skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was just aiming for the cornerstone of your argument

> cross-device upgrade pricing was very common

Perhaps from within the industry having a lateral path was a common denominator, something every company had, and in that definition, it may have been "common", but not from a consumer perspective. The opportunity to buy PC software for a Mac was quite unusual for a consumer. There are still plenty of full time Windows folks thinking about getting Macs and asking their friends "Will I be able to use <app> on it?". Maybe not in SF, but most of the people I work with (and we're talking doctors, military planners, etc) are still in a Windows world, at work and at home.
MIME handles inline attachments with aplomb. What does this have to do with HTML?
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An average physicist in an international particle physics institution and collaboration, supported by grants, developing for the sake of sharing science, especially experts so they could collaborate with other experts.
I don't know how it works in the USA, but in France, you can vote "blank". This is what you do when no candidate fits your view. It's better than abstention because it still counts in the stats (and might prevent a candidate from gaining absolute majority)
Klarna is adding to its risk and decision analysis team. Come take a look.
What I've observed is that to really get to the deep learning, the deep knowledge, requires moving into the 'elite', and learning from them.

Think of it as applied Pareto: find the top 20 who do 80% of the work, and learn from them so you can move into them.

One of the most absolutely valuable pieces of 'research' I have done as part of my Master's is learning about systems that were designed and built before 1980. Then, learning about how many of those ideas were recycled and or forgotten in the trash heap behind Unix's house.
I use 3 passwords: One for my email, one for my computer's login, and one for my password managers master password.
Isn't this vulnerable to someone guessing the prefix if the password is compromised? This assumes that you're up against identity theft, not automated spamming, but the algorithm you're using to hide the prefix isn't very robust. Does this matter to you?
> you can generate and input the key yourself, so that Google never sees it.

Google still needs to know the secret. All authenticators are based on a shared secret model, so the same possible attack vector that bit RSA.
We're not going to fizzle out any time soon. :-)
FWIW Quite a lot of the game footage was from XBox 360 + PS3 games.
Garbage collection specifically refers to a collector that reclaims resources at run-time (the "garbage"). According to the article, this is static analysis that inserts retain/release into the code at compile-time.
When people are asked for their opinion, I think they switch into judgement mode, and that mode seeks out problems to report.
charles schwab does this. \\
chase bank does this.\\
captial one does this.\\

god knows why I still use them...
I think people are missing the point. Apple is actually moving in the direction of less lock-in as far as the consumer goes. They've basically said that in the latest generation many people won't need to buy any one device to use as a hub or to sync, and no additional device is needed to establish service. They seem to have gone as far as content providers will allow in getting away from DRM, and they support syncing music and pictures across quite a few devices, even PCs. Their being able to negotiate a deal where users can Music-Match (replace their own music rips with 256k DRM-free AAC copies that can sync to many devices) is extraordinary. It's a very smart move. It ensures excellent playback quality, and it likely will get some additional people buying from them as music customer.

Being able to view photos taken with an iPhone or iPad streamed through Apple TV is a nice added feature for those not set up to do it through a desktop or laptop.

In an environment designed for easy transmission and sharing of data lock-in just doesn't seem to apply. It's nothing like having data tied up in a proprietary format that only expensive software can read.
The only lock-in I see is things being addictively simple.
Hmm... I almost hate to say this, in this context, but... sometimes we see what we're looking to see. Or maybe, just what we're particularly sensitive too.

I don't really notice any particular degree of jealous negativity here at HN. That's not to say that I never see any negativity, but nothing that jumps out at me as being especially prevalent. If anything, the discussion here still strikes me as being more reasonable than the majority of the forums I frequent.

Then again, maybe I'm just especially de-sensitized to it or something. <shrug />
I remember signing up for the beta of this service not really understanding how it worked and was pretty weirded out when it asked me to point my DNS to their server.

That's not an anti-spam product, that's hosting.
> Who pays for the "accidental CDN" that, according to the article, pushes as much traffic as the 10th largest website on the internet? Their optional $20/mo subscription plan can't possibly cover that.

They use VigLink to add affiliate tags to the external links of the sites that use them.
But that requires you to know what it is you don't know. Cue Rumsfeld's piece about known unknowns and unknown unknowns.
I ran a cracking forum for a few months and found similar stats. Even in a community whose members should know better. I modded the vBulletin software to store passwords in plaintext. Roughly fifty percent of members registered with an e-mail address that was also registered with Paypal. Of those who had, roughly 75% of them had matching passwords for both the forum and Paypal.
so that's why skype crashed this morning... :P
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Jubal Harshaw seems to be a libertarian.

