skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It stories like this that make me think I should just build an app that does automated Facebook ad optimization, these guys could have done a lot better than they did. I've run ads targeting US tech audience at 0.5cents a click.

A few tips:

1) Buy ads on a CPM basis, if you're getting a good conversion rate then CPM is a lot cheaper than CPC on Facebook.

2) Don't target a bunch of keywords together, chances are some of those keywords have great CTR and some of them have terrible CTR, running one ad targeting them all means you can't filter out the poorly performing keywords.

3) Geographic focus, concentrating on the major tech areas rather than the whole US would probably give them a much more targeted audience.

4) Their budget was too high to begin with, you can experiment on a much smaller budget to get statistically meaningful results. Once you've figured out what works then you can start throwing money at it.
I dont believe Joyent has vested interests in Node.js, even though they are supporting the project. They are running a cloud hosting service (and my joyent servers don't even have node.js installed).
Yep, that means that every major browser (including IE6!) supports it now. As soon as FF6 has spread, we can begin to make real use of it :).
To be fair, it would be rather trivial to port the upper levels of OSX to any other Unix-like OS. Darwin exposes a very BSD-like interface to applications.

Apple considered, for some time, replacing classic MacOS with Linux (I have used Apple's MkLinux a lot).
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"text-overflow: ellipsis" is a great start, but it's really too bad it only applies to individual lines of text (via "white-space: nowrap").

it would be very useful if we had a property to truncate text when it reaches the end of a container with a fixed height. so if the container is 3.5 lines tall, 3 lines should be shown with an ellipsis at the last character. bonus points if we can specify a separator, so that the ellipsis will only be applied after the last whole word (space), line (line break), or just character.
The Origin of the word Daemon
I've been missing this feature in HTML for so long when making tables/overviews. Great to hear it's finally implemented.
I've just read through the replies here and I thought that maybe I'd throw in my two cents. First off, I do not have a 95% average. In fact, I failed 3 out of 5 courses last semester. I had piled Calculus I, Linear Algebra I, and Microeconomics into the same semester and apparently I wasn't ready to take all of those at one time.

Realizing that my GPA was so bad (1.63 as of now) got me pretty depressed. I started Googling how I could fix my GPA and how I could become a better student. I came across a site called StudyHacks (http://calnewport.com/blog/) that had a lot of great articles that were enjoyable to read. I'm going to go to the library in the next week or so and get Cal's book "How to Become a Straight-A Student" (I'd do it now, but I'm reading The Pragmatic Programmer) and I hope that the book will make things more clear.

In the coming year there are a few changes I want to make. The biggest once, contrary to what others on here have said, is that I want to become organized. I've always been the type of person to enjoy what I'll call "organized chaos". There is a place for everything, and that place is wherever it happens to be. That has to change.

The next thing I want to change is that I'm actually going to work on my problem sets. It's been mentioned that problem sets are usually only worth 10 or 15 percent of your final mark. What I find is that while they aren't worth much, not doing your problem sets will affect your test grades in a negative way. Not only are problem sets a grade, they are the best practice that you can get.

The last thing that I want to do is to get involved around my university. We have a CS society that, I'm sad to say, doesn't do much more than drink (not that drinking is a bad thing). I want to get involved with the society, generate new members, and help get the society more active. I have a few ideas that I'm going to bring up with some of the society "executives" that I hope they will like as much as I do.

Obviously I don't have a 95% average, so take everything I say with a grain of salt. I hope it will work for me though. And I think that is the biggest thing there is to consider. Just because something worked for someone else, doesn't mean that it will work for you. Try out different things and see what you like.
If Greece should have its own currency, why not U.S. states?
It was fair use and you shouldn't have settled. Simple as that.
No, not at all. Until a few months ago, Instapaper didn't require users to set a password -- you could (and originally were encouraged to) use it without a password at all.

This makes a lot of sense. If more sites storing non-critical data did this we'd have far less password fatigue and people more wary about what they trust to such sites. Just now they see their "password1" as impenetrable security when they might as well have no password at all.

Not having a password has a similar psychological effect as showing the password field in plain text, I think.
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I don't own an Android device - The 'Install' button there would seem to indicate that you can install this right now on your Android device and it works with the default browser.

