skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to add that he wrote a post about my company and product (Rocketbox, http://www.getrocketbox.com), but ABSOLUTELY NO COMPENSATION CHANGED HANDS. I would think that most of the companies he wrote about are in a similar situation, where they did nothing wrong but their article has also been deleted.

I hope he learns from this, and it kinda sucks my article is gone.
There’s nothing stopping you from putting one of those first, right? Either way, you should be careful about the fallbacks.

It’s impossible for an article like this to discuss the proper stack for every possible @font-face typeface you could choose.
yup, sure but probably not as much as keeping your leg.
Thanks for PatternTap.com - very helpful resource.
But the torque applied to both wheels will always be equal in theory, so the spinning only happens because of the 'dynamic friction is often less than static friction' factor. This does mostly solve the problem.
> So Chavez is raving mad and closes everything he doesn't like is supposed to be proof that the media is leftist?

Yes. Any sufficiently smart person would realize that the media outlets that remain on the air after Chavez' frenzy are the ones that are working aligned with the Government interests.

> The Brazilian dictatorship (...) does that mean the military were lefists?

No, it means that they were both authoritarian and anti-democratic, and that neither respect the press as an institution. Instead of letting the press do its job, i.e, report the facts to the general population, the want the press to work in their favor, brainwashing everyone and letting them run the country unquestioned.

> The Brazilian government is systematically criticized by the largest media companies; that is undeniable.

This is rather naive. Of course there will be "criticism". But that is independent of being left- or right-leaning governments.

The important part to think about: is the criticism unwarranted? Is it incorrect? Do the news outlets actually go deep in questions that might show the government errors? Did any part of the media fabricated accusations? Do you think all the corruption scandals were invented by the big media conglomerates?
Politics is tricky, and different countries really are different. No one in this fight is clean. In 1992 Chavez led a failed coup against the government and was imprisoned. In the US he'd have been barred from public office, if not tried and executed for treason.
This is a great philosophy, but I'd hesitate to say "all" variables; sometimes it just doesn't work out.

ex, in class definition:

final int foo;

In constructor:

try {
foo = 1;
} catch ( Exception e ) {
foo = 2;
}
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While "lying fanboy" is a little harsh, I think there's something behind the misrepresenting how serious the crashes are and that their unquantifiable and unfalsifiable. I suspect most reports are anecdotal, like "Safari crashed while I was playing Desktop Tower Defense, and I was just about to have the highest score ever!", which is more of an emotional position than objective/analytical. At this point, it's in no one's best interest, other than consumers, to collect information on crashes and do something about them. Steve Jobs would actually have to (gasp!) eat his words if it's not flash that is crashing and Adobe would actually have to (gasp!) fix the bugs if it is. And bug fixing doesn't make headlines. This disagreement between Jobs and Adobe gets the pageviews.

Fedora 12 has an "automatic bug reporting tool" that is annoying in that it often shows up when you aren't expecting it, or when you know something crashed that Fedora folks can't do anything about -- so I've usually opted not to submit the things it wants to report. But that may be a losing battle in the long run, since more data collected could actually get bugs fixed, and then there are statistics on how frequently crashes are a problem for people. Thing is, I know how much bogus stuff gets collected with these kinds of tools, and it's difficult to sift through, so in some sense, I think I'm actually helping them by not submitting things I think may be bogus.
Huh, so chrome supports theora AND h264?
Identifying website visitors through "history stealing
When you're approaching a 17 year old I think you have to go easy on them, if he initiated it it is a completely different story.

Edit: and that's accepting as 'read' that this is s.o.p in the blogosphere which I am not yet prepared to believe.
Facebook Takes Over Its Own Display Advertising From Microsoft.
Ask HN: How Do You Use Twitter?
Do you use the generic UI at http://www.twitter.com? Do you use http://search.twitter.com? Or do you surf it some other way? I am seriously not getting twitter. What am I doing wrong?
As a quick fix you could chat with the HR guy and let him know that when you want to vouch for someone you will do so directly. Also ask for a $reward if they hire someone you recommend!
Good point, but here's why I'd like to improve my own skills: I like being able to put something together to test out a new idea or site, and if I have to get someone to help out every time, it's a bit limiting. If any of them ever were really successful, or I wanted to invest in them, I'd certainly get a pro to fix them up nicely.
I am definitely biased- a flash hater. Hated it on Windows, hated it on Linux and now hate it on the Mac. Definitely we are seeing two companies (Adobe and Apple) playing fans off each other. In my opinion Adobe is the worse of the two evils. For example look how long it took Adobe to port Mac photoshop from PowerPC to Intel. It is not like Adobe didn't already have a lot of Intel experience with their Windows version of photoshop.
Adobe's only real hope is to open-source and freely license the whole Flash stack. They've proven repeatedly that they can't manage the evenness, performance, and ubiquity necessary for something like Flash.

