skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well thats just it. I don't think people will be using the TV to surf the web in the same way you do on your laptop. You dont really "surf" the web on your phone do you? Yet, you dont second guess the merging of the phone with the web. Generally with the phone, the web is used to do specific tasks. Whether its read a favorite blog or looking up something on wikipedia you aren't really "surfing" but more task oriented. It makes sense to use the internet to deliver content(video for example) to your television, however the experience will be completely different from a PC. In my eyes, this is the inevitability; especially if interaction is supported by a tablet or some other touch device. The question that remains is what form that interaction will take.
> a 5-line signature

Surely you mean a 200 pixel signature containing an animated image? :-)
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Another point is that most Linux distributions have way more than 60% free apps in their repositories.
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Not anymore you don't.
Typically such items get lost pretty quickly, so you'll end up carrying one along.

Maybe you're more careful than I am, but when I used PDAs I ended up buying several replacement styluses because I kept dropping them in weird spots and losing them in spite of being careful not to.

If it's not attached to the device permanently it tends to get lost over time.

I really think that a paper phonebook is cute but impractical, and this phone strikes me as aimed at practical people, not people looking for 'hello kitty' like cute little phonebooks.

Also, my handwriting is atrocious :)
Check out the ZTE S306. Although I'm not sure if it's South African only. http://www.techcentral.co.za/zte-s306-review-a-phone-for-gra...
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Already? so soon? I think people need some more time with their smart phones.

I like it that my WinPhone7 pulls phone numbers from my Outlook (office email), Facebook or Windows live. Making an acquintance online and automatically having the number in my phonebook is natural and works.

I think we need some more time with smart before simple gets niche again.
I don't know if the information being out of date matters in this case, the problems of OS version fragmentation still remain.

Android antipiracy measures are extremely brittle and rely on server-side verification, this has been circumvented by decompiling app archives, patching them and rebuilding them, which is entirely possible using apktool or your decompiler of choice. Frankly im surprised that the platform isnt crawling with malware.
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In .NET, you want to seal as many of your classes as possible, because it reduces memory usage and allows to CLR to perform some minor optimizations when using virtual dispatch, IIRC. I think in most cases, you're better off using interfaces and (sealed) classes or structs implementing them, if only to make your code easier to break up into manageable chunks.
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Yes, my problem was with people then wanting to iterate over said hashmap, not with using it as a hashmap in the first place. I could have worded that better, thanks.

I mean if you're going to want to iterate over it, you should probably be using an array instead.
Indeed:

"Our servers are over capacity and certain pages may be temporarily unavailable. We're incredibly sorry for the inconvenience."
This is "double click SETUP.exe" all over again.

People don't read any message boxes' contents, they only see the "Ok" button and click it. It's amazing, but unfortunately true.
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> It is likely Slashdot will still be here when HN is gone.

My gut feeling says no. I used to read Slashdot as much as I now read HN or Reddit. I hardly ever go there any more, and when I do it just doesn't seem interesting.

For me, Slashdot lacks the buzz it used to have.
Along these lines, it would be great to have at least country-level information instead of "Outside US". Otherwise, data on the UK is indistinguishable from data on Cambodia, for example.
To actually erase one, yes. But to flip a bit that's on the edge, not that much.
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Tất cả chúng ta đều biết rằng những đàm phán kinh doanh tốt nhất sẽ dẫn tới kết quả thỏa mãn đôi bên, trong đó lợi ích lớn nhất được chia sẻ đều cho tất cả mọi người. Tuy nhiên, thật không may khi có một vài kết quả đàm phán để lại trong chúng ta cảm giác kẻ thua người thắng.
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haha, tumblr is always doing that :)
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Lots of people work on startups having a families and a mortage.

That's why I disagree that the choice of co-founder was bad because of these reasons. I think this is a overgeneralization.

Then you state you should manage development better and set better expectations. Well I think this is the main reason in the failure.

Did your co-founder knew exactly what you espected?
I think those figures just show that the desperate Linux users were grateful for finally getting some mercy sex, as it were.
I wouldn't deny that fragmentation is an issue, although from my (limited) personal experience the biggest issue has been designing for all the different screen sizes/resolutions and still having your app look okay.

And yes, any antipiracy mechanism can be circumvented. That said, 90+% of android users probably dont have the knowhow to grab the apk, decompile it, and remove the server side check. And I'm not sure on this last bit, but I know at least in the US some carriers (ATT) disable installing apps that aren't from the appstore. I haven't read about the details of the antipiracy mechanism, so I can't really say more than that.

