skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I think in many cases its all a matter of perspective. You can look at any Google product, analyze it long enough and then understand how it will lead to a stronger advertising business model for them. On the other hand you can look at it and say that is potentially exciting technology for reasons that have nothing to do with advertising.

Probably most of the engineers at Google don't think of themselves as working in advertising and probably shouldn't but Id say almost indisputedly their paycheck is mostly coming from advertising and people clicking on mindless ads.

I think the main problem is how do you solve and build business around interesting problems that don't have the ability to be monetized through click advertising which most of the internet seems to be funded by.
Do new tabs still open to the left of the current tab? Drives me absolutely insane.
The webmaster of physorg.com made you sad today.

I don't get mad at Toyota when an inattentive Prius driver nearly sideswipes me in traffic.
Fifth Generation VP8 Hardware Encoder Released
really, how?

Advertising is not traditionally sold on a self-service basis. It is traditionally sold via Big Enterprise Sales processes, caricatured above as "steak dinners between advertising sales and ad buyers at big brands." This is enormously big business: ever bus ad, every TV ad, most newspaper ads, etc that you've ever seen was sold this way.

Google is the alternative model for advertising, and (as such) is overwhelmingly remnant inventory: that which we still have to sell after the Enterprise Ad Sales is over with. Google makes 97% of their revenues -- read their annual reports for how many billions of dollars that is -- through a) creation of remnant inventory (primarily on their search engine) and b) monetization of remnant inventory (2/3 on their own properties, 1/3 all over the public Internet).

Do you really believe this?

There is a little bit of exaggeration and understatement for comedic effect -- specifically, the words "biproduct" and "non-trivial." I absolutely believe, in my heart of hearts, that Google is primarily an advertising company which makes excellent use of technology, not a technology company which makes good use of advertising. That is easily the most controversial opinion about our industry that I have. I also think that Google has created more value for more people than probably any other company in history. I respect that you may think differently about either or both of these points.
This. I have the exact same problem. Praised for being smart from a young age (graduated high school at 16), left me with some bad habits about work and effort., and it's only been lately, that I've started to dismantle them.

tl;dr Praising smart kids for their intelligence is a sure-fire way to screw them up for years.
I was writing for NeXTWorld magazine at the time I saw TimBL's newsgroup announcement.

I mentioned it to a colleague at the magazine, John Perry Barlow, who emailed his friend Mitch Kapor at EFF, saying "[Kehoe] passed on the following about something called World Wide Web, which sounds rather like Project Xanadu emerging from the Matrix almost without design. This could be cool." Here's the original email (screen grab from my NeXT machine): http://www.fortuityconsulting.com/images/barlow.gif

I emailed TimBL and told him I'd asked my editors to let my co-editor and I write about it. TimBL was enthusiastic but warned me, "We have to avoid any embarrassment about CERN code being 'given away for free' when developed with European taxpayers' money. We are working on this but don't say anything in print about how one gets hold of the code without checking for latest developments first!" Here's the original email from TimBL: http://www.fortuityconsulting.com/images/timbl.gif

TimBL had no reason for concern -- my editors decided the story was not newsworthy and we never ran the piece.

I was working on a book proposal at the time, titled "Plugging Into the Planet," which introduced the Internet and explained how computer users could get connected to Usenet, Gopher, and WAIS. I added a section on the WWW. Random House, Bantam, and other major publishers turned it down. I was told books about modems didn't sell well.

When I saw TimBL's announcement, I felt it was an important project and worthy of notice. Still, I thought that calling it the WorldWideWeb was vainglorious; after all, how worldwide was it really, running on the handful of NeXTs that had Internet connections? It wasn't until John Markoff's December 1993 article in the New York Times describing NCSA Mosaic for Windows that popular interest in the web burgeoned. Even then, there were very few ISPs, modems were slow, and there was no easy way to create and serve web pages. That we now have the web is a testament to both the power of TimBL's vision and the enthusiasm of everyone who encountered it.
I stated an opinion and my reasons for holding it. I don't owe you a disclaimer about whether the linked article (which I didn't reference, btw) happens to be full of shit.

If you form all of your opinions worrying about all the idiots or evil people who might happen to agree with you, or use your arguments to further their own nefarious ends, you're destined to lead a very quiet life.

> ICE proved itself. ICE isn't on trial here.

