skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EFF has a conceptually simple mission, and the things are trying to accomplish are generally good for the public at large, so they have nothing to hide behind doublespeak. Most "special interests" would be harmed by a large portion of the general public understanding the full implications of their goals, but the EFF is really in it for the good of normal individuals.
Buy Twitter, Zynga, Foursquare, Quora, and Groupon. Let them be independent for a long while. Yahoo does have a market cap of $19 billion - might as well use it.
I don't think the site is finished yet, as it said they would launch soon. I think you guys are wrong here...don't know why but I get that feeling. If they could get a massive user base and people click on ads they should make enough from the Google ads and search. I would list my business page on there and set up shop.
Ask HN: Monetizing free job board site, ideas?
I've developed railsjob.com as my very first learning project on Rails ~5 yrs ago. It has been running and let anyone posting jobs for free since then. I get about 30-40 jobs every month, it's probably making $100 per year from adsense.

I know most profitable job boards charges $100+ per job and they are often linked to sites with large followers.

I'm just wondering what I should do to make this site more profitable than it is. Should I add more features, or look for partnerships with bloggers or just simply charge for job posting?
Spam friends; obtain bauble.

It's not that new an idea. I tend to lose a teeny bit of respect for people who fall for it.
A few thoughts from a former GNOME release manager...

FLOSS developers, particularly those writing code in their spare time, hack on whatever they feel like. Usually because they find it fun.

This is why we have jokes about the number of people writing IRC clients in the 90s, which apply to the number of people writing Twitter clients this decade. :-)

GNOME is a meritocratic collective of individuals (some of whom work for companies with an interest in GNOME) with a degree of aligned vision and values, and an incredibly thin layer of artificial technical leadership (mainly represented by the Release Team).

It's not a command-and-control culture. People work on things because they want to, are paid to, or (in many cases) both.

One thing to keep in mind: There is a sense of GNOME being a "team" of like-minded souls, so distinctions between vision and values between projects (such as Firefox and Pidgin) may stand out to developers more than they are obvious to users.

What one developer finds fun may be another hacker's dental surgery nightmare. There are always new ideas to muck around with, new projects to contribute to, and new people to work with. For these reasons, directing FLOSS developer energy is not a zero-sum game.

When someone says "GNOME and KDE developers should combine their talents and work together, then they'd all be better off (as will users)", my response is this: Are you HIGH? These people may share some common values, but in large part, their vision and values are different enough that it would not make any sense at all, let alone be fun.

Should all the NoSQL folk stop working on competing stacks, and work together for the "betterment" of themselves and their users? Hell no.

Give it a few years and there'll be obvious frontrunners which have been better maintained, supported, managed and better suit real requirements (cf. MySQL and PostgreSQL in the FLOSS RDBMS world), but for now, get the fuck out of the way of innovation!

There are long and interesting stories behind the specific projects the author raises -- the Epiphany browser and the Empathy IM client -- but they're a bit long for this post.

I'm suspect the author would be surprised to find out that the existence of Epiphany and Empathy is much more to do with a sense of exceptionalism on the part of Firefox and Pidgin than of GNOME. :-)

Reality check: Most GNOME users still use Firefox and Pidgin anyway (at least until Ubuntu shipped Empathy in Lucid, and which will be much more convincing in Maverick).
Yes, that is a feature that Google has hardcoded into Chrome. You CANNOT disable auto-updates or even make it so that you are asked for confirmation.
It depends on the X and Y. If you say -
You are the "successful company" of X industry for the Y industry, then there is no issue of X overlapping Y, since X and Y are distinct enough. For Opzi, they are just targeting another segment in the same industry, and that is too close for comfort.
On the one hand, childish replies should be down-voted. I don't think anyone disagrees with that. No one wants 10 deep pun threads or repetitive meme/snowclone exchanges.

On the other hand, there is a certain level toxicity in a community that takes itself seriously enough to complain about a well worded flippant response to a question.

There has to be a balance.
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The problem is that we wouldn't be having this discussion if the original reply was "Play poker, hack hardware, play with my cat".

Short comments don't usually get downvoted just by virtue of their length. However, the length of the comment seems to be a signal of quality and that's why we get blasted with walls of text when the author could have said it just as well in a sentence or two.
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I'm not sure on you guys reasoning, but this could work. You can't get a job on Facebook, or post your classifieds on Google, or Fiverr on YouTube. If it becomes integrated seamlessly with one login and you can do the same things as the other sites then it may work...just maybe, but I don't think this guy really knows what he is doing.
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I don't understand why stock Python doesn't include some sort of optional type annotation, as SBCL and other Lisps. Some years ago there was a lot of fuss in the Python community about including optional type checking in Python 3... what happened? At the end, I found most changes from version 2 cosmetic and not really exciting.
Sounds like Jobs and Wozniak...?

