skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you're right, they're slighly more complicated. Hows about these:

http://blog.iso50.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/windowslive...

http://www.findthatlogo.com/wp-content/gallery/pepsi-logos/o...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_DvlYtL1ReM0/TIHrinS6g5I/AAAAAAAACw...

this is even better:

http://www.logodesignconsultant.com/images/Memorable-simple-...

this is probably the winner though:

http://www.petergreenberg.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/log...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco
I wonder what the Go list would look like. US-only, probably somewhat random and maybe even obfuscating, but world-wide is a far more popular game.
For first time ever, US seeking international limits on copyright
I don't think MS would have any problem with branding trademarks... if they wanted it, they could have it.
>I get the sense that this could be the thin end of a wedge

sigh

Can Google do nothing without invoking the "evil slippery slope"?
Interesting, other deal that seems to be overpay, furthermore with that much downloads I am wonder that is the key to make a product of $140.000 be sold at $180 millions
Crime-Predicting Algorithm Outperforms Humans
"shoehorn a mobile experience into the desktop in Windows 8."

I actually laughed out loud when I read that--it's true!
If you only hear one side of the story you can't make an informed decision. Fact is the entertainment industry lobby is well organized and able to have their voice heard. The general public is unorganized in this area and rather dispersed.

This is a classic case of concentrated benefits with dispersed cost. It's a messed up situation, but not corrupt.
Why not just sell the tickets via Dutch multi-item auction with bidding. If auction ends sufficiently close to the event scalpers can't get much profit from rich fans because they don't have much time to find buyers and price at what they bought tickets is closer to the market value. Also scalpers coul only sell for profit only to people who didn't attend the auction or decided to pay more then they declared during auction.
If this is actually true, I think it gets called "corruption" here too. Biden may not have received monetary compensation, but if this is what happened, Dodd owes him a hell of a favor.
you don't need to load unsigned drivers to modify the boot loader, you can do that with administrative permissions alone (as far as I know).

the best you can hope for is locking out unsigned code. we have platforms that do that, like chrome OS and iOS. after many years, it seems they continue to work! but when we try and take this security technique that we know works and move it onto the computers that everyone uses, we are met with much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
The best brand pitched here is that of the author. If he is looking for a job, I hope he gets one.
Building hard core, committed fans is probably more valuable in the long term rather than maximizing profits from ticket sales.
Hmm, that's a fair point. And I have seen some programs about art history from the BBC that are probably rather advanced.

Perhaps it's a fundamental difference in the two fields? For something like Renaissance art, you can get away with not knowing too much about other sorts of art; on the other hand, for any sort of even moderately serious physics, not only do you need a good grasp of related physics but you also need a strong grasp of relatively advanced mathematics.

Also, thinking about it, it seems that CS is even more underrepresented than other sciences. At the very least, you see some shows about physics and cosmology and biology, however basic. But I've never seen even a painfully basic show about CS. There are shows about robotics, but more from an engineering standpoint than a CS standpoint. Math also seems rarer than the sciences, but I recall some math shows.

Of course, I watch any sort of TV very rarely, so I have a small sample with a distinct selection bias (namely, I mostly watch what other people in my family are interested in). This bias trivially explains the disproportionate amount of art history (my mother is an art teacher) but does not explain the complete dearth of CS.
Auctioning Off America
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It's a mix. I've seen some brilliant engineers here but I've seen a lot of so-so employees collecting pay checks. What I do think is very real issue and more so than the stack ranking is that we are incredibly date sensitive here and cost sensitive. I often feel, in my personal opinion, that improvements or changes that could make us better off 13 months down the road are culled or punted because the upfront cost is too high or because set commitments for an upcoming timeline.
I can't think of a F500 company that doesn't do some form of stack ranking, either by job function or work group.

It's the nature of the beast.
Worry given of all the browsers Opera has been the most standards compliant. No reason why Google can't support it as by supporting other browsers they supoprt Opera and with that if you change the browser ID then it just works - funny that.

