skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Digital Media Consumption Manifesto

Clearly should have been "agreement" instead of a "manifesto". Then they would have made a new DMCA.
Google doesn't spend exorbitant amounts of money so that they can provide value to Bing's users. If Bing's users want value they can use Google instead.
Not sure why you'd say that. I just wanted to open a discussion on the future and viability of online backup companies like Backblaze, Mozy...
I'm sure a lot of HN readers use such a service and have an opinion about it.
Where is the native Linux client?
You should be able to share your results with whoever you want but that's not what happens. You share your data with just bing and google. You don't really own any of the data you are generating so saying you should be able to share it with whoever you want is saying hop before you've jumped.
One of the sad things though is that hp has really declined in quality calculators, if you look around you'll find quite a few problems regarding accuracy in the new 35s close to critical values. (Though they may have updated the software version since my purchase a few years ago)

I do like my giant hp50g for anything that doesn't need matlab though, and the 35s is still pretty good despite its errors (especially since I know where the errors exist).
the connection time makes it relatively slow (on the order of a few milliseconds), but you can write to multiple keys at once, and/or multithread your client.
I don't find it offensive at all. In no way can that comic be taken as pro-rape.

And frankly, all of their comics are of this nature. Why someone would be offended by these 3 panels in particular and not by any of their other work is beyond me.
Hey, very nice app... here's a request/recommendation ... I'm the expecting daddy, i created the page but would now like to give my wife access to add/delete stuff... is there something to invite the mommy/daddy to use the same account? I know the mom's are supposed to create this, but i couldn't help myself... really nice site.
I wouldn't pay for it. Most Hollywood content is so bad IMHO that I feel that they should owe me for my time having watched it. I never rent movies and very rarely will go to them and get ripped off for the popcorn.

On the other hand, if movies were plain files on my computer and as accessible as, say, the anime available on bittorrent, I would be happy to pay a small amount to obtain it initially. Maybe even a monthly fee for getting new stuff. But only if it were in an open standard format with no DRM.
However dubious this instance of censuring someone's comments simply because they've bothered to do some research to support their case may be, I think it generally is in the public interest that people actually representing themselves as engineers have a sound understanding of what they're actually doing (e.g. designing bridges that don't fail and kill people). I doubt civil engineers in the US are disproportionately well paid.
@chart.io home page. Have you tried A/B testing a red instead of green sign up button?
All I want is for any TV or movie on iTunes that is purchasable to also be rentable. I don't have any desire to buy, say, The Social Network for $20, but I'll rent it for $5. This goes double for TV shows. I love Fringe, but if I miss an episode I don't want to spend $3 to buy it, watch it once and never see it again. Let me rent it for $1 and I'll be happy.
CLIQ XT won't get Android 2.1 upgrade, Motorola's word as good as dirt
A company offering 'unlimited' anything does it either because they want to attract new customers and switch to a tiered plan later, or because they plan to go bankrupt in the short term.
Or have ex-coworkers and friends go to work there. The recruiters then go after you.
I would suspect that "door #2" is most useful in the (more common at large companies than small?) case where a technical lead of some sort has a position on their team they want to fill, and HR is a barrier between them and the engineer(s) they want to bring on board.
nope. Good idea.
If you don't like the law, make your own 'content' then you can set prices, etc.

No one cares what you think is the 'right price'. If you don't want to pay, don't buy it.

No amount of whining is an excuse for stealing. Grow up!
I've noticed the same thing with comments on HN. More often than not, it's the silly one-liner that gets voted up rather than the thoughtful, introspective, and deep comment. I suppose human attention is always the biggest force you have to contend with.
Canadian goverment vows to reverse CRTC decision on usage-based Internet billing
American anxiety: The three real reasons why we are more stressed than ever
robots.txt is a good example of something that was introduced to make the new search engine technology more ethical but I'm not sure what point you are trying to make. If you're saying that we need a new robots.txt option saying "don't use clickstream data to help people find this page", I don't disagree; I'm not sure how many sites would take advantage of it though.
Wonder if it's related to all the recent news about Google paying millions to keep engineers on staff from defecting to Facebook. I would be tempted to work there if there was a million dollar RSU payout involved.

