skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real question is, will Google bend to Microsoft's Store terms to list it there?

Keep in mind, you can't install WinRT (aka, Metro) apps unless you go through the Store.
I had the same general idea about a year ago, and I setup a site as the entry point of the idea: ParkedAvenue.com

Since I don't have a huge collection of domains, it is kind of a chicken and egg problem getting people to list their domains they would be open to leasing/selling.

Good luck with the endeavor. I am sure someone who gets critical mass will have some success with it.
The peak subscriber count I could find was 13 million[1] in 2009. Dropping 3 million customers at $12-15/mo would be scary for any company.

[1] http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/EdwardHunter/20090924/3179/Wo...
If you only have two people, then yes, it would be helpful if both people could understand each other.

However, as you go beyond two people, the situation changes -- perhaps the CEO needs to focus on the business side and doesn't have time for tech.

Perhaps more generally, it's nice to have someone who can speak on both the tech and business sides so that they can act as translator in a way. CEO, CTO, COO, anyone with an understanding of both sides
Even if the company did make attempts to verify the citizenship of it's users, what opportunity would it have had to argue its case?
I find these sorts of events fascinating. Blizzard does have quite the money machine with WoW. Even a paltry 10.2M subscribers, assuming the adjusted monthly income per subscriber is $10 that is $102M/month in revenue from that franchise.

The interesting bit is that to make that count they really need a good operational plan with respect to their infrastructure.

I got a peek at their infrastructure early on because the company where I worked (Netapp) was trying to sell them filers for their Oracle instances which were running the game. And the game is essentially a ginormous database being updated constantly based on player actions. What we saw was a very complex (and expensive) infrastructure which was clearly built expediently. I would think that over time they would have been working to refine this to something more manageable (and cost effective).

Ultimately, there is a 'killer' persistent world infrastructure architecture for this sort of traffic. Would be a good research topic for a thesis I suspect.
This is interesting, I knew one of their main sources of revenue (World of Warcraft) wasn't doing as hot, but still had over 10million people, which at 15$ a month subscription, is nothing to scoff at. The 60 developers is the most interesting, they have a lot of in the queue for them (D3, Starcraft 2: expansion, and Titan (their next MMO), Im guessing they either weren't pulling their weight or this has something to do with Diablo 3 being almost complete.
Why is there a leap year? - Wired
You're asking the wrong question. The question isn't "would '7 Habits of Highly Effective People' be making less money today if copyright were shorter?" (obviously yes). The real question is, "Would '7 Habits of Highly Effective People' been written in the first place if copyright were shorter?"

This is a much more complex question, and I'd argue the answer is probably yes, even if copyright was as short as 2-3 years. The writer of '7 Habits of Highly Effective People' didn't know ahead of time that it would become a perennially popular international bestseller, so the potential revenue from 50+ years of copyright protection likely played a small role in his motivation.
The funny thing here is that all of this big-money big-government international strategic arm twisting is over DNS settings, something users can change as easily as changing two numbers.

If things get bad enough, users will simply point their resolvers to some alternate root. Trying to block DNS requests to alternate resolvers is a laughable proposition from a technical perspective.
There was a lot of small and discrete but very effective ui changes in windows seven. The kind that transformed "why is it asking me to add tags and rating to my dll" into "what i need is right there under my mouse already".

And as you said the completely broken uac in vista didn't help, they had managed to make limited accounts worse to use than in xp somehow.
End of the e-Family
I'm sure I read about the heroku downtime on hacker news. Maybe it got pushed off the front page pretty quickly though.
Recent versions of GCC do, in fact, have improved error messages. For example, GCC 4.6 fixed a problem that the post I was replying to mentioned, where a missing semicolon after a struct definition would cause GCC to elicit an error message pointing to some other nearby line.

