skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it shows how immature a platform is when a customer does all of the data crunching that the host should do for you:

1. Downloading the full list of top influential twitter users from trst.me (~22K users).

2. Hacking ad.ly's URLs and then downloading a big list of people you can advertise with.

3. Cross checking with the trst.me list to only keep top influencers.

4. Cross checking that output with the twitter API to only keep people recently retweeted.

5. Taking that subset and downloading ad.ly info including price, followers, & avg tweets.

6. Filter out people > 10 tweets/day and then sort by price/follower count.

(Granted this is what I do with Google Adwords and Adsense all the time, but you would never see me calling them immature [or maybe just complacent?])
I'm fairly certain that this is illegal in CA. This letter would certainly be very useful in a lawsuit demanding retroactive payment for overtime hours worked.
> OCaml has an audience in the financial world

Who besides Jane St?
Hey Jolie,

So you're looking for services geared towards people who don't own websites? A couple of friends and I are bootstrapping a social desktop service called Favetop.com, which may be attractive to many of your readers looking for an easier internet experience. I emailed Mashable earlier and submitted our service for the Spark of Genius feature but haven't received any responses. I'm going to follow your recommendation and fill out the Pitch Your Startup form next. Thanks for the suggestion.
Go to 'Customize' for your tumblr site and click 'Services.' At the bottom is 'Automatically import my...'. Choices include Delicious, YouTube, Vimeo, etc and RSS. Support is definitely lacking though and documentation is virtually non-existant.
I respectfully disagree.

Users used to pirate the software my first startup made, and that was not fun.
What is perhaps most intriguing here, especially about the antenna problem is that in the field tests they were probably using that iPhone 3G disguise case that Gizmodo revealed Apple testers were using. What's interesting there is that that case would impede discovery of this hand contact problem because the hand wouldn't thus short the two side antenae together as a case would be over it. I'm hoping that these were thoroughly tested on Apple's campus without case because on the surface this looks like a deep flaw in what Jobs vaunted as a revolutionary product design, signaling that Apple was it's own worst enemy in providing inadequate testing conditions in pursuit of it's trademark secrecy.
This is pretty awesome. Might replace senduit.com and similar services for me.
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The allegations are factual in nature but are generally stated

Minor thing, but could you clarify this statement? Do you mean "usually stated", or "stated in a general manner"? I'm unsure about the legal meaning of the words.
I've found the Twitter feed useful to get the most highly ranked articles, but every few days I'll take a quick 5 minute break from coding to look through some of the new posts.
A natural progression. I'm glad they finally went there. I am a happy customer of their 50 gig offering. I know there are a lot of YC companies out there (most of which I am not interested in the least, but hey, different market), but they hit a big market with DropBox.

I'm signing my parents up to coordinate pics, music and videos soon.
There's a difference between teaching someone to handle a knife or shoot a rifle accurately and teaching someone to kill.

Women and girls are not, by nature, killers. It's not politically correct to say that but it's true.
Important point:

Any file or folder in your Dropbox is now linkable!

But not quite yet, presumably very soon. Apparently appears in the 0.8 beta clients only, didn't see anything specific about the website (though I don't see it on my account).
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We've been using cluster_chef for a month+ at infochimps, and it's awesome. Want a throwaway 4-machine DB cluster to pound on? bam. done. Need to shut down two dozen m1.large instances, spin them back up as 30 c1.xlarge to process a massive CPU-intensive job, then put the whole thing away for the weekend? It spot-prices, instantiates, provisions and designates all the nodes, including EBS volume attachment and service discovery. The kind of thing you'd allot a platoon-day for is now more like an intern-morning, most of it waiting for the spot-price bid to come through.
If my advisor tells me that I can make the code available to the public, I'll put it on github, and post a comment here.

Thanks for the comment about my thesis. I hadn't ever heard of The Turtle Traders, but I read a few pages of the preview that you linked to, and it looked interesting enough to buy a copy. It will be an interesting read. Thanks for the tip.
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The urinal cake in waterless urinals (and you'd think even in the flushing variety) kill the odour causing bacteria and should stop any odours.

