skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't that what android is all about? Commoditizing the market, and acclimatizing users to sophisticated capabilities (Like handheld search!). I'm not a fan of microsoft, but I am a fan of competition.

I kind of like this battle that's warming up here.
Twitter is no longer a social network
I think people are forgetting that Nokia _did_ make a very innovative platform back in 2005 with Maemo at the GTK-based Hildon GUI. If they hadn't stopped innovating and had gotten others on board except for Intel, that platform could have been Android today.

It's true that they managed to kill it through sheer incompetence, including alienating a lot of first adopters by discontinuing product support for the internet tablets. But there's obviously brilliant people at Nokia, just like there were brilliant people at Apple before Steve Jobs.

Now, if Apple had ditched MacOS when Steve returned instead of using NextStep, and instead went with Windows, and shipped a WP7 phone instead of a phone with OSX, where would they be today? They _might_ have had the iTunes ecosystem, if Microsoft would have allowed it. Their "differentiating features" would be at the mercy of Microsoft and their strategic plans.

I guess people are right that you need an app ecosystem to compete in the smartphone market today. But the iPhone sold like hotcakes for more than a year before it had apps. If Nokia made a phone that users really wanted, I think the app ecosystem would have followed. Instead, they're using their huge market presence to give Microsofts platform the same boost.
There's also the beta builds, which are somewhere between regular and dev.
I believe in one simple thing. Work Hard You can get what you want in life.
I think all your points are valid, but they're referring to a different problem - which is how get control back from the banks to the customer about chargebacks. This problems wasn't introduced by 3D secure, it was always there and it was always just as bad. If you want to replace 3D secure with something that's better, I'm all for it, but this post implies that we should get rid of it as well.
I use the beta build, there are four different release channels actually, look here: http://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
Hmm. That could be if Google Groups has changed the url structure, which could make crawling it harder. Or because USENET/mailing lists don't always have a centralized/canonical location on the web, which makes dupe content more of a potential issue. It's not the usual "Website X copied my website" scenario.
India's systems are generally not designed for the "new entrants" and most of the incumbents design the system with walled gardens to protect themselves.

For a startup like us who have a web based software like basecamp, there is no way we can charge subscription services. Infact no payment gateway exists for us to take credit card payments from Indian customers.

Thanks to PayPal, we can serve international customers much easily. I have a lot of anger against the people who run India's large services as if its an entitlement, without caring for the new entrants.
I've been watching him for just as long and I have the opposite view. So what?
Animals Face Obesity Epidemic Without Known Cause
Launching a Web Collaboration Platform? How to Get Past the Naysayers
Turn in your geek badge
20+ Free eBooks for Designers & Developers
World is now becoming global village every thing is available on internet. An electronic book or eBook is the popular source of getting knowledge nowadays. Today i have collected 20+ best and free eBooks for designers and developers.
>Happy wife = happy life

I hate this phrase, it's the battle cry of those who do whatever their wife says and laugh with their buddies about how whipped they are. Marriage is a balancing act. Of course you have to change and give in where appropriate but if you do everything she says she wants you will lower her opinion of you (as it should, since you're a coward).
He actually sounds just young. I'll stop at this.
As a "meta-answer", you might consider breaking these questions up and asking them on one of the stackexchange sites.

However:

1. "What kind of load" depends on your anticipated visits to the site. There's no substitute for real traffic, but simulation can do in a pinch. Likewise there's no substitute for simulation, but capacity planning tools can do in a pinch. Look at The Art of Capacity Planning, The Art of Application Performance Testing and Guerilla Capacity Planning.

2. There are many tools, some quite sophisticated. Look at siege, httperf and others like them. Consider also using automatic UAT tools (like Cucumber) as the basis for performance and stress tests.

3. Look into monit, zenoss or nagios. There are others.

4. Profiling, profiling, profiling. And ditch Apache, it's a memory hog. Consider lighttpd or nginx.
The video "The Britten Bike Story" is well worth seeing if you enjoy mechanical hackery and motorcycles- http://www.brittendvd.co.nz/
I'm pretty happy with nginx but I do mostly rails with that. For PHP, the general consensus seems to be fastcgi + lighttpd for high performance environments, but if you're just serving the same page, why not use apache + mod_cache. What improvements over mod_cache would wp-supercache get, you're just serving static files, so why not just add varnish or mod_cache for apache.

