skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea, nice. I just got through listening to David on stanford podcast. Unlearn your mba.

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=2334

After listening to it. I wanted to pick a fight, not because I need to grow a site[which i think is clever] because I think some of the stuff they say are plain wrong and they know it.

Sometimes, I get the sense they are doing it for publicity, but there are a lot of young and upcoming entrepreneurs that look up to them, and they have a responsibility to be accurate.
Devices like the Amazon Kindle and Apple iPhone are jailed against any unauthorized consumer use, guarded by strict but unproven new federal laws against jailbreaking them.

What laws is he referring to? DCMA?
I think Steve's generally succinct responses would be better acclimated to the Twittersphere. Steve should start tweeting, but I think even he knows his "reality distortion field" defies the laws of the Twitterverse.
"Instead of plastering every available inch with an advert, showing restraint and allowing few ads on a platform will likely increase their effectiveness and value."

In the age of A/B testing, this is just incredibly stupid logic. If Myspace has 17 ads on a page, it's most likely because multivariate testing showed that 17 was the optimal number in terms of their eCPM.

It's always humorous when some guy with a blog assumes he knows better than the company with a zillion page views per day and access to abundant performance metrics.
For a little background, John Gruber tweeted "Someone should make a Tumblr site for (and only for) these Steve Jobs email replies." earlier today. It seems a few people have ran with the idea. He's retweeted[1] about 6 of them now, this one seems to be the most complete though.

[1] http://twitter.com/gruber
Are you interested in actually developing the software, or building a team of people who will develop the software?

If you see yourself in a development role, the CS path is a good one, as long as it has some Software Engineering mixed in. If you are going more for a leadership role, you can probably skip the CS as long as you know enough to tell the difference between good and bad programmers, and focus your time on Software Engineering primarily. I highly recommend the book Rapid Development for a good starting point (in factg it may be all you need) and Systemantics for an interesting (and humorous) look at the fact that all complex systems operate in a (partial) state of failure, and why.
Does the author think that advertisers and web designers are idiots? If the websites could increase click-through rates just by decreasing ad density, why wouldn't they?
I don't see why there cannot be AB testing with fewer ads. The point I was working towards was that there is so much clutter we ignore most of them.

That means Myspace may earn more money but the ads are not as effective. As soon as a more efficient channel is found Myspace is dumped. We see this issue happen over and over.
+1 to kgermino . The difference is I will notice the ads now instead of train myself to not see them.
A/B testing as in: Case A is showing one ad, case B is showing two. B wins. Then Case A is showing two, and Case B is showing 3. Sixteen tests later, they hit their peak revenue.

Actually, they probably leave some money on the table: they'll get a higher net present value if they reduce the number of people who quit in disgust, and for some people, the disgust from ads is cumulative. Thus, 20 ads might get them more revenue per page, but fewer page views in the future.
You can flip to Bloomberg in two years if you're good.
Well...I would encourage you to write a blog post about why you think they are wrong, then you can start a conversation.

At the very least, it will force you to think through your positions to be able to defend them properly. It's a worthwhile exercise, plus you have the added benefit of it likely receiving a spike of traffic.
It'd be interesting if this is how Google & Adobe get together to push back against Apple.
How to write a tty hijacking/sniffing program in C?
As the title specifies, I want to do this for educational purposes, just to see how possible it is, with or without root on Linux.

Any ideas?
This will go a long way to stopping Jobs from replying to emails.
Over at PIC there's some interesting discussion by people who have been watching Palm's finances for some time:
http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/6496/webos-svp-leaves-pal...
Unfortunately, this seems to be completely wrong. In fact, the medium with the most measurably successful ads is the infomercial--it's 100% ad. For any purchase intent-driven Google query, you can be pretty sure that most of the top ten search results are 'ads' (i.e. someone is spending time or money on getting those pages to rank better, in order to sell a product), and that business is growing fast.

It's unfortunate that people in the best position to talk about ads also find them distasteful.
I doubt it. Every email already gets a ton of press. How much higher profile could they be? Jobs knows exactly what he's doing with the responses.
Archaeologists find door to the afterlife
This is a nice idea : http://github.com/paulirish/html5readiness.com/issues/closed...
"grab the sdk...."

Man, you are doing it wrong.
Ask PG: HN Outage
About 20 minutes ago HN was down for me and downforeveryoneorjustme.com. I know it didn't last log but I'm just curious about what happened.
That "partnership with Cartoon Network" is advertising!
Some of the complaints are contradictory. Women are "pushed into management positions" and not allowed to be "individual contributors", yet find actually sitting down and writing code unbearable, and apparently desire lots of human interaction. Isn't that what the management job offers?

