skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What/Who is whyslow.net and why are they copying HN?
i just came to http://hn.whyslow.net via google search and as it asked me for my pw i realized i wasnt on HN. is this authorized or are they just trying to get passwords?
Why is that an issue? It defeats this attack if it is 'username+12345acbdefg@gmail.com', right? Unless we really think that people are going to get into rainbow tables just to extract some email addresses.
The most useful information on the current state of RMTP client libraries I could find: http://captsolo.net/info/blog_a.php/2009/01/19/rtmp_flash_vi...

I suppose it was only officially published by Adobe at the beginning of 2009...
Jayson's Windows Mobile Development Philippines
JayWinMoDev is a blog site for my windows mobile development.It contains free software download that I created and codes.
Doesn't have to be a really long and random string. Just has to be something that can't be easily deduced from your name and/or username. This might not defeat rainbow tables, but I think there are probably easier ways to harvest email addresses than to generate rainbow tables and troll for gravatar URLs.
This is a lot like the conductive metal buttons the city installed earlier this year at a number of pedestrian crossings here in Ottawa. They've worked great all summer, they don't wear out as quickly because they aren't mechanical, but they're just now starting to realize that once February hits and it's -30C outside you'll have to take off your gloves and touch some metal to cross the street. Oh well, I guess the cost of progress is sometimes being stuck to a metal pole.
I am so, so glad I did ECE.
Someone please pinch me! Is it for real?
It's an awesome engineering project whose purpose is to kill tens of millions of people. This stuff has been technical catnip to several generations of scientists and engineers, but I think it's perfectly legitimate to step back and consider the moral element, even in a geeky article.
Biodynamic Agriculture Applied to Datacenters
Despite outward appearances, Orwell is not making one of those prescriptivist rants that you sometimes see from people who don't know how language evolves. What Orwell is talking about is deeper. His essay more about style rather than grammar, which means it's not really taking part in the (de- vs pre-)scriptivist debates in the first place. However, it goes the extra mile in using examples to show how pointlessly fluffy prose is simply worse at communication, because it either obscures the point, or (he implies) causes a point never to exist in the first place because it promotes wooly thinking.

Yeah, his essay makes some rookie mistakes, like complaining about recent decline and using the passive voice. He's still correct, in general. He's not stating rules of grammar or trying to lay down any sort of law, he's posting a couple of helpful pointers for getting your point across, which emphasis precision and clarity over appearing educated.

I think the biggest indication that that critique is ill-founded is that it doesn't start with "well, it's kinda long," because that's the biggest hypocrisy I detect. What is really comes down to, is that an essay that's really about prose and composition shouldn't be analyzed as if it's about linguistics, even when it happens to have "language" in the title by stroke of ill fortune.
Creating a Flash platform game with Flixel and Flex - Doors
perfect example of "crime pays"
Why are you so surprised? They're profitable and they've shown they can scale (i.e. they can earn a return on each dollar they invest in customer acquisition).
I nearly died of malaria in the middle-east, but never got it in Kenya and Somalia when I lived there.

You don't need DDT or any poisons to get rid of mosquitoes, we used frogs and fish. Any puddle of sitting water was filled with sand as quickly as possible. And any largish natural body of water got fresh-water fish and frogs introduced to it. No questions.

In Kenya (Mombasa) and south Somalia, even sea-water fish worked for us. I used to take off my Sarong and catch little fish for our wells.
Zynga did have some scammy offers but they only accounted for a minority of their revenue. As of right now they've removed all of their CPA offers and the VCs are surely aware of the ruckus they caused. So while "crime" may have helped Zynga get to where they are now, I don't think it will be a large factor in determining their success going forward.
This is a perfect demonstration that you don't need a sophisticated or compelling idea to build a successful start up.
Here in Amsterdam we have something similar (a button that doesn't push-in) but they're made of plastic, work with gloves, and light up when they're pressed.
Airlines Seek To Boost Market For Biofuels
That's not a unique form-factor.
Sad about the Difference engine -- I was there on one of the days when they turned the crank (totally by accident). If you show up on a 3rd Saturday of the month(I think it's the 3rd Saturday), you can see the PDP-1 run and meet one of the guys who programmed Spacewar back in 1962.

It's an incredible museum.
Opticks: open source remote sensing and imagery analysis platform
On Growth and Form: Actionscript Generated Flowers
I wonder if a clear plastic shield coated in Teflon would work...
In light of recent events, I find a blanket appeal to "peer reviewed literature" unsatisfying.
Optimal starting prices for negotiations and auctions
Bing for mobile comes to the iPhone
That won’t stop people making cracks about the Russian Mafia investing in Mafia Wars, one of Zynga’s popular social games, though.

Look, this is just unprofessional and racist. I don't know this Usmanov character, but "fraud" charges were routinely levied against dissidents throughout the USSR history.
What do the parameters of some random function have to do with the syntax of a language?

