skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From stock photo I got no more downloads even when my post is on top of HN. I got two referrals that made me $20 bucks (but I am unsure if it is from HN). About ebook I got just a few sales after posting here - most is from promotion on marketing forums where people are waiting for such products and really want to spend a few bucks to improve some of their marketing techniques (like increasing PR).
Considerations for Yahoo and others with distributed wireless worlds
I was trying to be a little bit subtle. They claim to be so passionate about this idea that they gave up other opportunities to work on it. All I've seen is a passion for talking about it. Talk is cheap, just get to work and show us something. I'm not even sure their hand wavy ideas are very well thought out.
Opensourcing: ajax navigation framework erlang rails demarshaller and other ...
Announcement blog post is in italian you can find the repo on github: http://github.com/Panmind
Rant: one thing that certainly doesn't scale is micromanagement. If you are getting copied on every email sent by your employees, you do not scale. You are very busy, oh yes. And that makes you look important. But you're missing details, and sometimes the whole point.

The secret: nobody scales. You have a limited amount of attention each day. To scale, you must: 1) Find trustworthy people to delegate to, 2) trust them. And eventually, let them delegate, too.

If you don't trust your employees, you've got a hiring problem.
Great to see further integrated support for geoDjango: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.2/#geodjango
To Have and Own. Evaluating Portability through Quick-MI.
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In case anyone's interested - it was the me@ filter.
I noticed a batch of spammers/scammers whose bulk messages were addressed to me@variousdomains.com Unfortunately google was not able to recognize it as spam and all this garbage was showing up in my Inbox. I added a filter and several days later (not right away!), google started to delete ALL messages individually sent to my e-mail addresses. I removed the filter, will have to keep manually deleting the spammers from my inbox. I think this is a gmail bug.
The Process of Site Optimization by an Amateur - Part 1
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Project Icons is a pack of 130 hight quality icons and 3 icon badges created by Mihaiciuc Bogdan. These icons are 32px only, available in png, ico, icns and pasted icons. The badges are available in png only. These icons are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
Not to plug my own blog entry, but I think I came up with a pretty good way to have secure, jibberish passwords that you can still remember ...

http://blog.wkdown.com/2010/04/easy-to-remember-secure-passw...

... or maybe I'm missing how this would be easy to break? Dictionary wouldn't work, brute force would take too long, and idk enough about rainbow tables to know their time frame.
Is this new? http://skitch.com/igorgue/dd7ym

It might be related to this? http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.2/#customiza...
Clarifying recent coverage of Wikipedia
The empirical evidence strongly favors taking funding. If you try making a list of successful startups, without thinking about whether they took funding or not, you'll find practically all the companies on your list took funding.

The fact that the few who succeed without raising money tend to be famous on that account is evidence of how rare that combination is.
I would use a CDN for the jquery, maybe http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min... - that way, people don't have to make sure you haven't hidden the maliciousness in your version of jquery, which most people might not want to verify.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_C._Langer
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Some unexpected issues are not solved for past 20 years.

I do not attack annotations or XML per se. The general approach "neither thing is precisely OK, so let's use both" seems questionable to me.
I believe, XML is complex enough, so why do we need XXML?
Finally, by using annotations they recognize that XML nesting is a pain in the ass, but they did not solve the problem, just sort of relieved it.

Actually, I doubt a lot, whether XML is actually carrying some useful load in the Wave. But the last one is just a feeling.
Can't you add a button (either “Join Diaspora to Friend me” for non-members, or “BeFriend on Diaspora” for non-connected members, or “UnFriend of Diaspora” otherwise) on each Diaspora-Profile page? That would allow users to switch their relations by hand to another Graph, presumably distributed —— a lengthy process, but one that would kick-start the transfer, and could be accelerated with a “BeFriend all Fb-Friends with Diaspora accounts” button later on?

The private Events is a very good exemple of why cross-platform scuks, but I don't see any other option than trying anyway.
It is long term income. I know personally a few guys that are making thousands of dollars from same amount of photos I have (but they are much more talented than I am).
Out of curiosity, is this a violation of Facebook's terms of use?
$0.99*30 day is enviable. can you share the name of your app?
As an owner of a Nexus One, I have to say this is one of the downfalls of Android. The lack of an equivalent "Human Interface Guidelines" that there is for iPhone and shockingly, the app approval process leads to a very inconsistent experience (due to ambiguous cases like this) between different applications; resulting in a poorer user-experience.
Nice work. If you don't want to drag a bookmark into your browser then check out this FB privacy checker: http://www.rabidgremlin.com/fbprivacy which I created over the weekend...
From what I can tell, the audio is recorded by a Flash object and analyzed on a remote server, so calling it Javascript speech recognition is misleading.
It's still pretty experimental. Getting the kernel client into a released kernel has been a step forward, but Ceph isn't ready for production yet. It's getting closer, though.
Truly, truly disturbing. The planet is lucky, very lucky, to not have seen these things in action.
Web Browsers Leave 'Fingerprints' Behind as You Surf the Net
Amazon.com patents talking during movies, TV shows
How your Web browser rats you out online
"control by the state" is a choice.

