skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I'm not trying to be belligerent, although it probably seems that way "

If you know you "seem belligerent" why don't you change your writing to tone it down? Unless you want to write "belligerently" but then disclaim it with "I'm not trying to be belligerent".? Perhaps someone who writes for public consumption,especially when talking to peers, should control the tone of his writing?

Your writing comes across as that of an immature teenager who can't control his thoughts or emotions.( I am not saying you are immature, just making a subjective comment on the tone of your writing). You make interesting points. Doing so without angsty aggression would help people follow along.

"Apple is a massive company with tons of brilliant people — do you really think they aren't considering every conceivable angle,"

"EVERY" conceivable angle? Let me quote you, "Who exactly are you to be speaking in absolutes "? ;-)

Besides, this is patent nonsense. Companies "full of brilliant people" makes strategic mistakes all the time. Microsoft, IBM , HP, Yahoo even Apple in the old days, before the comeback. Unless Apple is filled with omniscient gods, they are as prone to human fallibility as everyone else.

"a voluntary matter of principal"
you meant "principle"?
Executive Summary:
Steve Jobs is on the cusp of devolving from the visionary radical we all love to a sad, old hypocrite and control freak–a sellout of epic proportions.
My wife got me a Steelcase Think for Christmas. Damn, I love this chair.

We heard about it from Boing Boing:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/05/steelcase_think_self.ht...
I hadn't heard of Bebo until I read this post.
Try Skim.
Might have something to do with not respecting nofollow.
I'm not sure about comments, but I have also noticed myself that Google can be surprisingly quick at picking up new submissions.
" My bet is that they know what they're doing. Last time I checked, Apple was a billion-dollar company and Jason Calacanis wrote Mahalo — you do the math."

This is a dangerous way to think. By this reasoning Steve Ballmer does in business would be valid because he is a billionaire and/or runs a multi billion dollar company, and no one would be able to criticise any of his decisions unless they were multi-billionaires too.

Blackwater is a billion dollar company and every "business decision" they make (including killing people in Iraq) is beyond criticism, because (by this logic) unless you run your own mercenary outfit (a claim not many of us can make), you don't have the right to criticize them .

"This is my thoughtful and honest comment "

honest? maybe. "thoughtful" is for other people to say.

"people don't like my colorful similes?"

What similies? I don't see any similies anywhere. I see one interesting point wrapped in a lot of angst.
daveambross... stop before you make any rash moves, and listen to me (someone with chronic back pain from crushed discs).

get two cheap metal telescopic saw horses, put a cheap foldable table or a raw wooden door on them, and then invest a ergonomic and comfortable architects stool.

now, you can sit and work, or, push the stool aside and stand and work. trust me, trust me, trust me... and you'll thank me later.
You've gotta put the blast shield down before you can begin to sense the Force.
Apart from the implications of the iPhone as a communication device on publicly licensed frequencies, I haven't heard anyone suggest that Apple be legally forced to change their practices.

People are expressing their anger and disappointment, and why shouldn't people have an opinion on Apple censoring the app store?

People express and form their opinions in concert with each other, its basically what defines humanity. I don't see why we should ignore things we find unfair or unreasonable. It might suit an economic model to imagine consumers all independently making utilitarian judgements but it has little or nothing to do with reality.

Morality actually plays an important part in society and we promote it because its the glue that binds us together. We speak out about things in the hope that the ideas of many people will come together collectively evoke positive change. In specific terms people hope that the negative press about Apple will make them change their minds.

What you are advocating is not a fairer market place, its people shutting their mouths so you don't have to hear opinions you don't like. Nothing good can come from that.
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While I don't understand how that relates to the truthiness of what I've said, it looks like almost all of the results of the linked page are from 2006 forward.

