skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google will ultimately build a self-sustained ad distribution platform. ;-) Let's imagine, company which will not depend on any other company.

Maybe one day they will buy some small country and became even independent from U.S. government.
The stamp (which I assume to be the release date) on the first page reads 4-22-80. Did we have scanners in 1980?
GHC uses a modified form of C-- internally, which is fed to LLVM, GCC or the native codegen.

The C-- standalone compilers never reached the maturity of e.g. LLVM, to justify the port.
This is a subject for which the Wikipedia article is surprisingly good:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_caus...
"Please wait . . . loading file."

I'm sure they meant to say, "Please wait... logging your interest in this file."
Fun thought experiment: What if this was an epidemiologist criticising the blogosphere for spreading non-peer-reviewed doubts about vaccine safety? Or an evolutionary biologist attacking intelligent design bloggers?

I'm guessing that most people on hacker news have pre-existing opinions on both of those issues in favour of the scientist; while for climate science it's significantly more split. However, if you leave aside personal judgements about the underlying truth, the situations are quite analogous.
But aren't you continuing to add complexity to solve an issue which was created by adding complexity to an already simple system.
Ask HN: got to 33 in the App Store. Now what?
It seemed to me like my iPhone card game was making a suspiciously high amount of money per day. Over 100 bucks, four days in a row. So I checked the top paid apps list for my category, and I'm number 33.

Erm. This is thrilling, and terrifying. What should I do? My game is currently $2.99 -- should I make it lower, in hopes of getting higher up the chart? Should I make it higher, to take advantage of my sudden popularity?

Anybody with experience in this topic, please speak up.
Probably because shoes mean a lot to women and they've become a status symbol.

As for why society has made women wear painfully uncomfortable shoes (i.e. high heels), that's easier to explain. It makes them taller while also giving the appearance of longer legs and a firmer butt, which men find desirable.
It's expanded on the first occurrence in the body text...

No point in making the title unnecessarily long. Besides, that's what gets you to read the article.
This is very interesting. I have always viewed content sites (especially blogs) as a sort of parasite. Here's the manufacturer/seller that is trying to sell me something that I want and in the way there are numerous blogs that take away the seller's money onto advertising, therefore raising my cost. This of course only applies to the sites I don't read. There are legitimate ones, ones that do the research, publish their results, etc. Edmunds.com falls under this category.

On the other hand, there is a metric ton of travel sites and it's just a huge waste of my time. Every time I want to travel I have to check 5-6 sites to see if I'm getting a good deal or not. Why can't I go to the source and get data directly from the airlines?
Well, of course that's what ars technica would report.

The "English Majors" (quoted because it's an artificial stereotype) the article refers to have quite different priorities, and probably see things differently.
Not only friction, but rotational weight. I would have to assume the rim in this design is much heavier than that of a spoked bicycle, and therefore you've moved the weight of inertia (?) to a point further from center axis. This takes more energy to spin.
the hell. why are people upvoting this ridiculous ignorance?
For general publication, sure. When engaged in a blog discussion about programming language design, it is customary to take a certain level of jargon-awareness for granted. For instance, the author also does not explain CGI, DAL, JSONP, html, ASP, or RSS.
It's really that the message they want to send? "If you unsubscribe, it's like you kicked that guy in the nuts! Hope you're happy now (jerk)!" Even being satire, that has some creepy connotations of emotional blackmail.

Well, at least it's optional.
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I think this is just brilliant. Better than getting something for free. This actually makes me want to resubscribe.
A variety of studies that I have read suggest that the causation is that wealthier people (of a given level of ability) go to and complete college much more than poor people.

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_27/b3840045_...

http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ffp0621.pdf

http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ff0615S.pdf

http://www.tcf.org/Publications/Education/carnrose.pdf

http://www.tcf.org/Publications/Education/kahlenberg-affacti...

http://harvardmagazine.com/2005/05/a-thumb-on-the-scale.html

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200511/financial-aid-leveragi...

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=510012

http://www.equaleducation.org/commentary.asp?opedid=1240

http://www.jkcf.org/assets/files/0000/0084/Achievement_Trap....

http://www.reason.com/news/show/123910.html

And most other things being equal, it's easier to be happy as a rich person than as a poor person.
I'm assuming a level of skill in the programmers writing the custom solution. I expect facebook have a few good javascript programmers.
Yep. I think 'cross racers choices are influenced by their ability to ride really, really low pressure tubulars, which mitigate the effects of the deep dish wheels.

