skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's possible to get the registration times for these accounts from the Digg API. I did that and they were registered in large blocks starting 10/16/2010 10:03:05 and ending 10/17/2010 13:37:59.

The blocks (ordered by the registration time) have registrations averaging a few minutes apart with hours between blocks. IMHO these could easily have been generated manually.

10/16/2010 10:03:05-11:32:20 diggerzXX
10/16/2010 14:44:14-15:08:13 dXX
10/16/2010 15:38:22-17:42:04 dd1-26
10/16/2010 22:52:46-23:10:29 sXX
10/17/2010 10:05:55-10:16:33 aXX
10/17/2010 12:33:43-13:37:59 dd27-47

These blocks do not overlap, although the ddXX block was done in two tranches.
Web Helpers in Razor is Impressive - ASP.NET MVC 3
Awesome. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
Java For Mac, Not Oracle's Business
I don't understand, as the article suggest, why it will be good for Nokia if Qt will be ported to Android, iOS or WP7...(?)

Here in Europe, Nokia is still #1 in dumbphones area, and what I see is that there is still a large number of people who doesn't need/want smartphone. So Nokia will probably stay strong in this still-big area. (But they undoubtedly will have a problem in the smartphone segment.)
Don't forget that Apple and Google work together, as do Apple and Microsoft. So they will know some of each others' roadmaps, quite legitimately.
Well, yeah I know, I think I'm going to buy a HTC Wildfire next week.

But these cheaper phones are cutting down on processing power / memory and Android 3 will require good hardware to receive an update, which kind of turns me off.

Still, that wasn't my point: Nokia still has over 34% of the global mobile phones marketshare (and this includes everyone selling phones, like Motorola, Samsung, Sony-Erricsson, Sagem, etc...), and while it has had declined in recent quarters they have a talent for coming back. All I'm saying is that they can leverage their huge customers base with phones that are cheaper than the iPhone or high-end Android phones.

I would also prefer to develop for MeGoo rather than the alternatives, but the SDK quality matters less than everything else: like having a good marketplace for developers or having customers that are paying for apps.
Great Idea !

Some points :
- The UI should adapt according to the screen size ( buttons are pretty big on my laptop, and TOO small for my 24 inches. Maybe create 2 or 3 different sizes ? )

- Being able to see the "playlist" and being able to "drag and drop" the previews in the horizontal direction (like "which one will be next, etc").

- About the UI, you should keep it simple, but also keep it as "close" to standard player/TV UI. Like standard Play/Pause/Volume big at the center ( bottom or top )

- You need a colorful/media Logo, definitely.

For later maybe : Like Spotify and others, being able to create & share playlist of videos, ranking them, etc. and NOT only by artist. Let's say I'm at a party, and I made a nice music video playlist at home, I just connect thru facebook, and I can play my playlist, etc. Youtube is crap for that, and that's EXACTLY the kind of "share tool" you would need I guess.

- Being able to easily vote for music videos ( just a click, no more ) and that would help then to provide the user with the best videos first (and kick out the image music videos from the first of the search results).

I don't really have much free time, but could give you a hand. Kinda have a "final working product" in my head, and it looks great.

Good luck
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Ask HN: Randomnly marking [dead]
I just posted this link http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1833747 and it automatically turned [dead]. Not that I care too much but what would be the possible reason? ASP.NET posts not allowed?
is there a link to the labs code,tgz,web ?
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Ok, you have a point, the thing that has annoyed me is that I got downvoted for comments that are not "ego talking".

If I write something like "<something> is a load of crap in my opinion" I don't mind getting downvoted, but a lof of times I get downvoted even when I am strict and technical, and again this won't bother me if people would supply a response.

Having a "well formed" comment simply downvoted is equal to simply replying that "Your comment is so crap that it's not even worth my time to explain why.".

> You've generated discussion.

