skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> it is the attitude that "Under no circumstances should considerations beyond profit exist".
>But that's a strawman. Companies are ultimately guided by the concern for profit - but they can only make a profit (long term) by providing a value to all their stakeholders. Of course companies can some times profit in the short term by screwing over one group of stakeholders, but generally they only get to do that once per stakeholder group.

This is semantic wrangling. It is generally pretty easy to create corporations. It would be even easier if the "regulation is strictly forbidden" crowd had their way. As it exists now, corporations are fairly anonymous, and as such, spinning out a corporation per "screwing" is not that hard. Sure long term value per corporation is non existant, but the long-term value of the strategy is pretty straight forward. It has already been shown that investment as it exists today favors short term profit over long term value anyway. Numbers this quarter are generally the main driver.

Further, without regulation preventing the screwing over of people, why wouldn't every company choose the guaranteed profit over other methods. They could just take the profit safe from the fact that anyone not generating gobs of cash right now could be simply "competed out of the market" via mechanisms that are currently illegal as monopolistic. It isn't conjecture either - those rules are a response to companies getting rid of the competition then as soon as the specter of "a good company" isn't looming over them, they returned to screwing people over.
Vendors, Again—8 Things To Do When Delivering a Sales Presentation
Microsoft had a social network. It was called MSN Messenger.

Of course, they killed it

This effort looks like another Zune
Hey, thanks for writing up that post, eehusky. I look forward to the future posts. Just as you were inspired by the Recursive Labs post, so to has yours inspired me.
This comes up every few months on HN. Does it work? maybe for some people, but your sleep cycle will be so different than anyone not using this system, it will be difficult to implement.

"You can train it to enter REM for short periods of time throughout the day in 20-minute naps rather than in one lump at night."

How can this possibly work unless you are in college or own your own business?
Arcade that Raspberry PI
I found when I was doing that it would occasionally cause problems with applying in svn properly, but YMMV. I've seen some really over the top solutions to it as well.
Going by the article's TLDR, this is a bundle of pretty flimsy arguments. The first argument "no stability" is pretty funny to those of us who use Linux as a desktop OS every day.
HN conversation when they released the beta: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3999671
In Defense of Reality: Premature Ruination, Microsoft, And RIM
The government has dozens of ways to structure incentives without making half billion dollar investments in particular companies.

Telecom reform in 1996, for example, was a huge boon for the internet and related industries, and it didn't require picking one specific company over another.
I'd be so honored if I knew PG dropped everything else, or commissioned one of the YC teams, to go and build this instead of whatever he was doing at the time he saw the link.
Another reminder to take all advice as advice and not fact. Luckily at Hall we actually thought this through and learned for us what was more important was Desktop First and we weren't shy about it... https://hall.com/blog/desktop-first/
Foldify
This article misses some huge innovations that have taken place in manufacturing and other heavy industrial areas.

Take just one example in 3D printing. When this technology matures, the result will be no less profound than the invention of spare parts (hard to believe, but the idea of standardized parts that could be replaced when worn out is relatively new - few hundred years). Imagine a house that builds (or prints) itself?

Today that technology is already getting a lot of adoption in aerospace, where the waste produced by machining is so expensive, it makes the costs of new technologies look like a bargain.

Another good example is our ability to process data. The old saying goes: "Knowledge is power". Well, today we can process petabytes of data and extract knowledge out of it as routinely as flying from SF to NY...
Don't they already have a social network with Xbox Live, ETC... seems like building off of that more would be the right move.
it’s actually been around for a little while now. i remember first hearing of it about a year ago, and according to this [1] they launched a private beta back in december 2011

as for how serious they are, i’d say not really, at least in terms of building-out a viable network to compete with the likes of a facebook. i get the impression that it's more of a large-scale research effort with a focus on integrating social in a more meaningful way, particularly as it relates to search

i think this [from the source below] sums it up pretty well:

Microsoft officials have described Socl as a kind of mash-up of social-networking and search that is designed to get the learning communities to start thinking about how to use collaboration technologies in new ways. And according to the Softies and contrary to popular rumors, Socl is not an attempt to take on Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler or Pinterest.

