skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Games are still mostly Windows, even if the most popular ones are on the Mac; this is due to volume, developer support (e.g. DirectX), and the sheer variety of machine configurations that are open to dedicated gamers.

Businesses are also still mostly Windows, and a lot of people need to do work-related things at home. Sadly, you still can't reasonably get work done at a lot of companies unless you have Windows for connecting to some backwards application or server from your company.

Finally, many Macs are also Windows PCs. It's not clear if their survey took virtualization into account, or if any respondents were confused about how to answer (is a Mac that runs Windows a Windows PC or not?).
Using this and Readability yield great results.

I find that Readability decides on the wrong bit of content sometimes. So use Printliminator's Option-Click to select what you want to keep and then run Readability to format it nicely.
Doesn't that mean the market's becoming more efficient? I never visit some tech sites, for example, because I know anything worth reading on there will show up here.
I got mine right off of amazon - and yesterday I noticed you can buy it straight from the MIT press page as well.

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Prolog-Second-Programming-Techniqu... (if you click on the used link there is a hardback going for 13 bucks right now)

http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&... (they use asp..? regardless brand new hardback for 65)
Maybe it could've occurred to you that I don't know Prolog yet, thus my post here. :P
However, if you don't look at the subtitles it's quite hard to recognize the words. Showing the subtitles of what you're supposed to hear is called 'Prompting', an effect which is also used by backward-speech advocates.
> And Hofstadter, the guy who wrote that really dumb book? (Here I admit that I only read the introduction

...perhaps you should try reading the rest of the book.

> It's kind of a noob outlook to find something mind boogling about the fact that a mind can contemplate itself.)

Do you have a photo? Because if there's a Wikipedia article about how a fake blase-sophisticated seen-it-all-before pose of superiority can suck all the joy out of life, it should show your photo.
Google proposes standard for making Ajax crawlable
Thanks will check them out! :)
I agree. I just bought the app and it offers an inferior experience to icombinator from what I can see. This app doesn't have threading in the comments (you can't see who replied to what), it doesn't have the instapaper functionality, etc...

I expected an app to at least allow me to log in and post comments but it doesn't even do that. Which makes me ask what the point of having a native app even was.
Kevin, you should probably check this stuff too. Not because PG&Co will sue you, but just to be a good dude.

http://ycombinator.com/legal.html
Then the question should be:

Why?
i like the domo kun.
Practice.

Something I've discovered is that the more I let my mind and my mouse wander away from what I'm supposed to be working on (ie: right now), the harder it is to maintain focus. I suspect this has to do with the reward circuitry in my brain - when I desire something (going on the internet, sending a text message, etc) and IMMEDIATELY receive it, I become habituated to that. So much so that when I desire something and don't immediately get it, my dopamine drops, and it becomes extremely important that I get it right away. It works the same way as addiction, really.

So to avoid it, you just need to get used to denying yourself - eventually your reward center will get used to not getting what it wants immediately, and your dopamine will return to normal levels.
The article also claims huge hosting/bandwidth costs.

It completely ignores the fact that Spotify is a p2p application that doesn't seem to use a major CDN. Pricing used is in that article is CDN pricing. For content streamed from origin servers, they're almost certainly peering a lot of that bandwidth away.

The article uses Rackspace cloud pricing as an example. Spotify doesn't seem to run on any cloud either - they seemingly run things in-house.

What is it about journalists just loving to claim huge infrastructural costs?
I don't know if you're familiar with Fox, but they're not running any story that suggests healthcare needs government intervention.
I agree, you've been very proactive and persistent in finding the root cause, why not go ahead and experiment. Of course you should read more about the subject before starting human trials but you have an enormous advantage over the establishment, you are allowed to conduct experiments in humans! At least on one human - you. Fasting for a few days and drinking only water is a great way to let the body heal itself and the worst is that nothing will happen.
How is hulu.com social?

