skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It works fine standalone, yes, but if you expect to read both then read them in publication order, because there's a powerful resonance/irony implicit in aDitS with aFutD as background: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2008/07/deepnessreview
...the new facebook groups, I might add. The one that launched at the end of last summer [1].

[1] http://www.facebook.com/blog.php?post=434700832130
Android Market Web Store just Launched
Looks nice, I hope they will also improve design of vlc player soon. :)
I guess I'd sort of be interested in this, but Facebook already does what I want. I haven't used Frid.ge (no friends to try it with) so I don't know exactly how the groups work, but part of the value in Facebooks customisation is the ability to hide stuff from a single person without making the distinction clear. With this anyone who uses Frid.ge understand that you're going to be hiding stuff from them, assuming a person I want to hide stuff from cared about what is happening with me enough to add me as a friend here, they're going to be pissed when they find I hide stuff from them, "don't you trust me?". If you have a boss who is touchy about you partying, they're probably going to care when you hide it from them, it goes from "it doesn't happen!" to "it does happen but I don't want you to see it". It implies you have something to hide.

Facebook already allows me to hide the rare thing I don't want certain friends seeing, this seems overkill, although I'm assuming there is more to Frid.ge than just being able to hide from certain people so I won't say it's a terrible idea, but based on the video I am not attracted to it.
Too many traffic cones.
This site may be dishonest, but its certainly nothing new. Most dating sites you go to employ some of the same tactics. They will try to lure you in and then put up a paywall. I guess the thing that is bad here is that they lie about having automated messages when they obviously do. That is really kind of slimy, they might as well admit to the obvious at this point.
YC isn't the same as VC. I should have been a little more clear in my first comment. It's not like I think angels or incubators that make small investments are making bad investments in these young companies. I went through an incubator with my first company, so I know first hand giving those opportunities is priceless.

We're talking about VC funding here. No company goes after VC on day one. All these companies that get millions in series whatever rounds are mature and have some revenue coming in, or at least a plan to turn their userbase into dollars. If a company is mature enough to seek VC funding and also needs that investment to dig themselves out of a hole, then I don't think they're worth investing in. That's all I'm saying, hopefully it makes sense.
It really depends on the targeting and matching the right ads to the right users. For example, weather.com gets well over $10 CPM from performance advertisers, and they still make money on the traffic. If you have similar demographics, you should be getting similar CPMs.
Whenever I see these news releases, I instinctively look to see if there's an earthlike planet, or a likely candidate, and feel let down if there isn't one.

I guess I'm ready to go!
since i can't edit anymore: instead of giving them money, go create a few more dummy accounts and see if the same thing happens to them. that would also be sufficient proof, imo
For many reasons but the one that seems to come back most often is that people value their time on paid sites more. It seems more "serious" if you know the other person paid to talk to you.
The announcement explicitly says it doesn't contain a timebomb.
Blender on sale in alleged violation of GPL
Reflector was not always obfuscated. Old versions embedded an unobfuscated but weakly encrypted dll with the core program.
It depends. Is that $50,000,000 actually going into my bank account? How much do I personally stand to gain from it? How badly does my business need the $50M?

But in the end, I probably would take the article down, too.
It appears to be gone. Anyone have a copy?
> This actually does seem to be a problem--not
> with private gun ownership, but with the police.

It's slightly different w/ the police. While I don't agree with the way they operate most of the time, there are more people gunning for police officers than your average citizen.
I had actually considered getting this a few months ago. I was also looking at tmobile prepaid which also has an android phone. Initially they both looked like too good to be true deals and then i learned the reason for that. The phones they both offer are terrible. Small and very underpowered. With i think the Virgin Mobile phone running android 1.6. Which is like buying a computer with Windows 95 or 2000 on it. Sure its running "windows" but no software will actually work on it so whats the point.

Virgin Mobile and T-Mobile prepaid also get terrible reviews.

