skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if giving you content you just agree with is tailoring content. If you want to be challenged wouldn't content tailored to you do just that?

The most important part of tailoring is in advertising though. Most of these publications are ad supported. No conversion for advertisers = bye bye.
If you tried it right after we added Yahoo Mail support, that must have been 2008. We made a ton of performance improvements in early 2009. I talked about that process, and the fun of developing in Outlook, here: http://blog.adamsmith.cc/2009/04/investing-a-million-bucks-i...

folks on Outlook 2007 will also find a huge OL performance boost from upgrading to SP2, wherein the fixed about thirty Outlook perf bugs, some of which can be tickled by their addin API's!
The Big Red H? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_Communications
bypassing the blog spam: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/may/08/change-li...
Some public libraries have tutorial sessions for things like this.
Oh, thank you! See? I need help. Lots of it.
Yes, I realized, after I writ my first comment, that sharing the source code would constitute an alternative distribution mechanism (if i just share with a couple of friends, does that constitute "public distribution"?). Hence, my comment to which you responded focused on the first part of my original comment, which pointed out that it is entirely possible for one, if one is so inclined, to port emacs and run on your device. Perhaps not practicable, but possible.

EDIT: actually, I'm thinking about this some more: are you saying that iPhone source code (for code modules, frameworks, etc) available online are violating the prohibition on alternative distribution?
s/caffeine/meth/

Same argument and every bit as delusional.
Are you looking for people with lots of experience for the engineering positions or will you consider graduates?
This thing needs to move pixels at a time, rather than words at a time. It's really hard to calibrate your eyes to the next word when the length of the next word is unknown.

You lose the spatial cues of where each word's position is each time a new word is shifted on to the screen. Something like a smooth stock ticker would be much better.

Although, Spreeder looks much better.
am I the only one that still feels weird about divulging this info in public?

For me its kind of like boiling a frog. I get all kinds of queasy about telling people what my salary was (I was raised such that one just did not do that), but back when I was making all of $24.95 in sales a month well pfft no harm in saying that... and then all you have to do is "not stop".

Amusing cultural note: Japan is almost totally open about salaries. I didn't know what my father's approximate salary was until I was in my twenties. I don't know what my friends make now. Here, I've been asked it on second dates before, and the local sushi guy knew it without me even telling him. ("Well, duh: engineer in Nagoya + I know your age. What else could your salary be?!" And he's right.)
Blogspam. Original (2007):
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We did some interviewing a few weeks back. I'm looking forward to the piece, the interviewer was pretty in touch with the current goings on. Let us know when it's going live if you guys get more details.
that can't be right, but it seems I can do it too

EDIT: it seems to get a whole lot easier to read when i align the text left. when it was aligned right i was wasting time getting my eyes to the always shifting beginning of the new line
I had this happen when trying to buy some printer paper. I asked "Why do you need that?" and they said it was so that I could return items without a receipt.

Who, precisely, is going to return printer paper?
> However this is a classic Tragedy of the Commons example

Not on that, but ppossibly the most tragic example I've ever witnessed.
Don't fall for the Mozilla marketing. Mozilla has >200 people on staff, and the vast majority of actual browser development is done by Mozilla staff. Getting Mozilla to actually respond to any external development community questions and feedback is like pulling teeth. There's a reason you hardly see anyone building on top of Mozilla anymore.

Mozilla's problems stem from their management simply being over their heads, and not having the chops to run a development project of that scale. A good chunk of Chrome developers used to be Mozilla developers, who probably weren't exactly thrilled with how Mozilla was being run. And talk to any third party who has tried to work with Mozilla building on the code base, and you'll hear all sorts of frustrations.

Mozilla has enough money in the bank to not disappear for a while, but they'll likely fade into irrelevance sooner, because it doesn't look like they can escape their institutional problems.
80% of Emacs is written in Emacs Lisp. Most of the remaining 20% is the Lisp runtime.
The poor guy embodies all that prevents us from marching forward: "I learned about classes, I don't want to learn anymore, everybody knows that the rest is crap anyway! Right?"

