skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I know true objectivity is impossible, but that doesn't mean we can not at least try to be as objective as possible.
E107 CMS version 0.7.19 is out
Web Laureate Insight, "Microsoft & Yahoo: 44.6B"
Isn't this what academic crypto is supposed to be? Also the NIST contests for crypto standards are also like this.
Raising the cost for reporting bugs might people want to avoid reporting bugs.

I found I hardly every used a bug tracker I had installed on a slow server, because it was so slow. So I don't think making bug submission even slower would be a good thing.
You are absolutely right, it is mediocre crap. The issue is that through the spam techniques described in the article, he can now gain undeserved top 10 rankings for many phrases using pages that have no business being there.

If you are not part of the web development community then these discussions will most likely bore the hell out of you. However, if you are, and if you are aware of how many innocent sites Google bans or penalizes on a daily basis, or AdSense accounts that get canceled with no appeal for offenses much less than his, then this stuff actually matters.
Video of Street Fighter IV on iPhone looks fantastic
Do Y Combinator events always have such a large offering of pizza and coke?
different programming domains have different problems...

wrt this list:

* if GUIs were easier to write tests for, then you wouldn't have problems writing tests for the first 3 on your list.

* timing issues and edge cases are one of the reasons i value tests, assertions and strong design so much: debugging is hard.

* the last one sounds like a feature that hasn't been written, not a bug.
Dear FaceBook Friends, I’m De-Friending Most of You [It's Not You, It's Me]
Eight Theses (why startups can do more than 'enterprise' organizations)
I had a friend who was an actor and playwright. He used a laptop sitting in his lap to churn out lots of plays, but he ended up with carpal tunnel and wrist braces. Be sure that the laptop is at the correct height. This is when the tops of your hands are level with the tops of your arms. And there are many other good suggestions in the threads here.

I also would get an external keyboard, as very few laptops have good enough keyboards for high-throughput, long hours work.
The power of progress
I was surprised by the number of Linux phones that shipped. Don't hear a lot about them. If Android is added to the Linux count, Linux phones have essentially caught up with Windows Mobile.
Gee, so sorry I didn't write the post you would have, and chose to approach the issue satirically instead. You do understand satire, don't you? You do understand how _A Modest Proposal_ was more effective than some dry exposition of the underlying issue, right? Maybe my "wrong choices" about how to raise awareness of an issue are the reason that you were reading my blog and not vice versa. Everybody loves a kibitzer.
It's also worth noting that Buffett occasionally likes to take a turn at being the house. Between 2005 and 2008, he sold a notional $40 billion of puts on various equity indexes. This is basically a highly leveraged bet that the market would go up 5% a year for the next 15-20 years, entered into at the height of a bull market.

It also backfired on him at the height of the credit crunch. While he was smart enough to write the contracts in such a way that he didn't need to post collateral, he didn't account for the way that someone looking to hedge their counterparty risk with him would behave. When the market collapsed, the buyers of the puts proceeded to short both the equity and debt of Berkshire to protect their investment. http://crookery.blogspot.com/2008/11/valuing-large-options-i... and http://crookery.blogspot.com/2008/05/warren-buffetts-vega-ga... have some of the technical details, and http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/market-movers/2008/11/2... has a good general explanation of what went wrong.

Buffett may not have been in the casino all the time, but he had plenty of side bets that could have wiped him out.
Sites running Exponent CMS are under attack
I wonder if you could do a quick content check -- something along the lines of:

Run the content through the "Readability" filter (http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/)
Hash the first N paragraphs
Compare the hash on a submitted article to all hashes from that domain
CompactFlash to support up to 144 Petabytes, more holiday snaps that exist
This is pretty awesome that a project started 15 years ago is still one of the most popular pieces of software used today.

Hats off to the Apache Software Foundation for such a great job.
So long, and thanks for all the HTTP responses.
(I prefer nginx now. :) )

[Edited, per below]
Ask HN: Who is at Future of Web Apps (FOWA) Miami today?
Would be good to meet up with some fellow HN users. Considering getting a group of us to grab lunch if there's enough of a response. Leave comment here or txt: 7728011058 if interested.
Agree on Gunnars - ever since I started using them (about 2 months ago) my eyes are not nearly as much tired at the end of the day as they used to be. Also, no more headaches.

I was also very skeptical about them, however something had to be done about all the pain I had after using computer for 8-10 hours.

Based on a couple of reviews (including one from Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2009/10/leveling-up-yo...) I took the plunge and bought them from a local optometrist. The plan was to return them if they did not work.

The results were evident within first several days and I kept the glasses. See for yourself - buy and return them if they don't work for you...
Why is it that these hard core test advocates always seem to assume that all bugs are of the former sort?

