skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Precisely. Traffic is not caused by human error, Traffic is made worse by the margins of safety required by human error. Take human reflexes and perception out of the equation and you don't eliminate the problem entirely, but you allow for increased efficiency.
I was thinking the same thing, and couldn't even work out how he'd achieved them — commonly mishit combinations seem easy for me to translate on the fly. Dvorak?
JQuery's 2010 Analytics
Finally.  A much-needed "earthquake" in health insurance
But isn't the referral header and search terms good for the webmaster? It allows them to customize the website for their customers and allows them to find out what their customers are looking for.
The CCC congress yielded some great talks this year.
I know this is kind of beside the point, but my response would ne pretty simple - I've never played Monopply, and have no idea of its structure at all.
This is really just a rehash of other posts from the last month (linked in article). This post basically complains about two things: the finer points of SEO and content farms.

Yes indeed, on the money.

Further, the attitude of these various whiners is pathetic.

The war on spam-in-a-general-sense is not never going to be won or lost. The war for attention simply, inherently, has too many dimensions to be winnable or losable. As long as there's benefit for merely getting people attention, there will be people who successfully put out low-content, attention-getting information in one form or another. Human beings themselves are often often satisfied with less-than-stellar-content, how then could a given algorithm be expected to filter for stellar content?

Google and other filtering-entity's ability to provide us with stuff we're satisfied with will fluctuate. They won't ever be done. The "good" providers won't ever be fully satisfied and the "bad" provider won't ever completely go away. Any "new Google" will be "the same as the old Google".

Let's move on.
John Resig posted this on his Twitter account (@jeresig) today, while announcing jQuery.com had reached an Alexa rank of 513. I personally found it very interesting as it highlights the inconsistency of Alexa rankings, as I'm sitting on nearly identical visits/pageviews -- with a current Alexa rank of 2269.
Thanks, I really wasn't sure how derivative it will come out when I was writing it :)
What makes a face look alive?
If you don't want to be tracked but still want to use google there are three great browser extensions which make that possible: http://techblog.willshouse.com/2011/01/03/three-extensions-t...
It's not really "blindly"; if you run `bundle update', the latest versions are documented in the Gemfile.lock.
I don't know how profitable it is for Amazon (since the items are 15% off and they ship free), but it has worked out well for my fiancee and me. For things that we would have bought at Costco (shampoo, toothpaste, lotion), we are saving a little and we don't have to make that extra trip to Costco or carry heavy items from the car.
Disagree. People usually aren't aware of these privacy problems, and would care if they did know. Result: this page.

Same goes for free software: more casual users (probably) would use more free software if they knew about it. And the bit about it just working is mostly FUD.
I found the z80 delightful to work with, especially in comparison with the 6502 because it had twice as many registers and you could switch banks of them on the z80.

you have to love programming to really appreciate assembly, the succinctness, the satisfaction of being so close to the metal, none of this high level peek and poke nonsense of high level languages :)

you don't write code using a hex dump???

You write assembly code using either hand assembly or more efficiently using a tool called an assembler which makes the tedious task of mapping instructions by name to their hex values easier. After a while you get to remember the common ones though, C9 for example.

And I haven't heard of your school buddy, sorry.
Good for Kevin Rose, seems like it's a good way for him to do what he really loves doing and that's connecting the tech community, like everyone else here mentions.

Whenever founders evolve into tech-scenesters though, I think it's a good time to be bearish on their startups (I'm thinking of a lot of other names here too).

As Picasso said, "Without great solitude no serious work is possible."
Very interesting, but I personally dislike the paradigm of having fixed content that gets scrolled over depending on the position of the scrollable content. Is this what is referred to as 'parallax'? Writing CSS to do this sounds really fun, but I think it's really disorienting and kind of gimmicky to look at.
Two blog posts from affected authors:

This first one was on HN:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007395

Another:
http://jamthecat.blogspot.com/2010/12/boycott-amazoncom.html
JavaScript (library) Usage Statistics
The complete lack of any details may fly on Chinese Central Television and Reuters.com, but I want more when I come to hacker news. What's next? "North Korea boasts development of time machine!"
The argument in favour of a GPU-accellerated GUI which is not mentioned here is battery life. I haven't been testing this side of things, but just because a CPU can do a 60 FPS GUI doesn't mean it should. Deferring it to the GPU would certainly reduce power consumption while navigating a UI.

