skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think dialog boxes are simply mismatched to the WIMP paradigm: the user expects to be able to click, navigate, and explore a problem space, when suddenly you're confronting them with a decision that, once made, disappears and cannot be re-made a different way: the antithesis of explorability.

If, instead of indivual windows, there were some central "conversation window" where the computer would ask you questions, then leave both the question and answer available for viewing and correction, things might improve. In fact, more things could be presented to the user as "beneficial, but not necessary" decisions to make (changing preferences from their defaults, etc.) This scheme reminds me of SimCity's Advisors window, oddly enough, and also bears a similarity to Windows 7's Action Center.

The biggest difference is that every decision would now need a "safe postponement default", in case you don't "check your messages." In the elevation case, programs would have to be rewritten to not expect to be elevated as soon as they ask for it, but rather try to do whatever possible with the priveleges they have, and then queue up a list of things to do if/when they get elevated (which may never happen.) for instance, under this scheme, Installers would always install to a user-writable location, then queue a move operation for post-elevation.

The 20% that takes 80% of the work, in this case, is figuring put what to do when the user works outside of the elevation framework: what to do when you move the folder the program was waiting to move, or what to display in the conversation transcript when you change a preference in the Preferences window that you originally chose in the context of a Conversation.f
Magento Enterprise Edition just launched - any users of the free version?
Um, Facebook. Your Developer Site Has Been Defaced
I would suggest doing it yourself first, and then, once you've already developed the FAQ and canned answers, hire someone to do a specific, time-consuming part of the support for you - rather than trying to find a whole "outsourced support" provider that will no doubt have lots of issues and restrictions.
The only thing that bothers me about their site is that every advertisement is the same and often just sucks. I'll take one of those annoying Sonic commercials, but seeing them over and over somewhat grates my nerves. It's a small price to pay though, since the ads are very short themselves and the video quality is good.
Generally I agree for small startups, but some of these well funded startups aren't merely thinking about 'surviving', they have their eyes set on 'global domination' and therefore, a mistimed launch could spell disaster from a PR standpoint or could tip off another well funded competitor before they are ready to compete.
I heard good reviews about this ecommerce software. I am in the process of choosing an ecommerce package to power a site I am working on and I want to hear more opinions about this Magento.
Other contenders would be X-cart, osCommerce, Zencart...any other?
Apparently you never pull things out of your ass in message board debates. I've done it enough not to be insulted when I get called on it. If I offended you by calling out someone else, tokenadult, I sincerely apologize.
One reason you don't hear the truth of biological determinism -- it's taboo:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/193534
You could try also Cubecart or Opencart...but it also depends on what do you want to achieve. Some carts are more complex than others...
There are differences, yes, but the take home lesson is similar - businesses based upon specialised delivery of information are doomed in the presence of a general network. The problem the game makers have is that their whole model revolves around customers not being able to acquire the information they want (ie, a game) unless they buy it from the producer. Unfortunately, this is no longer true for many people, who have found a much cheaper transfer method.

The challenge for the producers is to find a way of making money which isn't reliant on being the sole source of the raw information. For game producers, this could be to charge for playing the game, a la WoW. For movie producers, the cinema. For musicians, the concert. Charge for the experience, not the delivery.

Hope that makes sense.
Future of social payments platforms
So you catch the not-so-well written trojans.

A really good burglar can pick the locks to my house, but I still lock the door.
Sounds like South Korea to me, happens a lot there.
If you put RunKeeper in lock mode and you don't run the iPod, your iPhone should last you a whole marathon (unless you're exceptionally slow). In the last couple of releases, the company has focused a lot on power management, and I've found that it is tremendously improved over the 1.0 release.
Get Excited and Make Things
Px - em - % - pt - keyword
The app is used to put one's face on extremely large denomination bills as a joke. He says he included a few presidents and other public officials as examples to play with. Apple's terms state that your app can't ridicule public figures. Fair or unfair it's what you sign on for when you develop for the iPhone. Sure, you could argue that this isn't exactly ridicule, but they also probably don't have the time for debate. They're giving these things a quick once over without much thought. Public officials on a fake $500T bill? Denied. Seems like a no brainer to me and it sounds like if he resubmitted the app without politicians' pictures there wouldn't even be an issue.

That said, I don't even know why people bother with the App Store anymore. You could spend months working on something and Apple could literally make up a reason on the spot to reject it. The very next day you'll see some stupid pull-my-finger app that someone threw together in an hour. It's been like this from day one and nothing has changed. These lame blog posts that pop up every week are not some new revelation.

If developers want real change they'll stop targeting the iPhone instead of rehashing the same arguments while continuing to support the system. What incentive does Apple have to change things?
Well the whole thing is that, do they still have that right?

