skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't have the time in my life to fix every social problem I can identify.

I didn't say that you did. However, you do live in a world with those nasty social problems....

> Do you have a constructive point to make?

My point is that either you just bitch or you set up unreasonable constraints. The difference between the two or your reasons for them may be important to you, but the end result is pretty much the same.

> You've taken everything I said completely out of context and made completely irrelevant responses. As it happens, the last sentence is the central point of my comment, and serves to motivate and justify the preceding two sentences.

Oh really? Let's review that last sentence "Political enemies only want to discredit their opponents--they're not interested in truth, and for every Acorn video there's a Swift Boat smear campaign with no basis in fact."

That sentence says that you find it likely that the Acorn tapers managed to capture some "fact" and may have been interested in truth. Yet, that's not good enough for you. Since the folks with appropriate motives aren't doing the work, dismissing folks with "bad motives" means that you're going to do without.

Someone else already pointed out that your "no basis in fact" statement is false so it's unclear why you'd bring up that sentence.
Some of my favorite startups these days are LaaS (L for Labor) companies like Crowdflower.
I've never sold anything without a product at all, but find that once you have a product to show, you can get a lot more info on how customers or potential customers would use the product and what they would like to see.

Occasionally, you get something a request which is completely off base for what your business is. Don't ignore these, as they can possibly be a more important direction for your business.
Someone wiped out all your text.
Observatory - Flavor and Aroma Rise in Champagne Bubbles
I was thinking in lines of the customer development model (Steve Blank) that promotes talking to your potential market before building a product. If customers are not open to even look into something that exist, it maybe very challenging to get them to look into a concept.
The point is not that it's a dictionary word but that huddle could be too generic to get as a trademark, that means you can [likely] use it* but also that anyone else offering a group-talk phone app could use it too.

I don't think huddle in the UK would be considered to lack the distinctive quality that makes it suitable to be a RTM but perhaps in the USA?

TM are registered in an area of business, as companies grow they tend to fill [almost] all areas, I'm sure you can get MS clothing, MS food, MS surfboards, ... if huddle isn't registered and can be then registering it is fine but as mentioned it does not prevent current use from being continued IIRC.

* I'm clearly not a TM lawyer and this ain't advice.
Not sure there's a right number but you do have to make sure that you contact the right people (ie those who have the power and interest in buying). If the need is sufficiently great, you may only need a sample size of one to start - especially if they're willing to bankroll the development. I've had a few fortunate friends who have built a business that way.
Screen is great. I wish there were an analogous tool that let me group several running X apps into a long-running session that I could connect to/disconnect from locations. Any idea if this is possible today?
Seeing as OSX is a Unix variant, don't any improvements to the OS have to be released free of use?
I was under the impression that the Mac license reads 'You
agree not to install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-branded computer, or to enable others to do so.' because they cannot legally require that the OS only operates on Apple hardware. Therefore if, if a manufacturer wishes to use the OS, they would need to provide Apple branding. At the same time, this may be the catch-22. You can't use apple branding without the permission of Apple, and you can't install the OS without using the branding.
Are these people idiots? As soon as you realize jwz is one of your early adopters, as a company you should fly him first class to your labs, let him interact with the developers themselves, get feedback from him, ask him how can you make his experience better, etc... If you want to go the extra mile. If you don't, at least be particularly careful not to piss him off.
Rent Your Room for Startup School 09
Um, actually Apple wanted to toss out Psystar's suit because it does take into account 10.6. Apple is saying that the suit is like the existing suit which deals with 10.5.

I think the point is that if Psystar does win the right to sell Mac OS, Apple could force the judge to only allow them to sell 10.5 instead of the latest versions.
He owns a bar now. His apps are a tip calculator and Dali Clock, an application which spreads over all conceivable computing surfaces like yeast fungi; just leave your device out in the open for awhile, and it'll ferment its own Dali Clock.

I'm not sure jwz is quite the developer draw you're making him out to be.
WYSIWYG - Abstractly speaking
No -- given equal profit margins, a small volume retailer will usually lose out to a large volume retailer, since the larger company can buy in bulk and sell at a lower price. Assuming that Amazon's volume is greater than Newegg's, if they operate with equal profit margins, Newegg will probably lose to Amazon.

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edit: though I see from your comment above that they have automated warehouses, etc. So maybe they can raise margins and still beat larger competitors on price. I buy from Newegg all the time; it will be interesting to watch over the next few years.
Oh Joel. Your next post will be straight up trolling, right? A Last Measure redirect, maybe?

Also, there's no duct tape here, other than it involves Jamie himself, and perhaps what a hideously ugly hack the javascript version of Dali is.
OS X is a variant of a BSD UNIX and, if I remember correctly, the license does not* require them to release changes and definitely not free of use.

