skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A true "psuedonym" would provide you with insulation, but would follow you everywhere and you would only get one.

I don't see a big advantage to this, or at least, prefer communities where it's unnecessary. Why do you need information about how someone conducts themselves elsewhere on the net? Imo, if an online community (like any community) is functioning well, its members develop a familiarity with each other based on internal interactions.

For example, in its heydey, I knew all the regular kuro5hin posters by their k5 pseudonyms, and had positive and negative impressions of them based entirely on their k5 posting. Same with the mailing lists I'm on, the smaller (non-Reddit-sized) forums I post on, etc. Knowing external information about what they post on Slashdot or LKML or Usenet doesn't really seem necessary, and tracking people cross-websites like that even seems a bit creepy/stalkerish (unless they themselves link to their own activity elsewhere). Heck, I didn't even care if someone was a troll on Slashdot, so long as their posting on k5 was interesting.

I sort of like that one-reputation-per-community model. It does require communities that are actually communities, though, and have regulars who recognize each other. Gigantic communities with tens of thousands of transient commenters aren't really communities, so run into more problems.
Agreed, but i read that "One Pass offers payments in mobile apps (i.e. in Android apps)" Maybe there will be a differently tiered charging system depending on the content (news content vs application specifc content like a new level for a game).
Does warranty come into this at all? There are terms in a lot of Free Software licenses that remove the obligation to provide support, accept liability for the product or even to guarantee its fitness for purpose.

It seems to me that these aspects introduce a gap in the level of support Microsoft can offer for a product distributed on its platform since it doesn't necessarily have a way to delegate responsibility back up the chain.
I guess YC companies have upfront equity.
Cracking MD5 Hash algorithm-List of web sites 2
Startup Quote: Scott Heiferman, co-founder, Meetup
Having dealt with the INS and then the Dept of Homeland Security. The changes were for the worse. I get that they wanted to integrate all the agencies now making up the DoHS for better information sharing but there is a point when departments get so big that it just doesn't function anymore. They should have kept them smaller to remove the bureaucratic cruft.
This is the web right now - The Oatmeal
Ask HN:  Best CRM tool for a startup
I know, I know...there are tons of solutions out there. Any one have a solid experience with one that plugs into google apps? Thanks :)
It appears to have been removed. What did it say?
You need a team that’s going to care about this thing as much as you do.

- Scott Heiferman (@heif)

http://startupquote.com/post/3328130909
I think the rule should be that the people who vote against it get to collectively vote on a name. This would be a pretty cool game theory case study, actually.
Tcl has been improved a lot since the Tcl War (17 years ago!) including namespaces, module/package system, a native OO, a sane thread support, and Dicts. I am not sure if it is still true that Tcl doesn't scale well.

By the way I wrote a toy, buggy and ugly scheme implementation in pure Tcl a year ago: http://wiki.tcl.tk/25512
Facebook releases dataset without sufficient anonymity (and then fixes it)
> 1. Web apps are using a text-transfer protocol with a pile of hacks on top to make it stateful. To this day engineers are still working on solving this problem (web sockets, web sql, etc). They can't solve it.

I am curious - why would the protocol need to be stateful? What are you trying to accomplish?

> 2. One does not own web apps, one merely rents them.

No. You can buy apps and host them on your own servers, on your own PCs.
Firefox has stayed around the 30% mark of browser share, and there's an obvious connection between the steady IE drop and Chrome gain.

http://gs.statcounter.com/

There's been several articles about this:

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=egsisas&xhr=t...
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Dinky Florida machine 'could whup world No 1 computer's ass'
I just sent an email on this.

To Whom it May Concern:

The Department of Homeland Security has recently seized around 84,000
domains, replacing their content with a gif image (can be seen at:
http://74.81.170.110/ with a backup at
http://linuxhomebase.com/IPRC_Seized_2010_11.jpg). This is part of
"Operation: Protect Our Children" (more info at:
http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1297804574965.shtm)

The entire source code to the page is now:

<html>
<head>
<title>This domain name has been seized by ICE - Homeland Security Investigations</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<div align="center">
<img src="IPRC_Seized_2010_11.gif" width="1024" height="768" border="0">
</div>
</body>
</html>

As you can see, this page being run by the DHS has no compliance with
Section 508 and is completely inaccessible to citizens and users with
disabilities. I find the lack of accessibility by a government office
to be highly disturbing and hope that you can direct me in such a way
that will help resolve this situation.

This is email is being sent to the DHS and U.S. General Services
Administration Office of Governmentwide Policy, IT Accessibility &
Workforce Division in hopes that both agencies can work together to
create an alternate site that is in compliance with the law.
w3schools is not affiliated with the w3c and often has subtly incorrect information [See here](http://w3fools.com).

