skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I think you completely misunderstood me.

I'm baffled that someone would even want to deploy a twitter-like app in a corporate environment. Twitter seems to be the most counter-productive form of communication imaginable, even when you get rid of the character limit.
Based on this month's data

Internet Explorer - 55.06%
Firefox - 27.94%
Chrome - 14.37%
Safari - 1.23%
Opera - 1.17%
Mozilla - 0.13%
Netscape - 0.02%
BlackBerry9500 - 0.01%
Oh, definitely. Like, they aren't going to send a message over $3, but they will probably expend some effort when it gets closer to being profitable.
AT&T Wants Extended iPhone Exclusive
If they wanted that, they shouldn't have done as crappy a job.
I would be interested in using this tech, but want the full server tech and docs on my own server. Is this something you license?...or it your SaaS only?
Hmm, the dishonesty and non-serious arguing was a good, if boring, attempt to troll me personally. Was it luck or do you often troll people discussing religion? Never mind. I've got a life.
anyone know of a good doc viewer, preferably javascript based like this one, that isn't locked down as someone else's SaaS?
Twitter is probably more valuable inside an enterprise than on the Internet. It's part of plenty of people's jobs to keep up with a constant stream of minor updates.
Yeah, I think Twitter is subsidizing the SMS (text messages) sent to the mobile phones...I read somewhere that they stopped to do this in China or another asian country because it was just too expensive...
I didn't pay my taxes in 2000. I owed about $3000 federal and $3000 to California.

California will eventually catch up with you (it took 7 years for me) and take the money directly out of your checking account. They will send you letters telling you that they are going to take the money out of your bank before they do it.

The federal IRS will just keep sending you letters. It's worth paying up ASAP because the interest is substantial. I ended up paying about $800 in interest.

None of these things ended up on my credit report, which was a relief but I thought was a bit weird.

I've also heard that your passport won't be renewed if you owe the government money. However, I'm not convinced the IRS and the state department are well coordinated. I'm assuming it's more about preventing huge tax evaders from fleeing the country.
Reminds me of a few sociology papers. Some of the most * awful, self-referential terminology I ever came across. Might have been just those papers, or my mood, but it left a permanent bad taste.
So, essentially, an App appstore - that sounds like a great idea.

TBH I did assume that was what you meant; but it was worth making the point :)
Baiting headline that isn't germane to the article, which includes a product pitch. Why are we even talking about this submission?
The 140 char limit, the inability to attach files, etc... seem very counter-productive with regards to intra-corporate communication. I'd never look toward Twitter for that role. IRC, campfire, Confluence, etc... sure, but never Twitter.
Webby Awards: Trading your relevance for profit (Andy Baio).
Ha, great article.

Makes me think back to the terribad philosophy classes (at least the softer, less mathy ones - the pure logic ones were fine) I had to sit through in college. My trick back then: whenever I read a paper/essay/book on any topic (particularly metaphysics), I always kept an informal tally of the percentage of argument devoted to arguing that someone else's definition of a term is "wrong." Generally speaking, that percentage is inversely proportional to the overall quality and relevance of the paper - there's no point listening to people argue whether God exists or not if they're merely redefining "God" turn-by-turn until they each prove their point!

This obsession with arguing over definitions and attempting to answer ill-formed questions isn't limited to philosophy, though, it's quite rampant throughout most of the humanities world and even comes up more often than it should in sociology and psychology. Which is a shame - those are both fields where tangible advancements with real world consequences could probably be made, but mired as they are in soft thinking, where everyone can be right (or at least present arguments obscure or pointless enough to dodge criticism), they have a very long way to go. At least psychology is starting to give way to cognitive science, which may pick up some of the slack; I have yet to see any sign of future improvement in sociology.
I sometimes take my laptop outside to a coffee shop with outside seatings and wifi. Even though I can't do "heavylifting" that I do at home with three displays, the creative stuff is really easy to generate when windowless and wallless :)
All eyes on Mexico
As Obama heads to Latin America there are some major issues with the rampant drug wars for him to consider. Love to hear any thoughts.
Stock picks? Really?