If you read this, know that prototype-base programing pioneered the HotSpot and a lot of the JIT in your classical language's VM.

Oh and by the way, if your classes aren't object, does that mean that your language fails to qualify as OO? Maybe your classical language isn't OO after all.
Looking better and better. Someone with design chops should fork the repo and give them a good logo and a color treatment.
When I've applied for credit, I got the same phone call but said "yes, that's me", and everything went through.
Desktop software will be irrelevant shortly

Shortly? To me, it's pretty damned irrelevant now.
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Does this simply access the video through an account with a >18yrs birthdate? Because if so, I fear YouTube will simply block that account once this gains any traction.

Not that I'm bashing the idea - I appreciate services like this. I'm just wandering if you've thought of some way around that possibility.
People Are Walking Architecture, or making NearlyNets with MujiComp
I don't know about massive decline, but they are definitely not setting the pace anymore, and they have lost a lot of their "geek halo".

I bet a lot of technical people are now recommending/installing Chrome on non-techy people's computers, and over time that adds up.
I don't think H.264 is dealbreaker yet. Too few people even know (or care) about coming video standards - the only people I know who even think about such matters are geeks (aka people like you and me).

Your point on this being symbolic of internal forces in the product, on the other hand, sounds largely correct.
So all the open source iPhone code freely available online is in violation of the Apple agreement?
10k hits, really? I'm getting only a little less than that per day on a very small time personal blog... traffic profile and engagement are, of course, more important than raw numbers however.

I'm sure your next months hits will be higher!
Without emacs and its plethora of hellspawn requirements for a decent clojure environment, I just don't feel comfortable!!

Grats on a nice web-based repl though :)
I too would really like to know. I've been looking into advertising with Fusion, as I'm so far a very small one-man shop, but the network idea sounds very intriguing.
Neat! FYI, the editor is fairly busted on FF 3.6.3. Key repeat for arrow keys does not work, and paste is broken. Not sure what they're using, but it would also be nice if it supported readline-style navigation (i.e. M-f, M-b, C-e, C-a, etc).
Yes I know. I still don't see how this is relevant to my orignal comment. I never suggested trying to distribute a ported emacs on the app store or in binary form.
Having the tutorial right there is a great improvement. Looking forward to working through it as it expands.
Quick update: 13 companies already submitted Apps for review. Some absolutely stunning work is sitting in my inbox right now, and I can't wait to dig in deeper.

Thanks for the kind words and I'll be sure to keep HN updated!
Using the PlayStation 3 controller in Bluetooth mode with Linux
Tell us more. You pay people to learn? What do you get out of it?
Making this a readability-style bookmarklet or plugin would be awesome.

I would love a "Speedify" button
The previous time there were rumours about Google Storage, we've got AppEngine instead. Hm, what we've get how?...
Can chrome handle mathml yet?

Edit: I just downloaded gc beta for linux, and the answer is: NO. And SVG is downright ugly (but it animates ok with javascript).

It was wicked fast, though.
I agree. For B2B, they don't want to know about your dirty laundry and how the sausage is made.
Microsoft patent action for: "displaying a web page having an embedded menu"
"What total, utter bollocks. How does religion provide insights into any of these things?"

I've often seen the claim, "Science tells us how, religion tells us why." But never with any support.

At best, science may tell us how, and philosophy may tell use why. Religion? Basically philosophy + supernatural bullshit.
I guess it really depends on how you learn, but IMO you should avoid buying a textbook. There are plenty of resources online and often they come with "real" examples from users, etc.

My advice would be to just do it! Think of a project you want to do and start playing around. Start hacking, make it work, iterate. Later on, if you find something you did isn't the best way to do it - go back and rewrite it. You will learn a great deal from your mistakes - I know it was the best way I learned things.

