skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe. But it is terribly easy in a high level language to use a built-in function that is O(N) and put in in a loop, and now you're at O(N^2). Maybe it works in reasonable time for N=10,000. Maybe you test it on small data sets to see that it works. Now turn it loose on an N=10^7 dataset. Oh.
Building Communities, Content, and Purchasing Decisions
Have you looked at Mailchimp? It's not as much for transactional emails as it is for scheduled, repeated broadcast emails, so I suspect it's probably more along the lines of what you're looking for.

I know they also provide the web interface (and APIs) for allowing users to subscribe, unsubscribe and all that jazz.
Good suggestion, but many people are happy to pay someone to do a task which they have no interest in, and the process of which may be highly foreign to them.

I've seen plenty of folks use a CMS to completely botch up their site, suck up 6 hours of their time, and end up worse off than when they started.

If someone is making continual changes, the CMS makes sense. If it is a business that does 1 or 2 updates per year, it might be better to outsource the web stuff.
Historically speaking, we've never seen an economy succeed long term when the monetary system is based on a fiat (fake) currency. Sadly, this trader is telling the truth: "We bought the ticket so take the ride and profit" is the message to people.
This is a manufactured crisis but it matters not weather it is intentional or unintended. It is happening. Historic precedent exists for this. The Collapse of: Egyptian Empire, Roman Empire, U.S.S.R. and Zimbabwe. All from fiat overexertion of an unsustainable empire or economies. The history of fiat money, to put it kindly, has been one of failure. Seems this trader is going to profit from the shift rather than sit idly by waiting for some magical intervention.
The exception proves the rule. This is a fantastic example.

The implicit message here is that anywhere that this sign does not exist, photography is not allowed. That's a bad precedent to set.

Imagine walking around and seeing "Free Speech Permitted in this Area" signs.
> If I were Dropbox I'd simply view this as market validation

And if I were Dropbox, I'd worry like hell. Google isn't depending on making GDrive profitable from fees, so they can literally give it away.
Windows 8 to give iPad and Android tablets a run for their money [infographic]
What's interesting is that these prices are for design only; they do not include HTML/CSS, much less code to make a webapp functional.
> And recall, OEMs can always ship with Win8 logo and not use hardening (or even UEFI at all).

Sorry? I'm confused on this one.

* From the MS slides ( http://video.ch9.ms/build/2011/slides/HW-457T_van_der_Hoeven... ): "UEFI and secure boot harden the boot process [...] Required for Windows 8 client"

* From the Garrett post ( http://mjg59.livejournal.com/138973.html ): "Microsoft requires that machines conforming to the Windows 8 logo program and running a client version of Windows 8 ship with secure boot enabled"

* From the IT World post linked up here: "And not just any old UEFI layer, either, but secure UEFI. Meaning a hardened boot process"

What am I mis-reading or missing? I'm not being testy, I just think you must have spotted something I missed. Thanks
I think that it teaches that conditionals (or boolean constants) are "special". When I first learned to program I did similar things, and I think it held the "everything clicks" moment back.
To further the irony, the robots won't even be made in your country but a design outsourced overseas.

In about a decade only fundamental services that cannot be automated will be left.
For me, the problem is that Facebook constantly wants me to overshare, and I feel like I constantly need to pull back. It's never just "authenticate with Facebook", it's "Authenticate with Facebook, give the app 30 different ways to violate my privacy, then make a bee-line for the App Settings panel to turn off all the permissions I'd rather not use".
Very interesting site - poor design.

I think if you clean it up and not use such curvy, written-looking fonts, you will come off as a little less Geocities.

However, that said, it would be a decent idea IF you get people actually giving good feedback rather than just doing reviews for the sake of racking up $0.10 a pop. I would actually love to give reviews on websites and the money is a bonus, but a part of me feels that I am one of the very few who are so interested.

Happy to give you more feedback, and I won't even charge! ;)

Best of luck!
Wow, no mention of Iomega, one of the most aptly named companies in history, in my opinion. They were the makers of the Zip and Jaz drives, among other things.

I/O Mega (input/output...mega)

Iω (I-omega -- the product of the moment of inertia with angular velocity -- resulting in angular momentum)
I didn't attend YCNYC, but the afterparty was fun.
My credit card company can not legally sell my purchasing history to the highest bidder.[1]

Google can not tracking my searching if I am connected via a public proxy (very common, in fact)

Most people don't have smartphones, and most don't leave the GPS on.

I'm willing to guess that taking the union of all of your "small paranoid minorities" gives a pretty large minority, in fact.

