skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So my question is, what sort of data plan does AT&T force you to buy in order to use this? AT&T's data plans are so confusing right now. There is a $30 "unlimited data and texting plan", but then there is a $50 version that is "unlimited data and texting for smartphones", etc.

It almost seems like a better deal to just get an iPod Touch with skype and google voice and carry around something like Verizon's MiFi.
They did. Opera has this since Presto 2.3 (Opera 10.50 comes with 2.5)
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The fact that Comedy Central is your first example of an ideal advertiser means that you're probably not in a high-CPM niche. That's okay, but it means you probably ought to be running a couple million impressions each month to make direct sales realistic.

At lower volume (say, a 500k/mo+ impressions) you can investigate banner networks like Valueclick, Casale, etc. If you go this route, hopefully you're not turned off by flashing punch-the-monkey ads. It's not high-brow advertising.

Also look into augmenting your income with the contextual link networks -- Infolinks, Kontera. It's decent supplemental income.

For a general-interest entertainment-type site without a high page churn (that is, not a forum or social network), I'd aim for $2.50 overall page CPM. This might require lots of ad units and creativity, but you can make that happen without direct sales.

(Apologies if I've totally misread your niche -- in that case, hopefully all this is useful to someone else.)
What a delight to read those archives...
My impression is that Angleton was on the whole a destructive force.
I would say "polish" is what you're actually looking for. It's design, it's QA, it's UX, all in a box. What it isn't is "features" or "developers."
I would really like some feedback from the Hacker News community again, on my http://www.freeciv.net/ project. I have previously received feedback from HN, and now done a lot of improvements according to that feedback.

What are the next steps which can be taken with this project? Which opportunities do you see for the project?
Agreed. Here's an interview with Isbell: http://www.rorotoko.com/index.php/article/lynne_isbell_book_...

From the pop science summaries I thought she was full of crap. But the details are actually quite interesting, and I can see why she has other scientists excited.
I really like your idea and the simple effectiveness of your design. I personally am very put-off by Twitter's character limit (not that I use it anyways). I hope it gets some users, maybe try to contact a popular platform or create an API to integrate with other existing services? I guess that depends on if you're just trying to fix a problem and get your name out or generate revenue.
It's not. Just really, really slow.
It might have legs, but here are my sticking points:
1)The instructions arent clear. "3. have a snack"? I get that it might be a joke, but I dont get it. So, try to make that clear.

2)The value of this is lost unless you are familiar with its competitors. I am left thinking how is this useful to me? That is a problem; I don't want to be thinking. One possible way of solving this is to give examples of people using your site and the value they gain. For instance, a rotating banners with testimonials with stuff like "Took a lead from jukaroo and this cake is great"(but not so corny as me)
We spent $860,000 rebuilding our intranet. The most popular page on the intranet is still the cafeteria menu.

Is it really that surprising that people eat?
Woohoo! A little behind schedule, but I honestly prefer "solid and functional" over "on time".
Still no HTML5 canvas support. What a shame.
SXSW isn't a tech conference. It's a music/film festival with an "interactive" section.

I don't think I would consider the interactive section which is primarily made up of bloggers and web startups(and not focused on the tech they use) as a tech section. Bloggers are not tech oriented(unless they primarily write about some sort of new technology).

I went a few years ago for just the music festival and had a blast. Andrew W.K. showed up and did a scavenger hunt under a highway overpass. I had one of those expensive badges and found other badge holders were pretty nice. Chatted with someone from SOMAFM for a while.
I just "picked up" the Kindle version and it looks excellent on my DX. However the Amazon detail page says it's "Optimized for Larger Screens", which means:

"This title has complex layouts and has been optimized for reading on Kindle DX's or Kindle for PC's larger screen, but can still be viewed on other devices.

http://www.amazon.com/Rework-ebook/dp/B002MUAJ2A
No, you don't need to. Try putting this in a hex editor. You'll see a http handshake. The first part you need to send is "GET " which is the same as sending the following bytes: "47 45 54 20". It's just made a bit "simpler" so people don't get the encoding wrong (non-ascii characters, etc...).
The string 718281828 did not occur in the first 200000000 digits of pi after position 0.

Why am I not surprised? :)
If your site generate a relevant amount of traffic, you shouldn't have any trouble finding advertisers (example: if you run a televisions comparison website with a healthy readership, Samsung should come to you).

As far as payment, it's going to depend whether they're paying by the amount of views their ad receives, the amount of clicks there ad gets, or the amount of sales they receive (you could start affiliate advertising for large companies today depending on the niche). The more info you can provide on your users, and the more targeted they are, the more they are worth.
I disagree. The switchers I know have often been frustrated by the UX, and haven't seemed to care very much about the aesthetics. But they really care about things (finally!) just working. This is overwhelmingly achieved by QA.
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Not sure why I got bumped to -4, did we suddenly fall in love with IE?

