skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess (not having used the Amazon store however) is that Android's permissions system is hurting it. Why does that app need location and full network access? So you become suspicious. And so on. While on iOS its automatically given full rights apps get, apart from location, which it asks for at runtime, not install time. So while the iOS app has as much ability to start feeding data home, the fact that the Android app is forced to admit it uses network access leaves us more suspicious.

It doesn't help that many apps have a perfectly legitimate purpose for that network access, to download and display ads.
“You’re driving us crazy. You’ve got to back off."
Previous thread with more discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2316005
My point is that Indians (for example) aren't embarrassed by their ignorance about Brazil (for example), but expect Americans to be embarrassed by their ignorance of India.
Hi Howard, it's hosted on AWS so shouldn't ever be down. I've tried it here and all is well.
get those crayons they make for kids to doodle on the shower wall. Depending on your surface dry erase markers work on some shower surfaces, assuming you have one wall that isn't too fogged up or getting wet (hate for your brilliant psuedo code to start running/bleeding/washing away :P )
PayPal has a lower tier for sales under $12:
https://merchant.paypal.com/cgi-bin/marketingweb?cmd=_render...

Still, you need to take fees into consideration. Also, the seller has to pay another PayPal fee when transferring the money every month.
The batteries weigh a lot and require cooling. A Lotus Elise, which the Tesla Roadster is based on, weighs and costs less.
I haven't bought support, so I can only speculate based on their community forum, and public bug tracker. With that out of the way, unless paid support gets custom code deployed to them fixing core platform problems, I don't see it as being a solution.

In it's current state I couldn't recommend Titanium to anyone. I hope it continues to improve, and get better, as both the idea and implementation have a ton of positives, it's just almost unusable right now for anything big enough to really see the benefits in the multi-platform support.
A portfolio of patents becomes a liability sooner or later, no matter who owns it.

The only one who can stop that is you -- by voting, lobbying or donating money to the EFF or similar organizations that are fighting against software patents.

If enough people did this, we wouldn't have this conversation -- but the truth is, most people accepted the status-quo and/or have other priorities, so after a little bit of hand-waving, life goes back to normal and it's business as usual.

And companies have the obligation to defend themselves -- they can't afford to just bitch-and-moan about this issue. And even companies acting in good-faith (if such a thing exists for companies) -- will choose the path of least resistance (i.e. building a patents portfolio). Otherwise, to make a (bad) analogy, it would be like going to war with "make love" signs.

Don't hate the player, hate the game.
Raphters, a web framework for C
Yhea, I kind of balked at that as well. I think it would be more accurate to say that Americans just don't use their families as a topic of discussion - to us, family is very important, but it's a private affair. Family is something we only discuss with family, or very close friends.
I like it, there's a lot of functionality missing, as you said but tons of possibilities.

I'd like to see a "pay as much as you'd like" feature, where you can set a minimum amount (like radiohead and girl talk do) but still allow them to pay more.
I definitely agree it needs some demos: this is my priority, time permitting. Thanks for the feedback!
Why the Amazon App store is revolutionary by Matt Maroon:

http://mattmaroon.com/2011/03/31/why-the-amazon-app-store-is...
Who knows, if your primary audience keeps up with tech news you might want to do it anyway and keep a press release and backup domain name ready to go in case it does go down. If you're quick enough, you might become the headliner for companies affected by the conflict.

You know, going back and re-reading what I just wrote, it sounds pretty bad. I'll leave the moral resolution up to the individual.
I too apologize for being so thin skinned. I spend a lot of time trying to be understanding and open-minded, so I get pissed off when I feel like people assume that I'm "part of the problem" because I'm white and male and whatever. Not that you'd know any of that.

One of the things I've learned in my travels is that people are very good at identifying other people's (and other cultures') weaknesses and significantly less skilled at identifying their own. Mea culpa.
this is pretty good - it could do w/ being a lot faster, and I think describing it as "fun" is a bad idea, but I used it.
It's like Iron Man.

The guy creates a compact, cheap, abundant and unlimited power source and a form of non-reactive propulsion and what does he do with it? He builds a suit!
Microsoft’s Windows 8 recipe
Introducing Whirlwind, The Real-Time Web Framework
Chinese Artist Ai Weiwei detained. Here is his TED film
Swiss, as others have said. My cousins picked me up at the train station in Interlaken, having driven there from Berne. I saw them drive into the parking lot up the street. Counting the time it took them to walk from the parking lot to the train station entrance, they arrived within 60 seconds of the agreed-upon time.

