skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I really think when you get up to 2%-to-5% genetic overlap, it is probably not wise to think of these as a separate species," said anthropologist Fred Smith at Illinois State University who studies Neanderthals.

By some other measurement, we have 96% overlap with chimpanzees, right? It's ridiculous for science journalists to use numbers without bothering explaining them.
Sounds to me like the bug was showing you the application on the list - not actually putting it there.
I got this on the top of the document:

Viewing in simple list mode due to high traffic to this document.
Why? If stuff becomes cheaper, you may consider buying more instead of less.
A truly eco-conscious wildlife project,unitting conservation,communities.
Bandhavgarh is spread at vindhya hills in Madhya Pradesh. Bandhavgarh consists of a core area of 105 sq km and a buffer area of approximately 400 sq km of topography
varies between steep ridges, undulating, forest and open meadows.<p>Bandhavgarh is known for the Royal Bengal Tigers The density of the Tiger population at Bandhavgarh is the highest known in India
Yea, it's appearing more and more like a glitch, human, structural, or otherwise.

However, the sellers were real -- and increasing. I think there is a danger that people will see it as only a glitch and not the beginnings of trouble. The glitch might mask the true sentiment.
Link to paper

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/328/5979/710
Like many of you, I have several browsers installed (I'm on a Mac). What I started doing is not log into Facebook on my "main" browser, Firefox, instead logging in with Safari, where I don't do much else. Flipping to Facebook is now a Command-Tab instead of Command-`, other than that I'm not disrupted much. So, good idea, bad idea?
I'm the process of looking to change areas and so I've been talking with various companies about employment. So far, the only company that has e-snubbed me is Google. I'm not sure what happened. After a phone interview, in which I was assured they'd set up another interview shortly, the communication just stopped. After a few days of no contact, I emailed the people I had been talking to, the very people who had been calling me the week before to verify timing, and I haven't received a reply.

Perhaps I should be calling them so they can't duck out on me, but it feels rather unprofessional to simply ignore someone or have a promising candidate fall off their list without anyone noticing. I don't think I want to work with that department at Google anymore.
Ask HN: How do you track user activity?
User feedback is a great way to improve your service. However, often times, direct customer feedback is not enough to justify next product direction. I want to track user activity on my web applications to provide solid set of statistics to help understand my customer base.

I looked at performance monitoring services like New Relic, but they are designed for developers, but I am looking for options and tools which help analyze application data.

It sounds like a common problem for an entrepreneur. I would like to ask HN community following questions -

1. How do you analyze data stored on your web applications
2. What parameters are most helpful for you to decide next set of features
3. Are there service/tools available for me to extract and represent data graphically for detailed analysis. My applications are primarily written on Rails and .NET

Thank you!
Great, but how does that allow me to copy text from someone else's email? Like a call in pin or something? If I click reply the quoted text does not show up in the text field.
Why? Because the trade was "unfair?" I wonder what legal grounds they would have to break that trade.
Best online shopping deals and discount coupon codes
In marketing a coupon is a ticket or document that can be exchanged for a financial discount or rebate when purchasing a product. Customarily, coupons are issued by
manufacturers of consumer packaged goods or by retailers, to be used in retail stores as a part of sales promotions. They are often widely distributed through mail,
magazines, newspapers, the Internet, and mobile devices such as cell phone.

Online shopping is the process whereby consumers directly buy goods, services etc. from a seller interactively in real-time without an intermediary service over the Internet.

If an intermediary service is present the process is called electronic commerce. An online shop, eshop, e-store, internet shop, webshop, webstore, online store or virtual store evokes the physical analogy of buying products or services at a bricks-and-mortar retailer or in a shopping mall.
I think this has been discussed some times before.
You may be downvoted because the Downvoter doesn't agree with your point or because he (or she) thinks your comment is rubbish. There is no way to tell the reason, but so far it seems to work fine anyhow.
If I recall correctly, Netflix does this: cutting n percent of the workforce on a yearly basis ("adequate performance gets you a generous severance package").

