skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having worked at a company that made both Kindle and printed books, here's something to think about- if someone can make a Kindle book for $9.99 (and this seems low, even for a book, let alone a text book), they can make a printed book for $19.99.

The problem isn't that books are printed on paper- paper is cheap.

If teachers contributed to and utilized wikibooks.org (or similar services), we could have free textbooks (or, low cost, if you choose to buy/print them- and, there are services that will let you print wikimedia wikis).
This is why I pretty much always go for the cheapest brands. Electronics get replaced so often that it's not the end of the world if your Chinese import bluray player turns out to be sub standard.
maybe I did something wrong

what I did was search for vaksel as a user, and then hit within results and entered techcrunch.
The site searches a database consisting mostly of recently-expired domains, so it's not likely to contain any given random string.
We have several raw stylesheets that are full of documentation in the form of css comments. We run these through CSSTidy before concating them all into one file. CSSTidy, while a few years old, does a reasonable job of cleaning out a lot of the cruft that we need internally but don't want to deliver to the end user.

You should not be doing any kind of minification or cleanup on your css & js during the page request. These need to be done during your build process and cached on a CDN, or at least as a static file somewhere.

Edit
As a further note, here's a short list of things to do before deploying css, images, and javascript live.

css/javascript/images should be considered static. Unless you're running a specialized application, these are resources that require no modification from one page request to the next. css & javascript are text files. Images are binary formats.

1) Minify css & javascript. If you have multiple stylesheets internally on your dev environment that you use for purposes of keeping code separated, but all the code ends up being used on all your pages, combine them together into 1 file. The same thing for javascript files.
2) Compress images. There are a number image compression techniques. Most of these are accessory applications that are run during deployment. They take your original images and create optimized versions that are smaller but same dimensions. The images are then stored elsewhere and don't affect the originals.

3) Images come in 2 varieties: Style and content. When and where possible, images used for Style should be turned into background sprites. Multiple images in one file can be moved around with css to achieve different affects. Content images tend to be more dynamic (imagine a news site with lots of new pictures each day). These images should be optimized but can't easily be sprited the same way background images can.

4) Serve static content (ie css/js/style images) from a server that does NOT pass cookies. Cookies are extra bandwidth that you don't need to transfer for things like this. So say you have www.mysite.com. Serve your static resources from a non-cookie subdomain like static.mysite.com.

5) Use multiple subdomains to serve static resources. Modern browsers allow something like 6 simultaneous connections to the same domain on average. So if you have a lot of stuff on your page (like a news or photo site), you can get a big performance boost by loading your static stuff from static1.mysite.com, static2.mysite.com, static3.mysite.com, etc. The technique I have used to good effect is a 'round robin'. During my build process, I do a search and replace on my default path variable {csspath} in my stylesheets. I rotate the replacement through each sub-domain. As the browser is loading the content of the page, its doing many more simultaneous requests. Each sub-domain is loading from the same place.
Benfords law is instrumental in fraud detection, the Enron guys were wise to it, but Bernie Madoff was not:

http://falkenblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/benfords-law-catches-...
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I'm not going to argue with you, because I haven't been following this, because I could give a rat's ass about Mahalo. I think what I said about downvoting still stands. You don't have to upvote him, but when he's down at -4 a few minutes after he comments, it looks less like we're having a good debate and more like a bunch of us are kneejerk attacking him. It doesn't give Jason motivation to keep talking to us when the site visually displays how little we care about his words.
I like it very much, ive used bustaname before, but I think ill try this one too next time I buy a domain.
Realistically Flash isn't going to just disappear. I think everyone understands that. We just want an alternative whenever possible. I can certainly understand that Flash game creators don't want to re-write their perfectly functional games in Objective-C. The Adobe Flash iPhone complier solves that problem nicely. For anything on the web, ads, videos, navigation, etc I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a Flash free alternative. Adobe's embarrassing Flash support on OSX/Linux is a perfect example of why we need alternatives. Adobe apparently cannot even adequately support three major operating systems. How can we rely on one company to provide make or break support for an entire assortment of computing devices? Three major operating systems (at minimum) each with 32bit/64bit variants and multiple browsers in mainstream usage. Half a dozen mobile phone platforms too. To date Adobe has been able to offer good Flash support for a grand total of one operating system. If there weren't real fundamental problems with the security, stability and performance of Flash I don't think we'd be having this conversation at all.
I don't have a link handy, but there was that one audio gear review site that invited a bunch of self-proclaimed audiophiles to blind-test several cables.

They picked the coat hanger.
So, $17,000 for

• a turntable,

• a lightbox,

• a mechanical track for a camera

• a DSLR

• software

3D photocopier is a huge stretch, since it doesn't appear to produce 3D models and doesn't "copy" anything. It's a scanner at best.
It would be interesting to show what percentage of a person's total rep is derived from their repeated postings from one site.

