skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humble opinions:

1. Easy to implement, but I don't know if people would be interested in it. Another downside is that twitter can pull the rug under your feet at any time.

2. Interesting. I'm not sure if the benefits for testers are big enough.

3. I have no opinion on this; I don't like the referrals in general (except free "word of mouth") anyways.

4. nice but as with any social site it's hard to get the initial people and critical mass.

5. Hard to differentiate enough or see the real benefit when there are so many blogs/facebook/etc applications out there.

6. There are definitively lots of monitoring services of all kinds, prices (from zero) and features. It would be interesting to have one addressing a very particular niche one or at a particular feature set / price point as you said.
Yes, Tor is for anonymity, not privacy. But that just means you still need to be operating over a secure channel---be that SSL or sending the documents encrypted, etc.

The fact that they operated compromised nodes does NOT diminish from Tor's anonymity. Most anonymity systems assume about 1/5 of the nodes will be compromised (which is reasonable barring a very large global adversary).

In general, timing attacks are the biggest issue in low-latency anonymity systems: if you can track packets going into Tor and coming out of Tor, you can link the sender to the destination. But, if the traffic was encrypted, that still doesn't get you the documents themselves.

Edit: More specifically to the grandparent---even with a compromised exit node, that doesn't reveal the source (that's the point of onion routing). The case of China is a hard one, due to the level of state control. There are ways to request exit nodes in the Tor network (I have no idea how well documented this is), so for them, selecting an exit outside China for accessing international sites would probably be best (this would remove/greatly reduce the risk of Chinese gov't timing attacks).

There has been some work on strategically choosing entrance/exit nodes to reduce the risk of these kinds of timing attacks, but I don't know of anything that has been published or implemented yet (I haven't worked on that particular aspect in a while). Basically, some of the methods would have automatically chosen exit nodes outside of China (to prevent exit->destination traffic from travelling through the same autonomous systems as source->entrance traffic).
#1 doesn't really solve a major problem for a lot of people.

I like #2. I've been thinking about something similar (Feedback for Startups - http://www.nilkanth.com/2010/05/21/6-ideas-off-my-chest/)

Simple Diary (#4) looks cool, but I'm not sure if it can do more than a hobby.

Family network (#5) sounds interesting. Facebook, and other family networks, are just bloated.
Tell HN: Good luck YC S10 batch
The first dinner of the Summer '10 YC batch is happening as we speak. Good luck, everyone. We look forward to seeing what you launch!
2 sold million iPads are quite good enough to make that point.
The Perils of Stacking
> Someone may care about Canada.

Well, for some reason I was thinking acangiano was here in Argentina, so I do care.
"My sex life is pretty good"? What does that even mean?
One reason why there has not been much progress towards homogenization is that there is a lot of paperwork involved in intra-community trading.

The local tax entities are paranoid about potentially missing out on some VAT and the rules for getting your VAT back border on the insane, effectively this causes businesses to prefer to do business with others in the same region.

Paperwork can be a very effective barrier to trade. So because only the larger companies are used to dealing with the paperwork the smaller companies which could 'knit' together the member states at the borders are not engaged, which in turn stops the market from really working well and homogenizing the economies to the point where it no longer matters where you do business.
You just read When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth, didn't you?

http://craphound.com/?p=1678
It's going to be very hard for people here to take, especially after wading through the tone of this article or the bogus reference to the Yale GMail story, but this guy is right. Hold your nose and suck it up, Microsoft is in fact doing a better job with software security than any other large company in the industry.
No, you can tell whether the person making the comment was lazy or not, it won't tell you anything about the original material unless you read that too to verify the summary was correct.

And it definitely isn't a rule that they are.
Steve Jobs Both Smacks And Kisses AT&T
So... Basically "cells" is nothing more than a sophisticated version of John Convay's Game of Life?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conways_Game_of_Life
Damn, that takes me back.

+1 for memepool.
I guess he was implying that the question was so uncomfortable to answer that he would rather talk about his sex life.
Yep, they're right. I don't believe I've ever heard of them.

Any opinions?
For all you know if it had flash on board it would have been 3 million, as long as iPads are being sold as fast as they can be produced and no investigation has been made in to how many people would consider buying an iPad if it supported flash this statement is simply false.
I'm with Tyler Cowen on applied Keynesianism (http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/05...) - sure it can work but it's a political quagmire on the national level. Now take that to the international level of the Euro, and you get my general feeling on the matter.
Design is hard. Copying the superficial aspects of other people's designs is easy. For example, even I know how to get a photorealistic copy of the iPad home screen: Run the iPad emulator on the Mac, and take a screenshot. Chop it up with Photoshop if you want the individual icons.
Look, Apple makes tons of money with the iPad which means you can be hugly succesful with web-centric tablets even if they don’t have Flash. That’s all that matters to Apple. The iPad is a success, isn’t it? That suggests that Flash is not such a important thing.
The reason this is a natural move is deal curation (2:15). Groupon and similar sites lack the credibility that Gilt has established. When Gilt recommends a deal, users will assume that it has been thoroughly researched and vetted. I can't say the same for some of the deals I've purchased on Groupon.
When you don't have to think, making something is pretty easy. The measurements are all there, already optimized for manufacturing, you just need to build the dies. And you can build negatives from the real thing.

