skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's young. One of the benefits of that condition is the right to reinvent the wheel now and then, and coin new words for old things. Note I am not being sarcastic, merely pointing out the truth.
When an otherwise quality work is marred by a few errors the responsible thing to do is submit an errata report to the author. However, when a work is so low quality that every single page appears to contain a glaring error, as seems to be the case here, the responsible thing to do is warn others away from it with as loud a voice as possible
That's even more wrong and kind of makes me want to kill myself. But it is more clear, so it's definitely better than hyphens without the spacing.

What's wrong with "to-day--a good day--is..."?
India to get first BPO behind bars
BPO = Business Process Outsourcing
Agreed, node development is going at a breakneck pace, but you should count on your code not working 6 months down the line without at least as few tweaks.

BTW, the new Buffer objects are awesome, and provide massive speed increases with binary data.
headline is a little misleading, because each company is in the $1Million range with total of $50M according to presentation.
Interesting part is the forward looking statement of a $1B revenue expectation on open source. Would like to see how they got there.
I want a general purpose kindle: interface economy and value rather than "bliss"
i guess an ipad with e-ink and a keyboard

something great on the eyes, reserving battery life for performance rather than flashy graphics that people adjust to FAR faster than most ever adjust to interactions that were clearly afterthoughts to gradients and bevels

something that lets me connect to a worldwide plethora of apis across the web to just get stuff done quickly and easily with no fuss, understanding that i appreciate good design as much as anyone, and that good design is about building things that are useful for people BEYOND my grandma and that real UI doesn't need gloss

something that frees developers to innovate, rather than worry about the graphic heavy table stakes jobs et al. threw down

anyone else?
In other words, work produced by lonely geniuses is quite likely to go unnoticed.

It’s not quite as depressing as that. I recently made a quaint little site for a band and it has exactly zero other sites linking to it. It’s the first result when you search for the name of the band (which is town-name+generic-term-used-in-bandnames).

This only works with stuff that’s rare on the web, though. If there were other bands with the same name and if someone linked to them my little website would probably get swamped. (The same would presumably happen if someone were to write a blog post about the band – say, a scathing review of their last gig – and if that one post gets only a handful of links. Hm, so getting a few links seems at least like a good defense in such cases. Luckily many of the band’s target demographic aren’t actually all that internet savvy :)
I can belive that. What worries me is if you do need it that they cant get at it quickly enough.

As for distances though im not sure if I would care to be waiting hours following a Taipan bite considering how neurotoxic the venom is and how much they can inject.
I understand why Google would want to use Java in their app platform. But if they didn't have the resources to get JIT working before now, wouldn't gcj (or hell, write your own java-to-machine-code compiler, clearly Google isn't scared of writing compilers) have been better than using a non-JITed VM?
You have indeed said it before - but with all due respect ww.com is perhaps one of the shittiest websites I have ever had the displeasure to visit. From the horrific UI, to the icky spywarish ambiance, your website exudes an aura of danger.

I am no fan of Mahalo, but before you run around telling people that they are wasting their time on shit, how about you make sure you aren't excreting any yourself.
One thing this commentator (and others) gets wrong is the emphasis on the place of flash orders in this process. What they seem to be missing is that flash isn't automatic, it is selected by the sender. In this example, the implication is that the buyers of broadcom were disadvantaged by flash orders, but if flash orders were involved at all, then they would have been selected by those very same buyers, who would presumably not have disadvantaged themselves. Flash is an attempt by the more technically sophisticated markets (DirectEdge and BATS) to provide a service to customers who were tired of slow execution on some exchanges causing their orders to be faded. Any time that I see someone complaining about this, I suspect that they either don't understand it, or that they are being paid by someone at the slower markets (e.g. NYSE) to spread FUD.
I think that from "I spent about a decade on the C committee—and [2] unlike Schildt, I actually showed up [..]" we can assume that he has some kind of history with the person in question [1].