Not to mention the clockwork nature of their transportation system... And the Alps... gah, what I am doing sitting at this desk?
Lithium is an alkali metal, not a rare-earth element, so it's not such a good example.
Indeed. I can manually remove people (sure, it isn't as fun) but you have a real opportunity to add value here.

The criteria I look at when I do one of my periodic follower purges:

* Do I know them personally?

* Do I follow them back?

* Have they tweeted recently?

* Are their tweets content-laden or link spam?

* (Where you can add value: Do other people unfollow this person frequently?)
Metaverse runs on MySQL
Is it possible after registration to transfer your domain to a registrar that isn't accredited for that particular TLD?
Google is either going to spend lots of money on buying patents, or lots of money on lobbying and litigation. That's only win-win for lawyers. Everyone else loses out, since as you point out it diverts funds away from productive use (though how that's an abuse of Google's position escapes me).
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I am surprised to hear that, since my 2 visits to the US were much briefer than the time you spent there and I have met many such people.
Or eJunkie - it lacks the (apparent) simplicity for but for $5 a month you can make an unlimited number of sales for up to 10 digital items and then you've got PayPal/processor fees on top of that.

PayPal's micropayments pricing is 5 cents plus 5% per transaction so this combination can be a big money saver.

We created a service for a niche market that was mostly using eJunkie at the time (lowest cost, word of mouth travels fast among groups of sellers) and we had to compete with them on price and features.
Americans mostly adhere to the notion that "all men are equal" when it serves the interests of the top 1%....taxes...

Really bad example. The US has the most progressive tax system of the entire OECD. The only countries that come close are Australia, Ireland and the Netherlands.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/27134.html

Here is data on the top 1%. Specifically, they earn 20% of income in the US, but pay 38% of taxes.

http://www.taxfoundation.org/news/show/250.html

I'm not sure why you believe the military gives preferences to the top 1%. As far as I'm aware, the military is strictly egalitarian (being based on fairly rigid performance criteria) with the sole exception of having racial and sexual preferences.
We used it to make a simple android app in the last month. It worked and I sure liked writing the app in JavaScript vs Java but we ran into huge issues with Titanium caching resources during the build process that were supposed have be removed or updated and leaving things behind that we then had to track down and manually remove. It basically just takes whatever is in the build directory and tries to package it with little validation for correctness. My suggestion to people using it is to sanity check the code it generates in eclipse or xcode as part of your dev process.
On not reading the way I used to
I think what you want is ad serving technology. For most ad networks, the technology for serving ads is their secret sauce, because after that it's about having sales people contact advertisers and publishers.

Try to shop around different ad servers first and get a bunch of demos. OpenX, Zedo, AdJuggler are all decent for someone just starting out. Then, as you find it is indeed a viable business for you, then you can take your experiences with existing ad serving technology and build your own custom one.
I suspect that even if the resources were owned by US companies, they still wouldn't mine them, for exactly the same reason.
The lack of a demo killed my interest nearly instantly; after hunting around and spending a few minutes and still nothing buried a level or two deeper, yeah I shook my head and moved on.

This is an animation library, you should have something on the first page right at the top, even if it's not a proper 'demo' (something to see/look at to get a sense of what this is capable of).
also - when you go over capacity I'd take out the cutesy "tired" explanation and just lay the blame on Twitter straight away.
And Native Americans.
If you overprice your product, you can always lower it later and it will seem like a bargain. It's much harder to go the other direction.
I'd be interested to know what you consider the core platform problems because I've never run into anything that couldn't be worked around.

Don't get me wrong. I sympathize. I lost several nights of sleep because I was so angry after a day of using Appcelerator that I literally couldn't calm myself down enough. There were days when I'd decided to not only stop using Appcelerator but to make it my life mission to tell other people to stay away from it.

But those days passed and eventually support (and a lot of manual error checking) got me through.
Good on him - best of luck. Wading through state bureaucracy is generally a nightmare, and he'll need a lot of political backing to make much of this happen. Certainly there's a technical component to it, but the decisions that led to most state gov't tech nightmares weren't based on technical merit in the first place.
Thanks for your feedback. Certainly lots of issues that we can and do plan to address. On the tools side, as several people have mentioned below, we are releasing a new IDE this week called Titanium Studio. This release will address two critical areas that you identified in your post: debugging and overall tooling stability. The IDE itself is based on Aptana Studio, which has several years of solid development behind it. Sample projects, code completion, and other frequently-asked features will be included. Titanium Studio ships this week.