As someone who's more and more becoming a "hard core test advocate": not all bugs are the former sort! But why would that stop you from testing the ones that are?
What If Microsoft Had Designed The iPod [video]
"The Goldman transaction was a straight equity deal, with a big emphasis on dividends."

No. They were derivatives. Goldman was to pay those heavy dividends by executing credit default swaps they had purchased from AIG. Trouble is, the securities underlying the swaps were overcommitted, meaning the swap prices would be driven way down in an open market. And Goldman didn't own the securities. And the securities hadn't necessarily defaulted. And AIG had no money.

This was solved by the Munger/Buffet helping arrange for the taxpayer to pay off AIG's gambles at 100% without Goldman even delivering the securities underlying the swaps.

Make no mistake, the Goldman deal was a naked derivative play combined with brazen government corruption.
You have to give the software vendor credit. They're fixing a legacy application all because some school decided to step over the line. Glad to see someone taking ownership and doing something about this. Its just a shame it isn't the school.
Duck Duck Go: fowl movement? (epi0Bauqu knows i am joking of course)
I've asked this in previous threads about mail applications, but what is an email preview window/pane for? How is it any different from actually opening the email? GMail (and apps) definitely has room for improvement, but lack of preview is such an oft cited "problem" yet I don't even understand the complaint. (I use GMail for all my email)
From TFA: "The licensing agreement is another example of the important role IP plays in ensuring a healthy and vibrant IT ecosystem."

I bet nobody's surprised by that statement from "Microsoft News"...
One of my discomforts with almost all economic arguments is the strong partitioning of ideas. If you are free market, the government can do no good and if you are "Progressive" corporations are evil. Munger is mostly above this level of naivete, but not completely. He points out that government spending is too high and that leverage can be too dangerous (i.e. gambling.) However, he seems to be prescriptively mute on the former and favors prohibition on the later.

The school of thought to which I am a recent entrant suggests a more uncommonly (expressed) alternative. Keep all the gov debt and spending as low as possible when times are good. Regulate to a minimum. When a crisis occurs, the government should sometimes step in to stabilize a violently turbulent system. (Sounds like Keynes, no?)

However, you don't bailout a company. That ruins the fabric on which capitalism is built. The losers loose their money. An option is a derivative; not all derivatives are options. Bailouts make all derivative speculation, speculation in cheap options. Don't ban derivatives. Ban bailouts.
Hey guys,

I had an idea for a work-around for you for people who don't want to give their password. What if BCCing myaccount@etacts.com updated your info? Doesn't seem like it'd be hard to implement. I'd use the service if it had that feature, it looks really good. I think you guys are doing something really needed and cool, cheers and good luck,

Sebastian
The state of the world (and why I still think it's a bad idea)
RethinkDB (S09) is hiring systems and performance engineers
"During the first sleep cycle, our body enters deep sleep for the longest period of time, it's at this point that our body temperature begins to drop really low, our respiration, heart rate and blood pressure decreases.

If you've ever been woken up out of “deep sleep”, you know that it’s almost impossible to get up.

It takes about 45 minutes to enter the first deep sleep phase. If you limit your nap to 45 minutes, you will sleep mainly in Stage 2 sleep. Stage 2 sleep also plays a major
role in restoring physical energy." -- Powerful Sleep – Secrets of the Inner Sleep Clock
I've been participating for a couple months now and always kick myself when I forget to take a pic of my food – not only is this fun, but it's a great way to keep track of where you eat out and what you eat.
Maybe I wasn't clear: my main issue with the post isn't that it approached the topic from a non-factual angle, it's that it does so in a way that looks like an accusation of a very serious crime.

The line at the end isn't subtle, it's clearly sarcasm intended to mean the opposite of what it says, that is, that this post is about Backupify. Well, the post is about a company that provides the same service as Backupify but instead steals bank account details.
Tips for a successful career in business
Apache and Nginx, same as Firefox and Chrome.

Nobody saw the train coming.
How to Plan a “Freemium” Revenue Model
"Your technology brains got you this far; use some of them to make yourself stop, breathe and think."

Great point. If only I could do it back then.
National Entrepreneurship Week: This video sums it up (and motivates you)
A Mark Against Activision?
A/B testing wouldn't be nearly fast enough iteration for something like this, I think. I don't know how many iterations it takes for the algorithm to come up with something useful, but even if it is anywhere in the 100s, A/B testing won't work or it'll take years...

How quickly, in terms of iterations, does this machine usually take to come up with something? I mean, it could get lucky pretty quickly, but what is a reasonable number to expect? I don't know.
Isn't this what plagiarism algorithms are doing? Scrape the content, run through the plagiarism filter (although not a very strict one to prevent false positives on quotations and the like) and you are done. If there's a match, show it so the submitter can see for himself.
s/requests/responses/
Scrolling HTML with Flash Content on Touch Devices
Perhaps we're going to see a new Kindle running Win 7 Phone? It's a longshot, but things like Courier and Zune, albeit Microsofty, would be amazing coupled with the ubiquity and ease of use of the Kindle.