Here's Derek Lowe on Dendreon:

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/04/14/dendreons_re...

He at least provides a backstory, and context written for adults, not people who need to think of cancer therapy as "hand to hand combat".
The “desktop” metaphor for computers is outdated. What can take its place?
Interesting to consider how many of these could be solved or at least ameliorated via existing technological measures and which ones couldn't.

Encryption and signing would take care of the interception and authenticity/tampering issue, but there isn't anything that will ever stop the intended recipient of a message from forwarding it indiscriminately.

Overall a good policy and good advice from UW; it's ironic that people who understand how email works tend to trust it less than those who don't. (There's something of a lesson there: if experts in a technology or system are more confident in it than the public, you can probably use it with caution; if experts think the public over-trusts it, run away.)
It's set up as an external system anyway. You'd have to do extra work to hack it in. Otherwise, that is true.
I don't believe the passport bit. I think it's probably apocrypha based on an alleged IRS trigger when you renew your US Passport overseas --- expat taxes are a thornier issue than stateside taxes.
I second the IO issue - it's alarming to have the HDD always churning when I have Chrome open. Assuming SQLite is the culprit, that's a good reason to think twice about embedding it into an application.
This was actually the exact comment I was going to make. Especially since the job is overseas, some form of discrimination that would be rare in the U.S. could well be in play here.
So, for the majority of users, I'm guessing this wasn't that big a deal. They even point out that 45% of Digging is happening through the DiggBar, meaning that there are a whole lot of people out there who actively enjoy using it.

I understand and agree with all the anger, but most people only care about the experience. Seeing URLs is irrelevant to most people (or they wouldn't fall for phishing scams), and compared to an add-in toolbar, this is much easier to both install and uninstall. SEO, transparent URLs, framing, etc. aren't even on the radar, much less as something to get mad about.

The point is, I don't think many people will log out or opt out to browse. It's just not that big a deal to them.
I've never really been a Digg user but this move makes sense considering the amount of negative reactions.
Ha. Okay fair enough. 'feedback is welcome' is redundant. You're right.

RE: Drudge. Yes, it is entirely possible that I am just used to seeing it after looking at it daily for about 8 years. I can see how it'd be sensory overload if you're not accustomed to that style of news.
IRC, Campfire, and Confluence all require you to actively participate. (Thanks, I just remembered to hop on ours).

IM is always-on, and at my clients it seems to work. But broadcasting over IM doesn't work.

Email broadcasts piss off enterprise people (not least because psychotic IT managers crack down on email storage, which leads to a startup idea that could easily generate an 8-figure ROI for most large enterprises: kill those IT managers).

What does that leave you with?

I'm actually bullish on enterprise microblogging.
can someone point out how DoingText stacks up relative to etherpad and mobwrite ?
1. Firefox 55.81%
2. Internet Explorer 28.37%
3. Safari 7.88%
4. Chrome 3.92%
5. Opera 2.79%
6. Mozilla 0.78%
7. HTC_P3700 Opera 0.13%
8. SeaMonkey 0.07%
9. Konqueror 0.05%
10. BlackBerry8900 0.03%

IE has been consistently under 40% for a very long time now.
My advice for working with such people is to just use email. Require people to respond within 4 hours and before they leave and 95% of the time that's good enough. Interrupting flow costs between 1/2 and 4 hours of productivity, but most people take breaks so as long as they respond in a reasonable time frame it should be fine.
> I'd be interested to hear if anyone actually knows something
of what it takes to sell canned food.

I recently had a friend who was starting a business selling 'canned' jars of BBQ sauce. At least here in California, the answer is that there wasn't a feasible way to do it legally in the commercial kitchen we were sharing. His solution was to outsource production to a large facility that was already certified for production.
The lib seems impressive. Anything which Python's bindings can do 65K inserts in 110ms deserves a lot of attention!!

Now I just have to attempt to make it's Python bindings compile under Windows :( It's hacking time!

