skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You live in the US don't you? In most of the world phone and subscription are not tied at all. If I want a phone, I go buy one. If I want a new plan, I go sign up for one. It's really that simple most places not the US. For reference, it's called a working market.

I'm already annoyed at Apple for tying the iPhone to iTunes. There's no need for them to tie in even more bullshit.
Define "true power users".
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You forgot current policy & goals of the federal reserve and the presidential administration. Almost nothing else matters nowadays.
In Y Combinatoria, Chrome doesn't work with it!
Not at all. The A340 limit load factor is something like +2.5 / -1.0g. This is not a condition injurious to seated passengers. It is unrestrained passengers who are injured in turbulence -- but that is due to the passenger/cabin collision, not the initial acceleration. The wings in the video flex a long way under these relatively light load factors because the wings are designed to be only a little bit stronger than they need to be.

Aerobatic airplanes and pilots routinely experience transients to +/-6g with no ill effects.
I have just two requests for Mozilla: please make Firefox faster on Linux, and troubleshoot its memory leak problem.

Even Firefox on my Virtualbox windows machine runs a lot more responsiver than on Linux host machine ...
Why when internet is becoming available in planes is something as simple and and essential as updated weather reports not possible during a flight?

Why are these practices seemingly stuck in a stone age of paper weather reports, printed before the flight leaves, that could have been outdated even before the planes takes off.

Maybe this accident will speed up a much needed needed technological update in this aspect of air-travel.
We should stop wasting dollars on security theater measures and invest it in real safety measures that can save lives.
They already have that, so why hasn't it happened? There's some political blockage here.
Owner-occupied housing is taxed more favorably in many jurisdictions.
"upgrade eligible" is the keyword.. for gen1 iphone users, the prices, as per the att/iphone website, calculated on the basis of my contract specs was the same as advertised, i.e., 99/199/299

edit: chk price eligibility here- https://buyiphone.apple.com/
Arpanet wasn't a startup, it came out of a defense program. What I am saying it trying to pick winners in silicon valley is a bad idea.
Thanks.
I assume that the forum mentioned in the article is http://www.pprune.org.

The current thread about this accident is http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/376433-af447.html

Apart from the current tragedy, it's a great window into another professional sphere.
> "Most strikingly, 75% of guessers were wrong. You'd be better off tossing a coin than asking advice of these people."

That claim above is absolutely ridiculous. If it were true you'd do much better by always doing the exact opposite of what they propose. If you can do as well as by doing the opposite of what they guess as by doing real research, then the guys clearly know far more than a random coin.

Consistently getting 75% wrong is difficult.

The data sets are too small to do any meaningful extrapolation from. The important message should've been about falsifying claims.

When you're designing anything you have a whole bunch of assumptions. Those assumptions ("everybody knows how to do X") can be falsified by a single counterexample. But this absolutely doesn't imply that if two people happen to think X that that is a meaningful reason to assume X is correct.
You're really stretching here.

First, with regard to your example of spending billions to harden steel on tanks, such a discovery might not be a worthy breakthrough to you, but that doesn't make it any less innovative. Many of our incremental advances in military technology have led to wider benefits in society at large. One could argue that the project that ARPA created that eventually gave birth to the Internet was one such project.

Second, while the aggregate impact of R&D efforts is difficult to measure, we do have some tools at our disposal, many of which agree with the OP's statement that "no one beats the US when it comes to research and development." There is no perfect way to measure global trends involving hundreds of countries and billions of people and trillions of dollars and expect to have a nice, neat little data-point. Think about education, or economic development. Our measures for those are incredibly imperfect and ugly and hackish, but they're what we've got. R&D spending is a well-recognized measure of the level of importance a country places on innovation and technological advancement. If you have a better one, we're all ears. If not, it seems unreasonable to attack someone you don't know for being chauvinist because they used the standard measure.
I agree, but he's pretty glib about it all (quoting star-trek? really?). Strikes me as a pretty odd tone to take.
does work in chrome 2.x.
It does. What would be the rationale for this? Is it just that they didn't want the standard Java ME runtime?
According to market share statistics, less than 1% of computer users have a MacBook Pro.
This doesn't make sense. It would only cost 150 for me to break my existing contract.
No, that was a different person. He was Canadian, I believe. ParrotSecrets guy is from India.
>> Frankly, they've always been very, very good to developers.

Except when they told everyone to develop for OS/2 - while secretly porting their Mac Apps to Windows 3.
Steve Jobs' demolition dream gets deferred
1) "How is this different?" For one, it's not Microsoft in the 90s.

2) Who's taking legal action against Google for "Search, Gmail, Docs, Analytics, Calendar"? I'll give you three guesses.

