skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the feedback. Appreciate it.

> 4. Brainstorming - A chat room/FB wall/discussion board/google wave/Whiteboard like features where members can easily do brainstorming with other interested members.

I have been thinking about it but just haven't been able to come up with a best way to do it. Would you like to talk sometime about it?

> 5. Document Repository(Wiki Style) - For things like Feature List, Proposed UX/UI Design pics, business plan, etc.

I will be pushing an update soon that will allow one to add different information about your ideas. It won't support attached documents yet but will allow one to better manage the researched information.

> 6. List of Interested Developers,Designers,etc. (Followers)

This is in the works actually.

> 7. List of implementation - Links of actual implementation of idea.

There is an example in the site already where a user got feedback on the idea, implemented it and then shared the implementation link in the comments. I agree it's different than what you are proposing.

Again, let me know if you would like to talk sometime.
Just got $350 for my 32GB WiFi iPad 1. Thanks!
He makes no sense, he is contributor on CNBC Kudlow show. You should listen to him he does not have facts and uses loud and continuous speaking to make his point, rather than being valid with his comments.
Hahaha, beautiful article. I'd love to see someone attempt to secure cat hair to their face with maple syrup.

Having to jump through hoops like forging a mustache onto someone's passport before applying a fake mustache yourself in order to impersonate said person is the reason sites like gamefaqs.com exist.

Another stunning realization is that after deciphering that web of absurdity someone took the time to write it down in a guide instead of just shutting the program down, ejecting the disc, dousing it in gasoline, and lighting it on fire.
It doesn't have to be either-or.

Another option is to not get married or have children in the first place, and open yourself up to an entire lifespan of such opportunity.
To start off, if it makes you feel any better, most people's work ethics are like you.

You can't just keep going on a journey to search for motivation, because it didn't work for me. If you've attempted to read the productivity literature and the self help literature, I'm sure everything I say, you know already.

So to keep it clean and simple, pull yourself together man. No one is going to help you, and you're on your journey on your own. The motivation has to come within, and if you really want to become successful, then start acting more successful. Surround yourself with people of good work ethics. Start challenging people to motivate yourself through competition. You have to figure out what works for you.

The best way to measure your determination is to go jog. Set a high expectation number, let's say if you're endurance can only allow you to jog 2 miles currently, set a goal to jog for 4 miles. Refuse to stop until you finish the distance.
Star Wars Episode IV retold with icons
You honestly don't believe that most Apple customers just buy Apple products because of the brand name on the box?

Go survey anyone buying the products in the store or online. See how long it takes you to get an answer along the lines of: "I researched all my options and this seemed like the best choice."

> You can't sell 15 million units of a brand new, $500 product in nine months on the strength of TV ads and magazine pieces. It has to actually work well.

The iPad by any other name and company would not have sold close to that amount.
Panel #25 is my fav.
Show HN: Newtiny - Forget Bookmarking and Record your whole Web History
Few days ago I got frustrated by inability to search a web page which I had visited few months ago. Bookmarking services are great, but it always happens that we forget to bookmark something or don't find something important at the moment only to realize after few days that we should've.
Even browsers' web history can go back only few weeks or months and if our system crashes or we switch to some other, it's all gone.

So, I thought why not record my whole web history, put it up in the cloud and make it easily searchable from anywhere.

http://newtiny.com

Note: Yesterday, I had put up the link on HN and few of the users raised the concerns regarding lack of a 'Privacy Policy'. Now, I've added that. I thank you everyone for a great response to the service.

'Newtiny keeps all your data private and accessible only to you'

I also added ability to delete all your information and account from Newtiny. You can leave anytime if you feel it's not for you.
If anyone has seen someone else do this, please let me know.

I'm a little nervous about posting this because last time I put something I considered "research" I got grilled a bit: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1959896. That being said, it stayed at the top of the arc forum for a few days and nobody said this sucked. Well, I fixed the bug, read what I had to read, and am showing HN that that data structure can be used to build Lisp pretty much from scratch. I'm sure you can do it with other data structures, but have neither seen it done nor know what the performance would be like.
The public at large doesn't care and more to the point and the public at large usually aren't affected by loss of privacy - it doesn't inconvenience them enough to bother them.

Diaspora and other such projects are a complete joke. People aren't going to run their own server. Make it easy, make it fast and get their friends to use it, that's it. Nothing else matters.
Psychonauts is a great game, but it wouldn't be categorized in the adventure genre - at least not in the vein this article is referring to (old school point and click puzzle solving).
Canada Rejects Fox Style News
Breaking news: people with a lifetime of wisdom to draw from make reasonably good decisions a lot of the time. Blog at 11.
Try jQuery's deferred events. It is, IMO, the most elegant actual-JavaScript solution to the problem I've seen.
What's wrong with the Moog?! It takes me right back to the early 80s.