Most of the non-social sites are places you'd only go if you're looking to buy something of a specific brand. They're probably losing to amazon (not shown) and the recession. Others are old-school news sites, which are losing to blogs, aggregaters and specialized sources.

In short, the article fails to make its claim.
Perhaps a solution to the problem of chronic, treatable conditions is to make health insurance not pay for them.

In short, turn insurance back into insurance (protection against low probability, high cost events).
My first (only) startup was a rental site. RentHop already has more traction than I ever did. At the time I knew little about funding or how startups worked. Heck, I didn't really even know much PHP or CSS, but got a site up and running. With little to no funding, I decided to close up shop, which was sad, because we did have real listings coming in, just not enough revenue to cover costs.

I will say that I learned a LOT about coding, which has helped me on my day job and a lot about startups which will help me enormously, should I do it again.

What would I do differently?

- Try to get more seed money. I was working with about a $100 total. I would go with one like Shotput Ventures in my current Atlanta home, or YC if I could swing living in SV for three months. I could use the funds for stuff like the PR that got them this article. I'd get advice and connections to hopefully get that next round of funding, if I need it.

- Take a city-based approach. I tried to to the whole USA at once. It's a lot of territory to cover.

- Get a technical co-founder. I partnered with someone who had a little real-estate experience, but couldn't help out on the tech side. I personally need someone who could really handle the UI design and make something that looks pretty and is dead-simple to use.

- Pick a better name. Seriously. I'm not even going to tell you the name we picked because it was unmemorable, unpronounceable, difficult to spell, and lacked even a hint of SEO-keyword-mojo.

All those lessons, and the tech skills I picked up will help me greatly If I try this again. You know I wouldn't be here if I wasn't thinking about it. ;-)

If PG is reading, what made you/YC decide to fund yet another rental listing site? I'm kind of surprised to be honest. It's been done and has the biggest competitor out there.
Right, but....

Your dog reads books!? - Yea, but only fiction.

Your piano can talk!? - Yea, but not very well.
Pick the smallest task, whether complex or not, and just do it!...Doesn’t matter what it is, so long as it’s coding...It could be adding an extra field to an object or table, popping in some validation, anything small and simple. It really doesn’t matter if you do it right or wrong; you’re not doing it to sign off a task, you’re doing it to re-aquaint yourself with your system, by the time you’ve been through X lines of code you’ll be back in work mode and firing on all cylinders, well on your way to getting zoned.

This is excellent advice!

Whenever I'm frozen, this is what I do, and before you know it, I'm doing something else.
Strikes me as obvious. Everyone says Craiglist is the triumph of "worse is better," but the fact is that Craigslist is pretty bad. Maybe its competitors just haven't been offering the right kind of better.
For what it's worth, Bell, Telus and SaskTel (possibly more) have publicized their GSM networks for a while, Bell and Telus just have theirs completed early, in certain markets.
Note to self: create better post titles. :)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=862590
No Windows 7 PC Sales Bump Coming
right, thx.

doesn't change the diagrams in the linked article though, they are images: http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Br...
What I've Earned (And Learned) From Writing a Ruby Programming Book
1. It's extremely difficult to determine which movies are "good" and which are "crap" until they're already in theatres. The best minds in the business routinely mis-judge the quality and popularity of films.

2. Individual theatres are mostly interested in selling popcorn. They just want to fill as many seats as possible, pricing tickets at just-above break-even. Since their costs to show "good" first-run movies are about the same as "bad," it makes no difference to them. (They do, however, do capacity planning, allocating more screens to movies expected to draw larger audiences.)

3. The movie industry actually had variable pricing based on production costs, back in the day. ("A", "B", and "C" movies.) It didn't work then, either. Plenty of flop "A" musicals and hit "B" comedies/westerns.

Robert McKenzie goes on about this at length in his book, "Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies." I have crudely summarized his chapter on this subject:
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Popcorn-Costs-Much-Movies/dp/03877...
Pricing is a signal. Lowering the price of tickets to "lower budget" movies would be a pretty effective way to make sure fewer people watch them.

