skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So they found the missing shade of blue!
Actually, that was tried, too. There was an orange dot that showed up for comments with over 15 karma.
Extremely rarely. Only if I really have to. But even then, I still work linearly. A revision number makes sense for me.
As much as I love .NET, I just can't get excited about Silverlight. When you require your users to install a new plugin, it raises the barrier to entry pretty significantly -- especially when you're talking about technical users.

Personally, I took a different route: I created a Python->Javascript compiler with a real macro system. Allows me to quickly hack damn near anything together and keeps me away from JS (which I can't stand, largely for aesthetic reasons), without imposing anything at all on my users.
What's the y-axis supposed to represent?
So the article says that #0044CC is the $80 million color. But if you check bing.com they're using #0033CC. So what's up? Maybe it's a trick to get everyone to switch to the obviously inferior #0044CC color while bing laughs all the way to the bank with the real killer color!!

Bing - #0033CC
Google - #2200CC
DuckDuckGo - #3068DD
Facebook - #3B5998 (what where THEY thinking? ;-)
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Nitpicking: Slashdot seems to have stood the test of time way better than sourceforge.
Ask HN: What Unit Testing Framework do you use for C?
(If someone with adequate karma for a poll wants to hijack this, I'd appreciate it.)
I ran into a similar problem this morning-- using python tho. There is an api with multiple decorators possible. One decorator has implications for the program execution model. Because python decorators take heavy advantage of closures, we run into a problem where external code cannot determine appropriate actions unless the decorator in question is the outermost decorator. This of course is an ugly requirement.

Our ultimate solution was to create a global table about if the relevant bit of state applies to the function (based on __name__). Also an ugly hack, but keeps the api clean. :(
> Crime Rates: Statistics vary but seem comparable. This was quite a surprise as crime rates today are around double that of 1960 (much higher for particular forms of crime).

Yes, but 1960 was right before a huge explosion in US crime.

US crime rates now are significantly lower than they've been for some time. The fact that they're still higher than they were in 1960 shows the magnitude of that explosion.
I know my boss and his bosses really appreciated it, but that was the extent of it.
I love that coding/startup culture gives hard working smart people like you an opportunity to self-learn and rise.
Trying to raise a start-up since last two years with a laptop, which is broken in the middle and I have to use a support each time when i work on it. Needless to say it's also a v v v very slow one.
Lived in and managed software teams in 3 different countries.

Logged over 2000 offshore sailing miles.

Learned to code when I was 7.

Sold a work of art at auction when I was 8.

Tied for 2nd place in a senior high national chess championship.

Have survived 3 near-death experiences.
With all due respect to the people who use it, when was the linux desktop ever relevant?
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What this all dances around is that, from a technical standpoint, the H.264 codec delivers superior results in nearly every situation that Apple, Microsoft, and Google want to use video.

So why should they use Theora? Are we really making ideological arguments for technology decisions now? The way to stop patents from ossifying the tech industry is to stop filing patents. To do this, people like us are going to have to start pushing back in our companies and displaying prior art whenever the subject of patents comes up with corporate lawyers.

Meanwhile, Mozilla is a corporation. They're a big kid making sums with an "m" at the end. They're one of the majority shares of the browser market last time I looked. They're going to have to start to play the game like a real company and stop expecting everyone to softball them. Already they're behind on the technology front; I only see Chrome and Safari on every hacker's screen that _I_ see these days. If they keep expecting the industry they've so eagerly entered to coddle them, then their future prospects are dim at best.
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I'd love an answer or discussion about this, even if only for myself! Promise of money has never successfully motivated me to do anything. In fact, try as I might, I don't know what motivates me - and by all accounts, I'm a pretty introspective person! At least I know money by itself isn't enough - I guess that's a start, but I've been stuck there for years now. :/
Hello,
Thank you all for your answers!

I was asking about if I should learn frameworks like zend.. and if there is any other new tools, or skills that I should learn.

Your answers helped me a lot, thank you all.
The author didn't account for gamma correction [0] at all, so the math is meaningless. I mean, if the "Pareto Principle" numerology didn't tip you off.

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1141971
I went to Oxford after my state school told me I wasn't up to it, I stayed and did a doctorate there

I always loved people that told me I wouldn't be able to do something. I remember a 4th grade teacher that told me I couldn't write (presumably because we were to make a copy-n-paste book entitled "quaken' shakin' earth" about earthquakes, and I spelled the title wrong. I still don't know how to spell it, in fact.)

