skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sorry if you couldn't get that in between all of my awful, antisocial behavior.

The griping and passive-aggressive comments are what's causing the down votes. Cut it out

As for the price cuts, at the small-medium size ranges, the cuts haven't been extensive, and certainly not to the same scale as what Moore's law would indicate. The new options at the high-end aren't an upgrade if they cost more (which is in fact the case).

At present the best deal I've been able to find in terms of $/performance has been Linode, but they aren't the most reliable in the world so far.
Add another zero to the end?
Facebook's search strategy reaches outside its walled garden and stretches out to the open web. So Facebook search results might include a few Facebook pages, but the majority of results will be web-pages that were more "liked" than others.

I think where it gets interesting is when you narrow the scope down to just what your friends "liked", or what men in the South Bay "liked," or people interested in football, engineering, art, or who are doctors, etc. You start to get into the long tail of search, which might open up some very interesting results.
I don't play poker and I'm not interested in learning. I inherited the software at http://sourceforge.net/projects/openpoker/ and tried to fix it. I then thought I'd write a much better server quickly.

I ended up writing a server that's scalable and robust but incompatible with the original Delphi client. Part of it is that the contract programmers blackmailed me into Delphi (C++ will cost you more!) and I was greedy. The other part is that they are serializing Delphi objects and shipping them down the wire. Supporting that would be a nightmare.

It's hard to sell a server without a client and my server is pretty bare bones too. There's only Texas Hold'em, no tournaments. There's no accounting, payment processing, affiliate tracking, etc. I tried to sell it as a base people could build around but not very successfully. I broke even on development but that's it.

Ultimately, poker people are fine with running a 200K solution on scores of servers that handle just thousands of clients. There's not much interest in squeezing that into a handful of servers since marketing expenses of a new poker room dwarf those of hardware and software.
They claimed it was attempting to access private data. It was spyware. That's malicious in my book.
Ahoy! Sailing is great, I've got a personal goal to do the SHTP in 2014.

You have a terrible investment track record and a good programming track record. Go with your strength. Since you have a short attention span, you should focus on short projects that you can ship quickly.

Bring maritime weather / charts to the iphone, I'd buy that :-)
It could work like US film ratings. There was a time when film makers deliberately added elements to pull an R rating because audiences associated that with more enjoyable films.

Consumers might associate "a real .xxx grade site" with quality. But they will have to be trained.
I actually think Toyota's mistake was taking the complaints too seriously and responding with such concern. Apple's approach, of dismissing the 'problem' and blaming it on the user, seems much more likely to help the whole thing blow over.

When you express too much concern about a possible problem, I personally have found that it legitimizes the problem to those observing the situation.

Although, this comment would be much more interesting if I had any data to back it up.
I think we can assume premium domain names will be sold in a land rush auction, not registered on a first-come-first-serve basis. Similar to e.g. .ASIA or .AM.
There may even be different registration fees like .TV has.
I think I just found my perfect stand-up/kneel-down laptop stand
As the bug report mentions, the sleep(1) call appears to be wrapped in a #define that (I assume) won't be active in normal OpenSSL builds. At least in v0.9.8o (the only one I checked) the only references I see are:

ssl/s2_pkt.c:

#ifdef PKT_DEBUG
if (s->debug & 0x01) sleep(1);
#endif

There are two references like that to PKT_DEBUG (read and write); the only other is:

ssl/ssl_locl.h:

/*#define PKT_DEBUG 1 */

I suspect this is a non-issue. Interesting though.
CSS for iPhone 4 (Retina Display)
The sooner you talk to these guys about whatever the deeper issue is, the better off you'll all be. Left unaddressed, this kind of rift can grow to the point where it's unfixable. It's one of the toughest parts of building startup.
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Watch your karma if you're active on full disclosure: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Jun/391

He wrote this a few days before the bust.
I laughed, but I don't think it was in the way intended by the authors.
The reason is, that because every pixel is half the visual size, you may have to double the values of many CSS properties. For example text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #fff; which is like a half visual pixel on the iPhone 4.

If this is true, I'll be kind of pissed. I shouldn't need a special stylesheet for basic properties like border widths if the iPhone's browser is supposed to show the real web.
The other thing is, most responsible adult companies already work to make sure their sites are labeled clearly as adult-only sites. Parents have options to prevent their children from going to these sites. In fact, these sites are safer for children than Facebook when you get right down to it.
Yes, I was just about to comment that there's a comedic but still NSFW scene near the end.
I believe the question decided on by the pan-dimensional mice was less correct.
The bottleneck is that I sell a service and I can only offer so much of it. Also, my base rate is 100 EUR/hr, about $125, although I always quote a fixed price.

