skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see virtually nothing noteworthy on http://modernizr.com in these 4.0 pre-release builds — no real new HTML/CSS features, no 3D transforms, etc.
I purchased this morning, after it went public, at $17.97 and was pretty happy with the results: +31.60%

I'm curious to see if tomorrow's early sell-off has a major impact on where the stock stabilizes.

EDIT: Removed actual dollar amount, no need to show that...
Strategic Default or Efficient Breach?
Downplayed? In what respect?
Just for the hell of it, I searched for both Heathfield and Foley on LinkedIn, and I’m a third-degree connection to both of them. (I wonder if this is a sign of how incestuous the Boston high-tech community is.)
As much as you spoilt yanks disapprove, we Europeans would crawl on broken glass and do terribly embarrassing things to get something like this. To add insult to injury, basically no channels transmit HD shows in my country.

On another note, all the people who interject "I don't watch/have a TV" in every bloody conversation would probably love this, regardless of how large a demographic they comprise. Are we assuming that Hulu will have to satisfy all types of consumers for it to be a good idea, or are you just chiming in with your own, perfectly reasonable, arguments? I just don't know how useful the "I won't get it, therefore it is a bad idea" is and how it reflects Hulu's strategy.
Ask HN: Recommend a contract to sell a website?
Does anyone have a good recommendation of a sample contract for the sale of a website? Perhaps one you've used yourself?
> I always thought each spy dealt with very few handlers / I wouldn't have showed to a 'phone call'

Usually in these cases FBI and CIA would plant various stories in the media, and produce evidence during the trial that conceals real sources of information (often defectors and moles).

Otherwise, it seems like the alleged spies and their handlers were just very sloppy.
I've only played with them at the Apple Store, but the iPhone4 silence switch seemed a lot better than the ones on my original 2G and current 3GS. My 2G switch was so flimsy that it would toggle on and off in my pocket from idle friction, while the 3GS one was stiff to the point where I needed both hands to reliably move it.
>The overall build quality seems impossibly good. The iPhone 4 is beautiful to behold and feels like a valuable artifact. It’s like a love letter to Dieter Rams.

Do other people actually like reading stuff like this? I mean, regardless of what you think of the iphone 4, that level of praise almost makes me feel bad for him. It's like romantic love for an object.
I haven't read the story yet... but I'm going to guess: he likes it!
Does anyone know if they declare the exact day of the IPO adhead of time? I knew the IPO was this week, but had a hard time figuring out what day for some reason. Either way I just got in at $24, lets hope this puppy still has some go in it.
I discovered this gem in HN, but allow me anyway refer to it, as it's most appropriate: http://xkcd.com/378/
The new one is thin and seems to almost stick at times.
"... but I’ve had fun trying out FaceTime with a few iPhone 4-enabled friends"

This sentence is absolutely delicious to my mind, specifically the use of the word "enabled". It's as if to own a device was to somehow be an upgrade for one's person.

Is this how we've really all come to think of devices now? Are they extensions of our bodies? A whole raft of questions has drifted to the shores of my mind.
I don't feel bad for him because I am sure he is getting paid.
I like reading it very much.
Right, it would have to be a few hundred million for the VCs to make anything back. This product is either going to have to get a much larger userbase, become ridiculously compelling, or develop some sauce that's worth buying.
First, I wasn't necessarily taking a side–more posing the question "could enough govt pressue hurt AirBnB's business?"

Second, I think the comparison to VRBO/Homeaway only goes so far. Those 2 sites cater primarily to vacation/2nd home owners (i.e. renting out an entire house/condo for week). You don't see many "Rent out my extra bedroom for $60/night" listings on there. Unless I'm mistaken, that's where AirBnB differentiates itself and, IMO, makes it more risky.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1472515
Ask HN: Am I spamming my customers?
Hi, I'm looking for advice as to whether it's legitimate for me to send a product upgrade email to a group of people who have a license for my product.

