skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Just an odd concern for an end user, IMO."

About as odd as end users concerned about which OS has a more true multi-tasking implementation. Those who mention the profitability of iOS devices as a plus are probably about as numerous as those who mention multi-tasking.

"Everyone makes money on new device sales."

I think you misunderstood. I never said Android manufacturers aren't making money, I said they aren't making enough to support the device as long as people would like:

"Because they don't make enough on them to continue supporting them."
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There's no way Chrome will do this until Google can find a different way to insert AdSense ads on third-party sites. Currently, third-party scripts are the best way to achieve this. iframes are inelegant, and telling webmasters to update the script every once in a while just isn't going to work.

But I do hope that something like this becomes one of the standard add-ons that we can install. I'll have to go check if NoScript has a similar option...
As a consumer, why is that a good thing to you? This means that you know Apple is charging you substantially more than it cost them to make their product. Shouldn't this make you less trusting of Apple and their intentions instead?
I have to say, F# and now F* are about the only languages that could tempt me to give Mono a try.
Careers.stackoverflow is a good option, but the HN one keeps it within the HN community, which may not be as large, but is more close knit (at least from my experience). In addition, a HN Resumes would, in my mind, be a much simpler and straight-forward interface.
hah, well shit way to spoil the end of the book for me!
On the other hand...

We currently have no way of knowing how Samsung's software customizations will impact the Tab 10.1's performance, reliability, or battery life when TouchWiz eventually gets rolled out to consumers.

...don't ignore the possibility that things might get worse when the manufacturer's "enhancements" and "features" are added, and readers who go by a review of the product in its current state might be disappointed with the product they get next month.
I just picked up node recently and found this genuinely useful - for me at least, it doesn't matter if it's ranked in exactly accurate order or not.

In fact, I really wish I knew of more lists like this. Every time I start learning a new programming language, there's a period where I go shopping for useful sites and tutorials, usually resulting in a lot of wasted time with bad tutorials and unhelpful sites. If I knew of a one-stop ranking system like this, I would make use of it.
> don't be a programmer, be a domain expert who happens to write good code.

A million times, yes. I work in RF design, which feels like an extremely stodgy part of electrical engineering. People think Excel spreadsheets are the bee's knees, even when changing one potential part in your circuit means re-entering its parameters by hand. Don't even ask them to sweep across different frequency points (which affects part performance).

I get a lot more benefit out of writing some short programs in python that allow me to quickly iterate through possible designs, and across a serious breadth of options, than these "Excel engineers" do out of their worksheets. It's frustrating to watch so many people ignore so much potential to improve their work and output.
Then something is wrong with your iPhone. Many news sources[1] say the Droid X2 lasts literally hours (5 in this test), due to the multi-core processor.

1. http://www.laptopmag.com/review/cell-phones/motorola-droid-x...
You link to Nokia's opening brief? Why not link to Apple's? Because it will give a different story.
Nope - 80% is correct.

20 GB + 25% = 25 GB

20 GB / 25 GB = 80% used.
go to Hong Kong. You have the rest of your life to get a job. If you don't do this now, you most likely won't have another chance.
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Point of order: Shorting is a bit more complicated than just a "anti-buy". If you short a stock, and it goes up, then you owe your broker money. This is called a "margin call", and if you will recall, it was what bankrupted the Duke brothers in Trading Places.

If you shorted a stock at $50, covered your margins up to $100, and waited another three years to close out your position at $35, either you have testicular elephantiasis, or a goddamn crystal ball.
From "How to Disagree"'s definition of Ad Hominem:

For example, if a senator wrote an article saying senators' salaries should be increased, one could respond:

Of course he would say that. He's a senator.

This wouldn't refute the author's argument, but it may at least be relevant to the case. It's still a very weak form of disagreement, though. If there's something wrong with the senator's argument, you should say what it is; and if there isn't, what difference does it make that he's a senator?

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
That will only tell you if somebody has hacked your Gmail account. The OP is for checking if somebody may have hacked one of your other accounts (e.g. Sony) where you used your e-mail address.
Look at Paul's example that I posted above
IANAL: But, I bet Zynga ends up trying to buy them when the lawsuit settles. The huge IP threat certainly devalues the company. And regardless of their copycatting they have a big presence in a massive market that Zynga doesn't have.
I agree with you.

However, I think you're using "isomorphic up to X" incorrectly. Perhaps I don't know what you mean by "semantics", though.
I think it was pretty obvious that the iPhone was going to
be a huge success.

