skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for an SEO firm prior to my current job, and as such we had access to the pro tools. I do not have a private pro membership, though if someone wishes to bless me with one I certainly can use it.

If you are determined to improve your site's ranking, the pro membership tools are more than worth it IMHO. They provide some solid analysis, and LinkScape is amazing also as a reference. The danger is that this sort of analysis can lead to navel gazing and obsessively reloading the tools.

SEO rankings are like tracking your weight, if you do it everyday the fluctuations can drive you mad.
And I can't tell you how many doomed Death March projects started with this assumption. "The requirements are done, the design is done, we know it can be done, simply copy what we see there."

The boil it down to a cliché, copying what someone else has built is exactly the same problem as rewriting an existing application from scratch, without the benefit of being able to read the source code.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
Determine iPhone orientation using CSS
I did hear Dijkstra speak while I was in undergrad, on some graph algorithms. That was a win.
I think this is b/c the site just launched a few hours ago and they're referring to it in its entirety, not just this article:

http://twitter.com/rem/status/2386349309
Right, but the version meant for you is free. This stuff is for sale to people who are NOT programmers.
Hmm, sorry for the double post, not sure what happened there.
Ask HN: Name my iPhone App (helps dating), receive equity
I'd love to use the wisdom of the crowd to name this iPhone app, which provides contextual pick-up lines. So imagine you are in this bar and see this cute lady. You get up and say what to her? Pull your iPhone, select the context (maybe you know her first name, or the drink she is having, or whatever), and the app returns a bunch of relevant lines. Get up and speak is all you have to do.

Please use the voting system of HN to vote on the names you like. For now we came up with "Cocktail Helper", or more simply "Pickup Lines". The winner will receive a cut of the app's proceeds via FairSoftware's revenue sharing (http://fairsoftware.net/public/project/634)
The Kindle just looks more and more like an intermediate form, like MP3-enabled CD players

More like DRM-crippled players. What's missing is the equivalent of Protools for publishing. Ironic because there's already something like Oasis. LaTex is a bit esoteric for most people. So are most "desktop publishing" offerings. Most word processors don't go far enough. Does Pages have this functionality?

Music is going from a "hits" business to a "long-tail" model. Devices like this can do it for books as well. Software that enables this is going to sell well.
Pretty basic. Anyone who could benefit from a tip such as "don't use Comic Sans" has no business designing a logo.
Those who say password unmasking is retarded have never entered a WPA Wifi password...

Twice.
maybe but a friend of mine has an iPhone 3GS and the other day was telling me by phone about this problem. He is a tech guy and knows it's ok for a device to get a bit hot, but his iPhone was just too hot to be ok.
Rewriting a cross platform browser in C++ is way more difficult than writing something that took a small team 6 months to do. I'm not trying to say that it's a weekend, but have a look at SO. Unless there's something I'm missing, it's not "deep hacking", but more "crank it out" (not to take anything away from that team - they certainly did nice work!). Scaling might be an issue sooner or later, and that would take some more thinking, but the basic thing just doesn't strike me as some Big Hairy Problem.

So, yeah, be wary of "hey, that looks easy!", but don't think things are impossible either.
Veterinary Stem Cells: Why Your Dog Is Getting Better Treatment Than You
You should probably just stick with 'Pickup Lines.' I expect the majority of you app downloads will be found via search, I'd think you'd do better to be logical and obvious.
"how America should get out of its current economic crisis."

Put the bankers in check, put the media conglomerates in check, put the politicians in jail and put everybody else to work.
I can see them taking the publishing side end-to-end. Add stuff to Pages to simplify publishing a book -- all aspects, cover to cover. Become a middleman for offering indexing services. Have an online publishing service that automatically translates your file as an eBook, lets you order ego copes, and also enables bookstores to order it as product.

I know there are services out there, but the physical product is a bit shaky, and they don't have slick software integration with the service. Apple is in a great position for that kind of integration.
The Chicago Tribune has an estimated 541,000 daily
readers. 898,000 on Sunday. Let's use the daily
number to stay on the conservative side.

Daily newsstand price is $1.00.

$1.00 x 541,000 x 365 = $197,465,000

What percent of that number does it take to bring
all those ideas (including stories, columns, ads
and obits) to market?

Let's say 85%. That's $167,845,250.

$197,465,000 - $167,845,250 = $29,619,750

Now make everything digital. Sell the trucks and presses,
layoff all production and delivery personnel. Hire
only digital content creators and use the Amazon Kindle.

Annual subscription per reader: $54.75

At 70/30, the Amazon Kindle subscription would have to
be $182.50 not the $120.00 cited in the article.

