skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, if you are indeed 100% alone in providing a service, I feel it's a bit of a misrepresentation to say "we" just because you want businesses as customers. But that's just a feeling.
People don't like multi-year multi-thousand-dollar commitments, even if they see an ad on Google.
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Reminded me of this http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html

Let's start by acknowledging one external factor that does
affect the popularity of a programming language. To become
popular, a programming language has to be the scripting
language of a popular system.
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If that's the problem, they should try selling the phone in Europe.
I think that a more likely reason for the strange signals is hardware failure.
People who want to change the world think their change will be an improvement, they aren't doing it "for it's own sake".
Not even the future. I'm pretty sure General Motor's OnStar service does most of this already.

THAT would be an interesting test.
Hi, I am that jnoller. And no, I wasn't trying to be rude. Yes, I want it too, I agree with Brandon, however I do not have the time to do so.

He asked for a feature; I told him I agree, but that I don't personally have the time for a patch. No drama here.
I believe this is the more correct comparison: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/duckduckgo.com+ask.com/
Ask HN: Building a desktop app that's over my head
I've always been more of an idea guy than an implementation guy. Witness my nearest claim to fame, a concept video of a next-gen desktop UI, as of yet without an interactive prototype.

My current obsession is narrower in scope: to try to shake up the staid landscape of desktop email (on the Mac, initially). I have all the basics worked out and am in the process of building a spec, but right now, I simply lack the expertise to take it to the next step. My options appear to be:

A. Complete a formal functional spec and get quotes from contract development houses. I'm able to self-fund a bit, but that probably won't be sufficient.

B. Keep ploughing through Objective-C and Cocoa books, and eventually build the whole thing myself (probably throwing out the entire codebase several times).

C. Concentrate on developing my Interface Builder and high-level Cocoa skills and find a contractor (or even a co-founder?) with the architectural chops.

Which of these is probably best for a UI designer-turned-developer? Am I missing some important alternatives?
Separately, though, I agree that you've earned your more cynical view of the average developer. You believe Colin commits something similar to the Planning Fallacy[1] by looking at the details of a secure system and his own ability to convey the details of cryptography, instead of looking at the reference class[2] of "developers who have been taught about crypto," which in your experience still gets worse results than developers who just use ssl and gpg.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_fallacy
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_class_forecasting
In that context, iPad is not really the evolution of computing, it's a specialization of one part of it.

Note that most people's experience of aviation is on airliners, which are highly specialized airplanes.
The python-multiprocessing source on google code is not canonical fwiw, you're better viewing the python.org svn version.
Ahh, a man after my own cynical heart.

While I trust you folks to not be abusive to verify this, if you were to attempt to put in the same number twice, you would get an error message telling you that to prevent spam that is not possible, but if you want to hear the demo again you can call a 877 number from the phone you want to unblock and then follow the instructions to unblock it.

That number is also the outbound caller ID for the demo calls, and explains that the demo call was scheduled by someone on the website, and if you received it in error we're sorry, etc, and you won't receive another one.

You'll note that the free demo doesn't allow folks to actually specify any of the contents of the call. (Well, technically speaking, you can manipulate the time, but that is it.)

Should some person use the paid version of the service in a malicious fashion, I'll do what the phone company would do: block their account and cooperate with the authorities.
Great article. The detail that really grabbed me was the producer watching the call volume, telling the presenter to repeat whatever they'd just said that made it spike.
Announcing the Google Model Your Town Competition winner
Transmission already fills the need for a light, small, fast torrent client.
Is this the personal mba list you are referring to: http://personalmba.com/best-business-books/

Or is there another one you find valuable?
Yeah, this is such bullshit, frankly. Most people use Ask.com, not Askjeeves.com which was retired years ago.
You know, what I think is that this business is not going to work. There just seem so many things unusual about it. If you cross $1500 a month, you're going to have to give a detailed break-down of what made it work, because I bet I would learn a lot.

Just looking at it, my instinct is saying "nah", so if I can retrain and learn some new stuff that would be very useful.
My first thought was that this must be a joke at Facebook's expense.
I don't remember hearing this, mainstream media was so focused on floor mats and sticky accelerators and what not. Are you saying that while the car was accelerating the computer overrode the driver braking and failed to apply any brakes? Source?
Cool. Is Rubinius faster than 1.8.6 or even 1.9? Was that the goal? Or is it just a 1.0 milestone where the project is compatible enough to meet the 1.8.6 ruby language spec and native libs?
I make no comment on the purpose of this tool, but I strongly recommend serving your Javascript, if not the whole site, under httpS. If you are going to tell everyone to run arbitrary Javascript in the context of their Facebook sessions, at least take precautions that this code will not be modified in-flight.
I said this in a reply to another comment, but it's worth repeating. Yes, brandon is right, there is a difference, albeit an intentional one. I agree with him that having an option to force this behavior to match across platforms is desirable, however, I do not currently have the time to implement it myself.

