skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On your front, you have leverage because you have options. (Well, assuming there is a reasonable number of carriers in your region.) In terms of demand, by default, they want you more than you want them, especially if you're switching carriers like I was, in which case your BATNA is not to switch.

On their front, they need to generate demand for their service. If by offering me for free something which has zero marginal cost to them they can achieve so, then of course they'll do that.

I was very explicit about that: I didn't want a new carrier, I wanted a carrier which offered me free SMS. If they didn't have that, I bid them a good day.

It was no use trying to buy that plan at the store, and it did take me a couple calls to the same carrier to get everything as I wanted.

There were a couple other perks I wanted, but those were negotiated into a non-refundable monthly floor payment + additional charges if I exceeded my quotas.

The plan (serving two people) had: 1 GB 3G internet access, 500 minutes/month of calls shared between me and my s/o, plus another 500 minutes/month for calls from one of us to the other. National long distance calls charged local call prices. Any excess in minutes or GB is charged additionally.

This makes for R$ 140/month (R$ 70 each). With wi-fi becoming increasingly fast and hotspots increasingly common, this was probably a bad deal on the long term. I guess you should never bet against people who know their trade. :-)
SourceForge is still harboring pornography and malware
Exascale Research: Preparing for the Post-Moore Era [pdf]
Yeah, here FF just opened a new tab ("Clickjacking is asking to...").

Well, no, actually it just showed the instructions - NoScript is awesome - but after I enabled scripts, it opened the tab.
Ask HN: Valuations of Health Sites?
What's a fair valuation for health sites like those targeted to dieters? I'm talking about sites like SparkPeople, and LiveStrong.com. $1 million for every 100,000 uniques per month?
Right, but the mirror would have to have been placed at least as far back as the half way point to where you want to see. If you want to see back two million years, you would have had to place the mirror one million years ago.
Most of the invited users are from the overwhelmingly male tech community so these stats have little to do with the product.
[citation needed]
On this past month I went to a couple of conferences where they showed how they build their infraestructure and their software as a service.

And seems that their commitment to software public is very real from the highest level of goverment.

President Lula DaSilva was mentioned several times.
Thank you for your reply. One of the problems I have is that I wanted my "big game" to be something that I myself would like to play and appreciate - not the stupid kind of games for teenagers - such as Assassins Creed / GTA / Halo etc. However, I started to think that maybe a game as itself will always be sort of a "toy" and that no matter how hard I try it will always be "just a game". Am I wrong?

Maybe the problem is the "topic" for the game? I just really don't know....
Why pay more money to the ICANN? obscure names+google+app marketplaces for the win.
Put it any way you want. You're complaining a gamelet company made a game out of their ToS that you find below you. Congrats, you're too intellectual for Candy Land.
That's not in layman's terms - it simply repeats the patent claims verbatim with a couple of paragraphs of commentary on how significant this is.
A guy named 'merethan' posted a great essay on the subject in 2010. It gives a good explanation of what the music industry is about and why it still operates the way it does, without going too much into the financial details.

The original article is in Dutch, so I translated it into English a while ago: http://site.jteeuwen.nl/misc/copy_is_my_right.html
Well, tech enterpreneurs are much better with math and scepticism than your average musicians.

If a programmer is able to decipher so called business requirements and find holes there, why shouldn't he check contract for himself?
Online Canucks: A Plugged In Country, eh
I disagree. He went through a lot of effort to lay down the foundations of parsing html with regexps. If anything, he's demonstrated exactly how difficult doing this is and how finicky the solution is. In short, he's stripped the sexy out of using regexps to parse html: we now know it can be done, but it's a pain in the ass, and specially written parsers are faster and easier to use. So, there should be no illusion that regexps are a shortcut in this situation.

At least that's my takeaway.
the number of patents that apple has on things that, to me, seem generic enough to generate good competition and innovation is astounding. and depressing.
The same is true of startup funding. Beware the VCs! They use these same tactics so that if your startup is sold for $20m you can easily end up with zero, even as a co-founder, even if the VCs made a big profit off their investment.
If you want to write a Ruby App you just use Neo4j with their Rest API.

You are right in all the other points though.
The Exclusive Nature of Google+ and Turntable.fm
>so frustrated that he couldn't set up email that he announced that he would give $20 to the person who would do it for him

// Not that frustrated then. $200 now that's more frustrated!
I don't think that you should see it as a loan, because AFAIK the band does not need to pay the advance back.

The band sells the right to its music, in exchange for the advance. If the band's income exceeds 1000% of the advance, it will get 10% of the income as an extra bonus. And when the contract ends, the label returns the rights back to the band.

