skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've wondered the same thing! During Google's IO conference, the speakers expected and encouraged applause. Apple conferences are an even stronger example.

It feels phoney, but perhaps it isn't. I don't think the thought process is complex enough to involve considerations of financial benefit from cheering.

My theory is that there is a critical mass of "fans" of the company (Google, Apple, etc), and they are very enthusiastic about new features/products while the rest of the crowd claps out of reflex/habit.
Ghostery v1.5 is here; announcing the Ghostery Directory
About YouTube RealTime
Bertrand Serlet said something about compression in the keynote.

Also note that the largest part of application size is not in binary, but in resources (images, nibs, etc.)

Edit: also, all major apps are compiled with 64-bit support (and should run on 32-bit systems), thus it's minus ppc, but plus x86_64, which has a larger code size.
I don't think you have a right to an answer for your question.
I think he either didn't bother to err.. google the number of employees, or just "rounded" to the number of employees that Google had back in the day. Or both.

Very unscrupulous on his side, I must add.
Someone tried unsuccessfully to login to my account a few times. They messed up... and yes, it was a pain to get any response from them for a few days, but I love them again ;)
Not to me, Google comes across as muscling out a small business for their own interest. Isn't this the definition of using a monopoly position for anti-competitive practice? Their position is completely undermined as soon as they introduce a product for squatting exactly like what he had made on his own.
Remove the offending image, resubmit, get approved, then re-add it (or have your app download it).
I play 5-string banjo, 3-finger style. It grabbed hold of me and now it just sucks up my time.

But it's worth it. I'm getting pretty good, so who cares about doing actual work. :D
That is what I was thinking too. This book seems like it might have some good info on hiding your assets. http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Invisible-Essential-Protecting/... .Also, the author of that book seems to sell ghost addresses at http://canaryislandspress.com/index.cfm/page/Address/index.h...

Tim Ferriss wrote an article that had to do with privacy that got a lot of discussion on HN. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=504151
Oh, thank the good lord:

Date in menu bar.
The date can appear alongside the time in the menu bar.

Seriously - This missing feature has driving me CRAZY - Windows XP has been able to do it since the beginning of time. Finally I can look at my screen and figure out what the date is without having to Click on the Time (or leave iCal in my Dock)
Yes it does. The whole point is to separate the good answers from the bad answers.
While he harps on finding out Google's reasons, it's clear that he's not remotely surprised by those reasons when he sees them - he already had an argument prepared against the claims of TOS violations. He probably had that argument ready to go in his first court appearance, but didn't have a chance to use it since Google didn't point out his specific violations.

He didn't stall for time because he didn't think he needed to.
I find this very interesting. I think personally I tend to do two kind of searches - ones that I know in advance will only take one search, either because I am using the search as a lazy resolver (say because I type "BBC" knowing that google will return me a link to news.bbc.co.uk near the top, thus saving me a bunch of typing) or because the results will steer me to a definitive site (eg, if I type "tethering" I expect the Wikipedia page will crop up high, and I can figure out what it is [aside: why did we need a new term for modem?]).

The second kind of searches I seemed to do are the ones that really go quite deep, either because the information is hard to get, or because it is complex enough that I need to combine data from different sources, or because, as they say, I have phrased my query poorly and need to iterate to figure out what the magic words are.

I would be interested to know whether this is typical (ie the ditribution is bi-modal as I described) or just of descending frequency (ie most searches end in 1 query, the next most frequent searches end in 2, then 3 and so on)
Ask HN: Best website to register your domain name?
I'm looking to create my first website and I wanted to get opinions from the much more experienced people here. Which website is the best and why? Price isn't too much of an issue because it seems fairly reasonable no matter who you go through but I don't want to register through a shady or bad website as I've heard stories of people having trouble transferring their domains to a decent website after realizing the picked a bad one.
I think you are trying argue semantics instead of any particular point, but I'll clarify things anyway. When MMS, for example, has been available for years from every major carrier in the US on even some of the cheapest phones I would consider it a basic feature. The fact that many people don't use it doesn't change that. If that were the case, you could just as easily make the argument that text messaging doesn't necessarily need to be included because most people don't use it.

The bottom line is you can't sell me a so-called smartphone in a pretty package and sing the praises of all its bells and whistles when it doesn't have the features I use on a daily basis. When you can get MMS on a free phone from MetroPCS it seems like a pretty glaring omission on the iPhone.

I'm not just picking on Apple. I was using Apple products long before it was the cool thing to do and I happen to like them, but let's be realistic. I owned a Sidekick a couple years back and had the same complaint. The thing is marketed as this socially connected, multimedia phone and it can't even do MMS. The 4 year old POS Nokia I switched from was able to do that. The Sidekick was, rightfully, ripped for this so I don't understand why Apple gets a free pass.
Someone pointed out the minutes-of-meeting http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html#adding-goto
Ask HN: Offshore company
Hi Hacker News,
I'm in the process of doing a start-up which has just started generating revenue. I'm wondering if anyone is familiar with the process of registering an offshore shell corporation in one of the finance centers. Are there any pitfalls of doing internet related business through an offshore corporation? Please share your experiences.

