skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For consistency with the current SI units, the prefix should probably be derived from "nona" which is Latin for nine. 10^27 = (10^3)^9.

10^24 = (10^3)^8 is yotta which is derived from "y" + "octo". They added the "y" to prevent the "o" from being mistaken as 0.

http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/si-prefixes.html

http://members.optus.net/alexey/prefSI.xhtml

http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/1409/
The 30ms rate could be ascertained by zooming in on the spectrogram and looking at the minimum width of a mark or space in the encoded data.
I agree. Also, nobody will ever wear plaid shorts again!
My gut instinct on any @hotmail.com mail is to mark as spam. Fixed that for you.
Agreed. If they have managed to create a new webmail system that is competitive and a vast improvement over the old hotmail they would be enormously foolish to hitch it to the incredibly stigmatized and debased brand name that is hotmail rather than launching it under a new name (with easy-peasy free "upgrades" for all existing hotmail users).
Sprocket Rocket: A game that teaches pattent law
I don't have my business off the ground yet but I've calculated that towards the beginning I'd need to make $43.50 per user per year ($3.65 per user per month) to break even, including my own cost of living.
I think this is an amazing review of what education is now and what it should be, another amazing talk is this: http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_crea...
With Bandwidth Demand Booming, a New Kind of Optical Network Is Born
Google is still playful. Their name still is a joke, even if it has become borderline genericized. Also, remember the Pacman ordeal just the other day? Not to mention the numerous Easter eggs for terms like "recursion."
Search for "wordpress 2.7 vulnerability" on google : 369k results
Search for "wordpress 2.9.2 vulnerability" on google : 11k results

It might show him how dangerous it is to use an old version of Wordpress. It's like using windows XP with Internet Explorer 6
Did anybody else find it shocking that a utility to decompress a small file would use 1.7G of memory to do so ?
No IronPython this time =( it doesn't work well with Mono, and all testes were performed in Linux, so it's unfair to use only one in Windows OS. Soon I got time I'll test it again, this time checking memory footprint, etc...
But sprintf is not defined in Haskell, nor is it really needed. printf returns a typeclass that includes both 'String' and 'IO a'.
Natty: a natural language date parser in Java
Next time I'll check memory footprint between implementations, sorry for now =(
Uh... guys, aren't you forgetting the number of users you have?

1 user x $100k

10 users x 10k

100 users x 1k

1,000 users x $100

10,000 users x $10
Twitter’s Ad Crackdown Alienates Developers… Again (w/ HN Quotes)
I anxiously await the day when a study shows that something, ANYTHING, does NOT cause cancer.
Why would I use this instead of Native Client? edit: I really don't understand this either. How does this fit in with the Chrome style of extension? What is NPAPI? How does it relate to Native Client? ActiveX? Firefox Extensions?

Clearly I know very little about the current browser plugin ecosystem. Anyone care to enlighten me?
I can certainly see the entrepreneurial aspect of being a professor -- managing a lab, hiring and firing people, and sourcing funding, and I don't disagree that professors are there to inspire the next generation. However, there is still a part of me that feels professors have that "safety net". Tenured professors are paid a monthly salary by the university, and often times at / above industry (that's true at least in Canada anyways). With a steady income, they have no risk, and the risk factor is a big part of being an entrepreneur.
I didn't down-vote you but I was talking about the raw statistics used as input to the visualization engine. I had assumed you wanted to build some data-visualization software and was pointing out the places to get stats.
Yeah, they should really rename it to BikeshedBikeshedGo. The only question is... what color to make the bikeshed?
Personally, I hope I do something important enough that someone will stand on my shoulders to do something even more important.
quote: "the world's largest free e-mail system with more than 360 million users around the world. (Yahoo has more than 300 million and Gmail a little less than 200 million, according to comScore"

It would be interesting to get some stats on the actual usage from the 360 million users. I would imagine every other account being created for a single spam message and disposed never to be used again.

One thing the author didn't experience enough is the lack of spam filter (which imho is the Gmail's feather in the hat). I opened a live.com account around a month back. I got a decent account very close to resembling my name and one I thought could be forwarded to my gmail account. I logged in and I see the animated flash banner distracting me from even seeing my first email. It's like I logged in to see this banner ad. I logged out after finding that hotmail doesn't allow you to forward your email to any other windows live associated account(hotmail?) or a domain's email(which I didn't try). A week later, I logged in to try the forwarding to domain options. I wish I had taken a screenshot, but I had one and half pages of spam. Now this emailid; mind you - I didn't email anyone; I didn't receive any email from any friends. Nothing!. All I did was send a test email to my gmail account. So I logged out for good. I won't be visiting live/hotmail anytime soon.
Languages with operator overloads, including typecast ops.
So does it work the other way?

