skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> relying on an incredibly powerful, but fragile, branding strategy

Saying Apple relies on a "branding strategy" denigrates several entire fields, particularly interaction design and supply chain management. You don't seem to realize that these are important domains of expertise that can confer immense advantages on companies that do them well.
I'm afraid this doesn't work in all cases. When working in a reduced physical area, irrespective of pixel count, zooming in and snapping to boundaries is counter productive. Audio wave editing for example is an operation on cyclic ( obviously ) information, and when zooming in as a means of rationalising location, important context is lost.

Imagine a time line with a periodic wave, interrupted only by a one or two cycle click. Zooming in to normalise the ratio of object to finger leads to very easily losing context. That is, relative positioning left or right is lost. So it becomes frustrating zooming in and out in order to get your bearings again. Even attempting this on a trackpad is quite difficult, when compared to high resolution mice.

There are many cases where it's much better to have a large display area, combined with a high resolution mapping to that area. I could edit waves on a postage stamp sized display with my finger if I put my mind to it. I don't think I would be as productive as on a tablet sized display though. In other cases I need to increase yet above that ratio. I'm afraid stubby fingers on compensating scaled objects is not adequate always.
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This is awesome! Being able to sign waivers in advance saves time and headaches!
Forgive me, after a brief look over the Wikipedia article surely it's the opposite of that? "unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average" - so they think they're better than they are, whereas you're suggesting they're doing better than they think they are.
One big problem with the laddering system (I know he doesn't intend to promote it) is that it encourages people to try to build the next Ruby-on-Rails. Whereas in the majority of cases, both the individual and the society are better off by taking an existing tool and doing gradual improvements to it.

No one gets to be "successful" by updating someone else's idea, though.

http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html "going through the bug list isn't fun; but rewriting everything from scratch is fun"
What a difference a few cookies make
"Shockingly beautiful"? I just updated, and that may be slightly overselling it.
Marketing Works and I Feel Sad
It is a proxy war against Android. For reasons I can not fathom, Android scares Apple. And they lash out against it violently.

Samsung is collateral damage.
Also, slowing the moon's escape from our orbit, and helping to maintain the earth's rotational speed!
Apologize for what?
Did I see user emails in comments there?
FTC files suit against "Rachel from Cardholder Services"
I'd say iOS6 has one of the more buggy first releases that I can remember, so I'm hoping there's a fair bit of work been done.
Hitting the Hacker News front page (and what it’s worth)
It's worth noting that the rotational speed of the wheels are different.
Man, Scott Forstall really stopped paying attention to detail ;)
A new algorithm predicts which Twitter topics will trend hours in advance
Actually I have 25+ years of programming under the belt and I agree with the observation, so I do feel the same way.

And it is not about being a business men as opposed to a programmer. To me is also a means to an end. OF course is nice to develop for the sake of, but is not reality when it becomes the source of your livelihood.

Having say that, I have observed a pop-culture attitude, but I have not found that attitude in programmers with more than 10 years of experience, so I have always attributed it to youthfulness as opposed to be a characteristic of the profession.
I keep reading of lawsuits over FOIA requests; has it become a norm to ignore the requests until someone shows they really mean it? Has anyone faced significant consequences for stalling?
This looks really cool. I don't use Facebook much, and didn't know they make all this data available. But what prevents Facebook from implementing this functionality themselves?
I'd rather pay $20 a month for a VPS that I don't have to prepay for.
Get Ultrasn0w 1.2.8 For iOS 6 To Unlock Most iPhone Basebands
Quick, simple, and right where I need it. Wonderful product!
Show HN: PosterFuse - use your social media images to make a poster or FB cover
Cool interface but I'm not sure what sort of value you're going for here.

Is it a set of APIs that make it easier to get stuff done in a repl? If so, it doesn't seem more useful than console so far (looking at the Google Maps and HTTP call examples). Or is it a lightweight IDE -- if so, would this be better done as a browser extension that could circumvent security restrictions? (and also operate on any document, including those served from localhost)

I really like it intuitively, but also, I don't get it.
How would that work? As in, what percentage of the technologists would need to agree to that to have it happen?

