skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not understand why that would be so.

With a key you need to use hand eye coordination to stick the key into the hole and turn with (sometimes) force (and sometimes need to apply pressure to the door as well).

With a keypad you need to stick out your hand the same length as with a key- and push a few buttons. I do not believe you are correct.
Wait till you see the vehicle that they'll be travelling in...

Best of luck to @EliasBiz for organizing it; if I was in the US I'd definitely be on it.
Facebook and Twitter don't scale in the same way that adding servers doesn't scale because part of the additional processing power is consumed by networking and other infrastructure. (Is that a litote?)
Ahh! I had forgotten CSS3 already had some new love for columns. Excellent.

Also, I agree with your options. Tables for this one little thing won't kill us until we get widespread CSS3.
I wonder how this will affect Flash apps that I deliberately keep in the background. It sounds like Pandora, Grooveshark and their ilk can probably survive intact, though it might be harder to load a Youtube video and listen to its soundtrack only.
I'm going into this knowing that it's probably below the level you're applying for, but it's been OK to state "references available upon request" in your cover letter or resume. In my experience, references are generally checked after the first round of interviews, and that gives you the opportunity to tactfully tell your story.

Then again, I've got a great track record of working for poorly managed companies, so maybe the good ones ask for them up front ;)

Last resort, references are as much about your integrity as they are your technical abilities. There's nobody you've looked at as a mentor, advisor, or trusted peer over the past few years?
This is par for the course on UI elements (including window controls) in OS X and I believe in Windows too.
Is this somehow different from how they showed differences between files in the fork queue? I forked my first repo a week or so ago, and saw something identical to this, but it could be I got on the first set of changes.

Not to say it's not ridiculously awesome, that is. This is a fantastic way to see differences. GitHub is awesome.
Yeah, yeah, I know. I could just never get the hang of that control style. I suck at Mega-Man, I suck at Contra, and I suck at your game... But that's me, not the games.
I would start thinking in terms of how I could make a blog, OSS project, or publicly visible code which would make a case for "Why You Should Hire Me" so strongly that you wouldn't bother contacting my references.

We're in an industry which needs to administer FizzBuzz in interviews. How hard do you think it will be to make something that will conclusively demonstrate you are better than the next ten people who they'll have to ask to FizzBuzz?
No - Bay Area is a strike-slip fault whereas Chile is a subduction zone
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A widespread and, I think, unfortunate response to "Facebook Login" was for people to say "oh, sure, these people didn't realize they weren't on facebook.com, but that's because they were too busy curing malaria and designing maglev trains to concentrate on anything so petty."

Fact is, we have to design for smart non-technical people AND dumb non-technical people.
I am curious as to why you think you can't ask for a reference simply because the company is small? References are not about the size of the company, but instead ensuring that who you say you are is really true. When I first started in the industry my only references were from high school jobs at fast food places and small restaurants. Nothing related to IT or the job I was applying for. These references though all concurred that I was a hard-working, reliable employee, who would take on extra responsibilities, always willing to work, never called in sick, etc... That is what a reference is truly about. Finally, companies will typically only ask for 3-4 references, and even then most of the time they do not have to all be work related.
I use long and complex mathematical/physics/chemistry formula as password. It's easy to remember, good to practice your memory and very hard to crack (since it contains letters, numbers and special chars).
I don't see that he ever says anything particularly negative about the Zune UI, just that he feels like it hasn't set the world on fire on Zune so it's unlikely to do so on a phone.
LOL. I love this example. An absolute genius looks at his own work and thought process to conclude that one does not need to be a 'genius' in order to succeed in math. It's difficult for someone that brilliant to understand that while the things he does may seem ordinary, they are far beyond the reach of the vast majority of human beings.

And he's trying to convince the people who were only Putnam honorable mentions or whatever not to give up on math. This has nothing to do with people with a 120 IQ (I know IQ is a BS measure, but when people say 120 IQ, they mean someone who is above-average, but modestly so).

I wonder what Terry Tao's definition of genius is. Would he consider himself a genius? Everybody else would. But he might not.
Haha! I'm just learning about this. I got 1k or so from StumbleUpon in the last 2 days which has led to nothing on twitter, nothing on delicious. And my pages/visit and 'avg time on site' has dropped off. Stumblers really have low attention spans and, in the context of the web, that's saying something.
Aside from the "cheap" part, though my laptop is dirt-cheap compared to the time I've spent on it, that's what's happened to me since I got my MacBook Pro. I don't miss my Windows box... which is kinda strange, as I grew up on Windows.
if your work stands for itself, and you can provide a character/hard worker reference, i doubt it's much of an issue.
The point being made is that market share isn't the only measure of control.
Good point. Intelligence may not be a primary factor in the choosing. One reason why some people are vegetarians and others not is exposure to the information about factory farming. So if you don't know what's going on with animals, you could be highly intelligent and not be a vegetarian. Another reason is you could be intelligent and narcissistic. You may know about animal suffering, but not care.