It's also worth noting that many PRO teams run very, very standard wheels (aluminum rims with 32 spokes) for the roughest classics, like Paris-Roubaix (see http://froggy100.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/paris-roubaix.j... for a good example of the terrain).
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It would also be nearly impossible for the IOC to say 'cover that logo on the base' as you would be changing the sliding characteristics of the ski or snowboard.
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Does it really use any more RAM with python or PHP embedded than Apache + out of process Python or PHP would together? Seems to me that the main inefficiency is that the memory overhea for the scripting language is incurred whether or not there is active execution. So, that RAM is still tied up when sending a static file to a client, or when sending the buffered result of a static page. Seems like having an event-driven piece that took over for each prefork process when it came to returning the result and any logging that happens after the result has been sent would be a relatively small amendment to the architecture with a big payoff.

I know people are reverse proxying to Apache with nginx or similar for similar reasons.
I like mixergy, but the advertising is a real turn off.
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Problem is, there seems to be at least 3 different kinds of "happiness", at least according to Martin Seligman in this TED video: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/martin_seligman_on_the_sta...

It would seem that she is trying to move away from the first level of happiness (simply trying to seek out "feel good" experiences) toward higher level happiness that is achieved through flow experiences and meaning but may not have a lot of pleasure attached.
Absolutely. They are the cultural equivalent of patent trolls.
I'd really love to read this article, but this: http://i.imgur.com/JYdzS.png is what I see on my screen. I feel like I have to navigate some sort of maze with my mouse just to get the text :(.
Again, a fair point, but I think we have to keep in mind that no law like this will succeed through enforcement alone, simply because the resources to do so robustly and with due process would be too great.

Rather, I think we should try to do what we did with drink driving here in the UK a few years ago: raise public awareness with simple, logical, objective arguments, so that behaviour that crosses the line becomes socially unacceptable and most people stop doing it voluntarily. Then you can leave alone those who are acting reasonably but not crossing the line, overlook the occasional mild infringement because you can't go after everyone, but throw the book at the minority who repeatedly go well over the line.

I think if you set out a system where the kind of personal, non-multiplicative use we have been discussing was clearly allowed, but making additional copies and sharing them with others was not, then that would be understood by and socially acceptable to the majority. For best results, throw in some long-overdue price-fixing penalties for certain Big Media organisations, because another major reason people feel entitled to copy anything they want is because they think they've been ripped off for years, but they don't notice that not everyone whose material they're copying was part of the big rip-off scams. I think for the general public to accept a reasonable degree of copyright as fair, you probably have to show that Big Media are also paying the price for systematically over-charging people for things like CDs for years.

I can't remember the details now, but there was an interesting survey into public attitudes not so long ago, IIRC by one of the consumer groups here in the UK. It did show a very sharp distinction between people who thought it should be legal to do whatever you wanted with stuff you'd paid for properly (almost everyone) and people who thought it should be legal to copy the material and offer it to unknown other people who hadn't paid for it via P2P networks (only 20-something percent). The same survey showed that in general, people weren't (or at least weren't admitting to) sharing material as widely as the anti-copyright brigade were claiming, but certain niches (typically students and children) had a very high proportion of infringers. The most common reason given by those people was that although they knew it was wrong, they thought they'd get away with it anyway.

The reason I describe all of that is that I think it makes the problem you mentioned a moot point. If there is general acceptance that multiple-copying and redistribution isn't allowed, then you can probably ignore the kind of one-off transfer you mentioned, because it will either be legal or an infringement of little consequence anyway. It's much more important to cut down the exponential distribution of illegal copies where each new recipient shares with many more, and it's fairly easy to identify likely cases because the chances of someone legitimately e-mail that MP3 to 15 different people on the same day are slim.
Did the epidemiologist in your question participate in deliberately preventing peer-reviewed studies about vaccine safety being published? Did the evolutionary biologist deliberately block peer-reviewed studies from being published? And then go on about how there's no peer-reviewed evidence?

(The combo is more distressing than just manipulating the peer review process alone. Doing that you could argue is just firm belief that the other side isn't science, but then using that as an argument against their position makes it hard for me to conclude anything but malice here.)
You gave one of my two favorite talks at PLDI 2006. I have to admit I don't remember most of the technical content now, but damn were you enthusiastic about it. ("And now, super beta!") I also remember the talk because you only found out the day before that you were doing it - I think your adviser had just gone to the ER.