A Computer Science professor is unusually likely to use the word "syntax" very precisely.
Dan Bricklin's Note Taker for the Apple iPhone
Really? I kind of like a thread full of 'bah, it'll never happen' nay-sayers being immediately contradicted by the link they're commenting on.
Leaky Abstraction!... Well not really - just reminded me of it. Sometimes making the things simpler (e.g. consuming less energy) calls for unexpected effects.
I highly doubt this would ever happen internally.
On the other hand, it's a perfect example of how much it matters which parts of your idea are sophisticated and compelling. Here's an interesting take on why Farmville is so successful:
http://flyv.typepad.com/warcraft/2009/12/farmville-considere...

As a hardcore gamer, you could call it an unsophisticated game. But I think as a product it's very sophisticated about what will encourage casual gamers to spread the word and come back regularly.
Microsoft just made my day. That's such an honest direct reply. No obscurity whatsover.
In case you were wondering, Jay Walker is the founder of Princeline:

http://www.ted.com/speakers/jay_walker.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_S._Walker

http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/54/2000/LIR.jhtml?passLi...
So? Sending email is free; you can just send the email without knowing if the address is correct or not. Change the "| md5sum" to "| xargs mail" and you don't need the Gravatar hash anymore.
But 180 MM is a lot of money. This means that the exit they are expecting would need be at least 10-30x of it, that is 1.8 to 5 billion.
When I worked for $BIGCORP we'd get hardware failure calls from IBM to the tune of "server just phoned in with a drive failure, that part's not in stock locally, a plane left Atlanta with the part 15 minutes ago."

It was damn slick.
"scientists that have published hundreds of peer reviewed papers" - As anyone who has tried to get their grant money will tell you, most of those papers are institutionally funded, creating selection bias for the results. Those scientists in the community who put forth a hypothesis challenging AGW are ostracized, and, in some cases, actively targeted for their beliefs - the recent email archive revelations show a fairly consistent thread with regards to that.

Environmental Science has become (and perhaps always has been) politicized. It's not the pure world like relativity, or quantum/particle physics, where there is a passionate desire (and even support, and funding) to find something that might contradict established beliefs/theories.

I suspect there is actually a hierarchy of science beliefs that looks like:

Political Environmental Science
Less Political Evolutionary Science
Apolitical Particle Physics

(Apologies to the 2% of HN that questions genomes/fossil records. :-)

Used to be you could trust scientists to be pure - alas no more.
Thanks for this. I am just downloading it now. I haven't done any GUI programming on MS tech since 2001 when I threw away MFC and COM.
I like your style of graphs.
While I'd love to see the working out of a rigorous methodology for studying this, that particular article and study is shot through with politics.

I would really like to be able to better answer the question: how much am I contributing? But it seems like too difficult a question to gain much traction on, especially if politics leaves you blind.
Sophisticated idea, no.

Sophisticated execution, absolutely. Zynga are extremely smart and dedicated about honing every single aspect of their games to enhance their addictiveness and virality. They didn't beat everyone else who wants their spot by being lucky.
Hubble Shot Captures the Biggest "Star Nursery"
Test them under ridiculous load. 120% of peak voltage, huge ripple, let them get nice and toasty. The bad caps will pop in minutes, a good one can survive for weeks.

The problem is that the prototypes you get from your Chinese manufacturer will be made with top quality Japanese components. They'll switch them for the cheap junk later while you're not looking, about a 10th of the way into your 1 million unit production run.
Professor claims Square took his credit card reading technology
I read over every single spam (or at least the subject and first few lines of the body, via gmail) before deleting.

Yes, it's a lot. And yes, as Batsu said, I'm numb to the pain.
I don't know why it exists, but it's CNAMEd to point to news.ycombinator.com, so they couldn't be stealing passwords now, at least.
Does anyone know if you can stream using Adobe Media Server to a silverlight player?
I'll echo akamaka -- I like your graphs far more than timf's flash-based ones.

You might like to consider adding some indication (dotted lines, perhaps) of what the hourly rate for reserved instances is, since this should be approximately a floor on the hourly spot rate.

EDIT: Also, please adjust the vertical scaling based on the set of instances shown -- if I'm only looking at the price history for m1.small, it's silly to have it squished into the bottom 5% of the graph.
has nothing to do with whether something should or should not be a protectible form of property or whether it does or doesn't have value making it worthy of protection

This is where we disagree. I believe quite firmly that the fundamental nature of something, especially its existence outside of our minds, has very much to do with how we treat it as a society.
A quick Google reveals no references of any Worldwide Loyalty Team before this Gizmodo "expose". I call bullshit on the entire article.
"Some places will see an increase in malaria prevalence and some places will see a decrease, due to the varying effects of climate change. California is set to be drier and warmer, so we shouldn't have any increase."