Although, re-reading "The Little Kingdom" seems to present a slightly more complex case.
Ask HN: How do you go about recruiting?
We've (gdgt.com) have been looking for some PHP engineers for a few months now but have had zero luck with job postings. I've recently tried to step up my game by going to the SF PHP meetups, but that's also produced no results. I hate working with recruiters, and I also hate telling people too much that we're hiring because I feel like I'm coming off as spammy.

So I ask you, how do you go about recruiting? Maybe we're just not being agressive enough?

Also, we're hiring. :)

http://gdgt.com/jobs
What a fantastic resource, and what a waste that it's in dead paper form (or even web page form).

An automatic style checker would be far more useful, and I bet with some machine learning you could crank out useful but conservative warnings for every one of these entries.
I don't think that is the founder..just someone working on the site or something. I think that video was purchased from Fiverr or somewhere because I bought one from that same guy.
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Perhaps; can you elaborate on the difference? What exactly would be the property of a social animal -- dogs, humans, whatever -- that allows it to restrain its own baser instincts? In humans the term morality is often used to describe this property, but I'll admit I don't know how correct that is.
Firewall the media-play from any technology that hasn't yet been murdered in the cradle, and make sure than each has the resources and direction needed to survive effectively; different strategies for each.
Ask HN: Why are people so unkind (on the Internet)?
It seems to me that some people tend to be more critical, abusive, etc on the Internet than in 'real life'? I can't imagine that these people would say the kinds of things in person or over the phone that they say on discussion forums or in some of the support tickets/emails I've seen over the years. Is it the perception of anonymity or lack of physical contact (with the people they're corresponding with) that causes some people to disregard social conventions or to abandon common courtesy towards others? Or am I wrong in thinking that the Internet makes any difference to these people?
You don't understand how large 2^128 is do you? Let's quit all this handwavy crap about how that's a nice big number and look at how absurdly big it is.

The number of seconds since the universe started is 13.75 billion * 86400 * 365 = 4.3 x 10 ^ 17 seconds.

U.S Internet traffic was 18 exabytes (1 exabyte=10^18 bytes) a year, so let's just say that that we are sending 18 exabytes a second since the beginning of the universe and we are counting each byte. Yes, each set of 8 1s and 0s. How many is that?

4.3 x 10 ^17 * 18 * 10^18 = 7.74 * 10 ^36.

2^128= 3.4 + 10 ^ 38 / (7.74 * 10^36 ) =~ 43. So you could have a different ip address for every byte sent over the Internet, assuming the traffic for the whole year was sent over the course of 1 second for every second in 43 times the current age of the universe.
Yes and I think it's part of the mechanism that makes propaganda and innuendo effective.
Indians still can't sell. :(
it's not much of a backlash I suppose, but a small one: http://twitter.com/paulg/status/25998745559
I would guess Twitter's users are on average more tech savvy than Facebook users so change isn't as terrifying to them. Another factor is this weird Internet indie/hipster mentality that anything big is worthy of scorn and in all cases an alternative must be anointed as the cool alternative which shall not be criticized. As long as Facebook is gigantic Twitter gets to be the cool alternative for now. When your Mom joins though -- forget it. It's going to be lame and if they dare modify a single pixel or font face then expect an Internet riot.
What successful entrepreneurs do you actually know? Go back to the Global Community website and did you know that both banners on the homepage are the founders businesses and they both make over 20K per month. Silly as it may seem..the marketing strategies work, and the best part about it is it only cost $5 and they made that back in adsense revenue easily with the 2000 views today. Wait until the website is finished and talk then.
From the article I cited:

"In fact, of the 16 million colors in the 24-bit true-color pallet, JPEG can only store about 2.3 million colors. That's about 14% of the available color space."

and

"If JPEG stored images using RGB, then the Q tables would cause colors to diverge. For example, blue would have the most loss due to compression so images would appear more reddish and greenish. Instead, images are converted to a different color representation: luminance, chrominance red, and chrominance blue (YCrCb). Changing any one of these values alters the red, green, and blue components concurrently and prevents color divergence."
Personally I find this sort of stuff interesting but why is it on Hackers News?
Wow, that's interesting. I didn't know they resumed payment after WW2 - I always assumed that it was over when Hitler refused to continue paying.

My history teacher (in Germany) didn't mention anything about continued payments, either.

I don't know how to feel about this, but given that our own government created a huge debt after the 1974 oil crisis and again after the unification, I couldn't blame our debt on the reparation payments.
None of your three options is worth pursuing. All three end with you leaving if your board and CEO are worth their salt because you become the immediate problem. A future where every senior hire creates uncertainty about development time lines is not attractive.

