skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both, because I have to test both browsers. Fortunately, I don't have to support IE at all in my job.

I wish I could get the browsers I do have to worry about down to just WebKit, though.
This is fantastic, too bad you'd never see something like this from a company on the stock market.
There it is, Mahalo (14), a drop of 84%. Justice.
They are both known for living modestly relative to their vast wealth.
Semantics aside, I think my distinction covers his rationale as far as it applies to what AngelList offers.
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"Fortunately our products can detect and remove Trojans like this, and for home use they're free! If you would like to install Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition, click on the banner below."

Hmm.
Thanks for posting this :). Earlier thread when my wife and I created the app here -> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2173298

This entire PR exercise has been fun. It went something like this

- Pitch TC with a very standard email. I was up the previous night looking through HN for advice on pitch emails. TC wrote a great post on us (it helped that both Path and Instagram announced funding that day)

- Pitch Techflash with the TC post. Todd Bishop is a great guy and he had done an earlier article on an older app of mine so this was a nice tie-in.

- Mail Anne Eisenberg of the NYT and point to both of the above. I had interacted with Anne several years ago and dug out her email address. Anne is just an amazing person and it has been great fun to work with her this past few weeks. Anne also pulled in Microsoft PR who pulled in Brandon Watson who run the show when it comes to Windows Phone development.

For both Aarthi and me, coming from a typical developer/engineer background, this entire experience has been very educational.

Now I'm off to see how many hits I got from the NYT linking to bubblegum.me :)
Even though Amazon is not a wholesaler like Sam's or Costco, but I won't mind getting movies at $35 per year. $79 is too much an yearly renewal for what appears to be just a guaranteed free delivery.
10 to 160 in 5 minutes
It gives your friends in plain text, no facebook id, no email to identify them. Simply useless.
And yet more, it requires Chrome to install the application. Lot's of work done there.
This is Plutonium Oxide. IIRC, metallic plutonium is a lot more dangerous. Also almost impossible to come by in an oxygen atmosphere. Kind of like Aluminum.
I remember reading about the interface for making a class act as a boolean the last time I messed with Python. I thought it was neat that you could make any object act as a boolean, function, whatever. I can't seem to find the docs for it though.
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I completely agree here. While I think node.js will have a certain amount of success, its biggest limit is and will continue to be the utterly poor composability of code. You can't just take other code and call it anymore. It has to be written to interact not only asynchronously but ALSO track and maintain state the same way other code is handled that might be using it.

Solutions that make this transparent almost always return to heavy constructs that people like Ryan Dahl called out as big scaling problems (like threads). Just shoveling state around is a mess and abstractions around it almost always reinvent the smalltalk-style spaghetti stack.

I'm not sure node.js has a clear option moving forward. Right now the library choice for this is pretty wide, so fragmentation is a problem. While it's hard to choose sometimes, right now the community really needs some direction.

Meanwhile, languages and platforms that have already chosen their concurrency primitives, be it goroutines and channels, erlang processes and messages, or even ugly threads and locks, seem to be moving forward. It's not about defeating some other method of expressing things. It's about providing something that works and right now node.js only solves half of the problem.
I'm pretty sure hundreds of large companies make donations, allow employees time to work on FOSS, and so on.

Still awesome to see duckduckgo do it of course.
This means the $7000 billboard on the 101 in San Francisco was a significant portion of revenue. Gabriel, looking back on that, do you think it was worth it, and would you advise other startups to try it given similar revenue numbers?
You'll have to ask a copyright lawyer about that one. Every single one of those games had a notice somewhere in them saying not to copy them though.
He is a creature of fiat and baby boom population expansion.

Since Charlie Munger's "suck it up" comment and WB's heavily profiting from TARP, I have developed a jaundiced view of what the real business is that BH engages in... he is less free market than he would have you believe.
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Студия Артемия Лебедева и Яндекс пользуются друг другом с 1997 года
I think AngelList is making the market too efficient and some investors don't like that.
lol

"last week" == Feb 2010?

"But last week Michael Arrignton at TechCruch reported..."

http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/12/amazon-wants-to-give-a-free...
I honestly wonder if the security companies are making crap like this in an attempt to get OSX users into the virus-fear market. Trojans are incomprehensibly simple things to write, but whenever one comes up for a Mac security companies go absolutely nuts and try to sell you something to get rid of it.

Wake me when there's a worm with rights escalation that installs itself without my approval or notice. As long as you have to put in your password and run their application, I'm safe, and it's hardly a virus so much as mere malware. Everything you need for malware has been around forever, and is already on your system: rm -rf *

edit: ran it and experimented. The only interesting thing about this is the password pop-up window, which looks fake and has a non-functioning abort button (!). I'm guessing it somehow resists focus while looking like it's focused and handling input, because it always looks like it's coming from the application you last had active. That is clever and an attack vector, the rest of this is child's play.
I was curious so I googled it and found this: http://www.shadowstats.com/article/consumer_price_index

Apparently it happened early in the Clinton administration.

