skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's about what humans want. Humans act the same, for the most part, accounting for cultural differences. (Fashion is an example of a cultural difference, In Turkey, for example, men often place as much importance on being stylish as American women do.)

So, think culture development. Talk To Customers. (And don't try to flirt. Look at their faces. Write notes.) Talk to them both individually and in groups.

Have a partner actually in the demographic.
no kidding -- what about the built in gps?
Yes, "pick and pack" warehousing / shipping facilities will store your stuff and even put it in boxes and ship it to your customers for you. The problem isn't storing the inventory, the problem is owning the inventory. Ultimately, reducing inventory must go along with having a quick delivery time from your upstream suppliers...
Same in the Android Market.
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For me, Firefox 4 stumbles at the first hurdle
So with the problems I'm having with Flash under Chrome I've succumbed to the hype and installed FireFox 4. Opened up HackerNews, tried to login, and failed.

If I type a deliberately wrong password I get the "Bad Login" message from HN. If I type the password I think is right I don't get the "Bad Login" message, so it probably is right, but nor am I logged in. I get the orange bar instead of my familiar and comforting deep purple, and at the top right I get "login" instead of my username.

So I'm back to Chrome.

Just thought I'd report on the experience. If I thought there'd be any mileage in doing so I'd start looking for somewhere to report it, and provide as much feedback as I reasonably could. If it were one of you peeps I'd be helping you debug.

But I can't see any way to start that process at all, so I'm not even going to try. And there's a data point for you. If you screw up, make it easy for your customers to help you, and they will. Be thick-skinned enough to cope with the crap, and among it there'll be gems to help you.
Looks like on HN we finally found out the value of ideas:

42

(million dollars)
http://books.google.com/books?id=onNuF70-xRIC&pg=PR9&...

"Pareto found that the distribution of income was well approximated by a log-normal distribution, except for approximately the upper 3 percent of wealthy individuals."
What worked for me was travel - long term travel, working overseas. Then I became interested in the linguistics, art, geography and history of other parts of the world. I think I could pretty happily live almost anywhere now, and notice and value the good things about my environment a lot more than I used to, having gone without. Things like art galleries, museums, good cinema, interesting bars, global food.
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I had the exact same experience this morning. I downloaded Instagram and wanted to use it in my daily life. I have found if I move apps to the home screen, I use them 90% more often than ones on the other pages even the second page. My mind does not even think of using them.

This would be a great psychology / UX experiment. I would love to see if other people share the same characteristics.
Since I started watching Go evolve, I've stopped wondering what I would want from a new programming language. Seems like they have a pretty good idea already.
Great, the question is though, is it enough for them to be able to purchase the domain www.forest.com and www.forrest.com?
A crashing app isn't a reason to hate on them. But when your app does not work whatsoever. Has a terrible UI. And continually force closes or crashes the entire phone if you click buttons too quickly, that's unacceptable.

There's a reason that as of this writing, the android market has color rated at 1.5 stars.

The current app on the android market could be written in 3 hour by someone who's never written an android app before. I just need to get a page to load 1/10 tries and have the app crash out the other 9.
Writers vs. bankers.

One set lives in a world where the assessment of one's work is extremely subjective and changes with political fads, a world in which 90% of the most successful (who are never the most talented or best) are social-climbing charlatans and cerebral narcissists who cultivate defective personalities in the hope that their flaws will be taken as proof of creative genius. This they do while creating elaborate fictions, plots, and intrigues, selling nothing of true use, while their products occasionally inspire heinous crimes and suicides.

The other set tries to sell you their books.
I thought the video was sped up for much of it. The person inside the Android suit has had wayyy too much caffeine. (which of course makes it even more fitting on a developer site error page)
Perhaps they purposely did not launch a SXSW to redirect the limelight from all the great apps that did to themselves, a mere week afterward. If this blogging, tweeting, posting frenzy continues then they are going to be nearing $41 million worth of marketing in a matter of days, making it potentially money very well spent.
Risk-taking isn't one of those things that's universally bad or universally good. For entrepreneurs, who have little to lose and a lot to gain, most risk-taking is good. For established companies, which have a lot to lose and a lot to gain, it's much more of a balancing act.