Socl combined ideas the FUSE Labs teams have pioneered in some of their other experimental projects, like Montage (a photo collage app) and Kodu (game programming). Microsoft built Socl using TypeScript, its superset of JavaScript.

[1] http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-opens-its-socl-social-search-...
Nobody thinks that Linux has won the desktop, but we did think that it had won the right to exist. For a while it looked like Microsoft had put its anticompetitive practices aside.
Intel's Schooling From the 'Big Four' Cloud Customers
+1000 I'll tend to look at the speed coming off the server instead. At least I know that I can control 100%. If the user is on a dial up modem, not my problem ;)
> For my money I think Twitter is more dependent on third parties than third parties are on Twitter. Not just Instagram, but the entire ecosystem of apps that grew up around Twitter in the bygone days of warm fuzzies.

Really? I mean, in the current scenario? The first-party Twitter apps on mobile devices are pretty strong, enough that I don't even use TweetBot even though I paid for it. And while Instagram was nice, I don't think I used Twitter to view Instagram...in fact, I'm pretty happy with Twitter just being used to share links, with which I click through.

The value of Twitter is that its network effect is such that "everyone" (at least most people in media and tech) are on it. They may have gotten on their through third-party apps, but now Twitter has done an adequate job on their own apps and it'll be awhile before the Twitter network will ever migrate to some other place (and where to, Google+?)
That is correct; if I use the 'Google Mail' setup and add an additional mail address, the IMAP login no longer works since the mail addresses as a whole are taken as username. In the default IMAP setup, sender mail addresses and the user name are separated.

Are there any other Gmail-specific features except for 'Archive'?

My main annoyance with Gmail and local mail clients – including Mail.app for iOS and OS X – is that those clients show mails at least twice due to Gmail's label structure if you enable all labels. I am therefore glad that the new Gmail app for iOS is much more usable. On the Mac, I use Mailplane and Mail.app only for backup and offline usage purposes.
This is the Python port of my http://code.google.com/p/php-ga/ project :)
The first program I ever wrote was a resistor color band calculator program for the TI-83. Memories...
Managed & owned boxes in the Rust programming language
Last time I tried this, I was getting a lot of hassle when switching between branches that have no common ancestor; .gitignored files disappearing completely (very annoying when you keep a local config file around etc.), files left over and "not staged for commit" instead of being removed, etc. Maybe the "empty root commit" trick would help, I haven't tested that they.
Isn't HN actively monitored by a number of YC people? It's possible any of them downmodded this, not PG.
McAfee Mind Map
Everything about Windows 8 seems designed to benefit Microsoft by herding consumers into their new walled garden. Steve Jobs would be so proud of MS if he were around to see this (aside from the fact that the UI is a disaster). That's the main reason I'm now shopping for a computer with Linux pre-installed, and I really hope more people are doing the same.

I have almost zero familiarity with Linux and dread the prospect of having to learn a new OS on my everyday computer, but Windows 8 is just THAT repulsive.
I'm genuinely curious to know when and where the trend of naming companies or products by removing the vowels or random letters from a word started from. I've seen it in a number of places. Why? Is it because if they use the full word, it becomes too general and difficult to associate?
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Academia
What if instead of your desktop, you had a low-end server that was fairly cheap (~$1000) that could process it, quicker, cheaper, and more efficiently than your desktop? And better yet, the server is stored in a closet, never to see the light of day because it "just works" on your network? You're in complete control over it, giving it varying heavy tasks from whatever lightweight appliance you're using. Be it rendering video, playing a game, streaming media, storing data, etc...
YES, THIS.