Yes it seems that there is a way to do this properly, as I wrote I still get downvoted, even when I'm polite, but it looks like the bright people greatly outnumber the others here in HN.
I like the landing page, looks like a competitor to recently launched TapZilla (YC S10)? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1789043
Thanks. Sorry,I don't have my personal blog at the moment.
Could they make a 1 button controller awesome?
surprisingly great

some thoughts

-Larger fonts would be nice

-request sign up after reading say three pages

-perhaps you could monetize by partnering with self publishers/d.i.y ebook services

-I think this month is national novel writing month- go to their forums and promote

Thanks for creating a good service
I've left mine in my jeans, and put said jeans in the wash. Twice. It still works. Not that I'd recommend it.
Hadoop gets a boost
I think there's a difference between saying nice things about everything and being polite and constructive in your criticism.

Everyone can be a dick, sometimes. Heck, I'm probably a dick the majority of the time, but I decided a while back to be nicer to people on the Internet. That's part of the reason I upvote people who prove me wrong and thank them for it. If my horizons are expanded, or my assumptions challenged here and they stand on their own two feet then great. If not, then even better - I'm less wrong, so to speak.

The thing about this community is that brings together people like Zed Shaw and Seth Godin, two people I regard as polar opposites, each with their own focus. The people on the Seth side of the fence will be perhaps more likely to be turned off by the Zed Shaws of the world, as is vice versa.

Challenging them is fine and should be encouraged. Giving them grief, less so.

Usually when I read a techcrunch article posted here, I feel as though I die a little inside. Still, people like Gabriel, Patrick, Colin and even Thomas stand out to me as guys that I enjoy reading.

When criticising, it might help to consider the following:

* What does my comment add to the discussion?

* Can my comment be interpreted in a way other than how I intended it? (In which case a rewrite may be in order)

* How will other readers perceive what I write? (as an extension of the last one).

You get out what you put in. If you want to criticise, fine. But please do so in a constructive manner.

Any HN'ers got any more ideas for constructive criticism?
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Definitely. If you have one on your CV I'll check it out, and it gives me things to discuss with you in the interview that you'll be more comfortable with.
First of all, you're comparing the growth rate of Android in the UK with the actual market share Nokia has which is over 40% in the UK.

I know, Android will be #1 if Nokia doesn't do something to stop its growth, but that also means Nokia has currently a huge costumers base which it can leverage.

Secondly, you're first arguing that I'm speaking in the name of 731 million people, but then you're exemplifying with UK which is like #6 among Europe's richest countries and probably number #1 when it comes to adoption of new technology.

I mean, WTF?!?
Some sites are banned for a variety of reasons, whether because of consistently crappy/incendiary content, or spamming the submissions, or something else... I think there is some kind of automatic banning in place for certain sites (to protect against spam), perhaps it caught dotnetcurry for some reason.
The flash controller was levelling those 90 million writes across large numbers of cells.
Microsoft Hands IronPython, IronRuby to Open Source Community
What algorithms compute directions from point A to point B on a map?
Bees Solve Hard Computing Problems Faster Than Supercomputers | Popular Science
> Has there even been any attempt to standardize something like this?

Yes. HTTP Digest authentication is an "encrypted cookie".

The problem is that it only protects against passive sniffing. Attacker able to inject packets can bypass it (e.g. replace Digest with Basic auth.)
What exactly is that picture at the bottom of the article?
This is good news as GNOME has had it's day. The Unity interface is pretty cool.
I don't know about others, but I feel that the iPhone is a terrible phone to use in an emergency. I currently have a 3G which contributes to this, but it takes me at least 30 seconds to go from holding the locked phone (I have no pass code on it) to actually hearing the ring tone. I've had to dial 911 twice on it and it was not a quick experience and since the second time it was for someone who crashed their car head first into a tree right outside of my back yard it was kind of critical that I dial quickly.
Hack In D Box
Google report: UK’s Internet sector is worth £100bn
Rosegarden - Beating to a different drum
The price was $1899. That's $3818 adjusted to inflation.
Also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1829211 <- This one has comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1830232
I think, from context, it's a 13.3" mba on top of a 15" mbp.
No, I'm highlighting that saying "a lot of people in Europe" is hearsay.
About 60% of client computers are running Windows XP, according to http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-shar...

