skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> By trying to decide what is accepted behaviour for web site owners to do on their own web sites.

The point of Adblock is not to control what web site owners do on their own web sites, but only to control how I experience that content. As I wrote in my OP, "Adblock is one damn easy way to improve your own user experience. [emphasis added]"

Web site owners are welcome to try and get their visitors to look at ads. Their visitors are welcome, in turn, to take measures to block those ads.

> Do you also complain about advertising at shopping centers, bus stations, airports etc?

Yes, as a matter of fact - rather, I don't complain about it but I do try to avoid going to those places for just that reason. However, whereas it's hard to block out billboards in external locations where one is physically present (unless one is willing to accept a Steve Mann-level of technological mediation), it's quite easy to block ads on web pages that are served freely into my own browser, which is installed on my own computer.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-september-13-2006/the-...
Seconded. In my experience, visitors very rarely provide feedback to problems even when asked. Many have recommended on this thread that the site be overhauled and I agree.
Dear gods, please, someone give it a better name.

Sadly, superficial things like names are important if you want to compete with better-known products.

I can't even pronounce LibreOffice fluidly -- there are no words in English (I think) with a schwa followed immediately by a short 'o' sound, so no native English speaker is phonologically equipped to deal with it.
Surely this is worht at least $16 million...

NSFW - http://www.qwiki.com/q/#!/Fuck
The only assurance I can give to you, that this is my creation, and like all things, you will be risking your $5.00. This may not be for everyone, but if it does sound interesting, try it.
By analogy, dynamic ram loses it's contents much quicker than that, and the trick we employ to stop the dataloss is to refresh the contents of the ram by reading it out and writing back to it before it is too late.

Likely nature employs a similar mechanism because it turned out to be more efficient in terms of complexity of molecules and cell arrangements as compared with a more statically oriented configuration.

It's not 'deletion' per se, merely a lack of automatic saving.

As an aside have you ever noticed that if you don't think of something for a long time it can take considerable effort to recall something whereas if you re-remember something with regularity that does not happen and you can recall the memory almost instantaneously?
I was going to ask the same question because the only times I ever hear about Mahalo is from people who complain about how they are spamming. Haven't heard from a single user of the service yet.
I have an asterisk system up, with several numbers via Vitelity. It could get interesting... ;)
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You did not respond to the substance of my posting, which is echoed in the wikipedia article:

> Public goods provide a very important example of market failure, in which market-like behavior of individual gain-seeking does not produce efficient results. The production of public goods results in positive externalities which are not remunerated. If private organizations don't reap all the benefits of a public good which they have produced, their incentives to produce it voluntarily might be insufficient. Consumers can take advantage of public goods without contributing sufficiently to their creation. This is called the free rider problem, or occasionally, the "easy rider problem" (because consumer's contributions will be small but non-zero).
John Conway reminiscing about Martin Gardner
It means they will have to compete with features or price.
Yes, this is a global game, and I have had several sign-ups from Israel today.
Value always beats price in Competitive (start-up) Markets
Would you care to elaborate on this for a newbie?

.column and .grid_12 looks more like classes than CSS properties to me.
Repository hosting did for me and my friends: http://repositoryhosting.com/

Cheap, support svn, git and mercurial. Comes with trac wiki. Has backup, and enables backup on your own S3 account. And it is really cheap. And has been around for quite a while.
"In a linear movie, you never ask why John Wayne wants to kill the bad guys (although perhaps you should)." Great quote.
I wonder what predicts success in the rewrite?

The advantage to the component based rewrite is that it doesn't cost you your head if it fails. You can still push out new features in each version, and you have a fallback plan if the component rewrite fails or is delayed (just use the old one).
reminds me of one of the plot points in Charles Stross's "Halting State"
Many companies will resell space to you on AWS with a flat fee model. Many hosts now are simply AWS front-ends.
Ask HN: GroupOn or Facebook?
Who will be the poster child for the next tech bubble?
I see the most significant change that AOL have implemented thus far at TC is full page interstitial ads - anyone else getting those?
Ask HN: Best source for logo-wear?
I know that this question is not as deep or thought inspiring as many of the awesome posts here, but I am sure that this community has a wealth of experience in more mundane topics.

We're looking to get some logowear for our new startup, such as T-shirts, polos, hoodies, or button-up shirts. Anyone have any recommendations? We've looked into the Cafepress or Zazzle route, but on a single piece basis, it's still pricey. Is that the best approach? At first, we're going to get these items for our own use, a team of around 6-10 people.