If they don't do this, Flash is dead, which is stupid imo because they could still make a lot of money off of the IDE.
It is synonymous with immutability though, in the strictest sense. In this case x and the ArrayList are two different things, one is final, the other is not. Yeah it's an anal distinction, but still a valid one.
The author is arguing that it is good enough, and going any farther is unnecessary complicated. However, the use of a static salt or modifier, in this case "foo" does not change much if anything to the attacker. All portions of the salt should be random based on the user or account, so that for each individual account, an entire rainbow table would have to be created, which even with distributed cloud computing would be too expensive.

There was an article linked a while ago that plotted prices to crack common hashes using Amazon's cloud, and even for 8 length alphanumeric + symbol it was over $50,000 of estimated computing, adding a significant unique salt (username in this case) would make it unjustifiable from a monetary point of view.
I started using that, and it certainly helps, but there's more to it than that.
I don't see a reason why he can't be a creator. Design it's more a knowledge of relationships, and the more you explore the more you can create.

Assuming you're talking about graphics design (creativity) [r1]: the more you explore design patterns, it's more about knowing the tools, once you know them you can create with them. Programmers are designers, just they're not used to do graphics.

EDIT:r1: Graphics design only, not including accessibility, etc.
Well done for falling into Giles' trap...

Standard response: don't feed the trolls (even the well-known trolls)
Agility in startups
Astronomers using web to find valuable meteor
Yeah, I did. They're more about teaching than putting artisans in touch with potential customers. There's nowhere on the site I could see to get in touch with community members. Kind of funny, since they proffer themselves as a community organization.
The final keyword in Java is great. It's probably the only design decision I think Java really got right compared to C# (sealed, readonly, const? bleh)
That list makes me think that you just finished reading Cory Doctorow's Makers. If you haven't, you should. It's available online under a CC license.
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An illiterate clown with an oprah-wannabe frustration in charge of distracting the populace, while a band of thieves ransack and pillage the resources of that nation.

The perfect definition of "cleptocracy".

Panis et circenses.
Someone advocates less mutability and instead of applauding that, you start scoffing Java. Is Lisp a fearful language?
There are different municipal incentives at work in a large urban center than in a suburban environment. In the suburbs there is a definite bias towards larger detached homes that cost more money as it increases the tax base while only slightly increasing the per capita costs (for water + sewer + roads, etc).
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Interesting, enjoyed it, but ...

OT: That is one of the "dirtiest" sites I've ever seen, and the reason is that so much of the text is rendered as images.

Maybe understandable if a logo is a strong part of a company's identity. But there's so much text on the page that is inexplicably rendered as an image:

- The logo, American Scientist, which doesn't look especially hard to render as text.
- The Ads by Google header to the ad box.
- View Printer Friendly.
- Especially ironic: Raise Font Size a A *A*, where the phrase and each letter/link are made of four separate images.

And this in the middle of an otherwise reasonably modern site that uses css and javascript. It's Brazilianesque, in the Gilliam sense of the word.
If your try{} catch{} blocks were expressions, not statements, you could write

foo = try { 1 } catch(Exception e) { 2 }

much like the foo = bool ? 1 : 2 ternary if statement, versus the if() {} else {} clauses.
Perhaps we should go even farther -- 'final' should be default on methods and classes as well. Derivation should only be allowed where explicitly granted by a programmer.
Facebook celebrated 6th birthday with new home page
http://highscalability.com/blog/2009/10/26/facebooks-memcach... would indicate that Facebook's memcached instances are sometimes CPU-bound. They've submitted several patches to Memcached to improve its performance so that would back that up as well.

I've wondered the same thing--compression would be enormously helpful to us since we're RAM-bound (even with tons of RAM) and store a lot of easily compressible HTML. Further, our memcached instances show almost no CPU load.
What does that comprise in mortgage terms?

Very few people own their home outright - it's the affordability of the mortgage that really matters.
Looks like Theora wins -- this means that about 94%* of web browsers either support it natively, or can watch it via a pre-installed plugin.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
In short, no one wants to give you money unless you don't really need it. It's been true for a long time, and almost all lenders operate that way.
I think this falls under 'the road to hell is paved with good intentions'.