I Have noticed that Facebook have been bashing google indirectly and directly and maybe Opera are deemed part of Facebook now for some reason and got dragged into this.

I have also noticed the google search landing page having below in effect adverts for there new products https://www.google.co.uk/ gives me the line below with link to buy a chromebook "From zero to online in seconds. Introducing the new Chromebook" - same results nomatter what browser I use.

Not sure if Facebook have purchased Opera and google got wind of it and acting all evil or if it is a gross oversight. Either way something smells.
> doesn't seem like the kind of place where classified work would be done.

They get a lot of money from the Office of Naval Research, and some of the projects are certainly classified. I dont know for sure, but it's quite possible that FLIP was used at some point for studies of acoustics, which were paid for by people fundamentally interested in finding submarines.
It depends what is considered a benefit. There is something like elections in the next months...
Ratio of PC to Mac Sales Narrowing to Lowest Level in Over a Decade
I have 2 primary sites I visit constantly (always have a tab open), with a 3rd site I visit once a day to maybe once a week: Reddit, HN then Quora.

I have never used iGoogle... and the portal era is past for me.

I prefer google video over youtube though.

I can't stand the fact that on any youtube page the video is such a small portion of the screen real estate. Google video at least made the damn video the primary eye catcher.

While im on this little youtube rant - "related" videos and the damn in vid popups are a farking joke.

If there is one place that google can get disrupted (on the UX) its youtube.
Great Linux CBT training
Interesting opening paragraphs but this seems like Part 1 to a series of posts.

That's a lot of people and is why early traction verticals like blog posts and non-mainstream press won't get you there. However, you have other options and usually more resources now that you're bigger.

Well, what are the other options? I don't mean this in a derogatory way at all, I sincerely want to learn.
I don't think what you described is corruption. That sounds like protecting the interests of US businesses from overseas criminals.
Well.. while I was trying to find some Linux administration training, I found that great source for very low price!
It becomes a spar buoy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spar_buoy
The vision for Windows 8/Windows Phone 8/Xbox is pretty good and is happening under Ballmer's watch. I don't know how much he can take responsibility for but if it succeeds, it will be awesome.

It may look like Ballmer hasn't done much since Gates left, but it's not surprising that it would take this many years to shift a company the size of Microsoft to the common platform/vision that is Windows 8.
On a related note, using Go can one develop DLLs that can be dynamically consumed from other applications?

Or you can only produce statically linked exe's?
Generally, I want politicians to do things that will make me vote for them!
Which figures are you looking for in particular? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_store is a good place to start. Getjar and Handango/Pocketgear are some of the more recognizable names in the list.
Why not link to Google's blog instead of TechCrunch?

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/spring-cleaning-in-su...
My favorite is the MS OS/2 2.0 fiasco, particularly how it relates to DR-DOS (clue: OS/2 did not depend on DOS):

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/?p=516&cpage=1#comment-9086
but I can think of much more harmful terms

"Evolution? It's just a theory!"
I'm sure the MPAA members are generously contributing to the Obama/Biden re-election funds.
"Ticketmaster's exclusives on venues"

Sorry for the dumb question - does this mean that nobody else can book these venues?

If that is the case, can't CK (and other comedians) find a neutral venue (or a venue that is not already on Ticketmaster's list)? At least in his case, he doesn't need sophisticated venues (like the ones need for an opera, or a circus for example)

Also, for disruption - can't a company buy/build a venue, and pitch it as "just pay the rent, and you take care of ticket sales and everything else" model?
To my ears - and maybe this is just wishful hearing - it sounded like they were very, VERY strongly pointing the finger at a certain unnamed generator manufacturer, but doing so in a way that incurred no legal liability.

That manufacturer is probably flying every single C-level exec out to the US-East data center, over the July 4th holiday, to personally disassemble the generator, polish each screw, and carefully put it all back together while singing an a cappella version of "Bohemian Rhapsody", including vocal percussion.

