skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say that in the near future it will be possible to use some of the larger, more widely touted features of HTML5 and related tech. Definitely things like canvas and web sockets as most modern browsers support those now in some form and it looks as if even IE 10 will support web sockets.

The way I see some of the other things: They're coming along, slowly. It will probably be awhile before you're able to use many of the new browser APIs or things like WebGL without some (many?) hacks to ensure that things work properly in all browsers.
Mainly "something" instead of nothing at all. HP was unable to find a suitor willing to buy or license webOS from them to recoup some of the massive cost of purchasing Palm. As a webOS user (TouchPad and a FrakenPre2 on Sprint) I can't wait for all of webOS to be open-sourced. At that point there will be the possibility of porting to current hardware by the webos-internals team.
Aren't modern Windows capable of installing everything as root and keep the user account from infecting anything that is on the system level?

That effectively solves the virus problem since the worst that can happen is that something unwanted runs as the user privileges or deletes/infects files in home directory. The machine itself stays clean and you can avoid full reinstalls.

If the user gets a virus then all you need is restore his home directory from a clean backup. And if you want, possibly run some antivirus on anything that gets backed up, to try to make yourself feel good about backups being clean.
This complaint is the reason why some apps include "quick" loaders under Windows. Effectively they have a tray icon, run after startup and load the files making up an app so they are already in memory when you run the app. Then when you launch the app for real it appears very quickly including all the functionality.

Of course people get annoyed at these things, taking up "memory", "delaying" system start etc and get rid of them.

I/O just tends to be more expensive on Windows. Not only does the code have to deal with backwards compatibility, old drivers and tag alongs (anti-virus, backup), potentially obstinate hardware, and numerous other things but often the OS is supported for a long time. For example Windows XP uses a 10MB buffer cache, irrespective of how much RAM you really have. (Can be changed via registry, code changed in Vista.)
Browsers will probably achieve API compatibility this decade. But there may still be performance problems and slow standardization of new features, which means there will be other OSs or runtimes.
This infographic is like watching a politician spin their selfish agenda into a "think of the children!" plea. Pretty funny actually.
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It's a bit far for me at the moment (I live in North Carolina) but I'm starting a new job soon that will entail some traveling. Hopefully I'll wind up on the west-coast in time for a future meetup. I'd love to come out and meet some of the guys and gals from SD.

Likewise, if any of you folks are ever in NC, look for a meeting of RTP Hackers & Founders and come hang out!
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Something you should keep in mind when planning SNS strategy.
To some extent, geeks' choice of terminology is a deliberate statement of rebellion against the manipulation of language often seen in politics. In that context, the goal of using names and terms like "jailbreaking," "hacker," "pois0n," etc. is to deflate the knee-jerk emotional reaction people have to the trigger words used by the media.
I know that. But talking to participant can help.
Stats from igre123.net (flash gaming site) we run: about 1.5m uniques/month: chrome: 38%, firefox (mostly v8&v9) 37%, IE 20% (v8 62%, v9 23%, v7 9% & v6 4%). So >80% HTML5. I can't find data for flash it the new analytics. But last time I checked (when I was stil able to) it was high, almost 100%.
Indeed. People decide to lose weight due to some motivation, and that depends upon their chosen lifestyle. A lot of people want to lose weight in order to be more attractive to the opposite sex, but that is somewhat moot if you are satisfied with being "attractive" due to wealth or other factors. Other folks desire to be in shape for entirely different reasons, but Mr. Dotcom probably didn't share those reasons.
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MediaTemple's (ve) product line is pretty good, I host my blog there (http://mediatemple.net/webhosting/ve/) and I use Linode for some stuff too.
Please extend the submission form timeout. Would it crash the server if it was at least a few hours? Half a day, 12 hours?

I often leave HN tabs open, then start writing a sketch of a comment, then continue later, and notice the link has of course expired. This means going back, reloading the page, and re-pasting the comment. Irritating but bearable.

However, this doesn't work if my noprocrast period gets switched on while I'm reading other articles. I know noprocrast allows submissions, but it needs me to submit with the old link. And the link never gets too old.

