skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They think (incorrectly) that whatever they themselves "like" will also be liked by other people.

This stems from kindergarten, really. This is where we start telling children that everyone's aesthetic opinions are correct. When anybody complains, the standard answer is "hey, that's his opinion, and it's just as valid as yours." A designer is taught the basics of universal aesthetics, and this quote: “Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.”

However, there exist things such as the golden measure, which are inherently more attractive, measurably and proven, to humans. This is why gothic architecture seems so alien, and why their paintings are messed up... their definition of proper proportion was incorrect. They felt the human body was an ugly vessel for the soul, and that churches should reach to God. It took us a while to realize that neo-classical Greek architecture and sculpting was inherently correct, that things need to be based on Φ to be human.

Look at a Macbook Pro. It's beautiful. I know a few Windows developers who HATE the mac operating system, but run a MBP because the hardware is so nice, so good looking. This is in contrast to the personal preference of some fantasy lover who decks a computer out with skulls and blue lights. There is a human style that is universal, but often clouded by personal and cultural preferences. Our things are based on our proportions: the traditional musical scale is based on pitch segments of what the human voice is capable of. Because of this common design thread, there are solutions that are more inherently correct and pleasing than others. You don't ever hear an engineer complain about mathematical beauty.

The reason most people don't say anything about design? They don't have words for it, and without those words they can't understand a concept. I've taught friends about typography and they suddenly start to develop a design aesthetic, much like your photography skills. This is fairly similar to a culture with no concept of higher numbers: one, two, many.

Start here: http://moma.org/explore/collection/index
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That's for the kindle version, but the paperback edition is $11 [1].

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Painters-Big-Ideas-Computer/dp...
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I mean, apt-get install will also compile from source, if you have the right repositories enabled.

The complaint about 'compiling from source' is that you have to manage the compilation yourself, the paths, where it's installed, etc. rvm addresses this problem.
I'm considering making a morning playlist of songs that get me motivated for when I wake up.
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I don't know, xtranormal seems to be chock full o' amazing financial advice. Here's one for you if you don't trust teddy bears: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jllJ-HeErjU

Seriously, buy the effing dip.
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They probably can do all of these things, but not at the rate that they would prefer. This funding round would allow them to speed up efforts by a significant factor.

I also wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the capital is actually used for construction. Every time Facebook signs a new lease, they outgrow it. This may buy a huge plot of land to build their own megacomplex.
There is also a project called Lettuce. It isn't quite as 'natural language' as Cucumber, but the added syntax isn't too much and is still quite readable.
I've got a couple personal domains on Google Apps, one business domain on Google apps, and then off course I have a gmail account.

I use a firstname@lastname.org for my primary email which is hosted on Google Apps.

I also self-host one of my domains, mainly because I can then do server side filtering of email and it is a catch-all domain.
Primarily my own vanity domain for personal mail, running on GoDaddy. This is sucked up by a mailserver in my house doing SmartPOP.

But I also have a handful of gmail accounts that I use for other purposes that I want to keep separate from my core communications/identity.
Truly sorry about that...

Whenever anyone begins with "That site turned me off," it may be a good idea to hear their feedback, but it does not necessarily follow that they deserve an apology or that you need to act upon that feedback. I think you're dealing with an outlier, and we already know what trying to please them can lead to.

If anyone has suggestions for equally good replacements, I'm fine with that too.

Don't change a thing.

As Edward Everett said to Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg: "I should be glad, if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes."
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I've seen similar things with my gmail being fast while my lower-volume hosted gmail accounts are slow. The converse also happens at random times.
There's no interesting content. If I were you, I would do a closed beta for a while, with some incentives for the chosen users to populate the site with interesting content, as well as getting lots of feedback and adjusting your site's design and functionality. Then, once you have lots of content, and lots of people beating down the door to participate in the beta, open it up.
Ask HN: Do startups get permission to use company logos?
It's common to find the logos of websites and publications that have covered, or even mentioned, a startup as part of their homepage design. It's also common to find the logos of companies that have used the product. To what extent is it necessary, and typical, to get permission before using a logo?

If TechCrunch mentions your startup, can you display their logo in an "as seen in" page without risk of some legal action? What about CNET? What about a print magazine or newspaper? Do startups always ask clients before listing their customers -- it's common to see even large companies like Microsoft or Amazon listed when it's likely only a small team or employee used the product.
The disjoint set is one of my favorite data structures because the amortized running time of its basic operations is O(α(n)), α being the inverse of the Ackermann function.