Is that correct?
So this basically means, Android's browser (is it called Chrome? Or something else?) has support for plugins, right?
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I will give you another example

INT. SALESFORCE MARKETING OFFICE

CMO: "we need something new, we have sold 'no software', we have sold 'cloud', we need something to sell to investors to keep this stock buzzing, after all we don't want the company to be valued on fundamentals, like Microsoft"

EVERYBODY IN THE ROOM LAUGHS

CMO: "I have a Forbes reporter coming in tomorrow, I need to give him something"

Marketing VP: "ok, how about 'post-cloud world'. it means that we are doing whatever is next"

CMO: "brilliant! a 'post-cloud world'. ok now who is getting lunch, i'm starving"
If you don't have the money to patent it, then publish it - rendering it unpatentable due to your prior art. Nothing keeps you from being the expert in the field, but you're protected from somebody else patenting it and charging you a royalty.

The first-to-file provision essentially just makes it easier to decide who gets the patent if two people patent substantially the same thing. I don't think it's going to make much of a difference in the existing breakage of the patent system.
All the characters are adorable though!
What's the point in sharing it in this setting?
How often do people leave their keys out in the open like that? Mine are in my pocket until I am at the door (actually, most of my doors are RF or keypad, I use very few metal keys).

This is really nothing new thought if you have studied locks at all. All the common keylocks (eg: standard house locks, most vehicles, etc.) have a fixed/known set of tumblers, and a fixed/known set of pin codes. When I was more interested in physical lock mechanisms about 18 years ago I had the GM tumbler height elevations pretty well memorized, plus a good stock of blanks and templates. I could look at most GM keys, "read" the code (like 5,4,4,3,1) and then go off and make a key that would work 90% of the time. Same thing for Ford locks. It was fun to move a friends vehicle in the high school parking lot, but the novelty wore off quickly. This article seems to be the same thing, except rather than having to say something like "cool keychain, can I see it?", you have to take a high-res pic of their key from 300 feet.
Not in the same scale at all.

But a friend of my father an old hacker (reverse engineered apple2 back in the days and is just crazy good at hacking together stuff) build this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Olsen%27s_World_Clock in half the size al in hand.

One of the cogs takes 400 years to rotate around it's own axis.
> as if that's some kind of achievement or favor.

Every piece of free software we run (that we didn't write) is a favor. It's built by people generous enough to share what they did and shared so the same generous people could cooperate and build upon rhat other generous people did before them. No free license prevents such software from running on Windows and none ever will. If you feel like porting, you will be welcome.

The fact there is really no need to do it, however, because most of it runs perfectly well under Cygwin, remains.

I haven't seen anything about the POSIX subsystem that should be in Windows. It seems to me it could be used to build a more Windows-ish Cygwin.

Also, never forget Cygwin is the work of very generous people who wanted Windows users to have a free Unix-like environment they could use to run code that would be very painful to compile under Windows otherwise.
Most of the deaths are due to negligence on the part of the police. The concern is that this is intentional negligence which is never properly investigated. The IPCC rarely rule against the police however the legal system are less biased, if it gets that far.

30 seconds googling...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/may/18/ukcrime.prisonsandp...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/g20-police-assault-ian-tomlinso...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/police-def...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-13297812

Hmm... I could go on.
> It is still possible to protect an invention as a trade secret. Of course, if someone later independently invents and files, they get the patent.

That's been true for decades under existing law.

> The earlier user is immune from infringement of the patent under the "prior user defense", though.

This will be a new feature of the law under the new legislation.
Now no-one can afford node.js too!

(Azure is extremely expensive compared to say EC2 feature-wise).
I like to draw them myself using inkscape, but when I feel lazy I generally use findicons.com to find nice-looking and appropriately licensed icons.
Yes, but I don't think you get the videos without paying for an account and signing the licenses. Or do you? Can anyone verify?
Former Reliability Engineer here. Not sure for bulbs, since my experience was automotive, but I imaging it is similar. In general, we tried to determine all the factors that lead to failure - vibration, force, impurities, sunlight etc, then you try to accelerate these. So for sunlight, you might raise the intensity of UV etc. There are settings so X hours of acceleration == to X years normal use. These settings are developed in a variety of ways. After you run the test, you apply some stats analysis and a bit of handwaving and proclaim 25 years.
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There are many high profile companies giving out the shoes with the branded tags like Christian Louboutin shoes and there are people who are really conscious about the brand while shopping for all the accessories.
Am I the only one who thought the headline meant Guy Steele's Fortress-the-programming-language team is leaving Oracle?
If everyone had that attitude, we'd still be stuck at HTML 3.2... Yes, it needs time to catch up, sure, but in a few years it will be useful to have.
I entered the e-mail address of my PS3 account. Apparently my password is safe...
Funnily enough, Australia is creating their elite counter-hacker team at http://www.dsd.gov.au/. They are accepting applications.
What does this matter? They'll both revoke our liberties and not improve security. All that matters is that Joe Sixpack will think "oh my god, hackers will get my money".
This would seem the perfect situation for the EFF. At some point someone needs to choose (a) or else it will keep happening.
The best loadout IMO is the one you get by default.

