skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'll probably be interested in Light Table: http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/04/12/light-table---a-new-...
> Politics/government is not an optional system; everyone has to take part (whether they want to or not.) Consumer technology is not enforced by police and armies, and should be free from the demands we may rightly have on our state.

In the information age, if you want to live a full life, then consumer technology is no more optional than government and politics.

This is not to say that there should be a strict separation of hardware and software. But it is an interesting idea.
Think of it like "texts from last night" for domain names. Our friends have great domain names like beerify.me, nerdharder.net, and unfriend.ly. We let you share the projects you were passionate about to get a domain for, but didn't end up doing anything with. This way you can at least get credit for being clever, and maybe even find a
collaborator.
> Fate of the World (http://fateoftheworld.net/) is an interesting indie strategy game.

Bought it today because of this recommendation. I hate you, Hacker News. ;).
That's Mind+Machines, and yes, it's a mega-landgrab. That guy has been going on and on for years about how amazing this will be and how everyone wants it. I cite: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090923_61_businesses_tell_ic...

It's a joke of a post of everyone who stands to make a pile of money saying there is community support for this.
Ok, I can (and do) agree that many startups fall into your category of "a cafe, a laptop and a stack of "For Dummies" boooks." But isn't that sort of thing the very thing Thiel was railing against recently? He was the one talking about "Why don't we have flying cars yet," no? So it appears that he, at least, thinks that some of the kids are going to lead something that results in some breakthroughs.

Note too, that these Thiel backed startups receive mentoring and advice and assistance from Peter and his network of connections. I'm sure some of them are able to put together teams of really talented people to complement the founder(s).
Ah but this will never ever happen as we all know. Apple has a great influence over consumers. I really try hard to rationalize this but I can't.

Using non-standard ports, having walled-garden approach, over-pricing, being over-arrogant, denying users the simplest rights as to install what ever they like. These must be enough reason for sane-people to stay away from Apple, but on the contrary they encourage people to be more connected to.

I can't understand humans.
Yeah, I am familiar with Readability but didn't know they had this program.

I think for the guys signing up and getting a 15 cent check, their form should also have the option of the site owner saying it's OK to just give the amount less than $1 or whatever to the charity since the cost of handling the check isn't really worth it on either end.
I think the glucose present in the cerebrospinal fluid is there for a reason. Probably not to power implants.

PS: I'm not a doctor.
In view of that, I am amazed there are three applicants for ".sucks". Funny, mebbe. worth 6 figures tho?
> If for example the child's Ipad was taken away because it was found out to be stolen property it would have an equally negative effect on her development.

No, it would not. In that scenario, her parents would have a straightforward recourse - go and buy her another iPad. The closest parallel would be a law that forbade her from using any portable computing device regardless of where it came from. And yes, that would be a call to arms to change legislation. Appeal to emotion is wrong in a technical debate. It is not automatically wrong in a moral debate. Emotion is where our sense of morals - of which the law is supposed to be an implementation - comes from in the first place.
there's the cynicism that makes America work, and why socialism sucks
Apple to Discuss iOS Security at Black Hat Conference
Currently, the "dot com/net/org" at the end of a spoken domain name clues the listener in to what they just heard. You think, "oh, a domain name, I'll visit it on my browser." But without that, a new spoken standard may have to be developed. If I hear "go to mint", without any other context, I will not know if that means a night club or a web site. Perhaps we'll have to say "www dot mint" to make it clear, but that's not optimal.
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ant was built specifically for building large Java projects, was it not?
The #1 Grossing Game On Android And iOS Has Almost Even Revenues From Both
The "nothing to fear/nothing to hide" also goes against the Presumption of innocence[1], present in many countries' civil law.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence
"camped on by some clown"

Why is that language necessary?

"Domain squatting is without worth and indefensible."

"Squatters" buy something with the hopes of reselling. Exactly what is wrong with that other than you are frustrated that you don't want to pay for what they have to sell? Are you also frustrated that real estate in Silicon Valley or NYC sells for so much money? That some people bought at the right time and can now sell for more? That some people own homes and don't use them full time? That someone should get to use the home and they should give them up?

"Squatters create nothing and they provide nothing of value"

They can provide a domain name that you want. Read below on what happens when a domain is owned by someone that doesn't care about money (google).

I understand that HN is certainly against squatters in the worst way. And that it is frustrating to deal with some domain sellers (this is part of what I do for people).

