skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly! Man the stories I could tell....

Even non-tech savy consumers get's their browsers updated once they buy a new machine.

But enterprise on the other hand. Boy is that a different story. They will on purpose maintain IE6 for as long as they can because they simply cannot even begin to deal with the support issues when switching.

If you want to make a lot of money on a one off. Develop a method for large enterprise to switch without the headache.
Just imagine what primitive man would eat. He would spend most of his days eating what grew from the ground and when they finally hunted down meat, they would eat their catch as a group

Ugh, I hate this concept. Primitive man also died in their 20s and 30s. No thanks.
Wondering why the site's in English.
Bullshit, such claims require evidence, I won't accept that on faith, and neither should you.
Maybe inspecting source is their first bar to get over? Pretty low if so...
Yes probably. And in reality if you look at laptops > $1k it's not even close, Apple has 90% of that market. What that says to me though is that most people care more about cost than aesthetics. The point being that aesthetics isn't really the trump card that a lot of people think it is.
I'm guessing that there are two factors:

1. tons of pirated intalls that can't be upgraded and
2. botnets from China that over-represent the amount actual ie6 traffic
Geohot intends to hack Windows Phone 7 next week
Ask HN: Generic web development legal paperwork?
Lately I've been doing some freelance web development for a few small clients and was wondering if I should be protecting myself and my clients with some kind of legal paperwork? Are there some generic web development contracts available for this purpose? Should I be looking at forming an S Corporation, etc.? Any guidance is much appreciated!

Thanks!
Can I also say that I like how I don't tell people who in the panel helped them make the top 20 list?

For example, this is currently on the list of boys:
http://schedule.sxsw.com/events/event_IAP8383

Will Pete and Dennis fight over who got more votes?

I will never tell.
Try http://cosketch.com/
Does the same thing and provides convenient embedding codes on the saved images. Also has multi user functionality, image uploading and works in IE.
Sorry, my point was he should not have the power by himself to deny the project.

Rick Scott had no problem scamming billions out of federal medicare funds for his corporation, but somehow now has a problem with federal funded high-tech transportation to help the state.

For those that do not know what I am talking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott

He won the election by only 1% and this is just the beginning of Florida's long nightmare.
Yes, it is closely related to the topic of this essay, i.e. automating certain parts of mathematics.
An idea is an if...else... statement
well i get the point but the example #1 is a urban myth - http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fact-or-fic...
There were several good HN conversations on this, back when HN was "young", if anyone cares to look for them. (Unfortunately, I've lost the references I saved.)

(I don't mean to be ironic; I just can't justify the time/effort to dig for them, right now. But I thought they were useful, when I encountered them.)

EDIT:

To clarify, I meant procrastination and "structured procrastination" generally, not just -- but also not excluding -- procrastination and perfectionism.

Also, I'm not comfortable with my vague "go search" suggestion, so here's a least a minimal start:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?&q=site%3Anews.ycomb...

which turns up, for just one quickly identified example,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=579979
The tooltips would be ok, but they overlap the bullet icon, which makes it feel cluttered. I'm ok with the idea of changing some part of the page based on my movements, but I think it'd work better if you changed the screenshot (perhaps with an illustration of the feature) instead of overlapping the bullet icon.

The animated screenshot with the balloons feels very busy.

As I was typing this up, "Robby" popped in and asked me to talk with him. This feels a little too eager - and I'm never sure if these popups are real people actually contacting me (which makes me feel a bit uncomfortable) or just automated (which is annoying and makes you wonder if there's really someone there or not).

All in all, the site feels busy. Your 37Signals style "Premium Plans" page is a lot easier to follow, but it suffers the same balloon tip problem.

I'm not sure "complete protection" is a good two-word summary of the premium feature. It kind of implies that my data's going to be released to the public unless I pony up some cash...

It looks like it has potential. Sort of a simplified / low overhead Evernote.
each socket can be uniquely identified by 4-tuple:
{LocalIP,LocalPort,ServerIP,ServerPort}

LocalIP:LocalPort -> ServerIP,ServerPort

So even if number of ports is limited by 64K, total number of incoming sockets per IP address isn't.
The big companies like Amazon, etc already have this or could easily add it. I think this would be more useful for the thousands of other smaller companies out there. Perhaps you can wigitize this product and offer companies to place it on their website. I can see the longtail working out better.

On the other end, as far as I know for something like Amazon, etc you need to call in order to be put in the line for them to call you back. The cool thing about your service is I don't need to call :)
You do superb work. Do not be ashamed of your skill. Tell them to fuckoff and forward the mail to some cheaper junior person you know. Adapt to keep a comfortable income, but, great work.
Ahh yes, the "it is always the developers' fault" mentality. It couldn't be that sometimes the developers have bad communication habits, but sometimes the users really are acting like assholes, could it?

