skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No.

I have actually worked on such software. When a price comes in - a quote - you have a fixed amount of time to respond before it goes stale, usually a few seconds. It's assumed you know what you're doing and that you want to move quickly. Same as operating any other high-powered machinery.

I remember a feature request from a client of ours, we had keyboard shortcuts of k for thousand, m for million and b for billion. They wanted t as well.
I should have been clearer, in your initial comment , you said "an appallingly large number of seats" , 6 is not an appallingly large number of seats - yes, six more than what they have now but i would not class that as appallingly large.
My main point though is attempting to stifle extremist views when they do exist is just not conducive to a healthy democracy, bring it out in the open, let them play by the rules and then let's see how it really pans out.
I thought that was the joke: If you eat much before running, you will feel terrible and likely vomit during the run. The second time, you'll learn to not eat as much beforehand.

I usually don't eat about 4 hours prior to running. That means running before breakfast or before dinner.
Cant we somehow find the named inventer on social networks such as fb and linkedin and maintain a list like dirty phone book?
You should see the command lines the Navy uses for targetting (I'm not kidding).
Live columnising vertically is not simple (but it's coming) and so using the width of screen and having a readable line length is actually a difficult design target given the need to also meet the needs of those using legacy and small-device screen widths.

I have a 1650px screen and like being able to put up to windows side-by-side and have most content viewable. Indeed 800px is about the limit of line-length for scanning/readability IMO. On HN I get a 60cols textarea (for comments) of 613px and a comment view width of c.900px; as I said I like a line-length between the two (obviously font-size/spacing plays into this too).
Which is a label as relevant as "communist world", and "non-aligned world" isn't it?
A patent for a triply (or more) linked list was granted in 2006: http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7028023.html
I was reminded of this:

"There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go"
~ East of Eden

After reading this, I lost all guilt about losing some old friends due to moving around the country.
If Facebook's ... posture poisons the Web 2.0 well, at worst case by prompting heavy handed government intervention, then they have plenty to seethe over.
Thanks, I really felt depressed that day. Not as much about the money (although it put a dent in my ramen budget), as the feeling of being robbed of a new toy :)

Yes, since it was Express Mail, it was automatically insured for 100 bucks.
A small nitpick: "Estonians invented another icon of internet cool: Skype." Skype was invented by Janus Friis, a dane, and Niklas Zennnstrøm, a swede. They did outsource a lot of their development to Estonia though.
Yeah, that was how I understood the joke too. What I found ironic is that if I wanted to eat during vigourous exercise, or straight before, it'd be your basic loads-of-carbs-in-easy-to-digest-form kind of deal: the exact kind of thing I'd shun if I was trying to lose weight.
Reminds me of this HN article - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801248

I wonder if the focus on physical motion (dancing, surfing) somehow helps autistic folks to "get out of their own heads". Maybe being in the zone does something special for them.
If you are all interested in this stuff, there is a great behind the scenes book called "Realityland"

http://www.amazon.com/Realityland-True-Life-Adventures-Disne...

Beyond the weird and gruesome details highlighted by the Neatorama article it gives a behind the scenes view of how the parks came to be. It is especially interesting to read about Walt Disney's view on urban planning. He was a great entrepreneur and had an amazing vision.
You mean like enacting privacy legislation? I'd see that as a positive move.
[Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor. I don't work in any relevant field, and have no formal medical education.]

Keep in mind that autism tends to improve over time without any intervention. This is why it is mostly considered as a pediatric diagnosis. There are of course many autistic adults, but severity of symptoms almost invariably declines in later childhood. Also, causality is hard to tease out: Whether he started dancing because he improved or whether he improved because he started dancing is anyone's guess.

