skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Playstation 3 hypervisor hack in a nutshell
Is CutePDF any better than PDFCreator? I've been using the latter for years; it does the same thing and works very well.
http://technologizer.com/appletablet/ says they have live coverage of the event, and their site looks like it has video... but it probably doesn't because the text says "tell" not "show":

We’ll tell you about the event as quickly as it unfolds
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Here's another blog post with even more information on what parameters are being sent to Google during the click: http://www.razzed.com/2009/02/12/analysis-of-google-outbound...
I'm currently reading it and I love it so far.
The next major release of Drupal (7) has a fair number of improvements towards semi-automated maintenance and upgrades. Most of these leverage off a command line interface called drush.

Also, Joomla, Drupal's closest analog, has a comparable number of DB tables per site. The problem is more likely with prevailing conventions in certain open-source CMS design, than with a particular CMS. Drupal at least lets you share strategic tables across multiple sites.
No idea what pixel-tagging is but it seems they use javascript to load an image. The url of the image tells Google which link has been clicked on. There's some extra information in the url as well.
I just found this great site giving extensive information:

http://ip-lookup.net/
Has to be as thin as a legal pad and write like my Dixon Ticonderoga #2 Soft before I will believe it can be scaled to the size of a drafting table.
I think the gap helps, actually.

I think it's more just the length and repetitiveness of the links... like if I search for Yelp my first result is:

Yelp by Yelp app Detail :: 148 Apps: iPhone Application and Game Reviews And news.....

Maybe it'd work better if you highlighted the search terms?
Forward from one to the other. Use filters, labels, colours to make the messages visually distinct, by source, if you need to.
That has got to be the dumbest thing I have seen in quite a while. "Smalltalk is garbage-collected. ObjC deals in raw memory addresses. It's actually less secure than C, as I see it" shows a level of fail that is beyond explaining.
On the contrary, I think the longer the platform goes without kb/m, the less relevant they become. At this point, with so many people so used to touch* and typing emails on their iphones about as quickly as they did on their blackberry, how many people in Apple's market would choose the hassle of a BT chiclet keyboard?

(*the most common usability complaint I hear RE: Android, is apps that don't expose functionality through on-screen UI, iphone-style, but via the 'menu' button)

As for pens, Apple may be content to let third parties handle that. User expectations don't get confused, but much of their power can still be harnessed.
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Got it. Yes highlighting and trimming long titles should help with that. Thanks.
Bingo. Explained it a bit more in a comment: http://ryanangilly.com/post/355271652/how-google-tracks-clic...
Typically it's called a beacon, but wikipedia calls it "web bug": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_bug
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As a Greek I can assure you that only G is an insult. Judging from this I would guess there are more mistakes there.
> And don't even get me started on the people searching behind a corporate firewall, where the corporate headquarters (and IT dept) were halfway across the US.

Or, indeed, in a different country with a different native language. I worked for one of those for a while, in a job that involved a fair bit of official web browsing (on-line reference materials for various things). Within days of the shift to routing everything through corporate IT, I wanted to kill whoever invented IP geolocation. It's a great idea that should almost never be used in practice.
If I understand this correctly, they will have live play-by-play audio at crunchgear.

"This is where all of our live content for today’s Apple event will live. To make things perfectly clear, Apple won’t let us film inside the event. However, CrunchGear and a special surprise guest will offer a full play by play. Feel free to turn on your headphones at work and listen to the news as it happens or watch us live complete with coverage from San Francisco before and after the event.

We will start streaming live at 12:30pm EST/9:30am PST and the event begins at 1pm EST/10am PST."

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/01/27/crunchgear-live-at-the-...
I think the only way this can be useful is if you code a bookmarklet. The only thing I normally print as PDF from the web are receipts and confirmations.
MVC or WebForms and why Webform developers shouldn't ignore MVC
I'm trying to keep the accounts separate. So I don't want the emails in one account to go into another.
Magnificent article, a great read
It has a great FFI layer, so you can just call all that code that already exists and get on with building something new.

That's what it says.
That is patently absurd.
I wonder if anyone is using qik.com to stream the event from their iPhone...
Dunno about Python, but Perl has a library to do all disk writes in a separate (p)thread, so your main control thread never blocks on IO. (This is in addition to the usual event-loop tricks; I know Python can do nonblocking IO that way.)
When they messed up OpenGL 3, I instantly became less interested. :-(

Having said that, since I primarily use Linux for development, anything graphics intensive that I would code will still use OpenGL, even if Windows is the primary target, since it lets me develop on Linux, like I normally do.
One of the more disappointing thing about programming for the iPhone and not the web, is that Apple's approval process makes it impossible to pull this off for any non-webview/data features. I guess that is the price paid for an app store that isn't littered with hardcore porn and scams.
The Open College Textbook Act of 2009 (still in commitee)
I don't quite get it. I arrived at the site and didn't know what to do. You might want to add some visual clues that better explain what the user should do. Good start though I think you could do well with this, even focusing on more than just rural areas.
Oh, it IS a good deal, especially if you're already inclined to use Godaddy.