Also I need to hit him up for some pick-up advice.
I struggle constantly with this problem. As I see it, the main practical problem is that services have a 1-to-1 mapping from identity to account. This is compounded by the fact that the services often depend on one another - e.g. when I need a unique email address to sign up for some service, then for every account I need on that service, I also have to go create yet another gmail account.

I wish I could have just one identity, that is me-facing, but many accounts, that are audience-facing. I wish I could log into YouTube as Andy Wood, and manage all my accounts (3D graphics demos, domino toppling, paragliding, etc).

In fact, WordPress.com works just like this, and I love it. Google, YouTube, and Twitter, by contrast, seem borderline resistant to this type of usage - meaning they all force me to keep creating new email accounts in addition to the multiple service accounts, even when I really don't want another email account.
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Long time reader, yes, hardly every comment, though.

I take offense here: As for your downvotes: I'm sorry, but as has been stated previously, we value technical accuracy.

It's needlessly smug, flippant and dismissive, as well as hypocritical seeing as how he's accusing me of being wrong about a product that is yet to exist (so we're both speculating) all the while he agrees with the point I originally made, but is too stupid to realize it.
No. I have exactly 146 passwords.
Normally I'd rant about 37s' rhetoric getting old. But with the Groupon IPO on the horizon and the overbearing feeling that there's some kind of startup bubble about to burst, I think I'll cut them a little slack this time.
Are you willing to elaborate on this? Recommending it over garbage collection on OS X would run contrary to their previous evangelism of GC and its concurrent scalability.
Can't say i'm impressed by Nintendo's offering. It's like they've spent the last 5 years resting on their laurels, then in the last few months before E3 they slap something together with every possible feature you can have in a single controller, and upgraded the hardware to handle HD graphics.

The console itself is fairly decent for it's size, it would be interesting to see whether long-term hardware issues will arise out of shrinking down such high-performance components. All of the tech demos seem very smoke-and-mirrors at this stage; when the Wii was revealed there were real demos with playable games that people could pick up and enjoy. Overall the hardware feels current-gen, and with MS and Sony already planning their next consoles, it won't be long until Nintendo is again at the back of the hardware rankings. No media playback seems like a bit of an oversight; it uses a proprietary disk format, and there is no mention of media playback, except Youtube integration. Seems it will follow the same path as the Wii did with DVD/media playback.

The controller seems strange; you can use it in several different ways, but it seems to be optimized to a tablet-type usage scenario. The placement of the shoulder buttons seems very awkward with the size and shape of the controller. As i said, it just looks like they've tried to incorporate everything including the kitchen sink at the last minute, with no _real_ use-cases or target applications.

In the end the biggest disappointment for me is that Nintendo hasn't addressed the areas it admitted it failed with the Wii. Not so long ago they said they knew they had failed to engage developers on the same level as MS and Sony, and they had failed to create a healthy online ecosystem. Their announcements at E3 haven't addressed either of these failures, so I can only assume that they are still working on a solution, or they are going to continue with the same strategies that they have used in the past.
> Apple is actually moving in the direction of less lock-in as far as the consumer goes.

Do you expect that any non-Apple device will be able to use iCloud? Vendor Lock-in is what's important here, and it's definitely been made stronger by this move. Once all your data is in the cloud, do you want to go through all the effort of moving it to a different cloud (if you even can!) or do you want to cough up a few extra $100 to buy from Apple and make things easy.
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Somewhat offtopic, but why do affiliate programs go along with this? If it's a link that was already going to Amazon, then adding the tag brought in no new business and CloudFront does not deserve a cut.
It's an interesting comparison, but the Dreamcast 'VMU' screen was very low resolution (48 x 32) which severely limited what you could usefully show.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMU

I think that good examples of the DS screen usage points the way forward - maps, item screens etc. Not forcing the player to enter into different 'modes' on the main screen.
Until about the middle of February it looked as if we were going to maybe catch a break on global warming as the Sun's output was down significantly and the possibility that a Maunder type solar minimum was occurring was increasing.

About 2/15/11 solar output started getting back to more normal levels.

http://www.wm7d.net/hamradio/solar/index.shtml

Too bad, we could use a break.
You're assuming search ranking is primarily based on speed. It might weight the ranking, but relevancy must be still dominant.

I mean, come on. Sites with maps, ads, or even big images can take up more than two seconds. It's not a big deal. Your analytics tracking code slows everything even more.

And it's the same network, the crawler might just go to the next server room.
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Why isnt twitter in the talent traffic graphic? http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/talent_traff...
Yes, but it is more romantic to attribute everything to one man cough Steve Jobs cough than to the decades of development that went before.

Generally folks who have seen far recognize the shoulders upon which they stand, but those who idolize them seem to see them floating in air.
the original programmer isn't the issue, it's the new developers making wrappers with loopholes around the original directive.

