skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks a lot for your pointers and ideas; they are indeed very useful! I'll look for such companies.
Dammit, I was almost expecting him to admit to being a fone phreak.
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Thanks a lot for your pointers too. I'll be there on Monday night so I'll do as you advised.
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I hate Arrington as much as the next guy, but I know first-hand that 1. The database architecture of delicious is outmoded (i.e. thought up by Josh for a much more limited use) and as a result 2. they simply cannot get the 2.0 version to work (i.e. scale).
There's no question in my mind that it very significantly increases your chances of succeeding. To me, that means you should do it unless you can't for some reason.
There is speculation ( http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/info/6mshv/comments/ ) that this is made up, so think twice before you dive head-first into the sad, sad world of C/C++ Windows programming.

Basically: ever use Java and think "I'm spending all this time on stuff that has nothing to do with my actual program?" That's what low-level Windows programming is all about. It sucks.
Apple claims Snow Leopard will be a "breakthrough" in parallel processing tech
Carrying three phones? I was surprised not to find any mention of the phrase 'ladies man' in his wikipedia entry.
>They implemented a social network to get them more pageviews but it's now turned into a porn den.

The story of the internet.
I often wonder what it takes to "convert a lurker". (It may be interesting to see what kinds of threads have people's first comments.)

Now that you're speaking, don't stop. Welcome, iigs.
My bank's (CIBC) isn't terrible, but I wish I didn't have to screen-scrape it just to download a list of my transactions.
I'd believe that. I haven't been using Windows for a while but I think the posts are interesting to read and can give rise to some ideas.
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Just used Weebly for the first time. Amazing job. I really like how easy it is to throw GMaps in there, contact forms, and so forth. Just recommended it to a couple non-tech friends.
1. If your partner is unwilling to do the same, then why should you effectively work for him, for free?

2. If you can keep up both job and startup, you can afford to be much more picky about how, when, and from whom you take funding, if you choose to do so at all.

3. Your startup could fail either way. Are you prepared to have no job, no viable startup, and an empty bank account? If you keep your job, you can start working on a new startup idea the very next night or weekend.
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The iPhone 3G looks very promising, with a competitive price point to attract a greater number of users and Enterprise features to directly attack RIM. There is now an opportunity to create custom applications for the iPhone.

Has anyone tried to develop an application on the iPhone SDK yet, and if so, how has it gone so far?
Salmon is or salmon are? A meese or a mouse?
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Ok, it's a small laptop. Great. So are many others. Does it have anything else in common with the Macbook Air?
He's nailed it. Keep your rent paid and do it. You won't regret having tried this when you are 85, but you will have regret it if you didn't at least give it a shot.
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Every time someone unlocks an iPhone, a little part of the Steve dies. :)
It would be a huge loss to ever lose this man. He's an epic visionary and every moment he's on the ground with us, he's changing the playing field, often for our own benefit, especially us hackers.
Finally, an ELECTRIC CAR with a useful range and speed! Thanks to ultracapacitors.
Is the downvote arrow almost ready to go? This isn't "hacker" news. It isn't even "news" if you keep up with current events or go to the grocery store.
it's also called cynicism
Does the MacBook Air differ from other laptops on any parameter other than size?
It's clear that Techcrunch is preparing to buy Valleywag.
check the unread counts on your feeds
FTA:

These critics obviously have not read my book and have not read this chapter because they do not respond to anything I’ve written. It is as if they’ve just heard a superficial presentation of these ideas and respond without any engagement of the extensive discussion that has already taken place about these issues.

And now we know how Kurzweil says RTFA.
Does anyone have a link to something with more juicy technical details than are provided in the article?
Multitouch, backlit keyboard,
MacOS X. It's a deal-killer to a lot of us.
Adding a co-founder may not speed things up, it is just as likley to slow things down, as good co-founders are hard to find. That said the time to do it is when the rate of progress dropping won't bankrupt you, and you have a chance to recover.
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I'm interested to hear Matt Maroon's take on this.
The iPhone OS is very, very similar to Mac OS X. The UI is the biggest difference but most of your non-UI code will be similar or identical to OS X code. If you are one of the thousands of devs who aren't accepted in the $99 program, you can't run your code on the real device. You can still mess around with the simulator.
How does that differ from allowing nickb et al to just bury an article? I can assure you, if some articles have downmodding available and others do not, those articles will be insta-gibbed off of the front few pages.
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This also might be a case where two-axis voting [1][2] could help. People could 'agree' (on the left-right agree-disagree axis) but also 'demote' (or no-vote) on the up-down promote-demote axis. The message would then be, "I agree but enough already!"

