skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What exactly are they optimizing or testing for here? Just number of searches, or clicks on that feature. Have they eliminated that people might be clicking on all these odd ball changes because its novel? I know I've expanded some menus and clicked on stuff and hovered over shit I wouldn't normally just because these changes were all shiny and I wanted to see what they do.

But in the end, the only change I like is the logo. Everything just looks a little odd. But my only real gripe is the location of the search results. Is it just me, or have the serps been left justified or were they much more in the center of the screen before? Every friggin machine is getting wide monitors, so to make stuff go left these days and just give me all this whitespace in the center and the right, makes me a little nuts.
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I would guess that they get a lot of hits (everyone gets sick), and that the pharmaceutical companies give them large amounts of money for ads.

Also, unlike 'Old School Magazines', almost all of their content is reusable. It is really more like a database of health information than a magazine.
Talking about the new sidebar, I really think it doesn't blend very well with the rest of the page. Compare this to the sidebar at www.clusty.com which feels so much "at home".
Don't suppose anyone grabbed a copy of the audio while it was still up?
i know absolutely nothing about the market, but my feeling is there is a pretty big opportunity in charging for one on one tutoring. you could have a whole ranking/review system etc. someone willing to pay for spanish tutoring here is going to be paying a boat load compared to what someone in latin america would be charging. so the key would be finding people who speak spanish and english well enough that they could tutor for less than a local american would do it for. i think that's totally possible - but again that's just one example of what capitalizing most common users could mean, i really don't know the market so i can only guess

edit: now that i think about it there's probably room for american tutors who charge more as well. have a find a spanish tutor search option and have price be one vector, location be another (let people find tutors locally?) etc. etc.
JQuery 1.4 (HTML5 Presentation)
Most of what we own are wants, let's be clear.
I use ZFS under FreeBSD 8-RELEASE in a 6x1.5tb raidz2 (dual-parity) and it is rock solid. The benefit of running ZFS under FreeBSD over Linux is that you don't need to use FUSE, as ZFS has been really well integrated with FreeBSD's filesystem layer.
The market might have "only" been down 347 points at the end of the session, but many investors bought or sold investments when the market was down 990 points.

Only the foolish ones. If you are long term investing, you can afford to wait a couple of days to see what happens as a result of that spike.
I wonder if that observation was the catalyst for the whole project.
I assumed this was going to be about the founders of Rockstar Games, publishers of Grand Theft Auto and other successful games. I was kinda disappointed when it wasn't.

Also, where do people get the idea that they should add an apostrophe in a plural? It's not even an easy mistake to make, it's just plain weird.
Mashups with the Facebook Graph API and Neo4j
What makes you think it is a hoax? It looks reasonable.
International iPad launch confirmed for May 28 (with pricing)
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Simple, it is not. I've used it for months, still don't have any idea what the tabs are for, not sure who can see what I post, not sure where my "wall" is. Not because I'm an idiot, but I have an arrogant disregard for confusing interfaces and refuse to spend even a few minutes decoding their arcane controls.
Here is a good back and forth with Lustig and why his science could be suspect.

http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-ab...

http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/02/19/a-retrospective-of-...

There is no secret why people are fat. People are doing less exercise wise and eating more crap food wise. Trying to blame it on one trigger such as HFCS is clearly ignoring the big picture.
with enough speed and also proper tires, topgear demonstrated you can drive on water http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oeJjzdlTuI
I'm assuming Facebook since every community page looks like this. Also, the links to other Wikipedia pages link to different Facebook pages instead.
Production is declining, but consumption is increasing, so it could be less than 30 years. I also believe that oil will be come more valuable as a pharmaceutical base, for fertilizer, and plastics than for energy. We'll have other sources of energy that we will use to extract the oil, so the 1:1 rule may not apply. As long as the energy costs to extract it are lower than its value for all uses, it'll still be extracted.
Well, I'm losing my religion. I already have a Greasemonkey script to stop the fading top row. Look at the results page for "cat toys" in Bing and Google. Maybe Google should just redirect to Bing.

I get that they're trying to satisfy a diverse user base and drive UI changes from testing, but it sure came out ugly.
Except these guys are exercising, outdoors, getting wet, having fun, doing something no one has ever done before, and probably doing things that will get them laid easily.

How was that like you and your ironic crew and your email blast?
Facebook’s Disconnect: Open Doors, Closed Exits
Facebook meets mahalo, that's pretty disgusting.
According to a 2007 study by Loughborough University academic, Thomas Jackson, most of us reply to e-mails immediately - many within six seconds. Then it takes at least a minute to recover our thoughts. Not long after, more e-mails arrive, with more checking, and so on.

While reading the article I caught myself not remembering for a while what it is that I am currently working on :)
Fascinating, but the explanation they gave in the video seems bogus. Mathematically predicting how air currents will convert ultrasound into human range? Bullshit.

