skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Managers are great at talking the talk, but it takes great developers to walk the walk. My current project is successful in spite of a similar list that was created at the inception. Over the course of 3 years, the why, the pitch, the NOT list, the Yes list, the priorities and what not have been changed and we keep afloat just because of two things : robust architecture and continues refactoring
The web requests would allow Opera to do some serious data-mining to sell advertising.
A little irrelevant, but the top four comments on that article show a frightening lack of reading comprehension and racism.
Known bug, working on it :)
well, you might be able to if you had something like a paddle steamer, where the paddles are equivalent to the wheels in this thing.
The End of In-Flight Wi-Fi?
Not to mention that you can move feeds later and keep all of your subscribers. I've done this, it's super useful.
Funny note: about halfway down the page is a microsoft employee doing research on a mac.
I don't know of any Clojure book that says that. Did you have a specific book in mind?
Poll: How often do you read XKCD?
The better to understand the people populating HN I ask, do you read XKCD?

Also, if you're at all interested in the results, consider upvoting the item, otherwise in less than an hour it'll fall off the "new" page and never be seen again, resulting in so few votes as to be useless.
I see every new cartoon on the day it's published
I'm up-to-date, reading regularly
I catch up on occasion
I check it when I think to do so
Only when pointed at something interesting
I know of it, but never bother
What's XKCD?
Yes I really need two displays! It generally has aim, skype, irc, torrents, activity monitor, and my terminal windows.
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Also, wrapping the Symbian Foundation into a 'licensing operation': http://www.symbian.org/news-and-media/2010/11/08/symbian-fou...
"Behavioural advertising". Opera could potentially collect information on mobile users' browsing habits/history. Should it decide to sell this information to third parties it would be worth a lot.

If Opera decided to act on this it could be the most valuable part of its business model. GMail etc. have shown that people are willing to pay with their privacy.

Disclaimer: I'm interning (so I don't know anything special) for Opera, but the opinions here purely my own.
Thanks for the input, working on all of these points except for the numpad, as I'm not sure what you mean: the game only uses the 4 arrow keys.
Yeah, very cool, but I can't get into it. Bookmarked
It's a bug, sorry :(

Will be fixed asap!
This isn't related to the post directly but if you really want to learn how someone develops skills like those of the fictionalized Sherlock Holmes you might want to check out this biography of Dr. Joseph Bell (who was the primary inspiration for the character): http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Joe-Bell-Sherlock-Holmes/dp/0879721...

Though it's more biography than instruction manual I found a lot of good insights when I read it.
Indeed: the article claimed Opera mini made mobile Safari feel painful to use, which in my experience is patently false.

It is only occasionally noticeably faster, and the rendering is far worse. Mobile Safari is great because it actually renders sites appropriately. Opera mini is great because it's faster than your built-in phone browser, but it doesn't compete with real browsers even when it's marginally faster.
Xserve is dead... so now what?
RockMelt: Web browser pioneer backs new way to surf Net
Here's my advice:

Know what your employees want to do with their lives.

Then, if you need to let someone go, you can help them reach their next step, rather than "giving them the boot".

Not only is it an opportunity to someone's life better as their boss. One of the perks of working at McKinsey is that its alumni go on to do great things. You can capitalize on that too.
Could you add a Prolog, too? GNU Prolog or SWI would be good.
Ask HN: Which blogs do you always want to visit?
Which blogs do you have in your MUST-READ list or you are always waiting for new posts? Be it technical, non-technical, whatever.

Let me start with myself.

1. http://www.contemporist.com/
2. http://www.threadless.com/
This will be tricky. Soon people will copy your bot. Then neither of you will make sales because he searches for rare items.

Maybe then you start putting bizarre titles and explain what you're selling in a field his bot doesn't worry about.

And don't forget you can calculate how much money the bot has available from its Twitter feed, so you can price accordingly!
A bug: when you put links in, <span>s appear later: http://imgur.com/4bvY8.png
More especially since they hijack HTTPS sessions. I always thought that playing MITM and caching secure sessions created a strong incentive to behave badly.
I'm kind of confused what you wanted to say. HTML5 runs in a browser, so why it wouldn't be available on WP7? Or you mean javascript based solutions that bridge into the native API?

Also, to program native apps for WP7 you need to use Silverlight, but you can do this in any language that runs on .Net (VB, IronPython, IronRuby etc), no?
<idle speculation>
With Apple about to open a giant data-center in North Carolina, they've clearly put some thought into what kind of servers they will be running in there, and there's little chance that it will be full of Xserves. If Google goes to the trouble of building its own servers, then a hardware company like Apple would almost certainly go to even greater lengths.

My theory? Their data-center runs on low-power iOS servers with custom-designed ARM CPUs and the same small Flash-SSDs that go into the new MacBook Airs.