Also, I think you should show the names. I'm sure I'm in the list, and I want to know where :) Especially since I don't really post links like I used to (and I've always tried to only post quality links, no matter the source).
Additional Info on this: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/ATandT-Losing-E...
Sounds like there's some bad blood between Jason and Aaron. Maybe I don't know enough about SEO to get the sting of Aaron's arguments, but on the surface Jason has been cordial and Aaron has been vicious. That's not helping your credibility Aaron.
http://gizmodo.com/363154/audiophile-deathmatch-monster-cabl...
Cool stuff. I have been using Sucuri's Network Integrity monitor for the same thing... I monitor my own sites and some pages that I am interested to be notified when they change.

That can be very useful as an intrusion detection system if your pages are modified without you knowing it.

Link for sucuri: http://sucuri.net
It happens with other things too, e.g. expensive chocolate.

This is a great investigation about the actual origins of a high end chocolate.

http://www.dallasfood.org/modules.php?name=News&file=art...
Steve Jobs all but confirms Apple Tablet
disclosure: I am an admin on the site...
of course he is acting polite. he is still stealing people's content.

I am just calling a spade a spade.

I have never met the guy in person...I just think he should hold himself to a higher standard if he is going to trash an entire industry he should educate himself on best practices within it rather than claiming ignorance while building a deceptive business model.
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* badges/points
* check-ins
* leader boards
* mayorships
* simplicity
* nostalgia

Hacker News has at least 3 of these.
>Don't they realize how dumb they look?

I think this is the wrong question to ask. More like, "Do they care at all how they are perceived in the West?"

And the answer to that question has to be a resounding "NO"-- and for good reason.

Attempts at 'real diplomacy' (define as you will) are for nations which have reason to fear the repercussions of their actions. For the CCP, no such fear exists, nor should it. What's the worst any nation will do in retaliation to anything China has done throughout this whole affair, including, but not limited to, lying about what happened?

What is the United States or anyone else going to do? Embargo CHINA? Risk war (cyber or real-world) WITH CHINA? Obviously not. We need them too much; if we couldn't trade with China, the standard of living in the US would plummet, tons and tons of American corporations would go under, and countless Americans would be out of work because of it. Dislike the CCP for their ideological differences though we may, we'd never do anything more than slap them on the wrist (in 2010, anyway...2030 is a different story).

The CCP knows they're untouchable. That's why they act the way they do.

edit: Sorry about the caps lock. I'm a noob here and don't know how to italicize or bold yet. :( Halp, anyone?

edit #2: In the paragraph which begins, "Attempts at...":
When I say, "For the CCP, no such fear exists, nor should it," I do NOT mean to say that it is a good thing for any nation to have license to act in this way. Rather, it was my intent to say that the CCP is correct to believe they can get away with such actions without risking serious repercussion.
1) On the surface I agree. However, the collections agencies must do this math themselves, and decide that n settlement tradeoffs is still profitable on the whole. Further they have probably done the math saying "if I let my employees break the law in X way, ill have $Y in extra collections, and $Z settlements/suits for breaking the law". Then it is a matter of maximizing $Y - $Z. In that respect I am in favor of more people filing suit -- there is no reason for a company to go beyond what has been deemed appropriate for debt collection. Such laws were in place when the debt was incurred (risk was taken), and when it was traded, they should be reflected in the "debt transfer" price and the initial risk interest rate.

2) Plenty of people had high credit limits. Then, because some bankers screwed up the economy, were let go of their jobs. At this point they had no incoming cash, and plenty of credit. How do you propose they take care of their necessities if not the credit cards? Not saying this is every case, just proposing that sometimes debt isn't over luxuries.
It's not that there is something fundamentally different about the easy mode, it's that the developer spends most of their time making sure the default mode works.

In other words, it's not that easy mode just divides the damage you receive, it's that hard mode becomes easy mode with a damage multiplier.
The article is way too long.

For anyone that bothered to read the whole thing, did he make another point besides "let there be an easy mode and get over it"?
"Mr. Moore's solution will not solve the problem he is trying to solve, and in the process, he will hurt a lot of people that he should be helping,"
Shava Nerad, executive director of the Tor Project
keep in mind that this is like the second or third thread I have ever participated in here...I click the left arrow up to upvote a few times, but I don't even know how to downvote yet...haven't done a single one yet.
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Perhaps this will help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_calling_the_kettle_black
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Your constant submission of TechCrunch led me to believe you were on their payroll. Yikes! I can't believe you were submitting them out of your own free will.

Glad you stopped though; TC is to launching what reviewing combat video games is to real combat.
For the top poster that's roughly 30%.

And no, you're not in the top 100 in this case.

