skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If x% of searches go direct to google or another source, that is x% of the "1 million a day" where DDG doesn't have the opportunity to show me adverts, which is DDG's primary revenue source I assume. So the figure is relevant. But notwithstanding that I agree with your comment - DDG has won me over and has a strong relationship with me.

Re. tracking, it's not just searches that I do that go directly to google; it's the times I go to DDG, am unsatisfied with the results, then tack on "!g" to try it on google. This should provide valuable data on when a user deems results not good enough.
As annoyed as I often get at my country, it is things like this that make me glad to be here and able to voice opinion about all its flaws without fear of something like this. Occasionally I might have some regrets about my time in the service, but not today.

I just wish there was something we could do for this guy - I hate knowing what I know about it and also being completely powerless to influence the outcome of this in any way at all.
There's enough money in app spamming that it would have to be a lot higher than that to put them off.

As a rule the people who act like arseholes have at least as much money as those who don't, I don't think it's going to put them off.

I agree a nominal fee is reasonable as it puts another barrier in their way (you can check for duplicate memberships off the same card for instance so they have to get multiple cards) but the actual financial amount isn't a major barrier I don't think.
thanks, didn't know this one. If only it could play burned dvd's like ISO files.

Still, VLC integration is a must. With no compromise.
If I recall, this is also why FaceTime, when it left beta, cost $.99.
SEOmoz to Rebrand Itself as Moz?
It does not mention Squid either. It does not mention varnish because it is about HTTP caching in general.
'Quality' is the issue, I agree. Especially with domains and branding, beauty is often in the eye of the beholder. What you think may be awesome may not appeal to everyone (or anyone!)
My Reeducation: V2 Game of Life with Map and Reduce
The Challenges of Mobile Retargeting
What it means is that you can't release an app that uses iCloud anywhere else.

No releasing on your homepage.
No mailing out to people.
No humble indie bundle.
No steam.
No developing an app with paying apple $99/year.
No. It is PHP.
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/symfony-devs/WGMooRPjmEY/hwW...
IMessages. What Google Voice has been trying to solve...for the past 5 years
Because I know we all wanted it.

http://jsfiddle.net/gSD94/2/
http://jsfiddle.net/gSD94/2/embedded/result/

(great article too!)

edit: better link (fullscreen!)
They didn't forget. [1]

String	READ_CONTACTS	Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
String	WRITE_CONTACTS	Allows an application to write (but not read) the user's contacts data.

So yes, if they HAD forgotten, then Android would have the same security hole. But it doesn't, because they took security seriously.

[1] http://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.perm...
...but technology won't be enough to make it really work.

I would argue that social networking (and marketing) has boomed at the individual / consumer level because the technology alone has been enough to catalyse new ways of interacting. Business (and especially B2B business) is different. The motives are different, the risks are different and the economics are different.

B2B companies won't "like" each other but they will try to form new partnerships within extended value systems to do business more efficiently and effectively. This relies particularly on network credibility & trust (i.e. no infiltrators), efficient discovery and requirements-matching based on complex criteria, and extensive third-party feedback, among other factors.

B2B execs won't tolerate information overload and won't filter through reams of user-generated content, most of which is likely to be self-promotional because few have the time or inclination to produce genuine value-add content on their own initiative. They will also need to carefully manage the nature and scope of specific interactions within and across corporate boundaries to prevent "off-message" embarrassments.

Finally, the commercial dynamics of social business networks will be very context-specific and will vary widely depending on the underlying market structures and the complexity of the transactions taking place. It's not like B2C which is more of a straight fight over who can capture biggest market share: it's a more nuanced balance between inter-company collaboration in non-differentiating areas and competition elsewhere.

New and better technology will help, sure, but I believe that for social business to achieve its true potential requires a model with expert human interaction at its heart. Their role will be to tailor the networks to the context, guarantee the authenticity and legitimacy of members, stimulate collective intelligence and prevent abuse. That's what is preventing the vast majority of B2Bs from using social networking as more than a token marketing tool right now. The technology exists already that could create huge surpluses of value by streamlining the B2B transaction process but it will need a specialised group of professionals to apply it. I guess it's like the publishing industry. The technology itself is no longer revolutionary but it takes more than technology to launch and operate a successful business magazine. The know-how is crucial.
The jQuery Slider Plugin with Infinite Style
I had a hard time getting the essay on time and interactivity, but this killer presentation really helped it sink in and dial the frustration to inspiration ratio.
Yeah, you need an experienced lawyer and you need to go after GoDaddy immediately. They are at fault here. The terms of any user agreement may be invalid.

Next, you need to spend 100% of your time raising hell about this. This story has all of the marks of stuff the tech press loves to eat up.

#1 Godaddy is run by a bunch of assholes who walk all over their customers rights.