There are a lot of risks that have a moderately large upside and a huge potential downside, that tends to be delayed, that a lot of CEOs are given a lot of incentives to take. Mark Hurd with HP comes to mind: it's pretty risky to cut payrolls, gut R&D budgets, and focus mainly on really high-margin products like overpriced ink. The upside is a big bump in profits, but the downside risk is making your employees hate the company and getting killed when someone else starts selling slightly less overpriced ink. The downside tends to be delayed a bit, though, so CEOs who make $25m and get a golden parachute don't need to worry about it.
Such a stupid nonsense ...
HTML5, CSS, jQuery iPad2 Simulator
The name is so generic that when I saw the earlier HN thread ("Color now available on Android Market") I had no idea what they were talking about--maybe the descriptive text for an app could be in HTML?
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There is a psychological factor to this that is used by games as well. People get addicted to collecting things whether they be tweets, comments, etc. I highly recommend Amy Jo Kim's video where she shows examples of this across several social apps:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihUt-163gZI
I do like apple products but really what innovation did they kill?

Do you know how unthinkable an app store model was 5 years ago? Sure there are innovative things happening on android but would it even exist without iPhone?
I wonder if she had any trouble getting permission from the building owners to do this.
or even outside USA. I'm in Colombia now and my monthly budget is a small fraction of what it was in The States.
Google begins testing Google Music internally
Thanks, here are a couple of articles for anyone wondering whether it's worth it or not...

http://www.conversiondoctor.com/conversion-blog/jobs-are-fil...

http://www.mikemahler.com/articles/hatejob.html
The foxholes platitude, as I understand it, posits that when faced with death, everyone turns to spirituality. I don't think that's what the parent's quote was really about. It seems to me the quote is saying that you can stop worshipping the spiritual world, but you can't avoid worshipping something... money, prestige, science, comfort, fun, etc.

While I disagree with the "worshipping anything other than god will eat you alive" sentiment... in general I agree with the concept.

The idea that you could rid yourself of unexamined, culturally imprinted beliefs is a charged mixture of hubris and absurdity.

Atheists shed some small set of (generally preposterous) beliefs, and then imagine they are free of faith. It's like rich white kids eschewing BMW's and designer clothes and thinking they've escaped privilege.
The douchebag count on Hacker News is, especially by Internet standards, very low.
What were are missing to ask is "Is there a patent here?".

These guys could turn tomorrow and ask any company trying to combine local + photo + mobile to pay high dividends.
Best reporter's conflict of interest disclosure ever: I used to buy pot from
I think it is part of why I'm so much more productive at debugging. Give me a spreadsheet with a big list of things that are wrong and I'll bulldoze through them like a lightsaber through butter†.

On the other hand, going to one of the 'proper' 'enterprisey' bug tracking systems actually reduces the visual impact, there is no list you have to search for them one by one and there is all this bondage and discipline around it.

Because of this for me anyway the spreadsheet ('worse') is 'better'.

†Disclaimer: it helps if you actually know the program and understand the problem that is being solved etc
Should there be a standard that outlines using italics with asterisks to let the reader know that part of the comment was sarcastic. Well now that I think about it maybe Tumblbeasts could switch on Murder Mode if you feed them such things.

I though I was referring to made up comic, now I'm not so sure anymore. Oh god!, I hope they can't fit through RJ45's
Where are you getting $5k/user/year?
Still, couldn't you call it a form of trespass and still punish it with a fine of approximately that magnitude (see above for further discussion)?

Sure you could get a fine for trespassing, or even imprisonment, but since it's a criminal offense it's at the discretion of the prosecuting jurisdiction rather than the establishment. On the other hand, the trespasser could probably be held civilly liable for damages by the establishment directly.

