skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Link gives me 404 (or is that the point?).

But going by the comments, a Bob Newhart therapy is in order: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYLMTvxOaeE
If you don't mind me asking, who do you work for and what makes the deal site sustainable for local businesses?
The data here is a little odd to me. Sometimes Chrome 13 is much faster than Chrome 14, and vice versa. The same happens when comparing different browsers.

I guess it's possible there are such huge differences, but it's surprising to me.
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Windows 7 password recovery tool USB help?
I guess you could quantify it with % of code. I've never actually snooped around inside of there, and I'm basing what I was saying off of things I've read here on HN. Maybe I'm wrong, but I've gotten the impression that a larger percentage of the Safari code base is not open source than Chrome.

Saying that any percent >0 causes the software to not be considered open source is also drawing a line. Either way in my opinion it's subjective where you choose to draw it.

I agree that Safari should be included. I was simply disagreeing with the parent, because I got the impression that he or she was saying they are equal. Also, if someone decided they wanted to draw the line somewhere where it would exclude Safari, I would understand where they're coming from, and agree, as Chrome is more open sourcy.

Edit:

> "If you want to draw lines and make it sound scientific then you better show us some numbers. "

I'm not sure where you're getting this. I wasn't trying to draw lines or making anything sound scientific. All I said was that more of Chrome is open source, that's it. Like I said, I feel it's subjective as to where you draw the line, which is why I was disagreeing with parent. I felt that he or she was making an objective claim with how it should be. In my opinion if you insisted on being objective about it, you would probably have to measure the % code or whatever. I don't believe that the objective view on it is treating any software with greater than 0% proprietary software the same.
Both Bethesda and id are subsidiaries of Zenimax[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenimax
Given the incentives in place, the supply and demand curves for methamphetamines still meet, and the market clears.

Sure it does. But the individual actions that occur in so doing are different than they would otherwise be. So you've got hordes of young black men (yes, stereotyping, but to make a point) killing themselves supplying drugs. This wouldn't be happening in the free market; you'd be buying it legally from your pharmacist, or even the local convenience store. Those young men would still be alive.

the fall of 2008 was the efficient outcome.

I've no doubt that this is true. Unfortunately, even in that, the perversions of the market have not been allowed to resolve themselves. We've got the "too-big-to-fail" thing that is continuing to incent risky behavior, and we've got the government shoring up housing prices, preventing that bubble from deflating.
A Man-in-the-Middle Attack in the Wild
If you're going to raise irrelevant political issues like lightbulbs, at least place the blame where it belongs, which is not on "Congress" generally, but on a few Texas House Republicans (Jo Barton in particular), who are idiotically attacking the idea of having standards to increase energy efficiency.

Placing the blame on Congress generally spreads the incorrect belief that all legislators and both parties are responsible for criminally stupid stuff like this. They're not.
The Xoom ads I've seen are fairly baffling, full of robots and weird spaceship thingies. In contrast, the iPad ads almost seem like anti-marketing. Look, here's what the product looks like! Look, here's what the apps do! Of course they're actually very cunningly designed (it's difficult to get simple things done that well) but they at least let you visualize what the iPad is and what it's for, which is more than I can say for the Xoom.
I try to play most FPS games as if death is permanent, though I don't make such a rule. Rather, I simply don't enjoy the kamikaze rush that pays off maybe 80-95% of the time but looks like something out of a Hollywood action movie (this seems more the style where Crysis was targeted), but rather the reasoned, considered approach that works out 99.5% or higher (and might be a realistic approach if one were actually living in the game universe). Immersion just doesn't work for me if I can't do that.

So I don't like CoD and other linear shooters which present you with a series of scripted shooting galleries and a quota of targets to hit before allowing progress (it's utterly mindless); nor do I like (any more) the Quake / Doom style of horror "surprises", where long straight corridors and shadowy alcoves are near certain to contain unpleasant ambushes (it almost punishes foresight); and nor do I like Half-Life 2 and its episodes, which do not reward exploration or observation - every possible "bad outcome" is blatantly and repeatedly telegraphed, and almost every interesting alcove turns out to actually be the way forward because the obvious way forward turns out to be blocked: HL2+ are over-designed.

With more and more games focused towards consoles, lacking first person (I would have enjoyed GTA4 more if it were first person outside vehicles), and with "crouch in cover mode" features activated by dedicated controls (I thought ducking in and out of cover was part of the challenge?), I sometimes fear the depth I seek is getting harder to find. But I'm not sure. Games like the Thief series, Deus Ex, Far Cry 1 & 2, and modern RPGs like Oblivion and Fallout, are probably actually coming out with roughly the same regularity as always, just that memory compresses them.
You mean that it fits on your choice of browser at your monitor resolution and text-size setting; right?
Restoring a jukebox with an arduino
Delta deploying iPads to pilots as electronic flight bag replacements
Valve may have creative rights on the details, but I'd be surprised if they could convince a judge that they own the rights to a whole genre of gaming. Especially when there's already a plethora of popular games already under it.
Thanks for this. It makes a lot of sense. I even take it personally when a brand I love holds an event or a specific sale that is accessible to everyone, even people who are not in love with the brand as much as I am.
The value of each Motorola patent is exactly equal to Novell's.
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The default applet version of minecraft doesn't have a much higher resolution than a decent smartphone has and its perfectly playable!

