skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple has been selling an average of 100,000 iPhones a day for at least the last 6 months.

For the analysts that want to see growth in your growth so they can hype while you boom, I'd bet that they'll break through that 'plateau' when they release the next model in June.
This is some solid engineering. I wish the code was freely available, so I could finally have a sane mouseless PDF viewer application.
These are more contextual than targeted :)
The industry is built around fulfilling the aspirational goals of people to be Making Money Online, rather than actually improving their outcomes. Since you don't succeed merely from buying an ebook, you must have bought the wrong ebook, so you're always in the market for the right ebook next time.
200 Moments that Transformed Journalism, 2000-2009
I know in theory how it works (lived in Arlington, VA for a dozen years) and you aren't in a position to do it. If you lived in the area and had plenty of time it would be another matter, but you don't (VA has something akin to small claims court, with damages capped at $10K).
The periodic table may have been constructed by the students as a project. I remember giving my students a project where they had to draw the periodic table. They appreciated the break from the normal routine and it's a great way to get more familiar with the table.
fantastic article. wise woman.
I'm pretty sure it is. I'm the "someone else" if you heard it on hn.
When you're married and have the feelings like the husband did in this story it will make a lot more sense.
> As far as I can see it is a 'contract', they said if you do 'x' they'll re-imburse you, you did 'x', they should pay up.

I'm not a lawyer, though I do think you are right in this instance.

One thing to keep in mind though is that if an employee does not have the authorization to make such an agreement then the company isn't liable.

I forget the legal term for this type of person, agent comes to mind.
It just puts the plumbing in place to allow row level perms to built later on
In the spirit of due diligence I started up a debugging proxy before I ran the scanner, so that I'd be able to tell if it collected any info.

Happily, it seems the only requests made are to fetch the javascript that does the scanning, and to various Facebook pages and associated content such as Facebook's CDN and "channels."
Max's advice here is good even if you don't subscribe to the "I need to be worried about the rent to do decent work" philosophy. I have never met someone who said "You know, I saved too much for retirement", and given that most of us are 35+ years from it a dollar invested today is likely to be a dollar or more of income per life plus $25 to your children or favorite cause after you die.

(Well, less whatever tax your local jurisdiction charges rich plutocrats like yourself.)
Umm, maybe a little. Overall, though she likely wasn't blameless it sounds like she pretty much 'turned the other cheek' - and reaped the rewards.
Beyond Cassandra: Facebook, Twitter and the Future of Development
Ha! Well, just one so far. Readers here are probably not likely to be locked into IE6 but might know somebody.
From the article:

"And the EFF found that making tweaks to one's browser in the hope of altering a fingerprint was largely futile—algorithms could correctly decipher most fingerprint changes over time."
Mathematicians solve 140-year-old Boltzmann equation
Off topic: I tried visiting the jQtouch site on the iPad - the demo video uses Flash ;) Found it at least a bit amusing :P
How is that comparable? The word 'recur' suggests recursion, so using it to mean you do NOT want recursion seems to be kind of odd. Does it make sense to you?
I wasn't there to hear how she said it, but I took it as sincere. I thought she was really offering to let him do whatever he needed to do to find his happiness again.
Partial: Curry’s flashy cousin
Japan may pick robots over immigrants
DIY Canadian SEO-Chapter 4
Is it just me or does the "woo" in their logo look strikingly similar to Woot.com's?
Isn't this a bit of a complacency issue? To compete with the web, you're going to have to create an experience that's significantly better than the web. I get the feeling most content providers want to rehash the same thing in a different way, and hopefully be able to charge for it this time around.

Then again, maybe they're paralyzed with fear and have reached the end of the creativity road... I just can't imagine there isn't innovation to be done in this area.
http://www.crimemuseum.org/blog/?p=839

It turns out that altering your fingertips to become untraceable simply reduces the sample space to "mutilated fingerprints". The same logic holds here.

http://www.ncjrs.gov/App/abstractdb/AbstractDBDetails.aspx?i...
Get to work.
Nope, this person told me to my face... and we would all know his name (which is why I'm not naming him.)

Unless this person was just telling me Moot was pitching them, and not that they had invested, which is entirely possible (that I misheard him).
That doesn't mean it needs an exit button; it just needs to quit putting a notification up when it's not playing.
I can agree with you on this abstraction :)
Android Now #2 In Smart Phone Sales
quote:
"As for advertising in Cosmo, thats sadly beyond our budget. We've been mentioned in some pretty major media though, but had pretty much no financial return from it. A mention on Ellen, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Health, Cosmo, Latina, ABC news, and quite a few others but the return on the effort to get mentioned there is so intense and the return so minimal I've all but stopped the PR train."

