skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excuse me. As a rule, a MAC address is a decent approximation of globally unique, certainly good enough to identify a single computer for advertising purposes. If you have a MAC address and it's not globally unique, it's defective and out of spec. Which isn't to say duplicates never happen (ultra-cheap rip-off network cards, virtual machines, reprogramming your hardware manually, etc), but... there's a reason they go through the rigamarole of partitioning out different OUI blocks to different network equipment vendors.
Moore's law is about the number of transistors. The 6502 had ~3500. Modern desktop CPUs have ~2,500,000,000 (see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Transistor_Count_and_Moore... ).
So that's more like 1,000,000x (thus six orders of magnitude).
Then again, the grandparent was talking about speed, and speed doesn't scale linearly with the number of transistors.
Your doubt is unfounded.

http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/partition-magic-windo...

Your research, poor.

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

And your characterization of the Windows ecosystem based upon your experience either ignorant, disingenuous, or blindly biased.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/apps
This is very English-centric, for what it's worth. Plea bargains are an oddity under English law (they don't exist elsewhere in the UK), and the CPS is equally English.

Apart from that about plea bargains, it does mostly hold true in Scotland/NI.
Got some code to show?

The UTF-8 "check" in the URL was pretty cool.
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Surely that can be abused? What could this group have possibly pivoted from? http://www.installmonetizer.com/AT_aboutus.php

Plus there are photos of them at YC with their company logo above - they clearly did not pivot.
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The Domain domainmongrel.com is valued at: $0.01
You should give yourself more credit! I'm guessing you pull whois data, PageRank, Compete, MozRank, and Alexa data, and use that to score the domain?
When beginning working on our current startup, we decided to switch from Windows to Linux to make development easier. I was planning to keep a partition with Windows but I soon found out how being on Linux I didn't have to worry about shit like this anymore. Needless to say I don't use Windows anymore.
There are links to desktop applications in store, so probably reason is not legal. Most likely it's because they want to move desktop applications to new APIs which are not ready yet.
There are definitely some very deserving winners there. Maciej did a great job and I was very impressed that he sent me an email even though my project was not chosen. I love the idea behind the Pinboard Co-Prosperity Cloud and I hope it catches on.
> Without cognitive skills behind them, though, [multiplication, reading] are not useful abilities.

Maybe I misunderstand you, but I fail to see how multiplication or reading are not useful skills. Good reading comprehension will help you navigate life in general, which is something lots of people struggle with. Similar for multiplication.

Even if someone is not very intelligent, if he's mastered a basic skill like that, he'll find lots of places to apply it. That's why there's so much emphasis in school on them.
The routine/mind exercise definitely makes sense, I'll try that.

We do have a TV in the bedroom, but it literally has not been turned on in months, so that's a non-issue.

I know of Melatonin, but I've got no trouble staying asleep, just falling asleep. Do you (or anyone else) know if it's supposed to be helpful for falling asleep?
The title of this article, and perhaps the researchers' conclusions from their data, is wrong. They didn't find the criteria of a great teacher (that is, what makes a good teacher). They just found some correlations among the _qualities_ of good teachers. It's the total opposite meaning. They found results of good teachers, not causes.
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Those are (generally accepted to be) the same thing...

One order of magnitude: 10x

Two orders of magnitude: 100x

Three orders of magnitude: 1000x
Thanks for the comment! I have a github account. I will upload it there and paste the link here.
Interesting method. I've got a two year old, so lack of sleep, even for one night, is simply not an option. I wouldn't make it through the next day :)
exactly! Alexa Rank and also I applied some linear regression, Zipf power law with R language. R is really cool!!
It's even worse, according to http://www.installmonetizer.com/AT_aboutus.php one of the "advisors" - Arjun Bedi - works for Microsoft!

Working to destroy his own platform. Classy.
I was wondering about bandwidth limit of their VPS, and found this in their pricing page:

> We don’t charge for bandwidth. You’ll save a ton of money with our network and it's easy to get started. No need to figure out how much bandwidth you’re going to use, whether that traffic is in or out. Set your site up and pay no extra if it takes off.

Whenever I see statement like this I'm not sure whether I should trust it; what if I use 1 TB/month, would I get kicked out for "using too much bandwidth"? What's your real soft cap?
The article doesn't mention one of the most interesting components of their pricing strategy: the "price umbrella."

http://www.iamconcise.com/main/the-reason-for-the-ipad-mini....
Good point. The relative openness of win32 allows junkware but gives us enough slack to fight it too.

It does make for a noisier and more confusing ecosystem though. My mom's still better off using an iPad.

