skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have read more than one technical description of how they are in fact front running, one may have been on (or linked from) market-ticker.denninger.net.

We know they have access to a special tier, we know they have this real time software, and we know they have unprecedented profit records (not just in $, but in successful days). Do you think maybe something funny is going on?
Windows 7 review - Gizmodo
That is a horrible name.
Deciphering Windows 7 Upgrades: The Official Chart
Last week I wrote a sitemonitoring Android application
this is an interesting ethics question.

if you never click on ads, then why not disable them?
"Redditors How Do We Avoid Becoming Another Digg" Has reddit already failed?
The behavior behind the need for your checks is something that irks me. Because you can send one-off thoughts via email many people assume that all emails are just one-offs.
It works in Opera. Very nicely. A bit of stuttering but overall a great presentation.

I think really what you have here Paul is an illustration of why javascript is the future, more than flash, more than silverlight. As browsers get faster and engines get faster, the web will move more toward js than anything else. It's a standard technology.

Very nice work.
The overwhelmingly vast majority of Goldman's profits this year have come from market making. Spreads are wide and other banks have been taking down risk. Goldman's profits this year have nothing to do with stat arb or HFT.
So where do you think the news aggregators are aggregating their news from?
and people stopped reading their lies and the world became a better place.
If I remember correctly, there was much hype before Vista was released two, but it in real world usage, it soon slowed down a perfectly good computer within 1-2 months. I hope this is not the case with Windows 7 too.
It also screens out people who read the ad and don't want to be bothered with your silly games.
I'm not going to suggest that pay walls are the best option for the newspapers. They probably aren't.

However, I do hope that, over time, people get more used to paying for things online. I think that a culture of paying for goods and services will promote a higher level of quality on the web.

TV is a great example. The ad-supported networks tend to milk TV shows for money long past their prime, while stations like HBO can insist on higher quality programming because that's what their customers pay for. I would bet that if there were a news network that didn't rely on advertising, it wouldn't be nearly as sensationalistic as the ad-supported ones and you wouldn't hear lines like, "a common household substance that can kill you on contact... tune in at 11."

Pay walls may turn out to be bad for the ailing newspapers, but I think it would be good for the web, in the long term.
New York Times isn't owned by News Corp, New York Post is.

Incidentally, nytimes.com is the second most submitted domain on HN (http://top.searchyc.com/domains)
It is only a winner if a U.S. court would ultimately conclude that the UK courts had proper jurisdiction over the defendants. No proper jurisdiction = no enforceable judgment (at least outside the UK).
Ask HN: my first open src. how do I choose a license?
Hey HN,

I've just written a simple as3 value object generator that allows you to transfer typed objects with amfphp. This was already available in Flex (see: weborb, among others), but I was unable to find a decent solution for pure as3.

So over a few days I wrote a few scripts that take a db and generate value objects from its tables, as well as service layers to do simple crud like Save, Query, QueryCollection etc.

I started the project hosting on google but realized i hadn't thought about a license type. Any suggestions?
Yes, but it's a benchmark of the hardware environment. This is more than anything else a test of resource allocation latency. The poster posits that EC2 can get the boxes working faster and get you your answers sooner.

But the result here is that the benchmark will complete with "high probability" within about 6.5 minutes on EC2 for a task that only takes 15 minutes to run on your desktop CPU. That model is wildly overestimating the impact of latency on the computation cost.
It's not completely lost. If you delete the content you fill in, the label returns.
"If you whine about being rejected by VCs, odds are you bought into the " OMFG I NEED TO RAISE CAPITAL LIKE THE COOL TWITTER DIGG KIDS", when in actual reality you don't."

That's pretty hyperbolic.

There are countless scenarios where a company simply cannot get built with outside capital. Some problems need bigger teams or more time. Some teams don't have salesfolks (and need 'em). Some teams don't have deep pools of savings or require a higher-than-ramen burn rate to get to market.