3) What do you think is the difference between having agreements with most PC manufacturers to pre-install Windows and offering an linux distro for a few models of phones?
AT&T is building up so much ill-will for their terrible network, god help them should they ever lose iphone exclusivity.
Here is some speculation on why: http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/110/
"My point is that such an assertion is absurd."

You assert that, but you don't appear to back that up with evidence or argument.
He's that smart.
Nonsense. Squawk 1200, and once airborne, you're free to use the radios. The point about not using the radio on the ground was to ensure that you could actually get the craft off the ground without the current owners or FBO knowing what you were up to.
You'd think they would be thrilled to have your contract extended a further two years. I just don't see the rational in punishing their customers.
The ex-USSR part of the siatistics is accurate, it would be correct to say that odnoklassnini is close #2 everywhere where vkontakte is #1 and vice versa.

Livejournal is a blogging service, not a social networking one, thus it should be listed separately.
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Que bono?

Sun and other companies banded together to spur the MS anti-trust investigation. I kinda wonder who's behind this. Yahoo? Microsoft?
Sorry for the link manipulation, but an article about Safari for Windows links to the same URI.
Actually, I have a better idea. Landlords within a neighborhood should band together and give their tenants a share of the appreciation of the property above inflation. Rents would probably have to rise to accommodate this. They should do it as a group because it's far easier to judge the appreciation of a neighborhood compared to a single property that isn't being sold. Once renters have an stake in the quality of the neighborhood, they should act more like owners.
Wow. The fee to early-cancel is (at least for my iPhone 3G) only $125. So it's cheaper to cancel-and-rebuy ($125 + new-with-contract-cost) than upgrade ($400 + new-with-contract-cost).

There does not appear to be a waiting period for rebuying, at least according to the rep I just spoke with. In fact, while I did not specifically ask about the 3gs, she seemed to imply the optimal path might be (1) add a new line (qualifies for new pricing); (2) cancel old line (paying the early-cancel fee).
That's right. They did an experiment. Control group rats were allowed to sleep. Test group were on a wheel that would start spinning of the rat fell asleep. It would crash them into a wall that would wake them up. After 40 days, the control group was fine, but the test group were all dead.

When they looked at their internal organs, they were mush.

Sleep is important.
Just verified this. I have an original 2G iPhone and was able to reserve the new 32GB 3GS for $299.
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Sigh...I wish this were the case, I really do. But I sincerely doubt it, at least not in the US. Lots of reasons, but main ones would be weather, comfort, initial cost, time, and the sheer difficulty of getting people to change.

Within the US, something like this would only work in city centers...people aren't going to ride their electric bike 15 miles to work each way, especially when you throw in the fact that a) they're wearing business attire, b) the weather is lousy for this in a lot of the country a lot of the time, c) they already have a car and our entire infrastructure is built around letting them use it.

Even within cities, there are only a handful where it's not too hot or too cold too much of the year for this to be worth it.

I think small hybrids & electrics are the future of transportation. Plus more people cramming into cities and using public transportation, not to mention things like telepresence may mean that fewer people need to commute to work in the first place.

But millions of people in the mid-west US riding their electric bicycles to work each day? Not gonna happen :)
They just had the perfect oppertunity to make that transition with the change to iPhone OS X 3.0, so that is no excuse.
Yep; I just did it and was charged $299 for the new 32GB phone. (I have the first generation iPhone. I guess I should also note that I bought it the first day it was available back in '07, so my original 2 year contract is near expiring. Not sure what the case would be for someone who bought a phone in, say, Dec 07.)
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E-bikes are everywhere in (urban) China and are a certain kind of status symbol--you graduate from a bike to an e-bike to a scooter to finally a car as you move up the economic ladder.

If my office actually had proper secure bike parking, I might get one of these to replace my monthly metrocard.
I've done quite a few, and remember fondly a double all nighter my first startup pulled to release 1.0. Sometimes it makes sense, but it is better to be avoided.

-Feed yourself well. Avoid sugar. Drink water.
-Marvel at the sun, people in their rituals, etc.
-Make a simple agenda: when to leave work, when to eat, etc.
-Take a nice shower, dress comfortably.
-Put on music and get into a groove.
-Don't make any critical decisions.
-Defer tough conversations.
-Plan "re-entry" with enough sleep to land on a normal schedule. (ex: 12 hours of sleep ending at 7:00am.)
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"If you start a systematical approach, writing down, for example the top 1K alexa sites, and their respective business model"

Okay - now wait a minute. You want to review 1,000 websites. Fine. You're going to do so by figuring "out by a combination of public announcements + general available info on the net + business logic" their business models? No chance. You might do 10 or 20 but you aren't doing 1,000.

But let's play a game - let's pretend that you do this project and you make it through all 1,000. How long does it take? 40 hours per week, perhaps it takes only three years - I think that's probably a fair estimate. One person working full-time on such a project could likely accomplish that in 3-5 years. One person trying to herd cats into helping them might be able to accomplish such a task in only 18-24 months if they work full-time.