It's countered by paying above market salaries and ensuring that these salaries _remain as such_ (even going to the point of where employees aren't discouraged from interviewing elsewhere to "sample the market").

Microsoft, I believe, does something similar. Whether it's the right approach is another matter.
It's obvious to anyone who has shipped almost anything that costs are different by size and weight and scale.

The discriminatory pricing refers to the client, not to the shipped goods.

Pricing for different goods by type, size and height is appropriate because of the different resources needed to ship those goods. More fuel and studier cars are needed to move iron loads vs a load of pillows. Moving coal requires open-topped coal cars while moving ice-cream requires refrigerated cars, etc.

Telecoms are in the business of moving bits. If they want to charge more to move a gigabyte of video data than they do to charge a gigabyte of text data, or if they want to offer slower speeds for a gigabyte of torrent data vs a gigabyte of FTP data, I think they should better explain how the different types of data justify the different charges.
Which, a little while after the fact, now underscores the fact that the market does what it does, and nobody can explain its movements with real confidence. All those newspapers headlines trumpeting "Dow falls X points on blah blah" is just a bunch of crap to make it sound like they've got a clue.
Why would you want a panic? The market is built on confidence, we want the market to have confidence...
Are other services tracking you across sites?

Well, any sort of javascript that loads in on a page that comes from a central location could track you across sites. Advertisers have long tracked you. Google tracks you on the search, their browser tracks you on each page you visit, and Analytics tracks all site activity. A lot of browsers track you and provide feedback like PageRank.

All of these are free applications.

Perhaps this is the special case of 1) It being a web app, and 2) changing terms without notifying the user

I dunno. But I know lots of free services that you can sign up for (or not) track you in a lot of places you wouldn't expect. The difference is that you don't have this nifty little page to go to where you can see it all happening.
If you're looking for an idea to monetize, go into the iPhone app store, sort by most popular, rinse and repeat.

EDIT: Or NewGrounds or Download.com / games
Hehe, I suppose that if I have to ask, it's probably not a good sign about my own "sigma", but what's this +3 sigma stuff anyways?

From what I understand, it must be some way to asses someone's intelligence, like the IQ, but I've never heard of it.

Come to think about the IQ, it follows a normal distribution, and sigma is how we note standard deviation. Is this the kind of sigma you are talking about?
We share a common ancestor
Good idea, for now. Until a new "feature" is added.
Find a customer to whom you can explain the total situation, and offer them a deal: in return for them supporting you now, you will give them cheap service for the duration, and the best customer service in the world. Not the most likely outcome, but if your product is as potentially good as you say, there may be someone out there willing to gamble on it.
Other articles on the same subject:
Why computers crash but we don’t
Alltop link:
http://holykaw.alltop.com/why-computers-crash-but-we-dont
Link to the original article: http://futurity.org/science-technology/why-computers-crash-b...
The word "terrorism" is not only applied to Muslims. McVeigh is called a terrorist. The IRA were called terrorists.
But that's the point, the server can simply refuse to serve someone without a valid key.
Reddit is owned by a larger company, which presumably handles all the business stuff.
Seems like a sane sentiment, although I personally think flash still has a place. I don't imagine that five years from now we'll be looking at flash as a relic.
> Regardless of the details, this is an example of how markets aren't perfectly efficient.

No. Just that the last reported transaction may not be `true' price.

There are other arguments against efficiency of markets, but this isn't.
Considering that the volume on Proctor & Gamble trading today not only does not include a spike of a billion shares sold but does not look different from relatively recent trading days, I'd chalk this one up to just a rumor and nothing else.
Ask Facebook about privacy through the NYTimes
Facebook is answering questions about its privacy policy through an NYT Q&A. Ask away...
The Wild New World of 3D
Now that is how you get noticed by a potential employer.

