skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your comment, but actually this is different from Craigslist. It's for internet-related classified ads.
Zuckerberg Wants Kids to Join FB, Uses Bogus Excuse to Say Why They Can’t
Go Benchmark. Inspired by Apache Benchmark.
ITA could have been so much more had they gone directly to the consumer.
is this different than using google voice with any other carrier? I know when I switched I tried to balance getting free mobile to mobile calls with the annoyance of people knowing both numbers, but I really use so few minutes these days anyway I just went with all google voice all the time. Others should probably go the other way.
I think if a bookseller had been making copies of 1984 without permission from the right holder, and you had bought one of these copies, the right holder would have demanded its return. Had you refused, I think you may have been in violation of some law (possession of stolen goods?). I have no idea whether they would have been able to raid your house to recover the book, but it wouldn't surprise me. I'm obviously not a lawyer...
Yeah let's definitely find a way to make him share the blame for this thread.
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I was pulling for Soylent Green myself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
It represents a new user. (I think it is for accounts having age < 1 day.)
Emacs Shrugged? Stallman has more in common with Ayn Rand than people realize!
Really? Huh, I've never had a stability problem with it (even with my own home-rolled VSTs). The more you know...
The title should read "Jobs on the importance of saying 'no'" - the apostrophe is incorrect.
Nice example - but it might give the wrong idea to the unfamiliar. Local worker actors like these would typically be thread-pool backed and then the load balancing is free (need not be explicitly coded). Remote workers do of course need to be load balanced.
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I'm too scared to add -am to my commit alias but these are pretty reasonable in my opinion... Can't live without them, and have definitely convinced some others that this is the way to go. On another note, I can't wait until there is an actual GUI that makes these aliases obsolete by saving us even more time.

git st (status)
git ct (commit)
git br (banch)
git co (checkout)
git back (reset --hard)
git last (log -1 head)
git last2 (log -2 head)
Someone who is likely to do their own SSD upgrade is probably a power user who already understands which SSD they want. They might read Anandtech SSD articles and Newegg reviews, and probably are well versed in the advantages of the various SDD controllers and SLC vs MLC, etc.

Most people would probably just check the SSD checkbox.
What's the current consensus on augmentation of built-in prototypes [1]? Is it still a contentious issue?

[1] http://michaux.ca/articles/javascript-the-good-parts-built-i...
An illegal copy of a book is not a stolen good, since it has not been taken away.. In most countries I'd expect the buying of the illegal copy of the book itself not to be criminal (and certainly not leading to home raids), but the distribution the bookseller did, since he did not have the license to do that.

On the other side, I would expect that many countries have laws that would prohibit a bookseller from selling you a hard-copy but writing in the terms of service that they're free to enter your home to retrieve it for reasons they decide on, since it'd be a very surprising clause.

Edit: s/reading/leading/
> Supporting only github means I can't use it. Unfortunate, because their stuff looks cool.

I'm sure if you really wanted to use Pagoda, you could use the http://hg-git.github.com/. Or you could just sign up for a free Github account (free seems to be a requirement for you, and these days with the state of the economy I can definitely relate. although no free and private as you mentioned) and learn git, which is a joy to use, and blazingly fast, which is nice for cloning large repos.
Personally, I use Heroku and prefer Ruby to PHP so I don't feel compelled to try Pagoda, but I could appreciate the work that went into the site, and the backend. Impressive.
> You cannot sell them, or lend them

Yes, because it doesn't even make sense. This is why I simply don't understand this conversation. There's nothing for me to resell, because we're discussing a virtual good. Implicit in the resale of an item is that I can no longer possess that item.

Talking about reselling eBooks makes almost as much sense as talking about reselling the sandwich I just ate for dinner. The only mechanism for creating personal value has been irrevocably consumed.

