skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing how they can now sell you an iPad 2[1] when you were just looking for which iPod model to buy. This isn't just upselling!

[1] "Oh, wow, I wanna take this too!"
It would be a great service to a whole lot of people for this method to be integrated into commonly used zip utilities.
I am admittedly entirely biased towards web apps, but please dont say that people arguing for the web are doing so from a "technopolitics" point of view.

My arguments for using open web technologies are purely based with the end users in mind, it may require some short term compromises in some areas of user experience (performance), but that doesnt mean we arent arguing for the best user experience possible.
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One of the biggest and oldest swapped everything out to the Isle of Man TLD recently: .im
I wonder if they have iPad 2's next to the iPad 2's?
Why can't the new shares sell in a uniform price auction the way treasuries are sold? Per wikipedia (article on auctions):

Debt auctions, in which governments sell debt instruments, such as bonds, to investors. The auction is usually sealed and the uniform price paid by the investors is typically the best non-winning bid.

The underwriting bank would just take bids for a set period of time, and then the winning bidders would pay the highest losing bid. This would help ensure no first-day price spike since any buyer who wanted shares could have bid his top price for them in the auction.
"20% GUARANTEED return" is a phrase you only find in scams...
College is just an avenue to doing substantive work -- which is when the real learning happens.
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I think this is meant to be a fun project that gets people to learn some of the quirks in the Javascript language. It reminds me a little bit of code obfuscation contests: the more deeply you understand the language, the better you will do. The advantage here is that it's not intentionally misleading and actually could be useful.
Not a dumb question at all. Many advisors are highly paid risk-takers with your money, that have their own bottom line as their main interest. Knowledge is always helpful to protect any investment.

That being said, are you thinking shorter term or longer?
+1 on rotation to landscape. It's the first thing I did when I brought up the app.

Also I agree with the advice to keep the price as it is. Complaints about an app that costs $5 are not realistic and this is a niche market app.

Good work. I do love the app.
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Take a look, especially at the commerce ones!
it still isn't the way i'd do it. the sheer number of different methods is intimidating -- there are a lot of commonalities of the methods that aren't depicted.

if you wanted to make things clear you're better off picking ONE problem and ONE method applied to the problem. the real challenges in understanding ML or DM are pretty much the same with all methods.

a graphic like that creates the illusion that it's transfered some knowledge when really it hasn't. that's why infographics are dangerous. if HN was my site i'd have it reject any article that has an image that's > 800 pixels high in it.
Cool app, please honor newlines in quoted text
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Related: the Ksplice blog has a great post on disown and how to manage processes:

http://blog.ksplice.com/2011/03/disown-zombie-children-and-t...
I partially agree with you but the most important phrase here is "without much time spending" and not "20% GUARANTEED return"... after 12yrs of investing experience I know that there are many investments that can give that kind of return but then it ask you to invest some time as well to manage those investment - I'm at a point where I'm ready to invest money but not that much of a time ... so am looking for some intelligent investment (if any) , of course with some serious due-diligence.
Wunderlist, Hype, Spotify, Sparrow. Just a quick list of desktop apps. But I agree, most startups are focussing on the web (and rightly so.)
Russia seized one domain (torrents.ru, which immediately became rutracker.org)

It's a mistery why, but if they did it once they can do it again.

I won't trust Germany resisting huge amounts of external pressure, and I won't trust China, period. So it's inherently a gamble.
What stage of life are you in? What portion of you savings is this?

I Ask because if you are young and have opportunity to earn / save more, I would say yourself. If you are older and this represents a significant portion of your nest egg I would have other suggestions.
I mostly look for cash-flow kind of investment rather than future appreciation - so if I invest in real estate then in 5yrs I get my money back ... I dont expect with solid similar option but anything with 5yrs timeline should be good enough.
What kind of helpful public shame is supposed to come about? Men who are not pigs will probably just think "this doesn't concern me". Men who are pigs are not shamed by the blog post in any way, so they are unlikely to change their ways because of it.

Since no names were called out, there is nothing the innocent bystander could do (like boycotting the conference).
They're testing the waters will little known sites. (I have never heard of the sites mentioned in the linked article.)

My prediction: if there are no serious challenges to this, then the pace will pick up and they'll start going after higher profile sites, like TPB.
Seriously? A company that takes pride in only having a handful of different products, buying huge amounts of infrastructure? Also, how likely is it, that this infrastructure is worth a dime in decade? Quite, likely I guess, but it would still be risky bet.

