skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure that pages loading in the diggbar iframe still count towards your pageview numbers (your internal analytics will pick it up). Not to mention the fact that your ads get displayed, allowing ppl to still click them.

The whole 'Digg is making money off your content' argument is moot. They have always made money off your content. There was never anything original on digg. They've just decided to take it to a whole new level. Now if someone comes up with data that shows that the diggbar lowers your revenue (which as of now, I don't think it does) while raising theirs, then it's time to grab the pitchforks and torches to go pay kevin rose a visit.

P.S. I just realized, another difference is with 3rd party traffic estimates. Comscore and quantcast probably won't count those iframe pageviews. Compare that with the traffic lost by blocking the diggbar (assuming yours is a 'diggable' site to begin with)
Statistics Refresher?
I'm doing a bunch of split testing and multivariate testing, but have forgotten a lot of the associated statistics and probability. Do any of you know a good refresher I can go over?
Don't know why this was down modded, so I waited 5 days, and I was proven right - 2m+ downloads in the first few days - so I am sure skype gave away a genuine revenue opportunity.
But you don't need a .kr domain to do business in Korea.
You should use virtualization, we use vmware, first, it will render the hardware vendor irrelevant, we run it on HP server, second you can run windows, linux, or whatever you want on it, thirds you will very likely get promoted for suggesting it, in case you dont already use it!
This same reasoning would conflate drunken driving and the availability of cars. In fact, the misuse of cars by drunken drivers cause many more deaths than the misuse of guns by gun owners.
I like using multiple monitors largely for the aforementioned reason that you can have code on one screen and documentation / web page output / forum discussions / IRC on another. In my opinion it is far easier to context switch by simply looking left and right as opposed to continuously switching between windows being in the foreground or background. I also think it's faster to look around than alt-tab, plus you don't lose your spot on the page you're reading / document you're writing as easily when compared to having the text completely disappear from view after switching window focus on a single monitor setup.
Earning Your Media
Most people don't care ("I don't have anything to hide").

And yet they use Skype anyway.
Chrome.

I can't wait for a [fully functioning] Chrome for Mac.

It's speed reminds me of Firefox when it first came out. I miss those days.
Ask HN: Best Way to Learn About User Experience
I'll try and break this down into a couple sections--hopefully this makes it easier to understand what I'm trying to accomplish and why.

My Background: I'm a business guy that got in touch with his inner techness about a year ago.

My Skills: Basic html, css, php, mockup software (Balsamiq), nunchucks, obsession with web2

My Goal: To create a beautiful, fast, clean user experience for a finance platform. Kind of like etrade.

My Question: Would you mind sharing your insight on how to best accomplish the goal of becoming a great user experience developer?

Sub-questions:

Is there a specific book worth reading re: user experience?

How does one become great in this realm?

Use cases. Yay or nay?

Thanks!
The trouble is that the trust a bank or any such institution receives is not, and probably cannot be, well correlated to its trustworthiness. Cf. Bernard Madoff, and the vulnerability of any bank (especially when no insurance exists) to a run.
Firearms are tools for violence, not necessarily the cause. I agree that guns should be kept out of the hands of minors and convicted felons, but I reject the notion that guns cause violence. Banning/regulating firearms is treating the symptoms instead of the cause.

As for the cause, I don't know. But the solution is almost certainly a form of social hack.
Let us see how PHP and Ruby compare out of the box versus Java:

First PHP vs Java:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=al...

Now Ruby 1.9 vs Java:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=al...

And finally Ruby 1.9 vs PHP:
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=al...

So, both PHP and Ruby 1.9 have a hard time when trying to keep up with Java and in these tests Ruby seems to have an edge over PHP. Not to mention that Yahoo one of the biggest enterprises on the web uses a lot of PHP for their services, but there are ways to further optimize PHP so who knows what each user can do to improve performance.

