skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, fair enough. I find it natural, your mileage may vary. :)

Do you also find the top-posting style of blogs, twitter, &c awkward? I really do think there is something to be said for putting the newest information first.
This was a spit in the face of Apple, and Jobs is the type to hold grudges. iOS devices won't use WebM. And no matter how you slice it, iOS devices will be popular in the formative years of HTML5.

At best WebM splits <video> into a state where its really not much more useful than it is today. Or H264 just kills it anyways, and Chrome dies.

In no case does WebM become the defacto standard.
Brands Begin To Pour Into Instagram
You love these machines. These machines are dead: a love story.
I didn't mean to imply that they make 100,000$/mo of AFF. My point was that they probably redirect their adult traffic to something adult related and not to mainstream dating sites.
Ask HN: Can you sue Fedex/UPS/DHL for a lost package critical to your startup?
Curious, one of those companies just lost an invaluable package. A big contract depends on the contents of it, what can I do, can I sue?
> * assembly is weak because it lacks pointer arithmetic

Compared to C it is. That's why they invented C.

> * C is weak because it lacks a proper OO

Compared to C++ or Java it would be - that's why they invented them.

> * Java is weak because Clojure is an add-on

Not sure I'm following your analogy here.

> * Ruby is weak because Rails is a separate download.

Have I been saying anything about web frameworks at any point?

You're making a bunch of false analogies. Compared to nothing other than itself, Perl is Perl. That's fine. It's axiomatic. Compared to other options, however, it does have some glaring shortcomings.
Too much, too little, death of one thing, year of another. Anyone else getting tired of some of these pointless opinion threads?
I really take a bow. This article show why this man has won Nobel Prize. It is really tough to explain such a complicated problem with so easy to digest words.

BTW I am German.
First, how do you check-in w/o code review? Someone else will spot the typo.

Second, to fix the typo, fix it in one place, and click->"rename" and it renames it everywhere else.

Last, if your IDE has spellchecking support, it will let you know that part of your name does not exist in the dictionary.
Chrome at least has the right click "Go to URL" contextual option... I'm constantly annoyed when other web browsers don't offer this obvious feature.
It is a further argument against all of the automatic law-enforcement back doors.

Investigators were able to walk-in and request a background check on a fictitious name by waving a badge.

Suppose someone waving a badge could take down a website or get all communications involving a given person?
Too late, I've already switched to DuckDuckGo.
Fortran is, in fact, faster than C.
EU Warns of "Digital Dark Age" if Digitization of Left to Private Sector
I've read it, and love it! One of my favorites, I reread it every so often solely because Feynman is so awesome :)
I think enough of the key is in the record that brute-forcing the remainder wouldn't be much of a challenge. I'm not sure what the parameters represent, but only erk and pub are truncated. I'm assuming that "pub" is the public key in this context.
My dad is in that 8%. I guess the more you're a computer illiterate, the less you're likely to get the difference between a genuine and an advertising link.
>Perl is extensible by design. Your "point" of refusing to accept that is just strange. If you can't handle it, use something else.

I think you're missing my point entirely. And I can "handle" it just fine since I've been using Perl for years now.

>Variables really should be declared, as I noted before, just because of spelling problems. That is good software practice.

Again, you're missing my point completely.
I think some of this has to do with proliferation of ad-blocking software (I hardly know anyone anymore who doesn't run AdBlocker Plus or an analog thereof), but perhaps even more to do with a more savvy audience.

Ads were once an avoidable consequence of watching TV. When I visit my parents, I have noted they have entirely altered the way they watch TV so that they can skip any and all ads with DVR. I can't help but think that active avoidance of ads in other mediums like this would perhaps lead way to passively avoiding ads (ignoring their presence) on the web.
But since then, very few non-geeks know about individual Android handsets. They change so frequently, and are so numerous, that there’s never much of an opportunity for a meaningful buzz to generate around any of them. Nobody’s lining up to buy them. CNN’s not covering their launches. Consumer Reports isn’t vigorously testing their antennas. The Daily Show isn’t making jokes about them. So the mass market doesn’t really respond to individual devices.

