skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember playing with one of intel's tablet prototype units way back in 2007. It was bulky and was running XP and used a stylus for input. Obviously it was more for testing feasibility of the platform more than anything but it was incredibly unusable and uninteresting at the time. They were aiming for a fall release which obviously never materialized.

So they have been thinking about the tablet space for a while, they just haven't been approaching it the same way as Apple has and I think realized that it would have been a shitty product if they had released it.
jesus... I'm not talking about some historical situation, I'm talking about right here and right now.

AFAIR British Empire long ceased to exist. But when it existed it had quite unified law. That's why you have English law in the USA and that's what Law of India is largely based on too.

World map that shows PRC and Republic of China (and Hong Kong for that matter) as a single entity is simply wrong.
Scott McNealy on Silicon Valley
Why is this sad? Should be encouraged if the person in question is willing to spend the time to make up for the missing knowledge...
Here's Why a 14 Year Old Built a Company Around WebOS
That's an interesting app. I've heard good things about it but I've never used it myself. How often do you use it?
That's a damn good point.
Recruiting a Rails Programmer, Step One: The Email.
Tough business, punditry. You have to be right enough to get people's attention and wrong enough to make it interesting.
> So why did you make the comparision?

My point was that twitter's scale and problem complexity are not unprecedented and that small, motivated teams have solved them before. Parallel queries and transactions for DB2 on z/OS were developed by small teams in Poughkeepsie, NY and Perth, Australia. Google's infrastructural software was designed by a small group of very bright people, and so on.

If we compare the groups actually working on the problems then I expect that twitter will have comparably small groups of engineers directly facing the scaling problem. And I also repeat the point that bigger problems have already been solved. Twitter's issues are not unprecedented if you are prepared to look outside the Journal of Stuff I Remember Seeing on Highscalability.com.
To put that another way, you currently have as much information as anyone does regarding the price of the course.

Sweet. I'll offer 20:1 that the final price falls between $100 and $4000.

Can anyone do better?
"that would be bad. No need to evolve in any cardinal way... until the meteor stroke, super vulcanos erupted , etc..."

Again, you bring more assertions out of thin air, this time actively contradicting the source. McCarthy explicitly mentions space colonization, though he doesn't make it a central part of his argument. Who anywhere said the only response to change would be technological? You're criticizing McCarthy for ideas that you're the one bringing up in the first place. That's not fair.
Convore?
It's not just about having apps, it's about having good apps. Good mobile apps, in most cases, would not make good desktop apps and vice versa.
MongoHQ: http://mongohq.com/

If anyone wants to work with MongoDB (nosql database) it's a lot easier to let them handle the details instead of adding it to your already huge list of things you need to do, know, learn etc. They have free databases you can mess around with, and their paid ones are a lot cheaper than getting more vps's/dedicateds/cloud instances - these guys save me time, headaches and money.

BizSpark: http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/

Free MS software for 3 years including Windows, Visual Studio, SQL Server etc. Generous terms when your 3 years are up.

DNSPark: http://dnspark.net/

Very cheap DNS, I use them at Playtomic which millions of people hit each day. They have generous query limits - $14/year for 5 million queries/month should well and truly cover most startups - and if like me that's closer to "a day" then a month they're still yet to implement overage charges.

Pingdom: http://www.pingdom.com/

Uptime and latency monitoring for your servers. I'm still only using their free plan which is a mistake on my part - I just haven't had time to get it all set up properly and have the data piped into my own dashboard but it is on my to do list.

High Scalability: http://highscalability.com/

Not a service, but an awesome blog that you should read if you are dealing with big numbers or big data, or aspiring to. They're one of the few out-of-my-industry blogs I actually go to without coming through HN.

Web Hosting Talk: http://webhostingtalk.com/

If you're not excited about being billed per hour, per request and per gigabyte for storage and bandwidth in teh cloudz then you can get awesome deals on all levels of hosting there, esp good for dedicateds and vps.

