skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The widgets, gestures, etc., are all well & nice. But, the under-screen gesture area's a nice innovation. Nobody likes trying to read around their own fingers.

But I think what makes Palm so competitive with this is how good of a PDA it is.

Note: the calendar and notification systems are more advanced than what you get on the iPhone and Android in v1. They take better advantage of the available space, are better integrated, and probably (knowing palm's history) will require fewer clicks to do useful things. Palm's always done a good job in these areas, and the competition's been weak.

Also, the GPS application looks like a modern self-contained GPS, not the google-maps-with-a-dot version on the iPhone.

As for using HTML/JS, it's lowering the bar for people to develop, almost to the floor.

Finally, Palm's got a tired, but well-recognized leader name. Which, for enterprises, is a lot better than Apple or Google. I can see the Palm being the place where people go if/when Blackberry fails. The iPhone can stay an iPod-phone, for consumers, and the google phone a stillborn geek device.
You don't need to, but you've already stated that you want to - so go for it. It'll cost you though (time//money), and that might be prohibitive for a hobby company.
Two things:

1. Yeah, games are probably out until flash gets on this thing. But frankly, the iPhone apps market looks today like what the Facebook apps market looked when it came out. People went in, wrote lots of shit applications (and a small number of good ones), and then the whole market died.

2. Which traditional software developers can't do HTML & Javascript? Frankly I think it's a better option than Objective-C or googleJava.
To reject an ideology, you need ONLY to know that it is an ideology. Rhetorical fever: the communicable mental illness of humanity.
If other countries are reluctant to export their jobs to you, you would obviously avoid exporting jobs to them in the vain effort to keep employment in your country alive.

Why might one want to keep employment in his country alive?
We could just tape a palm leaf to a QA.
Yeah, this isn't "uncanny valley" it's just weird. Arms (even if static) would help. If not, don't give it "shoulders."
"Likewise I assume HN is more polite because only more established members can downvote."

I think HN is more polite because:

1) when people flag a submission as off-topic, it gets killed

2) people here often care about their reputations, because they may work professionally with other people here, now or in the future

3) when name calling starts, Paul Graham often steps in, and people care about what he thinks (see item 2 above)

None of these attributes can be found in the HN source code.
Thought you were going to say "Sounds like a job for big government!" :-) only joking
I'm not a programmer by any means. I am involved with writing though, and often I have to draw on other people's work to support an assertion I'm making. I just use some quotation marks "" and cite the author and page number at the end of the sentence (author #).

I know it isn't a one to one example, but I wonder why it is acceptable to quote and cite with no need for permission in literature, but when it comes to code people "own" their ideas?
<whine>CNBC has a million dollar stock investing challenge going on. A few weeks ago, I heard that Palm was announcing Something Big at CES. Off I went to 'buy' shares, only to find that the stock wasn't available in the game...</whine>
Considering most people think in terms of .com, and browsers let you type "xyz" to guess "xyz.com", you're really better off choosing a word that users can type without remembering where the dots go.
I disagree. There's a big difference between having the ciphertext and having nothing. Big keys buy you time but that's just it -- it's time. Government secrets often outlive the design parameters of commercial crypto by decades.

To me it's surprising he gets a commercial cellular/smartphone at all. As much as we all just assume the systems are private and secure, it's really just not that way.
So you were capable of doing this in IE3? I'd pay money to see that.
I would go even further.

IP should be done away with legally wherever possible. When in doubt eliminate it. Where it is absolutely necessary, when things just don't get done & no positive equilibrium forms, introduce it. Not as a 'right' any more then a government contract is a right. Just a rule of the game that allows medicine to be developed or technology to improve.

I can't possibly see how disappearing music IP would hurt society in aggregate. I dare say music would still be made. The dynamic of the industry would be completely different. Maybe there would be a 10% loss of revenue industry wide. maybe 25% or 50% or even 90%. That still probably leaves a bigger industry then sculpting or comic theatre. Music is very popular. It will not disappear tomorrow.

Even in medicine I think it is possible there would be some gains. After all, it's a huge market & will remain so. I'm not sure that public funding for research wouldn't be just as good as private patent-chasing funding it would need to replace. There is a lot of inefficiency in the system now anyway.

New antibiotics (probably the most important single class of medicine) are not profitable to develop. A patient take 1 course & then goes home. If you price them high, then doctors will prescribe a different antibiotic. But a new antibiotic will save lives as it will probably work in some end cases where existing ones don't. It's also a bit of insurance against future resistant strains. But the economy for developing antidepressants, cosmetics or some other long term treatment drugs with potentially fewer cheap substitutes is much stronger.

This is really pushing it. I don't know to analyse all the economic outcomes. But I know I see no strong moral reason for IP laws other then those that generate the most well being for society.

