skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pitching a major blog is essentially going through the same gate/different keepers as doing PR for the New York Times or whomever. There's a million people who want to go through, and -- dirty little secret -- the ability to reject you is key to the gatekeepers' power and status.

If you're going to send out pitch emails, I'm going to plug Peldi's technique for getting blog coverage yet again: find the wee little blogs in your community who will absolutely melt to learn that anybody reads them. Send them personalized emails. Bootstrap your way up the chain.

In particular, if you've been in a community for a while, you should have a sense for who the really influential people read. Watch which way the stories tend to spread, in particular the outlets a step or two before the story hits the large sites. Pitch that guy. Or, recursively, the guy one step before him. And every time you pitch someone, for goodness' sake, mention as social proof the people on his social graph who already like you. The Internet is Chicago politics with less Daley: "don't be nobody who was sent by nobody".

I got almost a realtime education in this watching my blog bounce around the mainstream media's sites this week. I'm fairly confident somebody at the New York Times reads Marginal Revolution, who reads Slashdot, who reads Reddit. And, of course, everyone in the mainstream media reads the NYT and most of them take direction from it.
If you are on GitHub, link to the code and ask people for their opinions.

Ask them what communities they converse with, and see if they are well respected.

Use metrics tools on the products to find out how efficient it is at runtime.

None of this is as important as having a good relationship with them. If they are reliable, make good shit and you are comfortable with their rates, thats good.
That's a lot more work, though, than simply leaving a message.
Assuming your technology #4 really could be created, I don't this is much different from musical piracy. And I'd be just as ok with this as I am with things like peer-to-peer networks existing. Such a technology would be awesome - as you said, it would appear to be magic. And it would be my problem to come up with a new business model, not to outlaw a piece of new technology.
I really don't think there was a need for a violent outburst.

Acting like that and calling others pre-schoolers makes you look like quite the fool.
http://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/

That suggestion is only somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
How will users get around needing a carrier? EVen if they have ipod touch that connects to 4g you still have to pay access for the 4g service.
I don't own an Android phone, and am only superficially familiar with its OS or software stack. Do you think that the Android OS is architecturally more susceptible to malware than iOS? If not, do you think that Android's application distribution model is more likely to get malware onto people's phones that Apple's highly restrictive one?

That's my understanding, yes.

However, unlike a lot of people including Jobs, I don't see the ability to write deceptive malware for a platform as a "bug." People need to challenge this assumption early and often.
I'm not sure who the "investigators" are over at geekosystem, but while they present a lot of data, they fell over when it came to analysis of the situation (as did numerous others).

Scenario: For a time period, contestant B received votes at a rate of roughly 3 votes for every 2 that contestant A received. Contestant B had a different value for an unknown field that was combined as part of the cookie used in voting/vote confirmation.

The extra value on contestant B's call is meaningless if they're estimating that the vote rate was determined by contestant A's votes.

Based on the data reported of the two time periods:

Shawn saw a 100% increase in votes/minute

David saw a 66% increase in votes/minute

Cheryl saw a 175% increase in votes/minute

Maria saw a 28% increase in votes/minute

Jasbina saw a 100% increase in votes/minute

Jacqueline saw a 13% increase in votes/minute

Kornelius saw a 10% increase in votes/minute

Zach and Phyllis saw a decrease in votes/minute

Total rate of increase in voting (excluding Zach and Phyllis) was 31% increase in voting rate for the non-top 2 positions. If we include Zach and Phyllis, there was a drop in voting rate to almost 50% of the previous number of votes per minute.

Determination: eid probably played a large role in the cause of what appeared to be tampering of voting. There's no correlation between votes of any candidate and any other candidate. The most likely cause? The reported vote counts are not 100% live. The votes are processed on a server and displayed via a cache. Most likely EID is a way to force vote counting onto a specific system, which caused a backup of cast but un-counted votes for Phyllis. While the backup was being cleared, the rate of voting appeared distinctly high. Once the cause of the backup was identified and resolved, the backup was quickly cleared out and the rate of votes appearing took a sharp drop as there was no backlog for that candidate and the others still had backlogs to process.
I'm confused...people here are hating on the price? If you don't like the price, don't buy it.