That's an easy statement to make. How do you know that your well-intentioned crusade doesn't cause more harm than good?

Historically, I've found that self-righteous crusades cause a lot more problems than they solve.
They were mostly there for the articles, where they 1) brought in a bit of beer money, and 2) didn't really seem to detract from anything (I can see the point about the home page ones). Anyway, I removed them.
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"Those aren't mutually exclusive and neither is their inverse."

They certainly aren't in general, but in a meritocracy they are. A meritocracy, almost by definition, assigns more value (and therefore dignity) to those who are more capable. I think the author is arguing for an environment where they are no longer mutually exclusive.

"The author's mistake is in thinking that you can give someone dignity by treating them as more capable than they actually are."

I think the author is saying that dignity should not be tied to how capable a person is.
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... and ridicule the article/Java, instead of acknowledging that it rightly argues that the average Java program benefits from less occasions for mutability.
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If I am on a platform where Arial looks OK, it should already be my default sans-serif font, right?

Well, the thing about designers is that they don't trust the end user. In their minds, if the end user were put in charge, 90% of the web would end up as Comic Sans MS.

If you want to force the issue, you can use a user-defined CSS file to override some font settings.
Sure, I'm no fan of Chavez, but I think you have to consider the context of the censorship. It's difficult to imagine any government failing to censor media so openly hostile to it. I am not in favor of censorship even in these cases, but it's a bit naive to lambast Chavez for this, as if the same thing wouldn't happen in the US or other countries under similar circumstances.

(No doubt there are plenty of other things Chavez can legitimately be lambasted for.)
It's a poor substitute for C++'s const though - at least that lets you reason about the state of an object. Java's final keyword just stops you reassigning a reference - how many times do you inadvertently do that?
Cool idea!

* Would I find it helpful? -- Yes.

* Would I pay for it? -- No (with a "perhaps yes" if the charge was per ticket, and relatively small)

And I am terrible with design, but it seems to me that you need to work on the UI a bit.
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Open Letter to Canonical Regarding New COO
In response to one rather trollish comment on HN, Spikefu says:

===

[Adobe can't fix what they can't reproduce. I'm sure they work very hard to eliminate any and all instability from the Flash Player on all platforms. If they don't, they end up living in a world of PR hell.]

===

So if you're having Flash issues on OSX, the bug reporting tool is here: https://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Currently there are 4 bugs containing the text 'crash' where the environment is OSX. None of them have any votes, watchers or comments apart from one which has a comment from Adobe saying they can't reproduce it. On that evidence, it's hard to see why Adobe would believe crashing on OSX is a critical problem.
If you are making an argument to recode your entire site from PHP to some other language, the answer is you just lost that argument.

This only works if execution time was a major part of the argument, and the site meets the conditions for benefiting from HipHop discussed in the article.
Denying the problem isn't going to win them any points here, nor is off-handedly stating "oh, we're working on it, but don't blame us." They could start turning the discussion the other way to admit to problems, get releases out quickly to improve the performance, and be painfully clear how Apple could help make their software run better (system call information, etc).

Suddenly, it's Adobe who's coming out as the sympathetic market leader, and Apple has to turn and defend its stance as anti-Flash from a non-technical standpoint. As Apple is forced to make its pro-App Store stance official (even though all of us here understand it) they'll get looked by the masses as as a monopoly-maker or as a company that stifles outside development.
I can at least say its working. Within the past hour of my post my cable monitoring site has been checked out by comcast and cox cable. Thanks for making it easy to post what I have done so far.
I really don't like this headline. You'll never learn anything if you try to fail. Failure should not be a goal.

You are very probably going to fail at some point. It's important not to let the fear of failure prevent you from acting in the first place, and it's important to be able to deal with, accept, and learn from failure.
I was in the same situation recently. I asked the person to send me his resume. I forwarded it to the HR recruiter so I could honestly tell this person I had forwarded his resume. At the same time I added a caveat to the recruiter that I was not familiar with this person or his work and that based on the resume he did not look particularly impressive.
Women have a greater chance of being tetrachromats than men do. Basically a tetrachromat can see a fourth range of colors giving them the ability to distinguish 100 million colors compared to the 1 million colors normal people see.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy
We're always looking for green-but-promising and rockstar-veteran software engineers, preferably with C# and C++ experience. Local to Reston, VA, USA is pretty much a requirement.

