skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your BBM PIN is separate from your phone number. My friends with Blackberrys have people they talk to on BBM that they don't even have phone numbers for.
Has anybody looked at the correlations between the stories on TechMeme and HN? My guess is that because of HN's broader scope more of the TechMeme links wind up on HN than the other way around. But it would be interesting to see data related to that ... and also see whether one routinely proceeds the other.
I'm sure Microsoft has the answer to that question. Or at least the experience.
I suppose also consider rent in London is like 4x rent in other cities (or so I'm told).
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Calls for any but the most serious crimes go unanswered. Residents who complain about prostitutes or vandals are told to fill out a form.

My god that needs a citation.
Is that necessarily a bad thing though? To be fair, Apple, Facebook, and Google have had by far the largest impact on consumer technology in the last decade. Obviously, they're newsworthy and interesting.

To me, a good measure for whether an article should be on HN or not is whether people can learn something useful from either the article or the discussion surrounding the article. I think we can all learn from their strategies and actions, and the conversations surrounding articles about Facebook or Google are usually filled with insightful comments (maybe not so much with Apple articles).
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Fine grained concurrency will motivate the next big paradigm shift. I haven't seen anything better than actors or STM yet though.
Ask HN: Why are app stores split by country, and what can be done about it?
I can think of only one reason, which is intellectual property rights of third-party media, but this doesn't seem to cover the huge difference observed in apps (for example) between here in Brazil and in the US. Does anyone know why is it like this, and what can be done to change this?
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Not sure why you chose to justify criticising CNN with a single article that was written by a guest, who happens to actually work for Mashable.

I don't read CNN regularly so I won't argue for or against CNN's tech coverage, but if you want to argue against it you should try a little harder.
I can't speak for design, I know most people think that Thinkpads look ugly, however regarding build quality I own a Thinkpad T500 I bought 2 years ago and I have:

+Dropped it way more times than I can count, usually while closed and turned off but also while it was running, and while it was open (both running and not).

+Totally stood on it, putting my full weight on the closed lid many times.

+Left it running in my closed backpack for almost an hour (twice).

+Used it indoors and out during drizzle, snow, the height of summer and the low of winter, I even used it on a beach once.

And through all of the above I never had any problems. The only issue I have ever had was when I was carrying it about 6 ft. off the ground while open and running (brilliant I know) and I dropped it onto a tile-on-concrete floor. That time the hard drive crashed but everything was perfectly fine.

I don't know what kind of build quality Apple computers have but I'm going to guess that it can't be that much better.
The solution is freedom.

Freedom means freedom from fraud. So if the guy with a mail-ordered degree lies to someone and says he got a degree from Harvard, causing that person to get "treated" when they would otherwise have gone elsewhere, that's when the government should intervene.

Saving people from themselves is foolhardy, and such efforts are invariably used as tools of repression.
At the municipal level, things have been stretched since the boom days in 2004, 2005. Most of them have laws that make it very hard to raise taxes, a pay structure that historically has slanted towards better benefits in exchange for lower pay, and a 10-year run of health insurance cost increases at 10-15% a year. So in many places, they've already cut to the bone, (and did so during the "boom years", to boot).

Basically the best thing we can do for municipalities and states is to bend that healthcare cost curve. Unless we do, it's going to be lay people off, raise taxes or both every single year.
My company fits that description.

Ostensibly, we make medical devices that serve the diabetic population.

Realistically we've developed the first FDA cleared medical device that works with iOS and have a pipeline of awesome "mHealth" products.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662351/blood-glucose-monitor-fo...

Boring? Perhaps, but we are hiring 50 people. There is something to "Unsexy" markets. Everyone wants to work on the next great music startup, but if you can grit your teeth and handle medical software there is huge opportunity to make cool stuff and serve BIG markets.
Not that on my computer (OS 10.4.8 with a PC keyboard) it's Apple/Command key and backslash (right above it) that you press.
Adrienne Jeffries and Alexis Madrigal also have some really interesting things to say. Fred's blog often has excellent comment threads and this is a fine one.
1) I don't see how the 90% market share statement is wrong

From the article: Apple sold 14.8 mln iPads. Samsung sold 2 mln Tabs. Do you imply that these figures are not correct? If so, please provide better data.

But if we use these figures, Apple has 14.8 / (14.8 + 2) ~ 88% market share, and a claim about "> 90%" is outright wrong.

Please note that no other competitors were included in this count.

2) What's wrong with the price comparison?