Also, much of OS X that people like is the Cocoa stuff which most definitely is not covered by a free software license.

>I was under the impression that the Mac license reads 'You agree not to install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-branded computer, or to enable others to do so.'

That's part of the End User License Agreement, isn't it? I'm not a lawyer, but I remember reading that those aren't legally binding (at least not in sane countries) since they're legal agreements made after the purchase. You didn't agree to it as a condition of the purchase so how can the seller force you to do something after you already own the software?
So, you're not legally allowed to install the OS without the permission of Apple, which they grant if it's an Apple machine.

That's it.
Bigbird Redux (Tweetie version 2.0)
well, i have many ideas to be implement
for this reason i learn programming myself
It depends on what jobs you are looking to fill.

If you have problems that need brilliant solutions, A sounds like (s)he might be a fit.

If your problems are more mundane, and need lots of communication between team members, B could be better.

A would probably fit better into a research establishment (think Bell Labs, PARC, Microsoft Research, etc.), B into a commercial IT or software company which is in upgrade release mode.
Go Psystar go!
Ask HN: Any way to access gmail IMAP through openid/oauth?
Been scouring through google trying to find an answer to this. I suspect to access a user's email through IMAP one currently needs the credentials..

I've seen a few ways to get at contacts and such through openid/oauth but not email IMAP access.
He is still has a significant influence, regardless of the usefulness of his apps, as highlighted by the position of this article on Hacker News. Had he written a blog entry called "Developing for WebOS is awesome", the submission would still be wildly popular and quite a few people would be compelled to give WebOS a shot. And of course, he would be much less likely to talk trash about them.
No, BSD terms do not require redistribution. They do release some of OS X sans GUI as Darwin.
I thought the main argument was RSI reasons? Programmers do need to be able to type without crippling pain...
Open JDK has a lot to answer for
Gamers are more aggressive when playing strangers than friends
Is it legal to download music if you don't upload?
If you just want to make a decent wage, pay your bills, and not get rich then you aren't going to be very attractive to investors. Investors want to make money and lots of it. You might be able to find some Angels who might be interested, but even most Angels would want to be part of something bigger than just getting by.

I would say try to build something on your own, if you have time and the skills (or can build up the skills) you can make a nice living with a small business and don't have to worry about investors.
You may need to turn your audio up if you're sending it to something other than your ears, such as the input jack of another device. Tech is just tech. What you do with it is what matters.
Weren't Das Keyboard just a spraypainted and heavily marked up version of another keyboard?

I remember someone (on HN?) saying this.
Or you search for the 3-4ish places where font-size: is mentioned.

Most websites have far fewer different text stylings than they have element types. I'm arguing that this is a better direction to point the problem.

(I'm also not arguing that abstraction frameworks like Sass are a bad idea, but that you should understand how CSS works before you reach for a framework. I suspect that it never occurred to a lot of folks that they should have long lists of selectors and short lists of properties instead of the reverse, because that's not the syntactic cue they get from the language.)
I tried cold calling when I was 17 and starting a web design business, I swore never to do it again.

I think there are probably much better ways to find your potential customers. Find our where they go (in real life or online) and go be a sponge. Listen to their problems, add value where you can, and then when the time is right talk about what you are thinking about building and get feedback. (like during the networking portion of a meeting)
There's plenty of things smart phones don't provide. If you want one of them, make it yourself. If you can't, get a more open platform. If you don't know how to program, pay someone who does. I don't think there's a device in existence that has every feature I want. Companies don't have time to put in everyone's pet feature. Your two options are 1) get over it and 2) do something about it.
nVidia releases industry's first OpenCL GPU driver
Earphone jacks are for earphones.

If you need to send the signal to something else it would be better to buy something with a line level output and connect it to an amplifier.
How would you do a golf ball though?
Same here. On a keyboard, I touch type with ten fingers, and on my phone, I use two, which is pretty much how I stumbled along with QWERTY before I decided to learn Dvorak, so it really doesn't bother me at all.
Nice...I'm surprised you down-voted me when I was agreeing with you. But meh.
Possible way, don't know if that's what they really do:

Heat the glass till it's soft like taffy, and put the item in the bottle.

The put the bottle in a mold, and press the glass back into shape, and let it cool.
Or the padlock.
Fascinating.

I would also like to mention that this article was simultaneously relevant, interesting, informative, and based on real research rather than conjecture. It's quite refreshing.
Forcing an email when a user does not want to give it just yet is a bad idea. Show them why your product is worth it first and then ask for an email or contact information.

Most likely all you will get is fake email addresses anyway causing you to waste time and resources on something that is not a valid lead.
In general, OpenID/OAuth don't do well with non-browser clients and don't do non-HTTP protocols at all.
Wow. If this is a battle over developer mindshare, Palm is definitely losing an early opportunity. Apple may also be shooting itself in the foot.