PS: yes, Age of Empires did seem futuristic at the time! Try play it now though - the low resolution may just burn your eyes :-)
Actually some of the others do this as well. I believe that facet exists because of many States gift card laws. Yet another area that Groupon et al may hit issues with in the future.
For those wanting to know more about the efficient-markets hypothesis, Wikipedia has a good article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient_markets

My amateur understanding is that most academics get that it's a simplifying assumption, but that a lot of other people treat it as a guarantee. It's sort of like people who learn a little about evolution and then conclude that a) we are the most highly evolved organism on the planet, and b) we are therefore perfect.
Send an SMS and get pricing per message
http://cssgrid.net 1140 CSS Grid is pretty good with the media queries and what not
I'd love to see the traffic numbers that resulted from that article in Time, I always wonder how effective print media is at converting to visitors.
Direct measurement of the quantum wavefunction
I'm not sure, but it could be that you are paying actual hard cash - much like a gift card. In many states it is illegal for gift cards to expire.
There have been corporations who suppressed evidence that their drugs didn't work right. I'd describe that as publication bias, too, if not simply fraud...
Even going to Best Buy to try a unit does next to nothing. Pretty much everything that they sell has a flat battery, is stuck on a screen or suffering some other issue.

Except of course for the Apple display. All working. All looking good. All the time.
404 error - page not found. It isn't on wayback machine either, coral cache has the 404 page cached.

Anyone have a working cache of this?

EDIT: go to swizec.com and the post will turn up on the front page.
Behind the Screens: The Making of Campaign Monitor
As of writing this, the link is not working for me. How come error 404 has become the new 500 for web servers under load?
BTW, your topic was translated to Russian and posted to popular Russian IT resource Habrahabr. Here you can read comments: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h...
No, my blog is fixed width.
What Does an Architect Do in an Agile Shop? An Agile Architect Explains
Not sure why this was downvoted. "info screen" at the command line is exactly how I learned about all of screen's features.
I had a rather less flattering experience. It seems half the time I pull stuff using pip, it will fetch the wrong version or fail to compile, or not fetch essential dependencies...

It is still good, but nowhere near as great as gem or apt.
But maybe that is just me being unlucky...
Efficient sales and support
We're assuming 4.2 is going to be released soon. No one actually knows. It might be tomorrow, it might be October.
When you click on an ad to "punish" the advertiser, you are doing one of a few things that are really counter-productive to what you're trying to do:

1) You're rewarding the advertiser by implying interest in what they have pitched, therefore encouraging them to blast you with more ads.

2) Assuming you're not using AdBlock, you've probably just added yourself to a much more targeted cookie pool of "people who are interested in Microsoft because they clicked". Enjoy the MS ads that will now follow you all over the web through one of the many behavioral retargeting networks.

3) You did nothing to hurt MS because they bought based on CPM so the impression was paid for in the first place, clicks don't hurt them.

4) You hurt the site you saw the ad on. Let's assume this site is a site you visit frequently. People click but no one buys, the ad agency compares the performance on this site vs. others with a less punishing audience, and decide that the money is better spent elsewhere thus depriving this site of much needed ad revenue.
Strategy HN: How to choose an area for launching my social netork?
My new social network can be ready for launch just after school begins this September.

Should I launch at school(s) in the Northeast first?

Or, should I choose a launch location based on how many people I know in that specific network?
We get the same story over and over again. As always, short on facts or details and long on hype. Someone really doesn't understand what the TSP is.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1835452

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1834170

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1833774

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1831271

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1830232

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1829211 <- This one has comments
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Virtual Currency Beats All Other Kinds of Mobile Game Purchases
True, however, the details are DOTA. League of Legends isn't DOTA at all, for example.

It's hard to explain. You could only really understand if you'd played the game. "DOTA" roughly means "A highly/specifically competitive game, wherein that game also includes specific heroes and items which competitive players have spent years practicing with and the community in general have come to expect". For example both DOTA and HoN have an item which grants you 10 seconds of magic immunity on use, and can't be used again for more than 1 minute. So if your game doesn't, then it's probably not "a DOTA".

