skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think long term traffic is a major focus for them all - the products become released, they probably have great success sending people straight from reviews to vendors through advertisements - if they can secure good positions in search engines. Content farms like Engadget (Ars are much higher quality) try pretty hard to corner Google rankings for products, manufacturers and everything else.

Here's an Engadget review of the same product:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/08/samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1-r...

- 18 internal links to their own garbage articles and tag pages which only exist for search engines

- 20 tags that cover everything they could think of that you might put into Google: android 3.1, android tablet, Android3.1, AndroidTablet, galaxy tab, Galaxy Tab 10.1, GalaxyTab, GalaxyTab10.1, google, honeycomb, review, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, SamsungGalaxyTab10.1, slate, tab, tablet, tablet pc, TabletPc, video

- no external links that might accidentally boost someone else's SERPs
If that's what they give you, that's what you review. If x is missing, you say the product lacks x.

While that would be satisfying for the writer, the reader wants to know what it will be like to own one. They may buy one several months from now, and keep using it for years. The author is saying they can't evaluate the dominant experience of actual users.
It's not entirely clear to me that the old recession ever ended.
I got a Galaxy Tab (the old one) over the weekend, overall I find the experience pretty disappointing:

- I never knew how much I loved hating iTunes, until suddenly everything had to be done manually

- it really sucks to buy a game, fire it up and discover it's a shitty mobile version stretched to fit your screen. I'm especially disappointed in PopCap for doing that w/ PvZ!
I'm still miffed at the chrome team for killing the rendering of local XML files.
Getting total karma count isn't difficult. People whose been around long enough will eventually accummulate the number needed if they interact in any way at all
"This is a classic problem that eventually faces most successful computer platforms"

Most technology companies of any kind actually.
eFAX !?!?? eFAX is evil when you try to close your service - you have to go through their horrid 'chat' system and even then I had to cancel my credit card to get them to stop charging.

And no... it's not just me: http://daviddahl.blogspot.com/2006/05/efax-sucks.html
Has JOGL in Java web applets always had these same vulnerabilities? Is JebGL (http://code.google.com/p/jebgl/) also vulnerable to the same points?

Should Microsoft stop supporting Java applets for the same reason?
It's the same thing as Safari, IE, and Chrome using the GPU to composite pages: Silverlight is hardware accelerated, but does not expose the hardware acceleration primitives. GL or Direct3D expose more-or-less direct hardware access, which is very different.
One of the best methods in meeting a person of importance was show on the Crime and Investigation Network cable channel by a prolific con artist. Not only did that guy meet with almost anyone, he became friends and was invited to parties, dinners, etc.
Note he didn't actually answer the question.
"As a consumer, why is that a good thing to you?"

They can charge a high margin because of a lack of suitable replacements. That there is a lack of suitable replacements means the product (which consumers evidently highly value) very well might not exist if not for that company making it. Companies that make high quality products being rewarded with profit is something that encourages other companies to make high quality products.

"Shouldn't this make you less trusting of Apple and their intentions instead?"

No. My default assumption is that the intentions of every for profit company is to maximize their profits. Maximum profit determines the price a product will sell at and a company that sells at a price that minimizes profit will quickly find itself in bankruptcy court.

Due to shifting exchange rates it might cost Apple 5 bucks more or less to make the exact same ipad next month and their profits will increase or decrease accordingly but that doesn't have any impact on the buyer who gets the exact same ipad.
I think price is going to be key in the long term. Right now there's not that much difference in price between an iPhone and a comparable Android phone, but at the rate the hardware is improving, it will soon be possible to sell very capable phones at a very low price point. Apple is going to have a very hard time competing at that end of the market and, as usual, I expect the low end will eventually come to drive the high end.
BlueStacks plan to enable running Android Apps on Windows machines
"ship ship ship" is hard when it comes to hardware.

As for the software side of things, I'd say "QA", but I find the dev/release cycles at these major phone/tablet manufacturers to be unbelievably slow. As in, I really don't understand what they're doing a lot of the time. 5 volunteers working on CM can fix and implement features in the time it takes Motorola's team to do a `git merge` on Android and push it out to their phones (yes, even non-Blur phones).
Interesting, I seem to remember a paper a decade or so ago (can't find it right now), where Apple concluded that forcing mouse use is designed to slow the user down. To give them more time for thought.
I get ads in the audio stream on my phone.
For a web-based company, I would add Amazon Web Services(AWS) at the top of the list.