I figured I'd do some fact checking, for no other reason than that's what a lot of this thread is about:

From: http://diseasemaps.usgs.gov/

Cumulative 2009 Data as of 3 am, Dec 08, 2009*

Cumulative Mosquito West Nile Infections by State:

New York: 100
California: 1056
Florida: 3

Population of New York is approximately twice that of California, so, on a per capita basis, Mosquito Infections of West Nile Virus are five (5) times more prevalent in California.

Florida has almost _no_ west nile infections (though they have a lot of mosquitos)

We need to be cautious about conflating disease and insect prevalence, as tempting as that may be.
Faster than C, Java, and Scala. Not bad for a Lisp, eh? ;)
investors in later rounds are not looking for 10-30x, they are oftentimes happy with a 2-3x return
Profit from your knowlege?
This will work fine with gravatar.

You just have to associate the + address with your account - you can even give it a different image so you could have a different identity on every site without needing multiple email addresses.
I don't see what the problem is. My E-mail address is a public piece of information.
"I think if you were to go out and try to claim that relativity wasn't true and still needed to be tested you wouldn't get much attention from the rest of the scientific community."

In fact, the opposite. Challenges to relativity not only get attention from the scientific community, they are _encouraged and funded_ - the community would be beside itself in glee (and someone would probably pick up a Serious Cred) if someone could disprove elements of relativity.

The challenge, of course, is coming up with new and interesting ways to disprove relativity.

Bad: http://xkcd.org/675/

Good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Probe_B or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_Gamma-ray_Space_Telescope
It is impossible to prove that climate change will occur and is man made. The only way to do that would be to do the experiment: find a planet, pump lots of C02 into its atmosphere and measure the result. Of course you would have to do this a number of times with different planets using some as controls.

However science can estimate from small scale experiments and theoretical calculations a probability that global warming is man-made and its likely effects. Even if the probability of a catastrophe is small, say 5%, it is still worth spending a small percent of GDP to prevent or to ameliorate it. It's like if you own a house you would be an idiot not to spend good money on fire insurance even though the probability of your house burning down is very small.
It's pretty much a given that anything you read about aerodynamics on an Internet forum will be a massive generalization made to illustrate a simplified version of the point.

Look at the rubbish people keep on repeating about the reasons for inherent instability for a prime example!
Neat, but he already had me at "Dan Bricklin..."

Wish the writing scale were adjustable with standard multitouch 'zoom' gestures (rather than a 3-way toggle).

The auto-advance-region could include some mirroring of the rightmost connecting ink, to get the spacing/connections right. (Or perhaps, every pen lift could cause a recentering on the lift-point?)

Would love thicker pens (and maybe even fills or other colors).
I would consider that level of effort (and numbness) a "problem"; I'm especially curious how "no problem" natrius deals.
That's an interesting question. But unfortunately for Orwell, programming is geared greatly towards reuse. So software "cliches" are valued, if they are effective.
hey casey, nice visualization. makes the relative prices of different instance types very clear.
This is an excellent article, as opposed to many shallow blog posts written after five minutes of trying a new language.

It also shows, unfortunately, that fast Lisp code isn't always pretty to look at.
I liked his final quote. It's so rare to read stories about legal action that don't include hyperventilating from both sides.

“There’s no animosity,” he says. “They’ve got a company that they’re moving along, and I hope it does well. I’ve my cards to play: I’ve got my patent application in, and I’m going to see what I can get for it.”
HN Meet-up Netherlands
From some previous topics I've seen many Dutch people active on Hacker News. I guess it is time to organise a meet-up. So leave a comment if you are in. And of course it would nice if we get his post somehow visible long enough to reach more people.
another classic technique was to pass a cookie back with the image and you could then access a couple of Kb of data
I was pretty interested in the site and product, until I saw the price

$6k is a lot for what on 1st impression 'looks' to be targeting the lower end of the security imaging market. You can buy three HD Axis IP cameras for that money. Speaking of cameras, you don't show or give any specs which is really strange when you're asking for 6k

the more I read your site the more I can somewhat understand the price, but if I was just a customer - you would have lost me in 30 seconds; your landing page doesn't convey your product's 6k of value

Still, kudos for not coming up with yet another web app
MIT's bluetooth bicycling motor unveiled in Copenhagen
So one email from over 10 years ago from one scientist without the full context of what was going on and all of environmental science is discredited? For ever?

Who is really being political here?

Luckily, science will not stop because you say it should.
Open Science and climategate: follow CERN's lead
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I'm reasonably close (Cologne, Germany). I'd be interested.
How many do you get per day? I get about fifty.
Won't install on OS < 3.1.

I wish there was a release for 3.0 firmware. I am in no hurry to upgrade to 3.1
Wish it does OCR!
Previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=997264
Dell to lay off 700 workers in Malaysia
Really? Are you referring to the recently leaked emails from the CRU? Because, at the risk of pointing out the obvious, emails aren't peer-reviewed literature.

