skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they'd lose some of their cachet if that happened.

In any case, I hope they stay in a smallish chunk of the market like the computers - they're nice phones, but I am simply not interested in a hacker-unfriendly platforms, and I'd hate to see it become the major, or only one. Android wins by a mile (or two) from that point of view.
Stephen Hawking: "Humans Have Entered a New Stage of Evolution"
But the common cold is slow, non-lethal and still ubiquitous. It seems unclear to me what success really means in this context.
The headline is actually misleading. It's about the top professional cyclists not the average guy on a bike. Basically it's exactly the reason why cycling is better than running and weight lifting: It does not overburden your bones.
Sparks of Life
Aristochat: a web based Multi User Chat with XMPP inside
Design Trends: Coolest iPhone APP Website Designs
They generally all follow the same plan of attack (for good reason) but it makes me wonder – are these sites being built to just blend in with the rest of the pack or are there some that stand out?
Refreshingly blunt.
Tell HN: Authorize.net is down
They've apparently been down for 6+ hours. It's serious - their website, web services, and everything is offline.

http://www.authorize.net
That's the condensed version, yes.
I thnk that should read 'attempt to mint money', only a total loser would buy that domain. For any amount of $.
Stained Glass and the Saturn V would be a great band name.
I've tables much, much larger than that.

It is possible one day that RDBMS will be seen as one of those evil optimizations that we made in our small relative worlds at the time.

I doubt that for the simple reason that relational databases are maths: the relational algebra and relational calculus. There's no such theoretical underpinning to object databases.
Is this another DDOS attack or are they having technical issues of a different nature ?
Mindblowingly bad? None of them look very usable to me. There's a good reason the current design of laptops has been an evolution of existing designs. They work really well. The current iteration of the MacBook line is probably the pinnacle of laptop hardware design IMO.
Who's the "they" now, the cloners or the cloned?
Depends on the uni/college and the tutors/teachers. Often the class sizes are too big for teachers to spend any significant time on learning issues (as compared to specific question issues).
No clue - I can't find any info except everyone saying "#authorize.net is down" on twitter. I even "binged" "authorize.net is down" thinking I would find something but nada
Launchly: Help Your Site Achieve Lift-Off (useful tools review)
Re:Subj -- similar to cc:Betty or Tgethr
Ask HN: Alternative to Authorize.net?
As of today, authorize.net has been down for more than 6 hours (why is no one reporting on this?). Any good alternatives?
vxsbill.com
jettis.com
epoch.com

there must be lots more...
It's not just that one post. It's become a real "talking point" for Adobe employees and pops up everywhere.
As I understand the problem it is identical to the Monty Hall problem if you map survival-prize and doors-prisoners. The opposite of survival is death and the opposite of prize is nothing.

So when the guard says B is sure to die he is actually opening door number 2 to show no prize is there.

Before this event the odds of survival for each prisoner were 1/3, 1/3, 1/3.

The odds that the guard would choose prisoner B as the non-surviving one (dead that is) in case prisoner A/B/C is the surviving one are: 1/2, 0, 1.

That is if A was pardoned then the guard can chose either of B or C so the odds of pointing out B are 1/2. The odds of pointing out B as dead when he is pardoned are 0 and the odds of pointing out B as dead when C is pardoned are 1 (because he cannot indicate A as dead because the guard is not allowed to tell A about his own fate). Hence the final odds for each prisoner must add up to 1 so through proportionality they are 1/3, 0, 2/3.

So prisoner A didn't find out anything new about his chance of being the pardoned one.
This is awfully interesting. I've been looking for a LAMP-pluggable Campfire clone for a while now but no web chat is anywhere near the simplicity or responsiveness of Campfire.
I heard there was an Internap outage in Seattle area. Not sure if that is related.
> If I choose open source, I don't have to think about licensing, feature matrices, or recurring billing. I know, I know, we don't use software that costs money here, but I'd almost be willing to pay for the privilege of not having to think about that stuff ever again.

