skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What's wrong with using the twitter.com on Windows8, do we really need a special client just for Windows 8?

Yes. Opening a web browser, typing twitter.com on a phone keyboard, waiting for it to load, logging in on a phone keyboard, then using a mobile site that is built to target as many users on mobile across different devices and versions is much less enjoyable than tapping the twitter icon on a phone and having it open an app built for that phone and that os, then load tweets without further action.

>This is exactly what the web is supposed to do.

That line of reasoning was true before 2008-2010, before smartphones became ubiquitous and before smart phone app experiences became way better than their mobile counterparts. Using the web on a phone is not this great, fun experience. It's typically a pain that involves a lot of typos, and a lot of zooming in, zooming out and scrolling.
Why We Started a Flexible Purpose Corporation
Since one can't reply to [dead] posts, I'll put this here.

crandles said: trying to figure out that myself. i mostly lurk, and have only ever commented a few times. not feeling very welcomed atm!

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It's probably a false positive in an algorithm. I don't think that any human would have banned you, at least not based on what's visible in your history.

The only potentially problematic item is your first submission , the GMail April's fools joke that you posted on your very first day here. It's [dead]. What's surprising is the delay between the post and the ban...

Send a message to info@ycombinator.com, hopefully your account will be restored.
InDinero: Executing a pivot
Here is a better series of charts that doesn't just look at federal taxes, but instead the whole tax burden:

See: http://ctj.org/ctjreports/2012/04/who_pays_taxes_in_america....

The total tax burden is pretty flat in the top 40%, and actually goes down marginally from top 5% to top 1% (and probably to top 0.1% if that were shown on the chart). The burden on the middle 20% at 25.2% isn't dramatically lower than the burden on the top 1% at 29.0%, but the burden on the bottom 20% is lower at 17.4%.

In all it's pretty fair if you ask me.
This may be true for consumer applications, but in enterprise space, Web > Native, easily. While it's much easier to implement functionality in a native application, having something run inside a browser makes it much easier for IT departments to deploy and maintain the product.
It does have limited usability... for now. One review of the Lytro commented that using one was "beta testing the future of photography" and that's really how I view it.

I bought one not for what the current camera could do at the time, but in the hopes that they'd be successful enough to come up with the Lytro 2 which did more.
You should note that there are actually two separate companies: Time Warner Inc (TWX), and Time Warner Cable (TWC).
Personally, I have used Soluto to see what's going on during startup, and then removed it after. They do provide certain services like the ability to move programs to and from your startup more easily than through Windows Explorer if you keep it installed though.
> Plus you can just ignore their DNS server, and use 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 (google's) or OpenDNS instead.

Or just hardcode the values into /etc/hosts.

> though that may not work if they cut off your connection until you acknowledge

Oh, so they can threaten to renege on their end of the contract (the service I have already paid for) unless I admit to their accusations of potentially incriminating activity? That's just ridiculous[1].

[1] But I still wouldn't put it past them!
Sort of amused by the wording in this line:

> It does not appear that your service addresses an area that our current or future products do not already serve.

How can your future product already serve an area?
This already happened a couple years ago. Perhaps you mean 200% Debt-to-GDP in 10 years?
Thanks for the feedback! It's actually creating its own database so as time goes on, it will show everything since it's been running. I didn't want to scrape through the backlog as I've already gotten banned a couple times while making this (prompting pg's recent unban post) and I didn't want to push my luck.

The upvotes thing is tricky because it's very time sensitive. I thought about it for a bit, but besides the difficulty in judging when to update the points, it also goes against the goal that all Show HNs are given the spotlight even if they didn't do so well.
But a client would just run on their machine. Save cookies, and you're fine.
Hopefully people will be smart enough not to.
Samplr is an OP-1-Inspired iPad App Focused on Touching, Slicing Waveforms
Eh, I consider my backings to be investments. I don't expect a personal return for them because that's not how I work; I back stuff because I think there will be a return for society. Sometimes that means I get diddly. I'm okay with this.
Well we had a standard for driving (galloping) along the road, then Hitler came...
Why would there be furloughs or layoffs until the budget is restored? We have not passed a budget in years.
Carbon nanotube based yarn can create muscle like actuators
Cable TV has a much better value proposition than a Twitter alternative. There's no free alternative to cable TV with a comparable feature set.

