skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the very top in the header of your blog you have an about button, but I didn't click it, I clicked the close tab because you didn't say what in the world Convore does. That is fine if you come from some other page or hit the blog every day, but when coming from a news site you get deep linked to some random blog entry it isn't clear.
Are you looking to learn new skills or to make money? Learning something new is not going to bring you $50 / day now, but on the long run yes it could turn down to $500 / day or more.
With that said I would suggest looking into the mobile industry iPhone and Android for now (the other mobile OS are not worth the time and effort, the manufacturers will create a true OS pretty much soon - if they wake up from they're dream " We have a mobile OS").

A lot of the content on the web today is getting much attention from smartphones, so there is a ton of potential out there.

Hope this helps
> I'm not saying there are 2 transmiting frequencies.

200 years ago, people might have believed you. Then Fourier showed that your statements contradict each other. He said a lot of other interesting things - Bracewell's book is a good introduction.
> it is not like now you no longer have access
> to the development tools

XCode 3 may still work now, but what does the future hold? Will it get updates? Or will it slowly become obsolete?

If it just slowly dies, then this is a very shrewd move by Apple because the pain (i.e. "I have to pay to get any dev tools") comes some time in the future and the people can dismiss the nay-sayers right now with, "but you can still get X Code 3 for free!" If Apple were to immediately pull XCode 3, and all access to dev tools was pay-only, then it would be a lot easier for more people to side with the people decrying this move.
In my time looking at them IE9 JS engine seems on par with FF4 and Chrome. It's IE9's HTML5/CSS3 support that is behind the other two.
I would genuinely be interested in seeing examples of significant harm from web analytics or behaviorally-targeted advertising. Right now the most common (and frequently made) argument against FTC regulation of these fields is that no one has been able to bring forward an individual that's actually suffered harm, so your comment about "far too many people wind up suffering significant harm in one form or another" makes me cock an eyebrow.

'Mainstream advertising campaigns' for larger publishers are absolutely and completely reliant on third-party tracking and targeting - for frequency capping, serving verification, and demographic targeting. If these tools go away, the branded ad spend stays on television.

The New York Times is the most obvious example of a publisher (and journalism the most obvious sector) that'd be negatively impacted by Do Not Track. They're making significant revenue from their online business right now, but they also have very significant expenses. It costs money to run a news organization capable of international reporting and investigative journalism. 'Minor websites' are not the issue here - it's the major websites that are concerned.

I'm calling it a night, but I'll wrap up with a couple of quotes from the Online Publishers Association (which includes the NYT and every other major American news organizations) comment on the FTC's "Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of Rapid Change" preliminary report:

Online publishers should have the right to offer their content and services on any lawful terms that are explicitly communicated to consumers and withhold access from those who do not agree to such terms. To require otherwise would burden publishers’ First Amendment speech with free riders who enjoy the benefits of access to valuable content without
providing fair value in exchange.

[D]efault rules that prevent fair value exchanges of digital content for user data could harm consumer welfare by reducing incentives for some publishers to invest in the production of content and/or creating incentives for publishers to charge or charge more for content that they would otherwise make available for free or at a lower cost.
I would definitely start working on the idea and come up with a prototype.
And? Someone asked why the DNS wasn't caching and I explained.
You're right. Xcode 3 doesn't update automatically.
"VUPEN won a $15,000 cash prize and an Apple MacBook Air 13″ running Mac OS X Snow Leopard" ... and Calcuator.app, whether he wanted running it or not.
> A beginner who is neither sure nor convinced that programming is a good thing to pursue is unlikely to spend even a footlong's worth of money on it, and we've lost yet more potential future engineers.

Sure. And Xcode would probably scare them off anyways, because it's decidedly not set up to be friendly to beginners. This is a non-issue. Beginning programmers on the Mac should under no circumstances go grab Xcode unless they want to feel utterly bewildered.

The $5 charge is utterly beside the point, here. One wonders how you imagine anyone ever gets into a hobby with more than a $5 barrier to entry.

