skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. I don't know why s00pcan is being downmodded, it seemed like an honest question to me.
Exactly twelve months from the first Platform Preview of IE9, on Monday March 14th we will celebrate the developers and designers who are making a more beautiful web for all of us. We will release the final version of Internet Explorer 9 for download beginning at 9 p.m. Pacific.

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He was a well respected member of the community who commented a ton (he's still 3rd in karma: http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders) but decided to step away. That's part of it. The other part is that his blog posts are often interesting, insightful, and useful.
While the article is being (rightfully) ridiculed for the over the top headline, there is some truth in there. The iPad and it's competitors are still fairly expensive for an "impulse buy", and I don't think it's clear to a lot of people how tablets are useful. They seem cool, but it's hard to justify spending that much for something you aren't even sure if you're going to use, at least with what I make.

It's much easier to consider buying a $200 tablet. I can't see that a tablet would be useful enough to me to spend the few extra hundred dollars to get a more powerful one.
A successful tactic for one situation for one company is not guaranteed to transfer.

There was once a time where some people anxiously awaited what was coming next from Microsoft or IBM.

How many people are eagerly awaiting HP's marriage of the PC and WebOS?
Is this bad news for people who do send out mass mailings with marketing campaigns etc?
10% is about standard in the space, it also works out cheaper than say newspaper ads or leafleting.
It's the return of the penny dreadful. Kids (and the young at heart) dreaming of adventure and hack-n-slash violence read these cheap little pulp paperbacks about horseback robbers and high seas pirate swashbucklers.

Two significant changes, now: It's had to adjust for inflation, but I think the convenience of getting it beamed to your device instantaneously makes up for it.

The second is that the overwhelming majority of the readership is women (in the comments of the original interview, Locke suggests that his readership is up to 80% women who fantasize, as they read his exploits, about "changing" the protagonist for the better).

Welcome to the indie economy revolution. First they came for the apps (the vast majority of the top 100 paid in the App Store and Marketplace are from indie developers), 1-5 team houses that need only split their massive spoils a few ways; and the numbers are massive if memory serves; something like $10000 a day for a top 10 game, and that's _after_ Apple's vig. And, those who choose free with ads or freemium on Android, can see numbers approaching 1-5k per day (unless you're Rovio, who claims about 35k a day from Angry Birds on Android.

The closest parallel I see to the App Store model is the arcade. Instead of a quarter a play, you pay a buck, but you don't have to shlep over to the mall to play with your friends since they're all on gamecenter or openfeint or Facebook and you can pester them about your score on your wall), and for a buck you get to keep the game.

It's still a gold rush, but with no end to the vein in sight because there are people all over the world with a buck in their pocket ready to buy.

But just like anything in life, you can't be horrifically bad at it and expect to make a killing.
Were you able to find actually find the app? It seems they (wisely) never posted it.

>Don’t take our word for it. See for yourself at www.sq-skim.com where you can download the sample skimming application and view a video of this type of fraud in action.

Commenting on the YouTube video has also been disabled. I feel like there is some sort of parable about glass houses here...
More than that, the experience surrounding the purchase decision for the $6 coffee is packed with seemingly reliable indicators of quality. From the neighborhood of the coffee shop to all of the design and decor of the physical place to the menu makeup to the people working there... there is a continual onslaught of conscious and subconscious information that guides one's final purchase decision.

The same is actually true with app purchase, unfortunately much of it negative (people charging real money for buggy crapware and fart apps, apps being poorly designed or full of distracting advertising, the list goes on.)

What chance do you have to bring to bear that same firehose of positive experience as the coffee shop to request $6 from your customer?
No correlation at all? That can't be true. That's logically equivalent to saying that someone's ability has absolutely no impact at all on the probability that they can remain employed--or, in other words, that employment is completely random with respect to ability.

While the employment market is quite flawed in this respect, it's certainly at least a little better than random.
> It simply isn't humanly possible, which is one reason we have laws crafted by specialists but applying to everyone.

You apparently haven't heard of the invisible hand.[1]

The role of experts is to educate and influence, not to impose their own values. People should be allowed to chose what's best for them and put their trust where they want, not be forced into putting their trust on bureaucrats.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand
Right. Here's your sales pitch:

"Well, sir (or ma'am), your new website will only work with 'Modern' browsers."

"I see. And what is a 'Modern' browser?"

"Anything but IE."

"Ah. Nice meeting with you. I'll keep your quote in mind."

No IE support != less revenue. No IE support = no revenue.
I currently have two plugins. I use paypal to handle my payments, and I have a normal copyright license for users, nothing major really.

Like I said, keep it simple and launch it. Agile way ;)
The Formula for a Most-Emailed Story
After I realized that Outlook's built-in filtering had a ridiculously low circa-1985 limit to its code, I just built a Python script to file things in my inbox.

