skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Broadband Internet to Become Legal Right in Finland in 2010
GM: Just One Car Returned Under 60-Day Money-Back Guarantee
The author is a product person, and he specifically mentions "The Four Steps to the Epiphany" so I believe he's talking about Customer Development.
oooh and something else...

For 10$ each you can get: JIRA (issue tracker), Confluence (wiki & collaboration platform), GreenHopper (Agile tools), Bamboo (Continuous integration), FishEye (Adding UI and functionality to: SVN, CVS, Perforce, Git) and Crowd (user management)

So if you're a sub 10 man company (or need only as many licenses) you can hardly beat that for 60$ a year :).

http://www.atlassian.com/starter/

Disclaimer: I am NOT working for Atlassian and I am NOT affiliated to them in any way - I am not even an customer (because our pointy haired bosses don't trust anything that doesn't cost an arm and an leg and isn't sold to them by sleazy MS or IBM salespeople).
Or a Greasemonkey script: http://pastie.org/656481

(Adds a "Solve" link that moves the image rows into a solved position. Tested in Firefox 3.5.)
Neurotic Leaders, Paternalistic Managers and Self-Absorbed Workers
In general there's not much sense in talking about true or accurate prices for some good; price is what it gets, full stop.

Well, if the price is not above the costs of production, you're going to have a hard finding the product in stores for very long. Oppositely, the price and availability of food, say, isn't at a certain level, the whole society may cease to function.

While arguments about intractability, chaos and uncertainty are great and interesting, it's worth considering that if an economy doesn't have a number of important, predictable elements, things stop working.
I expected a graphic novel to be illustrated with ... a graphic!?
Steam is beautiful because they actually use the DRM to provide service to the customers. Like being able to redownload the entire gaming collection on a new system so you don't have to keep a bunch of disks around.

As an electronic distribution channel it's pretty much unparalleled.
Bah! I love animated GIFs.
The "skill is proportional to experience" idea always puzzles me, especially in fields like finance and software where differences in productivity are measured in orders of magnitude. The most effective investors and programmers easily have 100x greater maximum productivity than the median.
BrowserCam does screenshots, selenium based testing, and raw VNC support, but lacks the site design and product focus. They are part of a larger company and don't have the same amount of control over external appearances.

I didn't mean to imply that Go Test It is inferior to BrowserCam, I was actually curious what others throught. There may be a Mac / PC analogy here - both have almost the same features and so the primary differentiators are price, design focus, and product integration. If you aren't a Gomez customer, that last one isn't going to matter.

UPDATE: I'm getting my product names wrong. BrowserCam became a Gomez product called Reality View, and only provides screen shots. Selenium testing is done in a related product called Reality Check.
Iceland looks to serve the world.
"And my point is that Wave can help reduce the clutter and chaos of these messages by presenting them in a more structured, intuitive, and versatile form. So instead of having 50 emails discussing the text for the new homepage, you can have just one Wave."

Gmail already does that. See 'Gmail Conversations':
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe...
Whatever their motives might be. Kudos.

When i was working in Java world, i could never get any employer to pay for IntelliJ and had to stick to reading how awesome it was.

Now, I would at least get a chance at trying it out.
I'm kinda interested in how they did the server push animations. Does anyone know how exactly this was set up?
If Microsoft had proper backups it would not take more than a week to recover them. T-Mobile's original statement was probably made at the point where Microsoft admitted they had no backups and perhaps T-Mobile jumped the gun a bit saying there was no chance of data recovery. Presumably they were not too happy with Microsoft and welcomed the bad PR the original statement would bring.
The stretching isn't important as a cool-down, rather it is helpful to do stretching while the muscles are warm and relaxed (the muscles being tired has similar benefits as being relaxed).
Product using interface metaphor A syncs with product using interface metaphor B. Result: user confusion, user error, user complaints.
Google to launch online electronic book store
Had to stop reading at this:

"Apple is undeniably the most proprietary and closed technology company in the software industry. In fact, Apple makes companies like Microsoft and Adobe look like nonprofit open source organizations in comparison"

http://opensource.apple.com/
The New StumbleUpon V4: Less Content, More Social
Yeah where this seems to break down is that there's a very gray line around what a Product Manager's job is as opposed to a Project Manager's job.

