skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or don't use DRM at all.

Instead of relying on a single instance of a product making money for years to come, focus more on new games or in-game content sales. Better yet, focus more on positive features and bugfixes/polish for present games than on ways to defeat crackers. Knowing your limitations, try social solutions for social problems. Make your brand the trusted good source for awesome games of your niche.

More elaboration on that last tip: Warez and hacker sites have a deadly mix of people wanting to share things and people wanting to take advantage of sharers. Sure, you can get some game for free, or you can apply some patch that allows you to OPK people in an FPS, but you have to blindly trust whoever submitted that game/patch to have your best interests at heart. You have to ignore how, for example, some people playing the game of Combat Arms unknowingly spam their server chat with advertisements for the hack site. You have to believe that no one would put a backdoor on your system through your game and have access to any account and credit card information you may have stored via that game or on your computer.

In other words, the system is about trust, and if your brand matches or exceeds its customers' expectations, you will earn and maintain their trust and their loyalty. Sure, some people may be cheap, but at the same time, they can be bought with a certain amount of guarantee of security. People are concerned about their things.

Educate people more about these completely real and ongoing dangers -- most people have no idea they are part of a botnet, thanks to a little sneaky thing they thought they could do -- and litigate less. One makes you a hero, and the other paints you as a villain. One makes you an expert, and the other turns away customers.
The Wiimote can connect to the Mac as well. I current use one with Remote Buddy (http://www.iospirit.com/products/remotebuddy/) to control a Mac as a media center computer. The buttons work great, but I haven't had good luck with the motion sensor though.
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Some more detailed info here http://blog.linuxgamepublishing.com/2009/02/27/answering-the...
How about "Cutie"? Then you could call yourself a "cutie" programmer.
Be glad the author of a major programming language has the decency to read Levine and the first 3 chapters of the dragon book?

O industrial PL designers, how easily we let you off the hook.

I think the guy who had the misfortune to create newLisp caught more flack than Guido, Matz and Larry combined.
Though I am working as a competitor in the same segment of the market. I am glad that they secured fund and working on the new product.

Let's all make something that people want.
I didn't mean to be too evil in my comment. I actually like the design and how fast it feels (not that QSB is slow). :)

I'll keep tuned for updates. It does seems promising, although it isn't yet complete enough for me (or for people who tend to use Quicksilver as more than just an application launcher).

EDIT: I just noticed Alfred uses very little memory (12.5MB after launching an app). http://grab.by/2V19
Like anything SEO, there's some inaccuracy here. For instance, I rocketed a microsite to number one for its keywords with a someblog.blogspot.com link. It was at #1 in like a day and a half.

The reason there's so much mystery around SEO is because you've got a black box called Google which may or may not do what you want when you want. You can't run any real scientific method on it because, just like how you can't cross the same river twice, you can't evaluate the same Google twice (since they're constantly running experiments on you, the surfer, in real time), and obviously you're competing with a gigantic graph of web sites, which you also can't evaluate twice, since it changes every time a new page goes online, goes offline, or gets republished with some tiny edit.

Most SEO people don't think this way, but because I'm a programmer, I think you should start learning SEO by understanding how Google works. For instance (blatant self-promotion), you could check out this video where I give you Google PageRank in five lines of Ruby:

http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2010/03/google-pagerank-in-...

There's also a free SEO book which is supposed to be great. I haven't had time to read it but I hear great things about it.

http://www.seofaststart.com/
YouTube Video Page URL Structure Will Change, ? becomes #
> Come on, you guys know this. You've covered the RIAA/MPAA doing the same exact thing over and over again. Don't blame your users and the choices they make. Focus on providing more value.

Not really a fair comparison. The problem with the RIAA is not that they want people to pay for what they consume, it's that they make the experience for legitimate users worse than for pirates. What Ars did makes the 'pirates' experience worse, without substantially inconveniencing 'paying' users.
Anyone with knowledge of the current generation of video cards know how recent models of iMacs and Macbook Pros will perform (assuming performance of Steam on Mac is comparable to its Windows counterpart).

I tried checking out the video card in my 27 inch iMac (by far the most expensive desktop I've ever purchased) and was a bit underwhelmed to find out the card was released in 2008...
Flash on HP's Slate
"our ad inventory is being hammered by ad blockers"

Why are you trying to monetize your audience through ads if they aren't interested? If you could disable all those ad blockers do you believe that same ad inventory would be of any value to an advertiser? Maybe in the very short-term it would, but in the long run it won't provide any measurable value to an advertiser.

You should move away from an ad supported model and focus on sponsored content, buying guides, case studies, etc. There are much better ways to monetize tech-centric content.
Don't listen to what people say, listen to what people do. If they're blocking ads, work out why and what you can do. You've just seen you can't stop them.