The Xserve probably looks like an antique to Apple staff who have seen whatever cool tech is appearing in their new data center.
The 'dataists' are doing an IAMA about machine learning on reddit.
I thought the author's comment that the most essential ingredient of capitalism is a salesperson. Most people in sales still say that today, but I believe innovation is what drives capitalism. When there's a possible reward, people are willing to take a risk. Innovation can create demand.
Maybe articles like this created the demand for companies like PayPal.
I really don't like XKCD. I don't get why people find it funny. Of course, there are some extremely good ones, but IMO, most of them consist of badly-drawn poorly-executed unoriginal jokes.

It turns out I'm not alone, and I'm much amused by the rantings at http://xkcdsucks.blogspot.com
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OK, to everyone who read this list and said, 'That stuff is all obvious': What would you add to the list?
BTW, the source is available publicly on bitbucket:

http://bitbucket.org/ido.yehieli/cardinal-quest/

If anyone wants to join us just drop me a message (my email is listed in my profile) and I'll give you write access and walk you through the code base (it is quite small and not very complicated, Corey was committing changes within a day or so of joining me).
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Scan the item description field and buy items with lots of long words!
It's also remarkable how little success they've had, even though : (a) the verb "to Tivo" applies to any DVR; (b) lots of discussion about "my Tivo thinks I'm gay"; and (c) great product placement on Sex in the City.

Personally, when they decided to lock up the system (predating GPL3) I put the company in the AVOID column : not a good step for a tech company to alienate potential enthusiasts.
For all the flak Symbian has recently gotten, it was actually great OS at a time. I had a phone in 2005 which did multitasking, copy-paste, ssh, python scripts and web browsing. Yes, it was dog slow, and the browser wasn't that great, but still it was quite a feature set, and the phone wasn't even that expensive.
Really? It's still early days in the DVCS "wars". :)

I use git and I love that it's faster than Mercurial (a couple of years ago, I timed 'git log' at 1 second and 'hg log' at 13 seconds on same repo contents).

But precisely because it's written in hard-to-modify, hard-to-library-ize C code with several Linux dependencies (afaik), many companies are choosing Mercurial (Google, Kiln, Atalassian).

I can easily imagine a future where Mercurial has far more plugins/extensions than git (because it's easier to write Mercurial plugins) which will be a huge advantage in Mercurial's favour (a la Firefox). For such reasons, it's likely I will switch to hg one of these days.

It may only be a matter of time before Mercurial catches up with git's performance and becomes the de-facto standard, and git is relegated to the Linux kernel and other early adopters.

Other than the index all my git knowledge directly translated to Mercurial. I myself am planning to switch as soon as I can overcome inertia and go through one of the tutorial.
That's a pretty neat roguelike. It might be nice to make it more mouse friendly. I picked up a bracer, and assumed I would be abel to click on it to equip it.
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Ah, thanks for the clarification on "squatting". I was (incorrectly) using it as a shorthand. I don't consider what the owner of TUVW.com is doing to be wrong in any way.
What's interesting is that his main point on the educational front is still relevant today. computers and the internet may enhance but can't replace a good teacher. The articles thesis may be hilarious today but not all his points are incorrect.
The voicemail situation is especially stupid, since voicemail delivery over SMTP, and IMAP access to voicemail was developed in a consortium back in the 90s, and standardized in the IETF in 2004 [1]. I'm pretty sure it's a standard feature in PBXes these days.

In fact, in 2000, a friend who worked for Openwave told me Sprint voicemail was actually running over Openwave's mail server. When your phone dialed in, the box it was talking to was an IMAP client.

[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Vpim
My favorite part is this:

the network is missing a most essential ingredient of capitalism: salespeople.

...given their absence is one of my favorite things about internet shopping.
I think the problem is that we are arguing two different things here. You are arguing that Martin committed a crime and acted like a douchebag. I agree 100% with this. I am in no way trying to defend Martin's copyright infringement. What Martin did was wrong and Zed had every right to ask him to take down the book.

What I am trying to argue is that Martin wasn't being malicious, he made an honest (albeit stupid) mistake. It sounds like he believed that Zed would be thrilled that someone was extending LPTHW to Ruby and didn't realize he was committing copyright infringement in the process. To be clear this in no way excuses him from the consequences.

I am drawing this conclusion from the following: Martin acknowledged Zed's authorship and that Martin contacted Zed to let him know about the project. I am also speculating that Martin was ignorant of the licensing and assumed a permissive license. LPTHW is distributed for free (as in beer) and Zed has released a lot of other things for free (as in freedom). It's not that much of a stretch to see how someone could assuming that this "free" book was open.

