skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The classic statement on advertising is attributed to John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922), a businessman who pioneered department stores in the United States: "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." As long as tools to analyze which advertising money works and which doesn't in an overall advertising campaign leave room for hand-waving, merchants will spend too much on the advertising arms race.
Features discussion with Gavin Andresen (bitcoin developer), Bruce Wagner, Benjamin Friedman (economist at Harvard), Ronald Mann (law at Columbia) and covers the basics of bitcoin, legality, and even mentions recent events (including MtGOX's recent problems).
The Windows version seems to wish it was iTunes.

Other than that, its quite responsive.
What browser/OS, exactly? The font is... weird (too light?) on Chrome/Win7: http://i.imgur.com/3WMkT.png
Spotify Premium pricing
UK £9.99
US £6.19 ($9.99, converted using google)

The UK price is over 50% more than the US price. As someone who's been subscribing to Spotify Premium in the UK for over a year, this feels like quite a slap in the face.
Interesting that the price is 4,99 USD, while in Eurozone it's 4,99 EUR. So it's actually cheaper for Americans.

I know it's common for products originating in the USA (games, electronics, etc.) to make the USD -> EUR conversion 1:1 but it's interesting to see it's also done the other way around.

I am not complaining though, Spotify is an awesome service and well worth the money!

edit: Seems there's more people who noticed the same, it's even the same with GBP, which has an even bigger difference than the Euro.
How Google decides how much to pay for an acquisition
Auto playing the video is a complete turn-off for me.
Fiestastic is cool! Clean, simple and just works. I don't care about beautiful design, I just want to find out cool stuff to do with my friends.

I guess you will soon add events other than just for today. It would also be nice to see the names of my friends who are going (right now you only show a thumbnail of their profile pic).

Getting traction for this app (and for Crowdspottr) might be nearly impossible though. Facebook already shows me what you're showing (on the left side menu, under Events, there's Friends' events). Plus the chances of me remembering to come back to your site when I want to go out next time are pretty low.

The only way you could do better than Facebook is if you aggregated events from other sites and made your own recommendations based on my past events. I think that's one thing which most sites seem to miss. If you know the bands, festivals, parties I've been to you should be able to tell me about other similar ones. Hook into other APIs like Foursquare, Songkick, Timeout etc and you will always have an edge over any single big player.
This is like comparing Airfix and Mecano.
Spotify USA is live
Schrodinger's cat is a flawed thought experiment. Observation just means "interaction"

The way I learned it, Bohr would say "the atom is in a superposition of states until it is observed". Schrödinger used the cat thought experiment to show the absurdity of Bohr's position: "... and then, when I look at the cat, it is forced to take a stand, poof it goes 'alive', or 'dead'"

As far as I know, we still don't understand what, exactly, constitutes an "observation". Quoth Bell (the guy from Bell's experiment):

... current interest [in questions of foundations of
quantum mechanics] is small. The typical
physicist feels that they have long been answered,
and that he will fully understand just how if he
ever can spare twenty minutes to think about it.

http://www.amazon.com/Speakable-Unspeakable-Mechanics-Collec...

Jaynes is also worth reading, in spite of his non-mainstream position: http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/articles/prob.in.qm.ps.gz
Note the fine print:

The email client a person is using can only be detected if images are displayed. This can give an inflated weighting to email clients that display images by default, such as Outlook 2000 and the iPhone. It will also provide a lesser weighting to those that block images by default such as Gmail and Outlook 2007. Those email clients that aren't capable of displaying images, such as older Blackberry models and other mobile devices cannot be included in this study.
Pure speculation because I cannot make any sense of GoGrid offering, but if they offer what's usually called a "managed server", it means that you do not have the right to reimage the server yourself, you must submit a ticket and the hosting company is supposed to perform the reimaging.
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The Conclusion: A 6 Figure Business That Fell Apart When I Was 16
Couldn't get it to work in Chrome, Firefox, or IE
Anyone want some Spotify Invitations?
Invitation tokens from my account. First used, first served.

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I use thesixtyone, earbits, grooveshark, last.fm in the browser and I have no trouble at all. The thing with music apps is that I just choose a playlist/station, hit play and forget. The UI doesn't even matter beyond that.
The potential to murder with computers has been around for a while already. Governments are just waking up to it. To use the classical example: imagine hacking into a hospital network and changing a patient's blood type...
The Future of Cloud Computing, Cloudy with a chance of showers
Stop hating; this class is for those who want to be web designers, and we all know that wannabe designers who are not yet using OSX are a lost case (at least hiring for a designer position someone who doesn't own a Mac is like UPS trying to fill a driver position with someone who has never had a driver's license).
I (and I guess any other EU subscribers) have a number of invitations if anyone here wants to try the Free version before committing to Unlimited. Anyone interested in one?