Fusion Charts: http://www.fusioncharts.com/

I don't use them anymore but they have a great library of free Flash charts you can use. AMCharts (http://www.amcharts.com/) is another one that I still use but only for their world maps.
"Create beautiful text based pages in seconds and share them with world"

I think you may have meant "with the world".
This is a great resource to start:

http://www.w3schools.com/
A compelling article when it was written, and I think many of his potential solutions to problem have promise. But the article really suffers from not having been revised in the intervening years. For example, the view of oil is very '90s: everything will be fine until oil stops coming out of the ground, and then we'll have a crisis. But oil won't stop coming out of the ground for decades, so we have plenty of time to deal with it.

But the idea behind peak oil is that even a relatively small decline in oil can lead to drastic increases in prices, which would have devastating effects on the world economy. Peak oil isn't even addressed in McCarthy's writing, as far as I can tell.

Related is agriculture: McCarthy portrays it as an issue of water and arable land. But it's also an issue of fertilizer, and fertilizer production is dependent upon petroleum. So if we have a drastic spike in petroleum prices, that will lead to a drastic spike in fertilizer costs, which would lead to a drastic spike in food costs. See Egypt for an example of what happens when that occurs.

Finally, the Ehrlich/Simon bet. Again, compelling at the time, but the bet ended in 1990. 21 years ago. That's hardly a compelling statement on the state of the world in 2011. What would the result of that bet been had it been replayed from 2000 to 2010? From looking at this:
http://minerals.usgs.gov/ds/2005/140/
it looks like all 5 metals in the bet have risen in price over the last decade.

EDIT: I found one reference to peak oil on the Hydrogen page, but it's given no serious analysis.
HP Depression-era working conditions in Australia
I dont get why everybody is falling for the "end of pc era" hype that is surrounding tablets and smartphones.

Can someone explain to me why the ability to browse the web from the couch without sufficient text-entry possibilities is going to challenge the amount of pc's in a world where textentry is our main method of searching, sorting and creating data. Honestly, this is not a rhetorical question, i feel i'm missing some part of the picture here.
Very cool idea, and nice site. I noticed that you are serving your own jquery. I've read that it's better to link to Google's host as it is more likely to be cached (and other reasons). Is this a conscious decision on your part, or is it just a part of the puzzle you haven't wrestled with yet? (Honest question- I don't know the right answer because I haven't wrestled with it yet.)

Google jquery link:

<script type="text/JavaScript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
What am I supposed to do with lolbucks?
My guess is that it's related to supply constraints. They sold 14 million of them last year. That's a lot of chips.

Is their RAM special in some way that might make it a supply constraint big enough to warrant limiting the memory in the iPad so much?
'Government' does not imply any particular form, nor does it imply consent or participation of the governed

I didn't claim it implies consent, but there is a pretty clear distinction between warlord or feudal lord and "the government", at least to me.

Genghis Khan was pretty powerful warlord, controlling much of Eurasia at one point, but he didn't have the government and he wasn't governing.

There's something else that you need to have in order to be considered The Government than just the ability to kill many and collect tax from many. But I'm too tired to elaborate any further right now. This thread is getting too long anyway.

And yeah, none of us drew the border, but neither did the folks who live there...so there figuring it out now. Better late than never, right?

actually it was largely us, the so-called "Western Civilization" that drew Somalia borders as they are recognized today. My point was that we already agree where that border is supposed to be (and nobody seriously recognizes Somaliland).
I agree with this update idea.
I agree, tablets have been the ultimate fixation in computing devices for a long time. We need only look at scifi -- how many shows have people carrying around pencil-thin panels and pulling up a ship's specifications while they walk and talk with the warp engineer, pounding on a glass table to engage weapons system, or other things like that? Apple hit the right combination of price and style at the right time, and imo took the scifi conception much more literally than their competitors, to bring tablets mainstream.
So did I. Really liked it until banner ads start to appear in the most visually disruptive place in the entire interface. If those have been stripped from the paid version, I'd go back.
Im curious as to how this works, but there doesnt seem to be any code examples and the download link seems non-existent. Can someone explain how this is used?