Zed had every right to ask Martin to stop writing the book. I don't feel that calling Martin "classless" was called for however, given that Martin seems to be a Zed fanboy of sorts.

For some reason you seem to think that I am arguing that Zed is 100% in the wrong. I am not. I'm just saying that both acted in a manner that is unbecoming of civilized people.

As an analogy, let's say I wrote some fan-fiction based on a story I really like. In the process I copied too much of the original source. I publish it on my blog and e-mail the author of the story a link to it, thinking that the author will excited to know that she inspired me to write and will maybe enjoy seeing a different take on her work.

Instead calls me classless for not writing my own original story and tells me to remove it from my blog.

While she has every right to ask me to remove it considered I'd copied too much of the original work, I wasn't trying to offend her - just the opposite in fact!

Was I wrong? Yes, of course. I posted her copyrighted story on my blog. Was I classless? I would argue no - my intent wasn't to write an original story, but to extend a story that I loved.

At this point, I might be tempted to call her out for calling me classless (which I really shouldn't do, and Martin did), but it's easy to see how I could feel that way. A simple "please remove this" would have been sufficient, I would have realized my error and I wouldn't feel bitter about the exchange.

TL;DR - There is a difference between being ethically wrong and legally wrong and two wrongs don't make a right.
Is it hard to make game run full screen in a browser window?
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I agree. And he does not pretend he is changing the world, as some people here seem to think they are.
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A friend replied in private mail: "Because it is not a valid host name (e.g http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc952.txt). My browser searches on an Internet search engine whatever I enter in the address field that is not a valid host name. I think that is a pretty good way of handling it. What does your browser do?"
Ask HN: if I name my startup "XXX"Upon, would I get sued by StumbleUpon?
The startup is a niche rating/voting service
Look up Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) on how to group related terms to concepts.
The model probably works better for designer dresses, since renting a $2000 dress for $200 seems like a bargain, but leaves the owner with enough profit to pay for professional cleaning.
My first impression is that it doesn't seem that new or different. It looks like Google Chrome with social dingleberries on the sides.
Thanks!

Mouse control (and generally better interface) is on my todo list. I also want to eventually get it working with a touch interface.
Oh, absolutely. They also made bad decisions.

But they completely flopped here in the UK, where the culture of cable/dish TV was much lower. And that was down purely to not getting their message out.
28k modems were also reasonably alright for viewing thumbnail sized pixelated streaming porn through the VivoActive player.

Side Fact: I was one of the first few thousand people in India to have - as it was marketed then - "TCP/IP Internet", meaning I could use graphical Web browsers. The unwashed masses (very few of them even then, btw) got by with "shell Internet" - shell accounts that they would telnet into and use lynx. (IIRC zaatar from around here fell into the latter category ;))
Not really: press f11 in windows or linux (I think it's apple+f on mac os x).
And it is kinda distractive too!
I can't handle that many notifications popping up every second I am trying to focus.
It's good if you are a social media junkie though.
One word: Apple

It's feasible.
All of the implementations you mention sacrifice specific functionality in order to support a general interface. For instance, clojure-dbm was an interface to key/value stores, so it supported a small subset of common functionality: fetch, put and delete. It didn't support functions that are specific to a certain type of database, such as setnx in Redis.
Unfortunately you are not supposed to send money via the USPS.
I'm a big Opera fan, but xScope has been great for me on Android.
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Completely and utterly debunked, many times over.
Thank you! You can save & load but it doesn't work so well yet, which is why I haven't listed the keys for it in the help screen :)
Which basic assumptions?
I have always been somewhat skeptical of the fact that this number coincides so nicely with the number of digits in a phone number, which the subjects (I presume to be from the US, I know, I have to track down and read the paper) are highly trained to commit to short term memory.

Does anyone know of similar finding were found in experiments with diverse cultures?
want something beefier? check out http://www.fusionio.com/products/ioxtreme/

even beefier than that? perhaps http://www.violin-memory.com/technology/capacity-flash/
Sorry, I don't think you're addressing what I meant, and I don't see the relevance of your latest statement to what I wrote. Can you please explain?

In the scenario you described, the pilot dies ("A pilot does not need a box cutter to crash the plane. They have full control over the plane by definition."). Hence I am guessing your point is that we only need to be worried about suicidal pilots (who can't be stopped anyway, and who are very few in number), the risk of which it very low.

I was trying to point out that if you don't check pilots at security checkpoints, we will also have to worry about non-suicidal pilots (which is a much larger population), the risk of which is non-trivial.

Again, am I missing something obvious in your two statements? I am not supporting the TSA's gropers, I am just saying that pilots need to go through the same security procedures as the cattle. Otherwise there's a security hole. Are you disagreeing with this? If so, you haven't backed it up, as far as I can tell.

