skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this article mostly comes across as being written by someone who hasn't actually RTFM of the major calendaring software packages, it WOULD be great to have some sort of real-time peer-to-peer free-busy system that could interoperate across calendaring systems. Of course, you'd have to have a pretty robust permissions system to make sure that you couldn't just look up anyone's availability, but I think that's a solvable problem if users could exchange permissions when they schedule their first meeting together.

For most of corporate America, shared calendaring is probably the #1 feature keeping them tied to Exchange Server. Solve this problem elegantly, and you could kick Exchange to the curb.
I'm pretty sure someone could come up with a skin for a desktop (KDE, Gnome, whatever...) very close to these screenshots and it would still feel very modern.

Timeless classic?

ps: Too bad the JPG compression is that heavy!
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The version that learns to decode BF is pretty new and was bug-fixed earlier today. Rev 4.6 should be the last one until 5 which I hope will have networking. Peace, flamoot

http://frme.at/p/qi6DH
Many Plato's dialogues are a great read; Eutyphro, Gorgias, Hippias Major, Protagoras, the Sophist, the Symposium, Phaedrus, the Republic...

As a side note, having read (and re-read) all of Plato's dialogues and many from Xenophon, Socrat became incredibly real and life-like to me. Xenophon's dialogues are far from being as good as Plato's, but the Socrat character really is somehow the same.
If it includes controlling the army and police, i'm in

it is a hell of a party when you have your own army running beer runs to Germany for you
The problem with attacking fallacies is you run the risk of creating new ones in their place. That's exactly what this article does. I'll address each of his points...

China Doesn't Own Us: He rightly points out that China only owns about 10% of the nation's total debt (some say it's closer to 12% but same difference). The problem is most of that came in the last 5 years or so (China only became the largest US debtor in 2008). So while China doesn't "own us" their increasing amount of US debt on a yearly basis makes us beholden to them because the economic crisis caused most of the other sources of money to dry up. So if we can't stop ourselves from spending more than we take in we'll have to start dancing to China's tune.

(Something to note about the above point is China owns a lot more than is immediately clear. So, for example, Japan owns almost as much US debt as China but China has been buying Japanese debt at a record pace)

The deficit will shrink dramatically: People who quote OMB numbers are being dishonest because those numbers are almost always wrong. The OMB (like the Congressional Budget Office) answers to politicians and they make their assumptions based on the figures given to them by politicians. If the politicians say this budget will cause unemployment to drop to 4% than the OMB makes its calculations based on that assumption. But politicians always want to paint a rosy picture which is why the numbers that come out of the OMB and CBO are always too optimistic

The US has the highest corporate tax rate: He doesn't dispute that but his point is "it's been higher in the past". That's true but not really relevant. In terms of corporations we compete with other nations. Where a large corporation chooses to put its HQ is largely based on the corporate tax rate since that same corporation can have satellite offices in other countries. So it really is an issue that our corporate tax rate is so high (though not that big an issue since, as the author points out, most corporations cheat the system and pay virtually no taxes which is a problem)

I actually don't disagree with the author on a lot of his conclusions (I believe the Bush tax cuts need to go, that we need tax reform, and so on). But he's painting inaccurate pictures here and that bugs me.
A good number of the domains I search for are godaddy parked pages. There's a link to a service godaddy operates that can buy the domain. Is this the service you're talking about?
This article raises a lot more questions for me than it answers. How does this compare to iPhones? How about iPhones + iPad combined? How many of the Android devices are phones vs tabletes or other misc devices?
Well, they did use the shortcut.

It happens to me 90% of the time I use super+d.
Did Windows clone the Mac UI right down to the color and pixel and then replace the Apple logo? I think the bashing here is well-deserved, above and outside the discussion of whether China has a demonstrated economy of copying (it does).

Also, there's a special place in hell for people who can't just come out and call a clone a clone.
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They say "84% of the browser market" now supports the DNT headers, but that's quite clearly a lie, as the article previously says that only IE9 supports DNT, not IE6-8.

Using the browser usage data they link to you can see it's actually only about 29% of the browser market that supports DNT headers.

This difference in stats may seem insignificant, but if it actually were 84% a lot more advertisers might pay attention to DNT, where as at 29% they're a lot more likely to be ignored. Even if Google Chrome got on board, it would still only be about 41%.
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This is very cool, and I'm going to try it when I can.

But just to nitpick, he did actually tell them plenty of things, it was not just questions.

2 Examples:

> Could it be because we have 10 fingers?

> No, only to you guys, because you were taught it wrong [grin] -- to the aliens it is two. They learn it that way in pre-school just as you learn to call one, zero [pointing to "10"] "ten". But it's not really ten, right? It's two -- if you only had two fingers.

