skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever notice how '$' is sometimes overridden in the developer tools console - it does not always refer to jQuery when I'm debugging in a breakpoint (thankfully, 'jQuery' always works). This confused me for quite a while.

Is it something that the console is doing or is it some sort of feature of jQuery?
Sorry for the metapost, but it would be helpful for a potential renter to know - has anyone here had a really negative experience with Airbnb? (Briefly) Sharing = Caring. :)
for now, but is it not subject to the same kind of quality degradation that all online communities are?
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The pictures I've seen look like mDP to me. Apple invented Mini DisplayPort, so mDP is proprietary, but it's licensed for free and VESA later adopted it as part of the DisplayPort standard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini_DisplayPort
The AdWords result seems to be an affiliate link (note the redirects before you hit the site). It's likely that Google just restricted his AdWords account and not the "ashley madison" keywords themselves.
Social Stay CEO Speaks Out - How He Created A Hot Social App
How about rather than writing about hot topics, make something a hot topic by writing about it?
and the unofficial PHP elephant:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/2218075860/
that'd be enough to dump them the next day for me

You can't dump them if they're down!
Looks like a tool we can really use to get our S3 costs manageable.
I imagine the pickpockets also stole watches and other valuable jewelry.
I've actually gotten to quite like the dev tools in Chrome/Safari. I started using them because I was using Chrome anyways.

Editing CSS in Chrome is still more cumbersome, but otherwise I think it's pretty great, especially the timeline and network views.
I don't see anything for either Apple or Sofa for "Versions" after a brief search at uspto.gov.
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That body text is borderline illegible, even rendered on a Mac. Horrible choice.
the dude who wrote that started jaiku...fyi
Anyone else catch the new power key to the right of the eject key on what looks like the 13"? Maybe I'm slow, but I was pretty sure the last generation still had a circular power button - is this from today's update on the machines?
Scroll down to "Gestures and Animations"
http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/
Tell HN: Facebook now supports HTTPS
Under Account > Account Settings, there's an option called "Account Security". There, you'll find a checkbox that, when checked, tells Facebook to use HTTPS whenever possible. I've only had it enabled for a few minutes now, but it appears to work.
Can you negate certain terms, like recipe with chicken but no cheese?
I imagine it is, but the bi-directional reviews show that the company has thought about that from the beginning.

I'm MUCH more likely to book a place that is reviewed well, and I am sure that my reviews play a role in the renters decisions to accept me, as well.
I agree it would be nice to be more cut and dried. In practice, I think it would come down to a court deciding if their was the possibility of misleading the consumer, by mimicking a well-known brand in a particular market.

So I think businesses can get trademarks for English words and common names - with the understanding that they might be geographically or market-segment limited in their protection.
First, love this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/plain-text-li...

Second, here are some ideas that may or may not feel scummy:

1. Advertise in non-intrusive spaces.
Upon update, some add-ons automatically open a window with the
changelog. Using this space and the space on the add-on's
Mozilla page, to advertise.

2. Get a sponsorship.
On a related note, pitch to companies that target similar audiences.
Offer the first few placements for free (or set low enough price that
there isn't much risk) and track the traffic. Use these numbers to
set a price.

3. TwitterBar "via" field.
Twitter links to the webpage for apps that people use to post messages
(at least they used to). This should give you leverage to rank any other
webpage highly from all the pagerank juice.

4. Opt-in link juice/affiliate links.
A number of the add-ons could potentially have affiliate ID's appended
or a link included back to your product page (similar to Twitters "via"
links). Once, you have high ranking pages, the monetization options are
unlimited.

5. [Lastly] Gather email addresses.
Perhaps there is a reason users would want to provide their email
address? As you mentioned, combining add-ons with a hosted service
opens up a lot of opportunities. Email addresses can be used to provide
value in a number of different ways (e.g. get beta testers, etc.).

Good luck!!

