skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right about that, +1.

Personally, I can live with CEOs of all stripes talking about or even writing books at a very high or abstract level about "The Road Ahead." It's puffery, but it doesn't masquerade as management. It's just a guy (like me) making predictions about the future.

My vituperation is reserved for those CEOs who pretend that they're making product announcements or strategic direction announcements when they're vaporous or non-actionable. Maybe WebOS will be on every PC next year. Maybe not, and if we try to get Leo to eat his Claim Chowder, he'll say that "new information has come to light that caused HP to make new decisions."

Puffing about the company's specific products (see also: Playbook) is really bad. But you are absolutely right that they're both puffery. Different kinds of puffery, IMO, but still puffery.
I would suggest, once you cap it (at whatever rate) -- divide the rate by 12 and make it a recurring charge. For example, let's say you notice sales decline, and decide to cap the charge at $12 - change the structure so that instead, you bill each new user at a rate of $1 per month (with optional pre-pay discounts or yearly prepays or whatever).

If you can keep the users for 1 year, you'll have made more than the $12 cap you would have and, if you don't, at least you don't have the support headache of having to deal with a customer who bought in at the minimum for life -- non-paying users at this price tier go away. Plus, anybody willing to break out their wallets at all are likely to have little qualm over $1 a month.

Also, with a fairly regular income stream, it'll allow you to plan your expenditures more reliably, so budgeting for things like employees, server space, etc will be easier to plot out cost vs income.
Move Over Apple, My Tablet Cost $200
The truth, I have an idea for a startup. Everyone that uses the internet WILL use this site. I have a Mac, a PC, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and $1200 to put into this site. I want to put this together and up quick. Would the psd service code my psd into a site that would be up and running? and then I can get users? I'm doing this alone and do not have a team
Ha! Tampa was one of the BarCamps which inspired this...did you see the post on Grasshopper Group which talked about it? http://grasshoppergroup.com/barcamp-tour-2011-grasshopper-gr...
> Huh, why not?

Business. Look at IE6. Microsoft can't force system-wide updates for all their customers, so nearly 0 customers get dramatic software improvements. Of course, everyone gets security updates.

> With Windows, it gets updated instantly whichever OEM built your PC. With Android. it can take upto a year after getting released, or never come out at all.

This isn't really relevant to the point I'm trying to make. I understand that right now, OEMs aren't updating Android frequently. I meant more user software updates; my Android apps seem to get updates every week that add features, fix bugs, etc. This process is streamlined and automatic. This is not true with traditional desktop operating systems (aside from most Linux distros).
Thanks for that.

Re: "programmable" -- what we're trying to emphasise with that is that it's more programmable than (say) Excel -- the whole Python in cells thing, plus its ability to rework the recalculation loop with Python code. Our first cut was actually "a Python cloud spreadsheet" but we figured that we didn't want to tie ourselves down to people who already knew and liked Python, so we moved on to "programmable". Is there a better word, do you think?

We've definitely been thinking about having some kind of option for people to deploy to their own private clouds (or indeed to their own server farms) but I see that we've not put anything on the site about that; we'll add something for that.

I like the idea of having an example of what the different pricing plans/compute time allowances get you, we'll definitely add that.

We've had a lot of debates internally about the concurrent server support; perhaps we should just drop that from the plans entirely?
SendGrid Sends 7.5 Billion Emails, Brings Former Oracle Exec As CEO
Thanks, I was hoping someone would point out the mistakes. Since I can't edit my previous comment:

frob = (obj, rest...) -> v for v of obj when blurgh(v, rest)

edit: parens dropped for noise reduction
Stanford Wireless Breakthrough
Gated Community, Blog, Blog, Blog.

There isn't anything even close to HN for designers, for three reasons. One, design has traditionally had tenets from on high and views that since there are actual physiological limits to what the human body can read, there are set rules. Because of the acceptance of rules, there's acceptance of leaders in the industry whose trendsetting generally spans the next few years, much like the fashion world. However fickle design trends are, most clients aren't interested in novel solutions, they prefer to use whatever's popular. And, because there's no space for actual innovation, there's no need to discuss how to be innovative, unlike in programming. Basically, design is less creative then programming because nobody wants you to be creative.

Two. Since design is a visual science, you end up getting a lot of people who're in it for the lifestyle to be cool, as opposed to here where people are into programming because they truly love it. In programming, the weak members go home and watch tv. In design, they go home and talk about design. These daytrippers tend to weaken the community, and force gated communities like Dribble and Forrst which further enable the class mentality in design. If these communities aren't gated, there's a huge influx of quasi-designers who wish to pad their marketing. However, this insularity tends to ostracize anyone outside of the class system.

Three. There's been a traditional, accepted path for "real" designers: some freelance, then joining up with an agency, and then forming your own agency. Because this path is already well established in meatspace, there's no reason to form a board online: all the important stuff is going on in the back rooms of print shops and studios.