And if they do it to Amazon's satisfaction, Amazon has hinted that they might decide not to out them to the rest of the world. That's called leverage.
I've used it for years as well. I have Gmail and Google Calendar widgets, one for Hacker News, one for Reddit, and other news sites. It's a useful aggregator for all of the resources I use on the Web. I'll have to find a replacement before November of 2013.
> Is there a particular reason why someone with more time or money shouldn't have an edge and be able to spend their money to do something someone with less money can't do?

Because the performer wants them to be able to?
Random Crashes - debugging the leap second at FastMail
can someone make this into a meme already, reading is so tiresome.
mmmm I think you're thinking of StackOverflow. No down triangles here
How To Reach Your Hosting Bandwidth Limit By Front Paging Hacker News
Really? Apple are trying very hard to stop you buying an HTC phone.
as an american, It's hard to see that as more than the operational cost of a fighter jet.

Not sure if you're being ironic but a fighter jet typically costs a couple of orders of magnitude less than $9B - even the hugely expensive JSF (F-35) is 'only' $200M unit cost.
Canada's copyright laws modernized
One way to fix this is something I did in the poster for my latest show. Put a box around it (like a fieldset) with the caption that explains where the user is going. In my case it said "Scan to Buy Tickets".
I was in total disbelief when UPS started running their "brown" campaigns. They had one of the most recognizable brands anywhere and some genius decided to throw millions of dollars at the idea of confusing customers with the whole "what can brown do for you?" campaign (and all the sophomoric jokes that went with that when they screwed-up a delivery). Simply amazing. Instead of "What can UPS do for you?" they took off in a completely different direction. I'd love to read a post-mortem on that whole story.
I would bet "knowing more about how foundational reality is constructed" is probably worth less to a lot of people than say research into the top 10 cause of death by disease.

I'm glad they chose to fund this, but my original point is that no government funding these days should survive unless it can be justified. We cannot keep running deficits.

Your "cursory web search" might want to include actual statistics on accidents particularly compared to the CH-46 it is replacing.
SLUB is already the default choice for an allocator and so is the sparse memory map.

It is worth pointing out that NUMA options won't help at all unless the database is carefully designed to operate on multiple cpus and balance the memory use among them equitably. Such problems are, sadly, non-trivial.

I don't see how any of these options will give any performance enhancements at all.
My company does stack ranking, and my first performance review mirrors yours almost to a T. And the distrust that it has created between my direct manager and his reports is horrendous. He always prefaces his evaluations (discussed personally with each of us) with "I'm limited to giving Exceeds Standards to only two members of the group." Said group having 18 members. He's not required to grade any employees as Does Not Meet Standards, unless they truly do. But know that I'm lumped in at the exact same level as the remaining sixteen coworkers is extremely disheartening. This just encourages employees to quickly determine the firing line.

The minimum performance required to avoid termination.
I wonder if the following would work: company is divided into small to mid-sized teams. Say 5 to 30 people. Each team has to do something that results in profit. More profit from a team implies larger raises and bonuses for that team. There's a catch: if the company as a whole doesn't meet a certain profit goal then no teams receive raises or bonuses. It seems like this structure encourages teammates to cooperate with each other in the "we all succeed or fail together" theme. Also there's some incentive for team A to ensure team B is successful since team B's failure could bring the entire company down. The psychological implications could be interesting. Seems like there's a snowball effect: n successful teams => team n+1 will probably be successful. This effect probably works in reverse: n lousy teams could imply that team n+1 is highly unlikely to succeed.
You haven't been following Apple's lawsuits against Samsung much, have you?
I love this comment: "The working class folks who buy PC's are getting whacked financally, while rich people who buy Macs are making off like bandits."
Interesting article, it's a shame it references other sites but doesn't include a hyperlink. Shame!
Thank you for your thoughts! I will keep this in mind. Perhaps if the service expanded to sharing more than just your phone number (email, address, etc) more people would buy it. Or I could make it free and somehow put ads in it.
I didn't use Wave because it didn't work in Opera, and apparently I chose correctly.