Fast-forward 10 or so years, and now people give me money to write. I guess it's a long time to hold a grudge, but I still think it's funny that elementary school teachers feel the need to tell their students that they'll "never" do well. (I also had other teachers that thought I should be in special ed, presumably because I got a pencil stuck in my hair once. This still happens to me on a regular basis, in fact, but it turns out that that doesn't have much to do with actual abilities.)
I agree. I'm rather disappointed in HN's readership that they voted my response up higher than patio11's.
Note that you can do this stuff in Safari too using Greasekit: http://8-p.info/greasekit/
And you have an excellent taste in coffee ;)
I am not assuming, I am asking.

The right way to answer the question, I think, would be to look at obesity rates restricted to whites/Hispanics, or alternatively to calculate obesity rates pretending Hispanics exist in the us at their 1960 proportions.
personally, i like the idea - it removes some of the semantic ambiguity about what voting means. something similar has helped on metafilter, for example (which already has less emphasis on votes).
The maximum total desire to work with some technology.
I too had a time that I thought twice before commenting because of some down modes that I honestly didn't understood. But with the time I realized that it's my opinion that becomes a comment and what matters is whether I believe in my opinion.

However karma controlled me from posting everything coming in to my mind (I think it's a good thing to have a clean meaningful conversation). And the occasional comments that express my sense of humor were affected so I hesitate to share those.

Anyway HN is not what it used to be and there are many kinds of people here. So obviously they think different and there's a great chance there can be many people who disagree with you and actually go forward and downmod. But you should post your comment if you think your opinion is still right, after you think twice.
That all sounds very deep for something I think it a lot simpler.

1. They tried some weird colors. Didn't work well
2. They thought "screw it" and copied the colors Google use. (Give or take)
3. Users feel more 'at home' and maybe even assume the
results are from Google.

You can't replicate that situation. You can't copy the colors Google uses again. I guess you can make Bing even more like Google, but only up to a point.
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The case is about using gestures to unlock phones, bouncing when a menu is scrolled too far, and other items. If Apple managed to get patents on multitouch (which was close 40 years old by the time iPhone came out) they're not involved here.
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There's a lot of speculation that patents are Microsoft's next big money earner. They hired the guy responsible for generating 2 Billion a year in patent fees for IBM.

He's written a book, called Burning the Ships: Intellectual Property and the Transformation of Microsoft which makes for interesting reading:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10215905-16.html
Where on earth did you get this impression?
Think I'll stick with DuckDuckGo.
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If you want to be inspired by some great illustration work, then check out the pnworldwide site. It displays some really good freelance illustrators. Nice site
Yeah, VirnetX look like a "non-practicing entity". Their website talks about "products" but it's clear their whole business relies on "intellectual property", whatever that is.
Hg and Git : Can't we all just get along? (pycon 2010)
You forget that it's a really good filter for new users. Over time, as your karma gets higher, I believe you'll think about it less - but for the new user who's likely to be rude and probably doesn't yet get the community, karma is a rather useful tool.

I can attest to that - I'm a new poster; and I'm still getting the feel for the community here. Karma helps bring me up to speed far quicker than other existing forum systems.
i think i explained it elsewhere as feeling like a judgement that's not consistent with my own standards. so both of the examples you give (misuse and rating) are part of that. it's a little like having a label stamped everywhere saying "good" and "bad" that you constantly have to ignore, because it's not your set of values.

obviously the same kind of thing happens in real life, but there conversation is much more fluid, so these signs are transient and negotiable. also, there's not a finite number of rooms in which you can chat to other people - it's easier to adapt the context.

someone else has said how they managed to get over this in the shower. good for them. i got over it by writing a greasemonkey script. generally i find writing a script to be easier than changing my (largely subconscious) cognitive processes, but ymmv.
Good point. Though they could theoretically setup a separate financial entity that paid 5 million but was separate from the Mozilla foundation. And this separate entity might not really have to pay fees until 2015 or something unless I'm reading it wrong. Anyway, viva theora. It would be cool if there were some legal move they could do to get around the issue is all..
I don't think that link contradicts Joel. Git represents repositories as a network of diffs, not a linear history of versions.
The problem is that not having the FCC do something clearly within it's "charter" as a public government agency only creates more middle men costing even more state grant money. We still pay the price but the price went up because we added more middle men into the mix.
I understand the HR checkbox fear completely. I have been doing my own thing (limping along) for two years (as of this month) and out of the workforce. I don't have a college degree and am not sure if I can get a job when I need one.