The Ackermann function grows extremely quickly (quicker than any primitive recursive function I believe), so its inverse grows extremely slowly. In fact, α(x) is less than 5 for "reasonable" values of x such as the number of atoms in the universe. Therefore, the amortized run time of the disjoint set operations can be thought of as essentially constant.

Also of interest to me is that the inverse Ackermann function is proven to be the asymptotically optimal run time for the disjoint set operations. I'm not equipped to understand that particular proof of asymptotic optimality, but other such proofs (like the O(n lg n) running time for comparison sort) are elegant and awesome.
AWS, GAE, Heroku, Linode, Slicehost, Rackspacecloud seem like viable places to start. Heroku is more rails focused - so you can save your time looking at them if non-rails project.
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money in the bank counts. not valuation.
The only thing that really annoyed me was the proper spelling of "now" in the lolcat.
May be worth mentioning a tip I learned on an earlier HN thread: https://www.startssl.com/ provide single-domain standard SSL certs for free, and look considerably cheaper than GoDaddy for the UCC certificates discussed here.
Compete Says Bing’s Total U.S. Market Share Grew To 29% In November
Can you unpack this a bit more? I'm still not sure who you're claiming has power in this situation, and why that makes GS want to buy FB stock.
Lack of namespaces and monkeypatching (extending classes) are THE "features" that keep me from using ruby seriously every time I try to approach the language.
What's the leak? They are a holding company and a member of FINRA. I'm genuinely interested in how you think the SEC might shut them down.

Besides, SecondMarket is growing fast in Europe and Asia too.. They trade stocks all over the world now, so it's not just one 'leak' that the SEC can plug.
> No language in the world will save you from having to think about your program's desired behavior, but that doesn't mean we should make it hard on ourselves to even implement the behavior we think we want.

Therein lies the rub. Is there no cost to static typing? Is it not complex? Is it sufficiently expressive? Does it never make it harder to implement the behavior we think we want?

Should everyone write everything in every program in as provable a way as possible? If not, why not?

As the example here shows, there is a cost in effort expended and complexity:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2062910

I'm quite glad people are working on these things, and they have genuine benefits. But to overstate the benefits and ignore the costs (as did the post to which I replied) is not productive.
clear sign of an ipo. also why are they raising more capital?
I always assumed the PS3 has top notch security given how long they had managed to avoid exploits.

Sometimes absence of evidence really is evidence of absence. Sometimes it's just that nobody was really looking that hard.

Their presentation makes a good case that real hackers really do just want to run their own code and that the 'piracy' bugaboo is something else entirely.

When I was little, I thought Sony was the coolest company ever. They made high-quality reasonably priced HiFi gear. Now my small children have made Sony the laughing stock of the household. Between this Linux debacle and the Windows rootkit, Sony has shown itself to have a habit of shooting its customers in the foot my opinion. No other company has fallen so low in my view.

Seems from watching the videos that they could go a long way on a future console to prevent hacks just by plugging these issues.

Naah. Every major security layer they had in place was broken or ineffective. That's usually a sign of deeper problems in the development process.

IBM probably wrote the hypervisor layer for them. IBM discontinued development on the Cell processor a few years back. It's likely nobody really understands that system at this point better than the hackers.
I love the reference to the austin powers' "in a nutshell" scene, heheh.
Ironically your example site is not only a Google property, but also raises a "this website is asking to store data on your computer" security warning and runs horribly slowly in my browser (maybe I'm guilty of having too many tabs open, but maybe they're guilty of optimising for Chrome...). For casual browsing I'd much rather scroll than click the right hand side of the page and wait whilst Firefox thinks about running a page curl animation. Even with it working properly in Chrome I'd rather not be slowed down like that...

For Gabriel's intended audience (presumably social media) the simplicity and silly cat memes probably work perfectly well without attempting to make it beautiful.

For me, all the FUD simply makes me think "hang on, even if I use DuckDuckgo the site that built the Herpes landing page, optimised it for health advertisers and probably has Facebook widgets too gets all that information, and is far more likely to sell their data than Google...". I don't think HN is the target audience for that page.

Given the recent spate of articles on how scraper sites that DDG blocks pollute Google results, I'd think a similar info page about how DDG's spam blacklist would go down nicely now though...
My apologies for not being precise enough. "Everything falls down" fails as an explanation for Newton's purposes because "down" and "falls" as we use those terms on earth don't apply to stars. As a description of a phenomena, though, it points right at what Newton was interested in, as you say.

