skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that the average Internet user is much closer to "Googles [facebook login] to get into Facebook and assumes the first result is right" than they are to "Implemented OpenID for their day job", and that I'm in the second group and still can't reliably speak about the subject without having a glossary in front of me, I'm thinking if you even have to say "OpenID provider" you've already lost.
I don't get it.

So what?

So the population declines?

So you have more nursing homes, and more younger people employed in nursing homes taking care of the oldsters, and some kind of government subsidy along with higher taxes to enable the poorer oldsters to have some kind of dignified end of life.

So what?

Are we talking about the collapse of civilization if population shifts up or down by double digit percents? I find this mode of thinking very hard to swallow.
Hm, well, it is not really about [Xe][La]TeX, but various features of opentype fonts. But that is OK, and those links in the section 8 to some free (for commercial use, that is important) fonts are perhaps the best part of the article, I didn't know them yet. :-)
I love Mailplane. I'm still looking for a solution this good for Windows/Linux.
It doesn't work in IE6. (I think I may have just lost my last sliver of geek cred. In my defense, I'm stuck at an Internet cafe.)
It could be said that for every $1 that is scattered across the playing field of charities, it could be more useful to locally administered programs within Haiti. Unfortunately it's lost on the fact that most of the "American" run charities have huge administrative costs that are amazing to me. (And yeah, and it bothers me that CEOs make $200-$500 per YEAR at a non-profit - far more than a person should need or want from a charitable organization.)
My point is that the sudden doubling of the price of oil and every other import would have a profound effect on the USA. It might be desirable anyway, despite the cost, but it is not something that can be done on a whim without any consequences, as the parent to my comment seemed to suggest.
You have a very narrow definition of hackers.
The list is sort of accurate for Germany, and the point still carries.

In Germany, the notion of ethnicity typically gets munged into nationality even when it really means ethnicity. Specifically, "Ausländer" (literally, "foreigner") is typically applied to someone not ethnically north-west European, even if born in Germany, though not typically to someone like myself (an American of north-west European stock). A Russian, or Pole, however, which to American eyes would just appear to be another flavor of pasty white, will often be noted as a separate group.

Part of that is codified in German nationality law which is still based in jus sanguinis, based on "blood", in contrast with jus soil which is for example used in the US, UK and France. For example, someone with Turkish parents born in Germany must still be naturalized to become a German citizen.

What I noticed when first moving to Germany was that the concept of ethnicity independent of nationality scarcely exists, throwing yet another curve-ball into a site which is collecting such data.

By and large, as another commenter noted, Germany is fairly homogenous, however in cities things do get mixed up quite a bit. Specifically in my part of Berlin (Kreuzberg) there's a lot of variance. (Probably the the neighborhood in Germany with the lowest percentage of ethnic Germans.)
Probably. Just like they did at Enron, LTCM, Lehman Brothers, etc...
Getting into the buildings is a trickier matter, but only at NYU (every other college I've been to doesn't check ID).

My suggestion: photoshop something that looks vaguely like an NYU ID, then stick it in your wallet behind a clear window. Flash it at guards when you come in, they don't care enough to look closely.
Shouldn't come as a surprise really. Most Arab nations oppress expressions of sexuality, and freedom of speech as a basic right is nonexistent.
Yeah, but note I said it was a myth dreamed up in the romantic era, which would be around 1800 or so. People have been making art since way, way before that, and some of it is really quite good, despite the creators thinking of themselves primarily as craftsmen rather than as purveyors of a higher cause for which one should be suffering.
Cancer research is definitely a worthy goal, but how is livly different from all the other cancer research institutes?

One website I wish exists is one that lists all of the problems in the world with historical data to dig deeper into, such as number of people affected, amount of money spend to combat the issue.

That way it is easy to see how big of a problem something really is and if spending more money on it will make a difference.
there's a command-line option to do just that
You had me right upto 'labels pay tax'.