At this point, given your view of the person as a "less capable" "schmuck" and open hostility from day one, there's little in your post for which the new hire can be blamed. Osborne or Commodore is trifling. The merits of his analysis are what matters.

If he's bad, he'll fail on his own. Sit tight, work remotely and try to build a professional relationship based on your mutual interest in the success of the venture.
Fortunately, the auto-update feature doesn't work on my Linux machines.
In Lucid I just removed Empathy and installed Pidgin ... how the hell can a messenger client ship without the ability to block annoying users/spam?
I had to look that up because I thought $6k/year was laughably low and you must have forgotten a zero. Turns out he made $6k in THREE years:

http://freelanceswitch.com/money/how-i-make-2000-every-year-...

With the AdSense non-sense, pennies from the appstore and what have you, I am starting to wonder: are people really that averse to going outside and getting a non-laptop job? I used to make $500/day washing windows, man. It was me, a bucket of sprays and a bunch of rags. Should I have blogged about it and tweeted around?
The logins are being unified ...and the desing is being completed...you will feel like a dumbass later ..trust me. THE SITE ISN'T FINISHED.
Because of the python <-> C marshalling cost. Let's say you have some code which uses a lot of small objects which interact with each other, maybe each object has a small list with a few integers. Replacing this in C would make sense because you can be much faster than python. But you still have the cost of interfacing with python (creating the objects, boxing integers back and forth, etc...).

That's why something like numpy manages to be so fast if used well: it internally uses efficient (C-like) representation, but as soon as you need to interact with every item in your array, then it is not only much slower, but even slower than using standard python containers because of this cost.
Partly in foreign aid, I bet.
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If you switch to linux it won't auto-update.
Can I export my photos yet? No? Still not a photo competitor, much less a Flickr competitor.
Of course you can (disclaimer edition note: but it's not necessarily for the faint of heart, and isn't officially supported. On their updater and update policy, Google manages to be worse than Apple on Windows, which is already pretty fucking bad).

1. On Windows and OSX (at least), the actual updating is performed by a single service running in the background for all Google applications (the Google Updater). This service is installed and/or activated by all Google applications, every time you install them (or run them, in OSX, not sure for Windows). I'm sure you can find how to do the same in Windows but my know-how is not good enough, but in OSX you can disable GUS forever by uninstalling it, emptying its directory and then setting it write-only. This way, it's not possible for GUS to be reinstalled.

2. A good enough outbound firewall (I'm partial towards Little Snitch on OSX) will allow you to block connections to the update server, and make GUS unable to query it, and therefore to update Chrome without your consent.
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They might be "true" random numbers, but hardware implementations could introduce some noise which might bias the distribution in such a way to give some advantage on exploiters (I'm assuming a cryptographic usage).

If I remember well, also a quantum encryption (unbreakable) scheme was broken exploiting "practical" issues like that.
I turned this (and some other stuff) into a post of my own: http://jseliger.com/2010/09/30/computers-and-network-effects... .
That article is very peculiar

A data warehouse is a separate RDBMS installation that contains copies of data from on-line systems. A data warehouse would not be necessary if RDBMS software worked as advertised. It is merely a $10 million bandaid applied to the limitations of modern computers and RDBMS software.

If you want to do more computation, you require more computers, and this is "insight"?

You might as well say "A level 2 cache would not be necessary if RAM worked as advertised". Duh!
Perhaps my language didn't properly reflect my thoughts. I did mean the latter. thank you.
What do you prefer and why?

(I work for Atlassian on JIRA)
Title here and there are a bit misleading. My hope is Lauren has simply missed the cookie icon, in his location bar.

Running 7.0.536.2 (dev), in the cookie settings, I can set Chrome to "Block sites from setting any data." Now, upon browsing to a site attempting to set, in the URL (location) bar is a cookie with an "X" overlaid -- similar in style to the padlock with an "X" when an HTTPS URI is using an unsigned SSL cert. Clicking on the cookie presents me with the list of "cookies and other site data." Each can be selected and "Allowed" or "Allowed for session only."

The claim that one needs to allow "willy-nilly" or only having the option of "manually entering cookie exceptions into tables," these are just hand-waving. I'm not sure what more is needed; I certainly don't want popups for every cookie without my taking action.
Absolutely agree with this. The Internet has become a giant boardwalk scam powered by google search and google adwords. We are making too many assumptions about the quality of google's results and forgetting about what made categorized quality links great about yahoo... hint: a human verified them.

Would categorized links work for instantly updated info? Absolutely not, but the vast majority of searches have nothing to do with what happened in the last 24 hours. Look, it's a great achievement what google has done over the years and I don't think they're maliciously or purposefully trying to force content creators to produce shitty content, but it's definitely something that has gotten much worse over the past couple years. Without a real competitor in the space (and really, I don't see a sea-change in search coming anytime soon) then content publishers will continue to game the system, not only forcing farmed content on us, but forcing the quality content providers to resort to crazy advertising schemes just to stay afloat. Everyone loses.