It seems to me (with my extremely limited view of economics), that it would just create shortage of supply, and so the technologists that would continue to participate would make a lot more money. That in turn would make it more difficult for the techs that might agree with your position, but are currently in dismal financial circumstances for whatever reason, to refuse to create/maintain the "war machines."

Perhaps I'm too pessimistic, and am the problem you're speaking of. But it seems like a "boil the ocean" proposition to me, at least from any way I can try to envision it happening.
Agree that the article is a bit thin. The adding more products isn't such an ingenious strategy, pretty logical if you ask me.
I like the snooze function though, one of those extremely powerful ideas that make consumers happy.
I'm talking about this part of the Wikipedia article:

Actual competence may weaken self-confidence, as competent individuals may falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding.
Couple of solid pointers on expanding a twitter base.
One of the things that fascinates me about this is that "Rachel from Cardholder Services" is a name used by a bunch of different scammers.

I originally thought: How hard is it for them to close that one company down? But they actually shut down a major caller in 2010, one that made 2.6 billion calls:

http://business.time.com/2012/04/06/2-7-billion-robo-calls-l...

Hackers, if you think you can solve this problem, the government will give you $50k:

http://robocall.challenge.gov/
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I am somewhat loathe to break out the slashdot cliché "you must be new here", but it's apropos here. Reg is popular on this particular internet.

What I'm more puzzled by is why he seems to have written a Rorschach test instead of a post with a point. An awareness of the sociology of your chosen profession or discipline i think is a laudable goal and topic worth considering, but this post doesn't actually do anything to illuminate the subject or equip others with the tools necessary to consider the subject further.

Unsurprisingly, the comments resulting from the post are similarly lacking illumination.
Oh yikes. Giving someone else your login, even a trusted family member, sounds rickety. Yes, let her know that PicDigest exists. :)
Here is an example pulled from today's 'Who is Hiring', which makes fun of this exact issue then proceeds to spout something that sounds exactly the same to me:

> Subscription based social hyperlocal mobile gamified
> dating discovery engine with loyalty coupons. For the
> enterprise.
>
> Just kidding.
>
> We're a stealthy team of product generalists, ML
> engineers, and even a neuroscientist filling a hole in
> the universe by building software that enriches the
> human experience.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4727245
Windows 8 Product Strategy: Right Idea, Poor Execution
type that for me faster!
It blows on desktop as well.
This is kinda thin, it reads more like an ad than anything else :/

I mean of course you shouldn't make breaking changes to your API unless you must. Of course if its hard to use its not good enough. These are universal truths that apply to most anything that other people build upon or merely use.

I've spent the last two years making a JavaScript API and I feel like there's so much more real substance they could talk about here. Writing an API is a very interesting process, and its hard, harder than writing a general program or even a language.

You don't just have to consider users needs or a grammar. Instead you have to consider all the things your clients (other programmers) might want to do, and all of the things their users might want to do.

This means you have to be extremely forward thinking, considering all the ways programmers might err while building with your library. When making general programs you have to worry about shooting yourself in the foot. With an API, you have to put forth U.N. Peacekeeping levels of effort to make sure nobody is going to shoot anybody or themselves. (Hopefully with better than U.N. Peacekeeping levels of success!)

> If it’s hard to use, it’s not good enough (meaning you have to use it first)

This can't be stressed enough though. One of the lessons I learned here is that making a large number of sample applications (I'm at 44 little apps and counting for my lib) exposes a vast amount of untold hangups, issues, and wishes. It's incredible the things you demand from your API once you start using it compared to the things you thought you'd want. And they've exposed far more kinks than testing alone could have shown me.

Ah I've rambled a bit. Maybe I should write my own experiences later tonight.
The real list must be longer than this.
Is that why TSLA stock is up today?
- the cost of porting to other platforms

On the other hand, while it is rapidly getting better, the tooling for HTML5 apps are still generally the wild west. You can hack together an HTML5 app in no time, but unless you are doing something that is completely bog standard, by the time you properly engineer your HTML5 app, you probably could have delivered on two or three native platforms.