There's more 20/20 hindsight in this thread than a rear-view mirror convention. Could you please furnish the public statement you made four years ago where you asserted the doom of all the market leaders, or failing that, brokerage documents showing your massive investment in Apple Inc in 2007?
Do people actually care about where the product is manufactured? I don't, as long as they're not using slave labor etc; I actually think outsourcing improves the standard of living around the world and provides me a better product at a lower price.
There is always capacity to choose not to act on a reactive impulse. The notion that that capacity is a finite resource which can be depleted is an illusion.
I've only ever shared it online by giving out links (usually clickable), so it hasn't been an issue so far. I'd love to have the 'e', but that site was already taken. On the plus side, it's a shorter URL.
What advantage do these group chat apps have over something like Skype?
Actually we don't know that, since most of the reactor building in inaccessible. Also, the latest info from Tepco says that they lost coolant before the tsunami struck, which suggest major earthquake damage. However, if the tsunami hadn't been this severe and they had kept power, perhaps they could have brought the situation under control.
Correct. It took numerous years (although did substantially outperform the market).
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Android is not winning because of the ecosystem. The real reasons Android is "winning":

(1) it came close to parity with the iphone quickly.

(2) the flexible licensing model allowed Android to leverage supply perfectly and compete at every price point from $700+ superphones down to sub $100 budget phones and everything in between all the time with new releases every week on any carrier in the world. If you can only build X million iphones in quarter x and the smartphone market is 100 million phones that quarter you can only get X% at best. It looks like X was around 15-20%.

Now for the 80%+ of the market Apple couldn't even hope to address:

WebOS beat Android by a couple months at (1) but failed miserably at (2). By launching a CDMA phone on Sprint only you're fighting over a tiny slice of a tiny slice of the pie (low single digit percent of the entire world).

Microsoft took 18 months too long to deliver (1) but brings most of (2) (supposedly they are targeting high end only but Android currently out high ends them). Many have written them off I'm not one of them.

RIM had arguably the best brand pre-Aple but they are only now (and only on tablets) starting to deliver on (1) and were just as limited as Apple on (2).

Nokia had all the supply they could want but categorically failed at putting out an iOS/WebOS/Android/WP7 quality product.

So looking again at those hypothetical 100 million devices, 15%+ Apple, 15%+ RIM, Less then 10% total WebOS/WP7/old Windows Mobile/other and the other ~60% started with Nokia and month by month was slowly eaten by Android (prolly 40-20 Android by now)
My guess is that I've been coding for longer than Zed, and I don't remember _ever_ thinking it was boring, and a lot of the stuff he says might be true for Zed, it sure as hell isn't true for the rest of us:

"Programming as a profession is only moderately interesting. It can be a good job, but if you want to make about the same money and be happier, you could actually just go run a fast food joint."

If this is actually true for you, and you can actually code, you really need to be making brighter career moves.

"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."

Well, maybe. But this sounds like random riffing from someone who hasn't held a senior, stable position in an actual tech company nor worked as a programmer in any of the long list of disciplines. I've met plenty of people who were the duty programmer in a non-CS area who were treated like shit.

But what would I know? At around the time I was messing around with software pipelined SIMD string and pattern matchers, Zed was pursuing the real business of a Working Programmer, which is to say, writing rants and offering to rent a boxing ring to fight people who made physical threats to him (which, I admit, is kinda cool).
Something is off here. This cannot be the entire story.

The guy is from UK and linking to some content in the US, additionally he says:

the server was not based in the US

How could he possibly be extradited to the US? I mean, I can see how US might want that, but I just cannot see how UK would go along with it.

Are there relevant details missing in the story? Could it happen because the content he linked to is copyrighted in the US? Anyone with insight know what is going on here?
I actually ran that piece of code. Sure was glad it was only on a test partition. I did lose some trust in the developers after this, but I tried bumblebee again later and am happy I did because it works great!

I forgive them.
Because that sort of linguistic inflation is going to leave you at a loss for words when you encounter something that's ACTUALLY epic.
A guess: some major browser's search bar started to parse "facebook.com" as a domain rather than a search term?
Why is this getting downvoted?