Thanks for using Ninite Pro!
Iain Banks manages to provide both one of the most memorable opening sentences:

"It was the day my grandmother exploded."

and my favourite opening paragraph (or two):

"Two days ago I decided to kill myself. I would walk and hitch and sail away from this dark city to the bright spaces of the wet west coast, and there throw myself into the tall, glittering seas beyond Iona (with its cargo of mouldering kings) to let the gulls and seals and tides have their way with my remains, and in my dying moments look forward to an encounter with Staffa’s six-sided columns and Fingal’s cave; or I might head south to Corryvrecken, to be spun inside the whirlpool and listen with my waterlogged deaf ears to its mile-wide voice ringing over the wave-race; or be borne north, to where the white sands sing and coral hides, pink-fingered and hard-soft, beneath the ocean swell, and the rampart cliffs climb thousand-foot above the seething acres of milky foam, rainbow-buttressed.

Last night I changed my mind and decided to stay alive. Everything that follows is . . . just to try and explain."

From The Crow Road and Espedair Street respectively.
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While on the subject of words with Arabic etymological roots, my personal favourite is Betelgeuse. The Arabic name of the star is يد الجوزاء (yad al-Jauzā) which means "the hand of the Jauzā". But after a few medieval translation it got morphed into it's current name. Which, unfortunately, ended up sounding like, and often back translated as, ابط الجوزاء -- literally "the armpit of the Jauzā"!
I "valued" two of my domains one that has a lot of visitis and one that does not, the one that does not seemed to get higher valued because it was a .com address.

Looking forward to see the code on github, thanks for sharing.
You're absolutely right, we're working on an additional info about technical side of this feature (as a response to comments).

Showing the app before signing up is something that we're constantly thinking about. Probably it's about the time to make it comes true. My apologizes for the inconvenience.

Moqups.com is great, but it's really focused on a different problem.

UXPin - The UX Design App (http://uxpin.com) helps teams fighting for the best UX Design possible of their web&mobile apps, during whole design process.

You can create wireframes, interactive prototypes, upload requirements, personas, visual design - and discuss each deliverable in one place.

ps. We were launched way before Moqups :)
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Oh. Nice. "The ones I deem appropriate".

No, actually I think every developer deserves compensation. But they should ask for it, set a price. The business model with ad-/crap-/bloatware is equivalent to these annoying people (I see more and more of them on the streets) that hand you a rose/card/small ~thing~ right away, shove it in your face and ask for 2/5/10 bucks after you accepted what was quite obviously a gift. You see people fall for it all the time.

If the developer wants money for his program, he should ask for money for his program. Why would you even release 'freeware' if you don't want to give it away, no strings attached? It's your time, your project. Don't do that, if you want to earn money.

Erm - and 'working with this company would be choosing to sell your work in a more accessible way'? Really? More accessible?

If I don't like it (I don't, if that wasn't obvious enough) I remove the software, tell everyone to ignore that tool (both the software and the guy behind) and move on.
Nice! I like it, even though some of my domains aren't worth the $8 I paid for them.
after thinking about it for a while, I was misrepresenting what block scope actually was and removed those references in the post.
Yeah, I share the same experience: I'm mostly a linux user who had to setup a windows machine not long ago.

Even when installing legit software from what appeared to be legit sources I had to be very careful at every step in order to avoid all the spyware/toolbars/dubious extensions bundled with the installers.

The worst offender was some crapware installer that wanted you to check the components you didn't wan't installed. I almost got tricked. Next thing I'm sure they'll ask you "Are you not sure you don't want those components not installed?" [Yes] [Ok].

I may be wrong but I believe even the official Oracle Java updater asks to install some toolbar (Ask or yahoo I think? Or maybe just set the homepage? I forgot). Good thing I don't think very highly of Oracle or I might have been disappointed.

Edit: I remembered correctly: https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=10723...
It's low market penetration which explains the difference between OSX and Linux on the one hand and Windows on the other.

The iOS and Android app stores are full of crapware. Yes, that crapware does not have all the features of it's counterpart in the Windows ecosystem. Yet, much of it provides little value or functionality and even functional applications collect vast amounts of data not necessary for that functionality.
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Well, maybe he meant that very few people are actually really good at formal arabic? I know I suck at it even though I'm Lebanese and it's supposed to be my mother tongue. Arabic speakers tend to have a colloquial form of Arabic that they speak which is a much simplified version of the formal Arabic language.

I would say the closest analogy is Lebanese is to Arabic what French is to Latin. Clearly derived from it, but very different and much simpler.

300 experts is definitely a very low estimate though. Should definitely be higher.

PS: Hi Ramzi, long time no see :)
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So, most of the world is banks?
If that happens, all someone needs to do is repackage Debian's version of aptitude for Ubuntu.

Or an older version from Ubuntu.

