skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A neutral title seemed the way to go. :-)

On the one hand, the process was pretty irritating. On the other hand most of the issues are ones I'd probably catch if I were to repeat the experience (which is why I thought it worth writing about), and the end result was pretty acceptable. All in all a fairly neutral experience.
Apple has now integrated Twitter as deeply into iOS as they ever did with any of Google's services. I think Apple's ethos with using Google was simply to use the best thing available for search and maps. That was Google.

Google's entry into OSs makes sense from Joel Spolsky's 'commodotize your complements' perspective. For Google, anything that sits between users and search ads is a complement. That includes OSs, mobile and desktop, hardware, social networks, etc. Google will try to commoditize everything by getting a finger into the most commoditizable and most complementary things.

It also makes sense from a 'moat' perspective. If Google sat back and watched Apple take over the mobile industry (which doesn't seem farfetched), it would be at the mercy of Apple for the increasing amount of mobile traffic. Bad place to be.

Google's search results are in a marked decline. The advertising business is going like gangbusters, but Google is getting less and less useful as a search platform.

I have not found this to be the case. I occasionally try to use other search engines, but invariably find them lacking.
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Sorry, I was unclear. By "younger" I mean "born later". This has to happen in the long term, unless human life expectancy increases at a rate of more than one year per year.
example.com is too long. That's why everyone uses foo@bar.com or something shorter.
There were no multi-touch devices before the iPhone was introduced. Nobody has provided a single piece of evidence of someone else showing the same technology. I never said there were no touch devices, and there were, in fact, "multi-touch" devices where your touch closed two switches. This is not the same.

The real problem is, either you're so ignorant of the technology in question that you don't realize your claim is false... or that your ideology leads you to not care.

BTW, if you want to make a claim like that, you could at least provide a citation of the actual name of the product so I can research it. But I don't think you care... you jut want to assert I'm wrong ,and act like you've proven me wrong, when the reverse is true.

Its sad that Hacker News has such a contingent of anti-intellectual, anti-technology, anti-innovation people that you can post these kinds of lies and not feel any shame.

Well, I guess that's not quite true. You felt enough shame to omit the name of the product you're "citing".
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Experiment proofs a moving mirror can generate light from a vacuum.
Doubts cast on faster-than-light neutrinos experiment
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The irony, of course, is that the person in this thread whose defending the iPhone is best on all sides by ignorant fanboys engaging in down votes... they've even managed to bury unrelated threads that I commented on, simply because I commented on them!

Hacker News is a rabidly anti-iPhone, anti-Apple, and anti-innovation, and anti-technology site. Or at least its overrun with ideologues with those characterisitcs.
Although this argument about shortness doesn't make any sense to me, what about foo@b.test which conforms to the standard and is even shorter?
Incubate or incubust? What's the value of an incubator?
Ironically, I just came across some potentially real email addresses in the Mailgun docs and sample code, i.e.:

http://cl.ly/1L1C0O2A081x000t382z

You might want to edit those.
The insanely weird quantum wave function might be "real" after all
Length does not mean lack of focus. Frankly, I think the increasingly common practice of criticizing the person, rather than their point, is to the detriment of Hacker News.
So that just leaves the problem of figuring out what the desired way is.
Thanks for the explanation and for pointing to RFC. I somehow managed to survive to this date without knowing any of this.
This was not done when the Cube had established itself in design history. I believe Simson Garfunkel was doing this as part of an article for NeXTWorld Magazine or some such. It is a very old picture.
Does Facebook have the ability to produce software with the required level of quality necessary to ship in consumer hardware devices?

I've worked with their API's, which are core to their business, and they tend to be inconsistently implemented, changed at will and have high rates of failure.

The existing culture of 'whatever, just ship it' would never produce a phone that is bug free enough to ship.
Figure out what you're most passionate about / good at and find a company that needs more of that.

For me its front end web development. I know alot of it off of the top of my head and/or where to figure out answers if I don't know.

For the backend and more CS oriented stuff (data structures and algorithms and beyond) I still can't do that well myself but I am working on it. I ended up finding a company that could use help on the html, css, javascript side so I found a good home, though.