Edit: can only send if your email address is on your HN profile, of course.

Edit edit: http://www.spotify.com/us/amanda/ will be less hassle for all whilst it lasts.
Spotify made me throw away CD-s, delete all mp3s and other audio files and stop being less-than-legal. It'll be interesting to see how big a foothold they get in USA, to me its a truly awesome service and currently on par with vim as the most essential tool on my computer.

The pricing is a lot cheaper than in Norway, but even here I think its cheap ($18 / month for premium) and would gladly have paid four-fold if that was the cost.
edit: Thanks.
Intro to OS X reversing
> "do you know how often people still email documents / photos / spreadsheets?"

Great, so G+ is yet another attempt to get people to stop using common communications standards like email and instead break the internet up into a set of distinct one-provider-oriented services that can't talk to each other?
Those are well-framed responses. Thanks. Khan Academy elicits my response because SO FAR, among the online exercises I have tried there, the "enlighten the student on a conceptual level" hasn't happened as much as just the habit-clinching drill. As Lang wrote (as quoted in the grandparent post), "Of course, some rote drilling is necessary. The problem is how to strike a balance."

The "mathematical form of Socratic learning where none of the steps were individually too hard but still involving enough that they forced me to think and thus develop some insight on my own" is what I attempt to provide in my live, face-to-face mathematics classes. I'm not worried about Khan Academy reducing the market for those classes (and in fact encourage current and prospective students to try out Khan Academy) because providing that sort of instruction is very hard to automate. As your example of Silverman's book points out, it is more of an art than a settled science to decide just how many steps to show with Socratic guidance, not to mention that different learners need different steps drawn out for them.
Well from where I see it, I believe it's because a lot of .com, .net, .org domains are taken.

For example, if your startups name was Twitterly, you would choose Twitterly.com, but obviously it would be taken, so they chose to use Twitter.ly

That's what I believe.
I'd love an invite if you have one.
Computer learns language by playing Civilization V
Completely agree. Way back in the day (late 90s) I decided to go hipster and hand-code my own static site in Notepad ("Suck it, Allaire HomeSite and HoTMeTaL!"), and put it up for all the world to see.

I didn't dig around too much into what would be needed - after all, I had taught myself HTML and relative paths! After a week of "Edit, Ctrl+S, Alt+Tab, F5, Repeat", I was finally happy with the (now shitty, then awesome) finished product. And then realised I had no clue how to get it up on any website, much less my own.

That was when I truly learnt how anything ought to be learnt (end-to-end). And also that I probably wasn't as smart as I thought :(

TL;DR: created website without knowing how websites really work.
Yes, please! Email's in profile.

Edit: Thank you so very much!
Does anyone have a guess as to why they are doing an "invite only" style opening here in the US? I would think with their success abroad, the infrastructure is strong enough to support the added subscribers...

Is this just to increase artificial demand?
In the UK, for a lot of things we pay the same numerical amount in pounds as Americans pay in dollars.
I'd love if someone did something similar to this in the Auckland (New Zealand) area.
Remember we don't have VAT here, so that's what, a 25%, 30% difference right there?
Hang on, but isn't designing on a Mac the wrong way around? You get something that looks beautiful on a Mac, but dreadful elsewhere? Surely you design for, or at least prioritise, for the largest audience share? i.e IE or FF?
Other interesting projects include an attempt to have a transparent open source leaking platform to carry on Wikileaks legacy.
edit: thanks
Visual.ly's infographics are not designed for the Internet: For Web, Not Walls
THE WAR - Hackers vs Scientology - Project Chanology
I used NEO from Caelo (nelsons email organiser) for five years+ [[ employer INSISTED on using freakin' Msft and Outlook ]]. NEO is an overlay (non-invasive) on top of Outlook that does all this and more - free text search etc. NEO saved me an hour a week at least. [[ No personal relationship with Caelo I just think NEO is awesome. ]]
Isogenic Engine interview - MMO Games with HTML5 and Node.js
currently 20%
>> assume that in described world, a selected type of "magic" is possible (handwaving it into a scientificly-sound concept for the sake of the reading experience) and extrapolate the consequences. What can be done with it, and - more important - how will people behave, how will it transform the society.

That's my definition of good science fiction. Asimov was the master, but I can't find many others like him. I liked OSC too. Do you have any recommendations?
This isn't a 100% conversion rate. You're investing a lot of time and effort on this and not getting a financial return. It may well help you with prospecting and could even help get you to your initial sale but please see it for the exercise that it is, which is market research, not sales.