Tnx!
I've seen a high FPS movie in cinema once. It was amazing. And it was small crappy amateurish cinema and short independent movie. That makes me think that there are other more important causes than just technological limitations of commonly used cinema equipment.
What evidence has anyone shown that music revenues are down because purchases are being displaced by piracy, as opposed to other reasons like people spending their entertainment time and money elsewhere (videogames, movies, TV, free content available on the internet), or people no longer buying replacement records or tapes as CDs are more durable, or people not on a format upgrade treadmill since they can easily convert from their CDs to whatever format they want for their MP3 players? I'm sure that some of the decline is due to piracy, but I don't think that you can blame it for the whole thing.

Also, I'm not terribly sympathetic to an industry which realized that it was losing sales to piracy, but took 8 years before it actually got around to offering what it's customers were looking for, such that their customers could actually pay for what they wanted. Napster was released in 1999, and while the fact that you could get music for free was nice, what was really appealing was that you could look for any song you wanted, find it instantly, download it, and stick it on your MP3 player. Since then, the music industry tried limiting the catalog of services (like Emusic, which offerred DRM-free MP3 downloads but had a lousy selection), or had incompatible DRM-encrusted services that meant that you would risk losing access to your music collection if you changed computers or MP3 players. It wasn't until Amazon MP3 came around in 2007 offering DRM-free MP3 downloads of a reasonably broad selection that they really offered anything at all competitive with piracy. Spending 8 years training consumers that piracy is not only cheaper, but also easier, more convenient, less hassle, and with a greater selection, and who's surprised that they lost customers in that time frame?
Rob Boyd on the role of culture
FWIW, this doesn't disconfirm what we already knew about the administration's affection for Big Content, but what we already knew was a lot more important.

Look at the ACTA talks. It was something of a tipoff that drafts of the agreement were shared with a panel of "big content" lawyers[1], but hidden from the general public, supposedly on grounds of national security. As to substance, leaked drafts required DMCA-type legislative provisions and strongly encouraged "three strikes and you're out" policies for kicking infringers off the net, (they weren't mandated, but were, IIRC, explicitly listed in one draft as a "best practice", with no stated alternatives). And while current drafts back off of that, and some of the other more draconian positions, that's largely due to push-back from other parties, particularly in Europe.

The problem with a two-party system is that whichever you pick, they're going to support something that you really don't like. For me, with the Democrats, this is one of the biggies: on these issues, the party positions have been largely dictated by Hollywood for a fairly long time. (Sonny Bono copyright act, anyone?) Then again, the Republicans haven't been all that great on this either; ACTA started under Bush....

[1] The list is here: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/these-42-peo... The White House was, for a time, trying to keep even the names secret, again claiming "national security". (How does it compromise national security if people know these drafts are going to lawyers for eBay? I have no idea...)
I agree, however I just bought one of these 2 minutes ago.
If Steve had written the ending of the post as the beginning, it would have clearly conveyed what he was trying to say.

The key factors involved in such a decision are:

1) Why
2) When

I don't think it is a blanket vote for or against a rewrite.

The important bits come in the end under "Lessons Learned".
I just checked it out and it seems that the subreddit isn't very active. Thanks for the comment though.
>Be honest - the email subject told you everything you wanted to know...

From what I can tell by searching around, the actual subject title of this email is "CD Baby Loves you", not "CD Baby order shipped", so one does have to read this email to find out what it means.

However, let's assume that the title did say that the order shipped. One still has to look in the email to see if every ordered item shipped, or whether any of them are backordered, or arriving in multiple shipments. Maybe a person placed two orders at the same time -- which one shipped?

Let's assume a person only ordered one cd. Ey still has to read the entire thing, because maybe there's some content in it that ey need to act on (e.g., the wrong shipping address, or the wrong charge amount). If that was the case, and someone didn't read the email, whose fault would it be when the mistake was found out later? Everyone laughs when people don't read a software EULA that promises the creator the user's soul, saying "well, people should have read the EULA". How much would the cd buyer be blamed if ey was charged double and didn't find out about it until a month later, when eir credit card statement came in? "Well, it was in your order confirmation; you should have read it."