The reason I believe there could be a link (maybe a very small correlation; nothing big) is my own "anecdotal" observations. I've seen how a lack of intelligence can keep people from becoming a vegetarian. Often people don't address the issues in a well-reasoned, objective manner but react based on their emotions/desires ("but I just couldn't give up cheese!") or more often, simply avoiding the topic altogether.

I have not once, ever, come across a sound, cogent reason for eating meat (barring edge cases--just talking about the typical case). But I've come across many different sound arguments for avoiding eating meat. The overwhelming truth and well-thought out arguments of vegetarians impresses me.

For more context, I wasn't always vegetarian. I was raised with meat at every meal and I would complain if I didn't have meat. It was ultimately the cogency of the argument for vegetarianism that converted me. I would convert back if I came across an argument for eating meat.

So after years of hearing poor arguments from the meat-eating side and sound arguments from the vegetarian side, it makes it believable when someone suggests there might be a link between vegetarianism and intelligence.

(I'm actually quite impressed that this Hacker News discussion hasn't degenerated. In my experience online discussions about vegetarianism often degenerate into childish snark. Thanks for keeping it real.)
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DragonFly's cold start takes about ten seconds. Unusable.

I like Web Inspector's tab completion, although it has issues when I try it on Linux.
It's funny.

This is actually really cool, but all I can see is this:

> Warning: This isn't going to work in any currently available version of Internet Explorer* or many older browsers.

And all I can think about is screw Internet Explorer.
I've memorized a few (non-genpass) passwords for sites that I regularly use from other computers -- gmail being one of them. I also use the mobile version which nuclear_eclipse mentioned.
The other side of "putting in the time" is finding something you like doing in the first place. It makes the journey all
the more interesting.
I wonder how much work it would take to convert MS Singularity or Renraku from .NET to Haskell... sounds like (the research would be) a fun weekend project :)
Hi folks, we're NewsLabs (pbiggar and nchong on HN). We never intended to use secrecy to hype stuff up, just to be a bit quiet until we had more built.
This isn't the power of building codes.

This is the power of productivity.

Haiti has a GDP of $1,300 per person. As it turns out, about 40% of this is basically welfare from the rest of the world, but that is neither here nor there for the current argument. So, anyway, each Haitian is producing somewhere between $700 and $1,300 of value each year ... and likely eating 90% of that as food. The surplus that might possibly be generated in a given year is perhaps $100 or so per person.

This is the cold equation of building safety: there is no way that Haitians can possibly build earthquake proof buildings on 30 cents per day. I don’t care if the building code was five times stricter, or if there were roving gangs of armed building code enforcers – the buildings in Haiti are going to be made out of scrap metal, home-made cinder blocks, and substandard concrete.

The death toll in Chile was much lower because Chileans are more productive people - their per capita GDP is $15,000 - about 13 x the per capita GDP in Haiti.

Bump up producitivity by 13x and you can buy a lot of things.

...including earthquake resistant buildings.
We can't just switch hashing at this point, because none of the data would be in the right place.

Since we have to move all the data anyway, we figured now would be a good time to switch stacks. Memcachedb isn't really a very solid product, so even if we scale it, it isn't a good long term solution.
MemcacheDB periodically flushes its in-memory DB to disk, using BDb. That causes a global read/write lock for a looooong time. (This pauses BCC for 5 seconds at a time when it happens, and I only have 20 MB stored in memcachedb. To rectify this I'm moving to Redis as soon as I get a day free. Suffice it to say that if Bingo Card Creator taxes the architecture of your key/value store, you may not quite be ready for prime time.)
Yeah, that was a typo. Memcachedb just isn't fast enough. It used blocking IO when reading the disk, so if it is waiting on the disk for some data, none of the other requests can go through.
We were just trying to avoid building hype until we had more built. Whoops.
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What are the things iPad might need?
I'd be interested in comparing notes if you are. I implemented something similar to what Bret Taylor described. Mine is pretty hacked and alpha but I've used it in production. http://github.com/davidreynolds/simplestore
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How does this make life harder for hackers? Explicit permission is given to do whatever the fuck [you] want to, which includes hacking.
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My bold can do that, though it's entirely likely he didn't know the path through the menus to open the .xls doc. The office-like suite opens .doc/.xls/.ppt, iirc.