It's a huge, common issue. For example, Yahoo's AJAX libraries serve via HTTP, and it doesn't work over HTTPS. See, for example https://yui.yahooapis.com/combo?2.9.0/build/yahoo-dom-event/...
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If you think Alan Kay had any vision and market sense whatsoever, you might have guessed they'd do well (this was the day before the iPad was to be released):

http://gigaom.com/2010/01/26/alan-kay-with-the-tablet-apple-...
Hey I'm not putting down FOSS -- the only way I myself learned that there is a better world out there is through FOSS. My comment was more general (i.e. if you are a programmer, it will do good to you to be around other programmers at least for some time; if you are an artist, it will do good to you to be around other artists for a while, etc.).
I've always assumed secrecy is from companies who do not want coverage yet. Techcrunch etc. get their panties in a bunch over new companies and stay "relevant" by covering them, so when a new company appears and it's poised to get attention in the future tech sites want to report on it NOW, except for a company it's crucial you get reported on at the right time, you get the traffic when your product is ready for the "general public". We all know they browse sites like HN and reddit looking for stories, they're not going to sit on their hands when they see a potential story.

Tl:dr; my assumption is to avoid tech sites reporting on them until they choose to be reported on.
"The first surreal sensations I had were that I was moving around in the tank, floating right to left, left to right, until I realised I was completely stationary"

When I did it the tank operator told me this happens because there are certain chemicals being released from your adrenal system, and that the direction you feel like you're spinning corresponds to the chemical being released. Not sure if that particular claim is true or not, but apparently there is a reasonably large body of academic research into the physiological effects/benefits of floating.

Also, Joe Rogan's video on the tank is a must watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeqmKwsvM58
i dont want to have to go through sync process when i connect iPhone ( i dont want to find out how to stop sync)

Just thought I'd mention that iOS 5 has fixed this. iTunes sync no longer locks the phone. Also, iCloud and OTA updates mean you'll probably never have to connect to iTunes again if you don't want to.
Ask HN: Favorite fonts/layouts for customer communications?
My company uses the traditional Times New Roman + Word combo when preparing communication docs that we use with our clients. I'm sure there are better fonts or tools that can be used to create more modern looking docs. Share your favorites.
Gruber keeps spazzing about the slant given to "incomplete" products and he does have a point.
Am I alone in questioning this?

I'm all for serving anything requiring logins over HTTPS, and can accept the argument for anything requiring cookies.

But what about the performance improvements available by using shared, cached CDN resources? That doesn't really work over HTTPS, and the performance impact of missing out on that is substantial.

There are other cases too: I think it often makes sense to serve static content (eg images) via HTTP while having the HTML on HTTPS. Why should the browser block (or even alert) about this?
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Except paper bags are far worse for the environment than plastic. The use more water, more energy to make, more energy to transport, more energy to trash, and more energy (and water) to recycle. They also can not be reused.

They have only one advantage: No litter.
Possibly true. However, given a surplus of people wishing to immigrate to the US, we should selfishly take all the immediate operating-profit applicants first before admitting any that require us to borrow money (feel-good or whole-world-utilitarian exceptions like asylum aside; credit them whatever value you think they're worth).
How eloquent.
I see lots of evidence of global warming: Arctic sea ice melt, permafrost melt, growing season lengthening, earlier bird migration, bird overwintering, animal range changes, etc. etc. etc. What evidence do you see that it isn't happening?
This would be a lot funnier if there was anything preventing me from doing exactly the same thing... ouch.
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Stick to criticizing the paper.

Then you can write a blog rant about how painful it is to refer to "the second-order (polymorphic) lambda-calculus with bounded quantification" as F-sub or F<sub><=</sub>
I run a large site that was unexpectedly affected by Google's "Panda" update. There has been a lot of talk on the subject, but most of it is FUD, and I haven't seen many large sites lay everything out for discussion. This is the first post (of many planned ones) about our experience with Google's "Panda" update.

Hopefully it will generate some good discussion from those facing a similar situation, and help some other people out.
I do know Banshee is written in C# and runs pretty well on Mono, but that was an application specifically intended for that application.
However, for lots of people the Google search box IS the address bar - this is true in both IE and Chrome.
I'm just going to start linking to Shoshin every time I see a weary, old coder blogger post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin
Http-server, a simple zero-configuration command line http server
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would you post a link to such job postings?

one reason some may not want to post would be bc they are startups and they dont want others to copy their business. i am in such a business and it would hurt me greatly if others started doing what i do and lose my "monopoly". In addition, it would increase the chances of a decrease in valuation should someone wish to acquire the company.
Everything listed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs
Lovely end to a book. To say other forms of art are not interactive however is a little short sighted.
Thank you for the offer, but no.

Government should stay away from innovations. It's not where government is efficient at.
I didn't assert anyone's doom. At the time I assumed that everybody interested in the smartphone business, not just Apple, was heading in the same obvious direction.

