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>> Why are Google's new ads so compelling?

Gonna guess here: Motivational psychiatrist(s) on staff?
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There is: delegate.

Find someone who reads Hacker News [1] and blogs. Subscribe to their RSS feed. There's a trick to [1], no doubt. But for most people the time savings far outweigh the occasional mismatch between your interests and the delegate's.

[1] For the same types of articles you do, ideally.
I always prefered page up/down and arrow keys to manipulate content long before I knew I was manipulating the content. Mousing is just to inefficient in most cases.
It is not stupid to act stupid when one may be stupid. Let's just put it that way.
مسلسل الزهرة البيضاء 
مسلسل الزهرة البيضاء مسلسل الزهرة البيضاء مسلسل الزهرة البيضاء مسلسل الزهرة البيضاء مسلسل الزهرة البيضاء مسلسل الزهرة البيضاء مسلسل الزهرة البيضاء مسلسل الزهرة البيضاء
Uber and Intersect - transforming technology assumptions
And, the best headline for Hacker News is a headline about hacking Hacker News Headlines :) way to put the research to good use...
page loaded for me, links off it failed.

Props for your error page including contact info.
Yes, and you would think that Google of all companies would be uniquely suited to solving the second problem, but it hasn't, inexplicably, at least not yet.
A lot of the time I use a computer outside of work, I am alone in a house into which no one can see or I am alone in a house with my partner with whom I share all of my passwords. As such, I'd rather have the option of unmasking my password because it makes things easier for me. I use long passwords and so it's not rare (though neither common) for me to type it wrong so I end up typing my 'password' 4 or 6 times.
Ten Questions with the makers of Auditorium, Fractal, and Pulse
Sorry about that. I understand perfectly, and I hesitated before posting.

But the feedback I can get from the HN community is so valuable that I am willing to take the risk of annoying people. It's a completely selfish attitude, I know.
64% isn't the greatest accuracy, but you guys were transparent about everything and the numbers look legit. Awesome job putting this together!
That's not how theories work. A scientific theory is more like a framework and not really the same meaning as what people usually mean by theory (which is closer to hypothesis).
Also nothing in science can ever be 100% definite; the term law shouldn't really ever be used.
Am with the siblings - disagree very much. A very nice thing about go is that it isn't afraid to say 'no' to features, nor is it afraid to enforce conventions to encourage consistency.

I bet the coding standard discipline at google has something to do with it, as described by Steve Yegge[1]:-

"Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They take things like unit testing, design documents and code reviews more seriously than any other company I've even heard about. They work hard to keep their house in order at all times, and there are strict rules and guidelines in place that prevent engineers and teams from doing things their own way. The result: the whole code base looks the same, so switching teams and sharing code are both far easier than they are at other places."

[1]:http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile...
And yet, if the output you are decompiling is known to come from a particular compiler, the search will terminate.
Selling Research Paper
Research papers for sale provide students with many benefits. Out of these the most important being the ability to learn how to write research papers. However, students must be aware of plagiarized papers and those that are not written in the correct manner.
Coders Getting Rich
We're piling up page views,
and searching for something,
the digital dreams that keep us awake .

We continue to feed the Internet beast,
and dream of of all the money we'll make .

(c) Marcus Yearwood 2011
Please reread the comment "To my eye I couldn't tell what the effect was--religious was my first guess, but what you're saying makes sense."
Which is pretty inconsistent from what you said "made strong claims with no evidence (religious motivation for the walls); the stronger the claim, the more support it needs."

I made no claim whatsoever, I divulged my first guess/naive speculation and said at first glance from my uninformed perspective I did not know exactly what the intentions were behind the architecture, but that I thought maybe it had to do with religion--him being a religious extremist.

I replied to the parent comment because I thought maybe the architecture was designed with the goal of producing vortex rings--making it harder for a helicopter to allow to allow people to repel.

You're also a hypocrite considering the comment you made previous to the one I'm replying "This is kind of off-topic, but I've always wondered...:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2515028

How is that any different than what I did, if not worse?

Sometimes HN is just looking to be overly critical and point out flaws that only exist if you obsess over being pedantic.
I'm pretty sure I agree with that, but I'm not sure the OP would. From the article:

> Filmmakers were not content to make movies with video cameras until those cameras could shoot 24p, because video, with its many-frames-per-second, looks like reality, like the evening news, like a live broadcast or a daytime soap opera; whereas 24p film, by showing us less, looks somehow larger than life, like a dream, like a story being told rather than an event being documented. This seemingly technical issue turns out to have an enoumous emotional effect on the viewer.