Let me guess: you have never actually worked in the field, or if you have, it was some trivial job like CSR-1.
How are you feeling? A QR code experiment
Medicine is a fine way to treat things like infectious disease, but our western use of it is particularly useless (and often harmful) at treating long term "lifestyle diseases" -- stuff like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Prevention is far more effective, and diets that consist mostly of "food as grown" with minimal processing and alteration are good prevention.
"Genuine advantage" often breaks updates on any non-legit copy of Windows. Updates to IE usually come through Windows Update.

Non-legit Windows is in 2nd place and has larger market share than all other non-MS OS's, per this:

http://www.osnews.com/story/21035/Ballmer_Linux_Bigger_Compe...
I agree that he probably understands the motivations and spirit of Apple better than most. My point is that he's now a part of the system in a subtle way, and to think about it when reading his coverage. He's no longer just a guy with a blog.
If you're using an OS that is a 10 year old walking security nightmare, I have trouble believing that you also are thinking, "I want to use the modern web". It's like being in the midst of being mugged and wondering, "did I have 3 square meals today?" Sure eating well is important, but using an outdated insecure OS really should be top of mind.

And if you bought XP last summer... well that was your call. XP was acceptable in 2002. It's 2011.
Robotic hand nearly identical to a human one (w/ Video)
I actually found a solution for it in excel before writing the following:

asort($data);
$duplicate = function ($val) use (&$data) {
$count = 0;
foreach ($data as $i => $entry)
if ($val == $entry) $count++;
return $count;
};

foreach ($data as $v)
if (($count = $duplicate($v)) > 1) {
printf("%d, Count %d\n", $v, $count);
break;
}

I assume it would be possible to use a sort+callback to return the value as well.
Microsoft producing new software for Windows XP is like Apple doing the same for OS9.
It's probably not that much percentage terms. I mean, the software industry is worth many $100s of billions in annual revenue (incl. companies' revenues, employees' revenues, and benefits to the greater economy), so it's probably a tax on the system of less than 0.01%.
Isotope plugin for jQuery lets you build elegant, dynamic, and fluid layouts
Dont forget MySpace was THE site out there when doing these things was considered the best business plan. Hence why Ning and a few other sites like it were also popular. However that was a LONG time go and things have changed alot since then.
Are you seriously claiming that apps developed for android phones are as good as the dedicated iPad apps?

In many cases, yes. Especially fullscreen games; Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja and several others look as if they were designed specifically for my Nook Color, even though they weren't.
The point was posting a hack. "most" people don't know unix shell.

I'd consider your mention of Excel to be a hack, as I honestly don't have a clue with it beyond the basics.
How to Pull off Putting Labels Inside Textboxes on Forms
Researchers Turn to Silk for Flexible E-devices
In Korea specifically, there's a huge ActiveX site base still, especially for government and banking sites.
I spent two summers interning at a giant insurance company (no self-installed software was allowed anywhere on the network). In 2008, everyone in the entire company was forced to use IE6. In 2009, they had transitioned to IE7 and developers company-wide were preparing their webapps for a rollout of IE8. Sure, everyone was still on XP, but even the higher-ups had begun to realize how important it was to update the browser.
How I build views without inline code or awkward templating engines
Show HN: Review My Startup - Migaz
Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley - Now Is Our Best Shot To Invent The Future
Perhaps I'm reading this wrong, but the implication seems to be that the EFF supports first-to-file.

I understand that first-to-file clarifies things once an applicant receives a patent — they don't have to worry about pior art at that point.

However, it seems worse for everybody else: If I publish something new and patentable, but don't file for a patent, it seems like somebody else could then file for a patent on the same concept and I would end up out of luck.

To be clear, I understand first-to-file to mean that a patent can't be challenged on the basis of prior art once it's issued.

What am I missing?
Some errors:

- Turkey is purple on the map, despite being within the 1-5% (blue) bracket.

- According to the map, Finland has 0.7% IE6 users, but according to the list you get when you hover over the map, it has 0.9%

That aside, it puzzles me that the numbers in East Asia are that high. South Korea and Japan are both wealthy countries with a large number of Internet users. Even if we exclude North America and Western Europe, Eastern Europe does far better, for instance, than South Korea and Japan.
I believe the strains of malaria that existed in North American and Europe were far weaker than the African varieties, though
I'd strongly suggest not letting the fear of possible harassment deter you. Wait until it actually happens. Worst case, you complain to the front desk and homeboy gets out of his yearly contract 11 months early. (They usually have cameras everywhere, so it wouldn't even be a "he said, she said" issue.)