The grass is always greener on the other side isn't it? Don't get me wrong, FOSS has upsides, but segmentation isn't one of them. If time really is the cost rather than the cost of the software, FOSS isn't any better. The only difference is that nobody is artificially segmenting the market. The market artificially segments itself.

Think about it: do you use Debian? Fedora? CentOS? Or do you go with someone you can buy a support contract for like Red Hat or Novell or SuSE? Or would you rather go for a BSD flavor of nix? OpenSolaris seems to also be gaining popularity; do you choose it?

And once you get that sorted out, what webserver do you choose? Apache? Lighttpd? Nginx? Comanche? Are you doing Python? Then you also should consider CherryPy.

So, to summarize... sometimes I'd be willing to pay money to know that no matter what* edition I choose, I'm still buying Windows.
"doing the dishes to do the dishes" sounds all well and good, but it's predicated on the idea that all activities are equally worth doing, because they're all living. Which is ridiculous. Consider "sitting there while the monk does the dishes to sit there while the monk does the dishes", or "be horribly tortured to be horribly tortured".

Not all activities are of equal value, and it's natural to want to maximize the high payoffs (time with family, solving good problems, sex, etc) and minimize the low (dishes).
mm is an extremely common placeholder for months in a date.
I like TrustCommerce; simple, solid API and no bullshit. Also their "vault" is great for storing CC info. It's a holiday weekend in the US so don't expect miracles, though. Setting up a new payment gateway takes time. For a quick fix it's better to use PayPal until you get something better set up.
Top 200 Blogs for Developers (Q2 2009)
Do you have any experience with any of those? I can google "authorize.net alternative" and find lots of "unbiased" reviews but if people here have experience with a good choice, I'd like to hear about it.
Exactly, the article mentions that it only applies to people who are burning far, far more calories per day than they are eating and are training pretty much all the time.
Some very good ones near the top of the list, but Coding Horror is #2? Yikes!
"You also can’t see or install apps that cost money on a developer phone. Actually you can, but not if the app has copy protection — which is almost every non-free app. On the other hand when you upload your app to the app store it’s available within minutes, so you don’t have to worry about an approval process."

That seems unfortunate, as with some of the android phones you essentially want the developer version (or something similarly unlocked) so that you can eg kill background processes when you don't need them to improve battery life
We have PayPal set up already so our customers that can use PayPal are okay during the downtime.

I'll check out TC - thanks.
Always cool to hear what Stephen has to say but there isn't anything most of us don't already know in the article.
The article says the games where nearly lost when the company shuttered it's doors in '96.

It is scary how easily we can lose huge chunks of digital history unless thoughtful people make the effort to preserve it.
I've sold domains for $1K+ on Sedo - I liked their service a lot
Blogging about the illegal goods floating around your servers should be a crime.
Could this have something to do with bots squatting on username URLs?
Make it social. Let people compare their spending habits with other people who are in the same income category or same spending budget.
Ask questions who is the end user? Is it a person who wants to cut down on the costs or is it person who is trying to stick to his monthly budget? If so how is the user going to achieve by using the site?
User has to do something after seeing at the graphs. Make it easier for the user to arrive at that decision. For example food budget is higher compared to others then you can provide hints to cut down on the food budget. It may take out the simplicity of the app..
It might be good to compare how is the person doing with respect last month etc.
Notes field can be made available only if required.
Graphs are taking lot of space. Can be moved left a little bit and show a bigger recent spending list.
How to Find People on Twitter
Yes and no. There's some utility to having a dogma with a well-defined name. If you wanted to introduce each of these practices separately, you would have to explain each one and get people to buy into each one. Each one is a potential point for argument and derailment. It's convenient to have a handle that refers to the whole kit.

In practice, you'll have to introduce the techniques incrementally, but having an over-arching name can help people see these as part of a unified plan.
I'm currently using vxsbill, they're pretty good at what they do, segregated merchant accounts, vbv and so on. They do have a lengthy signup process though for that reason.

