skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is, but thankfully some of us now have a solution http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2011/05/moving-ahead-with-amazon-...
I've seen client sites that get 10-30% CTR w/ $4 CPC and I've seen 1% at $0.20-$0.80 CPC.

It really depends on a number of factors including the audience, their intent, how they find your site, the site layout, etc.

It may not be common but I wouldn't say it's unrealistic.

PS: If you're making $50 from 150,000 page views per month, are you open to selling the site?
What makes Google Maps so readable?
Don't ask these: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/h42ak/i_am_john_resig_...
Even though JS doesn't have language constructs for public/private, there are a number of different ways to write modules with hidden members by use of closures.

Crockford explains with some examples here:

http://javascript.crockford.com/private.html
Direct link to documentation: https://api.duckduckgo.com/. Please let me know if you have any questions.
I saw the Gossamer Condor at the Smithsonian and was struck by how flimsy it looked. But now understanding that the plane was designed primarily to iterate quickly, that 'weak' design makes a lot more sense.
It makes me wonder how many projects are too concerned about the ultimate appearance before they get the functionality complete, when appearance should flow from functionality.
Yes it will work, for your current view of working. It's not the CNAME that breaks when you do this, it's all the other records.

You can't return a CNAME and something else. So your MX, NS, TXT, etc. records will be in an unknown state based on the client resolver/software. You'll see 40%-60% of your inbound email fail.
A smidgeon of info here: http://healthgazelle.com/

And, actually, I haven't seen a doctor in nearly five years. (Possibly politically incorrect to comment on that but it bugs me to imply I am under a doctor's care by not mentioning it. It's simply not accurate.)
This post motivated me to figure out how to hack pushState support into NewTwitter:

twttr.secrets.html5Routing = true;
twttr.router._changeUrlAndCallAction = function(p) {
return twttr.Router.prototype._changeUrlAndCallAction.call(this, p.replace("#!/", ""));
}
twttr.router._changeUrlAndCallAction(window.location.hash);

Turns out they already have pushState() support... but it uses fragment URLs. This code just enables it, and wraps one of the functions to strip the "#!/".

https://gist.github.com/996381
The content of the website is beyond awesome.

http://www.emulators.com/docs/nx33_qemu_0125.htm first caugth my eye.

then http://www.emulators.com/docs/nx30_bochs245.htm
This to me is classic linkbait, how it is on the front page is beyond me. The "made for google adwords" sites are the bottom of the barrel when it comes to online income. I am surprised this guy doesn't have a bunch of ads on his blog so he can make $2,000 a month telling other people how to make $2,000 a month.
I don't understand Clay Shirky's argument. He repeats several times that micropayments have not come about and treats this as evidence both that they cannot work and that users hate them.

How can he be sure, since micropayments don't exist, that they would fail if they did exist? What about an App Store that charged 50¢ for an app? What about a chance to add-on a 15¢ donation to a charity after buying a stream of a $1.15 TV show? These don't sound like such taxing choices to me ("low mental transaction costs" in Shirky's phrasing).

Shirky refers to "history" several times but he's a bit vague about it. I'm not sure whence he draws his conclusion about user opinion. Maybe he is thinking of some examples that I'm not.

In my view "history has taught us" that once a system becomes familiar to users, they accept it and work within that system. So it then reduces to a chicken&egg problem.
No,the market share is important. Why? Because what's key in a disruptive technology is that it creates a situation where you have a hard decision to make. The reason it is the innovator's DILEMMA is that the company realizes that if this disruptive product suceeds they probably, in the medium-term, lose a lot of money. But its necessary for long-term survival, but doesn't guarantee it.

The iPad is a no-brainer. If it does well then Apple does really well. There's no dilemma. It has good margins and out the gate better sales than the Mac. No one at Apple stomped their fist on a table and said, "If the iPad does well, that may spell the end of this company! We can't afford to do this ipad Steve, it's not in our best interest." No one can make that argument.

With disruptive technologies you can make that argument. In fact the argument is typically so compelling that it wins.
14 Year Old Call of Duty Hacker Hired by Microsoft
Please compare apples to apples. Amazon S3 offers 99.999999999% durability of objects over a given year. S3 also offers a complete API with the ability to setup elaborate ACLs. What is the advertised durability for the Picasa API, and what similar features does it offer?
I can't comment on all of those, but the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is not in the same category of importance as the examples I gave. It's an accomplishment certainly, but not a theory or discovery of GREAT importance to the world.

I do agree that public key cryptography is hugely important to the world, but it's technology rather than a discovery or a theory. (For the same reason, I didn't put the Web or Wikipedia on the list. It's very important, but it's technology.)