Something similar would apply here to the statement, "People are getting fat because they are overeating." As an explanation, it falls short for someone who wants to know why they overeat, but their neighbor does not.
that doesn't help if you still want folks who use IE on XP to connect to your site with SSL, since you can't rely on SNI in that instance.

The key part was the "1 ip address"
I don't think Goldman's position is really revenue based. It looks more like they are pretty much trading on the value of the company shares. I think this is really a way for them to get in on what they believe will be a pretty large IPO, and a way to make money trading on Facebook shares by getting in sooner rather then later. At some time Facebook's revenues will become relevant but you can likely make some serious money having a position in Facebook before it reaches that point.
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I think you meant to say "true, that."
In the movie, the figure quoted was 22.000 hits, so 3 pages per second. Which is reasonably serviceable but still high for a new site.
Yup, that was the same day we announced SSL search, which prevents referrers to http sites.

I don't begrudge you trying to make privacy a selling point for DDG, but donttrack.us felt like trying to paint Google with a pretty broad brush. Honestly, it reminded me of when Privacy International decided to give Google a worse privacy rating than any other company. Here's how I responded to Privacy International at the time: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/privacy-international-loses-al...

The fact is that Google has a good history of supporting privacy, from fighting overly broad subpoenas from the DOJ to SSL Search to creating a browser plugin to opt out of personalized advertising: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin/pluginfaq.html .
So what are the implications of this ? Homebrew software ? Pirated games ?
Couldn't hurt to ask for permissions, first.
I use my own domain name backed up by Exim... I followed this howto to set it up http://struction.de/projects/HOWTO_VirtualMail_Exim-MySQL-Sp...

I do not use Google because I don't want to trust them with my personal information...
Google does seem to be getting clogged up with crap results, but I can reliably find what I'm looking for within a few searches. Unfortunately, that's more than I can say for most of the alternative search engines right now. I had major frustration yesterday trying to find Ruby/Rails topics after switching to Blekko as my default search engine (even with the slashtags and everything). I gotta say that the /seo slashtag is awesome though.
This is an amazing feature for when you have not-so-important data that's quickly accumulated and that you need to do some data analysis on (which SQL is really useful for).

I commented over there on the blog that I could easily see a generic solution that moves data from unlogged into logged tables at a set interval, helping to keep request time low (by inserting into the unlogged table), helping to keep i/o lower (by bulk inserting into the logged table which causes only one WAL write and thus fsync) and still providing a reasonable amount of data integrity.

For my personal use-case, this is one of the best features I've ever seen appear in PostgreSQL and I can imagine it could be of some use for other people here, hence the submission.
definitely not if you haven't created the website yet. MVP first, how can you make that 1st $ asap to validate your idea
Plausible deniability: We don't cover our pages with AdSense. Do we direct you to pages with AdSense? Yes, but only when our algorithm determines that the content on those pages is relevant.
I'm not a Google expert either -- whatever that would mean -- but I've worked in large software organizations. My point was that the linked article naively conceptualizes Google as a unitary entity that either "knows" something or doesn't.

As to your point, a software engineering organization releases products that are the results of myriad goals and constraints (requirements, priorities, schedules, bugs, etc.). Products aren't merely reflections of what the engineers can or cannot do. So it's likely that the search team can filter crap results? Is that really all that we need to know before we decide that Google search is intentionally designed to profit from spam?
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Nit: AdSense is profitable, but AdWords is even more profitable. If I'm reading it correctly, AdWords brought in 67% of their 2010 ad revenue vs. 30% for AdSense:

http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html
With Sandybridge Intel created a new set of instructions to replace/supplement SSE. There are some nice things about them that ought to mean that they should have higher performance. However, no existing software uses them so the AVX stuff isn't being used right now. In N months when software has code execution paths using AVX we might see these guys pull ahead of Nehalem processors. AMD will have its own processors using AVX coming out soon too.
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Matt,

I believe that there is no single metric for search results -- that there is no universal answer to the question of "iPad games"

So I try to provide original content in niches that don't exist.

I apologize if you don't like the quality of what I am doing. I will gladly delete the sites if they hurt people. I am simply trying to learn how to provide content that people want.

