skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found 750words.com useful to get me started on the Private Journalling habit. It also helps with brainstorming on the days when i feel like doing that.

The site uses game mechanics to keep you at it, until you no longer need the game mechanics - You just do it everyday without the reminder email or the Badges.
They have a one-month challenge as well for those inclined for healthy competition.

750words.com/one_month/accept

Everybody 'wins' as long as they stick it out.
I would try to find some means to convey that it's a virtual/online piggy bank. You know, the hip, modern piggy bank for the plugged in kid. I have no idea what terms to suggest but I think that's a key piece you need to convey: Allowance in the digital age for the really cool kids.
Your design is great and helping people to make their web sites faster is laudable goal. Add more testing locations -- even better, write a probe that you can run on various consumer broadband connections that will report results back centrally. Please don't go fire up a bunch of VPSes around the globe for performance monitoring -- that data is largely useless.

Build an image, load it onto a bunch of Pogoplugs, send them out to some friends who live in various parts of the world (and various parts of the US with various kinds of broadband!)
Your argument is silly for the following reason. Imagine that a firm was able to profit from discrepancies between values of two stocks that last 100 microseconds. Say this firm makes 1 billion dollars a year - it pays 350 million in corporate taxes to society, which is one direct way to measure the value it is adding. Looking at it differently, what value does a pizza cutter provide to society? why not ban pizza cutter production? Why can't people cut pizza with a knife? instead of having all those smart engineers work on making pizza cutters, let them make something worthwhile. Follow this line of reasoning to its logical conclusion and you end up with Soviet Union circa 1975 - i.e. system that does not work
I just traveled to The Netherlands on my hacked iPhone using T-Mobile, the text message I got was $15 a megabyte! 10 MB would cost me $150.

Phone calls are $1.29 a minute, and texts are $0.29 or $0.99 I haven't checked my bill yet.

Either way roaming is very expensive on T-Mobile. I am not sure why, T-Mobile owns the network I was on in The Netherlands as well!
You've posted perhaps one of the better definitions of this guy's attitude, and I have to agree.

However, while he's criticising UI design flaws, he doesn't actually provide any real ideas/examples on how they should fix this. This might just be because he can't afford the time to do so. Ironically, this is probably also the main reason why all these bad designs exist.
There is product filtering - but it works best for items with ratings (Video Games, Movies). All other products go through a blacklist - filtering out specific words (but the list itself needs improvement). The parent has control over the filtering, and can increase its restrictions with a paid account.
There are a lot of fake users on github. They also use this accounts to spam other websites using github authentication such as Railscasts.com .
I'm not saying the decision to drop h264 was necessary, just that it isn't a completely bewildering to imagine why they might do it.

Also, from what I understood (correct me if I'm wrong), WebM is technically at least as good as, if not better than, h264.
The author uses a 5 person startup with 1 IT guy and 4 most likely computer literate engineers as a model for responsiveness and efficiency and wonders why this doesn't scale to large organizations. That's a ratio of 1/4. At a university, the ratio of support staff to students might be 1/134. If large organizations were staffed at startup ratios, the salary costs would eat up any gains from increased responsiveness.

The real advantage of uniform hardware and software throughout an organization is the time savings which allow for smaller IT support staff. The suggestion to "hire an intern for every ten people at a company" is a poor cover-up for the salary cost expenses.
I have the opposite internal psycho-drama: I have bad dreams that I am getting there too soon, moving too fast, and all the bullshit delays in my life (going on for literally years and years) are necessary and valuable to let other people catch up so it has some hope of acceptance. :-/

Meanwhile, I feel like I am "doing nothing". :-/ :-/ :-/
Reminds me of the old Oracle Android suit. Oracle want the Android source destroyed. Said source is stored in Git. Implementation would be....interesting, me thinks.
You do realize that an air superiority fighter can shoot down every other plane in the sky, and not just other fighters right?

There are also battle groups with F-18s and AWACS planes and so on that are much nearer than the F22s in Hawaii.
Some things don't need a business model. They should release the code as free/open source software if they haven't already.

Just think of it as a gift to the world and you can rest easy at night :D
I think anything will be gamed until gaming it is more costly than its gains. There is enough cheap labour as of now who is willing to game the system - I wonder if there is a correlation between search quality decrease and increase of internet access in countries where people are willing to work for very low wages (I did not find precise enough data on google for the evolution of internet usage in the last few years in third-world countries).
I used to use Slicehost but now start all my new projects on Linode, which I've found to have a faster network pipe and to be a better value at the $20 price point.