#2 The secret service is still full of a bunch of buffoons. These are the same guys that raided a roleplaying game company because they couldn't tell the difference between an imaginary game and a hacker manual. I'm sure the press would like to answer the question, are they still hiring FBI rejects?

You have to turn this story the other way around. You can make jotform a name people remember.

I've used jotform myself for quite some time (2 years or close to it?) It is a great service. Obviously you were doing nothing illegal, and were going to great lengths to stop the bad guys. Thats a news story everyone wants to hear.
"As a part of an ongoing investigation about a content posted in our site, a US government agency has temporarily suspended our jotform.com domain. We are fully cooperating with them, but it is not possible to say when the domain would be unblocked."

The dns is set to a godaddy domain which has over 224,000 domains attached to it.

http://www.dailychanges.com/spam-and-abuse.com/

As a registrar that has been contact by the US Government this (change of dns) isn't consistent with what we have experienced when contacted about a problem site. It's more consistent with an individual registrars policies.

If the government was seizing a domain, generally, they would change the whois information. It wouldn't still be listed in the name of the registrant.

This isn't an attempt by the way to get one up on godaddy. They are a gazillion times bigger than we are and they cater to an entirely different market segment.
Scott Aaronson: Quantum Computing Since Democritus (2006)
A feeling that I'm not buying the same OS each year.

Personally, I think Microsoft's strategy of bringing back the hybrid desktop/tablet, where you can do tablet-type things on the road/in bed, then drop it into a dock and go back to mouse and keyboard for work, is pretty sound now. I like what they've done with Windows 8. I like that they're trying.

What do I want from Apple? Probably something I don't know I want. I want to be able to drop an iPad into an iMac enclosure and have a hybrid work area. I want iCloud to be more than some weird, feature-free Dropbox (the new organization structure sounds like a misery for anyone with more than a handful of files). I want them to fix Finder and rethink the Dock.

But this is like asking what I want from an iPhone before I ever saw one, and I think most people's ideas of what they wanted were so wildly off, and then Steve comes out and says "You want this" and he's right. That's what I want from them, to know me better than myself.
Sucks for me since I give my Google Voice number to everyone and there's no way to register that with Apple AFAIK. So all my iMessages to peoples' phones show up as from my email address that's tied to my Apple account, which very few people have in their address book, or my actual AT&T cell phone number, which absolutely no one has in their address book.
I would probably still be on 10.5, but the new laptop came with 10.6.
You might check out Syntastic. It supports JSHint if you have it installed and also supports other languages. I switched to it after using the JSHint plugin for a while.

https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic
An API Ontology
Gigabit Ethernet Jumbo Frames (and why you should care)
Shouldn't it work the same way for iOS, too? It seems Android is the only one who's allowing you you to make that choice. Neither iOS nor WP7 allow it.
TextMate bundle is quite nice as well:
http://fgnass.posterous.com/jslint-in-textmate
What an API Product Manager does
Cool stuff. What are the major differences between this and clojurescript?
I don't even think I'd use the word journalist to describe Gruber. I really can't even read his stuff any more. I got one paragraph in to this one and was disgusted. How is he so popular? I get the whole Howard Stern shock value thing, but seriously, who can actually get through one of his Apple love stories?
They're letting developers use a free Apple ID to sign apps. You only need to pay if you're distributing through the Mac App Store.
Short term mobile phone storage for NYC students
I really enjoyed memrise when I used it but I wish it had a couple more features for languages, like sentence building with the words youve learned. Also, I would've used it everyday if there was a mobile app. Its been awhile since i have played with it though. Overall, a great tool and I've recommended it to fair number of people :)
>4. Notes. NOTHING on this planet compares to Microsoft's OneNote.

Scrivner and Evernote do compare, actually. That being said, OneNote is one of the least appreciated MS products.
Mac OS is at a point where they simply can't take these drastic jumps that you may see in the competition. For one, they're now at a yearly cycle. Two, the audience has expanded and continues to expand it's user base.

OS X's yearly cycles allows them to take a loyal user base who will upgrade and gradually introduce them to paradigm shifts, like cloud storage. Apple is taking calculated steps to make sure any of their risk taking features are done right and presented to the consumer correctly so they're adopted. I think they definitely have the vision. Something they do even better is have the patience to make sure their vision comes to fruition (mostly) correctly.

I can understand your point, but I'm not sure what progress you want. I'm more inclined to say that you're a segment that Apple doesn't quite need.
Users don't even have to change a setting. They Ctrl-click, and select "Open". One time. On the first launch of the unsigned app. And it's done.
Answered you on SO. :)
Case Study: Real Time SMS polls at Zappos All Hands Meeting
A question for anyone who quit their career as a patent lawyer to work on formal methods (or vice versa):

Since mathematics isn't patentable, can you invalidate a patent claim by showing that it is equivalent to a mathematical formula? And if so, by the Church-Turing thesis, wouldn't any Turing-complete program be representable in lambda calculus, and therefore be unpatentable?
We can handle information density
OS X Safari tabs were added to the iPad version of Safari in iOS 5.