Also, the nice thing about the peer-reviewed literature is that it is published. Anybody can read it and point out inherent flaws. Indeed, if you can identify a serious problem in a paper, and back your discovery with facts, you'll have no problem getting your counter-point published. There are literally tens of thousands of examples of precisely this happening available for your perusal, in the peer-reviewed literature!

It's not like major polluters, such as oil companies, don't have the bankroll to fund scientists to demonstrate that the claims about climate change are false. Their continued silence is like the dog that didn't bark in Conan-Doyle's "Silver Blaze"
This is basically a dictionary attack on your e-mail address. There's an easy solution: don't use an easily guessable e-mail address.

If you do use an easily guessable e-mail address, Google has been pretty darn good at finding e-mail addresses for years. I could Google various permutations of a username and famous e-mail providers in far less time than it takes to write a Haskell program. (It'd be even easier if Google indexed the @ token...hmm, I wonder if I should be codesearching for e-mail addresses instead.)

And if all you want is a list of e-mail addresses, you could just run a crawler and a few regexps, and you'll find way more than 8500 in a few hours.
Wikipedia has taken all the fun out of arguing :). Thanks for the correction.
Stars 80 and Bob Fosse
I took a direct marketing copywriting course six or seven years ago that suggested the same, and I've been pinching examples from my junk mail ever since.

In fact, it looks like the course is still running - and even taught by the same instructor I had (John Friesen). If you're in the Vancouver area, I'd recommend it:
http://www.sfu.ca/wp/dmc.htm

The mail he valued most was the stuff he'd get repeatedly, year after year, month after month - since presumably it performed the best. If he only saw one example of something, he figured it was a test that didn't pull well.
I'm in (Utrecht)
Living in Delft, Netherlands. I would be interested. I can also arrange a meeting place here for (almost) free.
I'm not sure whether this essay gets posted because of its advice on the use of language or merely for the following, continuously relevant, observation:

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

The implication is that when you use language in the way we often see politicians, the PR department, etc. do, then they are not only guilty of using inaccurate language: they are probably also guilty of having inaccurate thoughts. You should worry about using inaccurate language, because it may mean you are having inaccurate thoughts; a vicious circle.
thanks, i forgot to check dns, too early in the morning and i was just confused. altough whyslow.net itself is not a cname. can you potentially uprank your domain at google with cnaming to a known site?
Would love to attend, as long as there would be some talks in English (I don't know Dutch that well). I'm in Haarlem / Amsterdam.
Official Bing App Hits the iPhone
What i'm trying to get over here is that if your site already uses all of these techniques and more while running on something faster than rails then you will not make the page faster, and thats what the title claims.
regurgitated from: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-10415648-76.html
jailbreak-free tethering

Do you have a link handy? This sounds awesome.
Teflon is not clear. Maybe really thin? But it's quite difficult to attach teflon to anything.
Ask a Stupid Question (survey design)
Second that, in fact I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who is using this in production.
Accidents are terrible things, but I'm not exactly sure why to blame those traffic accidents on the lights instead of the drivers.
First rule: drive as the driving conditions permit.
Had it been a power-cut or a mist (making the traffic lights similarly unusable), would people still blame the lights if someone crashes their car?
Unintended: sure. Hazard: quite possibly. Driving carefully: priceless...
How I Spot Valuable Engineers
'We are no longer as optimistic about removing the GIL completely. '
Regenerative braking is cool and all, but what benefit does the Bluetooth link bring? It can't provide directional information, so no go for maps and such, apparently the only value there is so they can market it as part of the iPhone hype haze. Bluetooth use is also a battery drain. I don't like this.
Interested but not definitely in. (The missus is due the 30th.)

I'm in Delft.
What place would that be? I'm in Delft as well.
That is all fine that Dell fixed it so fast, but had that happened to me, I would not have been using Dell in the future.
And another thing: the article complains that 1) SOAP sucks and 2) It keeps changing.

There's some merit to both those charges, but change is a legitimate response to something not being right yet. What's the alternative?

Not sure why I'm getting downvotes. Its possible that I'm wrong, but it's a more substantial answer than most comments on this topic. I'd like to hear your point of view. Or are only "LOL I agree soap sucks" comments encouraged?
I guess the interest in and plausibility of the rumor will govern how much it is discussed. If the rumor being true will affect people (say iPhone developers) then it seems natural that people would want to discuss the likelihood of the rumor and what the consequences of it will be.
Same here, interested but not fluent in Dutch yet.
I'm in Enschede.
Definitely interested. I am in Eindhoven.
"Software cliche" is a great term to have coined.

I love the origin of the word cliche, from a cluster of movable type permanently set for common phrases. Metal macros.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliché
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