skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
However, it doesn't really add much value to the world, and they can go out of business in an instant if the CPC rates change in any direction.

- It's unfair to mix this guy's business success with your views on online gambling("doesn't really add much value").

- There are plenty of sites that would go away in a click if google decides to close their adsense account for whatever reason. At least this guy is diversified across the industry--meaning his revenue comes from few hundred different partners.
I'm almost half way through it, I love most of the technical details he has described so far. Interesting on the whole, but I somehow lose interest and switch to another book for a couple of days before coming back to it.

I am also reading "Awaken the Giant within" by Anthony Robbins, the first third seemed to be pretty solid, though I am not sure the NAC stuff works as well as he says.
Key quote: "The vast majority of today’s most successful software companies wouldn’t have been ready to go public within the 10 year window of an early stage venture capital fund."
>Is it illegal to synthesise partial DNA to match a particular fingerprint?

Fingerprints aren't genetically determined. That's why twins have different prints.
Network Solutions now displaying your WhoIs searches publicly
yeah it seems like it would be reducing the scope of problems by orders of magnitude. The thing about heat makes me stomach hurt, maybe unlikely... but i don't want to take a chance of burning my cornea!!
the audience has hit its saturation point. if you're not podcasting, either you don't understand it (i.e, you don't need an ipod to consume podcasts), don't know about it, or don't want to do it.

i'd like to see a popular alternative podcasting application rise up. something better than itunes, geared towards the users that don't have ipods. i'd use it. does it exist already? i have no clue, and i consume tons of podcasts. it would definitely help to break the association between podcasting and ipods, which i think is holding some users back.
foo.bar(baz => quux, gorch => 42); looks pretty good too.
The difference is that you can know what's wrong and fix it (assuming you're able). Also, over the past 2+ years, my mail server has had less downtime than GMail, and any outages were easy for me to diagnose and fix. I like feeling in control over critical pieces of my business (at least as much as possible - I'm in no position to build my own DC for instance).
3 I don't get. Ubuntu has both Firefox 3.0 and 3.5 available to choose in a simple list of software. His problem seems to be that he doesn't like the Firefox codename which is hardly the end of the world.
I guess it might be related to disabling "focus for new windows", prevent focus stealing et cetera in one's OS. At least I use that.
The future of news in 4 dimensions: Charting new kinds of news orgs
you guys really need to knock this off
> But I'm not sure a shotgun approach to product lineup creation is a good answer (I don't know that it isn't, it just seems like it hurts more than it helps, in terms of brand awareness, loyalty, etc.

I think Nokia probably has a few too many phones, but on the other hand, I think it's not a bad idea to cover everything from the 25 euro super-basic units to some of the really fancy smart phones they have. And have them they do.

In terms of branding, I think that Nokia has a great reputation for building good, solid products amongst most people I know. Part of having a lot of different kinds of phones is letting people pick one that "reflects their lifestyle" (or some such marketing BS:-) rather than the one-size-fits-all iPhone.
http://www.techcrunch.com/ doesn't seems to be down :-/
And credit card auth on Android Market it seems.
Inherent risk of selling a relatively easily reproduced product.
I use Google Gears, so I can still access all of my mail. I'm sending e-mails from a mail server on my laptop, but I could just as easily use a different e-mail service while gmail is down. Yes, Google is a big company with lots of technical prowess, but you can't reasonably expect 100% uptime. If it's that important to you, you should have a backup plan.
Ditto. Back to Dino Comics, TED talks, and SICP.
Hah just checked HN while waiting for gmail to log me in...
To get all the various logos and certifications on them, they are required not to do that. Every line is voltage limited.
"will transform the battlespace and save lives by giving warfighters a speed-of-light, ultra-precision engagement capability that will dramatically reduce collateral damage"

It's language like that that I really can't stand. So, you're making a new high energy weapon and you claim that it will save lives ? That depends on the side of the weapon that you are on I guess.

Collateral damage as it is so nicely called is one of the weirdest terms.