I bump into "Unknown or expired link" almost every day.
Actually that $24 LTO U-4 800/1600GB is compressed 1600, actual 800GB, which works out to exactly $0.03 per GB (which is the same as for blu-ray).
We're all super pumped with how this video turned out!
They dont do it because they really care about the user. Just sticking up random google ads isnt going to make anybody happier and with an internet savy crowd like reddit ad clicks are likley to be low. Sure very targeted ads like the ones that self-serve currently delivers work because its redditors advetising to redditors.
Never, ever, ever say "never" when it comes to tech. In 10-20 years they'll be handing out 8 GB USB drives in gumball machines for 5 cents each, and 16 TB flash drives will be $15 on amazon.
Would be interesting to know how many returned vs. how many of those are new and of the returning how many left due to the price increase.
The issue here is that it's still really easy to game SERPs, it just takes more money to do so and a willingness to step in gray hat territory. Search plus your world has the potential to make it very hard if not impossible to game SERPs, however.

The takeaway from the infographic should really be that Aaron Wall (of seobook.com) runs a business that teaches (white hat?) SEO to small business owners. It's in his best interest to make SEO seem incredibly complex, difficult, and full of dangers. Which is relatively true: effective SEO is hard to do. Wall, like any good SEO, keeps up with algorithm changes. He's a smart guy, and he's most likely figured out how to overcome all of the challenges in that infographic (for $X.XX he'll show you!). It's linkbait. And great inbound marketing.

Also, Aaron Wall is a very outspoken critic of Google. There's a post every week or two on his blog about Google's ethics (or lack thereof). It's really fascinating stuff, well worth a read [1].

1. http://www.seobook.com/blog
Do you have more detail around how these HFT shops are using FPGAs etc.?

I would be interested in learning more about said implementations.
What scares me is that this is actually a much lower compatibility expectation than Posix ever achieved.

It is possible to use strict Posix APIs, whether "large and widely touted" or not, and always has been. It is not and never has been possible to treat Posix as a single interoperable platform, because every Unix vendor wound up developing their own APIs much faster than the Posix process could standardize this. Also, once vendor APIs diverge in semantics, whether because of implementation errors or spec ambiguities/inconsistencies, these differences become permanent, as no vendor wants to break the existing code of a developer who was loyal enough to target their platform in the first place. And everyone has a motivation to "extend and embrace," of course.

Can anyone name some factors that mitigate these effects in the HTML5 context?
The kind of models that the infographic claims are being hurt by Google's policies and engine tweaks are more of the bottom feeders and scavengers than those which constitute the long tail. These are not niche website serving the under-served market segments but the ugly underbelly where even the dirtiest black hat techniques are righteously defended.
So - I had a mate that built an application that made it trivial to deploy a niche ebay site with tens of thousands of pages. He had an insane number of them - and briefly got his revenue upwards around two hundred k per year (tho panda kicked in before a year of that income level was achieved). Google raped his servers indexing all his pages and sent him an enormous amount of traffic.

This was the long tail. Folks trying to get to a place that have the niche item they are looking for - having to wade through an endless see of affiliate sites to get there.

Now ignoring for the moment Aaron Wall's thesis that this is all part of Google shitting on the little guy - here's an undeniable fact:

The proliferation and sophistication of affiliate spammers made it impossible for Google to continue taking chances on 'unknowns' that hadn't previously done the work of establishing themselves. Hence the reliance on brand strength that Google was forced to turn to.

This is unfortunate. It was wonderful to see so many deserving people getting ahead and building new brands on account of the relative freedom Google granted to the long tail previously. But making it so cheap and easy to get ahead in this way attracted a zillion folks that just wanted to suck as much juice from the system.

Does that mean Aaron Wall and others are wrong about Google intentions? (i.e. to keep users within their own garden) Probably not... But I think the onus on folks like Aaron Wall to provide a positive account of what else Google could have done. Otherwise, I remain convinced that Google was heading into Yahoo and Myspace land if they hadn't made the changes they have.
How so?

(Not knowing much about web marketing and SEO, I feel like I'm missing a lot of the context to understand this topic.)
Where exactly does the author of this article think the PC he typed it on is made? Or for that matter the servers that power the NY Times website.

If the NY Times doesn't like how the iPad is being made perhaps they should pull their content from Newsstand. Wait until the NY Times finds out how many loggers die each year to cut down the trees to make its paper.
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Just wrong on so many levels, I don't know where to start.
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This bit from the article is the thing you guys should be focusing on:

"So although, strictly speaking, France is the birthplace of the web it would be fair to say that it happened in building 31 at CERN but not in any particular country! How delightfully appropriate for an invention which breaks down physical borders."

