skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I really don't think the author understands how music gets produced and sold.

Isn't this kind of the whole point, though? The old way of music getting produced and sold is outdated. The industry will go through its own revolution, just like all the others, even if the labels don't want it to.

> The author is also forgetting the actual production of the music. A label generally fronts the money for a producer, engineer and studio time. Not to mention the mastering required for distribution.

Why bother paying for all of this, when (as the author mentions) you can just do it yourself? Equipment is only getting cheaper and cheaper, and as far as mastering goes, well, "MP3 is enough" (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/radiohead_guitarist_mp3...)

> We should not underestimate the importance of _individualised_ marketing for artists. I have a hard time seeing Apple doing this.

Yep, we won't, because who better to market the band than the band itself? Why pay somebody, when you can make a myspace/facebook/twitter/whatever and plaster it everywhere? Now, branding is still pretty important, but still, quite a huge part of the traditional marketer's job has been replaced by the Internet.

> One of the major roles a label has is to editorialise. They hunt for and preen artists. They pay for recording, they tailor the marketing and distribute the music. How can Apple do this on a large scale? If they can't do it on a large scale, why would they bother?

I don't mean to sound insulting, but it's early and I can't think of a better way to phrase this. My apologies.

Have you read The Long Tail? Why bother doing anything on the large scale? This attitude reeks of the Old Way of Thinking. If you don't believe in that, then fine, but really, all of that stuff is silly. That's what the old labels do, let them keep that, go after the vast majority of music instead.

Now, I don't know if Apple will actually do this or not, but it would make quite a bit of sense, and has the potential to make them quite a large bit of money. But I won't deny that I'm biased by my hatred of a backwards, self-centered, oligarchy of an industry. So, who knows?

Luckily, we only have to wait a few hours to find out, right?
Postfix vs Exim
Samsung D880 Dual Sim 
Samsung D880 is one of the top and immense facial look integrated handset on Samsung. This is a little wireless movable broadcast that offers you an amount of extraordinary skin texture. The beautiful dimension of the phone is 104 x 51 x 18.9 mm with screen size of 240 x 320 pixels, 2.3 inches.
They've been trying to do that for quite a while. It never really works...
You can start with a seed of popular pages instead of completely blank.
37Signals named their project Basecamp, not Anti-Project.

Even if the strategy is to frame yourself against what is out there you still need to have an identity.
The only insecure drupal code I've ever downloaded came from drupal.org. With some regularity even.

If you have an example of where the drupal licensing terms - which seem to be geared towards commerce - have been used to combat the spread of malware that would be helpful, I can't seem to locate any using the major search engines.
It's fine to protect the Drupal trademark, but it should be done for the right reasons, and in the right way. Linux gets it right:

http://www.linuxmark.org/faq.php
A cursory look for in Facets turned up http://facets.rubyforge.org/apidoc/api/core/classes/Kernel.h...

It is certainly useful, albeit not exactly what I want. Then again, I said cursory.
That's the largest problem with anything. :(
Funny, because nearly all of your designs/apps use the same button/gradient/image/border/Gotham/arrow themes for nearly every single UI element. Not saying this is such a bad thing, but it's certainly not pushing any boundaries.

Honestly, I find their new "Zeta" website to be a tremendous improvement that was probably researched heavily by a design team. Basically you took that design, added a couple gradients and pretty icons, and called it "better".

It looks pretty, but did you ever think that maybe that's not /really/ what matters to them?

"All that said, your design is more visually appealing. I just wish it had accompanied a post called "My Interesting Alternate Take On The Zappos Homepage" and not "You're Killing Me, Zappos"."
data is crap, but the presentation is visually nice ;)
Silicon Valley is shrinking
In my experience it is often the opposite trait that is a problem. Hackers don't want to do something they have already figured out -- they crave the novel.

Solving a problem a second time is much more profitable. A big part of business is focusing on your strengths, rather than your weaknesses. Find out what you do best and market the hell out of it. No product is perfect.
I've used log files extensively for security.

Aside from the obvious post-incident investigation, I've set up (nearly-) real-time scanning of logs feeding into programs that scan for abuse-like activity, and feed the output of those into alerting mechanisms and blacklists.

Those tools have proven time and again to be extremely valuable from a security perspective (we still log blacklisted attempts and can see what's trying and failing).
Sounds bad. Where are you from and when?
read again:

A high-traffic website "drupalindepth.com" containing sponsored ads, qualifies for an automatic license when the profits generated from these ads (minus hosting costs and other obvious costs incurred for maintaining the website) are used to pay a full-time developer working on the new open source Drupal template engine.

