skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Apple CEO may have six weeks to live' - The Times of India
The problem is that - as Gawker have shown - people start thinking that techniques that might be acceptable for web apps are acceptable for content sites.

They don't think this through as they don't use anything other than a modern web browser with javascript switched on.
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I found the idea of letting the interface disappear in the middle of the information a very interesting idea.

But the idea of borrowing UIs from science fiction is downright suicidal. Form follows function, not fashion.
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Developing Native Android Apps with Titanium
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2229012

The main article appears to be word-for-word identical.
Macetas De Colores Con Luz Propia    
Las macetas con luz propia son un nuevo sistema de iluminación que durante el día funcionan como macetero y por la noche como iluminación. Además sirven tanto para uso interior como exterior.
... which is a dupe of this one:

http://slashdot.org/story/11/01/26/1611226/100-P2P-Users-Upl...
> Take care with that. Political implications could be huge. This can be read as declaring Democracy being a threat to our existence.

An unfair reading to be sure! The statement should have been followed with a huge asterisk and an explicit qualifier. The thrust of what I meant hinges on the difference between (to quote N+1) a "formal democracy, or the equal right to an opinion, with a democracy of quality in which all views possess equal value — until some are proved superior by commanding a mob following."

I see I've really put my foot in it now. Here's the N+1 article in reference: http://nplusonemag.com/revolt-of-the-elites
I suspect stigma may play a part..

[John Lilly] studied other large-brained mammals and in the late 1950s he established a centre devoted to fostering human-dolphin communication: the Communication Research Institute on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. In the early 1960s, Lilly and co-workers published several papers reporting that dolphins could mimic human speech patterns.[7][8] Subsequent investigations of dolphin cognition have generally, however, found it difficult to replicate his results. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly

Interesting guy but with a tendency to... go off at the deep end.
The Apple App store still makes by far the most money - $1.8 billion in revenues last year compared to $102 million for Android Market. Same for per app - an average of $5400 per year for the App store vs $850 for Android Market.

http://www.conceivablytech.com/5652/business/apple-leads-glo...
Jolly good. A site that understands the concept of 'progressive enhancement'.
Sadly that's the standard for academic papers. The linked page does contain the full text of the paper however.
I've never seen a hardware node get anywhere near saturating the bus before disk I/O became an issue. So yes, there is a potential for saturation; however, I'd be really happy if that were my capacity bottleneck.
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I absolutely don't buy that argument, because everyone knows that processes are way more heavyweight and inter-process-communication is way more complex with processes than with threads. Using processes is a good way when you fear that some threads might crash (but the heck, why should they? how about writing software that is less prone to crashing) but not to make anything faster or more responsible. If you want that, then optimize the architecture, like, assign each tab its own JS thread, and suspend threads of tabs that are not visible. But I fail to see how processes are the magic recipe for repsonsibility. Just because Chrome does it, it does not mean that the responsiveness of Chrome is due to the fact that they use processes. They could just as well use threads and noone would even notice the difference (apart from tabs crashing the whole browser then).
If we ever get to the point that jobs aren't replaced that would mean that all work isn't needed so the typical rules of capitalism no longer apply.

Capitalism is just a mechanism for allocating resources, it's not any kind of moral judgment on anything.
What yungchin said, but also because last.fm and Pandora's source supplier has a stranglehold over the market (aka the traditional labels). Like Netflix, their entire business revolves around having the right to play their content, so the content producer can take them to the cleaners easy peasy.

And now they're being squeezed from the other side. Life sucks right now for services that make content discovery and recommendations better.
How to make a Kindle cover out of a real book
But, if your universe is like mine and there are many more users than developers (who also happen to be users), it makes more sense to use *GPL-like licenses because they protect the rights of a majority.
Thats why they command to take a cut, how much they deem fit. It is their prerogative and responsibility to keep the eco system healthy.
Unless the links are being provided by a source that the user dislikes, why would anyone choose to strip out the affiliate part of the URL?

It doesn't increase the cost of the item (afaik), and provides the source with some revenue.
I'm somwhat suspicious, but there's this: http://www.hostv.com/linux-vps.shtml; OVH have similar deals.
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Antitrust is about barriers to entry - the market is still wide open for anyone to compete with Apple.
I can't believe history can be completely forgotten in less than 20 years.

Here are a couple of links I found with a quick googling:

http://www.kmfms.com/whatsbad.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20071215231524/http://www.vcnet.c...

The second tries to document every company destroyed by MS and how.
Sounds like some good entrepreneurship going on there. These creative business models should be applauded. Some of them, if encouraged, may even lead to viable distribution business models for movies and music in the future.
It seems the number of startups using .NET is increasing, or, at least, the interest on it by the HN community is growing.

