skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is such a thing as an American way. When I moved here, I knew I would be supporting it, and all that it entails. I haven't been to China, but I can speak for my home country and say that there is, indeed, an Indian way. Large and diverse as our nations might be, there are subtle but long-lasting cultural threads that bind nations together. These are not stereotypes - merely cultural markers and pre-dispositions. While they shouldn't guide our conduct towards individuals much, they are definitely useful in dealing with cultures/ nations as a whole.
Twitter accounts with "private" updates do not show up on the public timeline... my three submissions are nowhere to be found and they do validate.
No TV here, either. Haven't had one in nine years.

I actually do miss it, for one reason: vegging out is a fundamental human need, and nothing helps you vege out better than a TV.
The most notable thing for me is that the G2 80GB is around $220, about $100 less than what the G1 is/was going for.

At that price point, I'm definitely considering buying another one and putting the old one in my laptop.

If you're not familiar with the subject, Intel SSDs pretty much dominate the category: http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3531
As an app developer, I'm happy to hear this.
There are many types of blogs: the family-oriented types, the 5-stories-per-day magazine-style types, niche review/guide types, "semi-anonymous" technical opinion/discussion types, etc.

Some styles of blogging are more suited for money making, but obviously take a lot more effort (especially so when you are competing for eyeballs against established full-time blogger teams).

Techies and geeks often tend to use blogging as a form of intellectual expression, about their opinions on their field of interest, or to talk about things they've done or are working on. This type of blogging is often reactive to others' opinions, news from major outlets and aggregators, etc, and often become decentralized conversations.

Family-oriented blogging usually takes the form of show-and-tell when they're going through something exciting in life and blogging can be a nice complement to their IRL social lifes.

In the end, blogging is what you make out of it. It's not a magic pot of gold and can look like anything between an old-school Geocities guestbook and a professionally written magazine.

If you want to do it for fun and/or for expressing yourself, just go ahead and do it. Who cares if no one is reading (yet)? But, if you want to do it for money, then treat it as a step into a journalism career, not as a retirement fund.
Food for thought: I see a lot of similarities between the iPhone and Wii marketplaces. Both platforms are cheaper to develop for than the competition (in Wii's case, the 360 and PS3), and both are incredibly hyped-up devices popular in the mainstream media.

Both platforms suffer extensively from quality problems when it comes to their software offerings. Both have a horde of budget-grade developers trying to saturate the market with substandard fare...

Is there something we can take away from this?
A classic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So7qrFO_p44
iPhone development emergency guide
Will a startup honestly answer all of these questions?
Apple and RIM combined will have an estimated ~%58 of the profits of the ENTIRE mobile handset industry in 2009:

http://www.maclife.com/article/news/apple_responsible_about_...

Have no mistake that Nokia and others are playing catchup.
Y Combinator’s Picurio Crowdsources Photo Sharing
Agreed, the work ethic of Silicon Valley is definitely not representative of "the American way". Work ethic can vary vastly between states/provinces, cities and even companies. The work ethic I grew up with in the north of England is rather different than the one here in the Greater Toronto Area. However the work ethic of my wives family again is completely different, they come from the east coast where the work is either fishing or farming.

I can work like a dog from 9-5, once it's quitting time I'm done. I don't need lunch or breaks, that's how I was taught to work. I can't even approach office culture because from my point of view everyone is a slackass doing nothing because there's always some people who appear not to be working.

Perhaps my view of working is similar to those of the Chinese where the industry grew out of manual labour. In fact this so called "Chinese way" is indicative of Japan and South Korea (as mentioned elsewhere), where all of the money grew out of steel and ships. When you deal with extreme hazards like red-hot steel (the process of building ships included a lot of manually placed red-hot rivets, and in China still does) so I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of the CEO's and directors grew up from these industries and inherited the work ethic. In the west we turned to the service industries quite early, we're not agricultural or industry any more, so the 100% focus needed for work has likely diminished too.

