skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, searching the history in the address bar works a lot better in Firefox -- probably has something to do with the way Chrome encourages you to use Google. And speaking of History -- Chrome still doesn't let you search and delete items in the search results page. What's up with that?

This is my biggest complaint about Chrome and am very happy to see Firefox 4 being released and still kicking ass in that department. The Firefox address bar almost makes bookmarks obsolete.
Your argument applies in the case where you do not distribute the GPL'd library - as zerohp points out, opinions differ on this case, and it hinges on whether your compiled program would be considered a "derivative work".

However, if you distribute the GPL'd library, then it's a lot more clear-cut. "Derivative work" doesn't enter into it anymore - to distribute the GPL'd library itself you must have a license to do so. If the license you're relying on there is the GPL, you must abide by its terms, including those about linking.
I highly doubt they can get near the top 10. They'd first have to battle their way past the heavy weight technology companies, then the banking giants, then Wal-Mart and finally the the ridiculously lucrative oil companies (source: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2010/perfor...).

They have to figure out how to monetize a lot more $ per user to be very profitable in the long term.
You submitted the wrong link. The article has nothing to do with The New York Times.

All the same, Twitter will circumvent the NYTimes paywall. I wrote a blog post about that, which you may submit to HN.

http://natanyellin.com/2011/03/22/prediction-new-york-times-...
The noncommercial nature of wikipedia at least makes it somewhat more trustworthy than other sites with likely commercial motives.
I don't see a single thing in that article related to the NYTimes paywall.
You might say the say thing about many other content farms. That's their whole purpose: to appear good enough for people who are not very familiar with the topic. Google specifically said that the goal of their update was to penalize "low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites" (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/finding-more-high-qua...). As I said, Wikipedia did exactly this. Thousands of times for just this one site. Providing links on the bottom to where they copied their content from is not a high-value add. This update punished my high quality site and helped Wikipedia.
Meetup.com User Lifecycle
Great idea! It would have been realy useful to me when I lived in China - and hopefully, will be useful to me once I go back there.
Google scores a patent for its 'Doodles' -- Engadget
Anyone know what the group pricing is?
If you are going to buy his book, use the code "SPRINGREAD".
I can't tell if this is pure truth or lolz.
Wikipedia has very decentralized interests unlike single-owner websites. Google can entrust it because things like link solicitation are hard to keep in Wikipedia articles because of its open-source nature.
The big issue here is that if you don't get other people to link to your stuff then Google has little way to distinguish quality vs non-quality, source vs copy, lower quality rewrite, etc.

While many people find push marketing tasteless and annoying (and perhaps a signal of poor product quality), the truth is that most successful sites have relied on the person launching them already having some combination of status + influence + distribution + connections, or they used push marketing for a while to build that following and awareness.

The easiest SEO answer to obscurity or lack of awareness (assuming the on-page SEO & site structure are solid) is to think territorially & dominate a niche where you can own the idea. This is a great article on that front.
http://www.copyblogger.com/how-to-dominate-your-niche/
Re-writing is cheaper than refactoring legacy code
Could it be true? can re-writing infact be a cheaper option than refactoring.
Agree, I am fortunate enough to be a part of the Mastermind group. It's awesome.

Especially for those who are not located in startup hotbeds.
I wish there was a flag like flagging, but instead of "flag" it would say "Does Not Understand The Word Irony". Actually, I'd settle for just a "Wrong" badge.

I'd probably Wrong your post, then UnWrong it so I could Wrong it again.
https://keyerror.com/ <- Clickable link
When you can measure efficiency improvements like this in millions of dollars, I'm sure this makes a whole hell of a lot of sense. But for anyone below, say, Twitter's scale: is this ever an engineering win over zlib?
Why would you trust the "SRWare Iron team", whoever they are, at all?