Free markets are pretty efficient, and pricing anamolies have a tough time persisting. DHH and crew are not perpetrating a crime on society with this price. They are not withholding a public good which cannot be obtained from anyone but them. They built something, and want to try and sell it for a price they set to customers they hope to win. Welcome to capitalism.

The point is - and this is especially true with software these days - there's always an option priced above free which causes someone to say "really?" But if you derive value from it, then you will pay. If not, you won't.

There's likely better ways to spend our IQ units than hating on the price of an app.
This was basically my point as well, and like you, I was promptly modded down for it. It looks like "Just use Android" is going to be the new "Just install Linux."
Before civil labor laws that was like saying you can chose not to work at the local factory/sweatshop. What we need is blanket protection from the federal government akin to the civil labor laws that grew out of the industrial revolution.

We need digital privacy, portability and general freedom laws enacted by congress to set the playing field level between consumers and producers for this next revolution, the digital/social/mobile revolution.

It is not enough to say "vote with your wallet". Our liberties are being encroached from every angle in the digital sphere. Virtually every major corporation that plays in this space is screwing the consumer one way or another when it comes to these basic, common sense rights we should all have. Why is it that myspace and facebook and google and apple and amazon all have their own twisted, difficult to understand, legalize terms of service and privacy policies? Where is the government intervention, who loves to stick it's nose in everyones business, when it matters?
He's using CSS media queries, similar to what's being done here:

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/04/using-css-media-queries...

Check out the code he uses to make this happen near the bottom of his main CSS file:

http://hicksdesign.co.uk/css/layout.css
$10? Big deal, I spent that on lunch today and I didn't think twice about it.

One of the main features is that Draft is integrated with Campfire, which indicates that it's probably targeted at businesses and other organizations who pay to use Campfire. Does Ideas do that? If you're a Campfire user, that feature alone is probably worth $10.

furthermore, 37 signals always talks about selling your byproducts. If this is something they were using anyway, why not polish it up a bit and make a bit of money? And what would they gain by giving this away for free?
Not as difficult as this:
The bill would make P2P or BitTorrent client development a criminal offense if the distributed software was used for infringement.
UDP is peer-to-peer technology, in every sense of the term (there's no implementation-level difference between the client and server). Is everyone who produces an implementation of UDP going to be in potential violation of this measure?

Either this thing's being massively exaggerated, the people who wrote the law have absolutely no understanding of communications technology, or (more likely) something in between.
Seems like they were already settling in for the long haul anyway:

This case has always been about whether intentional theft of copyrighted works is permitted under existing law and we always knew that the critical underlying issue would need to be addressed by courts at the appellate levels. Today's decision accelerates our opportunity to do so.
Very nicely done indeed! Does it play nice with IE? (Can't test it because I don't have a Windows machine at home). CSS would be much more pleasant to work with if it was consistent across different browsers...
God, the whining here is deafening.

I didn't call anyone a pre-schooler, I asked if you were all pre-schoolers. Notice the question mark? That means it's a question. Tomorrow we'll cover making statements using the period.
Federal employees know all emails are going to be kept. It's part of their training and it's required by federal law. I'm not sure though about individual state and local laws though.

And if they were going to stop using email, what would replace it? Personally, I can't see these busy individuals doing all business over the phone. Blackberries are also covered by federal law.
Is this so different than say Apple's "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" advertisements? Posterous believes they have a system which has a lower barrier of entry for users of these other platforms. The only thing different is that they are taking a more direct advertising route than word of mouth, and are using tactics and advertising styles that you usually only see in much larger companies. Good on them for aiming high!
Who said anything about forcing Apple to do anything? The blog post wasn't talking about suing Apple or asking the government to step in. It was merely criticizing a system they find slimy and contrary to the interests of Apple's customers.