And there is a BIG gap between having some "trial customers" and having a company that can afford minimal paychecks. Any way you slice it, you need money. If you don't have the cash or don't have the testicular fortitude to dump your life savings into your business, you have to get it from somewhere else. I'm not saying that some people don't mistakenly pursue VC when they shouldn't. I'm saying that you shouldn't paint it with as broad a brush as you have.

As a very concrete/personal example, RescueTime would simply not have survived without VCs (who have been awesome to work with, by the way).
well written and in-depth shape-er of mobile app thinking. the logic seems obvious after-the-fact, but i still appreciate the explicit categorization.
Let's not bring the reddit memes to HN.
"If you're coming from a Mac, you'll—-hahahahaha. But seriously, even the Mactards will have to tone down their nasal David Spadian snide, at least a little bit."

For a second there I thought it was going to be a serious article.
Well, yes. :)
Actually, I thought of Wedding Crashers. But I digress.
Q&A with Jivox CEO Diaz Nesamoney
Because you can't know that you'll never ever click on the ads for sure. The ads change, and people change too.
Twitter sued over patens
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10th largest site MySpace announces microformats support
There is also an urban myth about some entrance exam for Police/Army/Pilots etc where the instructions say read all the questions first. And the last question says, do not answer any questions just 'do some arbitrary thing' - to check wether you follow instructions properly.

I have actually experienced this kind of test. in my case, it was coupled with telling the test participants that they only have a short amount of time to complete the test, thus making it even more likely that the test participants would start answering questions immediately rather than following instructions to the letter.

Particularly when this extra time limit trick may be used, I'm not sure what value the test really had. Supposedly, even the police and armed forces are looking for people with initiative who can think creatively and not just mindless automatons who follow orders without question. This kind of test would not seem to align with that goal.
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In fact, it could be quite useful. I pay for a seedbox for my torrent downloading, and it would be great to be able to pay to have a hard drive from the seedbox shipped to me when I fill it up.
Why would you hope for war and bombings in someone else's country? What a muppet.
This is so dumb I double-checked to make sure this article wasn't a hoax.

Here's the situation: news-gathering companies have looked at the economics of the situation and realized that either people need to start paying for news, or 95% of news-gathering companies will die.

They've taken this to mean "and so people will inevitably start paying for content", but the actual conclusion should be "inevitably 95% of news gathering companies will die".

Radically wider distribution via the Internet has rendered the hugely redundant newspaper business (one newspaper for every town? Really?) obsolete. Even video producers are not immune (how many live news feeds do I need, exactly? 20? 10?).

Murdoch and co. are just dinosaurs refusing to acknowledge that the light in the sky is a comet.
Or possibly emerging freedoms.
I always read the entire thing to see if there's anything special that the company's interested in -- "Familiarity with X, Y, and Z (all rare things) desired but not necessary." Let's say I happen to know a lot about Y, but it's hidden mid-way through my resume. I'd adjust my email w/ resume to highlight what I know.
(unfortunately had to make a new account to say this)

I block ads for two main reasons:

Annoying Advertising

Very few of these "rich advertising media" campaigns are any good. The few that are good are overshadowed by the really crappy ones with flashy imagery and music and generally breaking your web browsing flow by overlaying junk across your page. What makes it worse is that the people that commission these things think that this stuff is great and nobody in their "bubble" thinks different. The worst ones in my opinion are those keywords which you accidently hovered over and your browser locked up for 2 seconds.

Crap performance

Ad networks are an utter joke in terms of performance. As they said at velocity conference a few years ago "If you work for an ad network, shame on you." Ad networks don't do simple things like putting scripts on a CDN, not using gzip, still using document.write, not optimizing javascript/images - basically the whole Yslow rulebook.

Privoxy block data

26880 out of 283845 requests have been blocked, which equals a block rate of 9.47%.