Here's a useful survey of where different YCombinator start-ups host: http://jpf.github.com/domain-profiler/ycombinator.html?2010
or Android.
I love it. I don't listen to the criticism. For this particular story, I choose to be blind sighted and look at the glass half full. This guy is an icon of what the internet is all about. This magical place that everyone, including all of us on Hacker News, dwells in. Miracle stories like this is what keeps me motivated when I wake up in the morning while drinking the coffee. If a homeless can become the announcer for the Cleveland Cavaliers and get 10 million uniques within 48 hours, anything is possible. And I love waking up every morning smelling the air of a million possibilities.
Who said anything about the Internet?
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It makes me wonder: how true is it that the web is too large to curate by hand? It's remarkable how fast a human can determine that a site is spam, and with the exception of a few large user-created sites once one has determined that a few pages on a domain are spam you don't have to look farther.

Kedrosky uses the number (unsure from where) 234 million sites. At $1/site you could have a number of quite well paid people checking off whether a site is 'real' or 'spam' at a price that Google could easily afford --- if it would improve their bottom line.

Even if you went page by page, you could figure out a way to build an index of spam-free pages. But would this really provide sufficient economic benefit? I think the answer is no, otherwise it would already have been done. What can be done to change this?
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There was another trend back in the day, something like a bookmark/quotes book. You would write in this journal quotes and page numbers from books/poems that you liked so that you could refer to them later on. The nice thing is that by writing down the quote, you would also be more likely to remember it and the surrounding context. I read Byron's Don Juan and man, if I didn't write down a few quotes and page numbers I would have forgotten what happened in this epic story!
Video formats are extremely complex and require huge amounts of expertise to make.

With your logic, why should I pay money for content? So far, it seems to be impossible to prevent ripping and transcoding, so maybe the answer would be "you shouldn't".
May be coincidence, but I like the work rewised. The article getting wised up !!!
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I know this is sarcasm, but the point is not so much the profile deletion itself. It's the user experience of the process. Normal user goes to remove their Facebook profile, heck even I go to delete my Facebook profile, and sure I haven't deleted it, but I'm left more or less neutral. Try deleting a MySpace profile and see how you feel after the process.
I was not going by dictionary definitions, but by what people around me seem to think. In my country, success has very much to do with whether you are in a coveted job (usually meaning an MBA or engineer/doctor/civil services). This changes over the years, e.g. software engineer came and went. MBA is now going out.

People feel they are happy if they are conforming to the societal definition of success. Your society may be quite different.
It's a polyglot world after all - Lift adding support for JRuby
> The US doesn't have any enemies within range of the Chinese jets

The US has plenty of allies within range of the J-20, for example Taiwan, Korea, Japan. If China was to fight any of these countries, and the US got involved, air combat between the J-20 and F-22 is quite likely.

> They are both techno-wank projects to make generals feel cool and to keep a few aerospace companies in business.

There's an element of truth in that, yes. But it's been axiomatic in warfare from about 1940 onwards that air superiority is really important in a ground or naval campaign. (So they aren't just useless toys.)

This is changing as UAVs and smart missiles take over roles currently performed by manned aircraft.
That's interesting. Can you be more specific what config you moved from and to?

Were you on a SCSI RAID before? And are you on a single SSD or RAID config?
Ditto. As soon as "... removed from the web" is stated I believe the subject spontaneously spreads itself throughout the internet.

It's like hybridizing whack-a-mole with a hydra and a worm.
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I'm doing something similar. I found a cool vim command, ':r !date' for the current date. I'm using hg mercurial in addition to get additional backup security and logging. : P

I also decided host the repo at bitbucket. This will let me have 'offsite' backups and the ability to pull my journal whenever I have a computer and internet... which is always.
Just because you're not a suicide bomber doesn't mean that you're not a serious Muslim.
Air superiority fighters are not enormously useful in fighting against insurgents.
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That's kind of the point of my system. It takes a lot of work to become "trusted", and it's trivially easy for a trusted meta-mod to remove that status from you.

If Wikipedia can work, this might just work. But Google would no doubt prefer an algorithmic way to solve the problem. Maybe some form of narrow AI is close enough in the pipeline...
/.'s system works because the number of users who want to have a discussion outnumber the people who want to shout obscenities in all caps. That is only true because there is no money in shouting obscenities in all caps on /.- but there is plenty of money in upvoting spam on Google. If they switched to crowdsourced curation today, you'd have have a spammer to user ratio of 10:1 before February 1st.
Haha! If only it were that easy. You'd probably end up rewriting the UI for mobiles anyways.
CRTs will show what the RAMDAC on the video card feeds them. They shouldn't have limitations like this.
Debian, 2.6.37-rc7, MSI-X & Xeon DMA, AHCI, Supermicro X7DVL-3, E5405x2, I believe 4gb ram (when we benchmarked), DDR2, Synchronous, 667 MHz (1.5 ns)

