skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This part of the online ad industry is surprisingly intricate. There are vendors whose entire business model is arbitrage of behavioral data. They make deals to drop tracking pixels on big sites, set third-party cookies on those sites' users, build statistical models about users' actions and interests, and sell others the right to add still more tracking pixels and set their own third-party cookies for ad targeting.

Some of them appear on http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp, a self-regulation effort which has not been well publicized.
...:: Hacking World Cup Tickets for Germany 06 ::...

Australia was a late qualifier for the tournament. The ticket submission was via email. Tickets were allocated on a first email received basis after 09:00. There was a countdown webpage which advertised the time.

--- Preparation

* I telneted to port 25 of the destination and saw via EHLO that the mail server clock was 1 minute faster than advertised on the webpage, giving a start time advantage

* I pre crafted the SMTP message into a text file. This had the sending time as 09:00:01

* Before the day I checked out how long the mail server would keep open any connections without any input (10 minutes)

---

Cometh the day:

* I opened up several telnet sessions to port 25 , 10 minutes before.

* when the time came, I did several EHLO messages to check my session was alive

* I cut'n'pasted my SMTP message into the server

* I closed all my connections (other people were bouncing at this point as the server connection pool was exhausted)

---

I got my tickets.
The ethics of startups can often be on the fringe - the music industry was completely shaken up by startups there were operating on, or beyond, this fringe. Mp3.com pushed the fringes of copyright (they figured they were in the right btw).

These people were disrupting markets that are broken... Perhaps the coupon/employee/etc/etc system is broken? This has a definite scam aspect that bothers me personally, but it's worth considering how the market has evolved that this can happen.
Gmail is going to be massively undercounted by their methodology -- not just because gmail users are less likely to view the PR-spam their clients send, but simply because gmail blocks images by default :)
dont think sigint.sg was set up with what pg wanted in mind.

i would say that this is a great effort to start the discussion on region specific info relating to start ups which I think is what HN is not able to provide.
Graduated with a degree in electrical engineering three months ago. Now working on a startup in a totally unrelated field.
Someone has to find an apple app store employee and interview them anonymously about their decision process in approving or rejecting an app.
The situation you are in right now was my situation 2 years ago. I started my own company and now, 2 years from that date, its running pretty good. I made a pretty good decision when I started. I visited a hardware-retailer and asked if they had customers who needed help with connecting and installing their new products. And in fact, they did. I left my buisness cards over there and since then I have several customers in the week. Also, make sure you have a nice website. Make it simple. Make the website easy for everyone. You might want to check out my website. It is in dutch, but I think you can get the idea out of it. www.comtrix.nl
Good point. I think Microsoft have failed to spot that the computer market is going the same way as the car market. You can buy a car very cheaply if you just need to get from A to B. But people who have more money choose to buy BMWs or Mercedes. It's an aspirational purchase.
Quick glance at BBC News, CNN and NYT headlines just to get a quick recap. If I see something interesting I usually plan to read it later. Then a quick glance at e-mail/IM to get ready for the day. Finally a quick glance at what.cd to see if there's something new to listen to on the way to work. I usually don't get any quality web browsing done till the afternoon hours when work is mostly taken care of.
Not just 60km/h, it was completely stopped. It was on (Danish) TV years ago.
Very innovative. But a segue is missing.
Ben Franklin's innovations are shown.
Other modern world innovations are shown.
How Ben Franklin inspired those world innovations is not shown. A link is missing.
"It's impossible to think of something amazing in 10 minutes."

I would beg to differ. Think about what you are saying for < 10 minutes and it might come to you.

"Software is easy. Since when? If you are not building something new yes it probably is. But then you'll probably wont be a startup."

Creating a rough prototype isn't that hard, if you think it is you are doing it wrong. Getting that prototype in front of real users isn't hard either, in fact if you use modern frameworks it will likely be as good as lots of other software out there. Creating great software is extremely difficult, but I know software companies making an absolute killing with hacky interfaces, no testing and poor qa.

My take: Ideas aren't hard at all. Neither is building a product. Almost no one does the necessary steps (e.g. steve blanks process) to get their product right, which boilds down to heaps of face-time meetings with the target market to truly understand their problems.
True, true. Saying a lot of things about subatomic particles is meaningless. Their behavior doesn't map to english very well. The point is that that information could be stored in the beam basically at the photon level, trapped in matter, and then pulled out later. That's as cool as ultracold atoms.
I'm more interested in this place because of the methods exposed, the technologies used, etc.

