skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When a sandwich/ice cream/big mac artist concedes to this, its most likely because they've already rung you up and don't want to go through the hassle of canceling the order and then re-inputting it correctly.

I don't get the logical leap from vendor to customer here. Impulse purchases are not exactly the same as an underpaid worker not wanting to have to deal with a hassle. It's still a valid technique for getting what you want, but not directly applicable when you are the seller.
All parts exist on the web (OpenID, OAuth, JSON, RSS, microformats, etc...), but not in a usable form as easy to use as Facebook.
This would also mark the first time the first version of Netscape will be unable to load www.google.com.

Backwards compatibility on the internet is a pretty big thing.
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Apple’s reviewers are in a difficult position: any large-scale developer bans in the App Store are likely to attract negative press, so they’re probably reluctant to do any.

I don't get the impression that Apple is terribly concerned about negative press, at least not with respect to App Store policies.
We have videos, photos, and cad of the ongoing development process. Per pg's suggestion we're going to link to the project web site, just waiting on an update to the blog that references the Kickstarter.
Revenge of one of the environmentalists who never wanted the interstate through Glenwood Canyon, perhaps?
Michael makes the excellent point that a truly live, synchronous experience is very hard to do on the web. It would be valuable to study how people "sync up" in the real-world so they can all share the same experience at the same time.
New attacks today against Wordpress (lots of sites hacked)
Wow. Sweet.

Quick quesiton, is there a way to enable this by default on the main site? I notice that if you go to /doc/, it shows Flash, and if you got to document, it's HTML.

So, from the front page, I click on Scribd in HTML link, and it takes me to http://www.scribd.com/doc/30964170/Scribd-in-HTML5

Edit: NM, I see the light blue box on the right side there. >_<
At the risk of seeming too fluffy, did we just see the market equivalent of a "rogue wave"? It would be interesting to see if there are any parallels between the two phenomena.
All out, drat you.

All I have left is this this sucky golden ratio doohickey, something Euler sent over, and a stack of these things from Feigenbaum. Hard to make a pie with any of that.
This is a fine comment and I agree with you, but you might want to avoid the Reddit-speak around here. My guess is that's where the down-votes are from. Here's another case: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1321795
The word on the Street right now is that NYSE moved some stocks from normal electronic trading to human-mediated trading at 2:40 PM. They were trying to slow down unusual trading activity in those stocks, and they thought they could do that by giving their human market makers a bit of time to consider prices and do the right thing. Unfortunately, when they stopped electronic trading for those stocks, all the orders they would otherwise have handled got sent to a bunch of smaller electronic exchanges that didn't have enough liquidity. That started to tank a few specific stocks scarily fast, which triggered a bunch of stat-arb trades and plunged the indices down. Once that got bad enough, all the liquidity providers got spooked and backed out of the market for about 10 minutes. Felix Salmon has a good writeup at http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2010/05/07/deconstruct... .

This isn't necessarily everything that happened -- there's a ton of other rumors flying around about the yen carry trade and a lot of other random stuff.
This is an opportunity for Android to race ahead of Apple - by winning at recommendation.
Avoid Wordpress.

Sometimes a short comment is that's warranted.
How do they manage to block so many quality apps for whatever trivial terms violations but then not have provisions to block these clearly infringing and straight up scam apps?
Maybe you should use visuals to explain what embed.ly does.
Aside from the old-school methods for developing willpower and prudence, I suppose we could try some pharma paths to altering behavior and the reward pathways.

What about something like a low dose of Ritalin (low enough to just encourage focus, not force it) and then a time released reward circuit promoter to positively reinforce the focused behavior pattern that the Ritalin helped bring about. Tie the focused behavior to some sensory stimulus (Pavlov's Buddhist attention bell) by association. Then, over time, make the positive reinforcement a bit random and intermittent to exploit that same hook you mention and back down the Ritalin dose to zero as the behavior pattern takes good root. (In retrospect, maybe I learned the wrong lessons from Brave New World. :-)
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You're assuming a far more direct relation between consumption and production than actually exists.

If I can sell 10,000 widgets for $100 each that doesn't mean that I can sell 1,000,000 widgets at the same price. And if I try to produce that many widgets in the hope of selling them, I'm liable to drive the price of widgets down so far that I'll lose money on all of them!

In other words while the auto industry could produce more cars than anyone wants to buy, it would be a really, really bad idea for them to do so.

