skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually this is the typical view from a reluctant switchers : they adjust their expectation based on what the new platform is advertising, not what the old one was providing. Android is selling openness to ios users, so that's what the switcher expect: eg "OK Apple will not sell me the tablet I want, so I will have a look at this Android thingy, they say it is open and all, so at least I will have that."

Same thing for the apps: Samsung is selling an Android device - so when Apple is getting away by having facetime only working with iPhone user, being restricted to a single brand is not something you expect from an Android phone.

The guy is quite mild in his criticism and only look at the stuff he owns. That is refreshing from the "Apple sucks because there is a rumor that in the future they will delete all your books", or "Android is great because the next version that will only run on your next phone will support feature X"
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While the things he talked about can be a bit annoying, that's far from the biggest problem with Android tablets. The biggest problems are that Google needs to:

1) improve the tablet experience dramatically. It shouldn't just be similar or slightly better than iPad. It should be much better, while also easy to get by most people. I suggest going the direction of the Chameleon UI, where your "widgets" can be a lot more useful and functional than Microsoft's "tiles" and of course than Apple's "icons" on the homescreen. Also make the OS a lot better at multi-tasking, so you can use at least 2 apps at once for example.

2) get more tablet apps. A lot more. They've wasted 1.5 years not giving a crap about Android tablet apps. For crying out loud Google - take this issue seriously before you lose the tablet ecosystem forever. The least you can do is get top 100 apps to have a tablet app. But you really need to give an incentive for all devs to do it.

I suggest lowering the fee you get from devs by 10% out of the 30% or whatever you're charging them now, for those who are willing to adopt the Holo design style. Apple had a style guide and resources from the beginning, so the vast majority of devs are already using the iOS style for apps, while Microsoft is forcing Metro on all developers.

So you go the "incentive" route, and have a "special" category of apps, or give them a certain badge on the Play Store, for those that use the Holo style, and also reduce the fee from 30% to 20% for those who are willing to do it. Also put them through a more rigorous approval process. And give them higher visibility in the Play Store. This way they have plenty of incentive to follow your style guidelines, and to make a tablet version (ask for that, too).
They definitely contribute to range and torque, but the most important contribution is to the overall lifetime of the battery. Batteries treated nicely are apt to last much longer. Thermal management is probably THE most important factor in a battery's lifetime.
As an amateur musician, I think he should have gone all the way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedal_keyboard
yes, that left hand nav is now permanently horizontal across the top. That's changed today.
I have the same question, specially if you offer your services for free to the users.. like facebook.
Thought this myself... BUT it could work with three pedals (i, a and o) with the shift key. Brilliant idea though, I would pay up to $50 for one of these.
More evidence emacs is more advanced than vi - we emacs users have been thinking we need foot pedals for years!

http://emacswiki.org/emacs/FootSwitches

http://shorttalk-emacs.sourceforge.net/ShortStep/index.html
Then it is a good way to train your foot / finger coordination.
I have bought more than a few of them lunch / dinner when they're in town, some of the top writers I've written recommendations for and helped them find jobs.

But it wasn't because of any substantial income, those nice lunches & dinners probably got me a net operating loss for the year...
It is already against the rules to patent an algorithm, as they are considered mathematics and thus unpatentable.

The reform we need is just better application of the existing patent rules.
Amazon allows you to send them hard drives if you have lots of data, so yes, it's more practical.

You should calculate how large a window you need to fill a 100mbps pipe between SF and London. Then calculate how likely it is to remain there before you drop a packet, and how long it takes to detect a dropped packet with typical timeouts, and so on.
Turns out if you have a button to do the same thing, once the user enters immersion the actual control becomes less important. Where alternate hardware is useful is for more analog controls that a joystick/mouse can't easily simulate.
I was muddling Apple and the other popular personal vendors of the time, many who licensed CP/M. (Commodore comes to mind.)
He should have said: "why my Samsung Android table experience sucks". What he says does not apply to my Xoom. Yes, they are a few apps loaded that you can't uninstall, but most of them I was using anyway. The rest is all google stuff, or whatever you wish to use.
Appreciate what you guys are doing. Tested it out on Samsung Galaxy note running ICS. Quick feedback:

The application detected that I was a first time user and injected some sounds into the database +1

There is a 1-2 second delay between the tap and the sound.