The points of ownership, right to resale, and lending are important ones. They represent a fundamental divide between two entirely different technologies used for the same purpose. At a very basic level comparing eBooks to print books makes almost no sense. As soon as we can dispense with the comparison we can start thinking about each system according to the value it creates.
The end of the world has some ugly code
view-source:http://www.familyradio.com/index2.html

familyradio.com, home of the apocalypse
True story: I emailed friskies about this in November last year. I sent them a video of our game and asked if they wanted to work together. I had a few phone calls with them and they told us they loved the idea. Then one day: silence. They wouldn't return my calls or emails.

Now just this week they release this game, same idea, almost same domain. (I would guess the reason they didn't use the domain gameforcats.com is because I also own that domain.)

Folks say I should contact an IP lawyer, but I'm not sure I a) want to go up against big-corp (who will just claim they came up with it independently) or b) believe in that sort of thing.

Any advice?
Well, to be honest, you're not the first person to confuse it with Craigslist, so I probably need to change the tag line to make it more clear.

Probably something like:
Classified ads for anything "Internet"
> what missions would be more important

Here is the stack rank of operating missions as of 2008 (when NASA needed to shut down some missions to save money):

1. Swift, 2004

2. Chandra, 1999

3. Galex (Galaxy Evolution Explorer, ultraviolet), 2003

4. Suzaku (X-ray), 2005

5. Spitzer, 2003

6. WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe), 2001

7. XMM-Newton (X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission), 1999

8. Integral (INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory), 2002

9. Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer, 1995

10. Gravity Probe B, 2004

source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13938?DCMP=ILC-hmts...

I also found this read (http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/121390204.html) very interesting.
Seems it's a career-long motto of his. Here's my little story from when he told that to a room of record labels in 2003: http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2004/08/say_no_by_defa...

==

In June of 2003, Steve Jobs gave a small private presentation about the iTunes Music Store to some independent record label people.

My favorite line of the day was when people kept raising their hand saying, "Does it do ___(x)___?", "Do you plan to add ___(y)___?".

Finally Jobs said, "Wait wait - put your hands down. Listen: I know you have a thousand ideas for all the cool features iTunes could have. So do we. But we don’t want a thousand features. That would be ugly.

Innovation is not about saying yes to everything. It’s about saying NO to all but the most crucial features."
You might try reading the report I linked to.

The big difference is that we eat more calories, less carbs, more fat and more sugar.
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Privacy policy or not - if it's purpose is to be a video downloader, but it tracks stuff when you are doing something other than video downloading - it's sneaky at best, however it's presented.
There are plenty of mid-late 30s Software Engineers at the Big G.
I was recently told about an SEO firm near me that has a farm of college kids sitting in cubes creating fake blogs and content to create back links. Talk about scaling out.
Common sense is surprisingly uncommon. You've heard about Friendster falling apart because of scaling issues? Or Kozmo.com expanding to too many cities in too little time... Many companies forget to start small and test
You're okay as long as you don't extend Object which only leads to "hasOwnProperty" messiness. In cases where I might want to extend Object I use a static Object.foo(object) instead.
But then you are at their mercy.
"WTF?
You need Adobe Flash to stream music...

We thought you knew this, but apparently you need reminding. You should enable Flash, or if you don't have it you can go install it now."

I've seen annoying and wrong messages before, but this message adds patronization on top of that.

You don't need flash for audio anymore.
Twitter solves an elementally different problem to Facebook, which may lead to the disparity in features that you see and has previously caused issues with scalability. The Twitter engineering blog (http://engineering.twitter.com/) details some of the fundamental systems development we've been doing to solve these issues and give us a better platform.

From this, we can launch better products. I can't go into specifics, but there's some really good stuff coming in the future.
I hope everyone on HN installs this.
Angry Birds earns a Million at Chrome Web Store
If you actually have email responses from them, you might have a sufficient paper trail to make it worth trying. That said, assuming you only provided an idea and discussion, you probably don't have any particularly strong IP claim over their independently developed game even if you can show that they got the idea from you. So, it really depends on what result you want here. You probably won't manage to get any money out of them, but you might manage to get them to add a credit pointing at you.
Music video with footage of the jump, by Boards of Canada:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrBZeWjGjl8
What do you mean? Ebooks don't get consumed, they don't degrade. And how you sell it is quite obvious. Like you said, the new person possesses it and you no longer possess it. Give them the file and delete any temporary copies you may have.
主意很棒,十分佩服作者所做的工作,之前我也有过类似的想法

为了不说错太多,我不知道这里是不是允许用中文?