In the end i spent the extra money and got a Droid X on contract with Verizon. Its a great phone with good coverage.
You can buy the device from a third party but they only allow Virgin-branded devices on the network.
video isnt loading on my macbook air =/
Clustrix does give you the option to start with MySQL and then do a drop-in upgrade when your idea gets traction.
I cannot log in. Others experience the same problem?
completely agree, the service is fabulous, great technology and they have a huge inventory, even on-going shows. I don't have TV but have been able to watch Gossip Girl without having to wait for the DVDs of Season 4.
Alternately, everything you're used to is just a really bad deal.
Yep. "Invalid request."
Bonus: while it does not ship configured to do so by default, the phone can be used as a "mobile hotspot" (tethered) after a simple modification.

I think I'll go pick one up.
Selenium Joins the Software Freedom Conservancy
I have liked OKCupid's posts in the past, but this one is clearly propaganda. There's a pretty obvious flaw in this argument:

"It turns out you are 12.4 times more likely to get married this year if you don't subscribe to Match.com."

The data to back it up is based on Match.com press kit:

"12 couples got married or engaged today thanks to Match.com"

What they're missing is that a lot of people get married or engaged while subscribing to Match.com, but not due to Match.com. Heck, my roommate did. It's not an exclusive arrangement. In fact, it's pretty likely that if someone is subscribing to Match.com they are also dating outside of Match.com.
I'm very familiar with engineering compilers and de-compilers. Have you seen Microsoft Phoenix? It lets you sink/hoist intermediate representations; the key for this would be having an API that allows ordering graph rewriting rules so that you can take the MSIL and convert it the right higher-level form (e.g., should this use LINQ? Well, what does the app settings say the user wants to see the code as?). Anyway, since Reflector is written in C#, it would be able to develop a clone much faster using code generation, since I bet Reflector uses a ton of Visitor patterns and needless C# boilerplate.

I won't promise performance comparable to Redgate's Reflector, but my rule of thumb is Correct. Clear. Fast. In that order.
I like using their mobile version at http://m.wund.com even on
regular browsers. It tells me everything I need to know and it
loads very quickly.
I love Stross and Banks (have not read Morgan yet), but also have a profound love for both of the Vinge books you mentioned. Other Vinge's material, not so much. :( I hope he'll continue with the zones of thought saga some day.
Making Bank
The Dark Side of Creativity: Original Thinkers Can be More Dishonest
That wasn't SA, it was most certainly Ebaums.

(<small>if you don't get the joke...</small>)
VSWR - Votlage Standing Waveform Ratio
Not trying to troll, but whenever I read the embed.ly home page, I can never figure out what I think the company actually does, when I should want to use it, or how I should use it?

Is it a set of widgets for showing things like people's twitter/rss/whatever feeds?

Or, if I'm building a website, I can give embed.ly a URL and it will give me back a nicely formatted (sans-ads) version for my website?

Someone help me understand?
I didn't know that. Thanks for the info about the debugging support. I guess I have to give them credit for that.
Microsoft's HTML5 Add-on To Support H.264 On Chrome & Firefox | Tech18
i love this...nice concept
Yep, tried in FF4 and Chrome. Both gets invalid request.
As I read that, I thought of all the developers I've worked with, and as a composite character, I have worked with a rock star! I can name a developer for every characteristic.

Even the guy who wore black leather pants every single day.... I don't fault him for it, he looked good in them, but that's some commitment in the summer.

Since HR and managerial types sometimes can be prone to confuse attitude for competency, maybe they really are looking for a "rock star"?!
There are at least three more different hints about the translators than you've mentioned -- Vinge is so great at embedding little insight-bombs in the narrative, like Godel, Escher, Bach. In fact the whole translation subtheme strongly reminded me of another Hofstadter book, Le Ton beau de Marot.

The Baroque Cycle was among my favorite books of its years, FWIW.
My mother got this phone with this plan, it's not the best thing in the world (the screen is a bit too low-res) but for $25 I think it's a fantastic deal for a device/service which really isn't that noticeably different than what the 'high end' android phones offer.

