skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outlook for Mac 2011 came out. It has some major missing features (won't run rules on the Exchange server, no auto-archive), but the calendar works and it's a serviceable mail reader. Better than Entourage by far, I would say.
sup (http://sup.rubyforge.org/) is like gmail for the command-line. It's a beautiful thing.
For me it's Apple Mail's lack of gmail-style "conversations". I just can't go back to conventional threading behavior.
Video Recording & Slides: Psychology of Testing by Misko Hevery
First Harmonix, now this: Activision kills Guitar Hero franchise
Ask HN: Why is the damn HN:Next timeout so short??
When I click on "next" it is invariably after I have been distracted away from HN by work, and I get the dreaded "Unknown or expired link"

I HATE THIS

Can we please get whatever magic number times this out increased beyond single digits!

Thanks
It is nice to see PHP still getting a little love in the startup world.
Wait until you see what the need-based financial aid is like.

I went to UC San Diego, in state, and paid significantly more than my buddy who went to MIT. YMMV
Nanoprocessing breakthrough
In this context I am primarily looking for role models who are happy/passionate in what they do, i.e. they are fulfilled through their craft whether that's coding, marketing, or embroidery.
Actually most modern munitions are guided by inertial navigation, mainly so targets can't jam them. Aircraft etc also have this capability. They have known about the risk of jamming since the beginning, so surely they've prepared for it.
Remember when WebObjects went from $50000, to $699, to "bundled"? This sort of movement is certainly a signal. Maybe the Messiah devs are tired of being in a niche. I hope that's what it is.
"Understanding Current Causes of Women's Under-representation in Science"
The best single comment I've read about luck was written right here on HN. I've detailed it here: http://techneur.com/post/1321568428/luck-ii

In summary, I made a comment about Zuckerberg and the value of Facebook. Someone responded that he was lucky. To which someone else responded with this: (Can't find original HN comment)

"This attitude bugs me a lot. There is probably a path for every single person in this country to make a million dollars in the next year if they were just “savvy enough” to take advantage of it. It seems everyone wants to diminish Zuck’s success by ascribing luck to it, but let me tell you something. Zuck executed the shit out of Facebook. Did the community and mindshare just come out of thin air?

There’s no good reason to believe that Zuckerberg is lucky at all. Saying he was in the right place at the right time has this tacit assumption that if he were somewhere else at the wrong time he would have tried the same thing and fell flat on his face.

It seems because Facebook is an outlier, people feel safe talking about the luck factor, but that’s meaningless because we all exist with individual circumstances, and by that measure everything every one of us does is based on luck. Instead, I prefer to ascribe luck to things that the individual actually had no control over, such as winning the lottery."
Sure they could use other ranking methods like user black lists, white lists (bookmarks/favorites), timing the number of seconds until someone back buttons, etc... But as long as google garners the majority of the search market it will all be manipulated.
Good call, I missed that. Makes sense.
No worries. I love the feedback. Fodder for a second installment? Keep the ideas coming.
first we have to come to some kind of consensus about what is happy. It's not easy to define or all agree on what happiness means.

I work at Oracle and one of the things that took me by surprise when I joined (besides that the coffee in startups is usually much better) was how happy people are. People walk around in small groups laughing and smiling, taking about their projects. I can't talk for everyone, but coming from startups for a long while where happiness is confused with being idle (you're smiling, stop that and code) I am pleasantly surprised at the environment.

I want role models that advance ideas, rather than caring too much about how happy they are. Their ideas are the public side of their persona, the part that interests me, their personal mental well being I leave to them. Was Picasso happy? (Maybe when he had Brigitte Bardot in his studio) - but he still took the art world by storm with pieces like Demoiselles d’Avignon. Was Salk happy, maybe, but a lot of kids born around 1955. I really don't care about rich or famous, but give me role models that do something meaningful.
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False claims? It's what you've said[1][2], albeit a long time ago, but because I can't find any up to date information that you've published (care to link to it?) I can't suddenly know something else.

You're not required to do anything, you can tell me to piss off if you like, but if you want people to claim things and for them to be factually accurate you should publish this information, and if you have then please link to it because I'm struggling to find it.

If you want people to stop spreading misinformation (intentional or mistaken) then spread the correct information, otherwise learn to accept that when you say you use the bing api but refuse to explain to what extent, people will assume your site is entirely powered by it.

[1] http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2009/02/thoughts-on-yaho...
[2] http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2009/03/duck-duck-go-arc...
Here is a good blog about three different marketing strategies and customer types the groupon model attracts

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/12/groupon_is_google_making_a_6...
In a hyphenated word Sarbanes-Oxley. This makes it so difficult to go public that that exit strategy is closed for most startups. Acquisition is about the only way to go. When I was privy to some discussions about going public half a decade ago, the cost SA was $3M to go public and $1M yearly to comply. A company had to be doing $100M per year to easily absorb the cost.