I'm mot sure if this is true though.
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It's one of those things that you don't want to be true... But there it is. Ben Parr was at a press event today for IE9 and confirmed to Mashable staff that, according to the tests, IE9 is gonna be hella fast.
You could probably fix it with some insulator such as clear tape or some kind of screen protector like material.
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I'll give you my inbox for a day, and we'll see what you can make of it. =)

Snark aside, it's really different on this side of the divide. Finding a relevant angle or some aspect of a startup that your average Internet user can relate to is extremely difficult, and writers and editors have to be very picky sometimes.
shudders why run a web app in a movie?
He can be having fun while still being arrogant towards others; they're not mutually exclusive.
Crocodoc (YC) also lets you do this. With office docs and PDFs as well.

Disclaimer, I invested in them.
Aside from attributing all this to the RIAA and the MPAA, I can see a line of thought that might move policy makers in this direction. As time goes on, an increasingly large slice of the U.S. (and world) economy is coming from non-physical goods like software, movies, writing, speaking, etc. Politicians who acknowledge this would want to promote an economic environment that will let these growing industries thrive. I would imagine this is the thinking behind ACTA - we want the world to respect copyright since we expect to rely heavily on it. While people like to (rightly) point out that a downloaded song or movie is not equal to a lost sale, the potential for easy, private transfer of data WILL eat into sales significantly over time if not "controlled."

What the politicians don't seem to acknowledge is that the products of this process are not scarce (although the inputs to the process are). Enforcing the illusion of scarcity (particularly with all the great privacy/crypto we have) must be extremely heavy-handed. We'll have to choose between severe restrictions in our communication (which should bother everyone) and less production of the software and movies that we desire (which would be unfortunate).
Why would they model iAds after facebook? I would say the current facebook model has a nearing expiry date. It's certainly possible that Apple don't see this or don't care, but to just assume it isn't giving them much credit.
Another important point (mentioned in a later comment): unlike public folders, only things you choose to make linkable can be viewed. The public folder continues to work the same way.
Yeah, Palin would've offered much more nuanced commentary.
Just a heads up, the page doesn't work without appending a route (like /index) to it.
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I seem to remember a certain VP nominee using her personal email for work purposes in a different public role...
As far a runtime performance goes, my backtesting framework would run slightly slower using intraday price history than it does with EOD data.

There are two reasons why:

1. There would be more data to load into memory, and that process of loading the price history from a CSV file into memory would take a little longer simply because there is more data to deal with.

2. The data structure I'm using to index the historic price information by timestamp is the Java 6 implementation of TreeMap. The TreeMap class is an implementation of a Red-Black tree, and provides a guarantee that lookup operations (even when the key is not present in the collection) are O(log n). Since the time to find a key in the collection is O(log n), there would be a small performance hit when adding more data to the collection.

I actually began using intraday price history that I had downloaded from TradeStation, but I ran into the problem that I only had intraday price history over a 1-year period. I needed to be able to run 1-year trials over the course of a much larger period of time, so I switched to EOD data. Switching to EOD data had the nice side effect of speeding up my program (mainly due to the fact that loading all that intraday price history into memory took several seconds - up to 30 seconds or so).
I was discussing the new iPhone with a friend from a competing hardware manufacturer the day after the original announcement and he was surprised about the external antenna design. He said the industry generally shies away from exposing antenna metal since skin is lossy and grounded and that even a minor dent or crack from a fall could change the reception characteristics dramatically.

Using a case may basically become a requirement.
...why do you not /want/ it to be true?
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Hi Jolie,

Thanks for your reply. Yep, I totally understand (in hindsight) that my service may not be the best fit for your audience. All I was complaining about was a lack of response :)

Actually, I had pitched Mashable only after doing a fair amount of research which concluded that you do write about web analytics, optimization and marketing sort of stuff. Here a few recent stories which nicely fit your description of "man behind the curtain"

http://mashable.com/2010/01/04/quantcast-funding/

http://mashable.com/2010/05/11/ibm-social-media-analytics-to...

http://mashable.com/2010/02/25/webtrends-facebook-analytics/

http://mashable.com/2007/06/25/analytics-toolbox/

Of course, now I am going ahead with niche blogs in web analytics and online marketing domain (and finding success too) but when I was preparing to pitch you (and other major bloggers) I had made sure that they covered similar stories in the past (except that I am bootstrapped and they got funding!)

EDIT: fixed typos
Ah, even if you win, you lose.

After I made my previous post I was pondering what Viacom hops to win in this case. The obvious thought is that they want to gut the DMCA safe harbor, but this seems like it would make combating piracy harder in the long run.

The safe harbor is the carrot offered so that service providers respond to DMCA takedown notices. Without that carrot, or with it much farther away, service providers are less likely to cooperate with Viacom.

