skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only there was some way to address XML/HTML elements by their location in the DOM tree. The "path", if you will. We could call it... XPath.
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And the Award for the downright most evil person on the planet 2010 goes to: Andrew Wakefield!
Pitcher plant
More like querying HTML, not "the web". I initally thought this was Google search on steroids (which would be awesome) but it wasn't.
So when you bought a physical copy of DOS 3.0 or Windows 3.1, you effective own DOS or Windows? My god man, you should assert your rights and claim your billions!
Google Megastore - 3 Billion Writes and 20 Billion Read Transactions Daily
That counter is when global registries have allocated everything, not strictly when all useable addresses are in use. IPv4 addresses will never "run out", they will just get more expensive and complicated to use until the point where IPv6 is cheaper and easier. IANA exhaustion is just one big milestone along that path.
> Parts of it are heavily based on Smalltalk, Objective-C, C++, Simula, Modula-3, and even Lisp.

Very small parts, and very badly implemented. Apart from C++ which is definitely the major influence on Java. The rest boils down to "hey smalltalk is object-oriented and java is object-oriented, so java is based on smalltalk amirite?"

And the answer is no.
Actually I would love to use it on my Android phone but since it isn't available in Germany even the English version) I can't.

Would interests me if the recommendation engine works for me + I like to encourage/discourage visiting local businesses depending on the quality of their service. So far Hotpot looks more attractive for me than alternatives (which I actually don't know a lot about).
I tether my iPhone 3G to my MacBook Pro on occasion and never have any worry about battery drainage. When wired, I'm also constantly charging while it's tethered over USB, which is irrelevant for iPad tethering.

When I do have to wirelessly tether it, I'm usually not connected for more than an hour, and it is honestly equivalent to watching an hour long movie in iTunes or playing a game for an hour.

I honestly don't understand why tethering gets such a bad rap for battery drainage, when from my experience, _using_ the phone drains it just as quickly. Sure, it uses the network more heavily, but it shouldn't be doing a whole lot more.
Fixed it for now.
Google Turns Your Android Phone Into An On-The-Fly Conversation Interpreter
Giles Bowkett: Dan North Blah Blah Blah Blah...
This is actually not true anymore.

Off the top of my head all Apple Airport Express/Extreme/Time Capsule routers, DLink 601/655/855, linksys WRT610N/E3000. All support IPv6, most of those let you configure the router as 6to4 or 6in4 (tunnelbroker, etc) tunnel endpoint as well. The DLink ones even support a stateful DHCPv6 server to provide specific v6 address ranges to your LAN clients.

The support on the most recent revisions often isn't just limited to firmware either. The Dlink routers have IPv6 ready logos on the box and instructions for IPv6 features in the manual. You can pick these routers up in your local Best Buy or Office Depot and the v6 support is not limited to the high end ones either.

I am sure there are more than those that I have listed, they are just the ones that I have personally used for home IPv6 stuff.
Want to tweet while you sleep?
The article also explains why NOP is 0x90 on the 8086. On the Z80, NOP is 0x00 which I always thought was more logical (since you can zero out memory or code).
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/GeoHot/

Note to Sony lawyers: no doubt you're eager to rack up another billable hour by sending legal threats to me and my university. Before you go down that unhappy road, check out what happened the last time a large corporation tried to stop the mirroring of technical information here: The Gallery of CSS Descramblers. Have you learned anything in ten years?

David S. Touretzky
Research Professor of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
But Cloudfront now supports custom origins which I believe allows gzip by forwarding the Accept-Encoding header and caching different versions of the file depending on the value of that header.
Here's a copy on the original author's personal site that doesn't require a login:
http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management-tools-a...

