skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually don't pay for games. World of Goo is one of the exceptions. When a small company shows they're savvy and doing a good thing, it becomes worth my money.

When you loop every gamer who downloads games into the category of "pirating gamers", you're missing a lot of subtlety among the individuals you're blasting.
Triple-core chips perform better than dual-core processors, but cost less than quad-core chips.

Unbelievable!
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There's quite a bit of (frequently trollish) posts from him on the c2 wiki, as well - http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TopMind

He generally signed his name as just "-top", so not all the pages are interlinked.
Fake Steve Jobs illustrated the biggest Android problem: When your operating system is designed to be modified for each individual phone, and each phone runs a modified version of the system, then you can't reliably develop for it in the way you can for the iPhone.

If I make an iPhone app, then it'll work for every person with an iPhone and every person with an iPod touch. The same's not true for Android, which is why developers are reporting failures with the applications they're designing for it.

I've never used Android, unfortunately—can't find people with the phone to irritate/mug—but I'd imagine it's good, and I like that Google's released an OS with some focus on being good, because cell phone companies showed in the last decade that they don't give a damn about good when left to their own devices. Where I don't have faith in it, though, is in its attempt to make a developer haven that the iPhone doesn't offer. It seems that there're integral problems to its developer experience that won't fix themselves easily.
If I remember correctly, two lines being both parallel and orthogonal is quite possible in Hyperbolic (Non-Euclidean) Geometry.
Yes, I agree totally that S60 as a programming platform is horrible. I hope Nokia has learned the lesson with Maemo. Because it's based on a Linux distribution which is not that far from your standard desktop Linux, maybe they just aren't able screw that up too badly. To Nokia's credit they are not the open software development freedom-haters that Apple and maybe Palm now too have become.
It's a problem, but I don't think it's an impossible one, and nor do I think the answer is that everyone everywhere should have the exact same phone. The Android guys, who are not stupid, certainly have J2ME to look at as an example of what could go wrong. And, to tell the truth, even J2ME is certainly painful once you try and taret a wide number of devices, but not impossible.
On the other hand, it shouldn't be too hard really. People have been developing desktop apps for myriad resolutions for years.
Apple’s Profits Rise 47 Percent on Strong Mac Sales
What about creative fun ? For example with the piano-stairs, it's up to the "player" to change the melody as they want.

In that situation, the novelty would wear off but people may find new ways to entertain themselves. A bit like emergent gameplay ?
I don't think it's a good position to break down gamers into "pirating" and "non-pirating" gamers. Someone who pirates a title today might pay for your game tomorrow; in fact, someone who pirates your game today might pay for your game in a week, or in a year.

If you adamantly eschew the respect of "pirating gamers," you're cutting off an enormous chunk of your potential market share.
OTOH, I don't think that Nokia really get open source in the same way that Google does. Doubtless, they have people that do, and their circumstances are quite different: Android can't be doing anything but losing money for Google, and is not really their core business anyway, whereas for Nokia, opening up their crown jewels cannot be an easy process. And Nokia has always been a bit ambivalent about open source. Google seems much clearer about what is and what is not going to be open source, which makes it a little bit easier to predict what they'll do and how they'll do it.
Please dont take this the wrong way but this is a terrible idea in general. Essentially your selling a product that many people would liken to say spam.

I dont think your issue is in the execution of the trial but in the product itself.
A pirating gamer isn't some dirty scum that you disrespect. They are customers. They tell their friends. They're ordinary people. Some games have 80% of their installs due to piracy.

If you can convince even a small percentage of these customers to pay, you win big. Especially in the game of software development.
More material for my "Stuff to Read" dropbox folder, so thank you very much
Cutting edge: Just what is it about adding blades that makes a razor better?
"...which ruled that exact photographic copies of public domain images could not be protected by copyright because the copies lack originality." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_....
Believe it or not, there are those of us who will not pay for DRM'd crap and simply do without rather than obtain unauthorized copies.

I respect the lack of DRM.
someone had to say it..
The future doesn't replace the past.
The future complements the past
Parallel lines of longitude converge orthogonally at poles.
Scala Vs Clojure – Let's get down to business
West Antarctic ice sheet may not be losing ice as fast as once believed
iRobot's Shape-Shifting Blob 'Bot Takes Its First Steps
Exactly. This isn't talking about a security hole where private messages appeared in search results. Users posted message transcripts on third party sites where, of course, they got indexed.
Credit to Yahoo for just apologizing and not blaming their Taiwanese subsidiary when they probably had nothing to do with it, but... they probably had nothing to do with it.

