skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or just as likely.

Apple do what they always do.

Not everything that is possible only what is necessary.

Apple have entered the social space, it's official, people will now know.

Then they will improve on it step by step.

It's obvious that the problems with facebook integration is also affecting our perception a great deal.
If he did send out stuff like this often and nobody gave a damn then that's really discouraging. There go my "if I ran Microsoft" fantasies. /sigh

I've always imagined one of the reasons Apple products are so polished is because Steve rides people like this all day long until they stop sucking.
On a side note: The guy is outsourcing his core activity - the actual development of the product. That can't end well.
You could show several faces and ask "how many are male/female?"
Yes. I know of a person trading profitably with about $200k capital. The company I work for started off this way as well, and it's considerably larger than $200k. I also know of a person who went this route and had trading profits but his trading profits didn't cover expenses (he lost something in the neighborhood of $50-100k).

You'll typically need to buy a server and colocate it at your broker's datacenter.

Brokers to talk to:

http://www.limebrokerage.com/offerings/by_role_highfrequency... (This is the same Lime as LimeWire.)

http://www.gndt.com/

http://www.interactivebrokers.com/ibg/main.php

Unless you are very rich, you probably can't afford to do latency arbitrage, which is only a subset of high frequency. The capital expenses (custom routers and the like) are probably too high for individuals.
I've seen this before, but it's worth a read again. Gates said when this first came out that writing emails like this was pretty much his job. He's not the only one--from the stories you read, it sounds like half of Steve Jobs' job is to be a good critic. Of course, Apple doesn't release much until after Steve Jobs criticizes it.
Are you suggesting that this could explain certain events in the past?
They're randomly selecting about 30 people a day, who are let all the way in (immediately) upon requesting an invite, last I heard. Be sure to do that and I'd expect that you'll have access shortly.
I guess in the bubble over at microsoft they assume everyone that uses windows will defiantly want windows live anyway.
I'm not sure what the standard warranty is on toasters, but for this $17 model you can buy a 2-year warranty for an additional $6 (total: $23 for 2 years of guaranteed toasting):

http://www.amazon.com/Proctor-Silex-22605-2-Slice-Toaster/dp...

Also, I would think that fewer parts = longer time between failures.
Okay, that third one is nonsense, but it seems to me that you are deliberately misinterpreting the other two. The meaning which seems obvious to me is: “You’ll get whatever resolution a 2029 scanner can pull out of a piece of film, and you are therefore not limited by the scanners of 2009, because you’ll still have the original negative.”

Anyway, low-ISO film has very very good resolution, I expect often exceeding the resolving power of the glass. So making it higher than that (that is, adding megapixels) doesn’t help anything.

If you want higher resolution than a 4x5 negative (and I’m really not sure why you would, since a 4x5 negative will let you print crystal clear images at poster size or larger, so frankly this is all pretty academic and kind of a stupid argument), try an 8x10 negative. I’m almost certain there’s no widely available digital back that comes close to the resolution you’ll get. (If you had more money than you knew what to do with you might be able to get some kind of neat custom part or something).

* * *

Anyhow, Rockwell is an anti-raw-format zealot (he just does jpegs), as well as a view camera user, which is why the article you are linking to is doubly biased and stupid. But so what? If you figure out what his opinions are, it’s pretty easy to discount them when reading his essays; and, for instance, the essay you link can mostly just be ignored altogether.
I upvoted you to get you back to even. I think this is a very vaild question. There is no reason to downvote this; and I am interested myself to the reasoning...
If Gates had maintained a dictatorial death grip on his company like Steve Jobs has, MS probably could have made some decent products.

It's one thing to yell at the people who made this system via email. It's quite another to never allow them to ship it in the first place.
More people will have "phone" computers than laptop computers so eventually we can just refer to "phones" as computers. Laptops can still be laptops or PCs.
Ask HN: Who watches the watchers?
Recently, I submitted a link to Tweetage Wasteland, a blog talking about the cultural impact of today's social media. It promptly got banned:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1659521

No explanation was given, and no explanation was obvious. People seem as confused as I am.

