skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The processor sounds pretty cool, but the idea of a closed ISA that only comes with their own version of Linux makes me uneasy. I guess I want my hardware & software open.
http://helvetireader.com/
Oh, yes, that's another possibility, but might not suit his personality. He likes being involved.
You probably already know this, but mostly all modern CPU's (within the last 5+ years, I could be wrong on some accounts) are actually 64 bit, so I believe and I might be wrong, you are losing some optimizations.

Also its your RAM + Videocard Memory that is your memory, so while you might have say 4 gig, and it would seem to show up on your computer, its including your video card memory.
Talking to DC (about healthcare data standards)
Interview with Eric Meyer: The Future of Web Design (part 2 of a series)
The Vatican started doing that millenia after there were no native populations of latin-speakers left.
And also for maps.google.com, the interface is way too big in my opinion.
With Quickly, I remember what uhh it does, I just can't remember what languages it supports.
TweetSaver vs BackUpMyTweets vs TweetBackup
which paragraph represents what?
I am one of the co-founders. The problem we are trying to solve is right now the App Store is a black box and the developers are flying blind in there. We want to connect developers directly with their customers, and help them build a passionate fan base. As a result, help them establish turn their customers into their greatest marketing asset.

Developers are welcome to send us an Email to "claim" their community, and they can also bring the entire community into the game. Our in-game app is a web application that runs inside the game itself utilizing UIWebView, as far as we know, we are the first one who do this. There are a lot of advantages over SDK.

I have been with the HN community for a long time, so I value you guys' inputs. Any thoughts would be appreciated!
Yeah, I think one thing to add to that list is testing. I'm not a programmer, but I have often been able to root out bugs that really affect customer usability (and often can save our programmers time by finding the specific variables that contribute to the bug...which can make fixing them faster).

Product testing is really everyone's jobs (in software it's much easier to manage your app if it's something you engage every day).

Great list though!
please, define "better".

I am sure Windows runs Office, Visual Studio and Internet Explorer much better than Ubuntu, but that's not always a plus.

Neither is running Xcode.
Well, people have been sued for breaking ROT13, no joke:

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-116424.html?legacy=zdnn
My recumbent bike came torn apart in a box via mail.

On the up-side I know exactly how it works and I appreciate its simplicity.
PETA seems to be more focused on mammalian rights but anyone who crusades for the protection of silkworms would probably also take up the case of flies.
XKCD Explained, One Strip at a Time
Disk space is required to install the OS. The alternative is letting the user download the .iso, burn it, then try to install only to have the installer complain about not having enough space. That is failing at UI. The additional cognitive load of reading a disk space requirement is negligible, especially compared to what someone who needed that information has to go through without it. You haven't even considered the possibility that a user might not think about how much space they have until they come across the requirement.

Not only are you wrong, but "You fail at UI" is a particularly abrasive way to be wrong.
Ask HN: Putting a price on your app?
Releasing a web based productivity app in a couple months.

I noticed that there is always a lot of talk about product-market fit and general startup tips about finding cofounders and lifestyle changes but I haven't found anything good about pricing.

Anyway, our project has one constraint: we're not seeking outside investment so the app has to sustain itself.

Server costs per user will probably be hovering around $2-3/month (mostly bandwidth charges).. This is obviously a hosted solution where the kind of pricing that would make the most sense is some kind of monthly charge.

Couple of questions:

Is it ok to change prices around in the beginning to find where the market price is i.e. what gets us the most customers?

What's your take on the 2-tiered Google Apps model (Free ad supported or Premier) vs the 6 tiered Basecamp or Freshbook pricing matrix models (seemingly a more traditional approach)..?

My teammates and I do consulting on the side so we're not worried about immediate cashflow. So we're leaning more towards building an audience and breaking even than making substantial profits. Does that sound reasonable?