Is it right that I have to wait an entire year to see the movie on DVD, when they know full well from before production starts that it will be released on DVD. It's just a tactic to try and force people into the cinema: "You like the look of this movie... ooh, only in cinema!"

With the amount of Cam rips and TS's out there, and have been out there for a long time, people are clearly telling the movie industry that we expect not to wait a year for a movie to release on DVD.
It seems that your location independent business consists mainly of making web sites abouthow to run a location independent business.

It used to be possible for a good writer such as Samuel Clemens to simply travel the world and fund it by filing reports from abroad, or writing articles for travel magazines or travel guides. In a lot of ways what you are doing is similar.

However, do you know of anyone living a similar lifestyle that is not funded by writing, whether for the print media or its successor ? Perhaps by seeking out niche items in each place they visit, and selling them on ebay to Americans (perhaps through a partner still in the US) ? I have heard of people doing that in Argentina when that economy was worse off. Or by supervising the manufacture of something through mfgquote.com and its sales and delivery via the internet ?
Sorry for hijacking this thread, but does Webmynd ignore history in Privacy Mode ?

Even though I'm a Safari user, Webmynd is a pretty good reason to get back to Fx. My sources (in order) are: Wikipedia, Delicious, Twitter, HNews, Reddit.

I would like to have GitHub as a source (even though it might only be interesting to developers). Also you could make an anonymous data collection for statistics, I would happily opt-in.
It could be interesting to have a presignup for a closed beta, but with a precise promise of how long it will be before you get in -- like the 'call hold wait estimate' some phone-in support lines have.

This answers the user concern that the wait might be nothing or forever, and gives the team another variable to play with to control the rate of signups and appearance of 'exclusivity'.

Has anyone seen a site that does this?
Linkjacked? Flagging.
No, roads are not paid for by car taxes and fees in the US. Car taxes and fees are nowhere near enough to build highways. (In Europe actually this is closer to being true due to massively higher car taxes, massively higher gasoline taxes, and ubiquitous toll roads).

Obviously depends on where in the US you are, but typically is estimated that there would have to be a 50c tax per gallon to make highways self-paying. For places where road construction is particularly expensive (mountains, Alaska and Hawaii, etc) that doesn't even come close.

EG. see

http://pubs.its.ucdavis.edu/download_pdf.php?id=1139

Not that I think there's anything wrong with that - subsidising efficient transport is a perfectly legitimate role of government as it is vital for commerce.
Who Is A Programmer?
I've always wanted to see an open source bipedal walking bot, too, but this will do. :)
Not all of us actually want press before we create something usable enough to get a positive review. I can understand that a writer would want an all access pass, but to us, these products are our life (or at least a big part of it). For the people who want to get press, I'll say it's really hard getting on TechCrunch unless you have invites and a strong product. Usually you need both, but when you go public expect press to be less interested in general. Far less interested. They usually want their big story, and then they're moving on to the next new thing.
A First Guide to PostScript
> hire someone to do a specific, time-consuming part of the support

This is exactly what I am asking about. How ? I really don't want to rely on a random guy I found on the Internets to mess up the impression of the product with an abysmal support quality.
Ironically, map and filter are still available, when they seem easily duplicatible with comprehensions:

map(f,lst) = [f(x) for x in lst]
filter(f,lst) = [x for x in lst if f(x)]

But I don't see a way to translate reduce, except for perhaps the particular case of sum.

reduce(f,lst) = ???
Just How Important is the Valley?  Let's Look at some Data.
Yes it is. Original source: http://static.thepiratebay.org/dreamworks_response.txt

If you read the whole thing, you'll note that the reason for that tone was that they were annoyed that DreamWorks had tried to send a DMCA takedown notice to a site obviously, and famously, far outside the USA.

As a dirty foreigner myself I can completely understand the annoyance with Americans who blithely assume that US law applies to the rest of the world, so maybe that wasn't the best example to raise. And as an American, I'm sure that if some Swedish company sent you a Swedish "takedown" notice under Swedish law and written in Swedish, you'd probably tell them to go fuck themselves, too.
I agree. This may be a sign that either a restricted scope of HN needs to be enforced, or an algorithm needs to be written to correlate the interests of users. Neither is pretty, but the alternative is a saturated Hacker News.
This post is a result of this thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=563810

I did a bit more digging. As the previous commentors pointed out, the data is not perfect and I'd be careful about drawing any conclusions about it. But, I thought it was interesting nonetheless.
Michael Michalko has two excellent books on creativity:

Thinkertoys (http://www.amazon.com/Thinkertoys-Handbook-Creative-Thinking...)

and

Cracking Creativity (http://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Creativity-Secrets-Creative-G...)

