skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SMS is convent, but won't scale as it is. It's fine when you get 1 or 2 a day, but I'm starting to get a dozen. What happens when you have dozenS of messaging coming in and no way to sort, file, etc? Also, SMS is very bad at telling you who sent the message. How many times have you gotten an text from a number that's not in your phone book.

Someone needs to create an alternative. Maybe it can be done on top of twitter.
Generally I aim for just inside the post...so I don't look at the goalie. The puck definitely does go where I look though - so it could make a bit of a difference.
How long until the web 3.0 ninja listing is spotted?
As wikipedia matures, they won't be as desperate for article contributions. So they won't need to take the risk of having bad data. This is a natural progression.
If the deployment ever grows to cover more of the site, this sounds like something that would be rife with abuse, and even though it doesn't sound like that's the plan, it's interesting to think about how you might want to solve that. One of the things it suggests is the need for wikipedia to involve democratic trust metrics (i.e., you aren't an admin just because you're friends with another admin) but this invites its own host of problems. Interesting topic though.
Hang on, we haven't had 2.5 yet
This reminded me of an 'experiment' with a morbidly obese goalie.

"The only way to fully test this theory was to get an NHL team to shoot against the faux fatso..."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119143109983647814.html
I don't know how effective it is. But, do you all know that there is actually a startup behind this "share this" button? http://sharethis.com/

And, they are doing quite well too - http://siteanalytics.compete.com/sharethis.com/?metric=uv
Hopefully without the slide-out keyboard it is at least significantly thinner than the G1. An actual headphone jack would be nice too.
Very enlightening. I recently did a week or two of ad-hoc product management (in contrast to my day-to-day backend engineering) on a tight timeline. I wish this had been written/on HN a month ago!
I don't know if it's fruitful to focus on specifically. I think the parent may have meant, "Gandhi is an example of someone who accomplished great things and did what he thought was important, but it didn't make him rich. Would you want to be in like Gandhi in this general regard?"
40 years of software development? I can't help but laugh at your mentioning it as if it really means anything and makes your "arguments" carry more weight.
Why Has Knol Survived Google's Orphan-Project Killing Spree?
What about pads with a fake goalpost on the outer edges?
not good enough; you have to measure improvement.

but since no goalie is consistent enough for that to be possible to do, you'll never have proof.
This is quite an assertion. To make sure I'm getting this right, I can't be happy without money to buy my happiness, and if I ever believe I can, I am simply giving into the group-think that the upper class has foisted upon me. Either I'm driven by the insatiable desire for money, or I am a cog of the bourgeoisie?

I think this is complete crap. The most unhappy person I can think of right now doesn't buy into the money is evil philosophy; quite the opposite in fact. The problem he has is that he doesn't know what he wants, so he is defaulting to money as an indication of wealth. And I can think of a number of people I know who are happy, but aren't particularly high on the social ladder, nor do they really want to be. What they consider wealth right now -- their children, and time to work on their hobbies -- is something they can't trade for on the open market. Please keep this in mind: wealth is not the same thing as money. Wealth is what you want, money is simply one means, but not the only one, of getting what you want. For those who don't know what they want, it seems that they default to treating money as an end, rather than as a means.

To be clear, I'm not arguing the opposite of your claim, I am arguing that the desire money is not good or evil; it is neutral. The real question of motives becomes where that money will be spent, or if not to be spent, why it is being hoarded. If hoarded only as a metaphorical yard stick of worthiness to the people supposedly oppressing the rest of us, it seems like a waste of time. If it gets you the things you need to make you happier, then it isn't a waste of time.
My AddThis and ShareThis have been used over 1000 times.

One of them got me to the front page of digg.

That's enough evidence for me. It's about maximizing space. AddThis is the best in that respect.
there's also addthis.com and addtoany.com
Last time I was in Vegas watching a fight a hockey game broke out. Hate it when that happens.
That's a great article. One of the counter-arguments

"Knowing we were going to play against him, we would take some extra practice and make sure we could hit those holes."

is fallacious, because it ignores the fact that the five guys on the other team are also going to practice to ensure that you can't hit those holes. I. e. there's going to be a defenseman on each side of him filling the (very small) gaps.
The proper experimental design would show whether or not the pads make a difference.