Both Charles Ying of Satine and wzdd seem sympathetic to this notion that the gpu is a power saving device. Surely it is when doing complex work. On the other hand, most smartphone usage consists of relatively simple screens and basic if any transitions. If it's only going to take 3ms of CPU work to run a 150ms animation, by all means, figure out how to keep the OS from interrupting the high priority graphics task and make the CPU do it. Particularly if the GPU would have to be on across the entire 150ms. If not, what is the cost of copying the graphical content between the GPU and the CPU? How much CPU does it take to initialize and set up the GPU for this extremely simple task you ask of it? Is the CPU going to be able to sleep while the GPU is running the animation, and if not what kind of context switching and control costs are going to be imposed on the CPU to manage the graphics state?

We've barely begun to see multi-core cell phone GPU's, but the point of the GPU is basically to run lots of work at a nice low clock rate where voltages can be dropped. If you dont have a lot of work to do, there's really no sense waking up the GPU and having it's extremely dumb poorly-branching cores chug away at figuring out, say, the SVG animations that a semi-competent ARM core could knock off right quick. You're just wasting power turning on the GPU.

Smoothness and polish, I suspect, are much more a questions of resource allocation than CPU capability, particularly when you've got a sub 640x480 surface and a 1GHz core.
From their "How It Works" description:

"Alan goes to work online, posting his HopLink in search engine ads, on his pet-training blog, and in the e-book review he writes for his favorite dog-training forum."

Something about the way it's worded just sounds to me like they're hinting that people should "go to work online" posting spammy 'reviews' as an excuse to post affiliate links, and otherwise post the affiliate links far and wide.
Facebook has proven itself since them. When TV stations start promoting their facebook pages rather than their own websites you know they're onto something.
The Private IPO
Stichting - Viewunity - Organisatie - Realisering - Gemeenschap - ORG.
Without wishing to be rude does Nokia's search division really compete with google?
Since then, I've asked again to get it, and MattCutts was nice enough to forward it to the right people. Haven't heard back yet though.
Yep, as someone mentioned, Amazon offers a lot of this.

You should also look at Diapers.com and Soap.com which was recently acquired by Amazon.
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2010/11/06/amazon-to-buy-diap...
Ask HN: Startup Launch Events?
Outside of DEMO, TC Disrupt and Launch, what are some other events in the US for startups to 'launch' their product?
New Years Surprise, 4,000 Dead Blackbirds Drop From the Sky
Jeff King (Peff) is a GitHubber
Why is this only tracking the S&P 500? Wouldn't a saavy investor be choosing from a wider range of stocks than just the ones in the S&P?
Eric Meyer's Reset Revisited
Saying Google is poor at product development is just trolling. List of well-designed, dominant Google products include:

* Search

* Gmail

* Docs

* Reader

* Images

* News

* Maps

If only other companies failed at product development so well...
2. Children could own cars. Don’t feel like schlepping your kid to soccer practice? Just buy them a car

6. ... Make my car driverless (freeing me up to watch TV, read a book, catch up on emails, etc.) and able to travel at twice the speed, and spend the entire trip at top speed (rather than slowing down and speeding up on the highway) and I could feasibly live as far as 100 mph away.

7. Urbanization will reverse. Why pay $3,000/month for a flat in Manhattan when you can get from 100 miles upstate to work in 30 minutes?

This is bascially an apocalyptic scenario in my mind. I hate what the automobile has done to US cities, making everything the same vanilla spread and causing the car to become necessary to participate in modern life. I'm sad this blogger doesn't even think twice about the advantages of public transit (see: 6.) or more clever urban planning to reduce travel distances.

