skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I'm not sufficiently satisfied with my historical knowledge to hang around and argue this point with you, but I would point out that Moldbug defends it vigorously. If you can't be arsed to wade through his lengthy mumblings, you can CTRL-F "The fundamental observation of colonialism is that non-European societies thrive under normal European administration, at least in comparison to their condition under native rule" in the above essay and read for a bit from there. His conclusion is that "...to assert that their average quality of government service was anything but far better than either their predecessors, or their successors, is a political distortion of history which I have no trouble at all in comparing to Holocaust denial."
JetBrains is releasing an Objective-C IDE named CIDR
... I'm trying not to think what else the cat left under the bed after three days.
Torrent sites don't have a financial incentive to get you to take the product, do they?
Just because it was Facebook doesn't mean the initial code was very good. Twitter's suffering a lot of technical debt from some bad initial decisions in the codebase.
I was hoping there would be more detailed information in this article, but HN usually does a good job of filling in the missing pieces.

I'm in the process of forming an advisory board now. What's the appropriate way to compensate people for sitting on it? Is it the norm to do that? The people I've approached about it so far have immediately said yes without discussing any kind of compensation; but I'm not sure what the norm is.
One thing I've found works well (though you won't see this ;-) is to alias things like HN & Drudgereport & NYT to localhost, and only view them on an iPad. The fact that I have to physically shift my attention to another screen, one that isn't as large & easy to manipulate (for this old emacs hacker), makes it more of a chore and a choice one makes, rather than falling into bad habits.

Also, on the Mac, SelfControl works pretty well. I can turn off all the interesting sites for 8 hours at a time and not worry about them.
We know they are going to double it to 'retina' levels when they can. If motorola want to follow that approach

They don't need to. The iOS development environment encourages you to use absolute pixel layouts, so a minor resolution increase would break lots of apps. Android uses layout managers that scale better to arbitrary screen sizes. Most existing Android apps will run fine on the Xoom, although certainly many can be improved with tablet-specific interfaces.

The Xoom has an aspect ration that is better for playing a small subset of HD videos, but is worse for using in portrait 'magazine' orientation. It's not actually better for a lot of users.

It still has more vertical pixels than the iPad. Completely agreed on the aspect ratio in general, it's ridiculous that it's almost impossible to find a laptop without a 16:9 display other than from Apple.
Even the extremely capable do stupid things.
I agree that the misquote was wrong. That's not what I'm referring to.

That misquote doesn't change the rest of what he said, which wasn't wrong.

More to the point, I'm not advocating him lying - I'm explaining why he needs to make statements about the competion at all.
This phenomenon isn't something only present in tech companies. I think the stat was, the congressional approval rating floats between 10-20% while the reelection rate floats around 80-90%. Humans have evolved to trust those fewer edges separating them in their social graph more than those with more edges.
Yeah, I'd like we could do something about that pedantry.
The Nook does have a touch screen. And I think historically 'Tablet' has referred to pen-input devices, which aren't exactly the same as 'touch sensitive.'
My only point is, what domain do you visit regularly that uses .cc? It just makes me second guess the credibility.
Do you have an algorithm for this, or an app idea? Some folks at the MIT Media Lab worked on this concept in the early 90s. See for example http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Lieberary/Letizia/AIA/AIA.h.... I mention it only because it might be relevant intellectual property; I don't claim to be up to date in that area.
Yea, just the whole tone of this article really made me queasy. It just smacks of bias. Had it been even-handed observation...
Our AgileTask (http://agiletask.me/ , shameless plug!) team just had a giant brainstorming session on how to try and get more traction.

We did the simple rule of "no but's, just and's" (every idea someone has to say "and" to, no shooting down ideas, saying "but" or debating them at all until you are done brainstorming) and came up with a giant whiteboard of possibilities for us to try out.

