skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bingo, Apple is pretty darn strict on how you can layout your controls.

You don't have much flexibility with stuff like UINavigationItem
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i have a bunch of personal stuff. my diploma, some of my more difficult certs, some black belt certs, pictures, and stuff.
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I got this for the exact reasons you describe:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/posters/6a93/
The night effect just seemed really cool to me... I love this poster... it's also much better seeing it in person - I don't think the TG site's picture does it justice.

I also like the Linux distro time line poster that used to be linked from here to KDE.org:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000842.html
Not sure what happened to it, but if I could get it I would.
I would put the Richard Feynman "Think Different" poster behind my desk. There were 2 different versions made, either would do.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.artiges-hf...
What's wrong with Craigslist that makes it worth the loss of network effect, or the cost of looking at irrelevant ads, or - best of all - worth cash money to fix?

I don't have an answer. Until someone comes up with one...
By the way, I was recently told by a very strong programmer that of all things, he wanted to become a plumber as a kid

Interesting analogy. Similarly, I wanted to become an inventor and invent (mechanical) gadgets. Surely enough I ended up programming.
My point is that, even if you dismiss those works as having little scientific value, they have great literary value as well.
I assume you're using a tool to see when people make comments on your posts. Got a link for it? I had considered writing one just last night.

Thanks for the link btw. This looks neat.
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He's just pining for the fjords
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Also, the old business of music is changing the way music can sound. How? With sample trolling:

* How Copyright Law Changed Hip Hop. An interview with Public Enemy's Chuck D and Hank Shocklee

http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/20/public_enemy.htm...

* Jay-Z Versus the Sample Troll

http://www.slate.com/id/2153961
Unlike Apple, most PC makers seem to feel a $399 POS is an obligatory part of their line.

It is not inconceivable that those types of product - oversold underdeliverers - are the ones that bump up the PC numbers.
Well by saying "there is no value finding experiment", didn't you kind of already admit that debate is useless?

If debate is useless, why are you debating me? ;) In any event, my proposition is that the question here -- the question of values and their subjectivity -- cannot be resolved scientifically. That doesn't imply that it's pointless to discuss. Your point about god is a good one, but it's also a philosophical one.
Math gender gap is history
Mockup of what Honda's new hybrid might look like
What is it with all these shitty submissions today?
EBay to emphasize fixed prices over auctions
"besides better search"

You say that like it's not a big deal. It's 8 am in Honolulu, one of the smaller cl cities, and there are 200 cars posted today. There's no way to search by year, blue book, mileage, etc, all of which are (generally) possible with the existing data. I think craigslist could be much more useful.

The biggest thing holding them back is their uncharacteristic resistance to mashups. I strongly believe they're working against their own aims (public service) in shutting down services that scrape their data.
paint.
Ok, so maybe AI will be "self aware" some day too.

Until then, I'd like to have GW and Hanna Montana studied.
I think accurate measurement of time spent and accurate measurement of results achieved are two separate issues.
I don't think you can call craigslist anything like a non-profit until the story is over. Currently they are earning millions a year while the value of their business continues to skyrocket. I don't think there's anything wrong with this, I just wouldn't call it a non-profit because they are making hundreds of millions a year in (unrealized) capital gains. If one day they cash that in with an IPO, then all of this "non-profit" talk will just have been a clever marketing strategy. If they don't ever cash in, or give away the bulk of their fortune, then these guys are the next Mother Theresa. But only time will tell.
I have a really awesome hand made metal clock. The time is still not adjusted for daylight savings.
try doing anything really advanced in iPhone, and you wish you new C really well. Sure, Object C has some facilities, but when I wanted to do sockets, low level C /BSD sockets were the best. Ditto for pthreading, and a host of other facilities that come from the BSD undepining of OS X.

You can mix C and Object C pretty well, even in the same source files, while if you want to use C++, I think you have to give up using Object C.

People coming from dynamic languages will be at a great disadvantage, since they are used to all the facilities that come from using these languages.

I really think that iPhone app development, is the kind of development that separates boys, from real developers. Anybody get a PHP web app, or a Ror page going on in a couple of weekends, not so with mobile client development. It takes a lot of patience to get where you want.
Sure, strictly speaking I consider mathematics to also be philosophy, so in general philosophy is not useless. However, common philosophy tends to be useless, including the lecture that was submitted here. I think if somebody wants to really learn to think precisely, they'll study maths. So most philosophers are "just" faking it by making too many words, hiding the fact that they don't really have a clue. Sorry if that sounds arrogant, I have just been so consistently been disappointed by popular philosophers.

