skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Beijing Meetup
HN, myself and a couple other Bostonians are in Beijing ramping up our company. We are thinking about organizing a meetup in the areas of cloud computing, web performance... Are there others in Beijing that would be interested in getting together? We are located at the TUS (tsinghua univeristy science) Park and would host the event at our office or near by.

If you have ideas for topics that people (you) would find interesting add a comment.
This is usual a sign that someone with more money will reproduce your success once you prove the credibility of the market. If it is that simple to reproduce then you don't have a strong product. If it is a strong product then you can tell the world and it does not matter. Some blasting Facebook and twitter with advertising idea, that anyone can set up with a server and some JavaScript is neither novel or a strong idea for a long term viable business.
The Daily Mail list of 'Things that give you cancer'
If society centers on a typical 5-day work week and then centers on a typical 4-day school week, then society is very very stupid.

But don't worry, all those young tween and teen boys who are out of school and unsupervised will be sure to let society know just how stupid.
Why couldn't they just sign up as a developer and then get the document conveniently displayed on their screen?

It's not like anyone forces you to accept it.
As in regexen. :)
get a better manual
Nonsolicit is ridiculous. I would never push an employment offer on a friend, but what's wrong with making the offer and allowing him to decide what's in his best interests?

You're not "causing an exodus" if 5 people independently decide to join your presumably riskier venture. If they're treated well, that's not going to happen until you have serious traction.
Wait, are you saying that a computer capable of executing millions of instructions per second doesn't take very long to do a few comparisons on a dozen or so elements? It takes me a long time to do by hand, so I figured the computer would be really slow too!
Tell that to Wil Shipley. Oh I forgot, he can't afford to patent and have lawyers to protect the patent, so it's all right. http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/27/think-ibooks-looks-familiar...
Texas A&M (Whoop!)
Cross Browser CSS Transforms, even in IE - using JS
Vassar
New York University
for me it seems to run fine now.
EuLisp may have a similar story?
/me mumbles something about Reading The Fine Source. Then you don't have to guess what your browser is doing.
Although I'm not in Beijing, it's amazing that Hacker News hasn't been blocked by the "Great Firewall".

Any bets on how long it will take before the Chinese government shuts this out of China too?
ACM Citation:
http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1336106&srt=all...

For the pioneering design and realization of the first modern personal computer -- the Alto at Xerox PARC -- and seminal inventions and contributions to local area networks (including the Ethernet), multiprocessor workstations, snooping cache coherence protocols, and tablet personal computers.
University of Oklahoma (they offered me a nice scholarship which I proceeded to blow in a hurry)
HP Skewers Apple's iPad With Slate Demo Videos
That's how I was thinking as well.

So, would it make more sense (fiscally, not politically) to just impose or increase a tax to fund the 5th day--worked out to pretty much the same cost as people would have to pay for local childcare? Same fiscal burden, but much less social disruption.
I've known about how selectors are processed for some time, I discovered it when I was looking into optimization strategies for JavaScript and figured I should look into how CSS is processed. I made a variety of tweaks, including finally just removing nearly all the CSS, and (somewhat disappointed) did not see any visible changes in the speed at which the browser rendered the page. Not even on IE6/7. Anecdotal evidence only, but to Jim72's point, I wouldn't waste time on it.
Awww, troff too hard? It's easier than LaTeX, and honestly if you can't open up a man page and replace its content with your own (since they all follow pretty much the same format), you shouldn't even be writing code.
id attributes are unique in well formed pages, but then a lot of HTML is not well formed. Browsers do maintain a hashmap (or equiv) of id to node though, so in that case you’re right, that should be faster. Maybe the overhead of parsing and choosing multiple code paths is slower than just walking the tree?
I think there's an age cut-off where people go from thinking this is cool to being embarrassed to own one.

http://globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/...
If you want a game that realistic why not actually play a six string guitar?
Indeed. Newton's mechanics are considered still a scientific theory.
How about creating a system that works with normal people, rather than robots? My feeling is that if it is so difficult to implement the system that almost nobody gets it right, it might be the mistake of the system. It should come more naturally, not forced.
I don't really intend on getting another for a while. I might build a gaming system someday, but for daily coding- this is the best computer I've ever owned.
Syracuse University
Gettysburg College
Because if you're a beginning guitarist you don't get any feedback. The game could be more useful for learning guitar than anything else.
Simplifying CSS Selectors
For context, he just created the gem-man gem 2 days ago. Presumably he's just collecting a bunch of basic information in one place as part of the process, including new and specific information on tools for making dealing with man pages in gems. I don't see what the problem is, and feigning shock over someone talking about man pages doesn't make you look cool.
Remember that article we had here on HN a few weeks back about Chinese spies infiltrating companies to get company information? It is improbable, but a similar thing could have easily been done with this. All they would have to do is get their own code substituted into the production process and they get an instant backdoor into many, many computers.