You may also notice that davepell can't comment either, as all his comment was also [dead] on arrival:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1660311

I suppose it's not a big deal, but I would like to know what is and isn't banned on Hacker News. I suppose I just want this to a friendly community, and not a cold black box.
Rate my startup: oyoLive - Real-Time Mouse Tracking and Live Chat
Seriously though, is all of this fixed in Windows 7, or are people just hyping that up because it sucks alot less than any previous Windows iterations?

I don't think I've _ever_ seen a process that convoluted, and I've been using Linux OSes since _before_ the advent of dependency-resolvers like yum and apt (i.e, the bad old days of "RPM hell").
"So they told me that using the download page to download something was not something they anticipated."
I think we should call it a global communicator link, or "Global" for short.

Points to anyone who knows the reference.
Hi HNers! My name is Thomas and I study computer science in Switzerland. Today I am launching the oyoLive private beta. oyoLive is an analytics tool that allows you to see mouse and keyboard actions of your website visitors in real-time. Combined with a live chat, you can offer support for customers currently on your site. The beta is free, and I'd like you to test the software on your websites and also let me know what use cases you see for using it. Looking forward for your feedback!
Unlikely sounding indeed.

You look around, you see people, you see bacteria. They came from somewhere. One possibility is single cell organisms evolved from nothing on Earth, the other is their ancestors evolved somewhere else and arrived from space, a theory called panspermia.

The panspermia theory was fringy at first, but is now covered in every Astronomy 101 textbook.

For those unfamiliar, here is the short version of the theory:

You have a star with a planet with microbes living in water. When the star goes through the red giant phase, the oceans are boiled off and blown off into space along with some microbes. The microbes move from star to star through space, and seed new planets around new stars. You'd expect to see them as dust in interstellar space if this was happening. The spectra of a lot of observed dust is indeed unexplained, supporting but obviously not proving the panspermia theory.

Researchers at Cardiff, where this current work was done, have done a lot of the fundamental work on panspermia, theoretically checking the mechanisms to verify they are consistant with known laws.

Now we have this claim from India that microbe spores that reproduce between 100C and 300C have been recovered from rain water, and the Cardiff guys have a sample to experiment with.

It is the nature of science not to accept radical new theories quickly, the joke goes that it takes about 30 years, long enough for the scientists to die and the new generation to arrive. If scientists want to accelerate the rate of progress, unexpected results should be investigated carefully and aggressively.
How can something be cool and trendy while also being obscure and not mainstream? Don't "cool" and "trendy" imply prestige and popularity?
That the author more or less admits to confirmation bias in the very first paragraph kind of colors their conclusions, regardless of whether Ping actually sucks or not.
Duke Nukem Forever.. is back on.
Not that I don't like Scott Adams' blog, but every time I see (dilbert.com), I get my hopes up that just this once it'll be an actual comic.
It is a very useful tool that serves many needs.

It isn't "dead" anymore than the Norwegian language is "dead".

It might just not be your first choice for your next project.
(Second try at this)

First, anyone who says that Python or Ruby is not even comparable to Perl is full of it or very mistaken. They are close enough that we quickly run into the narcissism of small differences [1].

Second, in my experience HN ranges from uninterested to hostile when it comes to Perl. I read lots about Perl, but many of the blogs or forums I frequent are Perl-centric. My point is simply that you shouldn't judge by "what you read" if what you read is a function of what you choose or who you follow.

