were going to do it, no response as of yet though.

I wonder if apple will have any problems with it?
It's the pixels. They're a dead giveaway every time.
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I think you meant "scan", not "ban"? I was wondering about that, because the marketing of my iPhone app would not be very far reaching if it could not even be found by Google.
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There is also a theory that beer was a driver of agriculture/civilization.

> In 1986, Solomon Katz and Mary Voigt of the University of Pennsylvania raised the question of the relationship between beer-making and grain domestication when they suggested that "among the factors that led to the domestication of wild cereals [was] . . . the "high' that people obtained from beer" (10).

http://www.brewingtechniques.com/library/backissues/issue2.5...
Even nickb is allowed to misfire once in awhile.
I don't think they got to pick the day its released. It was either get included for the launch, or wait until we accept your app.
Anyone here have an iPhone app they're releasing? I'd love to hear about it.
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They're not completely irrational. For example, they tend to attack when their intended appears vulnerable. They very rarely attack with loaves of bread.
Not every story with the name of a politician is strictly political news. And it's the original headline, not spin added by a submitter. So while it annoys me to see on the page, I don't think it should be killed.
How about because you're not their target market? Businesses exist for profit, and their resources are not unlimited, they clearly put their efforts into their customers, you know, the ones with iPods for whom iTunes exists. Their business is rocking, they have no need to chase you.
The iPhone will kill the PSP and all handheld gaming devices

They will never know what hit them
I mean "ban". Google requires that all pages make no distinction between the indexer and ordinary browsers and should return same data to both. In the case of that link I gave or any other link to itunes.com, what you see doesn't look the same as what Google sees (see Cached). They have the right to ban the site, I think.
Not if you re-map '(' and ')' to the '[' and ']' keys which, I think, is commonly done.
Which is why there's a disclaimer right at the very top that they're illustrative.

If you've got data going to any of my arguments I'd love to see it.
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I use Ubuntu as well, doesn't prevent me from using my iPod. Besides, if you use Linux, you're such a small part of the market Apple doesn't need to care about you. Windows and Mac users are the low hanging fruit.
Ah, you mean that Apple should release a system based on completely open standards, so that it can be easily cloned by former employees of Apple's own Chinese manufacturing partners and brought to market at a lower price? A process which, when iterated, will eventually shave margins down to razor-thin levels, lead to an erosion of good design and the proliferation of generic, bad design, and threaten to drive Apple out of its own industry?

That sure worked out well for IBM in the PC industry. Whereas the folks who specialized in selling closed, proprietary PC operating systems didn't do well at all.

Not that I wouldn't love a completely open music player that provided the same user experience as iTunes and the iPod. But, oddly, despite the existence of lots of cheap MP3 players, the majority of them have a kind of generic, bad design -- and those that don't sell at low enough volumes that they have trouble competing in price with iPods. And their market is fragmented enough that they don't achieve the kind of dominance that -- for example -- leads to podcast pages having a special button just for them, the way many pages have a special "listen with iTunes" button.
Awesome book. Check out "the Black Swan", too.
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Swing voters don't matter when the election isn't even close. iPods own the market, why should they chase you?
SVG is powerful. Runs smoothly in firefox. Only killer apps will bring it to the masses.

And games.

How about an SVG Monopoly? Mario? Collapse?

It will spread like wildfire
Sounds like a great strategy to me
Six Degrees of Hacker News is based on a variation of the concept of the small world phenomenon and states that any news story can be found to fit within the submission guidelines of Hacker News.

See also: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon)
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There are a number of BOSS team members there who can answer you questions. You should also check out our Python based mash-up framework that makes it easy to blend search results from multiple sources. http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/mashup.html

Also check out this personal blog post by Vik Sing, the BOSS architect:
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I think you mean "2001", not "1991". </nitpick>

And I, too, find it funny that people are still arguing for Apple to pursue the business model that its nigh-extinct competitors were already pursuing in 2001 when the iPod came out.
Ancient version: Gauls send swarms of untrained levies to attack Roman legion.
... or the founder's access to VC money.
I'm personally very disappointed that I did not find any mobile video streaming apps on their... like qik or flixwagon... hopefully JTV will move into this space soon so I dont have to create yet another account.
iPod was "open and standardized" in 1991

1991 was a sweet year for the iPod and iTunes. I had no issues installing it on MS-DOS 4/Windows 3.1 but had a hard time with corrupted data when connecting it up via centronix cable (I think iTunes also used a dBase III back-end at the time).

:)
I'm begging 37signals to take a crack at an improved interface. Sure TripLog will get even more free PR but I'm really curious to see how they can improve it.