Seriously, though, at least they had a concept in mind for that one (making it look / work like the real thing) instead of most of these atrocities. I feel like there was a dark period from around 1998 or so through the mid-2000s where (maybe it started with WinAmp skins?) bad developers realized their windows didn't have to follow the tried-and-true SDI/MDI model and really went out of control. Also, it seems like a high proportion of these disasters come out of audio and video card manufacturers -- what's up with that?
I think Scribblenauts + adventure game storylines would actually resurrect the genre in an amazing way. Imagine a harry potter style game where you can create anything to solve simple puzzles.

Would be amazing.
Double Fine's new game Stacking on xbox live arcade is definitely reminiscent of old-school adventure games, and it's great!
Looks like Gazelle's offer just went down to $283. They're convenient if you don't want to use Craigslist, but note that they will always lowball you (since they're planning to resell it themselves).

I sold my original base model iPad for $400 on Craigslist last week ($100 less than I paid). I'm sure you could still get at least $300 now, more if you put in the time to write a good ad and/or offer to deliver nearby.
The Evolution of Foursquare's Game Mechanics
David Brooks almost wrote an interesting article there.

The beginning is promising, he writes about the different growth rates in developing vs developed countries. This is a well established economic fact. There's an opportunity to infer something from this... Brooks just never quite gets to it.

Another interesting idea he does not clarify but does mention is the productivity improvement we have experienced over the course of this (and last!) century. Technology has greatly reduced the need for labor. Again great potential for a discussion which Brooks is never able to take anywhere meaningful.

Instead the article slowly degenerates into some kind of drivel about hypothetical individuals states of mind... I don't even, what?

It's kind of sad when someone clearly has the education to start a discussion but just completely lack the personal ambition to write to a much higher standard.

Write about hard facts, falsifiable theories based on them. Write something more akin to a readable scientific paper.

Instead we get something which resembles a bright high-school student's essay on the human condition in a consumerist world.

But that's what the work of an op-ed columnist must be like.

If you told me I was doomed to be a ditch digger, I would be quite upset, but I'd get over it.

If you told me I was doomed to sit in a cubicle, well I'd be rather upset that I'll never fulfill my dream of working for myself but I would get over it.

If you told me I was doomed to create nothing other then op-ed articles like this one, I would shoot myself.
>The tragedy of this seems to be that we're running out of stuff for people to do.

There is a lot to do for humans. Just look at the problems in any area of science. Not all people are qualified to work there though. This is why instead of whining about disappearing of menial labor jobs, we should be working toward [what would be at least a start] making K16 a basic level of education instead of K12. A thousand year ago reading and writing would made one a basically educated person (for the rest of his/her 30 year long life). In 19th century K8 was enough (and the average lifespan ~45), in 20th for the most of the part - K12 (and the average lifespan is ~70 at the end of the century). The body of knowledge is growing, we live longer, so it is natural to learn more and apply the more advanced knowledge and skills for longer period of the active adult productive life.
The general public doesn't buy Apple products by way of rational decision-making. They buy it because it's Apple and to be part of the community and culture of Apple fans.
Oh, wow. OMM, talk about memories (the linked article is from 2000.) Among other things Chet and Erik were famous for the Time To Crate system of reviewing games by how long it took from starting the game until you saw a crate. Since this was the late 90s/early 2ks, it was generally zero seconds. This was in comparison to real life, where I frequently go years at a time without seeing a single crate, but then again, I am not a genius game designer.
Well, my point wasn't that child abuse happens at whatever frequency, my point is that a whole universe of stuff happens that isn't captured by those statistics.

Again, I do think that some sort of unified performance measurement is important. But it's really easy to screw something like that up. Teachers spend between 5-35 hours a week with a student depending on schedule and we're summing up that interaction with information that fits on half of the back of a business card? That doesn't tingle your spider sense at all? "Warning, lots of information loss here"?

When you base performance on a metric, then you re-orient everything around the metric. It is very very very important to get that metric right and a right answer probably doesn't fit in an HN post. I mean, nobody thinks engineers should be measured by kloc, let's not oversimplify for teachers either.
Do they really need to be part of the language when they can be encoded so readily, either ad-hoc, or with the Cont monad / ContT monad transformer?
Telltale's episodic PC games are pretty great as well. The Sam & Max ones are almost as good as the original.
Satcking is not a Telltale game. It's made by Double Fine, the people who made Psychonauts. Double Fine is run by Tim Schaefer, who helped create many classic adventure games like Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, etc.
I've got a co-worker who sold his 3gs about a year ago. He said it was a great experience. On seeing your comment I just started the process of selling my iPad 32gb wifi to gazelle. $437, not bad. I won't be buying the 2nd gen. I just want to offload mine before the value drops out of it.
Shut up about specs and solve problems
You're right, simplenote doesn't have a native android client
but I am a simplenote user and use mNote on my galaxy s; no complaints, syncs flawlessly (haven't used 'lists' though). Just posting in case you haven't seen the app.