What does the band get? An advance, possibly a bonus, marketing and promotion for the brand, and usually the rights to some other forms of income (concerts, merchandise etc).
Thanks for pointing this out. I forgot to precise that I am using XPath on Unix/Cygwin command line or in Shell scripts. Here an example of extracting the Hacker News title;url;points;user data:

curl -s http://news.ycombinator.com/news | tidy -quiet -asxml -numeric -utf8 -file /dev/null | xmlstarlet sel -N x=http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml -t -m "//x:tr[x:td[1][@class='title']]" -v "normalize-space(x:td[3][@class='title']/x:a)" -o ";" -v "x:td[3][@class='title']/x:a/@href" -o ";" -v "str:tokenize(following-sibling::x:tr[1]/x:td[2]/x:span[1], ' ')[1]" -o ";" -v "following-sibling::x:tr[1]/x:td[2]/x:a[1]" -n | xmlstarlet unesc
I just want to point out that as we further diminish returns on advertising most internet business models die. The people who click on ads are subsidizing most of the internet for the rest of us. It's easier for me to pay with alleged personal information than with money.
Methods like this work. In fact, this is a basic technique of project management: break a task down into smaller chunks, estimate the chunks, think about the chunks, make a decision.

Now, how well these methods work depend on the project.

If you're writing a CRUD webapp from scratch and you've got a good framework (RoR, symfony, etc.) you can probably estimate with high precision.

If, on the other hand, you've got some A.I. software that fell off a UFO and your mission is to get it working as part of a larger system, it's hard to estimate.

Maintenance work is hard to estimate for a number of reasons: for one thing, an existing system has a large number of requirements baked into it that you're not aware of. It helps a lot if the last guy left you so some tests but you can't always choose that. ;-)

Even "predictable" projects can become unpredictable if your 'client' changes requirements too much, or if the requirements aren't well specified to begin with. That's one reason I don't do fixed price jobs for low rollers -- I'd rather do anything else, like milk cows on somebody's dairy farm.
Anyone else see that plain text ASCII character randomly appear on the in-cockpit views?
Is there a stream which doesn't require Flash?
> found it misleading to praise religion for motivating the winners but not blame religion (in fact almost all of the very same denominations) for also motivating the losers.

My comment was about what caused the change, and the losers didn't do that.

Why do you think that these losers deserve as much attention as these winners? Or, is this a general rule?

In other news, the folks pushing 3/5 person (or less) rule were the anti-slavery folks while the slave states wanted slaves counted just like everyone else. (That rule was part of how congressional representation was determined. The "not slave" states were trying to minimize the representation of the slave states and the slave states were trying to maximize their representation.) So, anyone who brings it up as evidence of "not valuing them as people" is either dishonest or ignorant....
TAC to FCC: Set a Date Certain for the End of the PSTN
The Strangely Compelling Game Mechanic Powering Google+
Reminder: The Concept of Apps Has an Expiration Date
Not sure I'd want to be editing documents on my iPad on the subway and be inadvertently flicking / pouring my data to my neighbours every time the train hits a bump in the rails...
.. Why wouldn't square count as prior art??
Wow....what a bunch of weenies we are on the internets today. Just ignore the parts you don't like and take whats valuable... Sure some people say "why should such bullying be accepted", well you just have to ignore it to not accept it! It's called free speech, and he expresses himself in a certain manner, get over it. A truly open community wouldn't act like this and would come to a better resolution IMO. Hell maybe mozilla should give the guy a call and try to talk things over? Anyway, this is about my fill for drama llama for today :P
88%+11%+2% = 101%

That's the real shock. Double check your graphs before posting.
I wonder if there is research into gravitational lenses or other possible sources of naturally occuring space mirrors or lenses that we could use to collect light rays from the earth's past, maybe to detect its spectral content.
> Yes, and support for slavery was also strongly tied to the popular Christianity of the day.

I didn't claim otherwise.

My comment was solely about the winners.

FWIW, I think that the winners are more important than the losers.
I think the point here is don't use regexps for this. Some time ago I got into a spat with Eric Raymond about this very subject. Bottom line is that there are nice libraries for HTML parsing out there. Use one: http://blog.jgc.org/2009/11/parsing-html-in-python-with.html
Don't worry. Apple patent filings are not always a good predictor of future features or products.
Actually, it's entirely meant to.

Your velocity maps points (assumed difficulty) to real time. Once you've done a few tasks - some of which will have involved massive yak shaving - your velocity figure starts to take in to account estimating for unknown problems.