No movie in the last 50years has made a profit according to Hollywood accounting
Lists don't tell you the degree of difference.

FWIW, the political freedom list has lots of ties near the top and the US is tied with the UK. Both are significantly ahead of France and Italy. You remember the UK, France, and Italy - they're supposedly far above the US.

Then there's the problem that the "political freedom" list doesn't actually measure political freedom. As it says:

"The United States has climbed 16 places in the rankings, from 36th to 20th, in just one year. Barack Obama’s election as president and the fact that he has a less hawkish approach than his predecessor have had a lot to do with this.

But this sharp rise concerns only the state of press freedom within the United States. President Obama may have been awarded the Nobel peace prize, but his country is still fighting two wars."

Obama being elected or getting the Nobel Peace Prize didn't change political freedom in the US.

I expect that I'll find similar problems with the "corruption" ist.
The 1.05:1 probably permits to have a 1:1 ratio at the age of reproduction in a pre-industrial societies.
It's not the different spellings of common words (gray/grey), it's the different words (scrumbut?) and different meanings (we call it the hood, not the bonnet) that will interfere with communication.
Thanks, but it's too late, I can't edit it now.
I don't use it either; I've never really thought much about it, but part of the reason is certainly because I don't want to tie anything I'm doing online irrevocably to FB.

Twitter OAuth is analogous, though I'm much less cautious about using that. I see twitter outlasting FB, but I've been wrong before...
The Adaptive Augmented Reality Web
Hilarious video. Well worth a watch.
Lean Startup:  David McClure interviews Eric Reis
What google leaves on the table due to principles, a marketshare-only oriented competitor will definitely jump at. What's best in the long term remains to be seen. While I personally prefer companies with a personality because it gives me a feeling of a longer term vision, it could be considered condescending to enforce your morals on a market that in majority is averse to specific content.
The author states that pure pay-for-content is used by very few publications in the print world --- intentionally ignoring books?
Would you be interested in a compiler where the error messages are more difficult to decipher, then? That way you could feel even more like you're a developer.
This can backfire. A good friend from high school went this route and he's still never published anything. He now has 15 years of no real job history. A bigger problem is that from an artistic viewpoint, his writing keeps getting worse. It's easy to just slide into solipsism when you're living so cheaply that you don't ever have to write anything other people would ever want to read.
Knuth mentions Floyd teaching an intro CS class at Stanford (CS106).

At least one of those times, Floyd taught using SAIL macros and didn't much mention functions/procedures. (SAIL macros are syntactic and look a lot like procedures/functions, but the order of evaluation can be surprising.) This caused a bit of trouble when those students went on.

Floyd was a serious Dig Dug player. (DD is an early arcade video game.)
He's pointing out that appearances matter.
Advertising is mind pollution
Getting featured in Techcrunch is not necessary for business success, and getting featured in Techcrunch does not constitute business success. I wouldn't waste too much time worrying about their opinion if you're not in the narrow segment of the economy where it matters.
Can do you 1 million

http://www.sandia.gov/news/resources/news_releases/sandia-co...

They use that to model Botnets etc.
I would, but it looks too 1999. And it also appears to not be maintained anymore.
Everybody is building a "our platform".
I'm curious how this might be applied to startups, as well as how it meshes with pg's advice to work in a startup "hub" like Silicon Valley, where the cost of living is anything but cheap. Is it really worthwhile to be subjected to the mind-numbing gold rush culture* at the expense of many months of "runway," simply because that's supposed to be motivating?

*OK, exaggeration guilty as charged, but you see my point.
Crikey, you're fast. Salarymen everywhere salute you... also this one is going back to the hotel before he gets locked out.
+1 for Mailplane for Windows
What I meant was, I'd typically get $800 up front for just the site, not including any upsells.

Basically I'd say the site was $2400, the company who was going to buy it paid 50% upfront. My costs for the site are.. $1900 (designers, devs, etc), so I'd just ask for the difference.