That's the worst thing you can do... Are you using the quotes from ABC etc. with an "As mentioned in ABC News..." type of boasting on your home page? If not, get to it right now...
It's the bits of entropy. You're unique within 2^bits users on the web as a whole (according to their model). Said another way, according to how they're measuring uniqueness, that you get N bits of entropy.

On a hypothetical website that had 2^N different users, you could be uniquely identified. Specifically, you'd be the only FC11/ffox user in the mix :-)
Consumers? I'd say abut zero, too. A small business type would pay for wordpress to get his word out, but a regular person with a day job? I don't see this happening. And I don't see Diaspora being appealing to small business types, unlike wordpress.

There is currently no way to make money in social networks. Maybe someone could invent one, that would be interesting to see.
Sorry to hear that. My niche, domain name investing, is quite small. However, there are a large number of companies looking to advertise in the space. My banner space and all of my fellow domain name bloggers inventory is constantly sold out at above average rates.

Real work, yes... as I said, it takes years to become an authority and hours of work daily.
First code push already from the RV!

http://blog.carwoo.com/first-code-push-from-the-road-build-a...
Also, we're hiring interns for the summer (for engineering, design, and marketing positions). Let me know if you're interested.
Investors usually use technical or fundamental analysis. Some use both, but I would say it is not very common.

Technical guys are usually trading, they are looking at price charts and trying to gauge supply/demand and figure out how prices will change.

Fundamental investors take longer term perspectives, they analyze reported financials and qualitative factors, model earnings, etc, to determine where they think the company's performance will go and how that ultimately drives the stock price.

From there, you have some other possible divisions. There are traders for every asset class (fixed income, currencies, commodities, derivatives). Then, some investors differ by strategy (value, growth, global macro, event driven, long, short, long/short, market neutral, distressed debt). Some might use a combination of both.

E.g.: a macro trader might use technical analysis in the day to day while analyzing data releases from foreign countries to determine how their bonds will perform. So a combo of both fundamental and technical analysis.

Hope that helps.
Fuck. Yeah. This makes me really happy.
Berklee College of Music is hiring
You misunderstand. Identical default installs still report as unique. I couldn't understand what they tested that could differetiate them (because by rights they all should report identically - or at the very least some of them should).

This was tested with 25 identical machines I was commissioning for a task.
Nice breakdown, but if you ask me, even the article's suggested reduction to "only" 5 screens is ridiculous. There are many things I've always hated about Windows, and this kind of brain-deadness is near the top of the list.

The iPhone App Store model is pretty much perfect: one step, "install the thing" (or two, to authenticate, if you haven't recently). Any progress is asynchronous, and it is completely obvious when the installation is finished. All of the app's files are in one place, which eliminates 99% of the reason an installer/uninstaller seems necessary in the first place.

Granted, the iPhone auto-selects an install location for security reasons, but there's no reason a desktop OS couldn't choose someplace "obvious and reasonable" to save a step for the user. Of course, this also requires that apps be easily relocated after the fact, which is another stupid flaw in many OSes...
Ask HN: Which web apps help you manage your startup?
I'm starting out with something I came up with but I never really needed to use many web apps to manage a project. My experience led me to the Google apps (Gmail, Analytics, Adsense), Basecamp, GitHub and Tick.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more I'm missing so what apps do you use to manage your company?
When we're done drinking beer on an RV we will definitely look into this.
One reason is so that your internal testers won't have wildly different experiences. It's much easier to verify one UI than several slightly different UIs.

This is similar to the cross-platform user experience, but even companies with very few cross-platform users will usually have a testing department, and have to worry about educating them with the product. 2, 3 or more different interfaces will add a lot to the burden of educating new QA folks.
... Situations where use of a composite key is the correct design decision, maybe? Like the very common case of join tables, for example. Surrogate keys in these situations are wasteful and unnecessary.

I find it seriously irritating when silly limitations like this in a framework corner you into bad data design.
IE (including IE6) supports transforms, as you point out yourself. Of course they don't do it in a standards-compliant way, but that's true for their custom font support also. What problems did you run into?
The 'recur' operator was meant as a replacement for the lack of tail-recursive optimization in the JVM, and is often seen as a recursion operator, not an iteration operator, especially by people coming from a functional background. People from an imperative background seem to understand it as a type of limited GOTO, with only a single place it can go to; people from a functional background see it as similar to calling the function you're in by name, but mentioning the recursion explicitly for compiler optimizations.

Recur seems to be maligned by people on both sides of the recursion/iteration divide. I rather like it, in no small part because I think the divide is silly. Iteration is the same as recursion, both semantically (especially if you have tail-call optimization) and syntactically (especially if you can have multiple loop variables). Recur blurs the distinction. If you think the distinction is important, it's confounding; if you think the distinction is silly, it's unifying.
How are you going to improve the user experience by cramming 6 different questions (which make no sense at all to a newbie) in to a one window?