In production there is a point of diminishing returns. And after you're at that point, increased productivity frequently results in cutting back people to return production to an optimal level.
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It depends how the districts are formed, and you know that politicians will have a role in forming them.
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I hope you succeed. With modern settlement techniques, there's no reason that a select few companies should be leeching 1.5 - 3% from a $ trillion or two worth of transactions.
are you viewing in FF? I am and noticed some of the logos aren't displaying - but they do in Chrome. Nice presentation, but "HTML5" shouldn't mean "webkit only".
I believe they mean Latino and Black students, which are underrepresented. NACME for instance, is trying to get a engineering racial makeup much more similar to that of the US at large.

http://www.nacme.org/NACME_D.aspx?pageid=96

And while many of the sub-continent students (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi) would love to stay, many of them are foreign nationals, and will likely have to leave (or choose to).
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Your math ignores retraining costs. A corporation of 100 employees that hires 20 more will in fact temporarily have just created extra work for the existing 100 for some time before they see a benefit from the hires.

And given normal turnover, retraining would become a higher portion of that corporation's costs permanently, resulting in permanently decreased productivity.
Details of the code are here:

http://sucuri.net/malware/entry/MW:MROBH:1

I am wondering what google will do if they keep doing malware to hide from them. Their blacklist will become useless.
Except if you voted for anyone else but the guy who got in. So what if I have a Conservative local candidate, if I voted LibDem? I'm represented by nobody.

We have this same problem in Canada, and it frustrates me to no end. (Our Greens represent 10% of the country and have 0 seats. That's 3 million Canadians with NO representation at all.)
Avoid Wordpress and shared hosts. They mention that all the sites hacked were on shared hosts.
Exactly! A demo will also help.
Isn't that known as an "upsell" or "upselling"? It's what the guys at the sneaker store do with socks and laces, no?
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Book 'em - Why Steve Jobs is anti-Flash
I've noticed Chrome itself has some highlighting issues. Another example: Put some text in on http://www.eeemo.net/ , which is the Zalgo text generator, which works by putting lots of Unicode character decorations on your base text. Chrome demonstrates some very strange highlighting/copy/paste interactions on that page if you try to copy the Zalgo-ed text out.

My guess is that it's not a Scribd bug, and I also suspect there's probably not much they can do to fix it.
That is NOT why modifying your order-in-progress works.

It works because they would rather modify why you just ordered, rather than you canceling your order entirely.

It works the same way in the supermarket when I use a coupon that is one day past the expire date or not quite exactly the same item, etc. They don't have to take the coupon but they realize they CAN take it and if they don't, I will likely not buy the product in the first place.

If you ask them ahead of time, before you even get the item, they can circumvent you hassling them. Afterwards, it's easier to just give into you.
Well, I guess you've learned an important but hard lesson of the "trust but verify" variety WRT to code: unmaintainable (vs. hard to maintain) code is very likely to be a technical black hole rather than technical debt.

If your company had been reviewing his code it would have soon caught him violating his APIs and it's leaders could have taken corrective measures 10 months ago or so.

And you really do have to review the code of people you don't know very well. E.g. at one startup I worked at I finished the ... outsides of a custom tree database (designed deal with misspellings quickly). At a certain point long after it should have came to that, I reviewed the guts of the tree database and found to my horror that the author's undo list for transaction aborts (or power failures, etc.) was entirely in memory....

Otherwise the problems his work represented were of the technical debt variety and due to very good modularization I was able to fix many of them as appropriate. But if the venture had taken off, the above problem could have been a very nasty time bomb (only mitigated by the external parts that recorded all incoming transactions and that allowed for reply).

That company was also a great example of how not to do Customer Development and Lean Startups and a failure to do the lean part of that killed the company just when it took off (new angel investors turned out to be devils).
It's a shame that the link on the last page to Special Agent Productions takes you to a Flash splash screen.
Wow, I might actually start clicking the [scribd] link now!
I wrote about something similar but in smaller scale back in March and the apps I talked about were gone after a few days. I'm pretty sure it wasn't because of my text but might have been because I reported those apps as spam on the App Store.

Here's the link: http://iaskwhy.tumblr.com/post/453478706/apple-allows-spam-o...
> But when their own stop-loss program sells for a 70% loss they get a do over.