It isn't like Apple is going out of their way to tell potential customers "people are out there writing software that you would like to have on your phone, but we aren't going to let you have it".

Why shouldn't the EFF be free to criticize whoever they want?

It's quite simple -- you can choose not to read blog posts that are clearly going to be critical of the app store.
Armed self-defense is a great idea for grown women. I'm not sure about little girls.
Some companies manage to base their SaaS business on free software. Take for example Gitorious, their entire code base is released under AGPL.

If something can be copied, it will be, that's the law of nature. Your business plan should take this into account.
Document clustering with matrix factorizations (on Hadoop)
yeah, it's more den correct in Jamaica, maan! ;-)
Or when your entire browser crashed instead of just a single tab.
Thanks, that was it. Yea, the name is definitely forgettable. Though, I doubt I'll forget it again now ;)
Now that's what I thought copyright was supposed to mean!
Not entirely sure, but it looks he uses some js to fix some things for IE8:

<!-- to help IE recognise the new HTML tags -->
<!--[if lte IE 8]>
<script src="/js/html5.js"></script>
<script src="/js/css3-mediaqueries.js"></script><![endif]-->
I find it particularly noteworthy due to fact that this blog has one page for desktop and mobile, and it fits damn near perfectly in both.

In Android 2.1, the only things that don't stack up exactly right are the "Social Club" section in portrait (vertical) mode, and the Pipe graphic at the top in landscape mode, which creeps over the dotted line slightly. There is no horizontal scrolling, and the least important stuff (that on the right, in a desktop browser) falls to the bottom.
I keep right clicking to view source but it doesn't work. Does that mean Flash is “closed” and HTML5 is “open”?
Sometimes. Topaz books have their own "fonts". (Not real fonts exactly. It's complicated, but the effect is the same.) Mobi books don't.
And I haven't. But I do like the rest of the technology in the iphone/ipad. Thus, I will complain. Bad feedback is better than no feedback.
Could this device also cause bleeding? Or has it been shown to not do so?

Sounds like a valid question the woman using this should no. I could increase the likelihood of infection
One of my clients charged $10 for his first iPhone app against competitors who charged $1-2. He had just as many downloads, and much higher profits. Having a higher price signaled higher quality, so he got more business.
Despite my parents asking me what kind of computer they should get, and me telling them they should get a Mac, they keep getting Windows machines. They don't call me for tech support that often (they're pretty clever folk), but usually when they do I'm out hiking or at the mall or something, so I offer a few suggestions, then honestly say 'Well I dunno, I don't use Windows so I've never encountered that.'

The only real problems they've called with recently though are 'suddenly I can't get on the internet' problems, which is usually solved by saying "look in the Add/Remove Programs control panel for anything that says 'Norton' or 'Symantec', then uninstall it and reboot"

TL;DR: After a few weeks/months/years of Mac use, you can disclaim all knowledge of Windows to family members. Symantec sucks.
Maybe what the EFF are really doing is warning potential customers of the digital handcuffs on the iPhone and other similar products, so those consumers can make an informed choice.
Tylenol can reduce the emotional pain of social rejection.
prayer? woothemes makes over 2mil on wp themes alone. and I almost haven't heard of them till the news about the cash.
Vegetable oil will oxidize and turn into a sticky mess.
I still have the choice to install the malware on my phone if I want too or not, same as installing malware for OSX, Windows,Linux.

My choice.
You can change the water level by adjusting the fill tube. Clamp it lightly to cause less water to flow into the bowl.
I'd check this out, but Flash block effectively hit the entirety of the content.
Read http://sunlightlabs.com/blog/2010/elenas-inbox/ -- this data is extracted from a PDF of data OCRed from a printout from a web interface to the actual email archive. Yuck.
750,000 lost jobs? The dodgy digits behind the war on piracy (2008)
I'm an angel investor in Ad.ly, so I'm not 100% aware of everything going on there, but I at least thought I'd chime in.