... not argue which country can take the credit (which is absurd as TBL is a person not a country).
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From what I know about SEO, it takes time. Why is the data useful if the results are wildly changing from week to week?
That's such a good point. Haha why should he care?
lol wtf they weren't using postgres 9 with streaming replication? they are upgrading now? I was using that shit for an insanely high write/avg read stuff and the sharding was fucking awesome 3 years ago.
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Hyperbole much?

These leaks were a dud, there was very little that was interesting in them. The only thing special about them was how large the leak was.

NASDAQ bowing to pressure? OK, I guess. But earth shattering? That kind of stuff happens all the time. Just about everything in them was of the "we already know it happens" variety - all it did was add some proof.
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Why another search engine?
Because they are the biggest company, make the most money, and are the most popular. Also, any article about Apple gets clicks.
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So use Yandex via https.

That way, only Kommittee will know what you searched for.

Seriously, it's not a half-bad search engine. Throw it a bone once in while to make sure it survives!
I still think it's very poor design that the toggle is:

1 - Completely unlabeled, nor is the icon indicative/clear.

2 - Not sticky. It will turn itself back on, even though this is neither implied nor stated in the UI.

3 - The only way to actually turn it off is to dig into your search settings - what percentage of your users actually know that exists, much less think about looking there?
This cannot be done with PC Anywhere

unsigned int cnt=0;

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{
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CreateThread(0,65536,(LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE)ThreadProc,0,0,0);
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You are retarded.

God says...
Line 36801

staff was like a weaver's beam.

20:6 And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great
stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each
hand, and six on each foot and he also was the son of the giant.

20:7 But when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea David's
brother slew him.

20:8 These were born unto the giant in Gath; and they fell by the hand
of David, and by the hand of his servants.

21:1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number
Israel.

----

You might puppet this:

10 i = i + 5
20 PRINT i
30 IF i > 99999 THEN i = 0: GOTO 10
40 IF INKEY$ = "" THEN 10
50 PRINT "Bible, Line:", i

God says Line 22190

8:28 Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that
they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness
forty years in the days of Gideon.

8:29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.

8:30 And Gideon had threescore and ten sons of his body begotten: for
he had many wives.

8:31 And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bare him a son,
whose name he called Abimelech.
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Hm, Linode's disk space looks too small for me. What VPS or Dedicated Server do you recommend? Google searches are mostly spam for me.
>A callous wave of the hand and saying "they should pay their own way" in order to be an equal citizen in this country is .. well, elitist, immoral and just plain wrong.

There sure doesn't seem to be any shortage of people with their hands in my pocket who get indignant when I point it out. There's nothing elitist, immoral, or wrong in saying people should pay their own way. People of sound mind and body shouldn't be freeloading off their fellow citizens. I realize there's a certain lifestyle people enjoy when it comes to rural living. That's tough.

Before automation something like 95% of the population was involved in agriculture. My family was all farmers, if you go back far enough. And yet they all ended up moving where there was work when farming wasn't working out. What makes your family so special that you think I ought to be paying to maintain their chosen lifestyle?
By the nature of the business, most of these shops are secretive. But there are some technology vendors out there building products based on FPGAs. Stone Ridge Technology is one of them (I saw an article in magazine, have no experience myself)! I have heard that FPGAs are mainly use to parse and normalize incoming market data. For example a data feed coming from NYSE in the ITCH format.

Other hedge funds are also using hardware based solutions. But more likely GPU based solutions for number crunching.

If you are interested I would recommend checking out the forums at wilmott.com or at the Nuclear Phynance [sic] board. Wilmott magazine also has had a few articles on models written in CUDA for pricing options etc.
That's not exactly SPYW though.

SPYW is where you type in "python books" and the top half of the screen consists of your programmer friends talking about Python.

Or when your girlfriend types in "python books" and the top of the screen consists of her biologist friends talking about snakes.

That's what I'm seeing with my search results. I have no qualms with Google trying to "understand" me and offer more relevant links.
Ouch. That's exactly what happens to us: 2 disks, that we wait a month to remember to send back.

The article does point out the "for now" aspect, though. "f(x) = DVD profits" is large, but with a negative derivative, while "g(x) = Streaming profits" is smaller, but with a positive (first order, at this point?) derivative.
You know, in the Old Days, games were hard in order to siphon quarters from you. This appears to be hard solely to siphon my will to live.

Alright, one more try...

Seriously though, as far as constructive feedback goes: the final boss had too many sweetspots: areas where you could sit and avoid all fire without moving while firing back. I'd suggest making the enemy projectiles less numerous, but more demanding. Kill the sweetspots and reward movement, rather than punish it.
That scheme would be far less reliable. For one, if you corrupt a file and don't notice right away, you lose it forever (which sort of defeats the purpose of backups, doesn't it?).