There has to be a mechanism to undo cascade mistakes because, if someone figures out a way (and that's rather easy) to induce mistakes and to profit from them, it will shortly become the prevalent form of trading. We want exchanges to foster investment on productive companies.
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What externality does increased productivity cause?
The difference between good and bad design
Honestly the getting viewers issue seems to be fairly straightforward and was solved by traditional broadcast a long time ago. When they wanted people to tune into a live broadcast they _scheduled it at a particular time_ then marketed this time.
Need examples.
Wordpress hosted on my linode vps seems just fine. Switching from godaddy to linode was more than worth the price increase.
Wow, I'm surprised I actually got them all right: I used the force for the mattel and toyota one's ;-)
This may become a problem with the Android market too -- in fact, I already see it happening sometimes, when searching for particularly common application words.

I hope that Google/Android system implements some better ranking algorithm in a way that it manages to find which words are actually relevant to an application. Not sure how that'd be done, though.
Good to hear! I don't have a problem with the toolbar hiding/showing at all - I just noticed it continuously popping up as I scroll down in Chrome / OSX. It seemed tied to the scroll action, and tended to distract a little. Good to know you guys are on it - you guys switching to HTML5 is a boon!
Actually, the original story does say it was Medicine buying the Vax and doing the experiment, with Zoo helping. The VAX 11-780 was the hot machine of 1979/80 ("a 1 MIPS beast!", I heard).

I've seen Laura Creighton's name on Python lists - I believe she's on LinkedIn. The author's "Statistically Invalid Sampling of My Life" (http://edp.org/index.htm) is also pretty amusing - don't think he'd need to embellish that incident.

P.S. The story is, for instance, alluded to here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-May/756589..., without either rebuttal or elaboration.
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Gamers, of course, are the ones who will pay for Sony's mistake long term. Don't expect the scientific/HPC community to come rushing as saviors when it comes time for Sony to babble about the PS4--and without the help of this august assemblage, maybe we'll get stuck with games featuring cutting-edge 1987 graphics fidelity. Leisure Suit Larry, here we come.
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That still works on the web, but most people either don't think that far ahead or don't have an effective way to advertise their timeslot.
Hong Kong.
Sorry, but this is all wet.

"Any of these applications could have been written for other tablets."

Sigh.
"never drill, file or arc solder anything with tiny and sensitive electronic parts around!"

He used dead drives during the construction, so this isn't a big deal.
Apple needs to restructure the app store so people can make other app stores out of it, and so a better model can be found.

Honestly, their AppStore app (especially on the iPad, but also on the iPhone) violates their HID all over the place, and is a pretty annoying app because of it.
We added examples to the Post. Thanks.
I'm writing software for a 2.5 ton fire breathing musical instrument
This won't solve that problem. I think that ICANN should continue to maintain (even enhance) geographic TLDs, so that my little pet groomer in NYC doesn't need to pony up the cash to buy a gTLD or use a commercial second-level domain, but can get a cheap .nyc.ny.us name name.

In your case, whichever Computer Solutions gets big enough to buy the gTLD first wins.
Do you think that's really the right solution for content creators that aren't TV studios? You could say that the static video distribution model was solved a long time ago too--release the video as a real time experience (a movie), choose an arbitrary waiting period and advertise a lot, then release the video (VHS, DVD). Of course, that's not at all the way anyone on YouTube distributes their video, so the old "solved" model doesn't always work best.

To be clear, I completely agree that TV studios figured out how to get people to watch live content very well. But I disagree that that's applicable to potentially millions of simultaneous individual broadcasters.
So out of all the hundreds of minorities, only the two biggest minorities count as "minorities"?

I love US racial doublespeak circa 2010.
Not to mention this would probably be received well by the general public - "Apple moves to curb scams and spams in App Store" and the such. They've already shown they don't much care for developer good will :)
I was sold at flamethrower. Looks pretty slick.
Maybe the Tablet PC isn't dead. Maybe it's just resting.
If we assume Ninjas can walk across water, we can also assume it's going to be something they learn in the years of training where they go from ordinary person to ninja.

Two ordinary people trying for a few hours wouldn't be enough to pronounce it an impossible feat, it would just say that ordinary people can't walk accross water without years of ninja training - and we know that bit already!
The same way Apple got me.com: Whichever one is big enough to buy the domain off the other one gets it.
Posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1328169
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Doing that would be acknowledging that there's a problem - and this is something that will never be done.

Remember, their devices are magical and Apple can never do anything wrong.
Serendipitously: http://lesswrong.com/lw/27o/antagonizing_opioid_receptors_fo...
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You called it. That was exactly what inspired this presentation. That Chrome cartoon was awesome - made me an instant Chrome advocate.
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I wish there was a good model between Apple's app store, and Androids. It cant be totally open (because then you get apps that hack bank accounts), but too closed (see: Apple) and you run into really ironic issues, like the one Marco brings up.

