skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno, I think there are plenty of other areas for some competitive CompSci.

As a random idea: Oracle puts up $1MM to increase their query optimiser by 10%. Plenty of test data there, easy to measure performance gain through a decrease in CPU / disk IO. And lots of gnarly edge cases. The upshot to the economy in saved cycles could be huge.

Or a transcontinental shipping company could run a competition to improve their prop design, or engine design, or their hull design. Fluid dynamics is a challenging, computationally intensive field. And any percent point improvement on these makes real savings.

Or a city might put some real smarts behind their traffic light system, and intelligently improve traffic flow. Are they much more than day-parted timers and queue counters today?

I think there's plenty of room for other competitions / grants like this :)
This is Price Skimming - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_skimming

Done so well by Apple and others in consumer electronics space.
Would also be interesting to include those that never got close, those that blew large amounts of time and money on bad ideas.
And it's so biased to the point of being illegal in many countries (mine included)
I want mine with a GSM-ish modem and no lifetime data plan. That should make it cheaper.
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Can you recommend a canadian domain name registrar? Thanks!
Bizarre Bugs: Nine of the Strangest Software Glitches Ever
They also remove pollutants from the soil. Trees rock!
Opportunistic obstructionism?

Let me get this straight. Certain players in private equity attempted to rely on the rule of law; in particular, existing bankruptcy/debt seniority rules. Now the government is going to impose new regulations on that entire industry (and related industries) in retaliation?
Because netbooks have a completely new kind of display? Included in that cost is (presumably) the cost of developing a display that looks nice and holds an image without battery, and the cost of setting up new manufacturing lines for it.

Its still a little cheaper than the iPod Touch was originally, isn't it?
Maybe because it sounds like a business that is easy to get into. I first heard this sort of idea in the late 80's.
Well, has not completely offset...
The recommendation of people like us counts for a lot. We are the geeks that install and support friends' and families' computers, and if I know that if I get the family to use browser X, I'll have fewer tech support calls, then they're using browser X.
"the government would look ridiculous."

You criticize me and then make my point for me. No matter what the truth of the matter is the only thing the treasury would say publicly is that they are fakes, that's my point. Even if a portion of the bonds where real you would never hear about it. Period. Find out from whom? Other bondholders? Why would they want to destabilize the value of the bonds they hold?

No, I'm not saying they must be fakes. But come on, do you REALLY think the treasury is completely open about all of it's dealings? There is a reason we went off the the silver standard. There's all sorts of slight of hand you can perform with fiat money that you can't get away with if it needs to be backed up 1:1 with silver.
I don't use it much, but I think mine is abyssknight.

btw, karma check seems to indicate a trusted source.
By the way, on what grounds does the chinese authorities want to fight porn ?
pro search tip :D
Hopefully search will remember we dislike particular sites and exclude them in personalized future releases.
Good advice in picking a good raw honey, and I agree that honey is a great choice for a sweetener. BTW, farmers markets and local produce stands are great places to find good raw honey cheap.
Company shutdown causes 2/3rds drop in all spam
I'm so tired of this netbook argument. They're apples and oranges. One is a dedicated ebook reader and the other is a multifunction ultra-portable computer. Just because one is capable of doing something the other is capable of does not necessarily make them comparable. I've used netbooks and e-ink ebook readers. The ebook experience on a netbook does not compare. This is like saying cell phones are a rip off because you could use a $40 pair of walkie talkies without a monthly fee instead.

Not to mention, we have no idea what the cost is on a Kindle. Netbooks use commodity components that are widely available from numerous manufacturers. The same is not true of e-ink displays. This is at least partly a factor in the perceived high cost of an ebook reader.

We also don't know what kind of arrangement Amazon has with Sprint. Amazon gives a few cents to Sprint when you purchase something using Whispernet. Maybe Sprint also gets a flat fee every time a Kindle is sold. We simply don't know.

There's also the issue of limited competition in the ebook market right now. There are only a few manufacturers of quality e-ink readers and on top of it all the Kindle is the only game in town if you want to buy ebooks from Amazon. This is relatively new technology and the price will go down. We've seen it before with the components that go into a $250 netbook. This is economics 101.
Is there a side-by-side technical comparison of LucidDB vs the other column stores, like MonetDB, Infobright, Vertica and Sybase IQ? I assume there are some design and implementation differences, it's just not clear to me what they are.
I wish good domains did coast $99--then there wouldn't be so many squatters. I don't think you're providing much value, and I do think you'd make much money at it, but I wouldn't be terribly offended if I found you had registered a domain I wanted. Having recently spent hours and hours trying to find a domain in a very competitive space, $100 sounds just fine compared to $1000's or not available at all. OTOH, I was pretty exhaustive. If you did go for domains in my field, you might not find any worth $100.
Umm...sulfur dioxide causes acid rain. Why would anyone seriously think that pumping it into the atmosphere in mass amounts could even be an option? Seriously..is there something I'm missing here?
Big Tweet: Easily Post Links to Twitter (usefultools review)
There's a ancient saying in Chinese: 欲加之罪何患无辞

It means an interest group is growing very fast in China, eventually it will kidnap all personal and national politisc, economics, culture with its monopolization.
Even very complex and messy CSS is easily handled using something like Firebug for Firefox or the Web inspector in Safari.