Most of the very large men have no need to harass random women - all they usually need to do is walk into a bar and say "hello". And I've never met a guy at the gym who would even be tolerant of such harassment, let alone participate.

tl;dr Fitness is too important to let a one-in-a-million bad event deter you. Statistically speaking, your biggest worries are poor fitness > harming yourself due to poor form/bad luck > getting harassed at the gym.
Social Search
Do you think social search will ever produce higher quality results then google?
of similar nature (for CloudFront locations):
http://www.cloudelay.com/cdn-cloudfront.htm
RabbitMQ if deployed in the wrong manner, or stuck in the wrong place for the wrong reasons will bite you. I see that it looks like a transaction manager because Mongo can't handle tx very well? I beleive MySQL does, and so and Cassandra. Seems more a fit for that type of job.
This is a tired argument. Why don't we all go and work the fields? Maybe then we can "actually" create something (whatever that means).
just my $0.02... but those live-chat windows? personally, I find them irritating. I have no idea if I am in the majority here, though, so you may be best off ignoring my opinion.
I never could understand how short-lived sites built off of memes can make any real revenue. Anyone care to enlighten me with stories/numbers?
I'm not sure what you're getting at. We were getting so much traffic that this setup is necessary, and now that we've scaled I'm very, very glad that we went with this "overengineered" setup since day 1. We also never explicitly chose RAID-1; it was just the default setup that our hosting provider gave us.

But yeah if you're running a blog, don't do this.
Thanks! Redirect added.
My Ordeal and the Firestorm in Boston
Hmm. I see captcha's harder than that every day on numerous sites; with a lot of 'normal' captcha's you sit staring for minutes and then kind of gamble (like an OCR bot) to what it says. At least the formulas are clearly readable and there is a one correct answer to each of them, while this http://bit.ly/gKPgKH I cannot read (Google).
Indeed, I missed that useful chart on the side. I tried to quickly just do the math in my head with estimates on total usage for the countries. I was off by about .8% -- thought it would be about 4.8%.
I think this is great, personally. The only things more I'd wish for from this site:

* It'd be great if it was more clear that Microsoft itself was behind the site (there's just one little logo at the bottom left).

* The home page seems targeted at developers. It'd be great if they had another page targeted specifically at end users spelling out in clear terms why a.) it's bad for them to still be using IE6 (e.g. throw some scary warnings about viruses in there) and b.) what they can do about it (e.g. upgrade or install an alternative browser if upgrade not possible.)

* Now that I think about it, they need another page like the one above but targeted at enterprises. Again, lay out in clear terms all the horrible reasons for using IE6 on the open Internet. Convince them to install alternative browsers on desktops for general browsing and to restrict the use of IE6 to only those specialized applications which absolutely require it.

My wish list is probably already three items too long, so I think I'll quit while I'm ahead.
Same thing I recommended above and in my initial comment:

Find something fun to do that just happens to get you in shape.

I suspect they have basketball hoops, raquetball courts, swimming pools and Ironic Kickball leagues in your home town (and probably a climbing gym too). Go have some fun!
Yes, but when you are load testing a specific server, as in this case, you are bound to a specific serverIp and serverPort.

And thus, the total amount of sockets you can have open to that server is limited by the amount of IP's your machine has.
We don't use RabbitMQ as a transaction manager. We use it as a worker queue.

RabbitMQ was not the bottleneck. In fact RabbitMQ doesn't perform much I/O at all.
Procratinsation is a coping mechanism for perfectionism?
"It's not that the USA isn't democratic enough. Quite the opposite."

I think the real issue is democracy, no matter how well executed, really just isn't that good at protecting citizens from tyranny. Laws that ensure freedom and privacy are all good and fine, but they will never compete with math that ensures privacy and freedom.

Even were we to devise the perfect system of governance, advancement in technology to ensure the situation would still be essential.
Startup Quote: Gregg Spiridellis, co-founder, JibJab
This is really cool spin of mobile ecards/greetings. Uses touch + photos which is a no-brainer on mobile. Also like that you don't have to install an app to send or receive them. Hilarious!
Apple iPad 2 Shipments to Touch 12 Million Marks in Q2 2011 | Technology Rekor
It's funny if you have scripts turned off. Apparently, 100% of the world was using IE6 in Feb 2011, which is 9% lower than the previous year.

Nonetheless, very good to see Microsoft doing stuff like this.
Some background: Korea historically required SEED for encryption, not SSL, which prevented competition in the browser market:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEED
It loads an image over it (which took a while, at least on my machine): http://ie6countdown.com/images/030311-mapList.png
Ask HN:  What do you use to monitor SEO Keywords?
I was looking for a tool to make it easy to monitor keywords today, but came up nearly empty. What do you guys use?
If you make something good and put it out there, people will pass it along.