And:

Example uses for which the license grant procedure must be followed:

* a commercial website hosted under domain name "commonusesofdrupal.com";
I'm always happy to see more openid being used, rather than just being supplied. Yay!
”o boy, Naija no dey carry last”

This means Nigeria won't come in last place. 'Naija' is Nigeria while 'no dey' means will not.
This is correct. Literally, it is "Oh boy, Nigerians never come in last place."
TwitBlock the junk filter and bulk blocking tool for Twitter users
Simplifying your Rails code: Presenter pattern, Cells plugin
New guide tells you how much radiation your cell phone emits
It wasn't that bad in High School.
before we change our writing style, we should really start using real type on our webpages and not just pictures of text. This is year 2009.

scnr
Nice GDM themes for Ubuntu and Gnome (with installation guide )
Android Improves App Store, But Not Enough
Here's a weak argument to say that log files can improve security:

IF

* security means reducing risks to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information;

* risk is a function of likelihood and impact;

* the longer an attacker has unauthorized access to information, the bigger the impact; and

* if log files are reviewed frequently

THEN

* unauthorized access can be detected;

* corrective actions can be taken;

* unauthorized access can be stopped or limited;

* thus reducing the impact;

* thus reducing the risk; and

* thus improving security.

But, in reality, the corrective action reduced the risk, not the detective control (logs and reviews), so this is a weak argument.
Also notice that the redesign removes the featured products from the front page. Zappos carefully selected these with the intention of driving conversion directly from the landing page.

The redesigned front page makes customers navigate to one of the category links or to perform a search before they encounter any actual products.

The attempt to simplify the UI and the focus on the company's culture may be good ideas when you're offering a service, but aren't really appropriate for a retail site.

Compare Zappos other successful online retailers, such as Amazon, Buy.com, etc. and you will see similar busy layouts, and pages designed to draw the eye to product offers instead of "this is why we're special" commentary.
This sounds very similar to Sun and Java. Many companies profited greatly from Java -- except Sun. Where is Sun today?
"[...] as part of an application to Y-Combinator, Spring 09. Later, I was greeted with a rejection letter. But that was ok! I knew I didn’t need permission to start a business. So on I went."

I think we all can take a good lesson from this example of determination.

Congrats!
I just concentrate on understanding in those cases. Writing in class is useless for me, as I never get back to my notes anyway.

A few told me, that being unable to write (e.g. broken arm) made them understand stuff in class better. Interestingly they always went back to writing afterwards.
If someone wants to show what an awesome designer they are, I have a bunch of sites that I'd love for you to have a look at. Of course, most of them don't receive so much traffic...
Why I Am Not Gay
Why's this getting voted down? Nothing wrong with promoting something you worked hard on. It's clear from this person's account that he's a regular contributor here, not just a one-off spam link. And it is relevant to the topic at hand.
The Design and Implementation of XMonad
Beyond Earbuds: Whats next for the ipod ?
Next wave of mortgage foreclosures could stall recovery
Uh, it does say the author is unknown
An IP geolocation database visualised on the Hilbert Curve
Treating Internet addicts
Top 18 Sexiest Sex Offenders??[PICTURE]   
We here at COED do not condone sexual misconduct by any means, unless said means consist of hot, willing and able teachers getting down with young studs. Just kidding…?
I think that's a bit harsh but I guess his tone called for it.

Anyways, his redesign is indeed visually heads and shoulders above the original. Bigger fonts, bigger buttons, clearer section delimiting. It's just so much easier on the eyes.

Zappos should revert (most of) his content changes and adopt the graphical changes, that would be a win-win.
Wow, that really puts things into perspective. I think I've fallen into this same trap, and given any number of names to the fear, but I've never thought of it that way.

I just failed an interview process out of the Valley. I won't name any names, but it was a relatively well known shop. This is probably the first time since I started my career wherein I just fell flat on my face. I learned quite a bit from the process, but I won't say it felt wonderful.

This post makes it just that much easier to get back up on the horse.
The goal of free, de-identified sexuality is laudable, but the first comment makes an important counterpoint to Aaron's claim that the gay movement manufactured its own identity:

"I think you’re mischaracterizing what happened to say that out groups created their own identities, and it borders on blaming the victim. The concept of ‘gay’ existed long before ‘gay rights groups.’ It must have because the discrimination that lead to the formation of such groups relied on such an identity. It was not, as you suggest, merely an action that was (is) discriminated against; it was an identity associated with that action."
Maybe not gay, but definitely an annoying narcissist.
They have a huge inventory, ship really fast and don't care if you return product. They also did a lot of SEO so you see their sales pages for a lot of shoe related searches. (But that can get you only so far--as I said they ship really fast and don't care if you return.)
I disagree. Log files greatly improve security if you read them. When you spot problems early, you fix them early. Would you rather spot a burglar as he lockpicks your door, or as he's jumping out the window with all the jewelry?