Third, and most importantly, the Perl5 community doesn't seem anywhere near dead. Off the top of my head, I'm particularly happy with a slew of new tools for working with Perl and CPAN: cpanm[2], perlbrew[3], cpan-outdated[4], pmuninstall[5], cpansearch [6] (written in C, but obviously made for the Perl community). There's also Plack[7] for modern Perl webapps. Finally, consider the whole Modern Perl[8] movement.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_differences

[2] http://github.com/miyagawa/cpanminus

[3] http://github.com/gugod/App-perlbrew

[4] http://github.com/tokuhirom/cpan-outdated

[5] http://github.com/xaicron/pm-uninstall

[6] http://github.com/c9s/cpansearch

[7] http://plackperl.org/

[8] http://github.com/chromatic/modern_perl_book
I love perl, and I don't want to see it be dead, but there aren't enough libraries relating to my interests (games).
Ok... Not really the same argument--but I still hold that this is an edge case. I can't even wrap my head around the UI FUBAR of what a window with 100 tabs open looks like. Someone please explain to me how you work within that system?
Gotta love that they provided a diff instead of just updating it and saying it's been updated.
Hmm... define dead? I see a lot of cool programming concepts and computer science coming together in Perl 6- too much for me to know how to use it effectively or rationally. To me Perl is going from terse parsing and glue language to something more like Haskell- I don't think of Haskell as dead just because it's not used as a quick scripting language- I assume Haskell will keep creating cutting edge stuff that eventually filters down into "lesser" languages.

Now, on the other hand, if I had actually taken the time to become a Perl monk, and good grasp enough of the awesome stuff coming down the line and know exactly how it would fit into real-world problems- Perl wouldn't even be close to dead to me. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there that are in that group. I'm jealous but not quite enough to actually try to get up to speed on it.

If it's not dead to you then I would recommend having no hesitations using it. It'll certainly be supported, and libraries... I mean, I don't know of anything that comes close to touching CPAN yet (dunno how Perl 6 fits in there). For me, though, it's dead as an alternative unless I see something amazingly compelling that I can't get elsewhere without similar learning investment.
I don't know why Apple thought anybody wanted this.
Ask HN: Are the any personal benefits in time tracking on your daily work?
I was really surprised today. We used to pay everyone in the company based on hours worked. Today we decided to replace pay-per-hour salary to stable monthly salary, but many people don't want to do that shift.

There is no overtimes in our company, we don't estimate user stories and as a company there are no reasons to keep time tracking. But people liked the flexibility. The arguments are:

1. I can work less and earn less, but it is OK with me. With fixed salary I will feel bad when I work less.

2. I can came over the weekend and earn some extra money (but in fact it is very rare).

Do you think pay-per-hour increase motivation?
dropbox!

http://www.dropbox.com/jobs
I think there's still a vibrant perl community out there, but I wouldn't say the perl community is growing. I don't know that I'd use dead or alive but maybe "plateaued".
Yes it's all fixed in Win7 if you just want to roll over and let it force you to use IE and Bing and Hotmail for everything.

As soon as you try not to use IE suddenly you can't do anything
I agree, I didn't even think you could open that many tabs. I don't know how anyone expects a browser to run optimally with that many resources open.
great webapp Thomas! I'll definitely sign up for the beta.
FYI, I use Perl extensively for text file parsing and processing

Yeah, me too, but that's the issue. It's great at that. Great at quick and dirty command line hacks. Hell, most of my PhD code was written in Perl. (Something I take a perverse satisfaction in.)

But it's not great for rapid webapp development, it's probably harder to hire people, there are fewer libraries and interfaces and open source toolkits, etc - so people like me moved from Perl to Python (it's a really easy jump).

I still use my old perl scripts now and again, but even for quick and dirty stuff I tend to use Python - just in case I want to come back to it later and have a chance of understanding what the hell I wrote. :)

(Aside: One of my summer internships was on the web backend team at my university's Engineering lab. We wrote an object oriented student class administration system, in Perl. It was quite probably the most hideous piece of software engineering I've ever seen...)
Because of the selection process. If you are trying to make a judgment about an entire population based on a small sample, the chance of getting a non-representative sample is already high. If the sample is selected on the basis of what sticks out in memory, the chance of it being representative is almost nil. Though an interesting anecdote or two can be considered data, they are notoriously unreliable as a basis for statistical judgments.
The question though is if the PC won out because of its complexity and feature set, or for other reasons (openness, business practices, etc.)
> That being said, getting the medical establishment and Big Pharma to take a pay cut is a Herculean task.