I haven't bothered making it user-friendly or "smart", however - it just goes by rules expressed in a yaml file.
The talk rjlipton described was from the late 70s though, so it may have predated the idea of literate programming.

The quote in primodemus' comment shows that Knuth didn't in fact use the idea of literate programming in his first version of TeX, and he still wrote it in one go on paper ignoring the usual methodology. So maybe "he's a genius" is the right explanation after all.
I doubt if you'll find that very many domainers around here.

Perhaps, you'll find more advice wrt appraisals etc. at some of the domaining forums.

All the best with your startup. :-)
The HP link doesn't seem to work for me -- it points to their old HP envy 14 line.

As for 16x9, blame HDTV.
Maybe not with ability, but how about with employability? Talent alone does not make a good hire.
Sweet! Now they can handle sales and invoicing and supply and logistics and accounting and all the other things that neither of them knows anything about.

Contrary to popular opinion around here, there are good "corporate environments," where the term is actually used to mean "companies big enough to have several full-time non-founder employees." After all, some people just want to code.
Thanks for sharing Jacquez post. I am relatively new here and find his experience insightful. As such, im not aware of his full story but I hope his issues with the community are recognized and integrated so that his contributions are also recognized and retained.
That's actually called out specifically in the guidelines, even.

If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

I don't think being defensive of quality is a bad thing though. It's often unnecessary, but I'd say that's better than being under-cautious.
Firefox 4 RC 1 Posted, IE9 Launch Confirmed
No, I'm running a NC. The mobile networking component is still part of the image I'm using even though there is no cellular data antenna.
True, but by that measure you can't win, because when even the insiders who profit from the situation are calling it a bubble, the signs are even worse!
How I Launched A Profitable Product in 3 Hours – The Nuts And Bolts
Isn't the biggest and most obvious sign when people outside of the industry get into the industry?

As in when everybody's grandma had started investing in startups in 1999 and in the real estate bubble when everybody's grandma was suddenly buying big houses and selling them with a markup 2 months later.
REF: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1713616

For those who requested the specific launch steps that I used in launching Keynotopia. Enjoy, share, and upvote.

And let me know if I missed anything.
It's easy to be negative and "predict" things - once in a while you might even get it right, then the world will notice you as a visionary :)

The press is shouting "bubble". People in the industry, afraid of a domino effect are claiming it is not. News at 11.

If you want signs, you need to look for them elsewhere. Like the huge evaluations for companies that fail to produce profits; in spite of their enormous size. Also, are these evaluations growing exponentially?

I'm don't know much about the inner-workings of an economy, but most articles I've seen on the subject are very shallow and totally void of meaningful data.
Agree with you on "talent, luck"... One thing that definitely help small company or individual developer is to get one big site to cover the app. It's definitely boost the initial launch of the app and can keep the momentum going for a few weeks.

Obviously getting featured by Apple is the biggest jackpot a company/developer can get.

In fact in order to get a good coverage from well known blogger is to release an app that most likely strike the writer because you are filling one of his need. But you better provide a good & solid app to get a good review. So whenever one of my app is getting close to its release date, I start scanning the various well known blog sites and see if I can find one (or many) blogger(s) that may have a greater interest than just a random one.
Neat. I wonder what OtherInbox makes of this? Their organizer feature is basically this.
In video it's explained like "valuations are high, but it's not a bubble".

Would that mean their growth will stop at certain level for a longer period? I guess realization will need to meet expectation at some level. Expectation for Facebook are sure high, but I doubt it can go go for trillion valuation without multi^2 billion revenue.

Would love to hear more thoughts from Paul.
I don't think that is the case. Suppose a given channel (e.g. a frequency) has a maximum information per second it can carry X, this system will not allow 2X information to be carried. It will allow the information carrying capacity of the channel to be split, such that each side can carry a maximum amount of information A and B respectively such that A+B<=X.
Where does this lazy stamp actually land? Surely your school doesn't actually put a little (* lazy) on your transcript? You seem to know you're not lazy and there's no way the lazy stamp is actually going to be transmitted to anybody who cares, so why do you care?
Self-Service Application Integration
Salman Khan: Let's Use Video To Reinvent Education (Must Watch)
How do you deal with multiple Gmail accounts?
I currently have 4 Gmail accounts that I use on a fairly regular basis (for personal, work, side projects, etc). One of the accounts I forward to my personal account, but the others I want to keep separate and distinct.

I have tried the Gmail account switcher but I don't like not being able to see everything at once (plus it's slow switching between accounts). I also don't like desktop clients because their UX is old and clunky (apart from Sparrow, which I can't use because I'm on Linux) and I don't want to configure my client every time I find myself using a new machine. I'm also getting tired of having multiple browsers open just so that I can keep two accounts open at once.

