skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>No. It's people not being in /new enough and voting up good stories after actually reading them.

What's the solution to that, I almost daren't mention it, could it be a dig like toolbar that wraps the story (I'm assuming you mean external articles). Perhaps better would be a personal list (like Reddit) of recently viewed posts.

Alternatively one could have a sort of moderation view for trusted users so that pages like /new would give the story link with a first paragraph and up/flag/down buttons for fast rating. That way standard users time on pages like /new or /noobstories wouldn't need to be spent on spam so much.

Not that spam appears to be a huge problem here but as things grow optimisations become more important IMO.
I think browsers are moving to using the GPU:
chrome:
http://dropshado.ws/post/2857434171/chrome-gpu-accelerated-c...

ie:
http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/03/16/internet-explor...

ff:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/09/firefox-4-beta-5-brings-g...
Uhm, I am pretty sure Apple doesn't host the content and that is kind of the first step in distribution.
I thought Toyota as a corporation would make for a more interesting example.
I say just give them the day off (paid). They can then do whatever they want with that time. Personally, I would want either: cash, time off or a gadget I could really use (I don't really care about team lunches/getaways or swag). Giving them the day off seems like it'd be the easiest.
The route is probably set, but the density of packages along the route is random.
A: was the 3.5" 1.44MB micro floppy as pictured in the video, B: was the 5.25" mini floppy
To me this is the most weird/frustrating thing... that a comment like yours doesn't get made in one of the many many many bogus attack Apple for no reason whatsoever threads, but if someone dares to post a legitimate complaint in a humourous way (by which I mean the original article, which was pretty funny through use of satire)... they get trampled all over by the people who say they hate people talking about Apple so much.

WTF???

People whinge about all sorts of stupid things about Apple, the most illogical crap. Admittedly I haven't seen anybody complain about the one mouse button thing in about ~2 years, so hopefully that meme has died a horrible death (and not a moment too soon, even in 2009 it was well and truly past its use by date by at least 10 years). Other people just make shit up and accuse Apple of their own twisted fantasies.

But there are genuine things to complain about. Especially as a developer. And I don't mean the pseudo-random Apple accept/deny policy of what it puts on the app store. Yes, if you are one of the (large) handful of people who got rejected, or even worse strung along for months and then rejected, you have a legitimate right to complain. But to the 50 million other people weighing in? Eff off. No seriously, if you have no skin in the game then your opinion doesn't count.

Developers really do get the raw end of the stick when it comes to dealing with Apple in so many different ways, but even then the people who complain have gone through some bizarre reality distortion field. They complain about things like the 30% cut on apps Apple makes as distributor. Which is just damn bizarre, because that 30% is an absolute frickin' godsend to the small/indie developer. Have the people who complain about Apple's cut never even tried to find out what the software developer gets as their cut on boxed software sold at retail? I guarantee you it ain't 70% (!!!!)

As for their latest evil draconian move of Apple to completely dominate the Apple market... yeah. Look, I admit it, I have no skin in that game. I don't subscribe to anything that costs money, so my opinion is invalid, but I will say that I tried to understand what the big deal was, but all the haters were raving so incoherently that I couldn't understand what the key issue was.

So I figured it was just business as usual. Random people saying weird shit about Apple, and making complaints that were illogical and didn't make sense.

Go and tell them that they are boring. Please. Don't bring that weak sauce into a discussion with an actual genuine intelligent basis.
It helps to have multiple printed copies of your resume, references, and the position you're applying for. The printed resume is the most essential because you may interview with several people in succession and go through 3+ copies of your resume easily.
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"The Ada Initiative—named for Countess Ada Lovelace, the world's first woman open source programmer..."

Or rather, the world's first programmer, who was also a woman and open sourced her programs.
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Bubble means what? Tech IPOs? Commodity prices?
I'm terribly sorry, but I don't really understand what you mean. Care to expand your comment a little?
From what I understand at a cursory glance the salaries are meant to be for the members of the organization, not for programmers working on open source projects (which would be a bad idea for so many reasons...)
I'm tired of seeing Zach's comment reposted as if it's some sort of inspired gospel.

Apple is positioning itself as _both_ a platform for applications and services _and_ as a consumer service. The services offered by Netflix, Hulu, Rhapsody, Rdio and so on offer value consumers have time and time shown they are willing to pay for. These are services the content owners (artists), studios and labels do not provide or provide poorly. Claiming they simply "repackage ... artist's content" is misleading.