Even if they don't hire him, someone else is bound to snag that guy up...
Digg lays off 10% of its staff
http://www.businessinsider.com/cnbc-a-citigroup-trader-made-...
Warren Buffett sees the same problems in the markets, but he draws a different conclusion.
Roger Ebert doesn't like 3D: http://www.newsweek.com/id/237110
Creating a pay-per-use REST API from Excel spreadsheet data in 2 minutes
Cue up story about defense attorneys and other groups pitching together to ask congress to tighten up their language because the wording is so vague in places that they are making criminals out of people for clerical errors. Also other groups protesting the use of huge bills and last-minute additions to make law.
I don't see how the order could even be placed. An emini contract has a 50x multiplier for SPY. That's about 50,000 per contract; that's a lot of contracts. I don't think such an order could be entered without error at Citi's desk and it would damn sure never pass checks at the exchange. Even if it was not flagged as odd, they would still be required to have on hand around 1.6 billion in collateral at very high leverage.
Yes, seems quite unlikely--but may still have happened.
Last report was around $15m. Presumably the new shady ads have bumped that up some.
Google Gives Desktop and Mobile Search Pages the Ol' Nip/Tuck
This makes me think that I should just place limit orders for every S+P 500 company at $.10. Chances are the orders will never be filled but if this happens again I'll get rich.
I'd like to see the legal basis for that.
yeah, i really hope they do. awesome.
I hope he gets the gig - he did a great job on this comic.

Side note: Does anyone know where the job posting is? I'd like to see what they are actually looking for.
But not necessarily false confidence.
You can try. But the strategy is very risky. It's similar to Cornering a market (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornering_the_market), but backwards--i.e. short instead of long.

If you can pull it off, you have earned your profit.
I just started a new contract, and I'm on CalTrain the other day, minding my own business, when this guy next to me has two calls drop on him in a row. He has an iPhone. He mutters, "Gawd, AT&T sucks," and everyone around laughs.

It's now conventional wisdom that AT&T has awful cell coverage. It's especially bad in the Bay Area, but it's bad everywhere.

I can't wait to leave.
http://www.linkedin.com/jobs?viewJob=&jobId=823322
That makes several "bugs" in a week that are glaring privacy holes. Not much better than a "feature" in my opinion.
Life in Sopranos Country
Can we agree that the period in which prepending a conventional term with "e-" could be considered clever ended at least ten years ago?
Awesome. On page 2 is a request for the app I'm already building! I think I just found a few beta testers :)
How high has the volume of trade been at that price point? If there was just one share traded at that price, not a lot of wealth has been shifted.
When I worked at an HFT shop broken trades were the bain of our existence. We had parameters to screen for trades that would probably be broken, but sometimes they would be broken outside of those. The way it works is either party to a trade can request the trade be broken, it goes to a mediator, and both sides make there case. It usually only takes a few minutes, but you can lose a bundle in that time especially if you were selling as the price is dropping, think you're flat only to have your sale broken.
Title is misleading.

Opera is not joining jobs and banning Flash. Opera is still supporting Flash.

They just said they they agreed that it is not the future and that canvas would replace it on the web.
Second Rumor: Per http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2010/05/market-update.html

"...the second is that Euro banks are having a liquidity problem of some sort."
As a side note, I managed to drop it into an existing ActiveResource-using app with this code:

module HashAccessor
def method_missing(method)
value = self[method] || self[method.to_s]
raise NoMethodError.new unless value
value
end
end

Hash.send :include, HashAccessor

module ActiveResource
class Base
def self.find(from=nil, params={})
resource = from == :all ? self.collection_name : self.element_name
values = QAR::Resource.new(self.site.to_s, resource).find(from, params)
end
end
end
F.C.C. Proposes New Rules on Internet Access
I think the title is just ambiguous, as in "Opera joins in 'Jobs vs Flash' argument."
Verizon is no saint either. The only service I would purchase from Verizon is FIOS (and maybe cable).
Yes. It's funny seeing all the analysts on TV and in the newspapers, `explaining' why the market moved this or that direction today.

They can always come up with a story after the fact.
I can't help but wonder how much of a dent this actually makes.