You're actually much more selective, you've only posted 4 techcrunch links that I'm aware of and scored 24.75 points on average with those.

That's about 3 times as good as the 'top' tc submitter so you are three times better at spotting what to submit and what not.

Showing that is exactly the point of this whole exercise.

If you blindly submit every tc article you'll score lots of points, but if you are selective you get less points but average much better.

The 'bad' behaviour is rewarded though, the absolute number of points is not to be compared, 6000+ for the top submitter and only 100 for you.
Right, of course. I didn't mean to imply that I thought it a mistake to be critical, just regretted and apologized for the manner in which I criticized.

Thanks again, David.
So the story is: Apple has a lot of money, and is iterating something and calling it a new product?
That's a really good plan.

It is very tricky to do such things without introducing subtle feedback loops though.
This is also a good argument for splitting the submission votes from the comment votes. You can probably rack up decent submission points with a halfway intelligent script, which a little bit harder in the case of commenting. It might reflect my own use of the site but I also see HN as more of a commenting place than a link-finding place. Most of the (non-meta) links that end up on HN are already making the rounds elsewhere. The chatter can still be interesting though, even when hanging off some insipid TC post.
I'm not sure his examples are particularly good. Video games are vastly more affordable than pinball machines, offer more things to do, are more visually interesting, etc.

Comic books losing was also pretty much inevitable. Thirty years of backstory, infrequent (once a month- that's a year to a 14 year old) releases, you can finish one in ten minutes. Sure, video games are much more expensive. But they last so much longer.
"Why are high-paid prostitutes paid highly?"

Seems to be begging the question a bit, perhaps? (With evidence of bias towards proving his pet economic theory).

Further, the reference quoted only found a high hourly wage for prostitute through scanning records. That high hourly could be a matter of the particular "worker" only getting a few gigs and having to invest unpaid time in setting up the transactions as well as having to share earning with pimps/escort services. Considering this kind of thing happens on the edge of legality, the real income of an escort probably couldn't be found through merely looking at accounting records.
There's a reason "doubled-blinded A/B tests" are dirty words among many audiophiles.
On Ubuntu 9.10(all same video):

Youtube HTML5 - 15-20% CPU

Youtube Flash - 20-25% CPU

.flv in Totem - 2-3% CPU

Clearly, there is optimisation work needed here.
It's just someone pointing their domain to Google. There are most likely thousands of domains like this.
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Seems rather obvious.
What percentage of a CSS is machine-ignored whitespace? I'm willing to bet it's quite a bit more than 0.003%.

Edit: Here's a real world case. HN's news.css is 1779 bytes, 225 of those can be removed, that's 14.3%.
Source code escrow
Does anyone know of a cheap web based source code escrow service? We currently pay an exorbitant amount and I seem to remember a startup being mentioned here that does exactly this, but no amount of searchyc'ing has helped.
See also: http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/01/24/att-rumored-to-los... and http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2010/01/25/verizon-wireless-t...
I doubt it. The DNS is pointed to one of Google's servers (any-in-2415.1e100.net) which displays the 404.

Whois data:

Domain Name: ZIPAPI.COM
Registrar: MONIKER

Registrant [304045]:
WWP Domains
Greenwich 2000
5482 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 141
Los Angeles
CA
90036
US

DNS data:

WebDev-Mac:kohana$ dig zipapi.com

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> zipapi.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 17462
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;zipapi.com.	IN	A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
zipapi.com.	7200	IN	A	216.239.36.21
zipapi.com.	7200	IN	A	216.239.38.21
zipapi.com.	7200	IN	A	216.239.32.21
zipapi.com.	7200	IN	A	216.239.34.21

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
zipapi.com.	172422	IN	NS	ns2.domainservice.com.
zipapi.com.	172422	IN	NS	ns1.domainservice.com.
zipapi.com.	172422	IN	NS	ns3.domainservice.com.
zipapi.com.	172422	IN	NS	ns4.domainservice.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.domainservice.com.	134894	IN	A	208.73.210.41
ns2.domainservice.com.	158397	IN	A	208.73.211.42
ns3.domainservice.com.	134894	IN	A	208.73.210.43
ns4.domainservice.com.	134894	IN	A	208.73.211.44

;; Query time: 16 msec
;; SERVER: 72.29.161.1#53(72.29.161.1)
;; WHEN: Mon Jan 25 15:20:10 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 242

WebDev-Mac$ dig -x 216.239.36.21

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P2 <<>> -x 216.239.36.21
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2130
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 4, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;21.36.239.216.in-addr.arpa.	IN	PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
21.36.239.216.in-addr.arpa. 86400 IN	PTR	any-in-2415.1e100.net.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
36.239.216.in-addr.arpa. 63306	IN	NS	ns3.google.com.
36.239.216.in-addr.arpa. 63306	IN	NS	ns4.google.com.
36.239.216.in-addr.arpa. 63306	IN	NS	ns1.google.com.
36.239.216.in-addr.arpa. 63306	IN	NS	ns2.google.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.google.com.	333866	IN	A	216.239.32.10
ns2.google.com.	1393	IN	A	216.239.34.10
ns3.google.com.	28320	IN	A	216.239.36.10
ns4.google.com.	1393	IN	A	216.239.38.10
"If there weren't real fundamental problems with the security, stability and performance of Flash I don't think we'd be having this conversation at all."