These services are increasingly cross platform, available on the web, mobile devices, internet connected consumer electronics, game consoles, etc. They add value to those platforms and can complete when the platform is suitably independent. Those platforms provide only a portion of the necessary infrastructure to run a consumer service. Purchasing, bandwidth, hosting, encoding, transcoding, metadata, social networking features, inventory and so forth are typically still maintained by the consumer service itself. They already have these services due to their web presence.

Apple tries to play the game both ways in an increasingly monopolistic fashion. Before you go on and start harping about Android, recall that Microsoft was convicted not because it was the only operating system (it wasn't) but because it used it's market advantage in the OS to restrict competitors in other markets (browsers). Apple is doing the same thing.

It's one thing for Apple to provide competing consumer services. It's another when they intentional block competition on their supposedly independent platform. Keep in mind, as a platform provider, Apple doesn't provide as many services as Zach suggests. They are little more than a payment services provider, though their rates and restrictions are completely out of line with the rest of that market.

Consider for a moment if Apple were to do provide the same APIs and restrictions on all of Mac OS. Applications can only be made available in the Mac App Store. Applications must use Apple's subscription and purchasing API and no other API for purchases. And so on. They have their own browser? Why not offer an API for web apps as well. It would be secure and user friendly.

"Apple takes the place of publishing, distribution, inventory, sales, payments and shipping... Seems reasonable to me." I'm sure it does.
Since I'm the one proposing this visualization, this is the reasoning: basically the idea is that you can check how the market is going in very little time. I guess the value is much more for casual users interested in the stock market then for traders that will study every single stock with greater detail.

So indeed there is no real added value, but just a faster to read UI I hope. Btw I also concur that the developers should invest more time in providing also some added value that is not just an UI, but I guess this will hardly be a metter of a few days of efforts. Btw I must admit my "benchmark" was the iPhone built-in app that was what I used before.

Thanks for the feedback!
How are Forbes' "paid links" different from Adwords on a page?
Tech bubble; I edited the headline.
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If the 'bubble bursts', then isn't it more likely that they'll be scared away from the sector in general and just invest their money somewhere else?
People love to throw around the antritrust word without--and this isn't necessarily directed at you personally--knowing what it actually means.

Does Apple have a monopoly on phones? Hardly. Look at HTC, Motorola, Samsung, RIM, Nokia, etc.

Does Apple have a monopoly on music? No. You can buy it from Amazon and elsewhere. Likewise you can use Grooveshark, Spotify, Rhapsody, Pandora, etc for different services depending on what country you're in. iTunes sure is dominant though.

Does Apple have a monopoly on ebooks? Hardly. Amazon is a far bigger player here. Amazon is not dependent on Apple as a means of distribution, although Apple devices are obviously important.

Does Apple have a monopoly on TV shows or movies? Hardly. You can buy DVDs from any number of places and downloads from the likes of Amazon. Content producers like Comedy Central, CBS, Fox and others also stream directly from their Websites (and they could do this in HTML5 if they wanted to, allowing them to be viewed on iDevices, but alas they still choose Flash almost exclusively).

So where exactly is the monopoly (virtual or actual) here? You can say that Apple is the only one who can sell apps on iDevices and you'd be right. So what? NBC is the only one who can broadcast shows on their stations. That doesn't make them a monopoly.

So unless someone can produce a cogent argument of how antitrust applies--and I've yet to see one--can we please stop bandying the word around like it has any relevance here?

This isn't to say that some Congressman or Senator won't speak out or possibly there might be a House or Senate hearing but that's really about creating the appearance of doing something rather than their being any justifiable basis for investigation.
Cuban never said anything about those companies adding no value or being worth nothing. He just said they might be overvalued.
I have never seen anybody click on an ad on a webpage. By your reasoning that means that obviously no-one clicks them.

And yet google makes billions off it. Apparently 10% of internet users make up almost all the advert clicks.

I disagree that NFO files are anything like web ads. Web ads are in your face and surround content you are trying to access at all times. They are more like spam e-mails that show up in your Spam e-mail folder. You have to open that folder to see them, and then decide if you want to click through any links contained inside.

Plus, the demographic that is a much more specific demographic than users of the internet as a whole.
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Adwords are inserted by Javascript, so don't pass any link juice.
No way. A:\ mostly was for those big square ones that could only fit 750k and were thin like a cardboard.
I think he's saying that sometimes it is necessary to take action before a conviction in a court of law.

If I see you about to stab someone I'm not going to get a police office to review the case, pass it on to a legal team to assess and bring before a judge, wait for a subpoena, wait for legal representatives to make submissions and then have you arrested. Instead I'd do my best to stop you stabbing them.