The usability and cost/benefit of electric drivetrains versus the status quo is relevant. My point was not "we should distrust ICE," so much as "we should discuss cost/benefit tradeoffs of technology like reasonable people instead of resorting to ZOMG BRICKING".
It's interesting that Microsoft chose to adopt monochrome icons after Mac OS X / iTunes adopted monochrome icons. I'd be curious if Apple's design was a major influence on Microsoft's designers, or if the idea for monochrome icons came primarily from independent research/user testing.
So many great typefaces to fork: https://github.com/theleagueof
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I'm glad that they can grow crops that mean they're able to afford to feed their families. I'm pretty sure they are as well.
A while ago, someone linked to the HN post entitled "My weekend project called Quora", or something to that effect. Was very interesting to see.
Thanks for the reply. Worked with successful and unsuccessful startups which all fell in to the above situation.

Can you elaborate on your 'list' comment? Am on the second stage of designing and implementing an idea. I hacked a prototype of the idea but am using devs from oDesk to piece it together. is this a bad idea? I have a plan of how i want to execute but would love some help on how others have executed in stealth mode.
The information is not the inventory, because this particular information is not available for sale in a rivalrous fashion. Your attention is the inventory. (This is sometimes phrased sardonically as "If you're not paying for it, you are the product.")
Isn't the point of self-publishing to cut out the intermediary that is taking a percentage of the artist's sales? Given that impetus I struggle with how this would be an attractive offer especially since Jim Gaffigan is more likely than not able to afford the $35k price tag.
After watching a coworker innocently ask a woman who wasn't expecting, "When are you due?", I've developed a simple rule for this:

If she tells you she's pregnant: Congratulate her.

If she doesn't: Keep your mouth shut.

Seriously, if you want to target expectant mothers, let them register for a discount program. Diapers are expensive! Any marketing effort that begins, "We think you might be pregnant..." is doomed.
Subdomain seems to be the defacto standard but a subfolder is much better for SEO
The design isn't disastrous but it looks cheap. Why didn't you invest more on the design? This could attract both his eyes and the community ones.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3626383

http://files.myopera.com/Yorch/blog/p800.jpg

Palm smartphones were the minority (in terms of total number of models).
IndexedDB working examples [with updates for Firefox 12 and Chrome]
Amazing Project!
Uber-angel Ron Conway: Silicon Valley stronger than ever
This is very informative and you make many cogent observations. However, you don't even remotely address the point of the article, which, as far as I understand it, is that something is fundamentally wrong if a child wants to learn about dinosaurs and he/she is lured away with addictive games. Even more so if this is considered the pinnacle of our combined capabilities and at the same time a hint of the future into which we are heading.
Funny how carefully so-called bill of rights mentions nothing about privacy rights as they relate to government. The main reason I don't want companies and "organizations" having too much personal data is it's being shared with the government. Nothing here puts restrictions on DHS, CIA, NSA data mining.

I'm eagerly awaiting the Orwellian twist they'll put on this "privacy" bill where we'll be required to submit iris scans and fingerprints in order to go online.
Quote from the article:

In VS 11 we have transitioned to glyph style iconography throughout the product. While we understand that opinions on this new style of iconography may vary, an icon recognition study conducted with 76 participants, 40 existing and 36 new VS users, showed no negative effect in icon recognition rates for either group due to the glyph style transition. In the case of the new VS users they were able to successfully identify the new VS 11 icons faster than the VS 2010 icons (i.e., given a command, users were faster at pointing to the icon representing that command). In this and subsequent studies more developers have expressed a preference for the glyph style icons over the former style, especially after having spent time getting used to the new glyph style icons.
*... it could be a real damage to creativity and individuality when you can medicate your mind into a machine.

OTOH, if it is a temporary state of mind, it can be a real boon.

Sometimes, before you can be creative with a tool, you need to get past some initial learning of possible quite boring fundamentals. Being able to slip into a different state of mind while learning this is an aid to moving on to where you then have the resources to start using what you know to create new things.
Startup ideas
This is great, what I was looking for is what kinda of data do some companies look for, but can not find, maybe you could categorize these ideas, so I could to the area I looking for on ideas to fulfill, I have worked with many direct marketing firms and Service Bureau's where data of some sort can't be found - lists containing ?, data never thought of collected?, this is what I am trying to figure out what kinda data can I learn to collect that has value either looked for by many or by a niche
>This is just an excuse that will limit you.

Apoligies if I am making a strawman or unfairly characterizing you, but lately I've been seeing a lot of "Get Motivated" stuff here and on reddit that is completely false.

