skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A fluffy piece but not one devoid of interesting information, at least for me - I found the reminder of events over the last three years useful to putting the numbers in context.

The most egregious misuse of numbers lies in the claim [t]he geographic center of spammed accounts has also shifted from Russia to Saudi Arabia, which is justified by the fact that Saudi Arabia (population of around 25 million) has a spam rate of 82.2% against Russia's (pop. c. 140m) spam rate of 79.4%. It's been a while since I've seen such extreme analytical incompetence from a journalist.
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Are you saying the Prius (for example) does not reach 80 mph but the Volt does?
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I also think using +1 on the Android market (especially the web one) will greatly help with app discoverability. Just imagine +1'ing an app on your phone or on the web (maybe after you install it?) and then your friends being able to see it.

But I'm not so sure about you proposed. Google needs to be very careful here and not turn Google+ into a spam fest of apps, the way Facebook has become. Google's main priority should always be the user, not the developers here. And as they said, Google+ should be much more about life-sharing rather than sharing how you got 5 more coins in some game, or whatever.
Microsoft has invested billions in Vista and Windows 7.
It's time to upgrade

Non-sequiter.

You can buy support for legacy versions of VMS, Unix and OS/2.

Supporting all the legacy costs Microsoft money that
can be better spent on future enhancements.

It would be definitely be cost-effective to sell Windows XP support.

The reason for withdrawing XP support are strategic, not cost-oriented (nor customer-oriented!!)
Somehow I doubt that these fixed costs justify $250/hr vs $100/hr. But I am not 100% sure.
That's very interesting and ambitious. I just started using Coverity for my code and find that eliminating false positives trumps all other features of static code analysis. Sending error reports to third parties that supplied source means I have to be very precise and absolutely sure that it's really a defect, otherwise I get no cooperation.

I think it would be really interesting to develop a way of triggering static analysis rules for case-and-paste errors when the actual pasting is taking place, e.g. keeping track of what was typed in and what was pasted in. Maybe that would allow you to do things more aggressively.
As I remember it (and it is a long time ago), one of the key promises of Longhorn was it was to make .Net a peer of Win32.

At the time (Win2K, WinXP time) there were a few ways to write apps that ran on Windows - Win32 was the preferred way (using a C api), but there was also a much neglected POSIX layer, the DOS API and Win16 (the last two using what they called "virtualization" though I don't know exactly how it worked).

COM, MFC, .NET (and Delphi) built layers over the top of Win32 - so if it wasn't in Win32 it couldn't be done.

The promise of Longhorn was that .Net would become a peer to Win32, not a layer over the top of it, so it could become the foundation for moving the core of Windows forwards (as the parent says, freezing Win32 and adding stuff to .NET).

And then the security issues over XP and the ever increasing delays to Longhorn prompted the "Longhorn reset" (in about 2003?), which threw this away (making Vista a shinier version of XP with an annoying security model, rather than a fundamental rethinking of the internals of Windows).
Note they let you download the .ttf's... But the idea is the same as using google apis for things like jquery. It lets you prototype quickly without having to load a new font on your server every time you want to test something different, if this gets popular and you're using a popular font chances are it'll already be in the user's browser cache, and most importantly from my perspective there isn't any ambiguity with this list as to which fonts I can and can't legally redistribute.

Obviously don't count on Google to always be there for you.
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Ask HN: HN members with access to Google+, share some invites with other HNers?
I am assuming that Google is giving out some invites bundled with every plus account at this time.
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on a tangential note - "This was not the easiest thing in the world for me to sign myself up for, seeing as how I usually tend to avoid going places where there are likely to be people (not a big fan). However, somewhat bizarrely, I do enjoy public speaking, so I decided to give it a whirl."

I thought I was the only one that behaves like that!
Your comment would be more interesting if you explained why.
This might be interesting in ten years, when virtually everybody's running Win8 or later and I can consider using the new API.
This is a great comment, but one nitpick: "No fee-splitting or profit sharing is permitted with any person who is not licensed."