*In reality transitioning would be hugely difficult. I'm not saying throw it out & start from scratch. I'm saying reconsider.
Water structure and science
So far, 10 of the comments on this article are from accounts created two hours ago or less:

randyengler, myxibrium, Mausen, nilio, Trish, BAdairme, Stephanie, yplymale, travis_jenkigs, rbraunfeld
His family and friends will be targets of interest for certain people now. While it's (comparatively!) easy to provide surveillance and security for homes and other key places, people in motion are harder to protect.

We don't expect one individual to understand every problem in complete detail, but we _do_ expect them to appoint (and listen to) experts in each relevant field. Security of people in the private sector is probably very different than military security, and I bet government administration security also has a third set of objectives and concerns. This guy's life sits at the intersection of those three problem spaces.

Refusing to do as he's advised would be a jackass move, possibly endangering close friends up to crucial government secrets.
I'd say that some of the ads are somewhat pornographic, yeah. That said, I think it's fairly standard practice for anyone producing pornographic material, and more importantly anything which could be construed as pornographic, to get a release, just to be safe. In fact, people almost always try to cover their asses legally; companies doing "iffy" stuff often check to make sure it's legal first, etc. Thus, it's not clear that they know they are making pornographic ads OR that they think their models look underage, just from that evidence, even if those are both true.

As for the photos: like I said before, they don't look underage to me. I've additionally checked this with a few people in other age ranges of both genders, just to be sure I wasn't crazy, and the consensus was that they all looked like adults.

P.S. The "If you don't agree with me, you're <insert x here>" approach is a bit silly. I do like to consider myself pretty open-minded, though :)
Loaded the page saw a pretty cool photo continent collage, but was unable to interact with such and there was no text to tell me briefly what zipalong does.

As stated above, it's best to allow use of your site without requiring sign up or have facebook/open social sign in if it requires sign up.

good luck!
If you outgrow 5000 queries per day, I'm sure you could negotiate for more.
If you are an LLC in Tennessee and operate as a foreign entity in PA as a corporation - not an LLC. Would this be legal? Would you have to file Articles of Incorporation or Amend Authority to do Business?

Please answer. Your response will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

Lynda
Tracking your expenses
Generational Wealth
a) No, law enforcement is necessary to maintain property rights, and is only applied when that right isn't respected (otherwise there is hardly rule of law) - but a society with no property rights can still have a very brutal police force. I don't see the connection here.

b) If someone is free too coerce anyone he owns, and he can arbitrarily choose who he owns, then he is free to coerce everybody. It's a tautology, but not a very useful one.
It's just as well. Monad appears to suffer from severe second system effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect ).

The early demos I saw had hopelessly long names, verbose syntax, and attempted to coalesce data into xml. While xml seems like a more flexible target than plain text, the net result was that it took a foreign set of tools to manipulate xml from one command's output to what the next command wanted.

In the spirit of "Get off of my lawn!": I wish that .vbs had been cultivated into a usable environment for interacting with the computer instead of left to be identified with malware. The language is/was certainly more appropriately sized for typical system automation tasks.
Did you read the article?

Charney doesn't deny taking part in any of the activities described in the article.

How is it an allegation when the guy himself admits it was true?

And sorry but your argument is typical straw-man. Of course I don't claim that all apparel ever manufactured disappears out of existence now that we found out about AA's lack of ethics. What's the point of assigning me a clearly retarded point of view just so you can refute it?

Obviously I don't think that it would invalidate an entire branch of mathematics if I found out that my calculus teacher was a pedophile. However, I would strongly object to an article profiling a him as ethical and using him as an example for others to follow, which is what the original post is doing.
This is cool.

I used Hpricot to parse the House floor feed a couple months back, but it slid to the side as more important tasks came up. Maybe I should get back to that old side project...
Bone in a bottle
I tend to ignore any news story whose aim is breeding righteous indignation.

vote with you dollars, not a gun (courts and legislation).
A piece on 20/20 about transparent salaries impressive. Good to see that she is following through on that story through this post. Doing so make it's an even better story; publicity.

Id never heard of this svc & site until this post.
This is a nice counterpoint to to the self-adulatory posts by Jason Calcanis, et al. Well written, too.
He can sneak a few emails on the side like cigarettes.
I clicked the bookmarklet a little before 3 PST for the Language Log page you should see in your db: it showed up on the webpage, but never made it to the feed (according to Google Reader).
I feel like the site isn't really selling its benefits to me. I do organize some trips, but I wouldn't use this now because I don't want to bother everyone by telling them to sign up to this service, when I don't really know what the benefit would be.

