skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's definitely a UI issue, in that right now the burden of management of multiple identities falls to users, and yes, developers don't usually include facilities to help. It's a pain, and like Wolfrom I sometimes choose to not say anything at all.

But beyond that, I think it's also a problem of expectations mismatch: on an app level social media is about siloing information by person (or possibly by company), but the user expectation is often that they've siloed information by subject matter.

It's a burden most acutely felt by so-called renaissance men and women (which I'd wager are an over-represented group here in the HN community). There's discrimination towards people that talk about/do seemingly unrelated things, that I think Wolfrom is alluding to. People tend to confuse specialization with expertise, e.g. that a software developer that also does visual design and has an interest in making music, for example, isn't as much of an "expert" as someone focused exclusively on code. Unfortunately not separating your content can have an impact on your credibility.
There's a Feedback link right there on the page as well. I used that to echo this feedback.
Yeah, agreed. The whole premise of the function is insane but I'm pretty sure the story is a lie because I just can't see how anybody would write the code this way unless they were intentionally trying to obfuscate code for humour/annoyance.
Polarising comment alert.

I find it so hard to relate to HCI and UX as fields. I mean, do real designers creating great products actually subscribe to this theorising or do they just get on with it? I'm probably completely naive about all of this, but from the outside it looks like a lot of talking and a lack of doing.
>take all the awesome stuff that people developed in research labs since the 60's, and they're implementing it when/where it makes sense.

If this is true, then that is also google's model, except they're doing it with server-side algorithms as opposed to UI implementations/hardware form factors.

You don't think google invented MapReduce, their translation algos, their vision algos, their concurrency models and so on? They get them out of research papers from years gone by. Then they implement them at real-world scale, and iterate them until they're suitably awesome, just like apple does with the ideas they resurrect from academia.

This is analogous to how every perceived leap forward in programming paradigms always seems to end up dating back to 1956.
While that might certainly be what people like to call its "killer feature," the iPhone redefined what we expect of smartphones. The gold standard before 2007 was the Blackberry. Look at the Android prototypes before 2007 and the phones released after that: they are fundamentally different devices.
My really good friend just sent you an email about this yesterday I believe. Just wanted to let you know (he found out about it through me, and I found out about it on here)
The article claims that this is the reason Russia has so little innovation. Is this really true though? Yandex is a great company. VKontakte is dominating social networking there.

Russian investors (or at least Yuri Milner) appear to be doing extremely well.
Governmental (more accurately Congressional) support for lobbyist-supported legislation is a 3 step process.

1) God I am so fucking sick of dialing for dollars.

2) This guy has a bag of money.

3) I spend all my time dialing and none of it on policy so I can't tell the difference anyways.

Hey, I'll just do what he's telling me.

It's not quite that cut and dried but that's what it comes down to in the end, with a little dancing in between so the congressman can convince himself he isn't being bought.
Step 1: Get all Mac/iPhone/iPad users to use the iCloud

Step 2: Integrate API (with access to your data) and a MacCloud Store

Now, it doesn't matter if you purchase software using your iPhone/iPad, Mac or the cloud; Apple will get 30% of all purchases anyway. Brilliant !
Phantom Probes Android Game Is Top App
Reddit is a valuable tool for acquiring early users.
Think of an improved Wii system plus the controller has a screen to view extra info and functionality. Then add the ability to optionally use the controller screen instead of the TV screen to view the full game. There you go.
Good job arturadib... Most programmers(or rather lesser programmer like me) tend to walk away from teaching once they had grasped the new lanaguage.. I managed to struggled through Backbone for the last few days and I'm beginning to see the light of it.. Will try to come up with a tutorial if I find the time!
Ask HN: What is your mobile app strategy?
I work for a startup and we are writing native apps and wondering if anyone has had a good experience with mobile applications platform, to write once and deploy on many device platforms.

the feedback i have gotten so far is that most tools are cheap and not that great, like titanium, or extremely expensive... like kony and pyxis

how do you cope with writing for so many platforms with limited resources?
Cringely: "consumers have been leading the IT market for the last decade"

More like for the last 3 decades (the IBM PC came out in 1981).
You are taking the wireless controller for the console, the console looks like that http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=21727778#p21727... and connects to the tv with a cable.
I'm sorry but this is silly. What you are suggesting has been already tried in prohibition of alcohol, in war on drugs and now in a more civilized way in a "war on car downloaders".