I thought this just made him sound impossibly old - as in some elderly man, sitting out on his front porch, complaining about all the craziness the kids these days are involved in. "Nobody gets dressed up to fly or go to the movies these days! All these crazy restaurants, whatever happened to just a diner and a bar! How'm I supposed to know about these new fangled color TVs! My wireless Marconi radio never talks about 'em! What do you mean Eisenhower isn't President anymore!"
And outside of poorly-written movies, the 'bad guys' never think they're bad guys. They always have reasons for what they do, and whether those reasons make sense to us or not, it's enough for them. Likewise, a lot of 'bad guys' lie because they think it's in everyone's best interests. For example, telling the public that there are WMDs in Iraq - it's a lie, but Saddam Hussein is dangerous so we need to lie to people so they'll support us, because otherwise they just won't understand.

I feel the same way about Google. They spend a lot of their time trying to convince people they're the good guys, except that, like any corporation, they're wholly self-serving. I find it less than difficult to imagine them having reasons that make them feel like the good guys, while those reasons would make us feel like they're the bad guys.

In this case, they're trying to cram WebM down everyone's throats, supposedly because it's better for us. They're doing so by removing support for de-facto standards in their browser, and talking up a lot of rhetoric about free and open standards, but what they're really doing is trying to move from a format that a consortium controls to a format that they control. Until they submit WebM to a standards body, I can't believe that this is all for our benefit.
But it is. If users don't get a result in the first page, they'll try a different search instead of continuing to the next page.
The Disrobing of a Naked Tesla Sedan
Heh, good ol' issue 214. I get Google issue alerts about it every time someone complains.

I don't think this will ever be fixed. If Twitter hasn't officially deprecated the search API in favor of the streaming API, they have de facto, by not making any significant changes in the search API in years. The streaming API still can't do everything the search API can, but it has gotten somewhat close.
"So this SEO expert walks into a bar.."
Keep in mind that 50k uniques/day doesn't translate into 30x50k uniques/months. There are probably some repeat visitors. Otherwise the world would at some point run of naked men.

Still, it's a non-trivial amount of highly targeted traffic.
Regarding that, I hate it when people mix various quoting styles. It causes the quoting system to render text incorrectly.
How do you annoy a Lisp programmer?

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I found this invaluable when writing my own small OS.

http://www.jamesmolloy.co.uk/tutorial_html/index.html

He includes a lot of details, and seems to try to do things "The Right Way" as much as possible. (Not that I am a good person to judge that)
When I use google to search for something that I want to buy, I quite often comparison shop the ad links that google puts up.

Other ad links? Like you, pretty much never.
http://pandaboard.org/ and http://beagleboard.org/ to the rescue I think, though there's no free software that supports Pandaboard (OMAP 4430/Cortex-A9) JTAG yet.
We made the most money(via adsense) when our music website's streaming server would go down but the site would be up.

It was a painful reality.
I remember those ads. Every time one came on, my first thought was, "Oh yeah, this is that company that sent out those cars that tried to kill their drivers."
1949’s most awesome computer, to be rebuilt (But can it run DOOM?)
I'd be particularly worried if our lower horns were the resource.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Fry
RIM looks to attract new talent with ‘rim.jobs’
This is how you promote an app
>Windows didn't even have a network stack, back then.

And then Windows got N+1 network stacks, with incompatibilities. I had escaped by that point, but I heard the tales of woe.
As I understand it, Unity is only an alternative. You can still use Gnome.
This is really embarrassing, hopefully we are going to find out someone else registered the domain and pointed it towards http://www.rim.com/careers/ as a joke.
Well there is a reason I'm driving a 13-year-old VW with 200k miles.