Lastly, anyone know of any resources or books that have helped them get a better feel for pricing strategy?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions..

ps. Thought this post was pretty good: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=910144
Sunshine with Clouds - Ubuntu's game changing release
Plus I would never outsource copywriting. Good way to end up with a FAIL.
I bought a Mac Pro recently as an audio workstation. It's probably overkill for my needs but there were enough reasons to go for it. ECC memory, internal RAID, ability to drive more than 2 displays, lots of RAM capacity, optical input/output, etc. It is an extremely reliable well built machine. My biggest problem with the iMac is being unable to use two perfectly matching displays.
Nope.

Unless your processor runs Lisp directly from microcode ;-)
Obama would have a field day.
How good are your backups?
CUDA, with high end NVidia video cards.
They are legit. They check out customer references and do continuous updates to their rankings. A great source to find legit firms. Usually someone is upset if they are just not included.
JQuery now hosted on the GitHubs
Lots of selective memory and faulty reasoning here. Take his first example: "Took art classes in high school instead of working out with the football team. I design for a living now." It's easy to retroactively give a positive interpretation to any life choice you might make, but consider the alternative. Had he chosen football instead of art he might be looking back thankfully that the decision lead him down the path to becoming an NFL star, or sports announcer, or whatever.

Similarly, the folks who took risks, ignored the common wisdom, and failed miserably may not be writing blog posts extolling risk taking and ignoring the common wisdom. IMHO there's no sound generalization to make about risk. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not, and plenty depends on our attitude towards it.
It's not though. It's protecting hardware, not software.

It's not stopping copyright violation at all. It's preventing "unauthorized" software from running on the hardware.

I simply don't see how the DMCA applies here. In fact I can't see how any copyright law at all applies here.

No one is copying any code, they are running their own code. The key they found convinces the device to use their code.
Is he asking for our approval of him buying that Lincoln Continental? And why is that risky? Might not be dead-center-mainstream.. but a lot of people still buy old cars like that. Maybe people around him feel strangely about it since it might be out of character? I don't know, has the author owned any other old vehicles? Sorry if I'm being too critical here
Hey! It's like Marmaduke Explained (http://marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com/), but, in a subversive twist, the commentary is less funny than the comic. Postmodern!
"It's easy to retroactively give a positive interpretation to any life choice"

It's not only easy, the brain is probably very eager to do this all the time, so that we'll feel the last 5,10,20,50 years of our life wasn't a complete waste of time
I'm sorry, this is very wrong to do. If you think it's a pest, kill it without making it suffer but don't make any living thing your plaything while you kill it. This is the sign of a sick society, or at least a sick mind.
The WS-Security standard uses SHA1(m || k), so beware if attacks on SHA1 become feasible.

[EDIT: Yes, I had that backwards originally.]
Not necessarily "wrong". For example, you could have an internal company wiki which would include links to competitor's site.
There's nothing cryptographically wrong with SSL (TLS and SSL are mostly synonyms in modern systems that disallow SSLv1 and SSLv2). SSL is actually an example of a cryptosystem done very right, which has survived and adapted to 15+ years of attacks. If you read the protocol, you will see lots of places that seem clunky, and almost all of them are countermeasures to older attacks.

The fact that a protocol with the same objectives as SSL that you wrote today would be far simpler and more straightforward than SSL is evidence of how important it is to use SSL, because you are not going to think of all the attacks that people like Paul Kocher thought of when they reviewed and modified the protocol.
That strange feeling you sometimes get: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2eUopy9sd8
Why not do the entire codebase as some sort of nested structure, designed only to be presented inside an IDE? So not only comments, but types, namespaces, every bit of programming metadata there is.

Many programmers feel insecure abandoming their text editor -- because this is something they're accustomed to and which they understand conceptually. Some sort of nested structure expressed in a markup language like XML would be just as understandable conceptually. Many of the incompatibilities between languages would disappear if there was a widely used standard for such a code representation.
He also apparently thinks Munroe is a reverse misogynist. There's got to be a proper word for that...
More of an interesting anecdote than evidence of a trend. Between name-dropping Seth Godin and mentioning how he eschewed football, this comes off as a linkbait appeal to the internet design crowd.
I think XKCD is sophomoric, but this is largely just of godawful quality.

