skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Demand Media (DM) only covers the surface of a topic. Never a deep dive. Thus by nature, they are a lead generator. That's why they have descent ad rates and can pay real wages for content. But IMHO, they haven't begun to really profit from this position.

In content farming, whoever pays the most to their writers ultimately wins. The best writers are attracted to the best paychecks. Because DM invested hundreds of millions in established domains, they bought traffic and offer better cash versus just posting on your own blog.

DM will ultimately crash directly into the way of traditional media outlets. And it will be the aggregators like google news and huffington post who win. Like many businesses, it's the distributors who make the lions share of profits.
Those closest to the bailouts got the most milk in their pails. Maybe the consumers got a dribble, but that doesn't disqualify criticism of those who got a whole bucket, especially if they stole the cow to begin with.

GS practically set up AIG to collapse. You might say that's just business, but you have got to be kidding me if you think GS didn't see major ramifications for the economy and predict some kind of governmental assistance. (Normally, if AIG was less entangled with all of the Street and had failed on its own, GS would have have simply lost a bundle on all of its credit default swaps).
man stargate universe is terrible, I watched the first half of the season and haven't been tempted to turn it on since. It isn't sci-fi it is a soap opera. However, Warehouse 13 and Eureka are both good.
If they made an assumption on the usage pattern of the drive they could buy cheaper parts that were not expected to be used as often. If there is no wear leveling built into the drive then it could reduce the lifespan of the drive. I am all for swap but I think they chose to omit the swap space for some other reason that I cannot think of right now.
The concept of race is something large institutions and people in power use to divide and conquer, control distract and divert our attention. It is just a concept advanced 400 years ago that we are still talking about today. It is not real. I belong to the human race. By the way there are a lot of people on welfare including billionaires, farmers, corportations, sports teams etc. They all profit from government subsidy. Look at the Banks, their failure has been subsidies by government for years. We will be building stadiums for Billionaires and many people will critisize welfare and support the billionaires. Just like we will justify the billionaire subsidy we can justify the poor man subsidy, but whose subsidy will you support. It is obvious. You know what will happen when you say let kick them all of welfare. Exactly what you have today more welfare for the poor so we can give ten times that much to the rich.There are so many people geting rich on government and not being held accountable. Just like there are poor who are surviving on government. We just built a stadium for a billionaire. Think about that. Together we stand divided we fall. So many of our great thinkers and problem solvers spend their time and energy on crap like white flight, ethnic stats etc. We are all just people trying to make it in a difficult world and some of us are doing a whole lot better than others and I do not think race has as much to do with it as we would like to think.
Diverse genius
may be even greater than selling the item at MSRP

Orders of magnitude greater, look at one of the finished games and do the math.

It's quite an old scam, first described in 1971 according to Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_auction

The first mainstream'ish implementation I know is swoopoo.com (2008). Since then a large number of clones have popped up, likely motivated by the fact that, for some reason, gambling laws in many countries don't seem to cover this scheme.
Is General-Purpose Personal Computing Doomed?
That has to be the least informative 'infographic' I've ever seen.
It was meant as a rebuttal to Steve Jobs proclaiming the iPad offers "the best browsing experience you've ever had" which is simply not true.

While it's true that other "dirty secrets" (some of which you listed) are more important, it doesn't change the fact that is one of Apple's dirty secrets.
I understand the security implications, but how is it important for persistence?
Steve Jobs details Flash shortcomings
After so many articles and discussions like this one here and reading about iclubby and emperor workstation, I took the task to my hands. Couple of days back, I hacked together a good reclining chair that is a lot comfortable then sitting. I wrote a quick mail with images here.

http://anil-bkdsb.posterous.com/my-work-station-1
Don't worry--having the mindset and creativity to think of ways to break the system aren't always bundled with the inclination to actually do them. I have better ways of applying my creativity. I suspect I just have what Schneier calls a "security mindset": http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_m...
Do gambling laws in the US really not cover dollar auctions? For some reason I always thought such laws would be why every promotional sweepstakes in the States, e.g. McDonald's Monopoly or Coke bottle codes, etc. have a rule in fine print about "No purchase necessary to enter. To enter, send a self addressed envelope to... " etc. so it could be argued the sweepstakes is not pay-to-enter. Even then, such promotionals usually have further notes about not being able to enter in three or four out of the fifty states.

It would seem regulation would be desirable for such auction sites, since the consumer has to place a significant about of trust in the auctioneer not to bid up his own products to make more money, or throw non-profitable auctions to a self-owned account... the end-user currently has no practical recourse if this happens.