I also wonder why Google would announce such a thing. My take away from this is that it's pointless to apply, since there are too many applications. Do they want people to stop applying?
we look at it as an opportunity to partner with and help grow an amazing company.
Ron Conway's Investment Megatrend Doc
Verizon Wireless to throttle data speeds of heaviest users
Ok. I'll make the button blue similar to the log in button, and change some of the copy around. Thanks for the two responses.
Oh, so you voluntarily took it down. I feel so much better now!
Explain?

Assuming that storage costs are halving every 18 months, I would assume that charging $N/mo for backup (amortized over a lifetime of say, 4 years) would be a really reasonable business model.

As they say, there's always going to be outliers, all you need to do is cover the average cost of backup for the average user. This seems easy to me, and very easy to plan & estimate what your costs are.
I think google should have taken the humour route in the first place

Good point. I think the current PR campaign, and really that is what it seems like now, is counterproductive. It used to be the response to Bing was "What, is that like Microsoft Bob for search?" The longer this campaign goes on, the more it increases the user perception of Bing as a serious competitor. Even if true, that's not really a good message to be promoting, even unintentionally.
Only some of the data, when it makes sense to use that technique. Most of the data fetching on our pages is still done the old-fashioned MVC way. You can keep the best of both worlds by carefully selecting which parts you decide to defer. The technique is most interesting in situations where the relationship between controllers and views is complex and "bubbling" a new need for data inside a view's logic back to its controller is difficult. It makes even more sense to use when you identify similar needs in views/controllers pairs that are far in scope from each other. Like the AJAX example I gave, you can group DB queries across completely separate AJAX requests that have nothing to do with each other.

The intertwining part is quite straightforward to sanity check and unit test. For its output buffering aspect, PHP provides a way to check that you closed as many levels of buffering as you opened. As for object resolution, you can detect easily when things go wrong like attempting to render objects whose data hasn't been fetched by the resolution passes. It's difficult for me to prove "how safe" that part of the technique is without going into a lot of details about our implementation. That tool is so low-level for us that it's one of the most tested, error-checking areas of our code. When debugging you can also visualize the tree of intertwined DOM and objects at any stage of construction or resolution.
So is this guy trying to make the point that "design is worthless"?
That's exactly what I keep thinking about BackBlaze (I am one of the "hogs" they talk about on whom they don't make money) but they seem to indicate they are profitable, for now...
I guess it's viable as long as they don't become too popular and start attracting more "hogs".
Here's Why Apple's iPad Will Dominate The Tablet Market For Years
What is the time delay limit?
I understand the down votes, my comment wasn't all that constructive. But seriously, the amount of attention paid to this issue from Google might be better spent making their own products better. At best this is an issue for lawyers. The low road Google is taking by making a big stink in the 'blogosphere' is asinine to me, but clearly many of you disagree by continually voting up these stories.
Sleeping on the Floor
Maybe WePay has an API? I haven't checked it out since it doesn't work outside of US, so I have no use of it.
I actively avoid bands that use myspace as their primary website. Do they not care about their image? They should be actively looking for new and better places to show off their music.
Personally working in the adult industry is a little awkward in the beginning but after that it's fairly rewarding. Personally I found it really useful to get the high traffic/high scalability experience. I mean you don't get too many job opportunities where you can brag about your app serving around a billion page views/day.
Especially when you consider none of the good stuff is allowed on the internet anyway.
Obviously you've thought a lot about this. Once I've had users actually use the site as their baby registry (fingers-crossed) I'll see what the actual percentages of the problems you've described are.

1 - when you reserve you enter your name and email address. you then get an email (that i currently don't make you confirm, but could) that says "you have promised to purchase X"

2 - This is an issue with in-store registries as well. I am not currently solving this issue, but it is technically feasible to do so.

