skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what. The actual problem the whole idea is solving is a revolutionary improvement. And this is just v1.

The "interface" problem is not custom controls or back buttons. The interface problem is installing software. That's the interface most average people stumble on. That's where computers suck.

So yeah, some of the UI in the Mac App Store app feels a bit off, but the stuff that matters - one click install of great apps onto your Mac - works beautifully. That's the interface triumph.
How did we get another random blog entry about OS X design voted to the top? What is wrong with HN today?
I don't have a fax machine and think this would be very useful. However, what about the privacy/security issues? On the rare occasions that I need to fax something, that "something" is usually a credit card authorization, driver's license scan, etc. I don't feel comfortable PDFing and emailing such things "into the cloud". Not sure if I'm an outlier.
Most people won't valuate their time at $600/hr. (Assuming it takes you 30 seconds to manually send a fax.)
I have created http://watchdogdaemon.com by myself. I need to be able to monitor client applications at multiple hosting companies that are behind firewalls.

Its currently in private beta, I'm going to be sending out a fresh round of invites, if you signup and mention HN I will move you up the list.
Intrade doesn't accept arbitrary contracts, wouldn't accept this one as currently too ill-defined and too long-term, and depending on how their fees work may make a 20-year bet way too expensive.
You can be assured they aren't doing it to be nice. For one, that would be against their fiduciary duty. IM networks are used by companies like AOL/Microsoft/Yahoo/Google to keep people coming back to their respective services (which is also why traditionally they weren't big on interoperability). They aren't making money, but do more good than the savings not running the services would bring.
I hope it's just something temporary released to meet the deadline or that the app was designed for new Lion UI and that's just Leopardized downgraded version.

In Mac apps adherence of HIG and use of standard Cocoa widgets is very important, and poorly thought out/unnecessary deviations are frowned upon — at least for 3rd party developers.

Many parts of OS X/Cocoa are very polished, so it's disheartening that Apple releases something that's debatable between hideous or barely good enough.
Thinking that the flood of badly made, poorly scripted porn on the Internet reveals the secret darkness of male sexuality, is like thinking that an endless succession of awful movies from Hollywood reveals that people secretly want a poorly scripted sequel to the last blockbuster. What it reveals is that making good movies is difficult. It's like thinking that a flood of nitwit Web startups reveals that the economy really wants nitwit Web startups. If you're a venture capitalist, you may want better, but you'll have trouble finding it. Likewise if you're a movie viewer. And likewise if you're a man.

If you look at what the Internet has done to written pornography, you see exactly the reverse effect as what the article describes. I once picked up a book of published erotica that wasn't online, and holy crap was the quality vastly worse than what I now expect. Tawdry, pointless, plotless, emotionless, needlessly violent encounters - because, I presume, that is what the publishers think men want, because the publishers conceive of pornography as a sordid dirty thing and imagine themselves as exploiting it. But if you look at what men write, and what men want, when they are free to produce their own written erotica, then you find that the rise of the Internet has created, from scratch, the genre which I think is now known as the "erotic romance novel" and means, roughly, "well-written sex stories with plots and emotions in them". Publishers of erotica are only now just beginning to think about trying to sell books like that, after the Internet showed them there was a huge pent-up demand.

"Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price," said Jean Baudrillard. In the days when written erotica was produced by publishers who looked down on it, no publisher knew how to write seduction. And today, when visual erotica is still seen as a tawdry and exploitive affair by the people who produce it, who still see themselves as pandering to the base desires of men, who still see plot as the domain only of real movies, there is no seduction in that visual erotica. You cannot find it, no matter how hard you look online. There are big-budget porn productions but not productions that spend more than five dollars on the script.

But in the domain of written erotica where getting started is as simple as owning a keyboard, and people don't bother writing if they're not having fun writing, and the producer is a lot like the consumer - people who like erotic literature - there you find plot. You find seduction. You find the "erotic romance novel".

That's not what all men want, I suppose; not what all men want all of the time. But it's what I demand as a matter of routine in my written erotica, and what I can't find in online movies (even if it's advertised as big-budget or woman-made, it just doesn't seem to exist).

And before anyone writes the obvious dumb reply, yes I have a girlfriend and no I do not apologize for consuming the form of art known as erotica anymore than I apologize for writing Harry Potter fanfiction.
That is correct. His words, not mine.
Banning links to The Atlantic would greatly improve the quality of the site.
assuming you don't have a fax machine. If you can sign up online for an existing faxing service and then unsubscribe or put up with having your email sold in even close to 30 seconds I will hire you.
Red Daly has a JavaScript to Parenscript (Common Lisp) translator: https://github.com/gonzojive/js-to-parenscript

The generated code from that won't run without a JS runtime implementation in CL backing the JS-specific Parenscript forms, which currently doesn't exist to my knowledge (it's not hard to write, just not very useful). This is useful by itself for writing JS analysis and transformation tools and moving JS code to Lisp.