It also puts Amazon at odds with Apple on more than just eBooks. It really makes you wonder how the war is going to play out, but the battle has just begun.
FlashSURF: image recognition and tracking on video
Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control
I think this was disabled with the EFI security password.
I'm not an M.D. or similar, but this is good advice:

Q: What's the 20-20-20 rule?

A: People get on the screen and they don't take their eyes off for way too long. We recommend that every 20 minutes, they look at least 20 feet away for 20 seconds. We're taking the eyes from this turned-in contracted muscle position and stretching them out for a short period of time.
Ask HN: Feature-level feedback on my Android Apps Search Engine
Maybe its just me, but being confined on a plane for an hour is the equivalent to my normal space for 2, or 3 if you're first class (more room to get comfortable) I've had some of my most productive moments while flying.
Infinispan Interactive Tutorial with Scala
I'll tell you what is and is not special about Boston (I live in Boston).
This is the city with the VC community that told Facebook - no thanks, take your app somewhere else. If Facebook had been founded in Boston the entire landscape here would have been different. Instead, we see most of our brightest students go to the valley by default. So the "old" money in Boston is not special and neither is the "old boy's club" often associated with older cities.

What is special about it? Top educational institutions, history of success, and the will (tbd) to compete with the valley.
Functional programming is very focused on composing operations. Function composition is an obvious example, but it is not the only one. As far as I understand monads, they allow you to write generic operations separate from the logic needed to compose those operations.

Inspired by this article. and in a fit of temporary insanity, I implemented a simple monad protocol and the Maybe and List monads in Clojure. It's not fit for use, but it was fun to write.

http://gist.github.com/312281

It may not be immediately evident what is being composed there, but if you look at lift, it breaks the multi-argument "+" operator into several partial applications and composes each of those under the given monad, giving interesting results. This was necessary to maintain support for a variable number of arguments.

Note that the code uses features only available in the git master branch, so you will need a snapshot build to run it.
Awesome :) thanks.
Composer Uses WiiMotes and AI To Form Robot Band
I think the point is we should be questioning the field of expertise which lead a company to success. Google has become a success not because it introduced advertising, but because it was a a great and simple search engine (with ads at first, btw). Thus Larry and Sergey were experts and their example in the article is bad.

On the other hand there are probably other examples out there that may prove the point. So, like Forrest Gump said, I think maybe it's both.
Revisiting thread priorities and the new GIL
From the photo in that article, they appear to me to be similar to the effect I induce using a bookmarklet to blacken text and give the background a beige or light tan tint, when browsing. I've also taken to setting a similar background in e.g. my text editor.

I find a lot of pure white background difficult to take on a screen that is not entirely reflective and passively lit. Other colors cause more or less difficulty, depending upon hue and intensity. The stroke width of the font I'm viewing also makes a difference; the coloration I describe generally makes thin strokes easier to take.
Agreed—I've watched many events, shown in their entirety, where the US (and often Canada) were not even factors. E.g. just recently I've seen multiple biathlon and cross country skiing events where Europeans dominate. There's cursory mention of an American back in 20th or so, but for the most part the coverage is focused on leaders. And these are long races too.

It sounds like the author was just mad that the US-Canada hockey game was pushed to MSNBC. I would have loved to have seen that game in HD on the main NBC, but that's a long way from the coverage being "broken".
Neo4J is a great tool - I have used it with the Ruby wrappers.

A little off topic but: I think that the AGPL (which is used for Neo4J) is a good license but I wish that dual licensed projects would be a bit more up front on what the cost of the commercial waiver is for various use scenarios. For me the issue is that I would like to know up front how much 'commercial' use would cost if I would happen to have a customer who could not live with AGPL license terms.
I'd pay for access to the OBS feeds directly.
If you let people without a development background write tests it's easy for them to say something to the effect of (X > 7) and (X < 4). More generally insuring that there are no conflicts in your requirements is a very hard problem.
I call it Silas -- Superior Interactive Lisp Activity for Sugar. It basically spawns a Lisp and talks to it via pipes or (eventually) SWANK. The focus is on Scheme but if you wanted to use, say, SBCL that's certainly possible. You will be able develop code in the top window and talk to Lisp in the bottom window. You will be able to command Lisp to evaluate the current sexpr, the current selection, or the entire buffer contents of the top window; and save your code in a module, and it will keep track of all the modules you've written and let you import them into Scheme in your code or in interaction.

