skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Online Ad Recession Continues. Is This What A Reset Looks Like?
no, I thought about it. It's not a conclusion, its a supporting comment. Think what gives your brain the most exercise, remembering the 15th decimal place of PI or working out in your head how much extra light enters an aperture when you increase the radius by 20%.
bit.lky I hope that spelling was intentional. :)
I'm no expert, but my understanding is a little different. Its not that energy "has" mass but that energy and mass are two different forms of the same thing, i.e. they are equivalent. If some process is able to convert mass to energy then you could find out much mass you'd get but multiplying the energy by c^2 (hence E = mc^2).
Not anymore - the 13" unibody became a "Pro" after the recent refresh.
Nice trick to get around the double submission lock...
Have you ever heard how bitly works? It is really "over engineered" on purpose to be in a completely different category from other shorteners.
"but geez, Apple has a longtime to go before it can compare itself to Microsoft."

According to Google Finance, in the last available quarterly results for each company Microsoft had about $13B revenue with $3B net income, Apple had about $8.3B revenue with $1.3B net income. And Apple has been growing faster (Microsoft's income went down year over year last quarter, for the first time in their history I believe). So, yes, I think you can compare them. Microsoft is still bigger with more profits, but with Apple growing faster you can make a case it is the better stock to own.
I know that on HN a majority are on Mac or Linux, but Windows is still a big platform. But yes, we know it's a major problem and it will be fixed very, very soon.
nope, I skimmed and got the impression that it was making the point that people don't distinguish between offloading knowledge and offloading responsibility for how the knowledge is used. To jump from a few examples of that to the headline is too big to swallow. thus my quip.

I've read up on debates about this subject before, and there are far better arguments on both sides than this article presents.
Threat to shut down Skype
Vista doesn't have nearly the security problems of the XP and before systems. Things like not running as root and integrity levels changed the security landscape. In addition, I believe that in between XP and Vista they rewrote much of the internal code to be more secure.
This "sounds cool" at first - but when you think about it (assuming it's possible) the overlap between developers and users would probably drive users crazy.I'm tempted to say that users don't want to "edit" the operating system....but that would be a bad assumption - who knows what users want.

You would probably have to set this up so there is a some kind of demarcation between people who want the "role" of user or developer .. and the intermediate roles. You need to be able to use it simply without wanting to edit it.

Also, if it's "WikiOs" - why the fu do I need Windows?
GM + Men's Wearhouse = Tootsie Roll
The concept is good, but I believe it needs more work. IMHO the website's 'purpose' does not come out very well on the front page. (It does after you read a bit, but not in the critical first 10 seconds).

The call to action (simply to drag a bookmark), needs to be moved to the left, as people can have the browser window reduced.

I am not sure about the color scheme, it is unusual, but I would have given it a bit more of a 'food look'.

Some of the buttons (i.e add your own comments do not work).

A ratings button could bring some more interaction as well as some form of categorization.

Good luck with it.
If by "just" you mean years ago, sure.

I spent some time last year writing an advanced data analysis plugin for it, but abandoned it when I lost the need for it. Would anyone be interested in a Hex Fiend 010-editor-style data overlaying plugin?
There is no reason why you can't implement a C# compiler which uses the same compiler "tricks" as Java. In fact, someone has: http://www2.mainsoft.com/content/port-net-apps-java-ee (I've never used that software and can't say if it really works as promised, but I don't see why not)

Which side of the fence the compiler/runtime fence any given feature fails on is probably more a function of (human) resource pooling on the Microsoft managed languages teams than any technical constraints.
Not word salad, but brilliant free verse poetry.

http://mashable.com/2009/07/29/shatner-palin-conan/
You're going to have minor problems with all major Linux distros. The trackpad works in Ubuntu, but it requires editing a few configuration files.

Sad, yes, but that's how things are.
Google is an extension to my brain, which is running out of storage.
Well, one was a random submission from someone else, the other is a Ask HN for advice from the author.

That doesn't sound like abuse to me :-)
Did you watch the talk? That was clear from the theme.
There's one MS higher-up who I could see actually pulling it off: J Allard. If the future of Windows were a tenth as innovative as the XBox division or even Zune, MS could probably swing a turnaround like Palm is in the middle of.

In fact, I'm calling it now: Allard's going to be CEO of MSFT before 2020. Maybe before 2015. You heard it here first.
Fix major problems first (yes, this really IS a major problem), THEN re-submit. For the third time.
No arguments there. But the rate at which C# is changing, what is stopping Microsoft from adding yet new features and breaking compatibility with previous language/VMs?
Industrial design of that age was simply beautiful. The use of curves and swept lines you see from that era is really poetic.

