skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The premise of my post is that your first assertion ("an icon is an ad") is not a fact, but a choice. If you search for "email" in the App Store, would Sparrow jump out at you? No, but they've chosen not to pursue that "advertising" strategy. Their growth is based on fully delighting their users with the product, and an icon which, IMO, looks like it always belonged on my phone.

Sparrow's growth comes from happy customers (and some traditional advertising), not an icon that looks like an ad.

I'm curious how you A/B test app icons...Do you switch from one version to the next and compare downloads?

Also, can you clarify what you mean by "developers are...incentivized against #2"?
Lady Gaga’s social network “Little Monsters” opens its doors to everyone
The idea that Mr. Manson's heart is brought back home by a visit to Pizza Hut is even more damning to his credibility! But seriously, he sounds like another lazy, judgmental tourist.
I know their strategy is "everything online", but if 20+ million people are using it (from the article) then that market doesn't look like such a waste of time, does it?
I COMPLETELY agree! Those of us that used menus or hotkeys ended up screwed. Discover-ability is MUCH higher in the pre-ribbon version.
I’m doing a new startup
Though I do agree about BlackBerrys consumer prospects, any business with a few thousand deployments will probably be interested. Python+Qt look like a nice combination for rapid 'app' development.
Why can't a company worth nearly a billion dollars just go public? There are thousands of public companies worth less than a billion. So why sell your soul to a VC who could push you into a situation that could make you implode, rather than raise money on an open market and give up less control?
This is not what insulin resistance is (Read his own link):
>Your body reacts to the sweetness and produces insulin, which when not paired with actual sugars, turns into fat.

Additionally, items which digest to glucose trigger insulin production. Aspartame has repeatedly been shown to not. Most other low calorie sweetners, additionally, have not as well.

Saccharin had one study that showed a correlation, however, several other studies did not.

However, protein does: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1946186
Amazon economy: From warehouse to powerhouse‎
Reread the blog post. Misunderstood the issue. I stand corrected.
Already had 3 wives, didn't need another.
One thing most people don't mention about bitbucket is the cost of their plans.

Github: $7/mo for 5 repos, unlimited collaborators.

Bitbucket: $0/mo for unlimited repos, 5 collaborators max. Then, it starts at $10/mo for 10 collaborators and continues at a tiered rate of $1/mo per collaborator until you hit $200/month. Only then is it unlimited on collaborators.
Holistic Sentiment Analysis Across Languages, Part I: LDA
That is not true, it was a truefact that squirted around health junkies that wasn't backed up by a consensus of the science.
"are complaining on HN to warn others about scammers and unsavory companies "

And in the case of this particular issue we know nothing of the person lodging the complaint other than their karma score.

Why is this even to be taken on face value anyway from someone with no contact info that has provided what amounts to little info other than:

"This is the jpegmini contest that I entered to win a Nikon D5100 Camera. They pulled their pages down after the contest ended so I had
to pull these from google cache. For the record, I blocked out all names and twitter handles aside from my own and jpegmini's. "

Edit: "their karma score" (if you don't want to read their comments and make a judgement on their credibility of course which most won't have the time to do).
How is this different from Hackpad (YCW12)?
RIP In-Home Tech Support, Long Live Apple
See [0] and [1] for a bit more context. It seems the very high latitude is good for a satellite base station.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Satellite_Station
[1] http://www.ksat.no/node/77
My guess is that they decided to ship an incomplete Windows RT rather than wait until they could do the obvious thing (provide a complete metro). It's a question of practicality winning over perfection. Think of this as MS Tablet 1.0. It's not perfect, but Windows 9 will be better, and so on.

Will anyone develop software? I'm sure they will for one definite reason - hope. Lots of folks in the ecosystem with skills in ms tool chain etc. who will prospectively develop stuff. But key developers will only ship stuff if the platform is successful.

Windows 8 is certainly a sign that MS is steering in the right direction. Its income base isn't disappearing immediately, so it may have the time to do its usual thing of getting it good enough in version 3. Windows 8 seems close enough that MS might even have it right by version 2.