Guess you guys are already working to sort these out. Looking forward to see this application in its full glory. Any twitter handles to follow ?
Shorter version:

If you want experienced, wildly competent workers, you'll have to pay for them. If you're not willing to pay for the experienced workers, you'll have to train inexperienced workers. Also, the requirements you're listing for the job is probably ridiculous, and your screening process is probably broken.
They were interns looking to fill out their resume and clips with writing samples. There wasn't much of a pitch, some of them started contributing before they even responded to the ad
That's an interesting statement. Do you have a citation for that so I can read more about it?
Well don't get out the wallet yet, the later chapters were hastily produced as I kept rethinking how things should be presented... :)

But thank you...that's extremely kind of you...I had thought it could be a side platform to sell prints but haven't gotten around to implementing that. At this point, I don't feel like it merits payment yet or that I've gotten nothing out of it, it's been a great learning lesson for me as I'd never really used Jekyll or SaSS before, and all of the photos were lying around anyway.
That's a good question. Everything eventually connects in to the ECU, so there's no reason the customer shouldn't be able to read this data. As for writing data, I'm not sure how difficult it would be, but it can probably be done.

Personally, I'd leave battery controls to people smarter than me. Consider that the battery costs around $8,000, and that severe over- or under-charging is a massive hazard to both the battery's lifespan and the driver's life.
Don't phone customer support, phone the main switchboard and ask the name of the person in the relevant department. If you're building a sales tool then ask for the head of sales. Depending on the size of the organisation you might get batted down to a lower level but it's up to you to hustle upwards once you're there. The main thing is if you're looking for validation then get the product in front of the people who will be using it, not their procurement or IT department. Get the target users emotionally engaged and then they will help you run the gauntlet of pricing and tech with the other departments.
It looks like there is a town on the island. I would guess that he doesn't own that land.
@PabloOsinaga - thanks. Getting connections via alumni is a cool advice. I wish there was a social network to connect with Alumni.

Also, do you think that contacting Fortune 500 companies will be a better way to go. If not, do you know where to find a list of SMBs that we can target?
"Is that app still running in the background?"

My Android experience has been on par with this, except with "how can I make that app stop running in the background?"

If there's a way to easily just close an app and have it be done with, I don't know of it. Task managers I've found to be cumbersome and people tend to frown on them saying the system runs more efficiently on its own. So why is this background app listed above Bluetooth in the power manager?
cool project

now another approach: you could produce all the wav-s in-browser. see my (100% open source) mvp at http://lalo.li/ - yeah, you would need to do a lot of tuning/optimization of the speech-synthesizer to get a decent voice, but it would be possible.

think in the long term it would be a much more scaleable approach ... there are a lot of words out there .... than storing wav-s in the browser.
I think this all goes back to the fact that wages are stagnant for most of the world, and companies don't foster employees anymore.

You need to cultivate experience in workers sometimes, especially if you have a complex system in place.

Employees have no loyalty anymore, because of the cutting of benefits and wages.

Employers have no loyal employees anymore, which means they require 3 to 5 years experience to give them some return on hiring said employee.

Students are having a hard time finding work, because Employers are requiring this experience.

Employers have a skills gap, because they can't hire Students to fill the gap, because they'd just quit before giving some return (loyalty).

I think I'm starting to see the clusterfuck caused by limiting compensation and benefits...
Aspera (http://asperasoft.com) is another one (but my god are they expensive.. the most basic setup possible will run you about $25K). I'm definitely interested if there are open alternatives.
You could always play the "Chrome > Inspect Element > Delete Node" game I often do with websites that decide I need some tools or advertisements constantly in my face.
There are already two golf courses on Lanai.
I think a forum for an app is a bit different because it has a specific topic that makes people seek it out. No one is going to stay on a new discussion forum if it has no users and there are more options. Also, subreddits may start out like that, but have you seen how many are completely deserted?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliding_window_protocol

It does send multiple packets (which helps throughput), but it doesn't cut down on latency. Round trip time is hard to improve.
Two things:

1. TCP wasn't designed like that. It uses a rather simple scheme of sending back a byte count telling the other side up to what byte number it has received. So there's no provision for telling the other side that a bit in the middle is missing.

2. We don't send 1000s of packets at once because doing so would cause congestion on the Internet. So there's a whole subsystem in TCP that tries to determine the capacity of the link between two points and avoid creating congestion.

3. But the scheme you describe was actually added to TCP and it's called SACK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACK_(TCP)#Selective_acknowledgm... Note that the original article isn't talking about the case where packets are being lost.
<sarcasm>Seems legit.</sarcasm>
Excellent! Foot/extremities-that-aren't-finger controllers are a space that is ripe for innovation.

Similar ideas came up quite a few times in the recent MaKey MaKey design competition:

http://www.makeymakey.com/forums/index.php?topic=211.msg310#...

http://www.makeymakey.com/forums/index.php?topic=53.msg65#ms...

http://www.makeymakey.com/forums/index.php?topic=285.msg412#...

http://www.makeymakey.com/forums/index.php?topic=180.msg250#...

http://www.makeymakey.com/forums/index.php?topic=292.msg441#...

http://www.makeymakey.com/forums/index.php?topic=173.msg239#...

http://www.makeymakey.com/forums/index.php?topic=338.msg568#...

http://www.makeymakey.com/forums/index.php?topic=346.msg576#...
I myself am thinking of hosting all my school files next semester in Github. Its free, and fast, and, well, Git.
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Yes, you're likely thinking about the Aspera range of file transfer software which is quite popular within the film industry.