"Jobs compared the most expensive Android tablet -- the XOOM --against the iPad. ... The XOOM's are simply better. It has (expandable) 32GB of storage built in and 3G built in ... XOOM has a much better, bigger 720P+ screen ... Then, add far superior cameras (w/flash), stereo speakers (iPad 2 has one), 4G and a micro-USB/SD Card reader", plus (possibly) more RAM.

One pays more for XOOM, but one gets more (EDIT - in terms of components. I'm not saying XOOMs have better design/software/etc) as well. Jobs compares prices for devices with different specs.
Here's a thread @Box2d where Erin responds to this himself, confirming that this was not a "calling out" or any sort of big deal: http://box2d.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=6462
fun-fact, there was a site many many years ago, back in the days of dial-up modems.. It was called "crushlink" or something, which is exactly this sort of crush-matching by email since facebook wasn't around yet. It eventually died because of spam and imposter emails posing as crushlink emails.

Ideas are rarely unique. In fact, competition makes people aware of your space. Just execute the crap out of it.
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It's only a matter of time before the iPad style tablet becomes commoditized. Quite a few years ago, Apple was one of the design leaders in the laptop space, then others caught up, more or less. The same thing happened in the smartphone space. The same thing will happen to tablets.

For sure! Oh, wait, I meant PlaysForSure.

I wish I thought you were right, because I think it would be much better for Apple in the long term to have credible competition. I see none, and pretty clearly Apple sees none, or their subscription-revenue plan wouldn't have seen the light of day.
Actually, you didn't post any national averages. You posted data sets from payscale.com, which is a nonscientific sampling. The high end numbers I gave you on scientist pay are big city numbers (NY, Chicago, LA, expensive parts of NJ). Actually, some of the medium range numbers are also available in the expensive parts of NJ.

Most scientists who wind up as a teacher will be teaching at college, which does pay considerably less. If you want to include them under teacher, be my guest. In that case you are correct, but with the caveat that most scientists fall off the scientific career path and land on the low end of teaching.

I stand by my statement that teachers don't work very hard. So does the BLS.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/03/art4full.pdf
out execute, and out market the competition. I bet most people on Facebook don't read techcrunch, so you have plenty of market reach potential.

Get people to talk about it on Facebook, use your circle of friends and people you just know. Get a youtube video of it in action and get people to share it. Spend some money and pay for a real marketing team.

The internet is huge, it's not about who has the idea first. It's who can build the most usable product and make people aware of it.
They have hideous UIs full of adds that pretend to be download buttons.
Not everyone is a fanboy. Some people just have different opinions. Also, did Steve Jobs come to your house and kick your dog or something? Calm down.
>"just knowingly lied"

In their response to Gillis's lawsuit regarding failure of the iPhone 3G to perform as advertised - in part Apple's defense was:

"Plaintiff's claims, and those of the purported class,
are barred by the fact that the alleged deceptive
statements were such that no reasonable person in
Plaintiff's position could have reasonably relied on or
misunderstood Apple's statements as claims of fact,"

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/files/apples_ans...
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Find a different lane to be in with your product. When we launched our app, the only players in that space were the big ones. Since launching it, we've been focusing more on the factors which makes us different than the same. But don't get persuaded by competition as it helps to see what others are doing wrong, to do it better.
Yep, very true. It is very hard to gage what the value is here.

I've still got work to do!

Thanks for the feedback. :)

I'll be sure to return the favour. Ping me anytime you need feedback. Email is on my profile.

Best,

Tapha
A cheap jab at Microsoft with no citations that doesn't even follow the conversation, in an Apple thread no less. I'm shocked.
What a nonsense article. I expect better from HN, frankly.

It's not as though the wealthy aren't paying their fair share. Breaking down the amount of total federal income taxes by income bracket:

The bottom 40% of tax payers paid less than 5%.
The next 40% paid about 25%.
The next 9% paid about another 30%.
And the top 1% paid the remaining 40%.

Furthermore, returning to 90% tax rates for top earners is going to do a lot more harm to the economy by taking away the wealthy's incentives to work and invest than supposed (and I think dubious) speculation-driven-price-increases.
Is this tongue in cheek? The solution is "freedom"? Like get ahold of a whole bunch of powdered freedom and just sprinkle it over the medical industry?

The solution is likely a series of detailed, technocratic tweaks to the accreditation process to allow more schools offer an MD while not allowing Clown College to offer one. I'm an educated guy and I have zero ability to rate a doctor aside from the fact that in order to get the MD there's a uniformly high bar. You're suggesting I should bring a copy of US News and World Report Med School rankings to the doctors' office with me to make sure they don't operate on the wrong knee or something? And if I'm not diligent enough to do that, I deserve whatever happens to me?
I think the article referenced in the current thread makes for a pretty good second data point.