That being said, there are reasons to believe that certain cerebellar dysfunctions are involved with autism. Physical clumsiness and lack of coordination is so common it is usually considered a necessary condition for making a diagnosis of autism. Studies have shown that autistics have impaired ability to tap consistent rhythms relative to children without autism (matched for age and IQ). Some have speculated that such dysfunctions are involved with the lack of cerebral coordination usually seen as a more proximate cause of autistic symptoms, such as the lack of a negative correlation between the task-positive and default networks. I'm not familiar with any reported non-kinesthetic cognitive benefits of thereapy designed to teach rhythm and coordination, and I don't imagine many have tried -- dyspraxia symptoms are notoriously immune to therapy, both in autistics and children with other development disorders. It'd be fun data to see, though.
Exactly. Just like Microsoft (or Internet Explorer, or Excel, etc) is "dying". With enough momentum, things can coast downhill for a long time.
Nice, I would be particularly interested in the conversion from PDF to HTML, and how you handle the word-spacing and line breaking. I've been doing some work on rendering TeX-like data in HTML (http://www.bramstein.com/projects/typeset/) and it would be great to see how you are solving similar problems (assuming you're willing to share these kind of details.)
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The biggest beneficiary of that gift is the world at large, at least we have one somewhat independent news service.
Machines talking to other machines and the market plunge
Fred Wilson on trading, AI, and startups
Chicken Little and 3.3.1′s Great Big Loophole
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...or scrap the current First-past-the-post system and do it like the rest of the EU countries do with either of these systems:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Hondt_method
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-Lagu%C3%AB_method
Why does everyone seem to hate facebook here? I'm trying to think of the last positive story I've seen about them.
Or coast into their own little niche. IBM has gotten to be a pro at this.
Can someone explain all the fuss? We know that horses and donkeys can interbreed (mules), mules are pretty stable animals with no weird-beard health problems. I believe that horses and zebras can interbreed.

Probably a lot of other examples exist. "Species" seems like it's a lot more porous than elementary school biology would lead us to believe.
CRTC approves usage-based Internet billing
You're assuming that any product of the US Congress (under either party) would be an improvement over what we have now. I find your faith touching but unrealistic.

E.g. has the law segregating the web into under and over 13 years of age portions really improved anything (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pro...)? Very possibly something needed to be done here, but from my perspective it's shut out formal access to a lot of adolescents who need access to various sites. Implicitly encouraging them to lie about their age is also not a good thing.
That's very true.

Almost every one of my friends and family in Scotland work in some part of the public sector - NHS, education, local government etc. I'm unusual in being self-employed/private sector.

Scotland has become a socialist country almost by stealth - a combination of government investment/bribery (Labour wanting to ensure a healthy majority north of the border, to keep the nationalist vote down) and death of traditional industries.

In Edinburgh you might see more jobs in the financial, media and other sectors, but that is not the case for much of Scotland.
Lettuce Recall: e. coli - 23 States
I'm not American, but Dutch, and we already have such laws here and they function pretty good.
FDA: http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/uc...

CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2010/ecoli_o145/index.html

Freshway Foods: http://www.freshwayfoods.com/recall/

A Freshway Foods press release says the recalled shredded romaine lettuce was sold to wholesalers, food service outlets, and some in-store salad bars and delis in the following areas: Alabama, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
I admire your bold prediction, and I hope we come back a year or two later to see how well your timeline bears out.

Just one quibble:

>Oil will run out (that one is actually easier, about 3 decades)

That would be roughly correct at current rates of extraction, but:

* The oil production rate is going to start declining by 2-3 percent a year some time in the next several years (we've been plateaued at 85 mbpd since around 2005).

* Eventually the energy return on energy invested (EROEI) for oil will hit 1:1, at which point it will no longer be useful as a source of energy - though it might still be useful as a material input.