Why are we so scared to name it with a more descriptive term, such as innocent civilians, or even better children, women and men that happened to be in the wrong place.

This weapon 'minimizes' such damage, or so they claim but all I see is another way of killing people. If the idea is that it minimizes them as compared to other weaponry then how about a suggestion to not use that stuff at all if it can be avoided, instead of funding ever more ways to murder people ?

The quality of a weapon is as good as the intelligence that guides it, not the precision of the weapon itself, that is only a very small factor.
Even down here in Pakistan ;(
IE7 Vista supports it, IIRC, but lack of IE6 support is still a dealbreaker.
they said they were going beta by today. is that real (i.e., http://stackexchange.com/ doesn't seem to have changed)?
I thought that sounds very much like what an Indian would say. Then I looked at your user name :)
Everything goes down sometimes. I've found Gmail to be more stable than most.
In other words, it's going to be 5-10 years before you'll be able to use it. =)
GMail at iGoogle is working for me.
Edit: It was working. Not anymore.
Is there a name for the law that says "anytime you complain about grammar, you will make a grammar mistake yourself?"
Most expensive contact lens ever.
This phrase comes to mind...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgkBpWc8ngI#t=4m18s
I tried this with arc (worked with anarki based in arc2)

http://arclanguage.org/item?id=8172

The syntax is inspired by McCarthy's in his paper from 1958.
It works, but i don't find it useful.
Actually, GV is working fine.
Not a good use of flagging. It's not off-topic, it's not spam, and there are already valuable comments here that people took the time to write.
i'd like to note that i can access gmail through the igoogle gmail widget, and just got, read and responded to a fresh email through it.

can't access gmail through any other means.

thought it might be useful for everyone to know and give it a shot.
Help me improve my comic ad
None of these algorithms take into account the number of views for each item. Wouldn't you define the popularity by starting with the number of people who viewed the item, divided by the number of votes?

This would solve the issues reported about late night news being ignored because no one is around.

Anyway, great article.
Hi,

I paid to have a 1 page comic drawn to help promote my startup product.

The artist did a great job but I think the concept / dialogue that I came up with is not as great.

Check it out and see if you can come up with something better.

Thanks
SamH
It also seems to help the claim that school dumbs you down.

School can dumb you down.

It seems that it can also smarten you up.

See:

hcz.org/our-results

And the book Whatever It Takes by Paul Tough.
What makes this one better than the similar services that already exist?
Gmail Down == Prime Time for reMail Users
Thread.com Raises $1.2 Million For Facebook-Powered Matchmaking Service
How Deep Are Marketing Budgets Being Cut?
If you're famous and concerned with PR, shouldn't you have people who shop on your behalf, for whatever it may be?
You can listen to the shows on the web through the flash players most of these guys have on their pages. Is it the effort to listen to the show or the effort to discover the show?
Do Wall Street execs ever get busted for possession?
Just imagine all those lost profits...
Podcasting for most is an analog for radio and until podcasts are as at hand as radio is, it's market share will be capped. Most people want to be able to press a button their dashboard and here a show, not go search it out, put it on their iPod and then hook that up to their car.
Twitter can tell you the moment it is back up... That's something...
Self Repairing Metal
I'll give you a hint: It's in Los Angeles...
I learned about it from a blog, which is a lot easier to find than that help page. Since the feature requires zero skill to use, the only people I see going to Help -> Opera Help -> Opera Turbo are those doing detective work, or possibly some non-tech-savvy users, who will not know what a proxy server is or understand the privacy ramifications.

When Google added PageRank to their toolbar, they forced you to read at least two warnings before you could use it that said, in big letters, something like "PLEASE READ THIS WARNING.. IT'S NOT THE USUAL YADA YADA".