Note: I have studied maths myself. I am no Gauss or Erdös, but I guess I have my standards for the application of logic, and most of the time, philosophers don't meet them.
In other news: Steve Balmer, important guy of Microsoft: "Apple doesn't cut it."
The bad news is, soon enough you'll realize that your entire codebase has been switched over to the extensions and Python isn't really doing anything anymore :)
I couldn't find one, so I wrote my own.
Upvoted for mention of C.S. Peirce. Never hear that much about him, but he was the man, at least 120 or so years ago.
Forbes.com Business Plan competition: $100,000 Grand Prize. Twenty semifinalists remain.
Unbelievable if true.
Fingerpaintings from my kids.
Apple's iPhone platform is an authoritarian government like Singapore (since they have control). However, there are benefits to centralized control.
Thanks for the replies folks. Very helpful!
Metcalfe's law states that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of users of the system (n²)

And craigslist has a lot of users...
Watch their 30-second "elevator pitch" videos, pretty interesting ideas.
If anyone can provide evidence, please share.
I've been thinking for a while now about the likelihood of a return to a singles focused pop music business, like we had in the 50's and 60's. Most folks here grew up after the "album rock" generation, and so don't really remember it (I don't either), but there was a time when a single was the way bands were heard. It was possible to go into a studio for a day, cut two sides, and be on the radio a week or two later. And then do it again every two months until you had an album worth of songs. That became passe eventually, as the record labels got addicted to the bigger high of a $10+ album sale, and found that they could put two or three good singles on the album and the rest filler and make more than having to push each single individually. There have, of course, been album bands, like latter-era Beatles, and Pink Floyd, that made true albums wherein removing one track would damage the whole and listening to one track in isolation is less satisfying than the whole, but I'm talking the pure pop industry...the Motown folks, Elvis, most popular country music, etc., the people who were shooting for two and a half minutes of gold, nothing more, nothing less.

Anyway, I think that's probably a good direction for pop music to go. Most 60's girl groups didn't make wonderful music...but every once in a while, something like "Be My Baby" came along, and it's sold an awful lot of records over the years (and certainly has more stamina than any Britney creation). It'd be nice if there were a strong motivation built into the industry for pop records of that quality, and if there were a channel that could be effectively used to sell one really brilliant pop tune. And, what do you know, with iTunes, Unbox, and others there is!

The traditional music business has a vested interest in not seeing that happen (again, they like the now $15+ album sales way too much to accept a world in which all of their channel stuffing results in $0.99 sales). But, if a well-funded new label sprung into existence, focused exclusively on producing fantastic pop singles with good young talent, it'd probably change the face of the pop music industry. This is one of those weird ideas that doesn't really fit either the long tail or the traditional blockbuster approach, but I think it's inevitable.
Whenever there is something free and useful, it's only a matter of time before a not-quite-as-free and even-more-useful alternative comes along.

Craigslist is the ultimate "free and useful" site. But it does a lot.

Dating sites, in particular, outdo Craigslist for personals pretty routinely. OKCupid and PlentyOfFish are almost as free (they have ads), but are much less spammy. (CL's w4m boards are pretty much 100% spam. The others aren't much better. Actually, I'm not sure why they even continue to keep them up.)

The last time I sold a car, and the last time I bought one, I did use CL pretty aggressively, but the actual deal I ended up making was through Autotrader both times.

So, it's possible to compete with Craigslist in specific areas, but it's a bit foolish to try to be the "all forms of classified", since they do THAT pretty damn well. They've stripped down the feature set to the point where it's just what is necessary, and nothing else. Not a bad strategy. (Arguably, the only one that really works.)

The trick is to find something where CL is the best of breed, and figure out the pain points. If the answer is "there aren't any pain points", then move on to the next idea.
Usually downloading isn't a big deal: the more popular the product, the more it's downloaded, but:

"..it sold 800 legitimate copies but was illegally downloaded 12,000 times.."

That's not sustainable.
I have to say that Java is much more easy to develop for than Object C.

But, android api is really not elegant at all. They did a really bad job in keeping a tight api, which is powerful at the same time. They just kept adding stuff to it. (the 0.9 version is improved).

While the iPhone Api is more elegant, and the frameworks are well designed. Also the visuals of iPhone are way superior.

What sucks about iPhone is the language, Object C. It is really much harder than the Java implementation. Plus it is missing some functionality, mostly on purpose, while android lets you access a lot more on the phone, camera, adress book, etc...
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I would make craigslist look good. A friend that teaches told me that Kijiji is taking off amongst his coworkers because it is more visually appealing.
Despite my reservations, isn't it true with something like the App Store that you can make money literally while you sleep? Go to sleep, sell some software with precisely zero effort, wake up a little richer, without having to handle payment?

