skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't doubt that Apple will want to get the iPhone onto Verizon's network. However, Verizon itself has said that Apple has no interest in making a non-GSM phone. I'm guessing, as the article postulates, that these negotiations are a way of milking AT&T for more money. Verizon is rolling out an LTE network which Apple will probably provide a device for, but that network won't be finished until 2014 according to the latest reports.

However, these negotiations could get a lot more money out of AT&T who desperately would like to keep the iPhone as an exclusive past 2010.

As for the iPhone losing its "special-ness" when it becomes multi-carrier like the Motorola RAZR, that's a different situation. The RAZR was a basically unchanged phone for years. It was hot when it came out because it was new and different, but other phones became even better than it as Motorola rested on its laurels. Apple has a few advantages here. First, they've shown with their iPod line that they won't be content selling the same, unimproved product when they could be making improvements. Second, one of the most attractive things about the iPhone right now is the App Store.

The App Store has put a huge barrier up against competition. Sure, there are a million-odd Android phones out there, but there are nearly 40M iPhone/iPod touches out there - and, in terms of developer mindset, the iPhone is where it's at. In fact, the iPhone is starting to look like Windows in that developer mindset is firmly behind the iPhone and alternative platforms aren't seeing the cool applications coming out for them. Apple's now in the position where third parties are creating the value of their platform by developing for it. I'm not saying that's a good thing (as someone who will shortly own a Palm Pre), but it does look like I'll be stuck without many of the cool apps.
Some famous users of Hacker News include David Heinemeier Hansson[3], Joel Spolsky[4], and Michael Arrington.[5]

DHH has posted 25 comments and Michael has made 1 post and 3 comments.

Are there any "famous" people in, say, the top 50 percentile of activity? :) (Update: I've removed my reference to Joel as he seems to be an active user - awesome!)
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I am involved in a project that started at Startup Weekend in Nashville, TN (that is not listed in that article). We are very active and fully expect to be profitable this year.

It sounds like they missed a few other active projects as well.
This sounds like a horrible idea. I wouldn't buy the Pre knowing a better phone might be released the next day.
I would advise them to go on sale at least a week ahead of WWDC. If they are too close and Apple launches an überphone, Apple would steal the attention Palm is aiming to get
The auto-pairing annoyed me at first, but when using other editors I find myself expecting them to give me a matching close brace whenever I type an open brace. It's grown on me.
I used to ride a bicycle to work during Kyoto's summers (very hot and humid weather) and frankly I find it much more bearable than walking in this weather... The air while riding helps cool off...
He has foresight and wisdom in spades but this is just an objective list of quotes :)
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You're much better off getting up off your butt and going out and meeting people on your own.

Since I've been in the recent job market (about a year now), I've found similar numbers of (apparently) helpful recruiters and sleazy ones. Even if the ratio were 1-in-20, it would still be better for me and people like me to use recruiters. To be clear, "people like me" here refers to those of us who strongly dislike networking, gladhanding, and basically pretending to be interested in people we know nothing about except that they might be able to help us get a job at some point. While it's not nearly so strong as my dislike of meeting new people, my aversion even to interacting with people I already know is strong enough that I regularly fail to keep in touch with family and close friends for months or years at a time. Fortunately, I have very understanding friends. :)
To be fair to the Americans, this isn't isolated to the USA.
How is commentary from women (subgroup of entire population) who chose to comment (selection bias) impartial?
OTOH, It's often nice to see people speak who just don't care if everyone likes what they have to say.

I find it quite funny how this is apparently only offensive to women for some unbeknown reason. I think that in itself belittles women.
Yeah, if CouchDB really performs like a porn star, it should cost $1000 an hour to run and need to get health checks every month. Not quite selling points for an always-up service (pun not originally intended, but I'm going with it now).
ion3 (http://modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/) should not be missing from that list.
I doubt anyone would buy it on both the notion that the new iPhone might be released the next day, and the fact that you already know what to expect with a new version of the iPhone OS and Hardware wide. The Palm Pre is unknown to most people, so why would they waste their money if Apple is going to come out with something they know is going to be awesome.
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Agreed. But I get the distinct impression that this speaker figured that everyone was going to like his pornography analogy and imagery.
Another quick fact: South America produces three times the food it consumes. And another: Brazil's per capita GDP is nearly 4 times India's. Brazil can feed and educate everybody. The fact that it doesn't (at least the feeding part is already fixed) is more related to bad government than to lack of funds.
Until Firebug catches up with the Betas I'll be sticking with the public releases.
Where did you go to school? At most places, business majors are people who would be economics majors if they scored half a standard deviation higher on standardized tests.
see my reply to the other post in this thread.
It seems like you are saying that Twitter is better because it starts with a clean slate. If Facebook added a button to start with a clean slate then the problem you cite would be solved.
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Sorry for the title. There was no real usable title on the page, so I took a sentence from their site ("http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/mission.php") instead.
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But the ones that use TwitterFox seldom quit :)
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What use is a good quote, when you can't change it?