They're both among my fave books of all time, though they are relatively similar in content so getting just one is fine.

They cover a lot of different strategies for thinking creatively and outside the box, provide tons of examples, and have a lot of exercise that you can try yourself (and while it sounds cheesy, the exercises are actually fun)
The concept of a right involves the fact that it still exists even if other people disapprove of how it is exercised. A "right" defines a certain domain in which the party holding the right has freedom of action. If its exercise were constrained to manners that were popular among third parties, then it would not be a right at all.

The fact that you feel entitled to enjoy artists' work in the manner that you wish does not negate those artists' legal rights (or their agents to whom they have delegated those rights).

I'm sorry, I don't know where you're from. These concepts might be unique to anglo law. Property rights might work differently elsewhere.
Check out YSlow and Steve Souders' tips if you're interested in speeding up your front end.

http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
WebMynd does allow you to store and search web history, but you can turn it off whenever you like and completely disable it in our settings panel.

In fact our setup wizard asks whether you want web history search or not right up front. And our custom extensions for Twitter, Hacker News and others have it disabled by default.

To be clear, we never share history data, even in aggregate, or use it for any other purpose than giving you better search results.
To correct something I said, I was thinking it's better if someone else than you to send her the books, because your relationship is so bad at this point she won't trust it to be a good thing and not care to read.
You've mentioned in your OP that you print in the destination country. I had to carefully look for it on your website to know that. I would highlight that aspect.

A friend wanted to mail his movie script to Mumbai, India from Hollywood. He wanted it to be there fast. I looked for services like yours and couldn't find anything that would print it in legal paper size and deliver quickly.
Fedex allows you to do that in the US.
> I'd like to see companies considering initial piracy a marketing cost - the people that don't end up buying probably wouldn't have anyway and you'll end up gaining loyal customers who like what they've seen/heard.

I'd very much like to see it as that also, but sadly it flies in the face of most of the evidence. Anecdotal stories to the contrary notwithstanding, the majority of studies indicate that filesharing replaces demand for (paid) recorded music, rather than stimulating it. Moreover, a bird's-eye view, it is difficult to reconcile the piracy-as-free-publicity (and hence as a stimulus to demand for music) with the rather obvious fact that, even adjusting for lower average prices for music (due to the renewed strength of the singles market thanks to iTunes), revenues from recorded music have fallen drastically over the last ten year (not adjusting for the singles/iTunes effect, revenues are down by 50% in less than ten years).
Write a for loop. Much of the time, the code ends up clearer.

See Guido's explanation at: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196
Pirate Bay busted, nobody wins
I'd do this:

a) Get a Google Voice account. Forget the 1-800 number, it just makes them want to call you. Get a local number that looks professional. i.e. something that looks like 1-404-444-000#

b) On the #, create a voice message stating something like "please check our FAQ and if you still can't find an answer to your question, please contact our support staff via the website"

This way, your new customers will give you the extra points for having a support # that they think they can call. And you won't have have to waste all that time answering questions. And 99.999% of your users will never know that the # doesn't go anywhere
Collections agencies are persistent, I'll tell you that much. I've been in the same apartment for 4 years, and for 4 years I've been getting weekly calls for a person who lived here two tenants ago.
doesn't seem to work...
I live in the UK, and I have a startup (very early stage). Were it not for the usual immigration nonsense, moving would almost be a non-issue - the risk appetite of British investors is just too low. There are other advantages associated with a Web 2.0 startup which make the move to California compelling for us in any case - primarily, IMO, the ease of making really good contacts.
Over the years, I've come to realize that the "quality" of urban design can be approximated by the ease at which one can travel while drunk. Mountain View is an epic fail.
I'm sure they'd love to hear some suggestions on what is missing.

Personally I think it looks great. Its hard enough to find code examples for a specific framework. I certainly found that to be annoying when I was dabbling with android. This definitely looks like a step in the right direction.
Blog entries like this make me feel truly educated. I could visit my grandparents in Weston, MA and regurgitate, "the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions" and my grandmother would reply, "Ah, someone who is educated!" Whereas if I had said, "GZip encode your hypertext," she would be the uneducated one.

So education is relative. Perhaps if I give in and move to the Bay Area my education will be richer than I would ever have imagined.
Not really...shows like that, people want to discuss with others. If you have to wait 24 hours for the show to be upped, you miss out on all the watercooler talk the next day.

If torrents can up a show within 20 minutes, surely the show's creators can do it as well. If you are upping the thing anyways...I see no reason why your fans should have to wait an extra day.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/43451
I think if the inventor has sales skills that would be helpful.
also flagged.
> jobs was selling what he had available at the moment, which only makes sense.<

What's your point? No one in this thread ever suggested otherwise.