Jobs' boast about being three years ahead of everyone else sounded like empty hype, and Ballmer's public assertion that the iPhone would never gain significant market share sounded like strategic misdirection.

I'm not going to post any trade confirmations, but I did buy some AAPL in response to the iPhone announcement, thinking it was a good way for the company to leverage its existing strengths in UX design. Should've bought more, but hey, it was AAPL, and the conventional wisdom at the time went something like, "What kind of moron would put a lot of money into AAPL?"

I don't lay claim to any magical insight, and that's the whole point of my post.
If you have iPhone headphones (with the mic), you can use those and get the mic and output. I suspect you could wire up a plug that would give you both too (it's a T/R/R/S plug).
It sounds distorted. Pandora is a huge brand name and is already in places you aren't aware of -- in part because you're probably not its target market.
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Hahaha. That's your argument?

Yes, my snarky friend, that's my argument. Given your years of experience running startups from conception to IPO/buyout, I'm sure you can understand.

BTW I don't scoff at all at lifestyle businesses, if you're lucky enough to pull one off. But they're a different beast, and expertise in one area does not automatically translate to expertise in another.
> ...then maybe they shouldn't release the product until it's fully functional.

But ... but ... but what about all the advice we keep hearing about MVPs and "ship ship ship" and "iterate" and...?
http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html

Some good information.

I think I envision my path as moving to contracting, then consulting, and creating a consulting company, while this funds my product company. pg suggests this is difficult though. However once the consulting side hits of, I could hire a reputable manager for x amount of profit share, while I receive enough to invest in my product based company.

How naive am I about all of this?
Actually they've been previously profitable but keep putting money into expanding the business.
Mine was plugging in the power connector backwards on a super important ide drive (it was the only backup for an already failed server) and watching smoke issue from its controller board.

Having to explain what I'd done to the boss was so scary, I slunk home with the drive and traced the power circuit with my oscilloscope until I found a capacitor that had blown short. I soldered on a through-hole replacement and it worked!

I pulled the data and felt like king of the whole frikkin world for the next week or so.
In an actual interview situation, I'd be likely to just choke, because it's a question I can't get a good handle on. I hope you prod & probe when asking that question.
The best way to track "perceived consumer value 1 year later" might be to just look at ebay prices on 1 year old stuff.
I think these 'what products and services does your startup use' type articles are more interesting than the usesthis series about what tools developers use.

Somebody should setup a blog where they interview a startup founder each week and just ask them to list services they use along with a mini single-paragraph review of each.

Edit: after thinking about it, I might just do this as a weekend project. A quick search and I couldn't find anything similar, the closest I remember is the Ajaxian blog startup interviews which they stopped doing. If you would like your startup featured email me, ill be reaching out to a few people so if there is interest I will likely get it going
I think you hit the nail on the head with email. So much is about perception and not technology. When people think about Blackberry they think about email and business. That's it. They don't imagine awesome fun games or music players or videos or cameras even though the blackberry (in theory) has all those.

Nokia has a similar problem, I think. When people imagine Nokia they imagine a 1990s era dumb phone, or at best a crippled feature phone. It doesn't matter what else Nokia does, they are defined that way in the consumer mind.

When people think of Android they think of Google, super smart things like mapping, searching, voice recognition, translation, calendaring, etc. They feel like they are on the edge, living in the future.

And when they think of the iPhone they think of the slick, super smooth experience, the games and multimedia features, apps.

It doesn't really matter what any of these companies do, they'll continue to be defined this way and only Android & iPhone have a truly positive image in this new world. WP7 is hard to define and I'm divided on whether Nokia is good or bad because when Nokia becomes an influence on the brand it may well act like a boat anchor rather than the winch MS obviously wants it to be.
Bottom line (according to TFA):

The Tab 10.1 is a much more credible product than the Xoom, but it's not quite competitive with the iPad. If Google wants to compete, it still needs to build a vibrant third-party application ecosystem in order to make Android tablets a good option for regular users.
The potential problems resulting from loss of electrical power were and are well understood. What happened in Fukushima wasn't a flaw in the reactor design - it was a flaw in the design of the power station.
Not useful in your case, but I've made a habit of using rmdir when removing directories that I think might be mounted.
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Hm, I'm curious... what do people want to see Google do in order to convince them? People are developing for Android in droves on mobile phones because they finally (and I do mean finally, the writing on the walls was clear before any major Android app explosion)... do they not assume that a similar effect will happen for Android tablets?