skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not so good.

First minor hurdle: Mma treats backslashes in strings as escapes. But even after doubling them all, I still get "Could not parse [BLAH] as Mathematica input". A bit of experimenting suggests that Mma doesn't like \cdot, so I removed those. I took out the explicit linebreaks at the same time.

Now Mma is able to parse the TeX. So far as I can tell from a quick glance, it's understood it OK. Unfortunately, I've had no success in getting it to plot it. RegionPlot[...==0...] produces nothing. ContourPlot[...==0,...] produces nothing. Without the ==0, unsurprisingly, no contour Mma chooses to draw looks at all appropriate. The trouble is that (1) the function is varying so damn fast in the relevant region and (2) those zero contours are all "valley-bottoms", and there's not much way for Mma to know they're there at all. Even giving unreasonably large values for WorkingPrecision,PlotPoints and MaxRecursion doesn't help, unless you consider running the Mathematica kernel out of memory "helping".
I don't think that place where you publish your content determines quality of that content. It's more about moving with your content to places where people are.
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Argh. Well, if you get past the wall of Future Tech buzzwords they've got some great ideas. These come later in the video though, as the first portion is basically:

"Mouses aren't enough, we need [what equates to large ipad screen, AKA tablet, AKA nothing really new here]"
"viewers simply did not miss what they had never seen"

That's an important lesson for any site thinking about setting up a paywall.
It depends. I can see it for "being allowed to access the internet is a fundamental right" but not "having access to the internet is a human right."
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Yes, of course: the biggest factor are our salaries – we're raising them steadily as we're making more money. The second (minor) factor is that some costs are rising depending on the number of customers/users, such as payment or server costs.
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You will probably always need to manage your content somehow. Not only that, but you'll also need a framework or a development platform to base your software and ideas upon.

The CMS's (WCM's) role in your life might be diminishing relatively, since your focus is on more than your own website, but it's still a fundamental building block in your web presence
Just one remark - "hostess club" in Kathmandu are called dance bars. Same idea - pay, talk and go away. Prices are ten times higher than on street. Juice will cost you 10 bucks. And a men returns to buy even more dreams. Lots of Indians, Germans (of course) and Russians. =)
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What if the online part of AC2 was not to do with DRM but, say, an online MMORPG portion.

And what if that was DDOS.

Who would you moan about?

Yes, the online DRM is sucky and a stupid idea. But if anybody is DDOS'ing the servers they are sucky and stupid too :)

There are right ways and wrong ways to protest about this.
That's how it is seen here in Finland. The idea is that all residents will have the services they need, regardless of financial or social status. They have simply added internet access to the same list as public transport, wheelchair ramps, etc. Makes sense to me.
Ah, C programs from the early nineties. I wonder which file has the most remotely-exploitable buffer overflows.

(The source code is good reading nonetheless. I love the PUBLIC macro to declare public "methods" in libwww2. A little C++ jealousy, I guess.)
http://imgur.com/SW5Fi.png

Nostalgic!
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Agreed - fundamental building block because we always deal with content. But the role of WCM is changing and I think that new wave of software is coming that will change a game just a little bit.
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Being a web developer, I agree, obviously, but I'm not sure if it's true. If they're packed to capacity 100% of the time with a crap website, paying for a better one if just an unnecessary expense, isn't it? Especially if they're a small business with no desire to expand into a chain?
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First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a communist

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out, because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out for me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...
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This site is almost 6 months old, before we knew anything real about the iPad. And it is about using a touch surface to control a separate screen, not touching a screen.
"Most commonly it was used for building and hosting external websites."

Actually, for many organizations the intranet is much larger, more dynamic and often more important than the external website.
I still find it astounding that people think real time information is that important. There really aren't that many amazing things happening in the world at any one time. My rule is if it's not worth sticking in my memory system/org-mode it's not worth reading. I can count on one hand the amount of material I've put into supermemo from blogs this year.

99% of blogs are highly targeted linkbait with little actual content. My key sources for information are pubmed and citeseer, then google/delicious search.

I wish someone would invent a search engine that scanned for ad-less content, that was old but edited many times by a human, and linked to by other ad-less, old, often updated content. That's important to me, but usually takes 10 pages of google to find these gems due to all the SEO.
I guess this is somewhat offtopic, but on Valentine's Day my wife and I went to a restaurant of questionable elegance -- since our first anniversary and now, we've grown far more accustomed to eating at nicer places, and wasn't sure whether this place was going to hold up to more informed scrutiny.