Sorry, but children do have the "language acquisition" device. I'm bilingual and learned both my languages during those golden years. My memory as a child is amazing, and I can name scene for scene the movies I watched once as a child, yet I can barely tell you the plot of the movie I saw last month. Childhood learning and the malleable brain really isn't something in dispute. Immersion isn't remotely comparable.

My wife lived for 5 years in Russia and studied the language all through college. She's no where near my childhood learned Greek which I speak maybe 5 or 6 times a year. Her Russian fades quickly too. If she's not using it, she's losing it. Oh, she speaks 4 laugnages at a proper adult level too. She needs to keep using all 4 or she will also lose them. She's no stranger to language learning or immersion. My Greek is permanent, btw, no need to practice or anything. Its forever mine.

There's just something really sad about how the motivation crowd has been co-opted by the meathead sports metaphor crowd "GIVE 110%!!!!". There's science and reality at work here. Yelling and overly positive platitudes aren't helping. If anything its a disservice to the people who really are looking for answers while trying to get motivated or trying to learn a second language. Motivation and learning and hacking them is a lot more complex than just willing yourself to make it happen. There's a fair bit of complexity here, especially when people have unrealistic expectations and do not love the process of learning and trying. Loving the process, being humble, asking for advice, accepting the pain, accepting looking like an idiot, etc are far more valuable to me than the whole "TRY HARDER!!!!" sports cliche.
This is all language astronauts. There's nowt wrong with the for loop for most cases I can think of.

Closures are way more expensive if you include the call overhead.
Or to put it in a word, they have “morals.” And when they talk about it, they are ”moralizing.”
Great overview of how ads work, but the rant is still valid. As the end, the environment around us will end up to be very similar to one described in the movie Idiocracy.
I don’t know if Google can come up with a way to make quadrillions of dollars and to keep me from being sad. Maybe my feelings are simply a cost of doing business, or maybe what I want is impossible. But I think my sadness is independent of the attraction the ad holds for me personally. My issue is with the relationship between the ad and the content.

I don't think there can be another way. Advertising necessarily extracts value out of your attention, while simultaneously devaluing your browsing/watching/listening/driving/etc experience. Attention is a (mostly) zero-zum game.

If Google could find a way to put subliminal advertising on the web (and those glasses would sure be a pretty badass way to go about it), maybe it wouldn't make you as sad?
Kickstarter + Indie Game Studio = Learn to code in a FPS game
Ad supported iOS app don't work?
How does it work on IE ?
I prefer the idea that the lucky ones "made their own luck" by increasing luck surface area.

In this view, the lucky may not have recognized opportunity better, just created better opportunities for themselves (through hard work). Even if this notion isn't completely correct, I like how it incentivises working rather than waiting.
I was being tag-team interviewed for a programming job. The first guy asked me what I disliked about my current workplace. I said, "Nothing," because money was my only reason for leaving. He didn't believe I couldn't find one negative thing to say, and made bold marks (probably a big "X") on a paper. In the next interview, a lady manager asked me the same question. Not wanting to make the same mistake twice, I said, "Office politics," and sat back smiling, ready for the next question. She frowned and said, "Define office politics." I said, "Umm..habbadababbadah...gah..er," until she decided to move on to another question. I got the job!
I'll be frank, if I was Jim Gaffigan, I wouldn't hire you.

The reason for me is twofold: The asterisk, and the lack of product.

The Asterisk:
You make it very hard to understand what "Free*" actually means. When you later say "we'll need to take a small portion of revenue..." a lot of red flags go up in mind. What if I want to deploy the product on my own server, where I will take care of the bandwidth and other costs? Will you still give me your product for free, since the only money you asked for was to cover bandwidth?

The Lack of Product:
I don't see a demo (tell me if I'm wrong) showing how you have this turnkey "Louie CK model" solution up and running. If you don't have that, that means I'll be your guinea pig as your first customer. If I'm putting a product out there, I'm not willing to chance being a guinea pig because if problems occur (data stolen, server outtages, etc) it's my reputation that will suffer as a result.
Thanks for the tip, but hopefully they'll use the 75% of $9.99 and apply it towards making a better product.
I don't know the when we arrived in this new world, where thoughtful design is king, but I am glad to be here.
>Which, for many drivers, may as well be $40k.