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117196

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=126917
Since you seem in support of having a down arrow, and you never really intended to get your article to the front page, then what that says is that you were less concerned about submitting something of value than you were about promoting your writing. You shouldn't have submitted it in the first place.

Either that or you just wrote the piece knowing that it'd appeal to the growing anti-arrington/tc sentiment here, so you knew it was an easy climb to the top.

I'm getting extremely irritated by this sort of stuff. Many of you are doing exactly what you're criticizing Arrington/TC of doing - childish gossip and name calling. There's much more important, worthwhile and fulfilling shit to discuss.
A little more here
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/10/apple_skinny_snow_le...
In any case, score one for science.

Science, 15.

Religion, 4.

GOOO hometeam!
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Who said that there weren't any. Of course they want asp.net with it too.
Where's my $15 billion valuation?
Must be in the same sense that Altivec was a "breakthrough" in SIMD architecture, or the PPC 601 was a "breakthrough" in CPU design. Apple's history is littered with breakthroughs like this. I'll believe it when I see it.

As things stand right now, typical SMP scalability benchmarks put OS X solidly behind even Vista, and trailing Linux and FreeBSD by a mile (I wish I could find a cite for those -- they were doing the rounds a few months back, I think).
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You risk a 'bury brigade' forming as seen at Digg. Maybe make the downmod arrows randomly provided to random people?
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It would allow an article to remain if it has overwhelming popular support.
Apple may have killed the BlackBerry
It's surreal to see this even in the NYT's orbit.
IBM, Los Alamos smash petaflop barrier, triple supercomputer speed record
And Arrington comes in with expert analysis from way out left field, calling foul play. Let's see what the officials have to say about this one.
I sold my first product startup that way. It was a part-time effort the whole time-- never made it to FT before we sold.

Part-time is a great way to run an experiment-- if it's a simple one. There are lots of great startups that start as weekend projects-- but obviously if you bite off a HUGE project, part time just won't play.

If you can set aside 1-2 nights a week (and 1 weekend day per week) to crank away for 6 weeks and release something decent, I say stick part-time and give it a whirl. If the project is more complex than that or you can't set aside that time (for you and your partner), then momentum will probably get to be a problem.

But, generally-- fulltime wins.
I was actually looking at that myself, and wanted to comment on it (but the recent spree of downmodding folks for semantics kept me from saying anything).
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The thing that scares me already with the current system is seeing completely reasonable comments being downvoted simply because someone disagrees with the argument, and not on the merit or value it adds to the conversation. On a much larger scale, I can't say what this will do to submissions; it's possible someone will post a completely appropriate blog entry that's more of an editorial than a report or product review, only to end up receiving numerous downvotes because of a differing opinion.

But I'm with everyone else when I say to give it a trial period and see how it goes. It's the only equitable way to see how things will work out.
Actually, I vaguely remember reading about a study of bards which showed that -- surprise, surprise -- thousand-line epic poems aren't memorized word-for-word. Certain famous lines are memorized, the overall plot is memorized, the meter may or may not be fixed... but a bunch of the details end up being improvised. Fans of folk music or jazz should be completely unsurprised by this.

The moral of this story is that the identity and talent of the person "transcribing" an epic poem into print -- or playing that folk music into the recorder -- are really important.

Of course, perhaps a dedicated critic of writing would laugh at the absurd notion that an epic poem whose words were exactly the same at every performance was somehow "more correct". Why, if you standardize the words, the art is gone! That's the approach taken by dedicated fans of concert music and jazz: it's the little differences in interpretation and approach that make each performance fresh and unique.
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Why? It would just be a long, whiney rant.
I was thinking the same thing. It wasn't too long ago that the only mainstream coverage of this stuff was the occasional Kurzweil-centric fluff piece along the lines of "Hey, this crazy guy says we'll live forever soon." I wonder if the singularity debate's finally leaking into the public consciousness, or if the Spectrum special issue just forced a blip.
Make users' votes on stories public. Presumably, the purpose of upvotes is to indicate that a story will be of value to other readers. If that's the case, users should be willing to put their names behind their suggestion. Users will theoretically be less willing to vote for stories that other people won't find useful.

This solution doesn't scale, but it's quicker to implement than giving a higher weight to the votes of people who have voted for editor-selected good stories in the past. I don't like downvotes on anything.
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."

--Eleanor Roosevelt
Apple is a company that is very clearly in need of an world class succession plan. It needs to be public...

You do realize that, on the day Apple announces such a plan, there will be a massive panic sell and the stock price will crash.

Everyone will assume that the public announcement of such a plan is a signal that Jobs is eyeing the door -- the guy isn't obligated to run Apple for the rest of his life and he certainly doesn't need the money.