Quoting:
The Boskin/Greenspan argument was that when steak got too expensive, the consumer would substitute hamburger for the steak, and that the inflation measure should reflect the costs tied to buying hamburger versus steak, instead of steak versus steak. Of course, replacing hamburger for steak in the calculations would reduce the inflation rate, but it represented the rate of inflation in terms of maintaining a declining standard of living. Cost of living was being replaced by the cost of survival. The old system told you how much you had to increase your income in order to keep buying steak. The new system promised you hamburger, and then dog food, perhaps, after that.
I really like non-tech subreddits like /books.
I pretty much agree with that and prefer my iPad for those types of things. But the Kindle will evolve and just the thought of getting away from the textbook fix would be nice.

If Amazon Kindles were starting to appear in schools, iPads and Apple would be right there. Apple has always been good about getting computers into schools.

The textbook industry got so crazy that most kids have TWO of each now because they need them for school and home, because the 5-6 2 inch thick books of outdated materials are too heavy. So what is more kludgey and when could you ever really write in books themselves? I never wrote in textbooks even though I bought them and never took the time to sell them. Can't people take notes outside the book?

Plus if you have Kindle accounts/books you can also pull these on other devices (maybe now) and especially laptops and PCs.
A friend of mine had a similar idea but in the form of an iphone app. It was going to be called iBleed. Didn't think it was a great idea back then either.
Chrome dev tools because I don't have to install anything.

(Though I am using firefox 4 beta for browsing now)
That's true, and that investment's on the customers, so idle clients aren't really a problem, unless you sell the hardware too far below cost, and they don't buy enough media. If you're Steam, this doesn't even cross your mind. When the required hardware's expensive, centralizing is a gamble - you want to run close to 100% capacity, but you don't ever want to go above it.
I like this idea, I'll be doing this. Also are prices like $1, or $2 better than $.99 and $1.99, or does it not matter?
$79/yr is $6.60/mo, which is less than Netflix's streaming-only plan and includes free 2-day shipping on Amazon products.
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Yes but the honesty is great.

A lot of academic research doesn't acknowledge that the reason a working programmer wants a tool that is really simple is because I am constantly working with the threat of my project becoming overwhelmingly complex. A really simple, clear tool lets me keep a little more distance from that final, looming complexity.
May I offer you a complimentary ticket to the @LAUNCH HackAThon taking place on May 23-25th here in San Francisco?

Sure. :-)
The great thing about open platforms is that there is no one to get in your way. So if you are going to stand between us and our development, you best make it a good experience.
Kind of the ultimate blow to the iPad and iBook. Even if the iPad has color and is backlit, just how many people will choose a $600 book reader over a $0 book reader that's 'almost' as good?
I like Google's Summer of Code program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code . If you can get programmers writing open-source code when they're still students, a fair number of them might continue to contribute to open source over their career.

I really like Gabriel's idea too. Donations to open-source (or groups like the EFF) are great for the net.
A friend of mine today sent me a text message saying: "Scumbag phil. Shows you reddit. Gets you addicted..."

I think its safe to say I have ruined many lives by showing them reddit.
I think it's Jim Collins's book Good to Great that says that managers that perform at a high level for a long time are recognizable by the fact that they remain modest while their business units make great results.
Let them eat Microchips
Variation on the string around the finger as a reminder trick.
i see myself how investors think by patterns. so @bryce's right, we would be happy to meet an investor that don't ask the same questions answers on which we just can learn.

and, how investors consider themselves sortof saviors, ones in the millions, which is bad for the deal as well. so @jason is right too.

now, peace!
This theory is one of the most self-serving (for overpaid executives) arguments I have ever heard.
Apparently until quite recently, commonly there was much more math in good sociology programs than in biology. See:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2238391
Agreed. I think your view of investing hignes on interpreting this quote:

> Think Mike Moritz, John Doerr, Jim Breyer, Fred WIlson, Peter Fenton, Danny Rimer, Reid Hoffman and the like are just exceptionally good at throwing darts in the dark? I don’t.

He says this meaning investing is a skill. I see no proof that it is. If enough people are investing, and success is random, there will be SOME people that, by chance, have long successful streaks. Past performance is not indicative of future performance, and all that!
In the US he would get a boatload of money as retention bonus to stay on.
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nookstudy

I expect that is more likely to make a bigger difference since it has buy-in from the publishers, BN effectively runs most the college bookstores, you can type faster with a keyboard, and most students don't want to carry a ton of books. Would be nice if it supported Latex for Math/Physics notes.
It's not they don't care to make money on the device directly, it's just they don't know how to.
"... bad at problem solving ... really not smart ... slow, forgetful, concepts never seem to stick, ..."