I do think it's an exaggeration to say that app.net caters to the rich, but I can guarantee you that the demographics skew much more upper class, between being an app that is charged for and a service that mostly has interested hackers (who, nowadays, tend to be an affluent bunch, for better or worse).
The one additional (and arguably most powerful) sales tactic you experienced was playing with most human's natural desire for reciprocation - the longer he keeps you at that booth, the more of his time you have consumed, and therefore the higher probability that you will actually buy something.

I know I've found myself buying things I don't need in the past because a sales person spent lots of time with me, and I thought "Well, I should reward them in some way for all this time they have given me!", when in reality, that's the whole point of them spending time with me in the first place :)
It's Your Brand.  Don't Let Other People Fuck with It.
> Not your fault, of course, but it kills me that consumers in most areas in the US let the ISP market die. The monopoly players gave great intro prices and they all jumped ship.

It's not just that - we subsidized the construction of the Internet channels with our tax dollars, and then the government essentially handed over the control of those to the private companies, who now claim that they can charge whatever they want for access to "their" lines.

Consumers may have played a role, but at the end of the day, it's the government (the constituents)[1] who have sanctioned the existing monopolies.

> I'm also sad that our competition regulators allowed this to happen. A pseudo-choice between two basically equivalent options isn't enough for the magic of the free market to work.

Choice? 80% of consumers have zero choice in their ISP. For me, the only alternative is 'no Internet'.

[1] Obviously consumers == constituents for the most part, but I make the distinction to draw attention to the fact that they would need to act in their role as voters/citizens, not as consumers, if they want to change anything.
The Congressional Budget Office reported an increased risk of recession during 2013 if the deficit is reduced suddenly.

The Budget Control Act of 2011 was passed under the political environment of a partisan stalemate, in which Democrats and Republicans could not agree on how to reduce the deficit. It was thought that the blunt cuts of budget sequestration and sharp revenue increases would be mutually undesirable to both parties and provide an impetus and deadline to bring the sides together to solve the deficit problem [1].

Note that the debt ceiling is about to be hit again, which adds to the cliff and the US Credit rating will almost assuredly fall again if we go over it [2].

It's very hard for the CBO to accurately calculate expected revenues with a looming recession, so good it is not.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_fiscal_cliff

[2]: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-11-14/business/sns-r...
He said he intended to crowdsource his retirement. That's really no different than what every HN-inspired startup-jockey is doing.

Plenty of people have incredibly inane or uninspiring startups that end up bringing in enough money to retire on. The way things work (perhaps unfortunately) is that any individual subjective or objective measure of someone's idea is not what matters. What matters is if people pay or not.

If he can entice people to pay for his retirement directly, it's no different than enticing people to pay for a customer loyalty or group discount startup. Perhaps you're right that this is "quite depressing/worrying," but I think a critique of his methods would need to include something much larger.
The week selector didn't work for me though. Nexus 7.
You can customize these using shadow DOM. This thing is great.
I love when you get things like "unsubscribing costs U.S. retailers about $5.8 billion per year.

So if you stopped people unsubscribing $5.8 billion more would be spent on retail? No, people have, roughly, a fixed amount to spend, stopping them unsubscribing isn't going to give them more money.

If that figure were true, 5.8 bil less would be spent in other areas. But let's face it, this figure is pulled from someone's arse.