Most of the rest of the features that people are listing don't seem right, like both iOS and OS X have a search called Spotlight but they aren't very similar in UI.
I'm not particularly excited about this release, but I gotta think you'd have been better off not calling out the word fanboy here at all, because you really really come off as a Windows fanboy, much more so than any of the responses to you come off as any kind of fanboy, and frankly more than I've seen anywhere in quite some time.
Different lightening at best digital cameras under 200
Why don't you use multiple user accounts on your Mac Mini? That's pretty much what it is designed for.
Access Administrator powers without admin rights
The question is simple, how can i access administrator powers without admin rights?
Agreed. I was more than a little annoyed to discover that I couldn't watch iTunes Store movies full-screen on my HD TV through an displayport-to-HDMI adapter after upgrading to Lion. I actually gave some thought to going back to Snow Leopard but that seemed more bother than it was worth so I started renting movies on the Xbox 360 instead.
Nice work. I talked about the effect back at http://paulirish.com/2010/my-harmonious-background-canvas/

And the equivalent code is available on Github: https://github.com/paulirish/harmony
Not saying this is what we would do (as a registrar) but an order from the government generally has a time stamp on it where you can verify the "order" and then comply. While I can't get into the time period allowed or any details like that I can say that it would be possible to alert the registrant and/or stall the request if one so chooses to do that. I'm not saying we would do this of course. I'm just saying that getting an order from the US Government, unless it appears on it's face to be a true emergency situation, a registrar could always take the time to check with legal counsel.

And if it were a true emergency the Government would go straight to Verisign (for .com/net) and not even bother with the registrar.
I'm glad to hear there will be a better Notification system. Growl is decent, but it would be nice if such simple functionality was handled by the OS and was free.
If they open up the API, someone can do something about it.
And? What’s the problem with that? Are there plausible usability problems with that?
Introducing Tuk.io
It seems to me that Apple doesn't think that the Mac is a segment it needs at all.

I would place money on Apple killing the Mac within 10 years, moving all consumers to iOS (which, let's face it, they're doing all by themselves), and releasing Xcode onto a Linux distro and wash their hands of desktop computing once and for all.

Apple clearly doesn't see a lot of future in the desktop, and that may well be right.
Yes, trying to do fluid layouts with percents and borders is a huge pain without this. Too bad it doesn't work with IE7 as I'm still seeing about 5% market share from there. But at least it's declining fast.

Weird timing - after years of coding I literally found this box-sizing solution today on SO just a couple hours before seeing it here on HN.
For anyone who may read this thread and think the talk is just a showcase for Bret's design and coding skills, it's not. The demos are awesome in their own right, but they exist to set the stage for the rest of the talk.

"The purpose of this talk is to tell you that this activist lifestyle is not just for social activists. As a technologist you can recognize the wrong in the world. You can have a vision for what a better world could be. You can dedicate yourself to fighting for principle. Social activists typically fight by organizing, but you can fight by inventing."

He explains how he got to where he is, gives other examples from computing of people whose work transcends a skill or craft, and walks through how you can work toward that if you want to.
Because there's no gain in doing so.

Look, as soon as it's released, it will be copied by those who already have market penetration in that space, leaving the big USP of "cool software feature" as something useless, and no longer a USP.

Instead of releasing them out, which is what I'd like to do, I just keep them to myself. Something which I would rather not do, but I see no other way of gaining value from them.
What If You Could Tip a Filmmaker?
looks like they are on the ball, just got the email
Don't get why parent was down-voted? Seems like legitimate criticism to me: How can they claim the software is "carefully reviewed" to "protect the user" but still allow seemingly dangerous app?
Why does your search engine need to store your mails? Can't this be a different provider?
98% of the time for me at least Lion remains near identical to previous OS X versions from a UI perspective (with the exception of full screen which was just a glaring omission from all previous version IMHO).

The "Back to the Mac" line might be good marketing but massive over sell if viewed as literal truth. What they did was identify a few holes in the UI (for instance that you might not have every application you wanted in your dock but that going through your applications folder was a pain) and fill them with iOS-ish solutions.

But if you don't want them, you don't use them, they've not taken any of the old stuff away.
Sometimes all a person can do is wish they were born somewhere or sometime else.
My Reaction to Mountain Lion
Never heard of such a notation before. Probably only used in the US where people don't use mm.
Then they are limited to what's in Bing's/Yahoo's index, and their index is vastly inferior to Google's... it's not even close. This is partially why Google has better results - they simply crawl more of the web (plus their algorithm too, of course).