There's CL-JavaScript: http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/cl-javascript/

This is a translator/compiler/"simulator" (http://www.cs.aau.dk/~normark/oo-scheme.html) that provides good integration between the two languages.
Ok. So I didn't see that coming. That is actually rather impressive.

My only "complaint" here would be that Nvidia's Tegra system, although noticably smaller than the basic Intel-setup, seemed very much to be at the same scale, i.e. big. At least not tiny by the same factor as the Snapdragon setup.

On a related note: Whoah. A snapdragon seemingly capable of running Windows smoothly.

Anyway. If Microsoft can help getting rid of the x86-legacy and move on, I'll be the first to applaud it. x86 is a butt ugly architecture and I'm surprised it has survived this long.
Young people say sex, paychecks come in second to self-esteem
I agree with the author's characterization of rhetoric in the 1990's, though I wonder if the reexamining of the whole "communicating boundaries" thing is a result of these women now raising boys of their own, or a more general societal trend that emphasizes aggression.
Well now we're throwing in additional variables. If you don't have a fax machine, perhaps someone might wish to spend $5 to send a single fax.
It's about 50/50, depending on what sites you view, between the gritty and the professional.
i've been working on one ;)
I'm not advocating SEO Spam. I'm pointing out that we should be able to exploit these exploiters in turn.
Yeah, this is for people without a fax machine--which is pretty much everyone I know. I have to fax so rarely that those subscription accounts don't make sense. I end up walking down to Kinkos, which charges something like a couple bucks a page. So this pricing seems just about right to me.
I think it's designed for people that don't have a FAX machine. So I think maybe (30 minutes of your time + cost to FAX at your local fedex kinkos) might be a more accurate comparable.
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Ok, Just for kicks I propose a variation of the bicameral system:

You can vote for one seat at the lords chamber. The weight of your vote is proportional to the taxes you have paid.

You can vote for one seat at the commons chamber. Everybody's vote weights the same.
That's odd - while browsing it just now I noticed Autodesk's Sketchbook has both "Pro" (paid-for) and "Express" (free) versions on there. Seems like they're not applying that rule consistently, if at all.
Usually Apple has good solutions packaged in very polished UI. Solving problem with "meh" UI is a step down.
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Good to see I'm not the only one who thinks this. The App Store app seems like it was hurriedly cobbled together by programmers using dev art with no input or direction from a designer. It violates Apple's own HIG in so many seemingly arbitrary ways. There is a severe lack of polish. Feels very amateur. So much so that I feel like I just downloaded something off of GitHub.
I've in the same boat (except keeping the job for now). So fa the two closest I have found are: http://sfnightowls.com/ and https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge

Of course, there are platform specific meetups that can be pretty good.
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What is customer development?
I like the multiple images here but for some analysis I saw this a couple days ago...

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/jsp_includes/articlePrint.jsp...

2c, I think the fixation on 4th-Gen, 5th-Gen or whatever is distracting. How fast, how far, How much would be more interesting questions.
You could interleave the illumination of the subject with each photo taken

1. Illuminate
2. Take photo
3. Show photo

Repeat.

If step 2 is really short, you could have the illumination phase be much shorter than the show photo phase and the user of the phone would see it as 4 short flashes over their own photo.
Yes, but as been amply demonstrated by the demise of the IBM buckling spring keyboard, we don't need the "best" method, just a "good enough" method.

The other question is: how common will generation of long form text be? Is Twitter the future? I hope not, but many appear to think it is. Many keyboard alternatives are good enough, even today, for Twitter.
$5 per fax is pretty expensive, and you can't receive faxes through it.

i used to use my all-in-one to fax things over the phone line that i had to get just for my dsl connection. since switching to cable, i use http://faxage.com/ which gave me a local phone number in my area code and works over e-mail. my monthly bill from them is about $3.75.

any faxes sent to my number get emailed to me, and to fax out, i just email (the number)@faxage.com with an attached pdf and get an email back when the fax has gone through.

i have yet to receive any spam faxes through it and have never had any complaints about quality or problems converting pdfs.
Unique, lucrative licensing deal brought Beatles to iTunes
They'd just give you throat-mics.

Sorry your dream got shafted again.
Definitely. At first, I thought 'wow, that's fast, but of course this is not an iOS device', but then I remembered that iOS Store through iTunes was not this fast.
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Grab coat, get in car, drive to UPS store: 5 minutes.
Wait in line: 0-10 minutes.
Talk to cashier, send fax: 3 minutes.
Pay: 1 minute.
Get in car, drive home, remove coat: 5 minutes.