So my question is--how do you deal with multiple email accounts? Am I missing out on something that others know about? Or is this a common problem?
Show HN: HTML5 version of Motorstorm Apocalypse game
A project i have worked on for the last 3 months. Pleased with the outcome, but i would love to get some feedback from the community.
Les Valiant wins 2010 Turing Award
Kia has a 10-year, 100k mile powertrain warranty. How could they do that if their cars were mostly trash after 50-100k miles?
Wait until they start making TV shows about how to make money quick off of it.
I think there's a lot of value in comparing spec to spec heads up and I $1,255 price difference is a lot so kudos to HP for creating a similar laptop at a much lower price. Here's the intangibles that are hard to quantify and differ based on personal preference:

1) Status symbol - Let's be honest, probably doesn't factor in for HN audience but to the larger general public, status symbols are part of their lives and identities. Using an Apple product conveys outward that this is a person who can afford an Apple product, is perhaps appreciative of design, and is part of a more "elite/creative" crowd. Not my personal opinion fully but I don't think I'm wrong with this generalization.

2) Operating system - OS X vs Win 7. I'm not even going to start this discussion but it's a preference thing and to many, using the Mac OS is worth $x more.

3) Design - The HP Envy looks nice but it's missing the roundness and sleekness of the unibody MBP. What is .21" of extra thinness worth to a user?

4) Battery life - Can you add this since it's a big deal to a lot of users, especially when traveling.

I might have glossed over this, but how about the value of Thunderbolt?
The actual, non-aggregated, article: http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2011/03/guest-post-by-john-loc...
Why do you need to re-order labels? And do you mean in a conversation or in the sidebar?
The shortage is purely artificial; the AMA keeps a cap on numbers to make sure pay stays high.
This reminded me of an interesting bit of research by Inigo Quilez into using sounds from gm.dls (the Windows General MIDI sample et) to generate textures: http://www.iquilezles.org/www/articles/gmdlsgfx/gmdlsgfx.htm

Pretty interesting what you can get out of it.
I think this is the most important point in this thread. Verifone (and the other big players) makes expensive card readers. Square is disrupting that with a card reader so cheap that they can give it away for free. Verifone is using a standard anti-disruption argument: we're not over-engineered because everyone needs this level of complexity (crypto in this case). This would potentially break Square's business model.
Les Valiant made important contributions to the theory of computation and machine learning. "A Theory of the Learnable" is one of his most influential papers: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring08/cos511/...
Xcode 4 released
Sure, always interested in chatting about an opportunity. You are strangely difficult to find contact info for though - let me know how to reach you or feel free to get in touch with me at maxbrown .at. umich.edu
wasn't it something like 300 years from now? 24th century.
That is super impressive. I would have never expected Microsoft would be able to breath new life into the 360 this late in the generation.
I think Chris and Steve mirror the two phases of problem solving.
The first phase, the exciting creative process where the problem is a challenge. The second phase, is when the creativity is done, and now its simply a matter of following through the implementation.

I experienced these phases a lot in school, especially in math classes. I was never a homework doer. I'd start, eagerly wanting to do it, but after the first couple of problems I couldn't motivate myself to do the rest. Because I just could not stand the repetition--the same formula over and over with different values. I'd usually do the first problem in a section and call it quits. Then rely on my test grades to pass the classes with a C average typically.

I was afraid that trait of mine would affect me professionally in my programming career, and it indeed started to. Some projects despite starting out at race pace would quickly come to a slow down as I labored to finish up tail end of the project.

However, luckily I ended up working with a colleague was a great compliment to me. He was able to and enjoyed doing the implementation tasks--the portion of coding that is done when you have the solution and its just a matter of putting the pieces together. However, his shortcoming was the creative process.

Together, we make an outstanding team.

Maybe we could officially categorize these two phases into new job positions. Problem Solvers and Solution Implementors.
Heh. For fun - we should all apply for these jobs via the fax number they list.
IOS 4.3 Released Ahead of Schedule
A typical site that does well in Google gets 70-80% of their traffic from search.

No details were given about the other traffic sources, so getting only 50% of your traffic from search sounds like a failure to me (that, or a meaningless statistic).
I see this "the iPad is too heavy to comfortably read" comment a lot. I have had an iPad v1 for all of 5 days, but in that time I have read more "long-form" material than the previous five months.

Too heavy? C'mon, really? Yes, it's heavier than a Nook. But to say the iPad is useless is hyperbole at best and misleading at worst.
How a sandwich franchise ousted McDonald's
I hope more ebook publishers (both individuals and companies) look at this. There are too many outlets that think they can sell a file for most of the price of a physical book - usually the same outlets that have been blaming their price hikes on the rising cost of paper for the last 30 years.
The only Chef job with stock options!
Can function or can function optimally?