I won't even comment on the inline styles recommendation.
Reg.ca
If you read "The Black Swan" this topic is discussed at some length. I believe that the consensus out there is that no one wants to read about failure. It seems extremely interesting to me but apparently no one wants to read about it.
Every new technology goes through this cycle. Even if it is new only in form and not in it's underlying technology. Some people will be willing to pay a premium to be early adopters. Later on, when competition hits and the market is more saturated (and when the economies of scale are in full swing) the prices will reduce drastically.
"Web standards", "Developer tools" and "Manageability" are not exactly aimed at Joe Sixpack.
Not necessarily. We don't necessarily know what type of profit margins Amazon gets on the Kindle. --What looks like price skimming can also be due to maturation of a technology.
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Business netbooks: IT revolution or contradiction in terms?
It's totally political. Google provided search results when everyone else is shuting down during 4th June.

And one core member of isc.org.cn is Baidu.com, Google's largest rival. Baidu bribed China's CCTV with a lot of money this year, especially during the Spring Festival TV Programs.

One thing about free macket is very sad in capitalist China, there's no fucking business model, everything depends on politics model, even underground politics model.

Update: Something is going on here

This is the Search suggest for 'Son' in Chinese
http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?hl=zh-CN...

This is the search suggest for 'lol' in Chinese
http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?hl=zh-CN...

looks like a malicious Google Suggest hack and someone purposly reported it to the national TV
I'll be one of your resellers. I have many stories to tell but often I'm creating just the domain name, no time to finish.

And it is fun to think an idea, brand it then sell it to someone _who_ is the guy to develop it.

The package would be: the story, the domain name + additionally a visual id.
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In my humble opinion, I can't see the Kindle succeeding in this pricing model.

I really respect Bezos but to me he is seeing things from his side not the customers.

The consumer has limited space in his pocket. Why would anyone want to have a Phone and a Kindle with them at the same time.

I can't really see the Kindle appealing to the mass market with that pricing model. I think Amazon's best bet might be offering subscription through smartphones like iPhone and others.

When the iPhone originally came out with the $500 price tag it only appealed to the fan boys. But by cutting the initial price they started appealing to the average Joe.

The thing with the average joe is that they don't do the two year math. They only look at the upfront price. We justified our monthly data plan costs by getting rid of our land line. I think that's why the smartphone makes sense to lots of consumers.
Just go on IRC instead.
XMPP, Ruby, XMPP4R and Twitter tutorial
Yes. I've seen duplexes in my town selling for only a bit more than this, which is a really good deal considering that you could offset your mortgage by renting out the other half.
At least in my area the housing markets are down but the rental market is going strong so if you exploit this gap you can end up offsetting your housing costs.
Also, it's not hard to make a keyword search that adds that automatically. On firefox, left-click the google search box/"Add a keyword for this search", save it with the keyword "g" somewhere. Then look for it in your bookmarks menu, right-click/properties and edit the query string until it fits your tastes. (The %s will get replaced with your search terms.) Mine is like 200 chars long.

After that, you can use g <something> in the address bar to search for something with a sane query.
For Iphone Dev, you can use the msdev environment. They now have a wrapper for asp.net and C# for the Iphone environment. Its quite nice actually. Its a lot better than objective C.
LG Voyager Verizon – A Wireless Voyage
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Keeping a True Identity Becomes a Battle Online
You don't know enough people, then.
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The answer, of course, is that it wasn't IE6. It was the lack of a business model...

As I recall, Netscape had a business model back before Microsoft set out to use monopoly power to deliberately destroy it.

Your argument reminds me of the old joke about the guy who kills his parents and then runs around asking for sympathy because he's an orphan.

Of course, it's quite possible that Netscape's original business model was nonviable. There were plenty of silly business models around in the old days. We'll never really know. But this doesn't let Microsoft off the hook: Shooting someone who has a terminal illness is still murder.
Im guess ing you were the guy asking about this last night on chatterous.