P.S. One more, use your skills to get hired by companies who could benefit from developing Firefox add-ons for their products.
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Their own service is also currently the most low-quality experience in file syncing I have ever used. It seems to "hang" all the time, it constantly asks me to put my password in again, nothing about it is usable.

But Dropbox is.
There are serious limitations on what you can actually do on a GPU - some operations are terribly slow, and flipping back to the CPU to carry them out is also slow. They're great for embarrassingly-parallel simple operations, but once you break the ceiling on complexity you're often better off trying to vectorize it on the CPU rather than try and manage all this chatter between the CPU and GPU.

Itanium seems like it fits nicely in that space - operations complex enough to be very painful on a graphics processor, but parallel enough for you to actually consider using a GPU in the first place.
You could also skip the dongle, and just get a direct cable instead.

10ft, $45 - http://store.apple.com/us/product/H4637ZM/A?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY

It does up to 1080p video and up to 5.1 audio for the following Macs:

- MacBook (Late 2010 release)

- MacBook Pro 13/15/17 inch (Mid 2010 release)

- iMac 21.5/27 inch

- MacBook Air 11/13 inch (Mid 2010 release)

- Mac Mini (Mid 2010 release)

- Mac Pro (Mid 2010 release)
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ThinkPad keyboards are still better than any keyboard on any Apple product.
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I have a lot of data: http://stats.cpantesters.org/pmatrix-month.html
I'm not sure if they're being more realistic.

The previous MBPs had CPUs with a TDP of 35W. The TDP of the CPUs in the 2011 MBPs are 45W. Battery life seems to have dropped inline with the increase in power envelope.

We should see improved battery life next year with Ivy Bridge, or if there's a mid-year refresh with Sandy Bridge processors with new steppings.

Regardless, I plunked down for a 15" today so I could rid myself of the large brick my workplace saddled with me. They didn't believe me when I said I'd buy my own laptop with my own case. Hell, I meant it.
Clear need for this. Glad to see it launching.
Why New Technology Demands New Business Models
My weekend project: A digest of the BEST comments of the day from Slashdot, HN..
My bad. That's the MBA.
Not quite clear on why people keep pointing to the 'Toronto' question as proof that Watson is fundamentally flawed in some irreconcilable way.
$400 seems right. Jack someone's wallet and then walk into the nearest big box store to use their credit cards.

I've had my credit card # stolen 3 or 4 times and $400 is about the average amount of fraud that happened each time.

It's usually like a tank of gas and a trip to Best Buy to purchase something like a video game console. One time they bought a plane ticket online for $350.
Getting the best price: When is the best time to buy from Amazon?
How 5 Companies Are Using the iPad to Increase Productivity
How do I know you aren't storing my data long term?

Also what is the point in this when gmail already recognizes who I talk to often and adds them to my contacts list? I am just having a hard time understanding this.
The fact that it's the average for reported incidents probably cuts out a lot of the outliers on the low end of the scale.
A Microsoft Office Plugin for Syncing with Google Docs
Anon shouldn't target Westboro. Don't get me wrong, Westboro probably don't have much love for me, but they aren't that big, and all they do is talk and hold signs.
Too much overview, not enough meat. Are there any whitepapers available for the Angstrom Project? The publication page of their website just says "coming soon."

http://projects.csail.mit.edu/angstrom/Publications.html
you're probably misremembering -- there's a little arrow next to the update items which require a reboot, and even after installing everything, you can still choose to reboot later. I still have a system running Tiger so I don't think it's changed since then.
why would it be tethering be profitable for Apple?
AFAIK they do not get a cut of the tethering charge from providers.
Indeed. Facebook is rolling out this feature to users so if you don't have it yet, just be patient.
Email me....gstacks00@aol.com (zero zero)

I'll tell you exactly how to profit
I see you changed some stuffs today. good to know you are shaping it. i even signed up just for the sake to test it. why you think would people sign up there to just leave out their contact info - and do you care if the contact info is valid?