While I wish this article actually provided some examples (I did that here too - http://www.johnfdoherty.com/landing-pages-that-rank/), it's a decent rant.
I wouldn't know, but that sounds logical enough.

I would love to know though...

It could be that we had high comments / low points? I really don't know, it just doesn't make much sense.
You are correct. I am not very well versed with HN. I saw a poll recently which was done like this and I liked that. Although now I see that that was using the poll feature which I cannot use as of now.

I too hope someone thinks its an interesting idea to check up on Nokia's image among HNers given recent proceedings.
I'm wrestling with this right now with regards to a project I'm doing with my wife (http://www.cheergram.com). It's doing well and my wife would like to move into other printed products after New Years (baby announcements, etc.)

Right now roughly 40% of our traffic comes from mobile/tablet. Our web app works fine on iPad but not well on smaller screens. I'm considering an iOS app but can't decide if its worth it (my gut tells me no).
Re-posting for context:

Mars One hopes to finance a trip to Mars by making the trip in to a reality show. Unlike other plans, Mars One team promises to live on Mars for the remainder of their lives.

They've proposed a schedule to 2023:

2011 - planning

2013 - selection of first settlers

2016 - first supply missions are sent to Mars

2018 - first settlement rover lands on Mars

2021 - all the components of the settlement reach their destination in six separate landers. Two living units, two life support units, a second supply unit, and another rover arrive on Mars. The two rovers take all components to the settlement location and prepare for the arrival of Mars Team One, the first humans on Mars.

2022 - Water, oxygen and atmosphere production will be ready

2023 - Mars One settlers arrive to the settlement

June 2025 - The second crew of four astronauts land

Would you want to be one of the first settlers?
As a tower? Mainly because the base gets exponentially larger as you get taller. You'd start talking about a mountain that's significantly taller than the diameter of the earth.

Earth's radius is 4k miles. Geostationary orbit is ~25k. Space elevators IIRC, are proposed for ca 60k miles out. Assuming a 10-20x height/width ratio, the base would be 3-6k miles on a side. Even just getting to geostationary orbit would require a mountain with a base the size of a continent.
Why my crappy looking iPhone app made me over $10,000
> Update: most likely, the problem arises because of links: the people responsible for iTunes, put the “temporary” link type xx.xx.xx. That’s just such a site exists, and, as we have seen today, has nothing to do with the ideals of the company.Waiting for the fix.

This is certainly a new hallmark of lorem-ipsum-dummy-code-type error.
I would be surprised if they don't monitor.
"The reason your iPhone 5 lets you get directions, communicate and make dinner reservations is the global information infrastructure and the tcp/ip protocol, both products of a national innovation policy."

And on you go in that vein, but that's massively reductionistic. For one thing, if that is so true, then why did the iPhone 5 not exist 30 years ago, which is still many years after those advances?

The Internet and TCP, as important as they may be, are still vanishingly small components in the huge collection of things we call the iPhone 5, with all of its huge stack of software, the huge stack of hardware and work to miniaturize it, the hardware necessary to feed it wireless signals, the huge software stack that requires, and on and on it goes. The reason the iPhone 5 didn't exist 30 years ago is quite simply that the society of 1982 simply couldn't afford it, and it took decades to put together everything that was necessary so it was affordable. Dozens of iterations on dozens of technologies, consistently improved over decades by a crew of tens of thousands of people. Nobody could even conceive of what it would take to centrally manage this massive set of resources.

If you could graph the amount of work put in to make things like the iPhone, if you could even define such a thing halfway sensibly, you'd have a hard time finding the sliver that represents the government work done on TCP/IP. It's an insult to the hundreds of thousands of other people who have done so much for you to pretend that that tiny little sliver was so much more important than everything they did.