In fact, going back to the theatre example, I suppose the person who yells fire and causes a stampede could just as well be held liable for injury or wrongful death in a civil suit by the affected individuals, rather than reckless endangerment or manslaughter in a criminal court.

In the end, though, we'd also have to consider the cost and effort involved in individuals conducting civil suits vs. the convenience of having the government handle investigating and prosecuting it as a criminal offense.
One reason worth mentioning is that you can often get far better internet and smartphone connectivity outside the SF bay area.
(I'm the developer of Boxer.)

You're right - Boxer's homepage did actually acknowledge DOSBox until a couple of days ago, when I rewrote most of the copy and in the process took it out. I now realise this was caddish of me, and have added the acknowledgement back in.

It wasn't my intention to take credit for DOSBox's work; it’s an excellent emulator and responsible for 90% of what Boxer does. However, it's also extremely painful to use on the Mac - and I wanted to avoid the suggestion that Boxer's user experience was like that of DOSBox’s.

As airolson noted, DOSBox is also prominently credited within Boxer itself.
this is actually true. dribbble users are the who's who of the web design world. doesnt mean there isnt room for other invite design communities though.
Are you suggesting that there are awesome innovations inspired by the Galaxy tab out there being ignored by HN? Post some!
For a virus, the average number of people a sick person infects. If r < 1, the spread is self-limiting. If r > 1, it spreads exponentially until r drops (because, say, enough people develop immunity).
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Hey, out there, i'm cool and creative and you can feel a normal human being with me no matter how rich you are.
feel free to contact me
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2365353
Only thing they didn't show was whether the hinge snaps on/off as easily as the Smart Cover.
Are you saying that Apple doesn't inspire design? Or are you saying "Yes, they inspire great design, but here's this other completely unrelated gripe I have, so I'm going to grind my axe every time Apple is mentioned with any kind of positive tone?"

I'm not slamming you on this, if you could show a connection between the two things, that would be very interesting. Sticking to software and not to hardware, I might say that Microsoft and the PC manufacturers allow anybody to make anything, so there are nice PC-Windows things but they are drowned in a sea of dreck. But Apple retain a tight fist over software and filter out the crap. It might appear that Apple inspires great software, but that's only because the proportion of nice stuff to dreck is higher when someone's filtering the dreck out. In reality there might be 2x or even 10x as much nice stuff in total written for Windows, it's just drowned by 100x as much dreck.

Now, I am not saying that, it's a strawman put up as an example of drawing a connection between their closed platform policies and great design by third parties. Perhaps you can draw a better connection? I actually sympathize with you... I have written several blog posts criticizing Apple's policies. I just don't see the connection here and need some help connecting the dots.
Can we still call it 'open'?
If "worship" means anything it means an unconditional, faith based obeisance.

If you define "worship" as merely seeing something as larger or more important than yourself, then yes, everyone "worships something". But this "observation" is not profound but rather a verbal card-trick leaving you with nothing useful. What interesting is the difference between worshiping a God, formulating a rational, ethical system, attempt approach reality scientifically, cultivating the "be here now" attitude and what-all, rather than the comforting new age claim that "all beliefs are really the same".
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To be fair, there are new Japanese being made every single year, too.
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The key in the title is that it says it "outsmarts Apple's Smart Cover". The Smart Cover was incredibly well-designed yet incredibly simple.

Anything capable of giving it a run for its money should be equally as interesting (at least from a design stand-point).
Obligatory City Slickers reference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k1uOqRb0HU

Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is?

[holds up one finger]

Curly: This.

Mitch: Your finger?

Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and the rest don't mean shit.

Mitch: But, what is the "one thing?"

Curly: [smiles] That's what you have to find out.
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I'm sure it will catch on, it's a just a pretty obvious thing to do. But I wonder how color plans to maintain market dominance?