Certainly there are other areas in your post where we can improve. Know that we are making investments in all of the areas you describe and we certainly appreciate everyone's support as we grow the platform, the community, and the supporting infrastructure behind it.

Thanks again for your feedback

Best Regards,

Scott Schwarzhoff
VP, Developer Relations
I haven't watched the whole thing yet, seems like a good talk. The crucial sentence so far seems to be at 28:12:

"When people say why did you go Microsoft and not Android, the fundamental reason was because we believe we can maintain substantial differentiation with Microsoft, where we would not be able to do it in the Google environment."
"2) If you pay that much you're more likely to pay attention to what I say"

I have a treadmill and a gym membership that beg to differ.

"3) Each sale is more of a significant event for both the author and the reader, ie, if you don't like it you're more likely to complain, which is a good thing"

I don't get it... I should pay more to ensure that I complain if it's bad?
He mostly did it manually. He had started to pull a system together to automate it, but (iirc) some people rather resented it, so he discontinued that.
This morning, I spent my shower time wondering why I had another episode of a recurring dream where my teeth and lower jaw crumbled and turned to ash when I was flossing. I've had that dream 4 times in the past year, and it's osmething of a puzzle.

I usually spend my shower time trying to figure out what the hell last night's dream meant. I don't believe dreams have any prophetic capacity, but I do think they can offer some sort of psychological insight and aren't totally random.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011AprJu...

^ that post is infinitely more interesting (the argument for RelationalDB)

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2011AprJu...

^ click "stored" after "text/html attachment" (an argument against RelationalDB)
"While the data itself is free, or very cheap indeed"

The data isn't what you are paying for. You are paying for the years of experience and creativity involved with creating the album. Also, this isn't really for you to decide. The market decides this. It's been forced upon the artists and the record labels by people illegally downloading and copying music, but this isn't the market.

"Look at IT for a moment. For nearly every commercial IT product out there, you see free alternatives."

We aren't talking about a band like Metallica coming out and competing with Metallica with free music. We are talking about making copies of Metallica and competing with the music that actually costs money.

"Yet the commercial stuff turns decent profit. Some companies sell services for the free product and make a decent buck."

This is one of the only ways to make money with free software, aside from donations and advertising. Good, free software has only been around for 10 years. Eventually, it will drive the cost of commercial software down to nothing. This is why I stopped selling applications and moved everything to services.

"And, perhaps surprisingly, developers of free software also manage to get jobs and gigs. Both ecosystems thrive. Musicians can -- and sometimes actually do -- follow that way too."

I'm glad you mentioned developers, because there is another consequence of having so much free software. Because there is so much free software out there, most businesses don't really need engineers anymore. The difficult parts of the software are already out there, for free. They just need to hire someone to make custom changes to it, which can usually be done with a much less-experienced developer at a much cheaper rate.

Most business owners aren't tech-savvy enough to realize this right now, but as the younger generation starts to own more businesses, it's only going to get worse for developers. I've already started seeing this.

The hypocritical part about all of this is that if mass amounts of companies started ignoring the GNU license and putting code in their proprietary apps, many of the same pro-piracy people would be talking about "theft" and "stealing code". I've seen this with pretty much every discussion about a company violating the GNU on HN.

"Now you were telling us the album prices weren't inflated? And don't even get me started on product bundling -- where you'd have to buy an album with a dozen songs to get one or two decent."

No, I'm saying people used that as a reason why they were pirating and now that you can get albums at a very cheap price, piracy hasn't stopped or slowed, it's only gotten worse.

"where you'd have to buy an album with a dozen songs to get one or two decent."

Somehow instead of not buying albums, people continued to buy them at this price..as if it was a matter of life and death.
You're right, great design is incredibly difficult to achieve - the first time. But then it gets copied by numerous competitors. That's happening right now with the iPad.
But "not a product, also a process" is also a tactic used by some designers to justify rustproofing, like long up-front wireframing sessions or market studies. It's the customer's decision how much process they want, not the designer's.