So, in short; I agree, patch welcome or we wait until I or someone else has the time to do it.
Apple Responds To Adobe’s Ad
Study: White and black children biased toward lighter skin
Yea just realized it's a backport, I'm looking at the python.org version now.
OK, so Flash isn't necessary to access YouTube, and that is one of Flash supporter's main arguments.

Not sure making that point deserves a -4.
EDIT: Updated to reflect that it passed that domains traffic... I wasn't trying to be link-baity!
> Just like you can't get unpregnant

Um. There are several legal and safe-enough ways to get "unpregnant".
What is shocking is not that DDG is gaining in popularity (I've been using it) but that AskJeeves still exists.
Faceblock: Mac utility to selectively block facebook.com requests
For me, scanning personal information and scanning friends, tags, connections information ... both seem to take a long time (now been ~20 minutes).

I'm running Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2
Great. We have a similar concept already in there for that. Good to know there is some demand for it.
Webkit briefly was KHTML, but the past 7-8 years of development clearly distinguished one from the other. Apple sends the changes they've made back to the KHTML folks, but as I understand it, KHTML hasn't simply adopted all of Apple's changes lock-stock-and-barrel.
Oh GRUB2, how I love and hate thee.

I have an operating system my friends and I have been building for the last few years, and I'm glad to see GRUB2 happen in theory, but the lack of documentation makes it really rough to actually program for.
My buddy Justin wrote this last night: simple menubarlet to redirect facebook.com requests to a local webserver when you want. Using this and a sensible privacy setting ought to make Facebook much more amenable to privacy types.
Ask HN: voiceover hacks
I was wondering if anybody had any useful recommendations/hacks for recording a professional voiceover for a screencast. I know there are many companies who offer the service professionally, but are there any who specialise in doing a good job but at startup rates? Has anybody experimented using freelance or crowd-sourced solutions? Or does anybody have any recording tips? Any help gratefully appreciated :-)
3 things I wish somebody would build
That's also incredible disingenuous. Most people think of Ask.com when you say AskJeeves, because that's what it IS.

Except that statement is not factual. Like I said on IRC, you might as well have submitted something saying "DUCKDUCKGO IS NOW MORE POPULAR THAN A SHIT SANDWICH!".

It may be true, but it's pointless.
If I could ask a question to Gabriel, it would be: Where does your users that aren't from HN/reddit/etc come from? How do they learn about your site?
http://svn.python.org/view/python/tags/r265/Modules/_multipr...

Am I looking in the right place?
Some simple, but commercially solid, Startup ideas
Are We Really Dumb Zucks?
Wow, Aditya, why would you try to fool us like that? Are you some kind of spam-tastic linkbaiter?
Students Can Use Google Earth in Geography Exams
Phishing servers being killed off faster than ever
The problem for Adobe is that you can't win this battle with just any old killer product, only a killer application. It has to be software that does something people need, and does it significantly better than anyone else's software. Adobe doesn't want to write a killer application, it wants to control the killer platform.

And in the technology world today, I'm not sure there is any such thing.
> I understand how to press Account -> Privacy Settings and toggle as I wish

Do you understand how to do it after every change they make?
This is a totally content-free post, complete with a disturbing and irrelevant image of someone committing suicide.
Twitter Forgets to Abstract, Again
As far as the data goes, I believe you'll be able to get something going relatively easily that is a good enough replacement.

If you can ditch the custom UI for the app, that will help, as again, that's much harder in the Android world than the iPhone world to start with.

If all else fails, for a V1 (if this is only readonly), you can always write a program to dump your database into a java class which "hardcodes" the data.

Remember, you can update to the store in seconds on android. No review process, takes only 20 minutes or so to sign up for the whole developer account.

Additionally, this Really got me when I started with it: You can't see the paid apps on the android store if you don't link your phone to a google account with a valid google checkout profile. I made a fake google account on the dev phone (which I wasn't sure I was keeping), and was confused as hell during the upload process because of this.
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yup, close enough, though here's trunk: http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/multiprocessing/
It's a wise move for Google and was likely planned from the outset. Google, primarily an advertising company, was just looking for a way to generate interest in their new mobile platform. It's unlikely that they were planning to stay in the retail mobile phone market for the long term.
I think you also need to be connected to roll out a successful start-up.
Warning ahead of time: this review will be critical. I understand this might all be explained away by MVP, but I will give you the notes anyways.