I believe this is no longer the case the UK and some other places.
I used to do this, too. It drove me crazy that my firm owned my work, though. Perhaps you have a more favorable arrangement with your employer?
I wish the lightning talks were split into separate videos so they could be linked to.
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I have a revolutionary idea. I am afraid of having it stolen from the people i sspeak to about it. How do i protect myself? Also, I am not a programmer or developer, who do i speak to about developing and designing my platform. are there any reputable firms that specialize in social media development consulting? I am looking to hire a firm or individual with an impressive track record and resume. The idea is very similar to foursquared in structure but a whole new idea with a much bigger market cap.
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That's how I feel as well. Actually I never really thought Facebook's interface was that good - mediocre at best. But one thing I thought was cool was the way it handled recommendations. But because Facebook had this design flaw built in of allowing anyone becoming your friend, and then sharing everything with everyone, the recommendation engine has become a bit useless, since now it's more of a way to discover other people, rather than connect you to your real friends, the way it used to be in the beginning.

This is a design flaw of all previous social networks, including Facebook and I believe it's what led most of them to become irrelevant for the users, because it really weakened and diluted the types of relationships you can have on Facebook.

I also don't think this is something you can just patch up later on. They tried it with Lists and Groups, and it didn't work. Google+ has this built-in from the beginning and it's why I think it will succeed. I've actually noticed this is a huge problem about a year ago and I've been thinking ever since how this could be fixed. Google's solution is similar but even better than what I thought was the solution. It surprises me how well they got this.
It's never just one thing or the other but understanding your domain is a necessity and years of experience counts for a lot. Also, the first guy out often ends up with arrows in his back, something I learned from the first couple of startups I worked for.
Isn't that sort of what Google is doing with Circles?
Related: Derek Sivers' 3 minute TED Talk on leadership (it's perfectly spot-on.): http://on.ted.com/9O9d
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Also, you're focusing on statutory law. There is a whole, great, big, huge area of law that is contracts made between two arms-length parties.

Very little of what I do as a lawyer involves interpreting or applying specific statutory laws.
Also on HN as http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sivers or more usefully http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=by%3As...
"demands that he returns the trophies and prize money of the World Computer Chess Championships in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010."

What if he just says "no". Is there anything legally compelling him to comply?
Having two names may create less friction as your company evolves, e.g. you can change the name of the company while keeping the name of the product, or change the name of the product, sell the irghts to distribute the product line to another company, or buy rights to another product .
Okay, yes, people can download the music easily without buying the book... Do you really think those people would buy the book to get the music? Do you really think they couldn't find a torrent with it instead?

No, that is a nice, legal bonus for people who buy the book. That's all.
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Shoot me an email. I didn't find your presentation. I did find a Yahoo Answers on "Can a 4 foot long ball python kill a 4 lb. kitten?"
Google has a transition period for that. It's Private/Beta -> Normal users -> Google Apps

It's so they make sure it's a very polished service by the time it gets on Google Apps.
I don't know Google's reasoning, but as an occasional researcher of spam, I like to be able to see the spam that comes to me. Maybe "auto-delete" would be a good optional setting.
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I do live in NYC. Never bought furniture on craigslist. If the app assured me there were no bedbugs, then me might be talking.
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I don't think so. Asked a few people who has access and some even work inside Google--there isn't an invite "box" yet. It seems like Google is keeping it tight on this beta. But in the words of Principal Seymour Skinner: "Prove me wrong, children! Prove me wrong!"
That's almost bump-for-bump identical to my data, only I show data going back to 2002, and you're only showing back to 2009. The correspondence is remarkable:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SpamGraphs.html?HN
If all you're doing is keeping a copy of objects in a memory store for quick retrieval you might want to implement a read-through caching pattern using Memcached (or Redis but I'd turn any persistence off). Most chat clients don't allow for editing of posts, so you could just use Redis as your persistent storage using lists and RPUSH.
IMHO, there should be some description/screenshots before asking a person to do fb-login.
It has to be an extension that is parsing every page you visit.
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A model of circuitous legal babbling. It took until the 34th paragraph to spit out the crux of the argument. Save you time, here it is:

1) More sophisticated clients armed with more information and greater market power to rein in costs.

2) A globalized economy, which increases the complexity of legal work while exposing U.S. lawyers to greater competition.