However, I have found some of the things mentioned to be true, particularly the bit about women placing a lot of weight on their academic success.
Understood. I'm not talking about effectiveness for the publisher but for the marketer. As a consumer the more ads I see in a single space the more likely I am to remember none of them.

My point is that there is a balance and ad rates are falling in over-populated mediums because we know that the better chance people have of seeing the ads the higher chance we have of catching their interest.

A startup I am watching which is trying this is influads.com
I think the difference is that an infomerical is effectively one ad. Personally I am not against marketing / ads at all, I just think they need to be utilized properly.

The scenario I am speaking of is more akin to playing 4 infomercials at once. Suddenly neither really catch our attention and have the chance to suck us in like playing one infomercial does.
For certain types of products, you don't need any business connections. A well-rounded technical founder working on a product on the side has practically no costs. With enough market savvy and a good business model, this developer can grow the product into a profitable business without taking on outside investment. If later on there is a need for outside investment, my guess is that the profitability of the business works more in the founder's favor than the connections of a business cofounder. Besides, if the technical founder wants connections, he/she can get them. It's not that hard to network.
AT&T Fail: Coachella Has an iPhone App But No Actual iPhone Service
I restarted it after changing some code. It takes about a minute to restart. I'm surprised you haven't seen this before, since HN gets restarted every couple days.
Perhaps I'm less sensitive, but I've noticed no more slow downs than any other OS I've used before.

Not that I'm loyal to any particular platform but I feel a need to voice that I like many of the things MS has done with 7, and that arguments that OS X (at least the UI, I still prefer the *nix environment for development) is far better are just not true anymore. I also enjoy the other desktops like Gnome or IceWM, but 7 is my favorite so far in terms of UI experience.
IPhone 4G: is this it?
Yes, but with my Facebook friends I have taken a decidedly different tack. That is, friends don't let friends play Farmville. My friends don't play Farmville because my friends don't play Farmville. If someone where to, they would be ridiculed. :)
The fact that The Matrix is 11 years old, and the N64 14, have similar effects.

I wonder if part of it has to do with that the older you get, the more of your life you remember. When I was 5 (which I don't remember), I probably couldn't remember what it was like to be younger than 4 - in other words, I could only remember 20% of my life. When I was 10, I could probably remember about half my life. Now that I'm 23, my earliest memories are around age 7: I remember more than two thirds of my life. But I think that, while growing up, I sort of got used to most of my life being unremembered - so when I'm faced with how much of it I now remember, I somehow feel uncomfortably far from my memory horizon. Thinking about the fact that I've lived more than half my life since the release of the N64, which I remember reasonably well, is disorienting.
I wish http://www.fakesteve.net/ could be as succinct.
This is my first sighting of another Memphian here on HN! Thanks for sharing the lead, I'll pass it on to my dev friends.
Interesting, and no I've never noticed. I guess I've just been lucky or something. Thanks!
I suppose the existence of a Tumblr business model could actually get in the way of a larger entity acquiring them.

StackOverflow got caught with a model that didn't work for them and pivoting wasn't super smooth.
You know in the good old days we called it SPAM, today we call it 'social integration'.
While it's cool to note that Obama's involved in social media, his appearance in this essay seems a bit tenuous. Roger Caillois is repeatedly quoted and torn down again. His definition of a game is suspect. I don't think immediately think of a game as "free from obligation." To me, it smells like a straw man.

All that aside, I think his analysis of how Zynga made/makes money is pretty fair. The idea of social capital is crucial. But, why is Zynga depicted as evil--even sociopathic--for utilizing that social capital, while Facebook appears to be treated neutrally, and our government officials are portrayed as doing the right thing?
As far as I'm aware, only mods can edit titles once they're submitted.
Is that actually the case? I'm of the impression that TMS systems 1) are audibly noisy when in use and 2) evoke activity in the scalp that can be perceived by the subject ("tingling"). Admittedly, adding sham noise would be fairly easy, but I am not sure what countermeasures are possible if the subject can "feel" when TMS is active.
This is the sort of thing that should be taught in university computing degrees -- much more interesting than CS.
You can edit stuff you submit for some amount of time but eventually the edit link goes away. I changed it for you.
If Farmville is laborious to play and aesthetically boring, why are so many people playing it? The answer is disarmingly simple: people are playing Farmville because people are playing Farmville.

Very true from what I have seen. Nobody just starts playing something like Farmville unless someone else has asked them to.

It is kind of sickening to think about how much time is lost to crap like this.
of course they can, that's how the moral compass works.
Developers will be limited by the lowest common denominator.