The whole series is worth a read:
http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/engineering-management.html
Hopefully that's because a good Perl hacker would write:

perl -E 'say map { chr } 119, 101, 39, 114, 101, 32, 104, 105, 114, 105, 110, 103'
I think that's a good question.
It is natural to require that the total charge in the universe was zero at the start of its life (same goes for all quantum numbers). Otherwise, there was something before there was anything!
Seriously, either this matter-antimatter asymmetry was an initial condition (in which case we can't hope to understand it) or it appeared at some point during the course of things.

The problem of finding the exact mechanism that gave us the matter-filled universe we observe today, with all the antimatter gone is an open question. There are a bunch of hypotheses, and experiments coming son to a large hadron collider near you will help physicists gather pieces of the puzzle.
This "distortion field" sounds suspiciously like relativity. Are you sure you aren't just declaring your political sphere the center of the universe and labeling anyone who uses a different reference point as a heretic?
Exactly!

Take it to an extreme: Berkshire Hathaway has 21 employees at the headquarters ('09 annual report), with revenue of about $130.22B (yahoo finance). How's $6.2B / employee sound? Of course, if you add in the head count from the subsidiaries, you're up to about 257,000 (again, '09 annual) and $506k / employee.
I am as old as dust and time and the fabric of the universe. Now I know how all those COBOL programmers felt.

If it makes you feel any better, I'm 37, which is like 259 in developer years.
The most egregious of Microsoft's trademarks is "windows". At one point, Microsoft sued Lindows for trademark infringement. During the trial, it became apparent that Microsoft might not just lose the case, but might end up having their "windows" trademark declared generic. So they quickly settled out of court, with Microsoft paying several 10's of millions to purchase the Lindows mark.
I like it. It's simple and it's obvious that you've followed all the SOP for a landing page.

If I were you, my very next step would be to make a scalable way to create a similar landing page for a TON of niche reasons why people would need reminder phone calls. You should be able to come up with at least 50, just sitting in an empty room with a notepad. Have you done google keyword tool research to see what people who search for voice reminders are searching for?

As I'm writing this, I'm thinking: "Yes it's an iphone app, but there's really nothing iphone specific about the technology." It's the iphone your angle? What about all the other mobile devices? What about a web-service? What about a number people can call from a dumb phone, and then enter in the reminder number using their keypad, and leave an actual voice message for the future?
Google Job Posting Appears to Confirm Mobile Payments Service
This is one instance where I legitimately think Apple's trademark on the term "App Store" is wholly ok.

I did two searches on the term "App Store" using Google Trends and Google Ngram Viewer.

Trends: http://www.google.com/trends?q=App+Store&ctab=0&geo=...

Ngram: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=app+store&yea...

Trends shows data starting from 2004. Regardless of capitalization, i.e. "app store" or "App Store", it wasn't until 2008 when the term "App Store" started entering common parlance. This coincides with Apple's introduction of its "App Store".

Ngram data shows no usage of "App Store" or "app store" from the time of 1800 to 2008. I was suspicious of this, but using the terms "app,store" separately produced lots of data points. My tentative hypothesis is that Ngram is using data that existed before the App Store went public and thus will not show up in Ngram.

These are only two sets of data, but at least initially it seems that Apple has a legitimate claim to a trademark on App Store.
There's a Quora topic page with fascinating detail on the subject. It was made more specifically to answer how Mark still controls 26% of the company.

http://www.quora.com/How-did-Mark-Zuckerberg-retain-26-of-eq...
Trying to make book deadlines?
New MIT OpenCourseWare Initiative Aims to Improve Independent Online Learning
"The first PC I used was an XT-286; the precursor to the AT."
It was actually a smaller case version of the AT.
ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED is Chrome's DNS Timeout. The same error will occur if you navigate to a webpage without an internet connection.
> Their stated reason is for the sake of “openness” on the web, but that’s a ridiculous claim because they embed the not-open-at-all Flash player inside the browser, and will continue to do so.

I'd not go as far as calling this ridiculous. True, this feels wrong, but it's a fairly weighted decision - average users would tolerate "old" Flash-based fallback instead of native HTML5 <video> (most users won't understand the difference), but wouldn't tolerate lack of ability to play Farmville.