So you don't know everything, and you realize it. The people who are the most stupid are those who are certain that they know everything that matters. So you're not stupid.

You want to better yourself. Again, that's good. You're motivated.

You mention some subjects you wish to learn more about. I'd ask for advice on which books are best. Buy those books and skim through them. Keep the book(s) nearby; when you get into something that you need to know more about, crack the book open and read the section. That way you can implement it as you read about it, and you'll understand it far better.
Dammit, Amazon.com, will you please let me use my store credit?
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http://www.sistrix.com/blog/985-google-farmer-update-quest-f... and http://searchengineland.com/who-lost-in-googles-farmer-algor... are other links I've seen. Bear in mind that much of this third-party analysis compares e.g. US queries vs. queries against Google from Canada, Italy, or India, and geolocation can change the results. Also, different people are running different sets of queries and that subsampling can skew things depending on the query sets. Please bear those disclaimers in mind with any third-party analysis.
Owning something like 5 copies of A Link to the Past, I agree with this sentiment (the format-shift argument), but I don't think it's proper justification for distributing them. As much as I'd argue it's fair for those who have paid, we can't ignore the fact that most people haven't.
Presumably it's the sudden jump on Jan 3rd onward here?
If so seems like money well spent indeed.

http://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html
http://thedailywtf.com/

Look around a bit, you'll die some more. No, a lot more.
Here's why. It is late winter right now -- that means it is conference season for the payment networks that you use today. One of the next ones is at http://www.fontainebleau.com That's where some of the money earned from each transaction where you pay with a credit or debit card is going.

On the flip side, Bitcoin's transaction network is operated openly -- anyone can become part of the Bitcoin "payment network". Here's an example of where the costs for that are going: http://www.bitcoinminer.com/post/3441032109/bitcoin-mining-o...

So you decide. Do you want your money going to the Executive VP-Payment whatever dickwad headed to Florida or going to the dude trying to make a living running a server farm out of his kitchen.
I have no exact data at the moment. I looked through my application's logs and compared the response times in situations when the front page loads from a full-page cache entry and when it has to build the page from multiple pieces of memcached data. If I find time, I'll write a small benchmark application which tests memcache performance. Empirically however, App Engine's "memcache" is pretty slow.
Please edit the title.

"Which websites dropped the most in the latest Google algorithm change? - Quora" reads as though the answer to the question is Quora.
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Well... he is the boss so, yes, at the top of the responsibility ladder.

BUT the article says he is paid less than the ''pilots''. Flying a plane is not necessarily a dangerous job, but is has risk, requires skill (with reasonable initial investment in training etc.) and comes with a ''personal and immediate responsibility for a number of lives''.

So when you balance the job descriptions; who should get paid more?
I think that's subjective.. I had no problem understanding the title as the poster intended.
Exactly! I somehow convinced myself it was about NES and so couldn't find it again.
Yes, many (myself included) routinely see such traffic spikes via HN.

Congrats and keep up the good work. :-)
Those who want a device that can be used for more than just reading books.
Of course Apache will just slow it down :)
Do these Aiports do 802.11n at 5.8GHz or only 2.4GHz?
The use of the graph is ridiculous in this post. If the author wants to predict a free Kindle in the near future and back it up with some one line quote from Bezos, fine. However, that graph is pointless. I can craft countless other curves to those four points that are just as "predictive" as that one yet would predict vastly different prices. Further, if that graph was correct, Amazon would start paying us to take Kindles soon after. Just keep following that time axis!

Fitting points to a time line and drawing it out to infinity is a pointless and erroneous predictor. Read Proofinesss by Seife. He talks about these and other mistakes made by people trying to back up their arguments with error prone data and approaches.
It took me about 7 articles on AC before I realized Google would eventually catch up with the content farms. That's also the same time I recognized the problem I was contributing to.

Happened a lot sooner than I expected though. :)

ETA: On the plus side, my articles should make the cut if they go on a purge to raise the quality level.
Hmmm. I remember, three years ago, being advised not to present to multiple angels at once (then typically done to organized 'angel groups') because the premoney valuations they offered were typically much lower than what you'd get from individual angels, one angel at a time.

Presenting to multiple angels at once doesn't necessarily produce a better valuation for entrepreneurs - it just produces valuations that more closely reflect the consensus of the times. The true value of the startup's equity has little to do with it.