The government has a huge role in providing the stable environment necessary to safely do that work and the fair playing ground to compete on, but the government's direct involvement in the creation of the iPhone is negligible. And if we account for patent shenanigans, possibly negative. (One massive stupid patent lawsuit can pay for an awful lot of research, after all.)
You'd think they'd have the sense to use something like "example.com", which could never possibly have such content.
House approves resolution to keep Internet control out of UN hands
Technically, these military activities are "authorized military engagements" and not outright declarations of war (which has not happened since WWII).
Reference of Various Web Vulnerabilities
Your readers preferences should trump your own; I don't presume you write comments for yourself to read.
3 - too expensive (Apollo, Apple, Intel)
3 - bad idea
1 - small market (eBay)
1 - no traction (Lotus)
1 - big incumbent (Compaq)
2 - rookie team (Google, Paypal)
2 - no reason (FedEx, Intuit)
1 didn't understand (StrataCom)

If the reasons are to be trusted (take them with a grain of salt), then they may have learned to i) be more competitive on expensive deals, ii) give "bad ideas" more thought, and iii) not dismiss rookie teams.
Or the domain name they were interested in is being squatted upon.
Awesome. Put a notice notifying we need to click and drag the board to move around. By default we tend to use our mouse scrolls. You can simplly put a css `cursor:move` property on the dragable area to let us know its dragable.
The New Myspace: A first look and impressions
How do you keep up with new technology?
Regulation (another word for taxes) and taxes are much higher than in prior periods.

Citation needed.

Actual numbers, such as the ones at http://www.deptofnumbers.com/blog/2010/08/tax-revenue-as-a-f..., emphatically disagree with you.
For the rest of us, the comment ends up entirely cut off by the overflow: scroll CSS attribute.

I would suggest the use of an extension that allows you to edit text in any editor you like, where you can freely use any font you like, such as It's All Text! for Firefox. That would solve this problem on any site you use.
Can Revenge Porn Be Stopped While Also Protecting a Free and Open Web?
Why take the time to write an insightful comment on the actual news at hand when you can score brownie points with yet another knee jerk 'MS is dying' comment linking to blog spam that further links to one graph that somehow proves your point?

What about this news then? http://www.winbeta.org/news/windows-8-overtakes-android-web-...

How does that fit in with the graph you posted?

Statistics are like bikinis, they hide more than what they reveal.

However, this being the top comment on this article says more than about HN than you.
DoE calls for a chemical battery with 5x capacity, within 5 years
Very disapointed that I cannot sign in with Google+
Apple shares fall at midday; not a good few weeks for Apple
Show HN: An easy way to learn, test and deploy Rails apps
But many students were accelerated before they were ready, said Erick Lang, an assistant superintendent. The pressure had families hiring private tutors for students who were falling behind and high school math instructors wasting time reteaching basic material.

I think a lot of ground could be made up with online education outside of the classroom. With the popularity of MOOCs and digital textbooks on tablets, students could learn the basics using self-directed online study, and cover the more advanced topics in class. The challenge with computer-based learning is largely the same one brought up by these parents - that the same material is being taught to each student, regardless of ability. I think once you figure out how to tailor the lesson to each student, online learning could be a worthwhile supplement to classroom learning.
All Zoho Services Are Down
Removals Wanstead E11
Define "highest quality". I'd say "of most utility to the largest number of people." By that metric, the market picks the highest quality of winner pretty much by definition.

Exceptions I can think of are cases where individuals don't have enough info to decide (eg, a product will cause cancer, but the company can get rich before consumers find out) and Tragedy of the Commons issues (eg, every individual has incentive to pollute and only collectively do we have incentive to prevent it).