I'll be interested to see how this goes forward (though I dont think users from this community will be great test subjects) and if you can fix out the main problems.

Good luck :D
Please, they lose on almost everything there including Dev Tools, Security and reliability
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> Couldn't a case be made that venture capital helped fuel the dot-com bust?

Even if we assume that's true, it doesn't tell us that regulating VC would have done anything to avoid the dot-com bust.

Note that the dot-com bust occurred in the market that the SEC regulates directly. The SEC let pets.com go public....
I compensate quantity with quality ;-)
Yes, empty space is important. One personal trick I've found for doing with less actual space is to sit next to a window so that almost half my peripheral vision is into a much larger area. This is especially helpful if that window also has long lines of sight available.
No, not yet. Earlier today Apple's activation servers were down, and people got around it by disconnecting from the Internet while updating the firmware; apparently this bypasses the Internet part of the activation at least, c.f.,

http://twitter.com/JeremyCurry/statuses/2211487905

(This workaround was verified by multiple people on Twitter and on HN, see other posts in this thread.) So it sounds like there is a portion of the activation that happens over the Internet, but I don't know whether there's also a carrier wireless network activation.
On a scale of 1-10, how impressive was the Nils’ sweep of exploiting all three main browsers?

I was surprised. For IE 8, I’d give him a 9 out of 10. For Safari, maybe a 2. It’s just too easy to pop Safari. For Firefox on Windows, I give him a 10. That was the most impressive of the three. It’s really hard to exploit Firefox on Windows.

If you are using a Mac, or anything besides Firefox on Windows, I think Microsoft's claims about security seems valid enough.

Reference: Interview with the winner of pwn2own. http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2941

Edit: Ofcourse at first it seems far fetched to claim better security than Chrome, but for stupid users falling for anything a malware/phishing filter is probably a very good security feature.
I know at least 3 couples (all 3 brides are web geeks) getting married in the next year or so - not sure of dates but I'll pass this on.
For convenience, it's at Whole Foods Market too. But I'm unsure of the quality.

I agree about artificial sweeteners, they can cause problems. They seems to trigger psychological effects that cause overeating [1]. The super sweet taste might signal, binge. Humans never ate highly concentrated super sweet foods. Fruit was seasonal. But even the fruit we eat today has been bred for sweetness for centuries.

[1] http://www.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/2004/040629.Swithers.res...
When a Kindle version of a book is available it makes up 35% of that book's sales. (http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-kindle-sales-no...)

It has succeeded already by most reasonable business measures.
> Requiring these speculators to come under regulation is more a response to their recent involvement with the worldwide financial meltdown

Umm, they did significantly better than their more regulated bretheren, the various kinds of banks, insurance companies, and the GSEs.

I note that some of the "reforms" are supposedly aimed at investors who didn't know what they were buying. The most prominent were Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac....

When Obama goes after Fannie and Freddie, we'll know that he cares about finances. His current behavior, "reward friends and punish enemies", shows that he doesn't.
Human eye inspires advance in computer vision from Boston College researchers
The original article is more informative:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/11/major_s...
Security? Not compared to Safari. At least not according to the guy who won pwn2own who considers safari "too easy to pop".

I'm not saying MSIE is the cornerstone of security, but saying security haven't improved the last few versions is just silly.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=2941
Honey is hygroscopic. It sucks the water out of bacteria and kills them. But anything hygroscopic does that, honey is not special in that way.
Lung-on-a-chip could replace countless lab rats
It seems to me that any wholesale reform of financial regulation has to prevent regulatory arbitrage. Right now, IIUC, banks and mutual funds and hedge funds and insurance companies and VC firms and non-bank mortgage companies are governed by different rules and supervised by different regulatory agencies, which allowed people with sketchy business plans to pick the corporate structure that gave them the most favorable regulations. (Thus, for example, non-bank mortgage companies were more lightly regulated than banks, and more deeply involved with subprime loans.)

We need to move towards a system with one common regulatory framework for everything (or at least, everything above a certain level of assets under management), so the people responsible for investing other people's money have an incentive to focus on choosing good investments rather than gaming the system.

Even if VC firms had nothing to do with the current financial meltdown, if they end up as the least regulated class of fund, then they will surely get drawn into the next meltdown.
I won't disagree with its questionable legality, but it would be a bit silly to have an advert that wasn't biased towards the product it was advertising.
"I don't know how to patch this version of Safari"

I'm using Safari version 4.0 (5530.17)
What is the best Linux distribution for beginners?
In the 80s? Really? You heard about domain squatting back then? Why didn't you do it? You could have had sex.com, microsoft.com, sony.com, ...
Super high quality fakes of US currency (as in $100 bills) have come out of rouge states for a while. It is not surprising to me, that the same people, or other people too, would attempt to fake this form currency as well.
Microsoft halting .Net link to Oracle databases
Facebook Adds Real-Time Social Search
Why?