If you have to raise right now, you should absolutely use AngelList -- just don't assume things are always going to be so easy. When the investment climate for startups goes south again, and it eventually will, AngelList will go from being the best place to pitch to the worst place to pitch.
Of course, it is subjective, but that's the point. I understood the same thing as jhuckestein.
The entire site is in Russian (like the title of this post, natch). Having NoScript enabled, the site doesn't look like much and I'm too scared to enable JavaScript to find out more. A braver soul should post on why this is relevant to Hacker News.
anyone else really surprised that ehow isn't on that list? I mean seriously they are some of the worst offenders I've seen.
1. "j" is for JavaScript. Think jQuery.

2. No need -- the bookmarklet is easier to install and works cross browser. I'd bet that most people competent enough to install a Chrome extension can also install a bookmarklet. Also, seem more secure != more secure.

Appreciate the feedback. Let me know what else I can do to make it better.
Fair enough, but the domain is already shown next to the submitted link on HN. It might not confuse you, but it apparently confused other people, and it's really redundant information anyway.
I believe this is what you're talking about:

http://docs.python.org/py3k/reference/datamodel.html#object....
So if I wanted to wish my mother a Happy Birthday, AngleList would be a good way to do that? How about if I wanted to offer all the angels on the list a deal on certain mortgage-backed assets left over from the housing bubble?

Of course not. And the reason is that AngleList is email from specific kinds of people to specific kinds of people for a specific purpose. It's only useful because it filters out communication that doesn't fit the philosophy. If you have a different philosophy, if your purpose is different from that of AngleList, well, why participate?
A lot of the code samples there are split at page breaks, making them difficult to read. Are they provided anywhere as plain text files?
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Thanks for checking it out.

Can you elaborate on your last sentence? Of course, seeing what you have right now, I can understand your thinking in pursuing high fidelity route.
Zoton is a brand name for Lansoprazole. Is this name meant to mean something?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoton
also interesting is that we're at the end of February, right where the line crosses $100...
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I'm looking at a 40% drop. Just like you guys totally by the rules and all original content. In my niche, I noticed eHow beating everyone for terms that their articles aren't even relevant for. Their results got much worse in general. Alot of people that scrap my content are beating me in rankings now.

I would have posted my resume to find a day job, but then I thought somebody would scrap it and google would get them hired first.
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Went to look at their stats on quantcast. They've hidden them! Wonder why...

http://quantcast.com/mahalo.com
"We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can’t afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation."
Were they open before the change?
Just like with New Yorkers and Parisians, people confuse being blunt and direct with being rude. He may be abrasive, but that's not necessarily unprofessional.
Wouldn't Amazon be able to tell if existing customers are avid readers or not by their purchase history? Perhaps, rather than thinking they would give them out on a street corner, they would gift them to customers who reach a purchase $amount/frequency.
They make donations. But they don't donate 10% of their yearly revenue, even though their business often completely depends on FOSS software.
This thread just cost me $400 since I just ordered everything to do heated floors in my new bathroom I'm installing. For about $9/sqft, I bought Warmwire and a programmable thermostat. The installation looks super simple too.

I live in Austin, so there's only a few months out of the year that this will be useful, but I can only imagine how glorious it will be to walk barefoot on warm tile in the winter. :)
There's a certain kind of person that's drawn to politics and usually they are not the enterprising productive type.
Google algo change story at money.cnn.com
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Conversion between (DRM-free) EPUB and MOBI is pretty much trivial. It's a pain, but it's hardly a problem.
Fossil fuels are only incredible because humans figured out how to use them. They have no inherent value apart from our minds.
In the JavaScript file for jQTouch the following comment gave me a good laugh:
// Private touch functions (TODO: insert dirty joke)

There's also an array of items to be put in the head of an HTML page:

if (hairextensions) $head.append(hairextensions);
Not sure yet. Even though we are one of the bigger clients on App Engine we weren't getting charged much at all for our usage anyways. But I believe Google said it would be around 3x for the HRD which isn't bad at all. Our executives really didn't care though as stability and reliability to our customers is worth too much to worry 3X (GAE's non-hrd stability has not been good recently). Btw we all use EC2 for some of our other services and that is costing us quite a bit more than GAE is at the moment. We'll see if that continues to hold true as we grow.
A company on the stock market owes it to investors to make them a return.

Donating 10% of revenue away, wouldn't go down too well with average Joes pension scheme.

Also I'm not sure any big company 'completely depends' on FOSS. Yes it's an awesome thing, but big companies would survive just fine without it.
"On-Topic: [...] anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." Please tell us why we want to read about this design studio. Also, http://www.artlebedev.com/ will be better received here, as http://www.artlebedev.ru/ always serves text in Russian without doing any HTTP content negotiation.