Epoch has been in business many years, jettis a bit less long.

I chose for vxsbill for a number of reasons, one of them is I am based in the Netherlands so it was relatively easy to get my own merchant account (but it still took more time than I liked).

If you're on the other side of the atlantic then I'd look at epoch first, then jettis, ccbill or some other reputable company.

If you can get a merchant account of your own, this will greatly reduce your exposure to trouble, as well as a significant reduction in fees.
I disagree. Form follows function, and if you need a device for very specific functions, some of these designs hold merit.

As far as general-purpose laptops go, I think you may be correct that the present design is a good all-purpose approach.
I upvoted the OP so more people could read this post. I read HN for the comments first and the OP second, and this is an example why.
More info here: http://news.cnet.com/2100-7349_3-6057305.html

Edit: sorry, unrelated article as others pointed out.
Before he asks the question, there are 4 possibilities:

1. A lives, A gets told B dies
2. A lives, A gets told C dies
3. B lives, A gets told C dies
4. C lives, A gets told B dies

Since in fact A got told that B dies, we are either in situation 1 or 4. However, these did not start off at equal probability. Lets define P(x) as the probability that x is the actual situation. It is obvious that, before the question is asked:

P(1 or 2) == P(3) == P(4) == 1/3

Thus P(1) < P(4). This remains true once situations 2 and 3 have been ruled out.
All of those are unusable for anybody doing serious work, especially the ones with ultra-thin or OLED keyboards.

I don't think keyboards which are actually large touchscreens will be particularly difficult to make from a technical viewpoint, but they will be a usability nightmare. Without tactile response, the fingers will start to hurt after a while.
Personally I think both sides behaved pretty despicably. The woman from LimeWire for laying into them like that, and Kosuke's behaviour when he found out that they were from LimeWire.
Speaks to the power of Google. I really think they gave HTML5 a big shot in the arm during I/O.
First time I've heard "Binged" used instead of "Googled".

I think the realtime search feature will get them some traction.
The best place to sell domain names online, in my opinion, is http:/sell.your.name

The website is designed for only domain name auctions and the best part is for a limited of time, there is no listing fee and no final value fee.

They are doing very secure domain name transfers between buyer and seller with their subsidiary http:/register.your.name

I would give it a chance at least list my domain name up for auction there. They know what they are doing. 7/24 email support is great.

I have tried all major domain auction websites but they are all looking to earn more. http:/sell.your.name is the cheapest one besides it is the most secure one.

You also have the option to sell your domain name without having to park your domain name. You can also park if you like.

Best .
I agree that Gladwell is pseudo, but Taleb is quite on the money and to me is deeply thoughtful.
My Job is to Influence Behaviour
Alex - I wanted to use Chyrp as an alternative to WordPress last year (before I went back to my own blog system) but, as you may recall, had problems with stability after importing my 15k+ comments. Is this issue resolved now?
Braintree has been good to work with so far. Haven't launched yet, but during the research & dev process they've been great.
Or at least the likelihood that it is luck goes way down. There is still a small statistical chance that somebody could have a crazy winning streak by chance.

Really good point though.
Hey, these are design concepts. Like concept cars they are meant to imagine the future not to be perfect. A concept is like a brainstorming, first you get the ideas. Details follow later.
Fire at their datacenter apparently, they're waiting to be allowed back in by the fire department to initiate the emergency plan. Lets hope its not going to be too long an outage.
I concur, my biggest client has been getting transaction errors for the last hour. Never seen this happen with Auth.net, anyone have an inside source?
that's '05 unless I'm mistaken...
I've heard it before, but I favor "bung" (ring/rung...bing/bung).
Twitter is saying it is a fire -

tjeastmond: Confirmed RT @sfltv: Big power outage at Fisher Plaza in #Seattle due to fire. Teleport and data centers on site are out. #authorize.net

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=authorize.net

Ugg, due to the holiday this is a very slow day for us so it is probably one of the best days of the year for this to happen but it sucks nonetheless
Similar position, except I'm even earlier in the process. Tentatively planning to go with braintree as seemingly the most powerful/flexible gateway and also by far the most up-front about pricing. Should probably talk to the trustcommerce folks, though.
Good find, always nice to see some visual inspiration.