I clicked first to your product site. It looks terrible. I almost thought it was a Web 2.0 parody site because of how poor the assets look. The green color of the background doesn't appeal to me at all. Try using a site like http://www.colourlovers.com/ to pick a proper color scheme. The gradients all have visual banding. The rounded corners are too much. The header bar is clearly influenced by Apple's website, but it looks worse - like a crappy knockoff of a genuine article. There is no catchy wording that explains (concisely) what is going to happen or what this site is. The typography is bad (no headlines? why?).

I clicked Try Demo. First thing I noticed was the calendar. I clicked around a bit on it and liked it, but I ditched the site right after that.

I went to read your blog post next. It all made sense, and I think you have a good plan. I just didn't get close to entering my phone number or experiencing the magic of having it ring. I know that would have impressed me a lot, and I think its not front and center enough. I went back to your site afterwards and I noticed that you have a big paragraph explaining the phone call demo on your calendar page. I had never read the text, I just skipped it and my eyes focused first on the pretty AJAXy calendar.

Try to emphasize the coolness of the phone call demo. Use nice typography and a catchy headline to call my attention to it. Go look at 37signals landing page again. "A better way to work". OK now I am intrigued. Definitely show off your cool AJAX calendar, but don't let it steal the show. The phone call is the magic. Emphasize that.

Hope this helps.
No, I _entered_ the discussion by responding to you...

OP was about new media, communications tech, iPads, etc. The parent post was about more of the same. Your response implied that TV didn't have a positive effect on education; which you didn't state explicitly, but your comment could only make sense to someone who understood the larger context of the discussion. So my bringing in media other than TV would seem to be OK.

It's impossible to discuss the effects of media in isolation from history, precedence and context. Okay, that isn't true; but I would argue it's impossible to _usefully_ discuss the effects of media, especially a mass communication medium, like television, without looking at it in a broader context.

If anything, it seems to me that you've taken a useful discussion and tried to limit its scope to a single point of supposed failure and tried to extend that failure to the entire topic. And rather than to responding to any of my points directly, you are arguing about form and context. I hope you'll excuse me if I tried to drag the discussion back toward relevance...

Television has had a massive effect on education in many parts of the world. Some first world, some third world. I could list hundreds (thousands) of shows that have been considered a success and have affected mass audiences. Do you really need me to make such a list? Start with Sesame Street, the Bell Labs science series, oh, I don't know, nearly every PBS station's daytime instructional schedule for the last 40 years. In many third world countries broadcast television is the major source of daily schooling. I'm talking teacher and black board somewhere else and children in a remote area gathered around the village TV set hooked up to a satellite dish. (These days I suspect this scene is played out out with internet satellite based technology.) Someone is watching all that TV. And notice that I'm not even considering whether or not the explosion of Discovery/Learning/A&E/DIY/Indie type channels are of educational value (I vote yes.)

If you want to do some additional reading on the subject, I can recommend Arthur Clarke's excellent collection of essays on the subject of modern communications technology _How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village_.

No if you want to argue that the bulk of TV is junk, I wouldn't disagree with you, hence my reference to Sturgeons Law. If you wanted to argue that the infrastructure for TV, and most mass communication in general (opps!!! there I go again!!!) is funded and driven by things other than purely educational goals, many of them not so noble... Whelp, yep, you're right. But so what? That doesn't make the education benefits not there, and that doesn't mean that the technology is worthless (I would argue, as I did, that what you think is education and what other people might find of value in broadening and enlightening their world might be different.)

As someone who grew up when TV was (relatively) rare, and has lived to see such an explosion in instant, nearly frictionless mass communication, I find it incredible that someone could think that TV has had little positive effect on education. Color me puzzled...
reminds me of skymall exposes:

http://www.worldhum.com/features/travel-stories/a-pilgrimage...
http://www.slate.com/id/2164517/pagenum/all/#p2
Thanks, and a note: under FFox3.5/Linux, I noticed a small delay before the title fonts (Agnes Nutter style ;-) loaded over something simpler. More interestingly, I cannot select the words "Appendix A" to copy elsewhere. I checked the source, and see they're in style ( h1:before{content:"Appendix A:"} ).

Curiously, under Konqueror 4.3 I can highlight those words, together with the rest of the title, but pasting (either X or ^c^v) also misses them ...
Why is this being voted up?
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Chrome OS Screenshots Highlight Google's Apps
The audio was recorded, but I don't think it's available yet.
> Making time for documentation, automation, cross-training ...

Inside an existing company I would totally agree with you. I'm not in any way advocating for the job-security hoarder of information.

Being a freelancer, when I've been presented with this question it always seems like they really mean "but we could hire 5 coders from massive outsourcing company X for the same price". It is frustrating to try and convey the idea that, even when various metaphorical bus accidents are taken into account, the large well known company is not necessarily the safest option.

No amount of documentation or automation will assure someone who really just wants to be able to say "I chose IBM, it's not my fault it went wrong".
Facebook launches new security feature
If I or someone else can use this to solve the problem of moving data files, I'll be a happy camper.

