skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. "By the time I was a grown-up we would be whizzing around in bullet trains and hypersonic jets,..."

I'm bothered more by not having bullet trains (in America) and hypersonic jets. If you compare getting 2 dozen people to Mars vs building futuristic cities, transportation, etc., I think humanity will benefit much more if we bring 7 billion people into the future.

Just imagine, for example, a kid in the slums of Rio studying online to earn her degree from a future version of Udacity, after which she finds a job in London so she jumps on a plane for the 2 hour flight. After a year, she buys an apartment 100 miles outside and commute 30 minutes every day to work by maglev. With hypersonic flight she can fly home for long weekends to visit her family...

In short, the point let's first invest in making our world smaller and educate more people so more people come online to help contribute in some meaningful way.
I have been looking for basically that. I stumbled across this http://www.improvelectronics.com/us/en/. Anyone have experience with it?
I shall look forward to seeing you do that.
How is this news? This happened for years.
I was 9 years old when this happened. Watched it live on TV. It's hard to describe the feeling of what things were like then. The world stopped and looked, for just a moment. The Vietnam war was in full swing, the cold war kept cold, politics continued as usual. But for the first time in human history, you could look up at the moon in the sky and think, "We've been there."
1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple’s Future
But there has been precisely no progress.

It still takes just as long to manipulate your computer (possibly longer) and it's more complicated and more unpredictable too.

Progress now is considered to be adding more features which guide people through the mess in front of them.

Every new operating system release is a symptom of that.
What is a power user of a mobile phone, and what makes a 3.5" screen unacceptable?

edit: Ah, I see. Reading a lot. I actually read all of Guns, Germs, and Steel on my iPhone 4S earlier this year, and probably do an hour or two of reading on it a day in total.

It's not necessarily an ideal experience, but it certainly isn't terrible. I'm looking forward to the rumored 4" screen on the upcoming The New iPhone, but I think that 4.5" and 5" are both way too big.

The impression I get is that most larger screens out there today don't pack in larger pixels, but instead just use bigger pixels. Ultimately, I'm more interested in the quality of the text than I am the total number of lines I can see at one time. For instance, before I got the retina screen-equipped iPad this year, I actually preferred reading on the iPhone to the iPad by a wide margin.
I think the real amazing thing is that the protocols for the internet took brilliant people years to figure out. Ants do it as one self-organizing body, anarchically.

I've always been fascinated by the collective intelligence of an ant colony. This drives it home even more.
Aside from the keyboard (which is significant IMO), this phone differs from the iphone in that:

* this phone has curved (not flat) ends

* four HW buttons on the front (rather than one)

* it's black with a black border (has any iphone had that? Usually the iphone border is in a contrasting color)

* has a big "samsung" on the front

It's pretty distinct, hardware-design wise.
I checked this, but only got more confused. I made a copy of TextEdit, did all kinds of things with it (append some text to the executable, edited Info.plist and version.plist, threw away a zillion localizations, threw away the _CodeSignature directory), and never got Mountain Lion to complain. The mangled either launched or, in one case (I tried renaming the executable and adjusting the .plists to match), did not launch at all.

The only way I could get a code signing warning is by adding the com.apple.quarantine extended attribute (using xattr)

So, it looks like Mountain Lion only does a signing test for just downloaded apps, and then, I guess, only for downloads by applications that cooperate and set that flag.

I do think Apple has considered/is considering/would like to add more testing, though. Otherwise, I cannot explain the -P flag for codesign:

-P, --pagesize pagesize
Indicates the granularity of code signing. Pagesize must be a power of two.
Chunks of pagesize bytes are separately signed and can thus be independently
verified as needed. As a special case, a pagesize of zero indicates that the
entire code should be signed and verified as a single, possibly gigantic
page. This option only applies to the main executable and has no effect on
the sealing of associated data, including resources.
I'm actually not an audiophile, and I've had a hard time breaking into it as people aren't very welcoming. Your comment puts an exclamation on that point.

Bash, bash, this is why I'm better than you, more bash, etc..

I am just getting started, and I LOVE the setup I've put together which is what I reviewed. I'd like to get involved in audio meets, but I haven't had any luck breaking into them. (Austin, TX.)
There are comments on stackoverflow that setting headers via xhr isn't completely reliable.
Speaking of pricing, even your initial rate is too high for my blood. Are you going to be offering it up in different formats? I'm only personally interested in a Kindle Fire edition, but the only site reference is to "book", which I'd believe to be paperback but I could be wrong.
At a ten feet distance.

