skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does Uber get away with having people pay with credit cards, rather than Apple's in app payments? They seem to be a good example of the "can't (easily) afford to have Apple skim 30% off the top" category
Mexico City, Trantor
I never heard about the Khan Academy but as of today I am a fan! I have always wondered how we can make advancements on education using technology and especially love the "learn at your own pace" and what you want to learn.
I think this is a fantastic concept and looking forward to the involvement of it
Crap! I looked after you posted this and Gazelle was offering $522 for my 32GB WiFi+3G. Now it's down to $350!

Damn you Apple for dumping cheap first-gen iPads onto the market!
Microsoft first introduced Windows 1.0 on November 20, 1985. Since the introduction of Windows the operating system has dominated personal computers ever since.

Not to be pedantic, but I don't seem to recall Windows "dominating" anything until version 3.1 came out. At that time, you still had a lot of software running in text mode, or firing up its own graphical environment from DOS. Berkeley Softworks' GeoWorks was out, then, too, and looking like pretty decent competition at the time. Windows' ultimate dominance may have been inevitable, but I don't recall it looking that way before '92.
Looks like China's cheap labor is bridging the gap to AI.
It seems Wikipedia needs to integrate some crowdsourcing into their curation methodology. Provide some social news-like voting and a commentation window on pages/articles/topics before deleting them, so it's not just a small cadre of insiders making these decisions, even if they do attempt to make them according to some published standard.
there's no restriction, most of google earth works. personally i feel that these sim city maps are easier to view compared to live ariel photos.

i went to edushi to discuss a business opportunity, they were telling me how these were updated, i heard it's weekly. they also have a program with a school that teaches 3d studio max so they have a pipeline of people to help render these sim city like maps.
Hopefully a little inspiration for anyone else in the same boat.
So you created something to annoy users. How is this good?
You'd best start the trend, then.
Bing overtakes Yahoo globally for first time
To be fair, there are so many examples that it's not unreasonable to expect that people reading the FSF's pages would be familiar with them. I don't think I listed all or even half of the relevant examples.

Even so, you are correct in saying that it would make the piece stronger.
Yeah, but it supposedly breaks lots of stuff, like third-party apps. Pretty useless for anyone who would need it.
The Baidu maps are powered by o.cn--you can see "o.cn" in the watermark.
While DHT is indeed decentralized, a central tracker is still preferred since it can quickly give an authoritative list of peers (rather than a probabilistic one).

Private sites tend to disable DHT anyways, since it's much harder to detect cheating without central trackers.

The important thing is that trackers are easily decentralized, since they're a per-torrent URL.
Are there any government bonds with greater than 30yr maturities? I'm not aware of any such US bonds. They'd mature, you or someone would get the principal in currency, and the actual bond buried in the yard would only have value as a museum piece 270yrs later.
The two tweets Kutcher made from TED were from the iPhone client and foursquare. Are there SSL options on those?
Just make sure you don't use any part of the Facebook platform (that includes commenting on various sites, like buttons) or apps within Facebook as using any of them will revert the SSL setting back to off in the settings.
I came here to post this. You don't have to sit around and wait for Twitter to implement SSL. Many who implement SSL don't do so correctly anyway.

If you're using a public internet connection, make sure you're at least using a SOCKS proxy to browse or IM. Pretty simple setup: ssh -ND 8001 me@myserver, and use proxy localhost:8001.
+basho
That he has fans? I mean what has he done that is any way worth having fans, since Wall Street? My Two Dads struck me as trite and formulaic, the one or two times I happen to see it. Its success is appalling.
Turn your blog into an online magazine - a blogmag
Press Start: launching Google Game Developer Central
How are you planning on getting traffic in the long term? There are free alternatives like http://search.creativecommons.org/ so I suspect most customers will be people who don't know about the alternatives.

I'd be sceptical if you could get many people to pay for it unless you found a good source of people who weren't very Internet savvy.