Peter seems also to get quite some share of hate mail [3].
Despite all that and the tone of the book review I think he is quite right about the bad quality of the book.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writings_of_Herbert_Schildt
[2] Peter Seebach, http://www.seebs.net/res-w.html
[3] http://www.seebs.net/humor/hate.html
Same thing we learned (or didn't learn) from CueCat and the 90's Push craze?
Does Poetry Matter?
Regardless of whether or not it should, Asperger's (and related terms like "aspie" and "spectrum-y") can have derogatory connotations.
I'm as identifiable as can be, and I have not hidden in any way what I've been up to in the past. I speak to JC as myself, with my name and reputation in full view, not as some anonymous entity (like you are).

But, you're absolutely right that ww.com is nothing to be proud of (and believe me, I'm not), other than that it has managed to stay alive for 12 years and counting against pretty strong competiton.

The horrific UI is there because I suck as a designer and because for the longest time I simply wished for it to die so I could get on with my life. That's a long story, maybe one day I'll write it up, the word 'depression' should probably figure in it somewhere and I countered that by building windmills on a very sparsely populated island in Northern Ontario, Canada.

The content is a matter beyond my control, I've been upset about it since day one and I've tried very hard to keep it in check but there seems to be no way of stopping the influx of jerks. The current balance is just about as good as I can get it.

As for the the difference between mahalo and ww.com, the second that I find a way to diversify I'm out of the webcam business, I've made that more than clear in other posts, but at least it does not pollute another resource that is useful, such as search results. The last four years have been an endless succession of trial balloons, none of which had enough air in them to go very far.

And I don't have the illusion that I have the business acumen of JC either, even though I've been around the block, I attribute most of the success to simply blind luck.

I'm grateful for the chance it gave me to learn though, and it has allowed me to materially improve the lives of a fair number of people in ways that would have otherwise been absolutely impossible, and it introduced me to a large number of very nice people.

Ww.com has caused people to find each other and get married, and has caused people to get divorced. People were born on the webcam (and Elephants too!) and died there, after long bouts with disease. It's an indelible part of the early history of the internet, and it was at times lots of fun to be part of it. And at other times an enormous headache.

Thanks for the feedback by the way, I'll definitely try to improve things.

Think of ww.com as the millstone around my neck that somehow keeps me alive.

Feel free to tell me how to turn this around for the better, I'm open to any and all suggestions, I've been struggling with this for longer than I care to remember.
Making a local web server public with localtunnel
If he said "Zuckerberg is a cancer on the internet" would you have the same response? Asperger's is an illness. It is a bad thing.
You are missing the point. A few years ago, I wouldn't have had to pay so much, now I do. How is that good, that I now have to pay more for each transaction, while these companies make the difference?

It means I will buy less shares of other companies. I will have less money, for the same goods.
Always link to the original source, not the blog. The blurb reveals nothing useful, so here is the original WSJ article:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870425010457523...

But of course, even this doesn't reveal much. They don't have a product, a demo, a price, or even a clue, so how is this news?

The only reason to make vague statements like this now, would be to steal some of Apple's thunder and future sales. Frankly, I don't care what other companies "might" have a year from now; of course competitors are working on things, that's what they are expected to do. But there is a massive chasm between "scribbled on the back of a napkin last week" and "produced a working, shipping, price-competitive embedded product", and it sure looks like these guys just finished their napkin.
Games Criminals Play – How You Can Profit By Knowing Them
Ask HN: Do You Use a Web App to Manage Paid Search?
My startup wants to get more serious about SEM. Do most folks here who spend money on paid search use a management tool (like Clickable, SpeedPPC, Kenshoo, ClickEquations, etc.) or "do it by hand"? If you use a tool, what do you use?
They had to give the FB app developers some alternative to newsfeed notifications to keep them from getting to enraged when their primary source of recruiting users was yanked out from under them.
From what you are explaining, I doubt they know enough to know that you downloaded the files. In a case where the CC's are stored in the db, it's a really easy mistake to make accidentally downloading the CC's by doing a db dump. I do this for many of my projects just so that I have a backup in case I screw something up. If they were worried about something like this happening then they should have warned you or put it in a contract.