Do you seriously believe that anyone actually bought a Galaxy Tab by mistake, thinking it was an iPad?
I don't see what in everything you said can be defined as a risk. True facts maybe, but risks? And a lot of this can also be said when getting a job in a big company.
My guess is chemical signal. This is based on my knowledge of there tracking system. When a forager finds food, it leaves a chemical trail on its way back to the nest. Future ants follow that trail to the food source. If they find food, they also leave a trail on there way back, otherwise they don't and the old trail fades away.

Also, given there small size, I can't imagine how they could have an effective central command structure, especially when there are simple protocols that allow each ant to act autonomously while still being highly effective for the hive.
I'd say it's always better to be a little over dressed than a little under dressed.
By owning a patent, he's got a vested interested in patents in general being enforced broadly and damage judgments being high.

No, I don't think you want someone like that on the jury. I'd take ignorance over bias.
Yeah, I feel like many HN readers think this is Apple vs Android, but it's not. HN readers want to defend Android, so they feel this is the case where Apple battles Android, but really the case has little to do with Android. In most of the cases where Samsung copies Apple, the Android default implementation would have prevented that. Android handsets usually have a micro usb connector, but Samsung chose to copy Apple's 30 pin connector over the Android default. Why would anyone do that unless they wanted to clone Apple?
Doing it for (American) football made it much easier for me to follow along. I suspect the same will be true for yachting. Personally, I love it.
Of course it's bad for "building real businesses". However, for those starting and running companies that get acquihired, it's the rational decision: our current technology, software and tech labor markets dramatically undervalue both R&D spending and work done for hire in general. The acquihire has become, for the seller, one of the few ways of capturing the full value of their labors, and for the seller, a replacement for internal research and development.
Maybe that is his point. Good product names with two words must be able to rank high for both "twowords" and "two words"(with space).
> It's bad for users/customers, who frequently lose access to products they had been using as they get shut down or EOL'd as part of the acquihire.

Who can say how many of those products would have been shut down or EOL'd as part of a bankruptcy?

> It's bad for entrepreneurs trying to build a real business

As someone who recently sold his company in an acquihire, I resent your suggestion that I wasn't trying to build a real business.

> I strongly believe that most acquihires are a bad deal for the buyer.

My new boss & team seem to be ecstatic with the deal so far... maybe we're an outliner?

> I do find it almost impossible to believe that this is actually a cost-effective recruiting method.

Do you have any clue how much money the likes of the big tech companies spend on recruiting? I get the sense that you have no clue. Most acquihires are peanuts, compared to the aggregate cost of assembling a high caliber team by other means.

I won't comment on the particulars of our deal, suffice to say that our company's numbers were traveling "up and to the right" and that we had investor interest. We drank a lot of beer and lost a lot of sleep, but ultimately decided that the acquihire was the right move for everyone involved.

Never forget, startups are a Repeated Game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeated_game
Agreed.

"Metaphors and similes do nothing but obscure the beauty of technology" -- Charles Petzold, "CODE"

And more bluntly:

"I dislike allegory wherever I smell it." -- J.R.R. Tolkien
Well, all this story tells me is that the folks who frequent Starbucks aren't the sharpest tools in the shed.
That's not something noticeable during basic desktop use. I've used VMWare Fusion a fair amount and I was very impressed. I imagine someone non-technical would not be able to tell the difference.
Yes, used this plus Backbone to make a nice spatial+hierarchical information manager, pretty much a mind map.
From my knowledge, ants operate with no leadership, completely self-organizing. The term "queen" is inaccurate. The queen really just lays eggs; she does not act as a leader. The true brilliance of ants comes from the fact that they can literally think as a group, kind of like neurons. Each one on its own is essentially worthless, but in a communicating, non-hierarchical group, the whole becomes much more than the sum of the parts.

I do know that most communication is done via chemical exchange between individuals, but as far the "algorithms" the ants use, I don't know much about them. I'm sure it has been fine-tuned over millions of years though ;).
Holy shit, man walks on fucking moon
This is just a Wikipedia entry...
It is the classic spam problem -- there is no/little penalty from just shooting millions of emails out. The real cost is carried entirely by the recepient, but he has no way to out-out.

The solution is judicous fines, atleast as great as those for copyright infringement. If each recruiter was fined 100k for each email, it would quickly stop being an issue.