My preferred resource on the subject is the [Mozilla Developer Network](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs)
Idea to paying customers in 7 weeks: how we did it
Well, one who thinks that the GPL's wishes are a good idea could certainly feel that they deserve heat for being what the GPL was meant to prevent in the first place. But, that's no comfort to less ideologically zealous developers who want to use a [AL]GPL-licensed library they're used to using and can't.
Yes, and now we have no "de-facto standard extension language". Thanks RMS!
The Geekiest Cookbook of All Time
You mean these terms? http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html

Here is "content" being used to mean "everything that's in an app":

"The Application Provider of each Third-Party Product is solely responsible for that Third-Party Product, the content therein, any warranties to the extent that such warranties have not been disclaimed, and any claims that you or any other party may have relating to that Third-Party Product."

And here is the section on subscriptions, in which content is, in my opinion, not well defined:

"Certain App Store Products may include functionality that enables you to purchase content on a subscription basis (“Paid Subscriptions”)."

I just scanned all 72 mentions of the word 'content' and couldn't find the definition you're alluding to.
Do you have steps to reproduce the huge RAM consumption by any chance (which sites do you have open, which OS)? I'm very interested in solving these kinds of performance issues in the product.

And for the record, I wish Paul Rouget hadn't posted this. IE9 is a great browser - they do some things better than us, even (text-overflow, SVG acceleration via D2D, out-of-process tabs), and we should recognize this.
Worth repeating: due process. It's important.
How a startup accidentally met the requirements of non-targeted userbase
You're right; I've updated the post, thanks for the correction. :)
What about Apple's rule that the in app subscription needs to be the same or better than available elsewhere?
Ask HN: Whats the best Payment Gateway for a small Startup?
I'm in the process of adding paid accounts to a startup that hasn't launched yet and I'm looking for a good, relatively inexpensive payment gateway to use.

Any suggestions?
Programming Language Of The Future
What is THE programming language that is going to be in big demand in the coming years?
Cliff Click nailed the whole Java vs C/C++ performance subject in one terrific post - http://www.azulsystems.com/blog/cliff-click/2009-09-06-java-... . Seriously no further discussion is needed on this topic until even more significant performance advances are made either in C/C++ compilers or the JVM :)
So the reason it's moral is because you might get the money back? Isn't that just self-interest?
This claim is ridiculous. Your mental model of the economy involves tracking the movement of a particular dollar bill and ignoring the movement of dollar bills which start at distant locations. This is a fallacy.

If you shop at Walmart, that particular dollar bill is put on a truck and sent to Walmart Secret World Headquarters hundreds of miles away, and it eventually makes it's way to producers a world away from you. On the other hand, Walmart (and other businesses located hundreds of miles away) will buy goods from your locality, ship them to other distant locals, and send you a different dollar bill in return.

The fundamental issue is whether gains due to comparative advantage > shipping/logistics costs. As a result of shipping/logistics costs dropping rapidly (walmart has been a pioneer here), the non-local goods have won out.

(Granted, none of this has anything to do with the morality of giving a job to a guy named Jose instead of a guy named Joe.)
Google,Bing and Yahoo not giving me any results for "-moz-border-radius".
I couldn't find references for " -moz-border-radius" in Google, Bing or Yahoo. The only search engine that gives me the result is duckduckgo
SHOW HN: Listered.com lists of user-defined objects. Share, sort, follow
Bummer. That was quick. Some poor guy was asking how to make the Internet (in general) faster. Lots of snarky responses.

Funny responses included stuff like:

"Pay more money to your ISP?"
"You need to edit your internet.bat file"
etc.
Intel finds design flaw in Sandy Bridge chipset
Are Technology M&A Prices Getting Out Of Hand?
Automated marketing for apps in the Amazon Appstore for Android
If Apple continues this course, they will lose developers and apps to Android, which could drive consumers to switch to Android as well. I've been a happy iPhone customer until now, and I'm strongly considering switching to Android when my contract expires this summer.
For anyone still wanting to see the shows:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Rashad8821
Thanks you guy! This has been very helpful!
Original post:

http://blog.chromium.org/2011/02/chromium-to-feature-in-pwn2...
He can use __attribute__ to enforce noinline: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Function-Attributes.html

Though these flags are gcc specific (works in clang as well). I found it to be tremendously useful in some cases.
They actually state both "same (or better) offer" and "same price or less" (just not what I wrote :P).

But I still think the idea is to avoid what would be perceived as an Apple tax when buying subscriptions in-app.
A lot of replies there are from C#/managed guys who don't quite know what they're talking about, but fake it convincingly enough. See flyswat, Orion Adrian, Jon Norton, etc.
> The payment side is powered by Google Checkout, so the fee structure smacks Apple around all over the place.