As an aside, Deal-seeking Twitter users should probably go ahead and follow @dealsplus, as they broadcast this same deal last night, and often broadcast numerous deals throughout the day.
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For me, too. I learned Scala for a project last semester and named/default arguments were the one thing I missed the most.
Yeah but to be honest it's H.Clinton's fault for providing them with ammunition.
What else did she think she was going to achieve by adding her weight to the argument? It was completely unnecessary and IMO a diplomacy fail.

It's the same with Ahmadinejad, most Iranians don't like him but they'll be "for" him if the Western world is being seen to deny them nuclear power.
Go into work 2 hours early, but spend the first 2 hours just setting up your new company. Use lunch breaks and downtime as well. Do this until the income from the new company is 50% of your salary, then quit.

I would _really_ recommend not doing this. Anything you do using employer resources is employer property and can cause major headaches for you down the road.
Mac Virtualization: Performance testing Parallels, Fusion and VirtualBox
It's not a monkey, it's a chimp.
Now I understand what my mother meant when she said to me, in a fit of exasperation, "normal people don't talk in dissertations...strung together!"
Agreed, and I do Drupal development from time to time. Restricting common browsers like IE, Chrome, and Safari entirely is a great way to tell people to go away.

Simply popping up a warning dialog staying your particular browser is not supported would probably be more effective, since then you could more casual visitors, and entice them enough to return with FF3 later.
Ask HN: What is Facebook "Un Named App"?
Facebook users: if you look in Settings->"Applications Settings"->"Added To Profile" you may see an application named "Un Named App". Any idea what it is? Rumor has deleting it cuts down some tracking and speed things up.
Funny how depending on which side you're on at the time, GPS tracking via MobileMe is the biggest invasion of privacy ever or a godsend.
I think it is just an invisible 1x1 image on your website, that is being served from Google. So everytime your web site loads, google gets a request for that pixel, including cookies and referrer.

As described here, I think they just trigger image loading from JavaScript to transfer information to the server.
Former CIA director agreed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=414373

(Link to this speech has now changed to: https://www.cia.gov/news-information/speeches-testimony/spee...)
Thoughts on Financial Modeling and Projections for Early Stage Startups
I used to work in DM, and this is very true. Not just in the analysis part, but in how to send the right signals with copywriting and design.
The problem with managing any large organisation is achieving some degree of harmony between what the people with the vision and overall responsibility want and what the people working five levels below them are actually doing. Once you reach the point where no-one has non-trivial insight into everything that is going on, this becomes very difficult, no matter how carefully you plan your corporate communications and how sincere the management structure.

A common, and reasonable-sounding, approach to fixing problem areas is to create some sort of "focus group" or "core team" (or bring in an external consultancy) who can take the time to do what the rest of the staff can't do without disrupting their regular jobs: go talk to people at all levels through the organisation, gather the key points about what is happening and what the staff feel about it, summarise what is actually happening for management, and possibly advise on how to improve the situation based on what has worked elsewhere.

The difficulty with this approach is that in most organisations, there will be a grass-roots resistance/resentment of any changes that such a working group proposes, because people don't like to be told how to do their jobs, even if they are doing them badly and don't necessarily realise it. You have to have honest, full-on backing right down the management structure to pull this off, and you need to get the "good" people on your side first so that when others challenge the changes the people they know personally and respect will shape their views. This is possible, but IME only if senior management are willing to deal brutally with any middle management interference runners, which they seldom are. (Edit: Also, anyone seconded to the working group needs to have both an open mind themselves and the respect of the management team in whatever part of the organisation they represent. Otherwise, they will just disrupt the group, or they'll talk a lot and come up with good ideas to which no-one will then listen.)