Are you saying that some of the others on your list are (a) recent, and (b) in the same magnitude of importance as the Big Bang and Godel's incompleteness theorem?
Fat is never regarded as 'attractive' at least in my native country (I'm from Vietnam. I believe Vietnam has a very similar culture compared to China.)

The most intuitive way to explain why 'being fatter' is regarded as a complement is this: People often say 'you look different' when they see each other after a long time. Now of course there are two way provided the person looks relatively okay, that is being fatter or thinner. However, thinner might imply that he/she was sick or something that caused him/her to lose weight. So saying 'you look fatter' is a way of saying you're doing well. In fact, Asian people tend to be thinner -- even in the US -- gttp://www.statehealthfacts.org/comparebar.jsp?ind=91&cat=2 . So it's _understandable_ why such Asian countries don't consider 'getting fat' as an offensive thing. Also it's more like a figure of speech now.
David thanks for the feedback. You raise some excellent points. Designing a simple and direct site is easy when you only sell one product.

The challenge is how do you add more products while keeping complexity to a minimum. We still want to have a clear message to someone that lands on our page but now they have more options as to what they can buy on our site. I guess it is a bit of a trade off.
So if you refuse to play ball and pay the license fees, what's Microsoft going to do to stop you? They obviously won't want to take things to court, as that'll mean exposing exactly which patents of theirs are supposedly being infringed upon.
You make it sound so easy, I know it is not and I can do all that you have stated, but that will take sometime. If it was that easy you can keep that process going and make alot.

I know a site that has a good amount of traffic and makes nothing from Google Ads. Not saying its not all possible, but just not as easy as you stated and somethings you left out on doing it all correctly.
I love that quote about "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" because it's so true.

Sometimes I see people who refuse to use coupons in stores because they think it's beneath them (even if the coupon is right in front of them in a display for what they are buying).
For biology:

- Various advancements in stem cell research. Eg: skin cells into stem cells.
- The creation of a living organism with a completely synthetically constructed genome.
- The sequencing of the human genome.
- Nearly all of neuroscience.
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Pick a domain where you have to actually contact the NIC in-country to register a domain.

Most of the .me, .eu, .asia, .ws, etc. are operated by US companies (Afilias, VeriSign, Neustar) under licence and subject to US law.
But huge, glaring exceptions can disprove a 'rule'. Risky? sure. Insane? These examples strongly indicate otherwise.
Domain name search tools
As long as the bootloaders are unlocked, who cares what the default software on there is? Just load up CM7 and you're good to go.
The implication is that anyone who has spent thousands of hours mastering PHP should be well aware of its bad points, and can only contend that its "good enough for the job".
Feedback on angellist profile of carnot
Semantic Vimeo for lecture slides& http://socket.io/ for problem solving by reference
A rentable space of semantically related knowledge objects with <i>shorter</i> noise/signal ratio ,learning curve while problem solving by reference.
I'd say it's because you consider the 'GREATNESS' of a discovery is correlated how well it answers a simple question that almost anyone can come up with. Evolution is a great answer to simple questions about life for anyone willing to accept it, but subatomic particle research just doesn't have immediate implications to most people.

Edit: Also, what are your thoughts on technology? While it isn't a theory or scientific discovery, personal computing has had a major impact on society in the last couple of decades.
NASA creates super-cool cooling technology
The funny thing about all of these types of things is that they always mention storing or exchanging data with a central computer. There seems to have been a raft of really bad (and I mean really bad) patents issued for every type of little number or data bit that can be stored on a computer.

Yeah, computers store data. No, you're not a genius for thinking of yet another little thing to put in your computer.
I've been using this concept myself for the last year. After years of abandoning projects, this seems to do the trick for me.
It's like search was in 1998: there's always room for something new if it's better than what existed previously.
The main reason I (and others) say "Ideas Don't Matter" is because there is an abundance of ideas. Too many people have too many ideas, and everyone thinks their ideas are great.

This Silicon Valley 'mantra' (in my opinion) is valid in order to teach people the importance of execution.
Imagine the added complexity that you would require to do that -- you'd need to have more hardware than a general-purpose search engine. It's also complicated to precalculate anything, as there aren't a list of regexes that are more likely to be entered, unlike text (a dictionary).

Who would use the regex search? Only programmers. So your market is tiny compared to a general-purpose search engine.