The site would cost $700 upfront for them, which looks like an absolute steal to them. I would then explain the hosting and the email newsletter stuff, and typically upsell them on $100/mo. in services (that basically cost me nothing to run, other than maybe an hour of work per month). $100/mo. was kind of the minimum, my biggest contract was $600/month for sending out 2 mailings a week and updating the site periodically. Maybe 3-4 hours of work per month - most of it was just copying/pasting and pressing save.
Yeah thats what I meant.
Did you check out the chain dart gun hack? One office gun to rule them all!

http://harcoslabs.com/Chaingun.html
I'm not going to argue on nature vs nurture but I will ask you a hypothetical question.. if you had to make a choice between fast evolution of "science, technology, entrepreneurship" and a peaceful world without war nor violence, which would you take ?

If (I have no idea whether it's the case or not) biological determinism was true and those views were confirmed, I still wouldn't see women as inferior. Being smart enough to create and have low enough morals to use the atomic bomb is NOT a gift, it's a curse.
I know a woman who self identifies as 'African-American' because she was born and raised in Tanzania.

If she would be identified as "white" in Tanzania, as appears to be the implication of your post, she doesn't fit the United States definition of "African-American," which is a synonym for "black."

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/85867...
MongoDB, High-Performance SQL-Free Database [video]
If either of my projects were featured on TC it would do absolutely nothing for me in terms of revenue. It might actually hurt me if potential paying subscribers were turned away due to high loads bogging down my servers.

I was just being sarcastic about the obsession with attaching age to startup founders, and how younger is equated with better.
I don't know about the rest of you, but the moment I turned 18, this kind of assault on my privacy by my parents would have been completely unacceptable.
I really agree with this. One of the main reason my interest was first piqued about Etacts was because of its potential to keep track of personal relationships. Obviously there's a lot of room for tools that really support the maintenance of social groups.

I'd love to have a souped up version of this that let me enter in that I met a certain friend for dinner this night or caught a movie with another on that night and helped me really stay on top of all that.
I wish GiagaOm contributes to this content. They have gone for the hybrid approach.
You don't have to have static typing to do type analysis. Look at what these guys are/were doing: http://www.strongtalk.org/
There's many firms with similar stories and profits. There's a few with far more. They don't have a nearly perfect solution, nor is there one.
Wow, you actually want your users to submit you a patch?
How about ask the users to make the app for you!
There's a Qt port under development. I don't know how much work is being put into it though.
Wendell August Forge
Wendell August Forge- It will be a landmark again, was iterated by the President of Wendell August Forge, Will Knecht, Wendell August Forge a handicraft factory that was burnt in a Saturday afternoon fire.
Unfortunately, this dissonance seems very widespread. I think it comes from a very uncomfortable compromise between two divergent perspectives on biological differences between men and women.

Some people think that innate differences are extremely minor, while others attribute major cognitive and behavior traits to gender.

Perspective 1 is appealing to people women admire the amazing things men have done, such as develop a vaccination against polio or smallpox, or splitting the atom, and want to see more participation from women. Perspective 2 is appealing to women who are appalled with the negative things men have done, such as spreading the plague to invade a city or dropping an atomic bomb on a city, and want to believe that women would never do such a thing.

So the uncomfortable compromise is that men and women are the same, except for the countless ways in which women are better.

Of course, I don't know how much is innate and how much is cultural, but I'm almost certain that the whole "if it's bad, it's innate to men, if it's good, it's just because women have lacked opportunities" is total crap.
Interesting.. All my recent posts that made it to the front page got two to three up votes in the first half an hour.. I must confess that i was more happy than curious about this :)
It doesn't really say much, does it.
We posted at the same time. I actually agree with you. The only thing that really irritates me is they way some people are willing to assign "innate" or "cultural" based (it appears) on nothing more than whether they consider the activity to be good or bad.
I make most of my with xfig and export to .eps. I also use the LaTeX package psfrag to include LaTeX math formulae in images.
Wasn't trying to spam, it was just my first day posting on here and I was trying to understand it.