The App called "Spiffing" actually seems pretty useful, I like the really lightweight take on to-do lists.
It's a little like Ahmdahl's Law. Sure, it's really basic and kind of obvious, but it's still worth thinking about from time to time, and it's nice to be able to call it out by giving it its own name.
completely unrelated article from 2006
Entrepreneurs, coders and activists we need you to help reboot banking
I thought that too. I buy that they get thousands of legit users signing up each day, but those numbers are a bit to wild to all be real accounts in my opinion.
What I Learned at EuroPython
Ironically, I tried to get more information from the Fisher Plaza website (http://www.fisherplaza.com/) but it's down - must be hosted at their own facility.
Nice example of how not to do PR.
We use Braintree and they have been very good.
Thx Crux. At least Aristochat is OSS, so you can improve it to your needs ;)
Doesn't argue that "P=?NP" is an ill posed problem, but rather that solving it may not be very important, as the details matter at lot for the implications the result may have. There are a lot of solutions that would settle the problem, without having any influence on the practical state of affairs.

Introduces the term 'SAT' at some point, without explaining what it means. Wikipedia isn't helpful.
URL for the tool in question:

http://www.launchly.com/
Netbooks are 'unusable for anybody doing serious work' too, and yet they've taken off. The trick is to find a niche where something like that is actually good enough. And yeah, they're for show/brainstorming/pushing the boundaries - you're not going to see these on sale next year.
Ask HN: This bot has been pounding my server all night.. anyone else?
Here's a typical gibberish log entry. It's hitting my defunct Facebook app pages:

::ffff:143.248.246.87 www.trailbehind.com - [03/Jul/2009:14:55:58 +0000] "GET /fbtb/\/\/static.ak.fbcdn.net\/rsrc.php\/z9NIS\/lpkg\/1u1t8ygq\/en_US\/141\/161545\/css\/\/css\/text/javascript?fb_sig_in_iframe=1&fb_sig_locale=en_US&fb_sig_in_new_facebook=1&fb_sig_time=1246593830.0314&fb_sig_logged_out_facebook=1&fb_sig_added=0&fb_sig_api_key=f3e4e70471f55dc5c230d9b776c4e598&fb_sig_app_id=29960428979&fb_sig=e06c8de3574a5d0ccdcaadb052d64a82 HTTP/1.0" 200 218 "-" "cancho/Nutch-1.0 (crawl test; http://asdf.net/; asdf@asdf.net)"
I sincerely think the aim of his posts is to please his audience, get attention.

The posts are more and more noisy, pointless and irrelevant. It looks as if he's forcing to write an entry regularly, even when he's got nothing to say.

You can always sum up a post as "X is very bad except when it's not" or "Y is very good except when it's not".
London Stock Exchange to abandon MS Windows
The key change you need to make to the RTS is, when you evaluate a thunk, rather than overwriting it with the final value, instead append the evaluated value to the thunk.

This already happens in GHC.

Any thunk that is to get updated has one word reserved as a slot for the update result. This is necessary for proper operation in SMP systems, when two processors race to evaluate the same thunk. The only data that gets overwritten is the thunk's code pointer. There is one standard routine in the binary, known as the indirection code, which just returns the value in the update slot of the currently active thunk. The thunk's pointer is set to point to the well-known address of the indirection code. In all this, the thunk's payload remains untouched.