Not a criticism, just a nitpick.
Great point. lindsayrgwatt has picked examples from Canada and Australian - the two developed markets which some see to be overpriced and which haven't yet had a painful correction.

Australian housing might have jumped the shark already - there's been lots of noise about this over the last couple of weeks. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=australian+housing+market&#...
They are behaving rationally, from their perspective. If these products bought on credit were really as beneficial as they believe, it would be worth borrowing to have them. Kind of like how dedicated gamblers genuinely believe they are going to win.
Ok, I'll bite... First, if you liked the "commercial", you need to know a little background. Elephants are an endangered species because poachers kill them for their ivory, and they are protected in most countries. Only in Zimbabwe, a totally corrupt state that has pretty much collapsed, was Parsons able to get permission to "hunt" elephants. His attempt to spin it as a heroic and humanitarian act was pathetic. There are several measures you can take to prevent elephants straying into cropland, all costing a fraction of what Parsons will have paid to stage his stunt. So all up, there's not much to like.

Second, this doesn't make GoDaddy a terrible company. But it does mean that their CEO has terrible judgement. For most people, the elephant slaughter was the straw that broke the camel's back. We had endured the awful user interface and saturation upselling for years, but for all the reasons explained in the comments above, we didn't switch our domains. But I'm dammed if I'm going to pay a cent more to such a narcissistic idiot.

Finally, if you still like the idea of hosting at GoDaddy, go for it - that's your choice, and I respect it. Good luck!
My phone is a wifi hot spot, and is always within range.
I just wish the HR guy was in a position to write the other side of the story - I'm sure it would be very different.
Something, the new something unrelated.
In olden times (yes, this is anectodal), the process of producing nitroglycerin would be supervised by a person sitting on a one-legged chair, so that he would not fall asleep.

Source: http://bit.ly/hO5N1s (translated from Swedish)
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I absolutely agree, this article was a waste of time. His use of technology wasn't awe-inspiring either. He comes off as someone who is unfamiliar with PHP instead of an experienced user with a bone to pick.

I've worked in Java, PHP and Python. I personally prefer using Yii, phing along with PEAR and pecl libraries to anything else, at least with timeliness in mind.

Unlike Ruby and Python, PHP is a DSL, plain and simple. Yes, it's poorly designed. But it does what it was meant to do-- to build web apps-- quite well. It's up to the end user to write software that scales. And a lot of the scaling issues you'll see will be independent of language choice.
Not my field of knowledge...but isn't setting expectations and then failing to meet them a potential danger?
Calendar Apps could learn a thing or two from another time-management segment of applications: DAW/Sequencers. All of these problems have already been addressed in the DAW world, albeit for smaller time scales ..
>Usually when you see people blaming speculators it's someone trying to cover up ineptitude or corruption by picking an easy target.<

I lived through the California energy crisis and there was no crisis. It was a gigantic manipulation. Videos of energy traders laughing their butts off at grandmothers dying of heatstroke. Oil doesn't need to jump into the hundreds every time someone screams in the Middle East.

Analysts in every profession know the whims of their markets. Some of the movements are reality based, some are based on perceptions. Commodity trading (specifically oil) is highly profitable. It can be hacked by the people who know the ins and outs. They'll never tell you, but it can. Most everything can be hacked in some way. I highly doubt the few who are able to profit from the ignorance of millions will confess that some troubles in the Middle East don't significantly impact the supply chain. Or that the price of oil shouldn't jump as wildly as it does. Or even that the oil price seems to reflect the greed of traders chasing historical highs. Not buying it.
Another sad story of a dinosaur trying to buy the innovation it couldn't build itself, and failing miserably in the end.
I don't agree with this article.

Just because a lot of time is spent working on "non-interesting" problems, technologically speaking, like Facebook and Zynga, doesn't mean that there aren't plenty of startups who are working in more technologically-impressive fields (). The entire article is completely anecdotal.

To make things worse, it explains how Groupon's only tech innovation is "cute email". But I don't understand why people call Groupon a (technology) startup. It's just a company. A fast growing one, sure, and that relies on some technology (like every other company in the world). But it's not a tech company at all.

I'm not saying that Facebook isn't impressive, technologically. I think Facebook has a lot of things to offer, e.g. scaling, building the world's largest real-time chat system, impressive amounts of work into user interfaces, and, as the article mentions, impressive amounts of work into analyzing user behavior.
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How far we've come!

I remember about 10 years ago, with the rise of XP and the advent of OS X, expecting Linux desktop to fall ever further behind on a usable & full-featured desktop.

Here we are discussing the usability tests of big UI innovations.