Put your UI skills where your mouth is.
With all due respect, I think it is the latter obviously.
I'm writing a hosted load testing solution at http://testomatix.com. It might be nice to cross promote at some point. Maybe something like I recommend your site to see how you stack up to competitors, and you suggest mine for load testing. Drop me a line with your email if you're interested. I'm ebeland on gmail.
Not the gadget itself, but rather access to it. iPod/iTunes is an isolated system designed to lock you in, which makes sense from the business point of view, is legal, gives more confidence to content providers and after all, is beneficial to the company. That's OK.

I'm arguing that Apple wouldn't have to be anti-Web if iPod was more open and allowed any software to connect and exchange content with it. That's against the grain for Apple, I'm sure, but that's their problem, not mine. (And the irony is that I'm typing this on a Mac)
It is secured by the pass phrase! :D
Thanks. If you're right, so much for that hypothesis. I'll have to fall back to my Sturgeon's Law position.
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How is that different from Google reaching into PDF documents, Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, or Flash applications?

In all of those cases, end users must use a proprietary application to actually view the content. I clicked on your link and when it opened in iTunes, I saw the same text that Google's spider previewed.

Here is Google's cache:

http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:GYFPOvjhhfoJ:itunes.com...

As you can see, the spider saw the full text of the review. The preview in the search page might be some metadata Apple provided as a hint to Google or it may be that Google's spider is really good at extracting interesting sentences :-)
Patents and lawyers will never let it see daylight.

Or they will make our asses bleed to pay for it.
I will be in San Rafael, likely not going to be in SJ.
And alive again. Are the mods having a fight over if this is relevant or not?
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Does he think large pink bowties are the future, too? Or perhaps just that they distract from his enormous second chin? Either way, I'm calling his judgement into question.

I'm not very old, but I'm old enough to remember the way that Japan was going to own the whole world soon, back in the late 80s (just before Japan went stagnant). I also remember the unstoppable rise of the "Asian Tiger economies" back in the mid-90s, just before the Asian currency crisis. I've stopped worrying about these sorts of things, now.
The relevance of Second Life and open-ended 3D environments
Hi folks. In the wake of Google's announcement, I just posted the same question on a Brazilian list for workers in "all things web" and it turned out SL is pretty much dead and buried here. I would like to know how alive it is in other places. Any comments?
I stress the common case for the same reason that when I construct sentences, I try to put the main point up front, and save the side comments for later. Example:

"I ran into Bob while walking to the store."

"While walking to the store, I ran into Bob."

The point I'm trying to get across, in this case, is that I ran into Bob. I try to do the same with code.
Downloading/sync to iPhone is trivial and slick, very easy to trial/error free programs, apple did distribution right.
Is every page on truemors.com supposed to show a boring press release? What did the site have on it before this?
I think the most interesting thing is the huge press push around such a tiny acquisition. If nothing else Kawasaki is really good at getting publicity for really mediocre sites
Who sells a site and then issues a press release about themselves, Guy Kawasaki that's who
I'm sorry but that's nonsense. People draw graphs all the times to prove things w/o using data. Especially when trends are what is important to convey in a graphical sense.

It's not any different then supply/demand curves for different types of goods in economics. The graphs represent a concise way of stating assumptions upon which the argument is based.
Not only are they doctoring images, they are making inroads into news sites that have nothing to do with international politics!
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What, exactly, are you basing that on?

Do you know of any patents which cover this particular area of innovation, or is that just your default response to any invention?
but the thing is, that's a huge hassle. buying on a website, syncing in an app. what i really like about iTunes is how it's very tightly integrated with everything I use iTunes with/for. no webapp will be able to pull that off.

however, unless you mean explicitly browsing, in which case i might be inclined to agree because of the iTunes store links that only work in iTunes...that are useless if you don't have iTunes installed.
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My thinking on Loopt and GPS is that when you're in a big city, the cell phone towers can triangulate your location to within a block. And when you're in the suburbs, although the cell phone triangulation isn't very accurate there also isn't really any use for the software. So while there may be some app released in the future that makes it compelling to upgrade to the new iPhone for the GPS, I don't think Loopt is it.
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http://www.useit.com/alertbox/981115.html

Ten years old, but apparently still relevant.

Best part, the part I always remember:

Note that 3D works for games because the user does not want to accomplish any goals beyond being entertained. It would be trivial to design a better interface than DOOM if the goal was to kill the bad guys as quickly as possible: give me a 2D map of the area with icons for enemy troops and let me drop bombs on them by clicking the icons. Presto: game over in a few seconds and the good guys win every time. That's the design you want if you are the Pentagon, but it makes for a boring game.
Marc Andreesen should stick to what he knows: Text. He may be right about newspapers but his remarks about television and movies are premature. Audiences may be ready to give up ink smeared on paper but they are not ready to abandon storytelling delivered on a screen.
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It is different in that iTunes.com returns text/html:

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Last-Modified: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:46:08 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Encoding: gzip
x-apple-aka-ttl: Generated Thu Jul 10 08:46:08 PDT 2008,
Expires Thu Jul 10 08:46:08 PDT 2008, TTL 0s
x-apple-application-instance: 6105
x-apple-asset-version: 46436
x-apple-max-age: 0
x-apple-request-store-front: <null>
x-apple-date-generated: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:46:08 GMT
x-webobjects-loadaverage: 0
Content-Length: 1940
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Expires: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:46:08 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=0, no-cache, no-store
Pragma: no-cache
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:46:08 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
X-Apple-Partner: origin.0

Now, why should this be handled by a custom application? Isn't it called breaking the Web?
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I think that was implied in edw519's post.
OpenMoko's been making phones for over a year, while Android hasn't even been vaporware for that long.