On top, as Swannie has pointed out, Apple has an international market.
But China isn't part of the G8.
If you're able to get 20% ROI in real estate without spending much time, stick with it. No need to look for anything else, if you ask me.
I'm in a phase where I dont have time but some money ... so pls suggest me those "other suggestions" - thanks in advance.
Of course they deny it... when does big companies ever agree with anything?
This is a good point. If you're going to write minified code like this, you should at least annotate it liberally like this example:

https://gist.github.com/962814
To reify this, my favorite example from The Innovator's Dilemma:

After WWII hydraulic excavators were introduced to the market. They could only move a quarter of a cubic yard at a time, the sort of work that had previously been done by men with shovels. This nicely fit with the explosion of suburbs where these excavators could efficiently dig small trenches for water and sewer access.

The steam shovel companies ignored this, catering to their markets for bigger trenches for main water and sewer pipes and larger scale excavation (e.g. digging out foundations).

The companies making hydraulic excavators steadily improved, to the points where they could handle the above applications. At those points they quickly wiped out their entrenched steam shovel competitors, for they didn't have chains that could snap and lash back at the operator.

For the general reasons mentioned by the parent posting, these competitors woke up to the threat way too late, didn't have the expertise necessary to quickly compete and I'm pretty sure most/all that tried ran out of money before they could make the transition. One of the deadly things about disruptive innovation is that they can crater your revenues faster than your corporate culture can respond.

ADDED:

All that said, after reading the article, while the author does not clearly make the case, I get the feeling that "Teen Knowledge Work" as enabled by the Internet is indeed something like a disruptive innovation.

The Internet has massively leveraged would be and current "knowledge workers". Let's look at our ability to self-educate: previously, it was hard to be an autodidact if for no other reason than it was hard to find out the books you ought to read. Now that meta-information is easily available, in on-line course book lists, Amazon.com reviews, Wikipedia articles and of course many less formal venues.

With these resources, not a whole lot of cash (and things like forums where one can questions) the self-directed self-disciplined learner can get a pretty good education. It won't equal the one you can get from rubbing shoulder with a few thousand of the best and brightest at MIT or an IIT, but I suspect it's enough to start a serious knowledge worker career.

So to get back to the disruptive innovation concept, teens who previously (with rare exceptions) just couldn't come up to speed before they exited their teen/early 20s years, who were able to do lower quality "knowledge work", are now able to do much higher quality knowledge work.

(One detail that you need to take into consideration of all this is how the college degree has replace the now worthless high school degree and now illegal recruiting testing. And now things like a portfolio of accomplishments presented on the Internet can replace the college degree as a signal.)
It's not just the tool, it's the ecosystem.
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They do. You can see them in a photo at http://www.macstories.net/news/apple-store-2-0-goes-live-int...
As a quick rule of thumb would be to never trust anyone who claims "regression" is a separate topic from "classification". Oh yes, and in this case it is beyond awful.
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I agree. I can think of few things that would anger me more than an autoreply to my email that isspam.
I agree. I can think of few things that would anger me more than an autoreply to my email that is spam.
Not really (and please hear me out!). The last thread had a few amazed commenter's remarking that they were surprised that there was a C compiler, or that they could do various things within it. The amazing part is that an x86 emulator was made that could start up a linux image - everything else is kind of obvious that it should work at that point since the x86 emulator was written so well.

So the amazing part is the emulator - everything else including the assembly etc should just work because well - it's supposed to!
You probably have more background in data mining that the rest of us. For those of us with limited or no exposure to data mining techniques, I think the graphic gives me some background about each technique that I otherwise wouldn't have had. At a glance, I understood that there are two types of hierarchical clustering method - agglomerative and divisive. That is a small amount of new knowledge, but it's more than I could have gleaned from a glance at a block of text. I don't think the graphic is without merit.
These articles always focus on liberal arts and private universities, which is completely uninteresting to me. I'd like to know the historic development of public school tuition for actually useful degrees like engineering and business, which don't have the steep salary curves of doctors and lawyers.
Did you just point the gemfile to newer version and did hand editing as you went along or is there a command for the upgrade?
Filling out a template is not 'generating code'.
The only thing this graphic does is that it generates confusion and reinforces misconceptions. A tree diagram is completely inadequate for this task - they say that mathematics is about "analogies between analogies" for a reason.
Thank you for setting me straight. Of course there are many
privately-held companies that existed for decades and never took public money.

I would bet that most of these companies were created decades ago and that most of the recent "success stories" took public money at some point - anybody knows any examples?
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Also, how likely is it, that this infrastructure is worth a dime in decade?