Thanks for the tip!
"If openness means to 'go with the flow', it is necessarily an accommodation to the present. That present is so closed to doubt about so many things impeding the progress of its principles that unqualified openness to it would mean forgetting the despised alternatives to it, knowledge of which makes us aware of what is doubtful in it."

This sentence might not be well-written, but it's not impenetrable. It only took two readings. Translation:

"If you want to think critically about the present consensus, you must not be entirely 'open' to it. If you want to just 'go with the flow', you will be required first to forget any doubts or alternatives."
Cool idea!

Mozilla 39%
IE 36%
Firefox 18%
Safari 5%
Opera 1%
Chrome 1%
Wow, I'm lucky :)

1. Firefox 71.43%
2. Safari 12.30%
3. IE 5.36% (7: 70% / 6: 30%)
4. Chrome 4.96%
... a few others, negligible %'s
IM is always-on, and at my clients it seems to work. But broadcasting over IM doesn't work.

It's the broadcast bit about twitter that worries me. Broadcast equals noise. Communication noise is very harmful.

If you really value real-time updates about your peers then that should at least be limited to the stuff that can be relevant to you, e.g. to people that work on the same project as you.

For this purpose a simple chat-room seems more than adequate. And that is supported by pretty much every IM service in existence. Without character limits. With seamless unicast.
Is/are your site(s) developer-oriented? The reason I ask is because your IE/FF shares are basically the opposite of medianama's.
Neither your mood nor those particular papers were at fault - sociology is a rancid cesspool, filled to the brim with Humanities-Style-Thinking at its worst, masquerading as a science because the questions it deals with are more concrete.

I suppose it's to be expected: the problems that sociology addresses are very complex ones, beyond the reach of science currently (though we're getting closer), and soft "methods" are academic Gods-of-the-Gaps that let people think they're doing useful work while they ramble on and on about topics that we don't actually have the tools to understand yet. Physics was in a similar state at one time, and it took several breakthroughs to get it to the point where we could learn anything useful from it.
Broadcasts limited to the stuff relevant to you seems like the entire Twitter problem statement. I think you're getting hung up on how Internet Twitter is used. Enterprise IM isn't used for picking up teenaged girls on Yahoo, either.
I'd recommend you just not fool around with this and be straight. Say hey, you offered me X and I think I can get Y at other companies, will you offer me more or should I go elsewhere? I wouldn't mention your friend at all. There are many people with more $$$ than you, why should you get it? You need to be aware of the current power in the negotiations. The current job market gives the employer a few extra points, but if you are an awesome programmer you may have a lot of offers. Actually having other offers is helpful. This is also a risky "bird in the hand vs two in the bush" kind of a thing.

At least the notes on these should be useful :

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-665B...

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Sloan-School-of-Management/15-067C...
BTW, if you turn off phishing protection - that lowers HDD usage significantly.

(But, reasonably enough, by "turning off phishing protection" you have be more attentive to what you're doing online)
Get Hacker News on IM, Email, SMS or the web
There is now a Chatterous group which can pipe you Y-Combinator news to GTalk, SMS or email. You can join at www.chatterous.com/hnyc_feed. To chat about topics, check out the hnyc chat group (www.chatterous.com/hnyc)
One for the user, one for the search, one to make sure it's not a fake click generated by a bot.
In keeping with the theme of this article, please define 'Humanities-Style-Thinking' and the intersection of this idea with Sociology.
It's not 2 weeks of solid Twittering... :-) You're allowed to do other things for the 23 hours and 50 minutes each day when you're not on Twitter :-)
Along the same lines (in case you haven't seen it):

The postmodern essay generator:
http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

And Alan Sokal's brilliant hoax:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
yep, the Alto, Lisa, QL, and NeXT where huge successes in my book.
<cackle> It was actually data research. The list was out there but it was not obvious where the companies WERE and I quickly got bored of reading thru press releases. I couldn't see an non-time-consuming way to get locations.

