skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So avoid anything that doesn't use parameterized SQL statements.
2 million Tabs is the number shipped to stores, not sold to consumers.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/01/31/samsung-galaxy-tab-sa...

No real number given, but anything under 1.6 million makes 90% feasible.
Let me say up front that I agree with you on demonizing people who purchased these bonds. But let me play devil's advocate.

For years politicians have been talking about "Predatory Home Loans" where banks supposedly took advantage of people by selling them on loans they could never afford. By law the terms of these loans were spelled out to these buyers. These buyers were told what their payments would be and how much interest they'd pay. Yet the lending practices are still considered predatory because the lender should have known the borrower didn't have the ability to pay the loan.

Now, for example, look at the State of California. California's GDP to Debt ratio is nearly 20% and their monthly bills total to more than their monthly income. If the state were an individual it would easily have poor credit. Yet when a bond measure is passed no one spells out the terms. No one makes sure they know how much they'll pay in taxes each month after that to pay off the bond or how much total interest will be paid.

So while I agree with you I can see how someone could reasonably direct the rage they had at predatory banks towards bond holders
It's refreshing to see this level of humility from a developer and a cool startup. No one knows everything, and realizing that is the first step to allowing yourself to learn.

Kudos on a sweet app! I'm looking forward to seeing what you guys build next!

Oh, and thanks for sharing! If everyone was more open about the tools they use, I think apps would be a lot better in general.
Writing your own wrapper on contenteditable is like rewriting jQuery. Yes it's a messy complicated problem. That's why you don't do it yourself.

Something like TinyMCE is incredibly configurable and has had years to work around the browser quirks in contenteditable. Use it wherever possible.

On a side note I recently exchanged some emails between the lead dev on TinyMCE and the person working on the Webkit implementation of contenteditable. I had very little luck persuading them to communicate. The fault was mainly on the webkit end of things. I find it astonishing there isn't better communication between people at this level. The number of people using TinyMCE via Wordpress must be in the millions. You'd think people working on Webkit would be seeking them out for advice on implementation bugs.
"So you're saying the iPad has sold more than 90% of all devices that are like iPads?"

Or to put it another way, there are no other products like iPad.
What model will you use to compete with 99 designs or the like?

Edit

Okay cool, I like your portfolio. One thing I immediately noticed is the background color of your site...and maybe the design of your site in general. I know that you design logos and not web sites, but I think they are somehow related. If you improve your site's design it should be more effective.
Info/background:

"...Maintenance of presynaptic inputs may depend on a post-synaptic factor that is transported from the terminal back toward the soma."

-Neuron: Cell and Molecular Biology (1st edition c 1991)
A-Normalization: Why and How (with code)
Yes, piracy will always exist, and there are lots of things that can be done to de-incentivize it. I do what I can. That's aside from the question of whether it should be considered normative, legal behaviour.
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Design, in this case, is mostly a matter of taste. Having said that, I prefer design of VAIOs over Apple Macbooks for example. Newer HPs are good too.
Is McKinsey & Co. the Root of All Evil?
I use stackoverflow as the benchmark for success on my own* sites, we're still winning. We did 145m for February!
Here are two more or less obvious ways.

1) Average over the set of classes taught by any given teacher, maybe drop best/worst (you know, stats 101 stuff). Simple assumptions: do teacher evaluations once per year, 4 classes per semester (so data from 8 classes to evaluate teacher). Assume average scores of 80, and disruptive students reduce scores by 30, bad teachers reduce scores only by 10 pts.

Assume disruptive students uncommon, unlucky teacher gets 1 class with disruptive students.

Case 2) scores [80,80,80,50,80,80,80,80], mean=76. Mean drop top/bottom = 80.

Case 3) scores [70, 70, 70, 70, 70, 70, 70, 70], mean=70. Mean drop top/bottom = 70.

Assume disruptive students are common, unlucky good teacher gets 4 classes with disruptive students, lucky bad teacher gets 3.

Case 2) Scores [80, 80, 80, 80, 50, 50, 50, 50], mean 65, MDTB=65.

Case 3) Scores [ 70, 70, 70, 70, 70, 40, 40, 40], mean 58.76, MDTB=60.

Assuming gaps of 5-10pts are statistically insignificant for one year, you occasionally are unable to distinguish between good and bad teachers in a single year. So every 2-3 years, you to a multi-year review. Now your sample size is up to 24 (from 8), and most likely both the good teacher and bad teacher have both had a lucky and unlucky class or two.