One thing I was taught early, 'Never assume, just find out and then you'll know.' This advice has served me well from measuring cuts with materials to dealing with people. It's very ignorant to assume when it's simple to find out. Assumptions can easily kill and I've been witness to that; I saw a guy shot across the room because he assumed the power was turned off when we were working, finding out was merely asking a sentence (to us or his boss who was a foot away) but he didn't and he ended up in hospital (it wasn't negligence on our part, his boss asked us to turn a circuit on so they could run their power tools and the kid decided to run a jump off the live line at the same time).
This was another comment they made in the earnings report:

As for price, it's up to the developers to choose where to set the price. I would think as the installed base grows, it makes sense to have lower prices but that's totally up to the developer.

Which is the dumbest thing I've heard in my entire life. The number of PCs+Macs FAR supersedes that of iPhones, and computer software pricing isn't driven into the ground. Based on Apple's dodgy behavior at WWDC, I believe Apple likes the high churn for their bottom line. Remember: "Best Non-Holiday Quarter Ever".

It doesn't take a genius to figure out that the demographic driving the store likes quick fixes and ridiculous apps like "Moron Test", "Sally Salon", etc. It's their digital gumball machine spanning 75 countries.
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I'm a twitter virgin. Never tweetted before today's contest. My best score was 36. No big deal.
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I like the idea of writing to sort out my thoughts. I've been doing this for years in email with a couple friends. We've sent about 15,000 emails back and forth so far. Writing those brainstorming emails happens naturally because I know who I'm writing for. I know what they care about and how they think, and I see ways to move their minds in ways they'd find enjoyable.

What I mean by "a purpose" is to affect an audience somehow. I don't normally write "for myself". Writing, at least the way I experience it, is translation: here's how the reader currently understands things, here's some content, now invent a way to make that content comprehensible in terms of that way of understanding. Of course, doing this translation leads to improved insight into the subject matter, just as writing a program leads to improved insight into the problem domain.
AVG, Goodbye and take your opurtunity with you
I buy Windows because it's the platform of choice for most developers. Yes, that's the power of the incumbent, and if I really cared about a better OS I'd work on changing the chicken-to-egg ratio, but in the short term, Windows has more software I want/need.

I plan to get an iPhone for the same reason: it is the current smartphone incumbent. I was satisfied with my Windows Mobile phone, but when my contract is up, I have to go iPhone; anything else, including Android, just won't have the same number and quality of apps.

I strongly wish to be proven wrong about Android, by the way. Show me developer support and apps I want, and I might consider it. Google Maps mashups are all well and good, but is there an Android version of [insert amazing iPhone app a friend will show me tomorrow]? Probably not.
Too bad there's probably only a percent or so of white America that doesn't have a tv but can afford one.
Talking to oneself is a sign of mental illness...except on twitter.  Why?
Most tweets go unanswered and are read by only a few (if any) random followers. This means people are essentially just talking to themselves most of the time.

How is this any different from talking to oneself in public but believing that one is not mentally ill because a few random people nearby might hear what is said?
Remember to use the word "Random" in the title, then everyone will know not to read it :(
Salarymen who quit are not likely to be salarymen again

This I don't think is true anyway. It has always seemed to me like a socially manufactured platitude to keep people erring as much on the side of safety as they can possibly reach. For the average person, it might be a very reasonable default, which is why the platitude tends to stick.

Otherwise, I don't know if the social reservations are worth worrying so much about. It's hard to tell how much of this is people legitimately looking out for you, and how much is them preemptive prevention from having to envy you and what you did that they couldn't bring themselves to do.
I saw advertisements for the new 2010 vehicles in January of 2009. The company either lost a 2009 sale from me, or made me not care about the 2010 vehicle at all because it's old news long before it's out.

For some products a slow trickle of information helps, however it's generally the exception than the rule (I'd say the movie industry is wholly an exception to this). Windows 7 is faltering because it's the alternative to Vista and now the bad scuff marks of Vista are appearing on 7, instead they could have had 7 appear suddenly and have sold millions of copies before anyone even heard a bad word.

