skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely disagree, partly because we made this mistake. It's important to figure out what the characteristics of the companies in your market's sweet-spot are, and in our case, as the article points out "elephants" can be a big distraction, even if landing one seems more emotive.
I think there's a multiplier on BBC News stories. The Alan Turing story was the top story on the Technology section and on the front page of the main BBC News web site.

That got it exposure to the general public... and, critically, to other journalists who then went on to write about it.
Great analogy! Elephants=Enterprises. Rabbits=Consumers. Deer=Small & Midsize Businesses.

The problem of servicing customers of greatly varying size is not just one of scale. It means that you're in a different business.

I have avoided enterprises because great software doesn't matter. You're playing a different game. I've also avoided the consumer market because it's also a different animal. Scaling and capitalization are at least as important as the application itself.

The small and mid-market has always been my sweet spot. They have money to spend and needs sophisticated enough to warrant great software.

I never thought about the animal/customer size model, but it paints a much clearer picture of the dilemma. Thanks, OP.
Yeah; Apple's still reeling from the iPod getting hammered by the Nomad. And don't even get me started on the clusterfuck that was the iPhone versus Windows Mobile; that was just painful. Who sees those around anywhere?
2% clickthough rate is a little low, but not out of the realm of possibility.
> Neller said he’d love to see the day when Google Book Searchers can press a button next to a search result and find the closest local printer, but Google says that’s a long way off.

There are fewer than 100 of these printers in the world, How hard could it be to implement this?
"Corporation" and "moral" are two words that don't work in one sentence.

There is a good movie about this issue:
http://www.thecorporation.com/
Credit card fraud prevention
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Hitler's secret family: How researchers tracked down 39 living descendants
A roadmap for the Python WSGI implementation.
A character or two is not 'text'.
And you don't need sub-pixel techniques during image creation to pull it off.
A Crash Wedding Diet is Easier When it is Supported
Do you have more resources on optimizations when targeting js?
I just want to highlight that Cloudkick did the right thing and required password confirmation to change the email address.

The attacker, EvilPacket, recommended the wrong thing. They wrote, "The best protection I have seen so far is to use tokens that are time sensitive, tied to the user session and verified when the request is submitted back to the server."

The reason that is wrong is because the attacker can request a new token using the same method it submits a change.

Email and passwords work as challenges as they both cycle through the human being that owns the account, rather than just the browser. it's important to have more than one method that is tied to the account owner because if you want to change one, you need to use the other to confirm.
And there I thought it was just a case of a government desperate to do something that looked good but didn't cost them anything.
I just need a post now on how to catch these deer. I don't think bringing my 30'06 into a boardroom is likely to win me any sales. Seriously though, I'd love to see some posts on how to target and then win over those deer-sized companies.
This makes me think of Star Wars.

Moisture farming anyone?
If the software is anything like what they provide with printers and digital cameras, it's probably not in the same league as an (eventual or possible) Apple product.
Depending on the keyword and the title/description of each result, those numbers entirely possible. I've seen exponential traffic differences between 1st and 3rd results for a few keywords, so I'd have to guess that the 2nd result would behave similarly.

You also have to consider the searches that result in no clicks or a modification of terms.

It would be very interesting to see actual click through rates for each spot in a few representative sample search results.
Mobile Analytics by Percent Mobile
"Sharp wave ripples are intense, compressed oscillations that occur in the hippocampus when the hippocampus is working off-line, most often during stage four sleep, which, along with stage three, is the deepest level of sleep."

I'm not an expert on the subject, but how can two stages both be the "deepest"?
What are the sources of this numbers? What digital distributers are counted? Are they all? Are these the numbers from only sources directly represented by the RIAA? Does this count non-label record sales? Does this count revenue from sales of records like Radiohead's "In Rainbows" release? There is more that can be asked.

I am not sure what I can conclude or deduce from this graph; when there is a small nagging glare of "Source: Recording Industry Association of America" down at the bottom, tracking my gaze.
I use the address bar in Firefox thanks to its handy-dandy I'm-feeling-lucky submission (and neatly tuned confidence -- it will take you to Google.com if unsure). Try typing "paul graham's homepage" in your address bar and see where it takes you.
I was disheartened to read some of the tripe published in the comments on the Telegraph website copy of the apology.

Ridiculous how some people can twist anything into political agenda.
Content Doesn’t Matter Without the Package
Hey, let me give you all two quick pieces of advice for your startups, while security again has your attention.

1. Go Fix The Email-Form CSRF On Your Site

The exploit that just got dropped on Alex at Cloudkick isn't an XSS attack; it's a CSRF. You're probably CSRF-able if your forms don't include individual hidden tokens that match form submission up to an actual form render. If you don't, anonymous web pages can trick your users into GET'ing and POST'ing to your forms.