OK, there's a bubble of apps claiming to do this at the moment, but the marketing just gets more and more cheesy. And if we find it cheesy, are we going to trust these folks with our marketing?
> There are always going to be ways around whatever system they put in place, but the more obstacles they put in the way the more people will decide its no longer worth the effort.

The problem is that there are more obstacles in the way of legal consumption.

You can fix that by putting up artificial obstacles to illegal consumption, or by simply removing the obstacles to the legal consumption which most "pirates" would prefer to use.

Guess which path they've chosen.
These all look pretty useful but they all seem kind of unrelated and the project strikes me as kind of unfocused. It would be cool if the these features were added to a larger project like Bootstrap.
Not taking into account the standard deduction. This is especially evident in the lowest income totals.
Show HN: Couple, a user-to-user chat app built on Hipmob
it was basically how the US was run until the 1920s

Before the 1920s, there was little incentive to immigrate to the US if your motivation was to be a ward of the state. Since the 1920s, our welfare state has grown by leaps and bounds. The people coming illegally to this country are less likely to be the ones seeking to be producers. They're more likely to be the ones wanting services. The article barely gave a nod to it, but the numbers show that the recent waves of immigrants use several times the amount of social services as natives, but they offer very little productivity-wise or intellectual capital-wise. It's a bad deal for the US, made worse by the fact that the people we're most encouraging to immigrate from our corrupt neighbor to the south are the citizens least likely to care that they're breaking the law by being here.

expand rather than just be preserved

I'm not talking about rigidly maintaining the status quo. I'm talking about managed growth through accepting immigrants using a process that is fair to incoming immigrants from ALL countries and is respectful of the society that fostered something worth immigrating to.
It couldn't have gone through any number of hands - Bitcoin transactions are public. You can see every hand it has gone through, though you may not (or may!) know the owner of the hand. That's why any large-scale analysis can be dangerous to such actions - if you discover the intermediaries, you can start drawing conclusions about who performed actions.

edit: here's the main article I'm aware of http://anonymity-in-bitcoin.blogspot.com/2011/07/bitcoin-is-...
One of the major differences between Ember and Backbone I enocuntered almost immediately was the lack of explicitness within Ember.

It felt to me, in Ember, that I was creating arbitrary objects and attaching to arbitrary objects and from that arbitrariness instances were created...

Coming from the Backbone world where you create a definition and then initialize it manually, this was a very disconcerting change. Unlike the Backbone community, I was also unable to get any sort of help or direction after hitting up Twitter or IRC.

Support should not be underestimated.
Even better than talking someone out of money is to get them to pay you without even knowing they are paying. A landlord I rented from once did this with the rent, managing to raise rents with most tenants not noticing.

Here's how they did it. Rent was $550/month with a one year lease, which works out to $6600/year.

When the least expired, you had the option of going month to month, or signing another lease. Month to month would be $600/month ($7200/year). However, they said, if you'll sign another one year lease, they'll let you keep the old rate ($6600/year), which will be implemented by giving you one month free. That is, you'll pay $0 for January, then $600/month for the remaining 11 months of the year, bringing the total to $6600/year.

A year later, when it was time to renew again, they told people rent would probably be going up soon, but if they renewed now for another year, they could avoid the increase and just keep paying $600/month.

Since that is what people were already paying, most did not see this as a rent increase. Yet they would be paying $7200 for the year, as opposed to $6600 for the year before--a $600 increase--because this time there was no free month for signing the lease.
Submitted for you budding roboticists out there. One of the cool technologies last entry was Nitinol wire, sometimes called 'muscle wire', which when heated would contract and when it cooled would return to its extended size. It is really cool stuff, but its slow. Heating it is pretty easy but cooling it less so.

These guys have created the same function using Paraffin wax inside carbon nano tubes. Paraffin has excellent thermal properties for this sort of application. And it responds much faster.

If successful this tech will lead to some very useful actuators and end effectors on robots where its impossible to put even the small motors the Swiss make.
Did you miss the whole Comcast lawsuit/controversy?

