skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? I know several guys who did security auditing for Microsoft on-site (a few years ago.) One (famous researcher) said the concepts were very good, but implementation was just terrible. Also they expressed disappointment when their findings mostly fell into deaf ears (another sec audit guy.)

Also I happen to know more than one (grey?) hat who makes/sells 0day of Microsoft products. Microsoft opened Pandora's Box pissing off security researchers a few years back, there are many wounds to heal.

And on your OpenBSD bashing, they have a very good security record. Sure, Theo had a short temper, but they always worked very hard on security and most of his rants were related to drivers (and IMHO, he was almost always right.)

Edit: very minor clarifications.
Good stuff! I was thinking about implementing a SPDY server in Node the other week, but I couldn't figure out a good way to do the binary framing part.

This looks highly useful.
Does UIUC have much higher tuition or something? It's a much, much better school.
Ok, I get that civil court cases have a much lower standard of proof required, but this still gets me:

You don't need to download a complete copy to convince a judge/jury of copyright infringement

Why on earth not? If the burden of proof is that low, why not defend along the lines of "I put a file on my computer with that name as a joke."

I would love to see what evidence they use to prosecute, if it's only hashes or checksums alone, surely it'd be easy enough to write a fake client that lies?
Ironic or illuminating?
Funny, but there could be people living there ... billions or trillions !
Does Jobs' No Mean Yes In The Case of Apple TV?
Just use Pinboard. http://pinboard.in/
Hmm as I understand it they are suing for the fact that the person is downloading the unauthorized copy (i.e. suing the peers). As to suing seeds; I guess the argument is that they have made the copy available - are facilitating the transmission of a copyrighted works.

Bearing in mind how P2P works Im not sure I understand why they would have to download 18,000 copies? The whole point of P2P is that you can download 1 copy from 18,000 [sic] people :)

(I don't agree with their argument in the slightest but what you've said doesn't appear to sync up with what is being argued)
well the internet cannot be built around one guy telling us if we're allowed to watch porn. The internet is a nice space that belongs to everybody and it should stay like that.
Raajneeti hit by another controversy
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That story is also one of my faves. del.icio.us was a "lean startup" before that phrase became a social media mantra: http://www.petefreitag.com/images/blog/delicious_office.jpg
Linux kernel monkey log
I've helped defend victims in a few of these cases (in the UK) so this is my best guess.

Ultimately the evidence they have is pretty good. They grab a torrent and begin to download the file, they watch which IPs connect - both seeds and peers - and record them. They then apply for a subpheona from the courts.

The argument (for peers) is that the user has connected to the P2P network and is trying to download copyrighted material. Under civil law this is a reasonable burden of proof (and, honestly, I can't really argue with it). With seeds it is an even stronger argument; because the seed has at least a partial copy of the copyrighted work and is facilitating the sharing of it.

This will stand up in court; and, to be honest, I don't think it is disputable under current law.

What we should be disputing (and I have helped with successes here in the past) is that the damages are completely disproportionate. The way I've managed this is by explaining how P2P really works to judges/courts - and usually they start to come round to the idea.

We also should, outside of the cases, be working to promote the idea of copyright reform so that this becomes less of a cash cow.
A/B Testing + Clickmaps = Awesomeness
DVD Players Manufacturers India
Be the Panda
Is "George" a typical example? How many contractors work for less than what they were on when they were salaried? (even after the agency takes their cut).
Actually, the 'industry funded lobby groups' are very much a well-documented truth:

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-e...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore%27s_Penguin_Army_video_...

http://www2.dailyprogress.com/cdp/news/local/local_govtpolit...

http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2247933/gre...
Is it just me or are a lot of web apps using the same layout as http://flow.cloudomatic.com?

Edit: Not trying to criticize, i really like it.
+1, back and forward browser button breaking isn't good.
I'm just one of those eccentrics who think there's no Flash player like no Flash player ;-)

But you made me interested enough to go fire up the page in another machine/browser with Flash. Hmm ... spring-loaded animated charts ... in the 'Logic utilization' tab, there seems to be a mismatch between the full-scale outline at the bottom and the section viewed.

I tried AOL's webpage tester (http://www.webpagetest.org/result/100602_4TE/ ), to see how big was the Flash blob, but it timed out the first time.

A few other observations: you may want to add a line explaining how many (equivalent) k-gates are in the sample design, and how long it took to get the results (at the 1X speed ?).

Also, you may want to consider beefing up the 'How secure' answer in your FAQ. Guaranteed to come up.