- Gregg Spiridellis (@jibjabceo)

http://startupquote.com/post/3639205389
I think the answer will be found in Maxthon - a very popular IE shell in China.
Windows 8 Leaked Screenshots Show Windows Live Integration, Taskbar Tweaks
We already have that the other 51 weeks of the year; sometimes we like a little variety.
More writeup on CreativeApplications.net:
http://www.creativeapplications.net/arduino-2/computerless-a...
Can I come?
Come on, have you even used XP since 2002? It is not a "security nightmare" if used (or set up) by someone with a minimal amount of knowledge about computer security. These days, with Microsoft's free Security Essentials package, virtually everyone has a decent security package, for example.
Does interesting work count as a perk? I don't really care about most of the perks that were listed (e.g. on-site dry-cleaning, professional mentoring or subsidized training) but the best way to keep me on is to make sure I don't get bored. If I have to ask more than a couple of times for more challenging work and don't get anything from my manager, I'm going to find it somewhere else.
Windows XP is the most popular OS in the world. 41% market share. OS 9 is a rounding error.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_system...
Thanks I'm glad you found the post helpful!
There’s an ultimate deadline on dropping IE6 of April 8th, 2014. That’s when XP, and consequently IE6, fall out of support. Continuing to support sites for browsers that aren’t receiving security updates is actively harmful to users and should be avoided wherever possible.
And then for the irony:

Internet Explorer 9 is only available for Windows 7 and Vista. However, we still recommend you download the latest version of Internet Explorer for XP. Get it here:

That's what I see when I click their "Download IE9" link. Looks like we'll get to go through this all again in a few years.
A few years back I attended a tech talk from T.V.Raman (of emacspeak fame) and he was making fun of us, poor non-blind users, for being so slow at deciphering the bursts of sounds from the screen reader.

He, and other blind computer scientists that were present at the talk, was so used to the screen reader that could crank its speed up to impossible speeds for non-blind users (that don't exercise their hearing sense that much).

The same applied to the tiny distortions in pitch and tone that he'd use as a replacement for syntax coloring.

Pretty amazing.
No problem I really enjoyed putting them together
So don't go back. You could make the same argument about a lot of restaurants/bars/public places, etc.

Honestly, I know a lot of VERY big guys who lift a heck of a lot of weight. Without exception, every single one of them is the nicest, most even-tempered, welcoming fellow you could imagine. The stereotype of a angry, musclebound meathead is just that, a stereotype.

If you're really too scared, go find yourself the most convenient Crossfit gym and drop by for a free workout. You'll find that MOST Crossfit gyms are well over 60% female and that there are several women there that are leading a lot of the men in weightlifting and overall athleticism. I'm a guy and I've most definitely been shown up by a lot of the women at my particular box and I'm not alone.

Believe it or not, weightlifting/getting fit is going to make you VERY uncomfortable for non-trivial periods of time. You might as well get used to it. Seeing a whole cadre of women lifting heavy and doing it fearlessly might really do you a lot of good from a psychological perspective.

Greg Glassman always said that the biggest adaptation a Crossfitter experiences is between their ears.
Each "brutal dictatorship" is going to have their own nuances and idiosyncrasies but throwing down a blanket "don't deal with them" is flat out pointless.

We deal with nasty governments on a daily basis. From the gas we put in our cars to our phones to the clothes on our backs to our coffee mugs (but not coffee cups!) on our desks.

Then maybe people would think twice before doing business with brutal dictatorships in the future.

I think sentiments like the above are just dull feel good platitudes that don't address reality. It's a statement that is easy for others to agree with yet doesn't really confer a coherent idea or commitment.
I do see that now thx.

How many rails backends are you running?
A simpler machine would appeal to more people? I agree. However, to the people who need the increased capabilities? In the right hands, this looks like it could produce some interesting objects that the smaller/cheaper machines couldn't handle.
He's an amazing business-model innovator (though probably all credit goes to Jerome Lemelson for the original implementation; too bad Jerry wasn't aware of business-method patents!).

Yes, tongue firmly planted in cheek.
It's because of very heavy usage of ActiveX in some Asian countries
About the logo, to me it seems like it's backwards, digital->paper, if you v-flip it then it looks like paper being digitized.
You can sort of get that from:
http://www.cloudelay.com/cdn-cloudfront.htm

There doesn't seem to be any information on how the map is generated unfortunately. I suppose DUB2 is Ireland, NRT4 Japan, SIN2 Singapore, IAD2 Virginia, and SFO4/LAX1 California.
I'm guessing this will be used to enhance the gravitas of someone on the witness stand while talking about a past crime in 3... 2..
I'd argue that the patent system itself is a "protection racket" - the government is just outsourcing the enforcement to IV...
Mine had a complex multiplication problem but had 0 as a multiplier. Can't get easier than that!
Hey, I wrote a little piece about more technical things that we did to get our servers back up here: http://dshipper.posterous.com/44286486 feel free to shoot me an email if you want to know more