I like his basic thesis but I'm horrified by this example he puts forth. We should be moving away from the car, not towards it.
I don't know if Goldman did this, but Morgan Stanley did: they sold silver bullion to their clients, then charged them an ongoing storage fee to hold the bullion on their behalf in their vault.

Problem was, as it came out, that MS never actually bought the bullion and thus was charging storage fees on non-existent items. If you went to remove or claim your silver, they just gave you cash as settlement, making the scam opaque.

The cynic in me says GS will do something similar, like put a very high valuation on the FB units they sell, both marking them up a great deal over what they paid FB for it AND inventing some of the units out of whole cloth (i.e. issuing 10,000 units for sale when they only bought enough FB for 1,000 units), then, over time, the FB units will be seen to "decline" in value and GS will pocket the profits twice, first on the markup of the units, then on the decline.
The law was different back when Google was having its IPO.
Self driving cars are here today.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/12/sartre-project-ready-to-roa...
What else to use besides Dropbox?
We've been using Dropbox for asset sharing with our team for a while now. However we've reached the 2gb limit and we were looking into how to solve this.

Like most people we thought we could upgrade a main account with 50GB and then share that account with others. However I dug in thinking that wouldn't work, and I was right. Anyone is limited based on their quota. Meaning if we upgraded one account to 50GB and shared a folder, it wouldn't use that accounts quota to disperse the quota, everyone would essentially be limited to 2GB out of that 50GB assuming they were on the free plan.

So, we looked into the team pricing and in our perspective it was ridiculous. We're not going to jump $800 onto the team plan.

What other alternatives are there?

p.s I still love Dropbox personally. For teams the pricing is off.

p.s.s What bothers me is charging for both # of users AND amount of storage is uncool. Seems like $99/year for 50GB unlimited users is ideal or $x/month per user. But both? No way.
50 billion reasons why Facebook is not worth $50 billion
Ask HN: SaaS Pricing Model? Plans or charge per user
I am trying to figure out the pricing model to my new SaaS app. It is a B2B app similar to Yammer and Basecamp.

Yammer charges $5 per user, while Basecamp has plans (similar to X users for $Y). The Basecamp model would allow me to make "more" money off of the smaller customers, while the Yammer model would allow me to make more money off the the larger customers.

I was wondering what you think about these pricing models and which one you think is best to maximize profit(not user count, etc)?
He wrote code with amazing speed using the machine language monitor on the PET -- without an assembler.
The colors are incorrect on the bottom. Green and blue should be reversed.
There's a certain delight in getting the most out of such a limited set of instructions and registers, counting the clock-cycles, reducing the bytes used. It's much more fun than assembly on modern processors!
Intel Core 2 - Yorkfield, 45 nm process technology, Number of Transistors: 820 Million

MOS 6502, Number of Transistors: 3510

So in theory, a chip with 65536 MOS 6502 cores each with 64K of internal RAM (4Mb cache) could be made.
I brought up my desire for a good ruby editor in ruby previously in an HN comment and got some "why would you want that?" responses. I hope watching this, people might get a glimpse of why I think this is awesome.

edit: I installed it and it seems pretty nice so far. All it really needs for me to pledge my undying love is a built-in debugger, and that is on the roadmap. Oh, and perhaps some git integration (as opposed to SVN).
ADrive is pretty good. Individuals get 50G free. No SSL for free accounts though (except for the login.)

https://www.adrive.com/login
all great points. the sales cycle is absolutely one of the most important considerations.

for example, we think our latest venture has as enormous potential in government, but between the potential sales cycle and the pain that comes with dealing with government, we may abandon those efforts altogether.

you could have the best idea in the world, but if it'll take a year for somebody to pay you for it, you may not last to see it.
I personally would prefer a way to just blacklist sites like this. It's very easy to visually spot a "cloner", and once I found such a site I don't care to see it again. I know this feature has been requested by many others; just adding one more voice to the pile.
Just saw the latest update:-

