skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine what the world would be like if we couldn't do that.

It would probably be little bit like needing an account on Facebook, Linkedin, Xing, Twitter, Myspace, Flickr, Google and a dozen other properties that barely - if at all - interact with one another.

It would suck.

Exactly.
Analysis: Facebook ignites Bubble 2.0 chatter
He said 'asking' price.

What he is saying is that the person is offering $X and when he arrives in person he counters with $X-50. (Probably more like offering $X-100 so you get a counter at $X-50).
I actually use a Logitech G5 mouse and a Logitech G15 keyboard and I love them both. The mouse has a really nice rubber feel, adjustable weight (which is actually a nifty thing once you realize how much that weight matters), and some really nice side buttons.

Not that Razer is bad. I used to have one of their keyboards and I liked that as well.
I personally find SMS far to expensive for the amount of information I can communicate using it. Texting is last resort, I much prefer to call someone or attempt to contact them on steam or facebook IM.
Their growth rate can't be expected to continue. They have to have peaked, just given how many people are really using the Internet (excluding China, natch). They've likely saturated the US, which is by far the most valuable advertising market. Any further growth will suffer from diminishing returns.

Facebook's financials are nice, but I'd really like to see their usage and growth statistics, broken down by country. I don't think they can count on growth for much longer; they're going to have to monetize better. They're trying to do that by developing facebook as a platform, but the future in that regard is far from certain.

Google's P/E is ridiculous, but they have solid profits from ads and they're expanding hugely in mobile. Google's growth can be expected to continue, at least for the foreseeable future. I don't think we can say the same of Facebook with any degree of certainty.
Hahaha. That title is awesome.

From one of the amazon reviews:

"
At the risk of seeming disgusting, permit me to say that several days after I started this practice, I experienced what was probably the largest bowel movement in my life. I've also lost a few inches around the waistline and my energy level seems to be rising. "
In order to get a useful answer, you're going to have to provide a better idea of what kind of app you're talking about.

To use a couple of extreme examples, if your app provides key-cracking services, and each user wants to crack 1 key per day, and each key takes about a server-day to crack, you'll need (duh) at least 1 server per user.

On the other hand, if your app is basically a blog, a single (beefy) server should be able to quite easily serve millions of readers a month with the right caching in place.
Come on, that's not fair. They only started playing with monetization strategies a few years ago. Not only that but they are the de facto standard of social media online. That's a pretty big asset that can be monetized in lots of creative ways.
We are working on a startup that directly solves this problem of needing to eat healthy food, yet too busy to cook, and too tired to order or eat out.

See http://gomunchery.com
"lots of practical, effective recipes for getting results."

Lots of CLAIMS that the recipes get results. CLAIMS.
I get the impression that it's rather larger than the F-22.
I've only been to the Intelligentsia location in Silver Lake (Los Angeles), but I do recall having excellent coffee there.
EMC testing engineer stole nearly $1M in duffel bag
What is data journalism?
Ask HN: Viable supported replacement for Tab Sugar for Chrome?
The development of this extension is being discontinued both because it reached Chrome's API limitations and because of my lack of time.

Hi, I decided recently that I'd like a tool to group tabs together, be able to close them and then come back to them. This way I wouldn't need to keep 50 bajillion tabs open and having this facility would allow me to compartmentalize my online activities.

I did a search for chrome+extension+tab+groups and stumbled upon Tab Sugar but it seems to be EOL'd. Can somebody recommend something or should I try this out?

Thx!
No, it's about the author. The sad thing is that the author fails to realize this.
Hey HN! Long time reader, first time show-er. I'm 19 and built this in 2 weeks over my summer break. Would love to get your feedback!
Care to elaborate on the show stopping bugs of Spaces?

I use virtual desktops constantly in Linux, but have abandoned Spaces when on the Mac. I haven't really taken the time to distill what isn't 'right' about Spaces, so I'd be curious to hear what others think are the problems with it.
I had a parallel life -- childhood abuse, fundamentalist upbringing, suicide attempt at 27. I was so angry when I woke up from that attempt in a hospital three days later, but after reading this letter, I know (at least in part) why: I have a responsibility to share that part of my story, too.