This is really just a first step: what I'd like to write is a "Lisp machine" activity, where everything from handling the display to file I/O and interacting with the rest of Sugar is done from within the running Lisp.
Check out Selenium.
Sure, but it introduces two new, even scarier names and isn't even as short as

multiclamp = clamp >=> return clamp

or as general as

allclamp lims x = foldM (flip clamp) x lims

Haskell is easy to make very, very opaque at the promise of generality, but if you're just making Maybes there's no need to dig that deep.
Dell polishes Mini 5 tablet for Apple iPad challenge in future.
yeah, riiiiiiight http://nvision.pl/img/200811/zune-4gb-package.jpg
My bad: Neo4J did have their prices listed.
I'm surprised you're not doing media buys for your software as Plan C, that's by far the best way to reach forty-something ladies at large scale.
We've got three channels broadcasting, but not a one of them is as good as CBC. Hopefully this is the last Olympics CTV ever gets. :|
BH could have paid 40 billion today let alone in 10+ years from now so it's not highly leveraged. Highly leveraged for BH would have been placing a 4,000+ billion bet. If you read up on this deal BH maximum risk is a small fraction of their projected net worth and they can’t be forced to pay up early. They would need to lose ~90% of their value today and never recover for this to be an issue. At the same time to be on the hook for the full 40 billion the indexes would need to be at zero (at which point the company would have already failed).

PS: Leverage means making money from money you don't have ex: loan on rental property. But to classify as highly leveraged you need to risk 10x or more money than you actually have.
The funny/sad part is that this is true.

Just look at the "Windows Phone 7 Series" name.
[2005 or 2006 or something]

This is a leaked internal training video intended for Microsoft's packaging team.

http://www.ipodobserver.com/ipo/article/Microsoft_Confirms_i...
Old but classic. While the Zune packaging wasn't quite so awesome (http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/zt/2006/jd-zunereview-part1-...), they are using the name Windows 7 Phone.
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I was disagreeing with the original commenter.

I was arguing it's possible to not agree with the way the world works, but still exploit it. Of course buffet shouldn't pay taxes until the laws are changed. Hs's publicly argued many times that taxes are too low on rich people, just as he argues derivatibes are net destructive to society - it desn't mean he should not deal in derivatives if he sees an opportunity.
Any one tried the RDF support?
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I also reacted before I noticed the sarcasm. The thing is that it's quite common seeing such statements that actually are serious. Sweden is also not socialist country, if anything it's social democratic (nordic model), which should not be confused with democratic socialism. Norway is quite unique because of their riches from oil.
Hi, was interested to see your comment on E-conomic - in fact I've found it works very well for small businesses and freelancers. It does have a lot of functionality but you can simply choose to use as much or as little of it as you need.
I think the gist of it is that people use difficult to understand things as a way of both signaling competence and of intimidating others into not questioning them. think mutual funds who leech off their clients with worse returns than the S&P500. over time the best ways of doing this have been refined, think of the way media outlets use statistics that, while not exactly lies, are at best not the whole truth. and not 1 person in 100 has the competence to debunk the nonsense.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1145060
It also raises the literal dollar cost for QA people. If you have a large QA operation, you're probably paying semi-skilled non-programmers. If you have to get QA people who can code enough to write a test, they'd cost a lot more.
Can you point to documentation of this?

It definitely sounds like something a school district would do. I am just asking because I have seen this stated in a bunch of hacker news comments, but haven't seen where this information came from.
You can be progressive and free-market if you believe corporations tend to be are anti-free-market. Which they often are.
Could you post the link?
Also curious if they list "powered by" - who uses Neo in real world applications...?
Get acquired by Google, problem solved.
You can try them out in simulation. The hard part is making people actually care about the outcome if you use real people as the actors, but game writers already do fairly well at this.
Awesome, the windows 7 packages also look very clean. I think they learned something from Apple about packaging. Unfortunately Microsoft's website is still a nightmare wall of hypertext.
In my industry, "ethics" advocacy is often a coded appeal to create a guild system with the advocates grandfathered in. That's what happened with the CISSP certification, which is lucrative for guild members are has absolutely no beneficial impact on the industry as a whole.
... and become the Xobni of Gmail?
Is it only me, or almost all SEO advice is pretty much the same? Nobody ever says anything new or different. Why are such posts such a rage on Hacker News?
And from whence they came...

http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/AboutUs/
> Seeing as the device can use a different gases as fuel, wouldn't we expect that the output would be dependent on the fuel supplied?

It depends on where the limits are.

Consider the typical gas furnace. I understand that natural gas varies considerably in energy per gram (or per cubic feet at a standard pressure). Within limits, the system adjusts the amount consumed to account for that and appropriate output. Meanwhile, an electric hair dryer doesn't - it's heat output is determined by the input voltage, current, and wave shape.
The Berkshire and Goldman deal was, but Goldman plays in derivatives. Where are the fundamentals there? Or when is Goldman going to announce their new business model?

You'd hope someone like Buffet, with his cache and savvy could suggest some reasonable ways to end "too big to fail." All things right now make me think we'll have another bust in a couple years, nothing is fundamentally different.