skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, for one, would superimpose some blue skies and nice fluffy clouds upon rainy afternoons... And big, silvery dirigibles. Always liked those.

Notice the background is very clean - most real windows will show you buildings and trees. If, however, that could be combined with "privacy glass", specially if you could make the glass less transparent on a pixel-by-pixel way, then I would consider changing all my windows.
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For those that do not want them - just make a menu option to hide them, easy enough to set "display:none" on their block.
"it's own code " is always and only an abbreviation for "it is own code" which was not intended.
>any damages they could conceivably win would be dwarfed by the damage to their public image by doing it

Given the things they've already said and done (e.g. the cell thing, "if you've got nothing to hide", the fake china pull out) I don't buy it. They've got enough people to buy into this "Don't do evil" nonsense that even if they did sue someone over this silly patent a million google defenders would pop out and explain why they just had to do it.
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If I may paraphrase: It's all "open", but some things are more "open" than others
Metafilter does this and I find it pretty useful to find sources on the same subject.
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Well, yeah, the exact tags would have to be chosen by pg or something. Main reason for fixing them is so that we don't end up with tablet,iPad,ipad2 as separate tags
I think the key phrase is "and its partners". Google can't increase global pageviews without partners and they can't step on their partners' toes too much.
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In the general scheme of things, Twitter and Facebook have only just demonstrated that a market exists around their type of product. They'll be replaced at some point, but not by the services in the article.

Niche players might be able establish a de facto standard for shared profile data though.
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Someone should make a site that allows the public to lobby congress. Maybe they'll listen to us then.
Via google PDF viewer

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It's a tad over the top I agree, but that's this guys way. Personally I find him highly amusing.
That's an interesting point.

It seems to me however as an Android watcher, that when Google developed Honeycomb in parallel to Gingerbread, they created an internal fork of Android to specifically support tablets.

What needs to be done and it seems what they intend to do is heal the fork, so they have a single codebase again. The real issue is whether they manage to do that in time for Ice Cream.
That's why I stopped using PHP outright as well - after several inarguable bugs were just punted on, it became apparent that the core developers did not care and were not seriously interested in outside help. Even bow in the post-DVCS world, nothing kills a project faster than someone realizing that they're going to have to fork the whole thing if they want it to work.
Agreed. The argument is a straw man.

Even taking the (flawed) premise at face value, there is still a mile of difference between Apple's walled garden for apps and other content, versus the Android ecosystem.
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There is a separate link inside the [scribd] tag.
Making something better is the easy part.
Addressing my own innumeracy, reworking the numbers I find that all three bars are indeed exponential, expressing percentage increases of different orders of magnitude (the top is increasing wealth accumulation at 10x the percentage rate of the bottom). Mea culpa aside, the author is using a linear X axis instead of a far more suitable logarithmic scale, thus skewing the reader's perception of the graph (as exemplified by the fact that all the HN comments failed to notice this).
I was planning on purchasing an Android tablet, but no sale until the source code is out there. I own an Android phone and have been happy with it, but I'm not interested in giving up my freedom just to have my hands on the latest toy. I am extremely disappointed in this decision. I wasn't under any particular illusions about Google, but I actually believed they were comitted to Android as an open source project. If they get their act together and get their source code out the door soon and don't repeat this nonsense for subsequent Android releases, they will keep me as a customer of devices based on their operating system. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
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@estel: no, the charts are not adjusted for the growth of HN itself.
> I knew I had a marketing problem but instead I preferred to refractor my code

Heh, I know this too well. I suck HUGE at marketing. I've got 4 games in the iPhone app store and made since October 2010 whooping $780 ...

Actually I would be very happy if I got 20 sales a day :)

I guess my adventure in indie gamedev will end by the end of this year when my funds are used up and I'll have to get an office coding job blehrgs
To me, 'Open' is not the same as just 'Open Source'. I'm not really that interested in whether Android is open source or not.

What I am interested in is whether the device lets me do what I want - that is, it allows me to download and install whatever software I choose to, in what manner I want. Android lets me do this. That is why Android is 'Open'.