I'd like to thank everyone who got us here! (cough including Redmond cough)
Already done, thanks to libcaca:

http://caca.zoy.org/
http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Text_Mode_Doom
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You were downvoted for adding a snidey remark to a decent question. Next time just ask the question. Since I'm curious as well, how does Tumblr make money besides themes? Does anyone know their monetization strategy?
If the technical founders are most comfortable with PHP then getting to market with code you know you can trust can be far more important than picking the "right" language (and by right I mean a language that startup communities see as being a proper language to work with).

More props to them for clearly knowing it has its limitations and downsides... I'd pick a developer who used a language they knew inside and out and were informed and aware of the downsides of the language over a zealot who thinks their language of choice works best in every situation (my most common experience of these types are in the ruby community, by a quirk of coincidence).

PHP was the language I used to teach myself how to develop for the server-side when I'd been purely a front end dev many years ago and I still like it (though granted I like Scala more) because it's always felt like a language you can sit down and get shit done with quickly and without fuss, and sometimes that is as important as any other attribute you can attach to any other language choice.
Do you hear that? It's the sound of a bubble just before it breaks. Better raise that next round now, fellas.
Same scientific idea, two similar virals, two different orange companies...
I don't know about the Californian energy crisis, but maybe this is an example of a situation where the players are in alignment.

Spikes in oil prices can be caused by panic in an industry. For example, if I ran an airliner maybe I'd seek to lock in fuel prices via forward trades. There's a risk I'd pay a high premium for the period, but I'd judge that as being bettter than the risk that I'd go out of business.

And spikes can be caused by speculators. But my point was that in liquid markets things will revert to a mean that is backed by whatever the real demand is. Pushing prices up by buying and holding oil is not in itself a business model.
There is no telling just yet! The Chinese property has been heavily inflated for a few years already, propped up with extensive government intervention and perverse incentives for local administrations to drive up land prices. There is no telling yet if this decline is

a) real (government-issued numbers are one thing, reality is another);

b) driven by the policies (or just the bubble bursting);

c) permanent. It may be a spike caused by the timing of a measure, or a financing roll-over, or whatever.
Groupon IPO may value company at $15-$20 billion: source
This is funny, but quite loony. And I'm wondering how it may matter to the Economist.
thanks, looks great.
Also, this statement is rubbish:

"Unit Testing

While we don’t practice Test-Driven-Development, we do have unit tests in place. PHP does not provide an elegant test library, so we built our own (soon-to-be open-sourced.)"

Really? You've never heard of PHPUnit?
Hmm. No. Good criticism :)
Thanks, certainly looks promising. I have a few to checkout now.
Do you really believe this.
Tip: Get really attractive people to wear them, first.
To be honest though, 750RMB/sqm is still only not even 80 euros (115 USD). That's a discount price for office space in a remote industrial park in a provincial town here in the Netherlands. If that's considered widely overpriced in the top spot in Beijing, there's room left...

(Anyone have recent numbers on the price of office space in Manhattan?)
You can force a screen to become primary by running:

xrandr --output VGA1 --primary

Adapter name may be different on your machine. I have to use it because in my case it always defaults to laptop's monitor.
> You're suggesting that oil prices are high because of a conspiracy?

Why a conspiracy? Traders do not have to collude for a bubble to occur - there's a positive feedback loop at work.

Even if you're convinced that the prices are already far above the sustainable level, it may still be rational to buy - as long as you're convinced that you will sell at the right moment. It's a chicken race. If you sell too early, other traders will beat you by profiting from the last period of growth.
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Why your arms don't suck
Ask HN: What do you read every day?
Be sides the obvious Hacker News, what newspapers, magazines, sites, blogs, etc do you like to follow on a daily basis?
The issue here is that he paid someone else to do it.

So in your analogy: You park your car at a garage with a guard, pay them to keep it safe and leave your car unlocked. And when you come back it's gone.

Yes he could have done something to make it less likely it, but he also explicitly paid someone else to handle it for him.
If the Chinese market was more open, people would have already. The problem is that many players are large SOE's, with no publicly traded stock, and certainly not available to foreign investors. Furthermore they're kept afloat by the government.

'Normal' Western financial doctrine doesn't apply in China's mercantilist 'market' (in quotes, because it's sufficiently different from what is considered a 'market' in the West that one can wonder if they're comparable).
Tencent is the second largest Internet company in the world, and it monetizes primarily through virtual goods, including blog themes. Chinese users don't buy software, but they do pay for online services.
I agree with your first paragraph, but "a special place in hell"?
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I think they'll get a fat $2M bonus this year, for their strategic insight that Flip technology should be incorporated in Cisco.
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I have the solution to the white iPhone glass problem:

http://www.corning.com/lifesciences/us_canada/en/technical_r...