And why would you trust them more than you would trust Google?
Where Do Bad Moods Come From?
I don't think the argument is whether or not the product is worth 10$, but whether or not people will think it's worth it, and pay. I don't think 14 days is enough time for a product like this to become indispensable to me, and for 120$/year it needs to be.

120$ buys a lot of egg salad sandwiches.
Fukushima-type nuke reactors in the USA (map)
Kung Fu == Bad Business?
Please see my post describing some aspects of the situation that the martial arts industry faces. In it I pose the following questions:

What are some business models outside of the martial arts world that have successfully overcome similar difficulties?

Is martial arts (in the sense of preserving actual effective hand-combat skills) ultimately doomed to the realm of academics if a business model cannot be found that better matches the daily needs of modern society?
I didn't run as far as you think I did: "you've never heard even one of them express exasperation or jesting concern over men in general over the course of years". As for And from "not once do I remember anyone joking about men not being too smart" to "no women ever make any negative comments about men whatsoever"?, you're putting words in my mouth. I never said that.

How do you go from a few hundred casual drinking buddies over the years to blind-drunk nightly excursions
That was one of three options in my "Either" list, jokingly picking up on your "I don't remember" comment.

When you're complaining of other people taking you out of context, it behooves you to take them in context.

The "no woman, never" thing was referring to you saying that in your vast experience of socialising with women, you do not recall a single incidence of -foo-. In casual talk, that's making the point "no, never".
As far as I'm aware, hacker had a positive meaning before some people started using it negatively, while hustler seems to have mainly been used negatively before some people starting using it positively.
How does one join the Skype based mastermind group? Sounds intriguing.
It seems like this is basically just a way of the author saying "I can't be bothered to be accountable for my work or work in teams. If you make me test my code or talk about it I will curse at you and quit."

I wouldn't want to work with someone who believed in this philosophy.
The shop's margin would have to be 50% on the discounted price, or assuming the common case where the Groupon is half-off, 75% on the supposed 'original price'.

I think most shops expect to make it up on either people spending more than the Groupon on the one visit, or followup visits... so being negative on the coupon itself isn't necessarily a deal-breaker.
Your distinction appeals to physicality, to a "real world". The author comes from a purer mathematical perspective, where it does not matter whether the code runs on silicon, is emulated by another machine, or is evaluated by humans on a blackboard.

Parallelism is purely an efficiency issue; the result of a computation does not change if run sequentially or in parallel. In other words, it only affects the cost model, not the semantics.

Concurrency means adopting some non-determinism in the semantics, either for necessity (e.g. in concurrent servers) or as a program structuring mechanism. In your example, if we are concerned with the semantics of the simulator, then there is no parallelism OTOH, if we are concerned with the semantics of the simulated code, then it's likely that we would use concurrency in it's definition (even if we "really know" that there is no underlying physical nondeterminism).
Yes, all of that is true.
Boeing's biggest jet takes flight, promises lowest 'seat mile' cost...
It gets the job done! <center> is deprecated (or not supported at all) in HTML5 but I'm sure it'll be at least a decade before we have to worry about that.
Specification Comparison:  Galaxy Tab 8.9 vs Galaxy Tab 10.1, iPad 2, iPad 1
It is, when considering the value proposition over e.g. RTM is the collaboration. $99 isn't terrible but by itself it's really got nothing over the multitude of other GTD options. To use it to collaborate, for just me and the wife, it'd be $198/year, if I understand the pricing correctly.

I'd certainly pay the $99 for a family licence which could be, say, 2 install-everywhere keys plus one just for desktop (for the kids).
I think HN just finished turning into Reddit before my very eyes.
This has been disproven many times. People with commercial and political and other motives can write Wikipedia's content, which can be much more damaging than clearly marked ads.

Also, since Wikipedia copied, regurgitated, and sometimes introduced errors in content from a commercial site (which you don't consider trustworthy), it is obviously not any more trustworthy.
Motherfucker, you haven't heard of <DIV ALIGN="CENTER">? THAT IS PROGRAMMING, MOTHERFUCKER!
It's just the traditional resistance of old business models to adapt to a new climate.
Why is it inevitable? They already run an ad network and their revenue's are nowhere near, for example, Google's. How else can they monetize this data?
What They're Covering Up at Fukushima
Sure you can. Control-H or Menu->History

No you CANNOT.