That it happened in Taiwan doesn't make it right, but it does mean that it has basically nothing to do with the gender balance of computer-related fields in the US.
How Not to Incentivize a Sales Force
Yes, but we're talking very small screens here, with very little room for design. When you can design any application to run at 800x600, then maybe you don't fill every screen but you have enough space to do what you want. When you're dealing with very small screens, some of which are multitouch and some of which aren't, some of which have physical keyboards and some of which don't, then you have to juggle a lot of variables and the quality of your design suffers.

I shouldn't have to point out the level of build in the iPhone apps gallery. Those applications are gorgeous. Better than most PC apps, I'd argue, in their compactness and elegance. Developers have an edge on the iPhone because there's an established design standard, and there's an established screen size. So they can spend as long as they need fiddling to make their app perfect within those confines. On Android, that's not possible.

To use an unnecessary metaphor, iPhone apps are haiku and Android apps are open verse. On the one hand, it's nice not to have limits, but on the other, you find it's much easier to make something beautiful when you're given set restraints with which to riff on.
> Is there a way to archive geocities pages like this one?

wget -r http://geocities.com/tablizer
The UserScape people did a brief post on this earlier in the year:

http://www.userscape.com/blog/index.php/site/comments/how_to...
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The reason his system is table-centric is because he feels the relational model is a good foundation.
I sort of read this as more BSDish philosophy. One of the fundamental things he cites is the freedom for others to do something you might not like, which, IMO, is more of a BSD notion.
It's worth pointing out that we don't know how much of a success this is without being able to compare it to how much they would have made in the same period of time without the promotion - ie: what were the average weekly sales of the game before this was announced?
The Value of Making Things Fun (VW campaing and an important message)
Make some live CDs, makes it easier for people to try out.
Here's another (cheaper, although possibly less realistic) approach to this: I recently did some market research using Amazon's Mechanical Turk, and added a lead collection form as a bonus.

I put up a simple survey asking users about relevant background information and their experience with the problem my application is trying to solve. Included in this survey was a field to collect the user's email address. This field was very clearly marked as optional (it even appeared after the confirmation code that allowed turkers to complete the "HIT") and the label included something like "Your answers to this survey will help us to evolve the website to better meet your needs. If you'd like to be notified when the new site launches, please enter your email address here." along with an indication that users would receive exactly one email from us due to this form.

I was pretty pleased with the results of the survey--I received a lot of actionable information very quickly and cheaply (at about $0.10 per response) and I was pleasantly surprised that a little more than 10% of the respondants entered what looks like a valid email address.

I don't expect many of those 10% to convert (and lead generation wasn't the point of the excercise anyway) but I was very happy with the ROI on this survey.

Seeing who clicks on ads (and at with what copy) and later "soft" converts may be a more realistic test, but the MTurk approach is an order of magnitude less expensive.
Yeah, that is weird. But I liked it more the indestructible roach robot.
...people with other sources of income.
Yeah, I never knew that orthogonal and parallel were synonyms.
Reminds me of this awesomely written story: http://maxbarry.com/2009/04/09/news.html
I imagine that this same concept could be useful to encourage young children (boys) to learn to go to the toilet.
I would totally get behind one page = a given time window, as long as the time window is configurable, or at the least, page n is an offset from what was the first item on the first page when you started paging.
Does Nestle ask for your friendship before selling you some Oreo's?
Apple store down, products being updated
If the bottleneck is development time, I use Perl. It also works well in IO-bound apps.

I don't want to say something like, "do you know who I am", but you maybe click the links in my profile before trying to convince me of Perl's merits :)
Are you creating or stealing customers?
As they say in the article, they didn't choose the responses to be neutral; they simply used common reasons people were voluntarily sending through their contact page.

I agree that that is poor methodology, since it doesn't include the opinions of anyone who didn't care enough to volunteer a response. But to their credit there is an "Other" option, the responses to which are linked in the article... Many of the answers fall into one or more of the categories already in the survey. It looks like the most common answer that isn't already covered is "I just wanted to try the game out and don't know how much it's worth".
Yes, it is short and basic in theory, but I it is very practical. In my case I learn best trying and applying concepts in practice. That is why I found the book very useful.
Also I accompanied my learning with some other books (i.e. Machine Learning from Tom Mitchell) and academic papers that filled the theory gap.
As a started point to teach the basics of ML and to encourage to go and learn more, I think PCI is very good.
It's a quality control issue for sure. I got a pre on day 1 that just had its touchscreen stop working. Sprint replaced it with no questions asked.

The performance on this new one is better in every way:

2 Day battery life (up from 1/2 day)

Many cards run at once with much less lag

The slider actually feels solid
Ask HN: How to pick a content management system?
Drupal, Joomla!, Django...I am not sure which one I should be learning..
Universidade Nove de Julho
Minor correction, UserScape is a one man army, Ian Landsman.
I think I am agreeing with Wikipedia's definition. What function is evaluated that makes "foo" execute before "bar" in "(foo) (bar)"?