HN has had some growing pains, but there's still something special here.
raise the price.
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It has partly to do with that most men buy terrible shoes.

That's half the story. The other half is just that women like shoes the way geeks like digital toys, so they always look at other women's shoes, and this carries over to looking at men's shoes as well. Because of this interest, women will always look at your shoes; you won't get away with an ugly or inappropriate pair of shoes. Men tend to underestimate the importance of shoes because they're out of sight, out of mind. Who cares what's way down there? So they don't pay attention and end up walking around with really god-awful or contextually inappropriate shoes which, to a woman's eye, jump right out in an unpleasant way.
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clickable link to my game:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hearts-net/id353101111?mt=8
Does that depend on how many people's previosly private information is now available to abusive ex-partners?

Some people will use Buzz to announce their previously private information to the world, knowing they have abusive ex-partners. Others will stab themselves in the face with a nice pen. Neither Google nor Montblanc is to blame.
is that based on actual experience? have you had a program in one of the top 100 lists?

you know what, i just looked, and my game is in fact in the top one hundred list in every single country on the app store. my highest ranking is 17, in lebanon. whew!
"I have the option to exert complete control over who gets to see my facebook profile, my tweets, and my buzz-es."

To my understanding, those buttons aren't anywhere near as powerful as you may think; I'm pretty sure Facebook affiliates see right through them if you do much more than glance at an app. How many randomly-selected people will be able to correctly answer that question?

Pointing out that there are parts of privacy that people do get ("Gosh, maybe I shouldn't make a post about how much fun my mistress and I had last night") doesn't negate the point that there's a huge chunk that they don't understand at all, and therefore we can't look at their actions as endorsement of the current way private information is being handled.

(Both of you who have replied do not seem to be getting my point here. I'm not making the general purpose argument that "we should have privacy". I'm making the argument that we can't read people's apparent acceptance of the current privacy regime as real acceptance when they don't actually know what the current regime is. Which is why my post here focuses on the issue of what an average person understands is going on, rather than whether what is going on is intrinsically good or bad.)
URL shortening services: not secure at all
Aardvark was a Q&A service that used the social graph to route your questions to the people who could answer them best. The main UI was an IM bot you put on your buddy list. You could ask it questions, and it would periodically ask questions of you.

It's like a crowdsourced ChaCha, if you know what ChaCha is.

Broadly speaking it fit into the current "social Q&A" trend which includes startups like Hunch and Quora.

From my experience, the product started off great but quickly lost its use. I really was a big fan: I'm actually wearing my Aardvark shirt right now.

In the beginning I could get answers to all sorts questions for which Google was useless, e.g., "Does anyone know any research about X & Y topics?"

But over time I stopped getting good answers. Often the answer was "just Google it," which made me was to punch the answerer in the face.

On the other side of the equation, the questions that were routed to me became less and less interesting, eventually devolving to things like "How do I set up Wordpress?" or "What is the solution to <trivial homework problem>?" It was really lame and I had to remove the bot from my buddy list to stop getting unwanted IM interruptions.
You seem to be doing only general ledger accounting with the first iteration.

Accounting is a domain with tough competition from open source solutions (SQL-Ledger, LedgerSMB, WebERP among many others) as well as new SaaS services like freshbooks, lessaccounting etc. Just suggesting to have a look at those solutions too.

I would suggest to showcase a demo/trial without asking for credit card detail. Or at least make such a demo available for HN evaluation.
The algo used by Apple to calculate the rankings take counts (most probably) of the past 4 days of sales. My suggestion is now that you are up there to push sales as much as possible. A sale would definitely help, maybe $1.99 ($0.99 is synonymous of low quality) and see if you can get any friends or people you know to download the app right now. See if you get at least in the top 25, so that your app will show up in the first page of apps on the iPhone.
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Is there a way to view all the merchants you accept and what you percent you pay for them? I'm guessing the value depends on not just the merchant but also the value of the card and the expiration date so it may not be possible to just have a simple list view.

I ask because I'd like to refer you to a friend who has a boatload of credit card rewards points she needs to use and can get gift cards for the rewards points. If she could immediately see which merchant cards will give her the highest return it'd be a lot easier than tediously selecting each merchant and clicking "get offer."
The less healthy are staying with Anthem, where their higher medical costs are driving up premiums.

The new healthcare bill is great, except of course if you are young, healthy, and don't need insurance at all, in which case, your premiums will go up and you will be forced to buy insurance or face fines.