Throttling access to your competitors (Netflix) artificially to make your own product seem more attractive by comparison - does that qualify as 'bundling'?
FICA is not going up by almost 50%. It's 5.65% vs 7.65%. That's 35%. FICA also has no deductions or credits: The rate you see is what you pay (and your employer pays the same amount).

The rest of the hit is the expiration of the 10% bracket from the Bush tax cuts. That saved 5% of the first $8400 of taxable income (from the old, larger 15% bracket).
So the 100% figure includes US government debt owed to the Social Security trust fund (and other intra-governmental debt). Excluding that amount it's about 70%. Now it's a matter of choice in how you portray it, but you have to be consistent. You can either say we have 100% debt-to-GDP as well as $4.8 trillion sitting in the social security trust, or you can say we have 70% debt-to-GDP and nothing in the bank. You cannot say we have 100% debt-to-GDP and nothing in the bank--that's just incorrect.

I think the social security trust fund accounting gimmick is silly, so I consider us as having a 70% debt-to-GDP ($10.9 trillion in real debt). This is the same view the CBO takes. That's set to rise to 100% of GDP by 2022 under current policies, but fall to under 60% of GDP by 2022 if the fiscal cliff is allowed to happen.
That's what enterprise users care about. The users aren't necessarily the decision makers. I've worked on a large enterprise product for almost a decade. Sales took off big time when we restyled and started caring about usability. Now, there were many factors involved there, but having nicer sales demos surely helps.

But, it's true that feature checklists matter more than in the consumer space. This is why startups don't stand much of a chance. Without a mature product you can't even get considered, at any price.
In a competitive market there is a tragedy of the commons effect: why waste advertising dollars disparaging a competitor if it will help your other competitors.

(With Apple's market share, this doesn't quite apply; it could still make sense for them to do)
As a rule of thumb, any time the government is going to tax you more (even if it is $0.01 more) people will freak. Hence I am not surprised by creative names.

I don't necessarily support the changes to taxation that this thread is about- just a general observation.
The referral idea sounds good - definitely worth a shot.
Its a no brainer for companies that are distributed anyways. I work at a bigCo, spread across the country. Many of the people that I work/interact with daily are in different timezones. Suddenly driving to the office isn't a big deal. Doesn't hurt that I have a horrible commute. Have been working here for a little over a year, and have went from 1 work from home day a week to 3 (although in practice it often ends up 4). As someone fresh out of college, it was an unexpected surprise, and will unfortunately tarnish my opinion of any future job prospects, as it's something I've grown quite fond of.
Yep, they really think we are stupid and we think they are really stupid.

So the question is, who is right?
Don't develop for the quirks of any particular browser.
For me, the most striking thing about the article is looking at the chart of #Barclays and seeing just how early the trend was detected.

I would never guess that the pattern, when cut off just after 12, is indicative of a topic that's about to trend.
They can see who you're connecting to, correct?

The problem is if they can tell that you're connecting to an IP that they know belongs to a seedbox used for torrenting copyrighted content.

It's guilt-by-association, but far more draconian, 1984-esque things have already occurred in this debacle, so it wouldn't surprise me.
> US Credit rating will almost assuredly fall again if we go over the cliff [2].

The cited article indicates the opposite -- that simply reducing the deficit by doing nothing would encourage the ratings agencies not to cut the US credit rating, while passing "temporary measures" that allow us to keep our high deficit and are very unlikely to be temporary would give us better odds of a downgrade.
This is a really good point. Guilt is definitely a huge driving force for in-person purchases.
Hey everyone - Ayo from Hipmob here. We released couple as our first open-source chat project. We're showing anyone how to build a user-to-user messaging app using Hipmob's libraries - we'd love any comments, suggestions or feedback! (ayo at hipmob.com)
Twitter: Don't build core-feature Twitter clients, we probably won't approve them.