.

图形化取得的成功有目共睹,而偏偏终端保持纯文本的简单

从学习linux的经历和这么久接触互联网看

.个人用户接触到的图形视频信息远多于文字

命令行有着天生的优越性,图形界面的鼠标操作完全显得累赘

同时另一方面命令行却难以控制界面又显得苍白了太多

即便是掌握了多数常用的快捷键也难以足够高效

对于一个整天上网并且忙碌于控制各种信息的人来说

.不能获得快速的操作方式是非常纠结的一件事情

.

在思考当中我期待着命令行可以和图形界面深度的结合

.就像是语音搜索和移动平台漂亮的界面结合那样

显然,命令行更精确,能做更多的事情,效率更高

期间关注了Ubiquity和Vimperator这类在浏览器的实现

.从效果上说,功能实在不足以让人将日常的操作迁移上去

.总归是一个好的尝试,我期待这更多

.

所以我认为作者的方向与上文两个插件走在同方向不同的路上

最终也许图形与命令深入契合之后便利更加明显

.也有可能此类产品难以被普通用户接纳

有点像从js console里面直接抓去和操作界面元素的意思

我想那么的未来总是会被不同的各种创意实现

.最终图形和命令的合作亲密无间

.

youtube的搜索参数也有点这意思

我附上Ubiquity和Vimperator的视频吧

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r54O47ZR64A&hd=1

http://youtu.be/XI1XwdtmtQY?hd=1
Using basic human psychology to balance videogame difficulty curves
Have you ever sold a CD? Do you rip your CDs? This problem isn't unique to nonphysical goods.
They are only discontinuing support for the admin part of the package which is very javascript heavy. The default frontend theme will, I am sure, continue to support IE6 for a long time.
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Another route that some companies go is the dual-license model: you release your product as GPL, and if other companies want to use your code and not GPL it they can pay you for a license. That way you have both an open source community and a revenue stream.

The main issue I see is that in order to work it really requires copyright assignment of all code to the company, and in many cases that's a raw deal for your open source contributors.
Thanks for mentioning sitepointmarket. Actually, I didn't know about it before.

There's similarity for sure, but I think the direction is different, and hopefully there's a place for both of us.
Misleading title. When you say "earns a Million", I'm pretty sure most people will think dollars, not, as it turns out, users. Cool stuff otherwise.
Android Emerging as Platform of Choice
This is gorgeous: http://www.pagodabox.com/architecture

Almost making me want to write PHP
The true cost of books is not the price you pay for them, or the space they take up on your shelf - it's the time you spend reading them.
I applaud the perfect precision of the above explanation. One so rarely sees perfectly precise explanations these days.
I am well familiar with git--I have been subjected to dealing with it on many unpleasant occasions. Git is as far from a joy to use as anything I can think of. A rather large number of scripts and other tools I've developed depend on hg out of convenience, and I have no interest in porting them to a tool that is not better for my use case where it is superior and considerably worse where it is inferior. As far as I'm concerned, git is a piece of software good in its niche--a niche that happens to be kernel development, not web-development-because-some-Ruby-people-thought-it-was-trendy--made popular via cargo-culting and it offers me nothing that Mercurial doesn't. Well, I should say that it offers nothing aside from needless complexity, substandard tools on Windows, and and poor user interface design. If Pagoda (or anyone else, for that matter) is going to perpetuate the cargo cult, I am going to decline to use it.

I can afford a Github subscription. It's not that much money. It's just completely worthless to me.
The correct title is "Android Emerging as Platform of Choice for Mobile Virtualization", which changes the interpretation pretty significantly.
Yes, because it doesn't even make sense. This is why I simply don't understand this conversation.

From what I gather, the point is exactly that: That one should be aware that there are more differences than eBooks being electronic versions of books.