I wait for one day where we all rise as one and reinstall from source.
Show HN: "HN Search Suggestions", browse HN submissions inside of your Omnibox
I properly know all that Shakespeare has to say to me, but the importance of him is how he says it, how he makes English come alive and sing.

I have never read anybody who has mastered the English language so completely has he has.
I thought Gamecenter on iPhone used your Apple ID
I'm not sure US users have noticed, but I can't use the service from Europe, Hungary. It just keeps connecting to the api, tested with latest Chrome and FF.
Shh! I was trying not to point that out ;)
According to one of the comments on the blog, the video frames come from Helioviewer:
http://helioviewer.org/?date=2011-06-07T07:20:00.000Z&im...

The whole explosion takes around three hours.
CloudFlare is reverse proxy. You keep your existing hosting provider. It's just like how Postini, MX Logic, or MessageLabs stopped email spam via a change to DNS.
Just wondering, how many different lionhearted-folk are there on HN?

Here's the ones I've found so far:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lionheart

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lionhearted

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=theli0nheart

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ligerhearted

Any others hiding in the woodworks that wanna show themselves?
Institutions are merely hubs of knowledge, a natural enough occurrence. Maybe information does want to be free, but free birds of a feather flock together.

I personally feel the image that they are or are trying to cultivate a monopoly is a misguided perception based on jealousy, resentment, etc
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Just a little something I made to try out the new HN Search API. I already have a better idea for the contest, but it's going to take a bit longer to make.

Feel free to go through the code.
I was also thinking of making an HN app for Chrome that just links to the site from the new tab page and have this as a feature.
Please let me know what you think.
And lets not forget hardware... high brow physics, snooty maths, prima dona chemistry, diva material science all go into the design and fabrication of IC's. These are not 'Learn X in a weekend' and show someone my weekend project.

Those spouting anti-intellectual dribble often forget the well worn, time tested shoulders they are standing on.
Mesh is such a great product...It's too bad it hasn't gotten much attention. You just tell it what folders to watch and it'll quietly sync those folders across all your devices -- cloud included.
Great presentation. Now I really understand the difference between Rails MVC and SproutCore MVC.
> It must be frustrating for the WebKit team when their engineering advancements are taken for granted and attributed to Chrome

The chrome team makes more commits than the Apple webkit team. I know number of commits don't mean much but the chrome team is mostly reponsible for adding websocket, the file api, web workers and more. Also don't forget webkit itself is based on KDE's KHTML.
No, it isn't hosting because you still keep your hosting provider when using CloudFlare. The DNS switch is at your registrar, which is an entirely separate issue than hosting.

Example:
1. Registrar could be GoDaddy.
2. Hosting is at BlueHost.

Adding CloudFlare would mean:
1. Change authoritative nameservers at GoDaddy to us.
2. Hosting doesn't change at BlueHost.
I always find it somewhat ironic that these discussion about anti-intellectualism always seem to lack any knowledge of how old this very discussion is. Plato's Phaedrus spends plenty of time discussing the effects of new technology (writing) on current intellectual practice (memory), and yet I rarely see it even touched on when people write on the topic, so much for those old books. More important: the real anti-intellectualism to look out for is the 'trial of Socrates' kind, not disregarding one form of transmitting knowledge because of your own intellectual curiosity. Certain classes of 'geeks' feeling they have found a better model of knowledge transmission, even if they are wrong, than the academic model is not anti-intellectualism.
Want to share with you hackers my birthday present. Can't wait to hack it!
I resent and disagree with the distinction that is being drawn up here.

The notion of disruption is not inherently anti-intellectual. The notion that whatever society or structure under discussion has reached a local maximum, and must be torn down somewhat to be built back up is not to say that a society is worthless, or wrong at it's fundament, but rather that sometimes, change is not possible from within.

It is the opposite of conservatism (with the little "c").

Additionally in the world of the internet, where a thousand flowers bloom, and theories and movements are spawned and die every day, i put relatively little stock in each of the common wisdoms that spring up for their 15 minutes of fame, and then fade into the abyss. Fads like the notion of experts being unnecessary are ridiculous, and largely have no legs. And even to the extent that they do reflect some deep seated feeling, i would more likely attribute them to an antipathy to credentialism, rather than the notion that expertise is worthless.

And if you want to put a political spin on this, posts like these are exactly the sort of false equivalences which make moral argumentation impossible. Sure geekdom has its share of charlatans and know-nothings pretending to be masters of insight, but this is different from demands of faith and fanaticism, and that if you disagree with orthodoxy, not only are you wrong but that you are forever damned, and in some cases, shunned by your friends and family.