Edit: Scratch that, the download seems to be working now, and it contains some better documentation.
Since I already use Rapportive, I tried the Lanyrd integration and I love it. It's really nice to be able to see conferences that the sender is speaking at. I can also view slides and videos of the person. It's a great way to get to know who is emailing me!
Probably pretty loud, for high speeds:

>In January and February 2008 hundreds of residents demonstrated in downtown Shanghai against the line being built too close to their homes, citing concerns about sickness due to exposure to the strong magnetic field, noise, pollution and devaluation of property near to the lines. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev_%28transport%29#China

Though for slower ones:

>The only low-speed maglev (100 km/h) currently operational, the Japanese Linimo HSST, cost approximately US$100 million/km to build.[40] Besides offering improved operation and maintenance costs over other transit systems, these low-speed maglevs provide ultra-high levels of operational reliability and introduce little noise and zero air pollution into dense urban settings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev_%28transport%29#Economic...

[citation needed], but good news.
Not exactly surprising considering Elop's background.
Dropbox, Github, Pivotal Tracker, Balsamiq
Speek API hackathon this weekend
Nice, but you're (egregiously) violating Dropbox API TOS by asking for the user's password.
You are assuming that interface is all that it takes to develop an app. A user interface is only but a small component of any native application. I am not saying that a current windows apps can be used as it is but with a bulk of the logic in place, changing just an interface to make it touch aware should not be a big deal.
So why don't you approach?
I am in the same boat ... my plan is to work on the idea I am most passionate about. Then when I have a nice revenue generating business, I can hire developers to make my other ideas happen.
The problem with running up against the limits is that it isn't always pretty. I've heard it said that "all exponential functions are really S-curves" which in this situation would correspond to a civilisation gracefully decreasing its growth as it approached the limits.

However, other curves are possible too. Overshoot and collapse can also occur.

The S-curve scenario can only happen under the following circumstances.
a) the limits are recognised by us
b) they are responded to immediately with no delay.

Another scenario, called "overshoot and oscillation" occurs when:
a) there is a delay in the response
b) AND the the limits that we have exceeded recover quickly. i.e. the limits are no erodable.

"Overshoot and collapse" occurs when we erode some resource that does not recover quickly. Unfortunately, I can think of many resources that are very erodable. The most obvious being fossil fuels which take millions of years to replace themselves. Top-soil and biodiversity are also examples of highly erodable resources.
Nokia: You Can't Iterate On A Burning Platform
You can also just google it with quotation marks.
Ditto.

If you've ever lost access to Google, you'll never rely only on webmail again. There is absolutely no way to get in touch with a responsive human there. You may mysteriously get access back after a few weeks. Or maybe not. In the meantime, their online "help forms" will direct you to other forms, none of which provide any indication about what to do in cases when Google has erred.

There is literally no recourse.
Announced last year, I guess they finally got around to rolling it out site-wide.

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/09/30/improvements-photos...

I am seeing the new functionality as of today.
And for a classic.

http://alpha61.com/primenumbershittingbear/
Sure, but an increasingly small portion. And quite a few of you won't until the next big thing, and so on for quite a while; there will be people without a flatscreen in their residence in 2020 but I wouldn't recommend building a business on convincing them to change their mind. No, the situation in 2011 isn't like that, obviously; this is a rhetorical point made for seeing the situation I'm describing in a time when it is perfectly clear. Today isn't to that extreme, the point is that already that market has peaked.