My point in bringing PHP into the spotlight is just to show that there are other languages that a priori were just as slow as Ruby but given their niche have had enough success to endure "slowness" criticisms.

The languages that are considered fast have often to face potent competitors which make for an immersive experience seeing them develop in the marketplace. Ocaml what, I hear you say?
Ask HN: Cost of a server farm
If I want to run a commodity hardware farm, say 100 eight-core machines, how much will this cost? I am also asking about incidentals like space to house the servers, T3 internet to the outside world, gigabit intranet, power, etc.
The truth is, the vast bulk of banks were perfectly healthy and responsible. Almost all the trouble came from a few gigantic ones, and the reasons for their behavior were many.

You're way too optimistic, IMO. 21 US banks have failed so far this year, and many more are going to fail. Many commercial real estate and development loans are going to default in the next couple of years, mostly provided by many small and medium local and regional banks.
If You Want to Sell the House, Mow the Lawn
It's also worth noting that the one queue Arcieri proposed might have been interface-compatibile --- MemcacheQ --- is a single-developer side project written in C. Arcieri is "completely confused" by the fact that that Twitter didn't adopt this as the core of their service.
"one is that the environment directly affects the flow, shape and composition of one's conscious experience"

I think he is saying not just that the environment "affects" consciousness, but is part of what we mean when we use the word "consciousness." In other words, the idea that you can "see" consciousness in an MRI scan is fundamentally in error. You need to also examine the environment and context in which that scan was taken, in order to make any progress in understanding what consciousness is.
Sorry, but I really need to see some data backing this claim up, as well as the causality you're implying.
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I take issue with the idea that the financial services world has real experience in Twitter's problem domain. My experience with the financial services world is significant technically, but casual in a career sense. That said:

I think hi-fi devs make lots of stupid decisions in the name of performance. In the few cases where their actual outcomes match up to their posturing, it's because their code is obsessively cobbled around one specific use case they've been working on since 1989.

Have you ever read an order management system, or looked at Tibco Rendezvous on the wire?

Most of the hi-fi companies adopting MQ are built around straight AMQ, and bare-metal performance was out the window long before they bolted their crappy WebSphere app onto it. What these companies are looking for is predictability, not performance, and their problem sets are much simpler and most stable than Twitter's.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=529673

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=201913
So what's his proof?
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Well, if someone does something completely out of the ordinary for [what the investigator thinks are] no apparent reason, then that should raise red flags to investigate.

I'm not surprised he was investigated; Massively different investments, raising money without buying anything apparent, and not trying to cash in whenever possible do point to an anomaly -- possibly even a fraud -- happening.

So long as he's not wrongfully convicted, I don't have a problem with investigations.
tl;dr

No, just kidding. People have been speaking in short sentences for a long time. Your model is too simplistic - writing letters is a less a discussion, and more debate. Ordinary everyday conversation is shorter, and possibly, more inane.

With discipline, I think, and an appropriate community (like Alex mentions) reasoned debate and discussion is possible, without writing pages and pages. See, for example, HN. (Yes, people write comments of this length on other sites, too. No, they aren't always as reasoned.)
Yeah, I know he is controversial, but even if you don't agree with everything he writes, you should consider what Jakob Nielsen's site

http://www.useit.com/

says about improving user experiences. I think becoming thoroughly familiar with Nielsen's writings may not be sufficient for becoming great in the realm of user experience, but it is necessary to properly understand the current literature on the subject.
The road does not actively participate in your driving; it is indifferent to it. Were you not driving, the road would still be there.

s/road/world/

s/driving/thinking/
Cato meant better per dollar -- one can only imagine the outcome if the kids were able to keep the extra $20K per year of savings and apply it to future college tuition, room and board, travel around the world, etc.

Your second point is somewhat true, but special ed represents a small enough portion of the overall population that it doesn't inflate the numbers too much.

I'd argue that the public schools are by design indoctrination machines -- imagine if, say, the Taliban creates an official Taliban school, would you claim that it isn't intended to indoctrinate students in the ways of the Taliban?