Good luck, I'm going to give your app a go.
I'm so happy to see Steve back on stage! He looks great.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/03/201103...
These Are The Controversial Satellite Photos That Set Off Protests In Bahrain
Considering "living like a king" typically means that you get what you want, I'd say that the two are the same.

The slog from subsistence to utopia is, and will be, accomplished one step at a time. Improved productivity (often achieved through the transformation of raw materials), increases output relative to effort and time spent working. The dividends paid by this improved productivity is almost always reinvested, typically by reducing effort, but maintaining (or increasing) time.

tl;dr the economy is very much aimed at letting everyone live like a king just for breathing, but breathing alone is not yet productive enough to satisfy anyone's needs.
looking at the keynote live blog that engadget did, it seemed like most of the focus was on how iBooks was doing (the lead), and creation software - iMovie and some sort of garage band / rock band hybrid.
Really? There are some decent Android options in the $300 range, e.g.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/24/archos-70-and-101-interne...
They're not high for most people. They're high for a small subset of people that don't know what they're doing as soon as they read "JSON" :)
yeah i totally misread that one
You're in luck: http://macdailynews.com/2011/03/02/apples-hdmi-cable-works-w...
> and now look who's running the market

How about looking who is making money?
It seems clearly wrong that a funeral should be interrupted by anyone for any reason. Don't families have the right to bury their loved ones in privacy? The court should not defend the rights of one group if by doing so it strips another of theirs.
It looks like HDMI output is available to all current gen iOS products, as well as iPad 2:

http://macdailynews.com/2011/03/02/apples-hdmi-cable-works-w...
you can get a zotac miniPC for $200 shipped http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856173...
At one level, it's the thought that counts -- great to see Appleseed mentioned.

At another level, it's disappointing they didn't take the time to get things right
Implementing Open Standards in Open Source
Old man murray was the best content site ever. RIP.
Before I clicked, I thought it meant text adventures. Clearly they're deader than corduroy if graphical ones are now 'old'.
Nearly every Android device has been made to run up to almost the latest version of the OS.

Good luck with iOS 5 practically bricking the all but the latest hardware coming out of Apple because the phone slows to a crawl.
Topology Of Autonomous Systems [infographic]
You know that you can do web development with Python, right? Django is a great solution for web development.
I told her that i needed sometime alone to figure stuff out. I still like her, and she still likes me, she tried to help, but sometimes I just don't want people around me. I thought that was understood, but clarifying again.
When I started working for Apple (about 5 years ago now) it was my dream job (I had serious fanboitis). The new hires got a security orientation which was your basic "We spend lots of money protecting things; don't do anything lame."

But the reality of working makes the magic unicorn dust wear off. I saw a bunch of prototypes and I knew a bunch of information that nobody else 'knew' but lots of outsiders suspected. I became more interested in my work than selling other people this idea that I had these secrets that I could pass onto others. (We were also told to 'eat our own dog-food' which makes me highly suspicious of every Software Update to this day. I always wait a couple weeks before installing anything new.)

That's an important part of the equation. If your employees are more interested in leaking information than working, maybe you're doing something wrong. (Just to clarify, I still consider Apple a great place to work; I left because I wanted to do something different, not because I felt that it was a poor place to work.)

[Edited for grammar]
thanks i totally misread that
Not sure about most beautiful, but Union-Find definitely is very clever, clean, and useful.
Cash is still better: if the recipient wants to buy something from CardPool at a discount, they can. Or they can take advantage of any other discount or product anywhere.
> The iPad by any other name and company would not have sold close to that amount.

That's definitely true. An iPad by another company would not sell anywhere close to 15 million units in nine months. Why?

* Low standards for overall product quality, along with short term gotta make Wall Street happy this quarter thinking, so products get rushed to market

* Sloppy software/hardware integration

* No access to 20 years of NeXTStep/OS X libraries and tools to build an awesome developer experience, so apps will suck

* No supply chain optimization to provide an outstanding form factor at a compelling price

* No consistent, worldwide retail presence to allow users to experiment with the new product and have questions answered

* No culture of absurd exhaustive prototyping to ensure that the user experience works well once the product is in the hands of customers

> You honestly don't believe that most Apple customers just buy Apple products because of the brand name on the box?

I honestly believe the Apple brand gets people into the store. Once they're in the store, the actual product sells itself. Any further influence of the brand in the purchasing decision comes down to the simple truth that Apple has been consistently making better shit than everyone else for years. But you can't pay a PR firm for that.
Not necessarily. I don't see a reason why person B would have to have something he's better at than A, except maybe statistical - there are millions of things a person can be good at, so the chances he's worse than the other in all things are very small.