That said, serving small files from lighttpd is extremely fast. I set up one high-performance server for small files that served from ramdisk on a linux machine. At 15000 r/s with ab or siege I didn't max out the small instance on amazon. Sceptical about correctly measuring performance at that level though.
> Experts exchange answers aren't nearly as bad as things like yahoo answers

While yahoo answers etc. might provide bad answers, experts exchange provides no answers at all. All you see is an open question with a nasty subscribe button that will only work if you haven't already used it more than 30 days ago.

So experts exchange is more than useless: It's just plain advertisement without any added value. It's the kind of stuff you expect in the ads section of a search engine, but definitely don't want to show up in your search results.
Five things you may not know about online 'hacktivists' Anonymous #ns###
Well, that sucks, and demonstrates that this would be absolutely trivial to make work correctly. This feature (in the normal "not removed due to legality or privacy concerns" case) should not require an administrator any more than viewing the normal edit history of a page.
I use the beta build as well.
The article is about full page caching. How's that different than static content?
i`d guess the main problem are experience then.
try to poke on github or code any startup idea that you fancy. try to emulate it or better. Try to push it into the cloud/crowd and get some feedback exchange with the user. Show the world how you solve the problem.
That's how i got my experience. That's also how i got my new job with much higher pay raise.
Zynga’s Reported $7-$10 Billion Valuation Surpasses That Of EA
I joined!
Gabe Newell - Valve is more profitable per employee than Apple/Google
MeeGo is just a Maemo's next incarnation. And Nokia has quite a succesfull track of Maemo-based Nx00 devices.
> IIT students were arbitrarily limited in the number of hours they could spend online because some administrator thought they should get out more

Wow, I didn't believe you at first, but it appears to be true. [1][2][3]

They appear to be justifying by claiming, besides that it prevents them from meeting others, that it somehow causes suicide and depression and that it is responsible for falling grades.

Does anyone know if this is still in effect? The most recent article I could find is from 2008.

[1] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/IIT-D-follows-...

[2] http://educational-newsflash.blogspot.com/2010/11/restrictio...

[3] http://vikashkablog.blogspot.com/2007/01/internet-ban-in-iit...
Good information about eukanuba and frontline
Although online pet pharmacies may save pet owners money when buying animal medications, not all online pharmacies are reputable. For more details about best Pet pharmacy, please visit our website.
Apologies. I missed your games distinction. Quite right.
Does anyone remember "Yarn"... Amit Gupta (of PhotoJojo, The Daily Jolt) made it way back in the day (like '00 I want to say). It was a really cool app along these lines.

Doesn't seem to be any evidence it ever existed on the web, but it looked awesome, and as I remember had some cool interaction design.
How is this any different / better then using CouchDB and hosted CouchDBs at CouchOne?
Then prepare to be disappointed. What you happen to believe is completely irrelevant to how the world works.

There are lots of people who work hard. Immigrant fruit pickers, waitresses, WalMart greeters. I'd question whether they get what they want in life. Of course they may have other goals than material gain, but hard work won't make them materially rich.

Success requires three basic ingredients. Luck - right place and time, being born into the right country, right family and so on and so forth. In other words, the hand you get dealt in life, which you don't have influence over. Brains - not necessarily education, but wit, quick thinking, "emotional intelligence" and so on, the ability to think for yourself and apply what you know to real-world problems.

Finally, yes, hard work, but only if applied with luck and brains.

As Jean-Paul Getty said, "Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil."
How to Convert ASF to WMV with ASF to WMV Converter
Was the twatty attitude really necessary?

I asked a simple question expecting someone with industry-appropriate know-how to expand further on Google's theoretical/possible intentions.

