skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of info out there -- where in Panama should I look? Most of the short-term rentals I see are vacation rentals, which can actually be pretty pricey. Any recommendations for where to look?
Very clever．Nicely done.
I kind of wish they made a Mac version.

Not because I want to use it, but because of more rendering engine on the platform can only be healthy competition, and consumers will win in the end.
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Unfortunately only Etacts has access to Gmail's new oAuth APIs as far as I can tell..

In all fairness, I do hope Google gets around to releasing those APIs to the rest of us soon...
Thanks for including the original link, dsplittgerber, because the actual article is rather misleading, attributing the underperformance to "vanity" via some ancient Rome anecdote without real evidence. He ignores the paper's own author's hypothesis:

"This hypothesis posits that in informationally incomplete markets, investors are not aware of all securities. As a consequence, stocks with lower investor recognition need to offer higher returns to compensate their holders for being imperfectly diversified. By disseminating information to a wide audience, media coverage broadens investor recognition. Thus, in equilibrium, stocks with intense media coverage earn a lower return than neglected stocks."

So, market forces, not hubris.
Karl Rove practically invented the attack ad.

This is not an attack ad, it's a satire of an attack ad. Taken literally, yes, it's pretty stupid--attack ads generally are. But that's missing the point.
Perhaps her real name is kinda hard to use as a handle.
Hint: whois query.

All the best, woman.
And if you carefully examine my parent comment, you'll find that it works here on HN.
So, 89% male gives us 11% female. If the perverts are equally distributed between male and female, you get about 2% female perverts.

It's easier to go to a bar.
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But that still doesn't provide evidence that people buying a new computer are the only non-developers who will get IE9. You need to demonstrate that upgrades from IE6 to 7/8 are non-existent.

In fact, I'd say the fact that IE7 has dropped below IE8 is evidence that people on IE do upgrade, and that the people on IE6 are only on it because they need it.
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Also, they use hacker news to communicate to applicants. I applied a while back, and one day while browsing I got a message through HN, something like "pg has a question for you" in the header bar. Clicking through is the question, and place to put the answer.

Basically, there's a whole messaging system in hacker news that most people don't see.
I posted this comment to the article as well but I figure I might get more discussion of it here:

What exactly does "30 hours per minute of video is added each day." mean in layman's terms - 30 hours of video are uploaded each day? 30 hours of video are uploaded each minute of the day? I'm having trouble deciphering this metric.
I think you're missing a big portion of the picture. They're not just picking on some random guy. Karl Rove is a big-time political figure in the US and is generally regarded as a slimy neoconservative. He invented nasty political strategies like the ones being parodied in this ad. He played a big role in pretty much every single unpopular policy from the previous decade, and then some. As for why they poked fun at a French font, maybe this will help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries
I didn't get the joke of "french" font, and "hard working americans."

You don't remember "Freedom fries"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries
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http://www.nyhtp.com appears to be behind HTTP/Auth. Is this intentional?
That made me want to play piano again. I sucked but it looks like using it I could get better a lot faster.

An ipad version would definitely be a plus. Hope you got that planned ! :)
On a related note: Chat Roulette Piano Improv is fantastic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32vpgNiAH60
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You can always outsource the clicking...
That's a terrible idea. It's not about the baby feeling unsafe, or drawing a bad logical conclusion; it's about the emotional need for love and affection and interaction.

If I had a friend who tried this -- who gave me a cold, non-interactive stare for two minutes on a daily basis -- I'd be profoundly disturbed. And I'm an adult. I can comprehend the rationale behind it; a baby can't. I can find other friends; a baby has one or two immutable social contacts. I have deep emotional reserves, and can maintain control through hours or even days of loneliness and boredom; a lonely baby is reduced to uncontrolled tears in minutes. I can take care of myself; a baby's only hope of happiness is his ability to trust his parents' faithfulness.

What would it be like? What would it be like if the one person in the world who keeps you emotionally healthy, whose faithfulness keeps you feeling loved and happy instead of profoundly lonely, the only person you really know and trust, the person whose interaction is defining for you what human interaction means . . . what would it be like if they regularly did this?

I don't want to know.
As far as I know Chrome is still the only browser that supports WebSockets. Can anyone refute this? FF 3.7 maybe?
I'd say yes. I've you've got skills, niche doesn't really matter as much. I see "finding a niche" as a way to concentrate your skills to expert level in a single area, rather than having average skills in many technologies. That's what will help you get jobs.
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Ask HN: How to allow users to add Adsense code without security risks
What's the best way to allow users on your site to add Adsense code (javascript code) while still maintaining some sort of site security.