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[1] - http://www.federalreserve.gov/bankinforeg/regpcg.htm
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Good advice, but imo too often in the world of tech entrepreneurs there is the justification that all that is needed is a good idea/good leadership and that money is not important. Now really- what good is there in someone missing out on their sons and daughters' lives because they are hammering away in the office on a web application that few will ever use and from the get-go has almost 0% chance of making any money? The problem today is not people leading from the bottom line in the tech industry, it is the opposite. Around the world, people should be dual focused on both providing solutions to advance humanity and taking care of the employees of that company (and the world around them), and part of that should involve being a financial success. If you are spending hours and hours doing something worthless, you are only contributing to waste. This is not to say that you should just blindly follow as a sheep and work for a big company. Big companies can often be the essence of inefficiency, lack of productivity, and lack of vision and direction. However, throw in some moderation. Business is not just about your great idea.
You can look into this as a 3 yeal old dream comming true, a guy will become rich and he also gives an advice how to make money :)
Sure, I can accept that.
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Sprawl does not mean a spread-out, rural area. Rural areas don't really have traffic problems in the way that metro areas do. Even suburbs of small cities don't have traffic problems on the same scale as major cities like NY, Atlanta, DC, LA, and Chicago. Traffic problems happen in dense, economically active areas. You have hundreds of thousands of people trying to move through the region every single day and that is what leads to the traffic jams. Sure, Kansas City is pleasantly spread out. Driving and parking there is very easy. But KC is also very small compared to most of the metro areas with serious traffic problems.

Incidentally, food and grocery selection in the city where I live is vastly superior. Within a half-mile I have Trader Joes, Whole Foods and a standard supermarket (which caters to a much more diverse population to begin with) in addition to a number of specialty and ethnic markets. There's a farmer's market every Saturday right down the street.

Also in close walking distance: Best Buy, REI, Bed Bath & Beyond, Blick Art Supplies, several bicycle shops. There's even a store that sells vinyl records.

I walk to work. I have a car. I use it for groceries sometimes but not often. I never have a problem finding parking at the supermarket or at home. (parking anywhere else is dicey, though)
If everybody goes shorting the market like the meta-morph in there advises; skeletor, the guy controlling the markets from it's castle will make a short squeeze by buying those shorts and pretend to be he-man. Saving Europe and the likes and postponing the apocalipto, at least in the stock markets.
If you don't care about social aspects, why can you just live with browser sync? (really asking)
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"Obedience to the law is freedom" :)
http://blog.rizzif.com/2011/08/30/dystopia-now-3/
Indeed. Competition on this market space is almost guaranteed to be a race to the bottom. Dropbox will have to respond by concentrating on features to set itself apart.
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html

Makes a good case for why eradicating mosquitoes will not be problematic.

But every time there is a large scale intervention like this the side effects only become apparent decades after the fact. You mess with ecosystems at this scale at your peril. Even if we can't see any downside to this today that doesn't mean there isn't a downside.

DDT looked pretty good once upon a time.

Another problem is that we simply have not mapped all the interactions between species within an ecosystem and eradicating one species might upset the balance in a hard to predict way.

Introduction of a new species can be problematic:

http://www.animalcontrol.com.au/rabbit.htm

We have some solid proof for that. Maybe 40 years from now we will know why eradicating something as obviously harmful as a mosquito can be problematic too.

That's the only way to learn, it would be nice if this research was proven correct.
No. These guys locked me by borking forgot password:-D I can't export now
IIRC, only females are parasitic. If you poison males, the population will be reduced for the next generation... or the surviving males will have extra work :-)
You can just look at the source code of the music player and see it extracts the key from the file

To be fair, we can also do that without source code. It only (yet again) proves DRM is pointless against technical people that are determined to break it.

Non-technical people or people that do want to play "by the rules" won't do that. Also, the vendor could do things such as embed the name of the buyer inside the downloaded executable/data, to discourage sharing...
Don't forget about Yugoslavia and Argentina!
Actually, it's good that you've sounded these things out: now you have a list of things you need to take care of before you head out.

Simple.
"As economics, as a field, becomes more powerful, the economy becomes more stable"

So you are asserting that economics as a field causes stability in the economy?
Also, anti-jokes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antijoke
If you are a shell or Arch[1] user,

curl -s random-inc5000.herokuapp.com | jshon

Though jshon[2] is really made for extracting elements from the entire list of companies in one pass.

[1] pacman -S jshon

[2] http://kmkeen.com/jshon/
Have you seen metafilter? The one-time $5 registration fee does wonders for submission and comment quality.
Authentication might seem a trivial matter, but it isn't. If you use facebook connect, your users are actually facebook's users. Facebook knows how many times they used your service, when, and so on. And, most importantly of all, you are locked in into facebook's service.

What if one day FB starts to push more and more FB connect applications to become FB apps? How much leverage would they have?

As a counter example, I use google analytics on my websites. This means that google knows everything about my stats. But if I stop trusting them, for any reason, it would take just 5 minutes to change. This doesn't give any leverage on me. Contrast this to using FB connect - or the google equivalent, for that matter.