I'm curious, so:

AskHN: Are you using .NET on your startup and why did you chose it?
So, what else are bolt-cutters useful for?
Also, from 2.2 on Redis support is complete. It's not as reliable as AMQP (no message acknowledgements, and you can lose minutes of messages when not using append_only mode)
Borders was a pretty big piece of the B&M book market, and a lot of us have fond memories of the place. It doesn't surprise me that people are freaking out.

When Waldenbooks went downhill, I was pretty sad about that. I spent a lot of time in that store. After that, I didn't bother getting attached to any of the others.

And to be honest, since Amazon, I haven't spent much time in a B&M book store. It's just so much cheaper and easier to order online, and quite a few of their books let you peak inside them as well. (Not that I had much luck picking good books from bad by peaking in them in the store anyhow.)
> There's no language currently out there that covers as much ground as C++ and is anywhere near as good at it.

Have you tried OCaml? It's has it's problems, but it's nowhere near as bad as C++.
Just to clarify: are we talking about "learning the interface" plus "accomplishing task" here, or just "accomplishing task"? I'm pretty sure that e.g. unzipping your first archive with WinZip can be done more quickly than untarring your first archive with tar...
>But having a monopoly in the mobile app market does give Apple a monopoly.

They don't. Doesn't Android actually have more apps in their app store? It really is what the parent said: the Apple market place is just better, it's not any kind of monopoly.
every one of our great investments elicited this question early on. i'm pleased to see that Stack is generating the same kind of questions
Yes. And there's no reason you couldn't integrate Hoogle in your editor.
The Law of Standards by John F. Sowa
Ask HN: Why does the up arrow hide sometimes?
try putting cooling heat-pipe into your hot cup of coffee - your fingers will burn instantly.
Most knights-in-training also had other ambitions. But they wanted to live through the battles.

How many people have had their week ruined by a lack of version control? Not geeks, but real people who didn't even know what that was until Dropbox arrived.

And version control is old hat. What other computer tricks are there? Backup? Deployment? Putting services in the cloud? Building services? This isn't stuff that requires a PhD in algorithms and distributed systems, just stuff that requires basic competence.
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I'm pretty sure more Firefox users run Windows than Linux, and hence it makes more sense to prioritize development for the more widely used platform.
Thanks for the reference, btw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allodial_title I didn't know that particular term.

But I would distinguish rights from their actual recognition. Rights can exist without them having to be recognized. They can't be taken away, just infringed against. If someone has been wrongly imprisoned, his rights still exist, even if they are being broken systematically.

Also, the difference between IP as a 'right' and as a 'privilege' consists in the difficulty of arranging for a system of IPs in a world without a monopolistic enforcer (or 'privilege granter'). It could be just that IP is a new phenomenon and our social systems are not yet prepared to deal with it. It could also be that IP is falsely recognized and their enforcement further breaks existing rights.
I think it's something related with spam because it happens when I upvote my mates' posts or comments...
Their elimination would slow the system to a crawl I'd imagine, in Australia at least the uploads are always capped low enough that seeding back will slow down the rest of your web activities. So it isn't feasible unless your not at the computer to seed back at any decent frequency. When something new hits the pirate bay and is popular it is already pretty slow.
Schmidt Sting Index - Classification through pain
According to Wikipedia:
"Before Trebek's second season, contestants were able to ring in at any time after the clue had been revealed, and a buzzer would sound whenever someone rang in. According to Trebek, the buzzer sound was "distracting to the viewers" and sometimes presented problems, as contestants would inadvertently ring in too soon, or ring in so quickly that by the time he finished reading the clue, the contestant's five-second limit had expired. He also said that, by not allowing anyone to ring in until the clue was finished, home viewers could play along more easily, and faster contestants would be less likely to dominate the game."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeopardy!#Ringing_in
I think he was saying that although physicists generally understand the principles involved, a chemist might have a better sense of the relative magnitudes of the different effects that come into play in cooling a solution, since chemists have to perform this task routinely.
on a completely different note, I like my coffee hot :)
Sales Tricks: People Prefer Larger Denominations of the Same Thing
> The goal is solving a problem for that particular person, as fast as possible. It's rarely getting more people to use the product.

I would say that the incredible versatility of the majority of stock UNIX tools and the philosophy that encourages combining them is evidence against this. Trying to predict every use case is a waste of time so make it simple and pipe. The alternative is software that is restrictive for some subset of users, no matter how elaborate it is.
This creates more jobs and reduces income inequality.

That is a very contentious issue. Let me use the dotcom boom as an example. In the early days not many people knew how to "make a website" and consulting companies raked in the cash. Then the knowledge got more widespread and the tools got better and basically any IT department could do it, so margins eroded, yet at the same time, more people and organizations had websites. With you so far.