When ordering, I asked the waiter if I could substitute the potato gratin for something else. The waiter informed me that I could, but that I'd be making a huge mistake, as he believed that the chef's pairing with the tenderloin worked especially well.

Turns out, he was right, and my skepticism was unwarranted, but I (as you) also knew well enough when to defer to more-informed opinion of the staff.

I guess what most surprises me is that people, in general, don't. I don't know if they've developed a mistrust of people in that position, or if there is something particular to the design profession (as it is rather... abstract) that makes it harder to just accept things that don't look good to you.

Regardless, I agree with your assessment that the 'fun' being had at the clients' expense is harmless, and sanity-protecting.
The "right to health care" and the "right to education" both depend heavily on infrastructure and technology.
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I don't get the same impression from the authors output as the author did. For example:

http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/sm...

The left hand side of the capital D on the LaTeX output (bottom) looks thinner compared to every other vertical in the sentence. Word (top) clearly doesn't have this problem.
Seriously, there are entire journals devoted to this. It's been a huge deal for almost ten years in industry/research. Are you sure you have looked yourself?
Before you do that math, make sure you're not counting raises, theoretical jobs from as-yet-un-funded projects, etc. Here's a nice map of where all the fake saved-jobs are:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/maps/Bogus-jobs-created-or...

Although you have to adjust upward: faking the existence of tens of thousands of jobs is obviously difficult work, and I bet more than one person is working full-time on the faking.
Yes - as was thinking of that part also. To be honest it proves WCM death even better. Today internal collaboration systems are killing intranet websites very effectively.
Look at things like Yammer or similar (Salesforce Chatter?).
So what if it's older than the public release of the iPad? The design is still the same.

But like I said: http://www.wacom.com/cintiq/cintiq-21ux.php Not really anything new on that portion of the video.
Did you start with Ramen salaries and are working up to hamburger? Or did you start with hamburger and working up to steak? It's none of my business of course, I'm just always curious where one puts the line between a reasonable salary and something gratuitous.
previous posting has some good discussion on this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=877535
Interesting news, but not Hacker News. It doesn't gratify one's intillectual curiosity, it's not about hacking, it's not about startups, it's not about technology.

It's news, on that we can agree.
Sometimes I may not the have time to review something, and just want a quick click to see if it catches my interest. I think having a clickable link helps with click through.
Google. Weak restaurant websites can use them as a crutch.
I have this photo above my desk to insire me and shame me into working when I might otherwise be staring off into space. It's a photocopy from a photo that was in my local physics department, and my copy pre-dates the internet.

It still inspires me to work, but also reminds me to have a life. After all, this life is not a dress rehearsal.
Best time of day to submit to HackerNews
Seriously, they publish this every year in all the detail you could possibly want.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget

And if you think that the White House is trying to hide it, here:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget_fy2009_default/
No design awards, but this website does exactly what I want as a restaurant customer.

http://www.pronto-2-go.com/
Actually, I just read the article. I'm guessing you guys aren't to Lobster yet, so it probably doesn't matter at this point.

That said, I really really really like the design of the site. Insanely so. The home page is sublime, and the 'Tour' page is near perfection. Grats and good luck.
Lovely _and_ Irish, how twee. I am a female Irish engineer and I would be very disappointed and a little insulted if a copywriter couldn't find a better description other than 'cute with a funny accent'.
Hamburger, I assume ;)

We started with monthly €1,300/founder. Today, we're paying us €2.500/founder.
It seems HN never sleeps.
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At least three - in some people. Regular exercise has been shown[1] to reduce the signs of depression in some people (but, obviously, not others).

From what I know of hypertension (not much), it's more of a disposition - if you treat yourself poorly, and you have a disposition towards it, you might develop it later in life. Exercise and diet, of course, are preventative - but not a cure; once you are diagnosed, it's like a warning sign from your body flashing "hey you, be careful, you're hurting me!"

And it's not just regular exercise, a balanced diet is a must. If all you eat is corn (factory farmed meat; processed foods; just about everything cheap in the grocery store) - but you run on a treadmill 30 minutes a day - you're still going to put on weight.

[1] http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/depression-and-exercise/MH0...
I agree, and I wish search engines would do a better job giving me relevant static content, even old content, when it really is the best content out there.