That's what makes many independent developers scared of this kind of news... that being assimilated by FB could one day become inevitable.
I'd be interested in this as well. I don't want to hijack this post but I'd like to hear about small projects that might be up for sale.
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Apple is quietly disintermediating Google in mobile search
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Ah, thanks, that's a combination of the TextMate go to file / go to symbol. I've been using Command-T/(Command-R/Control-G) in ST2 since the magic syntax for symbol or line navigation wasn't obvious.
I know Bubble sort is "bad", but there's no reason to make it worse than it needs to be. The current algorithm continues comparing the items that have already "bubbled" (or in this case, "sunk") by iterating the whole length on each pass, rather than shorting the loop to only consider the unsorted portion.

A minor tweak is (changed lines marked with #):

bubbleSort = ->
VA.locals.swapped = true
y = VA.length # grab initial length
while VA.locals.swapped
y-- # shorten sorted portion on each pass
VA.locals.swapped = false
for x in [0...y] # only iterate to y
VA.locals.x = x
if VA.gt(x, x + 1)
VA.swap(x, x + 1)
VA.locals.swapped = true

bubbleSort()
Yes, and GMail for mobile is ad-free. On average, though, I would expect more storage+bandwidth costs per ad impression from a GDrive user than from a GMail user, if GDrive turns out to be similar to Dropbox.
"As a matter of fact, you can shoot pics pretty much anywhere: in subways, airports, transportation centers, and malls."

Advice like that will create photographers that have as poor an understanding of the laws and are as misguided as most of the security guards that hassle them.

Specific regional by-laws aside, photography of anything in public places or private places (without a reasonable expectation of privacy) from a public place is usually fine, but there are typically exceptions. If, for instance, you're in a privately owned public space (eg. a mall), it's fine to take photographs, but if a security guard or some other custodian of the property asks you to stop, and you don't, you are then trespassing. Likewise, in the city I live in (Toronto) it's prohibited to take commercial photographs on the TTC (subways) or in public parks without a special permit. This is to prevent such things as, say, an overzealous photographer taking over a park to get some wedding party photos.
I just dont trust them anymore. FWIW, I'm ok with using Twitter as a central authentication system.
Were you arguing with me, or helping me make my point? Because I agree with what you wrote - that's my experience as well. (And where you live sounds just like where I live.)
I was sympathetic to the Red Hat guy until this:

>The final irony? If the user has no control over the installed keys, the user has no way to indicate that they don't trust Microsoft products. They can prevent their system booting malware. They can prevent their system booting Red Hat, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, OS X or any other operating system. But they can't prevent their system from running Windows 8.

Err what? This boggles the mind. If you don't trust MS, DO NOT INSTALL WINDOWS. See, it's that easy.

>If Microsoft were serious about giving the end user control, they'd be mandating that systems ship without any keys installed. The user would then have the ability to make an informed and conscious decision to limit the flexibility of their system and install the keys. The user would be told what they'd be gaining and what they'd be giving up.

Huh what? You want my mom to make an informed and conscious decision about certificate chaining? I can see with going very well with 95% of PC users. This is typical behavior from geeks, putting the decision of about the choice of modules.conf vs. conf.modules which the user doesn't care about and just wants the software to work.
You'll be surprised how close this is to reality in Russia.
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They should concentrate on making users really happy. Features may or may not figure in there.

It would be pretty tough to compete with an over 10,000 engineer company with incredible building blocks on features.
"as an R&D software developer, I probably had to worry about complexity maybe about 0.1% of my time."

Yes, but does it scale? If you deal with 10x, or 100x, or 1000x the data, that % will grow. Fast.
you not visit former Soviet Union and Bahrain
I admit to not liking Ballmer from what I've seen, but how much can one person really control a company? Would Ballmer walking out tomorrow really change enough? If products really are uninspiring enough to employees, etc. then that has to be the fault of a more general group of people: at least spanning several executives, managers of product teams, and the behavior of many employees. To some extent many of Microsoft's senior employees are now reaping what they have sown in recent years. Ballmer will surely be blamed, and isn't blameless, but a lot more would have to change to make a difference.
Seafood? Who eats dolphin or nautilus?
European Commission to measure EU-wide broadband speeds. Volunteers needed.
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put very well indeed
I'm surprised that HN picked this up.

Learning about the markets comes down to what you want to do (trade [stock, options, futures; pairs, scalping, etc.?] or invest [value, trend, momentum, etc.?]) I wish it was as easy as "buy low, sell high", but studies repeatedly show that most investors do the opposite.

A good place to start is with Warren Buffets letters to shareholders & his letters to his hedge fund partners before the Berkshire days. All these letters are available online.