Those who get to run big businesses and have snazzy MBAs and such are supposed to understand these issues and get them right, but it's sad how often they don't.
option_count = f(scenario_perspective)
It'd be so easy to write an extension or plug-in that just adds a referrer to every request to nytimes.com
If the price is not high enough, coping with initial demand will be a real problem. If the price is high enough, they will cope with initial demand, then they can reduce the price "iPhone 2G style" later. So they have no reason to start with a low price; they would be losing profits and adding a supply problem.
Dying news media looks to Apple tablet for hope
But why genetic algorithms? It seems odd to start with something so complex and so slow instead of starting with simple (eg. generalized linear models) and then work your way up if they are not good enough. I suspect there are many classical statistical techniques and modern machine learning algorithms that would give better results, be faster and would have well understood principles that can be used to diagnose the model.
In-depth economic analysis of New York Times paywall
Desktop computers have managed to survive without a review process. I think a lot of innovation is likely being stifled by Apple's approach.
Remove the ads. Your goal should be to become the standard way people search for apps. Once you do that the business model is obvious (thanks, Google!): app developers pay for ads on the search result page.

First, focus on search quality (precision/recall). Your results right now are awful. http://iphone.appsvu.com/zynga

I'd expect a list of Zynga apps, not a list of spam websites[1]. If you hadn't posted this on HN I'd suspect your business model were adsense arbitrage.

Once you have a search engine that actually works I'd release free apps for all the platforms, build Android/iPhone/etc optimized websites, and plug the hell out of the service everywhere there are smartphone users.

The question you should be asking yourself is "Why would someone use this rather than the default way of searching for apps?" For the iPhone that means iTunes. What can you do to make it more useful than iTunes? Are better results enough? Are iTunes' results bad?

[1] I looked through the search results again and realize now they aren't links to spam websites. But the fact that I thought they did is a problem. "Mafia Wars 24 Reward Points FREE by Zynga app detail :: 148Apps :: iPhone Application and Game Revie [sic]" reads like spam.

I suggest you build your own database, and not link to 148apps.com.
Your timestamped movements are a marketer's wet-dream. And since the iphone can both display advertising AND make purchases, said marketer has even more incentive to flip around your life in his OLAP tools like a rubic's cube.

I would go as far as to say that a marketing company should subsidize an iphone if the user agrees to install their version of "MobileMe".
Most consent laws are by the states, and many are fairly rational about it. The biggest problem is the Federal "child pornography" laws.
Seeing redesigns is an interesting exercise. But I don't see it being much more than that.

The author asked why companies have not done this. Believe me, 9 times out of 10, if it would increase their income, they would have.
The fact that they have not done so means that there are either business reasons to leave it as-is, or simply other projects that will have a greater impact on the business, and therefore a redesign is of low priority.

I've said this before -- just becase we care about web startups, that does not make every company into a web startup. Having a good web design does not always have a material impact on the bottom line of a business.
If you support more than one mobile gaming platform, and they support a common API such as OpenGL, wouldn't one use that? Maybe write wrappers to expose a uniform interface where the implementations differ?

But maybe you're saying the optimizations required break the ability to have a cross-platform solution (even with good wrappers)?
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I would much prefer a version of MobileMe that I can remotely activate -- I do not want my every movement being stored in some database on the off chance that it will be useful. I would much rather activate it when I need it, LoJack style.
Allow me to interrupt you mid-sentence to say "tongue in cheek."
Imagine that you want your web page to send a message "gphil clicked this link X" back to the server, but you're only allowed to request information, not gather it. The work-around that we use in web analytics, is that we request an image named "link-clicked.gif?dude=gphil&link=X." The query parameters are built dynamically with JavaScript and the image request is added as an on-click call on the link. The server is configured to accept this request and parse and log the data from the query parameters, and meanwhile returns a .gif image consisting of a single transparent pixel. This script apparently doesn't even render the pixel, it just stores it somewhere.

Advanced techniques include noscript fallbacks and adding a timestamp to prevent client or server caching from messing with your data collections.
IPhone Pirates Spend on Virtual Goods
If only the music industry could create in-song content.
Your UI is a logo and a URL submission box.

PDFMYURL's UI is a logo, a submission box, a 'bookmarklet', and (optionally) a description of their API.

How is yours better?
If recently you mean 30+ years ago. Many teens had (cheap) cameras in the later 1970s. Some even Polaroid cameras that didn't need processing.
This idea works well when the product is infrequently used and you can predict the need. If you can't predict that need then it's generally more convenient to purchase. And that's the key term: convenience. People don't willingly inconvenience themselves without good reason.

Alternately, leasing works when the item you're leasing would cost too much to purchase outright. But that's not the case with the consumer items they're talking about here.

