skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the link between old testament and myrtus is strained.

1) Eshter's born name is Hadassah, which means myrtle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther#Origin_and_meaning)

2) When Eshter asked the king if Jews can kill their enemies, king granted the permission (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=esther%208:11-8:...)
Also, Mint didn't ignore the power of SEO... Even before the product had launched they had a blog that was providing inbound traffic.
That would be a fairly bad idea. Javascript execution, and in particular AJAX calls, frequently change data. I wouldn't want my crawler to delete or edit somehow lots of data if I where Google.
That's right. However, I think that if I were in a position to steal a certificate, it'd be trivial to also get the pass[code|phrase|whatever], assuming there even was one to begin with. ;-)
He doesn't give the name element enough credit. It's huge. Mint is one of the two examples I give of best brand names ever.

Not kidding. Ever. Silk Soymilk is the other example I use.

Mint's a killer brand name, I think it'd be literally impossible to beat Mint on natural branding in personal finance, it's the most perfect name I could imagine. It has double, good meanings - "Mint" as in a place where coins/money are minted, and of course the plant/candy. Then the plant/candy is associated with being fresh, clean, safe, and it's colored green, again like money.

It's just genius. It's also only four letters, easy to remember, relevant, and they got the domain name for it. It's really, really good. The only other name so good is "silk soymilk", for basically all the same reasons. (soymilk -SoymILK - easy to remember, silk is clean/smooth/elegant/upscale, four letters, hard to forget, etc).

Seriously, Mint might be the best named/naturally branded online company ever. I'm not joking. If I ever had to do a lecture on naming and branding, I'd 100% for sure use Mint as an example.
I am biased but this looks insufferably sterile compared to where I work:

http://tycole.blogspot.com/2010/05/etsy-office-in-dumbo-hang...
2010 Diwali Rangoli Photos, Wallpapers, Pics, Images
Rangoli is an integral part in the dazzling celebrations of Diwali. Rangoli is the art of drawing images and motifs on the floor and walls of one's home using different color powders. With the beautiful combination of colors, rangoli makes a magnificent piece of art. It makes a part of Diwali celebrations too.
Kudos to Jason for giving nice referrals (with links!) to his vendors. I wish we'd see more of this.

[Aside: Is that DHH having a snack at the stainless steel table, and was he really working or just surfing Hacker News?]
i ran each test 3 times and picked the fastest. I shutdown all servers(mysql, apache), closed music player to minimize the system effect on the test.

Python:

real 0m12.775s
user 0m12.636s
sys 0m0.037s

Nuitka:

real	0m7.096s
user	0m6.930s
sys	0m0.093s

Lua:

real	0m2.641s
user	0m2.410s
sys	0m0.010s

LuaJit:

real	0m0.613s
user	0m0.600s
sys	0m0.000s

from experience experimenting with a toy scripting language where tried to make it as minimal as possible, essentially every operation was a function call so it just figured out what the right function was and called the corresponding function directly via a C++ function pointer. In the end it was slightly faster than LuaJit at doing some math for 100,000 times. It was a file with the same operation pasted 100,000 times which tested parsing speed... anyway...

TL;DR
If you want to know why Python and Nuitka are so much slower, run the test through callgrind or something that reports the number of functions calls being made. You will find Python(possibly Nuitka as well) making billions of functions and allocations while lua's count in maybe a couple hundred million at most.

Also, I tested my Lua code converted to Python but it only shaved less than 1 second of fastest so no difference.

test.lua:

local sqrt = math.sqrt
num_primes = 0
for i = 2, 500000 do
n = 1
for j = 2, sqrt(i) do
if (i % j) == 0 then
n = 0
break
end
end
num_primes = num_primes + n
end
print (num_primes)
... unless it sparks a product idea that helps prevent this kind of negative association.
One option is to build your app in HTML/CSS/JS and then bundle it inside of PhoneGap so you can sell it on the App Store.

That way you don't have to rewrite it in Objective C, you can demonstrate it on the web as part of your sales process, and if you ever decide to give it away you can revert to a web-only model.