I found a niche in writing Mac device drivers for a big company this year. I had to buy a hardware USB analyzer and IDA Pro to reverse-engineer a good chunk of LabVIEW so I was able to charge a good price for that project.

I could raise my base rate and charge more for projects (fixed price) but that doesn't scale and there are only 24 hours in a day.
I couldn't quite tell: was that a "news item" or an editorial?
From what I read it doesn't require a uniform distribution. The author says to model the key distribution, so if its uniform you guess based on a uniform distribution. If it's normal then you use normal, etc...

Of course this presumes you know the distribution of keys. In many cases I don't think people know the distribution of keys, or even the values of the extremas.
If you want to get the lowest pricing on EC2, use a spot instance request where your bid price >= standard pricing (i.e. 0.085/hr for m1.small). This will essentially get you a spot priced, but indefinitely persistent instance and you'll typically pay 1/2 or less than the standard pricing. I've had a spot instance running for 3 months paying about 45% off list price on average.
Sure--here's its profile on cyrket, though the number of downloads cyrket reports is incorrect: http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.blumer.bb643/
The problem with the results you would get back on Facebook search is that they are far less monetizable than the resume you would get on, say, Amazon. Google is at least halfway in between the two.
I can read good sir, but I wasn't talking about that. I do think the application they removed was pretty useless (the experiment it was designed for seemed to be over). What they said is that they removed it in order to test their system, which, according to them, will be used to remove malicious software.

So what's labeled at bad is malicious software. And if I am wrong and the experiment wasn't over, then it just makes my point as it is already (in some meanings of the term) abusive :)
I used to run an offshore development company out of the US and even went through a round of VC at ~1.25mm post-money. The round did not go past a bridge loan since the internet bubble was bursting at about this time.

I can judge technical skills but I don't think I'm a good judge of character. I'd rather bet on myself.
Yes, I get that stuff. Now how does attaching a bit of tape over the gap, or avoiding bridging the gap with your hand play into that?

It's like they're saying "yes this is a common problem in phones that we're well aware of and which our unique new "genius" design makes worse" without wanting to actually admit the latter bit. So you end up with strange-double talk advice that tells you how to fix problems they're not admitting to having.
Some of that already exists, check out the App Store. I'm thinking an iPad would make a decent chart plotter, though :-). Now, if I could only find a weather-proof enclosure!
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How about some visual diff tools? It depends on the platform, but there are some really nice ones out there. If you're using Linux, try out meld. This guy has a nice little script for diffing SVN stuff: http://www.toolsforteams.com/roller/blog/entry/svn_diff_with...

For Windows, I hear Beyond Compare is great, though I don't know if it has SVN integration...

For Mac, maybe http://www.versionsapp.com/ does what you need?
A for effort.
Are creative people unemployable?
Does he have a blog or any such thing? Is this text on archive.org?
It's insane how a good music background can make a difference.
Ah, I see now! Really tricky...
I do the same thing with Tabkit and Ctrl-Tab. They're indispensable.
I left Wall St with the semi-official title of "Director of Prime Brokerage Technology". I did work on the technology budget and spoke to vendors. I simply don't have the organization required to service Wall St.
a) One app, basically a dedicated RSS reader for a client's blog.
b) Free.
c) My client has promoted it on a weekly radio show.
d) I was paid by the client for developing the app. I think I made about $1500. I consider that pretty good for subsidized Objective-C training.

The app has had a few thousand downloads, so it's one of the more visible things I've been able to work on and is rewarding in that way. (most things I do at my day job are for a handful of users at most.)
We use GPUs for all of our computer vision and image processing, 10X is definitely a low-ball for what they're doing here - it would be much faster.

The important bit is at the end where they say "10% of the time is spent on polygon intersection" and the rest on image processing. We do GPU image processing on the cloud and this is (likely) where Scribd could likely obtain a significant speedup - many of our image processing operations run hundreds of times faster than on the CPU.
Moore's law is a law of economics, not nature. Competition drives the performance improvements coming out of Intel and AMD, and competition will drive the rate at which savings are passed along to the consumer in cloud service providers.
Kunthar, did I give you a quote? ;-)
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It is, but I can't imagine it's growing compared to the competition.

What Facebook has done to Myspace's social networking user base, Last.fm is well on its way to doing to Myspace's musician base. It's the same pattern, countering Myspace's rustic offering with vastly superior user experience and more ambitious functionality.

