skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It'll be tough to avoid supporting the hardware. If it's provided by you and used to run your application, then you're going to get the support calls.

You can push the client to call the hardware vendor ("we don't support hardware, read your contract, here's the number for Dell"), but that's going to frustrate the client and reflect poorly on your business.

It sounds like a losing proposition unless you price the hardware and hardware support into the cost of your system.
This comment should really be at the top. It makes 99% of the discussion on this moot.
> then owning content is part of the strategy.

Why doesn't Apple buy the companies behind the best iPad/iPhone apps to make them iOS-only?

I mean, it would make sense in a way, and in the "Console Wars" console-makers have been doing this since the Nintendo-Sega days, buying studios and making exclusive games.
JON STEWART: Mark Zuckerberg Is The World's Biggest Hypocrite
How do you ask them to fix them? I'm imagining that you see the commit message after they've pushed it up somewhere. Are you asking them to reword/amend the commit--i.e., change the history of a pushed branch, with the little bit of extra work that involves?
I'd suggest instagr.am + foursquare + groupon: Get 10 strangers to take your picture in a 7-11 and check in and you all get free slurpees!
"The people who work in IT in the U.S. tend to be quite suspicious of government," says Stewart Baker, a former general counsel at the NSA. "Maybe they think that they're so much smarter than governments that they'll be able to handle an attack on their own. But there's a standoffishness that makes it much harder to have that kind of easy confidence that you can call on people in an emergency and that they'll be respond."

That section made me laugh, seriously, it's not because they think they are smarter and better, they just don't want to deal with the gov and be told what to do.
So your not funded by Kleiner Perkins
Cwora - that's Welsh for "Yahoo! Answers", no?
jboydyhacker,

You're right that different companies have different growth rates at various stages. But, to me, it still doesn't add up.

From another comment I made below: "I understand the argument about growth, but even from that end, it doesn't completely stand up. If we were to use the PEG Ratio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEG_ratio), for Facebook to be fairly valued at $50B, it has to grow its Net Income by 100% annually, on average over the next five years.

It's possible Facebook might be able to do that next year, but then it'll have 1 billion users. That's 14% of the world's population. That's huge. Being generous though, let's extend that 100% growth into the year after. Then, Facebook would have 2 billion users, 28% of the world's population, and assuming current margins, they would only be eeking out $2 billion in profit.

Will it be worth $200 billion then? I would say no and I would say Facebook's not worth $50 billion now."
that just means there is a market for ultra-low-power battery-assisted magnetic-to-true-north converters!
I've found when working with Twitter, even more so than other services, one must expect calls to fail frequently in a variety of novel ways. Code defensively!
fences['electric'].damn()
Let the sesquicentennial (of MIT) begin
There will be a decentralized mobile web. SSL and CAs will eventually be done right and a trust model will exist to get apps from trusted sources. The amazon Android store is a fantastic first step. Amazon might not be the quality control police, but someone will step up to that plate.

This is all moving in the right direction. It's just not there yet today, so no thanks.

The carriers still have too much control.
It is confusing that such an obvious over-valuation can be taken seriously at the end of such a long and deep recession. The valuation is straight out of 1999, but back then USA was undergoing the longest economic expansion it had ever known.
It sounds as if he had already built up a reputation within a certain community, and is now just capitalising on that. Without that reputational factor, he probably wouldn't have been able to raise much funds.
Interesting. Just went and looked and was surprised to find that only one company is valued more than Apple in the US markets. Exxon Mobil (382B) > Apple (307B).
Are you looking at making the video's available using the HTML5 <video> tag? Because I don't have Flash installed locally (or on my iPhone) there's nothing much to see there right now.
China newspapers told not to use term "civil society" by government censors.
Here is the actual site, without the blogspam.

http://www.boardofinnovation.com/2011/01/04/10-business-mode...
I watched a presentation online by a large software company who used to to do this. They deprecated this as "prioritization by whoever shouts the loudest". Once a crash-bug-reporting system was in place it simply went away, as they had accurate enough data on how many people were affected, and could prioritize based on that. This won't help if it's not a crash bug, but the criticism of "prioritization by whoever shouts the loudest" is still valid.
What about when Gorillas are doing the marketing?
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I actually had the iPhone alarm bug hit me on iOS 4.2 this past weekend. Almost messed up a surgical procedure I had scheduled. Not good.
Stanford's Mechanical Engineering department's Product Realization Laboratory
It costs 1.62 cents to make a penny.
Convincing people to pay for something generally entails providing them with something they can use, or at least with the pledge of something they can use.

One common way to go about this is to create a paper prototype, pitch it to potential clients, get them to sign a non-binding letter of intent to buy the product if you develop it as per the specs, and then develop the product and sell it to those people who already told you they'd buy it.