You're welcome, Apple.
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99.99% over what time period?
I have all my domains with Dotster. They're a little expensive, and over the years their site has gotten spammier looking (always have to say no to the add-ons when buying a domain, no I do not need shitty hosting), but I first signed up with them in all the way back in 2000, and like the article says - the lockin is pretty high. All my domains are on auto-renew on my credit card, and I only login to their site maybe about once a year?

Never had any noticeable outages or anything with them, but I don't have any big sites either, just personal stuff. I've never had to contact their customer support, so I don't know if it's good or bad. Occasionally I think about switching to someplace a few dollars cheaper, but most of the registrars that don't have reputations for horrible customer support tend to be near the same price ($15ish/year) so I haven't bothered.
Some staples for me are:

Techcrunch

Mashable

Lifehacker

Signal vs. Noise (37 signals)

Smashing Magazine's Network

A VC (Fred Wilson)

Reddit

Drudge Report

NY Times

ESPN or, shameless plug, my site fanreader.com
Having a control tower doesn't mean much - on the Isle of Barra the airport does have a control tower but the runway is a beach:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STqmbc8k9rU
http://www.guardian.co.uk
Yes, I thought the same thing! Really shows the value of running tests with people with other backgrounds.

Just for fun I tried saving a document in Microsoft Office 2007 here with a filename containing slashes. I got a slightly better response: "Ogiltigt filnamn" (Illegal filename). Not as confusing, but still no help at all on what was wrong with it or how to correct it.
You short commodities. A sharp downturn in the chinese housing market will cause a lot of Chinese to lose their savings which are tied up in property, causing a recession, and sharply reducing commodity prices.

This is something that the Chinese government wouldn't mind too much either because the rise in commodity prices beyond a certain point (and we're getting pretty close) will cause political disruptions- which is the absolute last thing that the government will accept.

There was a confluence of factors that drove the unrest these past few months in the middle east, but one of the biggest was the sharp increase in commodity prices, especially food and basic supplies.
Two Korean search engines file antitrust complaint against Google over Android
That's either a really sensitive watch or the ring produces a large magnetic field.
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My $100 Android phone has a record button in the Youtube app.
Most people will be (if at all) comparing against the _current_ desktop experience though not a desktop experience from 1999 (first OS X).
It doesn't always work out well. My city's entry into broadband was a colossal disaster that ended up losing millions of dollars: http://www.eastbayexpress.com/eastbay/the-other-shoe-in-alam...
When I was paying for CDs, I was paying for something tangible and worth money: the concrete delivery of a piece of plastic from the other side of the world into my hand.

Now that this is not the distribution model anymore, I am certainly not happy to pay £30 a month to get the equivalent of 3-4 CDs. Times have moved on. £30 a months should buy access to everything, not just to 3-4 CDs' worth of music.

90% of the price of CDs is distribution and packaging. Those costs are nil on the internet, and therefore the price should be adjusted accordingly (and the record labels go bankrupt). If they can evolve and start providing a better value-add service (like, maybe, a very good interface for finding and downloading music) then they might be worth something. Atm the labels are just a leech on the back of artists and the public.

Anyway, if you must sell music trac-by-track, I would consider a per-track model that costs 10% of the price currently being used - i.e. 10 cents per track. But I probably wouldn't spend as much as if I was offered an all-you-can-eat subscription.
If there was lots of oil sitting around in warehouses from people speculating on the price of it (or for another reason), I'd expect we'd hear about that in the news.

We've been hearing this about copper being stockpiled in China recently. In this case it seems to be not for speculation but due to a loophole in bank lending rules.
Redundancy is insurance. By the nature of being there it's taken advantage of
"a real concept product"

Oh, the irony.
Yes, it really shows the disconnect between programmers and users. But to me this write-up also shows that there can't be a one-size-fits-all user interface. If the interface would be changed to conform better with the mental model of these users, surely it will conflict in some ways with the model of more experienced users. That's why the choice of window managers is great IMO.
There is next to no software I can think of where a $5 price point would be bizarre. How can a $5 SSH client even begin to be bizarre?
maybe he meant predecessor of Unity.
I'm creative enough to deduce why people like me are eccentric. I believe it's a function of how our minds operate. We(or more accurately I) cannot simply turn my mind off and conform to social norms we can't justify. As an example, I understand the need to wear pants in public. That's not a problem. What I can't understand is how wearing a suit(a fashion that really hasn't changed in over 150 years) makes me more productive, improves the quality of my code. And I also cannot understand why I would ever need to wear a tie(except as a napkin, though that seems to be frowned upon.) So creatives can follow social structures they can justify, but won't conform for the sake of conformity. Again, I'm not a sociology professor, nor am I a psychologist, I'm someone who has been labeled both creative and eccentric most of my life.
Those are also, at times, the four most profitable words in the English language...