For trading start with places like Stocktwits blogs, TheStreet.com, Marketwatch, Minyanville (they also have some good investing material.)

For blogs, check out Barry Ritholtz (search his site for his "Apprenticed Investor" series" & David Merkel (he has done a lot of book reviews.) Also, there hundreds of trades on twitter now (twitter is rapidly becoming the new trading pit."

Lastly, most U.S. based online brokerages have started to offer "paper money" accounts where you can use their platforms & "trade" real time prices.

All The Best,
TDL
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" She rolled out cuts to our bennies last year just after the company meeting, what’s next???"

If that's true, I'm not surprised that nobody is happy at this meeting. The company has set an expectation of pain, marked by the date of this meeting. Why would anyone be happy about it?
Thanks a lot man! Can't wait to see how people use/improve it.
"Microsoft will argue--in fact, has argued in a rebuttal on this matter on Sept. 22--that this is a security matter for Microsoft Windows deployments, and they are in no way influencing what the hardware vendors are doing with their keys"

That "no way" is the big legal question. I can see this go both ways. If most hardware manufacturers decide to only ship with MS keys, I think a judge could rule that Microsoft still has too much market power to let a free market optimize things for the good of the consumer. I do not see a judge decree that before there are any indications that it will become true, though.

(totally unrelated questions that I am curious about: how will this signing stuff work when running Windows in a VM? Would MS dare charge companies that want to include a MS key in their hardware? What if that company is called Apple?)
Wouldn't this entire situation be solved by simply including an option in the UEFI firmware to disable secure boot by the user? That would allow a power user that wants to install an alternate OS to disable the feature and install anything they'd like.

I understand that this may affect dual-booting. In those cases, we already know that Windows 8 will boot in non-secure scenarios (like on existing computers, including those with UEFI firmware). So wouldn't it be possible to simply turn off the feature and still be able to dual-boot Windows 8 and another OS?
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/isiklarius/process/

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Given the attention this case got in some communities, it is worth every cent they are going to spend in court, regardless of the winner.

This particular case seems like good PR for both parties.
I realize that I may be being overly critical of a site called 'winrumors.com', but this is thin gruel by anyone's standards. Because I work at MS, I don't want to flag it, but please, someone without a conflict should flag this.
Is the risk large enough to justify using a more expensive and less functional in-house system? To me, the risk of using a third-party host seems vastly outweighed by the benefits.
One other point (and I will stop posting to this thread.) Stay away from options, futures, & leverage (with real money) until you have a solid handle on how markets function. The same goes for ETFs & ETNs that make use of leverage (i.e. "2x's", "ultra", "3x's", etc.)

All The Best,
TDL
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Consider the majority market of Facebook users, many don't know how to "hide posts" and will often be turned off whent their facebook wall begins to look like their hotmail account.

Don't always assume the average user has the know-how you do and don't always assume they're interested in solving the problem either.
I wouldn't say Ballmer isn't to blame, it's probably a half-and-half situation. There's so many stories of back-stabbing and politics taking precedence over great products that it's no surprise the company has completely stagnated. On the Ballmer front it is telling that the stock price hasn't grown since Gates stepped down, but it's impossible to prove if that's correlation or causation.
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Why is having a central authentication system a bad idea?

Because you give central control to a central authority.

How many security breaches are caused because people use the same password across many sites?

Note that a single login to all sites is the same problem as a single password to all the sites. If the password is compromised, all the sites are compromised.

Facebook Connect is a good thing.

That conclusion doesn't follow from your remarks.

You choose to focus on two objections that are both false objections: that we have a choice between only a central auth system or many weak auth systems, and that we've lost all privacy anyway.

I believe the cost of central control over all online activity is higher than the cost of developers learning and implementing strong personally controlled authentication and the cost of educating users what history shows us about ceding too much privacy and autonomy.

I worry that Facebook Connect is an actively "bad" thing. I think a good thing would be for OS X Keychain or 1Password style tools to be built into browsers or operating systems to give master key + random auth key functionality to every user with users controlling their own online credentials.

It bears repeating:

Why is having a central authentication system a bad idea?

Because you give central control to a central authority.
I'm even more so terrified at the idea that the vendor of my hardware may decide what operating system I should and should not boot on it.

Linux logo programs (for at least RedHat)

From mjg's posts I had the feeling that RedHat is afraid of what is going to happen if UEFI really takes of in the form it currently is intended to and that not a lot of manufacturers are keen of going through the trouble of using even more keys than absolutely required to sell. Do you have any sources to back that up?

I believe that it would be a bad step for one of the major Linux vendors to bow to the whole idea of signed booting for all the smaller distributions.
Compared to the amounts i see on TinyProj (that usually are related to a full implementation, not only design) these are way higher...
ps. Started using Transmit and ReMate plugin and everything runs much more smoothly. Thanks for the advice.