Innovation takes time, duplication takes what, weeks?
Steve Jobs in Opening Interview Session at D8 Conference
Did anyone else get invites to apply for some yc startups, but didn't get accepted for the Work At A Startup event?
I'd agree, the only real threat would be one which masquerades as the iPad well enough to run iPad software & access the app store. Then they'd have a support / image nightmare on their hands. Right now, all they have is something which feeds on a market Apple barely exists in, if at all.
We did something like this at Yahoo! with an R&D project that never saw the light of day. The functionality was later integrated with Yahoo! toolbar. I think it was called 'Speedboost' or something like that. I'm not a fan of browser toolbars and it was around the time that I left so I don't remember much about how it was being marketed.

It took all the visual aspects of Yahoo! properties and 'pushed' them to the IE and FF cache so that when a user visited any number of Yahoo! properties, most of the visuals had already been loaded in the background.
Why do people try to turn normal business competition into some sort of Cain and Able story?
Thanks for the help. Just replied your email ;)
The 7th, CTM, is a successor to SICP. It is a classic of modern times.

I've heard of the third one, Concrete Mathematics.

I vaguely remember reading of the 4th, HOPL 2, and the 5th, Computer Organisation and Design. As far as I recall, they are good actually.
Search public tweets and Facebook/FriendFeed posts for people experiencing Google Reader overload. Tell them specifically how readwarp solves their problem. You can probably get another 10 users that way in a month. How many users do you want to get to?
This is misguided: there is a definite cost/benefit tradeoff in having a common currency. Common currency means no independent central banks, which could use monetary policy to devalue independent currency and stimulate exports. Not having the ability to do this puts these countries at a serious disadvantage in a recession.
That's fine with me. But you can't extrapolate that in to 'votes' for flash or against flash as the title suggests.

That's just plain nonsense.

Just like every device sold that does support flash is not a vote for flash so every ipad sold is not a vote against flash.

Flash simply doesn't factor in, if it does then someone should do the research and figure out how many people decided to buy a competing product because it supported flash. Only then would you be in a position to start making statements about this.

And I think after you do that research you'll find that consumers don't care, as long as their stuff 'works', the underlying tech is not interesting to them.
It would be an interesting problem to really try and get the timestamps around 10's of ms for the time sorting bound. With multiple datacenters you might get up to ~10ms drift with NTPv4 so you're starting point is already pretty crippled. And how would you even test? :-)
Prediction: a $100-150 drop in the price of an iPad within the next 6 months.
Agreed. All I could think when reading the Google article was, "They really think OS X is inherently more secure?" Surely it just benefits from having fewer attackers bother to target it.
Quit Facebook Day flops as only 1 in 15,000 pledge to quit
I figured the command line option existed but why bother looking it up in a man page and then memorizing it when > works perfectly?
Yahoo Helps Users Track Updates More Easily | Daily Blog World
Note that not all of the oil that gets to the top, stays there.

They have been pouring dispersants on the oil. That makes the oil bind to water and go back into the water column. The oil industry likes it because it hides the oil. Fish in the water column don't like it so much.

The fisheries hit by the Valdez spill have still not recovered.
I've heard of all of them. We have owned an earlier edition number 2 and number 3 for most of the last decade.

P.S. Has someone been reading my Amazon.com wish list to get the names of the other books on the list?
Engadget's live coverage has more context. It isn't quite a non-sequitor like TechCrunch says -- Walt actually asked Jobs about his relationship with Google, and Jobs made a joke.

6:49PM Walt: How's your relationship?
6:49PM Steve: My sex life is pretty good.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/01/steve-jobs-live-from-d8/
I think some other points to reflect upon:

...but it's more because of their inexperience than anything else.

Is that really true? Do you know more about the business than they do? Can you manage a team better? Do you bring up challenges to them, or just scoff and think they're stupid. Hacking is not just manipulating code. Could you start your own company and out do the current company?

I was expecting progress, instead I find my judgement being overruled by less experienced people

Why are you being overruled? Is it emotions based? Title's based ("I'm SENIOR engineer..")? Where's the logic, analysis, and/or data to prove otherwise? Why can't you sell your idea to others?

I guess it's all about making lemonade out of lemons.

I understand your grievances all too well, but yes; sweet, sweet lemonade.