If you're comparing clang to just GCC 4.2, then say that. If you've compared it with recent versions of GCC too, then say that.
Does he really think potential terrorists or criminals are going to hijack a plane using toothbrushes or popsicle sticks? The purpose of the TSA is to screen all passengers for real threats like guns, blades, and most of all, bombs.

He says there was no outcry over the backscatters. That's just out of touch; it was all over the Internet and even major news media back around November of 2010. Liberals and conservatives alike found the idea of their nude images too far. This kept backscatters from being deployed for the most part; have you ever seen one?

Seems to me that the TSA has changed their backscatter approach since then. Instead of showing the full images to security personnel it will do some computational analysis of the images and then represent any anomalies on a simple drawing of a human. The people going through the machine will see the same images the TSA will. See this image: http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/threatlevel/2012/02/TSA-Bo...

Nobody likes waiting in line or taking off their shoes. But I'd much rather do that than let people get onto my plane with explosives. Forget patriotism, it's a matter of your own personal safety.
Technically, it's 2 major projects: Diablo 3 and the new MMO Titan.

Starcraft 2 and WoW are in more of a maintenance cycle with the expansions coming out this year. Neither probably need as many developers as the new projects at this point.

The layoffs are probably due to WoW losing subscriptions over the last few years, and Diablo 3 nearing completion. The majority of the 540 non-developer positions are probably level 1 support or low level IT related positions because they don't need as much support personnel. The developer positions are most likely contract employees for Diablo 3 that aren't getting their contracts renewed.
Thanks. I appreciate ! :)
In perception, yes, but not in reality. If you want to be alive tomorrow, jumping off a tall building will be irrational even if you think it's the last step in a convoluted ritual to grant yourself immortality. That's an exaggerated example, but the principle holds in general: people's desires may differ, but the rationality of any actions taken in the pursuit of those desires is something you can evaluate objectively, at least in principle.
SICP - "What is Computer Science?"
False. Have you ever played the CSPAN drinking game?
ARC Gotcha – Unexpectedly Short Lifetimes
AFAIK there isn't a book on Metro, the new interface in Windows 8. Your best source is the documentation with the SDK.

On WPF (the latest on .Net UI) I'd recommend Matthew MacDonald's "Pro WPF in C# 2010: Windows Presentation Foundation in .NET 4".

On Win32 programming (the native code API to Windows) the best source is Petzold himself. It is the Windows equivalent of W. Richard Stevens books for Unix.
That's about what I was thinking, too. It might be good to explicitly say that they would have a lot of influence over the product, so it would ideally be well-suited to their needs. And, they would have special privileges/discounts/whatever, when it hits the market. What do people think about extending/stating those kinds of things, or does that set expectations too high?
Buy a WRT54gl, put dd-wrt on it, set it up as a client-bridge, now you can network your xbox, HTPC, PS3, etc. easily.
Restricted Boot Webcomic Contest
This doesn't seem that surprising to me. Blizzard took on millions of new customers fast, so they went on a hiring spree for support staff. 5+ years ago it was not unusual to take 2-3 days and even over a week to get an issue resolved. Now even more than 12 hours is a busy day. I'm sure they have streamlined their support systems behind the scenes and just don't require as many employees, even if they kept their peek subscriber levels.
(HN makes you wait a few minutes before you can reply. That's why the reply link was missing.)

"The reason to own a .com is not convenience. It's ubiquity at least in the US."

I know. I was not talking about the US.

"at this time using a non .com domain is a non-starter for the majority of people."

I disagree. For anyone who is not in the US (which is the majority of people), having a non-.com domain is probably not a big deal.
Is 99.99% germ-free germ-free? Purell? Bueller?
Does being depressed make you happy? It sounds like that. Then being happy for you is like being depressed for other. Well I am lost here :)
Feynman's view on CS is similar by Hal Abelson's take on the term (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQLUPjefuWA). Abelson's point about CS being more like magic has always stuck with me.
> Why did people like Engadget go from hating Vista to loving Vista SP1 aka Win7?