What you need to do now is go make sure your email-changing form, in particular, isn't CSRF'able. Because the email form is the CSRF attack that videotapes well. Your password-change form is probably not CSRF'able, because you probably require the user to enter their old password. But the email form doesn't have that protection, and is password-equivalent.

You will probably not fully scrub your site of CSRFs; empirically, we just don't see a lot of non-.NET apps that are fully protected from that attack. But most CSRF attacks are hard to demo effectively, and are low/medium-low severity. So at least get rid of this one.

2. You Need A Security Contact Right Now

Get everyone who can code into a room and draw straws. The loser is the security contact. Route security@yourapp.com to her. Then put up a page that looks like 37signals' security page (maybe with a little less detail for now):

http://37signals.com/security-response

This costs you literally nothing, makes it clear when you're getting douched over by consultants, and makes it easy for reputable security people (ie, most of us) to submit vulnerabilities to you.
I always really like the NYTimes graphics. They do a good job displaying info, and (not applicable to this one) their flash graphs are always more helpful than annoying.
Finding the electron is tricky business. That question goes deep into quantum mechanics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle
It's not actually the programme guide. It's a lot more than that.
How to get a temporary EMail ID
At least the BBC can write an objective article about their own controversial pursuits.

I think they need to look at their regional restrictions. I can never watch any of the football or other sport clips.
What Does This Google Bug Mean?
http://www.google.com/search?q=lufthansa+wikipedia

It's still visible.
Any time you post a redesign of a major Google page, isn't the burden of proof really hard? I'm under the impression that there's an avalanche of data backing up every pixel on those pages. If Google starts setting search results in Comic Sans, you're still going to have to start by assuming that Comic Sans is making them a shit-ton of money.
So, CDs are still outselling downloadable content by as much as 3-5x?
"As far as I know, there is no company that says - We are ok. We could be better, but thats not our priority."

This author needs to get out more. Many corporate IT shops have this attitude. You can argue whether it is good or bad all you want, but it definitely exists.

Note: Technology companies should not have this attitude. But how many companies out there truly are about technology.

Is a grocery store a technology company? Your lawn service? Your local pizza shop?
Being startups geeks, we all tend to get tunnel vision. Most companies are not about technology.

Even mine, a large energy company -- Our customers don't give a crap about our technology. They care about what we pull out of the ground and how we pipe it across the country. Our IT work has nothing to do with our actual business. IT work measures it, does accounting, handles "office work", etc. It affects our internal costs and efficiencies. But that isn't our actual business, and our customers don't know and don't care about our IT shop.
At the point where you're reduced to saying "They think they're happy, but they're not!", you should probably just pack it in. If you're going to second guess people's own reporting like that about their own happiness, you can just as well conclude that they're even happier than they are reporting, as long as you're just making stuff up to support your preconceived biases. Maybe their self-report isn't accurate, but you have no basis to decide that, or determine in what way it is inaccurate.
Article fail. It's not "delivered" -- it's a language in the process of being designed.
Jung was a mystic whose work is largely an articulation of traditional religious and symbolic thought in modern terms. Although he always called himself a scientist, most people nowadays would consider that a silly claim. (He did some experimental work in his early years, but nothing related to Jung qua Jung.) Rather, he was as close as you'd get to a shaman in a respectable early 20th century Swiss doctor. If you like the idea of a magical dream-world with completely different laws than those of the physical universe, Jung's your man.

Accordingly, Jung is incongruous with the technical/scientific bias of the HN crowd. I'm sure there are a few people who are or would be interested in him, but if posts about the likes of C.G. Jung ever became prominent here (which they won't), they'd get ripped to shreds. If you doubt that, go read his foreword to the I Ching.

Personally, I think Jung is fascinating and his ideas in some ways are attractive, though I could never figure out how to actually make use of his writings.
I am sorry. I never intended to deny your industry's existence.

What I wanted to say is that nobody does it without a court order because it is the closest thing to hell corporate e-mail management can conjure.
1. A small business has problems and knows that there must be a solution, but doesn't know what's possible or where to turn.

2. You make contact. Through a personal introduction by a friend, relative, or business associate. Or at an industry event (their industry, not yours). Or at a chamber of commerce event. Or any local business event. Or by mailing them a postcard, flyer, or letter using a purchased list or phone book. Or in a restaurant, bar, or party. Or from a flyer or business card that someone else gave them. Or from an ad you ran in their trade publication. Or from a search that landed them on your website. Or... (you get the idea, it could be anything).

3. You meet and listen. I cannot stress this enough. This is 100% about their problem, not your solution or anything else.