> WebM become the open standard (or codec) for video on the web, but the thing is: not right now

Unfortunately, "not right now" means "never". Google is already late with this decision, but as HTML5 <video> is not too widespread, there's still a possibility that they'll overturn the situation.

H.264 removal was a bold move, and its short-term consequences would hurt both users and developers, that's for certain. There are several various predictions on how the long-term outcome will be, and we could only guess which one is right.
Fragment Subscription : PubSubHubbub meet CSS
That was interesting, thanks
Bono != Elevation Partners

Many other persons are missing and probably classified as "Other". According to TechCrunch the Samwer Brothers from Germany also invested in Facebook. Would love to know how large their share is if they are still holding onto it.
Could you make the app have P2P functionality?
Yes, the Wii hardware was sold at a profit. The PS3, though, was definitely at a loss. People took it apart, and the total cost of parts at the best prices available in available in large volume was well over the retail price (not all of which goes to Sony).

edit: details: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2006/11/8239.ars
I know that the Azure team is playing up F#'s role in developing worker roles for HPC and that F# is designed to work in concert with Dryad, which is the .NET MapReduce engine developed by MSR, see http://weblogs.asp.net/podwysocki/archive/2009/03/03/explori...

I'd argue that F# is marketed the way it is because it doesn't have a business group with a marketing budget yet or a real evangelism team - it's really the guys at Microsoft Research who are driving its adoption, and they happen to be scientists and mathematicians.

There's a lot of room for trailblazers who want to show off how to use it more everyday scenarios and not just math / science scenarios.
That's seriously unbelievable. Honestly, can you hook me up with a link that has some deets? I'm just in shock. What a racket.
This post seems less about hiring and more about what a startup should be focusing on. Given his reasoning, would it not make sense to hire someone good at customer development and/or customer acquisition?
The fact that Windows still keeps this hierarchy is what stuns me the most. Why are they still silently referring to this technology in 2011?! It just boggles my mind. It's almost like keeping your floppy disks in your top drawer even though you haven't used them for 15 years. And won't. Ever.
Of course it's a business decision by Google. It would be negligent to their shareholders if it weren't a good-faith business decision for Google. It makes plausible strategic business sense for all the reasons others have outlined. (I think it's a bad move, but hey I'm not running the billion dollar company.)

Same with Apple. It is too simplistic to say "Apple dumped Flash". There were three great business reasons for Apple to not have Flash on iOS. (1) A decent speed/energy Flash didn't exist, and Apple had no leverage to get Adobe to make one, (2) Apple does not want to depend on any outsiders to advance their platform, (3) Apple wants to differentiate iOS, so they want to have software target advanced iOS features and be exclusive. Cross-platform tools like Flash defeat that.

Folks, these are the biggest tech players in the world. I don't think either one gives a crap about standards or the free software movement any farther than it advances their business model. We've been in a lucky stretch where both Apple and Google want to commodify web access, so they've support (mostly) open standards. Now they turn their guns on each other and will seek to commodify each other's core products (for Apple, hardware; for Google, advertising).
Reminds me of the busysignal I'd get after dialing into Prodigy. "Please wait while we allocate an IP address for your internet connection."
You should also keep in mind that Gabriel is rich. That's why he can run DDG unprofitably for 3 years, without raising outside money, and it isn't totally insane.
Many games and apps may run on other than the C: drive, but odd things are broken - configuration changes don't stick, temp files fail to be written etc.
Yeah, this is especially painful as a long-time iPhone on AT&T customer. If I want to tether, I have to pay more a month and I lose my grandfathered unlimited data plan.
I also have a VIC-20, although I bought mine from a thrift store maybe 4 years ago or so.

The Commodore RF modulator that came with it was no good either, but I replaced the electrolytic capacitor inside with a new one and it seems to work pretty well now...
> Delegates (1.0) are types specifying method references, anonymous delegates (2.0) are anonymous code-blocks making usage of delegates, and lambdas (3.0) are just defined delegates with generic variables.