(Interestingly enough it never gets much higher than 10%)

A lot of the time each advert takes 1second+ to load. I'm not sure right now about the uptime on this PC but assuming each ad takes 1 second to load each ad that's been blocked that's 7.5 hours of time waiting for ads to load.
If all you're doing is clicking, the reality is that you aren't helping the site with that ad. The "quality" of the ad clicks is also measured (e.g. percentage of people who clicked on the ad that also purchased something).

Click on things you are legitimately interested in.
I upvoted this so I'd remember to take a look later. Now I kinda wish I hadn't.
My 3 most important rules for Linux servers are:

1. Run software update!

2. Don't allow everyone to access sensitive ports. Moving SSH to some nonstandard port is not enough. Use iptables to limit access to it from only certain static IPs.

3. Run SELinux! If you think its only purpose is to make your life more difficult, you have a lot more studying to do. (Also, make sure you don't use a distro that comes with a badly broken selinux config)

UPDATE: formatting
It seems that every time a great business comes along, the wolves attack. It's depressing that this business feels it necessary to sue twitter, a business in no direct competition with this emergency alert provider. People need to understand that technology!=success, implementation=success.
this confuses me, too. plus, you have to go to a post office.

on the other hand, if someone saw something he really wanted it might seem worthwhile to do extra work in exchange.
As someone who officially became a desktop OS interface nerd while playing with Dynapad (http://hci.ucsd.edu/lab/dynapad.htm), it frustrates me how risk averse the big OS vendors are. They have all the market share, infrastructure, marketing, and engineering talent to pull of something really incredible, but they opt not to do so.

I understand that they don't want to disrupt their user base with something too radical. That makes sense to me. However, with the next version of Windows, Microsoft had nothing to lose. Everyone hated Vista and most people avoided upgrading to it. Why not treat this failure as a huge opportunity to do something new and interesting?

They could have pushed the state of the art of desktop operating systems way forward, and possibly taken away that smug feeling of superiority us Mac users have enjoyed for years. Instead they just polished up a subset of Vista's warts. Oh well.
I agree with #2, since I think that is a large motivating factor for wanting to do the work to get more points.
I read it and wondered if it was primarily for PR. It's a great way to get their emergency service in the press
Here's a list of OSI approved licenses: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical

If you just want to slap a license on it and be done with it, my favorite is zlib/libpng License. It's short and to the point, without legal BS. For a larger project with many contributers, it makes sense to look into BSD vs. MIT vs. LGPL, but otherwise that seems like over-complicating things.
It's kinda fluffy. Most of the advice is good, but basic.

One peeve I have is that it's pushing a firewall solution on the local box. In general, that's best done off-host. Even better are MAC security solutions like AppArmor, which is really easy to set up (frankly much more so than a non-trivial set of firewall rules) and much more capable in general. Typical applications need access to only a handful of paths and capabilities that are well-defined in the documentation.
Completely agree. Public opinion seems to be so easily polarized (a feedback effect?) it is pleasant to read something that comes off as a casual defense to it
I'd analyze Michael Crichton's work, and extrapolate the answer.
You can get beyond that statement - the article isn't bad.
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The RC has been out for a few months now, and that problem hasn't shown up. The Beta has been out for almost a year now, and that problem has not shown up.
Have a "fuckin Cristal. Everything else is piss."
Or you know, you could just change the law to eliminate their positions.

No blood, no mess, no silly truther-type calls for revolution.
Because even my absolute favorite mouse* only has six buttons, while my keyboard has well over a hundred, and the amount of information I can convey by combining them is far greater than what I can express with a few buttons and crude relative spatial positioning.

Because I work with tools where using the keyboard shortcuts until they become reflex is an option, rather than only occasionally using programs and hoping they're "intuitive" enough to use by looking for what I want to do and pointing at it.

Because using language is more expressive than pointing at things all day.

Because you can't refer to something by name with a mouse unless it's already on a menu. (Well, mouse gestures could be considered an attempt to do this, but the set of "letters" is very limited.)