Apart from the obvious cases of fraud (which seem to be concentrated on govt programs) and reducing some of the monopolies (including things that should be OTC), it's not clear that they're significantly overpaid. (Yes, I know about the "marketing" argument, but that includes free drugs to poor people and it's how folks find out that what they have is treatable. I see both as good. And allowing old people to have sex is a good thing.)

We want people buying Cadillacs (and Mercedes) because that's how we get good things in Toyotas.

A lot of US health spending is triggered by things that are outside the healthcare system. The only thing that the healthcare system can do is refuse coverage, and no one will admit to that.
Social Media Grammar: The "Checkin" Conundrum
amongst webapp developers, yeah. But amongst SysAdmins? Python still has a long ways to go before it reaches the stability of perl, though it's gaining. Also, CPAN is awesome. I don't know of another language that has a cpan-like tool that measures up to CPAN.

SysAdmins are slow to discard a good tool; hell, some of us still use bash. Perl 5 has been dominant for most of my career in this arena, and things will be quite slow to change.

I do see that Python is beginning to replace perl in the places where perl5 replaced bash in the earliest parts of my career... I remember back in the late '90s it was common to maintain two versions of perl on a system. Now, perl5 is stable... you almost never need more than one version of it, but I see systems (especially RHEL systems) with more than one version of python (sometimes more than two. Gah!)
My name is Bill and Windows was my idea.
Depends on what you're after. I've set up a few VPNs with OpenVPN, even in somewhat strange circumstances (http://e1ven.com/2007/11/26/giving-all-players-routable-ip-a...) and it's very flexible, but the Windows drivers don't always play nice with new versions of Windows.

Win7 was broken for a while, and 64 bit drivers were difficult to make work.

I'd use a PPTP vpn where possible, since it's very easy to setup, cheap, and everything supports it or a Cisco ipsec VPN with a RSA-2-factor device if you want to lock things down.

Hamachi is.. Easy. Very, Very, Very easy. Outside of that, there isn't really advantage.

Never heard of Remobo- Could be interesting, but there isn't much information on their site yet; Are there limits on users? Data? How do they make money to run the VPN servers?
When you make so much different dog food, there's only so much you can eat and complain about.

Mind, people seem to have better experiences with Windows now than they did in the 90s. (Remember WindowsME? Gah...) Maybe Gates' attention and hectoring did help.
this looks super cool!!! nice job...
Here's Eric Raymond on Cups for a Unix perspective.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html
Depending on how many users you have, the best option may be to sign up for a machine at SoftLayer for $100/month, and give everyone a SoftLayer VPN acct. They provide them for next-to-nothing.
The Social Butterfly of Start-ups
Eric Raymond on CUPS usability [2006]
none of those will work 100%
Only time I ever used IE was to download Firefox when I first installed windows 7. So, I have no idea what you are talking about. My experiences haS been great.
In a moment of delicious irony, Firefox completely froze up when I used the Back button to return to Hacker News after reading that article.
Makes looking out the window slightly disturbing.
Cool! I'would like to see that on live too.
I would say that it is absolutely not, at least in my experience. In my lab, which is a bioinformatics lab, perl is still being used heavily. Perl is a great tool for dealing with text files, and little pieces of code that you need to do something quick.
I like the fact that they do the diff format. This sentence is now crossed out, and I find that a little frightening:

At Google we recognize that privacy is important.
I appreciate that shout out to Antonio's Nut House, one of the few places I actually enjoy hanging out in the South Bay
I also use Perl (5 of course) for text processing but also for some binary file modifications. Just for playing with algorithms I use Python. I still wouldn't like to have to use the "wrong" of them for the given purpose.