Also, its unclear to me if you're linking the fact that theyre so easily decompiled/cracked and that you're surprised it isnt crawling with malware.
Coolant leak and steam explosion are in conflict with one a other. What you're referring to is Chernobyl, which had a graphite moderator which allowed for a dramatic increase in power and pressure with no release. Light water plants use water as a moderator and a coolant leak would relieve pressure making a steam explosion unlikely. For example Three mile Island was never in danger of a steam explosion.
So this is a headless browser with a javascript api? Sweet.
It's funny they don't mention http://tex.stackexchange.com/
They could have used some more of that at Windscale.
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Sorry, but boys have strong desires to master any technical topics around them that appear important.

You kinda lost me at this point I am afraid; this is just entirely inaccurate. Certainly there is a prevelance in the male population for technical topics, but it is only a generality, most are averagely interested.

The young boy your describe would likely find little interest in most of the other boys, not just the girls :)

Females make connections with others, and more generally get acceptance in groups, by gossip where they express their feelings. Boys are taught to keep their feelings suppressed as in "How you feel about it is just irrelevant.". So, what the boy is trying to give the girl is not really girl gossip and, thus, is not liked by the girl.

Males make connections by sharing information, especially, neat, cool, technical information

Horribly simplistic analysis. Males mostly communicate via gossip too; which is the "neat, cool" part (you probably just don't see it as gossip, but it really is). The "technical information" is undeserving of it's equal share in that sentence - how often do you share technical information with your wider group of male friends. I chat about girls, life, politics, moans and whinges etc. no one would be interested in what I was programming earlier :)

She's a girl, knows that she's a young women, and is reluctant to interact with males her age or older without a good reason

Girls and boys do spend a lot of time apart at that age. But in groups they spend a lot of time together.

a girl cares at all unless, say, being able to give a description will get the her something else she wants, say, an A, and thus praise and approval from others, on a test in middle school general science.

This is just hilarious ;)

Conclusion: You will get boys such as you describe; but they will be in the vast vast minority, and their excitement is as boring to most of the boys as the girls. The reaction to them is not as simple as you make out, and says absolutely zero about the future careers, interests and motivations of females.

I feel you are over simplifying - and that is the main problem with your analysis.
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I asked this question on topcoder , would like know your view about this.
I agree it is over generalisation, but I feel in my case it was a main causation. He did under stand what my expectations where. However it was more that most of the time he had to work to support his family. He was not in a 9-5 job, he was doing freelance. So its not like he had a defined amount of time he could work. Clients work always came first and consumed most of the time.
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Isn't this a gas cooled reactor?
A related paper just came out in Science a few days ago. The authors used the inner workings of a fruit fly's brain to provide a robust solution to the Maximal Independent Set (MIS) problem.

Check it out here:
http://barkai-serv.weizmann.ac.il/GroupPage/
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6014/183.abstract
Even if google will not, someone(read amazon) is trying pretty hard :)
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/09/27/amazon-android-app-stor...
He used the Chromium Tabs: https://github.com/rsms/chromium-tabs
Indeed. A couple light-hours is closer to the star than the bow shock region. A better view would be from about 50 times as far (wild guess, but we aren't really talking about going there anytime soon). Still, all a human would see would be some stars against a black background. Most of the action is only visible outside the visible spectrum and even then, it's very faint.
I think you skipped the conclusion:

So is the John's Phone "The world's simplest cellphone." No. The fact that all three of the device's switches are so frustrating to use is simply unforgivable on such a basic cellphone that's supposedly rooted in "great design." We wish that the company had spent as much time on the phone's industrial design as it did on its slick promotional materials and cutesy graphics. Even then, you'd better be sure that the simplicity is worth the €70 - €100 price tag (depending upon model) -- for that you could take home a fully-loaded 3G featurephone from Nokia. A nod, perhaps, as to why the John's Phone exists.
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I wouldn't say that.

Perl 5 is quite an amazing language once you get used to the syntax and begin to grok it. I say this as a Python programmer who has only recently begun to seriously learn Perl as my day job demands it. Earlier, I had used Perl only off and on for small scripts. I was always put off by Perl syntax and contexts. However, once I got over that and started using it seriously, it does have a lot of neat features.

One example, I recently got to know about attributes[1] (which probably people using Perl for some time may know already) and its neat uses. I can use attributes to do what I would do with a Python decorator[2]. IIUC, this feature has been in Perl since 5.6 (2003). Yes, I still like Python and I continue to believe that its easier to write bad code in Perl than in Python but I have a lot more respect, liking and understanding of Perl than I did a month ago. IMO Perl 5 is well positioned for meeting enterprise needs as it stands today. I understand this now after I spend the last 3 months debating and discussing with the architecture board of my employer to introduce Python as an officially approved language for our IT applications (I work for a large corporation so we have a lot of policies ;)).