Apple has major flaws sometimes, the iPod Nano was a flat out disaster in Europe, but it turned into a disaster after they'd sold millions of copies and not before they'd sold a single copy. If test versions of the Nano had broken en masse even the hardcore Apple fans wouldn't have touched it.

Apple thinks it works the other way around is because it does work the other way around. Announcing a product early can set it up for failure, especially today when products can go from concept to market in less than six months. If I announced in Q2 2008 that I had a product coming out at the start of Q4 2009, it gives nearly 18 months to challenge me. It doesn't help that there's a nasty habit of identical products coming out at the same time and if you announce a unique feature early, you're identical by release.
Perhaps 2 of those tvs are analog and it might be just a little more than most people want to do to mess with that silly converter box and wires and all that jazz? TV's are disposable now. How many tvs thoroughly != tv watched.

Its like saying "Americans have 3 boxes of kleenex for just one nose!" They're cheap, they're ubiquitous, get over it.
I'm currently doing a "Does God Exist?" series of posts because, well, the argument interests me. So I took a bunch of books on all sides of the issue and am going through each of them, writing a quick review as I complete each book (along with a recap)

I've found that the act of making yourself physically write something on paper makes you remember better. This effect is amplified if you're trying to explain it to somebody else in an essay. So the blog is kind of a mind "power tool", enabling me to sort through tons of debate and get to the few arguments and insights that matter to me. On top of that, it'll be around next year when I've forgotten a lot of the detail, keeping the "good parts" near the top of my cognitive heap. (not stack)
Kind of interesting or funny that these entries are pretty close to the top of the standings:

31	d241c4b4dd38aacb197c8e48e9f8488264e39a83
bUGs BUgs bUGS bUgS bLAnk BlAnK BlANK BLank buGS bugS bUGS bUGs dCao2

32	334945bffdd1000f1d198e02497188a2b17f1991
cOWs cOwS cOwS cowS DIRtY Dirty DiRTY DIrtY cOWS Cows CoWs Cows owjo0

(assuming the score are correct)
Hackers are misusing naked shots of sexy sports reporter as a lure to attack PCs
Dumb-dumb bullets (anti-ppt)
picurio means that i might actually upload and manage photos off my camera. i'm incredibly lazy about this stuff. congrats to jonathan, laura, and michael!
Thats literally 3 "logical" steps from - antivirus 2009 :) I wonder what marketing genius thought of this bait and switch.
I'm one of the co-founders and happy to answer any questions. I hope you'll give the site a try.
It looks like "hashbreaker" and "CodingCrypto" are both running through nearly the exact same word sets. Either they are from to different people using the exact same algorithm or (what I suspect is more likely) they have created multiple twitter accounts to get around the submission limit.

hashbreaker
bUGs BUgs bUGS bUgS bLAnk BlAnK BlANK BLank buGS bugS bUGS bUGs dCao2

CodingCrypto
BugS BUgs buGs BUgs bLANK Blank bLanK BlAnk BuGs BuGs BUGS bUGs FcBkw

CodingCrypto
cOWs cOwS cOwS cowS DIRtY Dirty DiRTY DIrtY cOWS Cows CoWs Cows owjo0

hashbreaker
CoWS coWS CowS cOWS DiRTY DIrtY DirTy DIRtY COWS COWS cOwS cOWS bvpDq

Edit: Also, accounts had their first tweets on the 19th.
In defense of ad-based business models
The fact that people are following you means you have an intended (but debatably attentive) audience.
I believe you mean that it's fact-free. Information is the knowledge acquired through experience.

Disclaimer: If you don't see any value for a hypothesis deduced from something other than facts, don't click. I found it as yet another interesting read to keep me from falling asleep at my cube.

EDIT: Perhaps something of more interest (and facts): ftp://ftp.cs.kun.nl/pub/CompMath.Found/harvard.pdf
Sorry -- were you talking to us?

A lot of posts on HN go nowhere either. Same for blogs.