Really: Selecting the 'objective information' is still judgement.
I'm still somewhat confused by web-video with HTML5, specifically how do the users install the video codecs and does HTML5 enable a seamless experience for installing them similar to the express install of the Adobe Player?

Alot more goes into streaming video to the web than just the choice of front-end plugin (Or lack thereof), rebuilding out your encoding/editing systems to handle other codec's could get very expensive, for example our small studio has poured over 6 figures into setting up just the editing rooms and encoding servers.
who was the moron who recorded this lecture? all the most important information is in the slides. i want to see them.
Do you that one speech from Joe Spolsky? Where he shows _one_ slide with a scarcely dressed women on it to make a point about attention? If I remember correctly he held that speech on a prior Rails Con.

I guess that was an "inspiration" for Matt, wasn't it?
I did the same thing. So now you know one more! :)
For people like me who didn't really know who IAC are, they own Ask.com, CollegeHumor, Vimeo, Match.com and Reference.com, among others.
"basically pretending to be interested in people we know nothing about except that they might be able to help us get a job"

No! No! No!

This is not what I meant and I apologize if I inferred it.

Pretending's got nothing to do with it. On this or any other subject.

You do not "network" (or whatever you want to call it) to "get a job" or to "get" anything for that matter. You network because you are a human being.

If you are extremely introverted or dislike being among others, fine. Many of us here are either like that or once were. I understand. I suggest you give it a try. You may be the best assembly programmer in the western hemisphere, but you are still a human being. You are already hard wired to interact with the rest of us. It's not really that big a deal.

Getting business referals is a natural byproduct, not the purpose, of normal human interaction. The more you interact, the better your chances. The better for everyone.

(As an aside, if you "pretend" at anything, prepared to get clocked, sooner or later. Pretending is an investment in nothing.)
Is there any info on new iphone hardware?
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The author didn't read, or didn't pay attention to, or didn't get the Techcrunch article. Spectacular grok-fail.
I get why the presentation/presenter was ineffective for some audiences. I get that there are various assorted prudes that need to be marketed to. I don't get why everyone has to have an opinion about it.

Has no one heard the term "booth babe" before? Been to car show? Turned on the television and seen a beer commercial? Watched a race car driver endorse a domain name registrar? Sure it sucks that marketing and sex are intertwined. Read this: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/04...

Then can we please shut up and get back to coding?
it's redirecting to youtube now. but the recording is total crap - no slides.
Palm is irrelevant. It doesn't matter when they schedule their launch: who's eagerly awaiting the next alternative-platform phone programmable only through javascript ?
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The school in question is UBC up in Canada - I didn't personally go there, but being where I grew up, I heard plenty of "yeaaaaah free boooooze!" from my peers who went into commerce, and "screw the preppy commerce guys" from everyone else.

I got the impression there that "commerce" was the end-all-be-all, and that econ majors are the people who actually study this business thing (as opposed to be awesome, network, and be awesomer, and get drunk).
I was under the impression that the main reason for a startup weekend was to knock the moss off, and encourage people to actually DO something; that is, it is more like practice or a dress rehearsal.
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Agree with everything you've said, but there's an interesting bit of news in yesterday's WSJ:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124082748427758659.html

Basically, Verizon added more subscribers than AT&T last quarter, so barrier or not, the iPhone isn't pulling as many people to AT&T as it was earlier. It makes sense from a developer perspective to write for the iPhone but VZW doesn't have to care.
What do car shows and beer commercials have to do with intellectual discourse?

yeah, base advertising works. on the other hand, if going to work was like being in a car commercial i doubt we'd produce anything constructive.
I don't know. Just looking at average salaries, it seems that the econ guys can either afford to drink more, or afford to drink better. Yeaaaaaaaaaaah enough booze to reach the point of negative marginal utility!