Mozilla is basically funded by Google affiliate
payments

That doesn't say much or anything at all. Mozilla wasn't founded by Google and could always find other sources of revenue.

Also, Mozilla isn't a public company with shareholders, it's also not a company masked as a non-profit to evade taxes, which means Mozilla's interest isn't profit, just survival. It's a totally different ball game.

EDIT: also about Jetpack, Chrome-like plugins have been available for Firefox for quite some time, you just need to install a plugin -- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/
Also, the book licence is very permissive.

"This book is Copyright (C) 2010 by Zed A. Shaw. You are free to distribute this book to anyone you want, so long as you do not charge anything for it, and it is not altered. You must give away the book in its entirety, or not at all."

As such, if you can't afford to buy yourself a copy with the above coupon code, send me an email at (gregorylyons@gmail.com) and I will send you a copy.
Perhaps a more pertinent question: Is it any better than LZJB or LZO?
It is GNU/Linux thank you.
Addons manager looks nice and useful compared to previous one but still I know many people who would prefer to use package managers for managing addons
I liked the piece, it made me smile. Also, I don't think it's inappropriate for HN -- why, we need things like that now and then.

But the fact that this link has 700 upvotes and so many comments makes me cringe. All those talks about HN quality getting worse -- I was never sure if I agree. I am now.
Soon, somebody will convert the build system to CMake, move it to github, clean up the insulting directory structure, then nobody will look at their google code page ever again.
In my experience, hustlers (the 'naughty' kind) are good for making everyone think you're making real progress while your company is actually going sideways. We had a couple hustler-types who spent a lot of time blowing smoke simultaneously up engineering, BD and customer's asses.

It was only after they were gone that we were able to disentangle an elaborate web of false expectations and outright lies and start making actual progress again. Particularly mischievous was the way that these guys often created constant panics for engineering due to the unrealistic promises that they'd made to customers - they would then regard this as 'good management' (look how hard we're making everyone work).

Bonus points for the fact that these guys were working on their own startup "on their own time" (sort of).
This sounds like an awesome idea. Would love to see how it will be implemented specifically.
google docs + chrome bookmark sync + password generator

screen shot[1], and step-by-step instructions with transition plan [2]

[1] http://cdn.lts.cr/files/0d78b2c391b8a6b52b75/creds.png

[2] http://www.dustingetz.com/password-security-the-free--easy-w...
Choppy network on WiFi? Read up on Bufferbloat:

https://gettys.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/introducing-the-crim...

http://www.bufferbloat.net/
He's definitely hurting both himself and the people he works with, both from the fact that he's not likely to work to improve himself, and from his depression/frustration and the fact that it's manifesting as resentment towards his coworkers. I don't mean to attack him, it's just that in collaborative work that requires skill (read: practice), a bad team member can be worse than having one too few. If it really is what he's best at, then he really needs to start practicing something he actually does enjoy, or find some way to enjoy it enough to practice.
Please file a bug http://code.google.com/p/snappy/issues/entry
I find CD to be very dangerous. Let's say you have a decent idea. After creating the landing page you toy with 300 dollars worth of adwords, facebook ads and other media buys. Lets say you end up with 3000 visits. The problem is that you are not likely to get the right sample with that small amount of visitors. You probably need to go through a multitude of ad variations and segmentations to find the right market.
I am a huge fan of AppHarbor, and already have four websites deployed on their service, and I used them in my last Startup Weekend team. Great service!
Ask HN: What's the best blogging platform for startup companies
We are looking for a blogging platform to announce new features, post updates, code fragments, and anything neato related to our business.