Viacom is setting the playing field for service providers like this:
1. Dedicate resources to DMCA takedowns and then spend millions defending your safe harbor status anyway, or
2. Spend millions in copyright fines

This is a bad playing field to set, the DMCA takedown is a pretty sweet deal for Viacom. Why spoil it by making option 2 so attractive to service providers? And then option 3 dawned on me:

3. Don't allow user content

I don't think this case is really about copyright at all. It seems to me that Viacom's real goal is just to squash a competitor using the courts.
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> As it becomes easier for people to get stuff without paying for it, production of said stuff will drop.

And so what? The "said stuff" is mainly quality-inversely-proportional-to-budget music and movies. We needn't them anyway.
He was the victim of an online scam.

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Copying things has existed for a while (although it was never as easy as it is now). We chose to develop copyright despite this because we wanted to promote creation of works like books and music.

I don't necessarily disagree with your larger point, but It's worth noting that copyright was created for exactly this purpose (limit distribution of something that would be easy for copiers to distribute, but hard for them to originate).

I suspect copyright is one of the driving forces in the existence of lots of the information and entertainment I enjoy consuming on a day-to-day basis, so I'm skeptical of tossing it out completely.
Out of curiosity, what barter product was it? I've been working on an offline sharing site (http://pickupon.com/) specializing in direct trade for a while and just started inviting friends. Any opinions/advice in this area?
Theft: the act of taking something from someone unlawfully.

There are a lot of things that aren't fun, and I certainly agree that people pirating your software can be a problem, but there is a distinct difference between theft and illicit downloading.
Wow. If this is a hardware issue, it will cost a bomb to fix and delay production by weeks. Ouch.
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Congrats to the IE team for getting back on the rails!

More competition in this area is a bonus - now we just have to ensure that microsoft continues to sound out valid reasoning to get the vast proportion of Enterprise that still is on IE6 updated (and thus shift their legacy apps from proprietary hacks to a far more future "proofed" (resistant really) standards base).
To provide extremely well-engineered devices that look and feel fantastic? Apple hardware is pretty awesome. 1st gen issues aside, that is.
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Using hardware acceleration in a contrived example, IE 9 is faster at rendering fish. Yawn. Nothing Microsoft does now can make up how awful IE 6,7, and 8 are and the fact that most of my day-to-day pain is caused by supporting their crap-tastic browsers. Even IE 8 leaks memory like a sieve.
Does this help?
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I was thinking the same thing, if you give up the idealistic goal of "no water usage at all" you can possibly find a compromise of "very close to no water usage".
Theft is criminal and Copyright Infringement is a civil matter (thus far). At least in the eyes of the law, they are different.

Just because users were doing something that negatively affected your business doesn't mean that you can redefine the English language just to make the general population more sympathetic to your complaints. e.g.:

My employer is *extorting* me by requiring that I work
for my pay cheque! I should be able to charge my employer
with extortion!
Or Apple's "bumper" case, and 1st-party accessories are a rare move for them.
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Even worse:

> The bill would make P2P or BitTorrent client
> development a criminal offense if the distributed
> software was used for infringement.

So if someone uses Skype voice or chat to coordinate the downloading and/or distribution of copyrighted material, could Skype have been 'used for infringement' (it's already a p2p app)? What about people peering Android and/or iOS devices together and sharing files?
There are many people folks who enjoy the summer blockbuster more than an art-house flick. I would be pretty sad if the options in music, movies, software, and books became severely limited because the system could no longer compensate the creators.
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I don't care if IE9 is ten times faster than Chrome. I can never be an Internet Explorer evangelist. The wound is just too deep.
Uhoh, someone actually paused to ask the right questions.

Stats, stats and damned lies.

As with everything, I want to be able to follow the source. If you don't know, don't quote :\ (that the media feeds on this stuff with out asking the questions Ars has in this article is even worse).
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Same here. However, there's way more lag in these apps (both msgs arriving when not in the app as well as actually just starting the app) than the built in SMS app from Apple.
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It's a good thing that all other browsers have stopped development. Or maybe a better test would be comparing browsers with hardware acceleration against each other? Does anyone compare two games, one with hardware rendering and one with software rendering? No, of course not. That would be crazy.
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Well windows 7 was released not so long ago. That was pretty big for the windows world.
There were 600,000 pre-orders. Apple confirmed early delivery of online orders (July 23rd instead of 24th). I'd say there are a few number of iPhones in the wild now:

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/22/walmart-receives-iphone-...