In other words, if we allow users to add javascript, how do we prevent from putting any and all sorts of code, including things that are unsafe or generally unwanted.
I understand your and the original author's intention for the tag, but I think the author is operating under several flawed assumptions.

Portability: The author mentions the original disclaimer text being lost with a site's content being aggregated. How would adding a new tag change this? As happens now, some aggregators will choose to take this information, some will not, and the disclosure text may or may not be lost anyway. The use of tags do not confer control over how content is presented.

Separation: I can agree with this on the merit of semantics, and it speaks to the data-centric part of my brain. But while the logical part of my brain says "yes" to semantically describing the content, it still seems like a "pet" tag to have. The pool of available tags should not be made even larger, in my opinion. May as well just have rant, parody, cartoon-reference, and lolcat tags while we're at it (lolcats are even, I would argue, more ubiquitous than disclosures).

Style: If I understand the author's intention correctly here, he is stating that marking up a disclosure would make the writer more apt to create styling for it? If the author is implying that designers skip styling a disclosure because it's not marked up correctly, or that a disclosure is more difficult to mark up than other portions of a site, then I disagree with this assertion.

Given the legal ramifications of providing or not providing a disclosure, you're better off focusing on the disclosure content than how it's marked up.
Rebasing is not the problem, squashing is[1]. I never understood that. To me, it suggests the person does not understand branch merges. You should either:

A. Rebase on top of master, keeping all commits; or

B. Merge the branch, keeping branch history.

[1] Obviously squashing has good uses, too, within the branch. Maybe you want to squash together all commits for a particular feature's implementation (while still keeping the specs for same in a separate commit, hopefully).
It's interesting to see that the Palm WebOS is much more attractive than the Android client.

Is this because it's easier to write attractive apps for WebOS, or is it just that less care has been put into the Android version?
are you sure this is still private?

I haven't tried this, but http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/Home/oauthimap doesn't at all look private to me. In fact, when I found that, I was very happy to see this ingenious combination of SASL and OAuth.
Since those not using Chrome probably don't know about it, it's worth noting that Chrome updates itself whenever you start it. That explains the absurdly fast adoption rate of new versions.
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It was a configuration error with www/no www. I fixed it, though. Thanks for the heads-up.
I understood that, in total, the uploads from all the users in parallel every minute comes out to 30 hours. A bit like saying YouTube serves n hours of video every minute because there are so many videos being watched simultaneously.
I'm impressed be the preview. I can't wait for all of the simple things in FF and Webkit to be standard! Their SVG demo is amazingly fast. Their approach is really rather smart, it does make sense to focus more on the speed of drawing visual elements than raw JavaScript computing power. On the SVG drawing and bing maps demo Firefox and Chrome can't quite keep up.
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You're well out of the 'easy' part of it, most people associate the first year of a start-up with stress, but that's because they never get to the part where you're successful.

One major source of stress is family stuff, I don't know anything about your family situation, but keep your spouse, if you have one, in the loop so they can anticipate when you need them.

It also helps to really learn how to delegate, and do it well.

Physical exercise has been mentioned a couple of times already, let me add my vote to that bit, it really matters that you are healthy in both mind and body.

Make sure you don't take your work home with you, work hard but don't kill yourself doing it and keep in mind that there is more to life than work.

best of luck! Looks like you are well on your way.
On average, every minute of the day, a total of 30 hours of video will be uploaded.

Since 30 hours is 1800 * one minute, the above is a fancy way of saying we have an average of 1800 live channels at any given moment.
Yeah now you just have to deal with this stupidity:

Send the following bytes:

0D 0A

did that work? ok send the following bytes:

57 65 62 53 6F 63 6B 65 74 2D 50 72 6F 74 6F 63
6F 6C 3A 20

etc:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hixie-thewebsocketprotocol...
The technology is some geek bolt on anyway. SXSW is originally a music event, and in that regard it's fantastic. I'd love to be at Antone's right now sipping a Corona and taking a break from the constant gnawing of tech puzzles, possibilities and opportunities that weigh on me during the business day.
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meh. i've not really ever viewed SXSW as tech-focused. i consider it basically a communal geek vacation/retreat. and if you treat it as such, it fits pretty well into your expectations.
Don't worry about it, HN is not exactly intuitive, but you can't really break anything by clicking and trying. Or, more precisely, you can't break anything too bad.
The 11th circuit "has jurisdiction over federal cases originating in the states of Alabama, Florida and Georgia"( Source: http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/about/index.php ). This is quite a conservative area of USA so without getting too political, I'm not surprised at this decision.
I'm guessing here, but as a Skypeout call at one time has to go into the classical telephone network, probably using some existing VoIP infrastructure in between, the higher sampling rate of SILK would not be of any advantage and the audio would have to be recompressed (probably to G729 anyways if the call goes over some "classical" VoIP network.