Although, the fact that the OM phones can barely just make reliable calls after all this development says something about the state of the open source mobile effort...
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They hate our "freedom to talk about hacking computers the business establishment."
i tried SL for a few hours and didn't like it. i don't know anyone that uses it.

its dead and buried, at least for me, here in the southeast US.
Actually, I think that is the same thing that you would get in the iTunes store if you could see the raw XML. So what distinction does it make, exactly?
But you must admit, it looked great on a Hercules Graphics Adaptor.
Guy does have that kind of access, but he didn't use it in this case. Nor did he need to -- in fact, he overspent. (There was a lot of talk here about that fact when Truemors first appeared.)

Guy spent about $13K on the whole shebang.
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And makes apache serve it up for every damn request to truemors.com/<anything>
I'd do it, too. Maybe he's feeding his ego, but it makes business sense if you want to keep doing what you just did.
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Ordinarily I'd blame journalistic innumeracy, but that's supposed to be a direct quote from the project head himself (a very smart guy, I used to work in the same building as him), so I assume it was a blunder by whoever prepared and sent out the press release.
It's hard not to be a little bit jealous. I have ideas that are at least as good as Truemors (certainly more innovative). While my lack of microceleb status isn't going to stop me from pursuing them, seeing what fame can do to your success rate is a little disheartening.
I'm not sure how this problem isn't solved by onion routing already
Have you used iTMS? It does a bunch of stuff not handled by any browser without proprietary plug-ins. So either (a) they have to cut functionality, (b) they have to give you one or more proprietary plug-ins to give you the same functionality in another browser, or (c) provide an application that is also a site-specific web browser, which is what they have done with iTunes.

If it is a choice between (a), (b), and (c), which choice would you make if you were a product manager for Apple? Which choice would you make if you were an iPod owner?
I don't know anybody that uses SL. Maybe I'm just having a 'nobody I know voted for Reagan moment'. but I think that SL has the best PR/marketing dept in the world and every 'story' on SL is a press release.
Duplicate of story currently somewhere above this one with more comments.
The problem is, that page doesn't require Google to use iTunes for viewing its contents. In fact, as you can see the output of wget from my other comment, iTunes tricks both Google and us by sending Content-type: text/html.
You're missing the entire point. ALL that needs to be displayed is a page with some album art, a description of the thing, and a "Want this? Download iTunes!" button. Then Jeff Atwood can figure out what the heck he just clicked on in Twitter.

The full iTunes application still remains.

FYI Apple already has a web-based "what's hot on iTunes" thing on their site which is more or less just as simple to maintain.
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Time to switch is only part of the question you also need to send the data. If I where building a switch I would delay decoding the packet and just send the even packet's to one location and the odd packets to another and so you can double the time each location has to deal with a packet before it's got to decode the next one.

Edit: and keep subdividing the packets like this until you can use fairly cheep processors to handle the load.
Can't anyone just publish a podcast through itunes right now?
raganwald, the only problem here is, that page does not require Google to use iTunes software for viewing the content. This alone is sufficient for banning the web site and removing it from Google's indexes.

I used wget.
In addition to the two options you mentioned (voting "Yes" or filibustering) he could have voted "No" or abstained.

I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt here and assume that he was actually convinced by the merits of the bill, at least as a general compromise on some very difficult issues. If he genuinely thought it was as terrible a bill as some people here do, he would have voted "No" and used it as a weapon against McCain.
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How is that against the grain for Apple? Apple is known for design and quality but I never thought of them as especially open. Sure, they argued for openness where it served them as a 3% player in the OS space, but now that they're a 70+% player in music, more openness would hurt them.

Openness hurts the big boys, so you hardly ever see the big boys pushing for it. Google is happy to be open with the contents of the entire Web, but not with any aspect of their own business (hiring practices, pictures of campus, PageRank formula, infrastructure, etc).
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I think he thinks this site is Reddit, where you get instant mega-karma for saying anything cynical.

Of course, the way to get karma here is to say something negative about Reddit :)
Someone is trying to make Iran seem a bigger threat than it actually is. It's Iraq all over.. except with much severe and deadlier consequences.
Has to be for sub 1mm. I forgot about truemors and was surprised it's still up!