It's even annoying at the developer level where once a year you have SA auditors poking into everything you have done. They know absolutely nothing about development. All they care about is process. It's case of preventing another Enron costs way more than Enron ever did.
I went ahead and bought it as I think it has a future and $10 is a good price point. But...

I just can't use it yet because in the list view the sender is emphasized more than the subject. That's completely backwards for me as I rarely get emails with the same subject but I get a lot of mail from the same small group of people. This causes me to just stare at the inbox without having a good overview of what I'm looking at. Here's my feedback idea if anyone wants to help push this forward:

http://getsatisfaction.com/sparrow/topics/emphasize_subject_...
Just bought it. Looks good and was very easy to setup.
i was actually just curious as to why a million pageviews wouldn't be worthy of congratulations :)

though, now that we've shifted, i agree with you- but also have hope that pageviews are not the deciding factor of community downfall!
While better specs certainly never hurt, I've never heard any iPad users complain processing power or RAM. iOS does memory management seamlessly (if I didn't understand how it worked, I probably wouldn't even notice it) and the interface is notably responsive.

I'm sure the new version will have a spec bump. Whatever that ends up meaning (dual core, faster, more RAM), it will continue to be plenty.
Can Mac OS X succeed as a mobile platform?
I wrote an entire comment about how great it is for Apple to work in secret and release and "blitzkrieg" the competition. But it turns out Apple announced their iPhone ~Jan 2007 and it shipped ~June 2007.

So why did HP announce their entire 2011/2012 line up and direction of products without a price and or release date?

I think that this means HP has stake holders breathing down their neck, and they had to publicly show their hand asap. Thoughts?
The comment is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1791800

Searchyc.com is your friend: http://searchyc.com/This+attitude+bugs+me+a+lot.+There+
Sounds like Cloud9: http://run.cloud9ide.com/
If you're an iPad/iPhone developer: How does the prospect of a new iPad being on the horizon affect your development/product strategy?
yeah you're right. techcrunch picked up on it too:

http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/09/ipad-3/
I agree with your observations. I was using "happy" as a placeholder for enthusiastic, passionate, driven, etc, i.e. fulfilled in what they do, whatever that might be.

Startups don't have exclusivity here. I am sure people can be all of those things at a big company, although my own experience differs.
haven't had a chance to look at the other pages but the design of the landing is nice and clean. Within 5 seconds I knew exactly what it was and what it did.

I'd be curious of your abandon rate on your signup page. I'd A/B a 2 page form. Page 1 put the fun stuff name, url, timezone. Page 2 put the personal stuff.

lastly, the 'name' field is confusing. Changing it to 'project name' or 'company name' would help. I bet a lot of people just type their own name without reading the form instructions.
"Apple was willing to announce it months in advance because they had no competition..."

What? They announce the first version of a product early because, being the first, it can't stop people from buying the previous version. If they announced the new iPad now, iPad 1 sales would tank.
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The current iteration could stand some more RAM (and/or Safari could be smarter about how it purges its page cache). With the latest version of iOS, I can only keep a single page in memory at a time and reloading pages when hopping between two is less than desirable.
If you have time, I wouldn't mind some examples. I'm curious, not doubtful.

Since this thread sprung up I've wondered what might be impacted by a GPS failure.
TC: Apple “Surprise” This Fall Likely An “iPad 3″
> Bandwidth is not a limited resource, therefore charging by total use is incorrect

That's... not true at all. It's not limited (in practice) in the sense that there is only so much we will ever have, but it is definitely limited in the sense that there are costs associated with getting more.

It is, however, generally true that the incremental cost of a gigabyte consumed by a residential user is dwarfed by the up-front cost of getting reasonable bandwidth to their door.
Your message is somewhat contradictory. You describe the need for failure, but what you ultimately describe is emotional failure, perhaps with some external, material loss. In much of the world and time up to this point, failure has meant a significant risk of irreversible loss to self. As in, for example, health that cannot be recovered. A social judgment or status that will not be forgotten and cannot be escaped.

So much of the current talk about innovation, entrepreneurship -- I'm thinking of the lastest U.S. Administration program. A basic reason for the existence of this board. It takes change as a basic premise, a fundamental good.

Here's the secret: Social structures develop and evolve to promote stability. It's that stability that allows a greater combination and coordination of effort in more advanced works. That enables and makes sense of deep and long term investments, material and intellectual.

Those patterns can become constraining. Society reaches a limited "set point". Then change eventually overcomes inertia and shifts society out of this local maximum and back onto a course of less limited growth, of renewed prospects.

And since society is (increasingly) complex, opportunities for change exist, in aggregate, constantly, although in greater or lesser degree in different segments at different times.