Travel is such an interesting area, mostly because it is seeing so little new innovation that I feel there must be something big lurking just around the corner. There are few well known types of sites, such as review / listing aggregator sites, flight price comparison engines, these organize-your-own-trip sites (that seem to be quite niche) but it is so rare to see any new ideas. The only really new thing I've found is SeatGuru, which lets you find the best seats, which really provides useful information for the travel planning process. Those Facebook applications where you can show your travels on a map in your profile were a nice idea too.

Anything I'm missing?
Measuring Feedburner's latency
3. (Battery design heavy handedness)

You act like there's an easy other option for Apple, who ignored it out of malicious dictatorial concerns.

Any other option would have had its own engineering tradeoffs (and design, support, components, manufacturing changes, documentation, training...)

And supporting multiple options would be even worse.

As it stands, they've chosen a non-removable battery so they can do a custom shape and fit 40% more in. I have a book by Peter Cochrane (former head of British Telecom research) where he talked about longer battery life in laptops by making the battery a structural component (bigger, but not heavier because it replaces part of the chassis) sometime before 1997, and this is the first time I've noticed anyone take it seriously.

Yes, some people will be annoyed, but there are many who use the 17" MBP as a luggable desktop, or mostly plugged in. It's not the case that they could ever pick a design to please everyone, and this one has the added benefit that at least it's not purely aesthetic - you get a nonremovable battery, but you get a longer battery life and more charge cycles out of it too. And anyone handy with a screwdriver will probably be able to replace it and there will probably be external backup batteries - carrying one of those will be little different to carrying a spare for a removable battery...

(By the way - the book is "108 Tips for Time Travellers" - lots of essays on technology. I remember it being very good).
hey, this is Scott here the Cohost.

We told our friends to check out the article and comment it if they wanted to.
Yes, something is afoot. On HN, "it kicks!" definitely does not get 3 points.

What's worse: their taste in music is TERRIBLE.
These are all diff ppl I know dude. What's wrong with that? I know 3 of them myself.
The crazy thing about this machine is the screen, which at 1600x768 in a 8" gives a 220 ppi... The iPhone looks crisp at 163 ppi, and we're on our way to the approximately 300 ppi limit of the human eye.
Shops, Loyalty Cards and Data Portability
Everyone is entitled to their opinion for sure. I think their taste is >>AWESOME<<. Come on, look at the first band, Brightwood? They're absolutely amazing. They were in Hollywood just a few weeks ago performing and going on a national tour here. Why don't you share some bands with them and try to get them featured.

It's about making them known to the world and everyone has different taste.
More About Google's Routers
A deeper look at just what's going on here with Google's project to build its own routers.
Is there anything new in this article? Sorry I didnt get the point of this article...
Hahaha! Bold article. So who wrote it? Scott or Brian? Love the show guys.
Yes, this works reliably:

http://refspoof.mozdev.org/
When we hit 300 ppi I will cry a tear of joy. We can forget about hacks like antialiasing and some types of font hinting with the attendant color fringing and fakery. Text is so much easier to read when it's crisp and clear.
Good point, these won't be your typical del.icio.us users.
With regard to copyright, it's usually a question of quantity. Up to 10 lines of code is often regarded irrelevant for copyright purposes. Of course, it's not as simple as that: 10 lines in how concise a language, etc. But it's not a big problem most of the time, in the same way literary or other human-language text is copyrighted but it's still acceptable to quote and cite.

But ideas themselves don't fall under copyright; unfortunately, some countries allow the patenting of software algorithms, which do cover the idea to some extent.
What do you mean by somewhat pornographic? Is that like, I sort of cheated on you honey? Or like, I am not fat, I am full-figured?
It is a neat piece of art tho. It would be cool if it was regularly re-generated from Flickr geotags...
I think this is an awesome. And the article is really funny.
I looked for words endlessly, but I'll keep looking. My investment so far is just the (relatively cheap) domain name.
Oh I hate horizontal scrolling, but it seems odd that the contents of the page are shifted to the left in the demo without any clear way to shift back. Maybe I missed something, but that's usually an indication of a poor UI paradigm. And I'm not arguing it shouldn't exist, just commenting that it's usefulness isn't immediately obvious. More choices are always good though!
The fear of being scooped is more a function of the "pubish or perish" model and the reward model than anything else. Half the times someone gets beaten to a publication, it's because they were not the only ones with the idea in the first place. The most interesting scientific problems people are trying to work on are not unique anyway. The effort should be on changing the reward model, rather than artificially create problems like scooping.
Ask HN: Would you solve programming puzzles to apply for jobs?
Imagine a website like http://jobs.37signals.com/ where instead of applying by sending an email, you were given a programming quiz to transform a randomly generated data set to a result set given some parameters (testing algorithm comprehension, implementation and such up front). You upload your result set and code used to generate the result along with your resume for consideration. Based on how fast you generated the result and how good your code is, this process could streamline your application process and show off your talents. For those rockstar programmers that are looking to upgrade jobs, this could set you apart from your competition and be a fun exercise to keep you fresh. For those programmers that are working towards rockstar-ness, you need not apply to jobs to take the quizzes and improve your programming skills with practice.