Here's the story: I'm an independent developer and licenses for one of my products was given away in a promotion run by a third party earlier in the year. A condition of getting the license was that they had to register with the third parties site and then go through a virtual purchase process which cost them nothing. At this point I don't think there was any kind of check if they were willing to receive email.

At the end of the promotion the third party supplied me with the email addresses of the people who downloaded the license, about 30,000 of them.

The product has changed significantly since then and I 'd like to send these people an email informing them about the changes but I'm concerned at being branded a spammer and the potential backlash against the product.

What do you think, can I email these people even though they haven't explicitly signed up for it?

My gut feeling is that I shouldn't but I'm wondering if I'm being over cautious here?
FBI: Spies Hid Secret Messages on Public Websites
Perhaps it's just confirmation bias because I'm interested in this space, but aren't most news startups that rush to market cursed with obscurity or death?

Newsvine is the only interesting and semi-successful one that comes to mind over the past few years, and the executive team there is crazy experienced and of great provenance. All the other good news "startups" I know of have had to grow quite slowly over a long period of time or are heavily leaning on exposure in fields like politics or tech.
> how incestuous the Boston high-tech community is.

Or how well the alleged spies have been planted...
>Methinks there's more to this.

I was thinking the same thing. I just watched a RT interview with a "military analyst" here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9kwPr9PqG8&feature=playe.... I transcribed parts that stood out to me:

"...but basically it just demonstrates it's not Obama who controls the foreign policy regarding the..., that somebody within the inards of the body politicking ... so the beltway bandits, I believe, has regained the initiative from the White House, and with their moles it is not the Russian moles or spies, it is the neo-conservative's moles in the White House who are trying to hijack the agenda and who are actively against resetting the Russian, American strategic partnership to deal with the common threat like counter-terrorism strategy, and counter drug strategy in Afghanistan and Paskistan."

"...let me tell you something ... it's ludicrous from professional intelligence perspective, because in open society as America is definitely, it's open source intelligence data mining which becomes the main priority for all intelligence officers working openly in the United States, and in Russia, and everywhere else. The problem is why America is missing the analytical minds who can absorb and analyze the incoming threats ... real threats, not imaginary threats.
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000R3PJ74/

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/clark/clark_index.html
I do like the feel and design of the 3G model better (much easier to tell if it's silenced in your pocket), but on multiple occasions, the switch on my 3GS has switched from silenced to not. The new one seems a lot less prone to that.
John Harding, Software Engineer,

He is more the Engineering Manager for APIs, Mobile, and other aspects of Syndication at YouTube.

What's wrong with Google/Youtube using wrong titles in blog posts ?
Do they tried to make us believe that even the low software engineer in the chain can publish under the Company's name ?
Lame.
I don't like the Headline either, but I feel it is a good read and does overall make a good point (as the Comment activity indicates). Could have been said in one paragraph though
It is also related to The "Greater Internet F$#%wad Theory"

Normal Person + anonymity + audience = Total F$#%wad

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/19/
That Apple pays so much attention to the details as to pick a different version of Helvetica for different classes of displays is emblematic of what makes the iPhone the iPhone — software and hardware that are designed in tandem as parts of a single whole.

Really? On the next paragraph...

There is, however, one problem with Helvetica Neue in iOS 4.0: it doesn’t include italics.(...)I can only assume this is an oversight on Apple’s part.

Yes, it is a small thing. I really don't care whether the phone comes with the Heuvetica Neue bold, or not. But I can't stop thinking about how Apple's marketing (or Gruber's writing) is eerily similar to hypnosis: you provide a baseless assertion that "sort of" makes sense intertwined with contradictions, making the target's brain take everything as valid.
Nah, this is most likely at least partly meant to be linkbait.
Court to Consider Breaking Up Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits
How good of an agent can she be if she was caught?
And now, mere months after being given what I'd consider to be the chance of a lifetime, they're just giving up. Not evolving, not making changes, just giving up. What a joke.

Companies (or people!) who make bold promises, get the press excited, and then fail to deliver make it harder for us all to get our stories across.