Time will tell. But Facebook's other issue is legal and regulatory exposure, besides user loss.
To some degree, I agree with you. The stimulus was a bluff that was meant to inflate confidence and bring back spending. The market is a strong signal that, if in panic mode, may arrest gains to consumer confidence. I don't want a panic because it may lead to recession/depression round 2. However, I also believe that, if round 2 is inevitable. I'd rather fall from a lower height.
Of course, the original article in the journal Science probably contains much more context, but (pet peeve alert) the newspaper doesn't provide a link, and even if they did it would probably cost a bunch of money to read it.

Non-free journals delenda est.
Bad ticks are fairly common, and in a very rapid market, I wouldn't be surprised that the penny didn't actually happen.
I think it's Jeff's preference too -- it's just that he places a whole lot more people in the first group.
There are far too many speculative comments on this story. I normally find the comments on HN to be well thought and reasoned - not rapid posting of wild rumors that are currently prevalent.

Perhaps people should wait until the facts emerge before posting more stories filled with inaccurate information.
Original article (Science magazine, free full-text): http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/328/5979/710
> Generic programming, among other things.

The proper CS name is "parametric polymorphism". This is not as special as "Generic programming". (What is special, is the abysmal C++ implementation of parametric polymorphism.)

> Lambdas are functions without names. They're not important concepts, they're really just syntactical sugar.

The transformation required to go from a higher order program to a first order one is called "lambda lifting". This goes way beyond syntactic sugar. So, a language which lack lambdas don't fully implement functions… which look like an important CS concept.
People seem so focused on Flash in relation to games and video online, but they all fail to take into account the ability of Flash to access things like your webcam and microphone. So far as I know, these are not capabilities that are going to be part of HTML5.
These guys sure have some nerve...I just saw the below as I tried to edit my privacy settings

"When your friend visits a Facebook-enhanced application or website, they may want to share certain information to make the experience more social. For example, a greeting card application may use your birthday information to prompt your friend to send a card"
They actually covered the final interview process for this job in a couple episodes of PATV, starting here: http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/pa-the-series/112/
Today's chart does show a spike down to $50 or so, maybe even lower. Go to finance.google.com and look at the intraday chart. It also shows a volume spike, but curiously that's later.

[Edit] Actually the stock was down at $39.37 from $61. On normal days PG barely moves at all.
Exchanges define rules, it's not a free for all. http://nyserules.nyse.com/nyse/
Stock Selloff May Have Been Triggered by a Trader Error
Minneapolis, MN. Strong community, plenty of funding, several datacenters and coworking spots. Hard to beat, IMHO (disclaimer: I am currently writing this while in an apartment in MPLS)
I really hope Digg doesn't have 68 people working in HR, Legal, and Marketing
"The product itself _is_ the set of copyable bits, and this _is_ scarcity-free, due to having zero marginal cost of production."

It doesn't have a $0 cost of production. Did it cost Microsoft $0 to develop windows?

"The best possible solution to piracy is to _ignore_ it, and focus on identifying your actual paying customers and developing products for them."

I disagree. While it is good to focus on paying customers, if an industry ignores it, they will quickly put themselves out of a job.

"But don't waste your talent, time, and energy trying to fight a Quixotic battle against a macro-level phenomenon that you have no actual control over."

It's the people that want free stuff that are trying to tell me I have no control over it. I know for sure that adding copy protection for software increases sales.

The other issue is with search engines like Google. If the pirates get organic keywords that are higher than a legitimate source and offer the same thing for free, many users will go to the illegitimate source and never purchase.

It's okay though. With the Internet getting faster and cheaper, I see most software apps going to a service eventually.
>They have 72 staff? Doing what??

Browsing reddit.
Peter Seibel as editor. This is probably worth checking out.
Airbnb hiring SEM specalist
Plus what system makes you type in "billion" or "million" instead of "1000000000" or "1000000"?