Well, eating is a choice. And yet I choose to eat every day. The word 'choice' conveys very different meanings: everything we do is a choice, but many of our actions are highly constrained. After decades of nuclear power development, no one earth has successfully run a nuclear power system without massive government funding or control. That suggests that we don't know how to do such a thing.

The "massive investment" for nuclear power is well within the capabilities of many US companies.

Not in anything that looks like a free market. Right now, the federal government provides very large subsidies to nuclear power operators. As a result, we've had...no new nuclear power plants built in the last three decades. In the absence of the massive government subsidies we have in place now, I don't believe there are any utilities that could afford to build a nuclear plant on their own or secure the necessary financing.

Note that at least some of the "expense" is also a choice.

And yet nuclear power is very expensive all over the world. Nuclear power plants are almost always over budget and late no matter where they're built. When different people all over the world keep making the same mistakes, at some point, you have to consider the possibility that all these mistakes are not just random individual failures but reflect intrinsic properties of current reactor technology.

We spend a lot of money on nukes that has nothing to do with safety or power production.

I don't know what you're referring to here.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1355072
Very few good games on Android.

Android 2.2 is said to be much faster so we'll probably see better games by the end of the year. My guess is Google will announce something at Google I/O to reach out to Game Developers.
Get Your Kids Into Software Development
Take my particular niche: Tabletop roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons. Pretty small niche, right? Well there are 100s of bloggers already in that space. I'm pretty sure that even the most popular ones are barely making enough to cover hosting. I've dealt with some of them to advertise my site (http://www.obsidianportal.com), and their ad rates are dirt cheap. Believe me: If I can afford to buy ads from them, they definitely aren't getting rich on this.

Plus, blogging is _real work_. You have to constantly come up with new content, engage with your readers, and the rest of your niche's blog network. That crap takes a lot of time and effort, and you can never quit! Take a month off and you've lost everyone. I've seen it happen.
The problem with anything that touches a cell provider, is that it touches a cell provider. Such contact really impacts the coolness factor, and puts a lot of baggage into the buying decision. When said providers feel they actually have to compete for business, things will be better for the customers.
"he was ready to submit The Impossible Game ... to the Xbox Indie marketplace ... Unlike Apple's App Store, this outlet has no corporate gatekeeper - the games are reviewed and rated by the community."

Is that true -- that there's no editorial control of indie games on the Xbox marketplace (except by the "community")?
Edit: impressive!
Should be noted that these numbers relate to the US only - things are very different in Europe and Asia, and naturally in the international perspective as well.

RIM f.e. sells almost nothing in Scandinavia (no idea about rest of Europe). I actually haven't even seen an RIM device for sale anywhere here in Sweden. Ever.
Well why not? They know much more than I of the problem because I don't have a website in the top whatever that generates that much traffic.
I would guess that neither do you so it's worth listening to what he has to say. Each story is different and you'd be silly to ignore someone's experience on the matter if it is relevant to you.

For example who wouldn't like to hear the stories (possibly horror stories) of the early Twitter days? Even though there was lots of downtime precisely because of that reason there is a lot to learn.
I think you're right that the members of a community give it its value, but I think you underestimate the influence of the software. Consider it like the decor of a bar - once the regular clientele are established it becomes less important, but initially people are drawn there because they feel an affinity with the look and feel. IMHO of course.
I think that Fried's post is trolling.
It's not a simple opinion: it may well slow down their finance. 4 brave guys, dedicated for an important goal, in the right time.
Instead of wishing them luck calling them "Curse"? and I AM the troll?
I had no idea this product existed, thanks for the heads up. I'm skeptical of installing anything on my clunky G1 but will keep it in mind for my next backpacking trip. Storing cached map images locally is great. I used the heck out of Topo! back in the day, nice to see a mobile device equivalent.
I think it's a legitimate opinion. The comments are about facts. Please read the links I provided.
Actually I have asked myself that question. What good is it for your to learn to solve arbitrary math problems in 7th grade?

Wouldn't more people be interested in math if it wasn't arbitrary?
We could introduce them to people, certainly. In fact Rtm knows a bit about security and cryptography. But our top priority if they applied to YC would be to encourage them to figure out what to build first, and build it.

They are in a dangerous position. They have a large number of people who like them in a vague way-- who like not what they've built, but the general idea of what they plan to build. In a startup you want the exact opposite: you want a small number of people who like you a lot, not a large number who like you slightly.
Isn't he just talking about advertising?
I second this. At the very least, link to somewhere where you describe what changes were made (and how to revert if I so choose).
The TPB guys really just spew out rhetoric for the masses.