As a language, I like Perl 6 even more based on what I have read[3]. I hope to spend some time playing with Rakudo sometime soon and eagerly await a production ready package.

[1] http://perldoc.perl.org/attributes.html

[2] http://www.perl.com/pub/2007/04/12/lightning-four.html

[3] http://perlcabal.org/syn/
Actually, I did wonder whether there might have been a backlash against the crazy under-engineered Windscale air cooled reactors and the near disaster of the reactor fire there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire

So Windscale might have been the Tay Bridge to the Forth Bridge of the AGRs.

[Edit: The description of the fire in that Wikipedia page is pretty alarming - fancy sticking a scaffolding pole into an on-fire nuclear reactor and bringing it out dripping in liquid irradiated uranium!]
Rovio specifically said that they went Ad-supported on Android because NONE of the top apps were paid, and they didn't think they'd make much money with a paid app. There was a lot of talk about make a paid version without ads, but it never appeared.
Show HN: pyGengo, a Python myGengo API wrapper
I built and released this library recently to interface with myGengo's API gengo.com/services/api/dev-docs/) from Python.

https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/pygengo

Open to critique and comments if anybody's interested!
For early adopters who try out lots of different sites, Clickpass would be a big win for both the users and the sites. Once the early adopters are doing it, everybody else will see the convenience.
Samsung takes aim at Apple’s notebook crown
If you want simple SMS, albeit with a retarded UI, check out Motorola F3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_FONE_F3
Most modern browsers (all but IE I believe) will let you round corners with CSS. An extra line or so of CSS is hardly much of a transfer overhead.

I believe current thinking (on non-enterprise sites anyway) is to let the IE people have their square corners, and those on new browsers get all the curvy goodness.
If you use "appears on Google Scholar" as an indicator for quality, then yes, you'll have problems---but you get the author affiliation, citation tree and journal, which can all be strong, useful signals of quality (esp. if it's your field).
Well, that depends on if the top review would have been good otherwise.

One thing affiliate programs appear to be awesome at is stuffing Google with positive reviews of a product.

(Which leads me to wonder how long it will be until the Big G starts downranking pages with easily-spotted affiliate links.)
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Enyo is NOT a C++ platform. There's a C++ "plugin development kit" that's been out for a couple months now and AFAIK that doesn't change when Enyo gets introduced. I didn't really look, not particularly interested in WebOS C++ development.

Enyo is a palm-developed js framework originally created by the Ares editor team that performs (reportedly) dramatically better on the same hardware than Mojo. I believe the difference is that Enyo uses a javascript layout system a la Sproutcore/Cappuccino instead of the html+css layout in Mojo so they're basically innerHTMLing everything instead of performing a bunch of DOM manipulations/reflows. I'd expect a number of other changes but aside from that and allowing multiple-layouts (i.e. for tablets) that's all I came away with from the developer day talk on it.

I started looking into WebOS when CES was going because I was wondering at Palm's absence. It turns out that the homebrew community is surprisingly vibrant and they have (basically) an independent market app (preware) for their apps and patches. I was most impressed by the patching. The entire interface is interpreted, so changing how things work is just a matter of modifying the appropriate javascript and rebooting the device.

All in all, I was impressed enough to get a developer account and start intermittently hacking apps. Enyo isn't out but it'll have to come out soon in order to handle tablet layouts so I'm heistant to commit to a Mojo app before the big Feb 9 event. I don't know about a webos phone (google apps+NewsRob+Kindle on android do basically everything I want to do with a phone) but I'll definitely be getting a WebOS tablet for reading/development.
I think another example is required:

A ['Cracker breaks in', 'employee goes rouge', 'a police officer abuses power', ...] and steals all the ['users internet history', 'SMSs', ...] on the system. Which is preferable:

A) Since most of the data has been properly deleted, the thief only has access to the last few days of data to sell or do what they want with.

or

B) Since the government has made it law for the data to be keeped, the thief has the last 6 months to 2 years worth of data to sell or do what they want with.

Which of these do you think will help children get raped?

And I am not even starting on privacy invasion by the government...
You did a bad job?
In that post, you analyze perfectly the causes of your failure.
If you learn something from that experience, your job wasn't bad, was good.
Have success is important, everybody wanna get money and fame, but fail and learn from it is important too.
An SMS fax machine ...
Finishing a marathon is a big deal and something to be proud of. Don't belittle it with your awful analogy.
Nuking the 24-hour return policy and replacing it with a 15-minute one was a huge mistake. I've seen reviews of people who said they uninstalled it because it didn't download within the 15 minutes, so they had no choice.