> Also, the fact that Apple has poured a significant investment into building these tools says nothing - they've been pouring a significant investment into their dev tools for years and offered it for free.

They seem to have drastically increased the amount of effort they're putting into it, probably because of the increased iOS dev audience. That extra effort probably justifies the minor $5 price increase.

> Their competitors have also poured enormous sums into dev tools that are available for free.

Which competitors would those be? Microsoft isn't giving their professional tools away for free, just a drastically cut down starter edition. Sun plowed a ton of cash into NetBeans, but following their financial lead seems ill-advised.
Go to the conclusion, then go to the last paragraph of the conclusion.
More interestingly: reddit doesn't minify their CSS. Easy 2kb savings, even with gzipping (I used YUI to minify):

78K reddit.css
68K reddit.min.css
16K reddit.css.gz
14K reddit.min.css.gz
That may have been true back in ... oh ... 2003.

At that time if you read articles about people going to Java conferences(1), they kept remarking about how many people were using Powerbooks. Apple also had this really small Powerbook ... 11 inches?

Anyway, Apple also had the most modern Java installed by default. Linux was still involved in a persisting match with Sun about whose freedom was the freest (probably just Stallman, but nobody wants to get in his way), so Java was hard to find and would get you ostracised. IBM had their own bizarre mutant version that ran on their boxen. Microsoft was still not returning Sun's calls after the big court battle over visitation rights, and the version of Java you'd get on any new PC was essentially random in the range of 1..N-1, where N = most recent Java.

So, if you wanted to do Java development, Apple was the coolest.

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But here's the thing. Apple fans may mock Balmer(2) jumping around on stage like an Orangutan screaming 4.('developers!') but Apple doesn't grok developers the way Microsoft does, and probably never will.

Apple is just a hair's breadth away from actually disliking developers. There's times when I feel like if they could they'd lock third party devs out and never even shed a tear over it. There's times when they throw us a bone, but those are few and far between. And fairly often they'll just take the bone back.

Example: their language support is spotty. They gave up on Java, they supported and then gave up on various trendy languages and their respective Cocoa bridges.

Apple may grok consumers (though I'd argue that) but they sure as heck don't get devs.

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(1) lots of things were cooler back in 2003... nowdays.... not so much.

(2) There were plenty of Microsoft fans doing exactly the same mocking of Balmer, so don't interpret this as an 'us vs them' thing
Yes, we at Room 77 have been thinking of doing some street team outreach at various events and conferences where we can show people their hotel room before they check-in and wow them on the spot. I think if you just randomly go out to a mall or downtown with t-shirts and stickers, most people will take it but have no intention on checking it out (who doesn't love free stuff right?). Know your audience.
Adobe sucks.
Yep. Required a few hotfixes.
Jump in and do it. What's the worst that could happen?
Just because there's speculation doesn't make it a bubble. Look at oil prices. They've been supremely inflated by commodities and futures traders, but they'll remain inflated as long as there's sufficient trading volume to keep them up. If they ever deflate, it's not like it will bankrupt the oil industry.

A tech bubble is only a problem if its bursting would destroy sufficient wealth so as to impact the viability of future innovation. Taking facebook as the canonical example, popping that bubble is only a problem if a lot of the wrong people lose their money. GS losing their money doesn't really hurt anybody but GS and their clients. FB's VCs have all gotten their money back by now, so they're fine.

In order for the bubble that everyone here fears (startups) to burst, you would have to have the widescale destruction of wealth through the failure of many highly-priced startups. It would have to remove enough investors from the market to make money "sticky", that is, to the point where it stops flowing. If you look at the silly valuations out there, Facebook isn't going anywhere and isn't losing money, so they've got time to figure things out. Groupon makes disgusting amounts of money. Twitter... well, they're dispensible and their valuation isn't too ridiculous.