The hopelessness in this letter is something I've felt acutely in my life. Heck, MY last letter said roughly the same things.

I came so close to ending up like Bill. I'm sure lots of others out there are thinking about doing the same thing.

We have to figure out a better way to help one another.
Ferriss is a hacker...but the system he works on is his own body. I respect him for the experiments he does, and his willingness to share the results and the mistakes and embarrassing stuff, even if his science isn't always complete. To be fair, he generally admits when he's not discussing actual science and just correlation or limited data.

I'd no more insult him for doing what he does than I would for someone releasing a new product in its minimal viable product form. Yeah, it's a bit on the hyperbolic side, as such things go...but, honestly, I think we as entrepreneurs could probably learn a thing or two about marketing from watching him.
For some more perspective: InterFax's smallest--and highest cost-per-page package--is $0.11/page. So to send 15 pages through InterFax will cost a developer at most $1.65: http://www.interfax.net/en/prices

I worked on a project very similar to this (and of course the others linked in this thread) for awhile (because I had a need for just such a service), so: 1) Kudos to you, the developer for actually shipping, which I did not do, and 2) I agree with others that you're pricing himself out of the market.

Personally I think that $0.99-1.99 is the sweet spot, and you should tweak your cost and page counts to match that. I've never had to fax more than ten pages, so if I went to this site with my 3-6 pages I'd scoff--"Five bucks for three pages? Pffff." But that's me--maybe lots of people need to send 10-15 pages. You'd want to do some market research to figure what are the most common page counts.

Off the top of my head, though, I'd charge $0.99 for the first five pages. Disregarding marginal costs, that's 50% profit per transaction (assuming you eat the cost of a cover sheet)--at least! 125% profit for three-page faxes. After that you can tack on your $0.25/page and it's all gravy.

And, of course, this would be an easy thing to A/B test.

Edit: By the way, if you were willing to buy $500 in InterFax credits up-front (instead of $10 for their smallest package) you could do 10 pages/$0.99 with at least 33% profit. If you went down for the $2k package you're up to 48% profit.

With 15 pages for $5 you're looking at a minimum 184% profit. So I can understand the draw--but I don't think the average customer will.

Edit 2: Changed numbers to factor in cover sheets, which you'll likely want to eat the cost of.
Personally I thought this review wasn't funny and quite shallow. I got the impression the author had only read the introduction and one or two other chapters.
Was his diet a type of protein sparing modified fast? I think Tim Ferriss is a shining example that how you deliver your message is a factor in your overall influence just as much as what your actual message is. If your goal is to influence as many people as possible, his strategy is probably not ideal. If your goal is to influence a significant number of people in a very significant way, it's hard to argue against it: it's very effective.
Also see http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4080 for a skeptical treatment of some microwave oven myths.
Reading it again in that view, you do have a point. I don't think it's intended to that clear cut, though. There's a lot of cross-play going on:

Source: The Atlantic - Respectable, liberal.

Title: Hard Core - Low brow, sensationalist.

Subtitle: The new world of porn is revealing eternal truths about men and women - Reactionary or defensive?

Author: Doesn't seem afraid of sex-positive imagery - http://www.natashavc.com/

Image: Art porn by an expert - http://www.google.com/images?q=Sølve+Sundsbø

Text: As you say, but also mixed in places.

I think one needs to consider the piece as a whole, and it's likely effect of making porn a more acceptable mainstream topic for discussion in the future. But I'm comfortable with interpretations that are contradicted by different levels of the text, and think that we should judge by final effect rather than intermediate argument. I think the apparent contradictions are more likely intentional (at some level) rather than oversight.