Can I fire somebody for not having enough experience - after all that's just age discrimination
> With a steady income, they have no risk, and the risk factor is a big part of being an entrepreneur.

For first-time entrepreneurs I agree, but there are a lot of "serial entrepreneurs" who sold a company for multi-millions, and are now founding new companies. Millions in the bank definitely seems like a big safety net that insulates you from most real-world risk...
I think this is a very interesting bit:

"Over the next few months we’ll begin showing the revenue shares for AdSense for content and AdSense for search right in the AdSense interface."

I'm looking forward to that. What bugs me is that I can't seem to buy clicks for even twice of what google pays for clicks.
That's a big if.
Me too! Everyone knows the proper usage is "hella rad." Kids these days have no respect for grammar.
Indeed.

Beliefs That Hurt People != Beliefs That Are False

File that under "things you're not allowed to say." But it's worth asking what you think it would be just for society to do if it turned out, on some topic, that the ageists/racists/sexists/religionists/orientationists?/etc. . . . were right.
A Guide to Complaints That Get Results
I was an entrepreneur (failed twice), and I'm now a professor.

Being a pre-tenure professor is way more terrifying than being an entrepreneur was.

And, depending on the field, between 25% and 75% of your salary as a professor will come from being able to procure external funding.

If you can't convince the funding agencies to pay you, then tenure buys you an office, a teaching load and health care.

It's been terrifying for me because my hit rate is about the same as Matt's. I've had very little luck getting funding for my research.

And, at the last funding panel I served on, the funding rate was down to 5%. My own fund-seeking overhead is now at 60% of my time, and I'm still not getting any.

Either we have too many scientists, or not enough science funding. I don't think the current system is sustainable.
Considering I was of high school age when "hella" was big, I think I'm entitled to be angry about it.
Does publishing studies?

On the whole, I agree. I picture my grand kids saying "Grandpa, I can't believe you'd eat X and live next to Y. Didn't you know that stuff was deadly?" and wonder what X and Y are. I mean people used to play with mercury and put asbestos in their homes. What are we doing that's killing us?
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All but T-Mobile have licenses for 850mhz, which propagates through walls better. Though that would only explain why T-Mobile would have worse reception indoors.
Still no IMAP for Hotmail, that's a deal breaker for many who cares.
You can't look at just one side of it.

Which is the larger inefficiency: People acting according to their best judgement, but they happen to be wrong? Or people unable to act according to their best judgement because they can't document that their motivations are pure?
That's true - there are costs incurred that scale with the number of users you have and costs that don't. I guess the real way to answer this question is with a graph.
Selecting entire weeks in an MX DateChooser control in Flex 3
Google.com, November, 1998
A new type of phishing attack. Works on savvy users.
[foghorn]
The problem isn't so much the building-something as the building-something-popular, though. Since, as you point out, it's easy for a single individual to build large services these days, many thousands of single individuals are doing just that, so there's a lot of competition for attention/users/readers/etc.
I'm sure he could have written it better in Portugese, but then you wouldn't be able to read it and make snide comments.
Ask HN: What development blogs do you recommend?
I've been dying to get more development feeds into my reader.

While I've been known to comment on information overload a bunch of times, the fact is that development feeds are like a pulse into the world of new technologies, something I care deeply about. So who and what should I be subscribed to? I personally care about ruby, objectivec and nosql, but to keep things interesting for the Hacker News as a whole, feel free to send in recommendations for anything development-related. OPML files would mean extra points.

Thanks everyone!
I've always been a bit sceptical about this. There seems to be a general idea that only lawyers are qualified to have any input whatsoever into legal situations.

This may be technically true, but I'm also sure that there are plenty of bad and/or indifferent lawyers out there. There must be non-lawyers who will be able to do a better job themselves. In particular, I think that hackers have a good chance at this.

That is, it is implied that:

[all lawyers] > [everyone else]

whereas I think that:

[good lawyers] > [some intelligent non-lawyers] > [bad/average lawyers] > [everyone else]

This can apply in particular if you are prepared to research a particular topic for hours on something that a lawyer would speak to you for ten minutes and then copy and paste boilerplate for. You will likely find the same boilerplate and research all the options more thoroughly yourself.

I am by no means saying that lawyers shouldn't be consulted. I use one for stuff that is very important for me, since I cannot risk getting it wrong. But I also do my own research, and this has helped me ask the right questions and get the right result.

I'm just saying that hiring a lawyer is no silver bullet.
What should society do in that case? Absolutely nothing. Or more precisely: eliminate any remaining anti-voluntary laws. In a fully voluntary society, what "society should do" is a non-issue.