Additionally you're meant to estimate in 'points' against other tasks - was this as difficult as x? And never never ever use hours for the estimation.
I wonder what the ceaseless appeal of stories like this is. They seem to pop up a LOT.
Look at all the people on HN saying they want to hire based on SO rep and a Github account.
I don't think any of this really matters to the original topic, however...

I really doubt those German statistics can be compared to the US, without taking this into account: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_vehicles_p...
Thank you! It's now updated in Macports, as well. :)
This article is incredibly biased. It's hard to believe that he actually lists the fact that advertisers are not allowed in yet. It's an early test version of the product, and no one other than the most persistent can get in at this point.
It's as if a nervous fb fan boy wrote this out of envy at all the positive buzz around g+.
The five most effective tips for estimating are in my opinion:

- use historical data (keep previous scopes and estimates and read them back in the future)

- break down into chunks

- use planning poker: question your assumptions (oh I though the smtp was already available etc)

- estimate tasks in relative fashion: compare one to another, in the same project, or compare to previous projects (we're better at comparison than absolute estimate)

- use historical data (did I mention it already?)

If I can share something: USE HISTORICAL DATA! It just works.

As well another tip from Mike Cohn (most of above comes from him): always use ranges when estimating.
it doesn't handle script tags correctly for the example cited. anything between <script> and </script> shouldn't be interpreted as html.

<html>
<head>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var tag = '<input type="hidden" name="foo" value="bar"/>';
</script>
</head>
<body>
body
</body>
</html>

./html_input_rx test.html
input tag #1 at character 57:
name => "foo"
type => "hidden"
value => "bar"

but very cool and could probably be fixed to handle that case quite easily.
Actually I'm more interested in the answer to this question:

Was he able write an arbitrary HTML parser using regexes because HTML is a regular language or because Perl's string matching syntax, which can match some languages that are not regular, is called "regular expressions" anyway?

I am pretty sure that, for example, an arbitrary number of balanced "<div></div>" pairs are not a regular expression however you can use modern PCRE to match it anyway.
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It works as soon as you recognize things that you aren't accustomed to and estimate them as such.

New part of stack, new deployment platform, new person in the team, extra client, thing you've never done etc => increased cone of uncertainty => extra time.
Pretty sure it's a reference to this famous[1] joke:

>> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think
“I know, I'll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems.

[1] http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247
thank you for the fascinating article! I've seen this bug in other places, and I never knew what it was (and usually brushed it off instead of digging deeper to find it).
damn that's a lot of sausage
You've never been part of a successful project! Wow. Straight out of Hemingway.
I betcha this project would have more legitimacy if it were hosted on Kickstarter, which previously raised tons of money for Diaspora.

What this really highlights to me is that the web needs a well-made transaction service that is geared toward contingent pledges -- essentially, you pledge money contingent on, say, some minimum total raised, and if the goal isn't hit, you get your money back.

Currently, the major credit card companies' policies make this type of service difficult; there is a relatively short permitted window of time between payment authorization and payment processing.

But if there were an escrow-type service that could collect conditional pledges; hold on to the money in an interest-bearing account; and process payments/refunds, depending on whether the condition is fulfilled ... it would open up a world of possibilities for fundraisers by giving potential donors/investors confidence that their money will only go to viable projects.
"At the same time" with respect to its own frame of reference.
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I'm just disappointed that he didn't use the flip-flop operator ..
If you want to build site, I will pay you and we could work together on it. Maybe have it accept bitcoin transactions??
No question, any band will tell you that record sales is their least significant income source, for most merch is the big earner.

What bothers me most about this situation is that musicians would exist without labels, where as labels would not exist without musicians, the balance of power is all wrong.
Most other people here are discussing the degree to which he was/was not a bully. You've actually hit the nail on the head: this bug submitter is _absolutely right_ (old bug and new bug). Why not also remap ctrl-c to paste and ctrl-v to delete line?

I'm not sure if it is a sense of humor thing, but I don't get anger from his bugs at all. A bit of frustration, and colorful language. But that's not rage.

He's profoundly wasting his time by bothering to talk to Mozilla developers. I learned long ago that they are extremely cliquish, and don't care what you think. They will do whatever they feel like doing, whether or not it makes sense. Personally I quit using thunderbird when they pushed an updated, it broke the client, and their reply on the forum was more or less "too bad, sucker".
Obfuscation alone is not interesting, but 'code compression' (to achieve something using as few characters as possible) is a very interesting puzzle for the brain I think.
r/not always/seldomly/
How to Finish Your Story (ed: webapp) in One Week or Less
http://livestream.com/ has a stream that works on my iPad (I don't know about other devices or computers).
I'm sorry, but I don't see how a man "grinding his crotch up against your leg" can be considered a "hit on" a woman. I think you're arguing about something else entirely.
11:26am EDT or a little less than two hours from now. The launch window for today is only about 30 minutes.