Besides, an Apple TV that doesn't require HD, which would not be that much more effort, would also work for anyone with a TV, so it really doesn't make sense to me to only make this an integrated product.
For a more detailed analysis, see Re-litigating the Simon/Ehrlich Bet: http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2010/02/re-litigating_t.ht...
Thanks for that - hadn't seen the small one (had seen an earlier archos 7"? tablet).
The two don't have to be mutually exclusive.
Is he that unusual? I don't game much these days but I also own no Apple products. There's plenty of non-Apple desktops, laptops, phones, mp3 players, etc. to go around.
XP? Really?

What about Windows for Pen Computing? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_for_Pen_Computing
I've heard of reverse mergers, where people acquire a "used" company and transfer business assets into it. Not sure where to send you though.
What is your skill set? Are you a developer or designer yourself? How much of your project can you build on your own?

If you do want to go forward with this, it sounds like you'll need a co-founder. That means giving-up equity and convincing someone to work with you. (PG often says that if you can't convince someone to go into business with you, then it's probably a bad idea.)

So if you can build a prototype or at least a mock-up, and if you can get a co-founder onboard, then you can consider applying to an accelerator or incubator.
I suspect HN is a fantastic ambient resource for actual Y Combinator members. That is to say, I suspect most of them would have a harder time being productive and successful in a world without HN.
Yeah, I might like to own something similar with a good browser like you mentioned but I can't see consumers buying a lot of Android or Web OS tablets.
"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson
I dare you to make a logo for any org with the name chirp at the root of its name with anything other than a bird.
I like this... Very minimalist but cool. Rich text editing would be a pretty sweet addon.
The argument is not that the government should provide incentives for people to quit their jobs and work on startups. The way I see it, healthcare in its current state with its unreasonable costs, is a problem. Even if the average earner chooses to finance her healthcare herself, she will not able to sustain it. So this is a case of the government removing a roadblock so that the individual can weigh other factors to decide whether or not a job/startup/retirement is right for her.
That looks nice. Thanks!
It's the "end of PCs" for the mainstream market, which was overrun with them for the last 10 years. Now the mobile technology is good enough that bulky desktops are going to be used primarily by professionals. You're not going to edit video/render 3D on the iPad 2, but for 90% of the population that just needs to check their email, it's good enough.
Counterfeit Lugaru has been removed from the Mac App Store
I love Nokia's hardware, and have great respect for Microsoft's mobile team. But I'm not sure whether two dinosaurs together can run faster than one.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Hm. Anyone know why Firefox 4b11 wouldn't respect that tag? It's throwing it into ISO-8859-1.
Pretty much everything listed here: http://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/
We almost had it. http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/microsofts-courier-digita...

Why Microsoft killed Courier, I'll never know.
That link proves my point well. Even a 500hp Mustang can be stopped by it's own brakes.

Perhaps emergency stop under power needs to be taught as part of driving tests.
That's a fair point, but the point is I am already executing one of the things that I am passionate about. So following through is happening in that regard.

But in the midst of that execution, there are other ideas that probably have a genuine shot of generating some revenue. So the question is how to either:

A - Prevent yourself getting distracted by that idea. Do you share it or just sit on it?

B - Seriously evaluate whether it is worth either changing direction or finding ways to execute both (or more) ideas in parallel.

Given that we have the phrase "serial entrepreneur" (which I am not a big fan of honestly) rather than "parallel entrepreneur" I'm guessing a one thing at a time approach is the best way to go ;)
Geckoboard: http://www.geckoboard.com/
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Freshbooks: http://www.freshbooks.com/
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Linode: http://www.linode.com/
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A few days ago there was a story about somebody taking an open-source game engine, illegally bundling the original game content, and uploading it to the Mac App Store at a fifth of the cost of the same product uploaded by the original developers, Wolfire.

The real news is how Wolfire have decided to handle the new batch of customers that can't get support from the pirates, and haven't paid for a legitimate copy:

If you accidentally purchased the fake Lugaru, you can forward your receipt to contact@wolfire.com and we will give you an authentic version of Lugaru HD, as well as a bonus Steam key for your trouble.