If they buy Clear, they're possibly going to face obsolescence. Many folks think Wimax will lose out to technology like HSPDA+ and LTE in a few years.
This article is light on factual research and chock full of daydreaming. Could apple buy up another piece of the mobile communication puzzle? Sure. But I'm certainly not holding my breath for this to happen. Apple is a product company, not a service one. And I see no factual indication in the article they're eager to change this by running around installing antennas in Starbucks. Google on the other hand...
You don't have to solve a problem to have a product. E.g. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/08/just-in
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Show HN: Syntax Tree Editor (my first HTML5 "app")
A "sheet" doesn't neccesarily refer to the molecular structure. In this contex, it would mean several layers composited together.
with orthogonal GZIPing, I'm happy using JSON (which allows me to read the data in my browser debugger, curl, etc.), while getting good compression.
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There are exceptions though for the base software... Stevens' TCP/IP illustrated and Unix programming will be relevant for many more years, since they describe some pretty much frozen standards.
It "compromises in some areas of the user experience" but you're saying open web technologies present the best user experience possible? How?

The App Store is one tap away. Hundreds of thousands of apps all neatly categorized and sorted a bunch of ways. User reviews right on each listing with an overall rating count that's impossible to miss. One-touch purchasing, or, if free, one-touch downloading. It downloads in the background and can be paused/resumed whenever you want.

So exactly how will open web technologies (existing now, or in the future) be a better experience for users than the App Store?
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Knuth, the guy who wrote The Art of Computer Programming?

I'm not sure I can make sense of that question.

No one can know everything, but if your specialty is, for example, virtual memory paging algorithms you should be able to write programs that implement and comprehend those algorithms, even if it's not production-quality code. If you are on the more practical side you should be able to read and hack on the existing code, even if it's not the central focus of your job.

I'm sure it's possible to find people who can be considered computer scientists but don't code very well or at all. But those people are rare exceptions, and aren't evidence that programming isn't an important tool in computer science.
In Opera 11.11, I seem to get a max of 8 instances going, but not more. Is there a technical limitation, or a deliberate restriction?

Memory seems to be OK, the browser is just past a Gig. Although this is a 32-bit OS, I don't see a memory issue.
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Yes -- either they want to keep his pic there, to give the false impression that they're still benefiting from his expertise! Or even worse, now that Dave has left, there's no one in the company technically capable enough to update their home page.

Either way, this is serious! I'm going to start on my "breaking news" blog post now!

Or, you know, they could be busy with work that's actually important.
By the same logic, Microsoft should have bought AOL in 1998. There were millions of people using AOL's network on Windows machines -- obvious synergy, right?

AOL was a previous-generation network infrastructure company. Current mobile phone operators are in a similar position. Any IT company should stay away from making long-term bets on them: just play nice to get what you need from the operators now, and let these dinosaurs go extinct when the market eventually changes.
I can't find the article that originally referenced this... but the idea that Apple would buy a phone company was made obsolete with the AT&T service issues that were present in the United States. By commercially separating the Network from the Phone - a new concept for the carrier-lock in situation in the states - it removed a large segment of risk from the user experience. How many times have you heard "the iPhone is great, but AT&T has terrible service" or something else along those lines? It's a common argument.

People don't understand the difficulties of having lots of data on a large-scale network across thousands of miles of cities, countrysides, and elevation differences. They do understand if a computer or phone is slow, though. This way, there are problems, but it's not because of Apple and their immaculate product. Why tarnish your brand with something people won't understand?
An appstore (sort of) for web apps is already there: http://www.apple.com/webapps/
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So how would the savvy entrepreneur "bet" on Square, given that you can't directly invest in it? What kind of product/service would you build if you assumed this pervasive mobile payment platform?
I think the iPod Touch is a sleeper product here. First gen was pretty much just an iPod. Apple added a speaker, then a mic and now front/rear cameras and facetime. The current $200, own outright, no contract iPod is already a feature packed video phone (y'know, from the future) with one catch: it requires wireless connectivity, something that's only going to become more ubiquitous.