Our next focus is going to be community engagement. Look at the people using your app and try to be a genuine member of that community. Things like commenting on hackernews (weee!), writing blog posts about productivity, commenting on similar blogs, etc. Just be genuinely helpful, honest, and don't spam.

Also look at generating content for related projects. Try and find podcasts to be a guest on, ask a blogger if you could write a guest blog post, etc.

Either way keep your chin up and keep on trying. Don't let one competitor burst your bubble.
Finally a well designed website for Bollywood music.
> The law is the law

Laws can, and should, change if society changes.

> people that produce content, software, whatever for non-commercial/personal/consumer consumption have the same standing as I do as a commercial vendor, and should have the same standing.

I agree, I don't think there should be differentiation based on how or why something copyrighted was produced.

However, I don't agree that all infringement is equal, there's a huge difference between some kid downloading a movie off of the internet, and a corporation using a piece of software without a license. I think it's absurd to use the resources of our justice system and law enforcement to pursue the former, but I think it's a great use to pursue the latter.
There are some real smart people that don't have business savvy or street smarts. Its easy to get locked into a big dumb corporation that doesn't recognize talent. You could spend a long time in a place like that and not realize your potential. After all, most kids still go through college and work at "safe" jobs.
Link bait.

I'm tempted to label the author a "socialist", keeping with recent trends. Apple markets well. Other people market and make similar claims. Your soap, your window cleaner, your vitamins, your TV set. It's the nature of our culture, our marketing, and our capitalism.

Why is this a me vs. you thing? Corporations selling Android devices do it, too.

Check out any Android-based "4G" device on AT&T: 1) virtually no one actually has "4G" coverage, and upload speeds are HORRIBLE on 3G (allegedly because AT&T or the OEMs decided to disable HSUPA on these devices for god knows what reason).

Why must Apple always be called out like this? Because they do it so much better than their competitors. If you don't like this, I urge you not to buy their products.
Honestly, if there were a service I found compelling enough, I'd just create throwaway e-mail addresses and refer myself.
Do they? I imagine they do, but there aren't any WSJ blog posts pointing that out. The issue then is one of how long it takes Apple to sell out that inventory.
I don't know about that but Techmeme clearly takes HN into account. I've noticed many times where an article makes it to Techmeme without any other blogs linking to it. Every time that's happened I've found the article on the top of the HN page.
Everything you mentioned, I've also done (with the exception of using it out in drizzle and snow - that just seems crazy!)

Once, during my commute home, I decided to play music via iTunes (my iPod had died). I arrived home, walking to the door, when I decided to unzip the bag I was carrying (a sling type) to turn off iTunes, when my Mac Book Pro came sliding out. It landed smack on the front right corner, a good 5-5.5 ft drop. I feared the worst! It took me a good 10 seconds to finally get the nerve to check and was shocked to find, not only was the screen not cracked, but the machine was still running like a champ! (I did end up with a serious dent and some major scratches on the bottom, but I considered them battle scars and showed them off with pride!)

I've looked at ThinkPads for work (web development) and I'm glad to hear the quality is on par with the MBPs I'm use to.
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Really glad you enjoyed the post! More than ever, we're standing on the shoulders of giants. Glad to share whatever insight I can to make things easier on others.
Whether you call it theft or breach of contract, piracy is wrong and not good.

Wrong or right, good or bad, there are smart ways to get what you want and not so smart ways that don't work.

Taking non-corporate pirates head-on often doesn't work, and is often counter-productive. Taking pirates on indirectly is often a better option. (Use direct conflict as a last resort. It tends to be expensive.)
I think unexpected is referring to ridiculous charges just for sending a text message, yes data would still apply.
You mean around 17% to 20% ? That's 'most people' and the 'average consumer'?
Some of the (smaller) banks actually didn't want to lend. They were sued by some organization for being too strict in their lending requirements.
For something to be definitive it can be neither simple nor immutable.
David Foster Wallace - Backbone
I'll see your 'GarageBand' and raise you a 'SketchUp' and 'GoogleEarth'.