HoN and DOTA both share about ~75% of the "details" (and almost 100% of the details that matter) so it's very much "a DOTA". Whereas League of Legends shares maybe 5%.
Having played against some id software people back in the Quake 2 and q3demo days, they were far less good at the games than one might naively expect, at least when compared to hardcore gamers.

Knowing the internals of the game and the map designs is no substitute for playing the game for hundreds of hours against other top competitors.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

-- Douglas Adams.
Yash Raj's "Ek Tha Tiger" first look and Katrina is unhappy
In the poster of Film “ Ek Tha Tiger” back of salman khan is shown.Katrina although doesn’t shown her anger as she's not included in the movie poster.
Even Boring Form Data Can Be Interesting (For A Developer)
Heck, I think Notch threw in expansion packs for alpha purchasers. They should consider themselves lucky that he did.

Thats the difference between aplha and beta purchases. People, like me, who purchased the beta version get all version up until release and bug fixes after release. People who bought the alpha version get that plus any expansions and add ons.

Pocket Edition is, as far as I'm concerned, not part of the Minecraft version timeline, not an addon and not an expansion, therefore should be exempt from the for free clause.

Then again, since I purchased the beta version, I don't get the extra free stuff, so I'm not exactly invested in arguing that MPE should be free, so...
You mean ones like this?

http://it.slashdot.org/story/07/07/19/1231216/Mac-Worm-Autho...

MS could get into a lot of legal trouble if they're caught faking death threats against Mac researchers. There are people who actually believe this?
when you pigeonhole yourself into an absolutist position

That's a fair criticism of my reply. My initial statement almost had a flavor of "free markets are perfect", whereas what I really believe is that "free markets are the best system possible".

So, no true scotsman?

But I don't think that's a fair criticism. There is a clear, well-defined concept of "free market"; it's not like I keep backing off my statement every time someone scores a hit on my argument. If the theory can explain exactly why the various regulations on the market have the observed result -- that is, if it has scientific predictive value as opposed to an irrational belief system -- then I don't think I'm susceptible to this criticism.

In high school physics we did Newtonian mechanics assuming a frictionless surface, etc. It turns out that our experimental results didn't match up with what really happened, because we had friction and other factors. But we learned more physics, so even though we didn't have access to that frictionless surface, we could explain why the results differed, and predict just how those differences would appear (friction is proportional to downward force, etc.).

You're criticizing the market theory because the observed results have those "frictional" differences, even though we can tell you what is causing the friction, and predict (albeit to a limited degree at this point) what the future effects of proposed "friction" (i.e., regulation) would be.
How startups can survive the coming winter
> It rehashes the thinking of HN and other bloggers without adding anything new

Feature, not bug.

HBR: Helping to train managers for appearing to lead while actually following.
It does include pencil and paper:

The Court noted that the calculations, while “primarily useful for computerized [applications],” could still “be made [using a] pencil and paper.”
I think Steven Blank was right about Customer Development methodology.
Chrome has it a bit hidden[1] as it seems to be a bit buggy. I haven't seen Firefox/Opera with this currently supported. But I believe it is a matter of time until all major browsers fully support hardware accelerated canvas2d by default.

I like that with projects like this you don't have to wait 2/3 months: you can use it now.

[1] http://www.browserscene.com/2011/05/google-chrome-adds-optio...
What about:

If you bought a house, do you expect to get an identical house free in another country? (a country is like a computer platform, right?)
I was approached and asked to become the then to-be-set-up company’s first employee (yes, an employee, not a technical co-founder).

I think if you were an employee, you should have been paid. If you were brought in to work on spec in the hopes that the company would land some investment, you should have pushed for an ownership stake in the company.
I think you just spoke for 75% of the people on this site, myself included.
American Physical Society continues as MathJax Supporter
The Secrets of Winged Architects
Operation Facebook Fail
This Man Thinks the Internet Needs CliffsNotes
I think this idea is funny, but a future where legal disputes are settled by whoever is a better gamer/swordsman/chess player is moving back toward feudalism. Ideally, the winner of the legal dispute should have something to do with the merits of the case. I realize that there are weights on the scales of justice that are heavier for the one who has more money, but if it comes down to might-makes-right, the little guy really doesn't stand a chance.
Vizzini (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093779/) - played by Wallace Shawn (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001728/)
I'd recommend Robert Boice's book "Procrastination and Blocking." It helped me a lot. The basic idea of the book is that the cause of procrastination is impulsiveness (as in the Piers Steel's book mentioned below, except that Boice was there first, I think :).
I don't know how everyone else here feels about it but I have yet to see a TouchPad commercial that makes me want one. I think Apple has done a lot of good for themselves in the way they advertise the iPad.
Spot on about Twitter being underutilized. RT'ing those same journalists' stories (within reason and with your readers' interests in mind, of course) can also get you in their good graces. I was able to secure a guest posting spot with WalletPop (AOL's recently deceased personal finance blog) after the editor at the time sought me ought based on all of the RTs, FFs etc.
I'll second this. IMO it has raised the bar so high for a personal wiki that I'm reluctant to look into others.
Bad incentives: it's the incentives (see "Invisible Hand") that make things work properly! To the extent that the incentives are wrong, these are the regulations, the aberrations that make things deviate from the free market.

