skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am very interested in seeing where this discussion goes. I don't have much to add per-se BUT I do, however, remember seeing this some time ago: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/12/10/how-to-get-g...

Perhaps you will find it a bit helpful.
B of A is gouging you. Are you big enough to shop for another bank? You may want to sit down with a VP of some competing banks, and take proposals, along with checking out some of these other options here.

One issue you face is Patriot Act, anti-terrorism laws. These laws have made it difficult for small / local banks to send international wires out to random people all the time; they need to have a "Know your wiree" type policy in place for everyone they're wiring. In your use case, since you sound like you'll have common developers, this would be an upfront, but not permanent problem. At any rate, I'd start by calling some Branch managers of large regional - national banks, and see who wants your business.
Someone more knowledgable might want to correct me here, but I think JFFS2 arrived a little too early; the performance gains are not enormous and it suffers from too many disadvantages (namely performance with small blocks and apparently determining free space??).

LogFS is yet another file system designed for larger solid state drives (on the order of gigabytes instead of megabytes), and seems to be a step in the right direction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogFS
I feel a major contributor to this might be the fact that IE uses Bing as the default search engine, even if it annoyingly prompts you to change it on initial install. Admittedly, that's not what drives the choices of this corner of the web, but it might affect the web as a whole, where IE is still (by far) the dominant browser.

Of those IE users, there's likely a set of people who don't even know there is something called "Bing" -- they just type into the search field and click on the results when they come up. They might even think they are "googling" their search, and as Bing and Google look essentially the same, they won't notice a difference.
Of course not - that's not necessary, as long as there's at least one CA beholden to the jurisdiction of the Canadian government.
You can email swilliams@pervasent.com -- he can help you with quoting out your idea.

They have a lot of mobile apps under their belt.
That's fine, but I bet in reality even you, holding this perfectly valid viewpoint, wouldn't mind if someone showed you their rate card, and it disclosed this at the bottom, and when questioned the principal said it was due to an 'accounting practice' rather than just rolling in the obviously low delta in price.
I really really want to love pentadactyl, but the interfering with google app shortcuts is a major fall through. I just don't see the huge advantage, when most of my browser tasks already have shortcuts. I do like the /-search, but I already use Firefox's accessibility options to do it. I just don't know.
I doubt they care all that much. Most people with $110 to spend and the know-how to hack a Kindle probably wouldn't consider it worth the time just to save $25. For those who do consider it worth the time, Amazon would probably rather they have a hacked Kindle than no Kindle at all.

That being said, I think each Kindle has some soft of hardware ID. If a Kindle sold as ad-supported suddenly stops requesting ads that would probably indicate its hacked. Of course there are a few obvious ways around that, but that tends to be true of any solution short of completely locked down hardware.
IPad 2 gets glasses-free 3D display using front-facing camera for head tracking
I don't remember anything about pairs being a special case in Latin (At least roman style Latin, not catholic style Latin), even in the 3rd declension nouns (which are the ones that pluralize via -i).
I actually read this post earlier today when searching for tips/ideas. I'm interested in stories of people from HN and what they did to get a response too, so I look forward to where this discussion goes. Thanks for posting the link!
Yes, I agree with this use case for HN completely, and it ties to my experience.

Compared with say slashdot in 2000, interactivity is easier and generally more interesting here. At the time, there were very few social aggregators, so the use cases were different.
There's some issues with the ads. It may be a difficult sell in that there's only limited chance for a user to click through an ad - I notice a lot of the launch advertisers are the kind who do "branding campaigns" where they don't worry amount click-through. So that may push down CPM.

Also, the number of ads users see may be fairly limited since it's only on the powerdown screen and index - a typical Kindle user might only average 1-2 ads per day. If they're viewing 1,000 ads per year, that's only worth a few bucks at typical CPMs, and you have to figure they only expect a device being used that much to last 2-3 years.

So a $25 discount seems pretty generous in that light.