The main outcome was that black markets flourished. If people want what Bitcoin provides, they will get it in one way or another.
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Why we started startuplab.co
WiiU announcement video from E3 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eniBUtc4Uws
ah thank you! no one was showing the console in the pics. thus confusing me.
I recently read both volumes of "Artificial Intelligence -- An MIT Perspective", which is a great view of the high-water mark of the MIT AI Lab. This two-volume set, put together between 78-81 is a review and collection of papers showing off the current state of the art in the AI Lab's work in five areas:

* Computer Learning

* Natural Language Processing

* Computer Vision

* Manipulation Technology

* Programming Languages (including short versions of GLS's thesis on CPS compilation for Scheme and Carl Hewitt's ACTORs paper, and a review-and-outlook paper on the development of the MIT Lisp Machine, among others)

Along with introductory comments by Patrick Henry Winston and Richard Brown, the set includes papers by Marvin Minsky, Gerald Sussman, BKP Horn, Jon Doyle, Richard Stallman, GLS, Hewitt, and more.

Taken in total, the collection shows how the world of AI looked from MIT goint into the eighties, before the boom and the bust which followed.

Now, you can get each volume for $1.00 on AbeBooks. Sic transit gloria mundi...
I wish there was something like Selector's named arguments (http://lukearno.com/projects/selector/):

Selector().add(path, GET=get_entity, PUT=put_entity, ...)

It's nicer with a mapping file:

/path
GET get_entity
PUT put_entity
Out of interest - do you paint/decorate the walls in your home. Do you wear coloured (ie dyed) clothing? Do you have a business card that has more than plain-text on it? When you return from a holiday and are telling friends about it, do you hand them a type written note that describes what other people would normally put in a photo?

Do you eschew the use of typographical techniques that aid reading, both speed and comprehension, such as emboldening, headings, breaks, italics, font and colour changes?

I never understood this "email should be only plaintext" argument. Getting information across is easier with options for images and textual enhancements. Do you use lynx for web browsing?

When the KMail people were refusing to allow people to use HTML to reply to HTML emails properly one guy argued with me that to send photos to family members I should use FTP, send an address so they could log on and dl the photos to view - that this was somehow better than having the images there ready to view in the MUA.
I understand the point but I think there is room for personalization in news without the "chocolate ice cream effect" you're afraid of.

For instance, I like to read a lot of news about my local area, business, startups, health, and fashion/style - I am not very interested in a local news about anywhere else, or anything about TV/entertainment news, for example. So it's possible to personalize a newstream by topic rather than by slant, since I am going to be most interested in those topics and really not interested at all in reading the others (just like consuming news in analog). In fact, these types of personalizations, where I could have a greater degree of trust that something would be interesting to me, would probably expand the articles I would choose to read. This way, something pops up that I would normally pass over, and I could at least think "Hmm, there's probably a reason this is on my feed" (kind of like when something pops up on the HN frontpage).
For what it's worth, Apple sees this as distinct from garbage collection. For new projects they recommend using ARC, even on the Mac where "real" GC is (and will continue to be) available.
Concurrent Downloads using NSOperationQueues
Really we can stop saying HTML email sucks, we get it. I don't like it either but every other comment seems to be saying this.

That said, in this day and age is an HTML email even, neccessary? An incredibly large amount of users these days don't even bother checking their email unless it's something specific they're looking for. Social Networking has made a large footprint in that market and a status update as to new products/services gets just as much attention.
This is only a MVP. Traction or not, I will still be working on it in another 3 years because I feel that Americans' voices in politics fall on deaf ears, and this is too important to give up on.

Targeting a market of only people of above average intelligence is wrong and undemocratic. The purpose of the site is so that EVERY American can understand the legislation that governs them. Based on the current political setting, this site is exactly what America needs. Sure it may be rough around the edges, but it will get there.

But damn me for trying, right?
>I used to get Slashdot sent to me as plain text.

Comment nesting must have been awful. Or did you cheat and use pseudo-graphical characters to overcome the obvious limitation of plain-text for such a purpose?
HTML email is like violence: if it isn't working, you're not using enough of it.
Is Black Duck spreading FUD about Android?
I think that's the spirit of the post, that building persuasive systems is moving/has moved into the real world in a principled way.

Disclaimer: I work with the author, and it's suprised me how much of a 'science' it really is (hypotheses can be tested, and the results can be measured and improved)
I find in almost every field, there are those that enjoy theorizing and those that enjoy doing. The HCI & UX fields are no different.
You have to admire Bezo's approach to new ideas...

"On the day you decide to give up on it (hypothetical idea), what happens? Your operating margins go up because you stopped investing in something that wasn’t working. Is that really such a bad day?"
You can't design for the web (or for any medium) without knowing its constraints. If a "web designer" doesn't know HTML or CSS then how can they adequately design for the web as a platform when they don't know how it works?
Personal Celebrity Website Done Right: Jerry Seinfeld
It seems you mixed up horizontal and vertical splitting. It happens a lot, I'm afraid. I wish it didn't happen so often. It's tedious to clear up such basic confusion when there are so many important user interface challenges to discuss.