But to answer your question, it's not the same thing at all, especially in my specific situation. First of all, I have a job that requires a lot of travel, which means I rent a lot of vehicles - those extended "test drives" help a lot in terms of including or excluding potential cars from consideration. There's also the fact that new cars generally all come out at the same time, so I'm not worrying about the "next big thing" coming out next week. Finally I have friends and colleagues who drive a variety of vehicles and I can add their experiences to my decision tree. When I pick I car, I make sure to maintain it to the best of my ability in case I can't find another car I like as much (hence the reason why I've had the same car for 13 years and decided to put $2000 into it for a new clutch last fall rather than get another car).

Smartphones aren't similar at all - like I wrote above, there's always the next hot new phone around the corner which makes me hesitate. I don't have an opportunity to try out most phones since most people I know who have a smartphone generally have an iPhone or a Motorola Droid (yay marketing!) And there's the issue of which Android phone will be upgradable in the future. It may not be a problem for you, but it is a headache for me, especially when I'm dropping several hundred dollars for a phone.
Except that as the metrics and tracking gets better so does the advertising.
Yes, you can sue. The judge can throw you out of the courtroom, too.

Read your contract with the shipping company. Usually damages are limited e.g., to $100 or the value you stated when you shipped the package.
That's the way I read it at first, too--but look carefully:

> I cannot - he signed a consent form that states that individual results will not be disclosed. Although he contacted me about being retested, I am not willing to do that...

It's the university's consent form that says they can't release the results; not Tim Ferriss. Ferriss wanted to be retested, presumably without that consent form, and the doctor refused.
The questions are very academic-like. I can answer the questions, but I learned the answers in university, not on-the-job. If I'd not done a CS degree, I would not be able to answer those questions.
Link to the actual app: http://www.sis.si/my-measures/

The guys in the video are famous Slovenian comedians; Slon (elephant) and Sadež (fruit) (http://www.sloninsadez.com/), most known for their satire comedy music albums. But if you don't understand Slovenian then I'm afraid it won't be funny :) Or maybe you've heard this from them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdS_0DdEL0s (Taliban Reggae)

disclaimer: other than living in the same country, I have no association with the authors :)
I reversed internal and external in the above comment and for some reason am unable to edit it.
Mr. Swan misses the point here. The success of the new bourbon was not because random restrictions were applied (e.g. Open a pizza place with NO CHAIRS), but because a high standard was enforced.
Primitives are cheap to copy, objects may not be.

Edit: I've never used Java that much. My experience with passing things to functions/methods is primarily in C++. When I say primitive types, I mean char or int.
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>Or clothes, or buy food...etc.?

Again, not the same at all - I've been buying food and clothes all my life so I know what I like and what I don't. There's also the issue that I generally don't spend hundreds of dollars for food or clothes at once so there is a lot less potential regret. But yes, I do generally have a class of food and clothes that I like and those are generally what I buy. And if that $25 of fish I decided to experiment with turns out to be a mistake, I can live with that. For a $500+ phone (remember I want an unlocked phone), that's a risk I'm not eager to take.
Agreed. While the "fail-fast/fail-often" method does work, that doesn't mean the older model of carefully planning and considering your market is bad or ineffective. I mean look at Apple. Every product they've got right now has had years of very careful thought given to industrial design, user-interface, and marketing. Apple doesn't release a product unless they're at least 90% certain it can capture the market.
The thought process of non-technical people is truly fascinating. These are people who type "www.google.com" on Google, have 5+ toolbars and smiley screensavers installed, and generally act on any call to action that is presented to them (including fake antivirus warnings).

As web entrepreneurs we need to learn how to exploit these people and make as much money as possible from them. It's the right thing to do to preserve the natural selection process and ensure the proper evolution of the Homo Iunctus. /kidding
Remember when Google shut down Etherpad? Archiveteam backed it up.
Not that it's anything new or radically different, but the choice of a physical keyboard is a nice difference in form factor between the iPhone and Android. It was certainly a deciding factor for me. Still, it seems like the reason for the typical form factor's success is that it just makes sense. Wide enough screen for occasional video watching, but not too large so that it's awkward to hold. Buttons down the bottom, because they're out of the way, but still easy to hit. Notification bar up top to show what's new, because that's where menu bars typically are.