3 - I'm depending on the older relatives to give us cash for baby's college fund :) I'm definitely not trying to solve e-commerce for an older generation.

4 - That's a good point. Hopefully this is a small percentage or items/online stores.

Thanks for the feedback.
Blekko.com is Google without spam.
blekko.com is Google without spam.
The problem is they're all union, and you can't do their job, that's stealing work. Those guys need that work, and if you want it done, you have to pay them to do it. Now stop stealing work, and go back to your own job! </sarcasm>

On a serious note, I have no idea if unions are involved, I'm just reminiscing about dealings with union members in my old job.
Pretty charts.
“Demand Al Jazeera” — aljazeera.net guesses your cable co
Apple slow to respond to counterfeit app on Mac App Store
After reading this post I'm tempted to sign up, but I'm fearful, $5 a month is a great price, I would quickly move our backups over (hundreds of GBs), but it doesn't seem sustainable... what am I missing?
Why charging $12/year converts higher than $9.99
You have a valid point that the click-through measures more of what Google puts out rather than what users find useful. But Bing has access not just to the click-through rate but also the rest of the clickstream. IF (and that's an all-caps if) the value of the click is weighted by engagement metrics on the resulting page, the association is more closely related to the value the user finds in the page rather than the results that Google returned. Would you have a problem with Bing doing that? As a user, and not a developer, I rather like it because it's a much more direct metric of whether a link is useful or not.
Peter Thiel: 21st Century Free Radical
Complete luck. I managed to get an internship doing programming work with a local design firm simply because I knew iOS development and they wanted someone who did.

If I were you, I'd try contacting companies that are doing things to want to do and sending them your resume. Persistence is key.
I guess that really depends on where you're using your iPhone. Check out Daring Fireball's piece: http://daringfireball.net/2011/02/verizon_iphone_4

Gruber's results:

AT&T: Download 1.87 Mbps, Upload 1.18 Mbps and Ping 284 ms

Verizon: Download 1.28Mbps, Upload .48 Mbps, and Pring 281 ms

"These tests were conducted in my home office in Philadelphia. I lacked the foresight to conduct them before leaving San Francisco. For downloading, AT&T is a little faster. For uploading, it’s a bit more than twice as fast. And latency is about equal."
What's that, Mr. Doe? You found a weird lump on your balls? Better keep that to yourself. You wouldn't want anyone thinking you're a doctor!

Better not make that research for small claims court TOO thorough Mr. Smith. You wouldn't want anyone thinking you're a lawyer!
I haven't done a diff, is the bitbucket or github repo "official"?
I found the discussion video on that page fascinating, in how Harry Shum's take on the other topics echoed his defence of Bing on this issue.

On the copying: Bing has dramatically improved over recent history because we use lots of inputs and we would have preferred if Google had talked to us privately so we could figure out how to make this less obvious on the long tail.

On web spam: Google is the industry leader and needs to share more with us little guys so we can all work together to beat this.

On search quality: Google needs to disclose their quality metrics so the industry as a whole can understand what users want. Then we can all make search better for everyone.

I thought Cutts was very gracious in his responses despite looking incredulous at hearing some of this stuff.

Look, this "let's all get along and work together as an industry to fix problems for the user"... it's bullshit. Either compete fairly or don't, but don't pretend that Google owes you data so you can get a leg up.
Life on Earth began in space: NASA study
"6 million feet of copper wiring" sounds a lot more impressive than "1100 miles of copper wiring".
one of the many things you learn not to do in engineering school.

I always start with the conclusion- "I want this to do X"- and then I throw together something that will hopefully do X.