One thing I've learned about being an angel is you get to say No a whole lot. So I'm not really afraid of being overrun.
If it's using the Linux kernel, it's not mentioned anywhere. This is taking the credit from all the linux code contributors everywhere. Shame. Shame.
I still recommend AES-256
Big Content: ludicrous to expect DRMed music to work forever
This is way beyond my head, but I can fell the awesomeness!
I've had a couple of people asking me if I'm reconsidering my recommendation of AES-256 in light of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=732545 -- the answer is that I have considered and decided not to change my recommendation.
Ask HN: good business cases of AI?
I don't see what the problem is with my comment. It's a sincere comment. I wish I could substantially cut my food bill. But I have a serious medical condition and have gotten off multiple prescription drugs in part by changing my diet (and doing a lot of research on what works for my particular condition). I know lots of people with my condition who are taking several thousand dollars a month in prescription drugs -- more than my monthly income in some cases. What I spend on food is high but it's cheaper than the alternative.
eBay announced it is planning to IPO Skype next year. I guess this is somehow related.
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It was. Of course then nobody thought it was important enough to raise a racket over. Apple does the same thing with their 'kill switch' on the applications in the app store.

These are the most public examples of how we are changing from 'sale' to 'lease' of everything with which that is technically possible.

Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs should take a public stand against this instead of being handmaidens to the new world order. They ought to be very much ashamed of themselves.
Jason Fried? Influential in programming?

I'd agree he's influential in the start-up community, but programming? Don't think so.

Hilarious that at the same time as including Jason Fried, they omitted DHH... Or Matz, for that matter.
Not to mention Emacs - a pretty influential programming tool that Richard Stallman built...
Out of curiosity, have you ever invested or do you know someone that invested in a company from initial contact here on HN?
Mobile Community QEEP grows even faster than online communities
web programming mostly
There is already an app on cydia using the GV api. (it's free)
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The styling isn't actually as slick looking as I thought it might be.
I am writing PHP in Common Lisp, and my codebase is litered with the following:

(defun make-record (&rest args) ; insert &allow-other-keys ;-)
(let ((*db-auto-sync* t))
(object (make-instance 'record args)))
(when object
(update-records-from-instance object))))

Both the LET binding of db-auto-sync and the update-records call do the EXACT same thing. However, due to weirdness I don't grok quite yet, the calls to the db driver get in only half the time, even with query caching disabled.

That's for record insertion.

For record update, I have something far more sinster. Every accessor has an :after method with explicit SQL inside. Allow me to explain this: Imagine if you had to write a function that does something as a side-effect everytime an assignment is made! E.g. I have a macro that generates explicit slot serializer for ever accessor; I managed this by wrapping defclass twice and now I program in a weird, session-oriented php-like dialect that's just too fucking brittle.

We will go over it after our first demo :-P

[Edit:

I wrote the following database agnostic routines and I deal with the db strictly through them.

LIST-OBJECTS type

LIST-OBJECTS-WHERE type slot value

FIND-OBJECT type slot value

FIND-OBJECT-WHERE type slot value

UPDATE-OBJECT-WHERE type slot value new-value

DELETE-OBJECT-WHERE type slot value

type is both a Lisp class and SQL table name. Slot and value are used in WHERE clauses, e.g. (select [*] type :where [= slot value])

]
What you really want are continuations.
So you don't want your username exposed. On the other hand, some people do not like to reply to Gmail addresses because they don't want their mail to be scanned by an advertising company.
Microsoft is getting its first taste of reality for a variety of different reasons. I don't think there's any evidence to suggest they are in for a slow bell curve style decline. Their business model will change of course but probably won't decline much or at all. Eventually the economy will recover and enterprise PC sales will pickup. On the consumer side it's probably inevitable that Windows revenue will continue to shrink as consumers move more of their computing online and to mobile devices.

The one area they can build on is the Xbox platform as a general purpose set top platform that might serve some of the same functions as a traditional desktop PC. For example: It could be a file server, print server, home automation controller, media store, shopping front end, etc, etc. No other company is in a good position to control the living room. Apple isn't interested, Sony is patiently waiting to die, and Nintendo is firmly a gaming company completely incapable of making a general purpose platform. Most importantly the Xbox is one of the only new Microsoft products in the last decade that has really caught on with consumers. Eventually they can probably build on the success of the Xbox platform into mobile devices.
Some of my Israeli mates here in London tore through the JDate website selection.

They would have debriefings on successful strategies and accuracy of photo-to-reality. They took turns and had harsh debates about who was first with the hottest ones.