Clearly they're not all running Internet Explorer, but equally clearly it's far too early to lock out clients that lack SNI.
If you think that simple question was "vitriol," you're going to have a really rough time running a business. My advice to you is to learn when it's not about you (which is most of the time) so you don't feel everything so strongly.
These experiment do not prove much. For instance, it matters a great deal where these experiments were done. In all Indian cities (Bangalore, Delhi, etc), this "experiment" is being done all the time and the results are quite plain to see. There are more deaths and road accidents on these city roads than places with road signs and rules.
Judith Curry: Overconfidence In IPCC's Detection And Attribution
Appears to be the smaller MBA on top of the Pro.
I might be cheating a little, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grovers_algorithm blows my mind.
Crappy content! Too bad this is an automated system coz anyone visiting dotnetcurry would know it's a good .Net site. anyways so long dotnetcurry!
Yes, you should A/B test headlines. Proof: 127% improvement in conversion rate
C does get the OS API, though. Is it easy and non-kludgy to make unix system calls from arc?
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You could go even further:

Let's not forget that it's internally divided - so many horrible compromises were wrought by Sony because its IP division (movies, music) was pissed off by technical advances made by its tech division (hardware).

Sony has also tried and failed time & time again to make its own proprietary formats win -- Betamax, MiniDisc, Memory Stick, etc. -- showing that it is more invested in "being right than being effective." Apple has won by taking risks on standards -- even when it was doing DRM, used existing standards.

Sony is, if anything, the Anti-Apple.
Unity is just a shell on top of Gnome, which is an entire platform.

That said, Unity does look pretty cool.
I don't care much about Symbian or MeGoo, nor do I for KDE. Qt is wonderful though. I can develop applications on my Linux machine and just compile them on Windows without having to have to run it. Also, it's quite mature with a good feature set, reasonably fast, reasonably integrated in various platforms and has an adequate SDK (though I don't use that). The doc's are quite good too.
Discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1830372
In the article, I think they are confusing the GNOME shell with the GNOME desktop, which are not the same things at all.
Right now this device's lack of RAM is a killer (I regularly run out of 8GB on my MBP). Buuuut... when OSX 10.7 comes out with app resume functionality, opening and closing apps will be fast (thanks to the OS and the rapid drive these things carry)... so more than 4GB will not be needed for me.

So I'm thinking that iOS's desktop legacy might be a bit bigger than just weird scroll bars and a cool app launcher.
You could always try emailing pg about it and politely asking whether it could be unblocked...
This is just pointless speculation by people who don't understand Apple's MO. Apple would no more buy Sony that it would buy Compaq.
Quake3's Fast InvSqrt function:

http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/

It's been discussed here before, and no doubt it'll be cited numerous times in the comments of that reddit post, but it was the first time I'd ever seen such trickery. When I got into low level DSP programming I saw many more examples of clever hacks, but this is the one which sticks in my mind above all of those.
I personally want an optical drive. Am I old fashioned? I don't trust these movie and music download stuff and prefer hardware in my drawer.

For my last business trip, I quickly copied my iTunes library to my business Macbook (in a hurry, the evening before). On the remote site I switched on the audio book that I recently started and got the message: this computer is not authorized ...

Get my point?
god, disqus is so unreliable. are the comments not loading for anyone else?
+1 very interested in reading about it.
If you promise to get things working on ARM, I might be able to get you something.
Sometimes I really hesitate before commenting on a post,because I dont want to say something that might earn me a downvote, even when that comment might actually be right but might go against the trend of other comments on the post.
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Right, but are you carrying the media with you all the time? If not then a small external drive is a decent compromise - if you think you’ll need it you can chuck it in the bag as well and you can at least not take it if you think you won‘t.
Wasn't Arc meant to be a toy/academic language?
If anyone is interested, even I can generate content at that rate. Mail me, and you can see my writing style at my blog (its in my profile). :)
There is nothing Sony could do to help sell any Apple products. They have a few stores, but nothing as good as Apple's stores. The computers they sell run Windows, Apple would not keep that side. They already sell mp3 players, why would Apple keep them both around? They sell crappy phones with ericsson, no need for that.

