skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you need technical details on third party cookies and other interesting (cross-domain stuff) here is a presentation that I referred to: http://www.slideshare.net/SlexAxton/breaking-the-cross-domai...

Essentially, you load a different domain in IFRAME which sets the cookie. IE requires you to set a P3P header for it to work properly. And Safari required the visitor to have visited the website before. To get across this, you first load a different domain in IFRAME and then have form submit to that domain (with target being IFRAME). (IE7 opens a new window in this case since it doesn't recognize target attribute). Crazy cross-browser issues. I wish there were a simpler way of doing cross-domain tracking.
Hah same here. He should have just stopped typing after "Wow."
Lots of plants, loads of them, all well watered.

Blinds down but windows open (if there is a breeze).

Dressing for the weather - looks of thin cotton. Shoes off. Drink lots of water.

Move somewhere cool ;)
The copymove implementation you put forward is very nice code, but it's pretty slow for larger images unless you've changed it recently. Dr. Krawetz wrote a blog post about how to speed it up here:

http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/2009/08...

That site also has a tool that allows one to estimate the quality level the JPEG was last saved at, as well as a lot of good information for anyone else interested in image analysis.
Where have you been working for the past few years? A bonus you get it twice a year, a boss respecting your work and saying thank you, you have it every single day. If you are paid correctly, you should not even need a bonus but you cannot go long without respect from your boss and peers.

By the way, it is proved by countless experience that once salary is good enough, it is disconnected from happiness at work.

Good pay and respect will bring you way further than good pay, bonus and "you are my slave".
Essential Startup: 5 Killer Startup Decks
Do U Want To Raise The Running Level ?
Historian deciphers hidden "Plato Code"
Coding On The Web
Hello everyone,
I work as a consultant in Savings Investments.
I have a high school math education and a Degree in the Humanities.
I am quite comfortable with HTML,CSS(which I use for SEO at work) as well as Dreamweaver.
Ideally I would like to gradually move my career towards web development.
I've been told to get into Javascript.
Silly question(one of those with many possible answers),but are there any other key coding skills or languages one should be familiar with,to get started at entry level in the web development industry?
Many thanks to Paul Graham and his team for maintaining my favourite site on the Net and to anyone with a good tip,
Regards,
Brad.
How are you going to buy more vacation days or ability to work from home?
Some HR departments need a major overhaul.

I've interviewed at some manufacturing companies that have large numbers of blue collar workers and small numbers of engineers, yet the moronic HR department tries to run the engineers through a similar hiring mentality as the blue collar workers. Why the fck do I need to fill out a fcking job application that is targeted with lots of blue collar type questions...OMG!

Every so often, upper management needs to hire some specialist to anonymously go through the hiring process to determine how good or bad their HR department is doing!
Jira + Confluence + whiteboard
Different parts of the US have such large variances in the cost of living that it's hard to give a meaningful answer (i.e. non-skilled labor here has greater variance than that).
I've tried (firmly) cupping my iPhone 3GS in my hand, both in my left and in my right, and in either position I lose up to four bars (in a place where I have very strong reception).
I have the same issue. Last time I had to wait for a couple of days to be able to download the PDF.
Well and why should I get this app?

HN is a really lightweight webpage, which looks good even on mobile browsers. The app navigation is similiar to the browser nav and even commenting is similiar as within browser.
so why spend $3 to have a bookmark of HN?
I don't know from what market you're getting your products from, but I've never had a phone that had reception problems when holding it in the left hand.

Of course, I've only used low-end Nokia phones mostly, and smartphones might have problems in general ... but you know, that's why I purchase a phone mostly ... to make phone calls ;)

And when you're paying several hundred dollars on a smartphone, or getting tied up with a multi-year contract with AT&T ... you are expecting that smartphone to make phone calls fucking reliably (even more so than a $15 Nokia phone)
Ruby t-shirt gone wrong
Probably would have had more credibility if you had made a blog post about it then put the link here on HN.
Important Tips to be a Successful Freelance Web Designer and Developer
When it comes to web designing & development, you have a lot of career options now a days and freelancing is one such interesting and well paying option. It also doesn’t demand high starting cost as is required to start own business.In this article, we are focusing on the points which are necessary to become a successful freelancer.
Universal translator, here we come!
The title is misleading. Apple is not admitting to flaws, and the leaked doc doesn't reveal some insider conspiracy. It is simply a document telling their reps how to deal with the complaints that they've been getting. This shouldn't come as a surprise.
I would probably buy the app if it was the default.
Fix iPhone 4 Reception Troubles for $1
I'm capturing language deliberately. If this takes off a bit I'll add viewing by language.
OK, I appreciate this explanation. By your rules 'upvote for satire' deserves its downvotes. I agree.

I still don't see why the child-post was downvoted. In my view I wasn't whining there, merely asking.

So I'm skeptical that everyone here behaves perfectly rationally in the context of the community rules you've listed. And I don't view this as a waste of time, because I'm trying to figure out how things work here.

Edit: OK, forget it. I'm taking it too personally. You're right, asking 'why the downvotes' is also not good content I'd like to read from other comment'rs.
s/like/are willing/
The thing is that there is always some negative buzz after each release of a new Apple product. Maybe this time it's something new, a real issue -- I don't know, since I don't have the new iPhone.

But if make induction on the past, then this is just another exaggerated 'fact of life'.
There are no reported reception problems when just casually holding the iPhone 4 in your left hand, either.
Insanely great? These Jobsian adjectives have suffered an inflation of Zimbabwean proportions.
AnandTech showed in their review that cupping the phone caused signal drops on both the iPhone 3GS and the Nexus One too. The drop on the iPhone 4 was larger, certainly, but it didn't drop the call.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-review/2
>Some people would be grateful to have a job, even with NO vacation.