So more expensive queries that are harder to code up for many fewer people? Sounds like a losing bet.
The section on deprecation appears to say that the service may be deprecated without a deprecation period "providing the Deprecated Version of the Service could create a substantial economic burden as determined by Google in its reasonable good faith judgment". This is the explanation they used for deprecating the translate API, "substantial economic burden". Nobody is going to be able to argue against Google's "good faith judgement" on this point, so it sounds to me like this service could effectively be deprecated at any time.
Two months ago we had a story that 14 qubits was the largest quantum computer yet (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2404470). This one now has 128? Is this just a money difference, was this a huge engineering breakthrough, or is there something else going on here?
I'm not surprised this has happened but I wouldn't expect this from Microsoft nor with a person who has defrauded others after hacking a system.
I wrote a simple library based off of Crockford's writings to make creating reusable constructor functions that supported public/protected/private simple (and without resorting to silly "if it's preceded with an underscore don't touch it!" business). It was written mainly with Node.js in mind, but you could strip out the CommonJS package stuff and use it that way.

https://github.com/zoips/Gizmo
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Medium length hair styles this year are all about touchable texture, softness you can see, and effortless beauty. Nothing has to be perfect and your attitude reflects that carefree feeling.
Ideas matter like cash matters; only as an aid to execution. Any successful business of any sort will use many good ideas per year to succeed.

Edison's great idea wasn't the electric light; many knew that was a good idea. Edison's idea was the industrialization of research; solve the problem by brute force. He used many good ideas along the way, many not his own.
Maybe it's a double bluff thing, like when Valve caught the Half Life leaker: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-sto...
I don't see anything in that statement equivalent to "hired". Is there another source that indicates this?
They discovered the algorithm used, but that doesn't allow them to read the data - they'll need to actually crack the encryption first.
Yes. And, sadly, USENET still has a lot of ways it was superior to current web-based forums, blogs, etc.
Understanding .htaccess attacks - hiding malware in there
Patriot Act was signed back into law remotely via "autopen"
Location, location, location. Columbia said no thanks. CMU said "okay, but no CS major". Case Western offered better money and athletics but it's in Cleveland. Johns Hopkins seemed like 80% premed jackasses. I didn't consider Georgetown because when I was looking at schools my dad didn't want to pay for parking.

I initially wrote out a very long description of GW before I realized you had attended. So shortened considerably:

I went to grad school at U of Michigan and have come to the conclusion that most colleges/universities are basically the same. For such an important decision with such wide-ranging consequences, where you go to school is relatively hard to screw up. Undergraduate education is mostly foolish and cult-like behavior--Go Blue!--in a pretty setting where you can find an education and lifelong friends if you look for them. When people recommend a school they are usually recommending the cult. I went to Freshman orientation on my 18th birthday. I had been away from home a week and living down the street from the State Department and the White House when the Pentagon went boom. GW was my training ground for adulthood. The experience is so integral to who I am, to recommend it feels a bit odd.
Interesting, but I wonder how merchants will put up with strong, Groupon-like demand for a single item. Also, this stood out for me:

"Banking on the fact that restaurants can’t take stellar pictures of their own food (food pics are a big deal), it sends out a professional photographer to get the job done."

Professional food photographers can make Wendys look delicious -- what happens when I pay for a delicious looking Kung Pao chicken on the web, and the restaurant delivers a more "everyday" experience, possibly made worse by the increased strain of preparing the same dish over and over again? I'd tend to feel a little ripped off by the site that sold me the deal, not necessarily the restaurant.

Bookmarked to check back in six months...
These are technology (not theories or scientific discoveries):
- SQUIDS (1964/1965)
- Semiconductor Photolithography (1982)
- Nanotechnology (1980s)
- High temperature superconductivity (1986)
- Quantum Computing (1982)
- Spintronics (1980s)

And these are old (which was my original point about nothing
happening recently):
- Josephson effect (1962)
- Inflation theory (1980)
- Gluons (1979)
- Experimental verification of quarks (mid 1970's)
- Quantum Chromodynamics (1960, modern version 1975)
Yeah this is the kind of imprecise descriptions of technical things I hate. If it were an article written for the average person I might let it slide, but if you're setting up DNS records you should have a clearer understanding of what DNS is, rather than something that "allows you to route all traffic from one domain to another".
We use Google Translate where I work for a some very small customer service related tasks. Our business is not "built on" Google Translate (and has nothing to do with translation), but it solves some small problems for us and is easily worth $10-20 a month for a low volume of requests. Actually, since we already have it integrated and are happy with it, we'd probably pay more just to have the problems solved so we can focus on really important things.
No - basically, have your contribution be measured in how much value you added to the business. EX: App redesign makes sales go up 10k then the work was worth 10k
I wonder what that was about.

They are only second to Amazon in customer service quality IMHO.
you should NEVER rely on ANY API

Well that's a bit extreme, a better approach would be to acknowledge that your reliance on an external API is a risk that you're taking in order to save the development costs of DIY. If it's critical to your system, you need to have as part of your risk management a plan B that you can either switch to, or develop in the background. But overall trading development time for some risk makes sense a lot of the time.