Any crazy Android stories like this?
Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) doesn't support raw files that come from cameras that are released after a new major PS/ACR release. The workaround is to use Adobe's free RAW to digital negative (DNG) converter. You can do this in a batch. Then process DNG files with your old release of ACR.

http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/
Yeah...I actually had a fixation with it for a bit. Smalltalk in general. I bought about 30 Smalltalk books and spent loads of time messing with Squeak and Cincom Smalltalk. Seaside stuff, mostly. Unfortunately, I never really had a suitable project to use it on.

I never really made the mental connection between HyperCard and Squeak before, but they really do have quite a bit in common (quirky, low barrier to entry tools that are immense fun and very flexible.)
Adding the word rockstar to the ninja list would be helpful. Sigh...
http://colemak.com/
Colemak is the only layout specifically designed for modern day computer keyboards.
That was freaking amazing. I had no idea what to expect, and if you had told me, I wouldn't have believed it.

Now, how does it work?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and theorize that, since the start of this topic you've consistently taken Mr. Guo's side, pedantically pointing out rules and etiquette, deflecting from what he actually said, not responding to actual quotes from his writings and posts and your general literal mindedness, that you are indeed one of the name-brand school graduates that he feels is victimized by the boorish snobbishness of the tier-1+n school grads.

Spank me if I'm wrong. But it's the only thing that adds up.

Either that or you are a tier-1+n school grad who's been guilt tripped by this article into rethinking your prior maltreatment of the elite school kids.
> Comment scores make group beliefs far more obvious. Common knowledge of group beliefs is a necessary condition for groupthink.

True -- but obviousness is not a prerequisite of common knowledge in a knowledge-oriented community like this. Maybe if it was Digg the scores themselves would be a lot more necessary for groupthink.

> The thing we need to be afraid of is public praise or shame for writing a well-received or poorly-received comment.

I think you're underestimating the power of a pat on the back.

> I disagree. When people are called out publicly for unpopular beliefs, they tend to commit to them even stronger.

See above, re: "being smart". Were you not reading what I said?
Whoosh . . . ?
Consider though that this approach, using classes as functions, violates the primary intent of CSS, separating presentation from markup. You've now gone back to modifying your markup to change the presentation.

I build skinnable sites, where there are multiple different looks for identical markup. The approach above would fail horribly at doing this. Markup should be semantic, a div with a class header or footer is semantically identical to a header or footer tag.

Markup is also quite often tightly coupled to code and much much harder to change than CSS, so this approach fails there as well. Blueprint takes this approach, and I think it's just wrong, this is not how CSS should be used.

What would be really neat would be a syntax to be able to have CSS classes inherit from other CSS classes like mixins so that you could build that header style by mixing in several selectors. Then you could use the above approach without corrupting the markup with style information keeping the look isolated to the CSS file. I see SASS provides, that alone makes it worth looking into.
FWIW, it's actually the first OpenCL GPU driver for Windows or Linux. The first OpenCL GPU driver was in Snow Leopard.
The real lesson is that Apple sucks at software, and you should use open source.

I have never had an open source program install crap on my machine. I install probably 2-3 new programs per month and have been doing so for years. I've never had any problems... expect that one time I tried to download iTunes, found out that Apple sucked, and vowed to never use Apple software again.
First, you need to be able to make any correspondence seem like it was written by someone who is conversant with the grammatical conventions of the language. For instance, this is a grammatically correct question:

How do I find investors?

This is not:

How to find investors?

Proofreading is handy too, so you don't say things like "inmprove", and so you don't accidentally say "tier" instead of "time".
This is interesting, but unless your goal is to get fat on the cheap, I'm not sure what you can do with the information.
I tried Dvorak, but didn't like it.

I don't type with my fingers on the home row, but rather floating over the keyboard.

With querty the keys are far enough apart that I switch between hands, so while one hand is pressing one key, the other is getting the second one ready.

With dvorak I would sort of mentally "jam", since you can't get the next keystroke ready while typing the first.

I know I don't type in a conventional way, but I type very fast.
Well for me, earphone jacks are for sending the signal to my car stereo so I don't have to mess with CDs. And I have to set the volume on full to get proper signal. Sure, there might be better options, but what I have works. I could set the volume ten times higher than the max and still not risk damaging my ears, because I control it on the car stereo side.
Cool. Tuviah helped me out with problems a couple of times when I was using MC/RR. Nice guy. What's he doing now?

I tend to agree about the syntax, but I didn't have a strong HyperCard background before I discovered the products. I dislike most C/Algol syntax too, for that matter. (I struggle with syntax more than I should, in general, and I like minimal syntax. I'm happiest with S-expressions.)
Like JWZ, I've been a happy user of Palm products and (importantly) their un-corralled app ecosystem, since before Palms were phones. I have a Centro because I had a Treo because I had a palm pilot, AND because the app ecosystem that my Centro lives in is the same un-corralled ecosystem that it's been for years. The ecosystem is an essential part of what the product is to me.