I usually play down what I'm doing and underpromise, but it seems reaching way beyond your limits and impressing journalists is the way to go for coverage (Sam Sethi's exploits that TechCrunch covered so deftly come to mind here, too.)
It's not the fact that he left the money/business for the honeymoon. It's the fact that he, presumably, screwed investors, his cofounder, and their customers by doing so, all people who were relying on him in some manner or other.
Yawn. Verizon is full-steam ahead on the Android front. Bringing in the iPhone would fragment their investments in Android and they'd be competing against themselves. Android devices are good enough to match the iPhone for most consumers. Verizon isn't going to do what it takes to court and share profits with Apple, because they don't need to.
It's a positive, thorough review by someone who develops on the Apple platform. Do you comment on Silverlight developers glowing posts as well? Or do you just dislike it when Apple developers do it?
Russian Spies Thwarted By Old Technology?
Interesting. I remember the course being very difficult. I wonder if it was "too hard" so they made it optional. A mistake if you ask me, that class made me a better programmer than any other undergraduate course.

Although, the only ones that would take it now would want to.
Or maybe a loud and clear signal for people to stop assuming they're doing it just because of their beta HTML player.
The VoIP Steganography Threat
You are probably right. There is more to this.

The 'passport' story was probably created to conceal the original source -- someone who just defected and dumped this info all at once. Perhaps someone in FBI was coming up for promotion so the decided to expose some spies to get some bonuses in return.

Often these stories are stirred up for some political goal. Perhaps Russian are closing in on some CIA/FBI moles and US govt. decided to create a situation where exchanges could take place.

Or maybe some elements in the US govt. decided that the relationship between US and Russia has gotten too cozy lately and want to stir up come conflict and milk that for some political gain...
I bought on the market.
As a designer, Helvetica Neue (even without italics) is a huge step in the right aesthetic direction. His original point was not so much about the font, but about the platform. He lays the groundwork, showing that the platform was higher resolution and therefore it made more sense for a font that displayed better at higher resolutions to be used.

I think it's a valid point and a great critique -- how is it contradictory to praise what is praiseworthy and point out what is wrong?
When I enter "google me" in google, it shows me:

See results for: teyana taylor

What is that about??
So if people want to post a video of their cat in their blog, they must encode it in 2-3 different formats, and use an HTML5 video player with a fallback to a Flash video player ... as opposed to a single video file and a single Flash player.

Unless those people who own cats are all Richard Stallman impersonators, I don't see how that makes any logical sense.
> It’s like a love letter to Dieter Rams.

In the design documentary, Objectified, by Gary Hustwit, Dieter Rams is asked if there is any company that really gets design today. He answers after a moment's pause: "Apple".

I believe Apple is integrating design down to lower levels than anyone has done before. Some companies talk about corporate DNA but Apple is going to Jurassic Park levels.

It feels natural. Even though the object has been artificially and painstakingly engineered with love.

Excerpt from "Objectified": Dieter Rams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBF1rOxWsxg

Excerpt from "Objectified": Jonathan Ive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0fe800C2CU

http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/
Paid? By Apple?

Or just his feed sponsorships and Deck ads?
They are absolutely broken. Most (digital) agencies spend large amounts of their clients' money without delivering measurable, trackable results, or anything beyond a vague sense of "branding".
In fact, in my work, I've found that most of the reason for rising CPMs for banner buys is agencies driving up prices to unsustainable levels- it's like another bubble waiting to burst.
Seems she wrote a song titled google me in which she tells people to google her.
If I understand you correctly, such a possibility can never arise in Haskell's type system. A possible function would be (a -> Maybe b) -> a -> b, and this won't accept anything that returns an Either.
Completely agreed. The plastic felt cheap. This feels like a Rolex.
Hate to be that guy, but "irregardless" is not a word. Regardless, however, is.
I had an order filled by Fidelity at $18 this morning.
fivethirtyeight.com just got a ceas and desist letter from Research 2000's lawyers:

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/06/research-2000-issues-...
I'm a little upset that this is called "IPhone 4". It is part of the story, in fact, a very telling part of his narrative that he merely titled it "4".
Nice. Another awesome RailsRumble project being fleshed out and productized.