Hopefully grellas or another IAAL can throw in some knowledge.
I actually love this limitation. My ADD has plummeted and I don't feel like I'm so much less effective.
Creating targeted ads is one thing, identifying you personally is another. FB knows your name, birth date, gender, city. That pretty much singles you out. When combined with all the data about your page views on partner sites that could become privacy threat in the future.
I don't see how this UI decision — a screen of pages vs. a row of tabs – could be related to a hardware limitation. All other things remaining the same, why couldn't the switcher look like tabs instead of pages?

Page caching is the real issue, but I think this could also be addressed by software if Apple decided to.

Of all the things that could be considered deal breakers for the iPad, this is among the least of them.
Donald Norman (founder of Human Interface Group at Apple) once said [paraphrasing] 'give people something beautiful, and they'll assume it is simple'.

I can't find the original quote, but he said it again on Canada's BNN a few weeks ago.
This reminded me of Ken Thompson's Turing paper about how a malicious compiler could make back doors invisible even to those who can look at the source.

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:5Xr5GF-rQkEJ:c...
Your images try to pull from gmail, thus don't load.
Safari, like any modern web browser, simply uses a lot of memory. Remember that mobile Safari is (almost) always running in the background and on 128 MB devices it is always consuming most of the available RAM despite how aggressively it tries to flush things from RAM.

Caching to disk alone isn't enough. All web browsers cache to disk, but most non-trivial web sites will still hit the network as they are rendered by the browser, even if the content is cached. And if the network is slow you'll be waiting a while for that "cached" page to appear. Safari would need some kind of off-line browsing mode, like what I think Firefox has.
bigdeal.com does this too. TechCrunch sponsored their jump into America and ultimately pulled out. It's super confusing for people and 99% of bidders get screwed.

The reason why bids happen so fast is that they over bid a high amount and not the next increment. And those super bidders usually have 'won' bids in a previous auction thus receiving a discount on the bid value.
What is the screen resolution of the droid? What is the screen resolution of the ipad? If there is a big difference then it may be because the software keeps bitmaps of rendered screens laying around for a quick switch.
I bought a Swopper chair to use at home. I would say it definitely helped me sit up straight at home.
Apple should come up with a gesture to switch between tabs.

IMO, one of the big achievements of Fingerworks keyboard was it's vast array of gestures. Apple drastically watered down the gesture support in it's various products. Perhaps to make it simple for grandma?
It's only a "dirty secret" if you're prone to believing in conspiracy theories.
Going It Alone, Part III: Inside the Factory Walls
Because if you use a hash on your content the chances of a collision are actually much higher than you'd intuitively think they would be and the problem of determining just how likely that is is very closely related to the birthday paradox.
Breaking old habits is hard but sometimes worth it. Is opening a bunch of background tabs a really efficient way of doing things? On a PC it works if you have a high enough resolution to display all the open tabs and enough RAM/CPU to quickly switch between them. On mobile devices it pays to focus on more efficient ways of doing things because you're dealing with limited resolution, potentially slower 3G networks, limited CPU/RAM/battery, etc. That being said there are browsers on the App Store that support tabs.
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This should be upvoted as an example of how not to present information.
For that matter all wine should be in aluminum or plastic bottles to prevent breaking and cut down on weight.

Also all that so called 'winemaking' is a huge waste of time and energy. Almost any wine flavor can be synthesized in the lab and added to neutral grain spirits.
Many wines already add flavoring of all kinds, it's only a matter of convincing those obsolescent luddites that full synthetic is just as good. ;P
Bumptop acquired by Google
The main issue from this and other similar articles about facebook which I've read seems to be the lack of control that users have over how their information is used and who it's given to. I still believe that the solution to all of these problems would be an open source peer-to-peer version of facebook, where you have complete ownership and control over what information you make available and who gets to see it.
There are laws to that effect, that they should disclose what they have on you, for instance, in the Netherlands there is a law that is called the 'wet bescherming persoonsgegevens' (law on protection of personal information), which gives you the explicit right to request all information that is kept on you, and to request deletion of such information.
haha I love it! Already sunk a bunchof time looking at some of the funny comics and making some. I think this could be really popular because images like this are already starting to show up on the web... Have a proliferation strategy? :)
Could the technology become part of the android platform, I find it strange that they've just cut off updating the desktop clients and from next week won't even support / let you download them again..
This was my reaction when I looked at airbnb. They seem to enjoy success. Any insight into why that trust model works? What makes it better than this?
Hate to be another naysayer, but...

You're probably also incurring a lot of liability just by contracting the individual shipper to take an action on your behalf. Say your person is dropping a package that's just off their route to wherever they're going. They pull off the freeway, and BAM get hit by a semi. Congratulations, you're going to be the recipient of a huge lawsuit.

Easy to dismiss that as, "Well how often does that happen?" Accidents happen, on average, one per every thousand driven hours. So if you've got a thousand en route today that are taking more than an hour, you get to have this problem once a day, on average (v weak extrapolation, I know).