Unfortunately in many organizations these lines blur considerably.
But if he bought a netbook he probably has linux already.

Microsoft actually make some good software (don't tell my LUG I said that) but do I really need Windows Seven Ultimate Basic Home Advanced Edition to use a browser, email and wordprocessor? No, I can have a nice linux desktop with buttons on the desktop for FF, Thunderbird and OOo.org.
Program Manager -- it was closest to the metal (work day to day with engineers, designers, testers, and marketing) -- but was far too much paper pushing.
I would be extremely cautious about connecting to these interim hosts that provide access to the rest of the Tor network.

If I were a government bent on surveillance, the first thing I would do after blacklisting legitimate hosts would be to publicize my own malicious connection points. Here, little bee, have some honey.
Rescuers Trying to Save Kid Flying Above Colorado in Dad's Experimental Aircraft
I don't want to be a bee near your back yard, or a Tor user in any country you potentially run.
The most effective investors and programmers easily have 100x greater productivity than the median.

I have a hard time believing that for programmers. 10x maybe, not 100x. If this were true, they should be making tremendously more than median programmers. When was the last time you heard about a software engineer employee making over $1m, let alone $10m?
Well, i learned something new. I didn't know about "congruent numbers" before.

I wonder what their practical use is for though. Anybody knows?
honestly, trying to be consumer minded, i opened your link, throat vomited at the design, and closed it.

You may have a valid product, but the design, and I'm going to assume the usability, is killing you. consumers like shinny and clean.

Now i'll take a second look at your site and provide some feedback on the tool itself.

congrats on going live. It's an accomplishment no matter what state it's in.
In 10 years time, I wonder what we'll look back on and see as the equivalent "under construction" for today's internet.

- Any guesses?
I think because Jupiter and the Earth are way brighter than the stars are. The dynamic range of the picture doesn't show the stars... According to one of the sites linked in the comments, they already had to brighten the moon some to make it visible.
Years of experience gives you much better information to work with, but you're still using your same old thought processes to...process it. You can offset a lower intelligence with better information, but only to a point.
I'm just wondering why you find it necessary for a PM to code?

I've seen this sentiment a lot around HN and find it curious. I've worked with many Product Managers were fairly technical but weren't going to do any coding (or architecture).
AMD & Intel wage evidence war before antitrust trial
It looks like we need some new words to differentiate what different people mean by a right. Something for an independent right and something different for an dependent right. Dependent meaning it relies on the effort of someone else.
lame ass "give us your twitter details and we'll abuse you via oauth" pages.
When Mercedes releases a new E-Class, Honda doesn't start shaking in its boots about declines in Civic sales.

Gruber is right; the markets for Windows and Mac OS are becoming more and more orthogonal.
This is a great idea, ensuring everyone has fair and unrestricted access to at least a 1Mb connection (on the download side) is a great idea. Not only will it force companies to improve infrastructure, but it will force down prices on higher speed, higher limit connections (people are going to be asking, why should I pay $30 for your 10Mb connection with 60Gb limit, when I pay $0 for a 1Mb unlimited connection).

I wish this would come into play in Canada, especially for people in rural areas. People should have access to the internet, just like they have access to telephones, without prejudice to where they live.
I find it more ergonomic, for lack of a better word. As far as feature-by-feature, it's much the same, although IntelliJ really stands out in some areas; off the top of my head:

- Javascript / HTML / CSS support

- Structural search-and-replace (imagine search and replace that actually understands code)

- Code completion and navigation for XML and properties files

...and more.
Your projects are your resume. Love the concept!
I find this topic fascinating, but that article was unreadable. I stopped about half way through. Tiny type and horrible writing style.
This means you now have a free Arc IDE, by the way :-)
> I have a hard time believing that for programmers. 10x maybe, not 100x.