But that always seems to be the way one technology gives way to another, because it improves on various aspects that were lacking in its predecessor.

I think an apt comparison is RealMedia versus RTSP audio streaming. RealMedia had a significant market share (for the time), but the mishandling of the product led to people finding/building/demanding better tech.

It's arguable whether Adobe is mishandling Flash at the same level, but Flash could easily go away in favor of HTML5 and Javascript.

The only thing lacking right now is the tools, and the Flash IDE would not be difficult to improve upon. On top of that, there's already precedent in the Palm Web OS IDE. Make a similar kind of interface for building easily deployable standards-based web applications, and Flash could end up as a bad dream faster than you think.
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Suggested exercise:

Predict and then create a histogram of the leading digits of the file sizes of the non-zero-length files on your computer.

[SPOILER: when I did this once I found sharp peaks around digits that weren't 1. You are likely to see this if you have a large number of files around a particular size, examples: a) whatever your digital camera typically produces; b) whatever size your software encodes a typical song into. These files violate the assumption that you are sampling sizes over a wide range of sizes. After excluding these files I observed Benford's law quite closely on the remainder.]
If you annualize our quarterly revenue, it’s surprising that Apple is now a $50+ billion company. - Steve Jobs

And if you follow Apple's guidance, you wouldn't annualize the quarterly revenue:

Q1 (This Quarter) - The Company posted revenue of $15.68 billion and a net quarterly profit of $3.38 billion, or $3.67 per diluted share.

Q2 (Next Quarter) Looking ahead to the second fiscal quarter of 2010, we expect revenue in the range of about $11.0 billion to $11.4 billion and we expect diluted earnings per share in the range of about $2.06 to $2.18.
They're wasting their money. My therapist is cute, has a PhD, and only charges $130 an hour.
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Yes, Everest is cool stuff.

If you have huge datasets, we'd love to hear from you. If even to chat for a few minutes about what your data looks like. Ping me at info@drawntoscale.com -- maybe we can help!
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Yet another service that requires giving up information about yourself (in this case it's which websites you read) in order to use it.

It would be much more valuable if it was a stand-alone application which did not require communicating any information to Google in order to use it.
This fits with Mencius Moldbug's idea of rule by the smart:

"Yet, even within the ballpark of restricted democracy, racial qualification is an incredibly crude measure. A much better result would be achieved, for instance, by psychometric qualification. If your IQ is less than 120, you have to go through life with the dunce-cap of a nonvoter. On the other hand, you get to go through life with a government elected by those whose IQ is over 120. Even better, the result of the test could be undisclosed - so you have no idea whether or not your vote matters. You feel no humiliation if it doesn't; you receive no advantage if it does."

This is essentially how China is run: you take a standardized test when you're eighteen or so, and that test determines your life. If you do well, you have power, and if you do poorly, you don't. By the same token, if you're smart enough to download and set up Tor, you can access to controversial information. If you can't set up Tor, you can't. It's an IQ test.

The thinking here is one I have met in peopel from the East, and it goes like this. A little learning is a dangerous thing. You can't have innocent fools upset with the goverment because you just can't have a revolution every thirty years. It's a mess, and you never get ahead as a country.

Not my opinion, but if you ever found the rule of the nerds appealing, (I for one am a nerd and sort of do), now you know: that's China.
What is a "source code escrow service" exactly?
Oh well. There's nothing Tor can do about it. Read the rest of HD's press. He isn't going to back down.
Ask HN: Money in GEO API's?
Do you think there is any money in creating a GEO API service? Postal/Zip/IP location services? I know there are some out there, but wanted to do better than them...

Ideas? Insights? Anyone have any issues or wishes?
Yes, it will let you host effectively unlimited domains. However, they usually say that only is allowed as long as you're not impacting other users on the (shared) host. If you ever were to try running a serious site off those, it would exhibit some serious issues under any sort of a load.

But yeah, for about $5 / month you can get a host that will serve your needs. Assuming your needs don't include anything that you want to be reliable.
I think the cat was really out of the official announcement bag when their invitation for this week's press event said "Come See Our Latest Creation".

edit: Not in terms of it being a tablet, but in terms of Apple having announced that they were releasing a new product.