(Me, I'd happily accept some small ads at the bottom of the reading page if it pushed the price under $100. We put up with it in magazines and newspapers all the time.)
That could happen for many other reasons, e.g. your relative ranking in either engine for particular keywords, the types of user that visits each engine, and so on.

As ever, statistics published by the likes of Hitwise can only offer a partial view of the truth, and have been shown to be grossly inaccurate in the past.
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I could argue subway ads are blanket ads that target huge numbers of diverse people in NY. While daytime television ads during low-brow tv shows target a certain socioeconomic area of society (specifically low income, poorly educated and with few options available).
You won't be coding it yourself, you'll be showing it to fellow doctors to get feedback.

Learn the basics of user research, usability testing etc.

I would also dive into the existing apps, existing industry and analyze its weaknesses/strenghts.
I'm really enjoying the no points on comments; it's making me think about the content more. Nice!
Neat - even though we can't see votes, downvoted comments are gray. Maybe all of a thread's comment's color will be normalized between Black and Invisible, depending on a comment's relative number of upvotes (or negative score).
From what I hear, the domination of the Bloc Quebecois in Quebec makes that a pretty hard target to reach.
It was $99 with no commitment last year on DNA Day. The holiday sale later in the year was $99 with a $5 (per month for 1 year) commitment.
Apple's Bug Reporter: https://bugreport.apple.com/

iPad Support: http://www.apple.com/support/ipad/
“What is the use of blogs now that we have Twitter and Facebook?”
Well, those into the more dramatic explanation might well observe that the cops are the haves' hired muscle...

...just sayin' ;)
Much respect to Firefox for being the torch bearer in the darkness and all that, but their secret auto-updates in the background are why I don't use them.

I use a Mac not because I'm some techno-illiterate neo-lithic throwback, but because I'm a raging control freak. On the Mac I feel like I'm in control. Programs that go and do random weird stuff behind the scenes break that fragile illusion. :D

The worst was when Firefox's stealthy self-updating broke itself. I don't remember which version that was (sometime in 2008? 2009?) and it might have been on a work machine (Windows? Vista?) but there was basically no going back (couldn't use previous versions because of stealth updates...), and no going forward (wasn't gonna sit around waiting for them to patch it).
Far too small of a sample set to make a conclusion but on my personal blog Google beats Bing 2:1 in incoming traffic over the past three months. That actually corresponds roughly with a 70/30 split which would seem to corroborate the story However, my blog has far too few pages and way too little traffic to represent anything approaching a reasonable sample size.
Of course, if the government somehow found out you had done such a thing and you had sworn to help them to your fullest or something, they would not hesitate to slap down a variety of other charges on you. Lying is a serious offense.
I've been using Bing since I found the Bing Rewards (http://www.bing.com/rewards), which gives you a point per 2 searches and lets you redeem the points for something later on. I have not found myself going back to Google, yet.
I don't know if I buy this. Yahoo and Bing account for less than 8% of my sites' search engine traffic. Anyone know how hitwise collects their stats?
James Cameron to Make 'Avatar' Sequels in Manhattan Beach 
Director James Cameron and 20th Century Fox have signed a lease for studio and office space at MBS Media Campus in Manhattan Beach.
Cheap rehash of post previously discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2425316
Hasn't the "no scores by comments" idea already been tried? I recall it not working out well for some reason...
You picked the best title in the first sentence of your survey ;)

I think something plain and to-the-point like 'JavaScript Web Applications' suits an O'Reilly publication, and gives a title a little bit more authority / respect.

If you'd like to spice it up a little in the spirit of a Pragmatic Programmers / 37 Signals publication you might add something like 'Crafting' to the start of it:

'Crafting JavaScript Web Applications'

Obviously that depends on the tone and spirit of your own work, but having seen your efforts over the years I'd imagine the whole passionate craftsman approach might work.

However the chapters seem to lead up to 'The Realtime Web', and perhaps that's a catchphrase worth leveraging?