Some research shows that mood is impacted more drastically than function. Since burnout and perseverance are such key topics (and emotionally dependent ones), maybe heroic sleep deprivation is an under-recognized threat to entrepreneurial success.
I understand that you're unhappy with Apple, but keep in mind that their original iPhone was HTML apps ONLY.

Further, they continue run WebKit as an OSS project, and have worked to be accommodating to other mobile providers.

The reason they dislike flash isn't some sort of inherent hatred, it's that it's outside their control. They can implement a HTML spec just as well as anyone else, and with Webkit, they can lead the way.

Apple Wants to see a strong HTML web.
This is bizarre. It sounds ridiculously close to actual records that I own and have played out.

For example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InUiVFLTGdo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjBOqPDXEog

Fun fact: the second one was entirely made on a gameboy.

Expect mspaint.exe to have been remixed and to have found its way onto london's pirate airwaves by the end of the week.
Thank you for your input :-)

I don't need professional appraisal (but that would be great also). Just honest opinion from HN fellow entrepreneurs, to see what they think about it.
To be fair, your comment was a couple of days after his. Did you calculate that additional amount into your inflationary numbers? ;-)
2011 Rankup your Hacker/Startup/Biz Bookmarks
Let's try I game I'll call rankup. One unique hacker/startup/biz site bookmark per comment.

My interest is reading/learning from the best thought sources for hacking/startup/business online. Add your best bookmark you visit daily/weekly ONLY if if doesn't appear in the comments. Rank up bookmarks others post that you also visit.
If solving the web development communities problems was only so simple as that, it would have been solved already. I think it's safe to say that essentially nobody here uses IE.

I'm afraid our problems with IE involves other people using it, and their choice to do so is largely beyond our control.
Can't each transmitter/radio add some type of a 2-nd order frequency onto the transmitting signal (imagine a sin-wave, except it's line is not smooth, the line has its own "frequency") and detect that to filter the incoming signal?
I disagree -- it's cutting out the middleman. The actual author is making more money and has more (ie. complete) editorial control over his art.

Cutting out the middleman means returning things like writing to a craft rather than of an afterthought that is part of an industrial process of creating books. Instead needing an army of buyers, marketers, agents, retail placement specialists, etc, you return to the artist and his craft.

There will be alot of crap produced -- but then most bookstores are full of crap books that have been filtered through literary agents and publishers. Do you trust a technical answer from "Programming for Idiots" more than an answer from Hacker News, just because some guy in NYC proofread the book?
Thanks for that link. I just spent 20 minutes playing 'alien' and trying to figure out who, where and what we are from these images:

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/sceneearth.html

I love the premise.
what this could mean for Square is that since there is no security in practice one could argue they should pay the higher fees applicable to card-not-present transactions or where the number has been entered manually rather than the typically lower rates with verified card presence.

in practice it will boil down to how much VISA/MC like Square. i cannot imagine they see this expansion of CC billing to a new kind of merchants as a bad thing.
I hear 4chan tried to take you guys down. Can you tell us more about that? ;-)
Parent didn't need the downmods - it's the same poster replying to himself with "what a noob". I was about to post this same answer till I saw this at the bottom of the replies.
I have 3 GMail accounts I use regularly, so I just keep GMail open in three tabs, and use the GMail account switcher to switch each tab to one of the three accounts I care about.
Excellent question. One solution for this would be to prohibit US-based first-parties from doing business with noncompliant third-parties (similar to what you propose, but doesn't cut across different layers, so less messy, less potential for abuse). It is similar to how some other laws work, and it would be up to the FTC to make this rule.
StumbleUpon Gets $17 million in Series B financing
Sal Khan's TED talk from last week is now available
http://news.ycombinator.com/
There are several other stories already posted about this; one of them currently has 65 votes and is residing on the front page.
I forward them all to 1 account. However, even though I've set this up before, I can't for the life of me figure it out now.

Let's call EX the existing (old) email account that you want to keep and use daily (your personal one), and NEW the new one that you want to forward to your old one.

In NEW, settings>forward&pop3>allow pop3

In EX, settings>accounts>check mail pop3: add the new one.

The problem I'm having is that I can't seem to add the right settings for the new one (which is a google app hosted email)
It looks like Embarcadero's Delphi, even with that own debugger stuff. All in one.
Leslie Valiant Wins Turing Award
I have my own filters/rules which do this ("social" for FB/LinkedIn/Twitter and "not-people"), but this google labs feature does a better job at catching these types of notifications than my rules did.

I add one or two "not-people" rules a week, also, which is getting silly.

Good job, GMail team!
You can do that? Do you have to switch back and forth every time, or can you keep multiple accounts open at the same time?
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