If I were Apple I would create a world-class succession plan, inform the chosen successors and the board, and then lock the plan in that vault where they've been keeping the iPhone 3G.
I'm currently in the same situation as the OP.

Here is the point: Working FOR a company will give you money to live by, health insurance, FUNDING... Once you get the company started and start to need to put more and more time into it, then you can quit your main job (or have a spouse/relative support you). In either case you need to eat, and you don't want to end up in a situation where your startup failed (hey it happens) and you are in heavy debt unable to pay it off.

If you like your job, stick with it, if they can teach you something. Really good specially fresh out of school.

Regarding money, from people I know who started businesses, they all say the same thing: It takes time for it to actually start EARNING money, at first you keep investing and investing and investing. Then again they started stores :)
this guy has no clue what he's talking about - RIM is the King (at least right now) in enterprise email system and to kill the king you have to first kill its army - corporation is not going to change their service providers just because of iphone, period. why? well ...

2. it will cost a fortune to change the infrastructure in a corporation who are used to RIM,

3. even if they plan to change the infrastructure, the decision making (bureaucracy)and getting everything tested and setting up new tech support structure will at least take a year or two.

4. RIM is coming with new models (this summer) - which may surprisingly come with amazing features. Also their new product cycle is getting shorter and shorter with new design and easy usability.

5. lack of physical keyboard is a topic of concern for power users - executives dont have time to learn new way of typing.

6. RIM has a huge market share due to its availability with multiple service providers - apple's biggest weakness is its exclusivity with at&t and this may make them to regret in long term.

7. RIM may surprise everyone by having some exclusive tie-up with service providers, for example free VOIP calls within north america - they will still make money out of data plans though but something like this will have huge impact on competitors business models.

Conclusion: Don Reisinger, STOP dreaming !
Scientists discover monkeys that fish
Both. Salmon (the fish) are disappearing, while salmon (the meat) is also disappearing.
It's also blurred because people try to apply it to problems for which isn't not appropriate. The central theme of REST is that a single URI corresponds uniquely to a single "thing", which is then operated on using a small set of operations (basically set/get/delete).

That's great, if your problem works like that. It's not great if it doesn't. Some protocols really are more appropriately modelled using "methods" on the objects, because the behavior is what matters, not so much the data itself.
"The Envy features a backlit keyboard with proximity sensors that detects when your fingers are typing. The sensor will then lock the trackpad against accidental brushes. Also, the trackpad features multi-gesture support for scrolling and pinch options." -- http://www.hardwarezone.com.au/reviews/view.php?cid=18&i...
I'm sure Django developers can find something more interesting than this to work on. Right?
Whoa, isn't a 50% cut a bit too much for Weebly?
Post-humans are showing up all the time. I intend to evolve again on July 11, when I get equipped with my connection to the hive mind... er, I mean my always-on Wikipedia appliance, courtesy of Apple.

Admittedly, it won't be that impressive. If I could somehow take my iPhone back in time (with a trans-temporal wireless network connection, of course) to play Trivial Pursuit against my high-school-aged self, then it would be obvious how different my augmented self is from my prior self. (And equally obvious that skill at Trivial Pursuit, which used to be considered akin to being smart, is now an oddball exercise, like building furniture using nothing but a jackknife, or starting a fire without matches. We don't have to pursue trivia anymore. We caught it. It's sitting here in this box.)

But, as it happens, I'm actually late to the iPhone party, and when I get one nobody will care. It is as Bruce Sterling said: "the Singularity is banal". Post-singular creatures won't be all that impressed with themselves, just as the first human to utter a grammatical sentence didn't really stop to marvel at it. She was probably too busy trying to get her friend to pass her a handful of walnuts.
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"Some more tech-savvy users might balk at the prospect of having 50% of their revenues paid to their hosting site, but Weebly isn’t really made for this kind of user in the first place."
Correction: It's not small, just thin. Which doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things, actually.
Without reading TFA, I could tell that had to be a Kurzweil quote.

I don't think there's much chance that I'll live forever, and there's much less chance that Kurzweil will. But I sure hope that we both don't, because otherwise he'll never shut up about it.
you can build an alarm clock... just need the program to post to a server at what time they need an alarm and then at that time the server post to apple which post to you :)

obviously a bad technique but apple is just moving the services out the phone so you don't load it with process
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Well, I don't think anyone can argue that if we create an AI smarter in nearly every way than any given human, several or a large amount of those AIs could create an even smarter AI, and so forth recursively. The only question is if we indeed will, and if so when (even 100-150 years isn't that far off if you think about it). Given the huge impact it would have on society (for better or worse), it's perfectly reasonable to be a matter of public debate.
> but I'm told that the new Android 3e^i, shipping in July, will cure cancer!