And from the resumes I've seen, a business degree will leave open some pretty uninspiring opportunities. Usually low-end stuff -- assistants with titles other than 'assistant'. Perhaps in Canada, it's different.
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Of course they don't go far, to succeed as a startup you need dedication, you need some skin in the game to keep on going, no matter what. If all you spent was a couple of hours on the project, you really have no motivation to help it suceed
You know, the Drupal community is always looking for talented developers and to date I've yet to see any pr0n embedded in a presentation I've attended. Just sayin...
15 years out of date, but this was a critical document when I was learning :)
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I doubt it. Our brains aren't designed that way (I even saw studies about it, but right now I can't search for any, 'working). There are always other motives for doing it.

For example I'm learning new things out of belief that doing it will improve my life in some way. I liked computer science because of the thrills of building things, and I keep on learning to break my own limits, always wanting to build better applications / algorithms. Seeing the results of my work makes me really happy (that's not too uncommon among us developers I believe). I also liked math in college because I've always enjoyed solving puzzles, and for the satisfactions of doing it before the others did.
this is an interesting one. i didn't realize that people voted without seeing the content. i guess they were just voting for topics or titles?

> "I voted for it, actually, because CouchDB is one of those things that’s the new hotness and I haven’t had a chance to play with it, and besides, he wouldn’t actually put porn in the slides. Right? […] I’m a minority in this community. I know that, and generally I can ignore it and go along thinking it’s a meritocracy of ideas and code. Then I encounter a woman’s thonged rear on the screen at a conference, 20 feet tall, and I remember, oh yeah, people like me don’t belong here. To most of these men around me, I am, at best, an oddity, and at worst, a sexual target. I feel a little less safe."
:potd: :mittens:

(For those not in on the joke, feel free to look up the history of Fucked Company)

Apparently they dropped the price already (12 dollars). Considering Godaddy is 7 dollars with a coupon, who would take the risk?
in fact, here's a good quote for that:

> "Victoria Wang: DHH’s attitude seems to say that the more we lower ourselves to the most base level of marketing scum in the name of entertainment, the better, even if at the end of the day there are no more women, or anyone worth knowing, in the room. It kind of makes me want to never touch Rails code again."
Tucker Max is an asshole.
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My main gripe with it is...

a+4

hmm I need to change that into 2*(a+4)

2*()a+4

for the love of god TextMate, go away!!!!!
I've noticed a very unpleasant trend in some of the complaints (both here and in similar discussions). A couple of examples:

Ruby (and Rails in particular) loves the rock star image...It’s also a significant barrier to adoption for people who aren’t already a part of this culture, and don’t find it appealing.

As a young women in tech, ... I would be extremely uncomfortable in a classroom of thirty young men and me if an instructor used sex as a metaphor for teaching.

In short, "I'm a girl, I don't like the existing culture, it should change to accommodate me."

I could make a similar statement about the culture I'm currently working in:

As a macho libertarian hacker type, I would be extremely uncomfortable in an extreme liberal, PC-gone-wild culture which glorifies east coast pseudointellectual preening. Therefore, the culture of modern universities should change.

Most communities have a preexisting culture, and you are not a good fit for all of them. But demanding that a culture change to be more palatable for you is the height of arrogance. I don't demand that academic culture change, I just fit in as best I can. Sooner or later I'll probably move on to a place where I fit in better.

[edit: I've been refreshing the page, this post seems to be getting a lot of both upmods and downmods. I'd be curious to hear responses.]
This is why I hate garbage collection -- it tends to break horribly as soon as someone does anything unexpected. Using 800 kB of stack is an incredibly dumb thing to do (not as bad on a 64-bit system as it is on a 32-bit system, admittedly), but it still shouldn't cause a huge drop in performance.
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I agree. The only difference would be that more people know about porn, than have kids and know about birthing/breast feeding.

If you could be pretty sure most people knew about it, I think either would be fine. Maybe an odd choice raising a few eyebrows though.
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I have dealt with exactly one good headhunter. They are rare and to be treasured. They understand that if they help you out today, you may bring them big business in the future. The one I worked with explicitly pointed out that they were my pimp at the time, but could be my client in the future :)
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Why would Apple create a stripped down 'iPhone lite', as the article suggests? Sounds very un-Appley, and seems to take away the major plus of choosing an iphone (apps).

If it comes to the Verizon network, I'll definitely get one, as long as they don't let Verizon cripple it and screw it up. (I have a lot of faith in Verizon.)
It seems that Apple would be in the position of power in negotiations, so I can't see them letting Verizon have their way on anything that makes the iPhone less cool.
I surprised you aren't using any monetary metrics to quantitatively track investments. Wouldn't that be a good corrective tool to feed back into the criteria you use to judge potential investments?

Or do you get enough qualitative information to integrate into better judgment and intuition about startups?
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I agree with you that advertising sucks for getting work done, and that's why 90% of technical conferences with endless vendor pitches suck. Pitches for open source stuff can obviously also suck just as badly, and be even more clumsily delivered.