As for individuals, they should do what they think is best. So some will think it's bad to hire X persons b/c they are, in fact, 3% worse at their jobs. And others will think it's bad if no X persons can get jobs, and will hire them at full salary to be nice, or to use in marketing literature. And others will be happy to hire X persons, but at 3.1% less than the market rate would be for non-Xs with the same skill set. etc. shrug.
How to get better at estimating software projects for freelancers and teams
Hey, this is great. Following just a few of these people on twitter overwhelms my feed, but It's nice to see their tweets in one place when I feel like browsing good comedy.

I tried the voting, but I didn't enjoy it. First, I had already seen a bunch on the fron page, and they aren't as funny when repeated. Also, I kept seeing repeats of ones I already voted on, which isn't that fun. Finally, I didn't really enjoy having to say one was funnier than the other. It kind of takes the fun out of it.

So, my vote is for a different voting style, perhaps like HN or reddit. I wouldn't mind voting "funny"/"not funny".

Just my 0.02USD.

BTW, I love @sustainabletips.
No screenshots or video? Sorry, I'm not going to take your word for it that it's cool and deserves another try. And add me to the chorus praising Gmail's spam filter.
My point is that there should be no typeclass; there's no reason to combine IO and formatting in the same function, and doing so makes it more difficult to read and modify code.
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I like the IMVU blog: http://timothyfitz.wordpress.com/ low frequency but high quality. It's been 'mostly dead' for the last year but the old stuff in there is still well worth reading.
So basically the new Hotmail is mostly the same as the old Hotmail, but:

1) It offers you some of the features GMail already has, like the conversation view.

2) It does not offer you some of the features GMail does, such as labels. By the way, you can tell that the author doesn't really understand labels, because he claims that the archiving is the same as deleting.

3) It offers you some dubious features that GMail does not have. Preview, for example, is something I find utterly useless. If I can't glean what the e-mail is about from either the subject or the short text preview GMail offers, then it can generally wait for me to open it. However, I'm aware that this is just my personal preference. What really flabbergasted me was the "Sweep" feature. I don't know whether the author described it well, but if he did, then I don't understand why he thinks it's so great. Maybe I'm a pessimist, but I think it's naive to trust in software's ability to guess what your criteria is for deleting future messages "like" the ones you marked.

4) It offers some preconfigured filters and views that GMail doesn't. Some of these things sound really useful, especially filtering by senders from your contact list.

Here's one of the things the new Hotmail doesn't seem to have, that I consider GMail's killer feature (apart from the whole awesome labels+filters paradigm): Labs. I absolutely love multiple inboxes and superstars. Also, the new Google Apps integration with GMail is a huge plus. Finally, let's not forget that GMail's spam filter, in my experience, works better than Hotmail's spam filter ever did. I don't think Hotmail will be giving GMail "a run for its money" anytime soon.
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The travel warning from the U.S. is for Kingston, if you will be traveling through (or flying into that city) then the warning would apply to you. Personally, aside from the risk, just the possibility of big disruptions in moving around would prompt me to cancel. If it's a hassle, it's not a vacation.
Thanks. Point stands on Perl. Also... BASIC, among others.
Froyo must be way ahead of its time...
Ejection rockets seats don't need to be removed frequently. Nuclear weapons need to drop the instant someone hits the trigger. So why would you complicate the design of an ejection seat that needs to work under a wide variety of conditions?
Author omits a major feature of Gmail, the spam filter. At the time of release this was a killer, if memory serves. Personally, this was a primary motivation for switching.

A working spam filter was a major reason to recommend Gmail to less proficient users as well. Less malware, phishing and spam means less hassle for everyone. My hotmail inbox is SMTP'd to Gmail and filtered there, so I know quite well how much spam hotmail misses(more than 50% of caught spam for me).

EDIT: Just checked, Gmail recommends disabling additional spam filters to speed up transfers.
I invite you to benchmark the two.

I'm also slightly confused as to why you think reusing stable, proven, and reviewed data structure implementations is a "good learning experience" as opposed to being SOP.
Snag it from github: http://github.com/bububa/MongoHub-Mac/downloads

The app was previously released using titanium and it was really unusable. This version is a native app... and outstanding.
Potato, potato.
It's just a bit of fun. There's nothing to be angry about. It's not actually going to become an SI prefix.
Oil reaches Louisiana shores
The idea is that you want to own the plantation.
I have spent ~8 hours with embedding and customizing bespin. A lot of that time has been reading code, and a lot of that code is comments that say TODO. If you are thinking about using its editor as a drop-in to your project, think twice! Its code highlighting is not template-driven and has hard-coded values in several different files. None of this is documented, at least not in any place that i found. There are theme files, but changing them does not change the actual presentation =(. Further, there are no plans or aspirations to support IE. Further still, it does not support multiple editors per-page, so you have to manually manage the buildup and teardown -- this may not be an issue depending on your use-case. Note: this was done with version 0.7.3, the current shipping one.
OK. Are you aware of any claims of copyright infringement for a software license for commercially available software (not a custom contract).
That would be like saying "cool cool"... kinda redundant ;)
This is the Internet. Confidence and reassurance and professionalism are alien concepts to an entity envisioned, built, and maintained by unshaven and very odd people.