My assumption is that the Blogger service is faced with cutting costs, and dropping non-mainstream browsers makes sense in that context. So, at the moment I see this as a negative indicator for Blogger, not for Opera.

Wake me when Gmail or Voice officially drops support.
They're doing that this year at the Just For Laughs 42 event in Toronto, which coincidentally Louis C.K. is headlining.
Thank you for taking the high road and exposing the issue rather than giving them the option to hide it (not saying they would).
It's Vanity Fair...
What Louis CK is essentially saying is that given a large amount of money already in the bank, it is more valuable for him to have affordable tickets than it is for him to maximize revenue. That is a decision that is perfectly rational. Not everyone gets their full utility from making the absolute maximum amount of money possible.

Also, a side effect of this is that below-market value tickets create a shortage, which in turn makes it valuable to be the first to learn about new tickets. This has to be driving signups to his mailing list and twitter feed.
So if I pay a cop $1mil to kill the guy that was convicted of raping my child, is that cool too?

Just because someone is or is not guilty, that does not make corruption OK.
From the article: Noteworthy is also the MPAA's lobbying disclosure statement of last year which includes money spent on lobbying the office of Vice President Joe Biden.
Beyond its contracts and invariants, Meyer made Eiffel a very "opinionated" language, with those opinions argued forcefully in his Object-Oriented Software Construction. It seems to me that well-argued, almost "ideological" designs tend to have outsized influence. The original relational database papers by Codd come similarly to mind.

It isn't just having a good mathematical model or strong abstract theory. Eiffel got co/contravariance wrong (or at least, incomplete), after all.
Mini-social_networks: “Between” shows the promise of couples apps
What part of mtgx's post said anyone got paid off? edit: oh I see, "lobbying" complete with scarequotes.
What is your point exactly?

Can you provide a single solid reason to upgrade to Python 3 beyond "it's new"? In the real world, the advantages of using Python 3 must outweigh the negatives before I can justify upgrading our systems to it. Currently, all I can see is a minimum of 1 year of downtime while I either:

1) Wait for Django 1.5, and deal with all the bugs resulting from the upgrade, or
2) Move our entire code base out of Django into something else, and deal with all the bugs from, effectively, moving to an untested system.
Fogger  Turn cloud apps into ubuntu desktop apps : ubuntuappshowdown
Very nice, useful.

I find the scroll overflow on the screenshot display to be clunky and uncomfortable, though. I think I'd prefer a shrink-to-fit/click-to-expand situation.

Also, I tried pasting a ~1mb JPG photo, and the spinner has been going for a few minutes now. Might wanna throw an error or something in weird edge cases.
Well, while they might seem that way because they are a hardware company, they are incredibly aggressive in that arena. Take the bannings and attempted bannings of Motorola, HTC, and Samsung devices for example. They are definitely trying everything they can to prevent you from buying someone else's product.
“Future, can you hear me now? Good.” Death of the ‘phone’ company.
They definitely did NOT overpay. Zynga bought them for $200 MILLION US Dollars.

The cost of building that game are also the lessons they learned along the way. Also, for a team of developers, server administrators, project managers, I'd imagine their salaries for their services alone not including office space , computers and services would've cost way more than that.

I think this is a great article. OMGPOP didn't have the advantage of hindsight in building their product. I really doubt they knew what they were doing. Their advantage was being agile and adjusting their game and business model to how the crowd was playing the game.
Why I'm finally dumping Ubuntu and switching to a Mac
Hey Andres - really dug the graphic. As far as the value of Draw Something, I think it's important to note the difference between cost of production and the value of the app.

Namely, cost of production /= value.