And frankly, if you cannot hire without these people, you need to become more involved in the local tech meetings, conferences, etc.
There's also the small aspect of it being a complete hack and against the licensing terms of the software, making it essentially piracy.
The problem is that disruption generally means automation, and there's no good way to automate the developer recruitment process. To really be good, recruiters need to have enough of a technical background to understand what they're looking for and take the time to do research and personalize each pitch. Sites like Github are the most useful and potentially most disruptive recruiting tools, because they take work that used to be hidden away or scattered all over the Internet and make it public, centralized, and easily searchable. Most recruiters don't know how to use those tools effectively, though, because they can't understand the data they're looking at, and aren't good enough storytellers to make just a few pitches per day and be confident that some of them will land.
A few commenters here are not sure if this is real or not. I thought it was quite plainly put out as a tongue-in-cheek commentary in the form of an anecdote on the ridiculousness (according to the author) of this whole patent situation. "If Samsung copied Apple, why would we buy Apple? Just buy the cheap knock-off" is what he's angling at.
Are the users small because they are short or because they are slim? Or are they just small by all accounts?

Anyway, I don't know of any COTS systems for doing telemedicine consultations but there are plenty of open source chatting platforms that could be integrated with PayPal or another merchant account. Just do some google searches.
The later quote resonates more fully with me personally-

"There's no point having a great civilization if all we do is sit on our little rock and just survive."
Definitely, everyone who has bothered to say this to me about their Android phone actually does little to nothing with the phone. Certainly nothing that takes advantage of the screen.

I do constantly see people using those Galaxy Notes with the S Pen and two hands at all times. Seems like a big step backwards to me. Not only can I do everything a phone with a bigger screen can do, but I can do it with one hand.
I'm a huge fan of Church's writing in general but I too find the namecalling to be an unfortunate distraction.
Their emails (and by extension yours) are probably getting picked up in their spam filter.
Are you saying that now that this case is 'over' and Apple won it, they won't sue anyone else on the same patents? If so I think that is pretty naive. If you look at other cases you will see that Apple will be compelled to sue everyone else, and/or get a license from them for these patents. If they did not do that then Samsung would be able to argue that Apple didn't really believe in their patents, they were just trying to put Samsung out of business. That at least is well understood, you can lose the protection of your trademarks or design patents if you don't enforce them.
A rare Neil Armstrong interview... given by an accountant
This guy should come to the audiophile subreddit…will probably get torn apart for his hardware choices (esp. the expensive cable)
I'm still on Apple but I've heard no complaints from friends who have switched. Instead I hear, check out how much better than the iPhone this is and the battery lasts days.

Many mass market consumers will be more than happy to get a slightly poorer experience if they can save half their money. But, if these people just switched from an iPhone or iPad, its likely that they were a year or two in and the performance started degrading. Applications build for the latest hardware crash, the battery has been abused enough that it lasts less than a day. The stark contrast at the switch will tell them Samsung is better.
Because Moleskine haven't already debased their brand with gimmicky tie-ins?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moleskine-Pac-Man-Limited-Edition-No...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moleskine-Limited-Brick-Plain-notebo...

etc.etc.
What? I'm pretty happy with my Galaxy Nexus after having used iOS exclusively.
Bad Moon Rising ;-)
This only works out if you have an innate talent, or smart enough to optimize what you have in terms of your ability.

I have nothing against comforting articles, but that we should recognize the intellectual/productive peaks in our lives is much more important.
A tailored suit is like the ferrari as opposed to getting a honda at what would be a Men's Warehouse.

I like the idea and would love to look at the prices but it seems that the site is down. hackernews effect?
That's not an unfair generalization or anything.
Everybody has their own uses, but here's mine:

I read a lot on my phone. Bigger screen = more words on the screen.
Back then, even ads were exciting. Here's more about those VW ads:
http://alexandergrant.blogspot.com/2010/06/1960s-volkswagen-...
Has this guy really ever invented anything?

Does this guy really understand how invention works?
> Try comparing them with software freedom in mind and tell me how again the devices running android lose vs apple devices.

OK. Every app worth getting for an Android device, I can get via the iOS App Store. Everything that requires a rooted or unlocked Android device, I can get via jailbreaking.

I'm not an OS developer so I'm not going to be contributing patches back to AOSP. The vast majority of Android devices are bootloader-locked so they aren't free or open at all, no more than a jailbroken iOS device.

In practice, it seems about the same. You need to root, unlock or jailbreak the device to install things that the manufacturer doesn't want you to. Before that, you're locked in. After that, you have total software freedom.