The author tries to pretend that sales "into the channel" are real sales (they aren't, of course). He pretends that all RAM is equal and directly comparable (on-die RAM is clearly superior). He pretends that megapixels in cameras that are a few mm in size is a hugely important measurement of camera quality (it's not). He pretends that the Nook and Kindle are at all comparable to the iPad or even in the same product category (they manifestly aren't). He pretends that all dual-core CPUs are equivalent (which is laughable).

I can't remember the last CNN tech article that I found to be insightful or informative. By contrast, I read a few dozen things via Hacker News daily that pass muster.
Are we really debating whether a CEO over-hyped his product in a keynote? Next we'll be taking apart a sales rep for saying his product is better than its competitors.
Except that we know why the iPad resolution hasn't changed:

1. There are 65,000 apps tuned to work with it, so a minor bump to 'compete' on specs would make the user experience worse.

2. We know they are going to double it to 'retina' levels when they can. If motorola want to follow that approach, it's going to be longer before a double size panel is available.

3. 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.

I'm not even sure where the idea that they are behind the Xoom spec-wise is coming from.
"So, say, a CEO who is hired to run a company and assumes no financial risk on their own for doing so has "earned" the right to 40x more salary than the people who actually make the products? Somehow that doesn't seem right. Do they work forty times harder? Forty times more? Neither is physically possible. Do they assume forty times as much risk? Having seen more than a few golden parachute deals, I think it's obvious that they don't."

It's not for you to decide, because it's not your money. Why do you think you should have the right to decide how someone else (company or person) spends their money? If you don't like this fact, work somewhere else and don't buy their products.

"Most business people are saavy enough to start their businesses with other people's money. "

Many people also don't need VC. See: every company that's bootstrapped.

"He must agree to a salary somewhere if he wants to eat and have a place to live. This is not choice. It's not overt force either, but it does have something of coercion about it."

You seem to have lots of opinions on our current system, but no idea how you could make it better.

"Most people could not afford such equipment even if they are inclined to use it. They therefore have no choice but to work for someone else."

It depends on the industry. Have you heard of bank loans?

"This is an ad hominem. I have not stated anywhere that I or anyone else are entitled to anything, nor would I ever."

I don't need you to state it. I can see it all over your posts. Using words like "ad hominem" doesn't change this fact.

"This much is blatantly obvious. And?"

you probably haven't actually looked into it. If you had, you might not

"More ad hominem. Also the issues being addressed by the author are bigger than his own life. He states as much if you actually read it carefully."

I'm beginning to think you don't actually know what that word means. I read the article carefully. He's trying to make it look like the world is a terrible place based on his own experiences. If you based our entire system on his experience, it will look bad. However, when you take a step back and look at it as a whole, it's pretty damn good.
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If you respond to something I actually wrote, I'll be happy to discuss it with you.
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Offer HN: I'll build it, you design it
If you're a designer with an idea but haven't been able to team up with a developer I may be able to help you out.

I have some time on my hands so I'm offering 24 hours of rails development (spread over a week or so) to help build your mvp. Post your idea here and I'll choose one to work on from the top 3 most voted ideas.

- you'll need a git repo I can commit to

- you'll retain full ownership over everything

- you'll have to do the design, I'm offering rails development only

No charge. No catch. I just thought it would be fun to collaborate with someone and hopefully build something people will use.
Yeah, absolutely. Lots of talk about talent wars but salaries have been going down according to some surveys. Also where is the actual recruitment? People call and want you to interview and they are not willing to state the range or agree to pay for travel expenses. Whatever. Not a real serious talent war.
It's a great piece, but I don't agree that Jobs focuses on specs. Apple is great in that they do their utmost to explain what is good about their products and simplifying the purchase and customization options for the user.

The iPhone 4 wasn't interesting because it had x more DPI clocking in at a total of y; it was interesting, because they had achieved so many DPI that the average person would not be able to discern the pixels.

The Android handset manufacturers are losing the marketing battle partly because they get caught up in numbers and data: x megapixel cameras, y RAM, z megahertz. To the average consumer, all these extra parameters to consider before buying a product makes it all the less likely and rewarding to pick out your next phone.
This is one of my favorite quotes. But, in this case I don't think so. People involved are known to be extremely capable.
Sorry, did you read the whole post? He was basically asking for leads on marketing, not looking for condolences.
Apple, Facebook, and Google are discussed everywhere, all the time, on all tech news venues ad nauseum. That is why I personally don't care for their appearances on HN. You are right though, often the commentary is outstanding compared to what you would find elsewhere.
Have you seen launchrock.com? It might help with growing your list.