Sincerely,
Joseph.
The 2 best resources for this are:

1. Programming Interviews Exposed
2. Career Cup interview Guide by Gayle Laakman (www.careercup.com)

I had to prepare for interviews and didn't have much time. I spent a few days going through each one of them--marathon studying did really well as a result. I remember beingasked questions several times and I almost felt like telling the interviewer, do you want to blindfold me and tie my hands behind my back to make this a little more challenging? :)
Imperfect markets. Don't trot out that tired horse that goes "you have every choice possible, how could you complain about the one you picked?"
A pox on both their houses.

Seriously, I wonder how much of this is just simply due to the fact that McDonalds are much more likely to have a drive-through than Starbucks (at least that is the case in my state). I presume a lot of the profits come from the morning coffee-rush where time is at a premium, so I can see people stopping at McD so that they don't have to mess about with parking etc.
Finally! Now PHP really is the web's assembly language.
Except, as Dijkstra pointed out 40 years ago, and the discussion in the article supports, there are places where gotos are best practice.
Canada is also in NATO and sends troops on NATO missions.

When you look at US military spending as a fraction of it's GDP the US is not that insane. We just spend more as a fraction of our GDP than most rich nations. Which is not really a rational choice when you look at world wide threats.

PS: The Parties of NATO agreed that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all. However, the French withdrawal in 1966 suggests it was less important than you might expect.

Excluding the US from both NATO and world number: NATO members account for 40% of worldwide military spending. Including the US it's 70%.
Yeah did you see the screenshot? Do you think it's a good thing to have him defrauding advertisers like that, or a bad thing?

Tip: Don't "make a product" out of someone elses product, if it violates the T&C.

The difference is, advertisers can choose if they wish their adverts to appear on parked domains or not with the official product.
I disagree. I like Gmail's email interface best, and I like that I can scan many messages quickly ---even on small screens.

But Google publishes a solution: the Google Apps API. Also, since it's email, you can simply import, forward, or sync your Google mail into any other mail application that you like better.
GoDaddy is perhaps the most popular. It's a great price, and they're very flexible. I've registered 2 or 3 domains with them now, and I've had a first-class experience every time.

As they've grown, I've noticed that they try and "sell" more things to you that you probably don't need, but that's to be expected with any growing company. I would recommend them, especially for your first website.
The same way Windows does.

/folder1/file1.jpg

/me/folder1/file2.jpg

moving me/folder1 to /folder1 should result in

/folder1/file1.jpg

/folder1/file2.jpg

But on OS X, it only results in

/folder1/file2.jpg

Replace conflicting files, but not the folders themselves.
So, in other words, there was literally nothing on that page that wasn't a TOS violation.

I've been sympathetic to other complaints about Google cutting off service without explanation. But in this case, in Google's shoes, I'd be struggling to give any response much politer than, "FOAD. If possible, DIAF."
I don't know about you, but I personally think McDonald's mocha tastes like ass.
Google Experimenting with Images in Search Results?
Lossless Data Compression for Embedded Systems
I found no-commitment pricing at http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=1574:

iPhone 3G: $499 (8GB) and $549 (16GB)

iPhone 3GS: $599 (16GB) and $699 (32GB)
Ask HN: Why do audience members cheer wildly at sports games?
Kind of pointless, isn't it?
I disagree. Goto is the Comic Sans of keywords, a tool which may be used tastefully but ends up far more commonly abused to horrible effect.
LOL at this paragraph:

"Boot Camp now includes HFS+ read support that enables you to access the files on your Mac OS X partition from Windows. It’s read-only to prevent PC viruses from affecting Mac OS X,"
http://www32.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=12am+EDT automatically detects your time zone and tells you your local time for that event, in case you're too lazy to determine it from the countdown on the official page

Edit: nevermind, I just saw they added that to the official site already, my bad - I only went there and saw the big countdown, didn't read the small-ish stuff above. Sorry again.
You fail reading comprehension forever. The complaints that you mistakenly think you addressed are:

1. Domain squatters who sit on slightly misspelled domain names (e.g. ycobinator.com, gooogle.com, etc.) and hope someone will accidentally see their ads are parasites on the DNS.

2. This practice lowers the return on investment for people who are trying to advertise something. Micro-advertising keeps a lot of web sites afloat and helps make the web's economy more fluid, so that small businesses without brand name recognition can level the playing field a little. Domain squatters who siphon off ad money by putting ads on crappy parked domain pages that people go to by mistake and leave immediately are unworthy leeches sucking the blood from the internet. They harm others and contribute nothing of value.