Even the "service not business" startups aren't taking much money out of the ecosystem. We might be in for an adjustment, but it shouldn't get to the point where good startups have trouble finding money.
Whoever it was that fixed the XSS (necro?), I'm impressed how fast that was.

But please don't rely on just escaping < and >. You have to worry about double-quotes too, I can end a string and add a "onload" or "onfocus" attribute if it's already in a tag. And sometimes you have to worry about single quotes. In fact, there's a lot to take a look at.

Instead of just fixing the case at hand, try to be proactive about it. Check to make sure you don't have anything else.

Edit: Click the search box, for example.
http://www.pinkbike.com/forum/search/?q=%22%20onclick=%22ale...
I'm reminded of one of my favourite pieces of "music", the Symphony For Dot Matrix Printers. Basically, a couple Canadians acquired a crop of old printers, wired them up to some equally old computers, and figured out how to feed them all sorts of interesting printing instructions. Listening very carefully to the resulting sounds, they figured out how exactly to place microphones to capture all the fascinating sonic nuances, organizing the printers and their noises into various instrumental roles. They composed a surprisingly musical work for the printers to play, as though they were an orchestra, which was performed live and recorded. The recording is rather difficult to track down, but is quite a treat for enthusiasts of real "computer music".

They sound like printers. But they sound like printers, re-imagined by people who hear music in everything.

For anyone interested, here is their very, very old website: http://www.theuser.org/dotmatrix/en/intro.html

There was a symphony #2, but the first is the better of the two in my opinion.
Why guys like Carmack, Bucheit, and Spolsky ignore industry thought leader
I'm not trying to give a "thesis", but I think it's interesting to compare the two. I realize there is much more to reddit, but 86 times more? And both sites pride themselves on a primarily functional design, but HN accomplishes this (better, in my opinion) in 41 lines of css. Remarkable.
For those of you wondering why they called it MacBOOK ;)
This reminds me of something I was pondering today. As we know, talent drain can be a big problem for technology companies. The programmers in the original team leave, after the IPO maybe, and eventually things just aint what they were. How to solve this?

Well, in general terms, give the programmers a long-term investment in the company. But that happens already, right? Stay-on bonuses in the form of stock in the company. People still leave. What about a rather different type of investment...

How about, you get the person who's leaving to recruit their replacement, and then you give the leaver some sort of derivitive based on the replacement's performance (or the company's performance thereafter). They'll be motivated to find someone who can genuinely do the job, and to coach them.

I got the idea thinking about soccer contracts. Sometimes clubs put in a 'sell-on' clause so the NEXT time the player moves, the original club gets a slice of the transfer fee. Just different ways of handling transfers and contracts basically. Imagine a transfer market for developers.
I was not going to read the article but I decided to read after I saw this comment.

I read entire article to understand understood that the comment was sarcasm.
In my opinion working on your own project is by far the quickest way up the programming learning curve (with the possible exception of convincing somebody brilliant to work on it alongside you).

Do it. Build a prototype.
Many other people are also suggesting, and I would agree with them that come OS X Lion time Xcode will once again be shipped on the media that the OS comes on.

I don't know what the future holds, I don't work at Apple, and if I did I am pretty sure I wouldn't be allowed to tell you.

Sure we can speculate at this point, honestly I think that Xcode 3 has run its course and that Xcode 4 is the future.

Xcode 4 being priced the way it is may be for tax reasons, Xcode 4 may be shipped with OS X Lion, Xcode 4 may later on be offered as a $50 package on the Mac App Store. We don't know. For now I hope, and tend to agree with people that Xcode 4 will be bundled with OS X Lion and at that point will be free once more.
But, did you look at any of the wiki pages?

Yes.

I think all of your questions are answered

No.

I think you largely missed the point of rubber.

Could be. My perception is that it wants to be a turnkey solution for people with little admin knowledge. But it is nowhere near that, in its current shape and form.

At the core of it [...]