"As of January 03, 2011 @ 01:51PM PST
"Battle station fully operational"

So it's back up again for now, it would appear.
I think this is a fairly sound assessment of both the designer and engineer psychologies. In my experience, engineers frequently fail to understand that design is the fundamental relationship between the consumer and your product, and as such, should be considered of equal importance to the quality of the code. From the perspective of the layperson who actually has to USE the software, an ugly or clumsy design may as well be a critical coding bug. And therein lies the problem: some engineers are incapable (or unconcerned) with understanding the psychologies of other people despite the fact that they are developing products that will ostensibly be used by other people. Engineers would do well to learn that code is the language of computers, and aesthetics is the language of the user.

I think tech start-ups could benefit by taking cues from architecture, where the relationship between designers and engineers is reversed, design having priority over engineering. Serious architects can go so far as to believe that design has priority over even physics -- and sometimes with good reason. Many designs have been declared by engineers to be "impossible" only to be successfully built. Usually after the architect yells enough. Of course, despite being notoriously difficult, such architects are bound to have immense value for engineers with enough creativity to execute their ambitious plans. And I'm sure that the engineers love the challenge of working with them. At any rate, it would be interesting to see the results of talented coders being challenged by the best designers in this manner.
Hey, im actually going to make a legit comment here though I'm sick of this article:

" Also, everything we make will include a compass.”

Do you know how BAD the iPhone's compass is? The thing can do video chat over 3G now, let me play games with the unreal engine, browse the web, and even occasionally make calls. BUT the compass? Horrible. I have to do exorcist like motions to get it to work ie- the figure 8, your compass doesn't know what's going on motion. Two things apple sucks at: Headphones and Compass dynamics.
To be fair, in the previous paragraph that is explained, and so it makes sense in context without further clarification:

Here, in one arresting scene, is James Taggart, who represents businessmen who scheme to "take" their wealth by political pull and connections–and who cause catastrophes–and Dagny, who represents those who "make" their wealth by productive genius,

I've never read the book myself, but I'm always amazed that something that seems to center around the ability to affect political change via industrial action (i.e. strikes) is so popular in the U.S., which generally seems very anti-union. Certainly the groups pro-Rand and those pro-union don't seem to overlap much.
Tell HN: Leave Google Alone
That's it.
Works beautifully on Safari. Looks particularly impressive with inertia scrolling enabled.
Emily Olson, Co-Founder Foodzie, on Venture Sourcing Made Easy
No sense in arguing over something that is easily accessible (see Note 2 to the financial statements): http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/00011931251023...

Total cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities as of 9/25/2010 = $51.011 billion.
Thanks for correcting me. I started hosting my mail there when it was still called MailTrust and the price was (and still is for me) $1/mailbox.
I'm pretty sure it's the latter. Microsoft's MO lately has been to rip off anything that makes their primary competitors unique, so they can go on being a one-stop shop in any industry they believe themselves to be a part of. And since Google is both a big competitor and lacking any central concept to its business, Microsoft will pretty much rip off anything they do.
I take no stock in Compete stats. It grossly miscalculates traffic statistics.

Here's an example: http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/experts-misunderestimate-our-...
Connected Canvas, Adaptive Web Portals to Unlimited Information
It's easy to understand both the reason this could be true, and the reason not to care. When someone visits your website from SU, they just clicked the stumble button. How many pages have they viewed in that session? How many of them bounce immediately? How many of them read a page and - while in their stumble mode - stumble along to the next page?

And when someone visits your website from FB, they probably just clicked on a link a friend shared with them (implicitly endorsing you), or came from your FB page, where they have been pre-qualified as interested.

As other commenters have pointed out, pageviews aren't the best way to measure the efficacy of your digital promotions. Try your best to find metrics that align with your actual business goals. Conversions to sales would be a good one, but something like time spent on site or pages viewed per session are fair indicators that you're doing something right.

