skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you recognize that a hash is equivalent to the content, you realize you have to wrap DRM around the hash lists, just as you would the original content.

Perhaps limiting the cache lifetimes would give some legal protection to network operators. Nobody is sending take-down notices for network caches today, are they? I would love to see this protocol have some legal safe harbor - perhaps based on a limited (24 hour) TTL before requiring refreshing the cache from source (which could just be a "ping" w/o retransmitting the whole chunk).
Lots of body forms Did survive to the present day. We usually think of mammals when we say "animal" which are all similar. But consider worms, bugs (legs AND wings), nematodes, sponges, spiders (legs And mouth parts), octopi, fish, seahorses.
Hi Iqbal, really like the app. I totally understand what I am supposed to do and see a clear purpos. I know this feedback might not be overly helpful to you, but I have nothing else on my fingertips right now. :)
Kinect is not Microsoft's in-house technology. It is licensed from PrimeSense, an Israeli company: http://www.primesense.com/
Another German here:
The trouble with getting out of the crises so well is that it relieves the need for real reforms.

We still have an extremely inflexible labor market, extremely high taxes/social security payments, and excessive regulation.

Becoming more competitive by keeping down wages works, but is also the stupidest way to do it, since, well, it means you get paid less than you could.

Basically German people decided that it's OK to earn less, but cutting taxes, benefits and government interventions would be too much change.

On the other hand, I just realized that complaining about a situation that other people envy you for is a very German thing to do...
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True, though you could say the Dreamcast first put a toe in that water with its modem and Phantasy Star Online. But the original Xbox was a great step forward for gaming consoles: built-in hard drive, Ethernet port, dual analog sticks in the proper position for 3D gaming... uh, and the hilariously oversized controller: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/8/29/
Why implement something complex, when something simple will do? This cache should be (in my mind), DRM-agnostic. Just put your DRM around your hash lists, just as you would around your original content. DRM can be a layer above the caching layer.
This is such a simple, elegant solution. Good job. This really makes my life easier. Thanks!
Why Your Boss Is Wrong About You
> It also means that you get to define 'bug-free' as 'implements the standard to the letter',

That doesn't make it any better. The standard itself cannot be bug-free.

Actually here's another one of them uncomfortable truths:

* You can't guarantee the correctness or reliability of a program by specifying on paper what it should do.

It's a bad approach anyway, and results in stupid programs; stupid in the sense that they will be hard to use, hard to maintain, hard to fix, hard to evolve, etc.

This truth maybe uncomfortable to many people, including bosses and managers and authority figures.

But, I personally actually find this truth very comfortable. Being the lazy slacker that I am, it allows me to justify my approach to programming.
Interestingly the government doesn't own 25% of the bank as this and several other articles claim. In fact 95% of the shares is owned by their customers : http://www.grameen-info.org/index.php?option=com_content&...

The government might have special voting right though.
Thoughts & Considerations on Securing Your API
That would also explain their link to the SETI project at http://37signals.com/37.
Edit: just noticed that it's also on 37th page of the site. Delightful.
Grameen Bank web site hacked / infected with spam
>>Apple don't buy stock and sell it on.

>Sure they do - they just buy it in a JIT fashion. Someone orders the app, Apple supplies them a copy. The 'stock bought' is the payment to the wholesaler.

That's not a valid comparison. The retailer's markup includes the risk that they won't be able to sell the product.