At the very least, that's what I would expect from anybody, but especially from a browser, a piece of software that users put an enormous amount of trust in. I've managed to find a few mentions in Opera's marketing material that this feature goes through their servers, but no hint that there is any privacy issue.
But unfortunately irreversible, and non-upgradeable. When things improve on a Moore's-law curve, you don't want to make a permanent commitment.
Yeah, at least when gmail goes down, everyone knows about it.
Official Gmail Blog: Today's Gmail problems
You're right, next time I want a vacation I'll just do a google image search...or to grow my business network, I'll add myspace friends.
It's all in what you see. To me it looks like a conference that has all the important stuff without the annoying expo and corporate sponsors. I'm sold.
This link seems to be down too.
I Thought I Was Saving a Bunch of Money | ServiceLive Blog
I think the OP meant outages in general
I'm not entirely sure if this is a troll or not, but...

rsync does exactly what you're looking for. You can also pipe it over SSH encyption on the wire. type "man rsync" at a shell for a description of how.
Ask HN: Viruses wanted for masters project
I'm currently undertaking a masters project, involving virus detection using machine learning.

Currently I have three viruses which spread effectively in a virtual environment (KVM VM's and a VDE network, consisting of a number of virtual switches), I'm basically looking for a large number of working viruses to create some very solid results.

If you have any please could you upload them using:

http://drop.io/hidden/oklxql2qoxkhhc/upload

I'll also post my dissertation upon its completion if people are interested.

Thanks for your help!
The Electronic Parts Nebula
Keep in mind, though, that if your DoWork function has some large amount of data in it (like, it's looking up each element of the Data list in a large orddict), every process created by pmap will get a _copy_ of that large orddict. Erlang's awesome, but it's not perfect; one of the current VM decisions is that no memory is shared by two processes, so it's sometimes a problem when blindly trying to convert a map to a pmap.
Mozilla Weave main servers are down
Adult FriendBinder?
Chrome OS: The Code Clues Are Out There
Yeaaah.... It turns out that generic methods with variable arity is a sore spot for the .NET type system. The C# and F# teams are quite aware.

The typical/recommended/easy/practical solution is to just provide another overload, pack the args into an object array, and then call the original overload; completely ignoring the problem.

Alternatively, you could do some scary things with reflection...
huh? bookmarklet gone wrong, maybe? I'd flag this if I could.
I'd really enjoy seeing a reimagining of 'Gattaca'
Except in this case, there is only one video game console (the iPhone) with many games (apps) while the original crash's "main cause was supersaturation of the market with dozens of consoles". Furthermore, recent reports still indicate the App Store is gaining momentum, not losing it.

It is my opinion that all these anti-Apple reports we've been seeing over the last few months are only angering developers, not end-users. Most users could care less that Apple is taking 6+ weeks to release an update, being inconsistent in their review process, or restricting "shiny" message bubbles.
Are you looking specifically for viruses or other types of malware? Have you checked out http://offensivecomputing.net ?
There's a big difference between trying to do things "the right way" and finding out your code still became obsolete, and winging it to produce crappy, unmaintainable code that will cost you hours many times over!
How does a human do it now? I imagine it would be a lot more like that.
> Both are out of the scope of the abstraction; inside the scope of the abstraction, TCP ensures that packets arrive in the correct order, and C ensures that your program can work on a variety of CPUs.

But that's exactly Joel's point. inside the scope of the abstraction, the following properties are true. The whole point is that outside the abstraction stuff breaks, and the kicker is that in many cases, the only practical way to know what is inside the abstraction and what is outside the abstraction is to know the details about the underlying abstraction, exactly what it was supposed to help with!

Yes, cutting the network cable is a poor example, but there are many good ones. With C, you can do stupid bit manipulation in ways that will be non-portable across architectures. With ORMs, an easy example is the N+1 select problem.

ORMs are typically very leaky, in the sense that to write good quality code, you have to know the details about how your ORM works, and they usually aren't a 100% replacement for knowing SQL. The more you have to know about how the level below you works, the more leaky the abstraction.