It is a minor point in the article that is pretty orthogonal to this actual discussion.
I can confirm it works. Very nice, trying to install node.js on cygwin is an exercise in frustration.
http://blog.pilotmoon.com/post/4041089648/scroll-reverser-ge...

you can get in practice for this with this little program for snow leopard
One thing that I think would help is if Seattle startups did more recruiting at UW's CSE department. There's a reason why Seattle startups tend to be founded by ex-MS and -Amazon folks instead of fresh college grads. Very few students here know anything about the local startup scene and end up being gobbled up by big companies (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe) or moving to greener pastures in the Bay Area. Suster didn't mention connection with local education institutions as one of his 10 points, but I think taking advantage of the stream of talent coming out of UW would go a long way to providing good hires and fostering a greater sense of entrepreneurship among Seattle's young people.
Why do you use more than one? I thought the point was that you could sign in once with your OpenID and be signed in everywhere.
go already targets arm, android can't be too far away.
The guidelines also say:

"Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."
IM Chat Client with Voice Recognition in The Browser
True, for composite you'd need a different power supply.

I agree that the wires in the picture look like they're coming off of the USB hub, and also that the hub looks like the powered variety.

So, probably they'll go with at least one, preferably many, ways to power the machine externally. I hope they leave HDMI only as an option though, since it's incredibly neat.

Oh, and I agree with others that they should look hard at integrating WiFi onboard.
Pretty slick, too bad you submitted during the rush when no one will notice it.

The main concern for me is not that you differentiate from other services, per se, but that you tell me why I should not just do it myself. I could, e.g., write a couple ruby modules that select between the features in a Rails app, and then run a really simple Hadoop job over the logs, could I not? It's not obvious to me how your service is fundamentally different.

If you offer things like detailed analytics tools (what browsers people are using, time-of-day breakdown, etc.), then you should say so. Because ultimately I understand that this is a hard problem, but the people visiting your site may not. By not demonstrating that you are awesome at what you do, your take-away message is that you make something that is simple to begin with, simpler. At least IMHO.

Other than that, good work. I dig the feel of the site very much.
Person feel obliged to register their opinion on some question. And upvoting appears the only acceptable way to do this (since "me too"-kind responses get downvoted quickly). So I think the ways to increase voting quality are: 1) allow to register user's agreement/disagreement with the post separately of the post itself (like another voting button), or 2) say in rules that you can't display your agreement or disagreement by upvoting. I think 2 is the best, since users will be forced to make sufficient contribution when they agree or disagree.
Startup Makes Facebook Likes Searchable
I don't think it is decidable even when you have the compiler available to you - what happens if I decide to insert a bunch of assembly code in my gcc-compiled program using the gcc embedded assembly extensions? How do I decide that a particular sequence of generated op-codes is actually impossible from pure C code, and hence must have been assembly in the original program?
What if there are no files in the drop down? Where are the files located?
OK, so you've got an example that is all but a straight line from Visicalc. If that's still the dominant example after all these decades, it does not sound like a market that has been successfully disrupted, right? And indeed many have tried and all have failed. It is exactly what the article says, a perennial startup loser (and open source project loser too).
I think it depends of the sensitivity of the material in the website. e.g. I would never do this for a financial service website, just in case I get sued later. If your website doesn't require https for logins, then unmasking the password at registration time is the least of your worries.

It should nonetheless be noted that many browsers cache values entered in non-password fields, so if someone is using a shared computer to register, the next person might only have to double-click on the non-hidden password field to see a list of previously entered passwords. Not so good.
Presumably they had those too, we don't know. It does make quite a bit of sense to have a backup in case something goes wrong, even under the high-stealth circumstances.

Remember that we have no idea what was in those helos, they could've held more SEALs, or sophisticated medical equipment, or even heavy weapons (although if they were also blackhawks that's less likely.)
One thing Dan didn't mention (but perhaps alluded to), is that an objection does not immediately translate into a request to engineering to add feature X. For example, in Dan's discussion of priority and severity, he didn't go running to the development team telling them they needed to add severity to FogBugz in order to nail a big client. This allows developers to focus on good long-term design decisions that hopefully make the product better.

Granted, if you hear enough of the same objection, it may be something that you want to add to your product, but you want to keep that as part of an existing engineering workflow instead of treating every object as an urgent request to help get a sale.
How big companies bloat: Cisco finally dismantles weird 'councils'
82% of US tablet market owned by Apple's iPad, The Daily loses $10M
The Internet Without Google - A Story
Also Brad Fitzpatrick (of LiveJournal and memcached fame) recently moved from the Android team to the Go team.

Go on Android should be quite cool, but what will be awesome is Go on AppEngine.
All valid points.