(OK, OK, unless the product is books.)
Just leaving the political issues a side..
If we were to all support another search engine instead, then they'd have the same power. And I'd hope they would do the same thing Google is doing right now.
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>Apple and Google may mark their apps up less than the average department store or grocery store

I'm pretty sure grocery store markups are more like 5% to 10%.
If Apple have any sense (and I'm fairly confident they do), they'll beef up their Airport/Time Capsule wifi base stations to include printer drivers rather than just accepting raw printer commands from a computer with the driver installed. While they're at it, backing up iOS devices wirelessly to a time capsule wouldn't hurt either.
Correct. Many of the concrete arguments from "Goto Considered Harmful" fall apart when you even have named labels rather than line numbers. BASIC can be used to make a mess, but BASIC can also be used to write highly structured programs- you must be dilligent. I haven't written BASIC in years, but personally I think BASIC taught me why structured programming, careful naming and indentation are all vital to creating comprehensible code. Staring down a few thousand lines of your own spaghetti code from months before drives the point home in a very useful way.
Google Headquarters Welcomes Giant Honeycomb
I can see how that's very likely, my experience is limited to Western Europe at the moment:) We still see quite a lot of goods in cheaper stores that come from China, but nothing like the market domination I see back in North America. Over here in NL for example, I see way more stuff coming from France, Germany, Italy, etc, than just China. I think consumers in some parts of Europe prefer goods that are better quality, even if they are a bit more expensive. From a longer term cost-benefit stand point, it usually works out cheaper anyway.
Yes, and now the next time one of my designer colleagues tries to use them in a website and I say "lay off, that's SO 2000" I have a working example to prove it.
Windmills in your favor
An idea to help entrepreneurs to play new projects on Internet
True, but I'm not sure about your last sentence, I think that there's a possibility that Tablets could change that.
> Chefs and restaurateurs are arbiters of taste offline. Their good judgment can’t simply fly out the window when they take to the Internet. So why do bad websites happen to good restaurants?

Or maybe, just maybe, that "good judgement" that chefs and restaurateurs supposedly possess is only "good" when they apply to food and managing walk-in businesses? You shouldn't expect a chef or a restaurateur, however good they are, to be proficient in information aesthetics, and, in the same way, you shouldn't expect a type designer to have good judgment about managing a restaurant business.

Then the article goes on to say that "the website is a sign of the times. It represents the trends of that moment." Well I got news for you -- it is precisely that sort of thinking that got the restaurant websites into the Flash-infested hole they are now. Yes, no one builds websites in Flash for restaurants today yet everybody and their grandma did five years ago. C'mon people, it shouldn't be that difficult to understand that one should follow trends only insofar as they don't interfere with readability, accessibility, user friendliness, and information clarity. Those last four principles are timeless; they don't change -- if someone truly applied them five years ago, the website would have survived and probably would have needed only a minor cosmetic change to stay current.

> For designers and users, the emphasis now is on accessibility.

And why wasn't it five years ago, huh? Then, "we're a small restaurant so we can’t really pay for it..." Oh please, stop the pathos -- why did all those itty-bitty small restaurants pay significantly more for a Flash website five years ago when a more accessible non-Flash version would have cost them way less? Where's the critical thinking?
Looks like something that could be useful to many startups coming up in the mushrooming boom and the thriving Internet economy.

I guess a 'Why us' type page would inspire more confidence and make more people sign up for your beta.

HTH

Edit: You might want to check this thread and perhaps, think about a strategic alliance with the OP:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2276344
Quite the blast from the past. My favorite old link is to their 37better project:

http://37signals.com/better
http://37signals.com/better/bank/index
Never mind walled gardens, but Google could at least run some basic virus scanner before posting stuff on the market.
Point taken about it being the most successful, but is it profitable? It would seem like the conferences could be bigger and more profitable immediately if you focused entirely on that and expanded on it.

Plus, you've already carved out a massive amount of market share and goodwill with the conferences related products.
Phantasy Star Online was so far ahead of its time - a good lesson about market timing there for sure.
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BASIC has always supported subroutines, albeit in about the most primitive way possible: the GOSUB command jumps to a particular line number, then the RETURN command jumps back to the line after the GOSUB.
Even updating at the same time every day would be nice; then I could add the developer's console to the list of links I read every morning.
When talking about Microsoft and tablets, two other companies spring to mind: Apple (of course) and Amazon.

I'm reminded of the command, infantry and police quote (via [1]). Small startups are typically nimble. They're commandos. At some point the beachhead is established and you need an army. Once you've won the war you need the police.