4. If you have a way of addressing their problem, do it. It may be software you've already written, a service, or (quite likely) a prototype you mock up to show them how to attact their problem.

5. They love the fact that someone has finally actually listened the them about their problem and addressed it. Your solution is a good first step, but it still needs a, b, and c.

6. You quickly add a, b, and c to your prototype and show them.

7. They're in love. Now you can get started.
Despite the fact my comment was mostly tongue in cheek, I don't agree with you–at least not in this sense.

Shoes aren't something that consumers buy every week. New customers to Zappos wouldn't know the difference, and I doubt repeat Zappos customers would be so confused/disoriented as to not make a purchase (or need time to get acclimated).
One goal of the summit is for implementors (of languages and/or runtimes) to have a chance to talk through issues so it fits in with the conference just fine. The hype in the article is the problem.
"Sharp wave ripples are intense, compressed oscillations that occur in the hippocampus when the hippocampus is working “off-line,” most often during stage four sleep, which, along with stage three, is the deepest level of sleep."

So do people who practice polyphasic sleep have awful memory?
SauceLabs looks slick! Hope you're making money. :)

I found Selenium to be a bit heavy for what I was doing, but for a full application with UI it seems like it'd work well.
Weasel words (googles, not yours). If you are going to pretend to take the moral high ground you should make a stand on such issues.
Yes, they've said that everything is an object. But, the whole question of interop with Java is still in flux.
I never knew that singles sold so tiny.
I don't understand why did anyone bother with them at all.
I'm confused by your quotation marks around 'think'.
Are you suggesting that, in the case of a personal emotional state, people don't know whether they themselves are happy or not? It reminds me of a joke in L.A. STORY (paraphrased): "Which is to say: I was deeply unhappy but didn't know it, because I was so happy all the time".

Generally, studies involving happiness sidestep the minefield of trying to quantify or even qualify happiness. They simply ask people whether they are happy and then search for statistical correlations between those who report being 'happy' vs those who report being 'sad'.

I can only imagine that this study was conducted similarly.
Skype founders sue eBay, investors
I don't know if it's satire or not, but if it wasn't meant to be, I didn't pick up on it.

Also, I read this graph, mouth agape, and quit. No, I didn't finish your article.

"Process. It is important not to use Agile methods, as it actually improves quality. While a reader has pointed out that ‘It is perfectly possible to use Agile methods and be a very mediocre organization’, why take the chance? Using a CMM or waterfall approach will ensure that there is sufficient rigidity in process to disallow attempts to achieve a high quality."

If he's serious, that just makes no sense, and would be a miserable, miserable place to work. If it's satire, well, I still wouldn't want to work wherever this guy does.
Good idea or bad?
I have an idea to build a real estate news website that auto aggregates articles, blog posts, twitter and facebook posts etc web-wide and melds it with readily available statistical news such as govt housing reports, property value reports etc. Would also contain a simple way for users to build and compile graphs, reports etc Good for analysts, investors, real estate agents. What do people think about this? Does it already exist?
It doesn't have to have a benefit to survive. It just has to not be enough of a hindrance to prevent successful procreation before death.

Think of things which are obviously genetic and also obviously not beneficial, such as near-sightedness or teeth mis-alignment.
Please DO NOT REMOVE my URLs.

This is not the same story as changed here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=827719

How can you cripple a popular submission like that? This amounts to censorship.
Stability of any problem space makes reasoning about any problem space easier. The statement is a tautology. 'How' is a rabbit hole.

I wish, though, that Clojure had a versioning system similar to Curl or even .NET's module system, or even OSGi/Jigsaw. Syntactically, I'm thinking of something like Curl.
The way I understand it, Polyphasic sleep is designed to trick your body into skipping the first two stages of sleep, so you spend all the time in the last two, where the biggest benefits are.
I think you're suggesting a dichotomy where none exists. The scientific method depends on both.
Just because they don't, doesn't mean we shouldn't.
Solaris packages are easy to create, but getting things to compile can be tricky as lots of open source code assumes Linux-isms, so you have to port to standards. (BSDs have the same problem.)

Zones are integrated into the very core of the OS, not bolted on.

btrfs does sound like an improvement on ZFS in a few ways, especially in it's COW b-trees, taking advantage of a few more years of development. Competition will be good for ZFS, but right now, ZFS is probably the best shipping and stable FS.
I apologize in advance if some of the details are wrong. Please correct me if you remember this incident better:

When 251 started, everyone was required to sign an honesty policy about cheating, etc. The policy explicitly stated that students shouldn't use online (or other) resources for help while working on homework sets.