I am not sure it is a completely rational fear since I have relationships in the industry, but it is not exactly a confidence booster.
They can always change their mind. I had purchased a Google Voice app on the iPhone too, until they decided to remove it and everything like it from the store.
> On a related note, my school (Washington University in St. Louis) has recently changed the labels on all trash cans from "Trash" to "Landfill." It's amazing how much that little switch makes you think carefully about everything you're throwing away.

And what do people do differently?

BTW - the above seems to assume that the US has a landfill shortage. It does, but only by choice.

The US tries to recycle some things that don't make economic sense to recycle today. It would be better to simply collect and store these things until it does make sense to reclaim them. Landfills are ideally suited to this purpose.

Yes, it's dumb to recycle when it doesn't make economic sense. Subsidies are waste. You'd think that folks who claim to care about waste would understand that and actually walk their talk.

What am I thinking? People do things because of how it makes them feel.
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Certainly you end up making many decisions and doing many things each day, even if they are small things like brushing your teeth, right? So at least for some activities you've got motivation. What are the kinds of activities that you get stuck on?
Just wrote you an email.
I don't think he was completely trashed or anything, he just lost it whilst he was in the bar having some champagne or whatever. He actually wasn't that worried about it.
Given how little government involvement there is relative to other nations that are building faster networks than us, I highly doubt Government regulation is what's holding us back. The US has significantly less red tape involved in building out nationwide infrastructure than countries like Sweden, Japan, and South Korea.

Is there some supernatural market force that amplifies US bureaucracy over these other countries? I guess that depends on whether or not you consider lobbyists the super-heroes of Democracy.
Intelligentsia in Chicago. Only the best my friend :-)
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with very few exceptions, i have not been convinced open source development model makes good design choices.

I know this is a matter of opinion, but I would beg to differ. I think FireFox is better designed than IE ever was. I think the design for GIMP, OpenOffice, and Pidgin are every bit as good as the comparable closed source offerings. In particular, after the "Ribbon" was introduced I cam to think that OpenOffice had the better design.

While it is a niche product by and for developers, I find Spyder to be amazingly well designed and choose it over ever other IDE out there for short, simple scripts (it works less well for large programs for which I pull out Eclipse, which is also OpenSource).

And I do all of this on Windows since my primary job is as a SQL Server DBA (I do have Linux at home alongside windows, but even there is a secondary for certain niche tasks). Even in Linux, I think the design is quite good.

I do not beleive design is the issue. I think it is a combination of Windows being ubiquitious already so it is easy to get, easy to find help with, and you know it will work with just about all major software. In fact, the only program I can't easily run in Windows really is Sage (a mathematics suite) and that has competitors that run nicely on Windows.

You do not have to think about getting Windows, it is the default. Getting Linux or even a Mac requires a deliberate choice.
Not much compared to others here...

* Won the Bank of America Computer Science award in high school.

* Have only worked in my field of study and interest (comp sci)

* Had a $20/hour job at age 18, which was my second job. First being one at $15/hour.

* Two years later I asked for a 50% raise, got declined, quit, they came after me and they have been my client to this day.

* I survived a horrible rip tide/current after accepting death without the help of a lifeguard.

* Wrote the most efficient language generator based on a given grammar in discrete math class.

* Taught myself enough about programming/servers/etc before college, that by the time college was over, it had taught me nothing new.

* Know how to speak 2 languages fluently without an accent in either language.
Very helpful, thanks. To my tech. note list it goes!
That was one of the most incomprehensible essays I've read in a long time.

What was he even trying to say?
Those lakes are almost certainly not natural, but created by dams. The dams in that part of the world tend to be quite simple and need frequent maintenance. It's easily conceivable that they fell into disrepair and drained.
While that's a classic and amusing essay, having client code depend on concrete types instead if interfaces is lame unless you can be confident that they won't change their mind about which one they want to work with. I write mostly C, don't have anything called a factory, and yet every major object has a plugin architecture, many of these have more than a dozen implementations, and client code automatically works with all of them (and any that they or a third-party have written). Say what you will about architecture astronomy, but this is not complex and is far more maintainable and usable than the alternatives.
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> "Asking a VC to sign a NDA is tantamount to splitting 10’s at the blackjack table"

Splitting 10s makes sense in certain circumstances.