320gb WD SATA2, AHCI

1.96,1.96,gfs1,1,1293773837,6584M,,709,98,56636,4,26136,2,2395,97,58757,2,192.5,1,16,,,,,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,14246us,224ms,352ms,14567us,15230us,520ms,267us,610us,644us,237us,14us,42us

Intel X25-M, 2nd gen, AHCI

1.96,1.96,gfs1,1,1293774560,6584M,,1026,99,101777,9,75787,8,2108,99,313987,14,15842,123,16,,,,,10180,27,+++++,+++,10635,27,10204,26,+++++,+++,8313,23,7808us,320ms,389ms,4258us,1271us,3544us,7230us,179us,3124us,4890us,42us,24047us

meta-data=/dev/sda8 isize=256 agcount=4, agsize=6318564 blks
= sectsz=512 attr=2
data = bsize=4096 blocks=25274253, imaxpct=25
= sunit=0 swidth=0 blks
naming =version 2 bsize=4096 ascii-ci=0
log =internal bsize=4096 blocks=12340, version=2
= sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=1
realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0

mount options: noatime,logbsize=262144,logbufs=8

IO Wait has almost disappeared for the series of machines we replaced. After a number of lengthy calls to Intel, we put these with XFS (journaled filesystem), on some very busy MySQL servers. I'd say we went from 10k RPS to a little over 12k RPS measured after 14 days.

Intel's comment was regarding the degradation of the drive. They claimed that we would easily see a number of years of service before we would have any problem with block rewrites. As the systems are 50% full, the duty cycle was claimed to be 5+ years. We debated Ext2/3/4 versus XFS, but, almost everything we do is XFS already, Intel claimed even with journaling, we shouldn't have a problem.
I'll reiterate what I stated below, it is not the fact that you cannot delete the profile, it is the user experience of trying to do so. Try it yourself, let me know what you think.
Just because you're not a double negative doesn't mean that you're not a confusing sentence.
Can you point to some links? I can't find anything that mentions this in my camera's documentation.
I'm waiting for the inevitable case of gun manufacturers suing their customers for firing their guns. I believe it's inevitable.
> It took the PC industry only a decade or so to start offering crapware free computers - first at $50 premium and now free as an option.

What PC manufacturers do this? I can't think of a single mainstream one, though maybe I'm just uninformed.

The reason small PC manufacturers can do this is because there's simply more of them, since the barriers to entry are much smaller than setting up a wireless network.
> You can easily replace success with happiness in that sentence.
Yes, but my point was that often people's definition of happiness contains other concepts, which are not investigated by ourselves. Or, we accept moving/relative definitions for these that are not our own. One concept depending on other concepts etc.

>It's more complicated than it looks.
I think when we investigate the meaning of happiness (for ourselves) then its actually simpler.
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This is so wrong.
I imagine video cold-calling will be a faux pas for awhile still, but many of my friends use video-skype on a daily basis.

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1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
— Douglas Adams (The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time)
"this gem is awesome".to_spanish # = "esta joya es impresionante"
> Desalinated water costs 50 cents per cubic metre in Singapore. 8 cups of water per day times 365 days gives 2/3 of a cubic meter. 35 cents per person per year. Even the poorest of the poor can afford that.

The issue is irrigation, not drinking water.

Food to feed a person requires farming. If the natural rainfall isn't enough, it requires irrigation too. Lots of farming is done with irrigation, as has been true for millenia.
PS3 Root Key Hacker Sued
I wonder if you would even need to pay people---someone (google would seem like an obvious candidate) could write a browser extension with a "total crap" button. I know I'm sufficiently annoyed when I land on some spammy garbage that I'd like to punish them with a consequential down vote.

Hopefully you could get enough legitimate uptake to make paying people to fraudulently vote wouldn't be worth it.
Previous discussion when the root key was released: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2063058
Everyone had to have two copies of video anyway. One for firefox (WebM only) and H.264 for iOS devices. The only thing this has done is shift the sizes of the pie. And for the better. LET THERE BE PIE!
"have the jailbreak and any information about the jailbreak removed from the web"

Wow. Well, that takes care of that, I guess. Maybe they can have all of those old articles about their CD rootkits redacted while they're at it.
How is it unsafe? (asking because I don't know, not to contradict)
The culture is still there, although it depends a lot of the companies - corporate culture takes a whole new dimension in Japan, and someone working in Sony or Panasonic could as well work in different countries.