I guess we just like talking to ourselves.
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sorry in advance for ass hole techcrunch commenters. But Im betting the actual feedback is worth the trouble.
Cute. To illustrate the sum of limits, however, I prefer a graphic with sum -> 1. Take an empty circle then add a chunk of shaded semicircle, then add one quarter, then add one eighth... you get the idea.
I like this: "blog about what you've learned". That would capture just-learned things every day, while they're fresh, and thus serve a useful purpose for me--and therefore provide a good anchor for social connection through the blogosphere.
I think your underlying assumption is incorrect. I have always felt that this old meme about talking to yourself being a sign of mental illness was completely ridiculous.

Perhaps taken to the extreme, where a person walks around all day spouting nonsensical gibberish to no one in particular may well be a sign of mental illness, but this is very different to what most people seem to be referring to when they think of talking to one's self, and obviously different to what you seem to be referring to, as your question revolves around the idea that people's use of Twitter is potentially just them talking to themselves and why this does not indicate mental illness.

I'm sure there are some out there who do just type nonsensical crap into Twitter all day. It certainly seems to me that a great deal of the content that appears on Twitter is inane in the extreme. But none of this supports the underlying assumption of the meme, which seems to be that talking to one's self in any capacity is straying into the realm of mental illness.

There is a large difference between the symptoms of mental disorder and having an introspective conversation with yourself, some or all of which may be spoken out in an audible manner.
Why do you think Project.vim stinks? I've been using it for nearly a year now on a daily basis and I can't live without it.

I tried your plugin out and it worked well, but I have no reason to switch. The one thing I can't do without is being able to quickly search through all of the files in my project. Is there any way to do this within Proj?
It'd be interesting to know what the effects of the TC coverage are like. Perhaps it's just me, but I wouldn't touch TC with a long pole after the Twitter "incident". And so I'm curious if the quality of their referrals is worth associating the company and the product with them.
hehe, I think you have your parties muddled up. I am quite well off but I think that to 'project' from what worked for me in the past to some arbitrary rule that everybody that is out of a job should follow is arrogant in the extreme.
i was going to answer this, but electromagnetic already replied with everything i would have said. heh!

i'll add one thing. an enormous amount of work often goes into products that are killed before release. evidence exists that this has happened many times within apple. anticipated products that get cancelled leave a bad taste in people's mouths. if you don't announce until the product is for sale, you've automatically guarded against vaporware.
Have you checked out PG's site? Rather than a blog, it's an (occasionally) updated set of essays and thoughts. They are usually reviewed by several people before publication (so are higher quality than blog posts), and most of them have a specific point or question which is explored in some detail.

Benefits to this approach are the lack of a dated timeline of posts (so no urge to write because "it's been a week already"), and you only write when a particular issue strikes your fancy.

A negative of this approach (for PG this is less of an issue) is that it is difficult to gain a readership this way, as there is no regular "feed" of content coming from you. If anything is true about online readers, it's that they like to be fed.
What's a TV?
You can employ robots to draw ads on the lunar surface...
misleading title. no new staff cuts were announced. of course, this was a copy/paste of TC's incorrect headline.
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Ask HN: What are your favourite programming podcasts?
I love listening to podcasts centered around programming, programming interviews, startups etc Here are my favourite ones at the moment:

1. Stack Overflow - http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/

2. Venture Voice - http://www.venturevoice.com/

3. Mixergy - http://mixergy.com/

I have listened to Hansel minutes but it's focus on Windows programming doesn't suit my taste.

Any PHP focused ones would be great!
Adultfriendfinder and okcupid come to mind...
We should be proud to live in a country where the average household can afford three TVs. They're big, complicated, expensive luxury items.