"the Pirate Bay crew claims that they themselves have no idea where the servers are located. After the raid on their servers in 2006, they decided that it was better not to know where they are. One thing is sure though, they are not hosted in just one country."

http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-is-safe-080131/
>I don't know why people keep using reddit as a reference for how to do scaling.

I dont know if people really use them as a reference, but Reddit is one of the few sites in the sweet spot of getting a lot of traffic, and being pretty open about their architecture. Any presentation done on behalf of Reddit (pycon '09, '10, this) is great fodder for the technical Reddit users, such as myself.
Then we wouldn't have gotten so addicted to begin with.

The point is that current oil consumption rate and projected growth are completely unsustainable, as we're just going to have to keep doing crazier and crazier stuff like an addict on the street who needs the next fix.
I am a Junior System Administrator looking for remote work.
It appears they should abandon their relational database if they are not using any of relational features.
IANAL, but it's not a facebook app so it should not need to follow Facebook TOS.

There might be trademark or other issues though. I'm glad it's opensource ( in case they get a take down notice ).
I'd love to see your benchmark to understand why JRuby wasn't faster than that. I assume you ran with the --server flag to JRuby as well.
What Privacy? Facebook Prepares To Announce 500 Million Users
My favorite quote on that is:

>"One of Django's core design philosophies is that template languages shouldn't try to be programming languages. To that end, we've kept the template language deliberately simplisitic so that you'd be more or less forced to push advanced logic up into the view."

Very view people seem to understand this at first unfortunately and try to do crazy things like swap out the template language for something else or add on a bunch of hacks. Why create additional custom template logic and the parsing instructions for converting it to python when you can just write the functionality in probably one line of standard python in your view fuction and have it run faster.
For people interested in the approaches to real-time collab, I made a summary writeup of what I researched a while back - http://techblog.gomockingbird.com/using-real-time-collaborat... . Still hoping to actually dive into all the algorithms later, but there is definitely a lot out there, just mostly in the form of academic papers.
A $95000 question: why are whites five times richer than blacks in the US?
For creating temporary local branches, have you tried the bookmarks and localbranch extensions?

Also, I am be interested to learn more about your workflow and why it is so difficult to do in Mercurial. So far, the only feature I've seen in git that I've wanted in Mercurial is the ability to manage publicly named branches using the bookmarks extension, and by extension, an easy way to track named branches.
Aren't String and Array a mix of both C++ and Ruby, though? So it's a bit more like saying it's running that mix of C++ and Ruby 1.5x slower than MRI runs C, for varying percentages of Ruby and C++.

Still awesome though!
exactly - the last thing needed here is another intellectually poor info source that spews stock rec's and trading ideas. [sidebar: imho this is why i think twitter is -- in practice, not theory -- anathema too actual investing]

question: are the real smart investors (individual and other) out there willing to be part of a public forum? people have mentioned the need-to-keep-my-trading-edge-with-secrecy point, but the ego-value of being recognized in a community might also be powerful for this constituency.
I cant find the resource, but sometime back someone compared DVCS for large binary files (game assets) and saw they were absolutely inefficient .. and in several case incapable of handling large files
git's interface isn't terribly intuitive, but it isn't that bad. Once you get the hang of it, it makes sense.
Why Gizmodo et al post multiple times a day...

"My job was to write twelve posts a day about 'media gossip,' which meant anything unpleasant or otherwise intriguing about anyone who had power in any Manhattan culture industry. There had to be enough posts so that whoever was sitting at my old desk at the publishing house, and everyone in Manhattan like her, could read something new when boredom struck."

Excerpt from book by Emily Gould, ex-Gawker, infamous blogger
Google Learns a Lesson the Hard Way
absolutely, fork it and contribute :)

http://github.com/mjpizz/reclaimprivacy
>“It’s like setting off to build the next Empire State Building when you haven’t even even looked at the construction plans for a one-story house.”

Makes me think of Diaspora.
That’s great news! If only Android and Android devices presented themselves to the public in a more coherent way. Everyone knows that you can buy tons of apps for every iPhone which will run on any iPhone (not strictly true but close enough).

That perception just doesn’t exist for Android devices. I just this weekend saw a Telekom shop (here in Germany) display two Android phones from HTC in its Window. You do not see that those two devices run the same OS. You do not see that apps for one will work on the other. Android is not a term people know – everybody knows the iPhone, nobody knows Android (even when they own a phone running Android).
Yes. Gatling thought that it would save lives by reducing the amount of soldiers necessary for war.
I'm unique alright, and it appears the main culprit is the identification of my System Fonts/User_Agent.
How the hell do you rank slashoid.org number one? Never heard of it and it clearly has nearly 0 traffic.
Neat tool - thanks for creating it.