I've listened to David Barton (The "Historian", and yes, the scare quotes should indicate to you that he's not an actual historian.) make the claim that the Bible lays out specific prescriptions on tax policy, and that if you vote for a party that raises taxes, you are not on the right side with God.

These are not the same caliber of argument, and i am extremely frustrated to hear them equated.
"They use VigLink to add affiliate tags to the external links of the sites that use them."

This is actually an optional service (Outbound Links) that can be turned on or off (opt-in by default). No affiliate links are added without turning the feature on.
In the keynote they mentioned photos being kept updated on a Windows machine as well. iCloud subtracts zero functionality from any device (though it does change MobileMe, that doesn't seem to be your issue). Once a document is on your machine, you can turn off iCloud and that document will persist on your computer/iPhone/whatever unmolested just like it did pre-iCloud.

What about iCloud (which you can turn off if you want) that upsets you so?
This is why I love HN!
Getting solar this summer (live in MA which has very nice tax deals) and one of the interesting things I noticed in the process was how much of the cost is the install. Saw one company that is making the install process significantly cheaper which results in a better win overall than if the cost of the cells were dropped by half. Same goes with the idea of transparent cells. Even if they have a very low rating they can go in every window and get installed for "free" when the new windows are installed making the payback much faster.
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That's part of what can be found on you. Don't do this again.
Recent versions of Outlook put the message to the right of the message list. I'm pretty sure you'll get terrible horizontal scrollbars on a 900px wide message.
I disagree. The usage of features in Word undoubtably follow the power law, so there is undoubtably somebody somewhere who does use any particular feature, but the vast majority of people don't use them.

Pages doesn't have all of the functions and if you can't live without a particular function, it is obviously not a good replacement. However, for the vast majority of users, it has all the functionality that they will ever need and then some, without worrying about getting lost in menus of functionality that they will never care about.
Last time I checked, the AT&T long-lines in the Bay Area are guarded by the US military.

My point is that we need the people Anonymous is declaring as their enemy, and waging "cyber-war" against them isn't going to do anything to prevent situations like the HB Gary/Chamber of Commerce fiasco.

You can't champion Anonymous for the same tactics you condemn HB Gary for...
Math library functions that seem unnecessary
I assume you saw the same thread I just did. Or maybe it was a different thread regarding another comment about search. I didn't read it as negative (although it very well could easily be interpreted that way). I guess interpretation is in the eye of the beholder. I personally try not to read or react too much to stuff written online. You can't hear the expression behind the words sometimes and things can easily get misinterpreted. That isn't to say HN doesn't have its fair share of negativity.

In regards to the thread I just saw, I looked at it as a valid question in reply to the response comment above it. I didn't see it as a negative reaction. In all honesty, it was a valid comment (disclaimer: I've never used either of the services the debate was regarding so I can't tell whether or not search was lacking and this isn't a reply about that). Regardless of what the product is or whether or not we're talking about the same thread, if someone suggests something, and someone else feels there is an inefficiency (perhaps base on how they use it), those comments may not be valid for some readers but they are valid for others.

For example, I use Yelp more times than I can count. I think its a good service and solves a need on some level. But even I have to admit the search function on Yelp is beyond stupid. There are times when I've done a search for something like Chinese Restaurant and will gets result for things like an American Yogurt Shop or a Grocery Store. If someone else is trying to build say a Yelp competitor and posts a thread on here about it, and another person comments about Yelp being a competitor and links to them, I don't think its invalid that I bring my frustration about Yelp's search problem. Both can be helpful in their own way. It's just a matter of how you choose to perceive the comments.

Or in the case of your specific example, perhaps it was worded rudely but you can try to perceive it as a way of giving feedback. I personally try not to take offense on small things like that. It's not really good for your health.
Do you expect that any non-Apple device will be able to use iCloud?

Given that Apple is supporting Windows for Photo Stream and iTunes Match at least, I would say the answer is closer to yes than you are intimating here.
When you resort to callous language you demonstrate a lack of creativity.

There's an energy drink company up here in Canada with some rather terrible ads but one thing I do like is their tagline:
"No Caffeine. No Caffeine Crash. No Bull"

That works on two levels. 1) Obviously they're hitting on what you're hitting (No BS) and 2) A dig at the leading energy drink Red Bull.

I think a better idea for you would be to aim for a positive message (not a negative).

- They Compete. You Win. Right On! (cute)
- Better. Cheaper. Win-Win! (more accurate)
- They Compete. You Decide. (play on Fox News and puts power in consumer's hand which is what they want)

Or what if your third part of the tagline rotated so that each time the screen refreshed it changed to another awesome final point? That would grab attention.