We already have an entire industry dedicated to gaming the search engines ranking signals/etc; we have some very talented black hats who undermine existing attempts to keep SERPs clean. I don't think it was that stupid a question.
Baidu Maps has Sim City 4-style renders of their cities
Few thoughts on #elopocalypse
It's already coming.

http://www.myriadgroup.com/Media-Centre/News/Myriad-Announce...

With this Nokia can use Android ecosystem while not being yet-another-Android-vendor.
How does SK make money? Ticket commissions?
eggheadcafe (example: http://bit.ly/fxIaKE )
Just Chromium.
Thanks, I'll look into those.

When you say ditch Apache, do you mean completely? I know a fairly common setup is to use nginx+Apache to serve Django (with nginx serving the static content and Apache the Django code). Should I be running everything from nginx?
Some Redis Use-Cases
I doubt. How much of HTML5 features WP7 really supports?

I've heard that:

> The browser for Windows Phone 7.0 is based on IE 7.0, which does not support HTML 5 (in desktop terms HTML 5 support is part of IE9, which is currently under development).

(http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/windowsphone7seri...)
About the SMS limitation - you got it wrong here, the limit is for sending SMSes with the same text and definitely not for receiving them. There's no limit on the amount of normal SMSes (with different content) you can send in a day.

I think that's a pretty good move, spam SMS is turning into a huge problem here.
There is no way to sort out speaker driver rejects into 1st, 2nd and whatever category. If a sample has quality issue, it is likely to deteriorate further in use rapidly.

Lower quality speakers are not rejects of high quality speakers, they are just cheaper designs.

As to the mold, the holes there require no tolerances, they are there just to avoid air cushion behind the driver and serve no other purpose. Similarly, a foam pad is a rough hack to reduce its effectiveness, driving the speaker's response down. Do you really feel like this foam cut is some precision fix to tolerances problem?
Yeah, that's what it sounded like.

Aside from not supporting incremental updates, that approach has a high memory overhead. For every word of length N, you've got to store 1 + 2 + ... + N-1 + N characters, which is O(N^2). The constant is 1/2, and you do get some savings in shared prefixes, so that's definitely a worst-case upper bound -- but a trie grows with O(N).

The O(log(N)) lookup time can also be a limiting factor with large sets. A trie is going to give you worst-case linear lookup time in the length of the longest string in your set. This can be a pretty dramatic difference as string sets get large.
Man-in-the-middle attack are made less likely because the 3DSecure page where the user is asked to enter a password also contains challenge question that was originally added by the user at the time of setting up 3DSecure for his/her account. The user should be able to recognize that this is not the bank's website when the challenge question is not his/her own.
Yes it is. What do you think sells their hardware?
Personally I don't see the point in keeping Apache. It just adds more moving parts and more points of failure to have two HTTP daemons.

I'd ditch it entirely and switch to WSGI or FastCGI.
Interesting to learn. Thanks!
Well, my local taxi company has had a phone-based booking system forever, they've had web-based booking for 5-10 years, and from that position, making an iPhone app is very cheap, it looks like they just got an iPhone consultancy agency to make it, and I'm pretty sure they didn't pay 10 million for it. :-)

I don't know exactly how taxi companies work in various US cities, but for any company that already has web-booking, getting an iPhone app is trivially cheap, and I don't see how Uber is going to be able to counter that, funding or no funding?
RunCore USB 3.0 Express SSD: Made For Your ExpressCard Slot
Lighttpd had a persistent bug where overloading FastCGI instance of PHP would eventually cause it to get "stuck" in a 500 error state, even after PHP had returned to idle.
c'mon so when do you draw the line?
+1 Beta
This whole thread is way too cool, loved it!
> and launching the phone usually takes a full minute

If boot time is tolerable (i.e. it takes not more than a minute) this is one of the last things developers should care about. Users reboot the phone very infrequently, like, once in a while, when they completely forget to charge it and the power goes off.

However, when phone is booted, it should run as smoothly as possible. This is the one thing I dislike in Maemo 5 - I managed to make my N900 run quite slow (sure, I've tried lots of the unstable apps from devel-extra so it's mostly my fault).
Do they have a chance?
> Is the stock worth $1m? For accounting purposes, yes.