Anecdotally, I haven't logged into the Myspace account for my music project in at least 18 months. All the action's on Last.fm.
That's really not true - we've been doing cloud GPU computing for a few years (all in OpenGL shaders and OpenCL) - we run in Windows, Linux, MacOS and on both NVIDIA and ATI.
GM's new electric car: Driving the future
It's not even really a law of economics or nature. Or a law. It's a state of a tendency if the rate of expansion of transistor density.

At present, it's more economical (if you don't need programmatic elastic expansion of your cluster) to rent/lease dedicated hardware or set up your own. This is because hardware has been getting faster than they have been upgrading.

>Competition drives the performance improvements coming out of Intel and AMD, and competition will drive the rate at which savings are passed along to the consumer in cloud service providers.

The point of this discussion is that this hasn't happened yet with any known majors beyond RAM upgrades and small amounts of price-twiddling.
Bill & Steve hanging out together
more likely free.xxx
Golang. Is it fully developed. Plus, while learning, one requires an extensive developer community, wjich might be another hindrance.
False choice. Why not have a phone with better reception and fewer dropped calls AND good reception no matter how the phone is held? If this a problem that can be solved with a 0.4" strip of tape, then obviously Apple had the option. They simply overlooked it.

Also, the issue isn't whether or not we're forced to purchase a product we don't like. That is a subtle straw man. The issue is whether or not Apple made wise engineering decisions, and whether or not Jobs is exhibiting the appropriate attitude towards Apple's customers, who WANT to spend their money on a nice iPhone, but are having trouble with Apple's shitty design.
I have read Flow twice in the last few years and while I considered it an important work that has shaped my perspective of personal psychology immensely I never understood Flow on a logical level. For me the 'idea' of flow made sense, but I wasn't able to follow the cause-and-effect that made it work.

In other words I accepted the correctness of Flow at a faith-based level rather than at an logic-based level.

In these two sentences, Flow now 'clicks' for me at that logical level:
"So complete absorption leads to flow, that great feeling, because all your resources are dedicated to it: the task is precisely challenging enough to engage all of your resources, and nothing more. Since all of your resources are engaged in the task at hand, you no longer feel self-conscious because there’s no “bit” available to mull over your ego or self-image."

This post is not perfect and does contain a bit of speculative wandering, as others have pointed out, but for finally making the circuits of my brain comprehend Flow at a deeper level.. Thank You!

Don't stop writing.
Screening for negative enterprise value (Market Cap + Debt - Cash) is pretty popular. There aren't a whole lot of stocks that have it, but you can usually find a handful based in the US.

They are sort of an inefficiency. In one sense, you are buying a stock for less than the cash on balance sheet. You could come in and liquidate it, making a profit.

On the other side, sometimes stocks trade at negative EV because management is doing some terrible things. Maybe they are burning through cash at an alarming rate. Sometimes an activist will come in and stop the cash burn.

I would also like to add that you can find negative EV stocks abroad more readily. There was a period when these opportunities existed in Korea (I think around 2004). It was pretty amazing if you were an investor.
Does anyone have an answer or idea for the "WHY?!!!" part of Figure 8's paragraph?
Google puts vuvuzela in mouth of Street View icon when in South Africa
Not everybody has personal hosting; sites like YouTube or Scribd are nice because they'll worry about the costs of DNS, bandwidth, storage, backups, etc without any charge.
(See lower right corner of your browser.)
This reminds me of when Amazon removed 1984 and Animal Farm from their users' kindles. It seemed to just piss users off, and is kind of a scary feature.
Timescales: How long do you have to turn your 100k into 1mm?

(I'm assuming here we're not considering inflation. )

If you need it in 10 years, you're going to need an annualized 25% or so rate of return. That's unlikely.

If you need it in 25 years, you can get by with 10%. That's definitely possible, if you follow good principles.

On the other hand, if you can put in an extra 50k a year, You should have close to $1mm in 10 years. (550-600k in investment, 400k in growth).

Given that you hate people and are super smart, and have a self described penchant for gambling, I would suggest you not try to grow your business, and also that you stay away from the stock market as long as you think timing it is a great plan.

All that adds up to (in my mind) buying some real estate. You live in a beautiful vacation spot, and could find property managers so that you don't have to deal with tenants.

Your 100k could easily buy a 300k small property, with some left over for unforeseen problems. Try it! It won't fluctuate in value like your previous stock market purchases, that's for sure.
If you disable 3rd party flash cookies, that should eliminate all unwanted tracking.

Meanwhile, flash cookies are useful for other things: Pandora uses them to keep you logged in forever, even if your session on the server dies (unless you log out), on our site we use it to store copious amounts of user data (such as music libraries) so that it doesn't need to be loaded from the server every time you visit.

