skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...and now you are reading into what you think people's spending habits are, based on an Oatmeal comic?

What's your problem?
Only insofar as index funds buy stock in newly public cos. Retail investors who do it a la carte are going to net hurt themselves anyway. And IIRC not many index funds buy new offerings.
I know. I actually keep meaning to properly learn perl (I can just about read it and don't really bother using it for one liners as I tend to find joe-random-scripting language + sedawk cover enough bases).

But when one prefaces a post with "You know what we haven’t had in a while? An irritating but catchy meme in which we shallowly compare programming languages based on superficial characteristics. Those are awesome" people who take it seriously deserve what they get :-)
It's not significant. In the world of search engines, you need to be the #1 or #2 player to earn major revenue. People aren't gonna wanna waste any time/energy advertising on your platform if you're getting just a handful of searches per month for say... mp3 players or cellphones. DDG is just betting on an acquisition, but it's just a wrapper around the Yahoo BOSS API.
It's not just the blog, but the main page layout and graphical assets look great too, and doesn't seem to be some 3rd party theme.
How does a Game of Thrones "mishandle morality"? In my opinion, the shows (and books) present human morality more realistically than any other fiction I've ever seen
We use MoCA to connect a detached garage. Great bandwidth and solid, but we see about 2-3ms extra latency.
Love the Hate
How does giving customers the option to rent out single room vs their entire apartment not scale?

Am I just sleep deprived? Love what AirBnb is doing, but I don't think that article scales.
C'mon, hn...

Here's a lengthy discussion about this submission: http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/i44bq/reddit_crash...

This article is ridiculous. You might flood a PBX with calls, but you certainly wouldn't crash it. Flooding it wouldn't even take much.

Not just that, but usually this type of submission is looked down upon on reddit, in the politics section.

I see no sources of any kind on this article, please please please don't let this politics stuff start clogging up the url queue...

The lulzsec and bitcoin stories are at least kindof on topic. This isn't.
Yes it does, however it doesn't provide granularity for multiple users of the same server, and unless you go for vanilla could be troublesome to customize through something like pam.
I simply commented on the non-issue with creating private repositories.

A service like this is nice if you don't have the ability or time to setup your own environments, but in my opinion could be risking a very slim user scenario.
http://www.gitorious.org/
I assume Bitbucket is free as Atlassian has deeper pockets.
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? Frank Herbert, Dune, P.40
> Couldn't this technique be used to do just about anything?

Yes. As long as the processes are all run with the same rights/users. I created an app in .Net for my old job which would detect if the F8 key is pressed while a specific database app is active/in-focus. If so, it creates a new search window (that belongs to my app, not the db app) and changes the parent handle to that of the db app window. So now I've created my own 'search' feature within the db app. For the users of the db app, they don't even know F8 feature is homebrew. It works great and people use it all the time.
Here's the primary reason it's not: There is currently no way for me to pay for a digital copy until the DVDs come out. I know they're angling for subscribers, but they're still leaving money on the table for all those like me who've cut the cable cord entirely. Get with the times, HBO.
Also check out the "CommandLineFu One-Liners Explained" article series of mine:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/top-ten-one-liners-from-command...
The issue with this comes into play of manipulating their face from different angles, which is still an issue in the biometric world. OKCupid's posted statistics on the 'more attractive' profiles, and not all the profiles use the stare directly into the camera shot.

Needless to say, yes, some of them do need this.
I developed my own password manager. It is browser based javascript and html with Amazon S3 for storage. I embed it in my home page, so for every device/computer I have it is accessable. If I don't like something I can tweak the code:

https://github.com/joelhewitt/awspass
The MtGox breach inspired me to switch to LastPass. I used to do what you did, and MtGox was part of my "medium security" tier.

Now, I've decided that there is no real effective solution other than randomly generated passwords unique to each site.

I also turned on 2-factor auth for Gmail a couple months ago - their SMS system is really effective.

I do have to credit Google for being extremely awesome when it comes to security... They noticed a few "your password has been changed" emails incoming to my inbox yesterday and immediately put a security flag on my account, requiring me to re-auth with 2-factor and change my password. Google is really proactive when it comes to security. The fact that they can recognize a high number of password change emails arriving as an indicator of possibly account hijacking is just amazing.

I think LastPass is probably as good of a solution as any. They only store your encrypted password database in the cloud. With a strong enough master password and optional 2-factor authentication with Yubikey, it seems quite secure.
Yes but...

Under standard Windows "idiot" mode users can download and install executables in user space and those apps can read, subvert, or destroy anything in user space. I don't really see how the way admin rights typically work in any way addresses this. Valuable stuff is generally in user space, not admin space. (I can get a copy of your OS anywhere, but your banking details and personal documents are in user space.)