Do you have any particular ideas in mind when you're discussing wildly different?
Why Genetic Research Has Limited Impact to Date
I don't think so:

$ host -t ns rim.jobs
rim.jobs name server xns01lhr.rim.net.
rim.jobs name server xns01ykf.rim.net.
Or perhaps RIM wanted this to happen so thousands upon thousands of techies would view their careers page in a simple viral scheme. Though, were I to place a bet on what happened, I would put my money on your scenario.

I doubt RIM unintentionally let this slip through, the "RIM jobs" joke is as ubiquitous as "that's what she said" in Waterloo.
I've fixed two or three instances of client side bugs caused by this over the years. Seems completely crazy to me that they don't at least eliminate it from the response if they're not going to fix it.
If you really want a good example of where there is "too much choice" (in my opinion of course), look at video cards. Unless you follow hardware, it's very difficult to differentiate between models, or even have any sense of comparison. It's all hidden behind strange model numbers which seem to have no correlation between features.

(Well, either that, or I'm an idiot who just doesn't understand video cards.)
That's a very interesting solution to the problem. Though as an avid yoyoer, I have to make the point that modern yoyos have solved this problem in an entirely different manner as seen here, in one of the more extreme examples: http://spyy.ca/index.php/pro
It probably doesn't matter either way, as it doesn't seem like people do more than skim emails. They won't scroll down to read interleaved replies--Outlook/Entourage's text-formatting doesn't help--nor will they even scroll down if your top-post goes past the default view.

If you can't say it all in three short paragraphs, you either have to spread it out over a few more focused emails, spoon-feed over IM, or--horror of horrors--meet in person!
And PowerPC content (applications) worked fine on Intel Machines for years (and still does if you install Rosetta).

The same couldn't be said if Apple dropped support for H.264. Old content would cease to work immediately.
Wild guess: Neural net processing old Jeopardy questions w/Baysian updates?
The most bogus startup at CES
Yes, the relevance should get much better. For instance, I did once click on a StackOverflow ad, because the product sounded interesting.

The other annoyance about advertising is the interruption, which I'm not sure will go away.
The MPEG-LA patent troll is a reference to MobileMedia, a Non-Practicing Entity (aka patent troll) that uses patents it got from Sony and Nokia and sued Apple, Rim and HTC within months of forming as a company.

MobileMedia is owned by, and shares a CEO with, MPEG-LA (who also licence non MPEG patent pools e.g. Firewire, the name alone is a bit misleading if you ask me).

http://thepriorart.typepad.com/the_prior_art/2010/04/mobilem...
No. You can disable the internal flash plugin by navigating to about:plugins and hitting disable. It's not part of the internal workings.
Astonishingly generous rounding bug with Hacker News submission title still not fixed 40 minutes later
New Rails course on CodeLesson
Zoom lenses have been the predominant kit lens for cameras for the better part of twenty years. I think the migration to digital (where the cost of shooting is ridiculously low) has had a much greater impact on the worsening of amateur photography.

That coupled with the ubiquity of sharing pictures on the internet has created a perfect storm of shittiness.

Professional photographers love to lament about this, and while much of it is elitist posturing; there is truth to it (I say that as someone who splits my time about 50/50 as a professional photographer).
unless one uses gray's binary
Hi Guys,

I'm the author of the article and would just like to explain a couple things before discussing the article in more detail:

1. 50 Cent did not "pump & dump" this stock, as far as we are aware. We would certainly not condone that type of behaviour, as not only is it unethical but also illegal.

2. None of the members of the Vuru team nor any associated parties own any shares in HNHI.OB.

@artmageddon

We weren't trying to sweep his rap history under the rug. The title of the article calls him 50 Cent... What we were attempting to achieve was paint him as more than just a rap star with an entrepreneurial streak. In our opinion, he's more an entrepreneur with a musical streak.

Even in his music, he's focused on producing mass market rap. The type that rings up millions in sales. He's not as focused on the art aspect of it. Compare him to Kanye West who is certainly more focused on the art of music. 50 follows a specific formula to create hits and encourages all artists on his label to do the same. He's about the money.