Considering that stacking up lossy compression algorithms is never a good thing for the quality, they might opt for encoding to G729 right at your end of the call.
FF 3.7 is the targeted release for WebSockets.
The string 31182 occurs at position 118,017 counting from the first digit after the decimal point. The 3. is not counted.

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i saw muhammad yunus (grameen bank) speak a couple years ago and "social element is embedded in the commercial operations" is almost verbatim how he said he thinks about building his businesses.
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I'm not sure what you're claiming to have discovered via simple googling, but the Friedl article explicitly discusses Tilbrook and the awk quotation. Tilbrook is exactly who is credited in the 1988 sig that Friedl mentions.
FWIW, I think you're being a little unfair to IE's position in the market as well. Not only does it still command the majority of the browser market by some margin, i.e., outnumbering users of all rival browsers put together, it is also a pretty decent bit of software these days.

As one anecdotal contribution, I now know more people who have switched back to IE recently than switched away from it, and these are all technically knowledgeable people who are well aware of the alternatives. They're just fed up of the numerous flaws in the rival browsers and feel they get a better experience with IE8. Looking objectively, it's not hard to see why.

Firefox now runs slower than a sleeping tortoise and claims more system resources than Windows Vista on a bad day. Its main strength has always been its plug-in system, but that same system also causes both stability problems and multiple obvious but apparently WONTFIX security and privacy risks. It still runs all tabs under one process, so it is laughably easy to lock up the entire browser and lose anything you were doing on other pages.

Chrome has some basic rendering bugs, ironically including CSS3-style rounded corners, which have actually been getting worse in recent versions. And it, too, has its share of privacy concerns for some people, not the least of which is the name "Google" that appears before the "Chrome" part.

I don't run Safari myself, but I hear cursing regularly from colleagues who do about pages that simply don't work, so clearly all is not well there either.

In comparison, while IE has moved slower than the rest of the browsers, IE8 is already reasonably quick, renders the pages non-geeks read reliably, actually has better tab isolation than anyone else, etc. If IE9 does bring the same kind of performance jump for JS execution and support for the most useful CSS3 features, so it catches up with the recent trends (which, in fairness, only really took off after IE8 was out) then I'll be tempted to switch back myself.
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nice find. Thanks! Currently experimental but hopefully this is what they intend to officially release soon as rumored..

ps.. Does this work with Google Apps?? Anyone?
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I think a lot of us question "Microsoft's ability to take on the competition." Maybe not from a technical point of view, but certainly from a bureaucratic, entitlement and motivational one.
"she who controls the masala"?
Grats!!!!
The guys behind Newspaper Club are some of the nicest you could ever meet.

Russell (one of the three) runs the Interesting series of conferences, which are genius. The year I spoke, I talked in a really circumlocutory way about names and URLs; other speakers included the guy who designed the new UK coinage, a guy who built a zoetrope out of a pair of Technics decks, one of the UK's top graphic designers doing a talk on the connections between music and design whilst playing along, projector remote mounted on the top horn of his guitar...

Basically, Newspaper Club rock.
Sounds like something I'd like to try out. Will it work on Mac or Linux? Wait, forget I asked.
>> Rather, I think we're permanently jaded against the IE browser not because of its technical merits or flaws, but because they let it go stagnant.

Partly - I think we are jaded because of technical flaws as well, even in their later versions. IE8 was supposed to be their modern browser, and it still had no canvas support and horrible JS performance.

Otherwise, I agree with you - even if IE9 is a huge hit and awesome, a lot of developers supporting IE won't really have a better life.
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That's really not how operating systems work. CPU and RAM are rather orthogonal.

1) click on start menu
2) wait 3 seconds for it to respond and open
3) click on icon for browser
4) wait 15 seconds for it to respond
5) wait 5 seconds for it to render the default home page
6) type in desired url and wait 3 seconds for it to download and render.

It doesn't matter if the new IE browser is faster than firefox, since any computer that is powerful enough to run Vista in the first place will probably not take a noticeable amount of time to render a page in Firefox.

The above is an example of the vista user experience on a slower computer. That same computer could (running linux) load google chrome and open the desired page in 1 second each.
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I think it's broken. I just hammered on the button and it kept giving me levels even though I hadn't even finished a single quest.
Fair enough, but I don't mind making lemonade with my low bandwidth graphics and mapping engine that doesn't require tile reloads on zoom. And it will work on the iPhone/iPad. IE support in a couple years is just icing on the cake.
Yeah, I think I had 9 instances of "douche" in one sentence.