Peopleware claims 10x.
He works for the Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin is his "boss".
Sorry about that; design has been the #1 suggestion we've gotten so far and we have made design our top priority now.
Optimizing ActionScript Bytecode using LLVM
I think it's probably a lot more forgiving or open than that. No business can afford to be that picky, certainly not a growing one.

Your comment on starting a new company versus joining an existing one is well noted. The shift is taking place already, many startups are popping up with a developer or three that hacked their way into something valuable. With hard work and iterative releases driven by customer/user info new products can become the baseline for a new business.

Thousands or potentially millions of micro businesses are the future job.

Right on Max, great stuff.
Another argument to be made here is that Apple can argue that if you are going to have to "learn" a new OS anyway, why not "learn" OS X? I am very skeptical that the release of Windows 7 (as good as it might be) will slow the market gains Apple has seen.
He's not so good with keeping my credit card details though:

http://www.theage.com.au/business/bolton-loses-his-bottle-ov...
Why Kai-Fu Lee Turned Down Steve Jobs (And Is Still Cool with That)
I'd love to have a quiet blogger that carries a big stick.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Stick_ideology

If only my own blog were so effective ;)
Using "Content-type: multipart/x-mixed-replace" and a while(1) on some server-side code pushing the frames out. I think you setup some boundary string that you promise will terminate each part. Heh, it sounds exactly like Comet.
Great point about the HUGE tree of developers behind the product.
Google’s UIs always look slightly odd and unpolished at first glance but their apps are all nice and elegant. When actually using it you quickly notice that everything is thought through and works as expected. It’s not flashy, the overall theme is a little childish, but all the elements are at the right spot.

I don’t want to start that old stupid thing about programmers and how they are unable to create useful UIs (Sorry programmers, you don’t get off the hook so easily.), that’s just stupid. The above linked site was made by someone who is clueless about UI design. You maybe a programmer, but that’s no excuse. And just some polishing won’t do.

(I would just like to add: I think the idea is great an practically screaming for a sleek UI.)
I'm sure Windows 7 will do fine. Microsoft has a captive market for the most part. Eventually these XP machines will need to be replaced and it's very unlikely a large number of those people who have been happy with a ~10 year old OS will suddenly become interested in the virtues of OSX or Linux. Linux on netbooks was a threat to Microsoft briefly but it was never capitalized on. Most of the Linux distributions shipped on netbooks are really subpar. Hopefully ChromeOS, Moblin, and Android can change that. HP's Linux UI is quite nice also. The big question is how hard they'll push this when Microsoft is offering Windows 7 for netbooks so cheaply to OEMs.
Honeypots attract bears, not bees. Bees make the honey.

http://images.google.com/images?q=honeypot+bear
I think he also received a buttload of stock from Redhat? as a thank you for pushing the OS forward. I'm researching where I heard this from now (anyone have a link?)

Ahh here it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

"Red Hat and VA Linux, both leading developers of Linux-based software, presented Torvalds with stock options in gratitude for his creation.[13] In 1999, both companies went public and Torvalds' net worth shot up to roughly $20 million.[14][15]"
The most successful start ups and products I've ever had the pleasure of building or working on were complete and utter nightmares as far as modern development methodology is concerned. Heck, I remember when we wrote MyBlogLog we didn't even have source control. The key is to get the product to market as fast as you can. You can fix your process later, you know, when you have more than one employee.
Judge: Mobile Phone Ringtones are Not Concerts
Pretty pricey. I'm not sure how B&N compares, but for one book the minimum shipping cost on Amazon would be $18.48.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
Not sure what you're getting at. They didn't say "100% data recovery." In fact the release clearly says that some people might not get everything back.