Marxism in my design? It's more likely than you think.
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Work with RDFa-annotated content with JavaScript
Too bad for the downvotes. Even though we like to pretend this isn't an issue, this point really needs to be addressed. When graphics become a mirror image of reality what does that do for our subconscious to be continually acting out violent acts on real-looking people? I know we like to deny it, but there is a desensitizing effect that violent images has on our subconscious. True to life graphics will probably make the effect even stronger. Where do we draw the line? Should there be a line?
Voyager: Still dancing 17 billion km from Earth
I'm not sure what you are referring to. Are you saying that XFS loses data on suspends?

EDIT: Ok I see what's going on. paines is having problems with EXT4 and suspends. I wasn't talking about that. I was responding to nodata's XFS losing data fud.
Most computers, which generally run on pirated Microsoft software, come from China. The country’s only computer-manufacturing company, Morning Panda, produces barely 10,000 a year. If computers are rare, printers are even more so. They are closely monitored because of their potential for spreading anti-regime documents.

I'd love to see a Morning Panda computer in action. Anyone have a picture?
UnderConsideration's Quipsologies and For Print Only (FPO) are design metablogs that regularly feature great print work:

http://www.underconsideraton.com/quipsologies
http://www.underconsideration.com/fpo/

There's also idsgn: http://idsgn.org/
It's much more app-specific than the market for novel-length fiction. Think about the differences between a fart app, a simple game like Angry Birds, a more complex game like a FPS, a simple utility, and full-featured productivity app like Omnifocus. There's no single ideal price point that covers all apps.

I can pretty much guarantee that every developer has done some A/B testing on price points for their various apps. I make Facebook game utilities. I've found the ideal price for those kinds of apps are $1.99. At $0.99, I don't get significantly more sales than at $1.99, but I get a hell of a lot more negative reviews. For what's essentially a Farmville Reference, at $0.99 I get people complaining that the app doesn't let them play the game or integrate with their farm at all. At $2.99, I still sell well, but earn less money than at $1.99.
...then it is up to a competitor with enough foresight and financial wherewithal to leapfrog the iPad 2 and re-conceptualize the tablet as a productivity tool instead of as an entertainment tool.

It won't be a real "productivity tool" until it has a dock with a real keyboard and a 32" display and can move seamlessly between desktop and travelling modes.

I really want to get rid of everything else. Anybody listening?
The Kno "...emphasizes the ability to take notes and seamlessly integrate your own thought with the information that you are reading."

That's a software thing, not a hardware thing. The iPad can certainly allow this kind of functionality in an app. The quoted statement sounds like it's celebrating purpose-built hardware rather than general purpose touch computing.

Having these features in every ebook reader would certainly be a benefit.
Hackers versus Apple - An interview with Charlie Miller and Dino Dai Zovi
If the iPad competition really overproduces as much as this report expects them to, then there's going to be some massively discounted Android tablets come Christmas-time. Even I'd pick up a $99 Xoom.
End of Ubuntu Netbook Edition
In the author's own words: I should stress that this is very hand-waving imprecise definition...

I don't want to be too hard on this guy, but this is a bad article. Sorry. This article uses incorrect terms to define things. It also doesn't explain or illustrate why monads are useful. You cannot read this article and learn anything about monads.

It's not useful on a theoretics level, and it's also not useful on a practical Haskell level. I don't think the author understands what he is writing about. (Don't get me wrong, by the way – it's totally fine to write about something you don't understand in order to learn more about it. But maybe don't publish it prominently on your website and peddle it out to newbies as learning material.)

The overabundance of bad monad articles is making it harder for Haskell newbies to learn. There are many good, free resources for learning about Haskell, such as Real World Haskell. This is not one of them.

Think of a monad as a spacesuite full of nuclear waste in the ocean next to a container of apples. now, you can't put oranges in the space suite or the nucelar waste falls in the ocean, BUT the apples are carried around anyway, and you just take what you need. - Dons, talking about bad monad explanations

edit: also, if you're really interested in seeing what a Haskell monad looks like literally translated into JavaScript, I wrote a comment here on HN a year ago with some code: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1275860 I could leave better comments if I wrote it again today, but the code is correct and works.
Really? The future of the Table is 'more screens', and an added pen? I thought most people had finally learned that throwing more hardware at something doesn't necessarily improve the overall experience.
Apple wins because they try to do more with less hardware.
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It sounds like you want the Moto Atrix, except everything (phone and docking station) doubled in size.
On Founding a Software House (Keith Blount on Literature & Latte)
Ask HN: Which web/mobile app would you like to see that doesn't exist yet?
Which web/mobile application would you like to see or develop that doesn't exist yet(or needs improvement)? I'm looking for some ideas for my next weekend project. The idea needn't be big. It can be even a small idea like some jQuery plugin. Anything that can be useful and fun.
Mathematica Player now embeds in web pages
File compression benchmarks: lrzip vs 7zip, gzip, bzip2, xz
I left the print design world many moons ago, but here are a few that may or may not be what you're looking for:

http://designobserver.com/
http://www.drawar.com/
http://www.undrln.com/
Evernote GTD and More to Get Organized
New classifieds possible?
I love craigslist and not so much ebay. I rarely use both but the last time I tried to offload my mac book pro I got frustrated with craigslist inability to actually classify. As any normal hacker when I get frustrated with something my internal gears start spinning and despite infinite googling (is google actually classifying machine on steroids?) I did not find anything appealing where appealing means simple and working. So I asked myself - what would it take to build an appealing classifying engine in 2011? Well tanks to google app engine - not much. Please review the result at www.newvio.com
I'm glad they added the ability to change the instance type. Previously you could stop the instance from the management console, and start it up again afterwards, but you'd have to run `ec2-modify-instance-attribute` in between.
How Cloud Computing can Help you grow your Small Business?
You don't ask assembly line workers to build an amazing car on their own in a single step. Similarly, you shouldn't ask low-paid information workers to synthesize amazing text on their own in a single step.

I think that your HIT design highlights several common mistakes requesters make on MTurk:

- You are underpaying for the task (would you write a good review of Berkeley, CA for $1 for a stranger?)

- You provide no aggregation or verification step, to ensure that turkers know their work should jive with other turkers' output. You also give no indication that such verification is possible or likely to happen.

- Your task output is poorly defined and open to interpretation. You may have asked a straightforward question, but I assume you placed a blank textbox on the screen and expected well-formed paragraphs in return.

If you want a great example of text synthesis of relatively high quality using MTurk for prices in the range of your budget, see http://borismus.com/crowdforge/

If you want to learn more about how to design HIT workflows, see http://projects.csail.mit.edu/soylent/ (disclosure: I share an office with and work with Michael Bernstein, but not on this work). One of Soylent's contributions was the Find-Fix-Verify design pattern, which helps with some of the problems you raise.

Your task is even harder, of course, since you require subject-matter experts in a fictional location. So perhaps MTurk is the wrong crowd for your task.
Interestingly, my current favourite machine is an HP. But it's a business microserver, not a consumer desktop.
Also Motorola's attitude to OS upgrades certainly does not compete with other products (including Apple's). They refuse to allow user or third party updates and while some of their phones have seen updates to later versions of Android most (including mine which is still on 2.1) have not.

I don't mind with my current phone as it only cost £150 (I always buy the phones I use directly rather than from my mobile network) in a new-year offer so it won't matter so much in a years time if I want to upgrade enough to warrant buying a new device, but there is no way I'm plumping down £400/£500/what-ever for a Motorola device. For that sort of money I'd buy a device from another Android using manufacturer (or, <deity> forbid, maybe I'd consider becoming part of the Apple nickel-and-dime lock-in racket).
Thank you for explaining. The other one didn't appear for me until after you answered. Odd.
Throwing money at problems is sometimes the right answer, and I say that as someone who is so bootstrapped I can occasionally taste the shoe leather. Heck, I spend ~$500 a month on hosting when I could probably do it in half that on renting a dedicated server (or just buy a big beefy box and pay a pittance for a spot on a rack somewhere). I don't because it isn't worth my time to even think about migrating.

My favorite anecdote: asking tptacek to help me me squeeze a few megs out of Redis to avoid having to bump my VPS up a tier. That would have been, heck if I know, $BOATLOADS / hr in engineer costs to avoid $30 per month on my Slicehost bill. He restored me to sanity fairly quickly.
I think your calculations of inflation are off just a bit...

$25 + $13.37 = $38.37
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link http://www.newvio.com/
Review: Apple's early 2011 Thunderbolt MacBook Pros
Well, other Linux distributions show a similar trend for "$distroName linux" search terms: http://goo.gl/lTewt

Even "linux" alone seems to have a downward trend by that measurement: http://www.google.com/trends?q=linux&ctab=0&geo=all&...
Interview With Michael Hartl About His Success With Freemium Publishing
Happy to help. I should have said more about the idea of upshifting onto more powerful hardware but that slipped my mind.
Or, you know, the author of such a system (being an AI expert and all)
The designers in my office are all http://dribbble.com/ fans but they're all web designers and not print.

I personally like http://notcot.org/ for designy stuff as well, which hasn't been mentioned in the comments so far.
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We live in interesting times.

Apple created the iPhone. Now every (smart) phone looks like an iPhone. Android has equaled or exceeded iPhone shipments through a combination of factors (lower price points, more carriers in the US and so forth).