But what of the opportunity cost? What else could you have done - for the world, for yourself - during that time? This project is of mild interest to a slim percentage of people in the world. Notice that you posted it on HN and it got three votes - 1 for free and 1 from me b/c I wanted to see opinions. I don't think it has merit but it is interesting to talk about and, if I had to guess, that's sort of everyone else here's opinion. We'd rather work on our own business models than pore over others'.

I'm not trying to come down on you - not at all. But I don't see how it can make you any money long-term. And if it can't make you money long-term, then it's a time-suck; it's taking time away from something that could be making you money. Now if you just enjoy doing it, great - I understand completely. But don't fool yourself into thinking you're going to have the time to create this great database of up-to-date business models. The internet has plenty of abandoned projects; it doesn't need another.

The best way to learn is to do. Go create your own company with your own business model. It will be wrong. You'll learn or you won't. Reviewing the top 1k alexa sites will not help you learn how to create a business model for your own company.
Why Joel Tennenbaum's Lawyers Are on His Side
Users are much less likely to use a service that requires a desktop client. There are a few exceptions to that rule of course; IM, twitter, and Skype come to mind. But I think it holds as a general rule. For example, if YouTube required a desktop client instead of working entirely through the browser, would you still use YouTube? I doubt that I would.
This is the way that it is with every phone on the market. If you aren't ~22 months into your contract, you can't upgrade devices at the subsidized price. Likewise, if you aren't upgrade eligible on Sprint, the Palm Pre is going to cost you $550 ($50 more than the iPhone 8GB unsubsidized).

It might be crappy, but this is the way that subsidized devices work. You have to wait nearly two years before you can upgrade or you have to pay the unsubsidized price.
Tom-Tom announces turn-by-turn car navigation for iPhone
Dalvik is basically a JVM. A lot of Java bytecode (including non-Java languages) will run on Android.
... in theory. But not in fact. Nooooo way.

You clearly have never been part of a homeowner's association, condo association, or property dispute.
I've been working fulltime on a 12" Powerbook G4 (and I've written and released an entire album on the same machine, for that matter). And the G4 Powerbook wasn't especially fast when it came out! Computers have been by and large fast enough for most things for years.

I'll be going for the 13" MBP for my next machine, I suspect.
I'm pretty sure it's cheaper to cancel your AT&T account (by paying the fee) and then starting fresh with them with a $200 iPhone 3GS then upgrading from a regular 3G.
I look forward to seeing some actual computation theory. Despite the promise of the title, all he does here is present the well-known idea that there are uncountable infinities.

Well-written, but covering a well-travelled path. I await something interesting and less well-known.
The article suggests that a stall is a horrible outcome.

Old style biplanes used to do "stall landings" all the time. If you know the characteristics of the wing, then a stall can be anticipated and is not necessarily cause for alarm.

How is it that the autopilot system (or other systems on the plane) would not be programmed to handle a stall gracefully?

In a stall the wing loses lift, but as the plane falls the air thickens and the angle of attack decreases and the wing ought to regain lift sufficient for the pilot to be able to control the plane.

I'm not suggesting that handling a huge jet in a stall would be easy, but I would guess that knowing how to do it is part of the requirements for flying one.
I think the original idea and several of the additions made in this thread are excellent. I've been wanting something along those lines just to have an avenue to present ideas to people whom I actually care about hearing from (will make intelligent criticisms). Ask HN is amazing because of the community, but I've always wanted a little more.

I would be up for doing this as a side-project as well if you would like some company. You can get me under the same username @gmail if you're interested~
I don't know, I'd say building a prophetic story is pretty useful for future planning. Just think about all science fiction stories. We have been more prepared for government surveillance because of the book 1984. Rather than writing a fiction novel about the problems, they talk about predictions and scenarios and start universities to talk about these issues.

People in research focus on how to make it work, but we need people to think about how to plan for the future. I don't really agree with all the predictions they make on the singularity, but it's great that they make people think about talk about it.

quick plug -- I'm working on my own unique approach to AI, so find me if you're looking for a 0.0000001% of making the most important discovery ever. =P
I'm going to create a new credential called a "gyuhjk".

Then, I'm going to take over the government and require gyuhjks to enter certain professions. I'm also going to massively fund and regulate the granting of gyuhjks. In addition to this, I will make sure virtually everyone who grows up in my territory will be conditioned to value gyuhjks, no matter how much or how little they really matter. But it will still generally be very expensive to get a gyuhjk, of course, in terms of both time and money.

After I do all of this, when holding a gyuhjk is shown to correlate with higher earnings, I'm going to use that as evidence when I tell people they really, really, really need a gyuhjk. And I might even be right sometimes, though not because gyuhjks were ever really as inherently important as I always claim.
However, as a realist...