The purpose of Lifemall is to allow people to share things they own that they want to sell to, or indeed buy from other people. These people can be friends, but also people with similar tastes or complete strangers. The products can be new or used. The reason you want to create an account first is that we want to build a marketplace more around people than the products. This we believe, should lead to more trust. Potentially, this could differentiate us from other marketplaces where more emphasis is placed on commercial or profit-centric things.

I guess this expanded version of your critique could be simplified into something more accute. What that could be, I'm not sure. (Hence the marketplace and community of people like you version)
There's this question on Stack Overflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3175561/coffeescript-on-w...

The link seems to be the favorite. I think the ruby option could be made to work better using current tools. Something like install JRuby, therubyrhino, and the coffee-script gem, put the compile command in the Rakefile, and run `jruby -S rake`.

Edit: there's a Maven plugin, too: https://github.com/jakewins/brew
Do you really believe that allocation of capital is in general so inefficient that it requires 10% (and rising) of GDP to be allocated correctly?
Prediction is hard. Especially when talking about the future.

FB might dethrone Google, of course. But the 30% number does not imply that. Ads in google are pretty damn effective for everyone who is using them, whereas (from what I've heard of people in the industry), the only ones who are happy with FB ads are "lifestyle" advertisers who can't actually measure their impact.

If you look at Real Time Bidding, there are ~100Billion impressions per day, of which 80% are worth $0.0000 or less, and then it starts rising with most commanding about 300-400 microdollars per impression, with a few publishers commanding 30000-40000 per impression.

If FB owns all of the 80% and most of the 15% that are 400 microdollars, and google owns the 5% of 40000 microdollars, Google is not in danger (yet; they shouldn't rest on their laurels, of course).

The info I have, skewed a little by the RTB industry (but which is increasingly becoming the online ad industry), is that for now the case is as described in the previous paragraph.
You can mark as many preferences as you like.
Alternative Vote is a misnomer, it's known as Instant Runoff Vote elsewhere, which better describes how it works.
There are a few reasons to do this. One is to at least nominally separate code that's licensed differently than yours (something your lawyers may ask you to do). Another is to make it easier to share your tweaks to the third-party code among several of your own projects.
Try JRuby, or maybe Mirah (though Mirah is still rough and evolving).
I came to grips with the fact that I'm a terrible multitasker, and that I'm easily distracted. Thus, I now only work on one thing at a time. That includes email, IM, surfing the web, and any other sources of distractions. I only check email 1-2 times per day, and try to respond to as much of it as possible when I do check it. Check out Merlin Mann's Inbox Zero for how to efficiently deal with your inbox.

I'm also a big fan of Tim Ferriss's idea of limiting the amount of information you consume. The more HN I read, the more talk shows I listen to the radio, the more twitter I read through, the stuff that's competing for attention in my head. The big realization for me was that the cost of doing these things wasn't just the time I spend doing them, but also the brainshare they take up, once I've moved back to doing something productive.
It's basically equivalent to the "show characters" checkbox in your wifi password entry.
Yes, spreadsheets are the obvious case of "programming for non-programmers" having succeeded. Are there others? Hypercard? Lotus Notes?
Thanks. Deleting the question now and sent an email.
>Again, with COICA it seems that censorship is not really seen as a major roadblock for prominent politicians.

In the US we just shuffle the actual act of the censorship to the private sector. Add in some cognitive dissonance to that layer of indirection and you can happily proclaim that your government doesn't censor.
I don't want to get newsletter, I want to read a page that tells me at least something.

This MVP is maybe a bit too M.
Now all we need is Go on AppEngine. Killer.
And there's the fastest selling consumer electronics product in history... the Kinect.
> encrypt my own copies

This is simply not a feasible solution for the general public. LastPass has demonstrated that they are 1. paranoid as hell and 2. that the only real vulnerability in this situation is that if you have a dictionary password, it may be able to be brute forced, if the worst case scenario happened. They even outlined steps that they are taking to fix this problem.

LastPass is an incredibly smart security solution for the majority of people. Telling us that they are taking steps to protect their users because of an event that they haven't even verified was a compromise is better than you discovering that your bank password was stolen because you forgot to update your firewall.
I've looked at SHA1_Pass when it was posted here on HN a while back, and I'm not impressed. You have to memorize a passphrase, which is only marginally easier than remembering a master password, but you also have to remember an individual word for each account/website. Yes this is easier than remembering individual passwords but not as easy as just remembering one master password that unlocks an encrypted database (like Keepass). From the FAQ for SHA1_Pass, it says "when your bank asks you to change your password, just increment your word from BILLS to BILLS1 or BILLS2". More stuff to remember, which BILLS was I on again?

Additionally, some accounts have restrictions on usable characters or password length. The FAQ for SHA1_Pass says "try base64 half-encoding, its only 14 characters, and if that's too long maybe you shouldn't be using that website". Well I'm sorry but some BANKS do not allow passwords that long. You and I both know it's idiotic, but some banks have a small maximum password length, and some of them even restrict you to alphanumeric characters only.