It's fairly common for traders managing (or depending how you look at it, gambling) other people's money to be paid a percentage of the total money under management (for the sake of argument, let's say 0.5%) plus a much larger percentage (10%) of the upside.

That this leads to perverse incentives is, I hope, obvious to everyone here - I've literally sat down with traders and run best guess numbers incorporating the risk of getting fired (or losing investors, shutting down the fund, etc.), difficulty finding another gig doing the same thing vs. the potential gains, and the mathematical conclusion is almost always the same: go all-in, take on as much risk as you can possibly manage, and you'll do better personally than if you invested safely. The only real question is a moral one, i.e. do you care enough about doing what's right to actually try to preserve your client's money rather than gamble it away for a shot at a bigger prize? [Interestingly enough, I've found that most do, the problem is that there's a small subset that don't give a shit, and their abuses taint the entire field]

This type of risk-seeking unquestionably played a role in the recent collapse, I don't really see how that can be denied - sure, government incentives triggered the initial housing market buildup and drop, but IIRC that was initially only a 4% correction, it was only because of how massively leveraged the financial sector had become w.r.t. credit that such a drop had any impact on anything at all.

Do you really think the payment incentives in the financial sector are helping the market work properly? Or do you think that those payment schemes (a nibble of the principal and a chomp of the upside) are somehow caused by government meddling?

IMO, the problem is that it's a mistake to assume that the negative effects of "government meddling" end with official government. Any time you put a group of people together and have them agree on rules and regulations, especially ones about how to distribute money amongst themselves, you run the risk of creating incentives where individually self-interested actions actually work against the group. This applies to corporations, clubs, families, teams, etc., just as much as it does to governments.
daltonism: red-green color blindness
Why designing a carpool site is so hard
Report: Spam is at a two-year high
Is Your UI Causing Zero Search Results Pages?
Amazon benefits from network effects by hosting reviews. When I am thinking about buying something I often go to Amazon first because of the reviews.
Ask HN: High Availability Redis?
Redis seems like a good fit for a portion of a larger web-app I'm working on. The one thing I haven't found is a good, simple, high availability/failover solution. Redis Cluster isn't out yet, and there doesn't seem to be any automated Master-Slave failover/recovery system, everything has to be done manually.

I'd think you could write a script to handle the Redis failover actions (promoting the Slave to Master, making sure the old Master comes back as a Slave if it comes back, etc...), tie it into heartbeat with a VIP, and have a very simple failover solution. But I can't find anyone who's done that, much less released the script they're using for the Redis piece.

So far the advice I've gotten is either: you don't need automated failover - just do it manually when you get paged, wait for Redis Cluster - it'll be magical, or write your own client - and have it handle failover and manage the Redis actions. None of these is viable imho.

What are you doing now to keep Redis from being a single point of failure in your infrastructure?
They use the word "fanbois" to sound pejorative, but isn't this a good thing? It basically means that people are passionate about your company and its products. It means you're relevant. It has always been like that with rivalries like Mac vs. PC, Nintendo vs. Sega, and now Android vs. iPhone/iPad.
Crowd-Sourcing for Travel Advice
It's not important, but now I am confused.

In my browser, the title of the OP, namely, "How DuckDuckGo got in TIME's 50 Best Websites of 2011", takes up 3 lines because I have my browser set for really big text. If I decrease the text size one step, it goes down to taking up 2 lines.
In a sense, yes. But it might simply be that you can't patent anything that a normal person (say, the judge) could easily do with a pencil and paper.

So things like "See if the guest's name is on the guestlist" might be found unpatentable, but complicated sequences of instructions (which you have specifically laid out) for which you really do need a computer (or some other machine) might still be patentable.

I'm not a lawyer, though.
The 3 + 2 Rule of Simple Productivity
I find it amazing that people haven't learned the Apple lesson yet. Apple is doing well specifically because it doesn't release a product until it's perfect. They put a lot of thought and effort into every aspect of every device.

Why is it that companies like HP think that getting it out the door is more important that putting out a polished product? Just look at the white iPhone 4. Apple wouldn't release it until it was perfect, despite the fact that people were knocking down the door begging for it.

I've never owned an Apple product, but if I were going to get a tablet it would be an iPad. Everything else is just a cheap imitation and no one has proven to be anything other than that. I was really hoping the TouchPad would be the one device that could finally compete on polish and style with the iPad.
I guess we'll know if HP only talks about shipped unit and not sold, or activated, units.