I believe a lot of it was informed by our fascination with space and rocket technology. Check out this hoover vac from the 50's, it actually used the air pressure to create pocket of air on which it hovered (on smooth surfaces)

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ol-images/la/uploads/55hoove...
4% globally could be right. Keep in mind that retail is just one slice of the pie. PCs dominate overwhelmingly in the enterprise.
Did anyone read the article?

'Ballmer noted the large number of Apple machines in the crowd as he spoke, saying the Windows maker has a "low share" in the investor audience.

"I can see the Apple logos versus the PC logos," Ballmer told the crowd. "So we have more work to do, more work to do. Our share is lower in this audience than the average audience. But don't hide it. I've already counted them. I have been doing that since we started talking."'

Sorry to single you out with this reply, because there are a few posts suggesting Ballmer does not realize that there are places, professions, and industries where Macs are prominent. This quote shows that Ballmer is more than aware of this fact.
Since the Vista-esque frames around the windows are proprietary content you'll need to redo them before deployment unless you're fond of Microsoft lawsuits.
That may be bad for their bottom line, but it has no bearing on market share.
This possibly isn't the right place to offer this information but ... I let your video run for about ten seconds and then turned it off. The characterisation stuff just ... just no. I wanted to see the product.

I am, however, -extremely- aware that I Am Not Your Target Market and that the story-oriented style can work perfectly well. But if the video is going to aim for a marcomms style then it'd be nice if you built out the explanation stuff a bit more. And made it work with ctrl+click rather than being javascript silliness only.

</grumpy-old-school-unix-head>
I like the idea. I can't try it under Linux (even though it's .NET based? can it run on Mono?) So I'll just give you a few thoughts.

Security? If changes to apps are "instantly propagated to other users", what's to stop me from editing an app so that it grabs another user's personal data when they next run it? You probably want a model more like Github where anyone can fork and pull, but not push to other users.

YouOS was YC-funded and failed, right? Why did they fail and how are you going to do better?
Cloud will make servers obsolete
Freelance web development (not much) and corporate training (might sometimes make more than my day job). This is in India where service companies abound and they have high training budgets.
Touchscreen CrunchPad due in November, but price has crept up to $400
They're easy to ignore because they're in the minority. The vast majority of computer buyers don't care at all about that stuff.
I'm in no position to judge the evidence, but I'm glad to see that Elaine Morgan is still at it.
Introducing The AlleyPad (Silicon Alley Insider's answer to the Crunchpad)
There's no reason someone couldn't develop a dead-simple label-printing app for this. In software and in markets, loose coupling is a Good Thing.
C is used for low level libraries for it's lean and mean performance. It sacrifices checks and safety features for this, and allows the programmer full control. Do you see professional race cars with ABS and Automatic Stabilization? No, you give the Driver FULL and TOTAL control, same with C and other low level languages. C has only a few data types that are as basic as you can get, I mean what do you expect use something like STL strings?

If you start having type checking and various other easy-to-code and child-safety features, you are bloating and giving up performance in the low level libraries, if this happens imagine what the performance on the higher up application level would be.
You can tell it's still early in development, but even now it works better than Linux!

(ducks)
I didn't say it was abuse, just a nice trick. I was wondering why he didn't put the link in the submission at first.
too bad. hopefully the price will creep back down if its popular, but its cheaper just to get a netbook at this price point.

i was very interested in a $200 model. much less interested in a $400 one.
Since January 2000 when he became CEO of M$, the stock went from $60 to $20 the first year, then flatlined for the next decade.

Ballmer is the only problem in M$, the worst CEO ever, and I will be very happy the day he steps down.
Ugh, this is close to being a troll post. Yes C has its weaknesses and domains appropriate to it's use. But sentences like

"Lacking a strong and expressive type system, C not only permits but encourages its programmers to sacrifice correctness, safety, robustness, testability, and maintainability in favor of some highly underdeveloped and ill-measured ideas about “performance”. Much of the infrastructure of the Internet is built out of this garbage."

and especially words like "garbage" only exposes the author as someone who doesn't know what he is writing about. (ok i could have used the shorter word "fool" here, but ..).

The "infrastructure of the internet" (including the underlying operating systems) is one of the domains in which C shines.

There is good reason that even today, large chunks of "infrastructure" code is written in C/C++.

"anybody who considers C for high-level application development at this point in history, is in a grievous state of sin"

With "high level" being conveniently undefined and without any examples, that statement means next to nothing.

What a terrible, ill thought out article.
The C# standards only mentions C/C++ and not Java?!

>>Indeed C# borrowed a considerable portion of its syntax and keywords from C and C++. I suppose the same is true for Java as well.

It seems really weird to me when you sound like C# was an independent development? I'm not an expert on either, but...