Nitpick: this depends on your inventory method.

Perpetual or periodic? LIFO? FIFO? Weighted average?
With Django - or any ORM it's a good idea to keep an eye on the SQL that your application is running. Use the django debug toolbar[1] and run your SQL queries against a profiler. Most of the time, that's where your serious bottlenecks will be. If a query happens to be a bottleneck, there are ways the ORM can improve performance (e.g. select_related() to reduce the number of queries in a loop, only() and defer() to reduce the number of columns in a query, and so on[2]. In some cases this may even involve using pure SQL or caching heavily used queries.

Look at using processes vs threads with mod_wsgi, which should help improve performance. Ultimately however you might find nginx a better option, particularly if you are using it for static media/load balancing anyway. I'd suggest uwsgi (also heard good things about gunicorn). Use supervisord or another process monitor to make sure the lights stay on.

[1] https://github.com/robhudson/django-debug-toolbar
[2] http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/querysets
How Greg Lindsay Beat IBM's Watson at Jeopardy
Well they are even planning to remove all ceiling fans: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/iit-to-remove-ceiling-fans...
Some will, some won't. See my other reply in this thread, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2216139 .
They're definitely getting the Twilio volume discount price. Probably paying a lot less then the stated: http://www.twilio.com/pricing-signup/volume-pricing
In most cases the question is the default. The typical flow is the user tries to do a transaction - bank identifies they are not registered for 3D secure yet - a couple of questions and a OTP later - a 3D secure password is chosen. But the question remains the default one unless the user decides to take the effort of changing it.
Google consumer profiling strategy?
Actions speak louder than slogans.
Aaron, thanks for stopping by with an update on Chrome sync--much appreciated. And thanks for making Chrome extensions fast/easy/powerful to write.
Actually, that's where the article misses the hard part, which is building an effective, scalable sales force that can get a constant stream of suitable merchants through the door, which requires a rather different skillset to knocking up a mailing list app over a weekend.

Splashing your profits on a Superbowl ad is the easy bit.
Brain teasers and real life just don't work the same way. The trick is to distinguish them.

If a bridge can only support 2 people, maybe it is better to not cross it at all. If you do have to cross it, maybe you can trust your tamed tiger with the goat. Pirates aren't rational agents that use silly rules for sharing the treasure. An egg that doesn't take a scratch when falling from the 13'th floor belongs to wonderland. Few women would kill their cheating husband right away. Fewer still would rely on the perfect rationality of others, and the mayor's to do so.

And so on. Brain teasers are fun, but many people (not just Richard Feynman) don't accept their weird assumptions right away, and instead assume a real-life setting.
Breakdown of Watson's Performance on Jeopardy
> the most logical, efficient way to study was going from simple-to-complex. They said, "Start with a set of the most basic kanji. Then try to combine every kanji in that set with every other kanji in the set – and lo! You will be able to construct several new kanji just by re-arranging the kanji you already know.

Yep! We Westerners learn to write our own language letters first, then words. That's how we naturally want to learn Kanji/Hanzi.

So for 我爱你 "I love you": 我=手+戈, 爱=爪+冂+(十+又), 你=人+(勹+小), I find it's easier to learn the character when I've already learnt its components.
You make some good points but I think you're underestimating the power a monopoly can have. It's true that IBM wasn't able to keep their strangle hold on technology, but Microsoft did for a long time. Walmart still stands largely unopposed.
Herbal Medicine 
sells best herbal
medicine for all types of male &
female health. It is known in the
market for for best result without
any side effect. Free world wide delivery.
for more visit
Chromium nightlies, updated every few days.
I'm quite willing to be convinced that a conservative monetary system has shielded some countries from certain isssues, but some economist saying so doesn't make it so, not even if he's a famous economist. So some background on the mechanics would be nice.
I'm on Arch Linux, self building the latest one every couple of days from http://build.chromium.org/official/
Anti-piracy measures in videogames
Been using the Developer build on OSX for quite a while now, (of Google Chrome, not Chromium). Can't say I've experienced any noticeable faults in any of the versions I've updated to.
I have to say, their website looks, feels lovely.
This is nothing. Every time somebody finds an easier way of doing things, the government and the babucracy finds a way of muscling in and making it as bad as all the earlier options. Some of it is not bad, but others are nuts. I should start a list.