Final thing is that I think it's better to communicate how you feel about your situation to your supervisor-type. If the they don't feel like they need to make a change, and you don't want to be there, easy solution.
Steve Jobs says Apple "created" WebKit. That wording makes it sounds like it started from nothing. But it didn't, WebKit was forked from the KHTML project in 2002 and later diverged (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webkit#Origins). One might say WebKit evolved out of KHTML.
yes, that happened to me
When you add everything up, there's no way that Apple can maintain dominance here. I mean, Google's Android is going to kill Apple's mobile OS. It costs manufacturers virtually nothing to license and use it on their hardware. And China is going to keep on shipping the cheaper hardware.
It means that he aimed for Howie Mandel and hit Howard Hughes.
It's like winning a race by disqualifying the champ...
Internet is not built around Flash.It exists to compliment what the regular web cant (Device access, DRM enabled video etc) Have you tried running any content rich html5 app on an iPad? It rendering frame rate is so bad that it is unsable.

IMHO, right now , Flash (while being a resource hog) is the best medium to deliver "engaging-rich" content on the internet.
While you don't get paid for slow times, you do get paid for busy times. That seems to balance out in my experience.
The flight ban is a minor issue. The reasons for the flight ban are not.

The problem is that the oil spill releases vapor. Said vapor has two nasty tendencies. The first is that it makes people woozy so that they make bad decisions. The second is that it can explode when exposed to fire, such as may be found in airplane engines.

Unless you understand how to avoid the risks, flying low over an oil spill is a really good way to get yourself killed.

(Incidentally the observant may wonder why the workers aren't being provided with masks. They weren't until people complained. Now they have the masks. But unofficial reports say that BP is threatening to fire people who use the masks. This fact alone shows sufficient hypocrisy that I'm expecting BP to dodge all responsibility as fast as possible. Just like Exxon did when they got over 3000 lawsuits over people sickened by fumes from the Valdez spill thrown out because "they just had flus and colds". Yet another reason for them to not want photographic documentation of the cleanup efforts.)

Update: See http://www.adn.com/evos/stories/T99032316.html for background on how Exxon dodged health claims, and http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/26/gulf-oil-spill-clea... for confirmation that there are health problems with the cleanup this time.
I actually own Concrete Mathematics. Though I haven't read through it very seriously, what I have read has been excellent. (It was a great companion book for my Discrete Math course, whose book wasn't very good. (Discrete Mathematics and its Applications))

I might have heard of CTM before, but that's about it from this list.
Far from a threat. The arrival of clones on the market is expected and is necessarily a part of the plan -- everyone knows that a successful new product will be physically cloned overnight, which is why so much energy is expended on the brand, the associated services, the software, etc.

Meanwhile, this thing is a positive embarrassment for the Android brand. Or it would be if the word "Android" were ever publicly associated with the thing. Something tells me that Google's trademark lawyers -- and perhaps even this knockoff's manufacturers -- will make sure that this fact is not mentioned out loud except on tech news sites...
This is silly, they have no idea how many people actually quit. Not that I think many people quit anyways.
I wasn't confusing them at all, I know exactly what the author meant and I purposely chose the other definition. There's a lot of whining coming from what amounts to Apple fanbois on this issue, when the right thing to do is vote with your dollars and your time. I have a lot more respect for the developer who blogs about how they are moving to another platform and actually does it than one who complains about having hooked their wagon to the wrong star. It's interesting that people like this choose the platform where everything is decided for you (users and developers) rather than helping to make another platform that provides them more freedom to be more finished and polished. They'll use the excuse that they just want to get things done and don't want to be bothered with the lower level details needed to make their app look good/attractive/functional/whathaveyou -- 1) then why bother programming at all, 2) good luck differentiating your app (remove the widgets so your picture frame app follows the new guidelines, now your app duplicates Apple's functionality) when you can't go beyond the preconceived ideas of how apps should operate.

That being said, I'm not sure the author would want a mature market that has "fully expanded and is not growing" anyway. This seriously limits the growth potential. Who's developing for WebOS? By your definition the WebOS market has matured, has expanded and is not growing. However, both the iPhone and Android ecosystems continue to grow, so then neither have "matured".
Steve Jobs at D8: Everything you missed
That's exactly what I was thinking; it would be more interesting to know how many people kept that pledge. Still, it does put it into perspective; the vast majority of people simply don't care, or don't know, about Facebook's privacy issues, despite all the noise lately.
The Tragedy of the Commons (1968)
I don't have a copy of Hacker's Delight, but have perused it. Appears very interesting and well-written.

Concrete Mathematics is more pleasurable to read than the first part of TAOCP which covers more or less the same material.

Introduction to the Theory of Computation is good. You can get a used copy of the first edition (on Amazon) for significantly less money than the second edition, and, being that this book is very overpriced in the first place, this might be the best way to go, unless you're really interested in some 2nd-edition improvements.