2) Include disciplinary problems in the predictor. Thus, the error is reduced from a class with some disruptive students (happens occasionally) to a class with some students who became disruptive for the first time ever (happens 1/12 as often).
“In what seems like a ritual at this point, I watched Apple's iPad 2 keynote in disbelief, noting the factual errors that kept coming up minute after minute.”

The only surprise is that a journalist bothered to fact-check a Stevenote.
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There have been a couple of these in the past few months. I'd be curious to get an update on what's happened with the ones that have popped up. The (I think) Brazilian guy who was designing web site themes for about $15 comes to mind.
> I'm not even sure where the idea that they are behind the Xoom spec-wise is coming from.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's another side to this argument, but the article explicitly lists where the XOOM exceeds to ipad2:

- higher resolution

- superior cameras (w/flash)

- stereo speakers

- upgradeable to 4G

- micro-USB/SD Card reader

- probably more RAM (author suggests it may be double)
IT for the Blind. (non-profit) Basically like Kickstarter, but applicants will be asking for (pooled) funding for always-too-expensive technology that helps overcome vision problems. Check out Humanware.com for example of this kind of gear.

The main problem with this kind of technology is that it remains very expensive, even as tech in general keeps getting cheaper. A CCTV that would help Grandma write checks and read Christmas cards may cost $1500 on the low end. The market-dominant screen reader applications have been around $800 since I was an accessibility program manager in the 90s. The main problem is that with such a small market they don't get good economies of scale. Some have estimated that we may currently reach as little as 5% of the affected population, and cost is a big factor.

Fundraising for Guide Dogs for the Blind, and their many clones, is ridiculously easy. It's a pitch everyone can understand. Well, guide dogs get many blind people outside their house, but technology lets them keep middle-class jobs, interact with the world via the internet, etc. In terms of fundraising, it's a fairly powerful pitch, but there is no equivalent central non-profit that just focuses on IT. Most of the non-profits out there focus on skills training or fighting the causes of blindness. IT for the Blind will first determine whether applicants can get funding from schools and employers (as required by law), then pass on the many requests that aren't addressed by existing sources.

I've got board members / founders and a UI spec, but haven't been focusing on this one because my consulting work has been keeping me busy. I'll be able to work on it full time in the summer, and having a MVP would make initial donor fundraising much easier.

By the way, you should assume that donated work would be tax deductible, if we get 501(c)(3) status this year. :)
Thanks!
You certainly have thought about that. It does make sense when you write it. I think with the right treatment you can shape your brand effectively. I think the .cc tld is still obscure enough that you could shape it to mean email 'cc'.
More specifically - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Theremin#Espionage

Him inventing an infrared microphone in mid 1940s is no less impressive than The Thing.
What data are basing the opinions of "most people" and "average consumers" on?
Controlling a major app store might be one motivation. Manufacturers don't have to hook their device up to the canonical Android app store, but many do (though some don't). The revenues are very small so far on a scale of search revenues, but might grow.

By designing both the app store and the platform, they can also try to ensure that their own apps are able to do what they want them to do. For example, it's not clear they could've rolled out the app that crowdsources Google Maps traffic data on another platform, especially a few years ago when it was rolled out on Android (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/bright-side-of-sittin...).
Or possibly just an annual fee, paid in advance, to ensure service. Not unknown in rural areas already, where people in unincorporated areas without fire departments can elect to pay out-of-area coverage to nearby municipalities.

I remember some sort of controversy about that late last year, when a man who didn't pay the annual fee for firefighting service ended up losing his house.
Really cool to see how they moved from Windows-only to other technologies like Redis.

They dind't jump into the hype at first version, they started using other things just now when they really needed that.
Free messaging apps threaten wireless carriers' cash cow
A 5x return assumes that the VCs owned 100% of the company, which seems 'mildly' unlikely.
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The author appears to have wandered into the playground of the idle rich and is somehow shocked to find that the idle rich treat their toys like toys.

I don't really understand the indignation.
>Most people don't take the time to critically analyze the 'news' they hear and are actually influenced by this stuff.

Err, I thought most of his presentation was targeted at exactly those people who will walk away with wrong impressions of the competition. Jobs knows that this presentation will be much more widely publicized than this criticism and that's why they wanted to do it.

Seriously, how much percentage of the people who watched that slide containing the misquote of Samsung's exec would come to know it's a misquote? I would say 5% at the maximum.

You seem to imply that it's better to spread lies and misinformation about some facts around because some analysts may do the same about different facts. I don't know how that computes.
Preciselly. It's like they enjoy the background noise.

Either that or they hate opening cans of food by munching them :P :D :D
the retinal display was the big topic. It would seem hard for them to then turn around and say that the better resolution of the XOOM is irrelevant.