That has an oxymoron feel into it, don't you think?
Verizon to offer 'up to' five LTE handsets by next May
"Starting a Bank for Fun and Profit" has become more popular topic in recent years (See: http://ma.tt/2009/08/starting-a-bank/).

Starting a bank from scratch is not impossible but will certainly be no easy feat. I wish Alex Payne and the team he is going to be working with good luck in cracking existing banking structures.
Web Laureate Insight, "Microsoft: HorizonS (P1)"
Our CEO will be on the radio in Pittsburgh tomorrow.
I agree completely. When it comes to paying for things, there are two very important factors. I think the web as it exists todays fails at both.

First, payment should be easy. I want to click "Buy", then click "Okay", and that's it. But almost every time I make a purchase online I end up fumbling for my wallet, getting my debit card, and filling out a form.

Second, people have to get "used" to paying for something. Give something away for free long enough, and pretty soon everyone starts to believe they're entitled. If you're like me, you have to go through quite a bit of research, trial, and self-convincing to pay a few bucks for a web app. Compare that to how easy it is to make a purchase at a convenient store.
According to: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/canvas-networks there are 5/10 investors 'unattributed.' According to the SEC filing there are 6 investors. TechCrunch just revealed 5 investors, so it seems like there is the possibility of somewhere between 1 and 5 unknown investors out there. Unless I'm reading the information wrong (which is more than likely).
Or Java. Or QT. Either way, you end up with something that works terribly on all platforms.
'Way to not run the tests Erik.'

Nice.
Thoughts on measuring online influence
They shouldn't pre-emptively open up what they previously allowed to be shared in a restricted, private fashion. If they want to be "all open" with regard to new contributions after the time of such a change in policy, I may as an individual user not like it but then I can choose whether I continue to participate. If they want to open up my previously shared, restricted, private information, that should only occur if I opt-in to the change of availability for that information.

Further, it doesn't build a favorable impression to force users to continually monitor both the site and third party sources of news for changes to the site and resulting privacy ramifications, and to force them to navigate numerous on site dialogs -- and third party documentation in order to understand the changes and those dialogs (and now also to locate partner pages on the site in order to use the opt out / block links located only on those pages) -- in order to control to the extend still available what elements of their information are publicized.

Maybe for the bulk of users it just won't matter. But for those who do care, this all has done an excellent job of breeding both distrust and a tinge of exhaustion. I wonder what they think the split will be between those who "give in" and those who "get out". Even if a fair number "give in", it's going to be a while, if ever, before they lose the feeling of having been manipulated.

In that sense, as I think about it, Facebook is leveraging its position exactly as a bully would. It's using the social environment -- its control of your social connections through its site -- to coerce the behavior it wants. Maybe that's what we should be calling Mr. Zuckerberg and his executive team, a big old bully.
And it would be almost kind of ok if they actually said, hey, we're victims here too... instead of their actual ongoing response to their customers of "it's not our problem".

Yes, publicly they are making some (very limited) concessions that this is an issue they need to deal with, but I am still hearing about customers getting 0 help from GoDaddy's support. Even when they did admit to the problem not being the customer's faults they tried watering it down with "well, look... it's not just us. Other hosts got hit too".

The other hosts, however, aren't laying claim to being the "world's largest hosting provider", nor are they spending millions on the next Super Bowl commercial that might better be spent on, oh, I don't know... maybe fixing the problem...?
Ask HN: Books for "Mathematics in Biology"
HNers: could you suggest me a book or two in 'Mathematics in Biology'. Beginners or intermediate is what I am looking at.

I was intrigued by "Essential Mathematical Biology" http://www.amazon.com/reader/185233536X).

I usually pick a book based on amazon ratings. I also pour through HN comments and find it equally rated.(eg: "random walk thru walk street" on amazon vs the comments here at HN)
The answer, from the other HN post about this blog article (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1355797):

"Well. We're talking about making this work in quite a number of different browsers, including IE6. So yes, it is." --matthiaskramm

(please don't vote up my comment; instead, give Matthias the points: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1355880)
SMSS: How to use LinkedIn with business savvy
When the iPhone came out, I distinctly remember Apple saying that web apps were the future and the iPhone with mobile Safari was ready to bring that future now.

Flash-forward after a year of developers crying to write native apps, and the iPhone SDK and App Store were born, to give the developers what they asked for. It turns out there are political limitations to writing native apps for the App Store... so now those same devs are finding the bed they wanted a bit uncomfortable to sleep in, and blame Apple who wanted them to write web apps in the first place.