I won't deny that the other weapons are tons of fun to play with, though. (Everyone has to play a Demoknight at least once!). But you will be competitive without a single drop. The guns are balanced well.
I'm not sure I see how an alternate model changes much. In the case of SIDE, it is because they are actively viewing the out-group (the site's users) with enough contempt that they need to sow discord. OK, I can buy that.

But how does it help us know how to stop trolling? Simply saying, "it's complicated!" without offering workable solutions doesn't help us here.
Perhaps. But a one-man team probably shouldn't be the one choosing that option.
Well, would you notice somebody sitting in a car 100ft away, taking a picture at the moment you put your key into the lock? A picture of a key on a table is useless anyway, since you (most likely) don't know what lock it fits with. With a van with a computer and a small key-making tool in the back, you can sit somewhere until the residents come home, take a picture and have the key made by the time the residents go out again and then you can enter without breaking anything.

Of course the camera can be hidden so that nobody would even see a guy in a van taking pictures, just a guy eating a sandwich who could push a button to take the picture unnoticed.
For me, it's more the fact that MS have officially acknowledged the existence of node.js within a windows platform that matters, rather than any particular work they may or may not be doing.
Depends on the market you're in. I'd say overall, Steve Jackson Games gained enough publicity to make it worth their lawsuit in a different illegal-search-and-seizure case, especially when you add the $300k they got ($500k in today's money) from winning it. They had a stronger case, though, since the raid was directly targeted at them, and fairly carelessly executed.
That's not even mentioning you can actually do useful stuff sitting as a passenger during the commute.
Just change your MAC address and download it at starbucks. Problem solved.

And if they get caught in western europe they may as well have been caught in the US because of the strong extradition treaties in place.
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Anyone know anything about pricing?
I hate companies that are like, "we want you to buy, but only if you take 20 minutes to talk to this moronic salesman to find out the price"
Which makes this all the more embarrassing...

1. No IT Security
2. No jobs for those who could fix it

Yer all embarrassing and stupid.
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Wow, I just paid for this game a week ago. No big deal though, it's a good game I hear. I have yet to have a chance to play it.
I've done this for year when entering my pin code for making payments or cash withdrawals. I position my hand so that it obscures all the keys, and then move one finger a tiny bit that does the actual key press, and another finger in an obvious way to make it seem as if I'm pressing another key as the one I'm actually pressing.
Just a quick question, patio - do you make a separate domain for each keyword site, or just put them as pages in a larger domain?
Excel is such a versatile tool that you could use it for daily needs such as creating lists and note taking. Or u could use it for web prototyping, creating images, buttons, or logos. And if you know vba, you can create complete working prototypes with data stored in the sheets. Do you guys know any other such tool
100% spot on. Steam is totally awesome. I find your reference to steam _model_ disconcerting though. If more companies try to copy it & we've got a distribution for each publisher then its back to square one. Actually make that square -1.
Sorry, but the suggestion that fighting for justice is somehow the thing only "irrational people" would choose totally pisses me off.

I totally understand someone making a rational decision in favor of other priorities. It's what most people would do. But thank god for people who take the road less traveled. It's to them we owe the rights and freedom the rest of us take for granted. There's nothing "irrational" about that.
Just like valgrind and compiler warnings fuzzying is only useful in decreasing the probability of unsafe memory access. It does so at a cost and still does not solve the fundamental problem.
I have a feeling that this is the type of product that potential users don't think they need or don't know exists, which would invert the marketing method from finding users with intent to finding everybody and then converting them with your story

So I would have spent the $1000 on formulating a good story and reaching bloggers and journalists (which is what they did, or aimed at, in a way)

(btw what you are advocating here is an excellent idea, I just think it might not work in this case especially as they were looking to run a campaign in parallel with a conference and piggy-back on the conference name)

Edit: I did a quick check on traffic estimator, and not only is keyword search volume low, but it is very competitive. $5 per click in adwords, and the competition looks tough in the main search results:

https://img.skitch.com/20110624-ewwhimkp5bscncyph7tuwhx1te.j...