And lastly don't let failure deter you. Even if one company isn't a good fit it doesn't mean they all won't be
When I read the Mar Rover article this morning, I was thinking it seems like we can apply the same technologies on the surface of Earth to explore Oceans, Antarctica, Arctic areas, Sahara Desert, Gobi Desert, Amazon Jungle, where there were not enough human explorations so far and to collect data and to solve some technology challenges to build machines/computers/communications systems that can roaming on those environments and economically way to sustain those information gathering efforts. (including replacement/dropping off those bots in those difficult areas)

I suddenly understood most our knowledge on those locations are probably based on few high resolution statistical samplings done in human explorations plus low resolution statistical sampling from Satellites Images. It may be good to build those bots to have real time high resolution sampling and let data scientists discover more facts and knowledge!
Honestly, the biggest problem I have with this site right now is that I don't know how you're paying for it - or how you intend to keep doing so. That's pretty much the exact problem with the sites you're monitoring - if I'm not paying for the service, someone else is.

I'd pay for a service like this - hell, I'd _rather_ pay for a service like this.
You should probably set the example by avoid using "@farfaraway.uk" in your blog posts. It's invalid right now, but that could change too... ;-)
You make a good point. The difference is, when you have a disruptive technology to offer. Apple had it with the iPhone (microsoft is able to ride on Apple's coattails due to cross licensing). Thus, going to the platform that was dominated by nokia was viable... and as a result, nokia is in the decline (though maybe windows will save them.)

Google has entered the market with a low quality copy cat product outside their core skill set.
In the last couple of weeks Dyn started forcing people to give them credit card information before being able to use the 10+ year old dyndns.org dynamic IP update service.

Seems like a bait and switch monetization scheme to me. Millions of routers have DynDNS support because it has traditionally been a free service.

It's a bit ironic that they are advocating for freedom on their blog but practicing vendor lock in with their product.
>the dystopia in which I'm forced to share pictures of my newborn son with my family, and talk to friends on the other side of the country that I haven't seen for months

the things impossible without Facebook :)

The main thing that Facebbok does isn't [technically] enabling some specific communications in some specific space, the main thing is that Facebook puts people into that space, bumps them one into another and thus forcing/making/nudging/tempting to perform act of communication that otherwise may not have happened. Facebook makes [helps to unleash] one a social beast.

Vs. the force in dystopias, in the Facebook case we have
dopamine generating activities grounded in the Facebook environment. While they can be replaced by dopamine generating activities in other environments [ i enjoy mine here on HN for example ], why would a social dopamine addicted beast that gets it fix on-schedule bother?
The major problem is that the powers that be have so ingrained themselves into our politics that nothing short of a full on violent revolution will oust them.

Its no secret anymore that our representatives actually represent their own interests, not ours. I would argue that corporate interests are not what they represent. It's their own interests. The lobbies give them money, status and power. If a different suitor came along they would turn on their current lobbyist buddies in a heartbeat if they got a better offer.

So right there, that needs to change. When the electorate is able to provide the representatives with more incentive to represent us than the lobbyists do only then will we get our representatives back. How do we take money out of politics?

First we overturn the Citizens United ruling and end corporate personhood or at least restrict what constitutes free speech for corporations. As long as money is considered speech in politics we'll have trouble.

The problem with this is that money actually can be speech. We vote with our wallet all the time. So how can we stop this without unintended side effects?

Government sponsored campaigns and strict limits on contributions is probably the most common sense and easy way to do this. A system where there is a limit to campaign expenses and the government subsidizes candidates that doesn't have as much money as their opponent up to the limit is a good plan. I know some states are trying to enact policies in that vein. I hope more do and succeed.
Absolutely. The madness of TSA checkpoints which everyone glibly accepts while privately thinking it is a giant waste of time proves your point well.

Everyone always thinks these things will make things better for them, while assuming it will cost them nothing.

And as always, some hawk will be saying 'won't someone think of the children'.
A friend of mine visited the Johnson Space Center with a friend of his who worked there a few years ago and got the behind the scenes tour. Lots of old simulators, test rigs, etc. Then they went into a huge wing of the center that used to be offices, but is now abandoned due to the lower staffing after Apollo ended.

The place was strewn with millions of pages of Apollo technical documentation, in total disarray. Years ago, they put all of these documents in binders and stacked them in the abandoned wing. Over time, people needed binders, and took them, leaving stacks of paper. Over the years, the ventilation system cycled on and off, the papers blew around, until now it's just a sea of random paper.
Yes. What should we use to organize it?
Great idea - I particularly like the "just add basil" option when I was making lasagna.