Some things can't be done as a lean startup. Some things cost major money before their first day (e.g. airlines, long-haul data services, auto manufacturing). You managed to pick a non-lean industry.
Why Your Facebook Ads ‘Don’t Work’.
Biological Motion and Happy Interfaces: Infusing Products With Personality
Looks pretty cool :D Keep me updated!
checkout http://www.tonido.com.
I remember how annoying opening multiple web pages were before tabs. I don't want to be constrained.

Being able to open tabs is better than not. If the hardware/network does not support that very well, that is an issue with the hardware/network.
Dare I say, I think you are attempting to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

As a customer, what do I gain? As I see it, I take a significant risk in shipping with an unknown entity. The cost of shipping within the US is already fairly low, so why would I take the risk.
You can't go international, even into Canada or Mexico, because I sure wouldn't take a package from an unknown person across the border for them.

You've created an opportunity for a driver with an empty truck, but you haven't (I don't think) really solved the question of why a customer would use the product. You say 50% off the cost is the benefit. But what is the average price of a product that can be moved in the manner you are describing?

If you are talking about getting door-to-door service, that is going to add up for the driver as well.

UPS, USPS, FEDEX, DHL, etc. all operate on a hub and spoke type system which is efficient with a large number of packages.

For local direct shipping, there are often lots of local options which may be cheaper than the big names. If you could link up the drivers across regional locations and offer them something so they can compete with UPS, etc, then you might be on to something.

An interesting annecdote, my great-grandfather got into the trucking business exactly as you are describing. He had a truck and was driving from town-to-town in Southern Ontario looking for work. People started recognizing him and asked him to take small packages for him on his travels. Then one day somebody asked him if he could deliver a Piano, and he clued in that this was a good thing. But that was in the early 1910's (I think), so there weren't a lot of shipping options.
We called it the JV mentality, because no matter who we put into the varsity the JV always won.

Once you know how to pull hard, being in shape is just icing on the cake. :-)
To make it a fair test - were they the same pages? iPhone at least does this same thing - but it does not reload every switch, only sometimes.

For all I know the iPad may do that so it can shut down memory chips and save the power of refreshing them. Just because it doesn't do exactly what you wand doesn't mean it's handled badly - it still does what it does gracefully and without errors or slowdowns.

It does after all not claim to be able to hold pages open indefinitely; and you could have saved them to some ereader app for future Reading.

Misuse ipad -> doesn't do what you want, is hardly a 'dirty secret'
The Dartboard Sequence
I agree that the whole "non-professional" thing seems blown out of proportion. After you've shot and edited your masterpiece, run it though a "professional" encoder and you're done.
cool! is there a way we can vote on individual memes to get the best ones to the top? some sort of vote per impression metric...
That is, perhaps, the best pre-plug for a book disguised as an article, I've ever read.
Having worked in various factories, mainly in Europe, I completely disagree that these kind of hellish working conditions are just "the nature of the beast". Many factories have good working conditions and high safety standards, thanks in part to adequate and scrupulously enforced regulations and also the awareness that mistreatment of any sort can lead to significant legal compensation claims.
The quote is entirely accurate. AOL was spun off on December 9, 2009.
> The balls should cross in an X pattern, not go around in a circle.

I can only juggle 3 balls, but I use pretty much the same technique as the animation. Throw balls from left to right in a small arch, and balls from right to left above that in a larger arch.

Though I learned how to juggle from a hippy leaflet I got from the Loompanics catalog, so perhaps I'm not doing it right.
I would argue that tabbed or multi-windowed browsing is most important on limited resource and low bandwidth devices. The main advantage of opening a tab/window in the background is not having to wait for it to load; the longer the wait, the more that functionality matters. I used the ability to open links in a new window extensively as soon as browsers offere that functionality, which was probably on a 133MHz machine with less than 256MB of RAM on a 14.4kbps (or 9600 baud...not sure) connection if I remember my computing timelines correctly.
Hrmmm. This strategy sounds dangerously familiar.

Making Money? Who cares... Just buy shit that looks cool.
Decoders and encoders have to pay royalties today. There an additional royalty for "streaming" coming in 2016.
I've had a number of transactions and credit card applications rejected in Switzerland because my signatures didn't match. Not sure if Switzerland qualifies as "first world", on that basis.
Perhaps the thinking behind non-caching is that people will forget to clear their cache, so why not do it automatically? It might be best to leave that as a default for people who don't care but offer a cache preference in Settings for people who know what that is, no?
The period alluded to is the beginning of the industrial revolution.