This is as contrasted with the somewhat more common, but often less successful approach of building something useful to a bunch of users, letting them use it for free while you develop the offering, and then asking them to pay.
I'm still a bit hazy on how to define 'social mobile', can you explain just a tad more?

Also, so you have ideas, but no concrete product yet, what is the technical co-f going to be working on?

Funny, because I just shot a fellow HN'er an email commenting on his hyperlocal concept and it turned into a hyperlocal, 'social mobile' concept, if it does fit your definition of it.
Yep.

"Without running every day, he probably wouldn't have been able to run that marathon."

We love instant success stories, but the reality is, you have to prepare and be ready to seize your moment when it comes.
Full circle. My first computer hooked to the TV.
If you are a certificate authority, you can issue certificates for any domain. There is nothing in the technology preventing you from issuing a whitehouse.gov certificate merely because you are based in Iran, for example.
The US might benefit from some investment in Nickel-Iron batteries. These were invented by Edison in 1901. They have a basic service life of 20 years (as opposed to 3-5 for Li-ion) and can be stretched to 50 years with electrolyte replacement. The battery tech is worked out, but investments in manufacture and economies of scale would enable market access to a technology with lower cost than Li-ion. (Also, the materials used in NiFe batteries are cheap and available domestically. They are a bit challenged with regards to high currents, though.)

Wind and solar plants “introduce some additional variability that you don’t have with traditional thermal units,’’ Mr. Zaharuncik said. With a system that has a lot of renewable energy generators, he explained, “you need some other kind of resource that complements it. ‘’

I'm surprised that flywheels aren't a bigger deal because of wind and solar power. Why doesn't someone make a flywheel unit the size of a major appliance, incorporating inverters and regulating hardware, for home wind and solar?
Exxon is the only company bigger than Apple anywhere in the world, apparently. Apple recently overtook the former world #2 company, PetroChina:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-05/apple-passes-petroc...
No, you gotta be able to monetize that. Get 10 strangers to take a picture of them viewing an ad and check in for a free slurpee. Also, ads on the slurpee, ads on the photo app, and ads in the participating 7-11s. Now we're rolling in dough. Patents for everybody!
> 1. Fact is, in your teens and early 20s your body can digest pretty much anything. Eat a bowl of cereal in the morning (and I mean something like oatmeal or raisin bran rather than some sugary crap) and it barely matters what else you eat (other than calorific content);

Can, vs. should. I'm 25 and already feeling my metabolism slow down. Working at a desk isn't helping matters. Your brain really does function better with proper nutrition and exercise.

>2. Eating the same thing every day gets real old real fast;

In my experience, I can eat the same thing for about a week before getting bored. Pizza and Ramen get pretty tired immediately, if you are used to real food.

> 3. There is an investment required in cooking in terms of equipment, etc;

How much $100 bucks? $300? You need a good pot, a good pan, a good knife, a cutting board, and some utensils (spoon, spatula, tongs?). Tupperware is also important.

> 4. Cooking takes time between shopping, cleaning and the actual cooking. That's time that could be better spent doing many other things.

I consider cooking downtime. I use it to ponder stuff, or to just think about work problems. Trying to make something new (to me, at least) that tastes good is a very interesting creative process. There is all of this interesting reflection about what certain things will take when they are cooked together in a certain way.

For me to cook, it takes 1 hour shopping, 1-2 hours cooking, 1/2-1 hour cleaning (once a week, sometimes twice). Cooking and cleaning can be pipelined, as a large chunk of cooking is waiting for something to simmer/boil/bake, and the kitchen sink is in the same room as the stove. I make enough food for a week.

> 5. Even getting something for lunch can be a huge time sink and minimally takes half an hour unless you're eating out of a hot dog stand right outside your office.

Stick whatever you made in the microwave; eat. you can still sit with your colleagues should you desire. Besides this, my best work is done cooking, showering, commuting (in my brain). The idea that you can (or should) be working all of the time (and still be sane, and normal), strikes me as odd.

The other night, for example, I made chicken simmered in a red wine and caper sauce with artichoke hearts, baby corn on spinach (seasoned-- I cant remember how). I did the chicken, artichoke, and baby corn in a large pan, spinach in a pot. Most of the time investment was listening to my iPod waiting for things to be done. I ended up very self-satisfied (as I'm sure you can tell), and it tasted good, to boot. Ingredients were not expensive considering what I used, and what I got out of it.