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Problems with x-height is the first thing that popped into my mind when reading this article. Some fonts, even if they're both old roman fonts, will have dramatically different sizes: higher x-height, wider, thicker, etc. Just putting together a list of serif fonts doesn't necessarily produce good end results unless your design is totally fluid.
>Yes. Any sufficiently smart person would realize that the media outlets that remain on the air after Chavez' frenzy are the ones that are working aligned with the Government interests.

This is just false. Much of the Venezuelan media is extremely hostile to Chavez. He has closed some of it down, and bullied the rest, but there are still many media organizations operating that are highly critical of him.
I'd go but I'll be out of town. Maybe next time!
Sorry, I thought you said that they offered to pay you. If they just tried to talk you into it, there's no ethical issue of course.
One bad apple does not a blacklist make, surely?
Pick up a copy of the Non-designer's Design and Type Book by Robin Williams (not the comedian).
Thanks! Design definitely needs professional help :)

re: pay for it -- currently the email reminders are free, but if the user wants their tickets automatically paid it's a per ticket fee (like you suggested) of $5.
Perhaps that's because bribes, beyond Tips to waiters & taxi drivers, are not very prevalent in American society. What if you'd grown up in India, China, or Indonesia where small bribes to you your job are a fact of every day life. Would you ever learn that they're "wrong" if they're culturally accepted?
Because you have self selected yourself into a mono-culture of people very much like yourself. You have no reason, no incentive, to understand and empathize with people different from you. The essay makes that point with respect to the rich and poor kids in the Breakfast Club, who were at least in the same school, vs. the modern high school in the O.C., where everyone is uniformly spoiled and out of touch with other people's reality.

This leads to the increasing political polarization we see today. A relative handful of people taking society's spoils for itself and isolating themselves from the rest of society. If unchecked, do you think this will end well? The end effect is something like the Feudalism rightly decried elsewhere in this thread.
Could be nice if the poster could said if the jobs are US-only. Begin in Mexico I know I would appreciate it.
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More than you might think
8 A/B split testing case studies you cannot afford to miss
Kindle Development Kit now in limited beta
I wonder if the humorous alternate way to read this url was intentional, or if it's another experts-exchange moment.
Adobe's JIRA system for reporting bugs is worse than useless. We found multiple crashes in the Flash Player that were triggered by customer-created content and reported them to Adobe with reproduction cases and details, and they didn't even respond to our bug filings for months. They wouldn't even let us pay them for some sort of support contract.
"...nothing beats the uses of F# to implement statistical machine learning algorithms as part of the Bing advertisement delivery machinery." For those interested, I found a bit more information here (AdPredict): http://www.slideshare.net/lgayowski/taking-functional-progra...
Yes but when the quality is roughly the same, square footage rules.

Look at houses in the same neighborhood (better: same street) with zillow.com. You'll notice that square footage directly relates to price.
What is a way by which a person interested in such a position could contact you? I looked at your blog, which was quite interesting, but I did not see any method by which to contact you other than the comments on the blog.
If they didn't offer to pay it's perfectly fine.
Because this allows you to compile in places and times where a language with more suitability towards compilation but heavier time or memory needs would be unsuitable.

One example that pops to mind is shader programs on a GPU.
Direct link: http://www.forbes.com/2010/02/03/hackers-networking-equipmen...
Wow, never knew one could do that.
Anecdotal or not, the only time my browser ever crashes (at least since Java applets stopped showing up) is immediately upon opening a page with streaming video. Whether it's Apple or Adobe at fault, I don't care, but it seems to be exclusively triggered by Flash content.

Are there many people here running OS X that don't have problems apparently caused by Flash?
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I attended the last OAF in LA, and highly recommend it. I got to meet lots of interesting entrepreneurs and angels - several of whom had great ideas for our company that we'd never considered.

One of the startups (not mine, unfortunately ;-)) almost ignited a bidding war on the presentation floor! It's the best way to meet a lot of highly qualified angels quickly. We probably met as many angels that night as we did the month before.

Even with the 'post hoc ergo proctor hoc' fallacy in mind, I don't think it's a coincidence we signed a term sheet at a great valuation the next week either ;-)
We're hiring across the board, from Python developers to sys admins.

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If that is the case it is a disappointing development.
Great call. Definitely important -- I will be adding it.
The people in the channel submit interesting and relevant articles on regular base and I think those submissions are one of the main reasons I visit this site on a daily base.

and. crucially. nobody forces anyone in the channel to upvote or post anything. I only ever upvote links posted in #startups if I think they're interesting, which is exactly the same criteria I use on any HN link.