I really don't see this "locked-down future" that people whinge about. Apple is still leading the open web app platform charge with WebKit, which powers both Safari and Chrome, as well as their work evangelizing HTML5 technologies to the general public.
Alan Kay on the misunderstanding of OOP
IPad cannibalizing iPods, not Macs
I like to call it a "midlife adjustment" and there is not a person alive who gets to that age who does not have to deal with it at some level - it really is the transitioning from the phase of life where everything points up to that in-between phase where things slow down, age starts to show itself more, and our mortality looms nearer. We all react to it differently but react we do, unless we are beyond feeling.

This piece nicely sets forth how a wife stuck through a pretty tough time with a husband who was adjusting pretty badly. It is a great story of how patience, perseverance, and wisdom can see us through trials. The lesson is that grace should control and guide us where our emotions would lead us to do things we might otherwise regret.
Stephen Hawking: How to build a Time Machine
Nope. Squeak Smalltalk works great across just about everything. (I assume you can work out the implications of "bit identical.") The UI is quite distinctly non-native on all of them though. Java can't hold a candle to Smalltalk for cross-platform.
I totally agree. I'm absolutely with Rands here:

You can have an opinion. It sounds like work, but it’s really not. An opinion is not the definitive view or judgement regarding a thing; it’s you staring at that desk and saying, “You know, I like the look and the feel of those brass handles. I also like the drawers that squeak just a bit when you open them. It speaks to the character of the whole desk.”

It’s not that I want a Stow Davis desk, it’s that I want to find that desk. I want to go to seven different antique shops and spend a weekend developing an opinion about the state of antique desks. I want to find someone who knows the entire history of Stow Davis desks and won’t fucking shut up about them.

Half the fun of having an opinion is the quest to find one, but the everything problem remains. You don’t have the time to have an opinion about everything...

But then he makes this totally ridiculous leap:

...but someone has the time.

So what? What good is it if it's someone else's opinion? Why would you want someone else to feed you their opinion on shaving cream, even if they've got a really objectively great opinion? It's not as if it actually makes any goddamn difference what shaving cream you buy, unless you believe it does. Ditto for desks, and so on.

I have an opinion on lots of stuff like that, but it's because I'm an opinionated little fuck. I don't think it's really a state to aspire to. Rands, on the other hand, apparently values being this complicated, networked, shopping consuming machine, and to what end? I don't understand.

P.S. Rands, you could, you know, try different brands of shaving cream until you find one you dig, like a normal person.
I forwarded this to my (soon to be ex-) wife. I wish I had such an understanding partner...
That was my thought - Facebook Spam, not a virus.

BUT that's a side point to an annoying trick that's been well-spotted, explored and explained by the OP.
you may be disappointed if you don't enough responses. Here is why:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=656147

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=545229

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1184105

This comes up every now and then. IMHO, there's a treasure chest waiting for you in the archive. All you need is the search (searchyc or google site:hn)
Life is about making choices and perhaps knowing your limitations as a human being.

You can either be someone who knew various programming languages and wrote a few small single-purposed libraries (and jump the wagon to another new languages) or knew two or three programming languages and build something big.

It's a choice. Ask yourself if you are truly interested at these languages or is it because of the HN side-effect (hang out with a crowd with certain belief, you'll become them or want to become them).
Kagan and the triumph of WASP culture
The library was not created to abet copyright infringement or worms. While we cannot (necessarily) stop someone for using the library in illegitimate ways, we do not welcome those uses.
A companion piece to the death of WASPs piece we had on here a few days ago
Poole will be sitting on the Digital Crowds Into Dollars panel along with Judy Hu, Global Executive Director Advertising & Branding, GE; Brian Pokorny, CEO, dailybooth; and Andrey Ternovskiy, CEO, Chatroulette.

Just curious if anyone could tell me why Andrey Ternovskiy would be sitting on a panel about (presumably) monetizing traffic. Chatroulette gained a lot of attention, but does he actually have any credentials to talk about revenue?
Performance issues, among others. IE's DXImageTransform, as the name suggests, renders an html element to an image and then transforms that entire image.
It's never too early to think about monitoring and metrics. In my opinion you should collect metrics on everything you can think of:

1) How long does it take for my page to load?
2) How long is this database query taking?
3) How long does this API call take?
4) How much storage am I using?

et cetera. Your metrics should give you keen insight into common system metrics as well as application level metrics. Your metrics should show you your trends and tell you when you need to add capacity and / or improve performance.

Cloudkick (http://cloudkick.com) is doing (among other things) a lot to make not only metrics collection but monitoring simple. I'd check them out.
Every device Apple makes (iPhone, iPad, iPod) is capable of playing music, and beyond that, a heck of a lot of people have iPods already. Those iPods will last at least a few years. It should not be surprising at all that iPod sales are finally dying down.

Apple is being smart by expanding into new product lines; that way, they continue to make profits, while people "hold onto" their purchased items. It would have been stupid to not make anything new and just expect steady iPod revenues for eternity.