On you question, I suggest monthly updates until you have something live. But if you post your list ("ton of things") of ideas, we could comment on them specifically.

By the way, I like your business concept. Except I'd remove the Chicago-specificity from the tag line, as I would assume you can probably scale this quickly. If you need to start with Chicago, put that in secondary text on the front page.
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The smallish difference is irrelevant unless you care about 720p movies. Double dpi would not be irrelevant as the results are much more obvious to the eye in most situations.
You're confusing fraud with poor business decisions. The economic damage happened because people got irrational about the housing market for various reasons.

The result was poorly priced loans that were bought with extreme amounts of leverage (100x was not unusual). When your collateral turns out be worth a fraction of what you thought, your lenders get prickly and want their money back. Except there is no money. Take that and spread it all around the world, and you have a mess.

Fraud, although I'm sure there was a bunch of it (as there always is) that really had nothing to do with it. Don't look for conspiracy when incompetence is staring you in the face.

This was not a financial industry problem. It was created by unrealistic homeowners, opportunistic bankers, stupid politicians, and a culture that says (for some reason I can't fathom) that home ownership is inherently good. In other words, just about everyone. If you bought or sold a home in the last 10 years, you contributed to the mess in your own tiny way.

And yes, it will happen again. Not one thing of substance was done to stop it after the fact. In fact, the government (yes, that's our fault again) has increased the likelihood of future meltdowns by introducing an unprecedented level of moral hazard by bailing out troubled entities.
Every paper written by Hans Boehm is worth reading: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/pubs.html

(If the paper you want to read is behind a pay-wall, google its title and you will likely find a freely available copy.)
I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm a Windows user.

If you can't recall any egregious Microsoft failures, you're the fanboy trapped in a distortion field. Microsoft may have a lot of things going for them, but they are ginormous klutzes.

Do you seriously think that there isn't stupidity involved in any billion-dollar projects and companies?
I don't think I am nearly as old as you, my first touch on the Internet was on a 133 Mhz Compaq Pressario with 64 Mb of ram.

My dad finally got a second line installed as it was starting to get annoying that I was on line pretty much 24/7. Never did use Trumpet Winsock but the Windows 95 built in dialer still gives me nightmares.
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I'm out in the public and I didn't give it enough time to see that it was yawning, and not moaning. Everyone was looking at me >:| and still are.
ok ...looking for someone to build out the features for www.luckyotta.weebly.com (the basic idea is there it just doesnt work....
That's absurd. The law is the law, and 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.

Infringement is infringement. Arguing otherwise smacks of opportunism to me; people just like getting shit for free.
Let's just take the bull by the horns here. Seth Weintraub's first sentence in this article, and ostensibly his main point, is:

"Apple twisted facts (or worse) to try to convince crowds that all other tablets had no shot at de-throning the iPad in 2011."

I'll put up $100 right now that says no competitor will sell more units than the iPad this year. I'd be surprised if anyone cracked 50%.

Does anyone seriously doubt that the iPad will kill its competition this year? I think it's pretty obvious. Weintraub is just dreaming if he thinks otherwise.

So who's guilty of reality distortion, here?
It's not just build quality, it's also aesthetics. You say you can't speak for design, but that's what most people care about more than the ability to bounce their laptop off of concrete. That's why the average consumer isn't in the market for a Toughbook.
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For the first time in my life, I truly wish I had the money to be an angel investor.
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Though most of you are probably thinking this is bad for RIM and shows how desperate they are (they should be, Playbook vs iPad 2), I'll probably fall in the small percentage that this actually keeps me with RIM. It sounds opposite but I stopped using BBM because everyone moved to Android or iPhone. Now that they have BBM, I can continue to use it and not regret being on Blackberry.
How did the code have to change to read from/write to Redis?
just realized you gave one single word to hit those six things.
Isn't this what Posterous supposedly does? In relation to Yahoo/Google groups, where does list archives go?
Dynamic vs. static information, in a sense, is the only difference between a passive RFID and this device.

In a sense, this could easily be made static/analog if you used some resonant filters. Take for example, a filter that operates at 1khz and 3khz. You radiate this device and get 1khz and 3khz tones back. Now take another one resonant filter at 7khz, and you get 1, 3, and 7, or 1, 3, 5, or 1,5,11, etc...

You know have a unique passive, static identification technology. And this could have been done in 1945.
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I love this app. I've been using Scrivener since Keith was giving it away free when it was in early stages.

There's no other writing tool like it - I was originally using it for my Great American Novel, but it's become an invaluable tool for researching and preparing presentations lately.

What an unexpected pleasant surprise to see it on Linux!
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