AWS is relatively expensive but if you are a startup with a limited amount of capital and need to scale quickly, it allows you to utilize a corporate grade web/computing/server/database infrastructure without having to build one yourself.
Android is winning just because of the free license. If Samsung, Motorola, and HTC could load iOS on their own hardware, Android would be dead tomorrow.
Ah, Bitcoin: the new incentive to breach computer security. Why risk stealing credit card or bank information when you can steal Bitcoins safely and anonymously?
Latest comparison I've seen of smartphone btty life by Anandtech:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4424/hp-veer-4g-review-getting...

edit: replaced single chart with link to page with 3 charts.

In defense of the OP he may have a 3GS which is not far from Droid X2 on these charts.
It has been sitting on my shelve after two weeks of honestly trying to like it. I will upgrade it to 3.1 and see if it gets better...
It took me a couple months to get decent at it, though I'm still a quarter revolution or so off frequently. Axes came far more naturally to me, where I generally get very close to perfect on my first throw. If distances are marked I'm fine with either, though.
Shaders are the big vulnerability I know of.

Any game developer will tell you: It's pretty easy to accidentally craft a shader that will totally stall particular GPUs, taking down the entire windowing environment, if not the entire system. With malicious intent, shaders are a giant gaping DoS attack waiting to happen.

Beyond that, the shader compiler backends are supplied by third parties because they generate hardware specific opcodes and optimizations. Considering how poor nVidia and ATI's drivers have been historically, do you really trust them to create secure compilers?

In theory, Microsoft could implement a subset of WebGL without shaders, but I'd rather it not exist than be crippled and unusable. There are probably several other potential vulnerabilities I don't have firsthand experience with too.

All that said, I think that Java applets & JOGL already expose this attack vector.
These pop up quite often and personally I find them quite boring.

A lot of it is personal choice, e.g. IRC & campfire being 'laggy', for me Google apps is meh apart from mail/calendar, you better pony up for MS office if you're dealing with a lot of other businesses, themeforest I find extremely hard to find a decent looking, well written html template, most of them are div crazy, extremely heavy CSS/js payloads or use cufon, kerrschpitt.

And assistly looks like a total rip off at $69 p/m per user (to me anyway).

I mean swipe might make an interesting submission in itself, but the homepage is light on details, looks like it's in a closed beta, which probably means US only, no good for me.

Anyway tl;dr is that the tools your business uses are very personal choices of services many of us already know about, I find them dull.

What's more interesting is what's missing, no accounting system, no bug tracking, no server uptime monitor, no analytics, no A/B testing.
Does this honor noprocrast?
When it became clear to Apple that they would need a new OS, they bought NeXT in 1996, and the OS they got that way seems to have worked well for them -- on computers and on phones. Also, Google got its mobile OS by buying Android, Inc, in 2005.
Maybe its the progression of the web as a communication medium vs fads. Initially there was geocities and webpages, then blogs came along.

The next step was Myspace with its Geocities like system, but actual network style functionality. Along with the rise of the social network ecosystem was user-gen content websites and comments. Comments on blogs and discussion forums mixed with shared links pushed through 4chan, forums, and then Digg.

Along with these useful mediums was also the fad like rush. If its cool then you have to use it. Myspace was to ugly though and Facebook brought along format, and styling, like the Apple way.

Facebook has some brilliant underlying concepts - Events and Messaging mediums in an online world. Much better than email and sms.

There are also several layers of society and how they interact. The social to be social groups, and the not so noisy users who like it when they visit a city can see old mates.

Facebook will still be the top web-based social communication medium (besides email for business). When HTML5 comes out and web-gaming increases more, you'll see a bigger explosion of Facebook usage I think.
It's a flaw in the system. A system built around a reactor with known risks if electrical supplies are interrupted.

This is a region of a country where tectonic activity is significant enough that seaside villages are cutoff from the sea by 15 foot reinforced walls.

A reactor with the failure characteristics of the Fukushima reactors sound like the wrong tool for the job to me.
Most people buy into Android phones because iPhone is only available on 2 carriers. If iPhone was available on all carriers, Android phone sales would be much, much less.

The iPhone is available on all carriers in my country (Australia) and Android is outselling it.

This is due to a number of factors, but two factors appear to be critical:

1) Lower Priced Android handsets undercut Apple at the low end.

2) The iPhone 4 is now regarded as an old handset at the high end. Sales of high-end Android handsets appear to be competitive with iPhone sales on their own, at the same price point (ie, even without the low-end advantage Android might be outselling the iPhone at the high end. This is difficult to judge, because of the mid-range Android phones, and price discounting on older high-end Android phones. For example, the Samsung Galaxy S (not S2) is now available at around half the price of an iPhone 4, but a year ago was directly comparable)
There were both. The HN (and "MIT") response was particularly disturbing to me. You couldn't question the official reports of "everything is fine and under control" around here without getting completely slammed, belittled, berated, downvoted, etc.