So far looked at: Tumblr and posterous, any others?
"The LZO algorithms and implementations are copyrighted OpenSource distributed under the GNU General Public License."

Does this even make sense? Can you apply the GPL to an algorithm? As I understand it, if there's no patent I should be able to implement it with no problems.
Yeah, I understand the concern. I'm a freelance photographer (have been since 2000) and I prefer to work for cash. However, I do take on projects from time to time in exchange for a % of future income.

I'm currently filming a documentary for a band under such conditions. I believe in their music and their passion and I know there is a market for the DVD once it is a tangible product.

I know it might take some time but, I can find others that believe in my passion and vision to make this highly profitable and successful. I just need to know where such people congregate.

I'm all about building a team. That is for sure. This is my second go at this and I learned a lot before my brain fried out haha. I am not about to make the same mistakes twice.

I do appreciate the suggestion about trading hours for hours. I do enjoy bartering for services/goods with my photography (just did a simple shoot in exchange for a heap of brand new hockey goalie equipment, wee!). I didn't even consider that option for teaming up with a programming team. So, thank you for that.
Well, its not 3:35 anymore! Australia and NZ are definately not listed under asia which would be the logical place. This is very anoying, as I would really like to see how FF4 uptake is going over here.
"19 of the two-minute presentations were deemed 'off the record,' so they’re not included." So about half the start-ups are still in stealth mode.

Also, "one start-up did not present because it already had a Series A term sheet with a 'no-shop' clause.". The two previous YC start-ups that didn't pitch because of a no-shop clause have been airbnb and Heroku.

You can find my as-complete-as-possible list of YC startups from every session over here: http://ycuniverse.com/startups.php
Very well designed. The quality is so well done in fact, that I'm surprised it's not behind a pay wall. This would be perfect for the iPad. I suppose giving us a 14-day play time should help convert.. but If I were MetaLab, i'd charge from day one.

Treat it like an iPhone app. plenty of folks waiting to click Install. Not only that, people tend to make time for the apps they pay vs. free apps. Get them to commit from day one. I think this is critical!

Regardless, Congrats! +1 for the Canada :D
There is no "new law" nor even a proposed bill. There's a suggestion in a whitepaper from law enforcement that they would benefit from expanded powers and new laws. This should not be too surprising. Specifically they request "Congress clarify that infringement by streaming, or by means of other similar new technology, is a felony in appropriate circumstances." The issue is that currently not everyone agrees whether streaming content you don't own counts as unauthorized distribution or an unauthorized performance or something else.

And, uh, they kinda buried the lede on this one:

"As for his writings with regard to TorrentFreak, the recommendations put forward by the White House do of course have no impact on sites that discuss P2P technology. And no, streaming and P2P services that distribute licensed content will not disappear either. It’s just the rambling of a pitiful person who just hit the narcissist jackpot with this article. Congrats!"

Guess that's one way to write a sensationalistic headline and then escape blame for being totally bogus.
People act like CMake is an improvement, but it's not. The language is not very good (lists as semicolon-separated strings, seriously?). For example: its pkg-config support is completely broken. It takes the output of pkg-config, parses it into a list (liberally sprinkling semicolons where the spaces should be) and then the semicolons make it into the compiler command line, causing all manner of cryptic errors.

Stick with automake. Seriously.
One of the most profitable, perhaps...but I predict that if Dropbox stays independent - it will easily become the most profitable.
App Review: orchestra: a php deployment platform as a service
Source document: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/ip_white_paper...
In the tech industry, maybe, but in the world?
They've barely scratched the surface. And it's not just an ad network...

- virtual currency
- daily deals
- search integrated directly into the experience

and that's just off the top of my head
I'm making a website that uses HN algorithm with downvotes. What do you think?
An 80 character title didn't leave much room for explanation.

I am working on a website where users can share jokes. It uses a modified version of the HN ranking algorithm that allows downvotes. Do you think the implementation is usable?