I call B$ on this.
Fun, especially since Bosnia was in a war not too long ago. Thankfully, all of my family is out of that godforsaken country.
Airbnb hiring Service Reliability Engineer
Boris Mann, Bootup Labs Co-founder leaves the startup accelerator
Airbnb hiring frontend Engineer
HTML5 and the Web
This belongs on highdeas.com
If there's one thing that really annoys me, it's getting e-snubbed after having an in-person interview. Getting snubbed after sending in my resume is reasonable. I can understand it after a phone interview. But surely when I travel long distances to interview, I at least deserve a "please drop dead" email.
Sounds like Nassim Taleb's Black Swan theory. I wonder if he made any money out of it at his Empirica hedge fund?
His personal blog post here http://bmannconsulting.com/2845/personal/roller-coaster
I think we need a new term other than "coverage". In the old days, "bad coverage" means a place where there aren't enough cell towers around, where you're not getting any bars.

Nowadays, even when you're downtown, surrounded by farms of cell towers, getting full bars, your phone will still magically not work.
Why Wall Street panicked Today? (Hint: It's Greece)
Considering the current prices of US broadband, they ought to be making an absolute killing - particularly in urban areas. Compared to countries with different regulatory schemes, you guys pay a lot of money for not a whole lot.

Even so - I'm not sure they're being prevented from charging more, necessarily - although the FEC would gain the power to do so if necessary. The main thing is, they're being prevented from charging in a discriminatory manner.
> What's the big deal about facebook? And what did we ever do before?

Facebook has solved two standing problems for my social groups. Your friends and acquaintances may be using it similarly, without you knowing it. Or maybe not.

1. Easy and effective photo sharing. It's easy to upload pictures and tag the people in them. If someone uploads a photo with you in it, you will get notified. The end effect of this is that everyone at events, outings, and parties gets copies of the photos taken there.

What did we do before? For many of my social groups, nothing. Those photos were not shared. For two of my social groups, we set up dedicated sites for sharing our photos.

2. Event planning. The events interface works as well as any other I've seen. And if everyone is already on Facebook, it's not as annoying as evite or some third party site where people don't have accounts. I had a friend that refused to get a Facebook account for years and we always had to call or email him separately from the rest of the group. This created more work for the event organizer (which was perceived as somewhat rude) and messed up the attendee counts, because he wasn't in the RSVP numbers from the Facebook event.

What did we do before? Played telephone tag and sent group emails. This works fine for smaller events with just a few people, but it doesn't scale past about 5 or 6 people. It also doesn't work in the tell-your-friends-to-invite-their-friends scenario where you still want RSVPs from everyone.
So, wouldn't this constitute a major transfer of wealth from individual investors with stop-loss orders to institutional investors like Goldman Sachs et al whose computers detected the dip and bought the stock back up?
وزارة-الأتصالات.مصر leads the non-Latin charge
I think Porsche did something like that in 2008: http://radian.org/notebook/porsche
Why even stay any more? This is becoming frequent enough that it's just ridiculous. Staying on Facebook just means that they'll continue to do this again and again. Show them it's not acceptable and delete your account.
No, they're all in the database team.
First off, shares have not yet changed hands. The two parties to the trade each have an agreement with clearing houses that the shares will change hands in the next 3 days, modulo various clauses.

One of the clauses lets the exchange break trades under certain circumstances, typically in the case of obvious errors and "unusual circumstances". So it's fairly likely that trades above and below a certain price on some stocks will be broken.

See Rule 11890 (c) (2) of the NASDAQ.

http://nasdaq.cchwallstreet.com/nasdaqtools/platformviewer.a...

[edit: I previously attributed the NASDAQ rule to NYSE.]
The Unburdened Mind
Since the Google Doc is slow at the moment, here is the source data behind a PostRank blog post exploring the same theme:

http://blog.postrank.com/2010/05/and-the-most-engaging-ted-t...

HOWTO: 40 lines of Ruby to scrape the PostRank API and output a CSV file which has since been uploaded to Google Docs.
It hasn't stopped The Carphone Warehouse from remaining one of the largest cellphone companies in the UK :-) Many companies have products that have migrated away from the original brand definition.