Sometimes one has to take action when a crime appears to have been committed or some wrongdoing appears likely to be occurring. Seriousness is IMO a large factor in appropriate response.
Ethics in the Design Field
Apple’s largest store yet coming to Grand Central Terminal
So it's ok to hurt customers a little bit. Just as long as it's not enough to force them to move platforms. Ok, Got it. Just as long as you're honest with it.
I wonder how exactly these results figure into the ranking algorithm. How authoritative does a link shared by a "friend" on twitter have to be in the page-rank sense, for instance? Depending on this threshold, it might suddenly become even more important for a website to have a good social media presence (alternatively, spamming on twitter might become more attractive).

Also, I think Bing launched something similar over a year ago, at least from Twitter and Faceboook (see http://www.discoverbing.com/facebook/) .
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Well, calling it a chain letter / pyramid scheme is incendiary without a doubt. On the other hand, we're talking about Cuban, so I guess your point stands. Once de-Cubanized, he said just what you said.
Yeah, with the government involved, there won't be any false incentives... </sarcasm>
Honestly, while I empathize, you would so lose that case. I'm fairly certain that Apple makes no guarantees about functionality other than some very narrow statements (like supporting 3g or WiFi). If you thought the iPad replaced your Kindle, that's on you.

And at worst, Apple will simply say that Amazon voluntarily decided to not abide by the terms of the app store. Any time they are willing they are invited back in.

As much as I despise many of Apple's business practices I think this is a case where they are fairly making their own call. I'd love to see some companies "man up" and say, "Lets go all in on Android, WP7, and WebOS -- screw iOS".
I see; very impressive for a weekend nevertheless
Redesigning Pixelcloud
Registering for Apple's developer account to upload free, open-source applications to my iphone for testing somehow required me to have a credit card and a transaction of $99 charged to me every year.

And yet people don't seem to complain about that. Go figure.
Sometimes I think social search may be one of those things that sound good in theory but don't really add a lot of value in practice.
After Tahrir: Egypt 2.0
Whom am I speaking with?
merkel writes:

> That was funny but seriously, when you go for your interview, it's common courtesy to have a printed copy of your resume on hand in case the interviewer didn't have time to print out a copy to review before meeting you.

> I went for an interview recently and was berated by the interviewer when I didn't come with a printed copy - he had come straight from a meeting to interview me in the lobby and had neither access to his email nor a hard copy of the resume on hand and felt it was my responsibility to provide it - which i agree with.

> The interview was kind of a disaster because I had to recount my entire work history without anything that he could use to keep track of what I was talking about while I spoke - or even to make notes.

I respectfully disagree.

If a potential employer berated me for not doing his preparation for him I'd simply get up and walk out.

An interview is a two-way process. The prospective employee's responsibility is to show up on time, be respectfully presented and to be prepared and attentive (eg turn off your damn phone). The employer likewise has a responsibility to show up on time and be prepared.

I don't really care if you came from a meeting or have a bunch of interviews and can't remember who is who. That's your problem. If you're not organized to know who you're going to be spending 30-60 minutes talking to then why on earth would I, as the candidate, have any faith in your ability to manage what you're actually meant to be doing?
reddit and 4chan, I am guessing, came onto the internet after you did; they have a reputation for being a younger crowd generally. Certainly this is true of Anonymous.

There's a very human tendency to look at youth and see their culture and its expression as unserious and flippant, because, well, it is. But they (and it wasn't that long ago that 'they' were 'we' for me) also tend to be deeply passionate about changing the world.

"The kids are all right" is kind of an idiomatic American was of referencing all of this. Sorry it didn't come across.
"Facebook has a pretty clear path to socially connecting THE ENTIRE WORLD via the Internet, and has proven it can do it in a cashflow-positive way."

Yes, I see that they can connect. And maybe tomorrows revolutions will use facebook -- but the fact remains that I value my privacy and those of my social relationships. That's just it.
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That's not true. Pension managers are increasingly turning to fund of funds hedge funds, etc. It would only take fundA investing in a private equity or a social media financial product and then a pension manager investing in fundA for whatever reason.
With 60% of world's touch panel capacity, Apple squeezes competitors
Interned with Langton at SFI in summer of 1997. Great experience.
This just happened to me a week ago. One interviewer I spoke to didn't have a copy and luckily I had a few in my folder with me. It shows preparedness on your part as an interviewee.
But aren't bubbles and pyramid schemes the same thing? The article should really define bubbles if it wants to argue they're different from pyramid schemes.
We are a bit north of you (Montreal) but always looking for strong interns: http://bit.ly/eCb7FU

I would echo the comments about www.youtern.com and www.internmatch.com though. We get about 1/3 of our intern applications from these websites (the rest comes from direct referals and on-campus recruiting).