I'm not defending the practices of some who are unreasonable. (I also want to point out that I am both on the buying and selling end just like an attorney can represent both parties in a lawsuit. I also own domain names as further disclosure and I've sold them for plenty of money.)

There is a domain I was trying to get for someone that google owned and it was very clear they weren't going to sell the domain. Not for any price. Any price. They don't need the money. It took hours of effort to just track down the person who controlled the domain for google. No dice. Had the domain been owned by a speculator a deal would have been done easily. This happens frequently actually. You have a better chance of getting a domain if it's not being used at all and owned by someone who wants to make money then you do if it's owned by a company that either doesn't need the money or is using it for their bakery and doesn't want to rebrand.

"beat a squatter with a shovel"

I think you have to think about this. You have a serious anger problem.
Who will have control over these gTLDs? What I mean by that is: .com is controlled by the USG (indirectly). They can get a judge to take away a domain on a whim. Will that be the case with these new TLDs?
Apple Has Trouble Keeping Secrets
Examples of apps that follow the Holo/Android 4.0 style guidelines
Browsers assume you want to search for 'ac', you need to put http://ac explicitly. I wonder if they'll change that behavior now.
Quite well understood actually.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_respiration

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_transport_chain

One of the fundamental biochemical pathways and required reading for entry level life-sciences degree programs.
Dumb question and maybe off-topic but what happens to the $185,000 you pay for a gTLD? Does that go to charity or the US government keeps it or what?
What I find most interesting is that few people question why privacy is so important? Children have no sense of it - they have to be socialized to begin to value it. Many smaller societies have no sense of it. Yet a small child and someone from these societies understands immediately if you restrict their ability to move (and thus "freedom") I'm not sure privacy isn't just an extension of shamed based cultural values vs a universal human right like freedom of movement and thought.
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That's a great talk (see also chris granger's "light table", inspired by it), but is an example of a key truth of tools: the right "tool for the job". Like products with usages, tools are more or less appropriate for specific usages.

IDE's are great for navigating huge codebases, and massive libraries with long informative names (intellisense), integrated debuggers that can step into libraries, refactoring tools, etc. The visual gui builders are also really pretty cool - and a wysiwyg example not that far from Bret Victor. They require less effort (and skill) for these specific common tasks.

Bret's use of time is great for games, but not appropriate for all programming tasks. There's been extensive discussion of light table (here and on progit), about how it seems more suited to smaller, experimental coding (not large codebases) - but this remains to be seen, as the tool's not yet available.

I use vim myself, because I'm writing parsers and related code, an example of pure code (non-library, non-gui, non-web), leaning toward the algorithmic, which vim grew up around and was shaped by. Vim/emacs are still the deepest most fundamental level of coding - but that's only appropriate if you need to be working from first principles. Most of the time, for most high-value development, you're not. I think that for specific domains, where custom tools can get some leverage, it's more productive to use those tools. Tool for the job.
Confidentiality agreement negotiations. If you could streamline the process and get an NDA agreed in an hour, take a slice of each NDA signed (licence), you would be rich and loved.
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It's called your product.

Discuss.
>>Why is it so unreasonable to expect that there are some computer users that hold a similar attitude about their "luxury" computer brand?

Because Apple is trying to make easy things look so difficult that users rather believe in buying a new one rather than fixing it.

C'mon is changing RAM/battery/screen a rocket science? I can understand the Porsche analogy, but that rather fits well into things like tinkering with the engine etc. But will you throw away the whole car if the battery went dead on your Porsche?
You wouldn't be able to even read the text.

Scaling is really needed at this point. Primarily due to the size of the screen. If the screen was larger then allowing the native resolution wouldn't be a problem. But at the current screen size (15") you would have a really hard time reading text.

There are images out there of each of the hiDPI resolutions including the 1920 resolution. On my 1920x1200 resolution 23" cinema display it is readable. But even I squint a bit at text on this display and it's 23". I can't even imagine trying to use that resolution at 15".

Sorry, but Apple's "we know better than you" attitude is spot on with this particular thing.

I've been an Apple user for years and bought my first Mac (PowerBook G4) about 10 years ago. My main computer is a Mac Pro (2006) and is in dire need of replacement. I'm pretty peeved that the Mac Pros are not on the upgrade list this week. But I will not argue with them about this particular choice in not allowing native resolution on the new MBP Retina display.