And yet now we know that the total radiation release was probably as much or more than Chernobyl.

What I said at the very beginning of this disaster.. If there's one thing everyone should know by now about nuclear reactor emergencies - it's that the authorities never tell the truth in the beginning, through ignorance or otherwise. We have an admittedly small sample of such accidents, but I'm sticking with it.
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Yeah it does, until you realize that most of our infrastructure is self-hosting. What I mean by this is that we use certain tools such as lathes, to make better lathes, which in turn produce better lathes.

Barely anyone knows how to make a lathe from scratch. A lathe might not be a particularly good example but if you look at society as a whole you can see that a lot of our infrastructure depends on existing infrastructure to make improvements, and that we don't have documents to show how to go from subsistence farming to modern civilization as a bunch of things that we used to need can no longer be made.

IIRC, there is an 'open source' project to create this so that countries can bootstrap themselves out of their developmental quandaries. The idea is that you can build modern society from a few simple machines you can make by hand.

Self-hosting is the nature of the universe, it's only via consumerism that we find this processing unnatural.
You can definitely run F# on Mono. Since F* seems to be an extension of F#, it might work on Mono too, but I don't know that for sure.

A lot of what comes out of MS Research ends up in their mainstream Visual Studio supported languages, so I would not be surprised to see at least some of F* get rolled into F# vNext, and maybe eventually C# too.
For software that the developer can update instantly (an OS update doesn't count), then yes, this is a great methodology to live by. Hardware is a completely different beast, and costs significantly more for the purchaser and should be tested to extreme levels before launching.
Ask HN: Transfer of knowledge industry standard
I'm curious to what the industry standard is for having knowledge and expertise in a specific area of technology that a company has interest in doing, in terms of price and structuring a type of deal.

For example, let's say you specialize in search semantic parsing and a particular startup wants to enter in to an area that could benefit from this. They reach out to you and want to talk about risks, costs, issues, and scope of said project. Since there's no actual work being done other than transfer of knowledge, how can you benefit from offering yourself up to help them answer those questions?
We need to look at the type of social groups interacting and using it though. Most people on HN I think would use Facebook less, so we can't be the demographic to base it on. The News Stream is really a gossip magazine just for people you know.

But it's the social party goers that use it. I have a few in my stream, like little sisters. It's used heaps if you're a party goer. Photos, events, global shout outs. It looks like less people use it because you cull a lot of the noisy users.
read the manpages. Seriously. That, and do stuff that requires you to use the linux terminal.

For example, instead of clicking and using the GUI to extract tar files, try using `wget` and `tar`. then when you are more comfortable, try to do this in a pipeline.
>it has one motive: to locate your Bitcoin wallet.dat file and email it to the attacker.

Craziness. They could just send the coins to a Bitcoin address, and it wouldn't identify them at all.
If you want to be famous it helps to be crazy.
The browsers aren't going to be disallowing CDNs any time soon.
The piece is definitely tainted by the author's personal experience but the closing message is uplifting and empowering,

"Finally, I will say that learning to create software changes you and makes you different. Not better or worse, just different. You may find that people treat you harshly because you can create software, maybe using words like "nerd". Maybe you will find that because you can dissect their logic that they hate arguing with you. You may even find that simply knowing how a computer works makes you annoying and weird to them.

To this I have one just piece of advice: they can go to hell. The world needs more weird people who know how things work and who love to figure it all out. When they treat you like this, just remember that this is your journey, not theirs. Being different is not a crime, and people who tell you it is are just jealous that you have picked up a skill they never in their wildest dreams could acquire.

You can code. They cannot. That is pretty damn cool."
python -m SimpleHTTPServer cannot be configured from the command line. You'll need to write an additional py script to do anything useful. It's also missing a bunch of features you are going to want, like AutoIndex.

It also cannot serve 6,000 requests per second out of the box.
Scathing review of Scvngr by burned customer
Sleek & Elegant: http://css3.me/
Tablets seem to be the perfect kitchen table computing device for when you just want to look up something really quick, but don't want to walk down the hall to the office and wake up the computer from sleep.

Some use cases:

- Recipes using Epicurious - who wants a full blown computer in the kitchen?
- Browsing instantwatcher.com and adding movies to your Netflix queue from the sofa.
- Reading your newsfeeds while you eat breakfast.
- Any browsing related task where you don't want to leave the room (checking weather forecast, google searches, booking an airline ticket, reading email).