But that's a pretty huge improvement over the previous release from T-Mobile stating that everything was lost for everyone, with almost no hope of recovery.
PubSubHubbub : white label hubs
The telephone system is not part of the Internet? News to me.
I suspect it was just T-Mobile getting carried away. I'm sure they were dealing with thousands of angry calls and wanted to blame someone else ASAP.
"iPhone bytecode", eh?

Guess that's what happens when "Enterprise Web 2.0 Experts" talk about things that aren't "Enterprise Web 2.0"...
Gordon Gekko approves.
I might very well be wrong about that, my knowledge of English idioms can be lacking at times.

However, in my experience bees are attracted to sugary material like honey even though they themselves make it. And a Google image search returns many results as well: http://images.google.com/images?q=honeypot+bee
Agreed. I'm assuming a bit here, but the release makes it sound like they pieced data back together from log files, not restored to an old snapshot.
I find the argument that piracy is bad for Microsoft be so far from the truth. Are you kidding me? They practically owe their market share to the fact that the choice isn't "learn linux" or "pay for windows" it's "learn linux" or "get windows somehow". People would never buy vista for $400, but if their friend "fixes" their computer and all of a sudden it looks different, great!

I learned to program in windows because that's what was there. That's what my games (that I pirated when I was 13) ran on. They are ubiquitous because of piracy. I would love it if they could magically make windows "unpiratable". There is no way they would do it.
And it’s really depressing that this whole stupid Apple v Microsoft thing is still the great epic story being told in (nearly) every press article or news report.
Excellent, well-informed details.

And insofar as Obviously, Google has not driven all of the streets in the U.S is concerned, I was going to verify that by pointing to a small town in the prairie, but just checked and saw that the major streets have street view whereas they didn't a week ago.
Hunting Arctic Asteroid Impact With Hovercraft
Thanks, I could have sworn there was a hosted version, but clearly I'm mistaken.
Well -- its only $6 if your a prime member. And $18.48 is pretty darn reasonable compared to UPS same-day shipping prices (admittedly designed for a very different purpose).
CSIRO earns $200m Wi-Fi windfall
I was a program manager intern; compared to what I now know about product management, it was too far from actual code and too far from actual users to really be useful. However, as an internship it taught me a hell of a lot.
It does have basic Python support (I expect 9.0 to be better here) but really Wing is the gold standard for Python IDEs.
Twitter gets into he wine business... sort of.
Twitter, CrushPad and Room To Read announced a partnership today to promote and raise money for Room To Read (http://www.roomtoread.org). Part of that initiative is Fledgling Wines, a wine that Twitter is making in conjunction with CrushPad (an SF winery http://www.crushpadwines.com), of which $5 for every sale will go to RTR.

I'm making wine with CrushPad this year (a very nice Marssanne/Roussane blend) and they have been great so I expect this to be a good thing for all involved.

More info here http://www.fledglingwine.com
I'm not sure if your comment is sarcastic or not - but isn't Gmail a way to slurp/index all the world's emails, text messages, and similar communications? It isn't like a bunch of engineers were sitting around and thinking "Gmail doesn't get us enough user information, how can we make a new one to get more?". Their thought process was (conceivably) more along the lines of "Gmail doesn't quite work how we want it to, what can we do to fix that?". Slurping all of the information out of it is just a nice benefit.

That said, I haven't actually tried to do any work on Wave, so I can't speak for its usefulness. As a pure email replacement, I find it comparable to Gmail, minus the inferior keyboard shortcuts in Wave.
It wasn't MARKETED to them ... it was release to people who signed up expressing interest. Now, perhaps Google could have found a better place to initially announce it than at their own conference full of developers and social media geeks... but let's face it: they don't want your average office worker trying to use this yet -- it's too freaking buggy, they'll get turned off.

Geeks and early adopters are the only people who Google could expect to stick with it in it's current state (or to at least try it again later).
Graham Hutton: Programming in Haskell (slides)
Interesting you did not mention Windows Mobile. It is not healthy to have the OS maker deciding what application can or cannot be distributed for its OS.
Then it's information asymmetry. It's tough to get around and sucks for the person on the losing end.