The blonde girl calls megan’s boyfriend and convinces him to make some delicious nachos. However, he doesn’t know that the blonde girl’s real motive was to kill megan’s wifi signal with the microwave he uses because they were playing a first person shooter video game against each other over the internet, and the blonde girl wanted to kill her.

If you're going to write something scathing about how foolish thing X is, you had better make damn well sure your writing is actually better than thing X. This reads like a bright 12-year-old posted it (but not that bright.)
They actually use the funds to review the companies, research online, run benchmark tests, thereby making my job easier to choose the right firm.
It pretty much just ends up sounding very condescending (especially down the page).
It is definitely inspired by Marmaduke Explained, and we love that blog. As for the rest, we'll let the audience decide.
Oh, hi, I didn't notice your username. I was making the obvious joke, but yeah, I trust your expertise here.
The only valid response: http://xkcdexplained.tumblr.com/post/226264418/a-man-is-alon...
In other words, for the people who are downmodding Nate because he used the word "idiot" and they don't know who he is because his karma score is 3 digits (and who are concurrently modding me and Colin up because our karma scores are 5 digits because we are losers):

No matter what Colin is saying, Nate has actually found systems that used SHA1(m||k) and MD5(m||k), and those systems are breakable with off-the-shelf hardware. Which is why he wrote this blog post we're commenting on.

Theory's nice, but Colin's theories are just theories, and in the harsh light of real-world experience, his explanations of those theories are misleading. No secure system uses H(m||k). And H(m||k) is exactly the kind of thing smart developers will come up with if you give them a hash function and say "make a MAC out of this".
The author says that retention is important but I didn't see anything about either retention or graduation rates. If the "extra" women aren't graduating at a reasonable rate, did admitting them do them any good? Or, is that the wrong question?

Looking at the numbers, we see a change from 89 men and 7 women (96 total) to 83 men and 49 women (132 total) enrolled.

Looking at admission rates shows us how it was done. The women's admission rates were basically unchanged, from 34% to 36%, so the increase in women admitted and enrolled is due almost entirely to the increase in applications by women. At the same time, the overall admission rates dropped from 26% to 12%. Since the population has only two components, men and women, and the rates for women were unchanged means that the admission rates for men dropped significantly.

I wonder what relationship the admissions criteria have to success in the program.

However, the numbers suggest another question. What about the guys who were displaced by women? (There were at least 6 and no men got any of the "expansion" slots.) They get the same benefits that the rest of us get from more women in CMU CS, but they "paid" more than the rest of us. ("But for" the decision to admit women on a different scale, they would have gotten in.) Shouldn't they be compensated?
Misandrist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misandrist
Interesting, but I don't think it'll ever get off the ground.
fair enough. still something worth considering, though. its not like he won't be involved, just, not full-time.
Eerie Canadian flag display spurs complaint to Zellers | My Complaint
Surprisingly, I actually think this may be useful to explain some comics to less-geeky friends who could still be able to appreciate them. Lot of them are horribly ruined by the explanations, but some of them (Locke on Wordpress, for one) would still be enjoyable, I think.
Up to a point. There are some things that the right name can help with:

- It gets really boring to have to spell your name out to everyone you meet and talk to. Therefore having one that is unambiguously easy to communicate will save you hours at the boot strapping stage where one of the primary forms of marketing is talking to a lot of people at a lot of events.

- Having a name that can only be spelled (or, mostly only spelled) one way will stop a potential competitor stealing traffic. You don't want to be PlayBlox.com when PlayBlocks.com gets bought up by an offshore competitor who you can't sue. Equally ColourLite.com would suck as a name with potentially four common variants to buy or lose traffic to.