here are some thoughts

with just search box i don't see any contacts at first visit, add some clue that i will get people's profile using search (don't do that with that one paragraph of text). you can list people's name with profile link in place of the text you are showing below search box (manage this text somewhere with Help??? link). you can work on yammer or LinkedIn like email verification. don't list contacts unless they are from verified domains. make browsing contacts more visible - allow peoples to tag their info and allow browsing by tags too. don't show actual email in plain text on public listing. and when i update settings, info is getting replicated check that too.

good luck.
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Even if it's not part of ARM's reference designs, could Apple integrate it into a future A-series chip?
And what if a phone one day wants to support a Thunderbolt interface? I think that they're a bit too close to one another, both being parts of the consumer electronic space.

Thunderbolt the phone, however, can be expected to have a much shorter lifespan than a new connector like this.
Apple updates MacBook Pros with Sandy Bridge CPUs, Thunderbolt ports
I don't understand what's insightful or new with this article. Advertising is basically an arbitrage operation. To do it right one needs to look at the conversion funnel, figure out the ARPU for different advertising channels, prune campaigns that are not effective and invest in ones that are.

If you are not doing that then of course you will get burned, everyone who is thinking about making an ad spend knows this or should be able to figure it out.
Not all parallelism is the same. In this article, parallelism usually means instruction level parallelism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction_level_parallelism).GPUs are fantastic at data parallelism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_parallelism). Being able to exploit one says nothing about the other.

Itanium differs from other processor architectures is how it handles instruction level parallelism. The processor in the computer in front of you probably uses out-of-order execution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-order_execution) to exploit ILP. This happens on the fly, as a program executes. Itanium depends on the compiler to determine where ILP is.
These iPad features are Apple's latest attempts at simplifying the general-purpose computing experience. So:

>The Mac App Store is a central app clearinghouse.

>Launchpad gives users a better way to look through apps (no more Applications folder or bloated dock).

>True full-screen apps have been missing from OS X for years, and these remove clutter.

>Mission Control is the full-screen version of the iOS multitasking bar. More user-friendly than Apple-Tab.

>Resume & Auto-Save reproduce that "persistent app" feeling from iOS.
Back in '08 or so I was at Disneyland. A woman bumped in to me after getting off the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Then she bumped into me again at the turnstyle going out where people back up a bit. I remember thinking she was rude.

When I got outside, a person mentioned my wallet was about to fall out of my back pocket. Never having my wallet fall out like that, before or since, I've always wondered if the rude lady was an inept pickpocket, practicing in a place where the pickings are probably easy and disappearing in the crowd is effortless on a busy day.
Why would the crowd reveal its intentions earlier in a game than in the actual market?
It seems historically, the herd does the opposite. The game is an "easier" market than the real market; much like how play money poker is far easier than real money poker games.
If you're serving tens of thousands of clients, each client has to have a very low server footprint, so that means you're not doing much in-memory manipulation of datasets. In business software, that would be the exception, not the rule.

I think a big driver behind PHP is the simplicity of the model. Each request can pretend it exists in isolation, having the whole web server to its own. Simplicity + good enough = popularity.
Will iOS ever have alternate launcher support? It makes Android a chameleon that can look and behave any way. Also, the "intents" system that allows the appropiate app to take over at any time is powerful.
no fullscreen mode for safari?
I actually have two apps in the store at the $30 and $50 price points. They're both in a very niche market and we do quite a bit of very targeted advertising.

Based on the tests I've run and analytics that I have in place, we're getting an approximately $20 (net) return for every $8-10 spent (if we spend too much, the return drops off sharply).

It's a bit difficult to get exact numbers since there isn't complete tracking all the way through the sales funnel. We do know that if we stop advertising, sales start to drop off after about a week, and drop to our pre-advertisement levels after about three weeks.

Advertising does work for the app store, but I would guess that it only works if the goal of the advertising is to get targeted people for a particular niche to know that your app exists.

*edit: clarification
Is this only in the Developer channel or also the Beta? Also updates on the network view is great, I generally fallback to Firebug for those and wish I didn't have to.