The Internet is based on the work of extremely silly people, who just happened to be formidable enough to make their iconoclasm the standard.

DuckDuckGo is exactly the kind of silly, eccentric name that reassures me of competence. Never trust a serious man if you want to change the world.
I suspect that if you were rescued from a collapsed building by a descendant of this robot, you might possibly change your mind!
The Looming Space Junk Crisis
What is an Ad? Can I tweet that I drink Pepsi if Coke is today's official Twitter sponsor? We all can see where this leads. No doubt Twitter doesn't want to a become plain, old, boring ad sponsor. Like on TV. Or like Facebook. They really should do more to create entirely new types of ads, which most people would not even consider as being an ad.
Will the UDP version be easier on plastic NATs? One of the major problems with the TCP version of bittorrent is it tends to overwhelm the cheap wireless boxes everyone buys, making performance much worse than it should be.
> Main memory doesn't persist across reboots; this does. Hence, potential increase in boot speed for the main OS, as well as a decrease in start-up time for an application the first time you run it after starting the OS.

So use system daemons like 'preload' or 'readahead'.

And come to think of it, a daemon can be upgraded and the heuristics & statistics improved. (Even if one can upgrade the hybrid drive's firmware, I'm not sure I would dare do so!)
The missing API: Business API
Hey Mike,

That looks a little late in the process to start arguing with a client about something that should habe been part of the spec from the beginning. Funny, I just posted a link about that: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1376083 , but that isn't going to help you much.

Khao advises you to google, I'd second that, with the addition that maybe it would be best if you confined your searches to reputable news sites, that usually carries a lot more weight than a few numbers.

That way you can let others with authority speak for you, and hopefully they'll make a more compelling case.

If there is a really good reason why the customer wants to do it their way on their servers, maybe you could offer to host it on your servers to get past the deadline, cut you some slack and then after the deadline you'll help analyzing the situation with respect to backwards migration.

In my experience, temporary solutions are amongst the most durable things in software.

best of luck!
Thanks for the comments! Very interesting to hear about your experiences.

I'm the product manager for Bespin, so I'd certainly be happy to say a couple of things about the status.

Since the Bespin that you've used, we've been putting a ton of effort into the infrastructure on the client side. We intend to keep pushing on the client side until it's an editor that is very competitive with desktop editors. Right now, there are still some gaps we need to fill in (for example, the editor doesn't support real tabs). But the infrastructure we have has firmed up very nicely. It's got the potential for lots of interesting plugins. Our keyboard system supports pluggable keybindings (just waiting for someone to come along and build up emacs and vi :) We've got an Embedded package that's easy to hook up to whatever site/server you need to.

And that's where the server change referred to here comes from. We're going to redo the server with an eye toward people running their own Bespins, which eliminates scalability and security concerns that make it hard to implement the most useful Bespin possible.

There are many people using Bespin in their own applications today, and that package just keeps getting better. For the folks like you using the full server, there will be a dip in functionality, but in the end you'll be able to get a Bespin server that can do anything you care to make it do via plugins.
So how come the Kindle application on Mac also takes you to the browser to buy books? From the screenshots at Amazon, it looks like the Kindle application for PC also takes you to the browser.

In-app purchasing is a standard, supported feature of the iPhone/iPad SDK. The rumor that Apple is not allowing Amazon to do in-app purchasing is pretty ridiculous.
I think we are going in circles.
The most important differences I've found between the iBooks app and the Kindle app are that iBooks supports searching and Kindle supports notes.

When contemplating purchasing a book, I ask which of those I'm more likely to need.
A small price to pay knowing that you won't have to sit next to anyone on the way to work.
Hotmail will always be the mark of 'unprofessional' and 'throwaway' email addresses, they were that since day one and it hasn't changed much. In the online payment world having a hotmail address is a strike against you during the processing of your payment.

Gmail users are not going to try hotmail any more than hotmail users are going to try gmail, unless they were already planning on doing so, migrating your mail is costly.

What it might do is to stop some users defecting they would have otherwise lost because of being dissatisfied, but I really don't see how this will woe any customers at a competitor.
It's a link to Boston's BigPicture. I'm curious why you gave reddit credit for the link.
Doesn't work on 10.5.8 (Leopard).
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