Simmered chicken dishes are easy to do, so are stir-fry, stews, chili, soups, baked chicken, anything grilled (if you have a grill), black beans and rice is also very adaptable, meatballs are extremely easy (I like the McCormick seasoning packets). To boot, my girlfriend loves it when I cook for her, and it is a lot cheaper than taking her out to dinner (though I still take her out to dinner anyway).
If everyone is an amateur, isn't the last sentence a tautology?
To go even further: if someone got dumped on their wedding day because they texted their other girlfriend and the fiancée found out, the media's story will be that it's their own fault and you can't rage at the phone software.

If you miss a flight due to the phone, you can.
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You do the review before the commit is pushed to the shared public branch. Lots of ways to do this. Here's three:

1. Use format-patch and review via email.
2. git push origin +HEAD:cr/js2

Now another developer can pull that branch and review it before it is merged to master.

3. Use Gerrit.
A Cutoff for Craziness - Douglas Hofstadter on peer-review
Ever since reading that post, I've tried my best to adhere to similar guidelines. On a personal level, it kind of gives you a little 'retro' on what is was you just did, which is never a bad thing. I've also found myself making larger, more meaningful commits, which, I think, is a good thing.
Apple & App Makers Sued Over User-Tracking
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/crime/article/810236--toront...

Woman sued cellphone company for sending her cell bill to her husband, allowing him to discover her cheatin' ways. Was a pretty humorous story.
I thought it's that they didn't trust the government.
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Article on one page: http://www.xconomy.com/national/2011/01/07/here-are-six-feat...
tehre is also php.rb a gem for ruby
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Actually, that is kinda cool. Definitely a good way to waste time if you want to. =) And we appreciate how Twitter has been a powerful force in the current Iranian election. It's a novel and intimate way to broadcast - and even moreso to listen - many to many.
Habitualapp is at least composed of recognizable lexemes, while 30 Days Yoanne Wabbit sounds more like a failed Loony Toons fanfic site.

So, no, I think your proposal is even worse than the original as it allow too many ambiguous parses.
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The car keeps running, or at least the Prius does.
My worst memory of SOAP is using it. Experienced it for the first time ever a couple of weeks ago (all I've used before now is ad-hoc JSON or XML apis, mostly JSON) and (knocks on wood) never, ever again. The article touches on a few of the things I really didn't like about it, the main one being the expectation that you will use tooling to generate code rather than the contract first, and that every time I hit a hurdle and switched to a different library, I had to start over.
SMTP is really quite simple. Of course, the array of hacks that is a modern mail infrastructure isn't - from SPF via Bayesian spam filtering to MIME - but the protocol itself is, really, quite simple.
Gaming like it’s 1979
From Toucan's link, above: http://www.history.uk.com/history/a-dyeing-art-jess-dyde/ [ctrl-f the piss]

> Urine from London was shipped up the coast to Yorkshire, where there was a big dyeing industry, and this is the origin of the phrase "taking the piss'.

> Captains were unwilling to admit that they were carrying a cargo of urine and would say that the barrels contained wine.

> "No, you're taking the piss" was the usual rejoinder.

You can see that accusing someone of "taking the piss" is to call them out on something embarrassing and also to accuse them of lying (about it).
Reminds me of the "Why I hate frameworks" essay by Benji Smith.

http://benjismith.net/index.php/2005/09/30/hate-frameworks/
I doubt any pilot would forget their grid north / magnetic north conversions. I hope not, anyway. That stuff got drilled into us in the cadets.
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I wasn't trying to contradict. I was trying to flesh out a potential 'otherwise' with my own observations and theories.

Not every reply is an argument.
I'm always amazed at the breadth and depth of Feynman's genius. My favorite story of Feynman is his calculation of the size of the first nuclear explosion and then driving to just a few miles outside the blast radius (much closer than his colleagues were willing to watch from). That's a level of mental confidence that I can't even begin to imagine possessing.

Surely You're Joking is a great read - one of those "drop what you're doing and read it now" kinds of books.
There are fewer than 2 billion people with the internet access.

Facebook has 600 million active users, which means they have many more registered users who don't use the service or barely use it.

So in the very best case they can grow to 2 billion active users. And that's if they can magically make every single one of them active.
Thanks for the extra-reading, I will definately take a look at those.

However, I will add that the whole 'pubsubhubbub' thing is very unfriendly (including the silly name) for the people that would be it's most valuable users, ie the people that are generating interesting, novel and valuable online content...

...So in addition to the fact that LiveDirectory is already up and running and working with JSON as the data language, it also aims to make life as easy as possible for BOTH the content publishers AND application developers.