I think Joel's could have made the point clearer if he had distinguished between how much typing the abstraction saves you, and how much knowledge it absolves you from knowing.
Zed Shaw trades on being loud & opinionated, so he pretty much has to say something :) On some points he's correct, but a lot of these are definitely found in R books, and R code in general. Periods certainly predominate in variable names everywhere, the reason being (as I understand it) that the underscore is synonymous with the assignment operator <- in S-Plus--pretty hideous. Verbing and camelcasing your function names is a bit outta left field, most functions tend to look like variables (indeed, technically they are.) Maybe it's not such a bad thing to distinguish them. kConstantName I definitely don't like, reminds me too much of Hungarian notation and CONSTANT just makes more sense and is more common. Almost no one uses = in place of <-, which is a shame because there is no <- key on the my keyboard :)
The headline is somewhat misleading. Rare earth metals are rare in approximately the same way that noble gases have superior moral qualities.

Likewise, the shortage mentioned in the article hasn't happened yet. And it might never happen, since -- as the article says -- extraction is increasing to meet the anticipated increase in demand.
I don't see what's so special about it. I could write that in a weekend.

;-)
You never miss the water till the well runs dry.
Adobe did testing across the CS4 line atop the new Apple OS. There are a few minor issues documented... see blogs.adobe.com or individual product support pages. Most people find it just works.

It's quite possible that someone has a minority experience, where it doesn't work. First steps are to check the integrity of the applications (it's legit CS4 direct from Adobe?), then any customizations to the system that may cause it to act differently than others. It's to everyone's advantages to document all meaningful Snow Leopard differences.
A human doesn't do it with a computer.
Interestingly, GMail has failed twice in the last few weeks since they removed it from beta. Before that, I can only remember one large-scale outage over the previous few years.
Nice chiasmus!
Italian Government is Trying to Intercept Skype for Lawful Interception
That comic reminds me of the time when The Daily WTF decided they would make a web comic.. and the only redeeming quality were the user submitted comment comics insulting the comic.

Anyways, its a creative idea.
Sorry, I should have been a little clearer about this, I'm looking for viruses & worms. The current ones I have working are Sasser,Nanspy & Padobot. That site looks very cool, I believe I've seen it before but forgotten about it.
Thanks for the reference and for the quotation (to the parent and grandparent of this reply). Yes, the HAWIK would be the usual child IQ battery in a German-speaking country. I'm not following the statistics shown there completely, but I note the sample size. Did the same group of test-givers give both tests? Were they "blind" as to the results of each test when giving the other?

I appreciate the references. I'm still doubtful that the general finding would be that the five-minute test would be strongly correlated with full scale child IQ batteries, e.g. the WPPSI. The way to find out would be for other groups of test-givers to attempt to replicate the result.
My new boss at work is trying to get us all to use Agile. How do I stop him?
Someone referenced a PG essay there (Maker's schedule) that inspired me to post this here too. Just curious on how the consensus here differs from that on Reddit.
FbFund demo day (live now)
Is it like FriendFeed? What differs?
Except that it isn't a reproduced product, and they largely won't be competing against each other. Stackexchange is offering a solution for it, Solace is just the software. They don't directly compete.

Now, I'd guess them being released on the same day isn't a coincidence, but I think its interesting to point out they don't directly compete.
i estimate that i'm already out $4, maybe $5 from this
I dunno, I have issues with things which are phrased as requests for help, but are in fact really appear to be just attention-seeking measures for your startup. If you ask for help, you should really, genuinely, want help, not attention, otherwise the "altruism" subsystems of my brain get all confused.