Any chance you've seen Slavoj Zizek's argument that The Sound of Music is actually pro-Nazi: http://benatlas.com/2010/02/zizek-on-crossdressing-to-the-so...
Ah telephone directories, the Google of the past era. They even evolved archaic forms of SEO based on the alphabetic ordering of entries: Here in Germany, we have several regional franchise chains in the emergency lock and key service "industry", with names like "A.A.A. SERVICE" and even "A.A.A.A.A.A GmbH". Register your entire company under a silly name and one of the top entries in the yellow pages is yours, no extra advertising cost.
Exactly. I think most people looking at facebook are expecting it to be a bubble, but they're hoping that getting in pre-IPO will get them a large discount. I wouldn't be surprised if many of them are looking to dump when facebook IPOs.
Don't show her this link: http://www.chipchick.com/2010/02/hello-kitty-touschreen-phon... :)
It's worth noting that that high P/E ratio means an expectation in growth in revenue, not just traffic.

While I think most people expect Facebook traffic to continue to grow for a while yet, it should also be clear that their moneterization efforts are pretty still primitive.

For example, did you know it's possible to get > 50% cheaper advertising on Facebook by selecting CPM rather CPC when you build your ads?

Even ignoring that, in my experiments advertising on Facebook is still hugely cheaper than on Google (taking the cost of a customer from acquisition to fulfillment). In any mildly competitive market (like online selling) that difference doesn't seem likely to continue.

Anyway, my point is that I think that while "completely taking over the internet" may be crazy, there are plenty of ways for Facebook to easily grow their revenue by huge factors.
A Sneak Peak At "Life in a Day"
If you try taking a screenshot of the AppStore (Cmd+shift+4+space bar), it doesn't include those window control styles. If Snow Leopard can't understand it, may be this is their new style for Lion?
Right... but if you agree to the price over the phone, don't negotiate in person. It's a dick move. If I'm selling my TV for $250, you agree to that, I drive to meet you and you low-ball me for $200, I hate you. It's that simple.
Sony Responds To PS3 Hacks
Apple TV.

Was Intel. Now is A4.
> "Maybe the fact that most men prefer the plotless hardcore scenes found on the various you- and -tube sites, and its the women that are writing and reading erotica, is a coincidence."

Or it's just an artifact of how society dealt with historical pornography that the different genders had access to over time.

There's no shortage of textual porn for men, nor has there been as far back as I've seen porn. Penthouse Letters wouldn't be legendary and universally beloved memory if men went only to the pictures.

It seems to me that that men looking at dirty pictures is just something that society grudgingly accepted. And women reading romance novels is something that society grudgingly accepted. And the rest is selective reporting of what fit the stereotypes, and reinforcing by marketers and porn purveyors who had to carefully aim their productions and so followed 'conventional wisdom'.

If I had to hazard a guess, I'd pin the whole mess on the larger social push to posit women as the fairer, more evolved gender. Thus women are cast, taught and expected to need more than 'crude' pictures; to be better than 'simple' men.

Anecdotes being what they are, I've never seen any evidence that 'women don't like graphic porn' anymore than I've seen evidence for 'women don't like videogames' or 'women don't like sport'.

And feeding my theory above, I also note that the adjusted positions of those who have accepted women gaming and women sport is that women are, again, better, more advanced and more pure than men. 'Women want more from a game than shooting aliens', 'Women athletes have better fundamentals', etc.
Ubuntu 10.10 is good, suprisingly good compared to its previous versions. Making it boot from any USB memory stick with persistent storage feature was so easy that I suddenly found myself using Ubuntu 10.10 right from the 4GB USB stick on my Laptop.

The overall experience feels different from the others (MAC OS X & Windows) so much so that you almost forget the existence of any App Centre, at least initially.
You're right, it's not lacking a geek scene, I'd just like to see more light-hearted-let's-just-build-something events where no one has to be worried about a business-guy telling them about his/her "next big thing."

In that vein, although I'm still YC's Ambassador to the East, there will be no Y Combinator pitching.
You could also try out http://www.appcelerator.com/ It is similar to Phone Gap, and a lot of people use it to build simple iphone apps.
That wasn't scathing, it was fawning. Ferriss dreamed of that review. I'll bet money he has it framed somewhere in his house.. What more could he have wanted someone to write?
By the way I've heard good things about kalinite, but I haven't tried it myself.
Show Google: Classic spam search
HI Google/moultano, here's a classic example of a spammy search result.