Use logcheck to filter out benign messages; have everything else emailed to you in real time.
2002 != 2009 [why RSS cloud is relevant?]
We (me and jacquesm) just made this: http://drupaltrademarkpolicysucks.com/ . Let's see how things develop.
partially above the fold? What resolution are you using that an image 400 pixels down on the page is partially below the fold?
Maemo 6 looks even more interesting
Have used both varnish and squid on production servers, currently serving up to 500K+ uniques daily using varnish.

Squid is a 'feature complete' proxy, it's got everything and the kitchen sink. Which means that if all you want is a web-facing proxy without those bells and whistles that there is a good chance that varnish is faster (as it was in our case).

But varnish is not suitable for all deployments, and it can take some pretty scary tweaking to get maximum performance out of it.
Ok, I stand corrected. Thanks for the links, btw, I'll enjoy reading them :-)
The first result is pure gold:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61020
Teenager invents solar panel made from human hair
Any comments on this bit:

"This policy - as well as the accompanying website - may be changed at any time. You accept that all licenses accorded under this policy are non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sub-licensable, revocable at any time, and subject to changes in policy. Hence, changes in this policy may cause permissions to be revoked or made dependent on additional obligations."
The article misses the point of the original techcrunch article.

Techcrunch never questioned how much/if twitter could/would make money. Rather, the original article made a genuinely interesting point that choosing to turn on revenue generation mechanisms (which is obviously possible for twitter) poses a risk for twitter if they're seeking an acquisition. That risk comes from the fact that real revenue gives acquirers something concrete to base their purchase price on, rather than a speculative guess at revenue potential.

I don't know if this is actually influencing twitter's thinking, but I certainly found the idea interesting.

This article I simply found annoying, because the tone is almost haughty while the content demonstrates the author didn't understand (or maybe care about?) the point of the article he referenced.
A workaround is to specify only 0xFFFFFF; the last byte will default to FF (255), zero transparency.
Well said. These guys are very eager to be on the cutting edge and often have little regard for the consequences.
SimpleCDN change their pricing structure often. I've also experienced quite significant amounts of downtime.

Also their routing system routes me to Chicago even though I'm based in London.
CDNs are fantastic for serving up high volume static content (images, css, downloadables) but the are really not appropriate for dynamic web pages that are personalized to the viewer.

In other words, you can serve up just about anything that does not need up-to-the-minute customization using a CDN.
Improve the speed and security of your SQL queries
It's actually just a piece so that F5 can pimp the technologies they are selling. See the numbered list towards the bottom of the post.
Watch Capital Factory's Demo Day Live, @m2jr keynotes
I'm curious if anyone would be willing to share their answers (or post a link to someone who has)?

I'm trying the Qualification Round now just for fun and practice, and my output certainly seems like it should be correct for problem 1 (I match the sample OK), and it's a little frustrating to just be told "Incorrect" by the bot over and over again. Not sure where my bug is...
Hey, I completely understand. The site is great, and I've used it to demonstrate this point to unenlightened coworkers... but I was expecting actual news about this ancient and hallowed site, not just a repost 8)
Huh ... Does the Daily Mail generally publish hoaxes?
You have a good point, although the log file is merely enabling better security, not the cause of it. ;-) Subtle difference that needs to be pointed out so people remember that simply turning on logging isn't - by itself - doing anything to improve security. You have to actually leverage the log file - either by reading it, as you point out, or using other tools to act on what's in the log file.
If you want to add alpha use the alpha parameter, don't specify it in the color value. The API makes a point of saying the color format is 0xRRGGBB.

Use this instead: graphics.beginFill(0xFFFFFF, 0.5); //50% Alpha
Hmmmm... If that works and is going to be used for lighting, then combining it with a pulse width modulator of about 50pc duty cycle should double the supply duration.
This is nothing new. WordPress is trademarked too, Matt is just more laid back about it, up to a point:

http://wordpress.org/about/domains/

http://andywibbels.com/2006/10/wordpress-is-a-registered-tra...
Freerisk.org - Freeing financial data and modeling
Your use of a question mark at the end of a statement is confusing.
PayPal uses OpenID? That's actually a little scary.
I worked at SenSage, a company that creates a log-archiving/querying product (used by NSA/IRS/Dept-of-Treasury/Navy, banks, insurance companies, telcos, etc.). Our customers all had very good reasons for archiving logs:

* Real-time security never gives complete coverage
in an evolving electronic infrastructure ... there
always are vulnerabilities that are patched, new
services introduced whose risks aren't properly
understood at first, etc. Having a log archive
lets I.T. personnel look at history in case of
breaches to find how certain data was leaked,
or find what kinds of attacks were attempted.
This history informs I.T. personnel how to
improve their real-time security. It's an
essential part of the feedback system.