Really, the wife and I have had an iPad for 1+ years and we still get a few good hours a day of use out of it. I've had a Sharp Zaurus and other devices before and they all ended up in a closet or drawer after a few weeks. The tablet PC is very useful because it does fill that niche in between wanting to go to the office and get on the desktop tower or trying to look something up on your smartphone.
I think the simplest answer is that the creation of new programming languages is intrinsically thrilling to someone who is fascinated by computation. A friend once asked "Yeah, but how does a computer know that 5 + 2 is 7?" and to answer the question we built a 4 bit adder out of basic logic gates. We built it because it was exciting to do so.
Sending bitcoins is a more involved process than simply copying the wallet.dat file, though. If the author is smart, the email cannot be tied to him anyways.
Being anti-nuclear is not being anti scientific progress. And a scientific approach to this issue would have been to wait and judge the data, rather than claim that a melt down was impossible at the outset.
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I need money to survive. Just by doing research on my own I won't get paid. Doing Phd helps because most of the time one gets to work on interesting stuff and get paid by grants. Work at a good place like IBM ( and any other company which provides research based work ) would help me achieve both ( money and good work ). I can try and do routine software work for some company and carry out interesting projects in free time but it will have some limitations. At this stage of my life I cannot sit and do just research. I need someone to pay me for my living.
Seems non-trivial to test. First, its in a bash install script - i wouldn't know where to start. Second, if you tested the behavior, you might just test that it "deletes /urs/lib/nvidia-current/xorg/xorg" by running the install script and checking that the folder is gone. Guess what, the folder is gone...test passes.
Bit.Trip Will be Completed on Wii this summer
I got a big news about the Bit.Trip. It is said that Bit.Trip will be completed on Wii this summer! It means that I can play the game with my friends and families. That will be a nice time!
Isn't this the same guy who complains about not being able to find work and how pissed off he is that Google only offers him "junior system administrator" jobs?[1]

Not sure I'd want to get my career advice from him.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2008/01/01/zed-shaw-puts-the-smack-dow...
I've heard that claim made in a number of forums.
Stealing your wallet.dat is easier. With a copy of your private keys they can spend your coins from anywhere, without having to get remote access to your PC and send them locally.
Microsoft: no way to support WebGL and meet our security needs
False--price is largely dictated by what new users (who can't afford to buy a new device) are willing to pay, not what the seller (who used the device) wants.
There were 2 computer architecture books by hennessy and patterson. Though they focused on mips, its a very theoretical discussion.

If you want something a bit more practical, Understanding the Linux Kernel tries to be a bit more x86 specific.
ARM server startup tries jumpstarting datacenter software ecosystem
So is http-server supposed to be zero-configuration or configure-from-command-line server?
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> People who can code in the world of technology companies are a dime a dozen and get no respect. People who can code in biology, medicine, government, sociology, physics, history, and mathematics are respected and can do amazing things to advance those disciplines.

So true. I'm a aeronautical engineer and notice things everyday that could be revamped through coding. The problem is the vast majority of aeronautical/mechanical engineers aren't comfortable with code, and if anything broke or any improvements were needed after I left, no one could do anything with it. So we're back to our "database" of 200+ Excel files and nested folders for CAD "version control."
See also "Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All", by the same author.

http://zedshaw.com/essays/programmer_stats.html
Both.

It ships with sane defaults so you can type "http-server", but it also may optionally be configured with things like a path, a port, a host, etc.
It's an indicator that a developer can sell premium programs. If they can make good profit the ecosystem could follow.
I had a friend who actually knew proper sword technique, and he was not impressed by my machete with saw teeth on the other edge. With a single-edged sword you can use your forearm to support it when blocking, but with a double edged sword, not only can you not do that, but trying to block with the sword itself allows your opponent to overpower you and press your own sword against you.
Your question about how this helps the consumer is well taken, but Apple is NOT charging consumers more. Apple makes most of the profit because the carriers pay a far higher subsidy to Apple than any other phone.
I've yet to be won over to the fast-iteration model of software (or product) development, mostly because I think that presenting an unfinished, or unpolished, product to a customer is usually a bad idea. Even if you get it right later, the customer is still going to be left with a poor first impression.

Apple, despite their faults, is a great example of this: the majority of their products are carefully polished and finished, with a lot of attention to detail.

Obviously a company doesn't want to sit on a new product for too long, trying to perfect it before releasing it, and obviously a company should continue to improve its products and services continuously, preferably at a nice, steady rate. But, I'm steadfastly opposed to shipping unfinished products. I think it's bad advice every time I hear it or read it, and I think the negative parts of this review are a good example of why.
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