All Apple needs to do is switch off video on facetime, find a way to add voip style phone numbers (like Skype et al) and then sell it as $200 phone, no plan required.
I have a chaos tower in my office

http://www.chaostoy.com/

We just got a wii (team has been playing mario kart)

Thumbprint scanner for the lock instead of key cards - not installed yet, hope it works

Thinking about foosball table, massage chair or high end espresso maker
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Almost everything is from "anonymous" and there is zero descriptor as to what the content of the call might be. This makes the site very illegible (so to speak) and I have no idea where to start and also no reason to start. And what's the point anyway? What's the draw? If there is one, it doesn't seem to have been effectively communicated.
The Wunderlist desktop app is also web-based. It's using Titanium Desktop as a wrapper.
Isn’t that a distinction without a difference?
I like the approach that Summerhill and Sudbury students tend to follow: after finishing "high school", they work in the world, thus earning money and gaining experience, and then they attend college if they think it is right for them. They work for their tuition, and they don't party away their school life.
Xobni is an option though I wouldn't consider them a startup anymore.
The Author as Agent of Change
The phrase App Store was not in use before Apple's App Store was created. Take a look at Google Trends from the past few years. Nobody talked about it until Apple used the term, now, it's used like people saying Kleenex when they could have just said tissue.

Apple wasn't the first to have a centralized location where users could download software. If they called it the Apple Software Center I bet everyone would be calling their software centers Software Centers and we'd be having the same argument.
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Actually, I doubt most people know what a "web app" is. Have you ever tried to explain the difference between a Web Site and a Web App to someone non-technical?

Apps, on the other hand, are definitely understood to be mobile applications. Can't say whether it's tied specifically to Apple or not though.

That's not to say I agree with App Store being trademarked - it's pretty ridiculous, IMO.
I followed your link and it said the reason the picture of Lenna (from a 1972 edition of Playboy) became significant was for its first use in 1973 in an academic conference paper on image processing.

Yet it also states that Woody Allen also used the image in the film Sleepers in the same year.

Woody Allen hardly got the idea from reading academic conference literature.

Makes me think that the image must have made an enormous impact on its release in 1972. Makes you wonder what was cropped, although her face is very nice
Simply because ThePirateBay uses a domain register that is not located in US.

Most confiscated domains have registered with GoDaddy.
Are you selling your startup’s shares door-to-door?
Bad analogy. AOL didn't own anything essential like the spectrum owned by the mobile operators. I don't see WiFi as being a replacement for this spectrum and note that WiMax relies on it.
That's a lot of cords...
Also, can anyone familiar with point of sale systems compare the two?

I saw an interview with Jack once where he mentioned cool reporting without going into details. It seems possible that the value of Squares should also include the cost/fees of POS systems (minus cost of your ipad/iphone/ipod that connects to your Square).
Web apps and the apple appstore are not mutually exclusive, you can have web apps in the appstore (or the google chrome / android market / amazon app store)

I am not arguing about the user experience involved in using the appstore
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Get a better operating system, or install Cygwin
Ask your current bank about an "overdraft line of credit". I have a US bank account with a boring, not-cutting-edge-in-any-way bank, and I specifically asked for this (and got it) for both my personal & business accounts. So I suspect it's an option that's available at most banks if you have a decent credit history.

I have a 2500 or 3K credit line attached to each account; if I overdraw my balance -- with a bill payment, ATM withdrawal, whatever -- the extra comes from the overdraft line of credit, and there aren't any fees. I even used to be able to transfer money from the overdraft credit line into my checking account using their online interface, but they've turned that off now.

I've never overdrawn for more than a few days (due to poor planning, generally), so it's a perfect safety net... I always hated those fees!

It's not quite the same as a normal credit card line, I suppose -- where if I pay off the balance at the next statement, I pay no interest -- but the interest has never been more than pocket change, so I haven't even bothered looking it up.

[edit: sorry; I intended to post this in response to a post replying to you, not your post]
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http://www.macstories.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/IMG_001...

illustrates just how ugly and annoying those wires are. Perhaps we'll eventually see wire-free ipads. OTA syncing as an option, for a start, and perhaps Apple will be the company to bring us wireless electricity. Just like with many other products and services, Apple's not the first to tackle something, but they refine it to such a degree that it's usable for the masses.
If you're the least bit interested in writing new consumer apps for Windows, please do it! There's an incredible lack of new, interesting, exciting apps for Windows. Enough to make one want to switch to a Mac (plus a hundred other reasons...)
Not sure if you'd consider them a start-up or not (http://www.skybound.ca/), but they have a pretty cool and fancy product. A few weeks ago, I read they are looking for solid dot net developers. You could check out. They are based in Canada.
I think if the word "app" is proven to be generic with prior use, "app store" shouldn't be able to be trademarked. "Kleenex" is a unique word with no meaning prior to Kleenex, not so of an "app store", completely different case.
Some startups have a desktop component (Yammer), and it's often not very good.
Not gonna happen. Service companies are the whipping boy of every muttered complaint under a user's breath. Not to mention the antitrust issues that would inevitably come up.