Of course, this article seems to assume that the cost of producing a movie is directly proportional to the quality of that movie.
How do you figure?

I never said that people had to do it my way, or any way at all.

I said that Nielsen doesn't discuss cases that run counter to his recommendations, and I provided one to prove my point.

As for patio11, I'm happy for him. But let's not get talking about local maximums.
Sorting Algorithm Shootout
Optimism about U.S. economic prospects
It always drove me nuts that craigslist's searches didn't have more structure/parameters to them. Big points for not accepting brokers, too.

A few small interaction notes/feature requests:

* why can't I search by square footage?

* need to add lots more parametrized amenities (garden, dogs ok/cats ok, balcony,
central a/c, furnished, etc)

* need to search on brooklyn neighborhoods! park slope != bed-stuy.

* when I click on a map pin, i'd expect to either get a modal dialog with more
info, or to be taken directly to the listing page. Just showing me a single
search result is a little unexpected and not especially useful.

* If I click Browse to go back to search, my last search parameters/results
should be retained

* the chat widget on the community page isn't loading for me (FF 3.5/OSX)

* The "Oct Deals" link is really cool, but doesn't really tell me what I'm
about to see. Also, at the top of the linked-to page, it says September.

* Why a different UI for the amenities search-- add button vs. checkboxes?

PS need a product manager?

PPS: I really need to submit a patch to the HN code to do list formatting
Am I crazy in believing that in this day and age an FBI Director should be Internet savvy or else he/she should not hold that position?
Uhhhh, we don't have insurance in the UK.

We do have this thing called NICE tho'. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1923989.stm
Here's a patent for p2p streaming owned by Spotify:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP2015542.html
I'm excited about simplynoise.com. Thanks for the tip.
The interesting part of this post is the list of unavailable items that the author would buy tomorrow - if they were available.

Anything to add?

My "headliner" would be a broadband connection to the Internet out here in the countryside - just how hard could that be?
Thanks for sharing your story Shooter. It's clear from your story that your own research had a major influence on your eventual diagnosis, someone less educated or intelligent would have merely gone along with whatever their doctors were telling them, so for that I congratulate you!

It's gratifying to hear that you've already had such an improvement of your condition.

You have my best wishes! I hope that the rest of your recovery goes smoothly and that the insurance companies don't give you too much trouble!
The real story: http://www.atinternet-institute.com/en-us/internet-users-equ...

The numbers are much less impressive than the blog post would suggest.
Here's you've just shown that you have no idea what Aubrey and SENS are proposing. Maybe, like with Hofstadter's book, you've just "read the introduction" and then stopped?

>We have no idea which genes contribute to aging, and how, and even how many. In all likelihood a simply astronomical number of genes would have to be altered to extend life.

The whole point of SENS is that it DOESN'T try to fiddle with metabolism (our genes). All of the genetic diseases you mention are different from the diseases of aging, so they're a bad example.

SENS is all about maintenance and periodical repair (like with an antique car, for example). Every, say, 10 years you go in and they remove accumulated damage (which can only be present in a limited number of long-lived molecules) BEFORE it causes pathologies. Most of this can probably be done with your own immune system (you train it to recognize some molecules), and some of it will have to be done other ways (gene therapy to make your body produce certain enzymes, etc).
I appreciate what RentHop is doing and I really hope they succeed, but there is going to come a point where ad QA is going to become a concern and then they will really start to feel the pain of building a rental site, especially in NYC.
I wasn't really serious (poor attempt at humor I admit) but thanks nonetheless for clearing that up. ;-)
A friend of mine applied for a job there in June and still hasn't heard back. (This was after several interviews, they appear to be at the final-decision stage, but even that's been a couple of weeks.)
Everyone can tell which movies are good, but no one can tell which movies will be popular. This is no surprise, because there seems to be a weak correlation between the two.
You make a good point there. I've had my problems with selling items on CL. The thing is, it's got so much traffic, that it is hard to get even a sliver of it to go my way. CL also may be ugly in one sense, but I get the impression that they really do listen to their users.