You said you are interested in developing a website - start with HTML/CSS and PHP. There are TONS of php resources online, it is a powerful language, and quite easy to learn.

Good luck and be sure to post back when your product is launched :)
Nosql for .net released
Raven is an Open Source (with a commercial option) document database for the .NET/Windows platform.
I wish they had ended it with a shot of the whole board at once - Or maybe even just zoomed slowly out...
Man that teddy bear scares me off, I'd hate to make a typo and crash someones server.

What kind of precautions against newbie messes are there ?
Fundamentals of Relational Database Design
I find myself using Chrome more for content consumption and Firefox more for content creation; but that's slowly been shifting towards Chrome for both.
I'm saying that open office creators want you to use it for free. Creators of music do not want you to use it for free. They want to make some money that they can use to pay for rent and time to invest in more music. If you download a song, you are not entering into any product/consumer agreement.
I know the motivation. They want it and they don't want to pay for it.
She doesn't recognise at any stage that he might actually have feelings, or that his opinion might matter. It isn't that she thinks that this man's life isn't solely about her - she doesn't recognise that his man has a life. Whatever he feels, however he acts, her response is to ignore and invalidate.

It is erroneous to believe that what defines narcissism is an obsession with the self. The primary defining trait of the narcissistic personality is the failure to recognise the boundaries between self and others. Narcissists see others as simply an extension of themselves and fail to fully realise the independence of the minds of others. Narcissists have failed to develop the understanding that there is an external reality, acting independently of their own mind.

Narcissists are so debilitating to those around them because their internal logic is so different that our natural reactions are confounded. We fail to recognise when narcissists are lying, because to a narcissist anything that comes from their imagination is the truth - narcissists don't experience any stress whatsoever when lying and seem to be absolutely confident in anything they say or do.

People who are in relationships with narcissists quickly lose their sense of self, because the narcissist's erroneous sense of personal boundaries erodes their sense of sentience. The best analogy I can give is Orwell's Newspeak - if you live for ten or fifteen years with someone who can genuinely convince themselves that black is white, who acts as if nobody else around them has emotions, who acts as if they are the ultimate arbiter of truth, it absolutely warps your sense of self. There is a vast amount of literature on what happens to the partners of narcissists and this guy seems to fit that pattern exactly.

It's not that he's a pussy, it's that after twenty years of being told what he thinks and what he feels, he has a completely eroded sense of self. He doesn't know who he is anymore. That's why he wants to leave and why he finds it so difficult to do so. He came out point blank and said "It's over, I'm leaving" because he rightly anticipated that he wouldn't be given any opportunity to discuss it, and that any response he would get would be manipulative. He correctly anticipated how he would be manipulated, but fell for it anyway because he has lost his fucking mind.
It's pretty much one of the best little corners of the Internet ever.

You're welcome. :D
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So, you'll depend on the rest of the world to vaccinate so you can benefit from herd immunity and not chance the impossible odds that anti-vaccine conspiracy theories are correct?

No, maybe not a wacko, just selfish and uninformed. Vaccine preventable diseases coming back. Children are dying at the hands of the anti-vaccine movement.
…and can you make change for yourself out of the donation jar?
Perhaps redundant quesiton: Have you considered porting to HTML? Or is it not feasible for your app?
I'm fine with that. If the other side can play politics then so can the pirate party.
Great idea. Great marketing. I'll withdraw because I have no personal need that is great, others need it more right now.
> Students don't set the industry standard. They follow it.

There are exceptions to most rules, including this one. Consider for example what has taken place with Blender. I know a lot of people who would have been learning 3DS Max (or Maya, etc.), but now know and use Blender instead because that's what they can afford.