A friend just told me I can use something called Kotoeri to input Japanese characters on my Apple.

I searched "Kotoeri" but got a wikipedia page and a bunch of forum posts about problems using Kotoeri.

So I searched "kotoeri download". The first few results are still Wikipedia, and a couple of forums.

The 4th result is mac.wareseeker.com which is doing the "inject your search term into our page title" trick. How the hell!?!

When I click on the link, there is no kotoeri download to be seen:

http://mac.wareseeker.com/free-kotoeri/

I'm in spam hell!

EDIT: I did actually subsequently go back to Wikipedia and see that the software comes standard with OSX - but nonetheless this serves to demonstrate the type of search that spammers often target
Why the Mac App Store Sucks
Philly Open Angel Forum is now accepting applications
Why the Mac App Store Rocks
My method keeps me honest: I can tell my friend I now have it on my bookshelf.
I basically agree with you. The 4 Hour Body is chock full of a bunch of stuff that isn't scientifically proven, which I'm always suspicious of. But, the science is solid on a lot of the stuff he really pushes hard.

The slow-carb diet is an excellent diet for weight loss and does avoid some of the problems of other rapid weight loss diets; it controls calorie intake without forcing you to count calories. I counted calories for the first week or so I was on it (in vegetarian form, which is a little bit of a challenge, to get enough protein without resorting to soy and wheat gluten products), and found I was eating about 200-300 below my resting metabolic rate every day, while eating enough to never feel hungry or get snacky. There's no way I could avoid losing weight if I'm eating significantly fewer calories than what I burn just sitting at my desk, and there is pretty solid science that the ingredients in the diet encourage loss of fat rather than loss of muscle...you're getting plenty of the stuff you need to maintain muscle mass, and adding some things to increase burning of fat for fuel.

As an aside, I've found the easily testable bits (particularly the "boost testosterone and libido" chapter) to have very evident results. That may be just because I was deficient in a few of the vital nutrients, and returning to nominal made things better, but I definitely saw a change. I plan to keep Brazil nuts in the house at all times, henceforth, regardless.
The "Like" bribe
Myspace was the de facto standard in 2005. Napster was the de facto standard for filesharing in 98.

Facebook is quickly becoming the next Myspace. By leveraging it as a platform, they're ceding control on UX. People left Myspace because most pages were ugly and blared shitty music at you. I can't count how many "friends" I've removed for sending farmville and mobwars invitations, or having astrology crap automatically posted to my news feed, or, or, or...

Facebook is facing a position where monetization means shrinking its social graph, which isn't particularly enviable for the King of Social.
A spreadsheet is easier to use than Scratch...
Excellent comment.

I like Tim, I consider him a personal friend (take that as a disclosure of bias), but for me the take-away is that success is rarely found on merit alone.

There are a ton of diet books that give the same suggestions as Tim's book, but his will sell because he's out there pimping it and creating buzz. I think that's the bit many on HN don't like but it's how things work.

Don't hate the player, hate the game.
If nothing else, the staying power of this shit is a testament to the power of marketing.

Now imagine what you can accomplish when you combine that with something that actually offers value to others. Hack away!
I agree. I'm not sure what the whole buzz about Q&A is right now.

Stack Overflow certainly fills a niche that had, before, been filled by lots of independent "specialist" forums. Having that community under one roof is great, there are a lot of subjects with strong similarities. The badges system appears to allow good self moderation.

The value in Quora was the presence of an unusually large number of "over achievers". Most of the people on there are doing very well for themselves in the technology world, and found the questions interesting.

Now Quora is expanding, I don't see the added value any more. Really, how is this different to all of the other q&a services on the internet.