Didn't Microsoft even try some (/a few?) Java-clone before C#? And then we have that "embrace and extend Java" thing Microsoft tried first.

Is the ... hrm, inspiration... from Java in C# "the love that dare not speak its name"? :-)
I hate the idea of defending misunderstood analogies, so I'll limit myself here and simply say that a memorable domain is worth more than an obscure one because of the traffic it draws simply by being memorable.

Maybe a better analogy is branding. A better brand can charge more simply because of the public perception with no change to the service value provided.

If pepsi completely ceased selling all physical products and put up for sale the right to use the "pepsi" name, you better believe the bidding would be higher for that name than for "pepsa."

"But," you say, "pepsi spent years building the pepsi name." True, but consider this: abc spent years being the first three letters of the alphabet and weqporjeqwroq spent forever being nothing.

As an aside, please don't bring this "holier than thou"
attitude around this forum. It's a leak in your character
and benefits zero readers.
do those people get to keep more equity?
"For example, professional cooks don't use consumer grade safe knifes, they use hardcore deadly knives for their performance."

They also wear cut-resistant gloves.
Without a UI which absolutely nails the execution, it won't matter at all how great the technology is.
The full message that he left was:

“US foreign policy is akin to government-sponsored terrorism these days . . . It was not a mistake that there was a huge security stand down on September 11 last year . . . I am SOLO. I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels . . .”

In context, it seems less sinister, more stupid / self-important.
I have a plastic, black, 13" Macbook, and the quality is much, much higher than any Inspiron or Latitude that I've ever owned. The case is visibly seamless, and the system doesn't rattle if I shake it. The little touches like a battery-level indicator on the battery, and the MagSafe adapter, are also rather nice, as is not having a laptop that looks like it was designed to appeal to ten-year-olds.

If you want a PC manufacturer that's comparable, look to Lenovo, not Dell.
I personally prefer the "automatically strip unnecessary whitespace from the file when you save" approach, but this is an interesting feature nonetheless.
One thing this guy doesn't mention, that I would think relevant to the discussion: Every language currently used by more than 4 people has a notion of FFI via C. This is nice as it allows for the old "profile it and write the slow bits in C" type programming. I particularly like that style of programming, because in the end, you only need to do C style intensity for a small bit of code. Over time, the number of these small, but useful bits accumulates, and the result is a decent, bottom up style library, without the pain of having started in C. (It also helps avoid the cruft...).
I hate those things too but why do we care if you do? Maybe provide some substance and stop whining about groupthink?
heh, just did a ninja edit and replaced with the race car analogy after realizing that. HN comments need to be ACID
I had a similar thought. A bride and groom upload a video resulting in 10 million views... and someone else who wrote a song a year ago makes money off of it.

Clearly the copyright of the songwriter should be respected, but it seems to me the real value was the video itself. I know essentially nothing of copyright law, isn't there something covering "derivative works"? Would that have any application here?

Further, does knowingly leaving this 'infringing' video up and pulling revenue from it give some sort of implicit acceptance to the next person to use the song without permission?
Wow! Awesome examples! I wish I had your ideas during the writing of this article! Thanks so much for sharing!
Ask HN: All about having/finding partner/cofounder
First, little background about myself. I have been listening to HN community for some time now. I've come to love this community, it's spirit, contribution and great advice from entrepreneurs of all levels. Having 7-8 years of developing mostly enterprise web applications, I have realized that I should combine my drive, my proactive nature with my recent passion to create something of value. I should take risk, work for myself. Greater the risks, greater the rewards (I'm not leaving my day job any sooner, yet). I have a few ideas (I'm constantly thinking about new ones). I'm going to pick one (which I think has great potential in terms of creating value and viable business) and implement it. But I don't have any partner, yet. I have found a few like-minded people, mostly at work. They share my dream about being an entrepreneur and have shown some interest in partnering with me.

So my questions to you is all about having/finding partners/co-founders -

1) Why? - Everyone from Richard White in Entrepreneur's manual to many HN members strongly advice on getting a partner. Why is it so important to have a partner in your opinion? Can we do without having to have a partner at all?

2) Who? - Whom do you prefer to choose as a partner? What traits/characteristics/unique value propositions do you look in prospective partners? Should they be close friends or complete strangers would do? Do they have to bring something unique value to the table or it's ok if they are not much different than you? How do you know a person is a right partner ("your partner shares the same dream as you and likes you idea" is implicit here). In general, all advice about 'finding a right partner' is welcome.

3) How to decide terms of partnership? - How do you decide to split profits (if any, ever) between partners? How to decide the percentage of partnership? Does have to be equally split always? Of course not, but then what is the basis of deciding the percentage? Why would my partner be ready to accept anything less than 50%?