You might argue that the pollution exception applies here, but I'd still want the market involved. For instance, "the government will award $LargeAmountOfMoney to the first company who sells X vehicles meeting the following efficiency requirements..."
Horrible idea. Especially in industries that are capital intensive (i.e. high starting costs), the markets heavily favor the existing players, who have a vested interest in preserving the status quo. In such markets, if you want innovation then you need government assistance for startups.
Main Linux problems on the desktop, 2012 edition
Half the stuff on the front page at any given moment is not "news".
Exactly. So suggesting to all entrepreneurs that their product is possibly failing because they haven't convinced people why they want it yet, is a bad idea.
The actual site in question seems to be http://xxx.xxx/ (NSFW, obviously)
When you have a key as well.
Apple's definitive Legal Battles
Unfortunately this only works for multiple addresses with the same SMTP account on the same server. All mails you send will be from that account (check the MAIL-FROM field in the SMTP session). If you have separate personal/work accounts, you are stuck.

Gmail allows you to access external STMP servers with dedicated accounts. This allows you to basically use Gmail as a client to your corporate mail server. I've been using Gmail to consolidate all my mail accounts in different servers. It's really nice.

Oh, and threading “just works” in Gmail.
> ...if at any point one of the big three see Tesla as a threat they will put efforts into...

They will pull every dirty trick in the book, i.e. Laywer up, before they build a competing car to the Model S. (see Tucker 1948: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Tucker_Sedan)

Then there are more modern scenarios like the Bricklin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bricklin_SV-1) and the DeLorean.

All of those never made it as far as Tesla has, for a lot of reasons, but failed mostly the Big Three's stranglehold on the market. In the Bricklin's case I would point to the parts/supplies cartel at the time.

Elon has a good opportunity in today's market with the decline of the Big Three's influence.
Hope you don't drive anywhere.
Leadership 101
Clickable: http://www.bookcheaply.com selecting url on tablets (specially on the ipad) is hell.
Patriot Act can "obtain" data in Europe
I've got also some invites for Koding.com. Just drop me an email at: hn@arsln.org
I don't understand why they picked a really short domain "so.cl" and then redirect users to "www.so.cl" as soon as you hit it (which IMO looks kinda weird).
It looks like ford has about 5B in loans from them. And Fisker Automotive has a lil more than Tesla in loans. and Fisker makes some damn sexy cars: https://www.google.com/search?q=fisker&oe=utf-8&aq=t...
It could be argued that the huge stack of software simply build on languages created in the 60's, 70's, and 80's, and the hardware movement you mention is the evidence of Moores Law in action. I do not think these are evidence of radical innovation.
I don't understand the backlash they got for this story coming to light; when customers are being exploited (and especially repeatedly after asking them not to), the offending company deserves the heat. If this means certain brands decide to work with this company after this to cross-pollinate addresses, it just saves us the time of recognizing their legitimacy.
I believe the success of flickr.com (registered in 2003, launched in 2004) kicked off the current vogue for these names, though there are earlier examples too:

http://www.branddialogue.com/diablogue/2006/06/names-that-hu...

Misspelled words -- especially shortened ones -- have certain persistent advantages as names for web companies. It's easier to find available domains; it's a unique word for search engines; it's short and therefore quick to type.

Of course there are disadvantages too... Twitter was originally called "Twttr" when it launched in 2006, but later restored the vowels:

http://techcrunch.com/2006/07/15/is-twttr-interesting/
Yes, yes, and yes respectively. Secure booting isn't necessarily a bad thing, but users must be in full control over their keys. Only the user can decide who the user trusts. If the default shipping state is that only the keys used by the currently-installed OS are valid, well, that's just the only sane default. But that's not how this is being done.
I agree completely that Bootstrap can be a timesaver. For designers and non-designers alike.

The point I tried to make was that, if you depend for design on Bootstrap UI, if you need it to produce nice looking pages, then just flattening everything may cause problems: You would have removed unified and user-tested elements of design.

For content: a fun, distantly related, story from 1981:
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
Verizon files patent for a DVR that can peek into your home for targeted ads
Whenever my father uses Skype, he still can't grasp the fact that we can make long distance video(!) calls for free. He keeps reminding me that when he had to walk 3 km by foot to a Public Call Office and book a call for a max. 3 minutes to talk to my grand mother.
That was only 35 years ago.