This is always true, but it also is always qualified by "of the audience they intend to reach". If you're trying to reach "everyone", then your lowest common denominator is still going to be some version if Internet Explorer for some time to come--even IE9 won't support some major parts of HTML5. Beyond that, you're implicitly excluding some set of potential users -- it's only a question of which. Targeting a plugin (or bleeding-edge standards) never gets you a bigger audience than standard web technologies, just a different audience.

(Flash is really the only historical example of a plugin becoming so ubiquitous that you could safely assume that you weren't excluding many by depending on it, but that is obviously changing back to the more typical state.)

What this should mean, I think, is that the bar for developing on plugin platforms is raised. The smaller the installed base, the more valuable the experience you have to deliver for it to be worth your while, and the user's. I think this is as it should be. The only developers who will choose to limit themselves so will be the ones that weren't really doing anything that necessitated the plugin in the first place.

Don't like that Apple has chosen H.264 over VP8 or Theora?

If you don't like that, you probably aren't using Mobile Safari in the first place.
Why did you restart the server? I thought one of the points of arc was that it allowed you to change the code without restarting.
I guess I don't really see why such an announcement has to be made in conjunction with Adobe. YouTube already keeps several different versions of a video encoded at different settings and with different codecs. If they were to release VP8, I assume that they would just keep VP8 copies for HTML 5 and other copies for other players and/or user settings.

While it would be nice to see Flash Player integrate VP8, Adobe's cooperation doesn't seem critical to me.
I can only dream of being so direct and to the point.
Where do the Statisticians go? With the CS group, I'm sure, but more specifically, my understanding is that a statistician created R, and thus it suits the statistical mind better than Matlab and Mathematica.
More links:

http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~lmpo/lenna/Lenna97.html

http://ndevilla.free.fr/lena/
Anyone know if RPy is any good?

http://rpy.sourceforge.net/
I did read all of what you wrote. It's like two sentences.

I know that you mentioned Theora, but you imply that the same case is applicable with VP8. You said "The same article could be applied to the Theora v. H264 tests...", i.e., Theora and VP8 both demonstrate an advantage due to unfair testing and not real-world improvements. Nobody knows that because nobody has been able to test VP8 independently thus far.

Your post implies that the author claimed the test results were not representative of the codec's true performance. The author made no such implication; he only noted that there is no unbiased verification or corroboration of those results.
can you easily update data feeds to illustrator without having to redo your drafted work?
I read in a medical text that sham treatments are possible, but I didn't see there details of what must be done to make the sham indistinguishable from the studied treatment. I don't recall seeing anything about feelings in the scalp of patients when I read that source.
Sure, because BS on user interface is more important than logic, automata theory, and complexity. If you don't like the Science in Computer Science you can always go to the Humanities side of the campus and engage in intellectual circle jerks with a buch of self-important morons.
Dell did.
Even if the source told the reporter the names, all she's got is her word, and that's not enough evidence for the New York Times to print something like that. (And for good reason: it shouldn't be possible to smear someone without evidence, not to mention that the paper would be vulnerable to a libel suit.) You mention 'documentary proof,' but there's no suggestion in the story that she has any.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting that she's not telling the truth -- just that reasonable journalistic standards sometimes result in important information being withheld.
I think the OP may just have felt uncomfortable with American gun culture, not literally in fear of his life. Americans' relationships with their guns are far more intense than anything you'll find in Canada. I live in one of the most conservative parts of Canada. Plenty of people here own guns, but they aren't a way of life the way they are in parts of the US.
JQuery Special Events
Summary: Spend more time right-sizing the structure of the application then counting cycles.

Underestimating the complexity of a task, like performance tuning or algorithm choice, is not caused by a simple maxim. It is a lack of experience, or a bit of hubris. Programmers are people.
It just seems like, if this catches on, external control of such a dump would threaten Apple's PR department pretty extensively. Perhaps the emails have been excusable heretofore because it's not all that common that they come up and get "tons of press", as you claim, or because they figured those isolated emails that do get attention are relatively harmless and not a big deal as independent, one-off stories.

For instance, I check HN a lot, and I used to check reddit a lot, and I've heard of perhaps only two of these emails. Most of them do not cast Jobs in an overtly positive light. It's a publicist's nightmare, basically, because they lose control of the image.

And Apple is all about image. I don't know, I just think that there will be a lot of internal pressure on Jobs to stop emailing people who may go and repost the conversation verbatim. He might not stop, we all know that Jobs has a general contempt for business-as-usual and does what he wants, but making a thing like this just seems to kind of be "looking a gift horse in the mouth", as it were, because most CEOs have the sense not to even try personal responses to customer complaints or feedback for the reasons mentioned in this post.
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"If Myspace has 17 ads on a page, it's most likely because multivariate testing showed that 17 was the optimal number in terms of their eCPM."