When a task is primarily spatial (typically, graphical editing; I'm not a gamer), I use the mouse. That's about it.

* http://www.amazon.com/Kensington-Expert-Optical-Trackball-64...
Apart from the fact they used an existing code base to cut a lot of that time short it's a great example.

I think that especially including this fact it's a fantastic example. With the wealth of open source platform apps out there you can really build an app extremely quickly if you're willing to embrace constraints.
Ok, enough-of-a-hit-to-make-every-founder-millionaires.
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You're describing Microsoft's Longhorn project, at least in the beginning. It was going to be a whole new everything, with advanced features like WinFS getting shelved as the project schedule kept slipping, ultimately ending as the half-baked XP facelift known as Vista.
A recent story that agrees with you:
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/08/03/arrington-loses-lib...

While it would be more mediagenic if Arrington had to fork over some cash, I think jurisdiction is separate from the issue of who the court of popular opinion sees are the winner.
A good part of being creative is giving yourself over to the world around you. Drinking, gambling, smoking, etc., are all ways of letting the world penetrate that self-world barrier.
Most of the problems with the law are in the ambiguous edge/border scenarios that were not foreseen at the time the law went into effect, for example, b/c the law has been extended by practice or case law.

Also, most law is applied more like fuzzy logic than like discrete logic -- a judge has a set of factors, each of which he may weigh separately, in reaching a decision.
The real silly thing is that there is a market for in-depth news analysis. The problem is that they've chosen not to serve this market, and as they race to the bottom they only now realize that they can't compete with 6 billion potential eyewitness reporters working for free.

They gambled and lost.

Of course, just like the car companies I somehow get the feeling that somehow I'll have to pay for their strategic mistakes.
It seems the author is busy. I have 7 guesses as to what's taking so long :-)
Law cannot be inconsistent. If one law is inconsistent with another, one or both gets struck down.
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Case law is very rarely discrete; the point of case law is that the law is not and should not be mechanically applied.

Case law arises from the chancery courts of England, where the primary goal of the court was to do what was "fair", rather than simply what the law said.
Protovis - Visualization toolkit for JavaScript using SVG.
I don't know if anyone makes a 45 nm 8 bit cpu. Intel makes 8 bit chips, and has 45 nm and smaller fabs, but I don't the market is there yet.

Still the original Apple II was 1Mhz, with 4kb of ram which is significantly faster and more powerful than many micro controllers in use today. For many solutions the power savings of sub 40khz speeds is still worth it so I don't think we are at the point where stray radio waves could power a system that fast.
IE Absolutely makes billions for microsoft....

What does IE mean?

1) Your clients need windows to run it.

2) Your developers need windows to test it.

3) They can plug in some of their technologies like .Net which runs on windows servers.

4) Clients that are used to IE (dumb users) will use it at home too because its "their browser".

5) Windows also means MS Office usually (though a separate issue).

So yea how is that not their core business model?
It's a lot like putting an assert() in your code.
assert(m&m != brown);
I had the same experience at RubyFringe with Zed. Stand up dude.
Do Your Friggin' Research
Longhorn was never slated to be nearly as revolutionary as what I had in mind. However, Longhorn's fate might prove wrong my statement about Microsoft's engineering (management) talent.
Turn boring HTML checkboxes into iPhone toggle switches
The "cool programs" (http://suckless.org/common/cool_programs) page at suckless.org lists quite a few other keyboard-friendly programs.

dwm is also good, as are dmenu, screen and tmux.
Considering how firewalls and AppArmor do completely different things, I'd say you need both.
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Brand New blog's revised Pepsi vs. Coke branding chart
Is MySpace considered so unimportant by the web community that its name has to be prefixed with "10th largest site" in order to try to get attention?
This had a different title on the mailing list to the article, so I used the one that caught my attention.