Except for the part where as a vendor it's only available in half a dozen countries or so, and several major countries can not pay via Checkout either (does Checkout work at all from canada yet?), and where the customer service is non-existent (a Google constant).
OnePass appears to be limited to the publishing industry, so there would be no new levels for a game.
Most of the stock options given to top execs have exercise dates well in the future and no-resale clauses.

Short term gains in stock price may get them a bonus, but it won't boost the value of their long term options.
Arrogant illogical reasoning like "The business plan exists for a reason." does not add any value to the article. Apart from that, I really enjoyed it.

I fall in the still-in-school category, too. I think the biggest barrier for a student to start a company is not the lack of social skills, but the ability to calmly think it through and write it down.
Because the leading minus sign indicates that you DON'T want a particular term (in this case, moz-border-radius) in your results. Since that's your only term entered, no search happens.

Try searching moz-border-radius.
> People have a sense of entitlement WRT open source code, I think. As if it's "open source," it should be under whatever terms they want not those of the original author. I think that's why so many people bitch about copyleft licenses.

That certainly isn't why I "bitch," as you say, as I realize that the author can do whatever he wishes. I do, however, make it a point to listen to my users; if my users have a philosophical disagreement over my choice of license, I take that into account in decisions on what to license in the future.

That's the approach to software that I wish more developers would take: I have listened to your feedback, and I will take it into consideration. Your attitude, which is what I disagree so very strongly with, is that you didn't have to open-source the software at all, your users are lucky that you did, and you'll be damned if you'll consider feedback on your choice of licensing. It's "take it or leave it," which to the occasional user that wants to embed your code in something else, sucks a lot.

There's been other comments in this thread to the effect of that "isn't [your] problem". If you're not interested in helping consumers of your software use it, why did you release it at all? I realize (believe me) that there is a line that must be drawn when it comes to listening to your users, but responding with "tough, rewrite it" is really a bummer to hear.

Realistically, I think you're working against yourself with that take on your users.
Good news for startups, StartupLi.st + BetaCandy
According to jonknee above, the payment part of OnePass is powered by Checkout.

So I'd expect that to result in a "yes"
So, the key is to make sure no one finds your app unless they are already a paying customer.

I see a burgeoning new field: "reverse SEO" for SaaS mobile apps.
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The SEO Rapper Gives You Advice On Improving Google PageRank
Listered lets you define a thing that you would like to make a list of and add items to that list. People who are interested in what you are listing can follow one or more of your lists.

You could list anything from movies, favorite baseball players, motorcycles, articles, works of art... you define the object and its properties.

Lists can then also be sorted according to any of the object's properties.

What do you think?
I think they need to just offer a "iPhone connectivity" option for extra $$$. Then they need to offer that and only that via the appstore in app purchase on the phone.
JS Prototypal Inheritance vs. Closure Pattern Comparison
Hipsters v. Scalpers (Fans v. Bots)
I wasn't sure what to expect when I watched this video but it turned out to be the same good advice that Google gives you except it's put to a beat.
Tin Hats
Microsoft's strategy is to build/own the platform and then add value to the platform by harvesting what is on top (buying software/copying ideas etc). From a game-theoretic view point, GPL is a strategy that works well vs harvesting and should be kept 'on the table'. For more on this and Microsoft read: http://www.amazon.com/Keystone-Advantage-Ecosystems-Innovati...
Blue on Mars
You could just offer them both in both places. It would be an interesting to see the conversion rates in both environments.
I actually met one of the guys from crocodoc a couple of months ago, nice guy. The headline isn't very accurate. My understanding is that they let people annotate pdfs and share those annotations.
As a consumer, I don't like the fact that now I will have to keep track of different way each website will charge me money.
There's plenty of Android tablets below the price of the iPad. In fact there were Android tablets, below the price of the iPad, before there was an iPad with a price to be below.
Google One Pass: Googles Subscription Model
the pitch is: "pandora for music videos"
affecting companies like Amazon, and companies like SalesForce that have made a significant investment iOS investment, one has to wonder whether building iPhone apps is safe

This. iOS remains, by the numbers, one of the worst places for freelance developers to spend their time. Profits are diminutive in the average case, and app store policies impose additional risks that have forced entire shops to leave the iOS ecosystem or change how they do business inside it.
Where's the differentiating factor between Nokia's Windows Phone 7 phones and Samsung's Windows Phone 7 phones?
PyCon 2011: Behind the Scenes
Just saw an update (towards the bottom, http://bit.ly/hY8Jig)
"Huffington Post reports that publishers will keep 'in the range of 90%' of revenues from One Pass -- quite a nice bump from Apple's 70% offering."