The worst example seems to be anything to do with music, where old-school fan sites or official artists' sites are still the best source of information typically, but somehow are buried in search results beneath ring-tone-laden garbage. If I search for something like bandname songname lyrics, why do I get junky lyrics sites, instead of lyrics from the official site or fan sites?

Example of bad results: http://www.google.com/search?q=sisters+of+mercy+first+and+la...

Should've been: http://www.thesistersofmercy.com/lyrics/fla.htm
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First iPad advert goes live during Oscars
As with most things, form trumps substance when you're selling Y to X.

Such things tend to devalue the Internet. I think this is part of the problem Yelp is trying to solve.
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Sales of Mossad T-shirts, http://www.israeli-T.com available by mail order, have risen tenfold since the Israeli spy agency was linked to last months assassination in Dubai.
Is that data only from the front page? In that case, it doesn't correct for the likelihood of making it to the front page.
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The title doesn't match the article.

The article is average points and comments based on submission time.

Appearance on the front page is a relative thing depending on the scores of the other articles. So if 20 articles all go through at "peak" submission time, nobody goes anywhere.
On the plus side, the Obama administration certainly knows this too. This suggests that they do actually think it wasn't a waste of money (otherwise, they'd get someone they could bribe to say it wasn't). Now, they could easily be wrong, but we might manage to get some idea.
People can quantify the difference between two lines of disparate length much more easily than they can quantify the angle difference of slices of a pie chart[1]. Pie charts are evil and should never be used. A full 86.1% of this comment is fact; the rest is opinion.

[1] http://lilt.ilstu.edu/gmklass/pos138/datadisplay/badchart.ht...
The whole point of a chart is at-a-glance understanding of numbers and stats that would normally take a more careful once-over.

And the whole point of a pie chart is to use one thing -- the size of a slice -- to represent a single datum.

A 3d pie chart muddles both of those things for form-over-function reasons. How is this even contentious? Pie charts are notoriously bad anyway, especially if there's not a huge difference between the data points. This makes them notably worse.
Not sure I agree here:

a) A developers biggest problem is his competitors. As the culling is a specific category of apps, it's unlikely to remove his competitors from the mix.

b) It adds uncertainty into the business model. You can spend time and building an awesome and popular app and there's no guarantee that Apple won't decide they're culling your specific class of app next.

c) The app store already has so many apps that simply culling a category doesn't bump the numerical odds up that much for an individual developer
Cool tool. Back in college, I had a photo of a shinto temple blown up to 11' x 8' taped on my wall.

I'll tell ya, though, putting that thing together was a pain..
What time zone is this?
Ezra Klein of the Washington Post deals with this claim (that the stimulus was ineffective because of how much money it spent per job created).

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/02/bad_stim...

Tax credits, Pell grants, unemployment support: it's not all jobs.

But you have to blame the administration for this [perception], at least in part: They sold the stimulus in terms of job creation, rather than simple economic growth.
If anyone is interested in polar exploration I strongly recommend "Barrow's Boys: A Stirring Story of Daring, Fortitude, and Outright Lunacy":

http://www.amazon.com/Barrows-Boys-Stirring-Fortitude-Outrig...
Given that only about 20% of the people in the world have Internet access, wouldn't it be rather surprising if 80% thought it was a 'fundamental right'?
The problem with the news business is making people aware that information delivery is separate from journalism. A lot of people want the latter. A lot of "journalism" has devolved into trash, however. There is a big opportunity to make money with an easily accessible quality product.
I'm astonished that the VCs were OK with this. Pandora must have had crazy-ass growth, because using new funds to pay people for past performance is very, very rare.
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yeah... I get it... I could still see which part was bigger.
At least the working DRM doesn't mess with anything else you're trying to do on your PC.
Wish the photo was a little more detailed - I can't tell what brand of headphones those are! They kinda look like Sony.. which is the aural equivalent of that awful desk =/
just noticed coffeescript for the first time. i think there's a need for a clean, simple, eager, dynamically typed functional language and i'm wondering if this fills the spot.

i realise that is not exactly your aim, but in that context have you thought about adding linked lists (which would complement javascript arrays)? also, what does function composition look like? is currying supported?
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So, they can't live from its profit yet. :(
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fun tool. but the guy seems to have misunderstood what rasterization means - the images already are rasterized images. blowing up images like this to span several a4 sheets is already doable in exactly 3 operations in photoshop/pixelmator/gimp etc. since before the dinosaurs died, but fun nonetheless.
I would love this for my tc1100 tablet.
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> From what I've read of his work, Tufte has almost a compulsion to force data to tell the truth

I think it's naive to think that there's just "one truth".