Failure becomes desirable, when the benefits of trying outweigh the costs. When it won't kill you, or your family, or irretrievably break you -- then maybe you'll give it a go. Or when there is nothing to be gained in not trying.

So, move past "Change!", and ask how to make change happen. Help its agents get unstuck from local maxima. And ask what the goal is: An endless, exhausting treadmill of ever increasing change? Or a happier medium, when people can create and feel useful and e.g. still have a family and kids before their 40's?

This may be one component in why you don't hear so much about "blockbuster, breakout" start ups in Norway, to cite your example. Because people can grow their business to the point of having a good quality of life, without feeling that they must be the biggest because it's "winner takes all".

(This is speculation on my part, but based upon some years' observation, reading, conversations, etc. And my speculation about Norway is quite limited and takes your citation of their startup rate as fact, because I've never been there.

Also, admittedly, they have a lot of oil revenue at the moment, which certainly doesn't seem to hurt their aggregate well being. Something which is due in part, again, to preventing a "winner takes all" structure sought by "big oil"; regulation that has been cited and discussed here, before.)
> Very tough to keep the S/N going strong.

I think there's also a problem that the quality of content that Google has to index is steadily declining. In the 90's, many people were keeping lists of links to good stuff they found on the internet. Google could crawl the links and make conclusions. Now, people hardly do that anymore because they can just google it.

So Google has to employ ever more powerful algorithms to maintain even the same level of search quality. I think here lies an existential threat to the search engines.
i actually owned the domain chirp.ly back in the day. got an inquiry of purchase sometime that would fall in line with the conception of this company. though lost contact with the inquirer.

possible it wasn't the yc company, but i only bring it up because i've seen this happen several times on hn and hey, small world.
No, no they really aren't. There is essentially no dependence on "humans" in that discussion. "Intelligent species" can be substituted with no loss or even substantial change in meaning. The point is that an intelligent, active technological civilization is not intrinsically unsustainable. Bringing up your point would just open a distracting side discussion not terribly relevant to the author's point.
only reason Apple announced six months in advance was the the FCC approval process, being public the iPhone would've been out in any case whether Apple announced or not.
agree with the above. I work at a federally funded research center and where you went is pretty important Carnegie-melon, MIT, etc.

However, if I was going to just get a degree then work at a startup just go somewhere with a good program and then let your git repo be your resume.
Did you mean: "Get Lanyard (YC W11) in your Gmail (PB YC Partner) inbox (xobni backwards) with Rapportive (YCS10)"
I wish HP and RIM get their act together. Four competing platforms plus the Web, will make this new era much more interesting than the times of the Wintel monoculture.

In each application space we will see many contenders. The 'standard' solution for each platform and then ports. But I think there will not be a 'standard' solution, because the common denominator the Web will enforce open operability of data. Vendor lock-in from app producers will be weak. Same with OS: only marginal vendor lock-in. This will be a blast.

And then we still have the web as a bonus.
But it wasn't me who drew Somalia on the World Map

Depending on which world map you select, you'll find a single border which encompasses the UK, US, and India. Would you then declare that the British Empire now lives in anarchy?

If you go by official Chinese maps, China is also in a state of anarchy - the laws of China don't apply in Taiwan.

in what way feudal lord differs from a government? well, for one he's more likely to be enforcing his will, than any widely recognized laws.

This criticism applies to most dictatorships. Do dictatorships not qualify as governments?
First of all, thanks for your comments about the homepage! Good idea regarding changing "Name" to something else, we've gone ahead and changed it to "Company Name" to see if that makes it easier to understand when signing up.

As for A/B testing the sign up page, a 2 part sign up process is something that we've considered and will most probably look in to when we develop a proper sign up process for when we launch publicly (with a pricing model).

Thanks for all your thoughts, we really appreciate them!
compatibility has been pretty good, so unless you were to target an app with specific new features it wouldn't affect much.
True.

I was making a shoot-from-the-hip guess. The difference between the two approaches which you mentioned is a correct sense of proportion. Of course, the same applies to the other ways in which one internalizes/externalizes both success and failure.
Buried in the menus? Not in my copy, just in the right top corner. It doesn't work flawless, but it's definitely not hard to find.
I feel like any such discussion must address the fact that, globally, phytoplankton has declined by 40% in the past century. That's 40% of the base of the food pyramid for all ocean life. That's 20% of the plant life in the world, and accounts for 20% of the oxygen we breathe. Whatever is causing it, something significant is happening to the ecosystems of earth.