* The most dangerous data theft isn't done by
those penetrating a network from outside ... it's
done by unscrupulous insiders who have some
(needed) measure of access to the data. You need
to trust someone. But they're not always honest.
Trust, but verify. Archived log data is your
only recourse here ... and knowledge that every move
is recorded keeps insiders (if you choose to let them
know) honest.

* Yes, log archives help prosecute bad actors.

Log data archival is a big commitment, will take tons of disk space and some expensive software (for a large corporation), and should be more than simply a data sink. To be effective you need to be able to continually run standard and custom queries to see what's happening in your network.
The owner of SimpleCDN struck me as a bit flaky and rude. When I searched then for reviews of SimpleCDN you'll see some red flags in the way he responds to other people.

I asked something about this myself a long while back:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181010

If you have your "showdead" flag on settings, you'll see some comments there that are kind of anti-SimpleCDN from people who had commented on nothing else before and/or just signed-up that day to comment. I'm not sure whether that's someone trying to discredit them or just a coincidence.

We considered using them (and played with their service a tad), but Cloudfront has been working well enough for our needs (since we also use S3 a lot).
MeatWater - High Efficiency Survival Beverage
"The first problem that Mr. Bowen, Mr. McPherson and the book’s third author, Matthew Chingos, a doctoral candidate, diagnose is something they call under-matching. It refers to students who choose not to attend the best college they can get into. They instead go to a less selective one, perhaps one that’s closer to home or, given the torturous financial aid process, less expensive.

"About half of low-income students with a high school grade-point average of at least 3.5 and an SAT score of at least 1,200 do not attend the best college they could have. Many don’t even apply."
That's been added. Google's cache of the page doesn't have it. I don't know how long this reference will last, I don't know how Google's caching system works, and the wayback machine doesn't seem to have it. However, here's a link:

http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:xnQVWK8a5AsJ:blog.monoc...

Clearly he's noticed that people are dissing him for plagarism and changed it without acknowledging it.
Recommended NLP, ML, and CL papers
Annoying that the video ended just as something interesting seemed to happen!
Ah, okay. I usually use the second argument of beginFill for specifying the alpha.

Flash has quite a few quirks with Number vs int vs uint (it tends to switch types internally) so it could well be something to do with that. In fact, 0xFFFFFFFF is one of these cases:

var n:uint = 0xFFFFFFFF;
trace(n, getQualifiedClassName(n)); // result: 4294967295 Number
Create Your Own Programming Language (Book)
Why programmers in the far future will be almost all women.
As computers and programming languages become more sophisticated and AI-like, programming a computer will become more like teaching a human.

And teaching is something that mostly interests women today.

So one would expect that programmers in the far future will be almost all women.
It just goes back and forth for me. When I really cared about my grades in school, I would stick to classes that I'd do good in. Then when I started sucking and school and grades quit meaning much, I started taking classes for how interesting they were instead of ease.
It's called a snowclone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone
I think you have it backwards:

As computers and programming languages become more sophisticated and AI-like, programming a computer will become more like teaching a human.

And programming is something that mostly interests men today.

So one would expect that teachers in the far future will be almost all men.
for more information on the project, watch the talk from ETech -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmhAIPGjCps
MMO Monopoly using Google Maps.
If so, it was quite subtle. I'd think sarcastic comments would be fleshed out a bit further. shrug
+1 for Cloudfront. I've been pleased with it so far, especially considering how easy it was to set up. My biggest downside is that they don't support https, which can be a deal breaker for some people.
The Web will dismember universities, just like newspapers
If programming in the far future is more like teaching humans, why would men still be interested?
"I understand I took a risk," Mr. Janis said. "But I did not anticipate that the real estate market would go down 30 percent."

Understanding a risk means that you should anticipate it having unexpected, and possibly unfavorable, returns. He obviously did not. I have much less sympathy for people with interest-only loans than I do for sub-prime borrowers. Sub-prime people were sold on a dream, these people were simply sold on greed.
This doesn't make any sense. It costs (according to the article) $38US to produce about 18W of electricity, a little over $2/W.

I'm currently buying solar panels from China for $1.85/W US in small quantities, and they generally throw in the charge controllers as well.

The article also implies that the hair needs to be replaced at some regular interval.

Hardly newsworthy.
McLaren's new car
The Importance of Engineering "Motivation" Into Artificial Intelligence
I've used CloudFiles from Rackspace. It does the job