If you don't know what your desired conclusion is, you'll get utterly lost and unfocused along the way.
A lot of the mobile telcos are going to be using DS-Lite or NAT64. What does this mean? Well, NAT64 relies on modifying dns entries. So, take this as a reminder to NEVER EVER hardcode pubic-facing ip addresses if possible!
Hi frossie,

We actually support that at Wishpot (so, we may be the lovechild you're looking for!). Any wish can be enabled for contributions, and then instead of purchasing it, the "buy it" button turns into a progress bar. The cash goes straight into your paypal account - we don't take a cut and aren't a middleman. There's a little how-to here: http://www.wishpot.com/help/how-to-contributions.aspx

Let me know what you think, would love your feedback - tom at wishpot.com

Tom
If you want to get an idea of how powerful Neodymium magnets can be take a look at this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVv8qWZ8xzw
Hosted at slicehost. It's Ruby on Rails with Passenger. Product images are stored in S3.
I was tempted to show off some toys I feel fatherly pride for, like my 500-line spreadsheet, but the only C program in this size range that I still use much is http://wry.me/~darius/software/req.tar.gz -- a rewrite-rule-based programmable calculator. Since it's >20 years old it's not at all what I'd write now.

(Toy spreadsheet at https://github.com/darius/vicissicalc)
When Irish Eyes Are Crying | Business | Vanity Fair
I think they want more (better applicants) to apply. They came to my campus giving out free t-shirts not 2 months ago, and we're not a top-10 or anything.
"Today I Learned...." Sorry, have been spending too much time on Reddit.
Is it possible to work full time and participate in YC at the same time?
Many startups are created while its founders continue working at their current job. Must all YC entrants quit their jobs? Are there past entrants that continued working full time outside of the YC program? What if all 3 entrants are working? What about just one entrant?<p>Thanks!
Watching for space junk: Space fence takes shape
AT&T service in SF is a joke at best. I switched to a MyTouch 4G this last saturday after having the iphone since day-1 launch.

I have gone through 9 iPhone handsets for various reasons...

I cannot tell you how happy I am to be off that phone. It sucks compared to the MT4G and the service I get now is amazingly fast.

AT&T should be sued for the dismal everything they offer.
I used BackBlaze for a while before I switched to Linux and it worked pretty well. At one point I wanted to download a lot of my files at once and the 80GB zip file they provided didn't work, but I was able to download it in smaller pieces. I think that by limiting file size, not providing a Linux client, and not backing up network drives they try to avoid some of the largest storage consumers.
Related: poorer nations flout IP rights on some drugs, arguing that poorer people can't afford to pay the full price in order to get access to the drugs they need.

"....in developing countries, especially Africa, counterfeit products were commonly available to treat life-threatening conditions such as malaria, tuberculosis and HIV/Aids, it said."

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/Counterfeit_drugs_polar...

(Not a great article, there are better ones available to go into the issue further. But it does illustrate the point somewhat.)

The issue of the morality of "theft" becomes decidedly grey when lives are on the line, but using this argument doesn't help us tease out the pros and cons of the original argument - the morality of flouting copyright on movies. Using the example of medicine is an edge case where piracy/stealing/copyright infringement is concerned.
Technically BitBucket (the GitHub one has "mirror of django-bcrypt" as a description), but I try to always push to both at the same time.

I'll take patches/pull-requests from either.
1. amazon wants north of 0.08 per gigabyte transfer. he.net wants $1 per Mbps. This is something like 1/3rd of a penny per gigabyte. I get that deal from he.net, this isn't something only available to the huge.

2. a 32GiB ram 8 core, 4 disk server is around $2000 worth of parts. renting something like that is going to cost you around 1/3rd to 1/4th that /every month/

3. power costs need to be factored in. you can get a full rack with 15a power (remember, only use 3/4 of that) which can handle maybe 8 or 9 of the aforementioned servers for around $400/month

Of course, there are a bunch of other costs that come with owning your own hardware, and certainly, on the small end of things, the cloud saves you a lot of money if you don't have a hardware guy on staff.

My point is just that you have to be careful, because as you scale up, the "cloud" prices don't scale down very much at all. We can argue all day about when reach the point where owning hardware starts to make sense for the stuff you leave on all the time, but it's pretty clear that at some point you do reach that point.