> the oft-repeated refrain that "jobs said web apps were good enough" is mean-spirited and wrong. i suppose it's so often repeated because people felt he was being deceitful or patronizing at wwdc 2007, <

He did say that, and he was being patronizing. Many (most?) informed observers were able to figure out that Apple would probably allow native apps as soon as they were ready, and that the official Apple line was a load of bull.

Also, how is it mean spirited? It's neither malicious nor petty to simply call a spade a spade.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Google come up with Project Planning service?
Since we're using more and more web-based office tools like Google Docs/Spreadsheet/Powerpoint, it is still cumbersome to use other Project Planning services like Basecamp, etc and link Google Docs links there.

For Project planning, Spreadsheets and PowerPoint are still useful tools.

Why doesn't Google provide a complete suite for Project Planning which can have Docs/Spreadsheet/PowerPoint integrated in it?

Why there is no - Basecamp + Google Docs/Spreadsheet/Powerpoint integrated solution yet? May be Zoho is one...
Guido wanted to kick out map and filter in Python 3000 but there was community out there using these two, God knows for what reasons. As long as the lambda is limited to single expressions, map and filter are pretty much useless; and lambda is going to stay like that due to the way Python handles scoping using indentation.
> Have you ever taken someone to court successfully?

Yes, I've been to small claims court 15-20 times. I won every time.

Folks who force you to go to SCC in the first place tend to be flakes, therefore they tend to not even show up. 75% of the cases that I've had, and that I've witnessed, in SCC, only have 1 party show, and that party wins by default (at least in MA).

> Have you ever used a collections agency?

Not yet. I plan to, though.
4-hour work week is interesting in that it has the annoying too-cocksure attitude Ferriss exudes, but also has lots of interesting and useful nuggets of practical ideas.

A friend showed me the book and I was initially dismissive, but in flipping though it I started seeing enough valuable things I ended up buying it.
The "you get what you pay for" argument is a weird argument to make. That implies that 10 instances of the o3 solution are delivering the same value as a single f5 box -- value in way you describe -- because, at that point, their dollar cost is the same. If that's the case, then it doesn't really matter which solution I choose, does it?

I hate to come off as a f5 hater, because I'm not -- they (you) make good products, but your first argument is essentially dissing the predominant architecture of the Internet -- chaining proxies, "cobbling together," physically separated servers, etc. and yet that general approach to getting things done on the Internet seems to be working just fine -- not only working, but winning out in a very big way. There are very good reasons why the Internet is cobbled together and not running on a single mainframe computer and one giant router.

And this sentence: "The author states: 'The system had no problems handling over 26,590 TPS' which seems to indicate it was not using the industry standard 1024-bit key based on the core capabilities of the processors to process RSA operations. In fact, 512-bit key certificates are no longer supported by most CAs due to their weak key strength." (emphasis added by me)

So, you're not sure about something as important as the key length. Okay. Fine. But the second sentence does not follow from the first. Instead of starting the sentence with "In fact," it should start with "If they are, in fact, using 512-bit keys (and I have no idea if they are or not), then that might present a problem because..."

I'm going to end there because I need to go tell those pesky kids to get off of my lawn. :-)
> Apparently you never pull things out of your ass in message board debates. I've done it enough not to be insulted when I get called on it.

So you both lie and call names.

Delightful.
Accent? You can't fake an accent easily. You either have it or you don't, and I'm pretty sure he had it even if he spoke 5 sentences. Who knows about the rest of his knowledge about the languages he claims to know -- he talked about Kanji then proceeded to use words written in katakana as examples.

Good to know about his blog.
Did you have the problem the other commenter in MA suggested, where it was hard to collect the judgement after winning the case?
Right, but we're not about to stop building new chips and other hardware.
Yes, and most of the research energy that originally went into Smalltalk moved to Self, and then directly to Java.
We need the eggs
I think this might be better? http://optipng.sourceforge.net/
I am looking for one too. I have a judgment for over $12K from 2 different tenants. I sent one of them to a collection agency about a year ago. Nothing...
I know about disabling it, but I would like to still be enabled when I'm not in privacy mode.

I have complete confidence in your privacy, that is why I said I will opt-in if you would like to gather data to improve your product.
Or the war on napster. That took care of piracy, yep sure did.
You're implicitly equating them every time you use the phrase "science and engineering", as if they were a dual entity. They're very different, and you're far more likely to be employable as an engineer than a scientist. Totally different beasts.
Isn't that what _all_ languages do with a for loop? Why should Ruby break the mold here?
IPhone document reader focused on usability, access to Google Documents