You seem to be exclusively defending the kind of domain squatting where you register some attractive domain name like "fishandchips.com" and leave it fallow until someone buys it from you. That does not address anything that blhack said.
I find it disappointing to see such an discussion around a Java quirk voted up here. These things are in every Java book since at least 6 years, and Java has not gained in interestingness since. Also, Eclipse tells you that with a warning if you want.

Sorry to be so negative.
On earth, humans cheer wildly when they see things they like. This could be anything from a man throwing a ball into a net, to a useful new operating system feature. It's considered a way to express approval, especially when gathered in a crowd, where shouting words would be less effective.

See also: booing.
Now, you have version 1.0 of Cool.app, and version 2.0 Cool.app. 2.0 removes some files from the distribution, and adds some new. Cool.app is a bundle, i.e. folder that looks like file in Finder. Obviously, you want to replace the application completely instead of merging.

What would you do?
Official Google Mac Blog: Introducing Google Quick Search Box
Dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=648725
The Finder has at least something on Windows Explorer: one thing I always miss on Windows is the ability to drag a file or directory onto an open/save dialog and have the dialog immediately navigate to and select that file or directory. Saves you from repeatedly navigating the filesystem.
Who else was expecting "RealTime" to be some kind of live streaming feature?
I've had success with NearyFreeSpeech.net, but I've had GoDaddy lock domains due to dubious legal complaints.

I recommend trying NearlyFreeSpeech.net and reporting in the registration that you chose them from recommendations at Hacker News.

If you do ever have a problem with a registrar, report the story here at news.ycombinator so that it can be archived.

Note: do NOT respond to legal threats. They are like spam ---you respond, now it's known that you respond to threats, and now will be sued. Never assume good faith. If somebody sends you a letter about their trademark, for example, and you call their office to ask about it in good faith, that other company can claim that you said anything over the phone, and you will have to defend yourself in court otherwise.

Winning a lawsuit is very expensive for a small business. You do not want to win.
It's an interesting argument the author is making, but it sure sounds like it's a bit of a reach at this point. Sure, the iPhone has nice market penetration in a certain demographic (who are more likely than others to buy gizmos) but I strongly doubt that you'll see companies that would have otherwise developed hardware, not do so. Instead, I think you'll see the flourishing of products with small enough niches such that if they had to build their own hardware, the product would have been shelved. This section:

Even established businesses seemed to disprove their own divisions: as tomtom showed off their upcoming navigation software I was left wondering why they need to make their own devices anymore.

is the epitome of that reach. Why does TomTom need to make their own devices any more? Because they don't want to add in an implicit $60/month data fee to use their service, which you have when it's iPhone based. Because if it's strictly iPhone, you can't give it to your parents as a gift so they stop getting lost. Because they make some nice margins off their high-end hardware, which they can't on an iPhone. Because they don't want to limit themselves to the (comparatively) small demographic of people with an iPhone who drive in an area with a cellular data connection, as opposed to the much larger one of people who drive cars that have 12V accessory plugs.

Likewise with the ZipCar application - they're not going to go iPhone-only, since it's giving up free market share. So they'll add an iPhone interface for coolness purposes and to appeal to a certain demo (which they probably do pretty well with already), but it won't fundamentally change their business plan.

The Pasco demo (focusing on teaching science to kids) also seemed somewhat contrived - who's gonna outfit a lab with iPhones to do readings? More importantly, what makes more sense for a school board buying a new lab's worth of equipment - buying sensor packages that work with a dedicated ruggedized central station that the school owns, or buying ones that require all students to have and use expensive and relatively flimsy cell phones of one particular brand?