As a bonus, you may find porting it to other mobile web platforms is less work than porting an Objective C application.
>underlying sense of panic

Indeed. Quality thinking can't be forced or managed.

I really do feel that this time management business is a will-o'-the-wisp. Time spent thinking about time management is time not spent thinking about interesting problems. When I run across a room strewn with toys I don't have to think about 'space management', and when I switch between tasks I do so automatically and intuitively, mostly without thinking (and certainly never by firing up some piece of software).

Leonhard Euler had 13 children, who, the story goes, played at his feet. He also wrote over 1100 publications. Go figure.

[Update: Err, ahem, I read now that 8 of the children died. Perhaps he isn't the best choice of example.]
yep, it was -- good to see you too, Aaron, and apologies for the belated response!
How to Plan for the Unexpected
I did feel better about this project when the pdf was free, the idea being that the hard copy sales (that was half the point right?) and the ads with wider circulation paid for the pdf.

Its pretty much parallel to the problems face by newspapers online, put up a pay wall and lose your readership plus your advertisers, or keep it free and get by on much thinner margins than previously but at least be in business still.
Cashunclaimed.com's Website Traffic
A great site about how to hair color with instructions on coloring, advice and lots of pictures.
I was afraid there'd be no content for this month but industry news and gossip - I was wrong. Good!
Not just a separate room for a phone, but something that looks like a mountain shack on the outside and an interrogation room on the inside. Are they trying to actively discourage phone calls?
It would be very useful for an analytics tool to be able to write COOKIES back to the domain where it's hosted, so it can keep track of sessions

If you take Google Analytics as an example, it uses Javascript to gather info on the current visitor, then it creates a dynamic image tag to send that info to Google. This allows them to set a cookie using the domain of the site containing the analytics tag, and send that data back to a server on a different domain.

It is also possible to track users across multiple domains (e.g. the DART cookie used by DoubleClick). I believe this is achieved by using a dynamically generated iFrame to set the cookie on the user's computer. Since the domain used for the the iFrame is the same across all sites that use the Javascript snippet, the cookie can be read across multiple sites.
I thought this was satire, and ironically judging from the response here, I think the main point is spot on.

> Not everyone in the world can cure cancer. Not everyone can build rockets. Not everyone can do brain surgery.

Yes, but many people pretend that stupid apps are the next best thing, even matching cancer / rockets / brain surgery.

It's Wikipedia that's the wonder of the Internet, not Facebook; a communication medium with a lot of potential that's already overrun with spam and pointless messages, the only thing saving my account being pictures of close friends being posted there, although it also does nothing for encouraging me to give them a call / see them face to face.
Why do large amounts have to be invested? Is it because of inflation or large amounts of money cannot sit around without someone wanting to touch it?
one of the women she worked with used awk a lot for munging data and simple reports from their pre-SQL database ... it's pretty recognizable :-)
When you feel, you want to work for yourself.
I guess you're getting downvoted because of the 'ethically questionable' suggestions you're making. Strictly in terms of making profit, I think you're spot on.
Ask HN: How to conduct an effective Market Research?
Let's say you had an idea for a new product/software/service, and you want to find out whether it is appealing or not.
Is there a guideline to conduct an effective DIY market research?
Glad I'm not on the only one who wasted time on this without immediately "getting it". Sounds like the message needs to be clarified a bit. Or maybe this isn't that compelling of a business case? I doubt I would pay $5 a month for this.
I had a similar experience learning to use mootools. It got rid of so many of the ticky-tack compatibility problems and just let me work on the problem.
I was going to thank them for the dark background, great relief to my eyes, but then I "flipped the page" with the UI thingie on the right and "ouch".
It looks like a lot of offices I've seen, with some nice unique touches added. Bene of Austria design a lot of offices in this style (well, to my eye anyway, that's what it reminded me of):
http://bene.com/office-furniture/office-projects/

Here's Microsoft Belgium:
http://bene.com/office-furniture/microsoft-belgium.html
Discussion of the previous essay: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1745322
Let's say I navigate to publisher.com

If publisher.com has an iframe, img or other element with src coming from analytics.com, then (almost) all browsers will allow reading cookies from it. That is how e.g. commenting systems know who you are across domains.