US Public schools are (with the exception of affluent suburban public schools) mostly just factories intended to crank out vocational workers while providing free daycare for the K-12 years so that the family can more easily sustain two breadwinners.

Think about what is taught in public schools: Punctuality, obedience, spelling, phys-ed, basic math, basic reading comprehension, home-ec, government, state/local history, US history, etc. Huge emphasis is placed on sports and athleticism, and in the typical high school the "jocks" rule the halls, abusing and intimidating anyone they choose.

The food served in most public schools is below the quality served in fast food restaurants, and many feature soda and candy machines in abundance.

For all but the few who are extremely academically gifted, public school is little more than minimum security prison through the 12th grade, at which point most individuals either join the military or go to work at Wal-Mart.
Who's giving up Flash? Chrome supports Flash and is rigged such that when Flash crashes (on a Mac that happens all the time) it only takes out the one tab. When Chrome comes out for OS X you'll be able to use Flash all you want. The linked article isn't discussing a shipping product, just a build of the still very much in progress code base.
Snow Crash has arrived: "Virtual Cocoon" simulates all five senses
I think hackers need to hack a new social response to mass shooting incidents. Currently there is saturation news coverage of such incidents, and much speculation of what "drove" the shooter to kill many people, often just before the shooter kills himself. Maybe video game designers need to build in scenes in the games where a mass murderer has survivors desecrate his grave and curse him as a cowardly loser, rather than seeming to glorify mass violence. Maybe news media coverage of such incidents needs to be more subdued. (I've read that news outlets are encouraged NOT to report suicide clusters, to avoid triggering copy-cat clusters of suicides in other places.) Lots of people own guns and never use them in any harmful way, and a sufficiently crazy person can use a car or a common household chemical to kill multiple people. There needs to be a social consensus that (this will sound very harsh) the murder-suicide perpetrator should just eliminate the middleman and kill himself without harming innocent bystanders. The more mass murder can be held up to shame and disgust rather than amazement, the better.
Well, if someone does something completely out of the ordinary for [what the investigator thinks are] no apparent reason, then that should raise red flags to investigate.

Yeah, that's the point...that it was extraordinary to behave sanely (as opposed to "consuming the fraudulent crap coming out of Wall Street").
Only within the past two years have the Florida courts begun supporting MS Word. My mom still writes all her briefs in WordPerfect. It's the only place I know that uses it, but there are probably other government agencies.

Also, speaking of word processors, does anyone else here use Write Room/Dark Room/JDarkRoom or similar?
Nesson will reframe scale of fair use, claiming entire Tenenbaum trial as his parody
Entirely speculative on my part, but that would tight.
People, please don't downvote stuff you disagree with unless it's troll-ish. Seeing two run-of-the-mill, if wrong, comments in this thread that were at -2 is just silly.
Huh? I had issues with the talk as well, but I don't see how anything he said leads to Nazism.
I have no clue what you are talking about. I'm an anarcho-capitalist.

I was talking about how the FDIC creates bad incentives. I don't think I said anything about how new regulations would help, since the bit you quote is about how the difference between good regulations and bad regulations is in what kind of talent is misallocated.

Edit: Perhaps the part about being 'balanced by regulations' threw you off. What I meant is that the government writes rules to keep people from doing what the FDIC gives them an incentive to do. Those rules, of course, do not work.
Walt Disney - Hardware Hacker
Oddly, Chrome does a worse job of displaying Gmail in my set-up (Windoze) than Firefox. I'm not at all sure why. I can't see my Gmail contacts list at all in Chrome, unless I switch to "older version," while in Firefox I only need to switch to the older version of Gmail to EDIT the Gmail contacts list. (The Gmail contacts list is still largely a broken mess compared to any installed-on-Windows email client I have ever used to keep a contacts list for group emails.)