What's the truth about NASA spending during the Apollo program?

It was so-many billion that added up to a glorious step into the cosmos?

It was so-many billion that added up to a race with the Soviets to prove that freedom is better than communism?

It was so-many billion that was a big whose-dick-is-bigger game?

It was so-many billion spent to bid up the wages of well payed first world engineers while third world peasants continued to live in poverty?

These are all true, and there's no way that graphic design can pick the one true truth out of the other truths.

Tufte can do some great work on displaying the multi-trillion dollar buget, but it's not going to get at "the" truth.

Here's the visualization I'd like to see:

FDR's Depression budgets weren't concentrated in areas with the highest poverty, but in areas where his political support was wavering. Obama's "stimulus" is similarly spent in areas of the country, and areas of the economy where buying political support is needed. I'd like to see Tufte do THAT visualization.

I'm sorry to hear that he's going to be on the government payroll - I'd love to have his skills deployed as a non-partisan, non-aligned outsider, as opposed to someone inside the tent looking out.
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No, I just thought it was funny.
It is, as you're pointing out, at this time, a very thin wrapper over what your example shows. It provides the ability for the code to look more like typical Ruby function calls. Thanks for helping to define that.
Except, every single MMO that has ever come out has had problems in it's early days, despite having pre-orders, betas, and other stepping stones, and the knowledge that every single MMO that has ever come out has had these same problems.

Ubisoft screwed up.

Even if it is a DDOS, they've still screwed up by implementing the system they implemented, which amounts to a single player local game requiring a 'Net connection to play. I was considering buying AC2, especially since I live here in Montreal and would love to support the home team, but I won't. I don't want to buy a game that can't be played, and thats what they are selling. A "Loading" Game.
I just love the gratuitous American bashing that we always see in these sorts of discussions.

Look, the average IQ on the planet is 100. Here, in England, in Germany. Education here isn't great, but it's not noticeably worst than in Mexico, Italy, or Russia. The American people aren't geniuses, one and all, but then again - who is?

I wouldn't complain about women, or blacks, or any other group for a trait that's common across all humans ("stupid women ... never saving enough for retirement!"), and I don't think that bemoaning folks by which country they were born into is any more appropriate.
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What I would love to see is correspondence between points/page-rank and actual impressions the site gets.

I am assuming points have a better correlation with impressions (since readers are the ones who vote) than rank.

Anyone has any idea how to get better stats ?
For me it is to leverage our existing testing tools: Rspec and Cucumber to test our Clojure libraries. The team I'm on already has a lot of experience with those two testing tools, and our analysts and QA personnel are able to understand tests written in those two tools. My experience has not been the same with JUnit and the Clojure based testing libraries -- developers are fine with it, but non-devs tend to provide very little input for unit or clj based tests. I think the imperative nature of those test are too dense or they say too much about how rather than what is being tested.
but we have to have more 3d. 3d is the current immersive property for a richer viewer/user experience. and this needs to expand even to pie charts. the next thing will be to add smell to the pie charts - so that they smell like pie.
Why yes, we can, from the very beginning. The expenses do include our salaries.
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Great work guys! We have started with premium also ( http://smartupz.com ) - but it's a very soft launch. We will go fully to market in about a month. We probably will share some figures after first quarter :)
AC2 is not an MMORPG. It's a single player game. If this was an MMORPG, then yes, there would be more understanding about the MMORPG side of things, but it's not. More to the point: Paying customers cannot play the game while non-paying customers can play the game.

Let's make this clear: Ubisoft went out of their way to build a system that prevents their customers from playing their game while non-paying customers can play the game.
No offence, but your comment is incredibly silly. There are plenty of successful businesses that started on kitchen tables with miniscule budgets and grew organically as the founders learned as they went along.

The cliche of the macho startup entreprenuer working 100 hours weeks and burning through cash for five years is not how many people become successful. Plenty of people start quietly in their spare time and build as they go along.

Startups require risk and sacrifice - yes, this is true. But not all businesses demand your internal organs and your wallet.
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