Moving off ec2 on to your own hardware, usually, isn't that difficult. Linux is Linux. But moving off something like appengine on to my own hardware? that starts to get... difficult.
Motorola Cliq XT Won’t Get Android 2.1 Upgrade
Sounds like he had the luck of the draw.
Hey Obama, Where’s the Startup Visa in the Startup America Plan?
Thanks for the advice. I've thought the same thing about the bookmarklet. I'll probably create chrome and ff plugins before scraping web-pages server-side.
Mathematical urban legends
If you think about it for a second, you realize that TrueType rasterization can't be that hard because printers were doing it long ago on crappy little embedded processors, but the default is just to fall back on the big ugly library, and then wrap it and pretend it's not there. How about instead, just write some good code?

This is why 'modern' software can still manage to bring a 3GHz quad-core to it's knees, IMHO
How Google Ambushed Microsoft & Changed the Subject
Pretty interesting take on search, exposing some of the data that you know other search engines have on the back-end (analytics kinds of things), but also adding in a dash of folksonomy/user ratings.
Why $12 subscription converts better than $9.99 on JibJab
Passionate hacking could now use marketing tips
Hi there,

I attended the Hacker News meetup tonight at SkillsMatter, London. A couple of the talks were really striking and I took away one main point which was about marketing from day one. Most of the stuff I've done has involved forums and I generally get accused of spamming.

Please take a look at the site, if finds where to buy dance music from DJ tracklists/charts.

Would really appreciate any marketing tips :)

Many thanks.
Roberto Ierusalimschy's lpeg is around 2.4k loc of ansi C without any dependency beside libC and lua.h (needed to interface with Lua, since it's a Lua library).

It implements an efficient pattern matching system based on Parsing Expression Grammars (akin to CFGs, but without ambiguities). It consists of a Pattern/Grammar to bytecode compiler and a custom VM to interpret the result of the compiling phase.

Nice and clean.

http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/lpeg.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar
What were your timings like for bcrypt using 12 rounds? Also, while for the SHA-x algorithms, there have been numerous tests--what about for the pycrypt module?
I put something on Sourceforge while at uni and it pulled in thousands of downloads. It works but it looks a bit naff now, should I have a really polished product in my portfolio?
I got my first internship through a standard corporate application with only 4 CS courses under my belt. I tend to interview well, and there was a lot of interest in my resume because I was a returning student. Two of the three people who interviewed me did the same thing, so that wound up being my "in".

I got my first real job through Monster.com, I'm sorry to say. I had just moved to a new town and a company needed some help, so I went ahead and applied. It wasn't a great gig, but I wasn't trying to be selective at the time. I would not recommend using Monster.com and if I could go back in time to slap myself I would. I still get occasional calls from recruiters for a 4-year old resume.

The best advice I can offer you is that, however you brand yourself on your resume, tell the truth in an interview. Don't exaggerate or fabricate, and if you get to the limits of your knowledge don't be afraid to say so. Think of it as an extension of "underpromise and overdeliver". I never put anything on my resume I'm not prepared to talk about for at least half an hour precisely to avoid any hint that I'm making shit up as I go.
Good point. Also, unlike others I'd tried in the past (iDrive, Carbonite), you don't have direct access to your backed up data.
You essentially file a online "request" to retrieve this or that file/folder and wait for their email to tell you where to get it.
It probably allows them to store the data in a more compartmentalized, potentially cheaper, environment. Since most people will almost never attempt to restore data, it's not a big problem.
The click is stronger than the link, because MS is including the query associated with the click.
Poll: How do you sexually identify?
Completely pointless poll just to appease my only curiosity.

HN, how do you identify sexually? I'll try to encompass most choices, but if not... sorry.
Straight
Bi/Queer
Imagine I launch a search engine with no data. Then I feed it with urls IE users click on after their google search.
I will eventually end up with an exact copy of google database. So I think that this technique can be called "copying".
Now if Bing uses this technique for 0.1% of their data, then it can be said that 0.1% of their data are copied from Google database.