And, because the health care laws in congress will require a maximum premium variability of 2-3x, meaning the most expensive insurance plans (for older unhealthy people) can only be 2-3 times the cost of the cheapest ones (for young, healthy people) then what I predict the insurance companies will do is dramatically increase premiums for the young to keep the upper end of premimum costs, which are currently 10x or more than the cheapest, right where they are and raise the lower levels to come in line with 1/3 of the most expensive.

Essentially, this health care bill legally requires young healthy people to buy insurance at high rates to pay the medical bills for the older people.

It's a TAX on the YOUNG to care for the OLD.
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All the arguments that are used against IE can also be applied to Notepad, Outlook express, Calc and a 100 other pre-installed programs. I don't understand why IE is singled out as special.
Same for me on every cave trip. The fun part is that if you do it long enough your brain starts making up shadow images that you would swear are real.
Great stuff. Next time someone demands you code something for free, ask them to feed you for free. Quite an apt analogy.
The assertion is definitely not out of sync with reality. I literally don't know a single person with a windows mobile phone. I'm not trashing WinMo...

I'm a .Net developer myself and my first thought was "what kind of app can I make." My second thought was why write an app when I've never seen a windows mobile phone.
Christ what a piece of contorted nonsense. Can you name one governing political institution in history not initially established by violence, whether or not explicitly stated?
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Ah, just saw this. Makes sense that I haven't seen one then.
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Cloud based services are creating huge efficiency increases in cost and development. AWS did it with file storage, VPS systems, queues (and more), drop.io is doing it with media conversion and transfer, Twillio is doing it with telephony...
Toss out a new version with a "tell people about me" feature where they can email a link or twitter about it.
I think you are mistaken. We are starting to institute procedures, and the boss is very reasonable. He'll accept a solution in which the workflows are more natural. He has accepted procedures / choices that I have advocated in the past (with well-reasoned arguments in support of my choices, of course).

Arguing that the 'main' repo has to be git is a tough sell, but I think we'll get there eventually, once we show how much easier experimental branching, disconnected operation, distributed nature etc will be advantageous to us.

The git-svn solution is pretty good, because the main repo will be svn, and people who are used to svn (and like the restrictions that come with it) will be happy as well. Git users will also be able to get all the benefits of using it..
IIRC, they didn't build that dam, they simply built a data center near it. It was near the dalles in oregon, if that's the one you're talking about. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/technology/14search.html

I don't believe they want to start building power plants. I believe they want to be able to buy energy wholesale to lower their energy costs by buying power directly and avoiding middleman markup.
People should just assume everything that is on the internet and not encrypted is public. It's safe that way. Heck, people think email is private. I think people need to realize this is something new and that their might be negative consequences that they cannot foresee. They should think, if this is data is public what is the worst that can happen, if this data is correlated with other data i have online what can happen.
just clicked through to your blog - the more interesting story is how you crippled the free version that had 30k downloads and the subsequent fallout. really interesting! don't back down now!
Well, that's demographics for you. Although this article is about Britain, I'd guess the relevant #s in the US are within a few per cent: http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=154...
Number 33 in the App Store is only making $100/day?
Careful there. Undue concern about other whack-jobs is exactly what made them whack-jobs in the first place. ;)

I guess we can take hope from the fact that despite the best efforts of the whack-jobs, the FBI let him stay.
I saw Mitch at an event. He said that 'it's easy to solder. the hard part is unsoldering'.

That being said, he gave some amazing impromptu demonstrations of unsoldering. Stuff like heating up the soldered bit and turning the PCB upside down and hitting it not too hard but still firmly (with the flair and skill of a chef pan flipping a soufflé) to get the solder out of a hole.
If brand advertising on content sites is under valued, isn't that a big opportunity for brands to buy valuable ad space on the cheap? The author doesn't explain why the market is wrong (I'm of course skeptical, because markets aren't wrong very often).
I was concerned too, but then I reflected that if it's always been this way and we got this far, it must be survivable.
you're right, that's, erm, "interesting." it's too bad that all those people are mad at me, but at this point, i'm wondering if the resulting firestorm is what pushed me into the top 100.

of course, it could also go the other way: those people could spread enough ill will that it would hurt my prospects.
not 33 among all paid apps, just 33 in my category, in the u.s. store.
Dragonfly is decent if you need a debugger on Opera. They also just made it open source, so we'll see if that kind of a decision improves products in the market.
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