VNC session for GTKwave ? I think I saw some mention of VNC-in-browser recently ...

Sign-up/sign-in worked OK. Thanks.

P.S. Forgive me, I'm sure you put a lot of work on those charts, but I would really suggest exporting reports to a boring Open Office spreadsheet that people could download, manipulate at will and print (or even view with Google Docs or similar, if they're in all-web-all-the-time mode).
AT&T's new data plans: $25/2GB cap, tethering +$20
In terms of amount of customers worldwide they serve compared to the number of customers Apple serves with their equivalent products? I'd go with yes.
I lost most of my respect for them long time ago [--] Take for example the last apache fire video.

Do you have another example, from long time ago? That last one was widely panned, but prior to that, their editorialism wasn't criticized very much (though I seem to recall there was some; I just wasn't paying attention).
Cloud Lets You Throw More Hardware at the Problem Faster
Why the down vote? Is someone trying to imply that Cells isn't a sophisticated version of the Game of Life?

I might be blunt, but I'm not trying to be rude on purpose
What?

My Nexus One runs Flash surprisingly fine/smooth, with a lot less hardware requirements that you argue.

Also, if you didn't notice Flash is hardware accelerated. Just because Apples didn't open up the needed API it wasn't on Mac OS X. Stop blaming Adobe for Apples decision.

Other then that i agree. I've seen a lot of HTML5 demos in the last weeks (on latest chromium betas) and many of them are running slow with low fps. Demos that would've run smooth on Flash several years ago. HTML5 and the JS engines have to come a long way to fully replace Flash.
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With a web-app like this, I would be concerned about IP issues. Half the industry is banking on IP unless they are open-source like the OR1K. Otherwise, a proprietary house might be hesitant to upload HDL code even if it is over a secure SSL connection.

For simulation with Icarus Verilog, it might be possible to upload the compiled VVP binary. You can sell your computing power as a utility (ala cloud computing) and help people save cost from buying an expensive server and save time from having to wait days for results.

For FPGA selection, I personally doubt that your tool would be that useful because this decision is primarily dictated by the cost of parts - rather than the specific features. The hardware business is very cost-driven. What you can do is to provide customers with the ability to perform synthesis over multiple architectures for the purpose of 'testing' that their code works on them all.
The transition from 5 to 6 requires a password. The clues are ample and the answer quite certain, but the redirect link the 'successful' password gives is broken.

Anyone know if that's intentional?

And yes, I have 1000 other things I need to do.
Anton Chuvakin's Compliance Mega-Epiphany
"YouTube Is UsTube"
Now they're quick.

And my point was Microsoft isn't "the best", not yet. Sure, they improved significantly, but the baggage of many years of apathy and maneuvering is still a cost today.
The latter part of this headline is nothing but speculation in the article.
A very good try from Google, imo. But it´s don´t mean they will be succefull just because they think they can predict the market. Indeed, predicting the market is the wrong way to get profit, Actually it´s the way to get lost your money. Investing and trading is much more about managining emotions and felling at the long term then trying to use tons of data to forecast the next big trend.
Im not sure I disagree.

But I still don't see how that relates to the example you cite?
Adobe Indesign CS4.
My first reaction was "they have it backwards!" But is it actually better to put Flash before HTML5 video? And if that is the case, for how long?
As far as your platform argument goes, Flash and Reader are as inherently insecure on Mac OSX as on Windows ... maybe even worse as exploited at Pwn2Own. That Platform argument kind of falls on its face.
This strikes me as a very good thing. Yes, many of them will fail but they'll learn a huge amount in the process and make themselves more employable at the end of it all. Others will succeed of course. Meanwhile, the state isn't so many economically inactive people.
Includes iPad ($30/unlimited option is no longer available to iPad customers after June 7). Current $30/unlimited customers are grandfathered in, for now, at least.

Where to begin? Canceling the $30/unlimited option barely a month after the iPad 3G shipped is deceptive, at best. Adding a 2GB cap to the top-tier iPhone/iPad data plan while only dropping the price by $5 doesn't seem like a good deal to me. I accept the need for caps, but I'd rather pay the extra $5 and get 5GB a la Verizon. The $15/200MB plan is comparable to what I paid Telstra in Australia, which I thought was a horrible deal, but at least it was contract-free!