I still mostly prefer to use Firefox, because email is my primary application.
Micro Persuasion: Bring Twitter Right Into Gmail with the Amazing TwitterGadget
That's quite true. But it's also true that the "72 virgins" are not an explanation. The reality is much more complex than that.
Radiohead to Testify Against the RIAA
Safari 4 Beta closely compares with Chrome on Window's speeds. I've been using it for weeks every day and had no problems with it.

It's way quicker than Firefox, that's for sure, try it!
I agree with you, but I think the gp has a point: look at Java as an example. Here we are, at a point where Java code runs extremely fast, but because of the "Java is slow" meme that took off at the turn of the century, any time Java comes up you _still_ see uninformed people on (for instance) Slashdot insisting that Java is unusable for important code because it's so slow.

That said, I don't think the right solution to avoiding problems like this is a "head in the sand" approach. If there are real performance issues, they should be acknowledged and addressed. I definitely get the sense that a lot of Ruby zealots are trying to pretend that there is no problem, which is something that Java zealots tried to do years ago (and something that the people in control of feature requests still do quite a bit, using the "Nobody can microbenchmark the JVM, it's too smart!" excuse).

I don't know why this stuff gets people so emotional, though. You don't see carpenters have heated arguments about whether a screwdriver is better than a hammer; why do programmers get so emotionally attached to their tools, refusing to acknowledge the limitations and strengths of each particular one?
I'll continue using firefox, until they release adblock for chrome.
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CSS Toolbox
I started using Chrome when it first came out, and was just blown away by the speed. After a while I drifted back to Firefox because I needed Greasemonkey for work, but still would use Chrome occasionally.

One thing of note: If you ever have more than 10-ish tabs open, Chrome is the way to go. The speed of Chrome just blows Firefox away, especially if you load a lot of things all at once.
Usability is inversely proportional to the number of mouse clicks required for the user expected feature.
Israeli Entrepreneurs: Know What Game You Are Playing
This approach lets me figure out what their hourly take-home is when all is said and done.

What, precisely, is your "job title"?

Very very few can truly afford to "outsource" design. When you start adding metrics, time worked, etc. it's hubris. Your post started off OK but ended up badly.

When you use the words "take-home" in the same sentence as the word "hourly", you're violating some serious syntax.
Python is slow. For loops containing arithmetic, array indexing, function calls, and similar primitive operations that also exist in C, it's maybe 100× slower than C. But programs written in Python are usually not 100× slower than C programs with similar functionality. They may be 10× slower or 3× slower or, very rarely, faster; that's because their inner loops tend to be in operations like regexp matching, array arithmetic, data compression, string hashing, and the like, and Python's implementations of those things aren't themselves written in Python — they're the things you're likening to "gzip" here.

There's a selection bias here. If you write your compiler or interpreter or pathfinding algorithm in Python, it's going to be a lot more than 10× slower than if you wrote it in C (or Java or OCaml or whatever). So people don't write those programs in Python, so we don't get to compare them.

I've been writing about Python because I know more about it than I do about Ruby, but I think most of the same things are true of Ruby, as well.
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You have to look at it by percentages. IBM + Sun employ how many people?
Chrome is better for ASP.Net sites.
Well, there is certainly have fear, uncertainty, and doubt, but rightfully so.
Not all internet discussions are like that, and in-person discussions sometimes are like that. Long letters were always very rare; a prolific letter-writer in the 1800s might have written hundreds of them in a lifetime, but a more typical number might be ten. I think the majority of human discourse throughout the millennia has consisted of things like schoolgirl gossip, parents scolding their children, "ain't-it-awful" discussions in bars, and requests for phone numbers shouted over loud music in dance clubs. What you're observing is that more of that stuff is being done in writing instead of by voice.