That is cool.
Not self-aware. Self-recognition. It's not the same thing.
I have to admit, I never thought the day would come that I would think "Wow, that Avril Lavigne fansite sure had some good strategy."
There were two related papers from SIGCOMM that I found interesting:

Changhoon Kim, Matthew Caesar and Jennifer Rexford: Floodless in SEATTLE: A Scalable Ethernet Architecture for Large Enterprises. http://ccr.sigcomm.org/online/?q=node/373

Albert Greenberg, Parantap Lahiri, David A. Maltz, Parveen Patel, Sudipta Sengupta: Towards a Next Generation Data Center Architecture: Scalability and Commoditization. http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2008/workshops/presto...
kijiji and other sites are doing just fine outside the US. CL was a bit late to those markets. Likely, that means that there are lots of smaller, local competitors rather than big competitors.
In the cases I am talking about, a good C programmer would've created buffer caches which would've pre-allocated memory and reused it. Instead the programmers in question naively malloced when they needed it and freed when they were done. A generational collector does something almost as good as this for you -- they make transient objects very cheap.

Also, the Smalltalk in the block cipher case was written by a very good Smalltalker who knows how to write code that results in fast JITed machine code, who also had the luxury of requesting custom primitive operations like rotations on 32 bit registers. So if the C programs in question had the same level of programmer working on them, they would no doubt have blown away the Smalltalk implementations.

I agree that High Level implementations just get you pretty good for a little effort, and that C will get you darn good for a premium effort.
A giant mirror. For the Feng Shui.
I'm going to be downmodded for this, but I can't resist... WTF?

edit: geez, I didn't think it would be this bad.
Yes, and minor screwups are unfortunate, so "I think" isn't particularly necessary. My point was that "I think" and "unfortunate" are overkill, it makes the sentence essentially useless
I've analyzed this market quite a bit (as I've thought about creating a startup in this area) and the best attack vector I identified was to commodotize the platform.

Do to Craigslist what slinkset does to reddit. Go after a thousand niche markets. Craigslist lets you suggest new locations but that's about it. But there's no reason every small town/organization/hobby/school/company shouldn't be able to have it's own classifieds website.
I've never understood how this sort of license requirement is supposed to be enforced.

In GPL v2, if I get the binaries, that gives me the right to request and receive the source. Simple enough.

With this kind of 'network sharing' license, who has standing to request source from me? Can anyone who visits my website effectively request a code audit, to ensure that the software that I'm using is standard and unmodified?
The minimum investment of $25K buys SM 2 weeks of development. How much more runway does SM need?

Caveat emptor indeed.
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Thanks everyone responding. It seems the common response so far has been about reach. It makes sense... the goal of your Ad is to get it in front of as many people as possible. CL Ads have no shortage of that. Anyone who has posted knows you can potentially get a huge response, quality aside. But as history has shown, very few companies (especially web) have remained on top forever. It just interesting CL has gone this long unchallenged.
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He said that marketers that focus on maintaining market share remind us that we are happy.

He proposes to focus on maintaining a market share, in the long tail, instead of mass marketing and making everybody unhappy unless they have the last piece of fancy crap.
I guess if you're shy of scp/ssh from the command line, but it's quite useful to get used to using it. It's everywhere.
Cyberduck does all that for free.
s/Possibly/Probably/
So only hackers read HN, and only upvote links because they are of interest?
It's curious, but !HN is actually a subset of HN in your notation! (I presume !HN is the set of posts where people comment that it's not Hacker News!)

Maybe someone should set up the (HN - !HN) site?
Yeah, taking the plunge!

Edit: If nothing else, concentrating on Obj-C and Cocoa for a few months is a solid way to land a development job related to technologies that are ahead of any other platform.
One of the few things that's almost an auto-downmod for me is "I'm going to be downmodded for this".
God forbid we actually pay money for apps that help us make money...
Actually, I recall reading about a research robot that (among other things) could recognize itself.
Amusing thought: Violent Outlaws who try to make people safer in terrifying ways.

Examples: Damaging the transportation fuel infrastructure. Grounding planes. Rendering highways unusable. These would all tend to save lives if accomplished in a big way which could easily be terrifying.
It's pretty believable though. The Mormon church is all about community and wholesome family activities, and so it's conceivable that they would use Facebook to promote those sorts of activities among young people.
One thing I would love to see craigslist do is learn what kind of things I am interested in, so that it could more readily display me ads from people who might have something I'm looking for.

It's great that its so expansive, and search is ok - but sometimes while scouring it, you come up with little gems that make you go "oh wow"...

If you could create something that would give you more "oh wow" moments, I think you'd have enough of a disruptive technology to draw away some of their users.
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People with degrees don't read books?

I would say anyone with a degree should use it to help them, that is why you spend 4 years attaining it. So you want to make everyone with a degree uncomfortable (somehow). Some misplaced resentment?
CL as a datasource is far less valuable as CL as a destination.

It's not an aggregator, its value lies in the fact that it has tremendous brand recognition far more than the sheer volume of data it has.
Check your Compete toolbar when you visit their site.
Plus it is a steady traffic which tells you that every single morning someone is woken up by the social alarm clock.