I'm also not sure how you fit "browser competition is a good thing" and microsoft in the same sentence. I still have scars from IE5-7, and currently collecting new ones from IE8, which is less prone to screwing up, but also more subtile when it does (intermittent white page due to js bugs? lovely..).

As far as I am concerned I stand by what I wrote: I wish it would just go away (pipe dream) and I'm not interested in the slightest in what new bugs and misfeatures they introduce this time. I'll have to deal with them soon enough anyways, unless someone finds a way to trigger a force-install of chrome frame without user interaction...

(I'll take a gecko-frame or even opera-frame as well, if those exist - none of them have ever given me nearly the misery of trident)
Some of the points about the military and bureacracy remind one of Tocqueville on the characteristics of peacetime militaries in a democratic state. Tocqueville could have learned it by reviewing the US performance in the War of 1812--start with a Hull and a Wilkinson, end with Jackson, Brown, Scott.

As for solitude & introspection, I don't know. These are not necessarily the qualities that make the warrior.
I agree that this app would be awesome if it ran on real computers. It would be amazing if the app could track the user's progress/ability using MIDI and be able to show errors / redo problematic parts as well. More of an emphasis on learning and improving than just playing. I have been wanting something like this for a long time...
Uhm, off-topic much? I mean, Silverlight isn't linked to IE9 in any way. Silverlight is a plugin, like flash. It will work in Firefox too, but isn't installed by default. I don't see the link between IE9 (which gives web developpers the possibility to make interactive websites WITHOUT plugins) and Silverlight (a plugin).
It's running, barely. I suspect they're using DreamHost.
My first question is where you do decide to strike the balance: in counterintelligence, do you prefer false positives or false negatives?

I haven't tried to get a full measure of him and his actions (for one thing, I suspect that's going to be impossible until everything from the relevant periods are declassified), but my major point is that the counterintelligence function is essential and we pretty much just don't do it.
That makes sense. I just called the Skype Test Call and it used SILK_V3, so that would be further confirmation.
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Probably a bit of both. Seeing as WebOS is based on the HTML/JS model that web applications are already familiar with, it might have been more obvious to them how to make it look fancy. With Android, you have to start diving into how the layout and widget systems work, and requires working with Java and XML, but it is indeed possible to make things look just as nice.
Is that "mera iphone" as in Swedish "more iphone"?
This is pretty much exactly what Rapportive had just released except this has some added functionality. They imitated it very quickly unless they had plans to do this all along..

Xobni also had indicated it wanted to get into Google Apps and Gmail at some point in the near future. I wonder if this is the new model for building services on top of Gmail..
Her sig? Really??? You're entitled to your opinion, but I see no reason to take this thread in that direction based on her posting. It wasn't even a COMMENT that she made; it's just her sig.
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The 2nd, 3rd, and 4th most popular activities might be more telling.
"mera iphone" is Hindi for "my iphone"
it has more features but a much poorer ui than rapportive.

for one thing their logo (etacts) is larger than the name of the person the email is from in the side bar.
Ok, you asked for it: you're being silly. As far as I'm concerned, she can post whatever she wants in her sig, including how hot and geeky she is.
Well, a simple search turns this out:
http://tinyurl.com/yljrtuc

So it's fair to say the signature may be correct.
I hope the music portion is much less douchey. :)
Does this mean that webkit and mozilla are going to drop the prefix? What's the point of the prefixes to begin with?
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There should be a startup to provide anonymity through clutter. By creating fake identities with your name, you could make Google search less effective. This will neutralize most of the results, as the searcher will no longer know which of these sites is really yours.
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Cute, paper generating, but probably fruitless. Even large real economies are poor models for each-other, and second life et all have more in common with flea markets than they do the complexity of modern macro econ.
Two questions:

1. If I currently have an iPhone 3GS on AT&T, will the Nexus One work with my existing data plan? I'd like to use both phones, at least at first, but I don't want two data plans.

2. Does the Nexus One support tethering on AT&T? Presumably it would if it supports it on other networks and is simply an unlocked device, since there's no carrier involvement. Right?
If you won't forgive me for saying dumb shit years ago, I'm not so sure I want to be your friend anyhow.

Generally, I think making sure that there are good things associated with your name helps to drown out the bad things.
I have found squashing useful for merging a bug fix branch. Half of a bug fix does nobody any good.
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Taiwan is NOT RULED by China. There is no restriction to access Internet in Taiwan. But the bandwidth to U.S., Europe is limited due to number of undersea optical cables available.