Alert the client. Shred the files. Offer to fix.
Exactly the explanation I was looking for, thank you! Another helpful thought spawned from it is that most of weight of the water in the bottle is being supported by the bottle's structure itself (I think you actually meant to say that but mis-typed).
Dude, that was my polite way of saying "HINT: You don't want to be one of those people that use that word in the derogatory sense."
<sigh> It was linked with the word "amoral". Amoral is not an illness, it is a personal flaw.

It's his blog. He is allowed to call the guy a retard if he wants. I, on the other hand, don't have to like it, and it seriously detracted from selling me his POV. Just saying.
Bangkok apartment
thanks for sharing.
The thing that confuses me about these scenarios is that it seems to assume too much on the part of the inmates, that they have the ability to make all these extremely minor character judgements and manipulate a person who holds absolute power over them to the extent that they have them enthralled.

If they truly have such powers, why are they not somewhere else other than prison?
Cached link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Scroll to the middle of the page for article.
That's the thing, though-if there had ever been such a rumor, then OK. I don't remember ever seeing or hearing a rumor about Verizon working on an Android tablet. This is just...news. Why is it being reported as if it was a rumor that came true?
Yes, but that could have been the result of regular lightning. Which is necessary to produce the hallucination.

More damning evidence would be any video of it; there are some on YouTube, but I'm not really qualified to tell if they're believable or not.
Sure, but:

Social Gold - http://www.jambool.com

Live Gamer - http://www.livegamer.com

GamerSafe - http://www.gamersafe.com

MochiCoins - http://www.mochimedia.com

HeyZap - http://www.heyzap.com

and more...

And none charge 30%.
The Case for Robot Cars
How about us that don't have any affection for Apple's products?

Much like Facebook, I'm personally shocked by the tactics of both these companies.

People were very worked up about Microsoft and their business practices about a decade ago. Actually, I'd say people were worked up about Vista, and that is what may have opened the door more for Apple.

The big differences between the two as I see it is that the questionable business practices of Microsoft were directed at manufacturers and had a somewhat indirect effect on the end users.

for most people, did it matter if the default browser was/is IE?
This is something that mostly effected competitors, and Microsoft never said you couldn't run another browser.

By comparison, it seems the business practices at Apple affect both business and consumers.

Ignoring the app store developer stuff, it is harmful to consumers to have a company tell them what they can and cannot have on their devices.

Many people have talked about Apple having the right to decide what apps they sell, and I agree. The challenge is that they are the only store in the ecosystem, the only way to reach those customers (with the exception of the browser).

But we wouldn't allow GM to say that you can only fill up your car at Shell. Or that your flex-fuel vehicle can only run E10.

As the owner of a product, YOU get to define what you do with it. It isn't up to the manufacturer to decide.

I suspect I'm going to have the same issue with Windows 7 Phone when it comes out.

Controlled ecosystems are bad for innovation and consumers.
Voices of Reason in a Sea of Economic Insanity
1) Prison guards don't have absolute power over the cons

2) The cons don't have them entirely enthralled, but as I mention in the article, severely weakened over time, and vulnerable enough to succumb to minor rules violations that the cons use as leverage against the guards - to extract major favors

3) A lot of criminals are very intelligent and if they were born in an affluent suburb in Connecticut, they would probably end up just as powerful as many businessmen/politicians. Some criminals end up working their way out of prison and end up very powerful. Look at YM/CMB as a great example of this. (Except Lil Wayne is in jail now on a gun charge because it's all tied up with his "hood" image.)
With in-house processor design (Intrinsity), perhaps secrecy (and anti-jailbreak) is their aim:

In this scenario, they want to be able to ship an XCode and iPhoo SDK without having to distribute the source to their code generator.
Preventing Spam & Fraud with SMS Phone Verification
you'd probably want an organic synthesis chemist, not a pharmacist. and you wouldn't have time for him to have the appropriate glassware fabricated, and synthesis equipment setup. so he'd have to leave a room with it all step up properly.