However, safari is the only browser that doesn't seem to allow WRITING to a domain other than the one you have navigated to, using any method. (Not even loading img tags.)

I was wondering if there was a way around it. Someone said that doing a POST to an iframe used to work

http://anantgarg.com/2010/02/18/cross-domain-cookies-in-safa...

but now people are saying it doesn't anymore
Wait, since when have governments been better at writing code than small groups of talented amateurs? Have I fallen through a portal into mirror-universe HN?
'The Social Network': The Thrilling Facebook Creation Myth
Downloading compiled binaries from someone is what you usually do on Mac and Windows.
Facebook photos now 2048 pix wide
Panama Canal fossils reveal ancient collision of worlds
Though I do have to admit that you can't avoid learning at least some things about the books you are supposed to have read in order to fake.
I would find it very enlightening to find out what kind of organisation system he used for his trades/paperwork. Did he have a stash somewhere where he could store documents? Did he have a PO Box?

How would people on HN organise themselves without any permanent address...or by the looks of it, laptop/smart phone/access to computer, whilst tending to a portfolio that would end up being in excess of $4 million?
Attracting women to tech: Dotdiva.org launch
Some more specifics about Delaware: http://startuplawyer.com/incorporation/top-5-reasons-to-inco...

Most important among them for (larger) corporations: judges decide cases, not juries, making less of a "wildcard" for litigation.
I don't think your idea would ever work. I think the way the tax system gets by everyday with all the corruption and waste associated with it is by the simple premise "Out of sight, out of mind". Taxes are paid by the average Joe a little at a time, I think most Joe's would simply freak out if they received a total sum bill at the end of the year. Actually, your idea would work in a perfect system, but we know how rare those are.
In fairness, "eke" is a rarely used word. No such excuses for they're/there/their though.
What makes US health care so expensive? Hard numbers, no easy answer.
It makes me sad and fearful for the future of our industry when someone charging the equivalent of a cup of coffee for something that has a multiple of the value of said coffee is met with dozens of complaints about how it should be free, plus people actively trying to sabotage his efforts (sorry to mmphosis if the list of links wasn't meant in that way).
The Darwinian Evolution of Windows [Infographic]
Given the fact that our first infographic – The Darwinian Evolution of Photoshop – was so successful, we worked for two weeks for a shiny new piece. This time we’re talking about the most popular OS in the history of mankind (still!).
So google uses the cookies of the publisher's site, okay...

but then what if the publisher has www.something.com, foo.something.com and something.com ... are all of these considered different domains? And if so, isn't it kind of unhelpful to the publisher, that you can't track a session across their various subdomains? Or is this intended?
I'm impressed with Marc's lack of rancor towards Mint -- very classy. It lends credibility to the whole article.
Should also just check out Psyco: http://psyco.sourceforge.net/

"Psyco is a Python extension module which can greatly speed up the execution of any Python code."
No more or less than following a link with a GET variable. I'm trying to find the article posted on TDWTF regarding a link that went to "&delete=true" that dropped the entire database...but, Ajax calls are no more or less frequently data-changing than any one of a hundred links on survey sites that send their data with GET variables.

Edit: Found it! http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/WellIntentioned-Destruction....
I'm actually (it looks poorly) trying to not conflate UI and UX. I'm trying to say that design is the entire experience both the UX and UI.
Why would it be killed? At first glance this looks like someone who hacked the system to have no permanent address, yet was able to execute financial trades.

That seems masterful to me.
If they've not familiar with pm timing, they'll be confused for the entire afternoon, not just noon.
For professional stuff, definitely.

But there's a movement afoot to build greater image-processing power into cameras, doing all of those operations right there on the device.