Because the last polishing step for an OS, like for every other software, is the most important ? Vista was filled with things that were one little short step from being great, or said another way vista was filled with things that were not great.
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Under deck ceiling is one various to supply better condition on your outdoor. At the moment many individuals begin to choose this strategy to get more convenience once they do out of doors activities.
It's probably an anti-pattern. The only great example, Steve Jobs, took the CEO title at Pixar but my sense is that he played more of a Chairman's role there, he only really did the full CEO thing at Apple.

Even Jobs had to neglect huge portions of Apple itself to focus on developing new products like the iPhone.

One reason it probably can't really work very well:
http://www.paulgraham.com/top.html
Clearing or filling large areas of <canvas> is cripplingly slow in every browser I've tried so far, so I'd assume it's that.

Hopefully that'll be worked on at some point in the not too distant future as it's one of the biggest problems I encounter when dealing with canvas at the moment.
hahaha, love how you throw Rackspace at the end (I deal with them everyday and can say they are top notch!)

I hate TSA as much as I do. I hate them more because I can imagine how this show will look in the future (further on this one)

> They are not friendly, have a real attitude problem and treat you as if you are guilty before proven innocent

I think this is one of those places where presumption of being guilty should proceed the one of being innocent. Otherwise, would you really care that now its about the time to point a finger that this guy is guilty [for planting a bomb] where your eardrums exploded from sudden cabin decompression and you free-falling into the ocean?

If you been watching the terrorism scare-show in US for a while now, you would easily came up with impression its a money show and nothing more than that. You throw some drugged loser on a plane [under CIA agents supervision] and he "fails" to detonate his bomb, then TSA asks for more money to "tighten up" security while boarders are wide open.

I found this particularly disgusting: "Michael Chertoff has been an advocate of enhanced technologies, such as full body scanners. It is important to note that his consulting firm Chertoff Group (founded 2009) represents manufacturers of the scanners" [1]. +300MM "market" paid off by taxpayers money. Still his 300MM is a drop in the ocean comparing with privately owned military complex.

The sad truth is, that noone in their sound mind would assume things will get better and security will loosen up. It won't. Based on the past, one could assume the following:

- some idiot will hide explosives inside his rectum,
- some other idiot will construct powerful enough bomb but small enough to hide in his cavities.

So, after we spend $300MM on all those scanners, next turn will come to spend another $300 on upgraded version that can shoot x-rays through your ass and teeth. Otherwise, those nasty terrorists will get us. It won't happen tomorrow or next year, but next 5-15 years will make today travel look like a breeze.

[1] wikipedia + http://gawker.com/5437499/why-is-michael-chertoff-so-excited...
Precedent doesn't work that way. All it means is that in a previous incident, a similar case was ruled on in a particular fashion, and typical jurisprudence is to stand by previous decisions unless there's a compelling reason not to.
Is it just me or do others completely balk at signing into sites with Facebook?
For some reason my survival instinct kicks in - sort of a combination of fight and flight simultaneously. I wrestle my way around it.

I just went to http://gtrot.com and it asked before running the search on my city if I wanted "Friend-powered personalization."

Happened with Trip Advisor too a couple of days ago.

It's total submission.

People on Facebook are not automatically my friends, they're just Facebook friends. But that's just a side point.. I'm put off by sites that are only, or compel a Facebook login. I don't know or even trust what is or what will happen behind the scenes.
Votes aren't random. People vote for people they choose and voting in different precincts will have different patterns. The underlying problem here is that the person doing the analysis is assuming that votes are random and trying to fit the data.
I support the idea (and your post got my upvote), but for a "Show HN" post it would have been nice to be shown more than an announcement and a waiting list signup.
Strongly disagree for most cases. I'm a developer. I'm a very smart developer, and very good at what I do. There are things I'm terrible at though. I'm an extreme introvert, and have trouble interacting with people. If I was to start a company with someone I would want them to handle the business side of things: fundraising, setting up partnerships, going to parties, etc. I understand that I would be participating in this to some extent, but I'd rather be the wingman.