If they'd accompanied these new data plans with similar price and usage reductions on the voice side, I'd be less upset, maybe even pleased. But given that the voice plans for the iPhone are still Cadillac- and Escalade-sized, when I only want a Vespa, AT&T is clearly out of step with my needs. FOAD.
Have you looked at PCBSD? It's about as close to Ubuntu as you can get in the FreeBSD world (except that it uses KDE instead of Gnome). It's not quite as painless as ubuntu, but it is pretty close and on the whole most things work more or less out of the box.
Hmm I remember reading somewhere before about Google Venture's acquisition of (or rather, investment in) a startup company who was working on a product that could predict future events. Maybe with this Google can predict markets as well.
link: http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2010/05/04/2010-05-04_googl...
America’s Got Talent
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SPAM pretending to be from Habitat for Humanity
Turning any monitor in to a 3D VR display
Although my separation from my company was voluntary, they suggested they might be amenable to hiring me as a contractor, for lower pay and longer hours than before. As, you know, a favor to me.

That was a brief conversation.
On Microsoft: is the sky falling? Remember Netware?
Warren Buffett to face US Congress crisis inquiry
Hey, thanks for the feedback! Definitely let's syntax is a bit ambiguous to the newbie. I'll take a couple steps in the tutorial for explanation and experimentation. I think I'll take your advice and just go with

fst (28,"chirs")

and then do a "small detour" (2 steps) to explain the "let" syntax, because it gets used in later chapters. Unlike the math stuff which is intuitive, I agree it needs explicit description.

Cheers!
That's what I thought. But it didn't work. For example, this very topic never came up in the ask section. I have tried it a few times before too. And there are other topics in the ask section which are not prefixed with this.
http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1395561
http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1396900
http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1397003
http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=1396876
Interesting, although heatmaps for A/B testing is not a new concept. They don't appear to have put much thought in to the actions taken after the findings though. Being surprised that more people go to "Pricing" than "Sign up" is a little odd. People generally will look to maximise information and minimise commitment in this context, "Sign Up" promises some potential kind of work/commitment/lock in.

Replacing that with a link to a video seems to miss the point - people are clearly interested in a specific kind of information (pricing, commitment costs - the main potential deal breaker) and by making this change - you're still not giving it to them. Now maybe you want to try and hook people in the belief that if it looks cool enough, that'll override what would have been a problematic price point - that, of course, would be a much more interesting A/B test - up front pricing or concealed...
Gift giving for hackers: context is king
My deal is that I will not let myself be bullied by a person who people support just because he is an angel investor (and they want his money). He's relentlessly attacking me every opportunity he gets for absolutely no reason, and because he knows that people will support him (being a big tech brand name and all) over me (being unimportant).
Internet Heresy: The Case Against Hyperlinks
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In Copenhagen, Denmark the penalty is between 500 and 750 DKK ($82 - $123) -- while you can use the same ticket on all types of public transportation, the light rail and real rail are run by different companies and charge slightly different penalties.

A basic ticket is 13.50 (if you buy 10 in advance which can then be activated at any time, as is most common) to 23.00 DKK (if you buy a single one in a machine or via a text message); it lets you travel for an hour and change as much as you wish. If you travel every day between home and work you'll usually buy a flat-rate subscription.

(The prices get higher if you travel through multiple fare zones -- there are almost 100 different zones that cover Zealand and its 2 million inhabitants; it can be a somewhat confusing system sometimes resulting in travel from A to B not costing the same as travel from B to A; if you didn't buy enough fare zones you're also liable for that 750 DKK penalty above)

Bus travel require you to show a ticket at the entrance, so there's rarely secondary control, but the light rail system you have to buy or stamp a ticket yourself I guess has perhaps a 15% chance of being checked. I'd estimate at least 98% people have valid tickets on the lines I use.
Congratulations for getting over your initial ennui there.
Don't Lulu basically have the same prices? I haven't managed to figured out MagCloud's pricing, but I can advise on Lulu's pricing if need be.

I'd love to see the magazine perfect bound rather than saddle stitch, too.

MagCloud state that they plan to expand, but we don't know how long it will take.
I wonder why this article hasn't been more welcomed here. Maybe I'm missing something. To me the concept of reactance is a clue to some situations in which I failed to get to work however hard I wanted to.

In "How to start a startup" [1] Paul Graham mentions he feels like having been a bad employee. Not intending to compare to him, I wonder if reactance could explain why a competent person may feel hopeless at first.