I applaud SHA1_pass for trying to be innovative, you don't know what works unless you try it, but it looks like the result is a failure to me... too much complexity generated around the goal of trying to make passwords easy to remember, yet hashed to be secure. Just generate a random password with Keepass, whatever length and character sets you want, and store it.

What's the big deal? Yes, there's a chance that Keepass didn't do their encryption properly and your master password will be crackable, and someone will hack into your dropbox account and then have all your passwords. But with SHA1_pass there's also a chance someone will guess or socially engineer your passphrase, and since all your site words are "facebook" for facebook etc etc they too have full access to all your accounts.
yeah I noticed him on the team. The core team has some amazing people on it, including famous people Rob Pike (Bell Labs unix/plan 9 guy) and Brad. I think that's a good sign that google are quite ambitious about the language :)
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All fallacies are non-sequiturs.

From Wikipedia

An ad hominem (Latin: "to the man"), short for argumentum ad hominem, is an attempt to link the validity of a premise to a characteristic or belief of the person advocating the premise.

Ad Hominem is not always a fallacy. For instance, it would not be possible to assess a person for a position without considering that person's characterstics. Sometimes we neither have the resources to assess a claim based on anything other than the characteristics of the one who made it.
I was hoping they'd discuss how SunSpider doesn't test the DOM, Canvas or other things that web apps commonly do. I haven't felt my apps have really been performance constrained by basic JS language performance, but rather DOM tree searches, element creation, innerHTML parsing, etc. Benchmarking a JavaScript Raytracer and encryption engine is a noble cause for advancing JS going forward (especially with projects such as node.js gaining momentum), but it doesn't feel very relevant to me, right now, today.

What other benchmarks are there? Apple's Sunspider, Google's V8 Benchmark Suite, Mozilla's Kraken, that JSLint-based one... Does anyone know of a good link where someone has deconstructed all these JS benchmarks and what parts of a browser they actually test?
I remember reading in the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines (a document that defines consistency standards for gnome (linux gui) applications) that countries should always be alphabetically ordered as to not appear to favor any of them. Interestingly, it doesn't appear to be in the guidelines anymore though.
Piecing together Fukushima
Depending on the security needed for a particular application I have been wondering why not just Email for authentication since its common for password recovery. More here: http://blog.headspin.com/?p=352
The Chinese nuclear tests, 1964–1996
At the bottom of the article on UX Movement it says:

[Note: This post was writ­ten for Smash­ing­Magazine. You can find their post here: Inno­v­a­tive Tech­niques To Sim­plify Sign-Ups and Log-Ins]
"Often an idea persistently fails until someone finally does them right and then it doesn't fail anymore."

But I very strongly think that you should know that you are walking into a minefield, rather than just blundering into it. You should know that you need to learn the landscape, try to figure out what failed, and sail your project through what may be a very narrow window hard to find by chance, as opposed to other startup core ideas where success is more about perseverance and market savvy and a lot of other things other than sailing through a very small technical window.

Also, document synchronization is a word I'd save for actually trying to synchronize documents, change tracking and merging, etc. Dropbox isn't the first to solve the problem of presenting your backed up files as a folder, a much simpler problem, they're just the first to productize it for consumers successfully. Business and open-source-technical solutions were around for a while.
NOW I can look like a proper monther funking hacker. I'm so happy I could poop.
I don't understand your suggestions. If the spammer can run javascript (e.g. Selenium), how would your timestamps / ip stuff help? Seems like it would just add complexity without any benefit.
That's exactly what I do, though I don't read HN every day I have a script off in the cloud looking at the comments RSS feed, showing me every article that certain people comment on. As a quality filter, I find it better than the front page.
I use Passpack. Uses a password and a packing key -you have the option to use a yubikey as well.

You can read up http://www.passpack.com/en/faq/
Think you missed my point my man, you are talking about analyzing and then dismissing the idea (totally agree and cool), I am speaking of people who dismiss prior to analysis just because the idea is unpopular and not a part of the mainstream ideology. Hope this makes sense.
Pragmatic Programmer Concepts Distilled
to counter this, i prefer using my email. it's always unique and i don't need to make something up if my goto username is already taken.
> Go on AppEngine

I hope that's the "surprise" Andrew mentioned on twitter:
> http://twitter.com/#!/go_nuts/status/63762141555064832
What social strategies do you use to limit your "wildcard" coffees and lunches without offending people or creating awkward situations? I just quit my day job recently to focus on my startup and have been getting tons of introductions to all sorts of people. While it's been really fun and beneficial, it also is pretty distracting from actually building something.