They analysed which girls knew each other so that they could keep disjoint social scenes going at the one time.

It was amazing how many they got through.

They eventually fucked themselves out (and JDate too). They're married now, to a man.
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food is very expensive those days, i live in tunisia and i estimate it (my spending) to $100/month

I like to eat and spend on eating, i think it's better than spending it on some kind of mobile phones; isn't eating better.

so $36 only if you don't have money: the poor, however a hacker can write few articles or code few lines and get an easy $150 a month and feed himself well;
There has been buzz that the US Congress will pass legislation which would bring transparency to privacy of consumer tracking data. (People say that they could make all online advertising/tracking systems strictly "Opt-In" only, but I don't believe they would do it as it would destroy all of online advt. market). Essentially, this would entail telling visitors that their actions are being tracked and then giving them a super-easy method to opt out of it. IAB has also laid out 7 privacy principles: http://www.iab.net/insights_research/public_policy/behaviora... So, expect a lot of consumer awareness campaigns in future.
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Indeed. It's easy to make anything. It's hard to make something great.

Any developer can make a crappy product with no finish and no market fit. It's a lot harder to pull off something that large numbers of users love and get excited about, and even harder to make something they're willing to pay good money for.

I'll grant the author that some niches are more easily served because they have basically no software available, so in those cases even bad software is better than nothing, but those niches are not so easy to find, and even in those cases, figuring out what software to build (rather than copying and extending someone else's offering) is pretty hard.
Googling around suggests that the restocking fee is $20. Considering the myTouch 3G is cheaper than the iPhone, and the service will also be less expensive, I am confused as to how cost could be an issue.
The GPL does not have an advertising clause.
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Jeff Atwood is influential. He has taught a large number of people how not to write.
I've seen numbers stating it's under 20k to date. The midtown Manhattan Apple store probably sells that many in an average week!
In both Berlin and Mountain View (two cities where I spent a lot of time of late) I can go to the local market and get a huge bag of fresh veggies for $5-10. If you're really spending $100 on a couple bags of fresh food, you're doing something very wrong.
> It is not as if photons are items on the macro scale, that were somehow labeled (for example, photon #134), then disappeared and reappeared and the scientists compared the label and proclaimed that its the same photon (#134).

Quantum theory doesnt quite work like that.
The iPhone is not cheap in US. Yes, you don't pay $700/€500 upfront, but you will pay the amount through duration of the contract and by losing the option to switch carriers during the next year or two. The cost is the same, just hidden.
I think this is the first time I've found myself downmodding both flamers
Portland rain is strange. It's never actually raining, but it has always just rained.

I lived and worked downtown for several years, walking to work every day. In that whole time, I was actually rained on during that walk maybe a dozen times. I have no idea how this works, but it does.

It can rain all day every day for a week, while somehow never actually raining on you.

Northern England, on the other hand, goes out of its way to rain directly on you whenever you try to get out and do anything.
The Thinkpads that don't suck tend to cost as much or more than Apple laptops.
Maybe the Skype founders just asked (or demanded). http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=725848

Or eBay did a IBM/MS/DOS redux.
First of all, just because they email you your password doesn't mean they store it in plain text. It could be reversibly encrypted.

Conversely, just because they email you a password reset link, doesn't mean they encrypt your password. It could still be stored in plain text.

"Development" doesn't exist in isolation. You can't look at just the "development benefits", you have to look at the "product benefits".

The product benefit of storing a password with reversible encryption is obvious: a simplified "forgot password" feature. If your users are all hardcore geeks, that's not much use, but if you have many users who are not very tech-savvy, that can make a pretty big difference. After all, if a user can't figure out how to log on to the site because they are too confused to use the reset password link, you've lost that user - and for all you know, maybe that user is a 60-year-old director at a potentially huge client of yours, who then will decide not to bother with your product because he can't log in.

The question you might also ask, perhaps, is whether there is a real security benefit to you if the site you're using does encrypt your password non-reversibly. Assuming that the people running the site are honest, the benefit there would be that if someone hacks into that provider, they won't get the password that you use for all your other accounts on the web.