Did you really go ahead and conflate $7,000 and and $40,000? $7000 buys me a decent used car. $40,000 buys me a brand new Toyota Prius (MSRP $24,700) with almost enough change left over to buy a brand new Hyundai Elantra (MSRP $15,345).

$7,000 is not a small chunk of change, by any means. It's a lot less, however, than $40,000. Conflating the two does no one any good.
How many wikipedia pages can we turn into .es domains?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes

On a side note, I need to start using 418 "I'm a teapot" more often.
You can take it too far, but I think at a macro-level "luck", by which I mean random factors beyond your control, is by far the dominant factor. I do fairly well for myself, among the top 0.5% by world income, but I'm quite sure this is not because I am among the top 0.5% in world intelligence+tenacity. I like to think I'm fairly smart, especially when it comes to reading widely, in an interdisciplinary way, and making unexpected connections between different domains.

But honestly, I came pretty close to "winning" by the time I was 10 years old. I was born in one of the richest countries of the world, to well-off parents who were science/technology-minded, attending a good school district, etc. I also happen to have computer science as one of my strengths from a young age, partly due to foresighted parents who sent me to an after-school Logo program, and partly due to what feels like natural affinity. That pays well, while I could just as easily imagine being gifted in something less-lucrative, like music or history (I'm personally completely in awe of people who have perfect pitch and what seems like an innate sense of rhythm). I had to do relatively little on top of all that to succeed, at least compared to what other people would've had to do to succeed similarly. Basically had to not completely fuck it up. (And I assure you I am lazy as shit compared to a lot of people doing less well.)
Beautiful!

A suggestion, though:

Use the whitespace to the right of the status codes to display their explanations, rather than linking to a new page; it would be easier to browse this way.
There are times when I'm very thankful I'm not a designer. This is one of those times.
I find it much more likely that it is an result of Microsoft’s Metro design language. It’s something that is happening across many of their products.

Apple might still me a influence, but I don’t think it’s minor.
I wish I'd seen you comment before I bought it. I couldn't get it to work with any of my windows. It even has problems with it's own tutorial Window!

I'm actually considering trying to get my money back, it's that bad.

It's not quite the same thing but Moom is pretty good. It doesn't try to automatically manage windows but it does let you position (inc full size) windows very quickly with the keybaord.
Apparently, the one core qualification for software development is to write radical, but philosophical articles to no end about it.
I thought myself geeky for making this PDF cheat sheet, but now I see it's perfectly normal to do this sort of thing.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/222781/HTTP%20Status%20Code%20Defini...
You certainly make me want to know more about heartbyte! :-)
What ads? I thought all the smart people were running AdBlock...
I'm getting a lot of 'permission denied' alerts trying to do anything. Even if that's the case, typically apps try to volley that into a 'Sign up now!' instead of the negative.
I'm sorry, but I use color to locate things. This, to me, is a disaster. If this isn't a problem for other people, fine, but it's a problem to me. A better solution would have been to use less color and desaturated tones rather than simply going to full on black and white, which serves only to rob the IDE of potential visual cues. This is like using a cannon to kill a bird. Just because they overcolorized VS2010 for no apparent reason doesn't mean they need to overcompensate in the opposite direction. I can't use this until someone comes up with color-based icons for it.
I believe the previous commentator was referring to the work conducted by Latanya Sweeney

http://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/paper1.pd...

"In this document, I report on experiments I conducted using 1990 U.S. Census summary data to determine how many individuals within geographically situated populations had combinations of demographic values that occurred infrequently. It was found that combinations of few characteristics often combine in populations to uniquely or nearly uniquely identify some individuals. Clearly, data released containing such information about these individuals should not be considered anonymous. Yet, health and other person-specific data are publicly available in this form. Here are some surprising results using only three fields of information, even though typical data releases contain many more fields. It was found that 87% (216 million of 248 million) of the population in the United States had reported characteristics that likely made them unique based only on {5-digit ZIP, gender, date of birth}. About half of the U.S. population (132 million of 248 million or 53%) are likely to be uniquely identified by only {place, gender, date of birth}, where place is basically the city, town, or municipality in which the person resides. And even at the county level, {county, gender, date of birth} are likely to uniquely identify 18% of the U.S. population. In general, few characteristics are needed to uniquely identify a person."
Tools -> Options -> Documents

Check "Insert documents to the right of existing tabs".
I'm pretty sure jcoder was being sarcastic :).
Looks very interesting, but way too much to read.