Why can't DDG just cut their losses and invest in building their own index? It's much more worth it in the long run. All DDG is doing is adding cool, nice to have UI features on top of Bing/Yahoo, but what about the core?
Are you planning to use map/reduce within dotCloud? I ask because, otherwise, there'd be no reason to use HDFS instead of something with real filesystem semantics, comparable performance and better availability. Once such option is mentioned in the OP.

Disclaimer: I'm on the GlusterFS architecture team and advisory board, so I'm totally biased.
EU Court Bans Anti-Piracy Filters On Hosting Services
I'm surprised that there's still no mention of a Mac version of iBooks...
One thing I love about Lin's story is that it's making people realize that today's "industry experts" still don't perfectly place talent where it needs to be, even in an industry as heavily scouted and recruited as pro sports.
If you're running apache this line helped me improved my score drastically:

SSLCipherSuite ALL:!ADH:!EXPORT56:!EXPORT40:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:-LOW:-SSLv2:+EXP:+eNULL
Will Microsoft follow Apple and revert to its former disclosure playbook?
You are right. It isn't your job to learn on old versions of Python just so that Django does not have to release a port yet. Many projects have been waiting on other projects to port, thankfully the progress in library porting has picked up speed and the available library for Python 3 is very usable.

And Python 3 actually is a reasonable decision for a beginner. It is more consistent and does a better job of exposing the 'right' way to do many things.

Python 2 is reaching the end of its life and has little purpose except to support legacy libraries and apps and ease the transition.

It is not the users of Python 3, but people insisting on using Python 2 to the EXCLUSION of Python 3, who are fragmenting Python
Programming with fingerless gloves, living off rice and beans.
How to build PHP XML-RPC Server, Client and Android application
A few more features would make it useful for prototyping. The README says that it uses indexes to speed up queries, but it doesn't, at least not in current HEAD (05786eada4); it always queries all the records. It would be nice if it allowed comparisons on relationships other than just equality; for example, >, <, and "LIKE." Ideally, it would also handle handle nested structures.
I'm most alarmed with this restriction:

iCloud document storage and Notification Center. Both of these are slated only for third-party apps from the Mac App Store. Many developers, though, have been maintaining non-Mac App Store versions of their apps. If this continues, such apps are going to lose feature parity between the App Store and non-App Store versions.

This will affect software from companies such as Adobe where custom installers are necessary and/or the economics of taking a 30% App Store hit is not necessary when they can already reach their customer base. The move strikes me as anti competitive.
Funny they should say that. An extra comma can take down multiple versions of IE, and is something tools like JSHint can easily catch. I can't think of a good reason not to use JSHint to catch stupid mistakes we all make.
21 books for Engineering Managers / Development Managers that guided me in 2011
My thoughts after (almost) two months of Codecademy's Code Year
> I've been following the heated discussions on both sides. Personally, I think it's damaging to both your publicizing efforts.

Actually, it probably helps both publicizing efforts. As the Internet-wide debate becomes "Backbone vs Ember," it puts the focus on those two techs and leaves other competitors out of the conversation.
Glassmap (YC S11) Launches A Better “Find My Friends”
No your not. I want my stuff to sync without issues like my notes, contacts, mail but I don't want my laptop/desktop to feel like my phone. Example: Launch pad, is anyone really using this?
Caveat: indexes don't currently work, I'm writing that code as we speak. SQLite supports any type of data in colums, regardless of what the column type actually is, which is what allows you to just define your fields to be indexed and have it work.

I think this project is a good fit for small, exploratory/prototyping projects that need powerful querying capabilities but don't know what the final schema will look like yet.

That's what I'm using it for, anyway.
Clean Your Room
> 1) you think you are different than a consumer how?

For me the distinction is this. If a feature is being taken from a consumer (e.g., me as a consumer), I say bummer and find a new hobby. No Apple remote and Front Row anymore? Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

If I use a feature in a professional workflow and it disappears, then I want at the very least a big fat warning before upgrading, but it'd be better if nothing disappeared altogether; or alternatively, if I could stay on the older version.

The current trend with Apple is to radically drop features that are only used by <n% of users and to always require the latest OS for everything. You cannot sync contacts off a 32-bit Mac anymore because MobileMe is running out and Lion/iCloud is 64-bit only. And on my 64-bit machine, I only found out that iSync was gone after I upgraded and held a (replacement) dumbphone in my hand.

Or look at OS X server, which I am happy I didn't buy. The reviews on the MAS are devastating and I was wondering if it would ever rise from beta software quality. If you relied on OS X server, well joke's on you.

That said, I think 10.8 in particular is only 10.7 with lipstick to directly compete against Windows 8. (Notice even the version numbers?) But 10.7 did cause lots of damage.