So strictly speaking, oil will never run out; rather, it will gradually cease to be an important part of the economy.
Geeks hate Facebook in large part because we tend to pay more attention to things like privacy and control over personal data than the typical user.
Show HN: parking ticket reminder webapp I built
www.ticketspyer.com . I got some inspiration for this webapp a few months ago here on HN, someone had built something similar for another city, my webapp is for DC only. Basically only useful if you frequently park in DC. If you provide your vehicle information and an email address, it will periodically check the DMVs online parking ticket system to see if you have a ticket, and if you do it'll email you a reminder about it. Just another small hobby project, still not a web designer as you can see. Would appreciate any feedback.
Don't re-invent the wheel... [software design]
Looks like Douglas Bowman was right and its only got worse since he bailed.
http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html
Well, I don't know about the measurements - I'm just an ignorant programmer, not a climatologist. :)

But AFAIK you can get sunburnt in extreme latitudes, ozone or no ozone in fact.

http://arcticglass.blogspot.com/2006/04/bedroom-view-938-pm_...
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/10/dayint...
Their fifteen minutes of fame? (at least in there peer groups)

Edit: changed Their to There (sorry grammar nazis)
Patent reads a little different then the comments here are suggesting. He's not patenting bitfields, he is patenting a method of making bitfields perform the same way across compilers. He even uses the term bitfield to describe his invention. Article title is misleading.
Carol Bartz Is Right: Google Does Need to Diversify
I doubt Microsoft will "die" in the sense of going bankrupt and ceasing to exist as a company. However, it seems clear that Microsoft is already "dead" in the Paul Graham sense:

http://www.paulgraham.com/cliffsnotes.html

Similarly, MySpace is already dead in that sense, though like IBM it seems to have carved out a niche as a useful home page / event listing / music player for small and independent bands.
Thank you! It was exactly this post I was looking for when writing this note and was unable to find it.
Forgive me - I occasionally find English difficult, but it took me ages to parse that.

I assume s/there/their/g ??
Q: What is an incident?
Information Retrieval: Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines (Book)
Neanderthals and humans interbred, fossils indicate
Those both sound like good use cases for a Google Wave.
This is commonly talked about in the design field as well (since at least the 1960s, probably earlier). On the one hand, there's a very industrial-psychology-derived HCI tradition, based on user-testing everything with statistical significance and so on, that tends to do relatively small changes, e.g. assuming that most of the design will stay as it is, how about widget A versus widget B? Against them, there's more of a design tradition, derived from architecture, graphic design, art, and other areas, that looks at more holistic sorts of issues, and tends to think that doing 1000 A/B tests does not add up to "design", and isn't likely to produce good outcomes either. HCI hasn't really resolved the issue over several decades, and it flares up now and then (my impression is that the main HCI conferences/journals are ~80% the industrial-psych sort, but the 20% dissenters have persistently stuck around for decades).
Investing And Asperger's
Have you heard the Audio Spotlight?
If you have a group of people over 16, you can take a "backstage tour" at Disney World (Florida) that shows you similar things.

I took the tour in 2000 and got to walk the underground tunnels, see the computer room, costume pickup desk, the trash vacuum system, and a bunch of other behind-the-scenes things. It's nothing a Disney park fanatic doesn't know about already, but it's neat to be able to go back there.

Looks like they still offer it, but I'd avoid the other parks and just do the MK one: http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/tours-and-experiences/backs...
The Great Essay
With a great essay or two in your kitty, you could prove that you have understood the basics of essay writing. When you were in primary school,
Frightening.
I don't like inconsistencies either, but I don't mind them as long as they're consistent within a conceptual section.

The arrows on the sidebar, for example, cause a different behavior when clicked than the arrows up top. The pipes between the links on the right are between links relating to your personal settings as opposed to the links on the left, which are filters for the search results (with the exception of Mail, which is inconsistently placed).

Overall I like the new look but I can see how it may not be the most cohesive design.
I met the sound designer for Disney World on a plane once.