Here is where I think Microsoft may have screwed the pooch:

* Orphaning WP7.

* Possibly orphaning/pissing off its third party partners. (When will they give up their abusive relationship?)
Because dignity: our packets need it.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4220637
And the most relevant:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Proposal:_New_Release_a...
Sort of: Popular game devs are generally good ones, interestingly. Take notch or Wolfire or any of the other small indie game studios. The non-quality stuff like "Angry Elephants 3 HD Knockoff Version!" comes from devs that also have no social contact.
Give up less control with a public company, really?
Holy crap this is cool: Ken Block's Ultimate Urban Playground: San Francisco
That's exactly what Firefox developers like Henri Sivonen [1] and David Baron [2] think, and their proposals have a lot of support within Mozilla and a high chance of being adopted. It would be great to get other vendors on board too.

[1] http://hsivonen.iki.fi/vendor-prefixes/ (see "Keep Experimental Features in Experimental Builds")

[2] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/itl6mtx... (dbaron is Mozilla's representative to the W3C Advisory Committee as well being a principal engineer on the layout team and deeply involved in the development of CSS over the past decade.)
Isn't PadLister a direct competitor? CL is right to tell you piss off. No one is falling for this "man of the people" crap, it just makes you look dumb. Sorry to be harsh but you seem to be deceiving yourself, why not start a legitimate business?
Will Valve be promoting Steam Greenlight using Greenlight itself?

If not, why not?
It goes without saying..... check out vimgolf if you haven't - whether novice or expert, competing or just reading, you learn new stuff.

Don't become too plugin dependent too early, but a quick browse through some other's dotfile repositories (yadr is worth looking at, especially if you are on a mac - not necessarily to use, but definitely to see what's possible).
Things like EasyMotion really make you think.
As do things like persistent undo files. (gundo and other stuff)

At some point you should be buildilng up your own set of dotfiles from scratch.... not just relying on someone elses (some day some bug hits you and you have no idea where to start otherwise)
Not a charity, but generates huge consumer surplus (i.e. makes my life better by a lot more than they cost).

If Google didn't exist, my life would probably be $20k/yr worse due to search, $5-10k for maps, and $3k/yr worse due to Reader. Maybe $500/yr for News. Google Plus not existing would make my life better (since people who post would post on fb instead, where I'd actually read them).
Start with Nietzsche or Plato. (Easy reading) Avoid Kant for now. (Hard reading) I'd recommend an overview-type book first, try Archetypes of Wisdom, or even the audiobook series Giants of Philosophy.

http://www.amazon.com/Archetypes-Wisdom-Introduction-Douglas...

http://www.amazon.com/Giants-Philosophy-Series-Audio-Classic...

Also, working chronologically is probably a good idea. You'll get to see how ideas have developed (and stayed the same) over the ages.

Source: philosophy major.
If Mozilla is looking to reallocate R&D resources, I would suggest retiring SeaMonkey.
attach/dtach/dvtm perhaps then......
I totally identify with everything you've described. I'm also starting to think this approach is not healthy, as I am exhausted on my way back home. Thanks for writing this, as it perfectly describes how I am feeling right now.

Word of advice - get some sleep tonight. Not every night, but at least tonight. You can't do this to yourself every night. Force yourself to get to bed before 11pm. Your health and your family are more important than your startup even if you have an illness.

I went to be at 1am last night, but tonight I am calling it early. Or at least I am going to try.
How about requiring laws to use version control. As it is now bills go into conference committee and no one knows who added what provisions.
Congrats GH! Sounds like a good match. Excited to see how it plays out.
Stop the Minimum Fare Language in DC Uber Amendment
Haha, well that is certainly one way to stick it to your competition ;)

But seriously, great app. Keep up the good work!
Authentic Creation Manifesto: How Entrepreneurs Express True Love
Vigilantes Have Renamed "The new iPad"
I agree with you up to a point but given the hardware of the time, it was certainly possible to make the OS more robust than it was prior to the switch to NT everywhere, and to Microsoft's credit they did make the correct decision.