I got the jist of it now.

I appreciate your honesty though.
You need to sort the datapoints by time before plotting them. The plots seem to go to the second point at the end, making strange loops.
Closures in C make me uncomfortable, but lexically scope subfunctions are just syntax that serve two functions for me.

First: organization. If I grab a chunk of function and put it in nicely named subfunction, even if it is only called once it lets me keep each function to a nice size. This could be done with a static function, but then you always have to think: "What else in this file might call this function?"

Second: (And much more empowering) Gathering together repetitious code can be cleaner. Consider implementing some network protocol. You will probably have a "get next byte from buffer" function which will need access to the buffer, the current position, the number of valid bytes in the buffer, and who knows what else. You could make this a static function and pass all the arguments in, correctly, each time and if you only need a single value back that works. With a lexically scoped subfunction you can just reference these in the outer scope and if you need to set an error condition or message just set it in the outer. Very clean. No scary runtime code.
Hiring technical people - what HR are doing wrong and how to fix it.
When Startups Should Hire a Dev Shop (other than "never")
My friend made a healthy full time income dealing with just local advertising and building a network of sites for his city (some place in Pennsylvania).

Businesses spend a ridiculous amount of money on offline advertising (ie. Yellowpages), so much that when you come to them offering online advertising for ridiculously low prices ($50-100/mo.) they just go for it most of the time. A Yellowpages ad can cost $500-1500/mo. for a tiny little placement.

My friend essentially built a network of niche sites for his city, so {cityname}furniture.com, {cityname}dentists, {cityname}antiques etc. The sites were just simple directories with some content, a contact/request a quote form and a list of local businesses. He'd gather a list of businesses and contact them all explaining the site and how it would cost them $50/mo. for a listing, it would help their search rankings, bring traffic, generate leads and new business, etc.

He said his best money was actually made off dentists and he had to break the site up into {neighbourhood}dentists because there were so many in the city interested. A typical site would feature 3-4 banner ads that cost $100/mo. (little 125x125 squares for each dental firm), and then around 10 or so $50/mo. business listings (custom page, images of office, testimonials, etc).

It's fair to say a single site would net him $800/mo - of course this varies on the type of business being targeted, but there are so many kinds of businesses to target that you won't be able to capture every market in the city.

On top of things, he made money generating leads for the businesses. For the dentist example, he had a "request a quote" form that basically got people to explain what they wanted done, budget, their contact info, etc. He sold leads for ~$20 each (would make the different dentists bid on them). This is nothing for most places as a lead can turn into $1000 worth of business in the first appointment, and thousands more over the years as that patient returns.

If you can create a value added service locally and get people onboard for next to nothing (as they see it, $50 is nothing), then you have a real opportunity to make some cash. Take this to the next level and start managing their PPC campaigns and managing ad deals and you have yourself a healthy local market - most of which you can find someone cheap to handle (around the cost of a secretary, anyone with a bit of technical know-how will do).

Bringing all this stuff up again kind of makes me want to go back into it.. hmm. weekend project perhaps?
"There are several reasons why one should prefer LaTeX to a WYSIWYG word processor like Microsoft Word: portability, lightness, security are just a few of them"

I agree with most points but seriously, lightness? Have you ever downloaded it? The program is about 750MB (Source: http://www.tug.org/protext/), and that's for software without an elegant UI. To compare, the ENTIRE office package is around the 500MB, that's Word+Excel+Outlook+OneNote+Groove.It does produce very nice results, but it isn't light (in terms of space).
It does have touch to flip. Watch the video.
Ask HN: Should I be told a startup's present valuation when given stock options?
I was recently given a set of stock options that vest over the next 4 years as part of my compensation working for a startup. Since the founders didn't tell me either the present valuation of the company or the # of outstanding shares, I feel like I have no way to effectively determine if these stock options will be worth anything, ever.<p>The only information I have is the strike price, which doesn't tell me a whole lot. Is this common practice in startups with less than 20 employees? What are you experiences?
I'm assuming that's referring to how the lines tend to go both forward and backwards in time. Otherwise it's a nice visual.
This argument is based on false assumptions.