Best of luck Adam! I'll definitely be using this tool to link together photoshop comps to demo clients.
How to cook goose
I somehow don't get particularly nervous during important tests or interviews. I get a little nervous if it's really really important, but I somehow get over that pretty quickly. It's nothing that I earned by hard work or practice, either. Now if only I could apply that gift to talking to women...
I'm not sure that applies in this case. I agree that newspapers and magazines are able to charge more for ads to paid subscribers than for non-paid readers but the logic behind that is that someone who pays for the issue is more likely to actually read it than someone who gets it for free.

In Hulu's case they are able to measure the number of people actually watching the videos.

Also if anything a paid subscriber would probably be less likely to pay attention to the ads, making the ad worth less.
Surely it's like saying "Ford pay so much detail to every part of their cars, it's amazing the level of care put into each and every model"

and later saying "Of course Ford did forget to include wheels on this particular model"
You're right. Thought I had learned that awhile ago. Guess not.
Foursquare Privacy Hole Exposes 875K Check-Ins
I use Bluehost and have been shocked my how shoddy and insecure an operation they run.

For example, anytime I contact support, they ask for "the last four characters of my password." This implies that they are storing my password in plaintext instead of hashed — even if it's just the last four characters, it’s (1) awkward and (b) severely cuts down the entropy of the actual password. It also implies that, should you use the same or similar passwords for other sites, the Bluehost team now essentially has, and looks at (!), that password.

They also have absolutely terrible support for running Ruby on Rails and their control panel's Rails controls "don't work," to quote their help team.

Stay away.
Another detail who moves Firefox closer to Safari : text in the bookmark toolbar now turns to white when hovered.
I agree, the 4 looks like a step back. Maybe to a 70s type of design. Looks cludgy to me.
The Parallel Universe magazine is now available for download [Issue 3 - .PDF]
The Parallel Universe magazine is a quarterly publication devoted to exploring inroads and innovations in the field of software development, from high-performance computing to threading serial applications. This issue's cover story is, "Enhancing Productivity and Achieving High Performance with Intel Cluster Toolkit Compiler Edition," by Bill Magro.
Apple is so good at making buttons, it’s almost enough to make one wish they made button-laden devices.

Oh come on...Pro mouse, Mighty Mouse, Magic Mouse, current and previous gen macbook trackpad buttons, the previous gen desktop keyboards, iPod click-wheels, Apple Remote...these are some of the worst buttons I've used. Apple has made some decent buttons (I think the current and previous gen MBP keyboards are well made), but they're way too inconsistent to make a claim like that.
correlation does not imply causation. But I see your point.
My dream would be for Tesla Motors to become the biggest and most-loved of the "big 4" US automakers, along with Toyota, Nissan, and GMFordysler. I respect the money, engineering, and guts it took to start that company.
Didn't this hit the HN front page last week or earlier?
Hello, RethinkDB. You get what you pay for. You don't expect to buy a diamond for 10 bucks , do you?
engineers.

marc andreessen did a talk a few months ago at Stanford (get it at ecorner.stanford.edu) where he talks about how the mobile app market looks a lot like the early days of boxed software - a million half-decent attempts but nothing really amazing.

and then came microsoft.

the world of mobile apps seems at present to be an arms race and most of that $20m is likely going to be spent on the guns and bombs of the tech world: great engineers.
"Ford's new engine is incredibly powerful and well designed, but it's missing a low gear setting on the shifter." Might be more apt.

Again, Neue is leaps and bounds ahead of regular old Helvetica. It's a total bonehead move to leave out italics even though most people won't notice it's absence.
You're assuming that every penis on chat roulette is actually the user's. I know there's a program that lets you use an arbitrary loop of video instead of a webcam feed. I suspect there are a lot of trolling 4channers with videos of someone else's penis, perhaps open on multiple tabs, skewing the percentages.