Here's the question on Mahalo Answers: http://is.gd/sCpK

I should note that the original list is NOT scientific. Near as I can tell, they pretty much made a table of the acquisitions mentioned on TechCrunch and VentureBeat, which probably do a REALLY good job of catching all of the Valley acquisitions, but probably miss a few elsewhere.
Duplicate.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=93509
I.e. it's a Chatterous room with an RSS bot in it using the chatterous API. So now HN is talking at me via Gtalk-- pretty neat.
The best one I know is the Sparkfun forum. It's heavily weighted towards newbies, so it's not as interesting as HN, but it seems to be growing fast. There are quite a few fun projects being discussed there at any given time.

It's interesting how software people congregate. It is really hard to find a good electronics blog or forum that isn't populated primarily by professionals talking about work-related topics. Electronic or Mechanical engineering versions of HN just don't seem to exist, unfortunately.

[edit] I know there are hobbyist electronics and machinist blogs out there; I'm saying that people with electronics & mechanical skills aren't discussing their startup ideas online.
And that isn't even the half of it! Twitter's SMS and API usage is huge and meaningful while probably making their comScore numbers look bad.
Yes, but you'd have to outsource it to someplace really cheap. The 3D CAD work to draw up that part for your $300 lawnmower can cost $300 just for the drawing alone.

Same reason nobody repairs TVs for a living any more.
I hope this is a genuine advancement not a false start.

It is a letdown to know that medical advancements are only a "few years" away or products got stuck in limbo.
I always just drop mine in the mailbox. I don't file electronically because of the fee. Hm, $10 (or whatever) to file electronically, or $0.42 to use the mail? Easy choice.
+1 - I discovered the Tree Style Tab addon a few months back, and I absolutely cannot imagine living without it. If you don't already use it, give it a try now, you will never go back. This type of tab handling should be pulled in to every browser ASAP.

If you're the type of person that reads Hacker News, this plugin will improve your online experience by at least 5%. Get it.
Right, but smart people should be able to run things passively. I.e. through influence vs direct intervention.

It takes even more cleverness to run things the introvert way, than to just abstain from any kind of involvement.
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One problem with twitter is you can't control the namespace.
Yahoo May Announce Layoffs on Tuesday
I'd be wary of any metric that can be manipulated by creative accounting.
Nothing at all, you're totally right.
Amazon Now Accounts For One-Third Of All U.S. E-Commerce
Is there a threshold that your interest account has to pass before the IRS will take more drastic action?
righto. if you're looking for input on what metric should be used, i'm afraid you'd have to pony up more information. target the least subjective and least manipulatable metrics possible. hopefully things you can also access and objectively measure on your own.
Jason Calcanis on the Adam Carolla Podcast
Jason Calcanis talking about the web, startups, tech and all sorts of unrelated stuff with Adam Carolla.
As far as I know, SQLite's version of "table-level locking" is to put each table in a different database file and ATTACH them all to one database connection.
"... proposed that in exchange for the GM bailout we spin out the Chevy Volt into an open source electric car platform."

Counterintuitively, electric cars are not something that is a good idea in the near term. Why? The electrical grid does not have the capacity to absorb the additional demand.

California for example has rolling blackouts during the summertime, just to moderate the existing demand. Imagine adding tens of thousands, or more, of electric car recharges to that...

Widescale adoption of electric cars, even assuming they were otherwise acceptable to the public, will require a massive investment in electrical generation, the two practical energy sources being coal and nuclear, neither of which is a politically easy thing to pull off.
This is a terrible article. How did it get 7 points?
A startup news site:

1. Firefox 53.11%
2. IE 21.47%
3. Safari 16.54%
4. Chrome 4.46%
5. Opera 2.41%
Err...the following bothers me:

"The ratio of converting invites to new users is your viral coefficient, k. If this is greater than one you will see self-sustaining, viral growth.2 If the coefficient is less than one each user will bring in a fixed number of new users, but the application’s growth is still linear. "

The rate of change of your userbase can be written as follows:

rateOfChange = randomSignups - usersLosingInterest + currentUsers x viralCoefficient

If viralCoefficient > 0 and currentUsers*viralCoefficient - usersLosingInterest > 0, you've got exponential growth, not linear.

Of course this is a drastic simplification, as all of these coefficients depend on a ton of other factors that will not be constant over time.