Classic description of a start-up CEO (without, clearly, the insight HN adds?) - "the guy would go all over the country like Don Quixote charging windmills, and he would put together these crazy deals. He spent a year and nearly $100K putting together an e-commerce website selling commodity products with a 15% margin that had ZERO chance of EVER being profitable."
This is the first iPhone-like toggle switches that works well and are usable. Both with click and drag.

Edit: They are an improvement of these: http://awardwinningfjords.com/2009/06/16/iphone-style-checkb...

Kudos to the author.
It's fine. I was put off by Vista and stuck with XP at home, but after months of running the RC there are no signs of performance degradation. I've had one crash in all that time and I wish it would pop up a little bubble to inform me when the Wi-fi has died, rather than waiting for me to realize my pages aren't loading before looking at the screen. Otherwise I am a happy user.

My only real gripe is that it's expensive and I've gotten used to running the super mega ultimate edition or whatever it's called. It's just an OS, sell it for $99 and have done with it instead of pointless market segmentation which drives people to the torrents. You'll note that these criticisms are all to do with corporate rather than technical.
Wait, what? For people not in the US (or perhaps Newcastle in the UK), there's no way they'd know the "canary in a coal mine" idiom. This is a very, very, very America-centric idiom.

/I teach English, SAT, ACT, GMAT, GRE, and other tests to native and non-native English speakers on the side.
Maybe it was performance art.
I use QuickCheck, but it wasn't germane the point I was making so I didn't mention it.

Actually, I did think of using sum when I was computing the length differently, but I made another change and never got back to it. I agree, sum would be better.
"Microsoft, just fix the unwieldy Control Panel interface, please."

That screenshot is not accurate. You have to work to get it that ugly. (That is, he change the "View by" to large icons). The control panel is incredibly usable with its default layout.

I didn't read the rest of it, no point. I'm using Windows 7 right now and it's great. It puts XP and Vista to shame.
I've had several teachers pull that crummy joke when I was in grammar school in the 90s too. This is more or less the test:
http://echochamber.me/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=24333&star...

Personally, I don't think there is a lesson to be learned here. It amounts to nothing more than a lame practical joke.
> What is the expected result? an X button

> What happens instead? Some guys head

I lol'd
Bad pdf links and no screenshots at that website. Dissertation on same here from 2006 http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1195569 but it's behind a paywall. It does sound interesting - if the project has gained a new name or other resources exist I'd like to know more.
Eyeballs and traffic != money. They're going for more revenue at the expense of "shipping" less "units".
If it reliably screens out the idiot recruiters who didn't read anything, the odd false positive is probably worth it.

Remember - manual filtering has a failure rate just as much as any automated approach, the trick is to balance out the false positive/negative rates so that they're acceptable for your purposes.

In any case, if you're a startup, you probably don't want anybody who doesn't have enough of a sense of humour to enjoy the odd silly game in the middle of the mind numbing toil of a job hunt. If I was looking and saw an ad like this I'd probably take a few minutes off to learn about italian sonnets whether I was planning to apply for the job or not, and be glad that I'd been inspired to look.
<video> has already been implemented by everyone but Microsoft (who has no intention to). The Theora issue never impeded that.
One is free one charges

One took off one didn't

???

Lawsuit

Profit
If reading the job posting thoroughly is not worth his time, why should the company believe he'll think doing the job is worth his time?
I stopped there, too. I guess I haven't read enough gizmodo to have expected it.

Later, I brought myself to read the whole article and it was better... Still, considering the alternative's to Windows available these days -- the article doesn't persuade me at all.
UK will arrest TechCrunch's Arrington
Nor under Chrome (3.0196). so 'twas not brillig at all, for me. The CA thingy worked though, and I see what you were trying to do.
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To be sure, even in Armin's revised timeline, the earliest script Coca-Cola logo is very similar to today's version, where the Pepsi logo went through many drastic changes. This, rather than absolute accuracy, I believe, was the point of the original JPG.