I was curious about the wankers' motivations and I have a strong stomach, so I tried to talk to them. I was largely unsuccessful at getting any response, and, in fact, they tended to next me after I attempted to talk to them for long enough (and I didn't see them reaching for a mouse either!).
Hulu is owned by the networks.
The more I read about this, the more I wonder if most of them were just playing an ARG (or at least thought they did).
You revert back to your own habits if you stop meditating everyday after "taking refuge in the Buddha".
OMG Gruber loved the new iPhone! Who would have guessed?
Nobody chose Python, ML, or Haskell. Some chose Perl, which I took as a promising sign, but they didn't do any better than the ones who chose C++ or Java.

Actually conceiving of the solution was the roadblock for most, but the ones who got past that struggled to figure out the recursion -- what should be the signature of the recursive function?
Yeah, having never used an iPhone 4 or FaceTime I was unsure of how it all worked. Given that it's going to be a standardized protocol, a FaceTime server would be necessary even if phone numbers weren't exposed, as you'd want to manage who can connect to who (and possibly for how long).

You could even monetize by interspersing ads into the video stream.

In fact that could be a better solution - that way you could avoid building an application and locking yourself to iPhone 4 users, opening your web service to other FaceTime clients.
I think this serves to remind everyone that you need to have the will to persevere for your start up to thrive during the first few years when things aren't going your way. If you're only in it for an instant hit, you're not building a business properly.
I know a guy who did this and ended up getting hired at the NHL. After 6 months of pestering, they started him as an intern; he's now an organization man slowly climbing the corporate ladder.
You're right, 100 isn't too much, but it seems wasteful. We dont need 50 repos.

Drew hit the nail on the head. Couldnt have said it better.
You can take a cold shower, or you can ride the momentum that the retreat gave you and keep the shower lukewarm. Sometimes it even gets hot and really nice feeling and you don't want to get out, but then after that kind of shower, even drying off feels good.
Wonderful quote. Thank you.
What's wrong with the current trackpad?
I have to disagree. Nothing about the design harkens back to the 70's, except for maybe the earliest increases in adoption of minimalism. Maybe.

If you line this up next to their current line of products it fits right in.
Broadcom, which has some of its chips in iPhones already, supports WebM: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/broadcom-accelerates...

Qualcomm, AMD, TI and NVidia are also on list of supporters: http://www.webmproject.org/about/supporters/

Apple may be able to get hardware decoder for WebM bundled in the same package as H.264 codec.

It's likely that WebM will be widely supported and technically good enough for Apple, so Apple would have to have a good reason to "veto" it.
He tries to emphasize that it happens in only "marginal strength areas" (see also this other post: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/06/29/gaywood-signal-i... ) but iPhone 4s displaying 'full bars' have been shown to suffer the problem (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNmXrVNeGzs )
I just checked into this and I think you are right, but this is all the more reason why there are going to be ads no matter what.
One of the things I'm surprised by on my iPad is videos on the web that won't play. By that I don't mean that most videos won't work because the iPad doesn't have flash - quite the opposite. I'm surprised when a video won't play because it so rarely happens.

Maybe I just browse all the wrong sites, but 90% of the video I come across on the iPad works just fine without jumping through hoops. Some of that is because YouTube videos are ubiquitous, but even going to a site like Penny Arcade for the first time on my iPad got me video that worked well and looked good.

HTML5 may not be ready for YouTube, but for sites that don't need (often-draconian) content controls, HTML5 is here already.
I'd agree with your assessment of the past Apple mouse lineup (undeniably shocking), but the Magic Mouse gets a lot of things right. I find myself wishing I had a multitouch surface at my work PC instead of the somewhat clunky but serviceable MS mouse.
To be specific, NBC, ABC, and Fox own Hulu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulu (see right sidebar for ownership breakdown)
The girl who must eat every 15 minutes to stay alive
Neo-conservative moles in the White House? Start down-voting me...now!
Facebook Movie Teaser
Just a teaser. I found it painfully hard to watch.
I skimmed through the article looking for anything negative. Acknowledging its flaws is more productive than studying its perfection.