Btw, you spelled "cholesterol" wrong in the nutrition information section.
Phishers like it cheap or free
Some should setup a MX on test.com and:

* post a public webpage with all email going to @test.com

* post a public webpage with all email addresses harvested from emails to @test.com

Or

* setup an auto responder asking people to stop sending there (bonus points: threaten to post emails of repeat offenders to spammer lists)
Buffy: The Privacy Slayer.
To be fair, their meaningless is their value. Using "real world" names may distract from the logic being discussed or unreasonably suggest that the logic may fit only a particular scenario.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable
I would criticize your point, if it were singular.
I don't think Google enters the smartphone market simply because there is money to be made. I have always thought that their motivation for Android was, at least partially, defensive, as they fight to keep clear any impediments to consuming their services (ads).
Video: PBS Kids in the Mobile Space - How they plan to innovate
I'm curious, what do you mean by "myth spreading"?
I'm having too much fun
Stop Badware regularly flags sites that issue spurious security warnings in an attempt to mislead users. Facebook certainly falls under that description.
Been a reader of your blog for a while now, and enjoy your insight. I do feel that chimeracoder's criticism is valid, regardless of your argument of establishing objectivity through participation. As a reader, the inclusion of Facebook Connect and Comments really detracts from the credibility, err. sincerity, of your article.

"toolbar that helps you shop online more effectively but neglects to mention that it will send a list of everything you buy online to the company that provides the toolbar."

What about a website that injects its content on every website you visit, regardless of your willingness to participate as a user? Or tracks every visit regardless of your willingness to participate?

Exhibit A: http://mashable.com/2011/11/17/facebook-reveals-its-user-tra...

There is no terms of service or privacy statement on your site disclosing that you are effectively sharing my activity with Facebook. By the way, I opt-out through the disconnect and Ghostery Chrome extensions, so your site has no comment system... just a Comments heading.

"Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden into openly attacking its users' ability and willingness to navigate the rest of the web."

As the website operator that uses Facebook Connect, you are signaling to Facebook that you are OK with their current strategy to exist on every page on the internet and dictate the way content should be shared. You cannot complain that they are getting rid of the ability to automatically share your blog content in facebook when they have given you the ability to incorporate all the same functionality directly on your page. It is a genius move on their part. They no longer have to worry about users visiting facebook less over time if they are on every other page the user might visit.
Android dubbed a cyber menace as mobile malware explodes
Is the motivation still not money?
The first paper describes a multitouch capacitive touch tablet in 1985. It is absolutely identical to the core technology of an iPad. Apple may have improved things but the core ideas are layed out right here two decades before the iPad.

> A prototype touch-sensitive tablet Is presented. The tablet's main
innovation is that It Is capable of sensing mare than one point of
contact at a time. In addition to being able to provide position coor-
dinates, the tablet also gives a measure of degree of contact,
independently for each point of contact. In order to enable mutU-
touch sensing [...]

What's more the author of the paper, Bill Buxton, is widely cited in the literature as inventing the capactive multitouch display. Wayne Westerman, one of the cofounders of Fingerworks dissertation has dozens of references to his work. But even in his own words:

> What I am pointing out, however, is that "new" technologies - like multi-touch - do not grow out of a vacuum. While marketing tends to like the "great invention" story, real innovation rarely works that way. In short, the evolution of multi-touch is a text-book example of what I call "the long-nose of innovation."

It's all clear as day if you do your research, unless of course you're already made up your mind... then maybe it's not so clear.
It is a common misconception that lockup expiration day typically means a large drop in a stock's price. While there is certainly additional selling pressure, the affect of expiration is usually already priced in to some extent.

This article perpetuates the myth since as many have pointed out, after an initial artificial drop, the final close was about the same as markets overall.
I think this overlooks the underlying trend, which is the growth in lobbying funds. Until the linear growth upwards of lobbying funding changes, I don't think it will make any difference what the average makeup of people will be.

If anything, future voters who are being born today will grow up with internet services intwined in their lives, and may be even less understanding of the free and open nature of the internet. They may be broadly brand-loyal to an internet property that doesn't yet exist. Imagine a Facebook size company that is for SOPA-like laws because it is funded by vested interests.

No, I'm not optimistic about these things getting better over time. I actually think it needs a second-amendment type intervention to cut off these types of approaches in the future. 'The right to keep and bear websites' - that type of thing.

On the other hand, one thing the internet is good at is routing around attempts to damage it. I can see alternative systems popping up quickly to counteract any regulatory damage to DNS.
One of the biggest reinventions I've noticed is the elimination of cash registers in the Apple Stores. Walk up to almost any employee and they can check you out with their handheld computer. That is a huge plus from a customer experience point of view.
Become a Police Officer. Pepper Spray Peaceful Protestors. Profit.
I have some issues with gerrit... it's giving a very limiting experience in my opinion. You cannot upload branches / patch queues. Every commit will be a separate review item. It's search and api also have lots of space for improvements. It enforces a workflow, rather than being just a transparent "let me scribble something on your commit" tool.