Now, despite the lingering snarkiness from the *nix-hipsters, Windows is incredibly robust... even more so today since in Vista and on even the graphics driver can crash without an OS restart in most cases.
Except in this case, aren't they the monolithic "publisher"? Not technically publishers but they are now holding the gates to all the users who are not willing to register / pay on a separate site or run down to a store. Sort of similar to the apple app store.
Embracing the Differences : Inside the Netflix API Redesign
Identi.ca isn't exactly a committee effort though. The vast majority of development comes from Status.net, which makes money (apparently) by selling/setting up private instances for enterprise usage.
AgileZen did all this and some of their initial customers were law firms--hardly software dev only.

Trello has an iOS app that is really it's biggest strength. I still like the full color cards for AgileZen over Trello, but they are both very similar.
Chris Hughes (Co-Founder of Facebook) acquires New Republic
Nothing at all like reddit. Way too overdesigned and glitzy.
Dynamic Page Generation in jQuery Mobile
Using Trello to manage your life
Meh. You have your opinions, I have mine. I'll continue writing in Python while you wish and wait.
I still think it would be possible to work this out with a more creative ToS. Problem one could be managed by making it part of the ToS that you won't aggregate from other sites. Problem two could be managed either by making it part of the ToS that you don't post your own listings, or by making you pay to have them listed at Craigslist at the same time.
My preferred solution at the moment is that they do what they are doing for Windows 8's surface UI for both touch and hybrid devices, but also continue with the strain of Windows that is targeted to mouse-and-keyboard.
I suppose I had assumed all these cables were strictly fiber optic. Indeed fascinating. I should study up to remove my default assumptions.
Scads have been written on the problems around morality so it is certainly not an over and done with "couldn't be more obvious" issue. The problem is we deem it one of these issues with no further debate - it's a nearly universal modern prejudice to which most of us are blind. There is tons of literature dealing with questions like: Have there been different moralities throughout history? (Hint: There have. In reading Aristotle we see that lying was considering virtuous and pity a sickly and dangerous state of mind.) Is thinking for humans really otherwise than an instinctual act? If not then what does that say for personal responsibility? Is there perhaps something valuable to sustaining life in lying, selfishness, self-deception, etc? Of course you probably deem all of these easily answerable questions, but I assure you a little digging below the surface and they are remarkably difficult and fascinating questions most of which still do not have answers.
Hands-on with TED Books for iOS: discoverability is good, polish needed
I like the tables but not a big fan of the benches. Uncomfortable after a couple hours, and really inconvenient when it's full of people and someone new wants to sit down (you want to pull the bench back to sit, but if people are on it you can't, and you can't really easily step in with people on each side of the empty space, either).

Chairs would probably turn into a fiasco, but are more comfortable, even the cheap white foldable kind.
We've been working on the PySide port for a month now, and it still has some issues. Overall though, it's quite usable and capable of creating full-fledged apps with.

You should check out our samples. They're a bit crude right now, but hopefully they'll highlight what is and will be possible.
As I read the page, this is in addition to whatever methods they have currently. A good thing.

Go Steam!
One advantage for Microsoft is that the Linux desktop environments currently also mess around with their UIs. Maybe in the long run it may turn out well but currently Gnome Shell and Unity make life hard for people who just want to use Facebook.
As the son of a military officer who has stayed everywhere in India (north/east/west/south) from childhood to adulthood, I can confidently and un-equivocally state that Kerala is amongst the _least_ corrupt states in India. My personal view is supported by several reports of corruption in India (Google them).
Not sure if this is a good idea, but it might help: https://github.com/pfraze/lugg
I'm guessing apple just doesn't care that much about the secondary market for their products since they make all their money off selling new products. It'd be nice if they did though!
regulatory issues
Question: is anyone working through Numerical Linear Algebra, or has done so in the past?

http://www.amazon.com/Numerical-Linear-Algebra-Lloyd-Trefeth...