'Realtime JavaScript Web Applications'

Perhaps the title's slightly long, but the book would be a lot more Googleable with the addition of 'realtime' judging by Google search results, but SEO's probably less of a worry, more a minor observation.

Perhaps you could break it into title / subtitle?

'JavaScript Web Applications - Building for the Realtime Web'

That's probably enough suggestions - your tweet just caught me in the morning with a good cup of tea :)
It's probably an experiment in reputation. There was time when people would try to optimize their site's PageRank. The moment you start measuring things, magical emergent behaviors are created.
On the other hand, cache-oblivious algorithms (and upon first skim, the presented data structure is) should play just as nicely at the L1/L2 vs RAM level as they do at the RAM vs disk one, without needing to be specifically tuned or rewritten.

That's the theory, of course. ;)
1) http://ama.ab.ca/

2) Auto club (similar to a AAA club in the US) (see 4b).

3) Google: 89.29%, Bing: 6.2%, Yahoo: 3.4% (see 4d).

4a) Numbers from the last 30 days, so this is relevant.
4b) We have members in ~1/3 of all households province-wide, so we feel our traffic represents an average online user well.
4c) 350,000+ Unique Visitors monthly (search + organic).
4d) Search-specific traffic.
On western keyboards, Japanese is typed using an input method. Basically, you spell the words using a phonetic convention and the computer guesses what sinograph you meant: you type zitensha, press space, and it hopefully becomes 自転車 (bicycle). Because each of zi, ten, and sha could be the reading of any of multiple characters the computer might guess wrongly. It works pretty much all the time, though.

There are also Japanese keyboard layouts featuring all the 51 syllables (besides the latin alphabet). You just type the syllables, there's no phonetic convention, just the guessing game.

I don't know how it works for Chinese, though. It's probably the same, I guess. I know that on Mac OS X one can draw the characters with the finger on the touchpad.
Thoughts on the future of programming languages
Once Again, Twitter Drops Ruby for Java
> LogFS stores the inode tree on the drive; JFFS2 does not, which requires it to scan the entire drive at mount and cache the entire tree in RAM. For larger drives, the scan can take tens of seconds and the tree can take a significant amount of main memory.

Interesting. I've only used JFFS2 on embedded systems like OpenWRT routers, where you wouldn't see the large drive penalty.
The Curse of Expertise
Google's search is bad (spammy advertising), but Bing's isn't any better. Recently at work I went to do a search for something innocuous like

"what words can you put s in front of and still have a word"

And the number 2 result was something about anal sex. I'm like WTF??? I'm at work!

How they can tout themselves as a major search engine in 2011 and not understand the concept of NSFW I do not know.

----

My predictions:

1) So long as Microsoft keeps throwing money at it, Bing will continue to improve.

2) So long as Google's main source of revenue is advertising, they will continue to try to find that "sweet spot" of bombarding us day and night with ads, but not quite enough to make us switch.

It's like a choice between new evil and old evil... either way that ain't a good thing.
Thanks for the heads up. Seems like a good idea to catch the 503 errors. Also, for now I'll leave all the configuration defined in pure Ruby. Maybe eventually I'll consider using ENV var's to handle that.

Thanks for your feedback!
I think most of the problem has to do with the fact that you are spreading upvotes and comments over two pages, rather then having them on one.
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One explanation could be that your users are highly technical when compared to the average pc user. I would bet the ground google lost went to new pc buyers that are happy using default apps/settings.

These kinds of people probably wouldn't visit your site.
1) Can't say (client site)
2) ecommerce
3) Google: 90% / Yahoo: 5% / Bing: 3.25% (last 30 days; search traffic only)
4) Bing's capture rate is .2% more than Google's but average revenue per visit is about 30% less.
SEEKING WORK

I'm late to this party but posting anyway.

I'm in Dallas. Local or remote is fine.