Regardless, while I may be fuzzy on the timetable, it is a recent phenomena for me.
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Your point is well taken. To be sure I don't own any Apple products so I'm not really complaining. I just think that if knowledgeable people don't demand more then nothing changes. And the complacency of 90% of a product's users doesn't really imply that the product isn't flawed, especially if the product's technology is complicated or the users are particularly lazy. Not that those two things are necessarily true in this case, i'm just saying...
I had the exact opposite situation. 5 searches for random topics that I'd searched for in the last 3 days at Google, and I chose Yahoo 4 times and Bing 1 time, never Google. I didn't expect these results at all.
There are some people with more complex gender identities. I don't pretend to fully understand, but "neither fully describes me" is an example.
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/07/20/104-unpaid-intern...
I don't think it's fair to call Bjorn Lomborg a a climate change skeptic.

He believe climate change is happening, he just doesn't think it's worth _doing_ anything about.

This from a Bjorn Lomborg skeptic.
Cool programming: http://www.assembly.org/summer09/compos/realtime
Jobs vs. Gates: Who's the Star? (2006)
Linguistics study states that grammar is always evolving and there is no such "thing" as grammar. How do you know "should of" is my minor dialectical difference of English compared to yours. It's like argentinian spanish people correcting other spanish people to use vos instead of tu. Or nothing ending with a preposition. And being a good orator doesn't mean strict adherence to a one persons capture of grammar. If that was true, then shakesphere wouldn't be a good playwright!
Agreed. It might be somewhat specialized and not a good topic to bring up at your average superbowl party, but then I don't go to those anyway.

Programming is about creating something new (or at least enhancing something) and it is done almost literally by thinking it through and simply writing it logically. Things of enormous importance are built this way. That is cool.
I could not believe dropbox was left off that list. It's the first one I thought of when I saw the post title.
I think Rails has a special community that has a stronger concept of loyalty than the Django world. I wonder if a Django host might be a bit like Microsoft retail stores. The volume is there, but not the brand loyalty. (Note: I've never used either.)
Textbooks will go the way of something like paul's online math notes (http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/), which are comprehensive enough to be a textbook/resource by itself (His linear algebra "ebook" is almost 300 pages, and covered everything in a first year linear algebra course). Or a not as formalized wikipedia.
I would thus imagine that good logical thinking ability and a strong level of attention to detail are the main common factors shared between good developers and good lawyers (at least good business lawyers).

Out of curiosity, do you think there are a lot of parallels between the two fields or just those?

To put the same thing another way, do you think that someone who was a good developer could become a good lawyer and vice versa?
Netbooks should be getting bigger, not smaller. That’s what users want.

Isn't a bigger netbook just a notebook/laptop?! I don't think users really want that. Users want something in between a notebook and a handheld/smartphone.
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This is what bothers me about this: He points out that journalists have a name for one type of sourcing (presumably to indicate that he knows something about journalism). He then mocks them for being irrelevant.

After this, he goes on about his own struggle with sourcing in today's age. He invents his own (probably not unique) rule for anonymous sourcing and announces it and says he's going to spread the word. The "Techcrunch House Rule" for anonymous sourcing I guess.

Aren't these the issues that journalists deal with all the time? That's why they made those rules; the same reason he just made one. His smugness drives me crazy. It's like watching a wannabe physicist mock Newton and then declare that he's discovered this special kind of thing that pulls objects downward.
It is the most popular social networking site in UK(more so than Facebook). (The author is itself from UK)
Nice thing about compsci is that almost all the internships are paid.
Under Gate's control, Microsoft destroyed Netscape as well as BeOS. Netscape was, in the mid 1990's, attempting to create the "browser OS" that we're finally beginning to see today. Had they not been driven out of business, we would quite possibly have been 5-10 years earlier in seeing the web-based products that we're finally seeing today. Microsoft didn't want to have to deal with the decoupling of office suites from the OS (that would be the two legs that the MS monopoly stands on, after all), so they needed to ensure that web-based office suites couldn't happen.