One way to address this is to change the computing model away from file/folder-based to use-based (which is what Apple has done with iOS and is moving towards in Lion). I'm sure there are others, but I don't see anyone attempting to implement them at scale.
So Windows should have just had AutoPlay for directories, like they did for CDs.
Not sure where you are going with your dichotomy- if you are unable to correct in either case (because you don't get the option of clicking on a correct answer) then it fails. I suppose with enough perseverance you could trick the search engine into showing you what you want- if you know it exists in the first place- but then, (1) just enter the very specific term to start with, and (2) this defeats the attempts to become more relevant.

I agree with you that these seem to be small changes. So far.
What about HBO Go?
But the GPL gives you the right to make derivative works. I highly doubt Sony did the same with respect to EverQuest. So I'm not sure how applicable that example is.
I'd like to see an official "HN Marketplace". Whether that means building a new service (doubtful) or simply having pg endorse an existing site (http://www.hntrade.com, perhaps) is an open question. If pg felt comfortable endorsing, and linking to, an existing site, I think it would be a win for everybody.

Why is this a good idea? Because more than a few of us would probably be good trading partners for various things.. domain names, services, and $DEITY knows what else. But with no official market, people are left to just spam HN with their "domain for sale" and "service trade opportunity" things. And I expect more than a few people have domains, startups, whatever, for sale, but don't post because they don't want to be seen as spamming the site.

Edit: Disclaimer - I have no affiliation with, or commercial interest/stake in, hntrades.com. I just mentioned them because it's the only HN Marketplace site I'm familiar with.
Give The elements of computing systems (AKA Nand to Tetris) a shot:
http://www1.idc.ac.il/tecs/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7654043762021156507#
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If I'm not mistaken, HBO Go requires an HBO subscription.

Edit: Which requires cable.
"Awesome! Do you have any stats on how many people have installed Chrome Frame?"

I found this question interesting, does anyone know of any viable source for this kind statistics? Is the user-agent for chrome frame distinguishable?

Edit: Found the user-agent from the dev docs; "GCF reports that it is available by extending the host's User-Agent header with the string chromeframe"
If AVM were to win this case, could the copyright holders of the Linux source withdraw their license to AVM? Could the license be wielded as a sword and not just a shield?
I'm not an American and I never went to business school, but this sounds weird to me. Isn't the whole point of going to business school to start business? I guess not, then :)
No. A bunch of windows processes typically run under users other than the current user, and at higher integrity levels, specifically to prevent this.

IE is also intentionally run as the current user at a low privilege level, which makes it possible to do things like this to the IE process, but makes it impossible for the IE process to do things like this to other programs.
well, it's just a simple project, pulling the comments from hnsearch and passing them through the AlchemyAPI. Thought about doing something else with the website, but my conclusion was that a bookmarklet to analyse the comments in place was more useful. you project looks very cool
This benchmark is totally wrong as you can read in the comments of the page.

Basically he didn't turn on all optimizations on the C++ program and used the "slow but secure" version of the Microsoft STL.

Also his GenericSum uses array in C++ and lists in C#, so the C++ has to reallocate at each append.

I could go on for long, I appreciate the intent, but all you need to know is that Microsoft gave up on using C# everywhere because it's damn too slow.
This is a very desirable use case. For those who don't get it, I'd say the following:

- it's nice to use git for all the small side projects one creates, but putting all of them on github is crazy expensive if you like keeping your musings private (though not necessarily b/c you're committed to a closed source ideology :)

- the cost factor creates an incentive to misuse git (not using submodules where appropriate) just to save money.

- There are a lot of awesome Git UI programs that run locally on my laptop, gitk is one.

- FWIW his fills the niche between github and gist.
Your reccomendation is hilarious because it still does not give the user any privacy. Neither private browsing mode nor SSL will give the user any privacy from google, which is the real concern. You still log searches and IP addresses for an extremely long time.

One solution that actually does solve this is to use Scroogle or to access google through Tor.