But the point is, each user doesn't have to pull a full new user in order to see exponential growth, you just have to have some positive viral coefficient...
I don't think anyone is saying that it is one size fits all. To extend the MP3 analogy, SQLite data is very portable, and serverless. MySQL is a server (in my experience), so you need to have that process always running, more analogous to a streaming audio server. I think that makes SQLite a very different kind of beast, more like a file format than a database server.
I just got audited for my 05-06 taxes over a discrepancy of less than $200 (for which they were proven wrong anyway). I was 19 at the time and made a total of about $4k that year. Its frustrating that the government will spend my tax money wasting their time (and mine) this way.
interesting that it counts the third-party partners in its metrics. wonder what it would look like if it were only amazon-handled products.
Speaking from personal experience this is totally true but needs to be investigated more. The whole negotiation system in asian flea markets is based on this. If the recruiters perceive that you want and need this job, then they feel they have the advantage and will low ball you. If they think you're going to walk away and perceive you to be in demand or have other options, then you have turned the tables around.

I had one experience where I felt like I was tired of my job and I wanted a new one and I'm sure that came through my attitude and I was totally lowballed. On a separate occasion I was nonchalant and came with the attitude of why should I work for you guys, the offer was so much better.
One of the positive aspects of this community to me is that responses are usually well-considered and (often) considerate. I worry that a near real-time response mechanism will affect the quality of discourse adversely. Or maybe I'm just getting old.
Numbrosia puzzle iphone/ipod touch app almost done.  Check out the screenshots.
Check out the description and screenshots here:

http://www.numbrosia.com

If you might be interested in doing some (very) last minute beta testing, please send your uuid to amichail@gmail.com. I plan to submit it to Apple Friday/Saturday.
Open Source 2009: It's the Economy, Stupid. Or is it?
I've forgotten the details. At the time I was panicked so I did a lot of research on the subject. I vaguely remember that there is an upper limit to the amount of interest they can charge.
Agencies flooded with comments about broadband stimulus
I doubt Digg feels that they "forever tarnished their brand" or considers the DiggBar to have been a mistake. They're not even canceling the DiggBar! They're just restricting it to logged-in users. They probably think this is just a vocal minority who cares, the majority of users like it, and soon this fuss will blow over.

Whether that is true or not, I don't know.
Ugh, here come the masses.
I did send an email to some friends as well (before the tweet).

In any case, it seems like this got killed from the HN homepage. Can one of the admins tell me what was the primary reason?

I did NOT create any bogus accounts, bogus comments, etc. The only people from vuzit that voted on this post were myself and bmatzelle.

Best, -Chris
Recruiters are usually paid a percentage of your starting salary as a commission - it's in their interest to negotiate hard on your behalf. Tho' that your recruiter is screwing himself too is not much comfort...
Researchers: Databases still beat Google's MapReduce
"Laconica is built on PHP/MySQL open source software."

Given all the hullabaloo about twiter scaling, rewrites, etc, I thought it would be clear by now that a database driven website is not a good architecture for twitter-like messaging system.
Self-Sustaining Buildings
Universe may not be "fine tuned" for life
I had a similar background and it took just a couple of weeks to get the basics down. I would just start by trying some of the online tutorials for obj-c/iphone and/or an iphone sdk book.

Start writing a few simple apps and you will be up to speed in no time.

Also, if you are interested in gaming the cocos2d library is very helpful.
The McKinsey report doesn't exactly come to that headline conclusion. It says that there is a point where if you have enough servers it becomes more cost effective to run your own data center, simply because can spread the cost of people and enterprise OS licenses across enough CPUs that the cost drops below the similar cost Amazon charges you, minus Amazon's profit. For small and medium sized enterprises, they claim cloud services are cheaper.
The "pay it forward" idea is quite old. Wikipedia claims the oldest source to be Benjamin Franklin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_it_forward
FYI: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=412355
ECON #120: What Taxes and Splitting the Restaurant Bill Have in Common
If it's a good idea, just go for it.
Friendster came out first. Then Myspace, and now Facebook.