I do hope it all works out well for you and that you get some very valuable feedback.
This presentation is pretty evil (or maybe incompetent?). It mixes up proposed standard features that are broadly supported, proposed standard features that are not well supported, and proprietary WebKit extensions that have no chance of being standardized as they are and presents it all as "HTML5". It also has code snippets that try to look like they'll work cross-browser but are actually broken in non-WebKit browsers due to relying on some of those extensions...
Your right i guess. My point was that although Khan's videos might be great primers for some topics they tend to miss the boat rather badly when it comes to topics that need a bit more depth like history. That being said algorithms might actually make for comparatively good material to explain in short videos so no need for me to be so grumpy.
That comparison chart is all that matters.
Thanks! And yes, showing events for future days will be done soon.

As of "Facebook already does it", it may be true, but they don't show you all your friends events. For today I see only two, for example. I guess they show me only the most relevant.

The thing is, once you get some traction (and that's a big IF), you can do things like showing the most popular events in your city, even if none of your friends (nor you) has been invited. And with more volume of events, you can also create better recommendation algorithms.

Another use, which Crowdspottr already has and Fiestastic doesn't (nor Facebook, at least not "easily"), is seeing what events someone else has RSVPd to, which is cool to see where you friends are gonna go or what are they interested in. Someone could say this is great for stalkers, but I digress :P

Even if Facebook does some things with events, the good news (for Crowdspottr and me) is that for them events is just a part of their graph, and I don't see them putting a lot more effort or functionality on top of what they already have, when SO much can be done with all that data.

And yes, using other APIs as well like Foursquare is a good idea (Crowdspottr does it AFAIK) but I know personally I'd be kind of lazy to put in log in details for more than one service. That, and also Foursquare is way less ubiquitous than Facebook.
People who are successful by accident sometimes develop a tendency to preach that the only way to be successful is to do what they did. It's almost like a kind of auto-cargo-cultism. "I had a pear tree in my front yard when I made my first million, so if you want to be rich, go out and plant pear trees!" Paul Graham is one of the better examples of this phenomenon. I would say he's gone off the deep end, but from what I can tell he's always been there. Of course there are nuggets of wisdom in his large accumulation of writing, but they're much fewer and further between than, for example, Joel Spolsky.

Also, could people stop spouting nonsense about what "humans weren't designed" to do or eat?
It certainly is a marketing tactic but it can also be more. Spotify is based on P2P-tech and maybe they want to slowly ramp up the network.
The ‘Dramatic Picture’ of Richard Feynman
That's a bit... dumb, and is going to turn off other fixes like this. not multi line patches, but TYPO fixes.

but then again, zend is 'enterprise class' and you need lots of red tape to be 'enterprise ready'

if they were smart, they'd just include the fix in another patch and say something like 'oops, already pushed an identical fix', cause you know, you can't copyright a correction to a typo.
I'd love one too. Thanks!
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I have a whole bunch of invitations - however, I will be leaving town for the weekend and will probably be without internet connection. So if anyone is late on the train but still interested, leave a comment with an email here and I will try to get them to you on monday as I will check the thread as soon as I get back!
So, do I want to give Rdio up for this?
To a first approximation, no one uses 'rel', much less does anything with it dynamically. The case of 'class' is somewhat different.
Here's my free passalong for free invites, it should work: http://klout.com/perk/Spotify/SpotifyFreeAccounts?passalong=...

First thought: How is this any different from Grooveshark (from a user experience perspective - I know Grooveshark doesn't give a shit about artists rights etc).

Edit: So far, search on Spotify is much faster, but the music library is nowhere near as complete... and I like that in Grooveshark when I search for a song I can see other peoples playlists that it shows up in and play those.
Dataset support is coming in Firefox 6. Try a beta build. ;)
I'm sure this is true. After all, the transporter was "invented" when the props for the shuttlecraft weren't ready for the first shoot. Someone said, "well, let's just have them appear on the surface" and presto, you've inspired thousands of people to try to create a transporter.

And it's a well-known fact that the inventor of the cell phone credited ST's communicators as his inspiration. http://www.editinternational.com/read.php?id=4810edf3a83f8
Remember Kozmo.com (1998 - 2001)? It's still alive.
The boom bust Kozmo.com, with a mission of 1 hours free delivery of convenience items in major cities, was funded to the tune of about $360 million before they bit it hard when the bubble burst.