But the people who were on the cutting edge of HTML and CGI in 1995 didn't stay there - they moved on up into different technologies, staying "ahead of the curve" and in the same relative position to the "average" IT worker. So there is no reduction in "inequality" (and that's a good thing - as an economy we need to incentivize people to look ahead). And the people who got into the game late find there are no jobs and have to retrain - and that is a net drain on their and the economy's wealth.

So I don't believe the effect is either to create more jobs (since the person who once was doing COBOL in 1995 is now doing COBOL ON COGS in 2011) and it doesn't reduce "inequality" either (since the HTML forerunner in 1995 is now doing, I dunno, iPhone apps).
In emacs, repeat is C-x z, and then keep pressing z. (C-x zzzzzzzzzzzz...)

While M-f, M-b are e and b, I don't know of an exact equivalent for E and B. But they could very easily be added.

IMHO, basic editing in Emacs has slightly higher constant factors (mostly due to typing the modifier keys), but scales much better as operations become more complex.
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Thanks! Sounds like a good strategy. I've never really understood the nature of consulting though. Seems like there's much to learn for me but how do you get to consult for someone? Again, I guess customer acquisition seems to be the key thing missing for me here. Apart from cold calling people, putting out ads and through your network, I'm not sure what other ways you could do it - especially if you're a single founder?
They're included in dictionary usage. Having a separate case statement would be redundant. Lua does the same thing.
Ask HN: Any good new podcasts lately?
Personal favorites below, please share yours.

1. Planet Money - Often excellent, always good.

2. Radiolab - Every episode is painstakingly produced, using all sorts of aural tricks to tie up various stories related to the theme of each episode.

3. The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe - group commentary about recent news especially dedicated to debunking homeopathy etc. But most of all I enjoy the segment at the end of each show "science or fiction", where the group is presented with three science news and they must guess which one is the fictional one.

4. The Moth - People telling their random stories on open mic. Quality better than you might expect, since not all end up on the podcast.
Pre-launch last minute checklist for web projects
Finally! A justification for charging in picodollars.
I'm far from a fan of the big movie studios and their rigid distribution models, but I'm still unconvinced that annotating other people's content with spam portals is either (i) a particularly creative business model or (ii) a viable alternative revenue source for those creating and selling the content.
We do, because:

1. We already know it well and it's good enough.

2. Things just work. Somehow I'm expecting to face lots of strange problems in RoR with stuff like encoding, threads, networking.
A secret book within a book.
I like the "new" 5by5 podcast "Back to Work". It has some interesting informations about how to be more productive and follows the opinion of seth godin's linchpin, most of the tim. Additionally, the hosts are funny, especially Merlin Mann, and the podcast is not too long.
> BitTorrent is to movies what "bolt-cutters are to stealing bicycles"

ummmmmm ... how does this analogy work?

Bolt-cutters are to stealing bicycles, a tool that facilitates and simplifies an activity.

So the analogy goes, BitTorrent facilitates and simplifies movies.

I think they left out a verb and meant to say "BitTorrent is to watching movies what bolt-cutters are to stealing bicycles".
how is it better for privacy to use a private git hosting provider than any other linux box you control?

If you don't care about privacy, then you might as well just use github and have access to all of their cool collaboration features.
I use these with caution on animated pages or large elements; I don't have links to hand, but have lots of anecdotal stories of performance degradation with CSS drop shadows.

Just a friendly word of (unbacked) warning to frontend devs :)
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I believe you are a little overextending GP's statement. Physical property is a zero sum game only in the context of mass and energy preservation. The price tag on a pound of flour and yeast may vary, you may transform it into bread, but you cannot both keep it and sell it.
However: For all we know, it could be that consciousness only happens at certain speeds or for certain physical layouts of computation.

They don't have similar structures -- one uses parallel computation, the other is sequential.
This Developer's life .
Django and Python 3
>One of the nice things about Xen is that disk I/O can be controlled somewhat because each domU has a specific process in dom0 for disk access. So you can ionice things & provide a somewhat more controlled access to the disk.

My experience? it's easy to make one customers's I/O suck with such tools, but they work for shit when it comes to fairly balancing everyone's I/O.

As far as I can tell, the best practice is to monitor everyone's usage, and if someone goes above some pre-set threshold, to make their I/O suck using ionice or what have you.

But that's a long way from solving the problem.
I always stir my coffee in a random way so that you see turbulent movement in the cup as opposed to the whirlpool you get from moving the spoon in smooth circles.