Then again... I looked for something better and could not find anything :(
This article isn't about the App Store.
I used to work for a company that hosted customer.com. Microsoft, on more than one occasion, sent thousands and thousands of emails to customer@customer.com.
You might want to take a look at iCab.
>> Google's search results are in a marked decline.

Could not disagree more. I was recently using DDG (which uses Bing and Yahoo search API, iirc) and I had to go back to google because the search quality is simply unmatched. That is not a 'i think its better but I cant really tell...' comment. That is from my personal experience of having to go back to google anytime my search got complex/obscure; then simply observing the difference between the two result sets.

Instant search is an amazing feature also.
.test, not being widely used, is not immediately recognizable as a TLD the way .com is.
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Three whole percent?! Zzz.
I agree, test.com is an awful domain to use.

Whenever I fire up email testing tools, I use president@whitehouse.gov.
Spam spam spam.
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So is sp@rtacus.com
See it boggles my mind how a site cannot survive a front page HN appearance. TideArt has been on the front page a number of times, sometimes even second top link, and I happen to know this brings around 10,000 more hits. Using my own custom CMS, built on SQLite, I handle that kind of traffic easily on a shared host.

HN will never bring you more than a few hits per second at the most..
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> The fact is that people are born into society.

Yes, and being born into society doesn't create any moral obligation to those who gave birth to you. Children should not be involuntary slaves to their parents.

> People who lived before us created a system where rights are protected and, when you reach the age of majority, you have the option of participating in governance either by voting, or running for office or other political action (this is all assuming you live in a Western style democratic republic).

Being able to participate in governance through voting does not negate the fact that being bound by the vote's decision is something that is forced upon you, and isn't imposed on you by consent. You either agree to the vote's result or you are forcibly jailed or executed if caught deviating from what was agreed by the voting system imposed on you.

> I am not sure where you get the idea that you are being violently coerced into living in civilized society and thereby following the pre-existing laws, simply because you never signed a contract or, equivalently, expressly consenting that you would.

If you don't follow the law and you are caught, you will be forcibly jailed or executed, or some other punishment inflicted upon you by force. It's a fact that law is upheld by force, and the vote that created the law is imposed on you by force. You have no choice whether or not to be bound by the vote's decision. You never consented to be bound by it.

> Contracts are a legal convenience.

This is self-evidently false. Individuals may make agreements between them without any involvement of a 3rd party.

> A convenience whos very enforcement is dictated by the laws that you rail against for not having explicitly agreed to them. A bit of a chicken and egg problem, wouldn't you agree?

Enforcing agreements does not necessitate a State enforcing them.

> What is your alternative to expecting people to live by certain rules that their ancestors through their previous political action put in place?

To live by rules that I consented to, and not to initiate force on another individual except in self-defense.
Sorry, who here really wants a touchscreen laptop? Is this a feature? I tried a bluetooth keyboard-case for my iPad and it was tough to both navigate and type at the same time.

Is there a solid use-case for which the touchscreen laptop makes sense over tablet or keyboard+mouse-equivalent?
Subsequent link:

http://blogs.adobe.com/bparadie/2011/11/21/cross-compiling-a...
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It is not even a new feature. It had been supported since beginning of HTML and was preserved even in HTML4.
If you really need to receive a test email, you can always use @mailinator.com (just make sure it's not sensitive info). Mailinator is a disposable, publicly viewable email address mostly useful for one-time account registrations, especially in cases where you fear they might spam you.

In recent years, I started using the + notation at gmail -- anything you put after the + and before the @ is ignored by gmail, BUT you still receive it -- the handy part is you can filter it out (e.g. myname+hackernews@gmail.com will go to myname@gmail.com, and I create a filter to archive everything that comes to myname+hackernews@gmail.com)
Failed WebOS experiment cost HP $3.3 Billion
Could you point to some of the reviews claiming that WP7 is "the most user-friendly and best looking OS"?
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Can Google+ for Businesses Compete with Facebook/Twitter?
Can someone tell me the difference between Sugru and products like InstaMorph (polycaprolactone)?
by the 1950s automatics were the preferred transmission

Feh. Never owned one of the contraptions, myself.
Make it a refrigerator instead of a car.
At the same time they likely have a couple of extra inbound links. :D
I'm not so sure. I mean, you could read it that way if you were determined to do so, but I don't think that's the only reasonable way to read it. This isn't an application making money by showing us advertising — it's Google announcing their new Chromebooks to Chrome fans. That is, it's just a note about something new with Chrome. This doesn't look like the start of in-browser ads as a major monetization strategy for Chrome.