Here is how jokes are ranked:

(p-1)/(t+2)^(1.8s - (s-1)0.85)

Where:

p = votes_for - votes_against

t = time since jokes was posted, in hours

s = 1 if p-1 > 0

s = 0 if p-1 = 0

s = -1 if p-1 < 0

Essentially if s = 1, then it works the same way as the HN algorithm, and if s = 0, then the numerator and the final score are also 0.

If s = -1, then the formula changes to:
(p-1)(t+2)^(0.1)

Which looks like this: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%28-1%29%28t%2B2%29^%280.1%29+from+0+to+24

So when p-1 is negative, the score will gradually decrease with time, with the rate of decrease slowing down.

Do you think this is a good approach to downvotes? Also should I be taking the ratio of upvotes to downvotes into account, or just the difference?

I'm also thinking that maybe the rate at which jokes with negative scores loose points should increase with time, instead of decrease. That way a joke which got downvoted right after submission will have a higher chance of being seen by people and upvoted, where as a joke that's been in the negatives for a long time should get buried further down.

The website by the way is www.QuickHaha.com
Right, I understand technical reasons why Wikipedia outranks this site. Google started by being terribly arrogant in thinking that they are smarter than SEOs and their search engine would be so hard to game, that they made the Page Rank values publicly visible. It went downhill for them quickly, necessitating introduction of no-follow, which is why my site gets no benefit at all from any of these Wikipedia links. Wikipedia also benefits from all other content on their site (some of which is admittedly good enough, especially in topics of interest to programmers).
I think that Square is an exceptional business enabled by a novel piece of hardware, their headphone jack card reader.

It would seem - then, that the card reader and payment service could actually be seen as a platform play.

Platforms are technologies that are useful themselves - but enable far reaching, broader use cases in ways, that at times, can be unforeseen.

Square could enable a range of cottage industries by providing other applications built on their solution.

We have the ability for mobile payments, as it were, and thus we should see a need for dead-simple mobile business management apps; inventory, supply chain, vendor management, invoicing, product lists etc.

This leads me to believe that Square is a platform that through its deployment applications can be built upon it that will change the way commerce can happen on the individual level.

Further - it would seem that there is also a great opportunity for sales distribution here as well. A product distributor could reach out to and enable a mobile sales force providing all these applications to their sales force in the field on a single device - as the merchants sell product, it can be tracked in real time and supplies replenished.

This could work very well in connected, yet less-developed countries such as rural Philippines, China and other parts of Asia.

Couple this with prepaid charge cards -- and the ability to LOAD cards in the longer term, and there are some significant opportunities that can be built using square alone.
It's got a better license than LZJB (and maybe LZO depending on your views).
Nobody is saying that that they're not related. They clearly are (although the presence of other UI libraries does not affect any comparison of that relationship at all.

Your examples of delegates, responders, targets etc are concepts - and indeed UIKit and AppKit are both built around the same concepts.

The implementations of both is quite different however, to the point that porting something of complexity from UIKit to AppKit involves a lot of tedious changes - or worse: creation of abstraction layers if the codebase is to be maintained for both apps.
Forces you to provide credit card.

Auto starts at boot.

Purveyors of the worst android app: amazon mp3 store that can't be installed or stopped!
Sidenote: I would hire and pay a very high rate if I was able to. Unfortunately, that illness had me out of work for years and I am just now getting back to the job market. My savings are shot from what my medical insurance didn't cover of my half a million in bills.

I swear I am not someone that looks to take advantage of others or unfairly compensate myself at the expense of another. I believe in the same notion you have about paying for the best of the best and paying what they deserve.

I just simply can not do that at this time so I can only offer what I have and fair ownership of what they put into this.

I hate when people try to take advantage of me as a photographer. Part of why I started this project is to undo that mentality of taking advantage of others and using this project to establish higher rates for all creative people.

Just, one step at a time.
Anyone feels like writing a tiny C client? Looks like this comes only as a lib.
I vote for Posterous. Really easy.