You are welcome to contact me offline and I'm happy to do whatever is necessary to prove that I mean well. I don't know what else I could offer to prove my good intentions.
When your customer is a Microsoft or a Google, asking the employee that signed up for permission is just going to lead to "I'd have to contact legal", won't it? How are startups getting through this?
Time to go take photoshoplayermasks.com and create a whole bunch of free tutorials there and then link to free tutorials about layer styles you will also make on photoshoplayerstyles.com
That is incorrect. Adsense is only one way that google publishes ads. According to their 2009 earnings reports:
"Google Network Revenues - Google's partner sites generated revenues, through AdSense programs, of $2.04 billion, or 31% of total revenues"

That is hardly nearly all of googles profits. A significant portion to be sure but not all.

You can see the full breakdown here: http://investor.google.com/earnings/2009/Q4_google_earnings....
The best thing about this link is the "recommended video" in the big slot, "Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster Says Buy the Dip in Apple" submitted by "TradeTheTrend"
is this related to SNI which doesn't work in IE under Windows XP? That would still be a considerable amount of users for whom SSL wouldn't work (right).
Sometimes it's better to beg forgiveness than ask permission. If you ask now, they may say no. If you use it without asking, they probably won't do anything for a while (if they even notice). By the time it hits their radar, hopefully your service is popular enough that they don't mind
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I also believe they will use some of the new money to cash out early investors.
This seems more like a strategic investment. They're obviously partnering with Goldman Sachs for an (eventual) IPO, and the terms were probably good. Why not do it?
May be completely besides the point, but my first OO instinct upon approaching the question is to model rules etc. as objects themselves. Only the most naive OO modeler would think that OO objects must be nouns within some physical analogue of the system - to my mind, anyhow.
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GS wants to handle the IPO.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2021908
I really wasn't trying to paint with a broad brush, but instead concentrate on very specific things that I think the average person doesn't know about.

Personally, as you can gather, I don't think SSL search is enough (or browser plugins). The average person doesn't know it exists and so it essentially doesn't "exist" for most people. If you made it the default, or did something like what we did by dropping the referrer header, I think it becomes moot (at least the first sentence).

I'm really not trying to say Google is all bad or anything. In fact, I use a lot of Google services myself, e.g. Gmail. And I know you take privacy very seriously. However, the ad networks and other aggregators are starting to do some pretty scary stuff, and so I think you need to do more faster to catch up, or stay ahead of them in the privacy arena.
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I'm not so sure I'd want to take a job having just made my new chain of command look like incompetent idiots, they'd probably find a way to repay the favor. They'd just make him to sign a bunch of long-term NDAs and fire him 6 months later. If this guy had much experience in the workplace he'd know that development like this usually happens when an organization has systematically driven out the detail-oriented security-minded people. They tend to be on the low end of the "net reduction in buglist items per salary dollar" scale.

On the other hand, there are any number of independent security assessment/pen testing firms that would love to have this guy's skills. He might even end up working on consoles. That's probably the way he should approach it.
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Improving the browser extension localization process
Incognito mode only blocks local storage of data. It doesn't block IP address, downloads, referrers, or user agents. There's also some concern on if it actually works at all. (See http://ask-leo.com/do_new_browser_features_offering_privacy_... )
Android still has horrible text messaging bugs
Can't we just agree that both Python and Ruby are awesome and rant about Java some more? ;)
I've been using DDG for a while, and have been very happy with it. IMHO they should focus on this privacy aspect, trying to be the most privacy respecting search engine, because it's a key product differentiator and it's also an issue which is only likely to grow in importance.
> Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all. - Douglas Martin: (http://www.stcsig.org/usability/resources/pith.html)
No, this uses one certificate, but with multiple domains listed in subjectAltName. Like SNI, it may not be supported by all clients.
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Yes it does. The page in question describes setting up a certificate with multiple names. This works fine for XP and doesn't need SNI.
With any luck, Bing (who have no monetary incentive not to block Adsense spam; and a bigger marketing budget and reach than DDG/Blekko) will start piling on the pressure by aggressively pruning their index.

Ultimately I'd guess Google's shareholders will be even more worried about lost search market share (particularly if it's early adopter migration) than Adsense revenue dips...
Please explain

But I don't think you are "not understanding" anything. You know damn well people line up for new phones because they are excited about them and want to be the first in their group of friends to own one, or want to get them on eBay while there's leverage of scarcity. You are not expressing confusion and puzzlement, or asking anything, you are only posting to signal that you are better than the people who line up for phones, and people are upvoting you in shared feelings of superiority.

My comment is also a similar lie - I do understand yours really, but I was mimicking your comment style.
Excellent way to connect--simple, useful, and convenient.