Despite the title, I've heard of several others, but haven't read them at all. The Patterson books on computer architecture are said to be good, and I've seen them on the shelves of co-workers (though they've seen a can of Spam on my shelf, and I really don't like to eat Spam, so, who's to say what a book sitting on a shelf actually indicates?)
Run chrome from the command line

google-chrome --user-agent="Ipad"
Please, enough with the well funded industry lobby groups line. I'm sure you can come up with better arguments that this talking-point line which has no basis in truth.

There is no evidence, none, that there is a well funded industry lobby group in operation. The large mass of skeptical enquiry into climate science is done by amateurs and/or people with tenure in universities. It is done on low-rent blogs and in pay-per-visit speaking tours, and all done on a comparative shoestring. I remember reading an article somewhere that breathlessly revealed that a climate skeptic had been paid $100,000 for a speaking tour to spread the no global warming line. $100,000 is a drop in the bucket, an absolutely meaningless figure. This was the best they could come up with, when it's quite simple to see, say, $1.4 million dollars being spent to explore the link between malaria and climate change when there have been plenty of scientific papers to say there's no link at all, or such a small link it is drowned out by the noise.

Compared against the billions spent by governments, NGOs, lobby groups, and yes, oil companies, to promote climate alarmism, it is an ocean compared to the bits and pieces of fuding that well known sceptics. You've only got to compare the heartland institute's climate seminar in chicago - a two bit affair, to the grandiose climate-alarmism conferences in Indonesia, Copenhagen, and later this year, Cancun to really see the difference.

I will agree with you that nobody wants to change their lifestyle, and that is a major problem for the adoption of policies. But then, in democracies, the burden of proof lies with the person proposing the changes, and they should be self evident. This is a sup-optimal solution, no doubt, by the inertia involved means that it prevents making too many mistakes. If all of the various scare campaigns of the last 100 years were all enacted straight away, we'd have seen millions of human lives, and billions of man-years of effort wasted making the planet a worse-off place.

By all means continue to argue to your passion, but I would advise coming up with a new meme over the 'industry funded lobby groups' one.
The worst that could happen to you is a few days in prison

I don't know about journalists, but having a criminal file would make many jobs I am interested in inaccessible.
You'd be worried about a lot of other things before you were worried about building another internet.

How to grow food, how to stay alive, how to hold on to any posessions and how to avoid being murdered/raped/drafted and so on.

File sharing and email would be the last on your to-do list.

Also, the internet and any global span network would require a fair amount of power.

The one thing I'm fairly sure of would not be what would be the first to come, but what would be the last to go, which is the radio amateur AX25 network.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AX.25
Congrats and g'luck on the next thing, ASmith!
The mac hacker
flame on
Presumptuous linkbait title. Bleh.

Can't comment on most, but I had heard of half.

For an introduction to computability theory, I much preferred Kozen (Automata and Computability) to Sipser. I thought it was a good deal cleaner in its presentation, and it contains more material.
I took it to be a joking way of saying that he's feeling thoroughly screwed.
Finding a pilot willing to loose his $6k+ pilots license to the FAA, no matter how farked the FAA is would be tough.

Easier to get a $300 RC plane setup, lightweight camera and a boat. The Slowstick by GWS makes an easy to fly, inexpensive camera platform.

If I was anywhere near the gulf, I'd be doing this myself.
These letters always feel kind of insincere. I can't imagine anyone really believes its a good thing when a founder is replaced. It seems like these kinds of posts are written for internal consumption. The same way you write a nice resignation letter to your boss, even if you're quitting because he's an asshole.

I don't mean that as a knock towards @adamsmith though. I know he's just going through the requisite motions.
Is Dell "dominant" over Apple, because they sell larger volumes of cheaper machines?

Consider: There have literally always been cheaper MP3 players than the iPod. At every single point in the product's history.
It's a hack, but you can just edit the element inline (by double or right clicking the element under the "Elements" tag) and edit the styles via style="".
Language is another huge barrier to trade, especially in labor markets. In an alternate, culture-less dimension this problem is solvable by having high skilled workers move to Germany and low skilled workers move to Greece.
Just because they integrate everything into one source tree doesn't mean they have kernel developers maintaining the userland utilities.
If the use case is people clicking next repeatedly, then I think a more practical solution is standard data loading via AJAX.

Before building something like this, I would look into its effectiveness in browsers like Firefox that have prefetching enabled by default; at least I think FF still prefetches by default.
I'm sure some of the people that get involved with a pledge like this will rejoin when the realise they made no impact. After all if you have no thought for making an impact why would not just quit quietly?
There's no good way to refer to a HN user by username and have it be obvious who you mean.

There should be a way to write a username and have it linkified. If I write @pg it should show up as simply "pg" and be a link to http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg

Or something like that...
A better headline would be, "Is Betelguese about to blow, 500 years ago?"