Edit I see it in beta, nice. Still would like a json viewer though.
Not sure if it is the main market, but you can still run OpenVMS on HP Itanium servers:

http://h71000.www7.hp.com/index.html?jumpid=/go/openvms
Pickpockets always make me think of the Roald Dahl story, The Hitch-Hiker.
What sort of stuff do you need? A lot of people who started programming before the Web are used to doing C++ work. There was a thread the other day about C++ dev being as descriptive as a "hammer carpenter". Post the description here. Many of the people here might be looking for a gig.
Or go right back to Lisp, and get some real work done? ;)
For everyone who's ever dreamed of working at AOL.
Sparkfun sells male and female connectors: http://www.sparkfun.com/categories/101
Thanks for commenting. So are you envisioning something like a how to guide to use on things like PR services (prnewswire, businesswire, etc.) or more of a breakdown of what is out there (like http://mashable.com/2007/10/20/press-releases/ ) or just a checklist of best practices?
Microsoft USB plugs all have a little nub on the "top" side, if memory serves.
I would use it to see if I could get a better deal on hosting.
I gave up waiting for the page to load. Better things to do and all that.
Depending on the city it does, but many of those cities are quickly trying to shut it down. Hotels and other officially sanctioned places of lodging aren't too jazzed on the idea of unregulated (and thus untaxed) competitors.

An example, New York City has banned rentals for less than 30 days. Enforcement is another issue though, so I guess we'll have to wait until May when the law goes into effect to see what happens.

http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatches/post/2010...
the '$' is just another character from the view of the javascript interpreter. It just so happens you can use A-Z, 0-9, underscore, and the dollar sign as variable names. Libraries like Prototype & jQuery have popularized using the dollar sign as a globally accessible namespace variable, but it's nothing more than just another character.
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CPA is certainly lower risk than others. The only minor issue that I can think of is that you (as an advertiser) essentially push the risk to the publisher. So, the big publishers won't be interested in this model. They don't control your conversion funnel, after all.

I'm saying this as someone who used Offerpal (which is now called Tapjoy) as a publisher.
I've lived in the UK, Italy, Uganda, and Cambodia, in addition to the US.

All of them have tipping.
That and the fact that people probably exaggerate the loss for insurance purposes.

Also, pickpockets and muggers are likely to profile their targets- Traditionally this would have been the wealthy, counterintuitively it's now the poor: People without credit cards and/or bank accounts, and immigrants paid in cash who are forced to walk or bike home from work through a bad neighborhood in the dark with an entire week's pay in their pocket.
Tell HN: Looking to hire second technical employee -- today. 
We're a fashion / e-commerce startup and we're well funded and ready to hire a second technical employee.

Your job will be to do backend ruby coding (DataMapper, Nokogiri, etc.) to tie our site to all sorts of fashion brands.

We're building a killer team and have a great frontend engineer lined up. We have made three offers for this position but each time the candidates have opted for boring, larger companies.

This is a startup and it's a great team. We're well funded so you'll get salary + equity.

Please email matt@styleowner.com with a bit of info about your background, skills, etc.
Estimate of revenue to date: $50 per night * 3% * 1M = $1.5M

Hmm looks like Airbnb handles the credit card transaction for the lister. If 2 out of that 3% goes to the credit card companies and banks, the adjusted revenue is $500k.
No hubs--it's a chaining protocol.
> That requires professors to be much "tougher" than they often like to be.

If a prof/TA can't be bothered to police their students then they forfeit any right to complain about cheating.

If students can't follow directions (give grace on the first offence, maybe) then letting them slide does a disservice to their future.

As for cheaters: I don't mind whether or not really determined cheaters can sneak through. They are only cheating themselves in the long run. A system that only catches the 'honest' kids is still a good system because only the 'honest' students will generally make any attempt to mend their ways.

just my $.02
I'm no hardware engineer, but I'd imagine a new iPad would integrate a Thunderbolt controller in a similar manner to how the older iPods integrated a FireWire controller.
They're also not as flexible a copper...
I don't have a problem with this. They're lucky that Canonical is giving them anything. As with anything else in free software, an individual is free to get in there and change the Amazon affiliate code and redistribute the modified software, and there's no obligation to give any part of that revenue to any other party, including the original author of the software.