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
Thanks again Russell...this looks like the way to go!
I really appreciate your advice,
Shubham Harnal.
As someone who has done a minimal amount of Objective-C programming in the past, I have to agree. That being said, I've also heard a lot of hackers rave about it. I'm confused over why there's such a love/hate relationship with this language. Whats the story with Apple's dev environment being so Obj-C heavy? What's the chance they'll spring for it's replacement?
Good review of T-Mobile G1
This is my second submission that is apparently a dupe. Many apologies.

I'm using the bookmarklet if that's any help.
Lives tangled in growing net
But maybe that's why twitter is so successful?
It gives people, even those who can't coherently express themselves in more than 140 letters, a little soapbox with an 1-dimensional, positive-only return channel ("number of followers").

Maybe that's also why it took our social media experts and key influencers so long to realize that everybody else can not only open their own soapbox but also relate it to yours - which suddenly turns your little megaphone into a podium discussion. Oops!
MailALetter.com - Mail a letter online...are there other services like this?
I agree, but there's no way to achieve the required rigor. How can you get a double-blind study when everyone can see the pads?

It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
what some people won't say/do in order to get government funding...what a load of crap!
Well, you totally misunderstood it. You can't be happy if you're worried about your bills or where your next meal is coming from.
Typical corporate arrogance. The first question is based around a certain position / experience, but in its response, Google immediately states that the opposite is true. The second and third answers get no better, alas.

The whole thing reads like a Q&A between a reporter and a politician. Google seems to be following the "say just what you're going to say, despite the question" tactic to the letter.
The victims of both "soft" and "hard" censorship suffer a similar loss of voice and power. One of the author's implied points is that "Censorship by Glut" has the same societal effect as "Censorship by Edict."
I can't speak for Share This, but here's some actual data for AddThis from my site, http://onlineslangdictionary.com/ :

Past year: 1.5 million visits, 4.7 million pageviews, and 108 "saves" via AddThis.

In the past month, 40% of saves were for Facebook, 40% for Google Bookmarks, and 20% for browser bookmarks.
Cheap alternatives that eat into revenue generated from their more expensive counterparts are not really business model busters. They just compete better using the same business model in this economy.
objective-c has a particular set of strengths that is well-suited to gui development. if you count its beginnings at next, it has been in use in this environment for over 20 years. there is no way in hell apple would abandon it now.
"high friction"

I like that, I'm stealing it. :)
In parallel, economic downturn means more innovation as individuals and companies get very creative to meet the changing expectations from consumers. When resources are scarce, thinking becomes abundant. This is the same reason why poor and hungry startups are always more innovative then large and stable companies.
Before investing time in learning a new language you may want to consider other "features" of a web framework that may help you choose. For example, give a try to web2py since it does not require installation (just unzip and starts). It includes sqlite and ssl enabled web server. You can do all development and maintenance via the web interface. In 5 minutes you should be able to write a simple app like:

def hello(): return "Hello %s" % request.vars.name

Then you decide if it is worth your time to learn the language. Usually learning the APIs of a framework take more time than learning the language it is based on.
>I think the optimal strategy is to pick something you enjoy but that can pay the bills. Most people could probably enjoy multiple professions. Choose the one you would enjoy that pays the best.

I think this is pretty good advice, but with a caveat. Enjoyment is not just a boolean function, but varies from unbelievably painful to completely enjoyable. I think is more of a two-dimensional optimization problem than a simple matter of picking the maximal paying element from the column named 'fun and interesting'. Doing java development at a large company and doing python development at a small company would both rank 'fun and interesting' relative to the rest of the total set of available professions, but I would still seriously consider the python position, even though the java position is bound to pay a lot better on average. But maybe you meant that, and I am just misreading.
I can see this become the opposite of "You know who else was using [Share This] buttons?" meme from Fark.
There are plenty of experimental designs other than double-blind that have been demonstrated to prove causality. Or actually "quasi-experimental" but still.