So yes, I think that the iPhone represents an interesting new platform and will enable some new business opportunities (especially at the small end of the busines ecosystem), but it's not going to cause the end of all commercial customized hardware.
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Namely, he had two other websites that had content and he had ads on that were valid uses of adsense. Whether the $761 was divided 60/40 or 10/90 is hard to say. One website should not void your terms for other (fair-use) sites.
Packages are treated as individual files everywhere in the Finder UI, this wouldn't be an exception.
It's fun. Try it.
A Conversation with Arthur Whitney
Reminds me of FriendFeed
The other websites are not separate matters, though. They're all services provided as part of an agreement that he violated. And it looks like he violated that agreement knowingly and flagrantly.
valgrind is available for the Mac?! Oh happy day! I was seriously considering installing a Linux VM on my MacBook Plus just to get valgrind....
Goto is a good idea in C, not only for the obvious low-levelness reasons, but also because if you can write C you are almost certainly a bit wiser than the average PHP programmer that may use goto for things I prefer don't think about before to go to sleep :)
My first reaction was 'YouTube is taking on ustream and justin.tv?'
Because they're expecting to get a goodie bag at the end of the presentation and are expressing their desire for it to contain a lot of expensive new stuff.
OK, so I really didn't think I needed to specify "at run-time" with regard to the meaning of "optional".
With break and continue, I have never found a reason to actually use goto
While we're on the subject of pointless...
Domain.com has always treated me well, and their interface is the least cluttered of all the ones I've used.
Many of us have to get over the "I'm overqualified" complex, and take a non-tech job whilst we wait.
Any news regarding NFS revealing details?
see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=650056
What a charming grandpa :) Pity he didn't stay another 100 years.
Actually, this is one reason I prefer quiet sports like snooker. I prefer watching games of perfect opportunity and turn-based play to games of denied opportunity, and games based on positional advantage to speed of execution.
Google Makes Its Own Mac Twitter Desktop Updater (Okay, It Does A Bit More)
I think we aren't. I have no idea what language you're thinking of.
Joy. It's a human emotion.
Google saying that it is against their TOS doesn't make the legality of it valid. Yes, he "may" have been in the wrong for THAT site (although google did introduce a service two days later for his situation), but their conditions for refusal of service are horribly "evil." (Do they even refund the adwords users that had to pay?)
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I've worked with a person that received a Software Engineering degree from the University of Phoenix. He was a very intelligent and interested computer scientist.

The degree is just a piece of paper that gets you in the door. The college experience is a great place to network, though I'm not sure how this would work at an online university. The real learning comes from your own interest and desire to figure new things out on your own.

That said I recently finished my BS in CS from a traditional university and now am working on a degree in Mathematics.
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Narwhal - a flexible javascript standard library
No way! I do exactly this. Switch statement, while loop, and lots of continue statements.

Its a lowering of basic blocks that I want to print out to test.

What's yours?
It's mostly a discussion about his variants of APL. I don't understand the reasoning behind starting from scratch every time writes a new language but he does make some interesting observations about common lisp. Interesting, worth reading.
Also, they're interested in profits and search.
I would think that if both equals and hashCode are not implemented in a specific class, you would issue a warning like the parent says. I'm not sure of the details, but I assume you can disable warning for regions of code like you can in C#. So when you know you did things right, you can tell the compiler (and other coders that follow you) you know what you are doing. If you didn't do things right then the compiler reminds you to check things out. It's a win in both situations.
I was mainly referring to the Cold War. It isn't really up for debate that the US outspent Europe to build up and counter the USSR.

R&D doesn't make up a big part of defense spending. I'm not counting things like the F22 as R&R.
No, thats not what he means. He means that gotos are unstructured, and you can do anything with them, like jumping into a loop.

Although, PHP's gotos don't allow they, and PHP still only admits structured control flow.
"...Sure the staff member could be recommending them just because he's a friend, but I'm assuming most people would not risk their reputation recommending someone who was incompetent."

Maybe I've just been around the wrong people, but this seems the primary motivation behind the recommendation one friend would give on behalf of another. Competence never entered the picture; even when I would ask about it, I was always told "it's not what you know, it's who you know," as if to reassure themselves as much as to admonish me. In some cases, the recommendations are truly noble-minded, but never underestimate the social pressure people have to practice nepotism.

I will caveat this by saying I've been hired in one or two places where the recruitment tango started through a recommendation. One of those places, it stopped mattering as soon as the phone screen began. The other, well, the person who recommended me was the hiring manager, so I'm not sure that counts. :-)
I like PHP just fine and use it often. But if you really want an answer to that question, I'll give you one: inconsistency. Not saying I don't understand it, and I'm not saying I blame the way PHP has evolved. But it does have a lot of inconsistency.
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The article doesn't mention any free/open-source versions of Whitney's work, but I do know of one, A+. It was extended from A, which does get a mention.

http://www.aplusdev.org/

On another note, has anyone here played with the latest and greatest, Q?
Terence Kealey - 'The Myth of Science as a Public Good' on Vimeo
You must be thinking of GNP which has been supplanted by GDP >precisely< because it better reflects the product of a nation's internal and external trade.

I think the CIA factbook probably does not totally rely on the PRC's reported GDP (which I agree are likely suspect).
Why Niche Marketing Is The Best Way To Create Multiple Streams Of Income Online
Niche marketing is a type of marketing, which focuses on a particular type of consumer in the market. A niche market maybe created over a period of time due to the demands of the society.
"...never underestimate the power of connections..."

Avoid overestimating the power of them as well; don't always assume it is who you know, or that who you know will make the experience better. When people err, in my experience, they seem to err in the direction of overestimating. They don't even bother to consider opportunities unless there is a connection involved, and they ignore red-flags they discover along the recruitment path simply because they have a connection there who downplays them. Often as not, they end up unhappy, but suffer through it because their only out is through more connections they don't yet have.

Sometimes, you have to look beyond the people you know.