Wikipedia goes on to consider Erlang and Scheme functional programming languages

Yeah, people have diluted the term to near meaninglessness.
another language comparison, again?
This is a bit alarmist. GV messages appear in search results when 1) you explicitly make them public, and 2) publish the public URL on a public website that Google already indexes.

Google was not randomly making every GV voicemail transcript available in Google Search.
In his wonderful book The End of Education, Neil Postman recommended error-detection as a powerful teaching/learning method.
I'm no great fan of Perl - yet in its niche, performance is not a reason not to use it.
The way that we use it today for example. Many people have inbox full of emails that probably they would not read or attend properly. This is behavioural, not a technical issue but it is an example of why we need other collaborative models. There is a good article about it in the IEEE magazine.
In the technical and security side, quite a lot of traffic between SMTP servers is in clear text. Identity is very easy to spoof.
And so on ... But as I said, there isn't anything better yet.
Jamming with Ruby YAML
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> No. Other party still has to deliver your order and you enforce the delivery vigorously.

One expects "no" will be followed by supporting argument. Instead, we see more argument for same. After all, the "other party ... vigorously" is just as true of stocks as everything else.

Note that the argument against short selling is actually driven by folks who argue against it because they think that it "unfairly" drives prices down and lets people profit from that. They bring up non-delivery because that's an appealing argument, but it's not a huge problem and it's not what they're trying to stop.

Yes, I know about the VW short-squeeze a year or so ago. What of it? (Before you get too excited about the fact that some folks lost a lot of money, make sure that you understand WHO lost a lot of money.)
There's a lot of good advice there about asking the right questions of the right people, but I don't think it is fair to assert that because different teams came up with different problems the usablity tests were a failure. Consider the possiblity that each did really did uncover unique serious problems. The goal of UX testing shouldn't be to identify all the problems but some of the serious ones. Test, change and iterate. Once you've addressed a few of the top issues the context of the application has changed anyway.

(Also, I wish there was more detail on the individual tests. This sounds like an interesting experiment.)
Ninja Threat Modeling
I don't think postfix or exim4 even existed when qmail was written. Your alternative was sendmail, which was ... not easy to set up.
Hackers change tactics, Gumblar attacks surge again
How do the "youths" in other countries communicate, besides SMS?
Isn't Window 7 a "service pack" for Vista?

Companies will charge more if they can, and Microsoft can.

It is also worth noting why MS Service Packs have been free: it has been the case in the past that the released OS is not ready. Hence the reason why corporate IT departments used to wait for at least a service pack before installation.

OS X pricing hopefully will help bring the cost of windows down. It's clear to see we've been fleeced for years.
I always thought Cellulose (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Cellulose/0.2) was an interesting idea, though haven't done anymore than play around with it.
Technologies That Could Change the Energy Picture
NASA Discovers A Ring Around The Solar System
Oh, great idea. Lowering the cost of entry will increase participation.

I'm trying to find some local Linux non-profits, see if they have any CDs to spare.
Learning through trial and error is so damn useful because that's how our brain is designed to learn.

Whenever we make a prediction, dopamine neurons in our brain start to fire, triggering a feeling of expectation. If we predict right, we get a surge of dopamine and some positive reinforcement. If we get it wrong, the dopamine neurons stop firing which, aside from making us feel like crap, serves as a signal that the prediction needs to be revised. Normal learning operates by consciously acquiring information and hoping it eventually filters down into the subconscious. Trial and error, on the other hand, puts a direct line into our subconscious - it's much more efficient.
Yeah, I'd agree. I don't find it slow for a smartphone other than the Calendar app, which is abysmal. I wonder if he did something to the unit when mucking around with it (I know I've applied a couple hacks that really messed it up) and just needs an OS Doctor reinstall.
On the danger of pursuing a computer science degree.
The main danger is that professors impart not only (useful) knowledge, but also a worldview as to what a career in computing is all about.

Namely, you are taught that it is about building efficient and reliable software.

While an employer would appreciate employees with such a worldview, this is not a path to a fulfilling career.

It's kind of like being taught that writing is all about spelling and grammar.

Without a university education at all, you might have and keep a worldview that building software is primarily about the fun you have in creating something original.

University can mess this up for you and it may take many years for you to change your worldview -- if you ever do.
Windows 7 upgrade: What you can, can't, and should do
Shell script for file handling by Date range | Web Technology I/O
Besides Germany and Hong Kong, where else is unlocked iPhone available?
Actually this one is kind of refreshing: neutral. As well gives a little peek into Scala for people who do not know it (like me)...
Startups: How To Build A Barrier To Entry With Inbound Marketing
Just to be clear, translations are themselves protected by copyright. So, for example, if you want to read the Edith Grossman translation of Don Quixote, first published in 2003, you do not have the freedom to select from a wide variety of editions, as described in the parent comment.
>>"I have found that a “typical” website redesign effort (deﬁnition, information architecture, design, coding), if executed thoughtfully and thoroughly, can take at least five or six months to complete..."