Suppose you can buy one of two used cars. One is a nice Lexus and one is a nicer Ferrari. They both cost the same, but the Lexus has a detailed maintenance report and a clean Carfax. The Ferrari has no records (because it is under a mythical car NDA).

It would be perfectly logical to buy the Lexus, even though the Ferrari on average would a better car for the same money, as long as we assume non risk neutral actors. Information risk goes up, value goes down. Arguably, it's a great reason to contribute to open source, if you're a programmer, to reduce the information asymmetry in future hiring processes and thereby increase your perceived value.
A six-year-old is trapped in a Homemade helium balloon over Denver
Baloney. Gmail conversations are a bandaid that only works some of the time.
Kitchen Nightmare's is a pretty good show, but not on par with the UK originals (Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares).

The original UK shows are far more "real" - no sensationalized voice overs, editing, or dramas. There's also no show-provided influx of cash to makeover the restaurants.

In addition the last 5 minutes of each episode are Ramsay himself returning after several months to reevaluate things - and some of the restaurants do indeed fail regardless of his help.
If medicine can be made scientific so can finance.

Uh, one thing to be careful with in such a statement is reasoning by analogy.

Consider if someone says:

"If physics can be made scientific, so can pertual-motion-machine-construction"

Or

"If chemistry can be made scientific, so can alchemy!"

Or

"If astronomy can be made scientific, so can astrology!"

The problem is clearer. Not every "field" is subject to valid innovation since some fields are inherently bogus. It is a hard problem determining which fields can "scientifized" so you might not be wrong. But I personally think that the real scientific economists are those that have argued that you're not ever going to find a "financial innovation" which adds value to the economy as a whole.
Protocol Specs
http://www.waveprotocol.org/
Real-life UP Story - Boy floats away in helium balloon
Reminds me of how I every time I call Verizon they insist I'm not actually a customer. I try explaining that I'm holding the bill and, in fact, am speaking to them on the Verizon line in question, but typically they have to call me back while they try to "find" my account in the computer. I shudder to think of what their backend database looks like.
HP Pavilion dv8 now official
Good points. Thank you. We definitely want the very best UI and we are not thinking that it is of secondary importance or that we can just spray it on. We will get it right.
Do you really want to build your data center on top of 130 volcanoes?

The island has about 130 volcanic mountains, of which 18 have erupted since the settlement of Iceland. Over the past 500 years, Iceland's volcanoes have erupted a third of the total global lava output. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanism_of_Iceland
"2) Market. We're in an existing market where the pain is pretty acute and the problem domain well defined. Additionally, the incumbent competitors had basically neglected the market as unattractive."

Cust. Dev. is not as important when competing in an existing market, as opposed to building a new market - there's less uncertainty about the needs of customers.
Are you really falling for this marketing scam? Every company does open source or have something prefixed with "open" nowadays.

Apple is the only software company that lock the service, software, and hardware together. Microsoft would have never been able to pull the iStore market scam. But somehow, Apple can do it. Apple can create an ecosystem where they are the only gate keeper of what people can create and distribute.

I really like Software, and for what I am concern, Apple's iPhone/iStore system is a disease for the software and Internet industry. If Microsoft, Palm, and Android, would start doing the same, then we would be in a world where innovation will be gated by the incumbents. No more Firefox, no more Skype.
I'm struggling to remember now. It was done with MIME, but instead of finishing with an EOF after the boundary, you would start the next image. When it arrived (i.e. reached the next boundary) the browser would replace the image it had with the new one. It was similar in principle to HTTP/1.1 reusing a socket.

It did have one use - if you were doing something "live" on the server, you could generate an image on the fly and send it, e.g. for self-updating graphs without reloading the page. After it fell out of fashion, it wasn't until Java that you could do that again.
I think a git company would want Junio more than Linus.