It would also put Apple/Sony at odds with all the other media companies, they would lose support.
PT;MG
(probably trolling;MG Siegler)

"Thanks largely to Apple themselves, we live in a world where we have digital music, photos, movies, and TV shows that take up dozens, if not hundreds of gigabytes of storage."

Ah nope. Fawning, not trolling.

He forgot to add indoor plumbing, the internal combustion engine, modern medicine, etc, to the list.
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Local newspaper boasts ultimate passive-aggressive paywall policy
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With wide screens, there is a scarcity of vertical screen space, especially on netbooks.

Windows 7 actually solves this problem best; I can move the task bar over to the right and have the full screen height for applications.

Windows XP had the nice benefit of the application buttons' text being horizontal so a wide start bar on the left or right could list about 15-20 open applications without cropping the application name.

Even though they're going to a side bar, moving the top bar in Ubuntu out of the way results in ugly, buggy wierdness.

I'd imagine it's impossible to move the menu bar in Mac OS X, but since there's no Mac netbook, it's probably not a problem.
I think before I get an Air, I definitely need to improve my social life and/or my coffee intake. Right now, I don't have a personal need for an ultraportable. I switch desks (home, office, abroad), but for that scenario, my current MBP 17" is a pretty ideal solution. Considering that I have (or could have) external monitors at each desk, the Mac Mini probably sounds like a better solution than the MB Air.

If I ever have to attend a lot of meetings/conferences/presentations or finally find the time and money to travel the world, this looks pretty neat. Gives the Thinkpad X Series a run for its money.
You are exaggerating. The N8 is Nokia's best touch screen phone and a good all around phone.

Its only problem is that the UI is not as polished as on iPhone or Android, but it's good enough.
i have a newer 17mbp. can't say i've used the optical, but i like having it there. i would probably move towards a 15" mba if it had their 1680x1050 screen and more battery life. the 8GB ram thing doesn't really get to me tho. i do all my dev work in vim.

the thing i can't stand is how people are perceiving the dump of the optical drive as something revolutionary. a) the old macbook air didn't have one (a gripe for many) and b) neither do netbooks.

a little off-topic but one thing that really kills me about apple is how they're seemingly refusing to add a blu-ray option even though the standard is well-established. i would really like to have one in my mbp17. not just because i have a res (1920x1200) on the lappy that supports it, but because i also have a 27" panel that i hook my laptop into.

and this move towards "no optical drives" (likely so they can sell more HD content) is only going to solidify that among their lines in my assessment.

hmmmph.
Does this mean the price of getting an article on TC just went up ;) ?

Joking aside, it's a very nice little machine, but I could not imagine developing software on it without hooking it up to a full sized keyboard and screen which would defeat most of the purpose of owning one in the first place.

The mac Air series is so thin that when I saw one the first time I couldn't believe it was a real functional computer until they turned it on for me!
John Doerr Talks sFund And iFund But Not fbFund Or aFund
I hate my cynicism, I wanted to be impressed and yet when I opened the article it forced me to look at the author and the rest was history.
Oh yeah, I also assume GOP members hate chocolate and puppies. (I don't think I said what you think I said.)
You can have the Mac dock on the bottom, left or right. And you can have it so it slides away when not in use.

And the new MacBook Air 11" is close to a netbook...
Boomers are Looking for Another Bite at the Apple
7 Programming Languages on the Rise
Gruber seems to believe that they are most certainly not using Xserves: “You don’t think Apple is filling that North Carolina data center with Xserves, do you?” (http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/10/22/gosling-java-mac...) He, however, doesn’t indicate whether that’s speculation or whether he has sources.
I guess they'd like you to buy movies in the iTunes store instead.
Yeah, this is a step in the right direction but it's not winning by a long shot.