One question - when I run it on my account there are 2 scans that never seem to return (it keeps saying "scanning"). The scans are:

- scanning personal information...

- scanning friends, tags, and connections information...

Is there something on my end I need to do? (I tried running the scanner multiple times and its on Mac firefox 3.5.9)
Even if you buy the claim that there is no keyword overlap between porn & non-porn queries (which I don't) and that porn purveyors don't love to spam keyword space (which I don't) you still have to consider this:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_top_100_search_term...

...and that if a parent busts their child searching for it and finding it, the puritan parent is as likely to go after the store as they are to deal with their child.

Allowing porn apps into the store is a messy business proposition. I'm only surprised it didn't get shot down sooner. Not expecting the same policy from any brand of their magnitude is naïve.

And, I have to say, desiring to have porn distributed as executable code is a crazy thing to wish for. I wouldn't even trust it in a sandbox. No industry abuses APIs more than those guys.
Why 3.3.1 matters to me
Sorry, I like my psuedo-anonymity here. Yeah, sales are better than I expected; I never intended it to be anything more than a hobby, but if I could come up with 10 more apps that do as well...
Immersive Gaming – iPhone 3GS plus laser projector
VentureHacks TV: Marc Andreessen Stanford Q&A
Commercial Quantum Cryptography System Hacked
Porting from Windows to Mac isn't easy
I've always found /. to be one of the biggest mixed bags online. The good comments are pure gold, but everything else tends to be terrible.
A Counterpoint to Cancer Stem Cell Theory
BTW, OpenID was never about privacy... it was about providing a single login solution.
I know that this is a copy and pasted peace, but it kind of kills the credibility of the whole post when they start with attacked OpenID and clearly show they have no idea what OpenID really is.
It still handles them poorly by default. You can do things like edit .gitattributes to say that e.g. a *.binary file should be treated specially, but Git's still not a good system for e.g. archiving HD video.

Some of this can be fixed, but a lot of it is probably not going to change. When you git-add something it has to checksum the old data + new data. That's going to be a pretty expensive operation when you have 50TB of data.

There's no DVCS that I'm aware of that handles large binary files as well as say Perforce or Subversion.

Check out this project for more info on tuning Git for big files: http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/git-bigfiles
With less than 3 dozen comments made as of yet it's a little early to judge this; I normally wait 24 hours and then view those scored 3 or better.
No schadenfreude?
Yep. The community has a self-moderation system to do stability testing and maturity rating, but otherwise any quality of game may be allowed in.

It brings an incongruous look to the XBox UI when one goes to the indie games section and the promotional art changes from lavish illustrations to crude MSPaint-esque icons.
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> Steve says a lot of the lessons were really obvious, so you may not find a lot of completely new ideas in the presentation.
This is always relevant: http://keithp.com/blogs/Repository_Formats_Matter/

"I would like to argue that none of the user-interface and high-level functional details are nearly as important as the fundamental repository structure. When evaluating source code management systems, I primarily researched the repository structures and essentially ignored the user interface details. We can fix the user interface over time and even add features. We cannot, however, fix a broken repository structure without all of the pain inherent in changing systems."

Keith makes a good point. While Git's interface is lacking in some areas, those things can be fixed in the higher level porcelain. Picking a system with a nicer interface whose plumbing is uglier will lead to problems further down the road.
Apple is a cult. You either buy into the whole philosophy, or you go elsewhere. Steve has every right to run his company that way -- whether that makes him a dick or not.
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it's $5 bucks for the anrdoid version (99c for iphone). QR Code to android market: http://bit.ly/9PEzjs
Have you taken a look at admissibility-based transformations (ABT) [1]?

It seems to solve the issues that concern you (validating the correctness of OT).

[1] http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1713726
Anybody creating a template engine (or having to pick an engine) should read the paper justifying StringTemplate: http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~parrt/papers/mvc.templates.pdf

Generic summary: templates should only be able to do substitution, iteration, and existence checks on variables.
No, he's talking about people's desire to receive attention. Advertising puts a price on getting attention from others but it generally does so to try to sell stuff not just as a self-esteem boost.
FYI... the iPhone app will also be 4.99 as soon as Apple approves v3.2... hopefully today :)
definitely, glad you like it.

That bug seems to be a problem periodically, looks like somebody already filed it on the issue tracker:

http://github.com/mjpizz/reclaimprivacy/issues/#issue/2

if you know any Javascript pros who could help, point them at the source code :) Hopefully get some patches tonight.
I think they use Cassandra as there database so they already have.
If only Android and Android devices presented themselves to the public in a more coherent way.

Yes. Those who sell Android phones sell lots of other phones with several different OS. It would be hand for the Verizon or Sprint store to give the same prominence to an ATC phone that the iphone got at the Apple store.
He did also state that he went straight from Uni into this. So while some of the lessons might be obvious they may not have been to him to start with.