Comedic value aside, it wasn't exactly Shakespeare.
I'm counting on common sense interpretations here. Obviously it's not the case that there are NO EXAMPLES of 7->8 upgrades. I'm suggesting that it's very much an exception rather than a rule. I don't have the energy to dig up the stats demonstrating a correlation between purchases of new computers and browser version market share. It's probably there, maybe it isn't. Whether that's the cause is immaterial though because the point remains: new IE versions tend to be adopted very slowly.

And I would point out the enthusiastic reception of Win7 (comes with IE8) compared to the chilly reception of Vista (came with IE7) as evidence that browser adoption is correlated with sales of new computers (or more specifically, new OS's. Keep in mind a lot of Vista machines were sold with downgrade packs).

And yes, Chrome auto-updates. That's part of my point about Microsoft being less pushy with their updates than other vendors.
Shame to hear it's gone downhill so fast.

I'll always have a soft spot for SXSW, since they pretty much put Twiddla on the radar by giving us the Technical Achievement award a few years back.

That was the only one I attended, so I can't comment on whether it's getting better or worse. All I know is that it was pretty cool back in 2007.
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The old adsense code simply required publisher id. Not sure how to get around that for new ones.
Also known as "be careful what you post when your name is Boris Dinkevich".
I think their website is down...
I got some good interviews done last year, but this year, it's been much more challenging, if only because I've had to jump through hoops to track down the newsmakers this year, while last year, they were all kinda hanging out together in the Blogger Lounge.

I've been laying low for a couple days and plan to come out only when Interactive is over and Music is in full swing. Next year, I think I'll just buy a Music badge.
> I'm suggesting that it's very much an exception rather than a rule.

I think the opposite is true. I don't have hard data to back up my thoughts, but the fact that IE8 is above IE7 seems suggestive.

> I don't have the energy to dig up the stats demonstrating a correlation between purchases of new computers and browser version market share. It's probably there, maybe it isn't.

So you're retracting your statement, then? I'm asking because you seemed to lack any sort of doubt when you made it, going to the length of using of course.

> Whether that's the cause is immaterial though because the point remains: new IE versions tend to be adopted very slowly.

I agree (relative to other browsers at least), but this is certainly not what you stated in your original post.
Yeah, I was about to comment about "hasn't this been tried before" because I heard calacanis talk about theprintedblog when it went under.

Thank you for posting your experience
Did you take a close look at what warrants including a person into that group?
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long polling is nice because you don't have to implement a streaming parser on the client side.
Think of getting direct advertising like any other business sale you will make. You are selling the advertiser on the idea that getting their ads in front of your traffic will be valuable to them. This involves either you contacting them or if you are high profile enough them contacting you. There are lots of blog posts out their with more detail on how to do this. After doing this a lot you will probably start to see the value in a good ad network in a new way :-)

The amount you will get can vary widely but CPMs can be very high $5-$10 is a pretty good baseline, but it varies depending on a number of factors such as how much traffic you get, how targeted and engaged the audience is, etc.
I've been thinking recently about the notion that Apple has been successful in recent years because of their amazing design abilities. More and more, I'm coming to the conclusion that this idea is wrong.

I think the real reason Apple has been successful is that they care a lot about QA. I know a ton of switchers - from Linux and Microsoft to Apple desktops and laptops, and from other smart phones to iphones. I very rarely hear people talk about how beautiful or intuitive their
new devices are (in fact it's often the opposite - "why doesn't the green button maximize windows properly?"). But one thing that always comes up is the expression (usually said very giddily) "everything just works!".

That's not (mostly) design, it's (mostly) QA.
This was written by someone I know, it wasn't a shill. Clearly her experience was just better than yours
Ask HN: Review my Facebook app: Freeciv.net
We could name it Progress Wars autoplayer!
Using timing to scroll eliminates the ability for the player to add any speed variations in a piece, which most experienced players would.

It's a fun app for the common folk, but useless to experienced players.
> It doesn't matter if the new IE browser is faster than firefox, since any computer that is powerful enough to run Vista in the first place will probably not take a noticeable amount of time to render a page in Firefox.

Probably not, but hardware acceleration makes a ton of difference in responsiveness (it pushes a lot of things below that 100ms barrier where you feel that things happen instantaneously). Try out a Firefox 3.7a3pre nightly on a Windows Vista SP2 or 7 computer, enable Direct2D, and see for yourself.