Social graph, brand, talent, assets, parternships. There's a huge list of intangibles, the details of which the public isn't necessarily privy to, that Zynga acquired along with OMGPOP. To simplify it down to just cost of production is an easy way to make any acquisition seem foolish (ie Instagram), but isn't fair justice to the deal.

There's more at play than code and design.
I really like OhLife and i enoy the service. I don't really see a reason to go premium though. Also, this links to a 404...
At the official blog post they say

We originally launched iGoogle in 2005 before anyone could fully imagine the ways that today's web and mobile apps would put personalized, real-time information at your fingertips. With modern apps that run on platforms like Chrome and Android, the need for iGoogle has eroded over time, so we’ll be winding it down.

What are these apps? I use Firefox on the desktop and iOS for mobile. Maybe portals are outdated but they still work (especially iGoogle) and the fact that nobody in this thread has pointed out any great alternative is a little disheartening. And leaving tabs open is a horrible UI experience.
The question is not "is this opportunity capable of making
a profit at cost X?" but "if BigCorp could spend X on
this opportunity, or spend X on a different opportunity,
which one (or neither) should they choose?"

Consider the chances of getting a larger share of a
different market, the opportunity cost of one investment
over another, the possible synergy with other investments,
total returns on total investment, and "if we spend X,
how much will that move the needle?"
Ask HN: Followed all advice, why still no virality?
So I listened to all start-up advice from the tech crunch, the next web, hacker news and more, launched my own start-up today at

http://www.doublestealth.com

but where is the virality? I'm doing what people want (although I don't know exactly what it is, but that's the point of MVP and pivoting, no?), but no one wants it? I don't want to reveal any more details because people might steal it and run away with it [sic!]. Please help!?
Video: CyanogenMod founder & lead developer Steve Kondik on the CM Project
Are avocados a trend on the west coast as well? I see them in so many startup kitchens in NYC.
Flat adverts that may be breaking the law
Adverts for rooms/flats to rent that limit candidates based upon gender/race and religion still live on today.
Adhering to the specs used to be top priority, until the idea that actually making the Internet work got critical mass internally. The problem was that you don't get a lot of users if all you do is point the finger at the other browsers, you have to actually show the pages that people have created.

Now they even have features like Browserjs for automatically fixing web pages to work in Opera: http://www.opera.com/docs/browserjs/ You don't even need to upgrade Opera!

Quite clever. It's even open source: https://github.com/operasoftware/browserjs/
With poetic licence, the argument that the design is Orwellian in nature, can easily be made :)

The "slate", the brand's corner stone, is inspired by the emptiness you feel when you stare into the abyss of the myriad of windows that tower above you from faceless, anonymous skyscrapers. Welcome to the future, where you are one of many.
I don't understand the legal theory here. In the US, scalping laws vary state to state, but I've never heard of "invalidating" a ticket. Seems like I ought to scalp a bunch of tickets and go splitsies with the guy in charge of invalidating.
The amount Zynga bought them for is not so much for the game, but for their users and also to eliminate a competitor. It is possible that OMGPOP could've grown and become the eventual company that would overtake Zynga. It's good defense by Zynga!
In the short term, there are a fixed number of hard drives (and beach balls, and microwave ovens, ...). Why don't we have to worry about hard drive scalpers artificially constraining the supply?
Those words are appropriate for Elon Musk, not a bum writing a social alarm clock out of his car.
The same behaviour with app switching sadly has been copied through to Gnome 3.
Seriously, screw TechChrunch. They're just this side of blog-spam.
It’s kind of astonishing that people still have such weird believes about Macs. You can’t be successful to the level Apple is by only selling to rich people. Macs are successful as a mass market product.
You need to have certain karma (or how is it called here) to be able to downvote.
Then why does it have so few users?
How does one prepare enough to get a perfect score on the SAT?
I agree that capitalization is not mere opinion. I was asking why not capitalize a name? Makes Microsoft sounds like some stuff, not some business.
Spending money on lobbying essentially means paying a lobbyist to have a meeting with important people. It's not like they're handing over briefcases of money.