At some point in a company's history it will switch from an attacking posture to a defensive posture. Microsoft has almost all of the desktop OS and office software market. There's nothing really left to attack there. So now they're chasing shadows, afraid of the golden goose dying. Everything is seen as either a threat to Windows/Office or a means to sell more licenses.

Microsoft bought the (then very successful) Sidekick, tried to do a followup, for political reasons had the entire thing rewritten in a Windows OS (that delayed things 2 years) and you ended up with the Kin.

Windows/Office are so big (in terms of MS revenue) that nothing else matters.

Ultimately Microsoft is about selling Windows/Office licenses to large enterprises and OEMs. Everything else is a distraction (including the consumer).

Now compare this to (the quite brilliant) Jeff Bezos. When he came out with the Kindle I was rather surprised to see two teams working on this: the software team and the hardware team. This entered the public eye really with the iPhone/iPad when the software was ported there. At first I thought "that's going to kill the Kindle hardware" and it might, but that's kind of the point.

If the Kindle hardware is good enough to stand up on it's own merits then it will survive. If not, Amazon is already invested in the tablet/smartphone segment. So both teams are motivated to succeed. This is an object lesson in having the right incentives.

Apple springs to mind for the obvious reasons: they completely reinvented the phone and now the tablet. Now every phone looks like an iPhone and every tablet looks like the iPad.

Apple, unlike Microsoft, are a consumer hardware and digital content company. Their OS exists to sell hardware. A lot of people see iOS and think that OS X is doomed and eventually all Apple hardware will be in Apple's walled garden.

This is a very Microsoft way of thinking.

Under the covers there are a lot of similarities between iOS and OS X but iOS is still very different. Where Microsoft simply tried (and continues to try) to sell Windows computers in the form of tablets, Apple made the right tool for the job. What that does to the future of OS X, if anything, is irrelevant. The experience is what matters.

Oh and for the record, I don't think OS X is doomed. It's probably not as important as it once was but it will still power the "trucks" Steve Jobs talked about last year. If anything, OS X will simply be made to look more like iOS and you see this in the Lion developer preview.

The problem with Microsoft is they have a business wonk as a leader (who is no visionary of any kind) and they have no courage for the kind of risky decisions they'd need to make to reinvent themselves.

[1]: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/06/commandos-infantry-...
Lets see if Mozilla can keep up the pace and lets see if they can push those updates unintrusive enough to keep users from leaving.
You might want to check out this thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2279571

A strategic alliance, perhaps?
Did I miss something here? What does this have to do with DHH (David Heinemeier Hansson)?
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Brands don't have consistent sizes at all. You should watch their pitch from the Launch Conference because they explain this problem.
While the specific claims made by this article are true, they do not change the fact that most educated, especially self educated people have experienced situations where they have repeatedly gained much more knowledge much faster from one particular type of learning experience than they have from others, and that there is widely differing opinion on which type is best.

Now, while this obviously does not vindicate the claims of the people who assert that learning styles must be embodied in the neurology of the learner, it does show that something is going on, and it would be to the benefit of both learners and teachers to find out more about it.
FYI this is from 2007, though I have to imagine doing this
would be even easier now that Rubinius is much more robust
and stable (I mean there's an entire bootstrapped language
for Rubinius now, Fancy: http://www.fancy-lang.org/)

That was exactly my thought process when I submitted. I would love to have a legit Lisp that jives with the Ruby ecosystem. I feel like the ecosystem can make or break a language and, while I love Clojure, dealing with all that Java (especially package structure and package management) makes me want a Ruby-friendly Lisp.
Scroble gave some insight into why this is the case.

MS is a bunch of different businesses (Windows, Office, etc). all operating at arms length (more or less). With that sort of structure, there's no room for revolutionary products, just incremental improvements on the existing business lines.