I feel for the guys who were laid off. That sucks. Life is tough. But this is not the only way to make money. I block advertising because it annoys me. I pretty much stopped buying music and deleted all the non-free mp3s on my hard disk because of the attitude of the music corps to their users.

But I give money to sites that provide value and more importantly build a relationship. That's what Techdirt understands and almost certainly has got them some donations today from people like me who appreciate reading articles by someone who can express what I'm thinking better than I can myself.

p.s. look in the linked article's comments and you'll see this (not from me incidentally):

"My comment asked Ars why there's no donation button. I've yet to receive a reply. I will not turn off my adblocking option for any site ever again. If these sites truly are dependent on ad revenues to survive, it's not my problem." - have you guys tried a donate button, and if so how were your results? I'm not a regular reader but it's a pretty big jump from reading a few articles to subscribing for 6 months.
The former is definitely more suggestive.
My family in CO always described it a rather a cowboy state ("don't nobody tell me what to do), but say that as of late the desperation to balance the budget is manic.

IMHO it's manic enough to shoot their own small business people (by squeezing services like Amazon in this kind of corner).
FYI - this is ALSO about to happen with California - there is still time to write local politicians here!

http://www.theatlantic.com/personal/archive/2010/02/californ...
We are as aggressive as any content site I can think of with our ad restrictions. We prohibit ads that expand or play sound with a user click, for instance, while many other sites don't.

What you'll find is that ad agencies build one ad for, say, 500 sites based on a common set of guidelines (which are often less strict than ours). If you believe your site users would be happier not seeing that particular ad, your choice is to not run it.

I would love to run nothing but text ads, but the minimum we can run to pay our writers is basically "flash in standard spots with occasional premium campaigns".
I can really see this in myself. I have a deal with my father: I fix his computers and he fixes my car. He's scared that he could break his computer, and lose his data. I'm scared that I'll fuck up something on my car, and need to have it fixed by a proper mechanic, costing me time and money.

I think most people are scared of breaking something, if they're sensible. I know a couple of people who aren't scared to 'try' anything and the result has been a semi-burned down apartment (I can do my own wiring!) and a new set of dining furniture (I can sand it down myself!).

I think that the fear that people tend to have is from ignorance though. I'm trying to learn about being my own atuo-mechanic; I'm teaching my father more about the computer. What people maybe don't realise is just how hard it is to break a computer permanently. This is one of the biggest factors in people being poor with computers; I think that another is that there is often no clear indication of partial success, which is pretty discouraging for an adult who is starting to learn.
As a user who endured many crashes in Team Fortress 2 with the edge versions of Crossover Games, I'm happy that I'll become a first-class citizen soon...
Google is not the homogeneous or coherent; IMO, they've transcended languages by standardizing on communication protocols, which are far more important.
How long before their achievements and other components are on iPhone too?
That attitude is putting the onus of watching out for your own best interest onto Amazon.

IMO, you should be looking out for your own interest more than Amazon should.
Well, sounds like the dude can't win with you -- I mean why waste the time with justifications and arguments if it's just a big fat "NO!", even when he's co-opting formerly republican ideas?

There's exactly one time when the government should make a point of counter-cyclical deficit spending -- when in a recession. This is in pretty much every economics textbook, including the one by Greg Mankiw (Bush's chief economics adviser) that I read in college.

What we saw however, was that according to Dick Cheney, "Deficits don't matter [as long as a republican is in office]", then as soon as a democrat is in office, deficit spending during the worst financial meltdown in recent history is against economic fundamentals all of a sudden.

On healthcare.. I don't even know where to start, whether it's with your total refusal to acknowledge that we should focus on dollar-driven solutions ("I don't believe the ends justify the means"), or your incoherent philosophy "I don't believe in government financed healthcare in general EXCEPT for medicare, in which case I'll accuse you of 'gutting' it."

At the end of the day, we have a huge budget hole as a result of skyrocketing medical costs. I spent 3 years in local government laying off teachers and feeling like shit about it because of those costs. Forgive me if I value those teachers' paychecks and the kids' education over abstract ideals about what is socialism, what isn't, and how something can only be a good idea if a republican proposes it.
I own 150 odd games on Steam. I'm possibly right in the "average" for a gamer, ~ 25 years old, lots of disposable income (corporate programming) etc. Most of my gamer orientated friends are sitting in the same category, and also own ~100 -> 200 games each. Perhaps steam just isn't orientated towards you? Did you jump on the forums (the quickest solution to a problem is to ask) or fire off a support request (can take ~ 10 days, but usually they will resolve it?). I personally love that I can see when a friend jumps into a game of TF2 (Team Fortress 2), and follow them in with 2 clicks (right click on name ==> join server).
Do you not see the problem with sponsored content or (I assume) paid for case studies? We do not want our writers to be aware of ad campaigns when they're writing something. We've run relatively negative content for almost every single advertiser that's ever bought spots on Ars. Do you really want them having any level of influence over what people write?