I'm having a really tough time with the exercises even though I should have the prereqs... What can I say, we don't do much rigorous math in engineering.

Anyways this book came highly recommended to me from a friend in quantitative finance.
Not just movie/music studios. Who could reap huge rewards from great distributed version control? Anyone who collaborates on some computer file regularly.

So everyone. Or at least everyone who works in an office.

My own erstwhile field of small business accounting is all about version control. An enormous amount of energy goes into keeping tabs on which file is most current and ensuring that work isn't done in a non-current file.

Same thing for anyone who regularly collaborates on documents or spreadsheets or images: lawyers, advertisers, my friend the outdoor school counselor, journalists, etc.

The state of the art here isn't very good. For all the products out there, I'd guess 90% of actual version control happens via emails. Case in point:

A journalist friend of mine is currently attempting a small intra-office coup to switch from Email/Excel to Asana for scheduling and managing the editing process. It is not going well. Email/Excel will probably win.

But the old people won't be around forever. The opportunities to improve on the state of the art are vast. The amount of energy people spend on keeping current could be dramatically reduced.

Github has plenty of potential.
Uh, because deaf people can't hear it.

Using keyboards to voice speak would essentially make all deaf people mute to each other. Using gloves mean people who speak can be integrated into a deaf community.
Why The Boycott Apple Movement Matters; Why It's Not Dumb - Muktware
Using Total Commander, hit F6 (move), hit tab to move to the "only files of this type" box, type "A*Z", and then hit Enter.
This, a thousand times. Sequencing is rapidly becoming cheap and routine. Translating that data into clinically actionable insights is the hard part.
How does Unity make your life hard? I'm on osx myself but I love the unity interface and everyone that I've seen using it seems to easily find their way.
This paper's title says he studied mouse leukemia, but does anybody have a link to the human leukemia paper?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3069786/
He did this in from idea to finished experiment in 4 days and used about 300 lines of Ruby. Strong demonstration of how low the barrier can be to working with big data.

"The key lesson I’ve learned from the exercise is that given the tools and data available today, either for free, or at very low cost, it’s possible for anyone to work with relatively Big Data without too much weeping and gnashing of teeth."
It's easier for me to listen to other people's success stories than to write my own. I am concerned that I spend too much time learning how to be successful and not enough time actually working on being successful.

Holy cow you stole words from my brain! But, after battling with this feeling for a while, I've finally come to a working solution.

The mistake I was making was taking other people's results as the lesson. That led me down all the wrong rabbit holes and left me feeling exactly as you do.

What I now do when I listen to Mixergy or any other startup stuff is treat it as stories and try to learn what experiments to run, what to test within the framework of my work.

I do not let any of it derail my own plans.

This means I don't randomly read or listen to stuff any more. When I am working on my site's marketing, I will go and find some marketing material. If I'm working on A/B testing, I'll read up on that.

And finally, sometimes I just have to let go and watch some random stuff because I do enjoy it. It's like war stories to me.

Don't get down. If you're really not getting much work done, then just shut it all out for a bit and get the work done.
As a user (a pretty hardcore travel optimizer, buying either absolute cheapest complex fare, or "value" premium fares), Kayak is one of the few travel sites I actually like.

Someone from there (CEO? CTO) has posted on hn and/or quora and seemed really smart, too. Obviously they're in quiet period now so won't be commenting.

They seem pretty flight-optimized, at least for me, which is a much lower source of revenue than hotels. If they can grow their standalone hotel res business, or add hotels to flight purchases, they'll be worth a lot more than even being totally successful on flights. (I book all my hotels direct with starwood or with the property on negotiated rates, though, or use airbnb or a few specialty negotiated-rate networks like Tablet).
Even worse a deaf person can't hear a typo when they say fuck pudding instead of fig pudding.
That's not exactly correct. Windows RT is a subset of the Windows 8 application environment. If you develop for Windows RT you'll be able to deploy to both x86 and ARM devices.