- Vehicles registered in one state cant be used for too long in another state

- Banks have insane policies

- Online electronic tax filing requires that you complete the process in paper format as well. To complete the electronic process you have to send it in by normal snail mail as well. And you cant get acknowledgments.

- Universities don't recognize each other between states

-
10.8V 6 cells Li-ion replacement battery for Toshiba PABAS069
4400mAh Toshiba PABAS069 battery/AC DC Adapter, Toshiba PABAS069 Li-ion replacement battery
10.8V 6 cells Li-ion replacement battery for Toshiba PABAS069, shipping to the whole world!

Battery type:Li-ion replacement battery
Item Number:Toshiba-PA3465U-1BRS
Capacity:4400mAh
Voltage:10.8V
Cells: 6
Warranty: 1 year
Brand: Toshiba
Outside the US Levi's are pitched as a premium brand, and will quite often cost 5 to 6 times more than no name brand jeans of the same quality.
Thanks for the all the images. Really interesting to see your home-brewed dashboards for tracking.

Do other startups make their own dashboards like this, or do you think it's specific to your business model?
nice. very nice. just gotta lern haskell now...
i guess it would be very useful to serve static pages, for now.
Egyptians are using Google Moderator to generate ideas on rebuilding the country
yup: I'm on the Beta channel FWIW
i can see nokiapland.com soon will be bought, even though plan C looks pretty promising. lol
Hi JonLim,
I've been playing with it today. Github is suggesting it on the top page so I think I'm probably not the only one. I did look at TWG page but could find nothing on the CMS.

Are you using it production? Is this something TWG is using internally as work flow?

I notice that a number of tags are available but I'm still unsure of their usage. The sample pages included were somewhat light so if you have better samples that would be helpful.
The monkey could also fetch the secret question from the 3DSecure page and show it to the user, right? Or am I missing something here? How will adding more information to the login page make it more resistant against mitm?
It was originally many things, but before going into the rubber goods business it started out as a paper mill. http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia/company/story-of-nokia/noki...
The name unfortunately is a homonym for "Mi-Go," who are an extra-terrestrial race that appear in several stories of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. The Mi-Go are not particularly friendly. For example, in one story they extract a person's brain from his head, then keep the brain alive in a jar while they fly with it through space to their base on Yuggoth (Pluto).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi-go

So if you ever see jokes along the lines of "MeeGo: the phone that extracts your brain from your head!" or "MeeGo: the phone from Yuggoth" or similar, that is why. I have not yet seen Charlie Stross reference this in one of the Laundry stories, but I'm waiting for it. ; )

I would hope this is unintentional on Nokia and Intel's part. I mean, who would intentionally name their OS after something in Lovecraft?
This wouldn't happen to be a city in Connecticut? I called the bluff and drove 4 hours to fight the ticket instead of mailing it in. It cost me 2-days work plus gas, but I got off free and clear. And visited some friends who went to school in the area.

But if the prosecutor didn't drop the fines and took me to trial I would be screwed. Sometimes just putting up a fight, even a small one, can reap big rewards.
Not sure if you read the NYT article but it goes into some detail.
Regular release. I should match at least what a regular user is using on webdev.
What I believe they are meaning with this is the next generation smartphone market, not the current one. WP7 and iOS will be needing total rework to fit in, whereas Meego is fine even at the moment (..when it is stable at least!). Targeting current market for complete takeover is just stupid, unless you are happy with dying out slowly.

Getting into margins now is job of WP7 platform. Symbian is not fit into smartphone field (use S^3 if you don't believe) and these guys realise it. True that Meego will need lot of work, but there should be enough time to polish it before market they should be targing opens.
May I ask how old are you?
Yes, for about 5 years I wouldn't buy anything but Nokia. And it wasn't because of the hardware, it was because the interface / usability was leagues ahead of the rest.