Now, if you phrased it as "hey, here's a competition, win $75 by writing good text for my ad" then that would be much more reasonable... but of course then it wouldn't be getting upvoted, would it?
SpendTrend.us shows an uptick in actual pork spending
"What a shame people still react like this"

What a shame she was lying about it...
It's important to note that IQ test scores have only ordinal properties--one cannot make interval inferences from them validly, for example the frequently heard assertion that "A child with an IQ of 150 is as different in intelligence from a normal child as a child with an IQ of 50." Such a statement is very hard to verify in the first place, but in any event IQ scores show ORDINAL relationships (subject to a lot of error of estimation) but don't show interval relationships of how far (on the same scale) one score is from another in any valid way.
The videos will also be uploaded to: http://vimeo.com/fbfundrev
One thing they should have done: Built out their online sales staff and online ad programs 5 years ago, while educating/working with customers (mostly local businesses) about the benefits of online programs.
They can request you don't use it as condition for access to their platform - claiming it's a trademark is different. The mark (in the EC at least) needs to be indicative of the origin of goods or services and needs to be distinctive in order to achieve that aim - chat bubbles are not distinctive and are not indicative that Apple Computers Inc. are providing the service. Fail IMO.
Instant Status Updates on Gmail Crisis
They mostly don't have LBBs, they have mobile phones that are only used professionally.
Works via iGoogle for me as well, and I've received a couple e-mails from GMail users from their iPhones. So presumably it's just the web front-end that's busted.
jibiki kindly shared the link in another reply:

http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&...

I see the abstract, but the full text is behind a pay wall for me. I'm very doubtful about the reported result being generalizable.
Was hoping it would be in Ruby, but maybe this is a good excuse to learn Python.
> You can't write a 3d engine in excel

You can, a guy has done it. I'm only being pedantic because this is cool if you haven't seen it:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3563/microsoft_excel_r...
yes I see your point hughprime.

I guess the altruism motive is why I didn't mention the reward in the title, I didn't want that to be the main thing.

Attention for my startup is great but if I can get something really funny / interesting into the comic then it becomes more interesting and provides more value to people, so when I use it it's less spammy.
And we're back! 60 minutes a year I can handle.
Exactly. With feigned 'outrage' at Arrington for all his Google Voice love as of late.
To the developer of this app:

You know about Apple's inconsistent and oppressive policies. If you still choose to develop on the IPhone platform, you can't raise hell if your app gets rejected for any reason.

By continuing to develop on the IPhone, you are not giving Apple any reason to change its policies. If Apple sees that it is losing market share then they'll take steps to be more open and developer-friendly.

I always hear people saying that "I hate Apple's app approval policies, however, I'd still buy their products because they are so good."

It's like saying "I hate how China violates human rights but I'd still buy products made in China because they are of good quality and affordable."
both.

a desktop application allows you a variety of options with respect to obtaining and consuming content. you can listen to content on the provider's webpage, sure, but it narrows your options greatly.

and sure, its not really that tough to discover new content online. something that helps you discover new purely podcasting content just helps to reduce the noise and makes proliferation of the medium easier for people who have a lower tolerance of technology and/or inconvenience. i can find the podcasts i want just fine. but i'm the current audience. you need to make it easier for soccer moms or grandfathers to find podcasts in order to break out of the current stagnation.
I can't find that anywhere either, and would be interested in seing it. In fact, all I can find is: A bucket can be located in the United States or in Europe. All objects within the bucket will be stored in the bucket’s location, but the objects can be accessed from anywhere. which seem to imply that your data is located in one location, not 2.

In addition, looking at the actual S3 contract, they're really only guaranteeing at 99.9% uptime, which allows for up to 8 hours of downtime a year, more than enough to completely re-build the outer server once a year, as long as they can keep the data intact (which they seem more than capable of with their setup, once again assuming their data center is not completely destroyed).
As someone who has worn soft contacts for years, I say it can be about 10 seconds. It takes a lot of getting used to, but eventually it gets to the point where you barely notice the process.
Strange, I just did a search for movie show times in my area earlier and just now, and it seems that some cinemas are missing.

The timing lines up exactly with the gmail outage.

Since those theaters have always been listed in the movie showtime search as long as I can remember, this could be part of a larger service outage. What else is down that they aren't telling us?
Dumb workaround: Forward mail from Iphone IMAP to yahoo account
You would have never found the treasure with the water level high.
Dogfooding Exchange vNext is never fun...