I think the controversial points come from people having different use-cases. I wouldn't want to not have control over my books about Hebrew numerology that took me a while to track down. I wouldn't worry nearly as much about a book about a programming language. For some books, real possession is part of the value. For others, everywhere-accessibility is worth more.

Edit: Fixed "about" -> "over";
Object.prototype aside, I think it's a bad habit in any sort of large-ish system. Partially because of namespacing concerns; if prototype-extension happens in libraries you use, you might have common things like "startsWith" clobber each other with subtle incompatibilities.

There's also visibility concerns. If you add random methods to things that look like language primitives it can be hard to get an overview of where they're really being used.

Anecdotally, I had to go through and remove all use of prototype.js from deviantART because we decided to standardize on jQuery. It was a pain. A serious, serious pain. Because prototype.js extended Array, String, and other objects. So I had to go make a list of every single method that prototype.js added to these, and find all incidences of those somewhat-common strings in our codebase and examine them case-by-case to see if they were actually calling the prototype.js versions.

By contrast, if I'd wanted to remove all use of jQuery I could have built an unambiguous list of all uses with a fairly simple grep.
$200/month from dumb flash anti-games a friend and I made 3 years ago in over a weekend each.

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Considering there are at least 125 billion galaxies in the observable universe (each with between about 10 million and 100 trillion stars each), it might be a stretch to assume we would be the only species in the universe to achieve this :) That being said, it would be pretty cool.
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See the FAQ (https://banksimple.com/faq/).

> Will my deposits be insured by the FDIC?

> Yes, all deposits will be insured to the FDIC limit (currently $250,000) through our partner banks at launch, just like with any other major bank (or credit union through the NCUA). FDIC insurance guarantees the safety of your deposits.
Surely those goals are worthy, and they resonate with me, you, and most people here. Sadly, that doesn't seem to be the case for a lot o people out there.

That's why I think a concrete target (planet X has cool stuff, let's go see it), with potential for immediate benefits, would greatly increase the support for such an endeavor over the long term.
Sure, take a look at the techzing link in the sibling comments, I talk about several of the titles in that interview.
It does matter when a lot of web browsing happens on mobile.

http://techland.time.com/2011/03/02/report-by-2015-mobile-in...

Majority of the mobile phones will only have access to 2G/3G speeds.

In a lot of countries, mobile data is metered. Saved bytes = saved money.
I sincerely doubt the code is even 5% of the effort that went and is going into making this company. They're building a product in one of the most heavily regulated sectors in a market with an enormous barrier to entry. Dumping the entire codebase and starting from scratch would probably take only a few months, except that the new code would likely have to be re-certified by a dozen agencies.
Price for volume. Also, no book of mine that had established competition in the search rankings of amazon ever sold very well. YMMV.
Is the point that Angry Bird developers haven't earned a million dollars? And that's important?
Isn't this what use is for?

use tt\global\string;
if (string\starts_with($url, 'https://)) { }
Almost all company leaders are aware of the importance of design, simplicity, and usability. The problem isn't lack of information. They know about Apple products. They want to be Apple. But most of them never end up with a product or service that is like what they say.

I really do think good product design is all about the courage to follow through on obvious good ideas (like the article said). It's the thing business execs need to get through their skulls. The hard part isn't thinking of good ideas or innovating, it's discipline and courage. They all say they want simplicity and good design, but inevitably cave to deadlines, politics, and short-term financial decisions.