4) Can you please share you personal story about finding partners? I know there is no silver bullet. Each story is unique and cannot be applied to other situation as it is. But I always find personal stories inspirational and insightful, if I keep my eyes open.

Sorry for such a long question. And it demands even longer answers. I know you guys are all very busy. But I guess many budding entrepreneurs may have these questions. I'm hoping, in the good spirit of our HN community, all you experts would shade some light on these questions.

Thanks a lot in advance for your feedback and advice.
I definitely think that there's space for both Bitsybox and CushyCMS, but it would be interesting to hear you talk about the differences.
I'm well willing to put some time into looking at what you've built but if I have to go through the trouble of installing a VM for it then you're out of luck :)

It looks good on the video though, and the few bits of screenshot also look pretty slick.

Did you notice the EyeOS link posted by ErrantX earlier today ? How does what you are doing compare to that ?
who gets to define "use"?

personally i am vehemently opposed to this sort of socialist way of thinking...
I really messed that one up.

IBM senior management regarded the desktop PC manufactured by its own Boca Raton division as a toy.

What IBM missed (with all its big-systems hubris) was the competitive threat that arose when it gave Intel and Microsoft a vehicle by which to seize the future of mass computing when they got to supply the key inner parts for the PC.

"Wintel" was intended as a shorthand reference to the Intel/Microsoft teaming but it was obviously a poorly chosen term to refer to the early 1980s era, when Windows didn't even exist.
Smart Meter Worm Could Spread Like Deadly Virus
Some people seem to have a way to express their disagreement with the 'down' vote instead of saying what is on their minds. It comes with the territory it seems.
Ironically, the article referenced by the author does not blame the C language for this problem. Instead, it blames the CA for issuing the certificates in the first place:

"Marlinspike said since there is no legitimate reason for a null character to be in a domain name, it’s a mystery why Certificate Authorities accept them in a name."
How to create a simple MVC framework in PHP
Today we will create an MVC framework in PHP. This will be very simple but will allow us to understand how this works.
"Are you really trying to create a high throughput electron microscopy workflow?"

Yes. We've increased acquisition rates by a factor of ~15-20x over what is available using commercially available TEM systems. We now have tens of terabytes of image data in the can, and when I'm not reading HN (argh!) I'm working on collating & analyzing these data.

Light level microscopy preceded embedding of the material for EM, the anatomy is correlated between the two modalities, and the sample preparation method (this is of mouse brain) is by perfusion with an aldehyde mixture, so there is essentially no deterioration of the ultrastructure.

So, I wonder what you do -- no home page in your profile -- but I do remember what it's like to make a living. I like biology better. :)
As has been nearly every major scientific discovery since they very dawn of science itself.
Military May Ban Twitter, Facebook as Security ‘Headaches’
I think it is a mistake to assume you extrapolate the entire online ad industry based on revenues of the four big ad networks.

It could just be that advertisers are spending more directly with publishers rather than on AdWords
Amazon supposedly has an amazing experiments system. Someone can launch an experimental feature, and if it succeeds, it gradually becomes the default.

Having your users vote is definitely the best way to make decisions. Lately, when my cofounder and I disagree, I say "let's build both versions and ask our users which one they like best." (in most cases, the differences are trivial enough to make this feasible).
That's good feedback. As far as the video goes, we used to have only the developer stuff in it. Then the non-technical people didn't get a word of it. So we decided to add the first minute to explain the problem we're trying to solve.

With the JS overlays -- when we launch the real website (in the next couple of months) it won't use those -- it's just a normal, click as you go, website. Also, we'll very likely split the video back into two, one for developers, one for site owners.
Btw, AAPL went from $80 to $160 in just a quarter.

I guess Ballmer is banging his head against a monitor showing a Win7 screensaver for missing that opportunity to double his wealth.
I don't believe the your notions of objective and subjective confidence really stand up too well. I think you'll find that the more you try to define the exact difference between them the more it will fade away. Perhaps it is a philosophical question. Similarly the only reason to look at measuring the length of a rope as 'objective' versus the combination of the many measurements that make up the supporting evidence for special relativity is because the former is subjectively (intuitively) simpler. .

However the main point is that probabilities are required for decision making. Whether you like it or not, any statement must be interpreted probabilistically to be incorporated into decision making. You need to multiply the probability by the risk/reward differential to have basis to work things out. You do this internally without realising it. 'What are the chances that this movie will be good versus the cost of going to see it'. Exaggerated statements can hurt people's decision making capabilities. That is why I oppose them.

You need to replace the Booleans in some of your mental constructs with fractions.
I wish this article'd gotten a little more love around here. "I could write a script to do it in like 20 seconds" is a common thematic refrain around these parts when talking about adding new functionality or launching a site, and this article does a great job of breaking down most of the arguments for that sort of "I'll just..." thinking.