If it's really beaming ultrasound then I suspect it relies on constructive interference to produce audible sound.
He compared the feeling of it--no one knowing what's happening, fear/chaos, etc. Not the after-effects.
Stickybits.com (Mobile, Social, Barcode App) Hiring Python Dev
What is stickybits?
stickybits.com allows people to attach digital content to barcodes. When those barcodes are scanned (via our iPhone or Android apps), you’ll see all the content that has been attached. What makes us unique is that all this is done in a social and fully open read/write way.
Aren't they making moves into energy? Though as long as they retain their dominance in search, they'll be relevant. And profitable. Diversification should never be forced. I believe that Google will evolve naturally.
Anyone care to translate?
The conservatives would, essentially, be out of the picture for decades in all probability.

Fingers crossed.
Thanks, I understand that this information is available, but I wonder what the quoted price reflects when you go to Yahoo Finance, et. al..

I've asked this to my finance professor and professionals; there seems to be little/no consensus on it. There must be arbitrage opportunities here... maybe that is what HFT are doing?

According to the NYSE, this was purely the result of an economic supply-demand mismatch. I think the result of this, is the realization that the quoted price can be a poor (exploitable) indication of an equity's value at any given moment.
Ok, not to digress too much, but Microsoft is not an industry "leader" and perhaps never has been. A leader has to know where they're going. Microsoft expands "vegetatively", trying everything and putting money behind what wins. DOS sold well for 10 years; Microsoft pushed DOS. And NT, and CE, and Windows Mobile. They "lead" until margins; then they abandon and rush off to whatever is winning this quarter. This is nothing like leadership; its what a follower does, except in this case Microsoft is following their own shadow. It leaves us all spinning from technology to technology trying to guess if this next great thing is going to last.
Already doing that. But thanks.
Here, here. It's misleading titles like these that make me not trust Hacker News when a big story breaks. E.g., when I saw through HN that the Dow Jones dropped by 1,000 points, I immediately corroborated with a few other sources, before reading on.
One can only imagine what future anthropologists will make of early internet culture.
Two largest populations and growing. Shared land mass. Declining resources -- many of which are only in China. Water is running out. Energy. There's a possibility it may be contained to an economic war, let's hope. They are more advanced and conscious societies than the west, so they may have the intellectual aptitude to avoid violence, but when people get hungry and thirsty, they get more aggressive -- naturally.
Apple patents touchscreen laptops, heart-sensors, 3D widgets, and more.
this character here has been doing that for millennia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSLUwmJOo_M
I think it's bubble-nomics. People sign up for services for the same irrational reasons they buy stocks -- they perceive a future value.
If you have to ask, yes it is a hoax.

Why do you think they could go 20 feet with no problems and in a heartbeat sink up to their neck? There's something 3-4 inches below the water they are walking on for the first 20 feet, then it's like a dock you step off.
You just blew my mind. I'm trying to make it 40 rounds on the unlimited waves level and I think you may have just given me the strategy I need..
They're made out of magnesium and are multi-part. The trick is they make the internals somewhat waterproof (at least water passes through quickly) and suspend the entire mobo on rubber shocks.
How refreshing!!

As an editor, I must say that it warms my heart to know that someone out there actually proofreads his comments. Bravo!

Also, thanks for the C Pitfalls link. It will prove quite useful in my current project. The original article isn't too bad, either.
So I guess what I am asking is how important is it if a bunch of hedge funds have a very bad afternoon? Does it matter in the long-run?

I suppose the answer is that "only time can tell". I just feel as if the media pays way too much attention to the daily movements of an index with just 30 stocks in it, and that they have trained our society to do the same. I fear that paying such a disproportionate amount of attention and importance to such a relatively-not-important thing such as the daily movement of the Dow index is ultimately bad for all of us, because it leads to poor decision-making.
Also, doing customer support before going to sleep serves as a wonderful soporific :)
After the subprime debacle I can't look at any financial institutions or markets as being anything other than a facade for what's really going on behind the scenes. Was the whole event just rigged to make some rich and powerful person even richer? Maybe some trader was approached with this mistake scenario. Billions in wealth is created and destroyed by one person pressing a b or an m on a keyboard. I'm not really comfortable with our entire society being dependent on the actions of elite traders and back room deals.
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If you can't access the original post, the audio is here: http://www.zerohedge.com.nyud.net/sites/default/files/Market... or here: http://www.mediafire.com/?ug2o5yngzyw
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Onion? I dont think that I have that plant yet
What is the exact problem here?