They had no trouble changing from "number of applications is irrelevant" when it came to the Mac and games on the Mac to "iPhone has the most apps".
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I think it is under-rated as well, and I'll buy one as soon as they get one on Verizon.

But I still don't know any non-developers that have one, and only a few of those.
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For that matter, Apple made plenty of boneheaded moves themselves. Hockey-puck mouse, iPod socks, and of course, the under-resourced clusterfudge that is MobileMe and its progenitors.
The bigger question is - what is the blackberry vision? Yes, they've made BBM available to a much broader base, but it doesnt seem like they're really answering the challenges that iPhone and Android pose.
I doubt very much. They're basically using Redis as a much more powerful memcached. SQL Server still is the ultimate owner of all StackOverflow data, last time I talked to the team.
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Great idea and a worthy cause. What do you think about (eventually) releasing the code as open source?

I'm in the UK so US tax regulations aren't relevant.
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Where do we contact you? Possible on email?
I have the idea ready, how it's gonna work out - ready.

I think I can learn rails enf to do the views and design part later - but core is what I need help in.
Asus has superior build quality to Apple (measured in failures within 3 years; Apple is around 17% and Asus is 15%, as I recall), lots of original designs (they started the netbook craze, and have a line of laptops made with bamboo), and they don't look half bad either. The U36Jc is completely comparable spec-wise to the 13-inch macbook pro, except for lacking an optical drive, while costing $200 less. It also has better graphics, a larger hard drive, better battery life, is thinner, and weighs about a pound less.

So yes, there are companies that produce hardware comparable to Apple. They're just not as well known.
Water Colour On inspired Painting | Water Colour Painting For cool colours.
I completely agree. Nothing new ever comes if we just work within our comfort zones and don't continue to learn.

Kudos to Steve and Adam on hiring Danilo.
> many of us produce information of one sort or another

> Sounds like the only way we should expect to get paid is

> through generous benefactors and donations.

Or stop producing information and start producing something which people voluntarily pay for. What youre doing now is basically legislating prohibition of copying so you can make a living by selling copies. Trying to make a living by producing and selling copies in an age where everybody and their dog can produce copies themselves effortlessly is a ridiculously bad business decision. It is so outworldlishly ridiculous that it is no suprise, that most of those who for some reason chose that path can not come up with a solution to their little problem than crying for protectionism to ban DIY.

It is no different than the story of the french button wars:

* http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070110/004225.shtml

* http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A23623616
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Techies 4 Good Connects Nonprofits With Tech Resources
Interesting on the switch from the Windows/MS stack. Is there not a decent No SQL option for a windows stack?
A better title for this infographic is "Who has been winning the U.S smartphone battle over the last two years?". And it confirms what you probably already know.

However, if it was supposed to show who was winning now e.g. sales from the last month or quarter, then it would show Android covering somewhere between 60 and 70% and possibly as many as 3 vendors selling more than RIM and Apple. Which seems like it would surprise some people.
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The iPad does compete with the Kindle, but they are clearly in different product categories. However, I'm inclined to agree that the Nook is closer to the iPad than the Kindle, without even having to root it.
From Alexis Madrigal of The Atlantic: "All of our stories that do well on Hacker News share one thing: they are written. By written, I mean that someone took the time and effort to examine individual sentences, to think about word choices, to create transitions between grafs, to describe things precisely. You know, writing! But a lot of what gets posted in the tech blogosphere doesn't fit this definition of writing. It's more in the tradition of the wire services, where speed rules over creativity. That the Hacker News community both recognizes and rewards pieces that are written makes me love it."
Your portfolio looks good.

Respectfully, since English is not your first language - you should revise some of the page so it flows better. For example:

domains
Every name suggested have a not registered domain.
We registered for you for U$ 20.00, also we sugges a cheap host service called TrackHost.com.br

Should be something like:

We Find Domains for You!

We can suggest domain names based around your business or marketing campaign. Every domain name we suggest will be available for registration, which we can do for you for US$20. We also recommend using trackhost.com.br for inexpensive domain registrations.

I hope this doesn't sound too negative! Your design work is really good, but you need to put something into the words on the page as well :)

All the best with your endeavour.
That is the most eye blinding site colors I have seen chosen in a long time, it is almost like reading white on yellow.

Other than that some more criticisms:

- Why do you only offer a png for the logo (instead of psd or vector svg)
- What are suggestions? (Revisions or something else)

You need to proofread some more (if English isn't your first language maybe you can find a proofreader):

> Every name suggested have a not registered domain.