Total: 14-24 minutes.

My time is worth more than an average of ~$17/hour.
Looking at the example screenshot makes me realize that the hard part of programming is not the syntax, the hard part is breaking a "simple" task down into steps. Even with a GUI, loops and if/then are not immediately intuitive and will require training, and by the time you've taught someone to think like a programmer, the syntax won't matter anymore.

(One counter-example is AppleScript. That lets you perform the action, and then it makes the script for you. You can then tweak and see what happens, which lets you experiment and learn. Tweaking is easier than starting from nothing.)
Hey moultano, what about specific sites within an industry that abuse big time with doorway pages and link farms? How can we report that to you? IN SERPs these domains are technically relevant to the search-term, but only show up high in the results because of their deceptive practices.
Not really, you just have to steal the account of the person who owns the computer.

If you have a botnet, you shouldn't have much trouble doing that.
I signed up and think the concept is great.

With minimal use, the first issue I had was that the tags to the left of the post (Link, Article, etc.) drew my eye and I found myself only skimming through those instead of the titles.

Second, clicking on the title of a LINK post takes me to the comment page where the only way to get to the link itself is the small link button next to the name. Seems like it should link directly to the article or at least the comment page should have a summary and/or link that is easier to find.

Looks great overall - keep it up
In my experience most undergrads are so risk averse that they don't even get as far as making that calculation. The reason most don't go to work for startups is the same as the reason most don't think of starting them: that those alternatives don't even seem real. We're talking about a phenomenon much deeper than calculations of expected value.
it's probably just the botnets' russian handlers taking off for their New year's celebration (according to Wikipedia, this falls on 6th January: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_christmas#Russia )
"This material is training a generation, from puberty, how to act sexually."

Exactly so, and that isn't a good thing at all.
They didn't starve?
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I'll (attempt to) draw a counter to that: A machine need not understand out brains 'native' language processing, just a trained 'output' version.

There is already a crude toy out there that will 'read your mind' and raise or lower a ball based on a signal you send it, you just train it to a binary state. I've heard it described as mellowing out vs concentrating hard.

There's no reason in principle that a reader with fine enough discrimination couldn't be trained to recognize a few hundred states, and you couldn't be trained to 'think' a few hundred things, where the reader would recognize and translate the pattern into a number, letter, or symbol. I'm no neurologist so I have no idea how these things actually work, but it seems easier in theory than understanding the whole of brain and language.
It's not really a common attitude, but many vocal feminists/leftists have that attitude. It plays well into the gender/class struggle ideology and the culture of victimhood. The article is mostly trash using opinions unfounded in data, but supported by mainstream society.

If you look at the popular videos it's all pretty benign and standard fare, the author was right in her economic analysis that decreased distribution costs have increased variety but if you look at whats being viewed its still all standard fare. It's like indie film, yes the internet has caused some indie films to do very well and increased the variety of films available, but the vast majority of people are still going to blockbuster major releases such as Avatar.

Also, if you look at what the Victorians (a notoriously conservative period of western history) had access to, or what was made by the likes of Betty Page in the 50s you can see the the internet didn't really change anything. All the internet really tells us is that lowering barriers to consumption increases demand. Hardly a revolution in economic thought.

No one seriously quotes Freud in regards to sex, Freud's opinions date to a time in psychology before statistical analysis was prevalent. They also date to a different time and culture. Freud said a lot of things and like most people, he was mostly wrong. Even Kinsey which was the definitive study with regard to male sexuality for many years has many holes in it. It's very difficult for sociologists / psychologists to tease apart nature from nurture and know what is eternally 'true'.

If porn was really causing aggressive and dangerous sexual behaviors you'd see it reflected in a variety of stats. Since there are no facts to support such a conclusion, opinion and anecdote are substituted.
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Kids might only use the internet for FaceTwitterTube, but I'll bet they'll still probably have to type essays and reports.
You just never know who's watching.

Some people might like a silly photo, other people might be offended by it.

Some potential app users might not care, but some might be more conservative and want to see a more serious image. Certainly a person who may be looking for investment in the future (even somebody who's bootstrapping today) is going to be concerned about the image they project.
AdWords UI didn't start out on top of GWT, I think they switched over sometime in 2009.
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This looks very similar to what I was thinking about.
I'll take a look at this.
Fair enough. According to the article, the mother of two children in the original study, who referred a third, was referred to by other media as a “JABS activist”. I shouldn’t have used that term myself.
I suppose there weren't enough Mileage Plus Elite members on the earlier flight that needed seats.

Hah, I've done this before. I was in Orlando and missed my flight back to Chicago, so I had to stand by for the last flight of the day. The list was 100 people long, but since I had the top-tier status, I went to the top. Some family trying to go home from their vacation was stuck in an airport overnight, all because I could not get to the airport in a timely manner. I still feel bad about this.