I think if your search engine is better at finding images compared to other sites, the best thing to do might be to let people search without logging in, but only show them a thumbnail, and to find out where the image comes from, they need to pay. However, you will still need to find a way to attribute images if the license terms require that.
In addition to the lifetime of wisdom, a strong Rolodex and intimate experience with the problems facing a particular industry can't possibly hurt. Bonus points: none of those problems sound like "I want to get an app to poke friends, but $1.99 is a little steep for it."
It's a great idea but how does it make money?
It seems that the world would only need a handful of teachers to provide all the basic (and I mean basic) education anyone ever needs. Then we could all concentrate on developing our personal potential, individual talents and performing to the very high levels most of us would be capable of if we could only have enough time. They say it takes 8,000 hours of anything to become an expert. That's never going to happen in a modern school with a curriculum crammed full of obsolete knowledge and subjects. but if we had more experts around who had more time to teach children, the sky's the limit.
Why are there so few DDOS attacks on DNS servers? From my understanding, it is trivial to forge a UDP packet with a false IP address. Wouldn't it be extremely effective for even a few thousand zombie machines to spam forged DNS requests to overload a DNS server? Given that the root DNS servers are such obvious targets, why are there so few attacks on them?
When working in Django (which uses a similar builtin webserver for development), I can do a `import pdb; pdb.set_trace()` in the middle of my code to drop me down into a Python shell. If you're used to working in a REPL, it's insanely helpful.
This is neat. For example:

Shanghai skyscrapers: http://j.map.baidu.com/-FNB
Beijing Olympic stadium: http://j.map.baidu.com/TjNB

Edit: for some reason, the links don't work in Chrome. Firefox works though.
Apps to Explode to $38 Billion Market by 2015
Datacenter pricing here is massively higher than California, or any other place that I've lived.
Can't you pay extra in any TCG to get super-cards? That's the whole business model behind trading card games.

I'm 100% sure that the only cards you cannot trade are the promotional cards you get for free. All the bought cards are tradeable inside of the TCG. You cannot trade in the 3d world, you have to use the TCG interface.

The chat filter is pretty restrictive but since it is a kids game I think their hands are tied if they want to keep it safe for kids.
Who in the world downvoted this, please own up? Can you show that gzip does not, in fact, perform well at compressing repeated strings of text such as the likes of closing tags?
Sounds more like a procedural issue being created by poor programmers and bad management. Not testing it on a production-like environment is a capital offense whether you are using a development server or apache/lighttpd/nginx.
Yeah, but I saw this the other day from F-Secure about Facebook's SSL option:

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002106.html

"I tested several times and each time I found an application that asked me to "continue" to a "regular connection", my default Account Security settings reverted to HTTP."
total nitpick but something I noticed that has an easy fix:

when you hover over the big three images on your landing page, they 'blink' while the new image loads.

the easy fix is to preload the hover images in javascript.

alternatively, you would make them a sprite (one image) and change the background offset on hover to show the appropriate one.

congrats on the progress.
Sprixi, glad to have you back, you've been gone too long!
WebGL GPU accelerated matrix operations
There's a CBC radio show called the Age of Persuasion that did an excellent show called "Breaking the Contract" [1] on this topic. What is the role of advertising? You are saying is essentially about being annoying; I say, bad advertising is about being annoying, and good advertising gives something back.

The idea of putting up some sort of "Tweet-wall" before I can watch a video and forcing me to tell everyone I'm watching said video is a bit like coercing a review from someone about material they have never seen. Never mind being incredibly annoying, it's also basically asking the user to lie. You can't have an opinion about something about which you know nothing.

And do the Twitter messages coming from this Tweet-wall really add value? To anything or anyone? To the user having to type the message, it's like they're being asked to generate spam for all their followers.

And does that forced Twitter spam actually benefit the video in the long run? Or does it cast a shadowy pall over the video, the video owner, the person forced to tweet, and ultimately, the technology itself?

I'm fascinated at how many in this thread see this as a good idea. I can't even fathom how someone would come to that conclusion.