The apparent desire of Palm to embrace and confine Palm's once open ecosystem means that the Pre, which I had been looking forward to as another shiny Palm device, is now for me just another piece of noise like the iPhone. As a customer I'm not interested in a closed ecosystem, and I'm beginning to realize that in the end the thing in my pocket is just a phone and I can get a really cheap one (with text!) from Cricket. If I need a restaurant or movie somewhere, I can look it up before I get there, and I can listen to my own farts in the elevator without having to buy them from Steve Jobs or his counterpart at Palm.

So Palm's task is to figure out whether they'll make enough money on apps to make up for lost phone sales from people like me. Because in the end, they have no responsibility to customers, employees or outside developers; their only responsibility is to shareholders.

And if they decide to go with a closed system, then like Jean Kirkpatrick, I will wave fondly as they sail into the sunset, and look wistfully at the Palm devices in my sock drawer.
I prefer tmux.
Is it possible to simply make current site render nicely in both iphone and regular browsers?
One entrepreneur's review of Seedcamp 2009
It's unclear if those are binding. Courts have ruled both ways. That's one of the issues in the case.
This is interesting. I'm trying to figure out how to do things like k-means in map reduce. I think Mahout has an implementation, but I haven't looked at it yet.

Why did you do a self-join? Is this akin to doing a map-side join?
Wow, the responses went way off map on that thread ;)

All my computer work, including job-type jobs I've held, have all come through networking. But that's really just a truism I guess, in that all work will/must come from networking. Which I take as your point...

What's interesting to me is the way one's personal network, seems to grow; like the facts of networking are stranger than fiction in an organic "Connections (BBC)" sorta way.

(Been watching old connections episodes on my G1 off youtube, while the inet is out at my house. Great show.)
I rather like the fact it uses the WTFPL, too. It's not really a replacement for something like tmux, though, from what I've seen.
Fireworks has always been my favorite web design tool (since version 1.0), however, I have noticed the changes over the years and up until CS4 it wasn't so bad.

I think Adobe is in a tough situation. They can not continue to grow by relying on a few software packages and have been pouring resources into Flash in an effort to turn more into a platform company vs. a software company. They just seem to be working against their culture as their strength has always been in graphics/design software. Most of their attempts at developer-oriented software have never panned out. Anyone remember GoLive?
"Rad" hasn't really been in widespread use since the '80s.
I thought this might help explain what kind of value teams can derive from the events Seedcamp puts on before even picking any winners to fund, which are an important part of its model and a distinction to other micro seed programs.

For more context, some confusion but definitely also some valid criticism see the recent thread at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844105
FYI I think there's an error in your title "CouldFab" probably means "CloudFab"
I wrote a big, very big, Flash/FLV player
http://copyfree.org

http://softwareliberationfront.org

. . . and other reasons.
Um... I see pictures of a credit card and Dutch. Way to go!
One thing you can't do with a GPLed application -- and something I do all the time -- is try to support copyfree licensing rather than copyleft licensing.
GetAngular
Why is it universally assumed that corporate shareholders are incapable of looking at a big picture?

If there were such a systematic error in the market, then a smart investor could really make a killing by investing in the artificially-cheap stock of long-planning corporations.

And, of course, such an investor would have a very impressive history after a while, and be able to command quite a bit of money managing investments for others... which of course leads to greater sums of money being invested more intelligently.

The market fixes itself.
I'd like to amicably encourage you to proofread what you write. Grammar aside, both this post and your previous post were filled with spelling errors. If you don't take the time to write clearly, how can you expect others to take the time to listen to you?
Java isn't becoming irrelevant because Sun is neglecting it or plans to neglect it. Java is becoming irrelevant because even though it's a great tool, the community represents many of the things that passionate developers have come to hate. Technology is progressing. Hardware is getting faster, virtual machines are getting smarter. The original focus of Java, productivity and simplicity, is now being found elsewhere.
They seem to be going out of their way to defeat themselves with marketing, though. Comparing a 19" Psystar to a 20" iMac, and a 22" Psystar to a 24" iMac... Seems like just using a 20" and 24" would have been more of an apples-to-apples comparison. So to speak.
He seems to be saying that Sun's stance will be let the Open JDK develop, and roll that into the official package.

I thought this would be good news. Sun has a shaky future and a lot of people use Java. The more control of it the community has the better.
Unlike with an iMac, you can swap the monitor out. So it's kinda apples-to-oranges any way you look at it.
After I learn "How to retrieve the ducuments", I'll work on building a spell-checker!