But then still, it's entirely possible that person A is better at many more things than person B. So 'equal' as in 'A and B are the best in an equal amount of things', I don't see any reason why it would be so.
Thanks man. I usually run 60-90 minutes 2x week, so running calms me down, and that is something that I force myself to do, but the other stuff doesn't happen. I guess that is what i figured after reading all this self help stuff that I ultimately need to figure stuff out myself, but I thought there might be other folks that could point me in the right direction.
They really need to fix the notification system and the multitasking model. Now that we have a CPU that screams while sipping power, there's not a large case against it.

The constant waiting (IM apps in particular) when task-switching is aggravating, and the one point where Android can really whip the hell out of the iPad.
It's absolute in the sense that you absolutely have the right to express an opinion at any time.

I'm aware of the whole "fire in a crowded theatre" concept and as you said, that doesn't really apply here.
Gosper's Algorithm Meets Wall Street Formulas
ok a little bit plagarized from slashot ...

Wall Street's money making formulas need to be as explicit as possible for efficiency purposes. An old, existing and famous formula — binomial options pricing formula — has now been scrutinized for theoretical optimality in a forthcoming paper by Evangelos Georgiadis of MIT using Gosper's Algorithm, proving that no general explicit or closed form expression exists for pricing.
While I appreciate why people would want to abstract around them for some use cases, I gotta point out that nested serial callbacks aren't just a nuisance. 95%ish of the serial cbs I've written in Node have benefited from their nested lexical scoping: A cb in a serial chain tends to rely on results from earlier in the chain, and it's nice to be able to refer to variables in the outer scopes without having to pass hella arguments between callbacks.
The basic misconception is that Hollywood is in the business of making good films. Nope. Hollywood is just in the business. I.e. making money, profit. The sequel 7 1/2 is an evolutionary developed model for that. Note: there is no contradiction with the fact that some years ago doing good films was good for business.
September!? Really? That's ridiculously quick.
Thanks. That's a learning moment for me. Apple is very clever about speaking to their audience. The people who'd listen to Jobs live are content creators and avid readers. The average visitor just want to watch TV.
How much more do you feel like you'd make by having web-sync ?

It sounds like a large project compared to just steadily polishing the app itself and starting a second app on the side, or even as your new main project.

An added benefit in starting work on a second app is diversification, different target audience, different appspace. You say building a good app is hard, but so is building a good web offering.
This doesn't prove that it won't happen, though. The more people there are, the more probable it is.
That's alright, I wasn't planning on friending the FSF anyway.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate that people have the right to their views and their right to licence things and act accordingly, but the zealotry in the FSF is just too much for me to handle.
Yeah, though I think they should cut buck on using bold font all over the place. That should be use for emphasis but the Goog wants to use it as the default.
Use the traction you've already got in the productivity category with this app to tackle other problems in that area. Be the next 37signals of the Android marketplace.
It seems like logging enough detail to matter on so many loads would cost more in time and money than the data is worth.

edit: And then I did the math. A 15 byte IP (pretending all IPs are made of four 3 digit numbers) plus a 400 byte URL across 1b accesses is less than half of a terabyte hard drive. Guess we're doomed.
The bank website is still better than 99% of all enterprise applications from a UI perspective.
Can we stop calling it news?

Fox Skews
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The Top Gun era sent the ambitions of those who wanted to break into the biz spiraling in a new direction. Fifteen years earlier, scores of young people headed to film schools to become directors. With the advent of the Reagan years, a more bottom-line-oriented cadre of would-be studio players was born, with an MBA as the new Hollywood calling card. The Top Gun era shifted that paradigm again—this time toward marketing. Which was only natural: If movies were now seen as packages, then the new kings of the business would be marketers, who could make the wrapping on that package look spectacular even if the contents were deficient.

I see the same thing happening right now in tech. I see a lot of fairly vapid, not very innovative ideas being driven by a lot of marketing and salesmanship.

Top Gun : Movies

Twitter : Tech

When you put marketers in charge of everything, you get a culture of pandering and recycled old ideas. That's what we have.
Full iPad2 Specs vs. Competition: Who’s Best?
What? That's it? Flagged.
I freelance to make bank. I have enough money to get by for a couple of months, or live beyond my means for 2 months and blow it all. That is the question that i keep asking myself, because I went through all the old stuff on HN that suggested traveling, or helping others and volunteering. I don't have an answer, and I am just freaking out because of that.
From the article:
" Yes, we can all agree that the displays are seriously cruddy and the overall build quality and design, for lack of a better work, suck, but at this point we've just come to expect that for a tablet under $300. "

Definitions of decent vary.