Finally, don't underestimate the value knocking on doors. I have hired a bunch of great interns and employees over the years who just "showed up" and pitched themselves into the organisation.
Rentals. Pre-determined-time-limited content access is disallowed for IAP.

So can one do book rentals? You get a book for 100 years?

100 Year Rental Price: $10.00

Price to Purchase: $13.00
National Library of Finland launches crowdsourced archive digitization
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It's a generalization, not a trivialization. Saying all human interactions are markets is like saying everything in computer programming is an object (or everything is a function, or everything is data, or whatever). It's a particular way of looking things that yields insights depending on where, how, and how well it is applied.
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This really has nothing to do with the content of the article, but it's one of the reasons I respect Ars so much. There is not one mention of "cloud" outside the vendor's specific product names in the entire article. In other words, Ars' authors and editors don't play the buzzword bingo game.
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I suspect the delivery companies know this information internally, but don't want you to freak out if your package says it will arrive at 10am but doesn't come till 2pm because of traffic or the truck breaking down.
It trivializes it only if you draw some grand conclusions from economic theory.

I think many times we get the simple fact that humans are traders mixed up with all this political and economic theory nonsense. To acknowledge that people are always trading is an important observation in itself, and doesn't imply any other conclusions. Draw your own.

If anything, it looks like the study of economics is doing exactly what you say: it's showing that these trades many times are irrational, are not for money, and are driven by as many complex forces as exist in the human psyche.

So you can start with "it's all a market" and end up with the complexities of human existence, or you can start with "It's not all economics" and end up with the complexities of human existence. Same difference. Either way, the problem is taking huge generalizations and beating them with a rhetorical hammer until they fit some personal worldview, not the observation of the phenomenon itself.
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Your argument is known as the Paradox of Value. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value Lots of Value !== Lots of Profitability
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Mobile developers can already make more money on WP7 than Android
Bubbles are usually fueled by public manias (e.g. tulips or real estate). Pyramid schemes are planned frauds.
For those who didn't stumbled upon it yet: http://superuser.com/q/231273/38447 (What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for?)
It depends on what you consider the injury to be. If they didn't have a smartphone before they purchased an iPhone, then having a phone that lacks the features of other smartphones doesn't really injure them, it just makes them jealous, which is possibly bad for business. But if they don't switch, then the lack of that feature isn't as important to them as the other apps they have purchased, etc. Are you injured? Well, you got a bad deal, and in a way Apple changed the terms of your contract without notifying you, but it's hard to say that you've really lost anything. More, you just made the wrong purchase due to asymmetric information.

Still, in this case, I think Apple is engaging in a weird sort of brinkmanship with distributors, and I'm not sure they're in a position to dictate such terms.
The relevant text is in section 11, article 13 of the App Store Review Guidelines:

Apps can read or play approved content (magazines, newspapers, books, audio, music, video) that is sold outside of the app, for which Apple will not receive any portion of the revenues, provided that the same content is also offered in the app using IAP at the same price or less than it is offered outside the app. This applies to both purchased content and subscriptions.

I read it in the press release as being just about the price and not the fact that you _have_ to offer it. I guess I was wrong?
When people invest $10M in the next social tag-me-too mobile app, then yes, we are in a bubble that will pop after some get-rich-quick IPOs in the next couple of years.
Utterly unsurprising, considering Sony's heritage. They're thugs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootki...
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Of course companies have Non-Compete/Non-Disclosure laws. There is no law (afaik) that says a company can't try to make you think they have more rights than they do. Have you ever heard of anyone trying to enforce one? The only one I've ever heard of was that high up executive who recently moved between two competing companies (think Oracle was one of the parties and maybe HP) and that was settled between the companies out of court. So I still no of no cases where it has been tested in court and was help up. Holding up such laws would be an insane precedent.

Look at it this way: when you sign these agreements are you on equal footing? If every company has them then you have no choice to but sign if you want to work. So you're not freely giving up your rights, you're basically being forced to.
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I'd like to be able to add not just my own accounts from other websites (like twitter), but those of others as well. So, for example, if one of Brian's Twitter folks posted a video, I want that ranking higher in my search results. It would be nice to be able to add Brian's twitter to my social search.