The Creative Commons license was intended to allow such use, and Facebook reached out to wikipedia beforehand. Unlike some shadier uses of this, the community pages contain direct attribution to wikipedia, and direct links to edit the content. See here:

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21721
You see more if you turn on "showdead" in your profile.
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I don't think there are any problems with it from a legal standpoint. I just feel that it's a good example of how Facebook is trying to build a walled garden of content.
Site is down but my download manager continues to grab the file. Strange.

http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/Market%20Crash....
I applaud their effort, but when I look at real documents in both formats (e.g. http://www.scribd.com/documents/5/Paper-5 like ZeroGravitas posted here), the HTML5 version looks very noticeably worse than Flash (tested in Chrome 5, Safari 4, FF 3.6). Fonts are rough or missing, kerning is shot to hell, and layout looks like it was performed on a shake table. It resembles the output of a poor PDF viewer.

I wonder if this was the right time to roll out the HTML5 format.
The only real practical application I've seen of channeled arbitrage is currency markets.
snowmobiles do this all the time in the North, simply because it's quicker to skim than to go around:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYaF7wJ3dgM

If you run out of fuel it's a bit of a problem though, Lake Michigan & lake Huron have quite a few snowmobiles at the bottom...
They sink after running for 20 feet because with each step they are getting less return force from the surface of the water. At some point the next step will plunge through the surface and they will sink just as quickly as if their first step was not at a run and not with high and quick knee lifting.
I'm happy there are regularly quite a few links about typefaces on HN. For me it was part of realizing that form has an impact on perception, and I'm trying to develop my taste. I feel quite alone amongst my friends though, as I want to rationnalize why choosing this font, and which other font does it play well with... This is still very dificult for me!
I thought the final panel was less funny than several other bits. The dog? The food rapping? The fact that he's now Gabe and Tycho's son?

The problem I see is that he seems to be angling less for the job as a designer and more for Gabe and Tycho's (wait, are those their real names?) job as a cartoonist. One might worry that he'd have to be repeatedly told "No, sit down and fix the website, stop pitching us strip ideas"

I found a copy of the original job ad, btw:

http://www.be-mag.com/msgboard/showthread.php?18856-Penny-Ar...
I don't know if its intentionally misleading or just that the majority of people don't know how to read the patent. If you actually look at the claims, the claims include the word bitfield. As a hint to would be patent evaluators, the only part of this document that means anything legally is the claims section. Thats where you can find out what is being legally protected. This patent actually has a lot of good supporting documentation as to why his method is an improvement. You can hate patents, thats OK. Its just important to get that hatred focused on the right target.
a.) How much new content do they add on monthly basis?
b.) How much competition do they have in SERPs? ( subclass of 2, no comp from wikipedia).
Tried it on my iPhone, only the first three frames show some text (no images) and the rest of the sheets are blank. I believe it is the future though, anyone with an iPad who can try this out?
Well... hacked around, at least. I imagine it still makes a bunch of the apps in the market hard to use.
I admit I love the sight of a periodic table, but I think this abuses the metaphor. Elements on the periodic table aren't ordered by their rank (abundance in earth or in space) and the grouping of the elements in rows and columns has a very clear interpretation as to their physical properties. I don't see any rules emerging here about which typefaces are related to each other or how they can be combined.

also I'm a little disturbed by the absence of comic sans?
If you're stuck with a phone for 2 years it's nice to have options. The lack of proper physical buttons is a problem though. I personally don't like these extra buttons on Android handsets. You've got a big touchscreen yet to use the phone in normal operation you have to switch between touchscreen and physical buttons -- sometimes quite often.
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A lot of HF traders pull out in times like this for technological reasons. For example, most quotefeeds (such as Reuters, if my memory serves) have outdated technology that handles load really badly. When quotes are 5+ seconds slow, they're essentially useless, given that HF trading occurs on a millisecond timeframe.

Most liquidity providers would love to be in the market when it's panicking, because this is a great time to make a lot of money, but can't be there if their data is bad and they're at risk of enormous losses.
On Twitter, Followers Don't Equal Influence
Walled garden? You don't have to log in to see those pages, so I don't get it.
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The bit about their water-repelling shoes and the philosophizing about the nature of the sport, those things have me on the fence.
It just pollutes the web with content that is available in a better form elsewhere.

I'm sure it's legal, but really, if I want to know about ruby I really don't need to get the facebook fake community page.

It looks like most if not all of those so called communities were simply bot generated spam pages.

In one fell swoop facebook has de-valuated all the other communities it hosts and a whole bunch of search results.

Or do you think that someone actually made a facebook 'rapid application development' group, or one for 'business process models'?
http://tafkac.org/faq2k/animal_618.html

"At this writing, the Jargon File claims the incident actually happened, at Toronto in 1979 or 1980, and that the sysadmin on duty was actually interviewed. The account doesn't provide enough details to track down an independent account, however.