Your logic is backwards, anyway; I'd be more worried if there were lots of reported problems with only a few iPhones in the market.
Statements like this can frustrate both sides of the debate. Words like "theft" really consist of a cluster of related meanings. Copyright infringement probably satisfies some of them, but not others. I think your case would be better made by stating more directly what you mean. For example: "piracy does not take away someone else's material goods and so is not as immoral as Biden's comparison with smash-and-grab theft would imply."

This reminds me of an awesome article that discusses the debate about whether or not "obsesity is a disease" http://lesswrong.com/lw/2as/diseased_thinking_dissolving_que...
This doesn't get appealed to the Supreme Court (yet). This would next go to the District Court of Appeals for that circuit (and would later get appealed en banc) unless there's some point of law I don't know about that's special to this case. Which is possible, given that IANAL, but I think this is a pretty straightforward copyright case, so I'm not sure where else they could go without coming up with some new claims.

You don't get to appeal to the Supreme Court until you've exhausted all your other appeals. And there aren't many instances where SCOTUS has original jurisdiction (those are very rare, and in that case you go straight to the Supremes rather than dealing with lower courts).

But, no, I don't think they'll grant cert (though you never know). Viacom flamed out on summary judgment. IMHO, this is more like SCO where you have an angry litigant who will exhaust all appeals rather than admit defeat, which is why I feel that appeal is inevitable.

Also, they'll be lobbying lawmakers to change the law. You can bank on that. They're already working on the Obama administration from what I can see, given that piracy crackdown they promised.
Copyrights, trademarks, and patents also weren't as complex and over-bearing when they were first created as they are today. If anything, the content industries only have themselves to blame with their egregious extensions to copyright terms amongst other things.

I don't think there would necessarily be the same 'tear it all down' mentality around (for example) copyright if it wasn't: 1) overly abused and 2) a ridiculous length of time. It also doesn't help that a lot of people feel entitled to copyright, when in reality it is a monopoly granted by the people, not some sort of 'God-given' right.
That is beyond cool. I bet you can put a git repo in dropbox and clone it using the shareable link. I'd test if I didn't have a program to deliver in 4h.
Have to say that as the leader of the company he's failed abysmally.

>My measurement will be the parking lot: it should be substantially full at 7:30 AM and 6:30 PM....The lot should be half full on Saturday mornings. We have a lot of work to do.

His response is about bullsh!t metrics - not about the work. There's not one mention of productivity, of not meeting targets, of poorly performing staff. The management may, or may not, be doing so - but the sole defining reason for his diatribe is the lack of attendance during what he perceives as reasonable work hours (~65hours/week).

Why wasn't the focus on not meeting targets? on improving productivity? on making progress?
I think the price also reflects though that they don't actually need to sell this to anyone, it's already paid for itself in improving internal process. The people it's mainly aimed at using campfire, I'd imagine would pay for it whether it was 99 cents or $10 if it is useful in improving business process.
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What this guy problem ? I know a lot of people who will pay $5 per month to use Gmail.
Chrome is currently the fastest at this; what else would you have them test against?
Piracy doesn't just hurt the RIAA and MPAA. It hurts:

* indie game developers

* Unsigned bands

* authors and book publishers

* OSS companies that sell their compiled binaries training material while giving away their source.

People who create things deserve to be compensated if they wish to. Taking something that doesn't belong to you is stealing.
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I agree with your definition, which doesn't seem to strike much difference between stealing something physical and stealing something digital.
Hotels don't count, especially the fancy ones.

Did you try out any home toilets? (Knock knock - can I look at your toilet sir?)

I'm willing to put a ruler in mine, if you will.
Too long didn't read/watch, I'd guess.
I feel entitled to copyright on what I make. Don't you?

I make something, I determine the price and distribution. You have the right not to buy it.
I'm sorry, but doesn't a "fictional case study" defeat the purpose of case studies?

It's like assuming the hypothesis you want to prove ...
They can test against whatever they want, but the fact still remains that IE9 is basically using 'specialized hardware' to reach that speed. What happens when Chrome also supports this specialized hardware? [i.e. I hope that the IE Team doesn't feel like they can skimp on performance elsewhere by just throwing hardware at the problem, rather than fixing/improving their engine.]
Their choice. You're not forced to use their product. Luckily there's a market offering choice.
Saying 'if he was smart, he wouldn't stop piracy' begs the question why taking creative works without permission isn't worth stopping.
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