You might want to look at HTML + JS for developing on Nokia. They have a web runtime toolkit that allows you to build an installable app that has access to some of the platform services (location, contacts, sensors, messages, etc).
Am I crazy for still only running 2GB on my desktop?
The keys 'Z' and 'Y' are transposed as well.
That's a DRM issue, not a optical drive issue. Guess who suffers from it? Not pirates...
Start-ups in Japan - some basic data (email newsletter)
Omniture SiteCatalyst tracking & reporting wasn't that easy untill...
Indeed, processing power is the issue: "What's odd is that there's a decent amount of RAM on offer here, and a 600MHz Qualcomm processor - but this phone is juddery, slow and prone to freezing so often you'll want to throw it in a canal."

"Simple things like opening the contacts menu or trying to shuffle between home screens can take an age, and if you leave the phone asleep for too long it will simply freeze at times, meaning no alarms, texts or phone calls."

(from Techradar).

"Unfortunately, the Mini's anaemic processor often struggles to keep pace with the software. If you have several apps running at once, as well as the animated wallpapers, the handset will be reduced to a pitiful crawl."

(CNET)
Well, in terms of movies: you break the law, if you extract them to the harddrive.

For the rest, you are right, it is possible to carry a drive. But then we are back to the clutter on the desk that we had in the 80s and 90s and just got rid of. This is progress?
Without an optical drive works only properly, if you download the data or get them on non optical media.

I would be fine though, if I could download movies and music to an external storage and the DRM would be on that storage, not on a computer. A storage with at least the same possibilities that we have with CDs and DVDs today (import to iTunes without DRM!).
As long as that is not possible, the Macbook Air remains a pretty good second computer IMHO.
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Crazy, no. Amazing, yes! :)
So just tell me, is Google going to buy Stackoverflow? God I hope not.
ha! I'm running Snow Leopard here on a 4.5 year old 32 bit (pre Core 2 Duo) iMac with 512Mb ram (double the original amount)

I'd like to get a new machine, but this one's as good as new apart from the drive which I replaced with a 1Tb one earlier this year
Why E-Books Look So Ugly
I read this on Monday and thought it would be of interest to the HN folks. There seems to be a real lack of information in English (either that or I'm not looking in the right places). I have seen people asking about this kind of information, so hopefully it's of some use.
Enabling Compiz Fusion On An Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop (NVIDIA GeForce 8200)
He's playing to his strength which is smart. Trying to compete with Adobe on cross-app desktop integration is a fool's errand. Going balls to the wall "Web" is something that might net him a thin slice of Adobe's delicious market share.
I still miss CDE. (No "glutton for punishment" comments, please.)
You make an interesting case, which I think is backed up by two things, in the special case of the x86 instruction set:

- Instruction opcodes and arguments don't occupy a fixed space or position. This leads to a significant increase in lethality of mutations. Some other factors that contribute to this is the large instruction set, and the fact that opcodes and arguments are directly connected (context-specific). Straight-up GA does provably not perform well, unless there's a meta-language involved, as the article shows. I'd dare say this is very close to Koza's approach, and it also seems to be close to Michael Korns' approach, which is more recent.

- "Instruction set" put aside, mutations in a x86 system (or in any other computing environment, for that matter) happens on a bit granularity. The sort of natural redundancy that would allow GA to operate on a sufficient population for robust mutations to appear is not there, without a metalanguage. (even ECC in memory tends to not be favoured, so resistance against bit flips, ie. point mutations)

Also, it seems to me that without a "natural" redundancy mechanism within an instruction set, it is impossible for other types of mutations, namely deletion/insertion/duplication, to produce survivable offspring. As a (probably not very good) metaphor one should consider what would happen to aminoacids if we were to consider codons as their building blocks (disregarding nucleotides).
Nuclear weapon R&D. That's how the 5 weapons states acknowledged by the NPT have been able to maintain the unofficial test moratorium - all the supercritical explosions are happening in simulation.