OK, there's great research being done on the monopoly products. Monopolies always do great research. But the company is not going to throw its weight behind new product lines.

IIRC, Apple is a lot more mobile, internally. It's nowhere near as polished as Microsoft (yeah, OSX looks better, but that's just a matter of aesthetic taste - something Apple has and MS doesn't), but it's much better at wild innovation.
I don't like that title.

Had me thinking Firefox was preparing to shrivel down under Chrome. I became really, really sad for a minute.

For the last few months I've used Chrome because of it's speed and elegant interface. But I really prefer Mozilla and it's open source approach.

While Google isn't that bad, I feel like I'm doing the evil thing for personal satisfaction. Like I'm slowly entering the dark side.
That is what they're threatening:

>If our demands are not met, we will move our applications to alternative marketplaces or the web, cease Android development in favor of other more open platforms, we will dissuade other developers from developing Android projects, and we will work tirelessly to counter any of Google's hypocritical claims about Openness in the media.
Cookie blocked/not saved in IFRAME in Internet Explorer
> But every implementation does it differently.

So don't use every implementation. Pick one.

>Read the standard on pathnames. Versioned filesystems are a blast from the past.

I have, what is your point?
Most languages use string concatenation for file-system access.
How is CL a step backwards from that?

>It doesn't, I never said it did.
It was an allusion to a fairly well known post entitled 'why common lisp sucks', which is basically what Dr. Taver is describing.
Now the question of distros remains. What will ubuntu do? Since they want a distribution that is frozen in time, will they allow updates at all, or create ubuntu-volatile repos, or ...?

Also, what will happen with addons? How can developers track API changes and provide updates in time?
As much as I think Reich is right about this, it's politics, flagged...
IIRC Chicken uses a really big stack to avoid to many trampoline functions. This sort of implmentation: http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html

It's been a long time since i've looked at it though.
Actually, reading the thread on the Android subreddit one of the affected developers said he filed complaints over a week ago with no reponse nor action taken. That is until it reached the (Android sub?)reddit-frontpage.

Google doesn't really do as much customer-service as it does PR-management, and that seems to be the way Google usually handles these things. Very few problems are addressed before they turn into high-profile cases of bad publicity. And really: That is pretty bad.

Let's not let Google-fanboyism blind us from the facts: Google is one of the worst companies on the planet when it comes to customer-service.
Why 32% and not 30%? Is there an extra fee I'm not seeing? I have one paid app in the Market (9 sales so far!), and I'm pretty sure I got exactly 70% of the sales.
I don't know that I'd assume there's nothing more middle class _in China_ than skiing.
Why Windows Embedded Compact 7 should be Microsoft’s anti-iPad strategy
TELL HN: Post your ideas
I have a lot of ideas, some of which are validated, some aren't. But a lot of them represent a good opportunity in my opinion.

Post your idea which you'd like built but dont have time.
Anyone know a shortcut to get Amazon to respond an instance limit increase? We were assigned a "sales guy" but he has gone awol, and his voice mailbox is full. Filling out the form on their website does nothing. We have been trying for weeks.
I'm still writing command-line applications (compilers), but they don't even do menus, everything comes from the command line or from files input.

But I don't think the server-side of the web is much different. Web servers are not a lot more than a function of the input stream to the output stream - compilers are much the same. A lot of fun can be had if you're in the deep end of the server side, writing framework functionality.
Funny how the rich oil sheiks are doing that too with gold and silver but not to hide it!
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- Design editor on teh go. You upload ur PSD, and u can edit the psd with ur team like select a portion of the image, insert text and save.

- WhatWill5DollarsGetMe.com - A very simple(without login) way for people to submit what $5 will get them around the globe.

- Groupon but for deals which will make a loved one remember you / relationship building tool. Like Manpacks or

- Replica of MacHeist, using their previous deals. FOr instance, what was for them in December you do in January or February, etc.