A more likely scenario, though, is that a tech savvy and angry employee wanted to get back at the company that was about to fire him. Imagine if a DDOS was launched against Energizer using code distributed by one of their own products. Ultimate irony!

I'm not saying either of these theories are legitimate, or even probable, but who knows?
Performance Impact of CSS Selectors
Want to be a VC?  Try Being an Early Adopter First
Objective feedback -> faster learning.
I do not like their blog gimmick.
Thanks for the post!

I love that about Clojure: you can just write code in the simplest way when you start, and then you can tweak it to get performance when and where you need it.
I love posts where people get to talk about themselves.

Oh, and: University of Maryland (both College Park and University College).
Trying to figure out HTML from reading the Firefox source is kind of insane.
"2,500 requests may be sent to the Geocoding Web Service per day from a single IP address" - I don't remember this restriction from the previous version of the API. Has this changed, or did I just miss a T&C somewhere?
Interesting concept, I've been very interested in more hardware hacking lately. There is someone reassuring about being able to build anything in your local hacker space. Here in NYC we have a group called "NYC Resistor" that has lasers and 3d printers available cheaply. Hacking isn't always just about code ;)
Iphone 4G Concept first Pictures
Bangalore University.
New Porche 918 Concept
If you neglect friction, you only need geometry to figure it out.
On OS X Snow Leopard:

my-macbook:~ user$ man up
No manual entry for up
my-macbook:~ user$
Chinese 200mph Rail Project: Travel From London To Beijing In Just Two Days
Those old casio MIDI guitars could very easily be added into a game.
I still wonder why Firefox even bothers with writing its own engines instead of using webkit and v8. There really is no need for 2 open source rendering engines, that do the exact same thing.

It would save a lot of compatibility issues for websites and web developers, as well as push standards further if they both ran the same engines underneath.

So essentially Firefox would kept its same UI and add-ons system and thus would still keep its users. Which browser users used would basically come down to their preference in the way the browser feels as speed/standards/etc would no longer matter since they would be roughly the same (FF/Chrome/Safari)
The suggestion to print [a lot] doesn't seem well-justified. Compared to reading on a portable device, consider all the paper usage (waste?) and ink cartridge expense. For folks like me with tight budgets, there's no way I would feel comfortable printing out the same volume of articles that I currently read on the computer. With ink cartridges priced like they are, I am very frugal when deciding what is or is not worth printing.
Massachusetts College of Art
Is the order really customer, product, and then venture capital (or angel)?

I do know these are the three big things that matter in an early startup, but it's the order that's a big debate.
What kind of feedback do you need? It just seems to me that console games producers are under the impression that console games are the answer to everything when in fact its much more impressive when someone can actually do something like play a real guitar or cook a real meal then if they do it on an XBox or a DS especially when they charge so much for things like guitar hero. It would be better if they provided an interface for you to plug an electric guitar into your console and learn to play using the software, then when you've learn you can 1. play a real guitar and 2. have a real guitar without the non standard socket they will inevitablely put on it.
A system like this provides visual flashes and feedback, virtual fans, fireworks, and all the extra bonuses that you don't get when you're just playing the guitar by yourself. It also guides new guitar players through the process of learning specific songs of increasing difficulty, all of which can easily be accessed from one location, rather than forcing them to look up tabs themselves.

In short, it makes the learning process easier from the start, and less boring for younger ones who might not have the patience and stick-to-it needed to master a normal guitar.
Well, it's worth pointing out that the only way that EFF could get hold (and publicise) this document was by freaking FOIA'ing NASA

Why should it be any different? It's reasonable that the contract should be available that way for the reasons you state but you seem to be implying it was unreasonable for it to not be public even when it didn't concern a public entity. Do you feel that all contracts between two private parties should be public information?
Yes, you can forget about important parts in code. Been there, done that. Been there, seen that.