Apple reinvented the tablet as a capacitive touch device very much like the iPhone. Everyone copies that design. People predict the same outcome in the tablet market as happened in the phone market.

I disagree, for several reasons:

Firstly, the base functionality for a phone is much higher than that of a tablet. A phone can make and receive calls, make and receive SMSs and (in the category we're talking about) browse the Web. At that point you've covered over 90% of the usage of most people.

Tablets are (IMHO) a different beast. I haven't seen stats on this (I'd love to, if they exist) but I would guess, as an iPad (and iPhone) owner, two things:

1. A greater percentage of iPad owners buy apps than iPhone owners;

2. iPad owners buy a larger number of apps than iPhone owners;

3. iPad apps on average cost more (although this gap is narrowing and will probably disappear); and

4. iPad users spend more time in nonstandard (standard being mail, maps, photos and Web browser) than smart phone users.

If true--and I stress again that the above is my guess--the conclusion you reach is that the apps, and the infrastructure that goes around that (including payment and developer ecosystems) are far more important in the tablet market than the phone market.

Secondly, in the US at least, people generally choose carrier first and handset second. In all places, people first make a decision around having mobile phone service (and usage) and then buy a handset/plan.

Tablets on the other hand are primarily used at home or in the office. While 3G models sell very well and people have 3G data services, I would guess that the overwhelming majority of iPad usage is on Wifi, unlike phones.

Third, Apple is leading the market on price. What kind of topsy-turvy world do we live in where Apple leads the market on price?

Apple has beautifully designed products with the best ecosystem that lead the market on price. How exactly is this not Apple's game to lose?

Drawing parallels between what happened in phones and what's happening in tablets is (IMHO) foolish.

As for the OP's claims, there are four basic methods that we have for writing stuff today:

1. Audio and/or video recording;

2. Using a physical keyboard and/or mouse;

3. Using a touch surface; and

4. Using pen and paper.

For students who want to take notes and so forth my opinion is that old-fashioned pen and paper and the almost archaic keyboard will rule the roost for some time to come. They just have inherent advantages in input speed and flexibility. Even a stylus on a tablet just can't compete (IMHO).
Google Chrome 10 Brings More Speed, Sandboxed Flash and Stable version.
Launching an Open Data Business: Recollect.net (Vantrash 2.0)
I appreciate the comment. I think the current kneejerk reaction against violence in video games is uninformed and ideological, but that doesn't mean we should never consider the consequences of technology as it advances.

Is a game of GTA on the PS3 going to turn a rational adult into a criminal? Of course not.

Is there a difference between the developing brain of a child immersed in a simulation, and a grownup playing a game? I don't think that's unreasonable to ask.
Unfortunately for me, that would involve about two days on planes, airports, customs, immigration...
How Seattle Transformed Itself
Congrats to the team. Would love to know how SendGrid compares with MailChimp, Campaign Monitor and others in the domain.
Facebook's "Real Name" policy challenged
Does a professional pseudonym that you have used for years count as legitimate for Facebook's real name policy?
I've had good experiences with high-end hp laptops (HP Envy 13, 15). Beautiful and reliable without the Apple markup.
Twitter Employee Posts Picture Of An Actual #Dickbar Bar
Pity useless men and the falling demand for brains
On a more serious note, here's a word of warning: Don't type too much or else you'll have difficulty getting back to this page.

Now try doing it in TECO.
A madcap quest for ‘free’
Inequality and Political Power
http://theinternetwishlist.com/
Live on NASA TV 10:30am-Noon EST, Shuttle Discovery's last orbit and landing
Thought some might like to watch Shuttle Discovery's last orbit and return from space. Landing should happen close to Noon EST.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
he, oops.. that was supposed to be a snarky "that article was a long-winded way to say pretty much nothing". Starting at "tablets are basically expensive video game consoles" (really?!) with the conclusion "Rather, the tablet has the potential to improve our productivity." (wow!)

If your productivity isn't improved with the iPad (or any current gen tablets) then you're doing it wrong.
When brands get Facebook apps horribly wrong....
We've been watching Hypernumbers, they look pretty good. I'd somehow missed Skysheet (great product name), thanks for the pointer!
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They also come loaded with bloatware, and the cases are super-cramped and leave no room for upgrades.
It's not only unfashionable, it's downright wrong. Studies have shown there is no link between "entertainment" (like comic books, movies, and games) and real-life behavior.

Please stop raising this old canard.
Tell HN: Alphalab is accepting applications for their Spring 2011 class
Alphalab, the Pittsburgh based startup incubator, is accepting applications for its next class. They provide $25,000 in funding, office space, great mentors, weekly educational sessions, unlimitted supply of beverages, etc. It is a great experience and I encourage everyone who has considered making the leap to at least apply and explore what they have to offer. You can get all the info you need at http://alphalab.org/