BeOS was just plain an awesome OS. Its networking was a joke, but the scheduler was awe-inspiring, and the default programming model of tons-o-threads would have produced a generation of programmers ready to handle today's multi-core reality. Had users had the choice between windows 98 and BeOS, with decent application and vendor support for both, there would have been no contest. Win98 was a joke, and Be was amazingly smooth and nice to use. MS destroyed Be by forcing OEMs to choose between being Be partners and being MS ones. Not a hard choice for the OEMs to make, unfortunately...

It was Bill that destroyed those companies. It was Bill that set back both the web and desktop OS development by years. Who else has done that much damage to the software industry?
If you are looking for a book on Postgresql the Douglas book http://www.amazon.com/PostgreSQL-Developers-Library-Korry-Do...
is pretty good introduction to most of the topics specific to postgres, it includes a sample implementation of a postgres accessing script in most of the languages commonly used for the task, which can be a bit repetitive (perl, python, php, java, C, same tune different instrument) but that does make it a fairly good reference.
I find it amusing that you consider Apple to be such a wonderful, brilliant, flawless company that it is seemingly immune to things like antitrust litigation. There are many companies out there that have or have had "tons of brilliant people" who have collectively made mistakes or strategic errors in their lifetimes, Apple included.
Eldarion is working on django-only hosting.
Why I quit eating non-vegetarian food, and why you should too.
NIST Demonstrates Sustained Quantum Processing in Quantum Computers
My Advice to Fox & MySpace on Selling Content – Yes You Can
This is article is interesting, and could in the end be correct in its rosy assessment and its allocation of the credit.

However, I find it interesting that this article does not say a word about inflation, the creation of currency, or the increasing national debt and the intermediate to long term affects those will have.
Minor quibble, "Jason Calacanis wrote Mahalo" isn't accurate. I don't quite understand why it's so hard to grasp the difference between executives (go to meetings, power lunches, couldn't actually write code if their life depended on it), and programmers (actually build stuff, when the executives aren't in the way).
Top Down vs. Bottom Up
Like many climate change skeptics, Lomborg changes his tune--first climate change isn't happening, then it is happening but it isn't our fault, then it is our fault but it's not really that bad, and then finally, it is that bad but cutting emissions and transitioning to sustainable fuel sources isn't the solution.
i feel tricked
What people want are cheaper laptops. Intel is trying to fight that trend.
cherrypy + cheetah + sqlobjects .. basically a makeshift version of turbogears with the stuff we like minus the parts we dont :)
How did they make it difficult to install other browsers? I remember one of the first things I'd do on a Win9x machine with only IE is go get Netscape...through IE...Microsoft made it easier to get other browsers by including a browser with which to do so.
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Google is ranking by date because they have the same relevance. You can play with the date ranges in the search box. I picked Jan 1 2007 as the end date because you said you "NEVER" saw this construction in text until a "about two years ago".
I always imagine what would happen if you got one of those jobs and didn't show up for the first three days, and then when you did, you were hung over and toting a whisky bottle, wearing leather pants and had glitter on your face.
Stopped reading at "Sure, everything on the Mac platform costs twice as much…"
I've been keeping an eye on Jon Oxer and Hugh Blemings as they put together 'Practical Arduino' - they're up to lots of cool stuff:

http://www.practicalarduino.com/

http://twitter.com/jonoxer

http://twitter.com/hughhalf
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TwitterLand - All the best Twitter-related APIs in one Ruby gem
It already has the poll about whether yc startups use Django, Rails, PHP, or other.
"wielded the patent and lobbying swords against its enemies"

What about the cease and dissist letters and attempted suit of people who named their products closely to Apples? Remember the iPod fiasco where they tried to use that sword and try to cut out the heart of a coin counter company?
Hurts sales. Intel is actually at bit of a slump now because people aren't upgrading hardware like they used to.
Governments censor. People and companies make editorial decisions regarding what they will say, do, or distribute. As to "suppression of competitors" I think we all tend to lump this into the category of "being in the business of making money." If I write a letter to my local paper and they do not print it they have not engaged in censorship.