...which sounds like the sort of thing you might do if you were just manufacturing it.
I can see the Penumbra engine being used to build some 90's style point-and-click adventure games in first person 3d, if someone was so inclined. Maybe even something along the lines of Myst. However those genres are probably dead for a reason.
You'll think different when you have a child.
The first public SciDB release is coming soon - before this summer. It'll be announced through scidb-news and other channels early next week.
Well... for a penny, yes.
There is a non-profit agency that looked into the safety of the drug in Mexico.

The FDA should have a rule that any drug approved by any of the following agencies is automatically approved for use in the USA.
Ask HN: Angels in India/Bay Area
Does anyone know/ have experience with angels and incubators in India with a connection to the Bay Area? I'm looking to help a social game/app startup that could benefit from an investor/advisor who has some kind of presence in the valley, and is willing to fund an Indian company based in Chennai.
I think robotic cars are inevitable. But I also think its going to take awhile. Cars will need to be able to distinguish between birds and toddlers with a deal deal of certainty.

We'll get there. And when we do, we'll see a dramatic reduction in the size of most cars and in the number of cars we'll need. A great many of us will be taking cabs instead of owning. Our houses will lose their garages and traffic systems will become realtime schedulers.

Don't get me started about robotic storage or how virtual factories will be sharing the roads with us.
[3] oddly reminds me of bash.org
I'd like to see some real world usage rather than synthetic and (mostly) meaningless benchmarks. That said, this sounds awesome. Maybe the final bump that'll push me to ditch my 2G iPhone.
8 Websites You Need To Stop Building
1: who says every inmate is doing it wholly consciously, with each step planned?

2: there are many guards and many inmates. Some inmates succeed with some guards, not all inmates with all guards.
The Myth of the Super Programming Language
Now I really want to watch The Right Stuff again.
Very true. I've already got a nice mixer, so I use it.
Yahoo to open source floating Google-Amazon crossbreed
Not sure what the point is in bashing a book thats known to be crap.
ARM versus Atom in the datacenter; a glimpse of the future...
Yes, there are a few of us sharks lurking around here on the interwebs...
Oddly enough, I believe Cracked.com has an appropriate and well timed rebuttal: http://www.cracked.com/article_18513_5-insane-file-sharing-p...
For way more background on that than you probably actually want, check the archives of comp.lang.c...
This criticism of Zuckerberg is insular and reactionary. He's due for a minor user backlash, but there is no way the most recent Facebook changes could trigger a backlash at the level of Beacon 1.0. I think this hope that Zuckerberg crashes and burns is a combination of jealousy and wishful thinking.
With all due respect, this is totally different from exec admin or exec babysitter. When we were 12 people in a small room coding and focused on our product, our do-it-all-office admins were absolutely strategic, important and appreciated by everyone in the company....and they allowed everyone to focus without distractions. And when we were acquired, our d-i-a-o-a were doing due diligence and holding their own with multiple execs and about 5 laywers. They were incredible. I'd lay down on the tracks for them now. Their job was anything but "baby-sitting". And it got each of them into top schools pursuing law and business degrees. By the way, not bad for a first job out of college.
Asperger's has nothing to do with being amoral or immoral. Asperger's people have trouble following certain more subtle social norms but that has little to do with morality.

Some of the biggest amoral criminals in the world have been very adept socially (think Goebbels or Bernie Madoff), while some people whose morality was always lauded were known to be socially awkward (e.g. Einstein).