I certainly think that memorability is overrated. Generally the second time I meet people the conversation goes like this:

"Hi, I'm the guy from X..."

"Oh, that's the thing for figuring out how to do nasty projects, right? I remember you. How's it going?"

No recollection of the name at all. Of course it could just be a bad name! :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misandry
This one is much better (and useful): http://www.explainxkcd.com/
Systems that use SHA1(k || m), or any other Merkle-Darmgaard hash in H(k || m), are trivially broken in 20 lines of Ruby code.

There are attacks against SHA1 that make SHA1(m || k) unsafe, which is a point I think Nate is really trying to get across here.

You might have the terms in that construction backwards, but I'm not going to dig through OASIS standards for more than the 5 minutes I just spent trying, because very few real-world systems use WS-Security.
I think this subset of people you refer to doesn't actually exist in the real world.

I doubt the people who are saying "I'll support it when IE10 does" are referring to not closing their img tags. They're referring to all the actually interesting features of HTML5, the ones that actually have a potential of changing the web: canvas, video tag, etc etc. Incidentally, all the features that IE probably won't support for a very long time.

As stated before, most of these semantic changes were incorporated specifically because they already work, so chances are people are already using them. I doubt there's someone who is simultaneously adamant about using XHTML 1.0 style markup AND a big fan of IE backwards compatibility.

The truth of the matter is that the part of the spec outlined in this article reads more like a best practices sheet for "practical" HTML4 than a spec for HTML5. By that I mean, most of it already works, and it is not likely to significantly change the web.
NYC has a higher share of transit riders and walkers than any city, also a decent number of bikes, so much fewer VMT per capita. Also, larger multi-unit buildings are more efficient to heat than single family houses. So although NYC's environmental impact is huge, its residents have about half as much impact per capita as average Americans.

Incidentally, CA has lower than average environmental impact because the temperate weather means less energy used for heating and cooling. (Plus the higher efficiency standards and higher population density)
Yeah, I shouldn't have said it wouldn't confuse anyone, but it's still information that should be provided.
Absolutely wrong. I wish ppl would stop spreading this nonsense. 64 bit is actually slower in practice, since addresses double in size. It also causes nearly double the memory consumption, since all libraries become twice as big, so when you upgrade to 64 bit, you should actually double the memory you wanted on 32 bit. There are only 2 reasons why you need 64 bit:

* You need to compute extremely large numbers. You'll get big performance boosts here.

* You need more then ~3.5 G ram. In which case you actually have to buy AT LEAST 8G to see a positive impact. Even this is not a hard requirement, as there are work arounds in 32-bit. But 64-bit is an absolute must if an individual process needs that much ram.

note: I see I'm voted down, and maybe I'm a little harsh in my comment, but can anyone add any other reasons to go to 64 bit? I've read a ton over the years and those are the only two I could find. Maybe I should add "because 64 is bigger then 32 and I can tell ppl my OS is 64 bit"

edit: Double is a great exaggeration, but not as much as the replies indicated. I moved from a 64-bit slicehost with 512M to a 32-bit linode with 320M and have LESS memory woes. The libraries really are almost twice as big. I speak from experience and not from theory.
Yeah, that's a good one. The only complaint I have is that it contends that the Busy Beaver numbers grow faster than any computable sequence, but what it actually shows is that no computable sequence can be proven to grow faster than the Busy Beaver numbers. If a sequence happens to grow faster than the Busy Beaver sequence, but we can't prove it, then it doesn't help us prove anything about Turing machines.
What you just designed is an AE cipher mode (with "additional data", meaning in this case "all the data"). Your AE mode uses SHA1 instead of a permutation of a block cipher.

The reason nobody would do this in the real world is that there are already AE cipher modes that are much faster than this, and those modes are NIST standards that have been beaten to death.