The app store is like a giant department store. If I make a widget I can't walk in to wal-mart and demand that they put it on the shelves. Even if the pornulator3000(tm) would fly off the shelves and make both wal-mart and I a ton of cash they are still under no obligation to stock my product if they think it will hurt their reputation or standing in the community (e.g. turn them into "the store where you go to get that wink-wink nudge-nudge massage device...")

If Apple had a monopoly position they would be the _only_ store in town. That is clearly not the case. They may be the hottest, most-hyped store in town but consumers clearly have other choices.
I sometimes use a netbook to code (specially in a library), and it works just fine (9"), VIM runs great on it :), and a browser like Chrome really saves a lot of screen, so I check email and everything...

That makes absolutely no sense, since it requires no additional hardware horsepower to power a 12-inch netbook v. a 10-inch netbook. The only difference is power usage from the bigger screen. And the two extra inches more than makes up for the shorter battery life or slightly heavier device from packing in more batteries. It only costs a few more dollars to build a 12-inch v. a 10-inch netbook, and users get a bigger screen with the same performance.

Since when Arrington is a hardware specialist? :)
Obesity has nothing to with it. You can buy water.

The point of effectively buying table time is valid, imho, and I agree that buying food (or other stuff) from the cafe is a good approximation.
Props to the guy that figured it out on StackOverflow! I still wonder about how that transaction got through without triggering a fraud alert.
Can someone who knows more about this stuff than me summarise?
" Microsoft destroyed Netscape as well as BeOS"

Two Points:

o Netscape Sold for a negotiated $4 Billion, and on it's final day of trading was worth $10 Billion. Microsoft may have (illegally as it turns out) wiped out the Netscape Browser as a profitable product for Netscape, but they hardly _destroyed_ Netscape.

o BeOS? Good Lord, if anything Microsoft would have _funded_ BeOS if only to create the illusion of there being competition in the OS market. BeOS collapsed when Jean-Louis Gassée was unable to close a deal with Apple. There really was no market for a Fourth major platform (Mac, Linux and Microsoft being the other three floating around in 1996/1997). Having a delightfully smooth OS doesn't really mean a lot if there are no applications for the platform - and, for better or worse, Microsoft had/has a vast array of developers and applications.
I've been doing that since the PHP3 days (before require_once existed, and you had to track repeated requires yourself). Since moving to autoload with PHP5, I don't find any loss of clarity. I'm curious what mess you get from autoloading?
He always seemed like a jerk compared to Bill Gates.

Jobs may be a jerk, but Gates is Satan. I think the winner is clear.
Since CrunchPad came into the picture. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/crunchpad-the-launch-pr...
What would it take for a publication to have that feel?
Minimum Viable Product Detailed Case Study
I've met people I thought were assholes at first. People I've become friends with have told me they thought I was an asshole at first. First impressions are exactly that.
Microsoft did not destroy Be, its own incompetent management did (with a bit of assistance from AT&T when it decided to discontinue the Hobbit chip.) Be first tried to create a new hardware platform, then tried to be an alternative OS for mac hardware, and finally headed towards the wintel world. By this point it was far too late. Given the space left for growth in the x86 line there was no need for multi-core in the late 90s and the cost of going to a bigger chip was far less than the cost of adding all of the additional motherboard support for lashing together multiple copies of last years CPU.
The bounce in early 1930 was from a low of 195 to a high of 267, then stabilizing at 240 before falling off a cliff and hitting 42 in 1932. That was a bounce of around 35%.

The bounce from Sept 11, 2001 to early 2002 was from 8000 to 10500, about 25%, before dropping back down to 7500 6 months later.

The Dow recovered from 800 to 1000 in 1980, a gain of 25%, before dropping back to 800 in 1982.