People do seem to be more willing to disagree with each other on the internet, but that doesn't necessarily worsen the quality of the discourse.
Building Sites Around Social Objects (Live from Web 2.0)
$58,400/month plus bandwidth -- as 100 Amazon EC2 "High-CPU Extra-Large Instances", with 8 virtual cores, 7GB RAM, and 1690GB local disk.
Ruby 1.9 is a big improvement over Ruby 1.8, but last I heard, a lot of people still had to use 1.8. In six months maybe "Ruby is slow" will no longer be a valid argument for PHP over Ruby, but if you're using Ruby 1.8, it's still valid.

PHP, and I say this as someone who thinks it's awesome, isn't so much a language as a way to glue together a bunch of C libraries, so its speed isn't that important.
"From a fiscal perspective, why spend 4x if the kid is going to get the same performance via voucher?"

Same performance as (presumably) measured by one standardized reading test and one standardized math test...
Didn't Berkshire Hathaway loose a lot of money because of the current mess?
I see that sarcasm is lost on some people...

I was also going to suggest a moat, drawbridge and surface to air missiles, but that was perhaps being too obvious.
He is doing what all second tier philosophers do: fiddling with semantics.
Apple should disrupt the camera market with the iPod Touch of cameras
I don't think Taiwan has diplomatic relations with the US, and so I doubt they have treaties: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_China-United_States... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_the_Republ...
On my system Chrome is only fractionally faster, if at all. What it does is present an incredibly more fluid feel with the way the tabs gently slide out at the edge of your vision, and the fonts seem to be more carefully rendered.

Also, when you see the web pages in Chrome you see them with all the ads intact. The pages are designed for ads so they have a more aesthetic impact with a greater variety of detail, color and incident.

(On the other hand, it has loaded the page ads and all as fast as Firefox with ads blocked.)

Overall it seems to me that 70-75% of the sense of Chrome being better is subliminal, the effect of a better aesthetic impression.
I use Firefox because I'm pretty entrenched in it now, and I know my way around it a bit better (obviously). The extensions mostly keep me though.

Chrome is easily a better built and designed browser (maybe because it's newer) and if they could give us extensions I'd have to seriously thing getting used to the UI, and using it.
That doesn't make any sense. Do you have any evidence supporting this?
AdSweep has an extension for Chrome. I was waiting for ad-blocking in Chrome before switching over, and AdSweep seems to do the trick. http://www.adsweep.org
Environment is integral to conscious in the same sense that the road surface is integral to driving. It's the medium we interpret.

Despite claims to the contrary, it really seems to me like the philosopher in this article is marking territory for a turf war.
I'd graduate Walt from Hacker to Maker (with the capital M) for the train project. WD, like Bill Gates is another example of an excellent hacker/maker that was really worthy of much praise and respect having their greatness and coolness occluded by the giant faceless behemoths their companies became.
Isn't the complete Android source code freely available?

http://source.android.com/download
100 8-core servers, each 1U, figure $2K apiece as a rough guess. That is $200K.

Next you are talking about 3 racks of space (you can fit 42U in a rack), plus extra power, figure $3000 per month in a less-expensive colocation space.

Gigabit switches, cabling, etc. figure another 5K or more, depending on the quality and features you want.

Bandwidth will be metered by your colocation provider, prices can vary, usually you will be given 5-10Mbps as part of the rack.

So figure $210K plus $3K per month or so.
does safari work as well for PCs as it does for macs?
However, I am pretty sure that you could build such a beast in CL, as well as "closure"s with addable/deletable slots.
They went down as the market went down and did have some losses, but they also had an enormous pile of cash and not very much debt. Buffett has been waiting for the market to go down like it has so he could make his move with that cash. As a result, I think he's going to make out extraordinarily well in the coming years.

Sorry for the Buffett fanboyism, but he's the man.
noonespecial,

Great point, I think history is going to be much kinder to Gates than the present. It is funny, Steve Jobs probably has the best product instincts of any executive of the last 50 years but never really "made" anything. As far as I know he didn't actually do anything technical at Apple, it sounds like his Atari days were pretty light too. Hard to argue with genius though.
Languages are neither slow nor fast, only implementations are.