Sure. It surely does some useful things. But none of that is nearly adequately documented. For example, what exactly does the command I cited do? I couldn't see it in the wiki. What if I want postgres instead of mysql? What about backups? How do I upgrade system packages later? Where is the /etc/hosts magic documented that the blog-post mentioned (which is a pretty bad idea btw)? What kind of network topology will my instances have, what are the security groups? How do I manage EBS volumes? What if I need a redis, memcached, or other components? What AMI will my instances be running? What about loadbalancing, failover? What about cronjobs, e-mail, all the systems stuff? ...

I could go on for a while. Maybe I just didn't see the wiki-page where all this is explained. And I'm sure much of it can be "discovered" just by trying out and guessing.

However, Heroku exists, is free, well tested and well documented.
As such it's the better blackbox to choose for someone who doesn't yet know what he's doing.

For people who know what they're doing there's fog, puppet and chef.
So what does this offer that my built-in client for YouTube doesn't offer?
Even though you can't uninstall it, you can disable the extension on a per-user basis. Firefox looks in both per-user and system-wide locations to find installed addons. Only per-user addons can be removed by the user, in the addons dialog. System-wide extensions can be disabled per-user, but not uninstalled (disabling is almost the same thing). To uninstall a system-wide extension, hopfully the publisher has an unistall script, but worst-case, you can just delete the extension folder from the system-wide location. e.g. C:\Users\All Users\Mozilla\something on Windows.
Wow...I must say...as someone that abandoned FF for Chrome, FF4 feels SOOO much faster and cleaner than 3.6.

Will definitely continue testing it out.
I've tried to keep track of everything here. If you're on the bus, I'd love for you to contribute to what I'm collecting. Just sign in, select the item you want to add to and hit enter. Start typing.

http://www.mindwallet.com/?ItemKey=787541c7-0860-41ea-a21a-2...
I'm not surprised, this is what the third year in a row now? I hope Apple pays attention to the things Google is doing with Chrome. If I'm not mistaken, Lion will be shipping with WebKit2 and sand-boxing.

I've tried Chrome, but I just always go back strangely to Safari it just feels right at home.
Looks like the site's overloaded. Anyone have a link to a cached copy of the post?
Finish your app.

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When you're sipping on Pina Coladas at your mansion in the Bahamas, then you can change your toolchain. :D
You mean like AngelList?
AOL Will Lay Off Several Hundred Employees, Starting Tomorrow
i wouldnt argue against this point or any of the others in response. i was more musing out loud about how an hour just doesn't seem that fast to me anymore whereas a few years ago, it would have.
I'd counter that Reddit has grown over time, has a much wider readership, and probably cares about off-the-wall browsers and configurations more than Hacker News does. Reddit also looks pretty good on my iPhone, and HN does not.

What I don't get is HN's fascination with comparisons to Reddit, and your post is going to suffer from that.
Hmm... just map everything to 404. Genius! Why didn't I think of that?! :D
We're thoroughly disappointed that this experience with Yammer and our exit process didn't work out. The reality is that, up until this point, we hadn't gotten too many requests to batch delete all the data within a company network. As you all know, like in any quickly-growing startup, we need to prioritize what we build. We've always focused on the most requested features. That being said, we really have learned from this experience. We're considering ways in which we can communicate user and message deletion better to our users.

Of course, we've considered this issue in the past. There's also a business reason we haven't focused on building one-click network delete: we want to protect our customer companies from irreversible damage that can be caused by deleting an entire network. Each free user can delete only their own content, since only they own their content. You can still deactivate another user, for whatever reason, but if that user has an active email account, they can reactivate. As a premium user, which gives you admin controls, you are able to delete entire user accounts with all underlying posts.

We can do a better job of communicating the process of deletion and deactivation and the role that account type plays in the process. However, currently, we aren't able to offer the one-step network delete. Please rest assured that we take data security very seriously, regardless of the type of account you have.

I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts on this.