I can't see enough of a first-mover advantage here to justify such a big bet. - But perhaps they have something awesome up their sleeve that we don't know about yet?
This is getting ridiculous. Why do we up vote something that is a given? HN, stop it! You only up vote things that make you learn something. Why on earth did pohl just get 16 points for nothing.

We need to stop with the promoting of things like "thank you" or "good job"

Im sorry, I just went on a little rant. The cover is awesome, but did I just learn anything from pohl? I don't care to see this comment over more informative comments below.
Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot?
Signal to noise, how are they going to handle that?

Say you are in a concert and turn on ColorApp, sure you'll get a thousand pics not all of them worth a view. You might get pics of the stage from many different angles and distance but the same in essence.

What is worth and what is not?

Also 100M users will mean a shit-ton of pics up/down the wire. I hope they save some of the 40M for servers and bandwidth costs. They may consume 100TB daily, for years, till the end of times (or end of cash, whatever comes first)
I would also like some evidence that HN would ignore an equally well-designed 3rd-party accessory for a Galaxy Tab.
Not enough, unfortunately.
Beyond Googling yourself: Greplin (YC W10)
Why Give a laptop?
The Social Bubble
Thank you for mentioning this.

(Couldn't resist a little joke at your expense, sorry about that. I actually appreciated the parent comment -- most of the time I never play videos, because they take me out of my normal flow. But due to his comment, I actually watched this one, and am now impressed.)
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If it had been a cover for a Galaxy Tab, it would be hailed as an innovative idea from a startup that has found a great niche.

Instead, it's just an iteration on Apple's design, from a boutique that specializes in helping you further flaunt your gadgets as status symbols.

EDIT:

Based on the downvote, somebody seems to have taken one of the above sentences seriously. I guess I fail at subtle mockery.

Credit should be given where credit is due. Apple's Smart Cover was an innovation. Miniot's cover is less of an innovation, but no less smart from a business sense, and it would have been impossible for them to make this product for any other tablet, because it's too soon for Samsung et al to have added magnets to their tablets. I think it's also safe to say that if Apple hadn't already done it, Samsung would never bother to make an expensive change to their tablet just to facilitate a clever case.
Forrst is an incredible community. I post my in-development snaps on there all the time and receive a lot of great advice from some amazing and extremely talented people. Super happy for them! :)
How many HN users have Galaxy Tabs, and how many have iPads?

I bet a lot more have iPads, which means that this article is relevant to them.
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From the looks of things it didn't use one? (Or at least I managed to completely miss it.)
the part around the 41 second mark where he flips open the cover concerns me a little, notice him placing his left hand on the hinge area for support. i wonder if maybe it comes off too easily.
Maybe you can connect with friends on Quora and maybe you can ask specific people questions, but Facebook Questions is gonna far outpace Quora for asking your friends simple questions.
Sure, but I've played games that were incredibly fun and had a tiny (or none at all) budget and were finished in a matter of months.

DNF will have to be very special to make up for the 14 year wait. If people make fun games in 6 months, I'd expect DNF to have a lot more. I still play Genesis games, so graphical flash isn't something I put much value on, usually, but after such a long development time, I'd expect DNF to be at least on-par with the current generation of high end game AS WELL AS being fun and addictive, having replayability, great storyline, physics, AI, dialogue whatever.

So (IMO) my point stands: no matter how great DNF really is, it will never live up to the expectations built up by 1) previous DN games, 2) marketing and hype, 3) the 14 years of development and 4) the amount of money 3D Realms and Gearbox Software put into it. Thats my opinion anyway.
wrt. self-escalating feedback cycle i liked this experiment

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-06-03-birds-testos...
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I'm working on a death clock right now. It's called the yearly budget for our non-profit grant funded project.
>>I do like apple products but really what innovation did they kill?

All kind of products that would've competed with Apple bundled apps, or could've been seen as illegal in some state, or had some erotic content ...