Development background - Java and Python primarily. I'm also really good with JavaScript, server or client.
I'm an expert with Google App Engine. If anyone is looking for something there, I am your man.

Contact info in profile. LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bakerjay
Usually I just fix it, because I think of it this way: the amount of time I'll spend fixing this is (usually) trivial compared to the amount of time they'll waste trying to fix it - if I'm someone's friend, and I can take 10 minutes out of my day to fix something that they would struggle with for an hour or two and make their life a little better, shouldn't I do it? Today you, tomorrow me.

That being said, I'm not particularly bombarded by these kinds of requests and I could definitely see it wearing on me if people were constantly asking me to fix their machines.
Support for embedding ActiveX controls in documents has been there since Office 97.
Judges are supposed to be intelligent, not automata.
This should help prevent the reddit 'upboat' syndrome from appearing here...

Having said that, I don't think that this had become an issue on Hacker News (yet)
isn't it saying that the releases earlier were a lot worse than people realised at the time?
Dammit:

"Must be a US citizen – compliant with ITAR (22 CFR §120.15)"

I was always sad about NASA's "US Citizens Only" policy for astronauts. I had hoped that commercial spaceflight would change this, but apparently not.

(Not that I meet many of the other requirements for the job, mind you. I'm guessing most of the recruits will be former NASA astronauts, at least at first... there's enough of 'em around, and they'd be good for publicity.)
Given that IE has always pushed Microsoft's search engine (previously Live Search, and previously to that MSN search), the logic here appears to be flawed. If anything, Microsoft has been giving users more options to switch their search engine in IE.

On the other hand, there is this data: http://www.techspot.com/news/43155-users-with-newer-ie-versi...

If you're too lazy to read the article, it suggests that newer versions of IE have more Bing usage, despite the fact that they let you switch your default search engine.

It seems that there are more IE users that previously did not use a default search engine and when they upgrade their browser, they end up using Bing because Microsoft sets it as the default.
If they're on Windows, I send them to www.ninite.com to get antivirus, anti-malware, and Firefox to browse with. All their selections will be packaged into a single, slick installer by the site. This handles a lot of problems. I often have them do it themselves while I supervise. This reduces dependency.
I don't mind fixing some friends' computers. I draw the line when they are running a pre-2001 computer with 2011 software in, you guessed it, 2011. My family is incredibly frugal so they don't understand why a computer from 2000 is now slow, and that buying a new one would fix their problem.
I've never used Sketchbook, but after reading your post I googled it and it looks really good. Does it support all the standard bamboo productivity features (e.g. the eraser, clicking the lower pencil button to drag, zooming and rotating w/ multi-touch, etc..)?

So far, I've been really pleased with the software wacom bundled in, but if there is a weakness it would be a good pencil sketching interface, as opposed to painting. Especially the smudge feature on PSE feels like it's for paints, not pencil.

Unfortunately, it looks like Sketchbook licenses are only usable in a single country, which doesn't work for me. Pretty much anything on my laptop is going to get used in China, Taiwan and the US.
All a little off topic, but...

menu Preferences -> Advanced -> Update

seek to "When updates to Firefox are found"

check "Ask me what I want to do"

Now you have your control again.
My stats show greater than 97% of search traffic is from Google; that's aggregated across a handful of web sites and applications.
As long as the comments are still ordered appropriately I guess I don't see what the big deal is.
Windows 8 supports native ISO mounting: http://windows8center.com/news/windows-8-to-have-mount-iso-a...
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It's important to note that Google made 88% of it's revenue outside of the US in 2009.

Here's is a paragraph describing how Google legally dodges tax:

"The Dublin subsidiary sells advertising globally and was credited by Google with 88 percent of its $12.5 billion in non-U.S. sales in 2009."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...

So it seems a bit silly to focus solely on US searches. These are global markets we are talking about.

EDIT: link
Tangential, but a commenter brings up the empty map in Georgia. A quick search turns up this would-be explanation from over two years ago: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/where-is-georgia-on-g...

