skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I named my company on the first day that I sat down to write an outline of the business plan. Having written my thoughts about what the business would be in Microsoft Word, I had to save the file to my desktop and name it. I gave no thought of the business name, I just named the doc with the first thing that came to me - a working title that I intended to change later. But the name never changed because it was unique and top of mind. It stuck.

Try tapping into a stream of consciousness (meaning, don't over think things) and write a list of words. Or, ask some relative who is not tech savvy to tell you the first words that come to their mind (my mom is good for this).

Lastly, in my second startup (circa 1999), we hired a naming consultant for big $$ and the one take away was: Brand names pretty much don't matter. Nike may have sounded dumb the first time people heard it, but folks remembered it AFTER they tried their shoes. Intel sounds like a spy organization. Microsoft sounds like something for scientists, yet it is a consumer brand now. The bottom line: Don't freak out to much on the name.
Absolutely, and I am not taking anything away from Minecraft except the article's assertion that it "makes a mockery" of big-budget games.
I think the art speaks for itself!

What about the iPhone4? The screen is incredible! The current iPad badly needs an upgrade to high resolution, since as other posters have noticed, the pixelation is often quite noticeable.
Doesn't that describe anything that isn't h.264

Yeah probably - ask the Theora guys how hard its been ;-) The upside is that it could very much, out of necessity, drive some considerable advancement in video compression algorithms.
It's called "First thoughts on Erlang" for a reason.
It's called '2x' resolution because it's twice as many pixels per dimension, and because you append "@2x" to image resources for them to be used in your app. It is 4x the pixels, but that I guess Apple figured that took slightly more brainpower than just imagining twice as many pixels tall, and twice as many pixels wide and calling it '2x'.
I'll go with that: the audiences are different. Obviously indie developers can't tackle every audience/genre, but notch and other indie developers have found a audience that they can server better than any big company can. That's what matters. Minecraft showed that the audience I'm talking about has tons of potential.
Most people couldn't imagine the iPhone 4's retina display either, but Apple did it. I used to doubt Apple's engineering capabilities, but not anymore. I wouldn't put anything past them. The display that the iPhone 4 has didn't exist till it launched, so I figure this is no different.
I think there are a few counties that could benefit from this approach of battling ramped drug use. It seems to have done something in Cali aswell as here in Massachusetts, for Mary-Jane that is. I have witnessed a few of my school mates succumb to heavy use of marijuana and some of them have had their problems with the law, but the majority of pot-heads I know can hold it within limits and actually do rather well. I was amazed to see how much drug use there was going to school in boston. Freshman year I would estimate that about 75-80% of people smoked atleast weed and close to everyone drank. To put my estimations into proportion, I must mention that I dont smoke and i cant say I hung-out with lots of potheads.

To the point: I think there is a great number of people that can deal with light drug use in everyday life, but there are some, in my experience mostly bipolar or psychologically depressed people have a hard time controlling themselves. Therefore I think that it may be a good idea for other countries to try similar measures.
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I've managed sites with nearly 99% of traffic coming directly from search engines and some as low as 5%. It correlates directly with the type of site you are managing.

If you are targeting a very specific niche community, you would likely receive much better results injecting yourself into that community and becoming an authoritative figure and focusing on direct marketing then an all-out SEO campaign. However, if your selling cases for the iPhone 4, your much better off with focusing all of your efforts on conquering the top spots on Google.
This just made me realize:

Online privacy controls are like DRM. They are both attempts to control what happens to information after giving someone else complete control over it.

"We may not mind sharing our personal lives and thoughts, but we want to control how, where and with whom. A privacy failure is a control failure."

Paraphrase: "We may not mind consumption of our music and movies, but we want to control how, where and with whom. A copy restriction failure is a control failure."

If a video can be decrypted for viewing, it can be decrypted for torrenting. If Facebook can show your messages to your friends, they can show them to advertisers.

Bruce suggests legislation, but I'm afraid it will be as futile as the DMCA.
He has a point. I'm an ex-air developer. I moved to WPF. So yes, ok there are heaps of bad air app out there, because the learning curve is so low.

That being said I think AIR can be very close to native. It takes that extra mile of programming that most don't do. In the end, you might as well make it native.