Just because the code passes the developer's unit tests doesn't mean that nothing important has been forgotten. Most errors in programs are due to errors in comprehension. Spec review is the fastest and cheapest way to catch those problems. I've done this innumerable times.

Spec hate is a mystery to me. On the one hand, most programmers agree that shorter programs are easier to understand (pg articulated this well), so we go for DSLs, high-level langs etc. A spec is the ultimate short program.

I find specs very useful before starting on a project. It's much easier to for non-programmers (who may be domain experts though) to comment on the completeness of the proposed solution when they see a spec. And developers benefit from seeing feedback before writing code because it's easier to rewrite text than code (Spolsky said this well).

I'm undecided about maintaining specs to be in sync with code forever though. I don't do this except when I make big changes.
..and back in those days, we had documentation on the command line and we liked it! We loved it!

(Disclosure: I'm a 40-something who was introduced to man in freshman year classes in the 80's.)
It seems that Mozilla has a bit of NIH syndrome.

(Edit for the downvote parade - people have been talking about NIH at Mozilla for years:

http://www.linux-mag.com/id/4144

http://diary.braniecki.net/2008/01/27/not-invented-here-synd...

http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-9595-0.html?forumID=1&thr...
)
A large part of the value that first and secondary schools provide is supervision. Academic subjects can be learned by self-study with the aid of learning materials and the occasional tutor. But supervision still requires a real person and physical building. As surveillance technology matures, even supervision will be doable without these. At this point, it will be much harder to justify traditional schools.
I was thinking set theory, not just logic. And this is also a parody of trying to apply mathematical logic to ethics and politics.
Well what else am I supposed to use? My toes?
Tell HN: Our startup is improving online advertising
Dear HN,

We have been quietly working on a new online advertising platform called Deckeo. We’re getting really close to conducting a private beta and wanted to offer the HN community a chance to participate.

The goal of Deckeo is to provide website owners with a better solution for selling their own ad space. Inspired by forward-thinking ad networks like The Deck Network, Fusion Ads, and Zerk Media, we set out to create a platform that would enable anyone to sell ad space on their website using the cost per influence model.

If you would like to get on the list for our private beta, or would just like to know a little bit more about Deckeo, head over to http://deckeo.com/beta_signup.php

Cheers,
Tim, Matt, & Eric (The Deckeo Team)
But what if it's a really good idea, like monetizing Twitter somehow!?
Or, just unplug the charger.
Here's the url to the beta signup page: http://deckeo.com/beta_signup.php
Cisco CTO’s tips for a top career
Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
You can do that under UK law (probably elsewhere too). If your brand identity has a strong, identifiable colour scheme you can register it. I can't remember if it's a trademark or a designmark, but it falls under trademark law.

See also Orange, who have registered their shade of orange. The "Easy" brand (easyJet, easyEverything etc.) use a similar shade of orange across their brands. But Orange were there first and when easyMobile was started it wasn't allowed to use the traditional orange-coloured branding.
I bought a cheap router about 8 years ago that sent all of my DNS requests through some IP address in China.
The Problem With Deficit Neutrality
When will people stop arguing about this? Stop projecting your own problems on me. I work great from home. Just because it doesn't work for you, doesn't mean it doesn't work for others. This seems like a pretty basic idea in life that people should be able to understand. It doesn't mean my cocks bigger because I'm productive at home, it simply means that I work better from home.
The Open Source Lab has been working on the 2nd revision of our dashboard software that we use within our network operations center, and outside our server room.

http://trac.osuosl.org/touchscreen
It'd be nice if you labeled it [video] to save me a trip.

Related: I wonder if the bounce rates of video submissions on HN are different? In other words, am I the only one who 99% of the time hits the back button the instant I realize a post is really just a video?
Can't these these issues be solved by registering to the USB controller as "battery charger" and ignoringing the OS?
Because this way I don't have to throw out 11 years of work and practice on the actual guitar in order to play one of those Rock Band games.
Exactly. It's the silver-spoon opportunity cost fallacy over which he has ZERO control.

It's irrational and wrong, but sadly makes for more "press" and "drama". A prime example is the plethora of rich-kid "reality" t.v. shows which leverage those atavistic reactions it to the hilt.
I had a job where the "core hours" were from noon to 5. Past that you had to work at least 8 hours a day. In practice this meant that everyone arrived at the office at noon.