- A Yammer Engineer.
Blekko Bans 1.1 Million Spammy Domains Via New Algorithm
No one is.
Looks like they didn't pay enough attention to that article from yesterday about server load from Delicious going tits up.
Are there really that many compelling additions to gcc since then? This is a serious question, not a rhetorical one.
A million upvotes for this.
I'm an airline pilot. Actually, the maximum duty day is 16 hours. The maximum time that may be spent behind the controls is 8 hours. The minimum length overnight is also 8 hours from leaving the airport to showing up again curbside. This means that transportation, food, and hygiene reduces time in the bed to about 6.5 hours, after which it is legal to work a 16 hour day.

We are expecting new duty regulations later this year in response to scientific data on fatigue and the crash of Colgan 3407. Currently the data shows that on a four-day trip we are equivalently drunk with fatigue by the afternoon of day three even with around eight hours of sleep. Most people really need about nine.

Personally, I've never intentionally flown fatigued but I have been surprised by it. By the time I notice I'm fatigued the heading indicator looks like alphanumeric soup and I cannot differentiate 030 from 300 from 330 without the utmost concentration. I tell myself to "THINK, DAMN IT", but that is futile. It is something that cannot be overcome.

Having this experience, there is no way I'd want medical attention from fatigued doctors. Sleep is important for any safety sensitive job. It's always better to error on the side of safety.
I believe the tethering hotspot is only available on the iPhone 4. (ie, not even on the 3GS even though that is a supported model)
You can also ask for double of anything other than the meat for free-including tortillas. Added to this hack gives you a double-sized burrito!
I'd make a lengthy comment, but the value of the time spent might exceed all the money I would ever give Apple for xcode.
I'm guessing that it's the famous kickstart it gave to Twitter that has started this trend.
I'm in academia too and if XCode 4 doesn't come with Lion, I would gladly pay from my pocket for it. Imagine that I would put the bureaucracy machine of a university or institute for 5 bucks is ludicrous. Our salaries are lower but we are not below the poverty line.
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Chickens are capable of feeling empathy, scientists believe
That monkey is just nuts.
VeriFone's Hypocrisy
Isn't the surprise rather that it is not the guy who knocked it over straight away three years running?

This is really embarrassing for OS X fans.
Nice writeup. Engaging writing and good idea, ordering it all at once on a story that has otherwise been beat to death. As an aside, I'm surprised at how many of my college friends don't know about the secret menu despite growing up on In-n-Out.
Xcode 4 on the Mac App Store (with a price tag)
I dual boot Ubuntu/OSX 10.5 on my macbook pro,
I once tried to switch from Ubuntu to OS X 10.5 for Ruby development.

First I found out Homebrew and macports needed Xcode. I downloaded the 3GB+ monster that is Xcode. Ran the installer, only to find out my OS is outdated. I need to upgrade to 10.6 which costs $30. Checked online to find links to older Xcode versions but the only link available was the most recent Xcode version which doesn't work on 10.5.

And I'm not even a Mac developer, I'm just trying to install Ruby. I tried to install Xcode from my OS X CD, but I really couldn't find it. I installed the utilities pack and it turns out Xcode wasn't there. I got fed up with Apple and switched back to Ubuntu.

I honestly think Apple is driving hackers away from their platform. I don't like the idea of paying for something I don't need. My OSX 10.5 works great, I don't need to upgrade. Why won't Apple put a download link to older Xcode versions and let the OSX upgrade and Xcode 4 sell on their own merits.

I know the link to Xcode 3.2 is still up but it doesn't work on OSX 10.5
"The valuations are high, and they'll probably fall in the future" implies (by the way I construe it) "considerably at variance from intrinsic values."

At least for Angel rounds and series A, IMHO the valuations are finally where they should be. I agree that they will probably go down, but not because they are intrinsically overvalued; rather, I think the investors will eventually just come up with new ways to tip the balance of power back toward themselves.

There definitely are a bunch of intrinsically overvalued startups that are raising a few hundred thousand bucks in angel rounds, but I suspect that we'll just see a gradual return toward using metrics when investing rather than some huge collapse.
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