Atta: I built a core-feature Twitter client!

Twitter: Sorry, we're not approving your core-feature Twitter client.

Who is surprised? How is this news? Were you expecting them to not apply their own rules? It seems like a clear-cut case, and concluding "don't build anything for Twitter" is just throwing a temper tantrum.
> Haven't it become the social norm because it's the easiest way?

No, it's because it's become the only way.
Apple and Google's Motorola Unit Seeking Arbitration to Resolve Patent Dispute
Totally. It's not necessarily meant to import into your project whole hog, it could just as easily have been a set of gists. So feel free to pick and choose ones that you might find useful!
Beards got Obama re-elected, that's all I need to know.
Pretty cool - the only people I send letters to are my family so I'd be a little afraid of them recognizing that the letter wasn't written in my (chicken scratch) handwriting. Do you write the letters yourself? I'd recommend adding a screenshot of some sample letters so we can see what the writing looks like.

I'd also recommend letting someone select the letter, enter the message, delivery date, recipient address, etc. before asking for their billing info. It takes too many clicks right now to actually see how the process works.

Good luck!
When does an animal count as a person?
Show HN: Couple, a shared diary for you and the one you love
When you have to find 1500 monthly pay checks, I suppose you have to get the money somehow.

http://bijansabet.com/post/35849228202/the-first-photo-the-t...

Found via

http://threads2.scripting.com/2012/november/howTechCompanies...

Seems a sensible position to me (old guy, non-coder and won't use twitter or fb).
I think you're getting somewhere, but I'd say you still have a ways to go.

I don't back a Kickstarter campaign because I want one of the things they're selling. If I want that, I'll just wait. I do it because I want to back the venture.

You write: "To build a revolutionary product, we knew we had to build a next-generation apparel manufacturer from the ground up, tailored entirely to the way men want to shop." And then your risks section is mostly about the risks of selling one batch of shirts. There is such a vast amount of hype and haziness on the Kickstarter page that I have no confidence that you guys know what you're doing.

It's a five-person company that needed to raise $5,000 just to buy fabric? You guys seriously couldn't come up with that kind of dough directly? Or from friends? Or put it on your credit cards? It just makes no sense to me.

I figure the reason it makes no sense is that you're not actually using Kickstarter to kick-start the company. Instead, I guess you're using Kickstarter as the pop marketing channel du jour, a way to take pre-orders and get some hype. So naturally it wouldn't make sense.
That'd be why the taxes it listed me as paying previously seemed high.
Well that does not solves the problem actually. Windows library does not index files stored in the SD card and apps also needs a special permission to access to the SD card. See here http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/11/surface-disk-space-a-....
Makes sense. I will use your site.
People have lots of deductions, exemptions and credits (think 401(k), home mortgage interest, and health plans). It's impossible to make a simple calculator based purely on top line paycheck income for that reason.

Just estimate your AGI, and it'll be about right.
More like 21st century P.R./Campaign team; the equivalent of the urban canvassers that put up posters and such.

"21st century SWAT team" is a title I pray some secret division in the NSA is currently earning.
> I was excited until I saw "use autotools".

People love to gripe about autotools, but if you take the time to understand it and get comfortable with what it is and is not, it will get the job done.

There are alternatives like cmake, but they just suck differently. I use autotools to manage cross-platform (Linux/glibc, Linux/uclibc, mingw32, OS X) C library projects and their Python extension module wrappers, with heavy dependencies on system-specific functionality and symbol replacement (e.g., if strlcpy isn't in libc, then link in libbsd if you can find it there, otherwise compile our own copy of strlcpy.c). Autoconf is a wonderful tool for this once one RTFMs and gets over the fact that it's a bunch of helpers for writing a shell script, rather than a fully abstracted programming language of its own.

Or in the words of Lennart Poettering, "every custom config/makefile/build system is worse for everybody than autotools is":

https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kay/libabc.git;a=...