Really, this is a non-issue on Linux, because either 1) someone will just "fix" it an release their alternative, or 2) everyone will just stop using the offender.
You may be right about the industry as a whole, but I'm betting you're wrong about this particular instance based on what I know about PG and YC.

When I was reading the original TC article, I was thinking that there is actually an incredible opportunity here to create a legitimate ad network that would allow desktop developers to monetize similarly to how it's done on the web - to basically become the DoubleClick of the desktop world.

Why should ad supported desktop apps be any different than ad supported mobile or web apps?

Edit: These downvotes are pretty surprising, I didn't realize I was even being controversial. Can someone explain why creating a legitimate, privacy-respecting ad platform which allows desktop developers to monetize their applications in a manner that's almost exactly the same as ad supported web and mobile apps is that awful?

I'm not even saying that's necessarily what they're up to, I can just see where there's a tremendous opportunity to try and clean up the industry, and how, based on the people involved, the author and the commenter above could very easily be jumping to the wrong conclusions.
Almost 38 years, even... If you're interested in the story around MOS and the 6502, the early parts of "Commodore: A Company on the Edge" by Brian Bagnall covers it quite a bit including parts about the manual layout work that Bill Mensch did.

Here's an article about it too: http://research.swtch.com/6502

Not only did they route / layout by hand-drawing, and then cut the Rubylith photomask by hand (it's not a drawing they use to reduce it photographically - they cut out holes..), but Bill Mensch got it right the first time. 3,510 transistors according to the article.

Bill Mensch left MOS to found Western Design Centre quite early, and so is covered less in that book than Chuck Peddle which was instrumental in Commodore for a long time after they acquired MOS. The amazing thing is WDC still sell variations of the 6502 design, including various replacements such as a 16 bit version.

Peddle (the other main designer) and Mensch deserve a lot more attention than they've gotten.

(EDIT: From WDC's website: "Annual volumes in the hundreds (100’s) of millions of units keep adding in a significant way to the estimated shipped volumes of five (5) to ten (10) billion units. " Yikes...)
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I'll accept the concept of "new copyright" for something transformative, I do not accept it for something akin to xeroxing.

If JSTOR has a different opinion, they can see me in court.
Ok, I think one thing I don't think people fully understand is how these companies actually make their money back.

Now in the past they will either try to sell you something or get you to fill in a CPA offer. Now 2012 has hit the IM/Internet Marketing industry hard mainly because people aren't spending money as much as they used to. Like I mentioned in another comment, basically the whole CPA industry is going belly up and will continue to do so in 2013.

So how do these guys make money? Well I know the biggest craze is to make toolbars that actually control your Facebook/Twitter/Email accounts. I've already seen one made for chrome and the guy had put a whosamungus tracking code in there that had over 10k people online at the time I checked it.

The toolbar was capable of sending mass private messages, posting on your wall and inviting all your friends to events on Facebook. And the problem is, it's pretty tough for Facebook to block this since it looks legitimate as the actions are directly coming from the browser and not a shady 3rd party site.

Another tactic which is more common is to replace websites advertising code with their own. This means replacing Adsense ID's or completely changing the banner code all together. This is what Kim Dotcom will be doing when he launches his new Mega site this week.

They also alter Google results so they can either promote their own sites or sell traffic to advertisers for profit.

So to think they are 'only' tracking your IP/Mac address, think again...
Not to mention further performance advancements in processor design since then (pipelining, SIMD, etc...), further increasing throughput above the 1000x threshold. One should also consider the increases in word length, adding the ability to process more data in less time.
ok i see your point. i conflated the terms function and closure in this case.
anything .co.uk looks to be worth 0 so .com centric?
It isn't. Since every library the application needs is inside the bundle, you load multiple versions of the same lib on memory. Also counting the installer, the bundle and Brew or MacPorts you have a tons of way to install an app.
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We are figuring out what the soft cap will be based on our customers usage and averaging that out, right now we are considering something in the 2TB-5TB range.

Honestly we just didn't prioritize traffic accounting as other features were a priority =]
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that would be cool, would love to see how it works
Yes, they are that good. Why do you think they make celebrity recruiting so important and celebrity members so prominent? It's celebrity endorsement, like any other commercial.
This is crazy... So crazy I can see it actually catching on. I'm quite interested to see how many people start using this.

I also like how they say "[each] Crazy Blind Date account is tied to a phone" I'd argue that's a very false sense of security/safety, as it's trivial for anyone to obtain a different (or temporary) phone number. On that point though, I guess you're just as safe with a blind internet date as with one you "electronically know".

And heck, let's be honest with ourselves. Maybe it will work better if you, the technically-inclined HN reader, is not allowed to pick-and-choose who you're going to date next, but your next date is chosen based on your interests and some "magic". After all, isn't that how love is supposed to work?
Thanks!