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/ageofpersuasion/episode/2009/02/14/season-...
The Economist Writing Style Guide
You could just make it a refund, then.
300 gray days where I grew up in western PA.
My big question is about the difference between this kind of body pummelling exercise and gentler types of exercise such as the Chinese have done for millennia to promote longevity. I don't think the Chinese live longer than Americans or europeans, but then most of them don't do their traditional exercise styles any more. But i know that the feeling you get after an hour of Chinese-style exercise is so much fresher and more invigorating than after strong western style exercise. In my experience western style exercise circulates your energy (which is really good for you) and also drains it but Chinese exercise actually boosts your energy as well as circulating it. This is only based on personal experience - no science, but it would be worth investigating more seriously for anyone interested in longevity.
Pretty good takedown. Vivek Wadhwa comes across as completely clueless and unwilling to actually engage in debate involving facts.

In my opinion it's a serious problem with the valley. There's legions of cheerleaders, trying to outcheer each other, ignore facts, spouting off on whatever the latest euphoria is ("hackathons" and "mafias") and just coming across as ignorant twits. I realize there's lots of smart people there, but I'd guess they're mostly working, not attending networking events and writing articles for Techcrunch.
I enjoy a good sinophobic innuendo as much as the next guy, but how is it any easier to omit something from a hand-drawn map than to blur it out in a satellite photo?

http://www.itsecurity.com/features/51-things-not-on-google-m...
A Tangled Web of Shortened Links
Very nice, that makes it a lot more useful :) I may even switch from Canvas view. Hopefully others see this!

Mind if I ask how? I see the URLs are list-specific now, but I don't know how you set it up to be so.
To be honest, I don't know how to get revenue in the long term. What I want to do is to break even so I can justify investing more effort.

I would love Sprixi to be free and then money around the edges (e.g. API). However, that will require more work. Being bootstrapped and already at it for a few years, I can't keep working for free.

Interesting idea about moving the pay wall - thanks.
Peter Tattam created Trumpet Winsock and got very little: Let's set things right
While talking about the Windows 1.0 to Windows 7 upgrade video, I offhandedly made a joke at Trumpet Winsock's expense[1].

In the comment below, nailer mentioned that the creator of Trumpet Winsock saw very little money from one of the most widely-used pieces of shareware then in existence. Magazines and ISPs distributed the full version of his software but very few paid for it[2].

My first experience connecting to the internet was using Windows 3.1, Trumpet Winsock and Netscape 1.22 (I think) to browse the nascent web. Later I wiled away (too many) hours on IRC.

At the time I didn't have two 50c coins to rub together. Today, partly due to that early internet exposure, I am a well-paid software engineer.

In the same thread I have alluded to you will find that we identified Peter Tattam and two of us (badmonkey0001 and I) contacted him independently.

At our prompting Peter has set up a Paypal account where you can make donations. I invite you to chip in to reward a man whose work let so many of us open the door, for the first time, to an important part of our lives.

Thanks, Peter.

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Donate to
payments@petertattam.com

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Edit: now cross-posted at Reddit in non-karma-harvesting format (http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/fwciq/peter_tattam_created_trumpet_winsock_enabling/)

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281698
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2281770
I've already done something like this. I've implemented a Rack style web server in PHP: http://github.com/dhotson/kelpie

I also wrote an extension for the mongrel HTTP parser, but you could probably get away with a half-assed pure PHP HTTP parser.

http://github.com/dhotson/httpparser-php

It sounds crazy but it actually works pretty well. :-)
Apple kills fall iPad 3 rumors by calling 2011 "Year of iPad 2"
Fair enough. Noted. Thanks for replying.
OK, he's set up a paypal account (payments@petertattam.com)

I've posted a HN ditty:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2282875
Teachers have historically resisted attempts to get them out of the business of pedagogy and curriculum development, which many of them are manifestly unsuited for, and instead have them concentrate on classroom management, progress tracking, and limited individualized instruction.