But think about this for a moment. An AIR app can and does run well on both Mac and PC. I understand native is better, but it's not a simple matter of money and time. You need to find the skills for a decent mac developer. Most of them are gone crusading in the world of iOS and too busy to make a mac client. .NET developers are plentiful though. my 5c.
If you consider that the iPhone 4 has 960x640 on a 3.5" screen, maybe it's not that unlikely...
It would still be a retina display since iPads are held further away that iPhones in typical use.
Is Slashdot any good still? I haven't visited it lately but it hasn't seemed relevant for a while now.
A webapp is not a replacement for a desktop app. There are very legitimate reasons for wanting a desktop app, more for some types of apps than others.
It's not presented as an experiment, even though it could be described as such. It wasn't even constructed as an experiment. It was built to allow people to do something that they want to do, but the way that it happens and the scale at which it happens are things that no one really considers. Humans have a hard time grasping the scale of things once they reach a large enough size. Similar to things like the over-hunting of the American Bison or the over-fishing of various waters around the world. "There's tons of Bison on the open plains. It's impossible for humans to put a dent in their numbers! Why should I feel bad about killing so many."
I'm somehow not familiar with any of the apps he's referencing. Is he talking about mobile apps or desktop?
It's not just their engineering, but their scale. Buying 1 or 1,000 or even 100,000 of a cutting edge component can be expensive. But when you can put in guarantees on 1M+ of an item, you can seriously drive down prices.

With the iPod thie is one reason why companies like Archos, iRiver, and even MS couldn't compete with Apple. Apple got preferred pricing based on volume that no one else could touch.

If the iPad has that resolution I guarantee 10M units shipped in 2011, and that's probably conservative. No other tablet can come out and confidentally even think they could ship half that number.
I would be surprised too, but then I'd have to explain the double-sized iBooks images discussed in the article.

I'm drawing a blank. Can you come up with a hypothesis?
I have a 3.95. I could've earned that .05 back by letting academics consume my life, but I didn't. I was a terrible trumpet player (and hated the trumpet) until I left band for choir in middle school, and I could have been a lot better at it if I weren't busy teaching myself to program, rather than practicing.

I have earned Cs on tests that fell during tech week (crunch time for school theater the week before opening night, with build crew and rehearsals lasting until 10pm).

What I propose (and what she proposes) is that there's nothing wrong with that. Sacrificing my instrument and moving to choir taught me what is it enjoy making music. Those tests I bombed aren't pretty, but in the performances the following weekend, I worked closely with a group of talented people under incredible constraints and unpredictable circumstances to pull off a smooth show, and it was both the greatest thrill and the greatest lesson in teamwork I'd ever experienced.

I've no doubt that sufficient emotional and physical pain applied by a parent could coerce any child to earn a 4.0 and to master an instrument, but that kind of empty, forced skill is not something we should aspire to. Let people do what they love. Even if it weren't for programming and respectable grades, I could make a living with an IATSE card. They pay and the hours would be terrible, but at least I would like what I do.
something like this:

var session = require('session'),
models = require('models'),
template = require('template');

function main(request,response){
session.start(
models.getEntries.bind(models,
template.render.bind(template, 'blog',
response.write.bind(response))));
}

would be easy to put together with node.js; it's functionally equivalent to the above (though it assumes that data comes into the template.render call as the last argument(s)), and neatly avoids too much nesting.
Py a la Node: running python code in node.js
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2048x1536 resolution has a name: 2K (from the digital film world). iPads are already widely used on movie sets; this would more than cement that trend. Hope it's true!!!
Video encoding is a lot wider than just the computer industry. One group who has a serious interest is those self-same media reporting on Verizon's event. I would trust their commitment more if they at least put a plan to sunset all patent-encumbered formats.
This is pretty much true on a per page basis, but advanced SEO becomes less of a page optimization campaign and more about strategziing such that the business has positive results regardless of the performance of individual words or pages.

Exact match domains also crush backlinks.
Fat Loss Detour, Body by Eats, Fatloss Troubleshoot, A Guide to Flexible Dieting, Precision Nutrition, Girth Conrol, The Body Fat Solution. I would consider these all better sources of nutrition information. (Especially precision nutrition). People can downvote me if they want, just I wouldn't give any of my family members the diet out of 4HB if they just wanted to lose a few pounds.
Notch is a really refreshing person. Instead of all the wannabe-entrepreneurs that want to build apps/games for money (mostly), he just seems to really enjoy what hes doing. I also think all the money doesnt mean too much to him, other than he now has the freedom to only do "fun stuff".
The fact that he doesnt want to run the business and just keep coding underlines that even more.
It should be noted this is from almost exactly a year ago
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Maybe, but what's not in the electronic profile is just as important as what is.