Also 900px wouldn't be a problem if not for a vertical split. 900px < 1024px. JoelSutherland is assuming that the window is divided, with some kind of a navigation pane taking up part of the width. This is the case in most email clients.
Benchmarks that don't include standard deviations are worse than bad. They are dangerous.
Hacker Culture (1999)
I would differentiate the feedback forums (Uservoice, GetSatisfaction) from Olark & SnapEngage which help with converting customers via real-time chats.

Real time chat is much more important for a startup. You can learn from potential customers + convert them on the spot...
I would love to know what you feel was done right with this site. Don't get me wrong; I like it, though I would have preferred bookmarkable links to the content (i.e. tour dates).
Squid-web-cache GUI Demo - via Aquarium 0.11.9
* It's clean and to the point.

* There's a expressed purpose of the site (click on 'What Is This?').

* Since there are only three clips a day, people keep coming back for more. It's sticky.

Despite being late to the game, Jerry Seinfeld got this one absolutely right. A lot of personal websites could learn from this.
AppMobi claims to fix HTML5 speed issue for mobile gaming
I can't find the link offhand but I recall it being said by someone affiliated with Office that pretty much everyone uses about 20% of Word's features. The difference is in which 20%.

You might have a set of feature needs that Pages covers. I know that pretty much everyone in my company (that is, management and project people--engineers could get by with whatever, that's not a big deal) couldn't use Pages, and their needs are not extreme or out-there.
Waiting on google means waiting for approval for market access?
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He is BS but his post is a fine reminder that when you're looking for a job, all those people smiling and nodding could be just like him. So in a sense his post is useful.

- And yes, it's quite precious to dismiss for being industry agnostic. Doesn't mean people don't do, so it's useful to at least know that.
HCI has both theoretical and scientific models that are often driven by cognitive science, psychology and neuroscience.
Remember the big stink about being able to bring your us cellphone number with you to a new provider? The new era of consumer cloud data looks like its going to take customer lock in to new heights. IMO it's time to start rallying for a universal right to export.
Hey, everyone I'd invite you all to checkout some other coverage that may help clear things up a bit:

-http://www.siliconprairienews.com/2011/06/dwolla-releases-gr...
-http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/06/07/dwollas-grid-api-could...

Honestly, we severely underestimated the demand and intrigue Grid would garner among certain tech circles (we mainly built this to assist in our financial services product, called FiSync).

We understand you all have questions, many of them as a result of encountering something "new." We'd be happy to help clarify any questions you might have.

Also, feel free to check our recent coverage (http://www.dwolla.org/help/dwolla-in-the-news/). Hopefully, combined with this information, we'll be able to better communicate what Grid is.
I wouldn't consider VKontakte to be much of an innovator, considering it essentially is a clone of Facebook.
This is correct. Emails should be no wider than 600px
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Look at the comments of the MSDN Word 2007 HTML and CSS Rendering Capabilities
(sorry if this is another one of those "the USA is just as bad", posts, but I hope it's food for thought)

It sometimes seems to me that the real difference between stories like this and what we see in the USA is that in the States we've learned to be more subtle about it.

I offer three examples of how USA government disrespect for the rule of law is stifling America:

1. Kelo decision: it seems to have become routine for cities to condemn viable small businesses to grab land for their big voters. For example, see Columbia University in NYC.

2. GM bailout: standard bankruptcy law, determining who should get paid, was thwarted to give unions (i.e., Democrat voting blocks) favored status. This creates disincentive for future investment.

3. Boeing's new plant: the government is trying to block Boeing from moving a plant from Washington to S. Carolina, saying that their action is intended to avoid organized labor (duh), and that's illegal.
I did look at the readme. The client-side issue isn't a real problem. The fact that it's easy for computers to solve, on the other hand...

I get that it's a proof of concept, but it's a concept that doesn't work. You can't make recognizing a line easy for humans and difficult for a computer. The best you could do is introduce noise and make the line a shape that humans are likely to recognize... and bam, we're back at warped characters.
Are you from the UK? In context, mobile computing includes laptops, tablets, and smartphones (and maybe even games on dumbphones).
This is different, how? Gmail/Calendar/etc is decentralized all the time.
I love seeing initiatives like this, especially in areas with traditionally little entrepreneurial support. The "Silicon Valley Experience" is interesting too. I wonder if this will be a popular program for them.
iPhones are just the smartphone market. More like SMS's are going away for smartphones but staying for everyone else. Not everyone has an smartphone and not everyone can afford a dataplan.
Gtalk's been working great for me for years now.
What if you only have 30 users after putting 3-4 years into this? You don't know burn-out till you've experienced it.