And these students don't have to venture forth into The Industry. They can create their own that will topple the existing one. There are plenty of growing startups who would be more than happy to hire someone with "3D Skillz", and many of them don't care what tools they use, so long as the work gets done.
<sarcasm>Looks like the Microsoft PR machine is working in full force again today</sarcasm>

Win a couple hundred million, lose the support of 5% of the voters. Nice trade, guys. Few more like that and you'll be the next AT&T

We continue to confuse kinetic force with winning.
The reason no one uses Gimp is because the user interface is terrible. Photoshop kills gimp.
I know a lot of people when I was in high school or college who would have had no qualms about eating there every single day for free regardless of any social stigma. I can't imagine that there wouldn't be some resentment by the employees or other customers that someone is taking the most and never giving back.
"open source" ordinarily refers to code licensed under any of the licenses that are "approved" by the self-appointed board of the "Open Source Initiative". The license terms of those vary wildly and most of them do not give strong protections to users.

What is more specifically at stake here is code licensed under one of the GNU free software licenses that may have wound up in iPhone apps. To my (non-lawyerly) eyes, any programs that include code derived from a third party's GPL or LGPL licensed code are likely being violated unlawfully.
Wow, I didnt know Tim berners-Lee invented the Internet!
In that case, it doesn't really seem that you would notice much of a difference between Perforce, git, or what have you. Well, maybe between CVS and earlier (which tracked changes per-file) and SVN and later (which track them per repository).
Customer Service posting: "Must be a college graduate." Hmm. A lot of engineers I know wouldn't qualify for customer service at AirBnB.
These aren't particularly new.
Two wrongs don't make a right. Everyone knows when you enter into a legal contract you should understand what the legal words mean or don't sign it.

I don't care about the major labels, what I care about is maintaining a social structure where creativity can be rewarded and the investment and time put into great quality intellectual products isn't wasted.
Hilarious.

Props to you for that one, and for still seeing things in perspective.
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No I didn't.
You could also buy a computer - they're pretty cheap. Or has that gone out of fashion?
Yeah, yesterday I decided I wanted to do something with Lisp again, and I figured that Clojure was the hot new kid on the block, so I should use that, and now it's tonight and I still don't have SLIME hooked up to Clojure, presumably because there's no actual guide to anything, and any howto that anybody made is guaranteed to be out of date almost before they post it.

Clojure is really appealing otherwise, though, as lisps go.

Edit (2x): I had a statement here of my particular problem at the moment, but then it changed, so I deleted it.
Why not have QB deploy the kickstand/third wheel on low-battery conditions?
It's called "checking out a book" or you could use the term "borrowing."

Look, this "it's not stealing" argument is a bunch of hog wash. If you think it isn't stealing because the "stolen" goods are simply a copy, why do you use the term "piracy"? Did pirates make a copy of the loot?

When you say someone is stealing music -- everyone knows what is happening. People use the same term with cable television -- they're stealing cable. It means they are enjoying the benefits of cable -- without paying the cable company.

You can use whatever term you want for the behavior -- we all know what it is and why it isn't right and it is just as wrong as stealing IMO.
My point was to challenge the assertion that making source code available for apps, libraries, frameworks, etc. that use the iPhone sdk, is in violation of the apple terms.

Regarding L/GPL, which part do you think would be violated if one incorporated such code in an iPhone/ipad app, assuming one makes the resulting source code available?

Lastly, my original comment pointed out that one can port emacs and run on your device. Nobody can stop you because nobody would know.
If you are looking for leads, as opposed to simple brand awareness, my advice would be to ensure that your product is expensive enough to make it worthwhile.

We looked into StackOverflow advertisement for http://ThinkCode.TV, but we gave up on it due to our low pricing.

For example, our MacRuby screencast costs $8.99, of which $4.05 is actual profit for the company. Buying 100,000 impressions for the macruby tag costs $1000 (their minimum). With a typical click-through rate of 0.20%, we would receive about 200 clicks. We wouldn't break even, even if all 200 clicks converted (which is a ridiculous assumption).