I'd be very curious to see an updated reason given - I don't think Google moves quite slowly enough for "we're just not happy with the quality of the data quite yet" to hold any water 2.5 years after they first claim so.
pg,

First up, this is nice. The absence of comment scores throw people around a bit, and people are generally more careful since it is difficult to directly receive feedback.

Secondly, the madness associated with karma is gone. Can you imagine in post-earthquake Japan where for a brief few days, it didn't matter whether you are a CEO or have a million dollars. It is a brief moment where we are reduced to who we already are: humans. Beyond the profit motive. I wonder if this is sustainable in the long run. It'd be like Communism (?) gulp.

Perhaps there could be karma-free days as an experiment where for those days, you couldn't earn karma even if you tried. Kind of like Sabbath. It forces a different perspective.
According to Statcounter the number is closer to 20%. http://gs.statcounter.com/#search_engine-US-monthly-201103-2...
> but pg himself said that using voting to express (dis)agreement was OK

A link to his comment would be really appreciated. I find such statement, which is so contrary to guidelines, hard to believe with proof.
I saw this at the MOMA in NYC a few years ago. As a former Cartoon Network animator, let me tell you, it's the most incredible experience to see it in person. Completely hypnotizing in the best of ways.
Sorry. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious but can someone explain how I'm expected to resolve these two statements as something other than contradictions:

Yes, Bing-powered search ...clocking in at 30.01%

Google in the same time period dropped .. to 64.42%, ceding that ground to Bing.

[Edit: Oh, sorry. yeah, I'm a fool. It reads That was a rise from its February tally of 28.48.. So Bing was already almost 30%. I get it now. That said? No Way.]
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Isn't this a little too marketing-ish way to describe a language that dominates the small niche of purely functional programming languages?

I agree Haskell is important, but so is objectivity. Marketing spin gets in the way.
I'm a UK developer and this is one of the reasons I very rarely accept work from people not in the UK. I usually accept paypal for overseas payments because even though the fees are ridiculous and I hate paypal, it actually takes about the same time and fees to accept international payments this way compared to a bank transfer. This however has the added benefit of being better for my client that is making the payment as it costs them nothing extra.
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I'll throw in some numbers too, we're on target for ~200m page views this month (74.8m in first 10 days of April) (2 sites, 60/40 traffic split) and we have:

site a - 66% search engine traffic. google is 98.5%, other is 1% and bing is 0.5%

site b - 76% search engine traffic. google is 97%, bing is 2% and other is 1%

Around 10% of our traffic is Internet Explorer. We're using google analytics (maybe they're fudging numbers? Seems v. unlikely) and search is a large part of where we get our traffic. Our experience matches yours very accurately in a completely different sector. These are gaming sites btw.
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I'm my own worst critic. I'm never satisfied. Despite countless praise, I always focus on the critique. What can I do better? I'm far too hard on myself, but it's hard to be anything but that. For me, the problem is I focus on what I don't know rather than what I do know. I see what I know as common knowledge, and figure everyone knows it. I see people doing really cool things, and ignore the stuff I've done in the past. So I worry that maybe all the good things people say are merely because I'm good at hiding my inefficiencies.

It's easy to realize you have these problems. The problem though, is it an impostor syndrome, or are you really an impostor? Considering you are always seeing your work as less than perfect, it's easy to believe the latter.

I see this in so much that I do. I cannot just enjoy learning something new. I have to learn the right way, and that means understanding everything. If I'm learning a new language, my first inclination is to rewrite the Hello World example that's posted, because it's not right. So I skip past the introduction and start looking for implementing things properly.

I accept in others supposed deficiencies that I do not tolerate in myself, and it holds me back.

It is, I believe, my greatest weakness.
I agree that this is the best option, but one not always available to everyone.
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Twin Lessons: Have More Kids. Pay Less Attention to Them.
I don't want to attention whore, but I brought this up earlier http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2427163