We run buying guides quite somewhat regularly. Our audience doesn't want more buying guides, though. They basically want what we already write.
So, my understanding was that the questions of quantum cryptography stem from the fact that cryptographic algorithms designed to stump current computers will be a breeze for quantum computers, so new algorithms will need to be created to stump quantum computers. I thought that's what was referred to as "quantum encryption". Is there another name for what I'm thinking of?

But now they're saying that this "quantum encryption" they speak of will be "perfectly" secure? Does this mean that, once established, cryptography will no longer need to be a field of study?

Also this: "This solves the problem by embedding it in an extra abstract dimension, which is independent of space. So as long as both Alice and Bob know the way in which all these abstract dimensions are related, the third provides a reference against which measurements of the other two can be made." blows my mind. The fact that this "other dimension" stuff is no longer just speculation, but will soon be part of our lives.
Most of the asshole greed we see today is not in profit per se, but in back-scratching compensation deals for top management.

Citation, please? I'm very skeptical that pay for top execs amounts to a really significant part of corporate expenses, or that corporate profits could be increased substantially by cutting these expenses.
"First, you don't need "leader.""

Unless he wanted to find a page writing about "leader," like a review, or even an ad, rather than the top google-ranked used car page itself.
Another important factor here is the amount of reserves that are held back from each $1 of premiums input into the system.

For a single payer system, the idea of reserves is non-sensical (similar to the farce of the 'social security trust fund' which makes zero sense from a macro economic perspective). I would make the point that reserves are a waste product of an insurance based system.
The same thing happened with concrete. The Romans knew how to make concrete, but after the collapse of the empire this knowledge was lost, only to be reinvented in the Victorian industrialist age.
Remote-control your MacBook with your Nokia N900
Perhaps Google should pull a Nathan Myhrvold and loan HTC their patents for the duration of the litigation.
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I posted this on Reddit when I saw this article there: I'd really love a process by which you can automatically say 'I block these types of ads', and the site can choose to serve you content or not based on that. What we have at the moment, where a lot of people get harangued by malicious advertisements, and a lot of people block even the most harmless ad content, is a really unfair to both sides. A way to auto-negotiate what you're willing to 'pay' would be excellent. As things stand, I don't block ads, but I'd really like to be able to block the worst of them without screwing people over.

This would also separate out the people who are legitimately concerned about malware and excessively intrusive ads from those (sadly, I suspect, the majority) who simply don't want to pay for others' work.
One might say:

You used a drill to get a nail into the wall. Neither the drill, the nail nor you liked it. You concluded that the drill is generally bad. I concluded that I cannot use a drill if I need a hammer. :)
All good advice. I'd add:

1 Speed matters. Google is on record about this. They want your site to load quickly. This factor is part of the 'caffeine' update that Google is in the process of rolling out http://searchengineland.com/site-speed-googles-next-ranking-...

2 Don't stop with H1s. Think about the structure of your page. Subheaders should be H2, and so on.

3 Use Google Webmaster Tools to submit a sitemap. They'll regularly pull it down from your server so as you add pages to your site, Google will know to index them. They'll tell you how many pages you have submitted, and how many are indexed.

While you're in Webmaster Tools, check out if your site has crawl errors. Check out the HTML suggestions. Google will point out the pages which are missing title tags, which have duplicate tags, short descriptions, etc. Lots of other information in there, including page load times.
I remember the days when the entire BeOS operating system could run in 4 megs of ram. An application launcher running in 12.5 megs will never count as 'very little memory' to me.
You don't need a site index unless you have a strange site. If you have text/HTML and you are linked from other sites, the site map won't matter.
having type open and then the name of files/directories is pretty much a non starter for me.
Interesting Chart of Income Distribution by Religion in the USA
Interesting. If only I'd been shown that 15 years ago when I still had some ability to rewire my neuronal pathways.
Exactly. Hide the "computer" aspect and just make it part of the entertainment center. Release an Apple controller with pre-configured button/key mappings for all of the Steam games. Have a "Widget" style window display these. Make the Mac Mini into even more of a multi-use device.

The thing could soon have enough horsepower to support a lot of the Nintendo Wii portfolio.
My whole post talked about what they do. Many of our users block all ads. The only thing we can do to keep people from blocking ads is... not run ads. Most users don't make an explicit choice to do this, they run ad blockers and block lists that other people maintain.