Once in a while the cable between Taiwan and Hong Kong or Japan was cut off by fishing fleet by accident, it usually takes weeks for bandwidth to resume to previous level.
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I dunno. I spend almost all of my social and work time with men. It's a side effect of what I do and what my hobbies are. But man is it fun sometimes to kick it with some other girls.

I'm sure she has enough time to kick ass and also see what other girls are up to.
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I'm in a start up of three, I'm the only girl. None of my friends in other start ups are girls.
I don't think this is blindingly obvious.

I always imagined something 'called us', then just returning from that would be enough to get everything shutdown.

Certainly when I wrote 6502 code, or 68000 code, I would just return.

On the iPhone, you get advised you are shutting down, do your clean-up, then someone shuts down the message loop and you are gone.
The typography on that site is terrible. I have flashbacks of doublespaced reports (required by some idiotic style guide).
Because most of the viewers are men, and men like looking at women?
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Echoing a the grandparent post, I'd spend time worrying about the demographics of my customers, not the industry.
what is the story behind Twisted being phased out?
Because you get yelled at for doing a blink tag, but it's fine to do a moz-blink tag.

The problem is when browser #2 wants to implement blink. They shouldn't use your prefix, so they now have webkit-blink. And the HTML writer now needs to sniff the browser.

Progress?
just curious, do you live in India? I wonder this because I'm curious how the process is in making iphone apps from there. Do you get the same profit as us developers from apple? Is it easier to make a living off of iphone development due to lower cost of living there?
Good point. When eventually Microsoft has a hit sensation everyone will say, "hey they've finally figured it out" and "this came out of nowhere", when, actually, as this article points out, there is a long series of steps to get there.
The Zune is criticised for it’s poor market share and is regarded as a failure. It’s important to remember that it took three years for the iPod to get market dominance, and it’ll take a lot longer than that for anyone to make inroads into it. To criticise the Zune for a poor market share misses the point. It’s like criticising a child because its first steps weren’t of olympic standards.

No. The Zune is criticized because before the iPod, there were no mp3 players for grandma. Apple obviously created a winning product. Depending on how charitable you want to be, Microsoft either 1) observed the same market opportunity and took longer to create an inferior product or 2) shamelessly ripped off the ipod, and did a poor job at it.

The author also compares a company with a market cap of $250 Billion to a child. The big boys play for keeps. There's no excuse for "well, they did their best" at companies of this scale. To quote another 80s movie: "Do or do not, there is no try".
how did you get hold of that?
I think he's talking about this article:
http://www.phreedom.org/solar/code/tinype/
Zynga is practically printing money with something like that on facebook.
Some really basic audio recognition should enable the software to figure out the current position on the sheet, hence making it useful for experienced players as well.
* I've heard with permaculture, you can feed 10 people on an acre*

I'd be surprised it it wasn't even more than that if done carefully! You're right that by mixing plant types, you can achieve better density and get a synergistic effect (another example is planting garlic/onions next to potatoes to repel potato bugs). One problem with large commercial farms is that in order to reduce the labor needs you have to plant at a density that makes it easier for mechanized equipment to harvest and that means that you must generally separate crops.

I have seen research projects that used robots to plant seedlings: typically a very labor intensive task. I'm thinking that if you could build robots/smarter machines that could harvest a wide variety of crops instead of just e.g, what a combine can process, then greater density & improved crop mix could be achieved.

I've always enjoyed food gardening and more recently I've been thinking of ways to apply technology to large gardens/small farm plots to reduce the dependence on my very limited free time. The problem is that now my free time would be shifted from gardening to robotics research :-)
Yeah, that was WAY more appropriate. I'm sure all the women around here (and hopefully most of the men) are just shaking their heads right now. Unbelievable.
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I've got a startup idea for a web-based application that unfortunately also has a hardware component to it. I know web apps; I don't know hardware.

What's everyone's opinion on places to go to find a partner who might be into this? I could probably survive for a while just finding someone to build a prototype, but someone to partner with would be more ideal.

Are there organizations for people like this? I'm completely un-knowledgeable on the subject.

Just to get the simple answers out of the way - I've exhausted my personal network, and I've posted to Craigslist with limited [but in the end no] success.

I'm in Boston for what its worth.
I regularly say stupid things online. shrug Most of those I might have offended forgave me long ago (and eventually the current ones will).

My hit/miss ratio has improved so it's less of a problem now.

I guess the only concern is if you hit the media spotlight for any reason someone is sure to dig up something disingenuous.

(Im lucky; someone a little more high profile shares my name and hogs google for me :D)
1. Yes. You should be able to do so by using your iphone sim card in your Nexus One and you should be all set.

2. Not officially... http://www.redmondpie.com/tethering-on-google-nexus-one-9140...
The point is that those things are/were still in "draft" specification and so it's asking for trouble to implement them in a way that will prevent changes to the final spec. I'm sure once the standards are finalized the prefixes will be dropped (or really, deprecated).
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You see? That's why IE features are always "broken" and half-implemented. If HTML etc. worked as defined in IE, people could abandon IE at will.