Native resolution on that display would be next to impossible to view easily.
The evolutionary origins of optimism
nice twitter integration!
As much as I enjoy Batman, the nomenclature used in example is distracting. I am unable to quickly differentiate between past parts that are App specific from parts that are inherited from Batman.js. They should consider providining a more neutral example as well.
> According to my colleagues, this star researcher tends to begin with techniques, not problems. He first masters a technique that seems promising (and when I say “master,” I mean it — he really goes deep in building his understanding). He then uses this new technique to seek out problems that were once hard but now yield easily. He’s restless in this quest, often mastering several new techniques each year.

The Feynman algorithm for looking like a genius!
How long have you been using the new MBP?
You should tell your users to unplug their Macbooks more often. If you leave them plugged in 99% of the time the battery will fail a lot faster. It should drain and recharge every once a while.
My understanding is that Emacs is not really Unix in flavor or mentality. GNU's not Unix, remember. :-)

To the best of my knowledge - i.e., I've read somewhere - Emacs is a derivative in style from Lisp Machines at the MIT Lab. It's not really a Unix program.
Historically, it seems academics have created the technologies and then "high school dropouts" would pickup on that technology, apply it to the real world, and make a fortune. Obviously some academics have been able to their ideas to market, Google is a notable example, but generally it does not seem to work out that way.

It is no wonder that the bright minds are starting to want to focus more on the business side so they too can make the fortunes. College is not necessarily an asset for that role. To see them return to school to create the technologies will require incentives that can compete on the level that running a major business offers, and I'm not sure where we'd even begin to make that happen. How do you compete with the American Dream itself?
The full series: http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/series/unix-as-ide/
I've not seen the display in person. But some initial take aways are this:

People kept saying that the iPad's Retina display wasn't worth it and that they couldn't see the difference. Then quickly proclaimed after a week or more of usage that they cannot fathom going back to the iPad 1 or 2 display.

I suspect the same is true of the new MBP display. While it may seem "ok" now. Give yourself time with it and you'll have a hard time going back to anything else.
It's a complex topic, and I'm no expert. But based on all of the contradictory studies out there, I don't think it's quite as simple as you're making it sound.

For example, a new study done in Sweden was in the press recently which sounds to run counter to the ones you've linked to.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2157532/Atkins-die...

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/06/time-to-re...
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Every netbook comes with ethernet. Generally not with a disc drive, not because the thickness is a concern but because a disc drive is bigger than a 7" computer.

Thickness is the culprit here for both ethernet and ROM, and this drive to thin machines makes no sense on a laptop marketed for professional users.
I grudgingly agree. It is frustrating but something created while using an IDE tends to create specific ways of thinking.

For example, most IDE developers tend to love their debuggers... want to learn something? Just run the debugger! Want to debug something, hey run that debugger and watch 'dem breakpoints!

When I code without a debugger I tend to write smaller, easier testable code because I lack a real way to step through a convoluted process. I feel this encourages a simpler application (but I have no study to prove that).

Another example is most Java/C# work tends to be in the center of the unknown universe. You are editing something twelve layers deep in a mess of public/private/protected objects and you aren't sure if the item you should call is the MarginalFlowStateController or the ControllingMarginalFlowState... with an IDE you would just open up both of them, their unit tests, and any documentation until you discover which one you should be calling.

It bothers me because I really enjoy my vi/tmux development environment where every time I :w a file and run a test I am running on virtually the exact same environment as dev/qa/pre/prod.
I don't know, but if you're looking for ideas, try here:

http://paulgraham.com/ideas.html

http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html

http://paulgraham.com/ambitious.html

http://www.quora.com/Startup-Ideas/As-of-2012-what-are-some-...

If I had to recommend one area to explore, I'd say something to do with lightweight, portable electrical power. As handheld and portable computing devices proliferate, battery life and recharging shenanigans are becoming more and more obnoxious. Especially at airports like O'Hare where electrical outlets are in short supply. A breakthrough in fuel cell technology or something of that nature would be nice.

Also, anything based on allowing people to self-organize into groups for mutual purposes, in such a way as to reduce (or eliminate) the status of "government" as-we-know-it as the default mechanism for communal / collective initiatives.
Cross-domain POST is not possible with all browsers (I presume IE is the main culprit, as usual).
Well you could until they released this model...
Interesting read. The Load More button fails on Chrome/Mac: it shows the entries I've already read, can scroll down for more but then it just keeps repeating itself.
How to rewire your brain to be more optimistic
Let me begin with this, you hate me. And I think that's ok. I made a living off domains for a while and continue to make money from them. Moving on...