Actually, I see think that LiveDirectory is only an intermediate step until website generally get more 'interactive'. What would be cool is to have a standard like:

http://somewebsite.com/services.json (or services.xml)

whereby the 'services.json' file would describe what 'actions' and 'data' is available programatically ('search', 'subscribe', 'contact details', 'product catalog' etc).

ch, I really appreciate the feedback, this is exactly why I posted this on HN! Please don't think of my response as being in anyway aggressive or defensive :-)
I had a different reaction when I'd read Surely You're Joking. I thought Feynman had simply observed the de facto difference between his two children; that one happened to be a boy and the other a girl was incidental to the story. (As a mother, I can attest to the fact that it's quite impossible to get a kid interested in something they are not into to start with).

In general, I am a little apprehensive of Feynman's "sexist pig" rep. His younger sister became a physicist largely through his encouragement which tells me that his views on women in science were rather progressive, even by today's standards. He is also known for having sided with a female professor in a sex discrimination suit at Caltech - again, very ahead of his time.

I also recall that at least some of that rep came from his use of stories that were presumably sexist, such as stupid driver (woman), smart cop (man). But according to Feynman, it was his critics, not him, who assumed that the smart cop was male, so the egg was on them.

Finally, a lot of people conflate Feynman's womanizing with sexism, and I think the guy should get a break for trying to find solace in as many women's arms as possible after watching his wife slowly die from cancer.
yes you all are right and even i would like to revisit this
I actually agree in part with what you say regarding having the discipline of going to class and a teacher versus self-learning.

You are probably being downvoted because of the second sentence talking bad about self-learned programmers when it's a popular opinion that there are many self-learned programmers.

I personally only downvote when someone is being rude/out of line or says something that is flat-out false, never for opinions. I find HN to be harsh frequently (no specially more so than other inet places but still) and I'm actually a bad day away of taking the route others have taken and just leave.
You can use it to piss in their pocket.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/piss_in_someones_pocket
Lately my wife and myself have been debating dropping cable and realized just about everything we want from our TV is out there, but none of it is integrated. Here's what we want:

1. My wife watches mostly shows from the major networks (ABC and CBS mostly) and we can get them in HD OTA. There are a few on cable networks, but we could always wait until they're released to DVD and have Netflix deliver them to us (either streaming or in the mail).

2. I enjoy sports, just about any sports. This time of year I watch NFL (available mostly OTA), NCAA basketball (ESPN3 shows a lot of these games), and NHL hockey (available via NHL internet package). In the summer we both watch a lot of baseball (MBL.TV would work for this). It would suck not having regular ESPN, but I could live with it.

3. Movies. We don't get to watch as many as we used to (the things a toddler removes from your life), but we still enjoy sitting down at least one night on the weekend for something.

I don't want apps on my TV. Instead I want a way to integrate all the streaming platforms that are already out there. If they're so called "apps", then that's fine, but just put them into a single, uniform package. Right now the Roku is very, very close. It can do Netflix, MLB.TV, and NHL, but it can't do ESPN3.
Some previously implemented projects implemented a SOAP prepaid account balance billing interface that runs in production today. Nobody is willing to touch the interface for modifications because every developer tasked to review proposed changes complain that it's way too brittle and prone to complexity.

This article is bittersweet because it sums up everybody's feelings pre- and post- implementation.
Another man's opinion, but I'll have cable as long as that's where sports are. The fact that I can't watch baseball on my Boxee/AppleTV/ETC means it's not the only set top box I'm going to use. I'd happily pay a good amount for it, like MLB.tv (which is great if you don't like the home team), but there's just not a way for me to do that currently.
Did you open the floodgates for anyone to sign up or did you do a limited beta launch first?
They don't buy them because:
1. iOS apps don't cost Apple anything to develop.
2. iOS app sales provide Apple with a 30% margin.
3. The distribution of iOS apps is completely under Apple's control.
4. They can always incorporate any important functionality into iOS.
5. iOS apps aren't content.
So do they think the same thing about internet porn?
I'm thinking of quitting my job and staying for awhile. Is there parking space for a full-size car?
I've made vague, childish threats towards AT&T and had immediate beyond-the-call-of-duty service in return.

related: http://twitter.com/damonish/status/14889207186
Must be ~5 years since I last used SOAP. Needless to say I hated the stuff. Complex to build, complex to use (interoperability between different stacks - java/.net/... - was like 'cross your fingers and hope for the best'), complex to debug and walk through tcpdump network packets. It's complex in every way but the name.

Of course, since that times I've alway advised against web services and so far I've succeeded in avoiding them.
That poster probably got hit by the bug sending his love text to the wrong person.
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As an ex-SOAP-dev... Yeah.
On my parents Prius there is some logic involved in weather or not the doors unlock automatically. If you open the driver's door it will unlock automatically, the other doors will be locked. If you open a passenger door all doors on the car are unlocked. Either way it is always possible to unlock at least one door with out hitting a button. The car can start as long as it can see the key and will keep running even after the key has been removed.
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