Whilst I understand for most consumers this is not an issue, and I have no qualms with people who go along with that, for me personally as a programmer, I will not buy any other smartphone platform if it does not afford me that same liberty.
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Very nice improvements... I hope you are online when I do my own ShowHN ;-)
Followup: Engadget writes today "Pocket-Lint has heard that the UK won't actually get the new thin version, although we're guessing that could always change in the future. As for the thicker 8.9-inch model pictured above, Samsung was making it quite clear at its booth that it wasn't planning to release that product to the public." http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/25/samsungs-original-galaxy-...
That doesn't make his statement any less true. The link you provided only covers open source software that Apple included in their OS, and doesn't come close to including all iOS source code.
To some degree, I agree. What with PATRIOT acts, FBI wiretaps and ACTAs, no one can claim that any data in the US is safe from government eavesdropping. This is certainly more true in the US than in Europe. Then again, for all I know European governments might just be better at hiding.

Hence, there can not be any data security in the cloud. However, Europe mandates that every company must delete your data if you ask them to. Whether companies actually comply with this and whether this is feasible at all with internet technology is a different matter, but at least this shows some good will. Things like this could make a difference.
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Twitter is doing this because at some point they have to monetize, and that probably means showing ads. Some users will get annoyed by ads, and that will mean a bigger market for an ad-free alternative.
@jasonkester: the dataset only spans 14 months, so i'm not quite sure what you mean by yearly surge in interest. there are very definite horizontal seasonal fluctuations, though, it's true.

as to the second question, matching is simply by keyword, or at least the regular expression equivalent.
Caml didn't change much in the last 4 years, so it could potentially interesting blog post.

Its not, though.
That will be the case until people have 3D printers in their homes, and you can download a toy instead of buying it.
It's a patent application, 10 years old and still not granted.
Aren't these the same partners that compete in the 2.x smartphone space? In a world where damn decent android phones like the LG optimus are pushing the edge of the $100 barrier while "high end" phones continue to come out and stay in the $500 range it doesn't seem to me like they're too upset. Perhaps a notable partner or two did a lot more work on honeycomb than anyone did on previous versions?

I think I'd lend more credence to the theory that google wants to make sure that the early releases are all of particularly high quality so that's the reputation google tablets get. That would seem to encourage a short term embargo. They got beat up a lot on the reputation of the 2nd/3rd tier chinese oem 2.x tablets. Then again, the worst android phone I've personally used was a samsung.
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To a large extent, the two go hand-in-hand. A closed-source platform may give you a lot of freedom to customize things, but what it doesn't give you, you can't have. On an open platform, you can do anything.

It's the difference between "most of the doors are unlocked here" vs "if you want a new door, here's a blueprint and a chainsaw."
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I agree that the author's points are purely speculative, but the situation kind of demands speculation, since the official answer was very unsatisfying.

The tablet market somehow seems more competitive than mobile is currently, and third parties like Amazon could rebrand/white label Honeycomb for complete rival tablet platforms, forgoing the 'with Google' label, services, ad platform, etc. Tablets are general computing platforms and not locked down like the carrier dominated mobile market; Google would have a tougher time controlling this kind of thing than they do with mobile phones.
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I understand your concern, but I am not sure that having separate tags for tablet, iPad, and ipad2 would necessarily be a problem.

Someone might be interested in tablets in general, but wouldn't want to see stories on the ipad.

On the other hand, ipad2 is clearly a subcategory of ipad. And someone who is interested in the ipad will probably be interested in stories about the ipad2, even though he may not have explicitly looked for ipad2 tags but only for ipad tags.

Since "ipad" is actually a substring of "ipad2", this could be easily solved with a simple substring search in the tag.

A more problematic example is someone missing a story tagged "java" but not "programming" when searching for stories tagged "programming".

The solution to this problem is to have a tag hierarchy. Thus, the "java" tag would be explicitly made a subtag of the "programming" tag. Unfortunately, the problem with this solution is that it's not easily automatable (though I'm sure there's been a lot of research done in this area), so the hierarchy would probably have to be built by hand. And this, in turn, means that it probably won't be done for a lot of tags.

Perhaps a good compromise would be to require each story to be tagged with at least one predefined tag (from a wide selection of predefined tags that are already organized in to a tag hierarchy), and allow an arbitrary number of user-defined tags.

That way there'll be at least some minimal organization to the submitted stories.
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Consider that many porn sites proactively register as "Adult Content" to make sure they are caught be filtering software.
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I think the best way around this is to join a team sport. You can quickly get a social circle without a lot of time commitments. At the same time you get to feel what success is like when there is a real risk of failure. If you can find something with a reasonable exercise component you can also relapse a lot of boring workouts with something far more fun.