If the quizes you pass happen to be the type that a company wants to post a job for, the site will let you know that you should send in your results for consideration since the job might interest you.

This system would be completely language-independent since as long as the generated result set is correct then the code is assumed to work and someone at the company will review your code in more depth anyhow.

Assuming the obvious cheating methods are stifled with sophisticated code comparison techniques and google searches, thus making the system difficult to game and relatively fair, is this a site you guys would use?

If not, why not? Thanks for your feedback!
Creative tlds are really confusing, don't do it. For the longest time I didn't use del.icio.us because I couldn't remember how the domain name was broken up.

I'm on the fence for the name educatious itself. Can you provide any details on what type of service is the website?
I tend to prefer names that are two spelled out words or a completely made up word.
For an apparently really smart guy with all the time and money in the world, he doesn't seem to do much of... anything.

Congratulations, you created a pedestrian website which makes gobs of money and requires 10 minutes per day of "work" to keep the current iteration running.

Now, do something interesting. Because, I'm sorry, but Plenty of Fish isn't.
Its very childish to flame somebody because of their choice of OS when it doesn't affect you in any way at all

It affects me a lot. People around me are grumpier, the computers I support are more of a pain in the neck, the software ecosystem is pushed towards software for an OS I don't like, people are missing out on really useful features and being less happy and sometimes less productive than they could be...
Give me a hint: How are programming languages related to problem domains?
Can anybody give me a hint how (general) programming languages and problem domains are related?
Whatever! All they have on there is hiphop. There are plenty of good music sites out there.
To be fair, I've heard Snow Leopard (OS X 10.7) will essentially be "Leopard 2", since there aren't a lot of new features, mostly just performance/stability improvements and "under the hood" things like OpenCL support.
So if he handles them in a way you're dissatisfied with, you'd rather him be further insulated from the opinions, suggestions, and questions of the public?
Seems like a cool site so far :-)

The itinerary "Summary" on this sample trip <http://zipalong.com/zip/Trip.page?tripId=42626548>; was quite long. The map neatly fits the browser window, but I have to scroll down past it to see all of the summary. Also, the content of the summary seems quite verbose. Many of the entries in this list could be represented more compactly while still managing to improve comprehension.

I think that this itinierary view has more than a few things in common with Google Maps' public transportation directions. Plan a bus trip around your favorite supported US city and see if that inspires you to improve this view.
Thanks, we're trying to improve the selling pitch :)

What makes us different from other travel sites is that we try to take a semantically meaningful view of a trip so that you can organize anything and everything about your trips in one place.

And we hope to do it so that you can come back in 10,20,30 years and retrace your steps and have fun with your past trips.
By the way, these guys are going through the HECK of startup right now through bootstrapping and really going garageband with this. I think there's an awful lot that the people floating around here can learn by what they're doing.

BRAVO GUYS AND GIRL. You're really doing a great job with what you have.

I hope everyone can see the value in such efforts and learn from it. Its the real spirit of entrepreneurship.
I've heard Snow Leopard (OS X 10.7)

Snow Leopard is OS X v10.6.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.6
It's focused on classroom interaction, so it will be used by both teachers and students.
The WaPo has this already: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/ [Edit: I was wrong; it does not include contribution data. Boo.]

(Adrian Holovaty did this when he was there.)
Strikes me as pretty easy to game, as Google's MY friend... Might have some use for hiring fresh-from-school, but anything more senior's best done by reputation rather than brain teasers. True rockstars would not stoop to proving it - imagine asking Linus to play such a game.
a) "law enforcement is necessary to maintain property rights". I couldn't have said it better myself. Enforcement is required to maintain property rights, and enforcement is a form of coercion, therefore coercion is required to maintain property rights, therefore the enforcement of property rights is a form of coercion.

b) The point is that the concept of property rights is mostly vacuous unless you specify which system of property rights you are speaking of. cia_plant was pointing out that what one person considers oppression, another might consider fair use of property. Therefore any state can be considered libertarian unless you specify restrictions on what counts as a valid system of property.
That's kind of the charm of it though, right?

The guy's loaded, has all this time and opportunity...and he's just idling along with his very cute girlfriend and her (extremely attractive if we are to believe the video) friends.

I know there are a lot of people on here who'd use his time and opportunities to go wipe out malaria, write an epic novel and start a seed funding program for startups that adhere to his approach.

But being the way he is got him to where he's at. Maybe if he was the type who had grand visions left and right, he'd have screwed up plenty of fish long ago.