I would assume HN would favor people who looked beyond knee jerk responces. Just because you like to use the free market when it's possible does not mean you need to apply it in all cases.
How to Get Started with iPhone Development
My wife and I have electric scooters instead of a car - 20 mile range between charges, 20 mph, $1500, and no license or insurance because they are technically bikes (but they look and feel like scooters). Works great for us most of the time, though of course on occasion a little more range, power, and carrying capacity would be welcome...
Renting in the US also means you are not responsible for:

* leaky roofs

* broken appliances: clotheswashers, water heaters, etc

* maintenance of a/c, heat, etc.

* maintenance of water pipes, electricity, etc., etc.

* upkeep of lawn, sidewalks, driveways (except in rare cases)

* building safety compliance

* fixing damage from floods, storms, earthquakes, etc.

* worry about termites, the foundation, the well, property line disputes from faulty surveys (the latter occur ALL THE TIME in the US)

* building insurance (renter's insurance always a good idea tho)

* personal liability for visitors hurting themselves on the lawn, sidewalks, driveway, inside stairs (anywhere outside your actual unit)

I could go on and on... if you own a condo, you are subject to surprise "assessments" to care for the building/property amenities, but there's insurance for it. If you own a house, it comes out of your pocket. And if you make claims against accidents (tree falling, storm ripping off siding, etc.) on your homeowners insurance policy for damages, their habit of late is that they will drop you. (Lots of scandals about this.)

Renting means very little exposure to this kind of risk, or surprise housing costs, in addition to flexibility to leave.

Homeownership pr0n is really out of control.
Trusting TechCrunch
Read the comments on the site. It's disheartening how many people seem to agree with him :(
Then why such strong attacks? I've always thought it was common knowledge that the US government spends trillions more then any other nation in the Millitary and a large portion of that spending goes to R&D. I apologize and in the future I will present links.
I rented for 12 years and then bought twice. I've never had a landlord that I would trust with the best interests of my neighborhood.

Also, I'm sure you can dredge up a whole lot of "approved exterior paint color" drama from homeowners associations, but I'm not as confident you'll find a lot of examples of negligence. Which is what we're talking about.
Thanks for the link. Sadly it's not working right now.

I guess if AT&T and "not being able to connect" weren't synonymous in my head already it's my own fault for being surprised.

Update: Finally got through and I take back all the bad things I said about AT&T. I got the $299 pricing for the 32Gb and I bought my 1gen iPhone on Sept. 5, 2007 (I know the exact date because it was the date they dropped the price and I ran out and picked one up that day)
Is It Possible to Legislate Fair Bandwidth Sharing? [pdf]
I enjoy the fact that he uses two data points to support his conclusion that using two data points gives you better conclusions than guessing. Nothing circular about that reasoning at all. :-)
This bike has a weird design. I understand that they are trying to make it as inexpensive as possible, but why do they put (expensive) disc brakes and front suspension on but then use fake fenders? Why not use regular brakes and a $30 pair of fenders that actually work? Also, do people really want to be confined to one handlebar position for 20 miles? (I am also confused as to why you need front suspension when riding on pavement, especially if you are trying to cut costs. Why not a sprung saddle?) Finally, no chain guard? Do people think rubber bands around their pant legs are stylish, or something?

Anyway, I will save my detailed rant for another day... but I think the reason Americans hate cycling is that the bikes that are marked towards them suck. A simple, traditional (steel!) road bike with a chain guard and eyelets for a rack and fenders would be cheaper, more reliable, and more flexible than most of the crap people are trying to sell today. I don't get it.
Which would make it even less of a big deal, applying to less than .01% of computer users.
If it were true you'd do much better by always doing the exact opposite of what they propose.

How do we know how many possibilities there are? Maybe there isn't just one exact opposite choice.

But, agreeing with Jakob Nielsen, if guessers are getting it wrong more than half the time when dealing with yes-no questions, it isn't a very good idea to guess, and guesses are poor guidance for important business decisions about Web services.
True enough. I'm using the Dev track version which has some hiccups.
I'd love a "Vote up on YC" button to add to my articles, but I assume that's missing by design.

Instead I end up having a big orange Y at the bottom of my articles (e.g. on http://danieltenner.com/posts/0009-how-to-make-your-applicat...), but that's not really the same thing...
IPhone 3GS: evolutionary, not revolutionary
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Yeah. Just checked my pricing at http://buyiphone.apple.com/ - $699 for a 32GB until July 12th, at which point I'm eligible for a "standard iPhone upgrade" - whatever that means.
"Twitter employees don't follow very many other people."

That's very unusual behavior on Twitter. Most people on staff are being followed by more than 1,000 people

Complete non-sequitur
You may well be right. I didn't mean to be offensive, nor did I mean to be witty. It was just an observation.