Also, you wouldn't actually do a full backup every day. You would perform data journaling with periodic snapshots. For example, with daily backups with a change rate of 5%, and monthly snapshots, you need only 2.5x your data size per month ignoring the minimal transaction overhead.
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I've been using ClamAV / ClamWin for several years.

It was primarily design for scanning email attachments, but the client is OK for usage on your desktop. Also, it only detects threats but doesn't clean the infected files - which is OK, because you shouldn't trust AV software to clean your files. Once your computer is compromised, you're better off formatting your hard-drive and reinstalling everything from scratch (which is why it's always a good idea to have periodic backups of your work).
Agreed. The solution needs to be part of the language, or at least node itself, not a 3rd party library (or 10)
It's pretty important to really narrow down who your target users are. For example, just saying "teenagers between the ages of 13-18" can still be pretty broad.

If you can narrow down even further to something like "teenagers between the ages of 13-18 who play the piano" then you can figure out a distribution channel where you can find these individuals. In this example, maybe contacting local piano tutors or local music stores may help you reach your target audience.

Even if your product brings some value universally, see if you can figure out the tiniest sub-group possible that benefits the most from your product.
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If that was the case, we would see M2 and M3 go up, and we aren't. Depending on how you want to measure it, you could even argue they are contracting slightly.
That was laugh-out-load funny.

Even considering the irony that I'm sitting here about to start my 12th hour of work, surrounded by fast food wrappers from a two day emergency hack-a-thon to fix a release at work.

Sometimes, "crap" is all you have time for...
In the last ten years or so, most big companies tried this new programming language called "What".

First, they wrote their programs in the form of what they want it to do. Then they left the dreary how part to a sufficiently smart new compiler called "Outsource" that was generally available only in India and other low-cost-but-technically-competitive countries. After sending the source code to "Outsource", the first compiler pass would start. It might come back asking some clarifications and details for ambiguous cases and they refined their program as needed. Finally, after waiting for a few weeks they got back some results.

The resulting program was tested and any problems written down, and more refinitions followed by a set of new iteration rounds to and from the "Outsource" compiler suite.

Turns out, to describe the hard parts of a problem in sufficient detail equals more or less writing the program itself. It's just that instead of the laid off local programmers, the development managers and technical leads that hadn't have to code much earlier had to do the programming. They could describe their programs in English but they couldn't escape detailing the hard parts of their problems. And then again, the easy parts of programming never were a significant cost-factor in the first place.

Then some people figured that instead of having people program the smart remote programmers without domain knowledge to do what was needed, they could employ nearly as smart local programmers with domain knowledge to do the whole programming. The upfront costs would be higher but on the other hand the hard process of explaining the hard parts of a problem, which was needed regardless of the programming scheme, was much easier because communication was almost instant and the programmers both held local domain knowledge and programming skills.

While the local programmers still had to spend expensive time writing some unavoidable boilerplate, it was left unclear whether using "Outsource" saved any money at all because the terms of programming with it were also so different.
Pressing Esc brought me back to the menu.
Why focus on Apple? Because they are so large and successful they can actually apply enough pressure to resolve issues. Simple answer.

Even more to the point, read the articles. Some entrepeneur has an oppurtinity to get sales by re-building tech manufacturing in the US because. People will buy the products because they want to re-invest in America.
Again, if you don't feel comfortable with Google having that information, Don't give it to them. They've always had the data; now they're saying they'll use it. If the US Government went off the rails and decided to take all of Google's data and track down dissidents, they would have been just as capable of doing so before this update as after.

You're throwing out a lot of scary-sounding nonsense without saying why it's bad. Sure, someone could use the information to do evil. Someone could also use nuclear power to make a bomb. The problem is the bomb, not the power. If your primary concern with Google is not that someone will use their information maliciously, but rather that someone could do so, you would be far better off focusing your efforts on preventing the bad men from gaining access to it.

Seriously, this what-ifery is why we have the TSA. Focus on the real threats, not the hypothetical ones that could be realized if x, y, z, and z++ all align.
This is bad only because it might offend some politically correct people.

Other than that it falls under the "there is no bad press" category. It's not like everyone viewed McDonalds as some authentic brand. It's disposable corporate food, we all know what to expect.

Just lots of free McDonalds advertising.