VCs will sign NDAs when doing so benefits them. Such situations do exist, but they're rare.
Yes, where by "baggage" you mean "vitally important existing customers, users, and dependencies that will break if you change anything".
It's called A/B testing. You serve people one of two versions of a page at random, and test which performs better. With enough data, you can be pretty damn certain that the single change caused the results. It is, in fact, hard science.

There are obviously a couple of caveats. First, you need to run the two tests in parallel as you allude to, and second the separation between the samples needs to be completely random. I would assume that Microsoft can keep these caveats in mind.
OK, I'll ask. What is PICK? I have never heard of it and the only Wikipedia reference is for a railline.
Thanks Thomas, I updated the post.
Is this article a joke?

In order to make this conclusion, they'd need to isolate the land reform variable and show that the reforms were the cause. Give the deterioration of Zimbabwe's economy and government since 2000, I'd think this is impossible.

In 2000, inflation in Zimbabwe was a measly 55%. In July of 2008, it was 231,150,888.87%. Now, who knows the date of the Google Maps pictures that they're using, but things started getting bad soon after 2000.

(figures from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe)
Yes, the tool of group-think. "Rude" comes to mean disagreeing too often. Being critical is often deemed as "disagreeing". The same holds for "doesn't yet 'get' the community". All these loaded terms: get, community.

It's a great place to find references to good articles. I find participating in discussions, over time, a huge time drain and stress producer. It's anonymous debate with the masses (smart as many of them are), with an applause meter running the whole time.
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Since the data points are solely about extreme wealth and Elite MBAs, the only thing that can be proven is some degree of correlation between the two. What you have is insufficient (by a lot) to prove causation.

If your thesis is that the Elite MBA led to the extreme wealth, you have to look at the volumes of Elite MBAs out there. HBS alone turns out 1000 a year. Only a small % of them get to extreme wealth (going back to your point that a few hundred million doesn't count).

As someone else noted, an Elite MBA is a worthwhile investment as a stamp of approval. I have one of these, and I can speak from experience that it helps. Is it going to get me to extreme wealth? No.
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It is great, but I actually think it's a little unfair. CVS was better than directories with date suffixes, and SVN was better than CVS. Git sounds better than SVN.

But to me, SVN isn't one of those technologies that I'll look back on and despise. Sometimes you look back on a technology and wish it had never existed (the original EJB seems to inspire this in some people), sometimes you look back on it and see deep flaws but still have respect for it as a first crack at a problem (some people look on the original Struts framework this way), and some you look back on fondly even if you no longer personally use it (a lot of ruby/python folks seem to look back on perl this way).

To torture the analogy, I'd say SVN is a moderately effective antibiotic that has been replaced with a more effective one that has fewer side effects. But a leech? Come on, it was a good technology.
What about topic branches? You have a cool idea and you don't want to break the main line of work. You at the same time want history of the development of this new cool idea. You also want to be able to continue to bring in critical work from the main line of work.

I don't know Mercurial but I imagine it can handle it as well as Git.

It's this feature that you'd have to pry from my cold dead hands. SVN now feels like a straight-jacket to me even when I'm working solo.
He also uses the "<>" operator for inequality, which is unforgivable in my book.
> What I said was that the fanboys claim that the free market will utilize every opportunity of profit, and I'm claiming that's not borne out by experience.

Strawman. The claim is that folks will try to find profitable things. That doesn't imply that they'll tolerate, let alone prefer less profitable things. (It also doesn't imply that everything profitable has been found.)

If you think that there's good money to be made on breadboards in Boston, go for it.

What? Your beef is that someone else isn't catering to something that you don't value enough for them to make money? If you don't think that breadboards are worth much, why should anyone else?
Shazam: http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/index.html
Wow, that's scary. The epidemic just exploded within our lifetimes, and it started with the poor in states like Mississippi and Alabama and spread outward to middle-class America.
There are a few comments that might help, on this recent thread:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1184012
I'd like to see this displayed alongside a map showing the consumption levels of high fructose corn syrup.
These work great for keeping your pants cuff out of the chainrings:

http://www.amazon.com/Pant-Cuff-Clips-Bike-Bicycle/dp/B000MM...
And now, Python in the browser without Silverlight (i.e., on pure JS):

http://www.skulpt.org/
The great thing about the benefits system in the UK is that you just won't, unless you want to.

If you really do want to take the risk of starting a business, even if you do fail - you'll never be back on the streets.
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