I'm a big fan of that transition taking place, which may involve taking 100 units of work currently done by teachers (i.e. people who are, aspirationally, highly skilled and highly educated) and replacing it with 40 units of work done by teacher's aides (semi-skilled labor like, ahem, many teachers in the status quo), 40 units of work done by teachers (close to the ideal of today's teachers), and N units of work done by a handful of curriculum experts whose amortized cost per class taught is rounding error next to the teacher's salary.

I mean, last year BCC essentially added twenty full time teachers to the US just by preventing people with masters degrees from preparing for class by cutting construction paper with scissors and then writing on the construction paper with markers for more than an hour at a time. That's hideously inefficient use of resources... and there are still hundreds of thousands of teachers who do it the bad way.
Machinarium does have dialog. There's no text, but there's still dialog.
He did their 500, not their 404 I believe
The World's Most Complex Architecture
"I say, bad advertising is about being annoying, and good advertising gives something back."

I totally agree with you here. All I was saying is that it would be interesting to see if this idea would work, that's all. One way to figure that out is by running the experiment and capturing the statistics
Maybe there's a chance that someone on the internet will have the same problem?
Jersey shore season 4
jersey shore season 4 is rumored to be on twitter filmed in italy, last month the crew and the players who mendapatka executive visa to get there.how will Europe react to The Situation’s perennially missing shirts,
You can hide the Buzz tab.
Another Yahoo Answers alternative -Quora.
Another Yahoo Answers alternative-Quora.
Where are the 1.3 billion people?
Did their Google v. Facebook challenge go away? The leaderboard is still there (http://www.uber.com/smackdown-leaderboard) but the blog post is not (http://blog.uber.com/2011/02/28/uber-tech-smackdown/)
Until more official news about the fee is released, I'm done reading these articles. The speculation and thinking-four-steps-ahead chess moves are not convincing.
Motorola Xoom a huge disappointment
While I agree "100's" of calls is not intensive at all, asterisk has it's place just like every thing else. It's all about how you set it up. Our asterisk servers rarely crash, and handle more then a 100 or 200 calls per minute with ease.
When I was studying Computing at Tas Uni back in the mid 00s, they still mentioned Trumpet Winsock as their big success story. You should be proud of the impression you've left.

(Though now I think about it, were they annoyed at the commercialisation of a piece of research? Being a Uni, probably. Either way, you've left an impression!)
Actually, much of the Myst series' "eye candy" provided considerable depth, with all the journals and their diagrams, video segments, and (sort of) interactive points. While the environments were largely static (read: empty, dead), the back story found in the journals and other elements was interesting enough to keep going, at least for a while.

Depth in graphic adventures may be tough, but it's doable.
Baidu is using the o.cn images itself as explained by the watermarks.
Being that Khan Academy isn't necessarily a complete learning experience/solution on its own makes this difficult. The most important one: Having a mentor or guide to assist when a student runs into problems or doesn't understand or is misunderstanding.
That's not freemium. It's a demo. With true freemium, someone can use your service regularly while on the free plan. Very few people are going to use your service just to find dogs and cats.

Not saying you shouldn't keep it (you should. demos are a great way to get people to convert), but it's not freemium.
Which one is he?
No, silly: Mechanical Chinaman!
Wait, why?

>Why are U.S. children so far behind in science and math compared with those in other developed countries?
>
>Because the US has fewer high performing Asians and more low performing Blacks/Hispanics than other developed countries. That's all there is to it.

It's impossible to believe that a certain race is doing worse on a certain standardized test than another race without being racist? That's simply a recognition of facts without judgement.
Seriously by hand? How many mechanical turks?
Why do you say so? The textures and all seem to suggest otherwise. I am very much interested in the actual technology. Perhaps the textures were superimposed on the 3d models and not a direct input of the 3d modelling.
Salesforce Debuts A More Social Service Cloud 3 With Chatter
Video of Today’s Apple Event
Ask HN: Can anyone find the article comparing Apple and Samsung's strategies?
I can't seem to find the article in my saved articles, bookmarks, or by searching YC.