It's actually quite elegant; a control connection over SSH plus a custom UDP protocol (FASP) for data. It does work as advertised and has some nice features that are handy in production, but licensing is very expensive ($20K for point-to-point at 1gb/s).
"Doing that is impossible when no matter how far I scroll down your profile picture is stuck in the upper left corner of my screen."

An irritating feature displayed on many of the blogs which feature regularly on HN... (I'm looking at you Zach Holman... because your picture floats there) :)
Yeah I agree. I was looking forward to the other pages getting a makeover as well.
>I followed your simplistic line of reasoning just fine. It was wrong. Admit that and move on.

You are wrong, admit it and move on. Oh gee, does that not actually make a constructive argument?

>The biggest obstacle to Haskell becoming more popular is its advocates.

What does this have to do with anything?

>And, it will never replace Java, C, Python, or even PHP

It already has. You might be too foolish to take advantage of that fact, but how does your foolishness matter to me?
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Not sure - it really depends what you are trying to do. The problem we are attacking at Kormox is really a 'Fortune 500' one - which requires an enterprise sales cycle. But I am not sure what you guys are up to...
A couple of Airbrake tips
Are you trolling or incapable of reading? Nobody, at any point in time suggested that static typing was an alternative to unit testing. You haven't posted a single constructive thing in this entire thread, and you waited till it was over to do your trolling so you could avoid downvotes. Grow up, or go back to reddit.
What about environmental impact of delivering data via plane vs. cable? It's probably too complex to compute precisely, though.
And I (the author of this piece) wrote about bandwidth and latency for a major UK newspaper back in 1999: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/1999/mar/18/onlinesuppl...

There's nothing 'plagiarized' in this blog post.
> maybe just learning to use computers for the first time

I've been coding since I was 10 and I will choose iOS over Android as my tablet OS. I may be swayed by an ICS handset sooner or later, but for tablets it's a no-brainer. I think there is a noticeable absence of careful and deliberate design on the Android tablets (like the article's author points out in the device-maker-installed crapware), where the experience is driven by marketing people instead of technology and design.

iOS is not as power-user-friendly in the traditional sense. But an iPad is also not a traditional device. I have a few use cases for it:

* watching movies/shows
* playing music at home
* reading stuff (browsing online, or Instapaper, Kindle, iBooks)
* entertaining a toddler

Those are all "relaxed" sort of activities. Anything I'm doing on the iPad is secondary and I don't think more power-user features would change that.

That is, even if I could compile code or access the filesystem on the device, I would not, except out of curiosity. It wouldn't help me get any work done.
Reddit is very large: there are almost certainly subreddits for that sort of stuff. As an example, /r/Haskell[1] is fairly technical (it is frequented by people such as dons[2] and gwern[3], and presumably they would've moved on from r/haskell if it became overly banal).

(Also, a brief googling turns up /r/startups[4], but I've got no idea of its standard of discourse.)

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell
[2]: http://donsbot.wordpress.com/
[3]: http://www.gwern.net/
[3]: http://www.reddit.com/r/startups
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This is the precise reason I didn't hack up an interface for my midi pedal yesterday when I had this idea myself.
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In 1992 research was done that proved that modes can be made less confusing with feedback. Visual feedback is more easily ignored than audio feedback, but the best is kinesthetic, or physical feedback. Jef Raskin championed the use of "quasimodes", which are modes that are consciously maintained by the user. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_%28computer_interface%29#...
Visual Feedback and How Modes Kill
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Good work. Would love a kindle version.
Yes and yes. As of iOS 5.x, iPads can update their own OS over wifi without requiring a complete nuke-and-reinstall-from-backup (as was needed in previous iterations of the OS).
I see no mention of closures, callbacks or setTimeout/setInterval. Is this some kind of joke?
And "good choice" remains subjective. Round and round we go. Somebody stop this thing before I puke.
Madefire brings a new visual grammar to digital comics
>You're right about Samsung having reason to reduce their dependency on Google, but my point is they're going about it the wrong way from a UX point of view.

I would agree about them not switching connectors every year but I don't think that Samsung should be criticized for having a proprietary connector if they believe it's better than the standard.

Samsung is underrated in how much consumer draw they have. Samsung, along with Apple, have made every other Android OEM unprofitable. They've probably benefitted most from the collapse of Nokia.

>Apple has first-mover advantage: an 8 year legacy of dock-connector-compatible third party peripherals.