If IE worked fine people will abandon it? I think it's backwards.

And remember we are not talking only about implementing web standards, but also security issues, stability and velocity.

It's becoming less and less significant as OS X (which comes with Safari by default) and Firefox gain marketshare

I think Chrome will eat more IE market share than Firefox and Safari in the following years, mostly because Google's massive advertisement capacity.
I tested a number of the mapping, they seem to be working. I'm using surround.vim [1] which changes the behavior of s/S in visual mode.

[1] http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1697
I got an email about it this morning and I picked it up. Haven't gotten a chance to try it yet but thanks for making it.
This is totally what I was looking for. thanks alot for your input :-)
We do embedded work with arm and geode mostly in the networking and remote telemetry realm. I might have some advice to give. What sort of device were you looking to build?
Guides like this are so, so helpful. I had a lot of false starts when I first started exploring Clojure, all due to difficulties setting up a development environment. Maybe due to its (relative) infancy, Clojure (and its tools) has been one of those packages that I find myself constantly wrangling with. Documentation like this, even at the overview level, is going to help a lot of people.
Dont' be so touchy. They aren't degrading the French. They are making fun of conservative attack dogs that blame things on France. Showing how ridiculous something like this is through humor can make society a better place.
The data firstly pointed out that UK usage was extremely low.

I'm skeptical if there was enough UK usage for the other UK statistics to be valid. Can't see any absolute numbers there though, so hard to tell.
Thanks for your input.

Do you have any idea how much I should charge? My website is www.thathigh.com and it's growing pretty constantly, sometimes exponentially. It's a fairly niche website, but I've never negotiated with advertisers.

Should I offer $50 and work them down to $20? Or is that too many? (we're talking eCPM here, i guess?) are there any other types of payments out there (monthly for an ad or anything like that?)

thanks, i'm a complete newbie with advertising, i've been thrown into a really good challenge and have alot to learn.
Examples of the classic form:

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http://crowdfavorite.com/images/screenshots/tasks/2.7/recur_...
The tweets I am reading suggest most everything is regurgitating things we've all read in our aggregators? I heard about the Digg redesign, and that a couple of the interviewers suck, and some other self-help-sounding axioms, but that's all I've seen come out of there. Anyone know of anything else really big?
Neat. Once you have a very clear problem statement, you can write a program that can perform experiments and analyze the results. It's a step.
> Karl Rove practically invented the attack ad.

No, he didn't.

Attack ads predate both TV and radio and were run on both almost immediately after they became available.
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You're not alone.

Sadly, the state of Clojure IDEs is the cause of much frustration for newcomers. It's getting better, but still not perfect. Guides like this will help tremendously.
I'm not entirely sure I agree with the premise, but I'd also love to read a post exploring it.
A lot of what is "best" has to do with how specific you want to be. Appending "every" to a date is great if you want something to occur every N. But what if you want it to occur every other N? Or the first N of every M? There's a reason why things like Crontab or iCalendar's RRULE are so specific and verbose.

In order to decide what is "best" I would first decide how specific I needed to be and then start to narrow my input options based on my defined need.
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But unlike most publications, the Onion offers something of value.
What kind of problems did you have?

One of the strengths of Clojure is that you can develop in the repl / notepad with essentially just jline and a valid java install.

I worked like this for a while, but have recently moved to TextMate, now I'm planning some more Clojure work.
Hmm, I guess that's not my experience as a switcher (less things work correctly than did in Win 7), but we can agree to disagree.
Do this. Would also be useful for beginners who make mistakes and often need to repeat portions.
Tech-wise, it's a solved problem.

I sign all of my outgoing emails using Thawte (now Verisign) certificates. The problem with encryption is finding the other person's keys. I have yet to receive a signed email from someone else, so I cannot send encrypted messages.

It seems to be a problem primarily with critical mass and secondarily from implementation. Not enough people use signed/encrypted email to spur others to using it. Additionally, certs cost something. Even free certs cost effort in understanding the need for them and figuring out how to generate/download/install them. Then there is the whole problem with "trusted" certs...

Implementation wise, things are only a little better. Once the certs are installed, (desktop) mail clients handle the signing/encrypting pretty well. But I can't sign messages from a webmail client or from my phone.
.NET policy configuration files are in XML. To parse them there is another internal XML parser in mscorlib (.NET runtime dll).
It's funny, I first heard of SXSW only in the context of the music/film stuff and was thoroughly confused later when I heard it mentioned as some sort of "tech" event and actually thought maybe they were two different events. It's good to know I wasn't totally off-base.