I don't think that your solution is a real one. Getting 'discouraged and fucking right off' isn't going to happen as long as there are financial rewards. The best example is actual domain squatting (infringing on a company's TMs). The US implemented some HARSH penalties (up to 100k damages under ACPA) for it. It still exists. It still is PROFITABLE. People just setup empty corps in far away places with different laws.

You want to mandate some sort of content law on 200million domains? Here's just a few problems off the top of my head:

-new registrations - how long until content needs to be active?

-sold/transferred/traded names - same as above

-brand protection names without content?

-redirects?

-pages full of advertising?

-autoblogs full of auto content and ads?

-aggregators with ads?

There are a lot of strange cases and a very slippery slope when dealing with what is and isn't content. Finding someone to enforce that on hundreds of millions of sites? That just isn't going to work. It will mess everything up.

And guess what, those guys who are making all the money from domains now? We have the most to lose. We will know the rules the best and get around them.

You're not going to legislate it away or enforce it away. It just won't work.
Why? The guy just registered the domain of his surname (he's called Uzi Nissan).
Anecdote: I was searching for domain names yesterday on my iPad 1, with my daughter asleep on my shoulder, and found 2 unregistered domains that I am considering buying in about 10 minutes. To say the least, I was not being very efficient and still found 2 domains I liked in 10 minutes where each would cost me under $10. There were a few others that squatters were selling that I also liked for under $20.

If you can't find a domain that you like at a reasonable price, you're doing it wrong. There's still a ton of domains not squatted on and squatted domains at reasonable prices out there waiting to be registered.
There needs to be far better evangelism/PR to tell people the right way to do all these things so that they understand how to do all the IDE stuff, the truth is that the number of use cases people need is not unlimited... of course it is good to know the full range of flexible tools, but it's far from obvious to most people whether or not find | xargs grep is good or not, or how to do a method rename
But the price is different. Much different.
Gray text is great for text that needs to be readable but not as 'priority' or demarked away from the body text, but I agree it's horrible when you see an all Gray block. My eyes do not love having to try and focus on gray contrast levels for much longer than a few seconds.
http://theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.ca/2012/02/software-cl...
I'd really like to understand what hugely difficult technical issues you're talking about. Funding the development of a new higher DPI display?
I think gamification may not be able to directly teach a deep understanding. However, I think it may be able to encourage the development of a work ethic that will help to build a deep understanding.
That's very noble. But if that 50k domain name would beat the returns on all the other ways you are talking about deploying your capital, it only makes sense to buy it.
"ICANN should deal with this problem by mandating that you have content on the site to eliminate squatting."

Care to give an definition of "content on the site"?

"They'd need to keep up on it"

So you are mandating that content needs to be fresh and change. Exactly how often?
I might not. But at least give me the option to.
I'm almost as scared about privacy breaches in the private sector. I read a while back about Target sending out ads for pregnancy related products to a teenage girl. Their data crunching algorithms had picked up on the fact that she was pregnant before she even told her parents.
Can you tell me the case where separating hardware from software created superior product?
Anyway, I am too tired to argue with FOSS extremists touting their imaginary world with imaginary benefits and solutions for imaginary threats for imaginary users.
"Users" ir the key word there. Majority of the people using software are just users, not programmers. We are not all butchers, bakers, and car mechanics. We don't have problems some imagine we have.
TextMate commands written in node.js
> It's a terrible environment, but I bet being a supreme court Justice is also a terrible environment.

In the books I've read on the topic like _The Nine_, it's sounds like a terrific environment. You are incredibly respected by everyone you meet, you have a light workload which is self-chosen and also extremely important and you can see the consequences of your work without doubt, you work with other highly competent people, you can indulge in things like teaching your pet subject in your offtime and be paid very well for it, you get to select the most talented young lawyers as your staffers, and so on and so forth.
No, unless you carry it around a lot, at which point durability is more important than thinness resulting in thinness not being important.

So ultimately, no it's not regardless of the use case.
Nissan Motor Corp is after ".nissan".

I would be amused beyond words if Uzi Nissan/Nissan Computer Corp also applied for ".nissan". ( He's current owner of nissan.com and has had a long fight with Nissan over the domain name. )
Devil's advocate: how is this different from real estate? You can always get a domain name of some sort- it just might not be in a desirable TLD (neighbourhood). If you want a desirable address, you have to pay more.
Nobody supports it yet and it's already done better using preprocessors like Sass. Your move, Sherlock.