Take that, iPhone!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=213895
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That's a good point, but I think the idea of "Singulitarians" (for lack of a better term) is that your iPhone or other new gadget won't be invented in years, months or weeks, but hours or minutes. A human brain simply can't keep up.

Of course, if the "Singularity" happens to mean we'll just be much faster thinking version of ourselves, then perhaps you're right, it will be banal, as presumably our perception of time will be perverted as well.
Not as interesting as I thought it might be.

I thought they might be fishing with lines, or bait, or nets, but instead they're just reaching into the water and grabbing them. I'm actually surprised nobody's ever observed this behaviour in monkeys before -- if you've got a shallow river with fish it's not that difficult.
I mostly disagree. As for his 3 examples:

1) Why do we need an alarm clock? Answer: this doesn't seem like a very pressing need.

2) Why shouldn't location broadcast be rolled into the iPhone's location APIs? Answer: The location API is actually the logical place for this. Everyone rolling their own would be a waste!

3) I agree that devs should get a way to register callbacks against notifications. But this need not be in the form of a full "background process." What do you have in mind that wouldn't best be put on a server or happen when the user returns to the app?

Come on, folks! The real innovation in the iPhone space doesn't have to do with rolling your own version of a Calendar, Alarm Clock, Contacts, etc... Take those as infrastructure and build innovative apps on top of that.
You're welcome, gaming industry. I think I'm responsible in large part for that good year. I haven't played games since I had a Commodore 64, and I haven't bought a console since the Atari 2600 (I guess technically my parents bought that). But last year I bought a Wii and a Nintendo DS and have been buying tons of games since then. Just in the last month I bought the Wii Fit (awesome, but pricey), Mario Kart (awesome), and I'm waiting with cash in hand for the Rock Band release for Wii (whenever that actually comes out...). Every Christmas and birthday gift my girlfriend gets is something for the Wii or DS (man, it's been an easy couple of years for gift selection...though it seems to be wearing out...I've been explicitly forbidden from giving anymore "gadget" gifts...maybe getting a new girlfriend would be easier).
Based on a News.YC recommendation, I'm currently reading "The Selfish Gene" right now and in the book, Richard Dawkins, says at some point billions of years ago a critical fundamental evolution happened - a particularly remarkable molecule was formed by accident, a "Replicator" with the ability to replicate itself. He said the chance of that happening was "exceedingly improbable" and "but in our human estimates of what is probable and what is not, we are not used to dealing in hundreds of millions of years". Improbable accidents (like the one that probably occurred around generation 20,000 of the bacteria) can shape the future.
God forbid you have a baby in the house that climbs up the desk and steps on it. Its going to be a 2 thousand dollar junk :).
Google the guy who wrote the article. Hes a fucktard. Its called manipulating stock prices. That is all.

No its not. There is a manipulation technique here, the same kind of shit politicians pull, where if you are considering the question, the propagandist wins.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/apple-in-parallel-t...

From this photo, Steve Jobs sure looks healthy. Move on, nothing to see.
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I think that ultimately the problem is that Steve's successors have to fill his role of "creative asshole", but an individual with an ego as strong as Steve's simply won't get high enough in Apple to become anything close to a successor, because they'd just run into a conflict with Steve himself (and why would they even try? If you were the new Steve Jobs, would you waste time trying to get an existing corporate structure to accept you, or would you go off and start your own?)

So the people who could replace Steve are all Steve-mitations who go through the same motions, but don't actually fulfill the same role, at least if you judge by the people who come out to help with the Stevenotes. Example: Scott Forstall is crap on stage. Why? He has that stiff "I don't get to decide what I say / I am actually a tape recorder reading from Apple marketing copy" aura.

It's exactly the same problem as in that article a while ago about why Disney stopped innovating: when Walt and all the geniuses were gone, all the people who could have replaced them were instead off in places where they actually had an opportunity to do their own thing.
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PS2's numbers shouldn't be that much of a surprise. The PS2 had years to build up its user base, so seeing it "win" the software sales wars makes perfect sense. The Wii has sold the most consoles this past year, sure, but the software selection is sad to say the least. The new consoles need more time to build decent libraries.

Plus, let's face it, the PS2 consolde's hardware was excellent, and even rivals what the Wii can do today (not including the Wii's industry-changing Wiimote).

I would predict that by this time next year, as the Xbox360 continues to fall behind in Japan, we'll see the Wii in 1st, PS3 in a solid second, and XBox 360 in 3rd. By year three, as prices drop further, the PS3 will move to 1st, followed by the Wii.

It's a fluid marketplace. By the time a PS4 comes out, the Wii or PS3 software sales will likely still out-sell any PS4 games after the first year.

It's called market saturation.
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