Unless you're actively contributing patches back to AOSP, I don't see how the difference in "software freedom" actually matters in practice.
Really? I think it suggests the opposite; the fully loaded employee costs plus management overhead plus opex would make it tricky to generate real profit on 200k/year rev per employee...
It probably depends on how much longer the iOS gold rush lasts. I think a lot of developers are on OSX (and very defensive of it) because it represents their gravy train. If the market stabilises or dies down, a lot of people will probably switch over to Linux.
A power user is a user who regularly browses the web. Browsing the web on a 4.65-inch 1280x720 screen is significantly better than browsing the web on a 3.5-inch 960x640 screen.

Reply to your edit: The fact that Android phones have low pixel density is absolutely wrong. That used to be the case. But now they have both larger screens and more pixels. Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy S3, HTC One X, Xperia S all have 1280x720 screens and are all 300+ ppi.
The hard part is finding good clients who have lots of money. How do you do that?
Replicated my favorite childhood game online
This story reminds me of that recent Mac genius ad with the sketchy computer salesman.
"So the essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard,and it does not solve the problem well."
Any reason you would say this?
A couple of startups in this space already are http://letseat.at and http://www.happytables.com/ for reference.
On my way..
So, you believe they should have just gone bankrupt, liquidated, and left everyone out of a job? I'm trying to parse your response to see what you would have done, and it seems that the part that upsets you is the "shutting down the company and making a brand new one immediately" - I'm wondering whether you would have preferred just shutting everything down? From my reading, it appears they were out of cash.
Sadly, the case is far from over. Both companies will say they will appeal until they win so it may last as long as SCO vs IBM. From Apple's statement, I believe they went after Samsung because of their blatant copying. There have been other manufacturers that Apple have not gone after because the copying was not as significant as Samsung's.

Personally, I think someone has to reprimand companies that make a business out of cloning others. It happens all the time, but it's often hard to enforce.

I think you're one of those HN readers that think this is Apple vs Android, but really it's a case against Samsung and their cloning behavior. Few companies out there act like Samsung and get away with it.

Also, I think you're a bit extreme in your arguments. Apple is not going to put Samsung out of business; Samsung makes everything from air conditioning units to memory chips.
Don’t look now, but Valve just humiliated your “corporate culture”
Whitey on the moon ;-)
Amen to this. I never realized how awful non-fitting shirts looked until I got one properly fitted to my skinny frame.

Also, protip for fellow skinny men: Get dress shirts that fit well in the general torso area, even if the sleeves are too short. Then you can roll the sleeves up to the elbow, and leave them rolled up. This way you can get shirts at cheaper sources without them looking like a blouse.
God says...

stink; and the Egyptians shall lothe to drink of the water of the
river.

7:19 And the LORD spake unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and
stretch out thine hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams,
upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of
water, that they may become blood; and that there may be blood
throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in
vessels of stone.

7:20 And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded; and he lifted
up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight
of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that
were in the river were turned to blood.

7:21 And the fish that was in the river died; and the river stank, and
the Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river; and there was
blood throughout all the land of Egypt.

----

God says...
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Hey, God, do You want Mars trip?

God says...

sanctuary.

9:3 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the
Holiest of all; 9:4 Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the
covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot
that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the
covenant; 9:5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the
mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

9:6 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always
into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.

9:7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year,
not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of
the people: 9:8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the
holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first
tabernacle was yet standing: 9:9 Which was a figure for the time then
present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could
not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the
conscience; 9:10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers
washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of
reformation.

----

God says...
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Smelling farts is "sodom".

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What's Your favorite thing about Christmas, God?

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Changes in Task Manager for instance could have been folded into any version of Windows to date, and if a few programmers had access to the right source code I'm sure they could have added this at least to XP.

Got any facts to back that assertion up? For all we know, the task manager changes couldn't have been added to Windows 7 or Windows XP. Maybe there's a new API that allows them to get these sorts of detailed statistics and present them to the user.
A very inspirational letter; however, he got into the very elite selection of 25 artists, with any one of them being way more talented than 99.99% of the country.

I would so describe him naturally talented regardless of the personal perspective he had of himself. I also see no other way he could got into Pixar (given of course his perseverance.)

I agree passion and hard work leads to better results than wasted talent, but there is no substitute for affinity.

Anyway, thank you Pete for the great movies and great advice.
Ah, here we go again with another off the wall format from google...