Now I don't mean to get in a tit-for-tat because that's not the point. They just concentrate on different things.
This is perhaps the most readable book on the founding of Hollywood.
http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Their-Own-Invented-Hollywood/dp...

As the subtitle indicates, it has a particular focus on the early Jewish players in the movie business, but it covers all aspects along the way.

As for the decimation of the European industry, that really happened more in WWII than WWI. There's a good documentary mini-series on the early days of the Euro-industry, which ends with the WWII decline.

http://www.amazon.com/Cinema-Europe-Hollywood-Kenneth-Branag...

Apparently out of print now, but worth watching if you can find it.
Nitpick: the original version of SimCity was released for DOS before Windows 3.0 came out.

I never knew that MS went so far out of their way to fix a bug for a single game though - it seems that they were much more dedicated to backward-compatibility then than they are now.
Interesting... if you know me, please review me, HN: http://www.chattel.me/humen/rodrigo-guzman-san-francisco-ca

Smalter, some feedback:

- I was initially hesitant to share via FB/twitter. Nothing in particular about the chattel itself, rather I don't always want to throw something on my news feed without knowing exactly what it'll do and even when I do know I'm not too inclined to put stuff on my feed from 3rd party apps. It'd be good to have a different adoption vector here. When someone signs up you persuade them to try to review any of their friends already on the system.

- The overall tone is unclear: is this where friends review friends to say things like "he's cool" or this a place where professional contacts go to say "he sucks to work with". I think the latter would be more useful and that both sites could potentially exist, but you should make it more explicit.
I, for one, support BBM on the iPhone, so as to show the average BB user that there's no reason to stick with BB anymore when there are better options aplenty out there.
> Somewhat amazingly, there are only 133 schools in the united states that award MDs

As well as 26 schools that award DOs, a degree equivalent to MD in all 50 states - http://www.aacom.org/people/colleges/pages/default.aspx
You mean Weintraub? He knows for certain that Samsung didn't sell 2 million tabs, because Samsung made a statement saying that, yet he pretends that they did.

This kind of journalism is part of the problem - not the solution.
It works on Android, yes.

However, sound is not supported on iOS or Android devices yet. The <audio> implementation on those platforms is unbelievably broken and there's not much I can do about it other than wait for Apple and Google to fix it.

This blog post does a good job at mentioning the problems with sound on iOS and how to work around a few of them. Android has basically the same problems:

http://remysharp.com/2010/12/23/audio-sprites/

Still, even with all those workarounds, you have a lot of lag (>0.5s) before a sound plays and you can only play one sound at a time. That's hardly suited for games :/
>Why must Apple always be called out like this? Because they do it so much better than their competitors.

Because this announcement gets more press than almost anything else you stated.
The puzzle-givers were onto something, though. They were trying to test for intellectual agility and creative problem solving. There is some merit in asking these sorts of questions if you're interviewing younger kids for entry-level jobs. At that stage in the game, you're really just trying to find smart and hard-working people who can be trained. You're not overly concerned with years of experience, or crystallized knowledge base. So puzzles make sense (again, to a degree).

Puzzles for more experienced hires? Probably not.
whats your website?
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Simple, inexpensive, drop.io-style assignment management for educators. E-mail me for more info if interested in the project - maxbrown at umich.edu.
in the comments there, i showed a misunderstanding of a concept of lean startup, which, as far as understand, keeps us from paying that big price (like selling arm and leg and cry in the pillow) for an idea by easy pivoting, inexpensive concept proving and even failing fast.

if Dave McClure doesnt bother to enlighten me there, maybe i'll get some info here?

i personally support the OP and have the same attitude to my venture.
It was up to whoever makes a comparison to find such a device.