I'm not including revenue from advertising (which may not
translate well on the Kindle) but if you owned the Chicago
Tribune or The Dallas Morning News would you agree to the
terms?
Good point about hassle. I think it's one of the reasons why smart card based payment systems have so much potential (for offline).
I've been using mine for about a week and it gets a little warm when playing games, but actually less warm than I remember the iPhone EDGE getting after I'd been using it for an extended clip.

Perhaps there's a problem with some of the phones and not others?
So does the Air France crash. Speaking of which -- could GPS be used as yet another backup device for airspeed? It might have high latency, but it would be better than nothing.
Startup 128: An Interview with Bill Gurley of Benchmark
This post is an email interview with Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital. I sent Bill 10 questions on what he looks for in his investments, the people he backs, the state of the venture capital business and why Benchmark invested in Twitter. Enjoy.
Free content is never free to all
This post is an email interview with Bill Gurley of Benchmark Capital. I sent Bill 10 questions on what he looks for in his investments, the people he backs, the state of the venture capital business and why Benchmark invested in Twitter. Enjoy.
"The possibility of harm to living subjects is one of the important factors to be considered when exercising editorial judgment."

Thanks for pointing directly to Wikipedia's stated editorial policies. That makes clear how Wikipedia had already announced it would resolve such trade-offs.
"Come Here Often?"
How about a site for Daytime Soap Operas from Spain?

day.rubytu.es
the app store searches more than the title [searches description also]
I concur with the recommendation of the Art of Problem Solving website for all ages of problem-solvers. That's where I first took up the screen name I also use here on HN.
It's a decision tree. With a moral angle. Sorry, but he should be fined for wasting the patent examiners time.

I tend to screw these things up, since IANAL, but this reminds me of Re vs. Bilski, in that all he did is take a couple of pre-existing ideas, threw them together, and added the words "in a video game".
Get your own cloud server instance running in 15 minutes
EngageHer
I have students of second-grade age who have been learning to solve systems of two linear equations in two unknowns (with arbitrary coefficients in each equation). I hear from some schoolteachers that it is "impossible" to teach algebra to students before eighth-grade age, but I have definitely proved that wrong multiple times in my own experience.
Will Larry Ellison eat his words on cloud computing?
Scientists create first electronic quantum processor
Server Density: Keep a Finger on the Pulse of Your Servers (Useful Tools Review)
Perhaps. I'm not a fan of any recent administration or the Times but that argument strikes me even more ironic considering that the Times' ethics (as presented on and off the editorial page) has always been in favor of violating the rights/security of individuals in favor of "groups."
The metro crash may also exemplify an ATO system with a single point of failure, or poor maintenance, or poor training, or many other things. I am disappointed that no articles I've read about this crash have discussed the actual systems beyond them containing track circuits.
I think the intentional lack of resolution in civilian GPS is in part because it is not intended to be an air navigation back-up system.
UPDATE: Pogby Renewed
So you mean to say only Americans build FOSS?
You know those sites that have top-ten stuff, or lists of images or sections of content that sometimes we just want to go one after the other without having to scroll exactly to the next one? (smashing magazine comes to mind)

Well, wouldn't it be good if modern browsers could skip to the next section with the press of the spacebar instead of having to scroll manually?

Like adding an attribute to the new <section scroll="stop|flow"> tag in html5
Am I the only one who finds it a bit disturbing that editors can just call a few buddies and a piece of information doesn't get published? All the conspiracy theories seem a bit more likely now...
Does anybody else find this embedded document format as annoying as I do? This makes navigating with the mouse wheel extremely difficult.
After long sessions of UniWar my EDGE would get super hot.

Have not noticed the same with my 3GS.
doesn't everybody else just copy-paste those?
For wordpress.com you must have a paid account to do a lot of layout customization

And I think WordPress's free defaults have not been helpful to the site of one organization I care about, where, alas, I am not the main webmaster. To make a site user-friendly (or staff-friendly, if there is staff-contributed content) takes usability study on the part of the webmaster, especially if the site is intended to promote a business with paying clients.
Lip Balm.
I stopped answering questions on SO after Mr Atwood himself decide to delete three of my replies.

Call me stupid, but I though the SO down vote button was designed to do the message filtering and not Mr Atwood super SO user ID.
Rewriting a browser isn't impossible either, as Firefox proves. Perhaps SO is an order of magnitude easier than a browser, but I stand by my suggestion that copying an existing application you didn't actually write is often much more difficult than expected and has led many teams to their doom.
Exploratory Engineering: Applying the predictive power of science to future tech
Nothing to waste: The advantage of being under-funded
Toyota develops technology for brain waves to steer wheelchair
Nokia N97 Themes : 5530 Red Theme
I doubt the model of online advertisement as the model of the future. Also, I have not clicked on any facebook ads, linkedin ads, or ads on google mail as long as i can remember. The only time i click the ads is when I'm actively searching for a product on Google.
Do you click on ads just for the sake of it?
Giving up my iPod for a Walkman
Excellent!
Technically, it can be related to most of the greedy banking (Financial Services) establishment.
My comparison was "writing something from scratch" vs "copying". If a team has trouble with copying, wouldn't "writing it from scratch" be even more likely to end in failure?