In a way it may be worse for Apple if they do change the dock connector because of the legacy hardware support for it and potential customer complaints.
There shouldn't be a stigma about ignorance like there is. Everyone is ignorant of lots of stuff, nobody knows everything. Knowing that you don't know something is good, not something to be ashamed of. If you are aware of what you don't know, then you can learn it.
Great project, I +1 this.

I was looking into hacking google translate myself, but failed, or perhaps did not spend enough time. Can you guys post a code on how to tap into word translation speech in google?
My point, really, was that even with inefficient and inappropriate packaging, the available raw transfer rate is already huge. It's just a matter of packaging what already exists into "data cargo containers" sized and priced appropriately.
Jef Raskin championed this style of interface where you only enter modes while performing an action, he called them quasimodes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(computer_interface)#Quasi...

He never mentioned pedals though, it's a really clever approach.
I wish I could have your optimism. But I believe that unless the millennials and gen-y-ers radically shift political thought, most governments will go in this way.

Security to protect ourselves against ourselves, up to the extent of thoughts possibly...

I agree with you 100% in that I also disagree with the general direction, I meant ourselves in the way that if it happens, we let it happen.
I'm also annoyed by the moving social sidebar that I stop reading immediately. Just make it fixed. Scrolling is a huge pain.
I'm indifferent, frankly. I think it's valuable to know the pros and cons of different approaches, but most of the time discussion around degrades into unproductive flame wars. It's understandable, though. Dedicating years to becoming good at one approach over another will make you defensive.
Pretty nice for beginners! I'd put more mundane shots in (like in the fourth chapter) so that people don't get discouraged because they don't have the eye for finding good subjects yet.
The take away here is not that they start social sites with fake content, but that in all probability, they never stop faking content and filtering the real input.

Boiler-room astro-turfing operations are SOP now for marketing operatives in both the commercial and the political venues.

The basic architecture of social sites is so wide open to miss-representation and gaming, its a marketers wet dream.
Larry Ellison is not a good enough boss to be Hank Scorpio.
Watchup wants to be a “Hulu for news junkies” on your iPad
I love this. I've felt for awhile that as an industry we should experiment with specialized forms of IO for specific tasks. I've protoyped some devices for rating tracks in iTunes (http://vimeo.com/24298670) and using a joystick to control move through code with a debugger. The keyboard, mouse, and touch screen are great for general purpose IO, but specific tasks can be preformed more efficiently with customized IO devices.
This seems like a good first step.

I never understood why people think we should try and abolish software patents. We can't. Period. There's too much money in them. We can attempt to reform or reshape them so they are less destructive, but crying for total abolition seems to be akin to attempting to abolish the IRS. It might make sense in a perfect world, but it will never, ever happen.
If you have a product that fits on a Gartner "magic quadrant", figure out what analyst writes it and get real friendly with that person.

Otherwise, you need a way to sell to the Executive level folks (ie. sell like IBM and Oracle). If you operate in or have access to the social stratum of corporate bigwigs, use that. Otherwise, you can hire $$$ salesfolk who have that access, or target mid-level managers and play the procurement game.

If you are interested in government... Find a lobbyist with a clue.
Governments will start 'lashing back' as Internet grows
Monarchy may be making a big comeback. And that's a GOOD thing. Try taking a break from jerking your knees and read "Democracy: The God that Failed", by Hans-Hermann Hoppe:

MONARCHY, DEMOCRACY, AND THE IDEA OF NATURAL ORDER
From the vantage point of elementary economic theory and in light
of historical evidence, then, a revisionist view of modern history results.
The Whig theory of history, according to which mankind marches continually forward toward ever higher levels of progress, is incorrect.
From the viewpoint of those who prefer less exploitation over more and
who value farsightedness and individual responsibility above short-
sightedness and irresponsibility, the historic transition from monarchy
to democracy represents not progress but civilizational decline. Nor
does this verdict change if more or other indicators are included. Quite
to the contrary. Without question the most important indicator of exploitation and present-orientedness not discussed above is war. Yet if this
indicator were included the relative performance of democratic republican government appears to be even worse, not better. In addition to
increased exploitation and social decay, the transition from monarchy to
democracy has brought a change from limited warfare to total war, and
the twentieth century, the age of democracy, must be ranked also among
the most murderous periods in all of history.

Long live King Larry of Lanai!
Looks like an interesting idea, but I'd be extremely wary of signing up for any site that rewards users for helping boost your SEO with inbound links. Google has traditionally been pretty harsh on anything resembling linkbuying, and these incentives seem to blur that line.

That said, I think there's a lot of room for improved, dead simple referral systems, and I'm glad to see another one enter the fray.
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PG probably did the same things with HN. :-)