But the argument stands if you call them 'Windows tablets' just the same. UEFI tablets that come with Windows may or may not have another OS installed. ARM-based ones cannot.
> Maybe I'm just naive, but how large are most git repos?

The last 2 private repos I created grew to ~800mb each. And those were rather small projects. (We put PSDs and raw audio into the repo.)
James, what challenges (psychological or physiological) did you experience when you started eating meat again? As a vegetarian of 13 years, I have trouble finding low-carb options but I don't think I could eat meat again.
Couldn't you do that from your computer the night before?
I would imagine has more to do with the absolute shambles that is the Cuba economy. When you can't feed your populous, underseas communication cables seem like a bit of a luxury.
try w3m-mode (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/emacs-w3m)
I agree with you. IITians are not good at fundamental science for which nobel is awarded, otherwise they would have gotten it by now.
sounds like asker/guesser striking again (<http://ask.metafilter.com/55153/Whats-the-middle-ground-betw...). i've had a job implode, and endless relationship friction, because i'm an asker all the way (as i expect are most people here).

are you and your gf (and the people you ask for advice) from different cultures at all? (could be america/canadia, new york/midwest, or just that you're a normal geek and she isn't.)
I'm a Mixergy premium subscriber and was at Andrews event in Austin during SXSW. It's mostly all great content but I must say I probably haven't logged in to listen to anything within the last 3 months or so because I've just been so busy and trying to focus on creating rather than spending so much time learning.

I feel like I often go through phases where I'll learn a lot of new techniques and then spend time implementing but lately implementing has been taking up a lot of my time.
What are the good alternatives for a lightweight IMAP email client? Outlook is pudgy and wants Exchange too badly.
His behavior is not incompatible with respect, and you're being pedantic. I really wish "beating an argument to death with Merriam-Webster" wasn't as common on HN as it is.

One can respect Craigslist for their history, and what they have done for the online community in the past, without conceding the right to say that they're wrong now, and that you'll be proceeding without their blessing.

One can also respect and understand Craigslist's objection to Padmapper scraping their site, without conceding that the good vastly outweighs whatever valid concerns may exist.

Respect is a complicated social concept, the colloquial usage of the word even more so. Using dictionary definitions to try and corner complex social phenomena is at best a poor idea, at worst an attempt at being disingenuous.
"we’ve come to expect precise and sequential product naming from Apple - the iPhone, followed by the iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4, and 4S."

I think Apple is correcting a mistake that they made. Most Apple laptop owners have no idea what generation product they have. I own a MacBook Air. Before that I owned some Macbooks, MacBook Pros, and Powerbooks. The same with iPods, though there was differentiation based on features (remember the iPod Photo?).

I suspect that the next iPhone will just be "the new iPhone" as well. There will be another "new iPad" released and then another "new iPhone". When you want an iPad or an iPhone, go buy one. It will be new unless it is used.

"Because of this precise naming, it’s easy to identify and buy them used on secondary markets like eBay and Craigslist. However, if you’re looking to buy the latest iPad, are you really just supposed to type “the new iPad” into a search box and reliably get results for the 3rd generation model?"

Yes, if buying a new iPad you should just be able to go to Apple.com or BestBuy.com and type in iPad to buy the newest one. As for buying them used or from unauthorized dealers, I can imagine Apple caring about that problem anytime soon.
I call mine iPad (Early 2012), which is also how you refer to MacBooks (e.g. MacBook Pro 17 (Mid 2010)). There's also the model identifier like "Model Identifier:	MacBookAir4,2" but other than developers, no one uses that.
It makes me curious, what will the next iPad after "The New iPad" will be called?

And how will Apple refer to "The New iPad" after it is, uh, old.

It reminds me of the eighties. "Star Trek, the Next Generation" is now many generations behind...
The article misses the obvious comparison to the Mac line. Over time people will naturally refer to them by the year they were released.