That's classy.
Keep the corporation, and re-use it when you have a new idea? At least you'll be saved the time and expense.
Your idea sounds really ambitious. I'd recommend doing something smaller as your first coding project.
Is your startup pushing a web app? Learn to program. It's a lot easier these days.

http://rubyonrails.org/
PG, I think you should write the year when you write a "news news" post.

This site has been around for long enough that certain older posts on that page have some ambiguity.
By "once" I was referring to the singular situation you were in, not necessarily literally "once".

In any case, I wasn't inferring that Elop didn't get it from there (and that he's a creative mastermind), but my question was specifically about what made it "tiring". I had actually never heard it, but am finding all kinds of sources to it now so it makes sense to me now why you would refer to it as "tiring". Thanks.

It is slightly disappointing to hear that he just reused the story, though. I don't even find the story that compelling -- there's nothing in there about the guy succeeding afterwards, but rather just surviving (and changing his behavior). I could think of a number of possibly more relevant stories.

Good luck to him though!
Build the company first, the product later.
http://Uservoice.com: feedback box
The economics of commercial open source
I really like this. It's how the Internet should've worked a long time ago. ;)
Demo: http://waltschmidt.com/v2/

Link is available on the FAQ wiki page - it should really be on the readme.

edit: I don't think I like it... some details as to why:

grid.css
.line:after, .lastUnit:after {
clear: both;
content: " x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x ";
display: block;
font-size: xx-large;
height: 0 !important;
line-height: 0;
overflow: hidden;
visibility: hidden;
}

Anyone care to explain that one? Disabling it causes some sections of the page to overlap.

grid.css
.size1of1 {float: none;}
.size1of2 {width: 50%;}
.size1of3 {width: 33.3333%;}
... etc

content.css
.f105 {font-size: 105%;}
.p0 {padding: 0;}
.p15 {padding: 15px;}
.pt0 {padding-top: 0;}
.pt25 {padding-top: 25px;}
.pl0 {padding-left: 0;}
.pl15 {padding-left: 15px;}
... etc

They've achieved "object oriented" by moving the styles from the CSS to the class attribute. ie, you might as well write `style="padding:0"`, it's the same thing. No doubt HTML-veterans who never really got the whole CSS thing would like it, it's very nearly equivalent to using tables for layout, but with floats instead of <td>s.

That said, I have not used it, or any similar CSS frameworks. Anyone who has care to comment on usability / reusability?
Sunlight Foundation Releases Real Time Congress API
The ads really were in a terrible place for the email experience. I almost stopped using it as well until I found a setting in the preferences that just said "Disable Ads" and that was that.

Because of that, I assume that they've removed the Ads from the paid version.
Am i not getting a reply for my post. I case we you were wondering we are a competitor to kamplye and kissinsights
Steve Jobs Spotted at Apple HQ
Yes Google or hosting on another CDN is the best option. Its something I will switch over to.
Today's fad is the future of the entire industry. No questions allowed.
Announcing early slows sales of previous models. Apple announced the iPhone 1 and the iPad 1 early, but not any subsequent models just for this reason, because the only previous models were competitors. In HP's case, their previous models aren't selling anyways, so they hope to slow the competition. It's called the Osbourne effect.
It's a bit surprising that Nokia wouldn't go for another Linux-based platform (Android), but I guess that anything is better than their current strategy.

I guess that WP7 will allow them to provide an alternative to all the Android devices out there, and unlike Android, they could potentially be the premier WP7 vendor if they execute correctly.
Very true. My answer was a bit tounge-in-cheek, I just didn't get it across properly. While losing GPS would be a problem, it certainly wouldn't bring down our military.

This specific problem definitely wouldn't affect our aircraft simply because they would be at such a high altitude. Even if it was a problem, the military also has a some pretty impressive anti-jamming capability.
Good news, but this tabloid-style tidbit reporting seems pretty iffy to me.