No facebook account?

No phone record?

No credit cards?

Suspicous? Yes, if they're not homeless.
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Not at my computer, but BCC typically sees half of traffic and 75% of profit from organic SEO.
The Library of Congress is 10TB. Zipped, it would fit on a single 3TB hard drive.
Big discussion on that here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2101210

Ryan was developing Node for certain use cases. He chose the name "Node" because it was supposed to be a small piece of a larger web app. A few nested callbacks, programs that have a few hundred lines of code and don't have complex control flows work well. Hype created a large community which is pushing beyond such narrow goals. But it will take time to come up with good DSLs or add continuations to V8. For now the best solution is to learn how to organize async code, for which I've only seen one trivial example.
Yep, that was exactly what I felt I was missing, processes/threads, ipc and I'm still not sure the memory usage/garbage collection handling would be great under stress.
It should come as no surprise that the right answer is treating drug addiction and substance abuse like medical conditions rather than legal ones. The idea that the government should regulate what I choose to put in my own body is preposterous to begin with.

If you want to criminalize something, try starting with the actions that drug addicts take towards others, not themselves. Driving while intoxicated, theft, vandalism and more serious crimes are already illegal and should stay so. It is impossible to violate your own rights; why should making a 100% personal decision be a crime?
I am still trusting the word of one company versus something that has been vetted by a lot of companies and been found beneficial for multiple parties from multiple parts of the use chain. Patents are not the only issue.

Would a person believe Microsoft's good intentions if it was WMV instead of WebM?
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Why would they make an iPad with a resolution nearly as high as their Cinema Display, far more than most of their desktops? I think this is an awful lot of extrapolating- a much better explanation for those images is a sloppy build system.
For some projects you also want to track versions of binary files because they go together with the code. And I read it was a bad idea to use git for those binary files, exactly because git was not designed for that.
It's the same in Spain. You get a fine (around $500), but you don't go to prison.
immigration...
Service industries in China can't be expected to be superior based on their personnel numbers alone. Cultural paradigms can produce good and bad results - as when poorly paid workers with no expectations of tips and customers accustomed to certain things lead to a custom where to summon waistaff all you can do is loudly yell '服务员'...
Why on earth would you need to learn so many languages for a single startup idea?

I think the question you should be asking yourself is this "Do I want to be a brilliant programmer, or do I want to be a hacker and make a kickass app (that can eventually become a startup)?"

The former is great - especially if you're planning on working for big prestigious software company that's into that kind of thing. The latter, however, doesn't necessarily require knowing the theory, fundamentals, and ins and outs of a programming language. If you only want to build a single app, your time would be more wisely spent jumping into development and figuring things out as you go. This way, you'll learn everything you need to develop your idea without wasting precious time (and brain space) on things that may not apply to you.

My own experience is similar to what you are describing. I had a startup idea but had never programmed a day in my life. I figured out that Ruby on Rails would work for me so I started reading every single tutorial/ebook that I could get my hands on. I tried for months but nothing stuck - I just couldn't get the hang of it. Eventually, I said screw it and started building my app (with very little knowledge of what I was doing). Currently, I wouldn't say development is finished, but I do have a beautifully working MVP. When an obstacle crops up(and they do quite often), I google my very specific problem and 99% of the time the answer appears as a blog article or stackoverflow question. On the rare off chance that I can't find a solution to my answer, I post a question of stackoverflow with a detailed description of my problem (and usually some code). Every single question I've asked has been answered in minutes - an invaluable resource. A few weeks ago I started working on my second and third apps. I was amazed that I actually knew what I was doing, but it validated that I had actually been learning how to program the whole time I was hacking through my first app.

Good luck!
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I disagree, City's better if you're coming from Europe, but Heathrow still the best airport to get into London from anywhere else, especially Terminal 5. T5 had a lot of problems when it started, but now it's by far the best major airport terminal I've flown from.

It takes me less than 15 minutes to get from the T5 tube station to sitting in the departure lounge waiting for boarding. It's almost as good as Eurostar.

(Although if you're from outside London it can be easier to get to Gatwick transport-wise)
Not often do I really care when a product/service is only availale in a country other than mine (UK), but with BankSimple I am genuinely gutted.