Businesses will often lean towards leasing instead of purchasing because one is normally paid from the Operations budget and the other from the Capital budget. For individual consumers who don't look at finance that way, leasing is about convenience and affordability.
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This is a detailed analysis of source code for the geohot glitching attack on the PS3 hypervisor. It's a combined software/hardware attack and is likely to lead to a software-only hack later on.
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Apple introduces the iRock [cartoon]
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Definitely. Better to go to a coffee shop to work for 2 hours before heading into the office rather than take any chances.
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Use this idea ^ but add Multiple Inboxes from Gmail Labs. Forward your google app domain emails to your main gmail account and add a filter to apply a tag and remove it from the inbox. Set your top inbox to only show emails with your googleapps tag. It may be enough of a separation for you but you will have to forward all your emails ;(
He said it was an option. He didn't say it was necessarily a good one.
Open Access to Scientific Publications:The good, the bad, and the ugly
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Folding the Yoshimoto Cube, Feeding 5000
I upvoted him for the exact same accusatory wording and perceived tone - this site is literally just opening http://pdfmyurl.com/ in an iframe to generate the pdf.
Ask HN: Thoughts on CMS business
I have the opportunity to buy a 90% finished CMS web app. I'm really unsure as to the risk/opportunity since I know it's a very crowded space (with both free/open source and paid versions.) While I belive that this product will offer a solution that is different and more robust, I'm still somewhat skeptical.

The site basically functions to allow designers to outfit their client sites, giving them their own backend to control content. It is really well done and offers a great deal of customization and options.

Thanks in advance.
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See that, potential thief? If you steal a phone, there is a 95% probability that you keep it, sure, but a 5% probability that you stole it from a motivated technically competent person who will track you down and ... make you give it back. That huge downside risk will certainly will prevent you from stealing things in the future!
That doesn't set a very good precedent though. There's a reason designers scorn "spec work".
Unfinished software in a crowded space? Sounds pretty risky to me. Are you getting a smoking deal on it?
Exactly, and it's ruling out the less desirable options at the very beginning that may keep you from stumbling upon more desirable variants of them later on. Don't brain storm with a pencil, the eraser will end up "costing" you more than you'll save on paper.
"The problem is more likely with prevailing conventions in certain open-source CMS design, than with a particular CMS."

This is my understanding of the issue. I had some experience with Joomla back when it was Mambo, and my impression was that a huge number of the tables represented metadata and configuration of various kinds. It seemed like there was an almost fetish-like desire for everything to be configurable from a web UI, and a very heavy price was paid for this flexibility in the backend.

Compare this with a product like PunBB, where it is much more opinionated, and some aspects of the configuration can only be altered by editing key source files. For example, to add or remove emoticons from the bulletin board or edit the curse-word replacement list, you have to edit an array in a file somewhere.

Which may seem like a pain, but the end result is that you save on a big complicated admin screen that will only get used once or twice per installation, and for every subsequent pageview, you're just pulling stuff in from a file rather than a DB table.
Interesting. Thanks for your detailed thoughts.

The reasoning behind linking to 148apps and the like was because most app buyers read reviews before making a purchasing decision - so this was meant to help in the use-case, as well as standout above the iTunes search which doesn't have independent reviews.

But, I see where you're coming from and will definitely think about shifting to that track.
This comment to me indicates that while the Chinese people do obviously suffer, maybe like the poster above they have become so desensitized over the years, inside the great wall/firewall, that they don't even realize what they are losing/missing or have already lost.
Any large team ends up as an average of it's members. So all you have to do is be above that average. There is no large company in the world that meets with a web designer and says "Do what you think is right, you're the expert."

Its similar with internal IT. Invariably they have to answer to people that have no tech background/knowledge, and those same people will not allow the IT dept to make decisions independently. Large organizations guarantee suboptimal results in this manner.

You see the hubris is even more prevalent in the big corporations.
This has been covered in the excellent documentary, The Human Animal. See it in 4 parts:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=The+Human+Animal
The price issue, I think, is key. No one has mentioned, as far as I know, that since the device is designed to be always-connected, it could be bundled with a mobile contract (albeit a data-only plan), just like an iPhone, and thus heavily subsidized by the carrier. While most of us know that a two year contract is a really expensive way to get $300 knocked of the price of a phone, it does allow for really amazing devices to have really amazing looking prices, like $200 for the iPhone or $180 for the Nexus One. I suspect the tablet could see a similar subsidized price (and similar lock-in to a single carrier that made a deal with Apple, hoping for a knock out hit like the iPhone has been for AT&T; they'll be disappointed, but the deal probably could have been made).
Gizmodo also has a live feed if you enjoy variety: http://live.gizmodo.com/
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In the meantime, google.cn has been running uncensored for several weeks now...
as does arstechnica: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/tablet-live-event-...