I wrote about it here: http://dustincurtis.com/how-mr-q-manufactured-emotion.html
My first reaction to this was to laugh - it's really rather funny/unbelievable, when you're looking back on this incident with all the years for perspective. But then I attempted to put myself in the DFS engineer's shoes and didn't like what I saw. Poor soul. This is one maintenance incident he's unlikely to forget.
Roflmao. I've seen better fakes.
A lot of those finance jobs are in RBS - and who owns that now? :-|
Then, you may want to consider any invention as a discovery: the discovery of a mean to some end.

Now, mathematics had this debate a long time ago: some viewed it as something you discover, others viewed it as something you build. Those two philosophies spur different ways of doing mathematics. Those who viewed mathematics as being build, for instance, tended to reject the `∀P ¬¬P = P` principle.

Also note that neither side really won the argument.

Regarding patents, the two philosophies obviously differ: the discoverers will unconditionally reject patents, while the builders could embrace it. So, for your argument to work, you'd first have to convince everyone that math is indeed discovered.
Hands in the Air Dress Up
Past 12 months.
Arts based small business site:

1. 1024x768	27.00%
2.	1280x800	24.92%
3.	1280x1024	10.13%
4.	1680x1050	9.64%
5.	1440x900	8.10%
6.	1366x768	3.81%
7.	1152x864	2.46%
8.	800x600	1.65%
9.	1920x1200	1.49%
10. 1280x768	1.46%

My blog (alicious.com) has a tech bias.

1. 1280x800	19.82%
2.	1280x1024	16.60%
3.	1024x768	14.25%
4.	1680x1050	11.20%
5.	1440x900	10.88%
6.	1920x1200	5.44%
7.	1366x768	3.02%
8.	1024x600	2.88%
9.	1920x1080	2.54%
10. 1600x1200	1.87%

When I compare to previous year then the greatest change is 3% drop off 1024x768 between 2008:2009 and 2009:2010; the two leaders remain with 1% of the previous years figures.
There is a fundamental misunderstanding of design at play here though. We're talking about a culture that doesn't understand that when it comes to design, 1+1 should equal 3 or more. You cannot separate out individual elements and A/B them without looking at the bigger picture. The net result is this - a kind of unsettling, uncomfortable inconsistency. The element level granularity of design hierarchy & planning is obvious. I love agile and I'm a fan of fast iteration and lots of user testing but a strong, consistent design requires top-down discipline and bold decisions, you cannot increment your way there.
Software Raid-6 FTW.
Periodic table of typefaces
Discuss with HN: Case-sensitive URLs
Some of Wikipedia links are case-sensitive. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_overflow

Don't you think this can cause usability problems for users?
And how many investors were caught in margin calls? Surely a small minority participate in margin investing.

If it was damaging for some people then it must have been equally profitable to those who held short positions and managed to close them out during the nosedive.

My point isn't about making or losing money in a single afternoon, my point is that we as a society are placing way too much importance on the daily or intradaily movements of a single index, rather than taking the longterm view.

Do we really think that the stock market is rational in the very short term? I think the events of the past 5 years have pretty thoroughly disproved that.

Yes it was a rare event, and I suppose that is newsworthy in itself, but is it an important event?

Edit: your point about how one loses money based on the intra-day ignores investors who have held positions for longer than the start of the day's trading session. If I'm up 200% over the past two years and I desire to continue to hold my positions, does a drop of 900 pts matter to me if the price rebounds at the end of the day or the end of the week? No.
اغنية يانا يا مفيش - تامر حسنى من فيلم نور عينى
With all this disinformation about a 'b' instead of an 'm', I think Brian did a great service last night. This is about entire countries on the verge of defaulting. That's huge. The drop yesterday was huge and it only portends what's still to come.

This information has to get out. Anyone in the market because "it always goes up over time," needs to get out, now.
Is DST Going to Be The Next Berkshire Hathaway?
I kept adjusting the contrast of my monitor until I reailized the logo was changed.
...and lose, badly, when they provide "prior art".