You may be shocked to hear this, but most of our readers responded really well to Ken's post the other day. We had about 50x as many new subscribers since Friday as we've ever had over an equivalent amount of time. We also saw a noticeable increase in our ad views/pageviews ratio.

It's good that you donated to TechDirt, I love seeing people throw some money towards sites they love. We've run donation systems in the past and they haven't really been worth maintaining, but I'm sure we'll consider running them again. Selling services for a fixed price seems to work quite a bit better, even if those services are "see our site ad free, minus the guilt".
I think there is a difference between a blog post and a news article by an established site, such as Wired. Personally, I'd rather see Wired's news article than a company press release.

Wired did reporting beyond the press release itself. The part of the guidelines you quoted is, I think, more aimed at blog posts that add no value, just quote another news story verbatim.
Well this kind of proves my point. If you have to compile code simply to read it, then the language is not very easy to read. What if you are reading the code in order to debug it and the code cant compile?

And I know code should have type signatures but it often doesn't.
A bit like Facebook does with Thrift?
I bet Apple will sooner or later throw rocks in their path. Why? That's just how Apple rolls.
Every banning is against revenue, yet Mahalo still is operational......... Google's lack of definitive action against Mahalo's outright spam is the clear example here.
i havent really started using plancast yet (theres not enough of a community in miami trying it). I will say, it's one of those things that is useful, has a point, and really could crossover (unlike foursquare imho). I'm very very bullish on the product. congrats on the funding!
Why I switched to Pylons after using Django for six months
And Rhode Island. New York is the only state where they haven't (yet) shut down their Associates program, perhaps because of the size of the media industry in the state, perhaps because it's such a big state.

With California looking to be next, we might see if the latter consideration is the dominant one.
I'm upset that Opera's text-to-speech feature has been busted in their recent releases. Instead of reading long articles on my computer, I prefer to have my computer read them to me. I find it to be much easier to get through wall-of-text articles that way because it requires so much less effort. However, it still requires more focus than reading because you can't skim and it's harder to backtrack.
I hate the macho startup cliche as much as you. 100 hour weeks don't help a startup - they hurt - and it's never a good idea to dig a hole deeper than you can get out of.

But if you count your own time, which is worth AT LEAST $20/hour (if not $100), then you aren't going to get very far if you're only willing to commit $1000. Even if you don't count your own time, many opportunities require significantly more than $1K.

Success in a startup comes from tenacity more than anything else. If you aren't willing to make a real commitment (as the GP was suggesting), you're setting yourself up to fail.
It's two different things:

- one, quantum computers can theoretically do factoring in polynomial time and therefore theoretically break schemes such as RSA (such schemes are proven secure provided that some computational problem is intractable -- in the quantum world the problem becomes tractable)

- two, you can theoretically use entanglement to achieve "perfect cryptography". The "perfectness" result is an absolute impossibility result in physics, and therefore no computer (classic or quantum) can break it. Details on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_cryptography

The article refers to number two, although in a rather non-technical manner.

Edit: clarifications.
As far as I know they've shut down the Affiliate programs in every other state that's done this, except for New York (I think the others are North Carolina and Rhode Island).
That's been going on for a long time: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Qt_(framework)&...
Suster mentions that success is measured in years. How do you measure success consistently in such a rapidly evolving industry?

Any regrets on those 'missed companies' that are making it after being denied financing?
I've heard one argument that posits one of the causes for this rift is the prohibitive costs of legacy computer hardware/software. The old 286 in my father's office growing up probably ran him $4,000 - $5,000. If you can imagine paying a much larger chunk of your income for a home PC that was not designed with modularity or expandability in mind you can begin to see why the boomer generation is so careful around electronics.
A great point, and it's important to remember that this effect also maps to public choice theory in government or excessive compensation of management in the non-profit sector (though statistically I believe it is lower than in private entities), where the incentives in some ways can make it even harder to prevent abuse.
Really basic: http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimiza...

My tips (once you understand the really basic): http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2009/04/search-engine-op...

HN comments on my tips: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=553613
I used to use dmenu in Linux, which used just a few kilobytes of memory, wasn't running all the time in the background and was fast...

My point was how little memory Alfred uses when compared the Quicksilver or Google QSB (the latter currently taking up 39MB at the moment).

[I just noticed this reply was an example of this: http://xkcd.com/386/]
The future of Firefox's Javascript execution engine
This page could really benefit from a screenshot or if you're feeling adventurous, a screencast.

I don't want to commit to downloading this app without seeing how it functions. I understand it lets me back up to S3, but how?

I dare say if you add these images, your conversion rates will skyrocket.

Assuming this is your site, anyway.