Unless the API is something with no alternative, and not easy to replicate, then you have an issue.
It'll drive you mad if you try to take it too far. It's a shortcut to a more complex concept, not a rule.
A great team will eventually arrive at the right idea.
There's an abundance of people too. You wouldn't say people don't matter.

You can teach the importance of execution by emphasizing execution.E.g. two teams with the same good idea, one executed and the other one didn't. You don't need to devalue other factors in order to make a point.
Probably the same type of developer that assumes WordPress is an example of professional PHP code.
Had the same thought. I thought the post was about encouraging programmers to start side projects that make money and not feel bad about it.
As an owner of an unlocked phone, that would be awesome. It's probably still very uncommon to buy an unlocked phone though, and the carriers don't want to give up money. As it grows more common, maybe I will get to see that day.
My claim wasn't first, it was top. You up-end the Copenhagen interpretation, show the universe really is deterministic, and every other argument on this subject, in every discipline, collapses. As it is, the arguments are almost certainly failed, but it's not quite a cinch. Because probability admits determinism as a special case. One of the deep points of Norvig's essay.
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Thanks for the comment, brockf. I'm sorry the essay didn't make sense to you. Let me try again on a few points.

Are you saying that one statistical error in a probabilistic model makes the entire model wrong? Then you'd equally have to say that one logical error in a categorical model makes it equally wrong. And manifestly, there are many logical errors in all grammars. So I'm not sure what your point is here.

I'm interested to know: I quoted Chomsky: "That's a notion of [scientific] success that's very novel. I don't know of anything like it in the history of science." Do you agree with him? If so, do you judge all the Science and Cell articles as not being about accurately modeling the world and only about providing insight? Or do you think Chomsky meant something else by that?

I understand that there are two goals, accurately representing the world, and finding satisfactorily simple explanations. I think Chomsky has gone too far in ignoring the first, but I acknowledge that both are part of science. I further think that statistical/probabilistic models of language are better for both goals. This is obvious to me after working on the problem for 30 years, so maybe it is hard for me to explain why. I think Manning, Pereira, Abney, and Lappin/Shreiber do a good job of it. Also, I don't see how a system that successfully learns language could be anything other than statistical and probabilistic. I agree it is a long ways away ...

-Peter Norvig
That's besides the point. Just because you can't use it anywhere doesn't mean it's not available.
It's all fun and games until a picture makes big bucks. Then, you'll see lawsuits; I didn't read the user agreement well, didn't understand it, it's unfair, it violates [insert law of any US state]...and so on.

Have you seen that CNN and the likes make it absolutely clear the intention when they seek pictures or video for live events (earthquakes of example)? Not hide it on what would page 83 of an agreement.
There's no question that personal computing, the Web, Wikipedia, advance in semiconductors, networking, etc. have been amazing in the last few decades. That's why my question is not, "Where are the great technical developments of our lifetime?" :-).
Take a look at SaaSy
I wasn't going to name names, but I remember many people not being pleased that we were required to buy his textbook even though he had clearly checked out. In fairness, he had a great reputation because he was a very good teacher. He just took his sweet time retiring.
Happened to me, on vim – i used to work with TextMate, and I really wanted a text editor that I could easily use on my servers as well as on my local computer.

I started using vim, and at first, it was kind of hard to get used to all the commands and remember everything... but after a while (1~2 weeks) it felt so fluid and easy – everything makes kind of sense, it's easy to install new plugins (pathogen ftw!), it's easy to hack those plugins, themes (most of the time) just works.
Nokia is one of the most active Android contributors, and other surprises
The people I've known who were eligible to but refused to use food stamps did not feel it was "beneath them"- I'm pretty sure they felt that they didn't truly need them, and that there was someone worse off who needed them more than they did.
That was a short bubble.
I'm not sure I understand the attraction of writing a fast interpreter, as opposed to writing a JIT or ahead-of-time compiler. If you're going to the trouble of optimizing the hell out of your interpreter, yet compiling will always result in faster execution time, why not go directly from an easy, one-off slow implementation to writing a compiler, instead of spending your time optimizing the execution loop?
People that don't execute don't matter. The idea of an "idea" is too abstract to have this argument really. If an idea is as long as a sentence with no further in depth exploration, it really doesn't matter. If it is becoming more of a plan then you might say it matters (which would be going down the path of executing an idea).
D-Wave has a long, long history of making grandiose claims and completely failing to back them up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems#Criticism

All this press release proves is that they got a defense contractor to spend $10 million dollars.
I think that as HN becomes more popular it is only natural for the quality of the comments to decline.
1. do all of this

2. realize that point 15. is by far the most difficult and time consuming of all steps

3. ...

4. no profit
Huh, I should be happy for Microsoft hiring a practiced phisher. Sounds like a good advancement for them.
Heist selling an app a second
Heist going to take down angry birds?