And arguing that the CDBaby order confirmation doesn't contain the price, and it contains the address at the top, so my argument doesn't apply is not the issue. How do you know there's no data requiring action in the text unless you read it?
I think that, in most cases, regular expressions will do you more good as a tool than Go will. I have not read Mastering Regular Expressions, but due to their ubiquity, they have probably led to a 5% increase in my productivity as a software engineer. I highly doubt that Go will do that for you except in some very rare cases.
> but also the last 20% of polish makes 80% of the quality.

I've noticed this, too. When a product is 80% of the way there, the people behind it see a product that's nearly done. Your audience, on the other, sees a piece of garbage.
Has anybody used SVG fonts on the Web? I'm curious.

I realize that there's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem with browsers not supporting it, but it seems to me that the really good features start picking up traction even when only a few browsers support it (e.g. CSS transitions and animations, the latter of which Firefox still doesn't support).
There's some awfully shady Java code out there, but since it looks impressive with all those abstract bases and factories you can't see the real problems.

A 12,0000 line Java program with the same features and the same bugs as a 500 line Perl script is going to look clean in comparison even though it's just as crappy.
A quick Google news search of "health data outsource india" shows that the outsourcers think they have something more than a zero chance.
Similar comments also apply, I think, to Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining. Several critics talk about how it has hidden meanings about the massacre of American Indians.
Depending on the missions this may get you on the real "watch list". Right now taking pictures of rail, buildings, monuments, etc can get you flagged by the DHS. I'm going to keep my spy activities in the virtual world.
China to create largest mega city in the world with 42 million people
Crapware authors pay manufacturers. At least that's the rationale they use to give.
I have seen the study a few times, most recently in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803505 . I think the big problem is selection bias:

The Dow Industrial Average over the last 10 years

http://www.google.com/finance?chddm=997050&q=INDEXDJX:.D...

* Notice that the end of 2008 was unusual for the index. 2008 had the most herded and fearful stock market in recent history. If at anytime the stock market was correlated to mood, it would be then. I am not sure if a 2008 analysis can be generalized to any year but 2008.

* They have not done an analysis on 2009 or 2010, and they chose to split the analysis and pick December 2008 based on a qualitative assumption from the "stabilization of DJIA values after considerable volatility in previous months and the absence of any unusual or signiﬁcant sociocultural events". December 2008 was very much in the midst of the crisis still.

* For their December "stable" data set, they only used 30 days. That is limited in sample size. There is a big pool to draw from since 2009 as the market has been relatively stable.
I seem to recall when Facebook (or was it Gmail?) was started, something like this was one of the proposals for producing revenue. There was quite an uproar over it because it meant that whoever it was would be going through all of your personal information and parsing it for different keywords. It was deemed 'too creepy' and toned down.

The times they are a changin'.
The big trick of course is that you were in a good position to actually make that call and it worked. The difference is that there are people that will shout 'rewrite it' without being in a good position to make the call and as some kind of personal 'NIH' syndrome.

I've done what you just did to a package that I maintained literally for years for a company that I contracted for and at some point the same realization hit me, it shouldn't be this hard to just toss this and do it again. But by then I had a pretty thorough understanding of the problem and of the flow of the code that solved the problem (even if it was weighed down with a lot of junk). Rewriting it made life much better. But typically if someone is new to a project and needs to fix a minor bug and starts to say we should re-write all of this they're just plain wrong.
"Not assuming a literal interpretation of 100%" seems about as sensible as not assuming a literal interpretation of "the coin flip came up heads". Presumably if the poster had meant 80% (or whatever number) they would have said that instead.
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"leeb-roffis" works for me
Can you get usernames this way?
The rewrite of Netscape's code actually turned into Firefox, which was fairly successful by any metric.

Sometimes rewrites are necessary, but they have to be driven from necessity, not simply from the desire to "start fresh".
I can send up to 2K messages a day with a premiere Google Apps account.
I feel like the mental stumbling block that stops people has something to do with our ideas of purity and cleanliness. Maybe people intuitively feel contact with the old system would make the new code unclean.
And what exactly is the difference? Both are local deals.
The intent of the piece was to tell people about a neat trick I'd discovered. Nothing more.

Which sites you log into, is private information.

The Firefox addon "Request Policy" does protect from this attack, but it's not the most user friendly way to browse the web. I've been trying it out myself the past couple of days. Fine for geeks, but not fine for the average user.
How a Screwdriver teaches us something fundamental about Security
Think of it as pre-engineering raw talent. Often, people worked these jobs while going to college, or were recognized as talent while they were there and bumped first into QA.