Desperately hope they find huge success and expand overseas.
What you don't like about Kissinsights
I like kissinsights but don't like the pricing. This is a simple tool and shouldn't be too expensive. I would want to conduct more surveys but can't afford to pay that amount. What other things do you not like about them and what do you what to see as part of their features?
I would be concerned less with expense and more with things like how much battery life you can pull off when you have to support the monster gpu such a high res screen would require. When developing for the iPad and iPhone 4, I've noticed it is actually pretty easy to run into fillrate limitations. I would be very impressed if they could pull it off, though, but I doubt it will happen in the next model.
This isn't really a fair comparison, as has been noted elsewhere here. Heathrow is an exceptionally poor example of airport construction and operation. There were fewer constraints at hand in the construction of the new Beijing terminal as well - so if thing X went wrong, I think there was probably less ability to delay matters.
I see, thanks. My comment above doesn't apply, then. However, I think you can get very nice-looking, cross-platform, native apps with python and QT, GTK or other toolkits.
Assuming that Apple can source such a display, driving it will be very resource intensive. A dual-core CPU will help, but it will also need a powerful (read power hungry) GPU. I have no doubt that Apple is looking at very high resolution displays for the iPad. That doesn't mean that they'll be able to get it ready for this release, though.
perhaps you're referring to this: http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2007/05/24/the_supernote...

the existence of the super note isn't what is in question though.
Apple's use of the term "retina display" has nothing to do with the distance the display is from your eyes. The point is that, no matter how close you get to the display, your eye has trouble distinguishing individual pixels. In my experience, that's actually true with the iPhone 4.
I have serious doubts, but that would put the iPad2 at 264 ppi (pixels per inch) compared to the iPhone 4's 326 ppi.
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Hacked this up really quickly for fun last night:
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Shows the hn front page w/ tweets from your friends. E.g.:
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Jeez, someone cut APB some slack. It may have been a flop but it was hardly your run-of-the-mill linear action game.
Apple iBooks app indicates iPad 2 will quadruple resolution to 2048x1536
Devil's advocate: should that right extend to allowing people to commit suicide without any attempt at prevention?
VC-1 was Microsoft's attempt at a royalty-free codec, and I don't see any reason not to use it (at the time it was published, before the patent pool was created). It's more than just intentions, all the patents owned by On2 have been made irrevocably royalty-free.
Here are a few positive factors that influence your ranking:

- Exact match keywords are an absolute killer when it comes to ranking

- Local beats global if your target is geographic (e.g., mysite.ca will perform better than mysite.com in Canada, particularly if the .ca is hosted in Canada)

- Number of backlinks to the specific page

- Number of backlinks to the whole domain

- Popularity of backlinks

- A variety of backlinks. Your backlinks need to look natural to Google. You want a backlink pyramid, so don't have 100 PR5 backlinks, and 10 PR0 ones. The web doesn't work that way, and Google knows it.

- For the same reason, have no follow backlinks as well. Whether they carry PR juice or not, it's unnatural for your site not to have a mix of no follow and do follow backlinks.

- Backlinks from .edu/.gov sites

- An aged domain name

- Include the keyword in the url, title tag, description, etc.

- Metatags are still important, even if Google doesn't care about them.

- Make your site as fast as you can

- Have an XML sitemap

- PubSubHubbub is excellent to get your site noticed/indexed by Google

- The number of indexed pages on your site

- How frequently is your site updated (often is better than rarely)

- Make your content unique. Duplicate content is not as much of a big deal as they say it is, but you definitely don't want to look like an autoblog in the eyes of Google (particularly in the early days of your site).

- A public whois record

- A domain registered for more than one year

- Get your site indexed in DMOZ and Yahoo Directory
Hah, my tweet(s) got quite some attention! I'm not even sure if I found that image myself, but I do remember discussing it on IRC in August (and just recently brought it back up with all the new rumors).

(Lots of attention, and, it seems, lots of follow requests. Future note: don't use a private account to post interesting info from, if it might be referenced around the internet.)
Comparative essay-How Do You Compare Two Things?
It is very easy to write a comparative essay. All that is required is to find two subjects or objects and find out what similar and dissimilar traits they possess. There are a few more elements which need to be adhered to in order to submit a well written comparative essay.
The same is true of flash memory. During the heyday of the iPod, Apple was the world's largest purchaser of flash memory, and would pre-order a year's worth of production, at significant discount.
Eh, Steve said that it was at a "normal" 10-12 inch distance from the eyes, IIRC. I agree, though, it's very hard to see those pixels, but I also agree with OP that you hold it quite a bit farther away. They'll call it a Retina Display almost for sure, if just for branding.