First, Ad.ly wants to make sure the ads stay high-quality. That's why they have pretty strict rules that everything must be marked as an ad, nothing is written in the first person, everything must be approved by publishers, etc. It makes it harder--as Gabriel saw. They're working on ways to make publisher approval better (there is an email that is sent to handle approvals; I'll ask the ad.ly guys if there's an unusual error rate).

Second, I know they're working on lots of tools to make it easier to choose appropriate publishers. Everyone wants to use different metrics for how they choose, so it's a tricky problem, but the feedback is useful. Pricing is based on several measures of influence, and they tend to correlate well with CTR from what I understand.

As Gabriel noted, the CPC is usually significantly better than almost any other high-quality ad network. So, it's cost-effective on a click basis. I hope with the tools to get volume as well, they'll make it easy to get volume.
Pick a few people and maybe create special profiles that come up when someone searches for them. Have the profiles feature a headshot, Twitter profile, Facebook page, website, etc as the top search result (a bit like Google's World Cup stuff - http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=brett+holman).

Make them interesting enough that when the people in question find out about them, they want to show their friends.

Find some way of notifying them, either through a Google search or ad, or even just contact them and explain that you're interested to know what they think about the profiles idea. (In truth, you will have chosen them specifically because they talk/post fairly often to a broad audience.) Make sure they know that you're fine with them publicising the link, it's not secret or anything - in fact, the more feedback the better. They might be more likely to spread the word if they feel that they've been chosen ("I wanted to choose some of the best designers around to get initial feedback.").

If not profiles, find some other way of presenting DDG that is unique to them. You probably don't want to follow in Google's semi-aborted footsteps of mimicking Bing's background image, but that could be a way of getting designers on side - background or masthead or sidebar. "Hey guys, I got picked to design one of Duck Duck Go's unique mastheads - they're the new Google. Check it out here..."

(Thinking aloud.)

Of course, you'd want to be honest with the feature you were involving them in (not a masthead that'd never be used live, etc). Otherwise, it reminds me of a publicity method some dodgy guy I knew wanted to try. Build a site for a start-up and then email thousands of web developers asking for quotes to redevelop the site (then never proceed with the project). Then email thousands of accountants and explain your business and say you need help with your accounts and ask if they take on this sort of work, but never follow through. And then thousands of office cleaners, and IT supply companies, and graphic design companies and caterers (to cater your launch party, of course), removalists and so on.
Right-clicking is a great example of non-obvious consistency (and one of the key tenets of horrible Windows/Linux UI design).

Right-click actions are, by their nature, hidden, and there's often no indication that you can right-click to get more actions. Case in point, the windows taskbar's system tray. Lots of icons, most do something when you click on them, but often they do different things depending on how you click. Since clicking does something, it's not always obvious that what you want might only be available by right clicking.

Also, depending on which mouse button you use, 'safely remove devices' will either give you a menu of devices to safely remove, or give you a menu with one option, which opens a window with a list of devices to safely remove.

Critics have derided the Mac's no-right-click mouse for ages, but for the non-technical user, not well-versed in the behaviour of a computer, it makes much more sense.
Cut the end off of it, slit it lengthwise, then pull it off in the same direction as the hooks.

And I have a feeling they are significantly exaggerating the pain level. I wonder if they tested it on an actual person.
I wonder what Posterous's arguments were for going for the direct attack route instead of an offer to purchase or merge?
You can get bigger quicker by purchasing competitors than by
swiping their clients I would think.
I think intentionally bricking people's phones[1] qualifies as "stopping you from doing whatever you want with the device."