[edit] But I realize that what I found the most interesting and what I am really commenting about is another article linked from this one: "Why Controlling Bosses Have Unproductive Employees" [2]

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html foot note 8

[2] http://blogs.hbr.org/research/2010/05/why-controlling-bosses...
French Open Ball Boys' and Ball Girls' Startup Routine
What you describe is exactly what we have come to believe. Based on their earlier experience with online tools, people probably have a "threshold" on what they are willing to spend. No matter how cool the tool is or what value it brings to the table, they want to first make sure that they can afford it (before deep diving into learning if they really want it).

Replacing 'Sign up' with 'Video' makes sense because the pricing link is still there. So visitors who want to see pricing can go there directly. What we observed was that the homepage doesn't convey full potential of the tool so putting up a video link probably helps those visitors who aren't that price conscious.
Do form letters like this actually work? I see these types of things all the time, usually in a "Corporation X wants our lawmakers to pass Bill Y, and it's bad for people!" context.

Doesn't the EFF have lobbyists? I think history has shown enough times that lobby money is far more powerful than anything that's good for the citizens.
y'know, I always wanted to say "Riposte!" in response to these, figuring it would be a clever, original use of a homophone. Then I got to thinking about how many hackers I know who are, oddly enough, into fencing or other swordplay. Leave the "Greatest swordfighter in the world" stuff at home, guys. It's probably been done before, but I'm too lazy to grep the comments to find out, and that's why I've never said it. Until now.
Aren't they kicking off the trading floor to manage their cash, rather than to becoming a hedge fund/investment bank ?

I remember reading an article in the recent past where they have hired some ex-IB traders (Goldmans, Lehmans, etc) to run their Treasury department.

The new hires were due to the fact that they were changing their risk profile of their portfolio. I read they were looking for some bond traders as they're planning on moving towards corporation bonds rather than treasuries/govvies.

I need to look for that article.
My own (voluntary) separation from my employer was similar, except normal hours (for short 1 to 6 week periods) and negotiable pay. Of course, so far, they haven't actually contacted me about any work, so in the end, we're in the same boat :)
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The page also has a color scheme changer on the right.
Do people bother buying tickets? It seems like with those sort of fines it would be cheaper to simply pay the fine the few times you get caught. Unless of course Seattle have some very active ticket checks.
well, that comment was not really related to smokescreen...just the general anti-flash movement.
I agree with your basic premise--that people deserve to get paid for providing me with value--but not with the mechanism of ads embedded in content.

A few reasons:

If the creator deserves to get paid, he can put up a pay wall and we can do business or I can go elsewhere. If that basic business model doesn't work, that is a strong hint that something is fundamentally broken about advertising.

Also, you pose it as giving me a choice of going elsewhere. How does that work when given a link on HN or in an email or whatever? On some sites, there's an ad right away and I can click a link to skip the ad, I can click "back," or I can look at the ad if it's interesting. Fine.

But if ads are embedded in content willy-nilly, I am blasted with them before I get to make the choice of whether to read the content. Again, there's something broken about the model if the content producer can't set up a simple gate where I can choose whether to do read their content+ads or go elsewhere.

Finally, ads in content are a deeply broken model. The reason Google is worth a zillion dollars is that ads at the moment of search are hitting me when I'm making a decision and they are providing value, even if they are biased. Ads in most types of content are hitting me when I'm not trying to make a decision.

There are some exceptions, and I'll bet they survive. An ad in StackOverflow for a programming tool that matches the answer to a question might work when I'm trying to solve a problem. If sites like that do a good job of working with ad networks to deliver the right ads, they might survive.

Almost all other content-based ads are going to continue to git shriller and shriller as they try to maximize dwindling attention. The attention is dwindling precisely because they are trying to work around a deeply broken interaction.
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1385741

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_23/b41810335...
Photos of mid-century modern architecture in Silicon Valley
IPhone OS 4.0 - No Beta 5 - WWDC update?
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I don't think that people who use ad-blockers will hurt profit so much, because people like that are probably geeks and they generally don't pay attention to ads unless they are really interested in their content. So if your audience is geeky, you might want to find another revenue model.
Again?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1357390 <<<-- This one has the comments.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1360285

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1370134

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1376655

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1383943

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1385999

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1388904

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1389955

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1390588
10) Any chances of another binding type?

11) Ditto with magazines in black and white with a lower cost per page.

12) A break-down of the pricing with an example would be great.

13) Your Father's Day "banner" has some CSS wrong in Opera: http://img228.imageshack.us/i/51623194.png/. Notice how the coupon code continues to the next line and covers the user name (had I not removed it).
If you have a good product that you believe in, yep. What more could you want in a company than the honesty to say "if we're not what you want, fair enough, allow us to help you anyway"?