Miracles of modern commerce, overlooked.
How Much Is That Apple Tablet Going To Cost? Not $399 Or $499.
the figure should be higher if you regard monitor, laptop and smartphones/pda as tv
Right, but I think projecting an opposing philosophy onto a rule that fits people for the most part is equally presumptuous. Talented people who are laid off could end up quite demoralized based on what you wrote, sealing their own fate as I pointed out such prophecies can do. I understand that you are trying to provide the other perspective, but you came off as almost apocalyptic. I don't think that sort of perspective is useful at all, except as a means to generate company in one's misery.
Seconded. I started blogging at betterexplained.com to tutor myself; I wanted to store just the 'aha moment' that made a concept click.

Writing helps you remember ideas and discover new ones in the process.
That's the point - if they don't, run.
Perhaps an imperial history explains it? The early industrialists looked around for a social model for the "factory" and the people gathered there in, and the closest thing they found was the military and the warrior classes. The industrialists often refer to themselves a "moguls" and their large businesses as "empires"; you can see how their little ego might take on a whip and shape people in the imperial master/server image.

You never see the same thing in ancient trades; agriculture, education, restaurants, etc. specially in China. Family or community owned industries. It's businesses operated by "forward looking" management that's learning and applying this robo-militaristic attitude. Henry Ford did the same thing, the man pretty much removed workers from society and built walled cities in the jungle. Though I think Henry the Great might be shooting for a "benovelant dictator" sort of title.
At first glance, looks like there are some similarities with Divvyshot.

I like the idea of extending the lifetime of the room when you add a friend. Nice way to encourage usage.

By the way, I have a service that manages beta invitation programs that could be useful to your site. What is the best way to contact you guys?
Not sure how you got your numbers. Even in your (somewhat biased) link it says Nokia has 56% of the profits of the entire mobile handset industry.
Paying for picture lifetime seems to contra-indicate picurio for just archival. Is that right?
Is it really true that online readers like to be fed? Do many people actually follow blogs, or do most blogs get read only when an article comes up in search-engine results? Is there any data on this?

BTW, I do indeed like the "occasional essay" approach--and especially having some reviewing and filtering. The #1 problem of the web these days (any entrepreneurs reading?) is signal-to-noise ratio.
The real solution is to make your code work properly every time.

Or, in Plan 9's acme editor, we just highlight the desired text and execute the following command in the tag area:
Edit s/^/\/\//g

Then when we're ready to go back, we just select again and do:
Edit s/^\/\///g
which is the same as the previous command but with one forward slash moved.

Alternately, in almost every case it's easy enough to just stick in /* */ comments around it and delete them as necessary.
What was your primary motivation for starting this company?
That is the truth. The word "random" in a blog title says, "I have no purpose here other than to be a windbag." At least it's honest.
I wonder what indie Mac developers feel about the logic of "as we sell more Macs, you should slash prices. A buck may not be too low!"

For added hilarity, consider Apple philosophy on pricing apps (sell by shovel, churn churn churn) vs pricing Macs (they are expensive, if you cannot deal with that you are not cool enough to own our brand).
> Is there any way to do this within Proj?

Nope, it's simple by design. Project.vim seems mainly for projects that need to pull in files from all over the place and probably fulfills that goal well. If I need to search the working directory, I'll use ':!grep -RI "term" .' (or vim's grep which is pretty nice).

I say that project.vim stinks because it's awkward and its usage is unclear. Maybe I've never "gotten" it, but I think there are many others like myself who really, really wanted to like project.vim but just couldn't use it.

I have my mind on other goals. One is to add a toggleable split that gives useful version control information by integrating with the VCS plugin.
Excuse my ignorance, since I'm not too knowledgeable about the photo sharing space, but why is YC funding so many of these sites (by so many, I mean two: Divvyshot and Picurio)? What's wrong with Flickr/Picasa/Facebook?
Cheap and ubiquitous, but also those previous "displosable" TVs just aren't getting disposed. It's not so hard to imagine that an "average" home went from a perfectly fine tube TV to an upgraded version to a more recent flat screen. The previous two televisions end up in the garage/kitchen/guest room.
Man, I wish people got pulled over for dangerous shit like tailgating and reckless driving more often, and speeding (especially on highways with an artificially low posted limit) less often.