Delegates are references to code blocks, anonymous delegates are references to code blocks, lambdas are references to code blocks. They're three features which do the same thing, meaning they are not orthogonal (and they could have been build from lambdas up and I'd have said the same thing).

> "for" is different than "foreach"

Yes, one has 3 more letter than the other one. Any usage pattern of `for` can be replicated by `foreach` and the right enumerables, and vice versa. Not only are they not orthogonal, they're fully redundant.

> and "for" is there because the language being named "C#" it had to have some heritage from C. Also all ForEach methods are built on top of IEnumerable.

This is completely irrelevant to my point and absolutely uninteresting.

> I.e. features are built on top of each other.

These features also fundamentally do the same thing i.e. they're not orthogonal. Your original claim was the following:

> Since C# 1.1 they've only added features that are mostly orthogonal to the existing ones

I gave you 4 features which are anything but orthogonal to preexisting features.

> that properties are OK

Goodness gracious, stockholm syndrome much?
I'm surprised at this mainly for the stress figures. I don't know if this is the case for everyone else, but I would assume some of those positions would have much higher figures for stress - namely software engineers and actuaries.
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Well, that was for a full install. A trimmed-down system required only a few.
Version number increase may mean either:
1) Adobe provided Google with a newer build, than it publicly offers. No Google resources are spent on Flash.
2) Google got Flash from Adobe and actually did some work to improve it.

We don't know which one it is, but personally, I'd consider (1) to be more possible than (2).
My knowledge is somewhat limited to the "Social Network" but I didn't know Eduardo Saverin held on to his vastly reduced amount of shares after settling...
I thought the exact opposite, read it as appealing to the lowest common denominator rather than being tongue in cheek.
Ahh, an even better alternative.
Probably that old "publish or perish" thing.
Interesting, but then, I don't really have the ability to follow conversations while I sleep, which means that one of the key selling points (of generating conversation) for the app kinda falls short for me.

I don't think a lot of people will care about your tweets if you spurt random details at scheduled times during the day. Twitter has become part broadcasting, part conversation (they're still trying to deal with that), but broadcasting without a sense of chronological context is weird - and possibly useless?
Take the concept of anything being encoded in pi, throw in the concept of the Jewish idea of the tetragrammaton, and you get the movie Pi.
Who owns Facebook?
Yeah, if you think programmers have a tough time with work/life balance, you don't know many people in the financial field. I-bankers are expected to work 14 hour days, 7 days a week, and basically have no life outside of work. This is where the "hookers and blow" reputation comes from: they have plenty of money, but no time for fulfilling relationships or hobbies.

Things are better for hedge fund managers (many of the ones I know work pretty standard 50ish hour weeks), but most of the good ones find it hard to shut off their financial brains. The foreword to Peter Lynch's books explain that he left investing because he was basically missing his kids' childhood, and at some point, some things are more important than making your next million.
Can you share your experiences -- how you promoted your previous apps?
I can picture it, Marissa as employee nr. 20. "I really want to try this design thing". "Okay, you can do the page layout, while we code". Then, with Google's success, the design became a success, which in turn lead Marissa to a star designer - without much other merits.

No?
I'm not entirely convinced "Google" and "design" belong in the same sentence, unless we're talking about their original no-frills homepage and search results, before adwords and instant and live preview.
> Sorry, should I have used VHS, DVD and Blu-Ray as examples instead?

All examples of a technology being replaced (or partially replaced) by a better technology. WebM is not better than H.264 technologically. At best, it is almost as good as the lower H.264 profiles.

H.264 might conceivably be replaced as the dominant de facto video standard, but the replacement will not be WebM.