In my experience, Safari 4 has been noticeably faster than FF3.5 RC1. I could understand wanting the extensions and such, but if speed made that much of a difference in your decision, I just can't fathom how Firefox on OS X could be preferred.
No, Reddit Didn’t Copy Digg. Here’s How It Was Built.
Epitaph for an Entrepreneur - Balancing Family and Work
To be interesting it would need some drama, however most "failures" just sort of whither or continue on in mediocrity. I'm an excellent example. I've started two companies both of which were in what I call survival mode when I left. I was making enough money to cover the bills and pay a modest salary but there was no break-through for either (and it was apparent it would never happen) so I left them. A pretty boring story.
> I've used netbooks and e-ink ebook readers. The ebook experience on a netbook does not compare.

Pixel Qi's screen will narrow that gap eventually, at the price of being less available and more expensive in the short and medium-term.

http://www.pixelqi.com/blog1/
Bug gets into local water which is full of local bugs competition ensues, old-new bug is nothing special.
We were in a different business and I thought that would be a distraction. And it just didn't seem right to me, but I am just a simple country boy.
The page only shows the last 30 odd messages... There are a lot more than 30 messages in total :)
Really interesting use of Augmented Reality
I do not agree because:

- Netbooks are usually based on Atom processors that are cheap when compared to Core2 and other more traditional PC processors but are much more expensive than the cellphone-class ARM processor used in the Kindle

- Netbooks use higher-capacity batteries because Atom processors use more juice than the ARM in the Kindle.

- The Kindle uses far more commoditized components than a netbook does - it uses cellphone-class components while netbooks use PC-class ones.

- Netbooks also have more RAM - the Kindle certainly has less than a gigabyte of RAM - I would risk the Kindle has no more than 128 megs, soldered on the motherboard - which is also cheaper than mounting RAM into a socket.

- The e-ink displays are not new technology - a couple years ago my carrier (in Brazil) offered me a Motorola phone with e-ink display. It was an entry-level "dumbphone" and I did not need one. The only "new" thing in the Kindle DX display is its size and design considerations that follow from it.
Suck it and see. The cost to you is pretty low financially. Buy up 10 domains, perhaps in a related field, do your magic on them and see if you can sell any ... when you sell one buy 10 more. Rinse, repeat.
North Carolina has a Use Tax, too.
While I mostly agree, in their defense, the material/feature quality is significantly higher than your average home. LED lighting, high efficiency appliances, radiant heat, and solar aren't cheap features... nor are they easy to find in houses of comparable price.

Also it's hard to compare the price of something made for the British housing market to prices here in America. It could be the case that housing in general is just much more expensive there.

That said, it does seem way too expensive for the average case, although it might be worth it to me if I could stick it on a green roof somewhere.
Axure for Mac (Wireframes, Prototypes)
Hm. Does Tipjoy qualify as a startup with Twitter at the core of the business?

Also, I thought they ignored startups that had already been acquired, but then they list Summize? Shoddy analysis.
Enterprise Java is not Object-Oriented
I've been working on a medium-size Java application for the last 2 months. We make use of the Spring framework, which implements many of the Enterprise Java APIs, and replaces some with alternatives. Using this framework correctly requires conforming to various conventions on structuring your code.

It seems that these conventions preclude the benefits of OOP, namely abstraction and information hiding. The vast majority of classes fit into one of two categories: Beans and singletons. A Bean is just a record: a group of members all publicly accessible via getters and setters. The singletons are all just code without data. Not a single class has a non-trivial constructor.

I understand that Spring provides many benefits, such as easy testability, aspect-oriented programming, and removing lots of boilerplate. I don't question this. My question is: can we still call this object-oriented programming? I could see this entire application being written in OCaml, with functors, with some clever preprocessor that generates code to wire all the functors together. It would work just as well as OO code, maybe even better. And even then, the advanced features of the type system (those that provide abstraction and information hiding), would not really be utilized.
Yajl-ruby 0.5.5, now with a JSON gem compatibility API
http://github.com/brianmario/yajl-ruby

The new JSON gem compatibility API is meant as a drop-in replacement for the JSON gem in your projects.

Simply replace "require 'json'" with "require 'yajl/json_gem'" and you're set!

yajl-ruby offers a more efficient, better RFC compliance and Unicode support over the JSON gem. I highly recommend anyone using the JSON gem to check it out.