- forcing users to upgrade their hardware to stay current

If your app needs something from newer hardware to function properly (more processing power, new I/O devices, etc.), how does HTML5 alleviate that problem? If you mean forcing users to upgrade their operating systems (which is sometimes dictated by the hardware) for new features, I'll note that the browsers/HTML5 rendering systems are generally part of that upgrade, still requiring said upgrade to use those features in HTML5.

- app discoverability issues

Given that a native mobile app can use all of the same marketing tools a web app has, plus the vendor's app marketplace, couldn't it be said that native apps have better discoverability?
The New Facebook Buttons: Promote, Despise, Abandon
Christian from ReelSurfer here. We're proud to announce a partnership with the Counting Crows and the launch of a fan reel competition to kick off their new tour! Lot of cool artists already on ReelSurfer too (fun FM profile: http://reelsurfer.com/user/reels/fmonyourdial)

Great seeing the music industry embracing new technology and social media. Now if only other mediums (cough movies/film cough) would be as open...
Good for Tesla. I have seen and sat in, the Model S at their showroom in the Park Meadows Mall in Denver (well, south of Denver). It is an impressive looking car and everything just feels right. I have not driven it, however.
Ask HN: do you value Github profile more or StackOverflow?
So I know that there is no zero sum game etc but I was wondering how do you evaluate another hacker based on their online profiles ? Github lets you see someone actual work/code samples etc. but a forum like stackoverflow gives you insights about how someone approaches a problem, respond to it etc when answering questions. A combination of both is of course ideal but if you have to only choose 1, which one ?
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yes it appears the tech was done by SRI. still doesnt take away from the idea and execution though.

http://gigaom.com/2012/10/31/summly-wants-to-make-news-summa...
Very good question
Yeah, you guys sound like winners already </sarcasm>
You win this round (edit: maybe). I thought there were only two models:

1) A1429: Verizon. supports GSM (basic), CDMA (basic + LTE)

2) A1428: AT&T. supports GSM (basic), GSM (LTE)

However, there really are three. (edit: Or not. I've been asking around and there are mixed opinions. We generally care deeply, being those crazy jailbreak people, but we haven't gotten to that stage on the 5 yet.)

I can then say that there are only two device names: iPhone5,1 and iPhone5,2, so yeah: normal ways to differentiate them won't work, you'd have to do something special.
I can refresh the page and vote multiple times
Poutsch is also a great way to ask the opinions of the community about your product!
It's possible to do exactly that (a function that initialized a vector with its arguments) in C++ with variadic templates...

You might end up in trouble if you did something like

auto v = vec(
vec(1.2, 3.4),
vec(0)
)

not sure how well other languages deal with that.
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Uber Reverts Back to Surge Pricing in New York After One Day
Amazing, but this is a perfect example of something that I don't want to pore over on a computer screen -- would be so nice to have it, with a better layout on nice cardstock
Not true. In past, there were patented technologies (GIF, MP3) that were allowed to be used freely, until they got widespread. Then the lawyers started asking for the money. It was deliberate strategy, that would not work if the above would be true.
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There is a feature inside poutsch that lets you cancel votes coming from users not logged. That way, you get a better picture
Wait, it broke for me once he got the feather and flew away. Was it supposed to end there?
There've been at least two iMessage outages in the last week or so (widespread enough that iMessage trended on Twitter both times).
Funny there is already a (less advanced) open source application that does this... with the same name :)

https://github.com/hbbio/webshell

Disclaimer: I'm the author of the open source webshell.
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Im interested. I reached out to you via twitter.
It's amazing how flabbergasted people are acting at the statement Apple wrote. Jeez, is your mother the judge or something?! They got clever and got rapped on the knuckles for it. Let's move on.
Is it known if this fixes the 'dead wifi' bug?

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/09/wi-fi-issues-plague-i...
This older blog post has become a classic for me, and has greatly influenced my view of software developers. Was surprised to see that it was not on HN.

If we are going to move forward into parallel programming, the solution is going to come from the Language Mavens IMHO.

Has anyone ever seen this idea articulated elsewhere?
As the saying goes, they are shit out of luck.
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[I guess I went so ridiculous it actually sounds cool.]
Do you think they can fine developers outside of CA?
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They have cross licencing with Microsoft, that's why you won't see them suing the folks at Redmond.
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