I'm not trying to decry SU as worthless or this article as baseless; not by any means. I just want to encourage a healthy skepticism of metrics that don't necessarily mean anything. If "that which gets measured, gets managed", then optimizing for page views could mean you find yourself in the deadpool soon.
They recently built an R&D-scale PUREX plant on the site of a weapons complex. The most likely "story" is that it started operating.

>The Jiuquan Atomic Energy Complex (Plant 404) is centered on a 400-500MW light water graphite reactor [LWGR] fueled with natural Uranium. The facility includes a pilot plutonium reprocessing plant and a arge-scale reprocessing plant with a capacity of 300-400kg Pu/yr (both use PUREX method). It also includes a Nuclear Fuel Processing Plant for refining plutonium into weapons-usable metals.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/china/jiuquan.htm

>The small reprocessing plant in Gansu was completed about six years ago, but Chinese oversight agencies have not yet permitted it to separate any plutonium—as of last month, just two fuel assemblies have been dissolved in the nitric acid tank at the plant. Full-scale operation is not expected before 2012.

http://carnegieendowment.org/publications/index.cfm?fa=view&...

More about PUREX, reprocessing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing

http://www.inl.gov/technicalpublications/KeyResults.aspx?key...

China has a long-term vision (not really making progress) of closed fuel cycles based on fast breeder reactors. This is the state media reference to "60-fold increase in uranium usage", "3,000 year uranium supply". Since a fast reactor can't burn through fuel entirely in one go (it will fall apart), one of the requirements of a closed fuel cycle is reprocessing: fuel has to be removed from a reactor and re-fabricated. Certain waste products need to be removed, and pure plutonium* isolated for new fuel (this is a chemical separation).

*(Not in every reprocessing method. COEX (mentioned in the Carnege Endowment article, where the French are trying to persuade China to adopt it) co-extracts plutonium with uranium. The pyroprocessing method developed at Argonne (US national lab) co-extracts plutonium with every trans-uranic, so that the resulting fuel is essentially unusable as weapons. China is pursuing PUREX.)
Project dev turns up to INDECT cybersurveillance talk Q&A at CCC, anger ensues
Engineering at BankSimple
The science vs. creationism debate exemplified on a Facebook page
I like jundledisk alot.. Much better linux support https://www.jungledisk.com/
Microsoft's Graphics Business Unit (1987-1992) built out a long and thin building at 2460 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, in this way, using central hallways; every person had a private office with a door and an outside window looking out at the hills around Stanford. Core areas were used for conference rooms and labs.
1) I'd tell Dropbox you think the team pricing is too high and/or propose an alternative SOHO price point. They seem to listen.

2) I use Dropbox for personal use only and subscribe to the 50GB account. That being said I have also used Unison very successfully. Going that route you are going to pay in terms of time and, if you don't have someone to care and feed Unison, possible hiccups.
That's what bundle update does, with no other arguments. The other way to use it is bundle update gem-name, which will only update the gem passed in and it's dependencies.
I wonder how the investors in Digg feel about this and other diversions Rose has taken?
First half an hour is the presentation about the EU's cybersurveillance scheme called INDECT: http://www.indect-project.eu/

Gets really interesting in the second half when a researcher from the project at a university in poland turns up for the Q&A, and the roomful of hackers starts firing angry questions at him.

Here is a direct link to the mp4 if you can't use the bittorrent link above, but lets try not to smash the shit out of the CCC's servers (the file is ~1gb): http://mirror.fem-net.de/CCC/27C3/mp4-h264-HQ/27c3-4237-en-i...
Hirelite doesn't currently filter remote vs locale candidates, but it's something we're working on.
Or like suing Microsoft for making the computers that ship with its OS more useful by including Office cheaply...
Wierdness here: http://sanfransis.co/
Why should we be moving away from the car? You seem to take this as an a priori fact. I see no advantages to public transit aside from less energy waste, unless you just occasionally long for the scent of hobos.

And urban planning is not a solution. It's shutting the barn doors after horses got out. Most urban areas have already been not only planned but fully executed and there isn't public will to tear the whole thing down and start over.