So while Aspergers is a disorder it is completely wrong to equate it with lack of morality.
The point of using a VM was to abstract away from specific processor targets, since embedded processors run from ARM to PowerPC, MIPS, x86, and others (and multiple variants of each processor, support additional instruction sets). This allows OEMs to produce an x86 port of stuff while keeping 95% of all apps which don't need native compilation.
Why have you held onto it for so long if you wished it to die? Is there not some domainer that would pay millions for ww.com, regardless of whatever useful content may be there?
Some of the things he mention have nothing to do with Unix or Posix. __sync_*, for example, are gcc-specific. Similarly, F_GETLEASE, F_SETLEASE, and F_NOTIFY are Linux-specific fcntl() operations. And as far as I can tell, the -T option isn't included in the Posix spec for mv, either (http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/toc.htm).
They're pretty presumptuous they are about what kind of experiences people join Facebook to have.

If Facebook is a less satisfying experience for people who choose not to post photos, then why have those people chosen not to post photos? If people are unanimously less satisfied without posting their name and list of connection to the entire world, then why do some people deliberately keep that information private?

Instead of adapting to their users' actual desires, Facebook is forcing their own vision on everyone. I can't see this working out well for them in the long term. They're trying to consciously exploit the network effect they've been lucky enough to develop over the past few years, but are severely overestimating the value they create and the loyalty of their users.
It's not known to everybody, apparently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writings_of_Herbert_Schildt
Yes, I agree with you. This thread is full of one sentence comments with large numbers of points. Not exactly HN at its best.
Mozilla's Firefox 4 roadmap: faster, friendlier, more secure
I figure the N1 was just Google's attempt to jump start the Android market. It just doesn't seem like they were all that serious about it from the start.
Not that I'm aware of. If there is such a person then he's free to mail me.

The reason I held on to it for so long is that it kept my ex-wife and son alive, and I've had my share from that as well (but not in the last year and a bit).

That period is drawing to a close as we speak so within two weeks I'll be free to dispose of it as I see fit.

edit: finally.
Book Summary: "10 Days to Faster Reading" by Abby Marks-Beale
"Office Manager" is a good percentage of the role, but in a chaotic startup environment, settling on the narrower job expectations that come with that title is limiting. Our d-i-a-o-a's were doing usability studies, guerilla marketing, recruiting and other things way beyond the tranditional scope. In a startup, it is good to have generalists and people willing to stretch and do whatever it takes (even for engineers...imagine if one of your devs said "um, sorry, i only do OO, if you need a shell script for XYZ, that work is below me" or whatever...disaster)
This is kind of the general equivalent of letting someone sign your checks. I don't want anyone else signing my checks, and I don't want anyone doing anything else on my behalf.

No _startup_ CEO's time is so valuable or so scarce that they don't have time to order a fridge or a laser printer. This is for the lazy guys that enjoy having an assistant because delegating makes the feel like A Real Businessman.

I bet I could follow around any startup CEO for a day and point out 50 times he's got 20 minutes to order a fridge, or whatever.

Steve Jobs or something, sure. He really could be entirely booked up every single day all day.
I'm the post author - I know many folks who frequent HN are heavy readers, and I thought you'd find this useful. I've been using these techniques for years now, with great success - happy to answer any questions you have about the book or the techniques.
Hah, I ranted a bit about this evolutionary arms race years ago, from a different angle.

http://hamstermotor.motime.com/post/683104/the-future-of-spa...
>Actually the numbers could be much, much better than 2X.

Or the numbers could be exactly the same, either way, he's muscling in on 30% of their revenue for providing pre-existing functionality and expecting them to like it or lump it.

If it was a smaller cut, I imagine it would be a much easier pill to swallow, but 30% is just plain greed.
None of those are ubiquitous. I'm describing the network effect, making this quite relevant. Also, I'm pretty sure some of those do charge 30% regardless.

Apple takes 30%. Needing to enter only a password to pay for something (instead of a credit card) probably makes that worth it. Facebook doesn't even require the password.
I'm not brave enough for that. Everything we do is about reducing friction.
Just ask Calacanis!