It's unbearably frustrating to watch in my company.
Seriously, just bring the friggin' scores back. I feel this experiment has run its course and at this point it's really just more irritating than anything.
Yeah that's another really great reason to aim for a wider segment.
Of course not. And if al3x had just said that, it would have been swell. In fact, that would have fit much better with his claim of openness than the cookie-cutter non-answer he actually gave.
I use Unfuddle. For $9/month we get 4 active/4 inactive projects, 10 people, unlimited wikis, unlimited repositories, message, milestones and a ticketing system. Suits what we do to a T
I found the original ad that has had me waiting for the theatrical release for the past two decades.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thwarted/5742024292/

Jan 1989. "Soon to be a major motion picture".
Funny that you mention iTunes, it's presumably completely off Steve's radar now. Just try right clicking on a song, see how clunky it is.
They do. Yaron has stated a few times that Ocaml is their go-to language in almost all cases unless it really cannot be used.
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+1

The alleged weighting of comments within a thread is a complete failure because of that exact reason. I actually get a headhache from the frustration of knowing that weighting is done so I have to take into account the size of the thread to decide if something deserves my special attention. What a pain.
Getting used to a salary off the bat. My first job offer out of college was >250K, and I stopped living frugally too early.
Looking at what they have on github convinces me that they will fail. They are playing with Javascript and Java toys. This is a wasting of time and money. ^_^
This is not a good question to ask for a few reasons:

1) if you are running a successful and growing startup, your salary should be as low as possible (you want to funnel as much as possible into the business)

2) if you are running an S-corp in a specific area, you are forced to take a salary determined to be "reasonable"

3) if you are working in finance, the scale is fundamentally different compared to working in tech or in a startup.

4) Cost of living is much less in some areas (e.g. texas) compared to others (e.g new york city)
I guess what I am looking for are things that are in line with the type of content Suster, Fred Wilson, PG and his essays...this type of stuff. Who else should I be reading?
I guess you could say making iTunes less clunky was presumably one of the 1000 ideas he said no to so he could focus on the iPhone/iPad.
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There they go trying to be "hip" again, thinking they are important enough to cause trends.

They also stopped supporting PHP 4.4 which means hundreds of thousands of legacy installs no longer do automatic updates because their update code (purposely? lazily?) has a few lines that don't work under PHP 4.

IE6 is one thing to go "meh" about but WordPress installs that do not do fast easy updates are time bombs.
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I know of SEO companies who have an army of laborers working for $4 a day in India. They build thousands of fake blogs and link farms.
To the devs
I am jake75 on kaw or kingdoms at war but I would pls like u to unmute me I was muted for not saying spacific ages and being silenced tought me a lesson i didn't think it was fair because I couldn't talk to ppl who sent me messages thank you
http://www.chromeextensions.org/music-videos-photos/youtube-...
Presumably because he was connected to the 3G (or other data) network. Unless he can run tcpdump on the iPhone itself or become a man in the middle between the iPhone and the data network, he couldn't capture traffic.

An interesting test would be to connect the iPhone to a regular wireless router, measure the activity, then compare that to billing activity. Although my Android Galaxy S, for example, connects to the data network to look for updates even though it is connected to a wireless network -- so this test could be moot.
Is there any shortage of cheap crappy PHP hostings?
Unfortunately, the overwhelming majority of internships seem to be for current students, which means this advice is of limited utility for those who have already graduated.
They don't actually know that the deviation was caused by the twisting of space-time (and neither do we). What they knew before conducting the experiment was that they had a theory (Newton's) which predicted result A, and another theory (Einstein's) which predicted result B.

They perform the experiment and obtain result B. This disproves Newton's theory immediately, and confirms Einstein's theory. We don't know that it is right, only that it has successfully made a prediction about something that hadn't been tested at the time the theory was developed.

Testing a place in space-time that should not be twisted would provide another element of confirmation, however the strongest and most interesting tests are those where the two theories differ in their prediction, not where they agree.
Wrong forum. You might want to try the MochiGames.com forum for the game, or the devs' own website.
I would also point out that there are some good magazines out there. Harvard Busines Review comes to mind. Browse their website and see if it is to you liking. If you a find an article that fits what you are looking for, chances are that person has also written a book.
My understanding is we should benchmark everything with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light
please dont speak favorably of Madison online, or hipsters might find it.

Madison sucks, move along, nothing to see here..
The problem is that to implement a policy that distinguishes between the two situations, you have to trust the government to distinguish between a Trafigura and an affair, and even harder to believe, to act appropriately in each situation. My school of thought is that you should trust entities without competition as little as possible.