Also, with something like SO - you can pretty much see the models, and how they interact. That's already giving you a lot.
You don't have to pump any water in conventional locks - you rely on having a source of water (lake) higher than the top lock.

The wheel is quicker than a series of locks (not important for leisure use) more expensive to build but it's probably cheaper to maintain than 20 locks.
sounds like a great name for a follow-up app!
Microsoft reminds us that Windows is f*cking expensive
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These ventures wouldn't have happened at all without his work. Without him, the producers and distributors would have $0 (extra). With him, they get > $0. So if he can find a way to put more cash in their pocket, I don't see why he can't charge whatever he wants. He also says it takes 3 - 5 years to really get into it, so it sounds like it takes significant work and experience to connect these companies.
I think a better solution would be to allow elevating a page to non-anonymous users only. That way when situations like this arise, they can make a page "user only" and create a line of communication with the person on the other end.
The German system (What SKorea and Japan took as blueprint to design theirs) goes like this. After High School you do 1 of 2 things (doing none is not accepted from society, well it happens, but is seen as fail): you either do prolonged High, which means you qualify for studying at University (wich is dirt cheap) or you take the route of learning what we call a profession (It's different word usage from US). What this means is, you work 3 years in an industry as apprentice (almost full-time). That's how the talk goes: "What do you do?" "I am making an apprenticeship". In parallel you go to "professional school" to learn some theoretical stuff. That is the basic qualification everyone has over here. You can upgrade by going to college or making a "Master", again different meaning from US usage. Or you can just stay that way. But basically everyone has a basic qualification and a home industry. This has produced a quality workforce (so far).
How do I take a U.S. e-commerce site to Canada & overseas?
Hey folks,

I'm starting to think about expanding my e-commerce site to Canada, and eventually Europe.

I know zilch about what's involved in taking a site to Canada. Can I get away with only supporting US currency? What kinds of legal issues are there?

Any tips/resources from those who have been here before are greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Andrew
Something is proprietary if it belongs to someone (Latin "proprius" - "one's own"), as opposed to being publicly shared.

Legally, for the the item discussed in the article to belong specifically and exclusively to Microsoft, it would need to be a patentable invention or a copyrightable work or a protectable trade secret.

Being first matters with patents but patent law almost certainly wouldn't apply to the solution described in the article.

Copyright protects original works of authorship when they have been reduced to a tangible medium of expression. It can give proprietary rights (i.e., ownership) to specific code but never to an idea or an approach to a technical solution. Being first is necessary with respect to particular code (it has to be original) but does not otherwise affect the issue. It is open season on any approach to the solution, and who is first does not matter. With respect to any particular code that is original and otherwise protectable by copyright, however, copyright would give a particular party the right to control the code itself even if such code becomes openly available for all to see.

Trade secret protection extends to proprietary information that is kept secret and that gives someone a significant competitive advantage. Being first is irrelevant here as well. Of course, something that is open for all to see is not protectable as a trade secret unless it were illegally disclosed by unauthorized means.

For the solution discussed in the article, only copyright might theoretically apply to protect any code used, provided it is original.
Kindle2
At 10.2 ounces, Kindle is lighter than a typical paperback and as thin as most magazines. Barely a third of an inch in profile, you'll find Kindle fits perfectly in your hands. Kindle is as easy to hold and use as a book. We designed it with long-form reading in mind. When reading for long periods of time, people naturally shift positions and often like to read with one hand. Kindle's page-turning buttons are located on both sides, allowing you to read and turn pages comfortably with one hand from any position. The page-turn buttons now flex inward to prevent any accidental page turns when picking up or handling Kindle. Kindle has a new easy-to-use 5-way controller, enabling precise on-screen navigation for selecting text to highlight or looking up words. Kindle is completely wireless and ready to use right out of the box--no setup, no cables, no computer required. With Kindle's 25% longer battery life, you can read on a single charge for up to 4 days with wireless on. Turn wireless off and read for up to 2 weeks. Battery life will vary based on wireless usage, such as shopping the Kindle Store and downloading content. In low coverage areas or in 1xRTT only coverage, wireless usage will consume battery power more quickly. Whispernet utilizes Amazon's optimized technology plus Sprint's national high-speed (3G) data network to enable you to wirelessly search, discover, and download content on the go. Your books and periodicals are delivered via Whispernet in less than 60 seconds. And unlike WiFi, you never have to hunt for a hotspot.
Also annoying is that posting a link to HN from scribd, when the actual primary source is Rolling Stone, makes it difficult for people scanning headlines on HN to know how authoritative the source is. Items posted to scribd could be from anyone, and it would be better to know that an edited, journalistic source is such a professional source at first glance.
"But if we in the blogosphere can censor what we don’t like why can’t the Government censor what it doesn’t like?"