My intuition tells me that this should give more efficient cooling. I basically have nothing to back this up. Thinking about it, it probably makes more sense for dissolving the sugar than cooling the coffee.
Rumours like this benefit no-one especially Steve Jobs and his family.
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The employer should be sorting this out for you. It is not simple, and the leaving and reentry on a tourist visa is by no means certain. They do catch on.
Official Statement Regarding PS3 Circumvention Devices and Pirated Software
Nice. Which browsers does it work in? Firefox 3.6 works, IE7 doesn't. Not tested other versions of IE.
Ah, read: http://nicolasgallagher.com/css-drop-shadows-without-images/

"Known browser support: Firefox 3.5+, Chrome 5+, Safari 5+, Opera 10.6+"
Well we all know what happened in I,Robot ;)
This is ridiculous. Is every phpBB forum going to have to install an FBI backdoor into its private messaging system?
Whereas I agree that a lot of 'TV' (not only scifi) user interfaces are nonsense (For example, in CSI, why do they show random fingerprints and photos while querying the database?), a lot of ideas from science fiction have been used for actual technology. It can be good ideas, or bad ideas, but you cannot say in general that they are bad or 'downright suicidal'...

Only as soon as the technology makes it possible to actually execute the ideas, we can test whether they make sense or not... (Don't forget the Minority Report style interfaces that 'everyone' seems to want these days)

(BTW: I wonder why the post in this topic by Hov, which mentions that tablets look a lot like the devices used in Star Trek, is killed?)
Space Music: Did Walkmans Kill Manned Space Exploration?
BitTorrent community is a hydra, and will grow two new heads if one is cut down.

If GrooveShark pays royalty fees, I indirectly pay for music, but movies in my country are nearly unavailable, and only the elite can afford to go to the cinema or buy disks.
implementing Asimov's three laws perfectly do not protect us from all forms of robotic governmental takeover anyway. It is possible to follow all the rules and yet still humanity into cute but ultimately useless pets.
Why not edit your original comment instead of posting a reply to yourself? You posted both within 1 minute of each other.
Except if you have a life span in which a 20-year round trip is insignificant.
I just bought 128GiB of unbuffered ecc ddr3 last week. 4GiB sticks which would be fine in a dual-socket board with 16 ram slots; (pretty typical, at least on the amd side of things. I see a lot of dual qpi xeons with only 6 ram slots between them, though.) I paid $1800 or so for the lot. That would give me two dual-socket 64GiB ram boxes.

Hell, even if you need 8GiB registered ecc ddr3 modules, that's only around $130 per module[1], or $1040 for 64GiB.

(both the qpi xeons by intel and the new G34 and C32 opterons support both reg. ecc and unbuffered ecc, but you generally can't get unbuffered ecc in densities higher than 4GiB per stick)

My standard server has 8 cores (2.0Ghz opterons) 32GiB ram, and 4 500gb "enterprise" sata disks. total cost? under $1800. AMD is interesting in this regard because I can get a dual-socket or even quad-socket board (the above system is single socket) and not pay any extra... I just get more cpu sockets and more ram sockets. (on G34 boards you usually get 8 ram slots per CPU socket.)

Now, the price of ram varies a lot. I think we're at a low point, but there was a period a year or two back where prices on reg. ecc ddr2 were almost as low as ddr3 is now, and there was a period between then and now where I was paying well over 2x what I'm paying now. But in general, the stuff is pretty cheap.

Seriously, we (the VPS providers) are making money on renting you hardware. I am making money, and I'm the opposite of "at scale" (to be clear, I'm paying for my hardware, and paying myself a rather below-market wage. I'm not making a /lot/ of money, but I'm profitable, and by enough of a margin that my rent gets paid on time every month.)

As a rule of thumb, I generally make my money back on a new bit of hardware within four months.

[1]http://www.provantage.com/kingston-technology-kvr1066d3q8r7s... (I used the same vendor for my unbuffered ecc, but I'm too lazy to look up the part number right now. )
well done, wonderful css3 presentation!
Yeah, for certain. I guess I just really, really like the ability to have some control. Even if it isn't solving the problem. Back when I was working for a shop doing OpenVZ, all we could do is shrug our shoulders & make our best guess as to what was causing the problems.
There are also cases where one username corresponds with a few IP addresses from the same ISP, which is known as the NAT [network address translation] effect.

Aren't they getting this backwards? NAT takes multiple computers (i.e., users) and concentrates them into a single outwardly-visible IP.
The game season 4 episode 7
the game season 4 episode 7 Not content to let Jeremy rot in jail, Noah decided to ask for help from Tracy who he is asked to pretend to be the next boy-of-kin. After he spoke with Jeremy in his prison cell,
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Fallacious. If worms would actually reply, and converse even with very limited intelligence about their state of mind, it would lead to an entire new branch of science and new sectors of entertainment and industry.

Pets are cool.
Nice article, Nick-

I think one more (and probably the last) important area to check would be:

Navigation structure, affecting how accessible (or otherwise) the site is to (both - human visitors as well as) to the crawlers.
Chrome on my MBP really chugs trying to scroll down the page, I'm surprised it's being pushed that hard looking at the code.
The first example could actually have been

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