Flash cookies are also a win over regular cookies because they aren't sent along to the server with every single http request.
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Doh. Yes.
I don’t know. For me this is very obvious proof that you can have all the freedom of Android and all the supposed security of Apple’s app store all in once. It makes it harder for Apple to argue for their model without looking stupid.
p.s. Flipping real estate -- eventually, you're going to want income. Transaction costs for real estate are high, man. I guess my major advice is "Slow down. Value stability and income. Keep socking away the money, and invest it in areas unlinked to your primary earning potential (programming)."
Seems to me that this decision just transfers $$$ into the hands of the TLD operator. Porn website operators will now want to buy example.xxx as well as example.com and example.net and so forth. Non-porn operators may want to buy anotherexample.xxx to protect their anotherexample.com name.
> there are only 24 hours in a day

Per person.

Trade on your name? You are an A+ player. You must be turning work away. Take on more work than you can handle and farm it out to A-/B+ players.

Consultants don't scale but consultancies can benefit from scale to some small degree.
What then is the media in your opinion?

"They" want to make money, and the fast track is to exploit our psychological weaknesses. So they do it.

They are not out to make us unhappy, true. In fact, happy cows live longer and give better milk (allegorically spoken, not sure if that's true in real life). They just want us to seek happiness in things that benefit them.

"The Media" probably included all the small internet sites, too...
Coal fires that burn for centuries
The Android Market has a list of content that is not allowed, including an ambiguous "any material not suitable for persons under 18". And since applications are not individually screened for content, we will see a number of them revoked via this mechanism.

http://www.android.com/market/terms/developer-content-policy...

However, note that, unlike the iPhone, Android allows you to install apps from other sources besides the App Market -- sources which are not limited by Google's content policy.
Go to law/medical/dental school and in about 10 years open your own practice. Anything else is a lottery and you should be playing for the fun of it, not to make money.
Fabrice Bellard
Ideally, sites will eventually redirect the .com domain to .xxx.

Filters will filter it, well-behaving search engines will get rid of the old results, and human-generated links will slowly change over.
Most importantly for the meme, that little gap in the metal provides a focal point for people to stare at and say Well there's your problem! It isn't nearly as interesting as "hand vaguely cupped about the lower third with the pinky extended and then curled back touching the bottom left side while up against my face" (which is the transmission killer on my first generation iPhone. If our connection breaks up, there is no reason to assume it was an accident.)

It seems likely that plain old electrical conductivity is in play here. Some people's skin conducts much better than others and anecdotally tape insulation helps. So that is a different mechanism from most(all?) other phones.
I have the same question. Perhaps the only good way for creative people is to employ themselves. Be entrepreneurs.
I'm not really sure how your comment is remotely relevant to my post concerning how a company should dispose of a cash surplus (buyback/dividends vs reinvestment). Could you explain?
Anti-P2P = Denying Reality Now
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Ask HN: Business Bank with good customer service?
I'm trying to get a business account set up for a new project, and every bank I've applied with has dropped into "bank time", where they expect to have somebody get back to you in the next 3 weeks.

That's pretty much the worst way you could treat a new customer, and it's turned me off every one of these banks to the point where I'll probably just give up before they get their act together.

Has anybody here had a better experience? Is there a bank out there that can start a new account online and get it up and running in a single day? If so, let me know and they'll get my business.
Unless you want to move the window, in which case trying to click on those 15 remaining pixels above the tab bar is very difficult (at least on OS X, not sure if it's different on Windows).
And school isn't a lotto? You know many happily employed recent law school grads these days? Or many young doctors who are confident they'll retire rich?
That’s really what you think? Really?

What do you expect would happen if some Android phone had similar issues? I don’t think a lot more than this shitstorm. A few articles on Gizmodo and Engadget maybe, nothing like the widespread coverage we are seeing here.
You don't need to believe I've found an inefficiency in the market. Fred Wilson outlined one in the original article, the market cap of the company was less than the cash they had in the bank[1].

If you believe markets are always efficient[2] then I ask you to explain the tech crash in 2001. The NASDAQ lost 78% of its value over two and a half years and is still down ~60% from its peak.

[1] Of course if you don't have control over the management and they're spending profligately enough to eliminate the advantage you wouldn't invest. Fred Wilson was the Chairman, however, so that was a non-issue.

[2] They are mostly efficient, but at times human psychology causes them to be over or undervalued, ie during bubbles or after crashes.
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Wow.
It's not a huge audience but Jane Street and CSFB make for an important audience that can introduce functional programming languages into the financial world. Couple it with MS's marketing and end-to-end IDE/infrastructure pieces and it becomes a disruptive technology.