It doesn't render properly 100% of the time, though, whereas my iPhone always seemed to.
They minified their Flash app from 1 MB to 0.45 MB and don't require user accounts

The main selling points of their premium version are user support and access to a desktop version. If they have 'reduced friction' for their online version, the need for support should be negligent and the downloadable version less attractive. As freemium models go, I think thy need to differentiate better.
Nothing sinister here. We give journalists 80% of the _revenue_ from their content. We can make it up on volume. I updated the CFJ to be clearer.
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Customers don't pay for innovation, they pay for value. Who cares if its innovative if it's better?
We were all new here once. No hard feelings :)
"Wonder if they picked up a book instead. ... No word if gamers have decided that as they can't play they might as well party like it's 1999."

My sentiments precisely.
It may be that Apple factors that 30% into its pricing decisions and ends up with a razors & razorblades model, at least to some degree. This could be a huge net positive for developers because of the expanded market.
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That's fine, but you can either stay as just a geek with an algorithm (no excuses! ;)) and wonder if the site will ever get attention, or find a co-conspirator or push out of your usual territory. I reckon the latter is simplest (especially since there's hardly revenue to split with a partner) and picking two interesting words a day and plugging them on Twitter with an example of what you expect is pretty easy.

Another idea: Have a topical lyric competition on your blog. Each day of the week is a different format - couplet, limerick or whatever. And each time, the topic is something new that's in the news - natural disasters, celebrities, movie launches, etc. Get friends involved and seed it until the regulars start to suggest news and other ideas.

Plus, try some viral stuff that people might spread around. Tweet, "You'll never guess what 'earthquake' almost rhymes with! http://www.b-rhymes.com/rhyme/word/earthquake " Who the hell wouldn't click that to find out?! :)
Cool, thanks for posting. Given how money you make you might s well pay a professional translator for Japanese - you will be pleasantly surprised.
if the app takes too long to load, it's a friction.
if you ask the user to sign up before using the software, it's a friction.
if you ask the user to wait for a photo to upload before edit, it's a friction.

little frictions add up.

our goal was to build a viral application and our approach was to have far less friction than our competitors. it worked because our top traffic source was direct traffic.

when you bring up the word "viral", the knee jerk reaction was to integrate with twitter. the reality is that asking permission to someone's twitter feed actually add a lot friction. that's the point we are trying to bring across.

as for the bloggers, if you read the article, you would see that we didn't reach out to bloggers and journalists. we simply reduced the friction for bloggers to covers us by providing a dedicated press faq page along with all the collaterals, and a free premium license.
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Canada remains the only industrialized country in the world that has survived the last two years of financial and economic stress without a single bank failure.

Australia hasn't had a bank failure since the early 1990s
I couldn't use my PS3's NetFlix integration last night.

Not everyone uses it for games. :)
What would be interesting would be to let users hook their own custom functions to your web crawler. In other words, whenever you crawl a link, you feed the link to the developer's script which does whatever it wants with it. I've had plenty of ideas that would involve a web crawler, but I just don't have the time to customize an open source crawler. There are too many complications like not falling into infinite loops (such as a calendar type pages).
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> I have a few journalist friends (as no doubt do you guys) and pointed a couple of them at this.

Thanks for doing that. I hope you'll point them at this comment too.

> [...] you'll probably find that a lot of your target market quite bitter and resentful that they've been reduced to this. [...] they just want someone who'll give them a honest day's pay on a stable basis to get on with what they love doing, writing well-crafted stories.

Yes. We talked to a ton of journalists before we got to this. Everyone had the same story (many bitter) that you outlined above. We are honestly not trying to screw anyone. We should have outlined the financials a bit better: 80% of all revenue goes to the content producers. This is a platform for journalists to earn a good living, not for us to exploit anyone.

We want to provide a good living to people who write good content.

> Not all journalists will necessarily be entrepreneurial sorts, and the ones that are will often be able to seek out geeky friends to help them out online anyway.

We're trying to add value for both kinds, not just the ones who can't work the internet.

> With that in mind, there are a lot of sites out there on the internet with too-good-to-be-true sounding propositions on how they can help you make money online, build an audience etc. Once burned twice shy with these sorts of operations - often it turns out they pay you peanuts to be a cog in the wheel of a SEO-spam factory which profits them more than anyone else.