WHAT!? 6 Months for a website!? HOLY MOLY! I thought taking 3 weeks to get a static site up was bad!
> I don't really care about crud. It doesn't bother me.

Then you won't mind when a garbage truck unloads its multi-ton cargo into your home.
Dual Screens = Wave of the future.
MSN is widely popular here.

And there are lots more social networks besides Facebook. For example, in the Netherlands there's hyves.nl and I'm sure the same is true for other countries.
How to use Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts
I am under the impression that he was being targetted as a potentially compensated public "reviewer", and possibly reseller. Nobody in their right mind will cold call a web socialite with a live twitter feed with product sales calls. It was a B2B call IMHO, reread it under that light.

Even the author himself could be misunderstanding the intent, btw.

To give you an anology, someone pitching their photo sharing startup to a potential investor will have to begin his introduction the same way he would when talking to a potential end-user: "it the world's fastest growing photo sharing site. Upload your photos and viola .." but the intent is different. The author pretty much shut the door on the sales guy without hearing him out further.
Opt in advertising matched to user interests may not be that exciting, but it's a great way to monetize two way search.

Just sick of dumb ads, I bs enough online that web software should know what to sell me on by now.
Me too. But look at where he lives: SOMA SF is the heart of iPhone / Apple country.
There is another aspect that they are ignoring; I'm sure a lot of people bought the game that had already decided to NOT buy it. This kind of offer will appeal to people that would have liked it but declined to purchase it for one reason or another.

Then I am sure there is a significant portion of people who didn't even want the game, and just purchased it out of curiosity.
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an inbox full of emails that you do not read is a behavorial problem. Not one of email. No amount of twitter, facebook or "email 2.0" is going to fix that.

Even though the traffic between SMTP servers is in plaintext, encrypting that traffic does not solve the underlying problem. Trust on the Internet is a very very hard problem that is not going to be solved any time soon.
Ask HN: Please review my new project, Film vs Film
This is an idea I've been working on for the last month or so. I wanted to make a fun and addictive site with a low barrier to participation. After iterating through a few prototypes with friends, I opened the site to the public last week.

Some data so far: The average visitor generates over 50 page views, and stays for longer than 5 minutes. There's significant click-through to Amazon, which is how the site generates revenue. People seem to enjoy the site, but only a few seem to be sharing it with their friends.

I have a Facebook Platform app in the works, which I hope will help to increase the site's virality. In the mean time, I'd be grateful for any feedback you could provide.
About that data loss at Microsoft/Danger
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In the type of market that Happy Cog serves, promising a 3 week build involving the "typical" parts (def/IA/design/code) is a surefire recipe for disaster.

I think you can be pretty sure that they're not talking about 2-3 page static web brochures. Also, keep in mind that part of their desired lifestyle is NOT "drinking schnapps to get through the day or grinding your teeth at night", which is the sort of thing that you get when rushing day and night to build a full-featured system in a couple weeks.

Seriously, can you honestly point to any sites that have not a hair over 21 consecutive days to build in their entirety and match the breadth of features, design quality, testing, iterating with the customer, etc, that would be expected of a typical Happy Cog project -- and yet somehow still have a reasonably healthy lifestyle?

To me it sounds like a variation on the "I can build this in a weekend" HN meme.

[EDIT]: mind you, I will agree that I've seen plenty of good systems built in under 6 months, just not 2-3 weeks :)
I agree about the poor performance. I really hope they can fix that somehow, but it's starting to look like the heavy reliance on javascript was a design mistake.

However I don't have any problems with Mac sync. I've always used Spanning Sync to keep my Mac synced up with my Google account. Once there, the Pre just finds everything automagically.

It has been a bit of a shift in thinking to go from the old model of "I need to sync my device with my Mac" to the new "My device will just find what it needs in the cloud". But after using it for a few months, I'm really happy with the change. Palm synergy just works, and I don't at all miss the old way of doing things (cross your fingers and hit the hotsync button).
Home, End, Page Up and Page Down configuration for Mac (Snow Leopard)
Anyone have an example for a "project questionnaire" such as the one mentioned?
Add code highlighting to your Google Waves
I concur. That's what I'm waiting for.
This is an experiment. If you could earn significantly more money for your products through a "pay what you want" model, would you really not use it? Is your ego ("My products are worth $X, damnit") worth that much?

I'm not sure that is the case, but I can see how it's possible.
Ultracapacitor Bus Recharges at Each Stop
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Some of those look pretty nice. If they can succeed in the notable book-related places the Kindle falls down--research and reference--I might finally be buying my first ebook reader.