3) Powerful information technology that can automate or replace many of the traditional, billable functions performed by lawyers.
And touchscreen phones with browsers and apps existed before iPhone, too. And Facebook was just another social network.

Watch the video below. It might help you realize how "new" stuff is actually created.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110622/13344514806/everyt...
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Not even all Googlers got an invite, they are keeping it very locked down.
That is not the right way of looking for a developer, neither of doing start ups. Share your idea and people will help you.

If it is easy to implement, you may try weekendhack
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The current proposals don't require the money be invested in America. Most of it will likely be paid out to shareholders as dividends. The article the parent links to provides more discussion.
any words on how you got that invite? is there some place one can sign up?
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¿Anyone can send me an invitation? :D
>To the extent that applications defining the class to which you believe your behaviour exists and allowing you to test it with a high degree of specificity, yes.

I'm operating on the assumption that you dropped the word "belongs" somewhere in there.

>There have been explicit ventures along this exact path previously in a more limited extent, that being financial products having python based code that would allow the investors to put in a set of assumptions and see what the product model would do under those circumstances.

In the same way that there have been explicit ventures along the path of the axiomatization of mathematics, yes.

>writing clearly delineated code that deals with reality in a concrete fashion

Show me some clearly delineated code that deals with the workings of a single sheet of A4 paper in a concrete fashion, and then we can consider the law. Fairness is not a fuzzy concept, it is a human concept, humans as much a part of the universe as any other. It is not really harder to measure fairness than to measure the electromagnetic interaction.

We spoon-feed our problems to computer systems so that they may analyze the parts which we cannot; your precept of a computerized legal system is assuming a priori the lack of spoon-feeding, since corruption can enter the picture here just as easily as in the old system, cf. LulzSec. Thusfar there are two pieces of secure code in existence: seL4 and qmail, and I'm not sure about the former.
Technically that's the fault of the hardware vendor for not including a valid serial # in the device's EEPROM. Did they change the behavior in later Windows versions?
Google does auto delete spam, they just don't do it until a month (i think) after the message arrives. I think that they realize that occasionally they will miss-classify some mail and at least this way you have a chance to catch it. Not every algorithm is perfect.

For instance I received three reminder email to renew my economist subscription the first two were marked important and the third one was spam... who knows why that happened. If spam were auto deleted i would have never known.
Nice article. And so true. As an engineering student taking entrepreneurship classes, I cannot tell you how many business students wanted to pay me good money to develop really (no offense) silly/boring/done-to-death/plain-stupid ideas.
I find this funny. Prepare to be sued.
I can't even begin to recall the number of times people have asked me to build an iOS app for them. The idea is always uninteresting or just a clone of something that already exists. The implementation would always take much longer than they would want it to take. The cost is always much higher than they expect. I always feel bad shooting people down, but it is just incredibly unlikely that the app will "take off" and make a boatload of cash. It's just not going to happen, so I don't waste my time on those types of requests or suggestions.
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If they have a good case for plaigarism, I'm sure they could successfully sue him for that money, and then some.
Don't worry about people stealing your idea. Tell people about your idea and get some feedback before you build.
Exactly... you may feel like you're a jerk sometimes, but people need a reality check.
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Nope, even those who have made the switch are left out in the cold (even me, and I work there.)

Tell you what: when we expand the field trial to include Apps users, and I get some invites, I'll hand extras out to HN readers with Apps accounts. If you fit this description, write to me on reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=%23raldi&subje...
Thanks :) and yeah...
Google+ looks amazing but if you think Facebook won't have these features copied within six months you are wrong. In particular the circles features which seems like the most compelling feature.

Also the "average" person won't maintain 2 social profiles and will gravitate to where the users already are. If Google wants to compete in social it's need to do more than just "sharing". They must have features that people need to use. These features may come. I don't know what that is? Deep personalized search integration? Beat Facebook to their inevitable Skype/video integration? time will tell.
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Here is a great article on getting started with configuration management, with lots of workable tips:

http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2011-04/openpdfs/Lu...
The real problem are operating systems with long known problems in their fundamental security architecture. The result is that any script kiddie can click himself a botnet together in half an hour.