But only a little.
a friend recommended to me the 4-hour workweek. After the first few pages, I bound the entire book in duct tape. I didn't want to be responsible for anyone else reading it.
Thanks, I think I have that book, I'll try to find it in my stacks and take a look at that chapter.
Since you took the time to figure that out, I'll contribute. I just called a FedEx Kinkos (in Riverside, CA, USA) and they said it's $1.40 for the first page and $0.99 for each additional page, and that's to the same area code.
How come this is such a newsworthy topic? "Big company with one of the world's most popular products might be going public." Well, yeah.

If you care, save your money and buy their stock when it becomes available. But do you really need to write an article?

Tune in at 11: The Sky is Blue.
"One of the most punishing realities women face when they reach sexual maturity is that their maturity is (at least to many men) unsexy. Indeed, we now have an entire genre of online smut politely called “Lolita Porn.” This is not actual child pornography, a genre still blessedly beyond the reach of the casual Web browser."

Ok, but for any X, X is (at least to many men) unsexy, as there's a lot of porn based on the opposite of X. Young age and beauty included, as evidenced by "mature" and "ugly" porn categories.

So the above statement does not really add much information, except maybe some indication of the author's bias. Picking this particular fetish of some men, associates the whole group with socially unacceptable behaviour. Moral panic, anyone?
I'm not sure the comparison is so precise that the outcome is predicted. There's no sure bet that Facebook will go the way of AOL.

I like this comparison more as a mitigating factor to closed-web alarmism. This is not the first time the open web has felt itself under attack. And if a big player DOES make moves to try to get in between the free flow of information we all know and love, there are historical examples of the free web fighting back, and winning!

I don't use Facebook, but I don't think it's evil... yet. But it's shown some scary tendencies. It's nice to know we've seen a company abuse it's massively dominant market share, and pay.
Collision Detection and Response - from the makers of the game N
Ruby port of libphonenumber...

https://github.com/habermann24/libphonenumber-ruby/
This could work for internships, I agree, but I think it will be a tough sell for permanent employment.

You are setting up a trade. Work somewhere that you normally wouldn't work, because you have other great options and very few Summers until graduation. In return, we will ensure you learn a lot, work on cool stuff, AND receive prestigious branding to put on your resume in the future. Here is why I'm skeptical on intern-to-fulltime conversion.

I remember when I was an undergrad, two of the most prestigious Summer internships in tech were IBM's Extreme Blue and Microsoft (hard to believe now). While I don't have the hard data, all my anecdotal evidence suggests the number of intern-to-fulltime conversions were amazingly high at Microsoft and atrocious at IBM.

Why? My theory is Microsoft interns expected their fulltime experience at Microsoft to be more or less the same as their internships (whether or not that's true is another story). However, all the Extreme Blue interns knew that they were in a special, experimental IBM program and if they were to join fulltime, it would definitely not feel like Extreme Blue all year long. However, as a resume brand and an educational Summer, both options were still attractive.

Which brings us back to the proposal. The program is giving the interns a taste of something they can't quite get by joining up full-time with the startups. If a guy had his pick of places to intern, he might intern at the "Extreme Startup Internship" to learn all about how to found his own startup while doing cool stuff, or he might go because it will help him land the Google / Facebook job. Either way, when graduation comes around, my guess is he's either founding a startup or acing his job interviews. The more he loves interning at the startup, the more he should love the thought of founding one, and the other cohorts in the Summer program are the perfect pool of co-founders.

Very cool idea though; it would be a great success to have the Extreme Blue of startups internships, and even a few conversions would be a big win.
could be a cheap way to advertise... or at least get some attention...
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Just use this chrome extension, it redirects them all to the relevant SO page.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gledhololmniapej...
Then don't run desktop Twitter applications. Problem solved?
This is not really a fair recollection of the events. Things like NT for Alpha were not successful not because MS wasn't "serious" about it, but just by the fact that it didn't sell. Those architectures just weren't commercially viable. The products themselves were basically the same (and impervious to not being "serious") because of the investment they made in maintaining a microkernel that wasn't tied to x86.
I've got a friend who worked for a while, last year, selling yellow page ads to businesses.

I was baffled.

Does anyone still use the yellow pages?

Well, I do.

SmartFlix.com has the ground floor of a two story building, and every year, the yellow pages folks leave four or five shrink-wrapped bundles of directories in our lobby.

NONE of these get opened up.

NOONE in the building wants even a single copy.

I usually take an entire shrink-wrapped bundle home, and use it to start fires with all winter long.
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Bye, Bye, Borders?
Dominated? No. 15% is not 'domination', especially when there's another category almost at that level.