I currently have a Droid Incredible with a $70 plan on Verizon ($75 after bullshit fees) and I felt like a schmuck for paying so much when I saw her phone.

I previously had a prepaid phone on Virgin and it worked fine. Ended up switching carriers just to get a data plan. I think I'll be switching back once my contract is up.
In my view it is entirely fair game for them to charge for what they own but this is also an instance of why to avoid the .NET ecosystem altogether.

The ethos I follow and many developers whose opinion I care about follow as well is that platform technology and the most fundamental tools must not be closed source.

The irony with Reflector is that while branded a debugging tool it is mainly good for reverse engineering, so Red Gate are now effectively charging for access to third parties' source code, which I personally find a bit troubling.
Working Around the Java Double.parseDouble Bug
The ideas we're talking about here are discussed thoroughly in the surprisingly fascinating book "Winning through Intimidation." My ex-girlfriend was a touchy-feely people person, a trainer by trade. She often cited that book as being straight from the devil, the antithesis of everything she believed in with regard to motivating people. So I bought the book as a joke, to annoy her with its presence on my bookshelf.

Then I started reading it one day, and it actually has a ton of really fantastic business and sales ideas that are not evil at all. The thesis of the book is that for your business to succeed, you need to project an image of success and confidence. The book goes through dozens of specific ways to do this, and asking for more money is one of those. Others include specific ideas on how to present and package the company.

The author discusses the issue of pricing and payment extensively. I highly recommend this book for anyone contemplating issues of pricing their products and interacting with customers. It's honestly not as evil as it sounds. And even if the very idea sounds terrible, consider the book anyway. As Aristotle said, "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
If so then what is the reason Google is not providing patent indemnification? If it does, MS would bundle it with IE9 (perhaps even the OS) instantly allowing about 40% of worldwide to seamlessly watch WebM content.

I guess Google is afraid of being sued for billions for the hundreds of millions of installs that Windows and/or IE9 ship.
For what its worth, doesn't appear to be as easy as SendGrid, in that they only require SMTP settings.
Match.com to Marry OKCupid

Match.com just shelled out $50 million for New York's homegrown dating site OKCupid, the dating site known for being free, giving its users quizzes, and turning those surveys into fascinating plunges into the human psyche at the OKTrends blog.

The press release indicates that OKCupid will not be shut down and its users siphoned into one of Match.com's subscription-based dating sites. OKCupid cofounder Sam Yagan will head up the company's New York office and continue to run the company's day-to-day operations. "We are excited to join forces with Match because it is clear that no company is more committed to helping people find relationships," he said. "This marriage offers us the best of both worlds: the autonomy to continue pursuing OkCupid's original vision and the ability to leverage Match's reach and expertise to grow even faster."

Match.com and OKCupid are now owned by New York's IAC, which operates some of the best-known properties on the web.

There's already speculation that OKCupid will lose some of its fun hipster personality. Already a blog post titled, "Why You Should Never Pay for Online Dating," has been removed.

An excerpt from that post:

Today I'd like to show why the practice of paying for dates on sites like Match.com and eHarmony is fundamentally broken, and broken in ways that most people don't realize.

For one thing, their business model exacerbates a problem found on every dating site:

Women get too many bad matches

Men get far too few replies

For another thing, as I'll explain, pay sites have a unique incentive to profit from their customers' disappointment.

As a founder of OkCupid I'm of course motivated to point out our competitors' flaws. So take what I have to say today with a grain of salt. But I intend to show, just by doing some simple calculations, that pay dating is a bad idea; actually, I won't be showing this so much as the pay sites themselves, because most of the data I'll use is from Match and eHarmony's own public statements. I'll list my sources at the bottom of the post, in case you want to check.

...

It turns out you are 12.4 times more likely to get married this year if you don't subscribe to Match.com.

...

So next time you hear Match or eHarmony talking about how huge they are, you should do like I do and think of Goliath-and how he probably bragged all the time about how much he could bench. Then you should go sign up for OkCupid.