Anyways, the article compared how Apple has one phone, a few laptops, and one desktop to how Samsung/HP and others have dozens. The article used a word starting with F to describe this, focus maybe? It definitely wasn't fragmentation.

It was a good article and wish I could find it. I appreciate any help, even if someone can just suggest what f word might be so I could search Google/YC a little better.

Basically the article talked about how Apple focuses on a few products but Samsung and others pump out dozens and sees what succeeds, but they had a word for this that is on the tip of my tongue and driving me nuts trying to remember it.

Thanks!
Forget Facebook and use The Fridge (YC S10) to Plan your Spring Break
I performed a WHOIS on a domain of an email looking for engineering talent. I found their technical contact and contacted him on facebook and called him and left a voicemail. He called me back with an interview that day and was offered the job the following afternoon. I won't say this level of engagement will work for everyone, and in fact some people may be offended, but it worked for me.

I now sit in on hiring at my company and I look for ambitious people who want to stand out.
This actually sounds like a job that WePay would be better for.
I am currently a college student majoring in computer science, and I have written very simple iPhone apps. I am looking to learn/develop more intensive apps, and if I could be part of a development team would be great experience. I probably wouldn't be too much help because of my level of skill, but I could do the "bitch" work of the project. I am just looking for experience. Tell me if you are interested. Thank you.
Or for example chachaba.com (in Shenzhen):

http://sz.chachaba.com/location.action?placeId=221a75f1-bcfc...

They had problems with providing a mapping service in China without a license though. They were forced to shutdown for a very long time + redesigned their website to survive. Make sure you get the right license first in China!
How much do you have to share to not get "To have your profile featured, add more information about yourself" anymore? It's a mystery, and finding out is a pretty dull game.
Hacker News menubar app. [fluid + jquery mobile]
Quick tip. I created a fluid app with @elijahmanor's Jquery Mobile example using hacker news.

url: http://jsfiddle.net/elijahmanor/5xwE8/show/

screenshot: http://d.pr/RhOp
I'm not really that familiar with WePay, but why not?

His normal email is p.tattam@gmail.com -- drop him a line and talk him through it.
It's just a matter of time before apple rolls out a platform for payments.
Congratulations! The Square reader is one of the coolest things. I hope they come out with an API soon. I'd love to use square as my website's payment processor.
Stipple is looking for an engineer. San Francisco, local only. http://stippleit.com

We do Rails, jQuery, and TDD. Lots of Javascript. We write our own CSS (with SASS/Compass). We move quickly by exploiting the best tools we can find.

You would be the #2 engineering hire, and would work with myself and our other engineer.

Our awesome office is in South Beach, close to AT&T Park. I'll tell you the story about it when you get here.

Please send resumes or questions to mpd at stippleit.com, and include HNJOB in the subject.
How much did a license for the original Trumpet Winsock cost?

Nevermind, in 1993 a single license for Trumpet Winsock cost $25 usd. Adjusted for inflation that is $38.10 today.
The ScrollBar Re-invented: Now "Content Aware"
I dunno. I just guessed at $35, which would be on the high side of shareware pricing.

edit: looks like I guess pretty well.
Great idea. With all the Paypal horror stories out there I honestly hope you've set up the account so that it doesn't get wrongly frozen if the donations start ramping up.
I bet there are more people following to closely watch the meltdowns than as a fan.
> Perhaps they just think reiterating the point will help others understand by seeing it again.

This is of course possible, and I don't object that as long as they know they are reiterating. However, this is only possible if people at least skim over previous posts, which is usually not the case, and which is why hints to previous discussions are not only helpful but necessary to avoid wasting time.

> This is my point: what is wasteful to you may be beneficial to others.

Repeating something for didactic reasons is sometimes indeed no waste of time for the writer. However, if the writer then publishes this, despite other people already wrote that stuff up in a much better way, that person wastes the time of the readers by filling up the comments with, let's face it and call it by its name, garbage.
Perhaps they'll perform Searle's "Chinese room" experiment IRL.