Sure, some people will return within 24 hours if they got enough in that time... But seriously, if people can get sick of your game in 24 hours, I don't blame them for refunding.

So now those devs are definitely losing sales, where before they just probably were. I know I'm -much- less likely to purchase an app than before since I have to have 15 minutes free to play with it, where before I could buy something spur of the moment and then refund later that day if it's bad.
I would gladly buy apps if I had space on my phone. Thanks to the crippling 512mb on my Nexus One I get to spend every 3rd day cleaning my phone (despite the fact that half my apps are already running off SD.)
For older folks, larger buttons and some visual signaling would help. Also, greater amplification (that said, I don't know how loud the ringer or speaker on this thing is).
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Much prefer your clean design, but I'd move the story icon to the whitespace under the author/submitter info on the left.

Did you design a comment page too?
On UK landlines now you can receive texts, they have a service that does text-to-speech and reads the text to you. With this then you would only lack a way to send texts, people wanting a simple phone probably don't want that.
I put my information in there and before I submitted I realized that with a little Googling and homework you could find out exactly who I was. No thanks.
Here's a line of perl that will corrupt images:

perl -pi -e 's/c/awesome/g' pic.jpg

Mess around with the search and replacement patterns for different results.

For some reason I really like these types of images even if they don't take much to create. Great soundtrack too.
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Is that a SemWeb Agent he's talking to? :-D
In honesty, though, I'd be very surprised if the vast majority of Android handset owners were even aware that the 15 minute return policy existed, nevermind that it was previously 24 hours.
And in this respect, it still doesn't compare unfavourably to iOS appstore.
Many experts agree with you. Facebook disagrees for this specific instance. They advise developers not to ask for more permissions than they need, because the more permissions you ask for, the fewer signups you'll get. That suggests that a non-trivial number of users are reading something on these particular dialog boxes.

Non-trivial is a large number for Facebook. They nerfed their "Friend Lists" feature because only 5% of their userbase, i.e. 25 million people, were using it.
If facebook was a public company, zuck would have seen the stocks go through the roof about now.
Thanks, that is exactly what I was trying to get at in the post, doing a "bad job" is not doing "bad" at all.
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try and teach people to improve their cognition
>If it had SMS capability and a small display how would this John's phone be better than for example Nokia 1100

The nokia wont make other pitchfork readers jealous down at the coffeeshop.
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Eric Schmidt expects another 10 years at Google
I never understood why plugs like that needed to go a certain way. On a technical standpoint, yes, I get that the leads need to be oriented in such a way, but why design it so people have to think about it? Apple's mag safe connector is a perfect example of how plugs should work - it does not require anyone to think about what the correct orientation is.

Same with magnetic stripe readers for credit cards and transit passes. At this point, that reading technology is so ridiculously cheap that there should be no reason why we can't put in four different sensors so that it doesn't matter what orientation you swipe a card with.
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Here is their Git repo:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/dasher/tree/

Last commit only a few days ago, that's good.
If it wasn't big then you couldn't have oversized number keys. If it wasn't heavy then it wouldn't be suitable for people who need oversized number keys, light phones need more motor-skills to handle (up to a point).

Also hardening and a large battery would increase weight (though I don't know if this is how it's heavy).
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One thing that Apple has that Google doesn't seem to have is an affiliate program. Affiliates get %5 of app sales (or other iTunes sales) by driving traffic to the store. This provides a funding mechanism to incentivize people to make discovery tools.

I'm kinda impressed with the number of third party discovery tools for android, but I think that ecosystem would be more robust, and less of the burden on google, if they provided a monetization method for good app discovery.

Apple just partnered with LinkShare and other providers of the service. Seems Google could do the same thing.
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Judging from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu there is a possibility that, had they not chosen to rewrite their prototype, they might have released something years before they actually did.

I also have the sense that this project suffered a lot from the desire to try to be perfect, and hence failing to be good.
SMS-lifestyle or not, I'd take the Nokia (at 2/3 the price or less) for the 10+ years of industrial design that went into it.

To be honest, this doesn't seem to be a phone for children or the elderly (neither of which have some sort of cognitive short circuit that keeps them from grasping a simple Nokia while allowing them to embrace the idioms of this particular phone) -- but rather a phone for hipsters who need to very loudly announce that they don't have an iPhone.