>>Do you know how unthinkable an app store model was 5 years ago?

Microsoft had a store 5 years ago. What does it have to do with Apple closing their platforms, to make higher profits, while stopping a lot of innovation?

>>Sure there are innovative things happening on android but would it even exist without iPhone?

Symbian, Windows CE and many more existed before the iPhone. As the price of hardware falls and mobile devices become more powerful/useful more and more users are getting smartphones. Android would've made perfect sense, w/o iPhone.
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Why do routers need to be reset?
Every one of my clients, home or small business, have ONE device at the center of their operations. Whether dealing with the ubiquitous Linksys WRT-54G or a Netgear FVG318, it never ceases to amaze me how often a reset will solve a problem. The question is, why?
It's open, when they decide you can see it.
Not really. The line is this:
long adv = min(recwin, (long)TCP_MAXWIN << tp->rcv_scale) - (tp->rcv_adv - tp->rcv_nxt);

So it's really:
long = uint(long, (long)uint32) - (uint32-uint32)

Here's the problem on x64: you're converting a 64-bit long to a uint, then doing a subtraction with another uint, then placing that result into a 64-bit long. Since the compiler is just doing an assignment rather than a sign extension, which is why there is a large positive number rather than -1.

Changing it to use the lmin macro would make it:
long = long(long, (long)uint32) - (uint32-uint32)

This still has the underlying issue(using 32-bit values in 64-bit buckets), which should work out fine, but may have issues down the road.

It makes more sense to change all the long types to int32/uint32 types rather than just cast longs everywhere. If recwin and adv were changed to int32, it would be:
int32 = uint32(int32, uint32) - (uint32 - uint32)

While this potentially has issues if the uints are between 0x80000000 and 0xfffffff, it's a safer solution than using longs.

EDIT: added some explanation
I don't agree. You don't have to displace angry birds if you are making a game. You don't have to displace Saint Petersburg local train timetable service app (just made that up) if there wasn't any in first place.
To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what that option does on identi.ca. I have it enabled, and it doesn't appear to have done anything in particular yet? Perhaps someone with more knowledge on the setting could elaborate.

Exodus doesn't do any modifications to your twitter nor your identi.ca account. Instead, it retrieves all of the people that you follow on twitter and lists any of them that also have identi.ca accounts on your screen.

If you were thinking about dropping twitter entirely, this could help you make a more informed decision before you switch: do you really want to switch when only 10% of your friends on twitter actually have identi.ca accounts? Or on the opposite end, if you prefer identi.ca and see that 90% of your friends also have identi.ca accounts, then go ahead and subscribe to those users and jump ship.

The app doesn't do anything magical; it simply gives you information. What you do with it is up to you.
Pets.com raised something like 180M in total funding.
Webvan, I'm pretty sure was in excess of 800M
Friendster has taken in about 50M over the years.

So really color is about 4% of "Pets.com, webvan and friendster all in one."

It's important to consider the actual dollar amounts when making these sorts of comparisons.
Because they're not willing to pay for reliable firmware.
Actually I was an executive at a traditional corporation (a GM at Microsoft) and before that a founder/CTO at a venture-funded startup ... You're very right that there's a lot of competitive pressure (and social climbers) but we always avoided it.
You can obviously build a very successful company outside "The Valley." However, I view being in the entrepreneurial "hot spots" like having multiple founder with a technical background--it just increases your odds of success.
Shouldn’t we be rooting for it to succeed? Ultimately, wouldn’t that be better for everyone across the board? The startups, the investors, and the users?

Of course.

I suppose this is good for the community as long as every one of these gambles works, but the reality is that not every one does, and I would imagine investors would become increasingly skittish because of it.
Atheists ... imagine they are free of faith.

Don't assume.

you can't avoid worshipping something

Don't assume.
I imagine how hard it's to dance inside that stuff.

Thumbs up for that crazy person.