To give an example of what companies expect from people (told first hand from people I know personally, or even witnessed myself): you may be asked to work overseas (which most Japanese hate) in a matter of days. That is, the company will tell you: could you please work overseas for one year starting next week ? You can say no, once, if you don't mind having no career in the company. Worse, I have seen the situation where people were given that deal, to be said the day of the depart that no, they won't be needed overseas overall. Note that those people often have wife, children, etc...
A gigantic source of high margin incremental revenue. If Dell generates one signup to $ANTIVIRUS_MAKER_FOO, that can be worth about as much as the sale of the machine to Dell's bottom line. (For these and other scary insights, I suggest attending shareware conferences.)
Robert's profiling Paul Graham (along with a dozen or so other people) in his next book.
What if you emailed a daily digest of the top stories? I visit hn less often when I get the content elsewhere. I found the twitter bots that post links help with this. But twitter is itself a time wasted. Email is easier to control.

Or, what if you reported on the time spent on the site in a give day. Make the font size num_hours*4 em. You make why you measure, right? Show a graph of waste and people might try to make it go down.
When I referred to spending I was thinking more about carriers taking responsibility of writing the custom apps, testing and distributing the OS updates etc. If they let the manufacturer do that (like Apple) they would have less stuff to bother about.

As far as crapware goes - yeah it might be ad like revenue but I can't imagine it's a major part of revenue for carriers - they can mitigate it by charging little more for the clean experience models.
Hmm. I wonder why I can't reply to your comment...

As for links (the first one about cameras, the second one following up on it and about more camera models, the last about video editing software):

http://www.osnews.com/story/23236/Why_Our_Civilization_s_Vid...

http://dylanreeve.com/videotv/2010/the-mpeg-and-h-264-proble...

http://bemasc.net/wordpress/2010/02/02/no-you-cant-do-that-w...
If development tool releases were newsworthy, the Techcrunch would be so busy writing about Microsoft you would rarely see anything about Apple.
Ask HN: Pitching an iOS/iPhone App Idea
I have an idea for an app that is solid. I have no doubt it will be viral, it's not be done now.

I have no experience with making an app but I do have a decent business background.

1) Investors keep telling me that angel investors & VCs don't mess with NDA regularly, they just want me to spit out my idea. How true is this?

2) Does anyone have an example of a business plan or investor presentation for an app?

3) What is a fair stake? No doubt this thing will sell 1mm+ units in 90 days or less @1.99... If someone buys in at 50k, what is a % that is fair? 100k?

Thanks guys, I'm sure I sound like a noob but I am.
Chrome ships with Flash. Flash plays H.264. Thus, Chrome still supports H.264, now it just has to go through Flash.

There are Android phones with H.264 hardware support. There are no Android phones with WebM hardware support (software support, yes).

So... there is no point to converting YouTube videos to WebM: it doesn't benefit Android, it doesn't benefit Chrome. It would be a pointless waste of space.
It's a feature. No, really. When you sync your Google account, it redownloads your apps.
IP theft continues to be a growing problem in China, I was reading a report that almost 60% of applications running on Asian computers are pirated (compare this to 20% in North America.)

Here's the report if you're interested: http://portal.bsa.org/globalpiracy2009/studies/09_Piracy_Stu...

I'm beginning to wonder if this is something we can continue to count our politicians to work on or if we need to address as a community. It will be interesting to see the stats in coming years due to the trend toward proprietary app stores and SaaS.
Hello, NSA "backdoor".
As much as I suspected that WebM would be too hot to touch, the fact that the MPEG consortium hasn't done much more than posturing and clucking about the whole affair would seem to indicate that either WebM isn't covered by patents, or (more likely) that Google has some useful patents of their own that's keeping the hordes at bay.
I'm sorry but could you please explain the difference between a diary and a journal? I just realised that I have no idea what the difference is ...
Also, how much information about the app should I include when I do the investor presentation. This idea is so awesome in the purest form, I am scared someone will take any opportunity to take it.
Sony did with fresh start.
単身赴任 (tanshin funin): To send a corporate employee on a long-term stay at another location unaccompanied by his wife or children. If your language doesn't have a word for this, be glad.
Bravo to Google for thinking a few steps ahead.

> In addition to supporting H.264, Chrome currently bundles an embedded version of Adobe’s closed source and proprietary Flash Player plugin.

For one, I am a little tired of the hyperbole surrounding Flash. Yes, it isn't quiet open source, but it's not quiet "closed source", either. Since I can download an open source Flex SDK and compile without the need of any Adobe tools. I can't fork the player API, but this rant seems like sensationalism. Secondly, Flash player handles much more than just video. I'm not saying it is used in the best way, but it definitely caters beyond video render. Removing H.264 doesn't have the same impact as removing an embedded Flash player.
And which, to my knowledge, you cannot remove.

Edit: You can disable it.
Pirate Android developer steals game and publishes on his own account
Has anyone else ran into this sort of thing? it's a really distrubing trend?