There probably have been a lot of models showing that asset prices will not go down more than x%, because they have not gone down more than x% anytime in the last n years for which we happen to have data.

Similarly, 17 ads on a page might maximize eCPM today. But it is also possible that showing 17 ads on a page today could lead to fewer users visiting the site tomorrow. In other words, it is difficult to design an A/B test that takes into account long term effects on your business.
You can of course perform experiments to see whether the author is correct. Those sorts of social experiments should also be part of a computing degree.
"Does this mean we are becoming better citizens? Ninety-seven percent of American teenagers play video games.[4] Does this mean they will become more politically active? Before you dismiss these questions, keep in mind that in October 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama became the first U. S. Presidential candidate to advertise in video games"

I stopped reading at this lapse in logic.

Besides, how can one cite Caillois without citing Huizinga. Caillois admits his project is little more than a commentary on Homo Ludens.
IPhone 4G hands-on
Wait until an update breaks something. Desktop Linux is better than it was, but the user-friendliness is still only an inch thick.
I suspect this comment would not have been downvoted had it not mentioned the word "astrology".
They probably have done A/B testing, but often it's over very short periods. It may be that 17 ads is better than 5 ads in a 2-week test, but over a year period underperforms, which is somewhat hard to test. In particular, it's fairly hard to A/B test over multiple sessions in a way that consistently assigns the same users to group A v. group B each time they visit the site, to measure long-term/cumulative effects, like the hypothesized "more ads over an extended period induces ad-blindness". With logged-in users, a site like MySpace could do that, but then you run into additional social problems: if over an extended period some people are getting 5 ads and some people are getting 17, the people getting 17 are going to start noticing and be angry.
(with no disrespect to the above poster who is really trying to help)

Dear Young people who are getting out of college, stop listening to all the people who say to do this and do that to fit in Instead, use your smarts and do anything you like that will get you what you want and learn from your mistakes.
The time isn't necessarily "lost" if it substitutes for other forms of human "social grooming".
I find the idea of "sociopathic applications" mentioned in the second last paragraph interesting. I wonder what other applications could be included in that. World of Warcraft? I guess even twitter and facebook are in extreme usage. There's no attempt by those companies to stop people excessively using their services, beyond the point where its beneficial to the individual and only beneficial to the company.
They don't publish statistics, but at their rates ($7,900 a day, sheesh) I find it hard to believe they'd have repeat customers if it didn't work. The list of companies advertising includes a lot I've seen every single month since the network started, so I think that's a good indication.
I do that for small changes and to test stuff, but when you're copying and pasting code into the repl it would be easy for the code in memory to diverge from the code on disk.

Plus there are certain things that happen at startup, and if you typed code into the repl that broke one of these, you wouldn't know.
I actually expected to read a blog post talking about how Gruber's basically become Apple's official blogger in the wake of Steve Jobs replying to an email about the 3.3.1 fiasco redirecting the person he was writing to to Gruber's blog post defending the changes.
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At least you noticed that you were wasting time. But the reason why people keep playing is not because of the others. The others are the reason why they start, they keep on playing because of the fake sense of achievement this game delivers.
See Jessse Schells talk from DICE for details.
The issue he's addressing, clarified, is, "What if we had a source of infallible (moral) knowledge?"

Er, that's not a clarification of "The situation I envision is a machine that can be programmed to produce some set of "morality" as it were."

It's a completely different thing.
it might work for advertisers, but as these guys themselves say: "We’re not selling The Deck based on page views or hits or click-through, but if we were, the CPM for a buy here would be priced well below industry norms."

So according to themselves, the publishers running these ads are making less money than they would with any other program.
We hope you consider applying to YC.
Actually designing those tests is easy. The trouble is that in order to run them you need to be tracking data over a long period of time, and executives lack the necessary attention span.

The second problem is that one of the costs of excessive advertising is to your brand. And testing things that affect your brand is something that A/B testing is not good for.
I wonder how much of an image corpus you can get from Wikimedia (CC) files.
Placing you automatically in the working directory of the active app is a neat feature. These pop-up/pull-down consoles are common in "alternative" Linux window managers, e.g. Ion3 comes with one built-in (hit alt+space), and there's 'yeahconsole', 'guake', etc., to add the functionality to others, but afaik none of them can do this directory magic.
I had never seen the original, full picture. There's something in the background that's somewhat disturbing...
pretty cool site. Found 4 or 5 new sites i see myself using in the future.
Blackberry lowers developer's revenue share to 70%
Incanter is really shaping up. I can't say enough good things about it.