The Stack Overflow approach of creating separate communities will probably work better than Quora, whose original community is being diluted, not expanded.
There's something very deeply troubling about your comment, though--the idea that reasons and logic don't matter. That's plain irrational dogmatism, and the fact that it's dressed up to support a relatively uncontroversial conclusion like "suicide is always wrong" doesn't justify it. I'm not saying Bill Zeller was right to commit suicide--who can know that?--I'm saying there's something wrong about your reasoning here.
Storyboarding iPad Transitions
I think the biggest difference is that mainframe customers were primarily limited to large businesses, whereas the PC has gained the mindshare of the masses in the last 15 years, giving it an inertia unseen before in tech. Unlike the transition from mainframes to PCs, I think that the iTablet/Smartphone market supplements the PC market, rather than outright replacing the core functionality provided by PCs.
Oh god, not this old chestnut again (admittedly wrapped in some stylish writing).

The horrid fallacy is that pornography doesn't really tell you all that much about male sexuality and how they act in the real world.

Take another example; how people act in anonymous online forums. Often pretty douchy right? Does that tell us anything dark about how they are in the real world; well, probably a little, I could guess that a really awkward guy on a forum is likely a bit awkward in the real world.

But not as bad as he is when arguing random nonsense over the latest and best video game.

The internet emphasises those darker aspects of our personality; do men watch porn that humiliates women - sure. Do they want to humiliate their lovers in real life? Probably not.

It gets even worse because the assumption is that the style of porn created and posted on the internet is representative of the desires of most men.

Of course, it isn't really. It represents the desires of a subset of men - for whom internet porn is often their sex life. Other men may use the content, but is it about convenience and fantasy, not a critique of their bedroom desires.

Look at it another way; lots of people adore fantasy films - say Lord of the Rings. Would you actually, in reality, want to live a fantasy epic? Probably not, the reality wouldn't be all that fulfilling (no internet for one thing! :)). Same applies to porn, I think.

And what of female sexuality? When I'm poking about in peoples computers (legally, for work) women's computers don't usually contain porn. They contain idealised erotic stories about alpha males who also have a soft sensitive side. Their internet history is usually crammed with hunks with their tops off. It's still "pornography" (in how it is used); it's just that some people prefer the sexuality of the unknown (i.e. clothed). There are dark fantasy aspects to female pornography too; the male is often a love slave, dominated by his desire for the woman.

Bottom line is: Sexuality is not simple. And the internet is not a good way to make broad judgements about male or female sexuality.
Properly speaking, this is not arbitrage. There are two criteria for arbitrage, it has to be riskless and self-financing. Looking at an item and saying, I should be able to sell that for more is not an arbitrage. If you were able to locate a buyer willing to pay a certain price prior to purchasing the item, and then buy an under priced item and sell it to your buyer for more money, that would be arbitrage. Arbitrage is a sexy three dollar word that people like to throw around, but if you are risking loss in order to hopefully make a profit, then plain and simple it is not arbitrage.
As a male who was raised by a feminist and in an all-female household, including the pets, I have a lot of things to say about this matter.

First off I find that a lot of feminism in the 80s was implicitly anti-male. Take back the night is great for women, but what is the message you are sending to young boys who are often there? It's a subtle message and may not be a big influence on all males.

Or the anti-rape messages? The more extreme is the mis-attributed quote "all men are potential rapists". This is a horrible message to be sending to young men, not as bad as "women are things", but if our goal is to raise fully formed males, "you are a rapist" is not a good one to give.

Bringing it back to the subject at hand, this author reminds me a lot of the kinds of messages, rhetoric and material that was common in the mid to late 80s feminism. The material I grew up suffused in. I think it is very harmful for the normalization of male-female relations. Are there differences between male and female sexuality? Yes. Does this article overplay them? Yes absolutely.

As long as we have articles describing male sexuality as a negative force that must be controlled and tempered I don't think the goal of a better society will be reached. The implicit message of "female sexuality is normal and healthy" and "male sexuality is dark and evil" is really disturbing to me.

In the end this article is completely and utterly sexist. If we reversed the genders we'd just have tripe from the 1800s about how female sexuality needs to be controlled and how women are evil. If that isn't acceptable, then why is this?