Then there's the whole second tier of rental sites, such as eBay's rent.com, apartments.com, rentals.com and more. They are usually pretty to look at, but I found all their UIs to be difficult to use. That's where I took a simpler approach to search that I thought users would like better. Still, they get hits and engage in fierce search engine battles.

I still think there has to be a way to connect renters with rentals that's easier than what's out there. I do like rentHop's design at first glance as well. I do wish the rentHop team success. Anything that makes life easier is great.
I admire him for saving it. Whether he saved it from a rouge element of fringe western civilization (most of Germany not being part of the Roman Empire,) or the Muffin Man doesn't take away from his accomplishment.
As stated, the article's wrong, but at least in this day and age of comments and instant-feedback-journalism, he's admitting it and being corrected -- rather than long, angry "Dear Sir" letters.

A victory for crowdsourced journalism, or another sign that professional publishing is doomed - when the audience know more than the writer?
Makes sense. Apple's in a market with a lot of young, well-educated customers. Those people tend to favor action on climate change. Moreover, it's not as if Apple's business depends on greenhouse gas emissions to the extent that, say, automobile manufacturers or electricity producers do.
"After changing our passwords, I tried to pass the incident off to my wife ... as a teachable moment," he said. "To which she deftly replied, 'Well, it is not my teachable moment. However, it is our money. No more Internet banking for you."

Mueller said he considers online banking "very safe" but that "just in my household, we don't use it."

It sounds more like Mr. Mueller's wife wears the pants in that relationship than anything else.
"Science focuses on tractable problems, not important ones."

That doesn't make sense. Science isn't an entity for one thing, it can't focus on anything... for another, do you really think that mechanics, immunology, electricity, and ceramics, to pick a few examples, aren't important?

The reality is that scientists aim to solve tractable problems because they know that they can't solve the whole thing at once. It's part of a simple algorithm called "divide and conquer."
Heh, I knew my site was on the map when spammers found it. :-)

I learned about scams that hit renters and landlords, but thankfully I got rid of them fast.

Also, people posting would either not capitalize anything or leave the CAPS LOCK key on. Spell checking their own ads was just too much to ask. That struck me as very odd, because I thought they would try their best to make it right to get a unit rented. I just let them post what they wanted as long as it seemed like a legit listing.
I think the OP misconstrues the product of the movie industry (as opposed to the filmmaking art). They're not making movies as such, they are making films for people. That is, the real cost must be considered as amortized over the set of viewers. A $100M movie watched by 1M people is the same as a $10M movie watched by 100K people.

I read somewhere that Ford spent more money developing the first-generation Focus than Boeing spent on the 777. We wouldn't expect a Ford Focus to cost as much as an airliner, because the development costs are divided over a larger base of customer.
What's the purpose of this? It doesn't provide transcoding, and my Xbox 360 can pull media off of my computer if I put it in the shared media folder. WMP can be used to share additional media from different folders, so seriously what is the application here?

TVersity serves media with and without transcoding, doing it all with minimal CPU usage; even on my 3 year old laptop I manage to stream 720p MKV's through tversity without rendering my laptop inoperable during the movie.
Exercise, meditation, yoga, spending time in nature. Sleeping regularly. Eating breakfast. Spending enough time per day not working, i.e not overdoing it.
Too bad it didn't mention how many hours of time went into designing and programming that system. It must have been an incredible amount of work.
If you're an iPhone user, then try NatureSpace app with sounds of natural resources. It's really pleasant, effective, and free too.
1. Do not have access to the internet on your work machine. If you don't have 2 computers, get a netbook for < $300 and connect it to the internet. They should be in 2 different workstations, ideally in 2 different rooms. The thinking is that if you have to get up, you'll only do it if it's really necessary. It works pretty well.