http://wormlab.biology.dal.ca/ramweb/papers-total/Boyce_etal...
Since when are scientists representatives of some population? Shouldn't they just be people trying to discover new understanding?
I am having a difficult time determining from your comment whether you feel this to be a good or a bad thing (and am personally curious: I'm not complaining).
And if you don't want to be entirely locked in to sup, http://notmuchmail.org/ is also a great option
We did small dumb console reader: https://github.com/foobarbuzz/convoread :)
I would agree with this. Leaving town is a big part of the college experience. I moved to Chicago (from Kansas) to go to school and when I finished a lot of my friends where, yep, still in Kansas.
I was thinking the other day that if one is going to be an online addict, that Hacker News is a good drug of choice.
Hah, yes I should definitely have tried to get PB in there :)
Steve Jobs getting ready for his first television interview
Google isn't strict enough for programming queries anymore, for example this query yields no results:

"hello-world" -"hello world"

It ignores the dash even though I'm using quotes.
The problem is more Racket than Arc. By the way I feel Reddit more slower and with worse uptime than HN.
It's not about the multitouch swiping. Multitouch wasn't even demonstrated. WebOS is very intuitive, and doesn't require one of 16 different swiping commands. ( for x in {1,2,3,4}; for y in {up,down,left,right} swipe $x finger(s) $y; )

Swiping aside, webOS kicks trash at multitasking because it was designed that way from the beginning. No new commands spliced into the next update. It's what it was designed to do.
As all the rumor sites (e.g., WSJ ;-) are predicting, it'll definitely have at least 512MB of RAM (can't imagine it having less than the iPhone 4).

But that's still pretty anemic, as jonhohle noted: that's not enough to keep a lot of pages in Safari's cache. (Though, from my experiments, Safari/WebKit is REALLY aggressive about minimizing memory usage, perhaps even stupidly.)
Okay, that was a bit too subtle:

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F05.html
"Q: Is it worth the risk?

A: I would say overall we benefit more than we're harmed. Read Thomas Hobbes about what human life was like a few centuries ago. It was short, brutish, disaster-prone, disease-filled. We've come a long way."

How can he say this when ~14% of the world population is still undernourished? For many, life is still nasty, brutish, and short. The exponential growth function of technological progress he defines already has severe problems with universal adoption. I think this is definitely one of the "dangers" of the singularity (do we really want to be living in Neuromancer?). I think it was Gibson who claimed "The future is here, it just isn't evenly distributed yet."
Could you give us an example or two?
Re: bing copying Google, it has already been profusely discussed all over the internet and has been shown as nothing more than a PR stunt by Google folks to avoid discussing spam

Re: fighting spam, its a tough problem indeed but so was indexing the ever expanding web. Both Bing and Google seem to have solved the indexing problem fairly well by now.

The issue with the the spam problem is not so much of how difficult it is to solve but the motivation. Clearly the spam generates a lot of cash for Google (and some for bing too) so they are less likely to be motivated to solve it.

Smartest of the minds are at work at Google so I find it hard to believe that they cannot solve it (or even make a very good attempt at it). It's their intent to not solve it and that's the reason I think they are trying to avoid discussing it.
I thought GPS was spread spectrum which would make it resistant to these kinds of interference? After all, GPS satellites broadcast at the same frequency as each other, that's the genius of how GPS works.
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A lot of well written exchanges in this thread. Too bad much of it is an apologetic for the wealthy evading their civic obligations, yet again.

Meanwhile the average working American is lectured daily on the values of "personal responsibility."
So, you're like IRC with embeddable images?
Python’s dictionary implementation
Why doesn't Google offer this as a service? They have all the infrastructure already.
* If they announced the new iPad now [and not release it for a few months] iPad 1 sales would tank.

* If they announced the new iPad now [and release it in a "handful of weeks"] iPad 1 sales would tank. [and iPad2 sales will skyrocket]
I don't mean to be insulting, but you don't seem to have a very good grasp of virtualization products. Providers like Linode, Slicehost, and Rimuhosting all offer Xen based virtual hosts. These hosts offer full root access and a variety of operating systems. They are indistinguishable from physical machines from an operational standpoint because they are fully virtualized environments using paravirtualization or even fully hardware enabled virtualization. You can run a CentOS VM on the same hardware as a Debian VM without issue.

This is in contrast to the Virtuozzo product you mention, which is a user-land virtualization product. The user environment appears to be distinct, but it's really a more glorified chroot-like environment. I know there are plenty of these hosts out in the market, but they're not the big players here on HN, or in the startup space.

Using the term "cloud" doesn't tell us anything about your service. HN is a highly technical crowd. In order to sell to this group, you'll need to "show your underwear", so to speak. What virtualization technology are you using? Maybe it would be better to have some of your technical staff field these questions. They might get a better response if they can talk the talk.
I wanted to write a logish comment about how much I like my $30 Sony Ericsson W205 and that I'll only replace it by an iPhone nano-class device but I found a comment which sums it all up, at the danger of being down-voted:

"It's an HP KIN is what it is."

(If this is the competition, Apple and Samsung have nothing to fear)