But even so, today there are people that take terrible advantage of others, even in rich European countries: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/investigations/24725/

Read it and weep.
My brother got a blood clot in his leg a few years ago at age 26. He was exceptionally fit, and did a lot of research into blood clots. At the time, it was considered a problem of old, overweight people, or those recovering from surgery. But they've become a lot more common in young people in the last few years, even occurring disproportionately in athletes. It's been nicknamed Economy Class Syndrome, since the cramped seating on planes is particularly conducive to clot formation.
as you gain a truckload of acquaintances you have to be much more measured

One can't live like this for too long, you have to be yourself instead of a filtered, cleaned-up politically correct version of yourself.
To earn a decent living, freelancers have to work at a breakneck pace, which has an obvious impact on quality.

I don't know, does the increased communication power and productivity of technology break even here? (assuming it's used correctly)

Is the average journalist using modern tools to their full potential?
That's exactly why I waited to get the 3G version. A mobile device that rely exclusively on WIFI doesn't make sense to me.

Also, as somebody else already pointed out, Instapaper solve this problem in a very elegant way.
This is similar to what happened when Apple bought Coverflow.
For those (like me) that don't know what Bumptop is...
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Rm4jSRB...
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:iPF39PX...
We've got a few ideas on how to make browsing fresh and interesting for each new visit.

For the minimum viable product, we determined randomized browsing was enough to get a taste of the experience.
> Again, Microsoft is the biggest company implicated here, with some of its components being constructed in said factories. Other companies include HP, Samsung, Acer, Logitech, and Foxconn.

Interesting how MSFT gets the bad press, yet it's not clear they're the primary buyer of parts from these factories. They're just the "biggest."
"nil-nil" or "nil all" if you're in England ;-)
I think its been shown before that Google (and others) often buy for the talent as much as the product.
I like the article, too, but I'm always disappointed when it doesn't cover Knuth's up-arrow, which seems absurdly relevant.
Very good point about the watering down. I'd add "anti-competitive" and "monopoly" to your list as well.

Oh yeah. And "journalism."
It's the Floyd, THE FLOYD, not Pink, she's still a Rockstar.
theres also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ and you can still download it for the next week at http://eol.bumptop.com/download.php
In that light, the TED presentation from a couple of years ago is also interesting: http://www.ted.com/talks/anand_agarawala_demos_his_bumptop_d...

At least it seemed very entertaining to the TED crowd, they're mostly laughing.
The buyer isn't entrusting any property to the seller in the Airbnb situation. Putting down money through a buyer friendly system is one thing.. giving a PS3 to a basically unknown entity on top of that is something else.
It's not quite what he's saying. At least not if you read his book, _Emotional Design_. There have been research studies that show that beautiful things are perceived to work better -- after real usage, too, not just "Look at this picture. How do you think it will work?"

Aesthetics are so very important!
Yup! We figure we'll target fans of these shows who'll identify most with the characters.
It's possible that the reason you're being shown an ad multiple times is that there's very little ad inventory for your demographic. Also, fbAds are (in my opinion) in the very early stages and hasn't yet been saturated.
FWIW, there is a tabbed browser for the iPad. It's called Atomic. Seems to have good reviews but not tried it yet.
Probably more likely aspects of it are headed to Chrome OS. Recalling the demos, I didn't see anything applicable to wee screens like phones.
You once said "Web applications are dangerous." You were taking similar creative license with the word "dangerous." There is nothing wrong with this practice in non-formal writing.
To me, "Dirty little secret" implies a factual piece of information that Apple is knowingly hiding from the public.

"I don't like the iPad browser because it doesn't have tabs." is NOT a "dirty little secret".
In Dutch we have a proverb that says something like 'High trees catch lots of wind'.

Dutch proverbs as a rule are hard to translate but you get the idea.
This is quite puzzling to me.

I played around with Bumptop a little bit when it came out but I have to say that I quickly removed it as I found it to add no value what so ever.

If anything this seems more like a talent acquisition than a technology acquisition.
One of my friend is canceling his FB account this Saturday on similar grounds. http://kumarbhot.blogspot.com/2010/05/decision-to-move-away-... FB is becoming the big brother of Internet day by day.

I left similar sounding comment on the blog above. I wonder why the article's owner removed that comment! Looks like he hasn't accepted any comments. Why enable have 'Leave a reply' if you don't want to accept any comments?
yes and no.

Cycling puts an unnatural curve in our lower back, very similar to sitting in a chair, and due to the way the muscles work, cyclist end up with tight hip flexors and hamstrings and stretched spinal erectors (sorry, I've been out of Physiology for a while so can't remember the exact names of the muscles) which can further exacerbate the problem. Compare a cyclist with a runner, and you can see a noticeable difference in posture.

However, I wouldn't call it a 'negative health impact', as the activity is improving your health. Just be sure to stretch, and counter the muscle imbalances that the sport produces.

Many sports have similar results because they are unnatural. For example, snowboarders in big mountain areas end up with a unnaturally strong/tight oblique muscle on one side and one stronger leg. Surfers likely don't have this issue because the majority of their exertion occurs during the paddling phase and the length of time actually spent riding the wave is quite short.