We have come across a number of these - we dont want to name names - but we are the opposite. I guess the fact that we were trying to keep on the down-low made it seem sinister. Just the opposite - we are open sourcers and believe in transparency. It will be trivial to calculate how much revenue your content has brought it: multiply by 1.25.

> Even with the best intentions just to offer people better tools on a win-win basis, it's hard to avoid coming across as scammy or profiteering when dealing with people who're feeling unemployed and vulnerable career-wise.

Right, this is an important point. We'll work hard to make it seem like we aren't scammy at all (cause we aren't!).

> So, I guess what I'm saying is you might really want to make sure you stand out from the crowd of "join our SEO-spam-factory"

Noted. We had hoped the YC brand would make us stand out from spammy-bastards, but I guess not.

> [...] if the tools being offered lock you inextricably into some company's hosted ecosystem, I'd be a bit skeptical
[...]

We are wary of this. We will build tools to automatically move off our platform. It wont be our first priority of course, but if people want to move off we will help them do it.

> Anyway hope that didn't come across too negative, I'm glad more people are taking on what's such a tricky problem!

Positive people won't tell you that you may be coming across as a spammy bastard :) Thanks!
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I've been doing this -- reading the Creating Passionate Users blog from the beginning as if it were a book. I'm up to March of 2005 so far, and it has dramatically transformed my outlook on creating software.

Not only that, it's about create passionate users, where "users" is meant as a general term, whether it be users of software, readers of books, listeners of music, etc. I've applied the concepts to my entire life, where the people I interact with are users of me. Even though I know it has already ended, I secretly hope it never does. Even the oldest entries are still relevant today. Deciding to go back and read it all is turning out to be one of the best decisions I've made.

I am evidence that her method works, because I'm now one of Kathy Sierra's passionate users!
Why is this trending? Bugs in IE. Film at 11. Old news.
He got featured on the android market. This isn't something you can plan for, so the $13k/mo figure is not representative. Just because there is always someone winning a lottery doesn't mean playing lottery is a god business plan.

Of course knowing that increases confidence in the platform somewhat.
The kind of technical books that have short lives are ones about specific products/versions. This is a book about creating programming languages by the sounds of it.

Other books in this field are still available at my local mass market bookstore after 15-20, even 30 years in print.

Look at TAOCP how old is that now? Like 40 years?
We have many people interested. I haven't triaged them all, but there are high quality people in there. We don't need people to jump - there were 8000 journalists laidoff last year, and there are many many freelancers out there. The people interested are mixes of both, and some full timers who want to make money on the side, and are looking to jump online in the future.

I would love to pay out of investment, but we don't have it, so I'm not sure what we can do there.
As an aside, I submitted this post a little bit earlier and did not get a single upvote on mine. I think that is kind of an interesting case study on the snowball effect, where in two parallel worlds the exact same article / title could get 1 vote or 50+ votes depending on subtle variables, such as the time of submission or if one other person notices it at the right time.
"Save as PDF..." + Dropbox + Dropbox for iPhone/iPad and you're done :)
We are aiming to get journalists a fair wage. We aren't promising payments of 30K-70K, but we needed numbers to put in the box on the Poynter site, so we put in our targets.

Do email us, you sound interesting. I'm paul [at] newslabs.com or paul.biggar [at] gmail.com.
We're thinking about building an iPad app, but I am still just a little bit concerned it won't be nearly as big as the iPhone. It's a big risk for us to take as a three-person start-up.

We currently develop a GPS/tracking/mapping app for the iPhone, and a bunch of our users have emailed us to ask us what our plans for the iPad are. The obvious application would be a trip planning app - something where you could trace out trails and waypoints on the iPad, and then load that data into your iPhone or other GPS unit out in the field. You could even take the iPad with you I guess, considering how light and slim it is.

We're still iffy on doing something like this, but a big part of me wants to, particularly since I'd use the app for my own trips, and it would be a good excuse to buy an iPad :)

I guess we'll see. We also see opportunities in boating and aviation, and we're talking to a boating maps company about a deal that might lead to an iPad app as well.
Hmm... I'm picturing internet earthquake memes... :P

This is going to sound funny, but I was taking the obvious geek approach with this, which is... make it into an iPhone app!
http://www.b-rhymes.com/iphone/

How predictable am I? haha. I can see though that I'm probably going to need some community if it's ever going to stick.

Anyway, thanks for the input!