Just because you are awarded a patent doesn't mean it's enforceable. Over-broad patents get challenged, and struck down.
Maybe they went into engineering. I started uni in the late 90s, the natural sciences already had a nice mix of men and women, except physics. Engineering was still a man's world even then. Then one of my professors dropped the proverbial bomb in class, declaring that "women don't belong in engineering".

It was a fiasco for a little while, the university stated its disagreement but couldn't fire him. He retired a year later (the guy looked like he was on death's doorstop).

The school has been trying, for years, to get more women and minorities into engineering but it's usually just a modest bump in good years, when they have money to actively search. Leaner times, like now, may mean small drop in an already small pool of viable candidates.
> 88MB/s write and 266MB/s read

That's appalling for 8 drives !
How would it be possible not to know a ticket has been issued for your vehicle?

Neat idea though, it would be great if you could do it nationwide, and even more interesting, worlwide.

tickethint.com is still free, you might want to grab that, it's a bit shorter and easier to remember.
That's a Google SERP not the homepage.

Yes the visual design sucks. I'm not there for the visual design and it doesn't suck enough to interrupt the utility for me.
Yeah, I agree with that. It's not even particularly surprising from a scientific perspective: any scientist knows that if you measure A, B, C, and D, you don't necessarily know anything about union(A, B) or union(A, B, D), unless you also measure pairwise and higher-order interactions. At some point, instead of doing more A/B tests than there are atoms in the universe (since this explodes exponentially), it might be worth thinking about the problem using human intelligence.
That was actually the second thing he mentioned.
I think you should probably read the rest of the thread.
I haven't lived in the UK for decades, but I love the BBC news service. It's a national treasure - well, an international treasure, as you point out.

Australia's ABC to a lesser extent is the same.

If a free-enterprise fourth estate fails, I wonder if more countries will create similar publicly funded versions.
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Actually, the last paragraph is a good idea for another reason. For now, all the costs of obesity are internal costs paid for solely by the obese person. It's like me buying video games - I pay, I get the game, no one besides me and GameStop has a reason to care.

However, as of 2014, the costs of obesity become external costs - that is, costs paid for by all. It's more like a factory polluting - the obese person gets all the benefits of their activity, but impose costs on the rest of society. We should try to internalize those costs with an added tax (much like pollution taxes).
> [...] ditching the free accounts, after using them to gain a big following [...]

Well, that - and using them to get the product past beta, of course.
The netherlands has the NOS, it's along similar lines but in a niche language (only 27 million dutch speakers world wide).

Nowhere near the budget and not even remotely near it in quality and coverage.
I was worried about the same thing before I got my iPhone... sure I used it more when I first got it because of the novelty, but since it is actually incredibly useful I still use it all the time.

A bread-maker isn't the same because it only does one thing. It makes bread. An iPad/iPhone does a million things and I am still discovering new ways to use my iPhone.

Now whether the same kind of usability translates from the iPhone to the iPad is yet to be seen, and I'm a little skeptical if only because of the reduced portability, but it is hardly on the same level as your bread-maker.

The same bread-maker argument could be made for a laptop, or a PC, or any number of things
Comparing sliced bread to a breadmaker is like comparing a television to an iPad. Sliced bread is really nothing special. Let me rip off a chunk of bread fresh out of my oven any day of the week.
Yeah, even as an American I tend to use http://news.bbc.co.uk/ as my main online news source. Sure beats CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews, ABC, and the rest of that variety of nonsense.
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I can see a list of docs, but can't seem to open them (the ipad opens the pdf just fine). I thought clicking on the thumbnail or doc name would open it.
Sounds just like an old marketing campaign of mine that we did about transplanting human heads. Good times.
Speciation paradox
At 4 platters per drive, I bet the room doesn't need heating in the winter.

Can you actually put one drive physically on top of another like that, long term, without any ill effects from one magnetic field to another?
Have you had good luck with this? I'm running zfs on an open solaris server, but I hate solaris and would like to switch to linux. I never got the impression that zfs on fuse was stable enough to trust with all of my data.