[1]: http://www.macworld.com/article/60252/2007/09/iphoneunlock.h...
IPhone-Controlled Parrot AR.Drone:This September [video]
In Australian buildings this is already very very common. In the recent drought many urinals were converted (temporarily) but some are now back to water.

When maintained it is ok, but it does smell more. Generally not popular.
Now to wait for the Cyanogen Froyo ROM for my G1.
I once made a comment on HN about user interface and the advent of touch, in regards to the iPad being great for people who just don't want all that complexity, and a commenter replied to me saying that our parents would then have to learn a completely new user interface paradigm, the touch interface.

My response was that reaching out and touching something that you're interested in is about as intuitive as you can get. Even my kitten 'understands' that if she wants to interact with the sun falling from the sky in Plants vs. Zombies, she just paws at it. She does have a tendency to attack randomly and plant things everywhere, but she's got the basic idea.

A lot of other tech-minded people, however, seem intent on trying to shoehorn the touch interface into their concept of a WIMP UI, then complain when it doesn't work. One coworker, on the day the iPad was announced, even exclaimed 'But it doesn't even have a stylus!', to which seven other people in the department replied 'Good'.
True, but Matlab has good support for distributed computing. It's even possible to do this on an EC2 cluster. Pretty impressive really: http://www.mathworks.com/programs/techkits/ec2_paper.html

edit: Cleaned up my bad grammar.
So, basically customers buy their product using other people's money.
Critical iPhone 4 Issues and Complaints Are Mounting
I like the Posterous guys and have sent a number of users to their service before we (WordPress.com) had our own email feature. I hope when they launch the WordPress one it's nicer in tone. I've been very impressed that even though Tumblr is growing aggressively they've consistently taken the high road,
That's like sailing on 10 boats and one will sink :)

10 industries is a lot of work. The idiosyncrasies will kill you. Be as generic as possible.

I say 'Go after Wordpress'
I doubt that Obama (with his intellect) genuinely believes that this policy will help the economy at all.

Disappointing on so many levels.
Actually melling, thanks for calling me on that. Thinking more about it, I think Perl 6 actually has 2 sides: one is the "like Perl 5 but with a number of things improved/cleaned-up", and the other side (which I neglected to think about in my post above) is indeed some major and sophisticated changes (many of which I know little about since I most often use Perl in a simplistic way -- do this, open that file, process these log files, etc.).

If you have some specific questions, I suggest asking them at http://perl6.org/community/irc , which I've found to be very friendly and helpful.
Engel was able to compensate for the loss of function in one cortex by shifting the work to another.

This probably gets more difficult with age; that he is able to do it at an advanced age is a testament to the plasticity of the brain. Remarkable.
That has been my point several times. Anecdotes are data, they just aren't very good quality data, but sometimes they are all that is really available. Their biggest problem are lack of controls, but then many statistical analyses lack controls; and lack of consistent baselines and alternatives between anecdotes.
Thats what the analysis at nanex points to. It's basically denial of accurate timely quotes across exchanges. Don't know if was an actual "attack" and weakness in the system or just a random event and weakness in the system.

http://www.nanex.net/20100506/FlashCrashAnalysis_Part4-1.htm...
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An "Email this person a video message" button on the call screen doesn't seem too tough though.
Gotcha.

How do you think it would hold up to larger, say intraday data?
It's mostly taste, really. You can do almost everything you do in one environment on the other. What I dislike most in Windows is the standard APIs and datatypes. Not only they "feel" more complicated, the naming and casing conventions are plain ugly. I will dig up some examples from my WinCE days.

It's gotten a lot worse since I started writing most of my code in Python (2001-). I can't look at C code for Windows and consider it elegant anymore.
There are at least several questions:

* Should Apple have the policies it has?

* Should Apple be legally allowed to have the policies it has?

* Should we buy Apple's products, given that it has the policies it has?

One might think the answer to the second and third are yes while the answer to the first is no.