If my CEO is technical, that's great, but it's a bonus on top of him/her being good at the things I'm not good at so I can focus on doing what I'm good at. Wearing different hats in a small business is essential, but if I was partnering with someone, I'd much rather have an outgoing, business-minded person who knows how to hustle than some nerdy developer who happens to know a VC or two.
Another federal bureau to abandon BlackBerry
Beeb30: An anniversary celebration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_O%27Dwyer
So I wasn't expecting this to get on the front page of HN (which was, in hindsight, stupid): my mental model was just "I'll put this on my blog's navigation bar so that over the coming years people will know about it" rather than "Man, I totally don't know what I'm going to do on Thursday. I know, maybe I'll get folks to send me a lot of email."

My priority inbox is hovering at around 100 right now. I'm getting to them as time permits. n.b. I also have a busy schedule today so I don't think I will clear this queue.

This isn't a time-bounded offer from me, this is just a formalization of the policy that I've had for six years. If I don't get back to you, I'll still be in this industry tomorrow, in April, in 2013, etc, so feel free to send it to me again.
playnow.com is a gambling website operating in Canada but registered in the US through Verisign/Netsol. The only difference in this case is the BC gov't owns and operates playnow.com. I wonder if the US will seize this domain name too because gambling is illegal in the US?
Thanks for the tips! Will definitely look into it.

I've had some quotes from expensive CDN's starting from $200p/m, do you have any experience with these type? Are they better?
An app for trading secrets with your friends (and a social experiment)
"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."
New Documentary Shows How DIY Hack-Tech is Changing the Discourse of Protest
Facebook acquires team behind YC alum Caffeinated Mind
As a designer, I have to object to this way of thinking. Perhaps I should say "ethico-aesthetic" a la Guattari.
Announcing ESPNALPS, Open API to submit live sports information
We have just launched ESPNALPS http://www.espnalps.com - an experimental open API to collect local sports data from College Lacrosse and Basketball Games. We have also announced a competition open to college students to see what kinds of apps they can write against the API. We welcome any kind of feedback you may have.
Currently the registration for competition is open to College students with .edu email addresses.
Official announcement: http://frontrow.espn.go.com/2012/02/calling-all-software-developers-enter-the-espn-alps-competition/
Thanks for the feedback! We actually agonized over just that, as we didn't want to violate the spirit of the "Show HN" postings.

However, Urban Airship has put their customers (and us) on a very tight schedule. We decided that it would be helpful for SimpleGeo customers to know of a forthcoming alternative before March 30, to help with planning.

The extra lead time will also allow us to take suggestions as to what parts of SimpleGeo mattered to their customers, so that we can get as much of that in as possible before SimpleGeo goes dark. So if that's you, please reach out on Twitter: @GeocodaHQ.
The new SEO process (Quit being a Jack)
Interpol Site Taken Down After Anonymous Suspects Arrested
Link: https://www.espnalps.com
Caffeinated Mind is joining Facebook
Show HN: a Newsletter to help You learn WordPress, one function at a time
>This early release is for hackers to play with, develop projects, and write tutorials, so that there is an ecosystem already in place for the educational release.

A shame that the GPU specs aren't open, I would love to get in to GPU driver development with something like this.
CoderDojo Partners with GitHub to Create a New Generation of Hackers
Presumably they reverse-engineered the API that the iOS client is using (which would explain why they were sniffing Path's traffic).
Digging into Engine Yard Logs
Private entities can place an order at the Dutch Farnell by email if the total sum is over 50 euros. See for instance [1]. I could not find similar regulations at the German Farnell site.