Current University of Toronto sysadmins have expressed skepticism. For one thing, in almost all versions of the story, including the ostensibly documented one in the Jargon File, the computer is a VAX; at the time a VAX would have been a very unusual platform for this kind of data acquisition (they used PDP-11s). The Toronto zoology department has never been licensed to work with primates; the only section of the university that could have done experiments of this nature was the School of Medicine. Investigation continues."
Ask HN: Salary for Non-Technical Employee #1?
We have a small (5-6 person) NYC startup. Thus far, all hires have been developers, but we're getting ready to make our first non-technical hire, a social media manager.

I get the impression that there is a glut of non-technical "business" people trying to get hired by startups. Therefore, I assume we can pay this person substantially less than we'd pay an entry-level developer. We'll still give him/her the same amount of options that we give all technical folks we've hired.

Is that correct? How much should an entry-level social media manager make in NYC?
I read this entire article.

When I got to the end I realised I actually hadn't read this article. I'd just looked at the pictures and felt like I'd read an article anyway.

I went back to actually read the article but the ten-point text next to the 90-point text made the 90-point text far too mesmerising.

This may, perhaps, explain some of the appeal of giant infographics.
Try putting yourself in the monkeys' shoes.
more women and minorities into engineering

More minorities into engineering? What school did you go to that the engineering classes weren't almost entirely Asian and/or Indian?
Million dollar baby: Making millions selling open source hardware.
Thanks. I picked it up via curl, but it was crashing Firefox.

It's up at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2169086/Market%20Crash.mp3 for a while, now.

Not a pleasant experience listening to that. Perhaps that's the way the world will end - not with a roar, or a whimper, but pure panic.
As someone who is both a user of HN and in the Wikimedia Foundation has already noted, Facebook actually arranged a deal with Wikipedia to get this content. They aren't simply scraping, they are giving Wikipedia money in exchange for this.

Edit: with the link http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1319543
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I was quite impressed by how good it was. There are problems but they are at least not immediately obvious. I’m still not sure, though, whether it’s the right thing to do.
Cool, please post a follow-up if you find out why the site is down, thanks.
Awesome.

One note: is there a way to pin the bottom toolbar as hidden? It's kind of annoying to read a document with it popping in and out every 30 seconds...
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I guess what is supposed to be most striking is the horizontal slide show at [EDIT: that did not originally show for me in Safari 4.0.5]:

http://apirocks.com/html5/html5.html

Which didn't seem remarkable till around slide #31:

http://apirocks.com/html5/html5.html#slide31

- whose css-controlled number of columns ( -webkit-column-count: 3; ) I had never seen before.

EDIT: For real usability a TOC of the numerous slides + info on cross-browser testing would have added huge value.
The results seem pretty much the same to me.
Any discussion on this topic really should include Postman's "Amusing Ourselves to Death" (1985), in which he argues Huxley's "Brave New World", rather than Orwell's "1984", more accurately portrays the future dystopia against which we must be on guard.

http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourse...
At best, what you see is as useful as a Google cache of the Wikipedia page. It is non-editable, and quite possibly out of date compared to the actual content. Its only purpose is to encourage communities -- er, sorry, I mean to mine a new vein of customer information to sell upstream.
Also super laggy when scrolling fast over the content. I never see that kind of scroll lag and it was quite apparent while viewing your provided ZeroGravitas link.

I have to say going from a "viewer" to having all the content on the same page is a huge improvement.
I still don't understand why anyone would put in a "sell at any price" order. If you sold Accenture at one cent because you put in such an order, well, you bought yourself a lesson to not do that.
What Apple's new iPhone means for you
Theory:

1) Short DJIA.

2) Pick some stocks and place buy orders at $0.01.

3) Get a friend to fill those orders for you at $0.01, taking the loss. Call it a trader error.

4) A lot of poorly written algorithms, which take into account the last traded price, start selling to cover their stoploss orders (sell if the price < X).

5) Havoc ensues. DJIA is down. Cover your DJIA short and take the rest of the day off.
haha. that's awesome.

it was a pretty fun project for MTV. they launched a show about it called Head and Body... After a quick googling it seems the show never took off.
I worked for Imagineering for a bit and we would do all of our work in the parks at night. It is relatively quiet but there are plenty of white pick up trucks and workers around.

We did some stuff with the Indiana Jones ride and it was really cool to see it with all the work lights on. Many of the dark rides are fascinating when they power on all the lights. I bet that would be an awesome coffee table book.

(edit for typos)
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In Safari I'm unable to advance to a new slide.
Only the first slide was visible when viewed in Firefox 3.6.3 and Chrome 4.1... It's Hard to believe that something so unviewable made it to the front page of HN.
checkout the clean html source code.
The periodic table of anything other than the elements is almost always nearly useless, especially if it looks anything like a periodic table of elements.

The periodic table is about the relationships of the elements to each other. Unless typefaces have the same relationships to each other as atoms, it shouldn't look at all like the periodic table of elements.