However, as much as people might dislike them the most accessible team sport is Raiding in an MMO. People get addicted because they fill some basic human needs that the average modern life does not.
Which is exactly the reason I wish conferences would put the name on both sides :-) I actually find it more with financial analysts than competitors. Many deliberately turn their badges around in the hopes of getting some tidbit from someone in a show floor booth who isn't on their guard.
There are so many requests for enhancements to Hacker News, I'd like to see them all consolidated into a "Hacker News Users Group Conference", just like commercial software vendors do, but with a few differences:

Commercial Software Vendor User Group Conference:

- in Las Vegas or New Orleans
- Monday thru Wednesday
- vendor presents infomercials disguised as "flights"
- users decide list of enhancements needed to package
- vendor says yes and puts them on enhancement schedule
- enhancements never get done anyway
- everyone gets drunk and gambles or plays golf

Hacker News User Group Conference:

- in Mountain View
- on a Saturday
- users get to meet and associate faces with names
- users network and share what they're working on
- users present list of hn enhancements to pg
- pg says no there isn't time
- users get to see Trevor's latest robot
- everyone gets drunk and discusses their favorite algorithm
> I don't understand these "Google Android is not open"
> arguments. Can you go to http://source.apple.com/ and
> download iOS 1.0?

What iOS has to do with it? Did Apple ever claim or market iOS as being open source?
Can you go to source.google.com and download Honeycomb source?
A case before the Supreme Court of Canada right now [1] touches on a similar untested premise of the open web. At issue is whether a hyperlink constitutes a citation or a republication of that page.

In this case, the plaintiff is accusing the defendant of defamation for linking to web pages the plaintiff argues are defamatory. (Aside: compared to the US, defamation law in Canada is weighed much more strongly toward the plaintiff than the defendant.)

Lower courts have decided that simply linking to a defamatory web page does not constitute defamation, unless the link is provided for the purpose of endorsing the defamatory material, in which case it is the endorsement of the link that constitutes defamation, and not the link itself.

The problem in Canada, as in the US, is that governments have not kept up with legislation governing the legality of various internet-specific activities, like hyperlinking and so on. That has left the courts to try and decide through precedent how to handle these conflicts.

[1] http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/case-dossier/cms-sgd/sum-som-eng.as...
Google is between a rock and a hard place. They release Honeycomb source, then a bunch of makers will rush out with phones (this move is clearly about phones and not tablets) running an OS they don't want on phones yet. And if they do, the headline would be "Steve Jobs vindicated: Google Android is fragmented as hell". Of course, ignoring that Apple did the same exact forking and then merging move with iOS.

Personally I would err on the side of openness and let the shitty manufacturers run wild, but at least this way the blowback is just a bunch of philosophical arguments on nerd sites and not actual customers buying bad Android products.
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I don't think they're trying to present this as an innovation in name tags. It's just a showcase of an elegant novel design.
I love this guys writing style, it reminds me of David Thorne from 27bslash6.com a little.
Uh oh, he's onto us with that part about the desire to make things easy. We'd better post a bunch more essays about how Lisp is a language for geniuses only. He hasn't caught on about macros yet, but its only a matter of time before he starts looking at his own code and thinking beyond the limits of what functions can do to help you not repeat yourself. And then the jig is up.
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It's my impression that Google itself made Android's openness part of their marketing pitch. Then of course there's Andy Rubin's famous tweet:

https://twitter.com/Arubin/status/27808662429

If they're going to make openness an issue, it seems like it's fair to criticize them if they fail to live up to their (implied?) promises.
Being an entrepreneur isn't incompatible with social capitalism.

You're right, it isn't. And, of course, nothing is stopping a pacifist from joining the military. After all, he can get a desk job. What I want to know is why.

Certain personality types are attracted to specific ideologies and in turn, specific careers. Why is somebody who is fascinated with wealth redistribution and income equality spend his time on a site which is devoted to the exact opposite on a personal level?

Simply drawing a dividing line between society and the self is not an answer. Most people have a congruent perspective when it comes social policy and their personal policy.

Why are these people different?
I was implying well built tablets to show off Android Honeycomb.
Agreed. As a hobbyist Android app developer, I know all to well the thought "I will start the marketing blitz as soon as I finish feature X..."
This needs a lot more polish. Why not contact some (student) animators or illustrators who are willing to work for a small percentage of the profit ?
How is Android open under your definition? My phone has a locked-down bootloader that will only load an OS that has been signed by Motorola, I can't get root, I can't flash it, and I can't upgrade to the latest version of Android. Right now I'm feeling pretty closed.
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In the same way that inkjet printing affected the book publishing industry.