HN, what's in between?
We are working on a migration path that will switch people over to the HTML versions (unless they don't want it). Are you one of those people? If so ping me directly - jared at scribd.
My thoughts exactly. Comic Sans is widely (on the internet) regarded (by designers) as one of the worst typefaces of all time, and in everyday life I see it everywhere- storefronts, menus, newsletters, etc.
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That code doesn't really say anything about how the blogs were compromised, or anything interesting about what the attackers did with it (yup, they added js to the page via PHP, like every other WP attack).
May be they were sampling based on user (you must be logged on?).

While doing such large A/B tests, they should definitely give an option to opt-out. Or at least a prominent feedback button to tell them how bad is their new design. It is as if Google will A/B test a new design and no-one will notice it?
I kid. It's not going to be www, but whichever domain or set of domains is easy to type, sells subdomains for cheaps, and is aggressive about spam control will win.

It might be worthwhile for ICANN to make three-and-fewer character names off-limits to private registration.
These apps clearly not infringing Apple's trademarks and copyrights, so they are ok.</sarcasm>
What's so special about this? 160TB per rack isn't that much. With 2TB drives in http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/2U/826/SC826TQ-R8... you can get 480TB per rack, and once http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/847/SC847E16-R... comes out you'll be able to get 900TB per rack. Though cooling may become a challenge...
I'm getting distracted by the sheer number of people talking about how they got distracted while writing a distraction article. We get it.

Added irony, reading this article instead of working. Subtracted irony, writing that sentence after writing the above paragraph.
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Entrepreneurs take note. This is a problem that is not being solved. There are lots of smallish bloggers out there who want more customization than Blogger/Wordpress.com/Tumblr/Posterous allow, whose best option is Wordpress and shared hosting. This is a sucky best option. Do something about this; make some money solving this problem.
Agreed. Also, making small changes to some of the config helps too. This is why I laugh at people who know nothing about hosting, permissions, or php in general deciding that they know WP, put it on a shared box without doing the proper setup, and then blame wordpress when it gets hacked.
Thank you for explaining. :)
I was about to agree with the GPP, but you have a really good point. This would be the sort of loophole that would be exploited.
The Android Market has a similar problem with trash apps like http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.prettyapp.s9.girls (NSFW?).
Suggest a free php alternative please. I need categories, comments, human-readable urls.
I know it's been said here a couple times, but positive reinforcement is good: I used to get annoyed every time a document was linked to on scribd, and only went there grudgingly. In my mind, this is a complete 180 and a very welcome upgrade.
Finally! I've always wondered why Scribd went Flash; it made their usability less than the documents they were copying, most of the time.
Tip: Mobile devices may not have arrow keys. Making your website require them is not a great idea.
I think the super sizing gimmick is easy to implement in fast food chains since it can basically be a bullet point in the training manual and you can encourage employees to use the tactic to increase their sales with game-like award programs (employee of the month, etc).

The idea of presenting non-essential products to impulsive buyers at the point of payment is much more ubiquitous though: supermarkets and candy/magazines comes to mind.
Agree their store is now overflowing with garbage. A simple fix is for somebody with taste to make a curated wrapper/filter around it. Imagine a site/tool which worked otherwise just like the App Store, except that whenever you search or browse, you won't see any garbage. Obviously garbage is subjective, so the trick is for people with similar tastes to coalesce around a single curator. Arguably the independent review sites already fill this role, they just need to support all needed use cases, be consistent with their filtering, and scale up their workflow so they can bless all the new non-garbage that comes out.
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Could anyone point me to some source of good vector graphics "clipart"? The pictures in Infographics are pretty and would be awesome if I could use some in presentations as well.
Absolutely. Isn't this ridiculous either, though?
http://yvespernet.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/zetels2009.jpg

Proportional representation is more correct, but certainly not more stable or efficient.

Update: that image is only HALF of the represented parties and seats!
Weigh PHP, categories, comments, human-readable URLs, and convenience against retaining control of your content or (potentially) the server it lives on.

The people running Sendmail in the '90s went through all these arguments too.

It's hard to understand how a blog package could have created a worse track record than Sendmail (though I can tell you how). But it did.
You could have commented with those facts if you just wanted to share this with fellow hn users.
Most of the Wordpress breakins have been the fault of Wordpress' code, not admin incompetence.
That is not a solution to the problem. If there was only sendmail, should one stop sending mail?
Ultimate solution: use both systems. Elect half the chamber directly, and half proportionally. Problem solved.