Let's not construe a non-technical statement about an open source product as "intellectual discourse". It's an advertorial statement of opinion, not a fact. The CouchDB marketing department may not have approved the message, but, for whatever reason, the guy is trying to get people to try some CouchDB. That's an attempt at persuasion/marketing/advertising. Hence, the relevance of other attempts that use similar means, and the ridiculousness of anyone getting worked into a lather about someone doing it.

Of course, must people don't like sitting through commercials. It's even stupider to pay to go to a conference so you can listen to them.
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Do you realize how much one line of code, in the Linux kernel for example, would cost a large organization to write and maintain?
Thanks. The first expansions already happened. Perhaps more people want to improve it?
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I think she's alluding that a lot of guys, when they see a mother breast feeding in public will roll their eyes in disgust, "does she really have to do that here?" Hence the big Facebook controversy a few months back - is it appropriate to post breast-feeding pics on the site?

I don't have an answer to that, but I understand how I might feel uncomfortable if I had to watch a presentation about breast-feeding for 30 minutes when I was expecting something on CouchDB. Swap that out for something potentially more inflammatory and you get the disaster we see now.
I have no idea why anyone would use ++i (though technically correct) instead of i++ in a for loop's incrementation clause since the incrementation is done after the loop body, not before... That just seems like willfully confusing intuition.
Actually, I don't. Any estimates?
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Never, to judge from the introductory copy on the TextMate web site. Which I think is a pity, since the editor has some real strengths (although nothing that isn't more or less already available in Vim or Emacs, near as I can tell, if slightly less flashy).

I've played with TextMate a bit, but simply can't commit to learning an editor confined to a single operating system. That way lies Madness, or slower editing everywhere at the very least ;-)
Don't depend on someone else to score you a job.

Network.

Verbose resume's bore, simple resume's score.

There, same advice, but far less writing (and far less self-congratulatory, please-read-my-article-while-I-masturbate-over-how-superior-I-feel-compared-to-this-poor-dude bullshit).
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This reminds me of the Janet Jackson superbowl debacle. The attitude to sex in the US is just bizarre.
Oh, I don't dislike being among others, all the time. I dislike meeting new people a bit, and since "networking" involves meeting as many new people as possible, it's basically a shorthand for the part of social interaction I dislike. :) I'm not "extremely" introverted or anything; it's just that going through recruiters has seemed to be a more pleasant avenue than meeting dozens or hundreds of new people over the same period.

We disagree about pretending, too. Pretending is the quickest way to changing your personality, distasteful as it is in the short term. Want to be more optimistic, happier, more outgoing? Start acting as though you are right now, and you'll move in that direction. Pretending is 80% of social interaction, too, as far as I can see. "Hey, how are you, today?" is, in the vast majority of cases, a pretense of being actually interested in my day. If you want to find out how many people are pretending, answer in detail rather than just saying "Great!" or some such answer. I sometimes answer in detail, anyway, because I forget that virtually everyone else is pretending (or because I'm not paying enough attention to consciously respond correctly), rather than interested, and this almost always ends awkwardly. :)
I'm going to suggest something crazy. You probably won't be able to estimate the size of your market using the internet. Go to a research library where you can read and copy paid industry and market research reports for free (the library pays the fees.) Bring a USB key and you can download the reports (at least in SIBL in NYC.)

I would suggest you do some old fashioned market research by looking at the age/sex/demographics/industry of your target customers and reading market research reports on them and industry reports on your competitors and other replacement products. A replacement product is one that isn't a direct competitor but people can use instead of your product (for example: Gmail and Google calendar is not a direct competitor of a CRM system like Salesforce.com, but people can and do use it instead of a CRM system.)

I think you could do all of this with 1 day spent in the library. You can find the same information on the internet, but it will take you a lot longer and you would have to pay for many of the same reports you could get from the research library for free.
"Has no one heard the term "booth babe" before? Been to car show? Turned on the television and seen a beer commercial?"

Three things that are specifically targeted at the 18-34 Male demographic. I thought the point of this debate was that tech conferences should be more inclusive than just that key demographic that makes up the bulk of the tech sector workforce.
Nice introduction to socket programming.

You might like to follow up with this:

http://wangafu.net/~nickm/libevent-book/01_intro.html

Which is the introduction to this:

http://wangafu.net/~nickm/libevent-book/TOC.html
The article it self is bland (oh noes, consumerist capitalism and marketing is evil), but the comments make for a very good read.