Comparing your device's price to something with a better specs is stretching the truth; if comparable device doesn't exist - just don't do this comparison.
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I tend to ignore these types of meta-posts, but this one was unique in that it didn't talk about how the good ole days of HN were better.
I've felt some ripple effects from this on a self hosted blog from plugins that rely on the wordpress.com API for anything (akismet, stats, popular posts). Not good.
how does that qualify as quitting?
If you have availability... probably more long term than short.. My buddy is looking for a good dev to work with the music industry. He's building fan sites with gaming elements. He has a few medium names signed up: Wale, Diggy and others at Rock Nation. He's seed FFF funded and raising cash. I'd work but I'm caught up with http://UpOut.com

Shoot me a PM martincshen [at] gmail.com if you're interested in it.
That was definitely a response to what you wrote. However, I don't think it's a fair to demand: "JUST condemn it, and offer no excuses." You're free to excuse if you like.
Or, perhaps they are attached to a platform: WP7 has some features for Xbox Live integration, which some groups (15-25 year old males I imagine) will find appealing.
When people are left free, they tend to work out effective solutions. In a free society, there would likely be a multiple authorities to judge physician competency. The consumer would get to pick.

A big problem with doctor certification today is that doctors are graded on a boolean scale, pass/fail. So two physicians can both be certified, but one can be vastly better than the other, and you, as a uninformed patient, have little way of judging. A close relative of mine has had an opportunity to assist in many open-heart surgeries performed by several doctors. He tells me that there is a huge difference between surgeons. One surgeon regularly completes operations in 20 minutes with no mistakes and complications, another surgeon, at the same medical center, takes two or three times as long, is much "messier" (cutting things he shouldn't), and his patients have many more complications. It's obvious to everyone in the operating room who is the better doctor, but no one will tell patients. For patients, both doctors are "competent." In free market, presumably there would be at least one rating agency that would provide a more nuanced report on doctors.

Also, to get an MD, there is not a "uniformly high bar," at least there hasn't been in the past. Medical schools discriminate in their entry requirements based on at least race, but possibly other non-competency factors like sexual orientation and parental alumni status. So entering medical students are not held to a uniformly high bar. Once in medical school, student performance diverges. Some students are at the top of their class, others are at the bottom. Some pass the certification exams with high scores, others barely pass after two or three attempts. Most of this information is not readily accessible to the average healthcare consumer.

The primary aim of doctor certification seems to be to restrict the supply so as to keep wages high, not to help consumers choose. The best solution really is freedom, not mere "detailed technocratic tweaks" to a system designed from the bottom-up to protect the interests of the medical profession against competition.
Do you know how many Gigabits per second it was?
The Tabs weren't sold - Samsung said so.

The iPads were sold and are no longer available.

That's why.

(source: http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/02/28/backs.quick.se... )
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/10/whats-a-logo...

http://www.160over90.com/blog/2009/02/17/the-50-dollar-logo-...

I would not hire someone to do a quick glance of my business, push around some pixels and sling me a response based on our (quick) conversation. The resulting identity wouldn't have the depth needed to last, it wouldn't have the insight needed to resonate with my customers. And, Mr. $50 logo guy, by some chance if you are in fact giving each and every job due diligence you are seriously selling yourself short because the work would be worth substantially more.

Sorry, not trying to rain on parades just trying to educate. (I love HN for what I learn here...)
Interesting, but not surprising results. These preliminary studies in humans are technically exciting, but realizing the costs associated with such therapies along with the complex socio-demographics of the infected and at risk populations makes this a relatively unrealistic solution.
You've already heard a bit of my endorsement, but I'll give you more in the hopes you'll try out the app. It comes with a trial period, so don't be squeamish.

The awesome:

- Fucking persistent corner rounding for rectangles. So you can adjust the size without screwing up your round rects' corners. WTF, Photoshop? How hard is this to do?

- edit: ALSO, easy Retina display support. No thought required

- Factories, as described in my post

- Badass pen tool for bezier shapes. Anchor points snap to guides in a very intuitive way, as do those fiddly little handles for curvy anchor points. It's much easier to create an arbitrary shape in Opacity than it is in PS or Illustrator.