Personally I don't expect Perl 6 to have a noticeable impact soon, I've read about it and I've never thought "that's what I've been missing all the time."

Let me tell you what I'm really missing -- something even simpler than Python which would allow me to draw the random graphical things with basic interactive possibilities but with the ease of old Basic languages. I've used tkinter a few times but every time I have to make something new I just discover I've forgot all the illogical things I had to do the last time, and the old source is not of much help, I know I'll have to spend trying a lot just to make something simple, so I lose the will to even start again...
Too big + too many smart and creative people = impossible to manage without being a complete dictator

Google is running into this. Their track record of late is spotty at best, and it's because their culture is too wild-west and "throw on wall, see if stick" style.

As much as geniuses are really good at solving problems plaguing modern society, they are really bad at focussing. They need leaders that understand them, like John Lasseter at Pixar. Alternatively, they need equally-genius benevolent dictators like Linus Torvalds (Linux, Git) to keep them in check. Failing that, they need supremely smart, pile-driving, and obliquely techie-cum-marketing obsessed leaders like Jobs at Apple.

Gates + Ballmer = those things above, but you really need one voice, not two. I think Google is having the same trouble having Sergey and Larry's style squaring almost diametrically against Eric Schmidt's.
Perl 5 is mature, and Perl 6 is pre-release, but they're different languages with the same name for branding purposes.

Perl 6 is a really promising language with tons of cool features, and some similarities to Perl 5. It will pick up hype when it's 100% finalized, even though you can use it now.

Perl 5 (popularly known as "Perl") is old enough to be on the other side of "cool", but it's a perfectly good language, especially if you use CPAN.
It's nice to see someone saying thanks rather than "What, is that all?". Google doesn't have to do any of this.
In summary: not dead yet because of all the legacy code and because of the "Modern Perl" movement.

However: many of us believe that Perl's day has come and gone and that truly modern languages like Ruby and Python have supplanted it. Absolutely true for me; I never use Perl when I can use Ruby -- not because of political reasons, but because Ruby is more elegant, readable, and concise.

As always, YMMV.
Looks very interesting. Can't wait to use it!
In my mind (if we are having fantasies/visions about what happens at these companies) Steve jobs wouldn't write an email, he would walk down to these guys or get someone else to get them, pull them into a conference room, yell at them, threaten to fire them and maybe break some shit.
This made me think a bit about Bill Gates and Microsoft and Everything. People really hate on Bill Gates because of Microsoft and their products, but after seeing this email you get to see that he's as angry as any other user, and even more because he knows all of this will fall back to him. His email portrays not only anger, but some kind of impotence. It's impressive how big companies lose touch with what they're doing. Most software I use lately comes from small companies, they have this dedication and attention to detail that only comes from when you're directly involved with your product. Business is a weird world.
But take note:

> Q. So why doesn’t everyone use Forth?

> A. Because it is also possible to write worse programs
> in Forth than in C.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm trying to walk a thin line here, I'd like it to be easy for strangers to meet up and kill some time but also have enough information to avoid the creep factor. Target demographic would be people who use meetup.com to find like minded individuals to do things together, only more of an "impromptu" event. They are outgoing and already willing to meet with strangers.

I don't want to add a whole new social network layer and wish there were a good way to let people provide a link to their online identity, like thier facebook profile, meetup profile etc. But it's a pretty big hurdle to get someone to know what a link to their facebook profile is never mind copy and paste it somewhere.

Doesn't foursquare cover that ground though? Events and things nearby right now?
Windows 7 is pretty good actually, on its own. It's especially good if you compare it to any previous version of Windows (though I confess to having had good luck out of Win2k Pro.)

I see a comment elsewhere stating that it's good if you let it pigeonhole you into using IE and Bing, but that's nonsense. I'm using Chrome and Duck Duck Go and all sorts of non-Microsoftian stuff, and everything works just fine on the rather non-standard setup that I have.