EDIT: I feel that i should clarify that of course SSL is a very important feature to have for a whole slew of reasons and that i'm glad Google supports it, just that it wasn't relevant to my point.
EasyBCD is great! I could not for the life of me get grub to dual boot with my setup, so instead I used your tool and it worked out great using the Windows bootloader. Good luck with your venture.
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Restricting DLL injection and 'API interfacing' (if that's even a thing) to administrative users would provide no security benefit. People would just have to run as admin. DLL injection is used all over in windows to provide useful features like alternate input methods, icon overlays in explorer, etc. You aren't allowed to inject DLLs into processes owned by other users or processes of higher integrity level, so it's not really a significant security threat under the current windows model. IIRC Chrome and IE both run their processes at low integrity so those processes won't even be able to inject DLLs into other processes unless those other processes are also low integrity.
$86k in many places (say NYC or SFBay) is (just below) a living wage. Must all do-gooders be penniless?
Crowdsourcing is still almost languishing in the niche. Applications like this gives visibility to crowdsourcing as a viable, new and hopefully completely revolutionary computing paradigm. Kudos to Panos!!
I've been an enthusiastic Apple user since around 1993, and I have tremendous respect for their engineering and design. But IMHO, they've long since passed the threshold for antitrust investigation. If I had my druthers, every device manufacturer (including game consoles) would be federally mandated to offer some way of sideloading software. Hell, at least let people run their own code on it without having to buy a developer certificate!

As it stands, Apple has all the same incentives to behave badly as Microsoft did in the 90s, if not more so.
"What's your problem?"

I'm curious about the OP's logic. I believe I found a hole in it and I'm curious whether I have made a mistake or he did, and I'll be happy if he'll point out my mistake if I have one.
yes & i dont send any emails right now!
The priest thing seems more legit to me than the Newegg thing. The priests were deliberately trying to "cash in"[1] on similarity between their brand and the Geek Squad brand, whereas Newegg was just trying to use the positive associations between the work "geek" (which Best Buy doesn't own) and computer buying.

[1] - Personally I think there should be accommodations for the fact that it's non-commercial.
If you wear a tutorspree t-shirt everyday, people will ask you about it, friends will ask to wear them, and employees will wear them to work. You can get t-shirts made for less than 10 bucks each, hell you can make them yourselves with a printer. Sure, having people come up to you and say "Oh I was looking for a tutor for me/my kids/etc, can you please explain tutorspree to me?" isn't scalable, but its a great way to find potential new customers.
I see - I misunderstood your CNN-approach thing, thinking you meant reading tweets about their shows (on Twitter.com or something), whoops. I don't get CNN in the UK (CNNi but that's different) so I'm not too familiar, but I agree that that's not really the best way of 'getting social'...
I think what he means it would be handy if Flash app developers will be able to build iOS app too, without learning a separate tool.
Nothing starts at #1. Expecting DDG to displace an oligopoly built over a decade and a half in a year or two of existence is asking too much of anyone.
You should be able to use any of "Slough, UK", "Slough, United Kingdom,", or "Slough, England" and the system will identify your country as everything after the comma. It should then search for your query exactly and for what it identified as your city, performing API calls on both users and items, for a minimum of four queries.
Sorry about it not getting your correct location in the first place, the best GeoIP database available has only about 61% coverage in the UK.
I don't want to jump so many hoops just to do one damn search. Personally, I hate the country specific personalization, and perhaps it's useful to most people in my country rather than showing more US results, but I'm really not interested in those types of results myself. I wish I could just check a box in my Preferences and then be able to see the universal search results.

I know I can use /ncr at the end, but I'd rather not have to do that all the time, and I think you can't even make that the default search for the Omnibox in Chrome, which means I have to give up Omnibox, which I love using, in order to get away from personalization. And even then, I think it just means I won't see my country specific results, but it probably still personalizes my search results through other types of signals.

So fine, don't make universal search the default way to search, but just give me a checkbox so I can turn it on when I want to. I want to see the best results, period - not the best results for me (or whatever Google thinks are the best results for me).
I think people would also pay to have this algorithm programmatically identify people that are attractive and filter everyone else out.
I rate the GoT and Fringe themes as tops. I love the visuals of the GoT intro, too.
He's talking about tarring a local git repository. You can still use all the git history stuff, you're just backing up using tar rather than via git push/pull.
I will have to disagree on both the "on topic" nature of this post as well as the "looked down upon on reddit, in the politics sections."

Simply put, this is relevant to the HN population that cares about change within the current political environment. Technology savvy users of a successful YCombinator start-up organized a mass 'protest' of sorts, utilizing said start-up, for the purpose of political change.

Regarding this being looked down upon on reddit, specifically in the politics section, please see the "up vote" count for this same article in the politics section that only took me 15 seconds to find. http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/i44bq/reddit_crash...
Windows 7 Use Up, IE Use Down
hmm, wouldn't guess Google because I thought while their computing grid is the most powerful it's not really a supercomputer because it's just tons and tons of basic machines...
but maybe
I keep a local copy of old git repos on my harddrive. I backup my harddrive religiously. Provided you don't have giant repos, this works well
Just wondering: how much do they pay? I'm asking this because 1) people with the skill set they're looking for are extremely rare 2) tend to be self-employed or startuppers 3) might leave any moment if the conditions they're looking for are not met.