GHC's GC short circuits these indirection nodes, and ignores pointers in the thunk payload (since the thunk payload has become effectively unreachable). In order to accomplish your goal, we would have to recover the original value of the code pointer. This can be done by storing a copy of this value in the payload (similar to what you are suggesting). A way to do this without increasing the size of any heap object is for the compiler to generate a copy of the indirection code per thunk code block... such that the original thunk code address can be recovered from the particular indirection code address via a lookup (or potentially, via arithmetic). This bloats the emitted code by a small fraction, but may be worth it.
-Nginx frontend with Python running for web templating

-URL requests are matched with Erlang patterns (and possibly some regexes with Nginx)

-Python/ Erlang bridge done with internal REST Api

-most unstructured data stored in CouchDB

-requests end up in RabbitMQ message queue

-how message queue and rules engine (collection of state machines) match up buyers and sellers is not explained

-how transactions between buyers and sellers are stored by appending to long files is not explained

-how either these long files are spread out to many machines, or how CouchDB is spread out is not explained

Interesting talk, but except for the buzzwords they didn't reveal much of their internals.
How Would You Line Up In A Circle
My dad taught me he wasn't afraid to kick me in the ass (actually) if I stepped out of line (figuratively). It was actually a useful lesson and helped me to reconsider my attitude to others and stop being a dick.
I can attest to how easy it is for even a small company to completely disregard any sort of mechanism for learning from mistakes over time. It goes against the grain of human nature to bring up problems in a useful way in a lot of cases I think.
Perhaps, but pretty much everyone with a voice in the industry has been pro-HTML5 and anti-XHTML2 for some time now.
the Limewire people could have been a little friendlier but how does that justify the artists stealing their entire pizza box ?

he got what he deserved, go write a song about it and then send me the torrent link. If i really like it i'll go buy it, or maybe see you live at a venue where you perform, purchase the drinks and maybe an overpriced tshirt.
Twitter Needs a Spam Filter? No, We Need a Marketer Filter
I have a very hard time believing that 700,000 new people actually sign up to Facebook every day.
You know... if Apple threw another one of their copyright dickyfits almost all of those sites could be faced with nasty letters from their legal department. After-all, most of them have a big whopping pic of an iPhone on their homepage.

Bear in mind, Apple frequently won't allow apps to be published just because they have an icon representing an iPhone and usually cite 'copyright' as the reason for not allowing it.
SAT is the boolean satisfiability problem, a simple NP-complete problem often used to prove the other problems are NP-complete. An instance of SAT is a boolean formula, and the answer to it is yes if and only if the formula can be true for some assignment of variables. 3SAT is the same problem, only with the formula in a conjunctive normal form and each clause having exactly three variables.

Also, it seems the poster is really just trying to get attention. Complexity theorists do know all that and have spent a lot of time trying to see which postulated consequences of P?=NP are necessary and which are not.

(If I were to argue it is an ill-posed question, I'd go more in the direction of CO-NP (which is the set of problems for which "NO" answers have short certificates), and why this really strong emphasys on "yes" certificates for NP problems)

Doron Zeilberger's take on that ( http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion98.html ) is a lot more interesting.

And, also, the "easy" equals "polynomial time" is (a) a good heuristic, if you assume computational power increases exponentially (hence, a problem will be solvable in the foreseeable future if all it needs is polynomially more processing power for larger instances); (b) it is an easy to study class, since it is composable; (c) not the only thing complexity theorists argue about (ie, P=NP means practical bounds for some problems and collapses a lot of classes that are not trivially seen to be equal, like AM and MA)
Combined with finalizers, yes.
The article doesn't seem to indicate that LSE will be dumping windows -just dumping a third-party product that happened to run on windows. It is unclear what platform the new vendor will be using. It is also unclear that the trouble outlined here was the fault of the OS or just a poorly-coded program running on top of it.
It may not be a good idea to shift such unpredictable costs to the compiler/runtime. Your program could potentially become much harder to profile.
Those that receive that currency as pay will find it valuable, as will those who want to provide services to them.
seems nice so far... question though, I just signed up - why do you "require" my date of birth and sex for an expense tracking tool?
nice. I think this sums it all.
The guys who wrote that code were probably thankful they didn't have to write any "enterprise" applications.