The Dow recovered from 600 in January 1975 to 1000 in January 1976, a gain of 66%, before falling back down to 750 by 1978 (and still being there in 1982).
FWIW, I would need a week and lots of help to do it in C, but I could probably do it in a few days with Haskell.

This says nothing about Haskell or C, but it does say something about me.
The view of this writer brings up something that sickens me about philanthropy and that's doing it just to get the recognition and attention of rather than giving because you actually want to help someone.
It's worth checking out Wikipedia to find some other sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave

It seems like the article is based on a press release which contains a few sensational claims, eg 200 large ships sunk by rogue waves seems dubious, since Lloyds only reports 124 total losses in the time period, most from the Iran/Iraq war:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_wave#Loss_estimates

I have to admit I'm fascinated by the whole topic, and wasted an afternoon digging into it. Now if there was only a connection to giant squid too, I'd be in heaven.
When you are first learning a subject it's really helpful to have it printed out on paper. As you chew through it, you can leave all kinds of personal markings, underlinings etc. And you are not distracted by a million other things - a book serves only one purpose.

Later on, after already being familiar with a subject, a digital version is o.k. as well.

Summary -> school children need printed textbooks, pen and paper, homework done on paper (hand writing skills)
I don't know if Jobs is well known outside of the computer industry, while OTOH everybody knows Bill Gates. If BG plays his cards right, he'll likely be not only widely-known and remembered, but he'll be remembered in a very positive light as well.
Couple comments on those metrics:

1.) The value of a stock's supposed to reflect its earnings over all future time, not just current earnings. That's why stocks don't instantly fall to 0 when a company has a bad quarter. Earnings are at a low point now; a P/E of 118 implies that investors think they will get better soon. Whether they're right remains to be seen.

2.) Insider selling itself doesn't mean much. Many directors and executives receive a large portion of their compensation in stock; they're always selling, because that's how they get cash to spend. I'm curious how it stacks up to pre-crisis ratios though.
Intel is probably one of the most rigorous company's in the IT business today. I believe every word they say on the pricing scheme is true.
That bit is caused by the increasing loss of self-control for politeness. Wish I could find the reference to the New Scientist article which discusses it...
Check out http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ and maybe get in touch with the author if you're really curious and no one here comes up with anything.
Ooops, I should have added : not a YC startup.
So if I do not use their wifi (use my evdo card instead) and sit there forever with a single cup of coffee, is it ok? Or am I supposed to buy their wifi instead? I am confused about your reasoning.
Being flippant for a minute, if you want your users to have access to a box but not have a shell, a tool called "secure shell" may not be the wisest choice.

Setting the default to frankly crippling levels for the primary function of a tool to accommodate an edge case seems slightly backwards to me. Host firewalls and/or disabling the option seem to be an acceptable set of hardening tasks if that use case is relevant to you.
ED: 1:32 nothing, 2:54 nothing.
The bug may have occurred after the payment was accepted if it's a multi stage process.

It's also possible that they first submit a request to check if $X is available, get the confirmation that it's okay, and the submit the actual request for $X. In that case the bug may have been in the way the 2nd request is handled.

I'm not sure why more people wouldn't be affected by this though.
Leander Kahney seems to think there's something unethical about building products, managing an organization, and benefiting from it. The resentful epithets he throws around (cutthroat capitalist, vengeful nerd, selfish business goals, greedy capitalist, obscene fortune) are shallow tropes and stereotypes. No one has any duty to participate in the ridiculous rock-star, celebutard culture Kahney endorses. The greatest responsibility that "…comes with great wealth and power…" is restraint. Whether Jobs shows that restraint through anonymous giving or recalcitrant hoarding doesn't matter to me, his work speaks for itself. I'm sure he can endure the shame of not meeting Kahney's childishly conventional ideals.
TATA Safari Range Grows
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I'm not sure if that's what you mean, but if you think BG would give most of his fortune just to get recognition and attention... I think that's really unfair with him.