Uh, try the first amendment?
This.

Forms online are where the rubber really meets the road in terms of online usability. It is a place where you have to make a really strong case aesthetics-wise to start showing users something unfamiliar. (Not saying that the case can't be made, just that it's a hard sell to usability-centered designers like me.)
I think you missed Mr. Gladwell's point... if we extend his reasoning, books do not cost money because they require paper (fuel). Books cost money because of the complex infrastructure required to find, edit, print, assemble and distribute them!
"For years, rumors of an Apple touch-screen media tablet have circulated, despite a now famous quote by Steve Jobs: "It doesn't matter how good or bad [the Kindle] is, the fact is that people don't read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the United States read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don't read anymore."

For Jobs-watchers, this was a clear indication that he must be planning an e-reader, for Apple's grand poobah is the master of the red herring. In the past, he downplayed video on the iPod, insisting that no one would watch a movie on a 2-inch screen; denied that Apple was working on a phone; and claimed that anything less than a full-featured laptop wasn't in the cards -- until last year's release of the MacBook Air. When Jobs goes to the trouble of criticizing a competitor's products, downplays its significance, or offers a blanket statement about not pursuing a certain market, that's when he often goes in for the kill."

Gotta love that guy!
this is my understanding. the other states do exist, just not in our universe.
So, maybe the 'alpha' is automatically the person with the most allies in a time of conflict.
And shush up about it until you have something to show, less you fall victim to this phenomenon http://sivers.org/zipit
I actually thought the story hinted at the opposite: that individual programmers who from the outside may look like slackers can produce good, simple code and that process isn't everything.
The truth is to be cherished and protected. I don't like the cavalier attitude toward lying in this article and others. Not speaking the truth harms everyone involved. If a principal cannot be demonstrated without lying, then someone needs to work on their communication skills.
So when my quantum computer is slow, does it mean that most of the alternate versions of myself are playing Cryis instead of working? :)

The idea of solving a problem too big to be solved in one universe is really crazy, it reminds my of Asimov's "The Last Question".
GPS coupled with a laser gyroscope can provide data at KHz frequencies.
Not to hate on this guy's library, but...is there anything there that's not already implemented in jQuery UI?

Also, it would be a bit 'cleaner' for the dialog boxes with an input to have their own method, instead of having to pass HTML strings to the alert method.
HN: Like playing Mancala? Review my new site. It is a side project.
The RIAA: 35,000 letters and lawsuits since 2003..
Start-Ups Could Sell Their Shares On Private Stock Exchanges
Since people seemed to like this non-Flash Go game ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=678145 ) I thought I would try and see if I could get any reviews for my side project Mancala Time. I'll admit I submitted this (in a very early form) about 3 months ago but no one made any comments. Thanks.
You appear to be spamming guidesigner.net links, beginning five days ago. A few have garnered several upvotes, but now I'm seeing 4 of your items in the top 30 "new" items, none remarkable. You've made no comments.
No, "Lines of code" is not a meaningless metric. I recently had to take over an existing code base for a module in our system and upgrade it to support the next version of our system's ICD. After spending some time trying to wrap my head around the existing 8800 lines of code, I concluded that it would be better to do a complete rewrite. The rewrite took a week or two and ended with 1950 lines of code that did essentially the same thing!

Now, if we make the reasonable assumption that my rewrite was not a candidate for the IOCCC or Perl Golf, I think it's pretty clear that lines of code is not meaningless. A >75% code reduction while maintaining the same functionality under reasonable development conditions is almost always going to make it easier to test, debug, and maintain the system/module. (This assumption isn't unsubstantiated either. In a code review, I was even complimented on the quality of my documentation.)

You hear about these kinds of vast disparities among software developers all the time, but I still find myself shaking my head that I actually saw it in real life. Now I'll freely admit that "lines of code" is mostly meaningless the way it is usually used. But don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
ZigBee develops wireless standard to power devices without batteries
Roundtrip SFO->MEM is ~$500. In comparison to the costs of a liver transplant it is miniscule (even if you go 6x). Most middle income people could do the same thing if they:

A) have savings
and
B) think the situation demands it

Supplemental insurance companies could also probably cater to this need.
The internet handled it fine. Certain websites didn't. An automatic scaling system using something like Amazon Web Services and a lot of varnish caches would have handled this fine. Unfortunately certain blogging platforms decide to have dozens of queries per page which really slows things down.
It does, but the one with the matching title shows up first.
Cryptographic Problem Solved (IBM and "fully homomorphic encryption")
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