Update: CNet's explination:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20032217-1.html
This smells like vapor-ware; a pure marketing move. The timing of the announcement, coming so close on the heals of the uproar about Apple's subscriptions and pricing battles with publishers, makes it look like Google is floating a trial balloon without having an actual product available.
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AFAIK the Wii and PS3 have similar terms (although there's no uproar because the terms themselves are secret). I get the impression that console APIs are generally NDAd and so releasing the source of a console game would indirectly expose the APIs.
The integration with Google is part of the appeal of Android for consumers. If Nokia has to develop its own App ecosystem, they could just stick with Symbian (or MeeGo) - in other words they would have exactly the same technical workload without the market differentiation Symbian provides.

Google's revenue stream is relevant because of the IP issues associated with Davlik. Google does not necessarily need to vigorously defend Oracle's lawsuit and Oracle might not pass up an agreement which left phone manufacturer's footing the bill for IP infringement.
First, the category names on Jeopardy! are tricky. The answers often do not exactly fit the category.

Sometimes, the category names do limit the range of possible answers. The humans can figure out when a category name contains irony or a pun. Watson can't, so it can't figure out that a category like "US Cities" is dead earnest.
Am I right in assuming that even if a domain name is seized, the IP address will still work? If this is true, couldn't there just be a hosted index of all IP's and their associated domain names so that people could get to these sites by referencing this information? Hell, it could even be a browser plugin, so that if you type the domain name in and it happens to have been seized, it will be redirected to the proper IP address. Is this feasible?
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IMO it will be ruby. Between the readability and "fun factor" involved in writing ruby and the robust web frameworks I see ruby dominating at least in the startup scene. Fast development and iterations without a lot of baggage.

Truth be told, i doubt there will be one language dominating anytime in the future. Thats the point of different languages, that they are good for different tasks. But as fast and general estimate I would say ruby in the startup community.
The 0.1% CTR apps relate to mobile games where there is little interaction with the ad is 'Word Seek Social Lite' The 4.5% CTR app relates to generalized RSS readers similar to FMyLife (ex: Softbaum's FMyLife for which we have a rev sharing agreement).

Hope this helps, of course since these are highly profitable, I can't share too much details.
I hope the San Luis Obispo store is not one of the 200 being closed. The service and selection has declined of late, but I still enjoy visiting this store and have spent quite a bit of money there over the years.
It's still a brass bitch to run anything that isn't a simple apk with restricted permissions on a non-rooted phone.

This is useful, and I think more of what the OP was looking for.
Stop cruel treatment of unused domains
Amazing to see how the idea itself revealed the way it could be validated - through Twitter of course.

Nicely done. Informative post.
Who is capable of doing the due diligence?

Even if they're everybodies favorite wipping boy right now. I'd enter Nokia as the winner in the due dilligence category.

There's a classic business case study about two handset manufacturers, a Philips fab in Mexico and a small fire in that fab. Details can be found here :

http://www.ftpress.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1244469
> If some wants to use it in proprietary software they cannot, because if they did they would be unable to then share it with their neighbor.

So he isn't free to do what he wishes with the software.

Free is one of the most overloaded words in the English language, and I know that at least some of the Free Software movement agrees due to the prevalence of libre software (as if switching to French somehow makes it more correct).

You can't have half freedom -- there is no ambiguity. Either you are free to do what you will with what is given to you, or you are not. There is no free with restrictions; that's called a catch.

To be clear, too, what the FSF says and what those who subscribe to the belief say are often two different things, as evidenced in other places in this thread. What pains me the most is that any criticism of the GPL is automatically interpreted as trolling.
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Why would there only be one?
https://github.com/mreiferson/py-wkhtmltox

https://github.com/mreiferson/php-wkhtmltox
Ferrucci's explanation of Watson's reasoning is very interesting. But the article quickly descends into marketing. How should this mistake make us any MORE confident about Watson's utility as a diagnostic aid? I'd suggest that its performance already indicates that it has an excellent grasp of uncertainty. Furthermore, an optimal betting strategy in Jeopardy is completely trivial compared to the content of the contest itself, so complementing that aspect of its performance is sort of condescending.
1) You drive a competitive advantage from the IT capabilities you are considering migrating

Don't!

http://fashionablygeek.com/t-shirts/never-drink-and-derive/
To make it a true test of brains, and remove the mechanics of button-pressing speed from the question...

Place all three contestants in isolation from each other.

All three hear the question read, and buzz-in just as they do now.

Allow ALL contestants who buzz in to answer the question, but do not allow them to know about their opponents' performances.

Record all contestants' buzz-in reaction times.

At the end of the game, compare only the accuracy of answers to determine the winner.

At the end of the game, compare buzz-in reaction times to see how thumbs fare against relays.