EDIT: To answer your other question, I am not a co-founder, but looking at pure numbers they are doing better than my last two trials and those of a lot of us.
95% of blogs might as well just be a single flat html file edited as needed. No security problems there.
We hope so.
sorry, I thought it was interesting that Peter Thiel might be running for president
This week Isabela Barwinska, an unemployed mother of two, became the first person in the UK to be ordered to pay damages to a manufacturer. She must pay more than £16,000 to Topware after downloading Dream Pinball through a file-sharing site.

That's disgusting. I won't condone software piracy but the punishment must fit the crime.
from Valleywag.

http://secretenemyhideout.com/post/46652783/i-heard-from-an-...

.. and I know I'm totally going to get downmodded for mentioning VW - but the link to what the had is there for reference anyway.
Yeah, because the Mormons' must totally admire all the flirting and poking that takes place on Facebook, right? ;)
could someone enlighten us as to what this means?
but if you recognize yourself doesn't that mean that you have some concept of "self" and therefore "aware of self"?
Let's all play internet lawyer and stir up drama. [dead]
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GIS for "The shear depth and breadth":

http://img411.imageshack.us/img411/895/shearsgk0.jpg
Minor correction (a pet peeve of mine): it's Objective-C, not Object C.

You can actually mix C++ and Objective-C. I would only recommend that if you have some existing library or something that you must use in an Objective-C application.
I'm told that the single biggest use of stolen Columbia University logins is to download papers

Citation needed.
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If you design it for the employees, I'm not sure it qualifies as "Enterprise" software any more. Not that that's a bad thing.
How Facebook deals with memcache consistency in multiple datacenters
Is this a joke? Even though I know it's the middle of August my brain momentarily thought "wait... is it April 1st today?"
I would put a picture or paining of myself sitting at my desk. It would be like the Colbert painting.
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Our securities laws seem better at creating barriers to entry for startups, and generating fees for lawyers, than protecting investors.
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Eh, the genealogy side is more likely than trying to promote wholesome activities.
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This is the second headline in recent days that's made me go "hey, I already knew about this!"

I had a ring-necked parrot who, upon seeing himself in the mirror, would instantly burst into the most beautiful song; with sounds that I'd never heard him make before - not in the presence of humans or other birds.

The second headline (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7541633.stm) - "Dogs Can Catch Humans' Yawns" claiming that dogs are contagious to humans yawns (an indication of perception and empathy) which is something that I've seen in friends' pet dogs and my own cats for years now, and assumed it was just one of those things everyone knew but no one talked about.

Makes one wonder, if these scientists spent a bit more time in "the real world" and less in their books and papers if we couldn't relieve some of our ignorance about the world around us.
I agree, but think we clearly need some regulation, and IPO'ing on Twitter would have to fall outside any sane regime.
If the Mormons had enough cash they'd buy hell and turn it into Disney land.
These are pretty damn funny.

No intellectuality required.
I actually double-checked my calendar.
I really can't see much of a downside to at least trying your hand at an app. We know the money is there, even for simple apps, so I say go for it. then again, I'm biased :)
If you had to guess, what sort of app could you make with your skills right now?
A) I'm sorry that I commented here thinking you were part of the new group of users that had just starting showing up and submitting the most bizarre stuff ever. However, I just looked and realized you generally submit good stuff. So for that, I apologize.

and B) The gripe is that the title of your post is the ENTIRE content of this web page. In other words, there is no value whatsoever to clicking the link.
Facebook (for the iPhone) 2.0 on the Way
As a hacker, I support this. As an entrepreneur, it scares me. In practice, how deep down the software stack does this go?
I've always wanted this:

http://despair.com/limitations.html

For some reason I find it inspirational even though it's not supposed to be. My brain must not be wired correctly.
So I figure this is as good of a place as any:

fyi, i messed with the sdk and have a fairly wide background in C and objective C. Is anyone looking people to help with code or to co-author an idea you have? Respond or email.
Maybe its just more efficient to build facebook apps to convert people than ride around on a bicycle and knocking on doors. Lazy evangelism.
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Agree that it's not a perfect market, but look at this from a relative point of view (e.g. the App Store/iPhone value chain vs. VZ)

Patience, grasshopper ;-)
Just like you can with advertising on the web you mean?
I have nothing against degrees, I just disapprove of the (large) subset of people using their credentials as an excuse to remain ignorant and disengaged.
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Gumtree is more popular in the UK. (It was bought a three years ago by ebay.)
> I really think that iPhone app development, is the kind of development that separates boys, from real developers. Anybody get a PHP web app, or a Ror page going on in a couple of weekends, not so with mobile client development. It takes a lot of patience to get where you want.

Ah!