This is a HUGE issue for me, as I'd like to consolidate torrents split across 3 drives (I realize I shouldn't have done things that way in the first place... but it happened organically)

Since most of them are on private trackers, I don't just want to stop sharing them, and moving 50+ torrent/data files is currently a nightmare.

It's on the current suggestion list (http://utorrentideas.uservoice.com/forums/47263-general/sugg...).
The biggest goal, at least a few years ago, was to have a Ruby that is substantially implemented in Ruby, as opposed to being a hundred thousand lines of C under the hood. Paradoxically, this can result in speedups, since it's easier to optimize expressive, well-written code. Avi Bryant gave a talk at RailsConf a few years ago about how Smalltalk contains all the "features" of Ruby that are usually blamed for its performance woes, but still managed to be pretty fast. It's not the language features that keeps Ruby slow; it's the opaque implementation.
According to the website, the contract-less 1000 min plan costs exactly the same as my 2-yr contract with at&t's 1000 min plan. Except I got a 500 dollar phone for free.

Maybe if the discounts were much steeper and widespread, but as of now, I still don't see a reason.
Announcing NoNoSQL
The now free Flex SDK not too long ago was the premiere Flash tool.

However the tool comparison is absurd. Having the freedom to choose tools doesn't mean they all have to be free.
The cost analyses that came out around the N1's release convinced me to go with an unlocked phone once my contract runs out. Like you, I was waiting (another year and a half to go). Although the N1 will no doubt be eclipsed by newer models at that point, I am sad to see this direct-buy option go away.
Sorry - that was aimed at the comment that appears to have been deleted, not at you. Based on your blog, etc., I was pretty sure you actually meant "Hey, if you get me a working patch, it will get in". The comment, OTOH, was pretty clearly an indictment of Brandon for not writing a patch.
Part of the issue is facebook integration which doesn't give you the control of what sites are getting data about you from facebook, and which are giving facebook information about you.

Facebook is becoming what we always feared Google might.
This particular product is very big in the orthodontic community and has been for quite a while. Televox (http://www.televox.com) is one company to check out. Back in the day they sold orthodontists an expensive telephony board and their software used the doctor's own phone system to call all the patients. They now offer reminder calls as an online service.

There are many other companies offering the same services to orthodontists, Televox is just one that I'm familiar with as my customers use them.

So - whether you hate getting these sorts of calls or not there's definitely an existing market for them.
What's an EFT?
Cutting the brake lines leaves physical evidence of sabotage. Messing with the computers is a lot harder to spot. Do police even check for this sort of thing? Would they know how to?
His blog post points out that the price is on purpose to dissuade healthcare customers. Not sure if that's the best idea, but it explains his pricing.
My Blackberry and iPhone let me know when I have appointments.
Thanks for the correction. sqlite seems to be ok, marshalling and unmarshalling into Java.
Slightly off-topic. But I am always looking for good web app themes. Is this the theme you have used for calendar app? http://themeforest.net/item/sharp-admin-template/83085
I considered SSL. However, Facebook already serves all of their own pages over plain HTTP, so serving the bookmarklet on HTTPS won't add any security AFAIK.
The teachings of failure
Apple Responds To Adobe [Humor]
Judge Orders Gizmodo Search Papers Unsealed
Thanks, have scaled back the time estimate. Goal is yo just start getting hands dirty and dirtier.
Here's a quick disproof of your hypothesis. Find travelblog.com (singular) on the first page of this query:

http://www.google.com/search?q=travel+blog

Now find travelblog.org on that page.
Yup, looks like it was deleted. I totally understand it when people don't have the time to submit patches :). I have almost no time lately, and way too many projects I want to be part of so I'm the last person to ask people to spend time they might not have.
Last time I asked him, one of the authors of bcrypt considered scrypt to be better, too. :-)
Oddly enough, I got this email directly from Apple today: http://skitch.com/timdorr/dd1ie/the-all-new-adobe-creative-s...

Split brain marketing departments are hilarious.
I just did a quick test of 1.9 vs rubinius on the alioth pidigits and btrees benchmarks, and rubinius was 1.5 times as slow on pidigits and twice as slow on btrees. In addition, the release notes state that they are aware that several string operations in Rubinius are currently slower than their MRI 1.8 equivalents.

I'm excited that rubinius is out, but I'm not sure at the moment what it's advantages are versus MRI in terms of practical use.
No. It's the best and simplest way to communicate with my family and relatives that I can't visit on a daily basis.

Yesterday I revised my privacy settings to remove some lame things like Applications being able to use my information. Even then, I have no personal info on Facebook apart from some wall posts (with no real useful information) and my friends list. No activities, interests, etc. listed