Edit 2: a good idea would have been to buy keyword searches against 'techcrunch' and 'techcrunch disrupt'
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It's and apples and oranges comparison though. For those that like their acronyms, Amazon's service is infrastructure (IaaS) whereas Azure abstracts more aware providing a platfrom to build on (PaaS)
jQuery Mobile makes extensive use of this (though I've turned it off on a mobile app I'm making).

CanIUse shows that Firefox is the last browser to support ellipsis [1] and comparing Firefox 7 to Chrome 14 [2] shows a few other things that some web developers would like.

Firefox also has quite a long way to go on HTML5 forms [3].

[1] http://www.caniuse.com/#search=overflow
[2] http://www.caniuse.com/#compare=y&b1=firefox+7&b2=ch...
[3] http://wufoo.com/html5/
Other countries mitigate this problem by making costs awards against losing plaintiffs automatic.

But that tends to discourage people without substantial wealth from pursuing cases.

The law is not perfect and never will be.
tl;dr: arrays, dictionaries, ordered dictionaries (lists, sets and so on) are all different classes of data structures with different properties. To be efficient one should chose best one, not rely on some "all included" generic datatype.
if the homeless person was a child, yeah it would be an intolerable passing of judgement.

and if i had a huge house with more than enough space, and one day discovered that a homeless child had moved into a tiny space a few decades ago, contributed extensively to maintaining that space, and is now an adult, i would say it's completely intolerable for me to evict them at that point.
Android's browser is NOT Chrome. I think it doesn't have a name other than "Android Browser". And yes, it seems like it is extensible, although I am not sure how it works.
Node.js is that some new erlang rip-off.
One of the fundamental ideas of cryptology is using the right algorithm for the type of data and the length of its required security. If the cost required to break an algorithm is greater than the value of of the encrypted data, you're probably safe.

You can always store the password of the users again and update the crypto used, (more iterations, different digest algorithm). It's never a question of if it will be broken, but when.

Choosing iterations for a PBKDF takes a bit of common sense, yes if you're going to roflscale and think 100000000 iterations is a good idea currently, then you may run into performance issues.

The correct balance is performance vs security and you can only choose one. You want to authenticate the user as fast as possible while also making it unfeasible to recover the data. As with everything, a little common sense and knowledge goes a long way.
Android paid apps sell horribly. Since taptaptap makes paid apps exclusively, I'm guessing that's why they are sticking with iOS.
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Who killed the netbook?
It's just a cosmetic feature, so you can use it already. Older browsers won't show the ellipsis in that case but who cares. Graceful fallback is automatic.
A major thrust of what I'm saying is in the fact that Marco is a single indie developer. Not a large company with more resources.

Fighting against the federal government over this seems like picking the wrong battle.
He got is server back in a couple of days. Obviously its likely that the feds have already cloned it but its not like they kept it indefinitely or wiped it clean.

Does it suck? Yes.
Is this something he should be fighting over? Not in my book.
I've always wondered about this.

Also: I pronounce "daemon" as "DAY-mun," as opposed to "demon", which I pronounce "DEE-mun." Do the rest of you make this distinction?
I'm old and set in my ways at the ripe-age of 29 and like my sql processed as prepared statements that reside in my data objects. I also curse everytime I see relationships between data that do not boil down to int (size of system's cpu architecture) equivalency checks.
I've been maintaining a jQuery plugin for the text-overflow property for a while. It works well in most cases: http://www.bramstein.com/projects/text-overflow/

You can see a test page here, which only works in Firefox due to the feature detection:
http://www.bramstein.com/projects/text-overflow/examples.htm...
Actually, the problem is harder. For instance, in Australia, those working in the resources sector are enjoying a boom while the rest of the economy is in the doldrums. The so called two-speed economy means that the Reserve Bank has a difficult time controlling inflation by means of interest rate.
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Targeted likes or just likes in general? There are folks on Fiverr who can deliver untargeted likes at 10 cents a pop (which might be useful for the initial social proof). No idea how they do it but I tried as an experiment and they don't all look like zombies.
Is there really a need for a submission of something that is very old, and is one of the links in the footer on every single page of HN?

I'm actaully very slightly depressed that this made it onto the front page, even if it will only be for a short amount of time.
The two secrets as I see it are:

1. you need to start with a project instead of just blindly reading technical books.

2. Having a mentor really helps.
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