- Much more flexible layer layer styling than Photoshop. Want two strokes on that vector? Fuck yeah, there you go.

- Variables. No shit. So, say you want the same button in five different colors. Set up a color variable, tie it to the button's fill property, then set up five factories with different color variables. Change the button's appearance, then the factory will dump out five brand new versions identical to your new changes

- Code generation: So maybe you suck at Quartz or want to use a GUI to create a starting point. Build your image in Opacity, then use the "Source Code" factory type. It'll spit out native drawing code using the drawing library of your choosing (Cocoa, Quartz, Core Animation). Variables work with this, too.

What needs improvement:

- Drawing performance is spotty, especially when dealing with bezier vectors. I see more pinwheels than I'm used to in Opacity, and that's on a late 2010 machine. This has been improving – I sent a sample file to the dev and he made some optimizations that helped a lot. Still, needs more work here.

- If you've built your existing UI assets in Photoshop, there's no easy way to get them into Opacity. You're probably going to end up recreating them, but since Opacity's tools are for the most part much better, this isn't terrible. Gives you a chance to spruce things up.
It seems that not even Charlie Sheen is as popular as cats.
Show HN: We Built a Marketplace for Auto Enthusiasts
We just launched www.styckyd.com, a marketplace for automotive enthusiasts to buy and sell parts.

We're trying to tackle a number of problems that users experience when trying to buy and sell parts on automotive forums or on eBay Motors. Search, and shipping come to mind. Because of the nature of search on either of these sites it's difficult to provide relevant results, sellers have to think like SEO experts and buyers have to try multiple searches over multiple days so they can connect. I'm sure most people don't ship packages every day so figuring out how much to charge for shipping can also be a problem.

There are more problems that we're trying to solve but I'm hoping to get some feedback from HN. We've spent most of our time on some of the things you won't see unless you list a part (If you have something to sell, try us out!) as a result the rest of the site is not perfect (Well, neither is the stuff we spent most of our time on... yet). To avoid a bit of the forrest through the trees problem we're looking for feedback on these things:

1) When you look at the site, does it make sense what we do and how we can help?
2) Can you easily identify why we're better than the rest - I'm guessing that's not the case yet, any suggestions on how we can improve here?
3) Is there anything that just seems like a no-go?

We've also built a plugin for vBulletin - we want to replace/improve their classifieds systems: partners.styckyd.com

If any other feedback comes to mind, please share. We're really driven to make this work so the more we hear, the better.

ps. Are there any other car nuts on HN?
You've chosen a very unfortunate name for your project. While chattel is defined as "moveable personal property", the word has a very close association with slavery in America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States
While Google wasn't bashing Apple at all at Google I/O...
Creating my first iPhone app for a company too as my graduation project, and have very much the same feeling: "when will the catch me". So far so good, but oh how I hate the tools. First time working with OS X and X Code, an some things just suck.
For example, Android's location support is 200x better and has native support for loading a KML file as a route. I have to use someones custom class for iPhone, and can't test "significant movement notification" without an iPhone 4 on hand and actually walking a mile...
How does a link like this make it to the top of HN? It's nothing more than petty, spiteful Apple bashing by a Google guy.
Presumably, because the blood cells need to be extracted, modified, and reinserted. How long until that technique is improved?
Lots of designers pay for expensive CS5 suite and machinery, taxes, bills, food... and can't offer logos at 50$. I would like to hear what's the business model behind this.
I've used BBM a lot overseas, but have never been charged an "international data" rate. So I would speculate that somehow it's avoided.
I presume there will be plenty of followup studies to see if/when/how long it'll take for HIV to evolve around this block.
i've done so purposefully, although probably in questionable taste. chattel.me is a play on the word chatter and the notion of persons as products. if people are products, they they deserve corresponding scrutiny and critique.

(added stuff via edit there)