I thought the policy was pretty good but I don't think it worked out that well for me. It meant I was at the office until at least 8pm every day, usually later.
Rackspace Revamps Channel Offering for Hosted Applications
Friendly Advice To First Time CEOs
I don't remember where I saw this but I believe IBM has a certain shade of blue trademarked.
Can California Declare Bankruptcy?
Welcome to the HD Voice Codec Wars
The reason is because both executing tracing and method-based JIT are useful, but only Firefox has execution tracing, and only v8 has the other optimizations. The idea is to write an engine that does both.

Seems like WebKit should be able to use this code when it's working; Mozilla is GPL/LGPL/MPL, and WebKit is LGPL.
It seems like you are trying to figure out if you can get an employee to do more work then others for the same amount of money. The basic idea is that you pay people for the work they do. If they get it done quicker then others, that is none of your god damned business! Maximize those resources == screw people out of what they deserve. It's your job as an employer to figure out what a fair amount of compensation is for a certain level of work. If you don't have a clue, and can't do that, and instead are experimenting to see how much you can squeeze out of your employees, then I don't want to work for you. I suspect many high quality employees wouldn't.
Georgia Tech but I didn't finish
You don't actually have to play the entire song note for note to play the song. This would give the player a sense of playing the song and I would bet more people stick with learning the guitar from playing the game then playing the actual guitar.
Is The New Flash 'Payer' Application Going to Save Online Video?
TraceMonkey was started before anyone had heard of V8. If you want working code to ship, you can't sit around hoping that Google will maybe be working on a super-fast open-source implementation of the code you want. But sometimes it does happen.
The funny thing is mult-touch is the one thing everyone focuses on in the HTC patent suit, but look at what patents where actually used. You might notice something missing.
Did it always do regions before? It was able to give me at least a rough bounds for "inner sunset san francisco":

http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=inner%20...
micro optimization... blah.

Why do I really doubt Alex's yoga site needs to worry about this.
Initially it would be "you didn't hit that string cleanly, try again" which would move to "you played that progression well, nice job!" Then it could move to "You nailed 80% of those chords and your timing was AVERAGE." I'm assuming that the game guitar is very close to an actual guitar. I agree that it would be ideal if you could use a normal guitar and get the same feedback.
UC Davis
NYC VC Growth By the Numbers
Exploring SketchUp for a High Craftsmanship
Yeah, you download the software yourself from the internet.

That said, it appears that the charger does communicate with the software on the host computer to tell it how well charged the batteries are.
Business Schools Revamp the Application
Deal with PayPal or read the agreements from Microsoft and no - you will not find it unique to Apple.
Another one bites the dust: Cisco steps out of the WiMAX game
Summary:

* Creativity is a journey beyond boundaries.
* Build expertise from experience.
* Understand the paradox.
* The only person that can slow you down is you
* Be authentic and approachable.
* Influence outlasts authority.
* Learn the art of storytelling
* The best way to earn recognition is to give it away
* A successful career is about integration, not balance
* Work hard but play harder
Yeah, OK. So just be ignorant instead.
Upvoted for a nice collection of tools for composing man pages, and the ruby-man gem, even though some of the information is rather basic.

Also, because I didn't know about the cheatsheet project.
University of Pittsburgh.
You know the other day, i was remembering my time in Atlanta and all of the bright shining stars they're cranking out, and i was thinking to myself...what could we really do to drive a nail into the coffin of our youths futures'? And then suddenly this article shows up, must be fate!

On a serious note, this is symptomatic of a larger national trend, we're paying more attention to everything OTHER than our children, and we wonder why we don't dominate markets that we did 20 years ago. Something drastic needs to be done, but less time with teachers, and more time un-supervised is probably not the extra "edge" our students need right now.
Two different, competing implementations is nothing but good. They will have different security vulnerabilities. They will try out different optimizations and learn from each other. The competition makes each of them better.
One Billion Minds: Crowdsourcing Problems that Matter
No pause button
Could you have worked 9 - 5 or 10 - 6 if you wanted to? Or was there pressure to work when everyone else did?
Fewer students opt for traditional spring break
Don't value you fellow programmers time implementing that?