2. You should have 2 modes: coding and not coding. For coding, you should be at your desk coding. For not coding you can be anywhere, but not at your desk. One of my biggest problems is that I often find myself in one mode when I should be in the other. If you're having trouble writing code, then you probably don't know what to write. Grab source code listings, pen, & paper and get away from your computer. Don't come back until you know exactly what you're going to be working on. Better yet, until you're dying to work on it. OTOH, if your doing analysis and are stuck, stop. Go back to the computer and code something, anything small, just to get going.

3. End every day in analysis mode. Don't go to sleep until you have tomorrow's plan ready. You should wake up knowing exactly what you're going to be working on and excited to do it. More about that:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191275

4. Never text or IM when working. Have the cell phone nearby only for emergencies. For email, go to the other computer once an hour (see #1 above).

5. Try 48 minutes on, 12 minutes off. For long coding sessions, this works pretty well for me:

http://successbeginstoday.org/wordpress/2006/09/the-power-of...

6. Ipod.
Always enjoyed statistics (especially liked econometrics)...trying to figure out how to get this book on my Kindle now. Anyone have ideas?
downturns are actually good times to hire. not only are there lots of talented people that have been displaced from jobs, but market wages are also low.
Ask HN: Clean Lisp implementation for study?
I am currently learning Common Lisp and would like to study a well written Lisp Implementation for study to look inside how Lisp is implemented and also to learn the idioms of the language. What would the readers suggest? Thanks.
TDD Triage
Seems like a rather sensationalist headline. Craigslist is not the competitor, these guys: http://www.google.com/search?q=no+fee+rentals+nyc are.
They're still missing a huge opportunity: RentHop actually ranks better on Google for less targeted searches. For example:

Search Query Ranking
new york no fee listings 26
nyc apartment search 30
new york apartment map 14
east village apartments 69
west village no fee listings 53
apartments in chelsea not in top 200

You can be pretty sure that someone who looks for "apartments in New York" is less ready to buy than someone who looks for no-fee listings in the West Village.

Part of the problem is that the search page is dynamically generated; neighborhood-specific landing pages would help capture those more targeted queries.
You make a fantastic point.

It's the social psychology principle at play - what stories can we think of that are easy to recall?

That said - does anyone know of a desktop-rich web app that is in the black from charging to use it (That isn't already very popular)?
You can have low-power media server running 24/7 for a fraction of electricity costs that your laptop consumes. I guess that is the point
Perhaps, this best advice works for you!!

http://productiveblog.tumblr.com/
The local news is not always as blatantly partisan as the big network news from those guys.
Manifesto [On Design]
I switched from talk radio to music. It helps me focus better.
I also force myself to close my RSS reader and email because the alerts were pulling me away from what I was trying to get done. I open it up every hour or two, or after I reach a milestone.
Those two small things have helped me immensely.
Ozzie on the realtime wave
I would recommend some of the tracks by the group All india radio http://www.myspace.com/allindiaradio . I use it effectively to differentiate the signal from the noise ! :)
Anything without lyrics works for me
Meditation is a tip that others have referred to me. Any good resources for meditation?
That is some awesome brown noise. Thanks!
AT&T Wireless CEO Hints at ‘Managing’ iPhone Data Usage
Thanks! I'll have to try it out. I'm excited about trying the "white noise" idea!
Listen to music. Get the headphones that encompass your entire ear so you don't hear other people talk. I've done this for 10 years now. Also possibly get people to write you emails instead of dropping by the office even if you're 5 feet away. Work from home or from somewhere else occasionally, and work hours when other people aren't there.
Online banking is most certainly not the hill I'd like to die on w/r/t arguments with my wife.
First of all, yes, it's another link bait headline.

Initially, those are the competitors for sure. But They are already on the first page for the query you listed, so they've go that going for them.