Personally, I'd never do that. I shoot RAW, and then handle on my desktop -- and calibrated monitor -- all of the adjustments. If nothing else, no matter how good the camera's CPU, the awful display on the back of the camera makes serious work impossible. It just can't be big enough if it's on the back of a convenient camera, and it won't be calibrated.

But for your average person taking photos of the kids at their soccer game, they don't care about any of that. The camera makers do a pretty good job of fine-tuning the heuristics (white balance, color adjustment, sharpening, etc.) so that the JPEG the camera produces is usually quite good, even if it's not excellent.

These people will be the ones driving a new "broadcast" image format. For quality stuff, the enthusiasts and pros have DNG and TIFF.
Essential Applications for Phd  students
Just wondering, how do they chose which comments go in this? How many comments per issue, and are they related to the articles or just the best comments that month? If so, how do they put them in context? I'm not $3-worth of curious, but I would be interested...
I think this is awesome. I have been wondering when web games would look good as flash games for some time now. Hopefully this competition will get some good entries.
Sick of the Same Old Conference? Check This Out
Yes, I distinctly remember learning as a child in the 1980s that 12pm was noon and 12am was midnight. I also remember being confused because I thought it should be the other way around at the time.
Wesabe built our own data acquisition system, first using downloadable client programs (partially because that was easier and partially to preserve users' privacy) and later using a Yodlee-like web interface

That is the real product, the real company, launch it.
Problem with that is the surprisingly large number of legitimate sites that break without third-party cookies. Things like when verizon.com has an element from verizononline.com, which sets a login cookie that verizononline.com expects to read. "Shun brokenly-coded sites" is not an option for something as vital as paying my phone bill.

I'd love an option to accept third-party cookies but delete them on browser exit, while retaining legitimate first-party cookies as usual. Does any of the major browsers have that?
Social Network movie poster spoofs (Fridge YCs10)
Do you make a lot of friends that way?
Income Tax Receipt
Boston vs. NYC vs. Silicon Valley? Forget it, innovation is everywhere
Well, one way to avoid having to invest so much of the money would be to pay retirees directly out of the receipts for a given year. Then you only have to invest the surplus, which shrinks the investment problem considerably. That surplus could be invested in T-bills.

The above is roughly how the system works now, makes sense right?

Of course, you'll see various peopl with an axe to grind calling it a pyramid scheme for the pass-thru payout. And claim that the government is "raiding" the trust fund by selling it t-bills, or say that the trust fund is backed by quote "worthless IOUs". I didn't know t-bills were so disreputable! But aside from the silly rhetoric, it's a pretty sensible strategy.

It shouldn't be a surprise that the people who administer the program 40 hours a week actually kinda know what they're doing. Unless you come to the conversation pre-equipped with ideology and blinders.
Yes but we will antagonize out of touch, established companies with sharks fitted with lasers while making better software/hardware. And have perennially dominating Formula 1 team.
Anyone care to explain the downvote(s) here? Workers are a market just as much an any other value proposition. The difference between widgets and employees is that companies do everything they can to hide market signals about employees.
One of the things that was drilled into me in the cadets was that you can delegate responsibility for a task, but not accountability.

Me too, but unfortunately it doesn't work like that in most organizations. Your boss's full time job, as he sees it, is to take credit for your successes and give you the blame for his failures. That's why he chose to become a manager rather than staying hands-on.
The official "python style guide" dictates using 4 spaces for indentation (unless old / legacy code): http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
That was my exact thought on seeing the lunchroom. Hard surfaces all around, or did I miss something?
Venture Firm Investment Decisions: Unanimous or Majority Rules?
And throws in some affiliate linked junk at the bottom....
If you absolutely rely on something to live (without an ozone layer or oxygen, you're gone), don't you have a right to defend it? Although I admit, using robots to kill billions of people would give me pause. It's definitely a complex issue.

Do you have the right to defend yourself against an indirect attack? Here's another ridiculous scenario to think about - let's say you're diabetic, and some group of thugs is destroying all the world's supply of insulin. It doesn't belong to you, but you definitely need it. What would you do?
Is there anything that Steve hasn't written about? :)
Yeah, that's more "slang dialect" than "error".