Funding your content through advertising is hugely inefficient. Of the people who visit your site, usually only a tiny proportion click on (or notice) an advert, and only a tiny proportion of those then spends any money.

This assumes that just viewing an advertisement doesn't create value for an advertiser. It does. Look at the average TV channel or print magazine for evidence.

I’ve heard Google pass as little as one twelfth onto the publisher in some cases

While I'm not sure about Google, I do know that most display advertising networks pay their publishers around 30% - 50% of the gross income.

But seriously, advertising is a broken method of paying for stuff. If we could unobtrusively pay for content on the Internet, I’m sure enough people would do so to more than cover costs of production.

While I agree that there is probably a decent community of people that would probably pay for content online, I'm not convinced that this would be true for most people. Sites that offer a subscription to get rid of the ads, usually have very few subscribers. People simply like free stuff, and don't like to pay for content. Now this could indeed be due to the payment model, I'm not sure; maybe something facebook-connect-like for paid content would work, but I'm still not convinced that a large enough base of people would actually pay the same money as they're generating in advertising value, to make this work.

Let's take a few very large sites, and imagine what would happen if they went to a payment supported revenue model, instead of advertising supported. Let's say, Google or CNN. What would happen if they started putting up a paywall? Would people really start paying for those services, or would they simply move to a competing site, which is ad-supported and for free? I'm willing to bet most people would go for the last option.

People just don't mind ads as much as they mind paying for stuff.

(Disclaimer: I work in online ads.)
Positive or negative treatment?
I don't want to have them all bunched up one side of the page

Try

\begin{center}
\begin{figure}[ht]
...
\end{figure}
\end{center}

Also, LaTeX usually does a good job in placing figures (which, in professionally typeset journals/books, appear at the top of a page), and overriding it with [h!] sometimes makes a document look less readable.
You meant $200k? Yeah, that seems excessive. Like how those "prosperity gospel" churches pay the pastors running it similar amounts.
Final makes $1M a day, and are extremely secretive about their investments or technology. CEO is Gideon Bar Sinai and they have 80 employees...
That's too bad, your title could have been so much more beautfiful.
IIRC, Ask HN and articles with titles that end in a question mark are negatively treated compared to other articles.
Huh? You can bend or stretch a circle into a parabola?

In a sense, yes. A parabola is simply an ellipse with one of the foci at infinity.
I want to paint the newer sniper rifle. it's just so freaking awesome looking.
http://www.hasbro.com/nerf/en-US/shop/details.cfm?guid=95A54...

bolt action and magazine fed? with the right mods and paint it could look like a sweet steampunk rifle.
Our ads (Ars Technica's) aren't remnant advertising. We either run ad inventory sold directly to advertisers, or we run our own stuff. Most sites aren't big enough and don't have the right demographics to do that, though. It's not that they don't want to. :)
Unfortunately it does not. It does leave a couple of hints but that's about it. Perhaps someone speaking Hebrew can unearth a paper or two from the time these Maths graduates were doing research or even a thesis :)
or, you know, thoughtcrime BZZZZ ARGG
How many optional paid subscription sites have been successful?

How many mandatory paid subscription sites have been successful?

I think those questions are important. I don't know the answer, but my guess is "almost none".
I wouldn't hold out for any miracles. I think that there are several aspects of the language itself that will make improving error messages difficult. In particular, template error messages are probably without much hope.
so is finance still really going to be the place to be if you're good at statistical analysis? or is there a selection effect of not seeing all the losers?