One of the early sets featured a fairly difficult problem. Many students succumbed to the power of the Google search box and typed in some keywords around the problem. In the first page of organic results there was a site full of algorithm question and answers, including this problem but none of the others in the set. The site's domain looked innocent; I think it even had the word math in it. Many clicked, found the answer and either used it to guide their thinking or copied it close to verbatim, cheating either way.

At the lecture following the assignment due date, Luis announced that he knew X number of people had cheated on the last homework set. He stated that anyone who came clean would receive a zero on the assignment but wouldn't be reported to the dean. Since many students worked on these problems as groups by splitting up the work, a few though that their friends had ratted them out. Others had cheated differently and thought they had been caught but didn't know how. Regardless of the method, everyone who cheated came clean.

At the next lecture, Luis told us how he did it. The innocent site was actually his, running off a box in his lab. A simple whois confirmed it. He had logged all IPs accessing the page and correlated them with student usernames. This wasn't that far-fetched: since everyone at CMU registers their computer with computing services in order to get network access, a reverse DNS to hostname, which usually contains the username, would be enough to identify. Besides, he could also have worked with computing services to get the original registration username as well.

Even if he had identified only 10% of X, he managed to get everyone who cheated to admit it and send a clear message at the same time.
Is there any proof of this or is this just what polyphasic sleepers tell themselves?
Honestly, it sounds too common and I'm sure there are several websites offering similar services. If you want to stick with the real estate concept, making websites or software for special groups may work better. For example, you can focus on potetial foreign investors trying to buy real estates in US or build something for real estate brokers and agents.

KP
Correcting for the first-player advantage in Risk
@IMO, it takes guts to look someone in the eye and tell them their investment, in both time and money, is safe with you and your fringe programming language.

Not just fringe language, but fringe anything.

The only known amongst a see of unknowns will be you.
Looks to me like CD sales were a bubble, and there's no reason to expect the music industry's success to continue as it has for the prior decade.
China’s coming magnificent bubble
New boom for community colleges?
Why would you choose an approach like this instead of using tmm1-amqp + rabbitmq? A message queue seems like it would work well, and is the logical step up from delayed_job.
Thanks for that. I was going to include the link to that, but when I clicked for the full text it asked me to subscribe.

Now that I've gone back, I was able to grab the PDF.
Illinois's so-called tech leaders have failed the state
The question they must be asking themselves is how to repeat the bubble. The last one came from instituting a new technology which (in the popular imagination) rendered the old technology obsolete, and triggered a lot of repurchases. What kind of disruptive force, if any, could trigger this again?
Singles were pressed for radio stations, back in the day. May as well sell 'em if you're already pressing them.

Sidenote: this is where the term 'B-side' came from. The A-side of the single had the song the music label wanted to promote, the B-side had some other song that most stations didn't play.
Yeah; I didn't want to confuse people who don't know that Eventlet's API passes a tuple (they might think it sends handle_socket 2 arguments)
That seems a bit off, trick your body into skipping the first two stages by...staying awake?
Photo Tampering Throughout History
Is this link coupled with an affiliate code? This list is useful and is relevant to HN. If it is an affiliate link, I am not objecting -- I would just give credit to a smart idea.
GitHub being DDoS'd again
I know! I know! Passing a bill to force the entire population of the U.S. to join BMG.

Obviously the answer was MP3s, but I think they might have missed the boat there...
I'd still use Mailinator over this, but I do dig how the address expires. Interesting twist.
Percolating Nones in Scala
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Both stages have delta waves in the same range but induce different effects on the brain. They're both characterized by the same measure for depth (of sleep).

To clarify with more, specific information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow-wave_sleep
Eye region tracking in Common Lisp
Twisted.web vs Tornado Performance, part deux
I strongly suspect that something like this is the reason why there are few code samples. When do you not need to mock up lots of sample code when designing a language? When it's basically another pre-existing language with a few minor changes. (The pre-existing language in this case might not be Java, though I agree that that seems like a good guess.)
I signed up for beta. love to know more, work on your marketing! :)
So do you know of a script that detects the skill set of the user then displays them an appropriate design?

The biggest problem with this design however is that it does not add anything to the experience other than aesthetics. In fact, it obscures many options and reduces usability. So how is this a power user's interface? Appearance is nice, but usability and understandability are much more important with design.
Those rats that selectively had all ripple events eliminated by electrical stimulation were impeded in their ability to learn from the training, as compressed information was unable to leave the hippocampus and transfer to the neocortex.

Probably remembered being electrically stimulated instead.
Not quite, you try and sleep at set times and after some time you adjust to actually sleep during those times. Since the sleep period is typically very short (~30 minutes), the idea is that your body adjusts. From what I've read, people who've tried it (for longer than a month or two, ie they actually adjusted properly) found they were just as rested as everyone else.

Having said that, who knows what negative effects it may have on them...