You can't target everyone because everyone doesn't care. You can't target everyone because you don't have the budget to support it. You can't target everyone because you will never reach the critical mass needed to sustain it.

Unintelligent people usually avoid politics because it is a highly complex subject. Your website is not perfect for them because your website doesn't simplify anything for them. Getting the average Joe to care about legislative policies will require you to understand why they avoid it in the first place.

See all of these things you aren't taking into consideration? Someone with experience can save you the trouble of having to figure them out on your own.

All I'm saying is that if you find someone to help you polish this up, you can avoid a lot of common mistakes and save yourself a lot of time and frustration.
Perhaps AT&T saw this coming and is trying to put up some fences around the high-margin SMS plans. Recently they started offering unlimited calling to any mobile regardless of network.

The catch is that you also must carry an unlimited SMS plan ($20/month on an individual line or $30 on a share plan).
The Characters of Silicon Valley
Yet.

(And in emerging markets, it may be 10 years, I get that, but ... yet.)
Cool, I'll get a look. I got sidetracked by installing iOS 5 and then discovering something changed that is causing my existing apps to crash.
>iCloud heralds an era wherein all of your data is decentralized

You are correct, for all definitions of "decentralized" that are "rigidly centralized, almost appearing decentralized because centralization is so far outside your control"
Most of the European problems right now are problems that the US just plain cannot have -- Greece, Spain and Italy running up huge debts because they have the credibility of the eurozone without any of the responsibility.

Right, and America hasn't been running up huge debts with the credibility of being the US and having the world's reserve currency?
First of all, Kin is a rebrand of the Danger Sidekick business Microsoft bought. All those social media features are inherited from the Sidekick, a product that "got it." A founder of Danger, Andy Rubin, went on to start Android which got acquired by Google and we all know the rest of that story.

Who knows why Microsoft bought Danger. "Phones are looking hot, better buy something." Then proceed to screw it up royally by rewriting everything from scratch on top of Windows CE wasting the entire investment.

Yeah, I don't think Kin is a good example of how Microsoft gets it.
Bluetooth hacking
How is someone hacking into my netbook through a means other than wifi or the internet. I don"t even plug in a new netbook. Is the access through bluetooth?
I would give anything to get access to an fMRI and show participants these 'examples of persuasive design' while they are hooked up to it.

Much of the literature on persuasive design suggests that the persuasion happens in the cerebral cortex. Neuroscience has shown that persuasion happens a whole lot deeper, in some very primitive parts of our brains. I'd love to see how brains 'light up' when they're confronted with some of these designs!

If anyone has any resources on fMRI research into persuasive design, I'd be the happiest geek alive.
Everybody is a visionary one day after WWDC. Maybe that is the secret of the Apple reality distortion field.
From the article (referring to the controller):

"Please understand that it was not designed to be a portable video game machine," Nintendo President Saturo Iwata explained.

Looks like it won't compete against the 3DS.
Thoughts on setting up Armstrong on Vagrant
Completely agree. Other than the quote about Grand Central ("At the end of the day, more users were definitely better off due to the acquisition."), all of them paint the acquisition in negative manner. But I guess it's not surprising. There are far more stories about acquisition gone wrong instead of acquisition gone right.
Dissecting NetFlow: How a Flow-Based System Impacts Your Network
Seems like this is an area ripe for a startup. All of these comments commiserating and not one can point to an application or service that helps solve this problem?
Coroflot.com and behance.net are good resources too.

Generally speaking, talented designers (and hackers) enjoy working on interesting projects. If your idea is better than anything they're currently working on, they might work for equity. That's how I approach it anyway.
Dup from 19 hours ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2628328

Many comments there already.
Open Source alternatives are Ekiga and QuteCom.

But frankly, on Ubuntu both Ekiga and QuteCom are just as badly integrated (i.e. not at all) and its additional downsides are that there are hardly people using the network; you can hardly call anyone. Yet?

Aside from that, Ekiga is a 1:1 replacement for skype, feature and ease-of-use-wise. Maybe a tad more stable :). On Ubuntu at least.
it's actually quite light and it isn't a portable device, it's simply a screen that streams content/input. I too am worried about battery life. Wii controllers ate up AA batteries like no other.
Why webOs is a Challenge to iOS and Android in the Business World
I think you may have missed what solost meant regarding disassociating yourself form the product. I took it to mean:

This isn't mine therefore I don't care that much about it.

Rather than:

I'm going to cut loose and walk away from this.

Disassociating yourself from your work (My understanding mentioned above) can be viewed as immature and unprofessional and that's what solost was saying, I believe. We've all done work that we're not happy with but there's a big difference between acknowledging the parts that we don't like and trying to disassociate ourselves from the work entirely.
Guess which company is on a hiring spree.