I had this book inflicted upon me in a past life:
http://www.amazon.com/Experimental-Quasi-Experimental-Design...
I find http://tweetgrid.com/ to be more useful. Especially when multiple keywords are being used for the same event.
Force and freedom have different societal effects!
Depends on your website's audience.
Has worked for me, so far, but I love hacking...
Somebody asked about a similar service. I think it's probably a viable business, providing web-service enabled letter printing and mailing. Send a chunk of XML or a PDF up to the server, and it gets printed, and sent out.

Hmm, I should think about it more, might be possible to do it in my spare time. Then if it grows, hire temps or other low cost labor to do it.
short pages [...] with product recommendations

Not a separate page, but right here, in news.YC, on reddit, on twitter, on mailing threads, wherever.
I was trying to avoid copyright issues, so that's my own picture (I lost my Heinz Field ones :( )

But yea, I think I'm going to take down the picture. Thanks for the feedback.
Does it matter that Google can be subpoenaed at any time to hand over all your data to the American government?

I am not a lawyer, but this seems out of sync - I imagine the process for getting a warrant and a subpoena are different (the latter being easier). Whatever the legal reasoning was for protecting the letters I store in my home should also apply to my e-mails in Google's database, no?

Anyone more knowledgeable care to elucidate?
They don't do much. Nobody clicks them.

People who use those products already have bookmarklets or extensions or toolbars or whtever already installed.

It's more of a subtle way for publishers to tell their audiences to share with other people.
That's a pretty fair description of what I do for a living.
Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis not taken all that seriously any more
I'm one of those people on the fence about whether I want to follow a management career or a technical one. Articles like these shove me firmly towards the latter.
I don't think so. There is one with Bluetooth however.
Also over here, posted a day ago (readwriteweb): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=448473
Dammit, and here I am still new to my Web 2.5 Code Terrorist job

http://www.rubyrailways.com/forget-rock-stars-gurus-ninjas-a...
"VM design is never 100% language-neutral."

The goal for VMs should be to create a generic enough base machine infrastructure such that you end up with the same capabilities and flexibility that the x86, PPC or any other hardware/microcode based architecture provides.

VM design may not be language neutral, then maybe some VM designers could learn something from hardware/chip designers. The very reason we're having this discussion is because ANY language can be implemented on ANY of the general purpose hardware architectures available.

The problem arises when things like sandboxed execution and optimizations for a specific runtime or language come into play. These are the kinds of things that tie a VM to a specific language and platform. Associating a VM with a runtime also confuses the technologies; admittedly this is often done because the company pushing their VM product has a vested interest in also providing developers with the tools and the libraries and the UI they program to.
funny writer who could fill in those sentences spontaneously

Worry less. This is the internet. People will laugh at anything here. Take five seconds (yes, right now) and do a Google image search on "Walrus Bucket" if you don't believe me.

"Funny" is a word that applies to instants in time, not people. The reality is closer to "spontaneous people often do/say/write funny things."
Wow!. I just want to say I'm completely amazed by the quality of the answers and the discussion that my post generated. I'm not gonna be able to check back until tomorrow night (another big part of the crappines of my job, heavily restricted Internet access).Thanks a lot to everyone for the time they have taken to participate.
That was very helpful - thanks!
Yes, and free* too...

http://www.esnailer.com/

*Except it works by making you complete terribly spammy advertisement surveys: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9739899-2.html
Numbers without context are certainly misleading, but my opinion is that commit message is not right place to specify when such speedup applies, because for expected readers that is either obvious or irrelevant (or both at once).

Other question is whenever this patch is really so interesting to HN. It is pretty much insignificant for real applications and I'd consider the computed goto trick well known in circles where it might be useful for something (which means interpretive VMs and not much else).
You need to learn it, but you don't need to do it this work.
First hire a designer.
Then hire a integration shop. Shops like psd2html are doing it for 100$-1k-2k$
So get a good designer and have a shop do the slicing work.
Then adjust it to your needs..