(BTW, I don't necessarily accept the 2028 number for when the relevant H.264 patents expire. That's when the last of the patents expire, but many of the patents are on the more recent enhancements to H.264. We only need the patents that cover the main profile to expire).
Fun facts:

At the time of the AppStore announcement by Steve Jobs, the word trademark APPSTORE and the domain APPSTORE.COM belonged to Salesforce.com

Salesforce.com dropped their APPSTORE trademark in 2008, just about the time Apple applied for APP STORE trademark. The domain APPSTORE.COM now leads to an error page within apple.com domain.

I guess we can safely assume Apple got the trademark green light and the domain from Salesforce.com, especially after—if my memory serves—Salesforce.com app was featured in one of the Steve Jobs stage announcements.
The BMJ article is open access and written for a general audience: http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5258.full
Hmm. The chart states Zuckerberg has 24%, the folks on Quora say Zuckerberg has 26% -- so which is it?
Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation! I assumed that this was counting how many are in use/assigned, versus simply allocated.
He himself says that he learns by looking at others' code. Perhaps I don't understand his point.
I discovered Raymond Chen's blog some weeks ago and I started reading all the posts that I could, it is fascinating and very well written.

All the problems that Windows developers had to face for compatibility almost make me sympathize with them. Some context is given in Joel Spolsky's "How Microsoft Lost the API War" (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html), where he talks about "The Raymond Chen Camp".
You're right. The fee apparently goes up starting this year to $6.5M. Here's a link that talks about it:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/h264-patents-how-much-do-they...
I imagine most PHP programmers have at least installed a package like XAMPP on their development machine, even if they haven't compiled their own PHP binary.
Haha you just reminded me that we used to do this same trick for tribes 2 at a friend's house. We'd play online, too, so every time the map changed on the server, we'd have to run back and forth to load the new map.
another powerful alternative is http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/ this allows jquery selector syntax to be used, which is more likely to be in the skill set of most web developers, and sql might not be.
Often the people articles like this are outsourced to live in places where $1 is a fairly large amount of money (for the amount of time they spent writing the article).
I'm confused, are you implying that Google does not design their various products?
NUMBER MUNCHERS! i miss that game
End the hoard mentality
As with a lot of the articles that flow through HN, this applies somewhat more to the web-based startup business model than to other models.

I've got two other people working with me now, and I hope to add at least two more this year. We're a heck of a good team, with our bases covered in hardware, software development, consumer electronics, home media systems, Windows and Linux network administration ... there are much fewer things that we can't handle between the three of us, versus any one of us alone.
Have been trying it out, and it seems like it could turn into an awesome company, and the guys behind it seem great as well.

Pleased to hear about this investment, and hope they go far.
i've used this and i like it. but it leaks like a sinking ship.
CNAME, SSL, Edge Purge (invalidation), and more are coming with the addition of Akamai to the Rackspace Cloud Files product. We're excited, too. A big reason for this new partnership is feedback received from the Rackspace Cloud user community received here: http://feedback.rackspacecloud.com.

(See this link for today's announcement: http://bit.ly/RackCloudAkamai and for ongoing updates on the partnership between Rackspace and Akamai, see http://www.rackspace.com/akamai ).

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Rackspace Hosting
robot AT rackspace DOT com
Just taking the latest artcile on the jetway mini-itx mobo, it's only 200 words. Your comment on the writer (quote not included) is 81. How long did it take you to write?

If she can bust out one article in 5 minutes, even with breaks of a few minutes in between to stretch or just clear her head, the writer can do 15 of them in an hour. And that's assuming kreci is her only client. I can see her making over US$100/day quite easily, and depending on where the writer is situated (and it seems that she is not a native English speaker/writer based just from her word usage alone), making between 25-30k year could possibly be no small potatoes.

FYI, I just wrote the preceding in 5 minutes and it's 118 words.
I'll bet you a nickle that most of the pages you'd use this on are not properly formed XML.
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I'll remind you that the iPhone paved the way for the generation of smart phones that Android is a part of.
Maneuver with cadence and intent.