For brand awareness or high ticket items, it may be worth it though.
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On both my home Ubuntu system and my work Windows XP system, Firefox and Chrome are about the same speed and the same memory footprint. However, I can't deny that Chrome subjectively feels snappier to use.
I prefer http://winpdb.org/ (Not windows only.)

The debugger runs as a full screen GUI app, which you attach via sockets to a running process, so you can easily debug stuff like FCGIs on other machines, etc.
So can they see all of the photos, or only theirs?
"I don't have one." is my standard answer when a cashier asks for my email address.
>t's like requiring everyone's username to double as their password.

Reminds me of the old joke:

Store Cashier: If you'll just give me your SSN, I'll sign you up for our rewards program.

Customer: Can you keep a secret?

Store Cashier: Of course!

Customer: So can I.
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I think links to fulltext are best.

I don't think summarizing patents makes sense in this case with such vague content-free titles.
-Well, that represents quite a boon.

-Oh, an enormous boon.

-Well, we're always on the lookout for enormous boons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nTmSu6v0LA
Two things hold me back from using Chrome on OS X:

1) Chrome's many non-standard (and ugly) UI elements. Especially the dropdown menus in the bookmarks bar.

2) Firebug - Webkit's web inspector still isn't quite there yet.

Otherwise I would switch to Chrome in a heartbeat :D
Sure. I'm not saying it won't work - I'm just saying what I prefer to invest in.

Lots of things that I pass on go on to get acquired. It often makes me feel stupid and doubt my strategy and decision-making.

I'm also not entirely sure that I'm actually any good at this.
Plus, Mozilla's business model is basically done for. With Google providing a Firefox competitor, how long do you really think it will be before Google pulls their deal with Mozilla to give them money per search via the search box?
I really don't understand the lay of the land there.
I have tried advertising on FusionAds. Here is my limited assessment.

First of all, this is what the campaign traffic looked like for the duration of the campaign. I did a one week "burst" campaign and did not run any other (significant) campaigns during this period:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4070/4619944957_84f99f0aff_o....

I rotated 3 ads on Fusion Ads, all for the same product with slightly different offers / message.

The Good:

The network that you get exposed to is high quality. I think because of that I had some residual indirect effects such as high profile bloggers suddenly mentioning my app or writing about it in the weeks following the campaign. Might not have been able to achieve this otherwise.

CTR seemed to be in line with expectations.

The Bad:

The tech crowd is a hard sell. There were 3 sales generated from this campaign, which is quite bad considering the ad budget. I don't think the audience was quite right for my product, at least to expect direct conversions.

That said, perhaps it was my message / ad design. To be honest with you, banner ads have not been an effective way to generate sales for me in general. Testimonials and blog posts converted much higher.

Conclusion:

YMMV, but I would use FusionAds again for market awareness. To launch a new product or launch a product update. It exposes you to a crowd of bloggers and influencers who would otherwise be hard to reach (in one shot like this). And I would hope for indirect effects from that, much like hiring a PR firm to contact press / bloggers on my behalf. I wouldn't expect direct sales from the banner, but again, that's just been my experience.

EDIT: got my terminology wrong - I didn't run a "roadblock", I ran a "burst" campaign :)
My N900 runs MVS 21.8 with the help of the s390 Hercules emulator. It's amusing to watch it IPL and run TSO sessions with about the same response time as a circa-1980 IBM mainframe. It's a data center in a handheld, 30 years out of time.

What's it good for? Spending a nostalgic evening, killing a beer or two... and that's about it. I imagine the same thing goes for that Windows 3.11 hack.
You're going about it differently than I did (haven't gotten around to leiningen yet), but I found the top google results for linking emacs to clojure were woefully out of date. I'm a newbie to both emacs and clojure, so I couldn't figure out what I needed to do to correct for the old info.

I gave up on that route and installed elpa on emacs, which I then used to install slime, swank, and clojure. Works great!
Did anybody else misread this as "Pantera"?
I call bullshit. This is a marketing and PR move to make their own CRM product sound legit.