Try printing a full-length book on your desktop printer, and let me know how much the total cost of your time, the paper, and the ink is.

Compare it to the cost of a normal paperback and then note that the quality of the typesetting on your printed version sucks, and there's no cover.
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I've never said that Taubes has all the answers and neither has he. Indeed, on his blog Taubes himself has identified areas where he has a hunch about mechanisms but admits we simply won't know until better research is done.

Throughout this discussion you've made vague assertions about how scientists disagree with Taubes, but never cited specific points where got he facts wrong, only that some scientists don't like his using their data and words to support a conclusion they don't share. You made the bizarre claim that Americans have been eating more fat and that the Atkins diet is a disaster, both without any supporting evidence. I find this unpersuasive.

If the Atkins diet is such a disaster, for example, why is that when some of your "real scientists" conducted the relatively famous ATOZ diet study[1], it showed that the Atkins diet provided roughly twice the weight loss of the Zone, LEARN, and Ornish diets while providing as good or better secondary benefits (e.g. heart disease indicators). I mean, does that sound like "a disaster" to you?

Taubes is hardly alone in crying "foul" over the low-fat, high-carb diet fiasco. Watch Robert Lustig's UCSF talk entitled "Sugar: The Bitter Truth"[2] He'll go into plenty of detail on the biochemistry involved. He starts out, however, by saying his goal is to debunk the last 30 years of nutrition information in America, and I think he makes a damn good case.

The money slide for our discussion appears at 0:09:40 in the talk. It shows, as I alluded to earlier, that the percentage of calories from fat in US adult diets has been steadily declining since the mid-1960s. From the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, the percentage of prevalence of obesity is pretty stable, maybe ticking up a percent or so. But in 1982 the AHA, AMA, and USDA tell us we should cut our fat intake. Faced with low-fat processed foods that taste like cardboard, the manufacturers try to improve the taste with things like high-fructose corn syrup and guess what happens? In the mid-1980s the incidence of obesity shows a sudden, dramatic increase, doubling from 15% to 30% over the next two decades. Yes, there was a disaster all right, but it had nothing to do with increased fat intake or the Atkins diet.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17341711

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
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Well after giving 'small' percentages to a)Yan b)Robert c) US Govt d) Finnish Govt and e) Google ..I am sure he won't be interested in another shareholder :P
An exploding mess of tags can be mitigated in practice by: (1) normalizing tag capitalization, (2) auto completing/suggesting as you type, (3) providing a dynamic list of tag suggestions for tags that are likely to occur together, (4) suggesting tags based on post content.

In your example what you really don't want is for people to create distinct tags for ipad, ipad2, iOs, etc on accident. Making it easy for people to select from relevant existing tags means people will only add an ipad2 tag over using an existing ipad tag if that distinction is important and particularly relevant for their post.

Done right tags can be super useful without creating a mess or being overly difficult to implement. StackOverflow does a nice job on this front.
I think the next most obvious step should be to go for Amazon Appstore. They are serious and if your app gets selected for a free app of the day ..I am sure you'll be flying.
I believe the pomodoro technique boils this idea down into a digestable method of doing things http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/resources/pomodoro_cheat_sh...
Distributed microblogging: connecting the masses by making them further apart.

Great to see OStatus gaining traction.

Is there space in the OStatus spec for an email-like username/service format? I'd like to be able to add someone on identi.ca by typing theirhandle@identi.ca, for example, rather than having to copy and paste a link to their atom feed. Or would that be too confusing? If so, is there a more user-friendly alternative?
Is anonymity really the solution? That basically says it's OK to say anything about anyone because there will never be any redress.

I'd suggest that there should be some protection against defamation, the issue is that the laws that exist in the UK at the moment do a poor job of differentiating between defending against genuine defamation and what is frankly an abuse of process (using the process and it's associated costs to intimidate).
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March to May is a spring (season). If you see a surge in interest between February and April it might mean that Spring (framework) has nothing to do with it.
Do you have any stats on what a featuring on Amazon Appstore does for an app?
Seems like that's what was done with the Nook, no? While I can see your point, I guess I'm just not convinced that google sees projects like that as hurting them. Surely a traditional vendor would seek lock in and revile such a use, but isn't the whole point of android open source that google's platform is their web applications/ad platform and that's where they seek to stymie competition?
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If there's really that much value in free music, then the judgement should be paid in electronic copies of songs, $30000 a pop.