@andyparkinson

We are working on some Value Investing goodness and I'm glad that you do follow us for our insights.

In relation to the Twitter debacle, the article's focus is on the rules 50 Cent follows in achieving strong investment results. While we'd agree that uneducated investors shouldn't buy stocks nor should any investors buy pink sheets, we think it's unfair to crucify 50 for pushing a stock that he believes in.

As Jesse Eisenberg questioned, "Is what 50 Cent did really that different from what happens all day long on CNBC when professional money managers take to the airwaves to praise the stocks of companies they already own?" We believe that they are similar situations, assuming 50 didn't know any bad non-public information about the stock and touted it anyways.
Also, the licensing terms are fixed at a maximum 10% rise per five-year renewal. Given the lifespan of patents, that's a low ceiling.

This is the first I've heard of this. Since one of the main concerns I've heard is that MPEG-LA could raise fees to unacceptable levels, do you mind providing a source for this? I'm still less comfortable with H264 being the standard rather than WebM, but this makes me less worried. (Anti-FUD?)
> Well, neither can H.264 be a standard

Let's not split hairs. Browser != data format.

I can see the point you're arguing (or at least what the author is trying to argue, whether or not it's your opinion as well). But it's at best a stretch.

In the IE6 "glory" days, it wasn't just a case that Websites wouldn't be made to work for other browsers (meaning they were never tested or, if they were, it was beyond scope to fix). It was worse than that. Sites would deliberately look at the user agent and simply not work if it was a non-IE browser. This still happens. I still come across sites that not only warn you they're optimized for IE and FF (ie proceed at your own "risk" when using Chrome). Some go further and simply won't work if you try and use Chrome. It's thankfully rare but it still happens.

Anyway, the point here is the IE6 displayed HTML/CSS content differently than other browsers and had JS differences too. It took effort to make things cross-browser and it was (and arguably still is) a big deal.

So the stretch of comparing H.264 to IE6 is twofold:

1. We're talking about the entire Web vs the narrow context of Web-based videol so it's a question of scope; and

2. Converting video from one format to another can be automated. Converting a site designed for IE6 to work on other browsers cannot.

So not only aren't the problems analogous but the author is engaging in scaremongering to try and equate H.264 with the (stipulated) horrors of IE6.
A better title should be "MikeOS is an operating system for x86 PCs, written in assembly language. It is a learning tool to show how simple OSes work, with well-commented code and extensive documentation."
This is excellent!

I think only the very last paragraph analyzing the WSJ's motivations overreached a bit, making them a bit too complex.

The WSJ's wants to sell papers and add space in those papers. That story just makes for great bait for readers, I mean look at us we're all discussing it.

But the analysis of the mother is just brilliant.
Same here ... very easy to get started ... and kind of addicting ... not "Angry Birds"-addicting, but addicting none-the-less. Get some ads up there and monetize!
Oh right, that bit of unpleasantness. Mercifully, that's been fixed since 1.9:

ruby-1.9.2-p0 > x = 0; xs = [1,2,3]; xs.each { |x| puts x }; puts x
1
2
3
0
=> nil
Fail fast was just a side benefit. The point I was trying to make was to force yourself into creative and innovative solutions.
Did I read this right? He's making $100k/mnth, which is impressive! but whats the $50k for? What's the thinking behind the investment?

According to Ternovskiy, Chatroulette is now earning
$100,000 per month due to its refined business model and
content-control system--all from "naked men." That's
triple the site's monthly "mainstream" or "normal"
revenue, as Ternovskiy refers to it.
TechCrunch decides to use its powers for evil
Software Devs Forming Space Companies
Are there good programmers who aren't familiar with the standard paradigms?

I went out of my way to study functional, OO, logical and assembly programming just so I wouldn't be trapped in an imperative mindset.

And I don't really consider myself to be any too great, because I know that there's so much more to learn and I won't live long enough to learn all the things I want to.
So this SEO writer goes into a bar, pub, grill, resturant, free, meal, wine, beer, alcohol, girls, dance, sex.