Canonical would be losing a significant stream of revenue by switching to Banshee as the default music player in Ubuntu without doing something to recuperate the revenue they've heretofore derived from their stores in Rhythmbox. Banshee is going to end up making more out of this anyway as Ubuntu's new default player, and if you don't like the cash going to Canonical, you can download a build elsewhere or patch the source yourself so that the original affiliate code is restored.

People have to have money to function, even in free software.
Interesting. How successful are you in blocking fake profiles? How do you even measure success?
Another question is to what extent AshleyMadison needs to rely on traditional advertisement versus, say, word of mouth.

I don't particularly remember ever seeing an ad for Facebook, Google until recently, or OKCupid. Yet it seemed to matter little as those sites grew.
Thanks for the advice. I'll keep firing that's for sure. I'm developing thick skin with all the smoke and rejection. I also like your advice about starting from the top and emailing the CEO's. How did you get their contact info?
thanks
Depending on what you are doing, C might be a better choice than C++ and finding a good C developer might be easier for you.
Hmm, one of my fave features of 10.6 is that I can put the Applications folder in the dock and then set it to pop up as a big scrollable grid of items when I click it. Now the thing is, most users would never get round to setting that up themselves, so Apple have just cut-out that extra step and made this default behaviour. So it's not a big deal but it is a smart move which many people will like, IMO.
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I actually use Chrome Dev tools more than Firebug these days, but that's because I do work on Chrome Extensions.

They're typically Google: great on a technical level, with a somewhat sketchy UI.

One tip: to add a new item to a style click the whitespace area to the right of '{ '.
Which other solutions? I'm currently looking for tools - right now a mac mini running osx server seems the way to go.
But it's missing some stuff, what have you found?
sure - I want to teach myself market analysis, so I'm scraping craigslist for data and fiddling with it. I did some curve fitting so I thought it might be cool to calculate velocity to, you know, figure out what time the velocity of people selling macbooks maxes out by city...

derp.
From Apple's Mac OS X Lion page [0]:

"When you’re done with AirDrop, close *the Finder* and
your Mac is no longer visible to others."

I wonder if that's a typo and they really meant 'Finder window' instead of 'Finder'. In the current Mac OS X, you can relaunch the Finder but you can't keep it closed.

If the copy on the Lion page is accurate, then Apple is moving towards operation without the Finder, replacing it with Launchpad and Mission Control. I can see how that could work for first-time Mac users, especially those who already have an iOS device.

It reminds me of At Ease [1], an environment that hid the Finder from new users, offering something similar to Lion's Launchpad.

[0] http://www.apple.com/macosx/lion/

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_Ease
I used to use this with Gmail, but switched to Sparrow a few days ago. I've been interacting with my email in a much faster and more fluid way since, which wasn't possible using Gmail/Fluid.
It is possible that I'll have to bypass BigCo and go straight to the consumer before I gain any traction...but seeking investment is a whole new ballgame.
Thanks
Has anyone read The Great Train Robbery by Crichton? It talks about all sorts of stuff like this, except in Victorian era England. Great book.

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Train-Robbery-Michael-Crichton/d...
"Copycat – similar to competitor’s names"

What do you do after several of them copy you?
I'll be out of town. Again. :(
It involves generating seamless 'channels' from web content and locally stored content which are tailored to the user's preferences. These 'channels' would feel the same as network operated channels - A show - then an ad break - then another show ect.

One of the main reasons people are hesitant to pick up google tv - or any IPTV for that matter - is the fact that IPTVs are too 'active', when most people watch TV, they do it almost passively, they flick on the tv and watch whatever is on. There is an article on crunch gear about this I think.

I have already started building, but since Im new to C++ its out of reach at the moment