Everyone has growing pains we are no exception, and today every little hiccup is public, but it's good because it makes the service overall more resilient so we welcome all feedback positive and negative because it ultimately leads to a better service for our customers.
It is not even clear if the article gets to step one. Some of the teachers who I feel had the greatest impact on my education taught classes that I did not necessarily score well in. If I am a statistical norm, those teachers would be consider poor teachers according to the metrics, contrary to reality.
Could you be more specific about why you get stumped ? - is it that you don't remember APIs, syntax, etc. or is it that you stuggle with breaking down the problem and working out the logical flow of the code, or is it something else ?

Maybe if you gave some examples of questions that stumped you and the point at which you got stuck it would help us understand exactly what your issue it.
I read quite a lot about Noether when I took a module in the history of mathematics as an undergraduate. Few mathematicians excel so greatly as to have an entire class of ring[0] named after them!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noetherian_ring
CNet/Download.com is not reputable. It's malware distributor.

The best rule of thumb is: if it looks shady, don't go there ever again. Another: every good program has an author, and this author has a valid, non-malware-installing link on his/her website.
Thanks, that's nice to know. I wish there would be some mention of soft cap somewhere in the website, though.
Thanks! We definitely got a surge in traffic from the TechCrunch post and have been able to stabilize the frontend. Everything should be working normally at this time. We'll continue to add resources to make sure we can handle user requests going forward.
A lot of people these days are bashing Apple and Google for creating walled gardens with their app stores, but this is really the primary reason such walled gardens have taken off. They offer a mostly crapware-free experience.

If Linux on the desktop were to get popular, I'd hate to imagine what might happen to the open source Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu repositories.
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.com .org .info .us .jp .es .in .br .fr pretty much
I don't have enough info on .co.uk
That lines up with our lease structure for hardware which is 36mo.

It also lines up with the continuing improvements in server density which compensates for the increased costs in power usage and rack space so it just encourages good behavior in rotating out older hardware.
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Than I present my own research (sometimes referred to as usage): it's the same thing in Windows 7.

Sure, that wikipedia article doesn't include installers that aren't the official one. But finding the official one can sometimes be a ridiculously daunting task.

And sure, Windows 8 has an app store now. So what? I can still install applications outside of it.
I think it's worth emphasizing that the research done in this article doesn't look at kids' absolute test scores, but only the difference between test scores before and after the school year.

Also, my school emphasized self-control, but how do you learn emotional intelligence?
We've seen a high failure rate on SSD compared to SAS & SATA drives. All of our servers are in a RAID environment, so a single failure does not take the system offline. Additionally our backups and snapshots provide another level of redundancy against disk failure. So far no data loss.
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I recall that the java yahoo toolbar has been there since Sun.
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/13/01/10/1513251/plasma-act...
I actually think there's a lot of legitimate room in the "help developers make money" space. There are also a lot of ways to do it as a scam. I don't know the specifics of this company at all. If they pitched to YC as "we're building something to help developers make money, which is a problem due to ...", that's potentially legitimate. Desktop ads are clearly ok; PPI generally not ok.

I think you could even do PPI in a decent way. e.g. if I were installing a developer tool and got a "get 3 months of free developer VPN/backup/design/whatever service" offer as well via "click here to install", I wouldn't feel cheated or scammed.

Toolbars and AV clearly are generally scams, but there are businesses which involve signup or client software installation which have high enough LTV to justify this channel.

I think a YC and silicon valley funded company who was doing this kind of thing would be a lot more likely to go the legit route than someone who came from the spam world.

I'm definitely more inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt as another YC person, but mostly because I have no idea if they're good or bad based on what I've seen from them.
Desktop apps with built-in ads are okay. I've used a few here and there. I've also seen shareware model software that has ads that can be turned off by registering. That's fine too. In this case the ads are part of the application. They live within it. Uninstall the app, and the ads are gone. Such ads also tend not to invade users' privacy outside the app. They might send stuff about what you do in the app, but if you don't like it you can uninstall the app.

One of the key words here is "toolbar." It's in the same class as "HIV," "ebola," "herpes simplex virus," etc. Saying you're bundling third-party adware such as toolbars and "browser helpers" and similar is like saying you're purposefully giving someone a disease.

IT professionals managing Windows networks spend god-awful amounts of time removing such junk from Windows PCs. Not only do things like this invade privacy, they often slow down and break peoples' computers.
What tools and methods did you use to make that logo? I like the style.
i agree - i wouldn't mind a text ad next to my unarchiving tool (which i don't use all that often so as to not justify payuing for one). But they need to be unobtrusive like google's text ads.