Hopefully OKCupid will keep its personality and its trendy trends blog intact despite being acquired by its 16-year old cousin.

ajeffries [at] observer.com | @adrjeffries
Why Homeland Security shut down ATDHE
Point one is invalid. You are conflating 'reading important news' and 'reading all news (def. = important and unimportant news)'.

My argument was meant to read as follows,

(1) reading 'important news' is important. (tautology)

(2) reading 'all news' is not important. (tautology -- using def. of 'all news')

(3) Usually doing an unimportant activity is a waste of time iff you have something important to do.

(4) Therefore, usually reading 'all news' is a waste of time iff you have something important to do. (from 2 and 3)

I thought this was clear, even if I wasn't explicit.
It seems this article has a higher ratio of upvotes to comments than normal. Am I to hasty to conclude that the people upvoting avoid leaving a comment in order to not reveal to the public that they loathe their current work position?
Mine... Leaving 'test code' that should have been commented out.
When run the code just produces test results not matter the input... and i was telling the panel the code was ok.
Google Unveils Android Market Webstore
Cheap androids have been here for a while now... 69€

http://www.elpais.com/corporativos/elpais/coleccionables/201...
I was really sad to hear that it was 2,000 light years away. However, this discovery still helps us understand what planetary systems are possible.
The problem is that voters like you are coming fewer and farther between.
If tube sites steal content why don't they simply get sued for copyright infringment?
Red Gate's FAQ states: "we think ultimately this decision will be good for the community."

So much for that ;)
Fridge lets you connect with friends, family, strangers you just met, co-workers, soon to be acquaintances, etc... around specific events, relationships, or groups.

Don't have to add anyone as friends or worry about privacy or permissions. Clustered social graphs mimic how you meet and interact with your real life network.

Some of these may work on FB but many topical, time and event based relationships would not work within the FB friend request structure.
Piccolo - Building Distributed Programs That Are 11x Faster Than Hadoop
Did this earlier today.

Back to where I started from now; a combination of version control and things going much faster when you've already figured out the answer made things go faster than I thought
Testing in the cloud with Selenium 2
I would almost be ready to hazard a guess that it's exactly as big as Netflix' library. Many recent articles from Netflix has talked about how they have dealt with moving everything to AWS.

Wouldn't it make sense if some company like Amazon decided to set up a "white label" streaming service?

Netflix carries all the expertise, negotiates all contracts with providers, aquires rights to the show, etc... Amazon carries marketing muscle and an installed user base of people who've stored their one-click credit card number in the system.

Netflix pays a commission on every streaming product sold and does all the rest of the work. It's drop-shipping a la Walmart-store-brand-version-potato-chips. It has the added benefit of looking like competition (like Best Buy vs. Future Shop in Canada, both owned by the same company ... or Cadillac vs. Chevrolet).

Makes sense to me.
Got any further info? What was the general attitude from up top? Not sure how much can be disclosed, but it would be interesting to have some data/first hand info on the approach.
Don't know NJ well, but having been there for awhile I can say that I would much rather live in a cost effective area and have a good daily commute than work in NYC. It may be "cooler" but it is a lot more expensive, and a lot less convenient.

Pursue employee happiness and productivity over panache anyday. Chasing panache will get you nowhere, and it is ultimately going to exceed your budget.
There are some outstanding open source .NET libraries that blow away what you can get in Java. Likewise, some COTS .NET libraries blow away equivalent Java libraries (e.g., for unit testing and inversion of control, query-driven source code analysis, etc.).

But comparing .NET to anything other than Mono is apples to oranges.
Here is the direct Youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt493X2IPCc
I've worked at several places where the strategy is 'never delete, just mark as deleted'. Your database tends to grow pretty fast, but you never have to defragment your index or tablespace.
Latest fashion label by Katie Price; Day 22
I have the Samsung Intercept, which is also offered by Virgin Mobile for the same plan. It's about $100 more expensive, and while I can't vouch for whether it's $100 better since I've never used the LG phone, I can say that you get what you pay for. Still, it's very encouraging to see this trend, and really when you compare how much you're saving on the contract then the phone essentially pays for itself within the year even if you get the more expensive Intercept.
Rapportive is one great tool that's iterating pretty quickly! Looks like someone is putting the VC/angel money to great use. It's the one reason that I don't use Sparrow instead of GMail.