Of course, many of us instead realized we hated call centers and found part time sysadmin jobs. :)
Duplicate links do get submitted.

But, I thought they are removed. And both of these links were posted at the same time (reads 29 minutes ago).
This is exactly what we just did to ww.com, and while we're still on the fence whether that was the right thing to do or not the result is that we did not have big continuity issues and that we now have a completely fresh codebase.
Would it have been possible to raise $8m in VC funding for a glorified slideshow during the Great Depression?
Why Did Foursquare Exec Eric Friedman Get Blacklisted From Hacker News?
I can vouch for this having gone through this myself. We built our beta in about a year with a codebase full of "technical debt" and a very bulky application which was "feature rich" but "usability poor" and also started introducing all these back end problems (some a manifestation of our web framework as well). So we thought we were "too cool for school" and started architecting (in hindsight, "over-architecting") what was at heart a simple application which just needed a facelift and some consolidation.

We distributed it into multiple pieces and started a massive re-write with all these services which ended up with more code in the shared plugin (duplicated across all services) than in the service itself. Eventually, we realized that we re "over-engineering", cut our losses and quickly glued our little pieces back together into a slightly slimmer application which had all that we really needed to begin with - a facelift and some consolidation.
I'm very curious to understand why, can someone please enlighten me? I'm seriously failing to understand here.
Because its whimsical nonsense.
You literally dedicate half your post to this issue. Your first large paragraph is about me "prefering a license". Then you go on to give your OS qualifications. Then your conclusion is this point.

Here's a hint. If it's a "minor point" don't open with it and then conclude with "In short:" -- and finish it off with the same point. Whatever.
Hmm, that's interesting. I was about to say that NT wasn't a rewrite but it was a completely different operating system designed from scratch, well I guess a little of the design came from VMS:)

I see your point on how you consider this to be a rewrite.

I guess the question I have is, what's the difference between a brand new product, and a rewrite? Up until now I considered windows NT to be a brand new product.
That's been done. WOFF was suggested as a replacement. It didn't happen.
The trouble with special cases is that they come in two very different flavours. Some are essential complexity, inevitable consequences of the problem you're trying to model. Others are accidental complexity, artifacts of the development process, often things that came along when requirements changed after the initial design was set and didn't fit in neatly but didn't justify reworking the whole thing either.

You can never get rid of the essential complexity, but with the wisdom of hindsight you can often produce new design that integrates the accidental special cases into a coherent whole. I've seen modules cut to 1/3 their former size and various "can't fix" bugs eliminated as a consequence.
Just because information is reflected immediately doesn't mean that it's reflected correctly.
It is also now simpler to create competitive alternative to mailchimp as you can just focus on the user experience and features rather than delivery. Great opportunity for startups.
There is nothing wrong with it, it's just not the step up that Nvidia claims it is.

I was hoping for a 1K core chip for the 5xx series and instead we get these stop-gap products.
Wanted: A webapp/dashboard that tracks money you have spent acorss Amazon services.
Asqueela is not Limi. Both are well known.
Not in any of the examples provided. The article describes a general technique for attacking sites. There are lots of variations of the attacks that work against lots of different sites. Two variations are provided as examples which cover 4 particularly well known sites.
If you are on Snow Leopard, it is imperative to install this one. NeoOffice and OpenOffice (Goo or otherwise) have struggled on Snow Leopard with either extreme sluggishness or an inability to reasonably render all documents with acceptable loss of fidelity. Things have been considerably better with LibreOffice 3.3 so far.
I don't understand.
They use single text box of OpenID login.
They have it separated from login page in another page.
How do they want it to be successful and where is their ultimate usability mastery?

There is no way OpenID can be improved when there is no interest in solving global internet issues. Neither Facebook for implementing the own mechanism nor 37signals would get medal of honor for uniting the internet.
Which is why really good tests are needed and also why a test can outlive its usefulness.
So far, my experience with odesk.com has been pretty positive. I haven't used it for hiring programmers, but I do see many profiles there you can peruse.
>there are quite a few people who love what they do so much that they're actually willing to subsidize their own art-production by working other jobs (e.g. waiting tables).

Do you really see this as a good thing? When the only way to make money is to do something that can't be given away and anything digital must be given away?