It would not surprise me if 40% of adword/adsense revenue was based on design practices of misdirection. I wouldn't feel so strongly about it if I didn't think it removed the chance for small, independent, honest publishers to make money in its place.

Yahoo needs to eat it's pride and become the little guy. The one who cares about quality.
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I just started a github repo to port these to a machine readable format

http://github.com/maxogden/common-english-errors
I thought that speed of the light in a medium can be slower that that in vacuum just because of the fact that it takes more time to be absorbed and re-emitted by atoms, i.e. photons actually continue to travel at the same speed, but they are not the "same" photon.
Yahoo is still the 3rd most popular site in the world. It's not failing by far. So I would not go in there thinking the company is failing: http://www.google.com/adplanner/static/top1000/
On Windows, Autoruns from SysInternals (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.asp...) works fairly well for finding out about these things that happen automatically, and disabling them, as easy as unchecking a checkbox. There's at two categories relevant to googleupdate: CurrentVersion\Run, and Task Scheduler.
What about third party cookie control which is important?

I barely use chrome but I know firefox has a toggle for this.
Ask HN: What are the best wordpress themes for coder bloggers?
What are the best wordpress themes for coder bloggers?
Ask HN: It got $12M from NYT and WP, but exactly is ONGO Inc building?
This is good news for startups and I'm sure great for Goodwin Proctor. Nice to see the freemium model working in the legal profession.
I thought this looked familiar. Then I realized it's because I've submitted it before ;-)

Original link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1502209

Quite illustrative that links do indeed tend to fall off the newest page too soon. When posted 83 days ago, it got 1 upvote.
You could try Stackoverflow Careers
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I think you should include a search/filter feature, full/part/telecommute options, and also include a salary field as part of the job post.

- search/filter feature will help users to filter out opportunities better.
- salary will help users to seek viable jobs, and also allow you to collect data on the salary of rails employer. You can use these data to price your job post if you decide to take that option in the future.

Lots of rooms to grow really.
If power isn't a concern (which it would be for the original topic of this thread) then the space programs have done research into small self-contained ecosystems, as you mentioned. I haven't looked them up before, but I see now that BIOS 3 (early 1970s Russia) had a 3-man crew for 180 days, with only some import of external food and air. It did need 400 kW of power, which if my 10W/sq.ft solar power is right means about 1 acre of solar panels. More if there's darkness.

Some other links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Ecological_Life_Supp... and http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/designer/regen.html . The latter says "The present crop growth chamber ... is about 12 m^2. The energy requirement of the system is about 15 kw of which 13 kw ... The present system provides complete nutritional needs of 1 person (a vegeterian)."

That power, at retail levels of about $0.10/kW hr, costs $36 per day. $18 if you can be diurnal. Sunlight puts out about 1kw/sq.m so that power is mostly going into replacing sunlight.

Which means, if that link is correct, that 12 sq.m is enough for a single person. But I'm at the end of my stamina for researching this topic.

Cheers!
> it doesn’t even support all of JPEG’s features, let alone many of the much-wanted features JPEG was missing (alpha channel support, lossless support). It only supports 4:2:0 chroma subsampling, while JPEG can handle 4:2:2 and 4:4:4. Google doesn’t seem interested in adding any of these features either.

Wrong:

> We plan to add support for a transparency layer, also known as alpha channel in a future update.

from: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/09/webp-new-image-format...
"Apple has used its vertical integration of the iPod media player and the iTunes marketplace across all of its devices to create a billing relationship with 160 million consumers..."

This is the most interesting part of the modern Apple story, for me. This opportunity for instant purchase is a dramatic force multiplier for Apple in every single avenue they explore. It's an absurd hothouse ecosystem they can just plug into any content-driven product.

For me, when other companies decide they want to take on Apple, I couldn't care less about how they rip off the form factor or UI. I'm looking for one thing: a credible answer to Apple's instant billing mojo.

Amazon seems to get this, and they have billing relationships they're able to exploit to make it happen. Kindle is a great play in this direction. Funny enough, it looks nothing at all like an iDevice, yet there's that one crucial similarity everyone else is missing.

For an interesting counterpoint, look at Android. Google does not have its shit together with regard to billing. As a user, entering your billing info is a clunky pain in the ass. As a developer, you can only get paid if you live in one of ten countries. These realities conspire to keep Android app sales low compared to iOS, and it's a tragic missed opportunity.

Amazon's Android store move is brilliant – those guys have the hustle and experience to do the hard work necessary to take on Apple in mobile content. They aren't solving the geographic problem yet, since it's US only, but give them a bit of time and they'll be running circles around Google.