Interesting sidenote: one of the most famous AE modes is OCB, which is Phil Rogaway's patented mode. Much of the literature of other AE modes is based on coming up with patent-free alternatives to OCB --- they include EAX, GCM, and CCM. One force that drives real scrutiny into these modes --- there are proposed attacks on some constructions of CCM, for instance --- is the fact that a really good mode is patented, and the people who own the patent are particularly incented to analyze the unencumbered competitors.

Anyways, one of the things that makes the "real" AE modes faster than your proposed bespoke mode is that they can take advantage of the block cipher engine to "fingerprint" the message, instead of having to use an entire hash function. An inaccurate but maybe illuminating way to understand that is to imagine that AES gets extra security with lower overhead because it's designed to integrate a key, where SHA1 isn't designed to take a key and has to incur extra overhead to meet its safety margin.
Handheld probe that monitors muscles
Would you prefer something more like http://xkcdexplained.tumblr.com/post/226305334/the-box-on-th... ?
The problem is that it doesn't look good out of the box. I shouldn't have to hack a bunch of stuff together to get it working properly.
"It's not you, it's me"... says the netflix algorithm to the data-set
Stable at extremely high levels of urbanization. They've already made their move to cities.
And of course you must avoid using this construction yourself because it involves you designing your own cryptographic construction.

You are actually more likely to have your system broken by making a new construction out of well-known pieces like AES and SHA1 than you would be if you made your own crypto primitives out of whole cloth. And you'd never think of designing your own block cipher.

Hey, I like that argument! I think I'll repeat it ad nauseum from now on.
This one explains it, but the one in the posting "explains" it (comments on it, humorously). Both can be enjoyed in their own ways.

Well, now I do feel like I've just killed a frog.
A second valid response would be to correctly attribute the quote to E.B. White: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/E._B._White
Does anyone know if there are full videos of these presentations available?

Thanks.
I'm lambasting the fact that HTML 5 is neither XML nor SGML but a new pointy bracketed surface syntax for the DOM:
http://www.w3.org/QA/2008/01/html5-is-html-and-xml.html

I do like other features in HTML 5 so I'm not lambasting it in general. But it's the W3C that steers the standardization of both HTML and XML. If XML is considered too complex or unsuitable for marking up web pages why don't they reform XML instead of inventing yet another very similar syntax?

In my opinion the W3C has lost a lot of credibility with this move.
The follow rights:

* The right to share
* The right to modify
* The right to use in anyway I want
I've never seen a website where "next" is to the left, and "previous" is to the right.
I'm glad that Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory is not alone in the world.

(Edit; Also, if you're going to over-explain the joke, at least over-explain the alt text too!)
1. OSX

2. Windows XP

3. Ubuntu

all plain installs
There is also some internal debate about if he is in fact an anti-semite or perhaps just insensitive to cultural issues in general:

http://xkcdexplained.tumblr.com/post/227070875/a-man-wearing...
http://xkcdexplained.tumblr.com/post/226266899/the-trick-her...
You can take risks with anything that you want to explore your limits with, be it with a business decision or a sport. I've absorbed a fairly substantial amount of risk financially with ventures, and that's actually a thrilling thing. I think the seed of that though came from the times I stepped out on the field knowing I was about to risk some serious injury because of some particular circumstances, then managing to scrape by on the thinnest margin.
There was a post earlier in the week about why Redis was "awesome" and a "lifestyle" and I posted a kind of snarky comment about why posts like that scare me away from Redis.

After this post, I had an hourlong discussion with my lead dev on swapping out memcached for Redis so we could use it for our job scheduler. This post makes an excellent, compelling case for Redis.

Just an interesting example of how two different evangelistic approaches can play out. I don't know if I'm representative of "normal people", though. (Don't say it.)
Here are the archived justin.tv videos: http://www.justin.tv/startupschool. I believe I heard something about edited videos being available at some point as well (can anyone clarify that?).
You should do this one: http://xkcd.com/33/
"number-witch"?

They didn't have a word for calculate or compute that could have been made into a noun?
Great video, definitely sums up the experience. I enjoyed my time at Startup School '09.