http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/news/releases/2011/relea...
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This exact solar mobile charger saved my life. I was recently writing a paper for a vocational course and my laptop was about to die and I was too faraway from power so this beautiful girl had a solar mobile charger and she help me charge my laptop. Really cool device
View it in VLC
Media > Open Network Stream > Address
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368163
http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1368163 works in VLC
No, he's saying that judging sexual attractiveness is inherently objectification and that both sexes do it. Though I believe it is a fallacy to say that you can't dislike to be objectified if you are in fact objectifying others, in non-logical areas (like here) it does tend to weaken one's perceived case.
Not at all. I just don't think that hiding gender is meaningful beyond making some people feel good. It's a false set of security -- gender and identity are linked.

It's a social networking application. Knowing what people put on social networking sites, my guess is that if you couldn't see someone's name/alias or gender, you could identify the gender of a user with a reasonable degree of confidence.

The predators (rapists, stalkers, etc) are highly attuned and skilled at identifying victims. If a woman (or man) is actually awware of a specific risk of a stalker getting info about them from a social networking site, she/he shouldn't have a public profile, period. Hiding gender in that case could create a dangerous, false sense of security.
Freemium Beats Premium in Revenue Earned, Says Flurry
Create a Robot Image from any text string
The title of this link is a little misleading. If I read it correctly, the patent is actually about ad-hoc pairing of roaming devices that previously couldn't accept certain types of operations because of security regulations (i.e. PIN transactions) with terminals that can accept them. So, sales droid is on the shop floor with an iPhone, customer needs to enter a PIN to pay, sales droid can pair their iPhone with an available terminal somewhere in the store and use their iPhone essentially as a proxy to the authorised device. I don't think this would affect Square, for example.
Here in the USA, too. Bills have designation, HR1981 in this case. But that doesn't stop politicians and the press for looking for cute turns of phrase or sound bites.
It's strange to think that in fifty years of manned spaceflight, NASA has only ever built four types of spaceship: Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Shuttle. The Shuttle had a good run. It was both technically awesome and in many ways ridiculous and pointless. Anyway, time for the future now.
Have you ever had anything personal stolen from you? If you have, I would think the appeal would be pretty obvious.

Note as well, a person acting quickly can out-shine the "professional" crime-solvers quite easily; another part of the appeal of such stories.
This BLEW MY MIND.
Wisely put. People who steal and fence the goods on the Internet are obviously inept criminals who act impulsively without thinking through the consequences. Inevitably, a DIY sting operation is going to end up with a criminal panicking and trying to cover his tracks by killing the "witness."

It's an unlikely outcome, but imagine this as a reverse-slot machine. You get one pull of the handle. Three of any fruit and you win a used laptop. But if three skulls come up, you are executed.

How good a bet is this?
>Many women grow up with a sense of physical vulnerability that's hard for men to appreciate. Our culture's relentless treatment of women as objects teaches them that they are defined by the one thing that men around them want from them

Daaaaaamn are people ever good at misinterpreting this line. It doesn't matter whether women are at actual risk; it's about the perception of risk. They're your customers, not your students or children or friggin' royal subjects.

Answering the question of actual risk has basically turned into a playground of competitive sophistry. On the other hand, perceived risk is goddamn obvious, and it's what matters. You don't start a social network by alienating people, regardless of whether they're 'right' or 'wrong' to feel the way they do.
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Thanks for the 'easier-to-read' stats! Judging by this it's a good thing that I learnt Python, because my C++ skills seem to be falling out of grace. Hmm... Javascript, maybe it's time to bite the bullet...
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Anti-bully porn.
By segmentation trick, do you mean the same thing that Russ Cox's 9vx (by way of vx32) does?
Compare that to Sergey and all the IPOs. I think you'll see that it's slanted towards programmers.
Morning,
I created this as an extended-weekend project, after realizing that I'd need these hashes as a part of larger project I'm working on.

Basically, Text goes in, Picture of a Robot comes out.

Where I'm using this is sort of like an identicon, to help quickly identify a poster's 4096-bit public keys, and see if you're talking to the same man.

Is it perfect? No, but it's a quick visual guide to any text, in the form of faces, which are easy for people to remember.
Funny that you mentioned planning poker. I only recently heard about this strategy and it sounded like a great way to hash out the underlying difficulty of a feature in a group atmosphere.

There's also a free site for playing the game. It'd be nice if this somehow tied into my Pivotal Tracker account to actually set the points once agreed upon (and to also pull down the stories that don't have set points).

http://www.planningpoker.com/
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The power of a simple challenge