[1] http://nl.farnell.com/images/nl_NL/pdf/Particulier_voorwaard...
Perhaps then only R&D would be put into things that would truly benefit all of society. The amount of thought and discussion that would go into each decision would be unprecedented. It could be controlled to allow competition of sorts, though less resources would be wasted by there being many times more duplication than necessary.
I hope you like IE10; It's been a lot of work for a lot of people to make it happen. If you don't, please do not fail to voice your concerns. Thanks, and enjoy!
Technically you DO own it. You just haven't completed the purchase yet.
Here's what I don't understand. How are scientific projects constantly having funding crises? The set of people who are most interested in seeing Kepler, JWST, etc. succeed strongly overlaps the set of people who have the sort of money needed to make these projects be successful without even significantly impacting their life style.

Asking as a stereotypically poor college student - why do these projects not have nontrivial amounts of "private" (not for-profit, just "private") funding?
The TSA actually makes me feel less safe, enough that I avoid flying if at all possible. It's like we're trying to replicate the Stanford Prison Experiment at scale. I wish they would focus on things that keep us safe and dispense with the security theater.

They should listen to his recommendations. He's saying nothing new here. Every other security expert is saying much the same thing, but is still being ignored.
There needs to be a webapp that grades airports for hassle index. So we can steer our dollars away from them.
> Update: Path CEO Dave Morin has commented on the Journey project’s site, complimenting the team, saying “Super cool guys. We should probably get you access to our API :).”

Nice to hear, hopefully they follow through.
SC2 and WoW expansions are still major, MAJOR projects, believe me. Calling it just maintenance really does a disservice to the amount of work that goes into these things. For Blizzard, this applies doubly so. I expect that Heart of the Swarm is a bigger project that most studios can dream of, in all manners - technology, art and design, production, distribution, marketing, and all the other attendant features that go with modern game development.
Right now ARM tablets only have the Metro interface period -- there is no desktop interface installed at all. Only PC's have both interfaces.
I'm not sure why there's such a rush. It's a really neat device. I haven't been excited by a gadget for a few years, and this is quite exciting. But I'm happy to wait for some months before I get one.

I guess there's some kudos or cachet or whatnot tied up with owning one of the first batch; with being one of the first 10,000 people to have blogs up about programming the device.
There was a lady from SETI on All Things Considered last night talking about how they are pointing their scopes at some of these planets, pretty cool stuff!

http://www.npr.org/2012/02/28/147590627/seti-site-up-again-a...
As he said in the article, if they HAD stopped someone, that someone would have been charged with a crime. Where are the charges?
I flagged it. Pissing on SimpleGeo's grave, attempting to draw in unsuspecting customers into an overly ambitious plan, and misuse of the "Show HN" tag? No thanks.

Oh, and Urban Airship has been a class act. They have this document where they suggest migration services, including Parse, which is a direct competitor to them for push notifications. https://support.urbanairship.com/customer/portal/articles/31...
I think there is a market for quick programming tasks. A small very welldefined task like putting up a jqueryUI stylesheet according to some specification,would fall into such a category.Of course,the problem with programming is the iteration required.
One of the building blocks of developing an internet more resistant to abuses of power, alongside efforts such as Tor, is a distributed directory service as an alternative to the centralized DNS service.

I hope to be able to contribute toward some real progress in this area.
Cary Sherman: How Should Democratic Process Function In Digital Age? [TCTV]
If you haven't already, give Torchlight a try - Mac/PC/XBLA and only $15.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/41500/
Done fairly well in the comments of the post: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/qb9ea/reddit_can_...
It's relevant because you're trying to view everything through the peephole of a P&L statement. "Everything is capitalism" is no more rational than "capitalism is bad".
This seems like an appropriate enough place to put this: The Diablo 3 beta? Not that good. I put thousands of hours into D1 and D2 but have zero desire to keep playing the D3 beta.

Also it sucks to hear about the lay-offs.
I don't really care if the rights are less valuable. The author has no inherent (property) right to tell me that I can't make copies of his book. Furthermore, society would benefit if the book were in the public domain. It would be available from more sources than just the one state-granted monopoly that's selling them now.