If Windows had repositories ("markets" how there are called nowadays), the problem would be much less severe. And if IE would have put less emphasis in creating own "MS-versions" of HTML and JS with every new release, and more emphasis on creating a solid product, the problem would be much less severe too. But they didn't so it isn't. Lucky scammers.
I haven't followed computer chess for a few years, so wasn't aware there was such a growing controversy, especially considering how dominant Rybka has been(or was).

Maybe someone who is more familiar with the case can explain what happened to warrant such an action?

Crafy(free/open source though not GPL) by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hyatt has been one of the cornerstones in computer chess.

I am sure most aspiring computer chess programmers have looked at its source and techniques.

Fruit I also believe was open source(not sure what licence).

Now, both Crafty and Fruit are very strong GM level programs on a modern computer but are far from being the best. In fact, I(a lowly FM) routinely was able to find flaws in their algorithms (especially Crafty) and draw or win games using standard tricks(closed openings, passive no obvious weakness openings, etc.).

Rybka is pretty much immune to such anti computer chess shenigans. It has a much better "knowledge" of human chess somewhat explained by fact that Rajlich is an IM.

In fact, Rybka stood heads and shoulders above all the other contenders for a while.
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No, you're not alone. Facebook's valuation grew from like 20 billion to 85 billion in a matter of months. I really don't think they're worth more than 20 billion, maybe less. $10 billion might be more appropriate, but you might think that's not true because LinkedIn IPO'ed at $10 billion. Yeah, but LinkedIn is also part of the valuation bubble. How can a company which only makes a few hundred million in revenue, be worth $10 billion? Ridiculous.

Perhaps Facebook's bubble will pop now that Google+ is getting out. If Google+ gets to 100 mil users by the time Facebook IPO's, they might find that their IPO will be valued a lot less than they initially expected.

Just look at Groupon. Google almost paid $6 billion for it, and yet it's rumored to IPO at only $700 million. It just goes to show how ridiculous the private valuations have become. And then you have Microsoft paying $8.5 bn for Skype. Wow.

Whoever thinks we're not in a valuation bubble must not be looking close enough.
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Which is more compelling: "I don't think the last price this asset traded at is realistic" or "What's the best way to short Facebook?"

The funny part of this is that GSV has bought FB at a discount to the prevailing price over the last few weeks. Here's an interview about how they got such a low price:

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2011/06/27/how-gsv-got-facebo...

It's fine to say that FB is overvalued. You can definitely make the case for that. But every financial asset is valued based on recent trades. This trade is down from the last few. So the argument here is flimsy.

(By the way, if you're an accredited investor and you're interested in shorting FB, please contact me--email's in the profile. I've been kicking around an idea for how this might be done.)
So, I wanted to start a blog. But then I discovered that all blogging platforms suck, so I decided to write my own. Then I decided that all programming languages suck, so I had to learn a new one to write my blog.

I would say Lisp's world domination plan is coming along swimmingly.
This article correctly points out that pricing for legal services is undergoing a shift toward the true marginal cost for the service. So the law firm business model where much of partners’ profits are markups on simple, repetitive work done by junior associates is on its way out.

That said, the doom and gloom of this article (and much of the profession) is overblown. Maybe it’s because law is such a conservative profession, but any change is greeted as if it were the coming of the Four Horsemen. It’s as if the entire software industry spent its time worrying about how the internet was going to put Windows programmers out of business, instead of being excited about the opportunities it presented.

Major law firms are filled with smart and experienced lawyers who actually provide a lot of value to their clients. That value is still worthwhile--as the article points out, the rule of law is not going away.

As a law school student, I'm not (unduly) worried about this. Sure, there will be some winners and losers, but that’s what happens in business--and basically what this is about is that law firms are looking more like businesses. Why should I expect anyone to feel sorry for me because of that?
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"Facebook want you to be connected to as many people as possible because this network of connections is essentially what they sell."

I agree, but I also think that eventually, this devalues Facebook.

It's like you had this party with all your friends, and then all your coworkers and former classmates and people you met at conferences and people who share your interest in banjo music all showed up too.

And eventually, it wasn't a party anymore; it was just a random collection of people. And you started thinking, "wouldn't it be nice if I had a place for just me and my friends?"
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