Also, did you mean "affectation"?
@MayorEmanuel would like to have a word with you.
CAS is slow because it acts as a serializing instruction. If you depend on success or fail the instructions after it have to wait until it has been resolved. Also, the update has to be pushed out to the cache at least.

So yes, slow but otherwise it would be of no use.

load_linked and store_conditional are not much better. Depending on implementation they can spuriously fail because something poked the cache, there was memory traffic etc.
Quote: The problem of course is there's no "there" there. Any funds collected today by payroll taxes, and not used for today's benefits, are lent to the general fund and spent. There are no funds being saved for next year's benefits, much less the current tax payers.

You used the word "lent". Note that that is different from the word "given with no expectation of repayment". Care to revise your second sentence in light of your first?
Considering the number of pages that rely on that php-image style scripting for simple things (like page hits), I'd be surprised if that didn't work on Safari. Sadly I don't have a Mac on hand, so I can't test it myself.
Honestly, I think that is the best approach. Because the market is so broad, it will be hard to reach out to everyone based on company size. I am currently focusing on 2 segments incidentally one of them is dentists the other is accountants.

Thank you for the links.
Symantec's detailed breakdown of Stuxnet [pdf]
I was using Buxfer for a while and liked it, but it's been shut down for a while. I'm trying to use Mint.com -- but there always seems to be some bug or connection issue with one or more of my accounts. The thing I liked about Buxfer was the auto-category rule system. Basically, you could categorize or tag any transactions based on a set of rules (i.e., Tag all transactions equal to $52.36 as "Student Loan Repayment").
Is Marco a Location-Based Service with Better Implementation for Privacy?
Just wrote this post about a new service called Marco that offers one on one communication on a timer for location. Wondering if you've seen anything else like this.
I think government t-bills are a little more reliable than a hand-scrawled IOU note in a jar.
"Operation Payback" attacks to go on until "we stop being angry"
Hopefully this should put an end to all the drivel and hype that's floating around. This combined with the F-Secure Q&A (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1746401) is all you really need to understand what it is.

As for where it's from and what it's targeting? Well, that's largely something that's best left to the intelligence communities, and they tend not to publicise their findings.
Sure, but you could say that about a submission of any quality, really.
Great idea, I might buy a poster as a gift :)

But, as mentioned by others, save yourself from legal hassles and change your domain name - PrintingFB, PrintYourFriends, FriendsOnPaper..... and all of these are available
To summarize:

- Give instant gratification; require as little work as possible from your users

- Be visible; Mint advertised heavily; neither site was viral

Other smaller factors too, but those seem to be the biggies, based on Marc's article and comments here.
Different sorts of problems - the elderly are a financial problem - not because they're bad people for being old, but because their retirement represents a huge financial liability.

The other problems you state are meta-problems - they're the reason we can't solve any actual problems. And possibly more concerning than actual problems.
Question: Is there a way a financial management site can be viral? Marc claims that neither Mint nor Wesabe was.
I did assume we'd agree on the usefulness of Wikipedia, yes :-)
I don't see a link to free premium. How do I get it ?
The Day I quit my job at Punchbowl.com
Yes, and they made great use of it.

But if they hadn't backed it up with good design and instant gratification, they wouldn't have gained traction.
this is a great idea. In my mind their pictures and galleries is really what was one of the first big breaks for Facebook.
Inflation/time-value of money is a big part of it, actually--not collecting interest on that scale is an opportunity cost of billions of dollars.

There's a macroeconomic issue, as well--if you just let that money sit in an account for years on end, the money supply gets fucked up. Money just disappearing into a hole is essentially deflationary, and deflation is catastrophic. Then, when the money comes back out again, you have inflation (possibly hyperinflation if the amount is big enough). Better to hold onto that money somehow while still keeping the money supply relatively constant--in other words, invest the money somehow.

For very similar reasons, it's much more difficult for the government to carry reserves of funds from year to year than it is for them to carry a debt.