While the idea was decent, the startup was a decade ahead of its time in terms of timing, etch, and executability. Despite its bust, Kozmo lives on vicariously through a collection of new mobile/local focused startups.
In Google-speak, "HTML5" means "anything we implement in Chrome, even if it will never actually get standardized".
Ecssperiments
No problem! If you are after Ruby support then we have a setup-script-in-progress here:

https://gist.github.com/1073858
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Smartphone feeling on your desktop - only one click to favorite app
I have seen this quite a lot recently. I believe the premise is that you may be emotionally exhausted after the interviews and may be willing to take less.
Here is the real question for you: is this offer close to something that you are earning now or some other reason their offer was so low?
If not, my suggestion would be to say no. Even IF you were to negotiate, in my experience a company that begins a relationship with you like this will only continue to view you as a commodity rather than a person.
I haven't read the paper, just the abstract. But the literal answer to your question is: You don't observe the cat. Ergo, it's like the "box" was never even opened.

Now that I've answered that, let's caution you about your deployment of Mr. Cat. First of all, I don't believe you'll need an uncertain quantum object to observe in this particular thought experiment. Life is complicated enough without bringing in more quantum mechanics than you need. Just imagine a brick. It's red. Light is shining on the brick and it looks red. Now, I install my time-bending lenses around the brick, and then at one particular instant the brick changes to be yellow, and then goes back to being red. But you don't see that, you just see a continuously red brick, even though the light was "shining on" the brick the whole time, because our lenses made a "time hole" in the stream of light and the color change happened during the hole.

I should also warn you that our friend Mr. Cat is a bad metaphor in many ways. (He was originally an in-joke, after all, used by people who were debating the apparent absurdity of a new theory.) The problem with the cat is that he's a completely unrealistic creature, and he primes your intuition in all sorts of incorrect ways. In real life you will never stumble across a coherent superposition of two quantum states as dramatically large (trillions of cells!) and dramatically different (alive vs dead!) as this imaginary cat. Real cats interact with their surroundings. A lot. They breathe and meow, they emit organic molecules that smell like cat, they charge up with static electricity (electric fields) and then run around in circles (magnetic fields), and above all they gravitate (which is difficult to cloak). So to make the thought experiment work the cat's imaginary box has to be a cloaking device, a box that permits no interaction with the outside world until it is "opened". And that doesn't exist in real life.

And, therefore, importing the cat into this thought experiment is a particularly bad move, because it's redundant. If you have Shroedinger's imaginary box you don't need an additional set of imaginary time-cloaking lenses. The box is already cloaking the cat, for a fairly long period of time.

Always be careful: Thinking about completely impossible things is fun for a while, but don't make a habit of it, or you'll become the sort of insufferable spaced-out quantum-mechanics groupie who says things like gosh, maybe when I turn around and stop believing in this tree it will cease to exist. Of course not. Tree-sized objects do not physically disappear from your universe, not without the sound of a chainsaw.
No, I'm not saying testing on computers other than Macs is wrong -- to the opposite, I think it must always be done (except maybe specifically in cases like this when you are looking for an audience of those who want to do design).

Design isn't about looking "beautiful". Design is (1) usability, (2) propaganda that relies on your audience's associative brain (peripheral cognition) to position the product into the realm of "desirable". Right now, in the minds of most people who matter, Apple designs are more desirable than air. So if the designer you're hiring hasn't figured that part out yet, his/her value to your company will be negative.
No, the goal is to make it not matter what service you're using.
Thank you all for your comments!
I am sorry for the "now" typo ... its obviously know!

BRs
Most of the servers are also located in the UK AFAIK and the first 30 seconds are always streamed from their servers. Managing demand could be a reason.
Does putty support select, then right-click and click on Copy in the context menu? That is what I expect to work, and I've seen Unix ported apps that just ignore that, and have no Copy menu item either, so it's a complete mystery that selecting does anything.
I'll see your out-of-context quote and raise you the more subtle, sensible, and actually correct quote from Donald Knuth.

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/39/whats-your...

There is no doubt that the grail of efficiency leads to abuse. Programmers
waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed
of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency
actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are
considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of
the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%. A good
programmer will not be lulled into complacency by such reasoning, he will be
wise to look carefully at the critical code; but only after that code has been
identified. It is often a mistake to make a priori judgments about what parts
of a program are really critical, since the universal experience of
programmers who have been using measurement tools has been that their
intuitive guesses fail. (…)
scary thing (imo) is that computer hacking is (compared to what you would otherwise have to do) so low cost and low risk that now "unknowable" assassinations (i.e. difficult or impossible to tell if the death was an accident or not) are within reach of everyone ...
Ah. Interesting. I don't have Lion. I'll have to address it. Thanks for the heads up.
Thank <insertnamehere> for XFCE.
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