However, the main question again: how will they earn money?
I couldn't even finish Quicksilver when reading it as a book. However, the unabridged audio-book version that Audible has of the Baroque Cycle is extremely good - I love listening to these books!
Downloading the Windows Service Pack wasn't pointless, it was to speedtest the machine to see if it was worth continuing the attack.
Google Strategy: Tree Distribution Of Requests And Responses
I get the same results.
Top crucial questions in social science
The other flaw is that by definition people on dating sites are not currently in a relationship (well, usually), so of course they're less likely to get married in the near future. I suspect the 12.4 ratio would be similar for active OKCupid users.
bit101bit@ubuntu:~$ shutdown now
The huge "MADE BY X" in the header is a bit overkill
All the things you mentioned requires a lot of effort. In fact it's more effort than just actually providing one or two good answers and questions a day. Also, I have never seen any of the popular answers get answers that are not really close to the mark. Even the unpopular ones always get good answers that float to the top. Organizing a cabal of voters and then monitoring new questions within your area of expertise just so you can post semi-plausible answers to move up the ranks is borderline psychotic and I have yet to encounter these people on SO.
That's a very bold place to put "Made by Argon", especially at that size.

Is the Web site about who made it or is that auxiliary information? If the latter, that's the wrong spot for that graphic, and I wouldn't have let them get away with it. Even if they were doing it for free.

There's a pretty well-defined footer where that belongs.

Edit: Ouch. Compare:

> http://www.videolan.org/

> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

That is confusing. Try going back and forth a few times. The text growing legs in the logo and walking a few pixels is rough, especially since it's in the exact same spot and completely obvious when you click. There's some consistency issues that can use improvement. They're clearly still tweaking it, too - I refreshed and the footer completely lost its centering.
Yeah, I agree except for the last parenthetical remark -- I don't recall any evidence for it in the text. Why would the powers-squared need us to invoke them for their own security? I suppose it was more about protecting the wildlife preserve, to the extent it makes any sense to us.
No. Vinge fits rather nicely into the Banks/Stross/Reynolds/Gibson/Stephenson fold of decent recentish SF.
I can't get over how amateur it looks. Really expected more.
Ditto. I was about to buy some random stuff, too.
> And I'm fine with it being a weak Android phone, I had planned on developing to a low spec device anyway.

I just gave up my iPhone yesterday for a Nexus One. All-in.

Yes, it's not a minimum-spec G1 but I wanted to use it in place of the iPhone. I truly believe if you want to develop for a platform you have to use it everyday. All the quirks, some of the benefits. The iPhone is definitely smoother but I do like the hardware 'back' and 'menu' buttons. Keyboard and screen sensitivity is driving me nuts... The App Market is a mess - took me forever to figure out which Advanced Task Killer was the real monty (tons of title/keyword spam). The lack of scrolling gravity is really noticeable but less annoying now.

I am truly amazed at the quality of the Twitter for Android application (compared to most other apps).
I like it, and it's certainly about time. What's going to happen to AppBrain, etc now? They were definitely filling a niche and now will be forced to compete with the source.
I hadn't seen Phoenix before reading your comment, but I like the look of it. Looks useful for general compiler tinkering.

When I looked at this a while back, I was trying to do it in C# on Mono.Cecil. I got bogged down writing things like CSharpWhileLoopVisitor...
The line spacing makes things quite hard to read. What's going on here? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/173540/Screens/Screen%20shot%202011-...

And on other pages columns are quite constrained, which makes for ridiculous word spacing with justification: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/173540/Screens/Screen%20shot%202011-...