My answer to that would be: if you use the same password for multiple service, you have no business getting all uppity about password encryption policy, because the security failure is you. If you care about security, use a different password for each service (a tool like 1Password makes that process easy). If you don't use a different password for each service, don't complain about security. I wish more people would realise the inherent hypocrisy of complaining that "you should encrypt my password because I use the same password on many sites". Fewer sites would have to encrypt passwords to appease those users.
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Not at all: witness TI's total dominance of the graphing calculator market, selling millions a year with a fucking Z80 and dogshit software for $80 each. Their 'high-end' calculators have decent software with an easy-to-use CAS, but are crippled by their slow M68k processors, and cost $120.
The legacy will make sure Microsoft is still the #1 Software company in 10 years and Windows the #1 Operating System.
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Unfortunately, that won't work as well in this particular case. See, the regular consumer loves the iPhone and has absolutely no idea about the difficulties facing third party developers (it's questionable if they'd care even if they knew). Regardless of what we do, the iPhone will continue to sell like hotcakes.

What we need to do is to fire up a shit storm, and I believe we're seeing the start of that. Keeping my fingers crossed that Apple upper management will: 1) notice it, and 2) take it to heart.
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My favorite thing to add to rice is curry powder. Gives the rice a completely new flavor. If you have peanuts add those, too.
Isn't it the desire to control the platform that leads Apple to behave this way in the first place? We need more of those things that enable good civilization: openness, justice, fairness, discourse.
Indeed. It's worth emphasizing that this feature (password encryption) has a real cost in terms of usability. Remember that for every user who emails you asking for their password, there's several that didn't bother and just went somewhere else.

I get the feeling password encryption is a feature that's mostly implemented as appeasement (if you do send passwords in clear, every once in a while you will get someone mailing you about it, and most of those people have blogs so you can't brush them off or ignore them, unless you like negative publicity).
> Fast food has been implicated in weight gain and insulin resistance by numerous studies.

Care to point to even a single one where the problem of fast food was not that people tend to vastly exceed their calorie requirements when eating fast food?

I'm genuinely curious. If you eat a "supersized" meal a day, you can easily exceed your calorie from that single meal depending on what you choose and how active you are. Of course you'll get fat and get other health problems in that case, but all that tells you is that eating too much is bad for you.
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Alternatively he didn't get paid for the post and it's good publicity for his next venture and might even find a buyer for the current one.
I challenge you to suggest a better system.
Yes, it sounds like an obvious tactic to spice up pricing negotiations. I can't imagine what other reason the founders could have for revoking or not renewing the license
As other commenters pointed out, the list is interesting but more than incomplete.

RMS is missing? And I'd argue that John D. Carmack of ID software (#30) was quite a bit more influential than #28 (Ajaxian) and #29 (Craigslist).

Did you guys read that more than interesting paper on how ID software invented basically everything for 3D games when it deemed impossible? ('The Wizardry of ID' - http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~sakella/graphics04/handouts/id_spectr...)
Maybe already having millions of users does make technology a bit cooler?
Now, since you mention "the suck" in the headline this comment will be in the same vain.

Transcoding a lossy source to another lossy file is the suck. In terms of audio you cannot suck much more.
What you should be doing is demux the audio from the video and if the user wants to cut it, do so in a lossless way.

Youtube seems to use AAC. Depending on your audience you might probably simply serve that ("iPod format"). But then you would lose the keyword "mp3".

"like CD quality at 128kbps 44.1khz stereo". Any remotely quality loving person will wince at this. Not only is 128kbps MP3 not CD quality, since you transcoded from AAC it is even worse than a normal 128kbps MP3.
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you can use the new Filter Import/Export tool in Gmail Labs to migrate your rules: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/new-in-labs-filter-imp...
Not really true, in my corner of woods (EU), top of line T400 (LED display, P9500, hybrid graphics, 3G/HSPA modem etc) is cheaper than cheapest unibody Macbook (13). Wondered about that too.
Meh. Windows boxes are a bit of a pain to maintain. For legacy, it's not hard to imagine a small number of citrix servers for legacy software.
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I always wondered what this was able to do and how it worked technically. It's one of those things I put in a SEP-field and never thought about again.

It reminds me about an Objective-C feature I also never fully understood. I believe it was "-poseAs:".
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That's a neat one!
Everything said so far, and also "employee's".

I mean, taking unethical advantage of a benefit is one thing, but poor grammar? In bodytext frozen in an image no less? Unnacceptable :)
I've always wanted to do sort of the opposite... That is to say, I've always wanted to compile Scheme to PHP. I make the claim that PHP is the web's assembly language. Or, at least it's portable assembly language.
Yes of course I've used it. Updated all my packages yesterday in fact, went perfectly smoothly. YMMV but all the full-time Solaris admins I know are Blastwave fans.

The point I am making it: a serious OS doesn't break backwards compatibility on an individual developer's whim, no matter how famous they are.
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