- A better google analytics tool which focuses on sales and SaaS websites

- Something to do with all the emails at http://www.skymem.com/

- business dashboard

- awebder.com competitor …. see use of it here: http://mixergy.com/dane-maxwell-zannee-interview/ at 25:00 minute

- turbotax alternative for small businesses / entrepreneurs / consumers

- replica of salesforce chatter(BIG market, proven idea, easy to build)

- dropbox alternative which syncs in your Gdocs account. Price: one time/monthly

- dont make me think bulletpoints on the left and ur website on the right. u enter ur website and boom, u get a UX checklist to see if ur website needs to be worked on.

- $5/month repo of PSDS from designers. Sorta like WooThemes

- rails bootcamp seminar; learn rails in 7days at $299. <-- Might be working on this soon

- cloud email parser(forward an entire email conversation and it returns threads and removes the signature).
you can also find lots of free lecture videos with free access. http://www.freelecturevideos.com is one of those sites I have run into that features lectures of all kinds.
It's either "Google won't talk to us :/" or "Something fishy with the server :(" for every search I tried.
>"While the iPad is selling like multi-touch hotcakes, Microsoft is significantly lagging behind with its tablet offerings"

There is a category mistake underlying the article. Microsoft does not sell tablets. Furthermore, their operating systems have dominated the tablet segment for more than a decade and been the OS of choice for leading tablet manufacturer's such as Fujitsu for nearly 20 years.[http://www.fpc.fujitsu.com/www/content/products/Tablet-PCS/H...]

The iPad is successful mainly because of Apple's ability to market it to consumers rather than the businesses which have traditionally used tablets and are always the centerline of Microsoft's roadmap. But the tablet market did not spring into being last April - NASA put tablets running Windows 95 in orbit aboard the Space Shuttle in 1997. [http://www.fpc.fujitsu.com/www/content/products/Tablet-PCS/H...]
Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

Wow, prior art for what 37signals has been crowing for the last year or so.
> The use of anthropomorphic terminology when dealing with computing systems is a symptom of professional immaturity.

He makes it sound as if this was a bad thing.See http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/anthropomorphization.html
The biggest take away here is the iterative process they went through each day to get to where they are today. Imagine if I showed you the old 2000 homepage and today and said in 11 years they were going to have had a board seat on the fastest growing company ever, be making millions, and be the darling of every bootstrapped in the world.

The point start today and in eleven years you'll be some where.
From http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php, 87% of users are on Firefox 3.6 or newer, 95% 3.5 or newer and 99% on FF3 or newer. As fragmentation goes, that's not half bad.

For reference (according to that page), here are the numbers for each browser & version listed (as a percentage of that browser's share), along with the stable release date (from Wikipedia) for that version:

IE8: 65.3% - 3/19/09

IE7: 24.9% - 10/18/06

IE6: 9.8% - 8/27/01

FF4: 2.3% - x/x/11

FF3.6: 85.3% - 1/21/10

FF3.5: 8.2% - 6/30/09

FF3: 4.2% - 6/17/08

Safari 5: 84.2% - 6/17/10

Safari 4: 15.8% - 6/8/09

Chrome 8: 100.0% - 12/2/10
You also have to tear the connection down with 2 more round trips. Connections not being closed by the client are a drain on the server.
I personally like like interface. It may be a bit cluttered, as some suggested. But "no focus"? Really?

One thing that is quite confusing from the given pictures are the given descriptions. I kind of get that I could make notes of those products, but the specific examples you gave are really poor. It's hard to tell what's default text and what the user has inputed. (For the first and third screenshot)

1st shot: It took me quite a while to realize that the big text in green is inputed by the user, and the stuff in the grey is the location (I thought that was the note!). I'd suggest first changing the name "Dress I need" to something like "Remember to purchase", "Dress I need" threw me off. For location, write "Place: _____"

While these may not be needed for the user, they would make that first screenshot much more obvious.
Works well and snappy. I like the tiled presentation

Entered my neighborhood and actually got a bunch of instagrams of locations within walking distance of my office.