Every name suggested has an unregistered domain. (Probably could be better) There are more but I don't really have the time.

Best of luck some of the logos look promising.
Hi friend! only my creativity! =)
One example of the Firefox contenteditable nightmare:

1. Use a `white-space` other than the default — for example, `pre-wrap`

2. Try to edit the content in Firefox

Welcome to bizzarro-land, where your cursor finds itself unable to position itself in very reasonable locations in your content…
Okay.

Please provide your data on sales (on iPads, Samsung Tabs and other competitors you consider worthy) and show that iPad has more than 90% market share.
I'm definitely open to sharing code. I also have friends in the UK who have deep experience in this area and can give advice on setting up a non-profit over there.
Everything is mostly back to normal.
good point. I'd only want a vector drawing, a png is kind of useless.

I am your target market :), i'd throw $50 at a logo.
Didn't Diaspora raise all of that cash through Kickstarter with basically nothing in return?
To add a tidbit to that, a journalism professor in college taught that Hollywood become the dominant film production locale because World War I decimated film industries in Europe.
It was fairly good, but it completely mischaracterized what's going on in WI. Walker approved $140m in corporate tax breaks - just before announcing a $138m deficit. If he hadn't given corporate tax breaks, the government would have been in the black.

I haven't researched, but I'm willing to bet the Koch family company benefited.
The technical/theoretical side of it, the how do you scale up the (automatic) creation of those Sim-Cities ... yes, VERY fascinating and interesting.

The other side of the medal: those maps are creating a cute, sleek, clean and well-behaved view on the areas of high(est) population density ... they are I think heavily distorting the perception of the reality in those areas. I consider them a very strange way to do propaganda.

The reality is hidden by this means, which is the opposite of what maps/sat maps should be providing...

"Pixel Perfect" nails it quite good.
They are unrealistically perfect.
Constructed down to every pixel presented.

Event the most horrible sweatshops look cute in this renderings.
donated and twitted around
Atlassian raises $1 million for Room to Read
Can WISE Find the Hypothetical 'Tyche'?
Wait, Google Docs supports editing on iOS at all?
membase is based on memcache afaik
Ask HN: Refer 3 friends and get your invite faster. Does it work?
It's getting a little boring.

It sounds like a good idea, but I would be careful and do some tests before running with it for good.

I've signed up for 3-4 launch lists in the last few days and everybody is hopping on this bandwagon. It's starting to turn me off. You don't want to do that to a potential early adopter.

At the end of the day it probably really depends who you're targeting. It might work better for social media marketing types than hacker types who don't want to be gamed for your gain.
The part about millions of people sending millions of checks to companies really hit me. Why are Americans still using checks? I haven't seen one in more than a decade.
thank you! I just fix the text - http://thestormidea.com/
The guy who outright lied?
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I'd prefer if people post their ideas here.
I've only looked at the landing page and haven't (and won't due to the Facebook integration) used the site.

From what I see (and this was mentioned elsewhere in the thread), you're going to have trouble building that viral aspect without the self-propagating behavior. If you're not emailing, contacting, or posting on the wall until there's an actual match, there's no reason why the matchee might end up on your site.

Apps that have some amazingly useful quality get talked about. Something like this probably won't be mentioned, even by the users, as much, because it's more of a short-term fascination than a must-recommend tool. At the very least, do you ask the person with the interest if they want to post a status update / wall notification about the site?
I know most people think that Thinkpads look ugly

I don't think so. Most people I know love the look of Thinkpads. It's still my favorite looking laptop. It has a classic styling too. It's a design that looked good 10 years ago, and still looks good now. I'm not sure any other laptop exists that can make that claim.
I think the keyboard/keypad is still a major component to BBM's success. Typing on touchscreen keyboards is just too cumbersome.
I am! In Austin, TX, I'm a Clarity PPM Admin and IT Project Manager, mostly. A geek-of-all-trades. I do data analysis and validation, some DB work, some coding... If you need an all around IT person who will learn or do whatever to make things run smoothly, let me know!
Umm ... colonialism doesn't actually work well for the colonized.
Google's philosophy is that the more people who use the web, the better it is for Google. They believe that they are better than any competitor at monetizing the web, and so will win by helping others. So the more interaction with the web, the better it is for Google.

Keeping this in mind, a lot of Google's moves are rationalized. For instance, free wifi at Christmas, subsidized Google TV, and the android platform.
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Mostly true.

However, recently there's been a lot of smaller wireless, usually operating with Motorola Canopy systems, popping up. They are still dependent on a larger ISP though.