I think probably every professional service field has this problem; there's a core transactional gig that most clients want and there's a series of services that consultants want to upsell alongside that gig. We have it in security, I know it exists in legal, it probably exists in accounting, too.
The above conversation is a perfect example of why the HackerNews community is order of magnitude better than any other community I know of. Brilliant.
Net 60 days? I would assume that users expect near real-time if PayPal is the back end. 60 days sounds way too long.
Would you mind naming the county?
Why We Spend Coins Faster Than Bills (2009)
Ebook marketing:

1) claim an outrageous selling price

2) receive a ton of exposure because of the outrageous price

3) on publish date, take back price to 1/3 of the original price "special deal"

4) the mindshare was set at $99 so when potential leads now compare it to the special $29 price, the new price feels like great value

Basically, he was able to turn an outrageous price into marketing, and is now able to sell his book for a normal price in higher quantities because people will compare the normal price to the higher original price (and this effect is multiplied since he blogged about it like this, unlike regular "BUT WAIT, order now and get 30% off!" promotions). That, and the extra exposure can't hurt either.
I sometimes have a hard time justifying how much time I spend on HN, but this quote about creativity really put it in perspective for me:

"A current favorite is Hacker News. Look, someone is describing how they did the effects for Tron Legacy. They really did go out of their way to make those Unix screens authentic. You know, I have an article about the beauty of the command line. I should write…"

I definitely consider it less of a side-track considering the blog posts and side projects that have been inspired by HN.
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Mozilla's plan is to implement IndexedDB on top of SQLite, and then encourage developers to re-implement SQL in Javascript on top of that.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis...

Sounds to me like a ludicrous hoop to make people jump through just to avoid an ad-hoc standard based on an implementation.
Then you need to readjust your expectations from false idealism to Mike's reality.
Google Ditches QR Codes
graphics can be watermarked or provided low-res for review.
Show HN: My startup - Summarizing popular HN articles
All of your examples are Germanic cultures. Notably, I think this is true in the German speaking part of Switzerland, but not nearly as much in Suisse Romande.
Are the .ve domains actually available? I tried to get one a while back and found out I couldn't register one.
Posted on it as well. http://blog.louisgray.com/2011/04/gumroad-launches-to-sell-d...
Hello. I'm "this guy." Totally surprised by my unknown, abandoned blog getting 1,500 visits all of a sudden. The internet is a wonderful place.

1. Indeed, Gladwell pushes the idea of a 10,000 hour goal quite heavily to the point he seems to want to make it a mantra.
2. I understand Gladwell's point much more so now than when I wrote this piece two years ago (Jan. 6, 2009).

There was a comment last month (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2262619) about using an annual calendar to encourage yourself to work on a task (or whatever). I went out and got one and have been using it as suggested in the Seinfeld article.

After a month, with most of the days "x'ed" out, I realized the important correlation between a dedication to routine to get better (or even the best?) at something. It's not like this is a deep revelation or anything, but the lesson is clear: do the work, and (likely) get better. And I totally agree with you're comment: "He just needs enough that he's better than everybody else."

Heck, even being better than my previous self is good to me.

Thanks for reading. Now I have to restore my database connection ...
'No safe levels' of radiation in Japan
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Better to mount /dev/ram0 and do your encryption there. Then shred; rm -rf; umount for the win.
Interpreter-level fork() is very much what I mean ("green processes" would be another phrasing I guess?) Of course the Python interpreter always acts as an intermediary for any access to resources, so I feel like you can kind of punt on that, call it an interpreter implementation detail.

fork() isn't awesome with CPython, as its reference counting kind of destroys the utility of copy-on-write (reading an object creates a reference, which increments the object's reference count, which is a write). And there's really a lot of shared data that you can have between processes, since every module you import is data (and expensive data!) -- I'd like to see it feasible to create extremely short-lived processes, for instance (why have a worker pool at all?)

Once you've created a new microprocess I suppose the actual concurrency would be up to the interpreter to best decide (or at least there would be a lot of flexibility because that concurrency would not be so overtly exposed to the Python program) -- it would be reasonable for a Python microprocess to be an OS-level thread, for instance, or for it to simply be cooperative multitasking at the VM level, or even be a real OS fork (though without an OS fork it seems reasonable to share immutable objects, but once forked the objects must be immutable and serializable).
If that's what you'd like to see then please make the measurements and publish the programs for that comparison!
Will the Studio have support for nibs/interface builder? If not when do you think we can see this type of feature, if at all?
Reading While Writing
Another permanent-magnet-less motor design is the switched-reluctance motor. Its primary advantage over the induction motor is its dirt-simple rotor construction - it's essentially just a properly shaped chunk of iron, where an induction motor would require a copper squirrel-cage.

Its disadvantage relative to the induction motor is that it requires some cleverness in its controller and/or sensors in order to run at all. I actually wrote some control software for one as a side project - it was a somewhat frustrating experience (though a good portion of the frustration was due to malfunctioning hardware).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched_reluctance_motor
http://tweepsect.com/ might be what you need. I built it a few years ago, it tells you who is following you back, and if they haven't tweeted recently, etc.

Unfortunately it doesn't scale well to really huge accounts (+5k nodes).
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