So what's the kind of money you're offering to retain these guys?
I want to root for companies like this in the way that other people like to root for sports teams.
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Even though the benchmark is incorrect, the flawed conclusion should lead you to see that Java is just as good a solution as C# (possibly better since it runs officially on more platforms).
Try out git-svn
As a market maker, I do NOT want the exchange also making markets, which puts them in direct competition with me.
This is interesting. I'd argue that while vaguely true, this is somewhat irrelevant. If you look at the "rival brands" you'll see that most of them produce Android tablets. So while the hardware guys will all have a very difficult time "dominating" the tablet market, together they all build basically the same ecosystem together, with Apple in a different world. Since the Samsung tablets run the same OS and applications as the HTC and Motorola tablets, I think the more informative information about consumers desires would be a graph of OS mindshare: do you want an Apple OS or a Google OS?
Close, but no cigar. According to OkCupid[1]―and data mined from its users―the most "attractive"―in this case, measured by messages from previously unknown users received―pose for men is not smiling and not looking at the camera, and for women is "flirting" and looking at the camera (although in both cases smiling gives "above average" attractivity).

[1] http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/the-4-big-myths-of-profile..., "Myth 1"
Burn Your Controllers
That is a very good point. Given that the DHS does domain seizures, and luzsec are explicitly attacking the USA, the non-seizure is very fishy.
When it suits their interests it has been a boon to the general public. Their refusal to 'licence' their DRM system used on iPods/iTunes, and their refusal to allow another DRM system (as well as their own) on iPods meant that if you weren't Apple and wanted to sell music, and didn't want to cut of 75% of your customers (those with iPods), you had to sell it in un-DRMed MP3s. Admitidly, the only reason Apple did this was to support the sale of iPods, but still.
To me this article boils down to one main point: Apple is a premium brand that's decided to sell its product for a less than premium price.

People almost always prefer the premium brands. It's a rare person who would pick a Honda Civic over a BMW 5 Series if both were the same price. The difference here is Apple's selling the low end iPad for a price companies like Samsung can barely match. You're constantly hearing stories of how Apple has an unbeatable advantage because they're already selling in such bulk.

So that's the problem. Other companies can't undercut Apple on price and lack Apple's brand prestige.
The "God squad" reminds me more of the "Mod squad", both in literal similarity and in the implementation. Maybe it's BestBuy who's on shaky ground here?
Sure, Apple has half the market... Of a market they created and had a headstart on.

Seems to me the others are catching up nicely, especially since most of them are using the same OS series.

I just got an Asus Transformer and it is NICE. Especially now that I found some software to let me remote into my desktop and have the tablet act as a dumb terminal. My tabletpc (which I used mainly as a laptop) sits unused now because the tablet is smaller, lighter, snappier, and produces no heat. I can do all my Android-y games and little apps, as well as access the big stuff from my PC in the other room, all from the couch.

And reading comics on it? Awesome.

I considered an iPad. Seriously considered it. What finally decided it was open source software and creating my own apps. (And I have written 1 so far, but not published... Need to polish it.)
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DrugCite.com - Hi guys, after watching Paul Grahams video (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2664467) submitted 3 days ago I thought it might be about time to submit what I've been working on with a group for over a year now. The site is still in the works, and we have many tools still in development, including one to help decipher terms for those who don't work in healthcare. I'm not waiting for any big release to submit this because I'd like to get some feedback from this crowd that might help before our next big update. I'll try answer questions as best as I can.
Curious why you think LastPass is too hard for the average user. It integrates with the browser and autofills stuff. Where is the point of difficulty and how can it get easier than that?
Heh, that'd take maybe 60 seconds. I've only got a few articles that I've saved, a few screen shots, and one tiny demo project.

As I said, it wasn't worth worrying about.
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I want to share my quick insights on the atmosphere in Spain, based on my own observations and the conversations I had with both speakers and conference attendees.
I think that, at this point in time, the question's moot-- much like iOS vs. non-iOS phones, the market is based almost entirely on the availability of 3rd-party applications for a piece of software. I'd like to have an Android tablet. However, for the time being, I have a 1st-gen iPad because that's where all of the applications are. Maybe in a year or two the market will have shifted somewhat, but without the 3rd-party base to back it up, non-Apple tablets have a distinctly uphill battle.
>> but all you need to know is that Microsoft gave up on using C# everywhere because it's damn too slow.

Got any proof of that?
> relevant to the HN population that cares about change within the current political environment

That's pretty much everyone, but that doesn't make it at all relevant to this site. Please take the politics elsewhere.
I can't tell you how many times I accidentally called the God Squad to fix my computer, thinking it was in fact, the Geek Squad.
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