My hope is that if pilots and flight attendants are forced to be groped everyday, they will stop groping us cattle too.
Well, The browser on WP7 is based on IE7 and 8, so there's no native HTML5 support. Of course, a user could download another browser with HTML5 support in favor of IE.
Clickable: http://xkcdsucks.blogspot.com
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With a name like XXX I assume your niche is pr0n? If whitehouse.com (NSFW) can get away with it, probably you can too.
It's not about the efficiency, it's about the relative speeds: the blades of the propellor are moving relative to the vehicle whereas a sail is stationary.
Several comments in this thread say something to the effect of "sailboats do this all the time" or "sailors have known this for years."

Sailboats do not sail faster than the wind when sailing dead downwind. High-performance sailboats absolutely do sail faster than the wind when sailing upwind or on a reach. This is a result of the apparent wind velocity (the velocity measured on the boat) increasing as the boat accelerates into the wind. This apparent wind is what powers the sails -- more apparent wind, higher boat speed. Terry Tao's explanation is excellent: http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/sailing-into-the-wi...

A recent real-world example is the boat that won the America's Cup this time around, Oracle's 90-foot trimaran BOR 90. BOR 90 handily sails several times faster than the wind upwind. Watch chase boats try and keep in a mere 10 or 12 knots of wind as the boat is going 32 knots: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_17_(yacht)

Downwind is a totally different story. As you approach dead-downwind you accelerate with the wind until your boat speed reaches the speed of the wind and your apparent wind approaches zero.

As for sailors knowing about the effect, I can assure you it is just as counter-intuitive to us as anyone else. Maybe more so since we spend a lot of time observing how boats behave downwind. I've raced in San Francisco for more than a decade and had this discussion with maybe a dozen racing sailors in the last few months. Things got heated every time. No intuition to be found.

[Edit: corrected sloppy about dead-downwind vs just downwind. As commenters have noted, sailboats will happily go faster than the wind at angles below 90 degrees, but not at 180 degrees.]
As someone who has been laid off by Rand Fishkin himself, it feels REALLY weird for me to read this article.
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WP7 is the only modern mobile platform with bad html5 and even html and css support. All other mobile platforms use WebKit based browsers.
Ask HN: Your best unused domain?
I'll start with mine: SurpriseSexToy.com

Basically, the idea is a gift shop for sex toys aimed at "joke" gifts for parties etc...

What about you guys?
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I got the sense from MS employees at PDC that the browser situation would be much improved within 6 months.
Otherwise known as "wrap the crap."

http://www.datawrangling.com/how-flightcaster-squeezes-predi...

"Building layer upon layer of abstraction is a big key. On the jvm, you have to do this, it is the path around the verbosity of Java and the vast abyss of poorly done APIs. You just keep searching until you finally find the folks who have built a sane, high level API on top of the thing you want to use - then you wrap it in a high level language like Clojure. The technical term for this is 'wrap the crap.'"
Gruber said it best:

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/11/07/rockmelt
I think the point of the guideline is to keep things fact-oriented here, and to keep the amount of sensationalism, hyperbole, and "link-baiting" on HN to a minimum.

I agree that we should respect the HN submission guidelines, but the OP seemed to be expressing approval that the original post wasn't titled as such. Additionally, I hardly think that numbering your main points counts as sensationalism or hyperbole. Maybe it's link-baiting in some cases, but I think that's a stretch.
I'm also hoping it doesn't become yet another browser with quirks and idiosyncrasies that devours web developer time.

That said, I doubt it catches on inside corporations because corporations wouldn't want to encourage their employees to waste time updating their Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Advertising expands as to fill the available computing power. Content may too. There'll always be a place for an optimized browser, even if just to save battery life.
I see some discussion around virtualization. 1-2 years ago I filed a radar and also sent a message to Jobs about allowing for Mac OS X Server in a virtualized environment and it was shot down, to say the least.

We ended up abandoning Mac OS X Server and our xserves. It was easier to deal with Macs and Active Directory than to develop an enterprise strategy blocked by Apple's Iron^W"Brushed Metal" curtain [1].

My sources from the inside mentioned that there were months of some pretty heated engineer-readable-only discussions on my radar #. And things change, but.

[1] Don't get me wrong, I swear by OS X and Apple hardware as a user OS.
You have to understand the neighborhood in which this happens. This blogger has been fighting a losing battle for years now. The community is so incredibly insular that instead of Dave being a hero for what he does, he's considered to be, well, you saw the footage from the community meeting (and you don't know what he had to do to even get that far, they tried to ban him from those too when he first started, even though he's a resident and entitled to be there).

Gerritsen Beach is its own place. I'm not excusing it, but it explains so much.
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You could send a check instead, payable to CASH. Although, your bank might get suspicious if hundreds of people start cashing small checks against your account.