Are you saying/hinting you'd be willing to exploit people's situation if you were in the companies position?
Russian Spies Hid Secret Codes in Online Photos
:: Fun Bolo: Searches
Or even better, run it through Google's mobile formatter and add a stylesheet, so you download the article quicker.

http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator....
It seems like this could be a new feature for github - archive a project.
I prefer to use ToadJaw (http://toadjaw.com/hn), which was linked to on here recently.

EDIT: It was created by HN's own ronnier. http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ronnier
How does it affect actual performance, i.e. dropped calls? Do you hold your phone that way usually? If not, is there a problem when you hold it the usual way?
I no longer apply to jobs where the salary is not advertised. After turning up to a few interviews in the past where the salary was well below market rate I don't bother wasting my time any more.
HN _looks_ decent on mobile browsers, but doesn't handle all that well on them.

On iPhone: font sizes are really too small, voting arrows are practically not hittable without zooming in and trying to zoom in on the articles list confuses Safari (probably because of all the nested tables)
Actually, I've been a bit disappointed with it. I miss being able to send a page to Instapaper, which is something that become standard in other apps (like RSS readers).
The meat of the article is in these two paragraphs:

The accused spies posted the seemingly mundane photos on publicly accessible websites, but then extracted coded messages from the computer data of the pictures, according to the criminal complaint filed by the FBI. Although computer scientists have theorized about the existence of this communication technique for over a decade, this is the first publicly acknowledged use of the technique.

"There have been occasional claims in the press about al Qaeda using it, but never with any evidence or even attributed to specific government officials," said Steven Bellovin, a professor in the Columbia University department of computer science. "Here, we have court papers filed by the FBI under penalty of perjury that says these folks were doing it. The threat, in other words, is no longer hypothetical."
Erm, not really. Compiler cache saves compiled versions of files. When building a large project it notices things that have been built before and looks up the compiled code from a central cache. If you have to do a "make clean" (e.g. some scripts for making Debian packages start this way) you still get fast re-builds.

The linked article is about run-time memoization: rather than caching the compiled version of a function's code, you cache just the output of the function for particular inputs.
PivotalTracker is good for managing user stories: http://www.pivotaltracker.com/
Oh come on now. Nobody expects perfection even from Apple. But we do expect them to have tested the product and fixed the issue before it went to production. A simple lining over the antenna would have sufficed. This episode just illustrates Apple's design hubris.
North Indian
Pixel Qi releases sunlight-readable netbook screen - Upgrade kit available
Galvanic skin response varies from person to person, wildly in some cases. I haven't seen this addressed in the various iPhone 4 antenna analyses so far, though I've probably just missed it.
It seems like this 'dropped call' thing is mainly a US thing also though. Most of the blame must surely rest with the carriers.
So you are saying that all other phones had these reception issues all along, and only with the "perfect" iPhone people are starting to notice?
Indian Government Threatens to Ban Gmail, Skype and BlackBerry
There is no such thing as dropped calls in Sweden — iPhone or not (mostly a US phenomenon, I think).

And no, I don't usually hold it that way, I just wanted to see how/if it affected the 3GS as well.
Tips For Branding
What sets one business apart from another? Why are you doing better or worse than your competition? The simple answer is branding, and it is the reason why customers may choose one business over and over again while forsaking their competition.
As the parent pointed out, in some areas/countries it's completely uncommon to announce salary ranges in job ads. What are you going to do then? Never apply? Move to another country?
Is this what journalism has sunk to?

But the very fact that this document exists suggests that Apple execs know there is indeed a widespread hardware flaw, even if they’re unwilling to address it publicly at this time.

Becomes (paraphrased) "document shows that" in the title...

EDIT: the class action lawsuit is amusing. sheesh.
Heh: http://lovelyco.de/
On my Iphone browsing HN in landscape just needs one time zooming to become readable.
I now switched to palm pre and there it is even much better in landscape, i dont need to zoom.

yes, its a personal feling. but i think one time zooming is ok and not worth buying an app.
Interesting formulation of the group payment problem (we are a group of people, and we want to keep track of our payments).

Nice constrast to for example Eventbrite (I want to sell tickets to an event) or SimpleSignup(I want people to be able to sign up to my event(s)).
With the risk of sounding like a sour guy, I'm just going to say it: why do people pay money for apps that are essentially web browsers in a shiny package?

I am not against people making money by providing better access to content that is available for free (who hasn't paid for the odd Twitter app), but just take a look at the list of features on the app's promotion page:

* View top submitted stories, optimized for iPhone
* Explore comments and threads
* Browse web links without quitting using the in-app browser

All of these things are true for browsing Hacker News in mobile Safari as well. That's hardly enough to earn the predicate "insanely great" or the $3 price tag in my world.

Admittedly, using Hacker News on an iPhone is not the best mobile browser experience (it could certainly use some css @media queries and perhaps a meta viewport tag, essentially few minutes of work would do the trick), but that hardly warrants a native app, especially if it's not free.
Centuries and centuries of evidence that people respond to incentives is based on prescriptive work. The studies that Dan Pink is referring to concern the more recent advent of creative and cognitive work does not have centuries and centuries of evidence for money as a motivator. That's why it's being studied, and that's partly why the results of the studies are so intriguing.

It's interesting that your gut reaction is that this is all nonsense, and that you dismiss a single presentation as being nonsense purely on your own feelings and reactions. The book that Dan Pink wrote, and the work being done in the field is at odds with your reaction.

I know I won't convince you, and I know that you'll simply dismiss me as crazy, or stupid, or both, but the programmers who work for me often took a pay cut to do so. And they've stayed.

My recent complaints haven't been about being able to find good programmers, they've been about incompetent programmers who claim they're great, and in all probability honestly believe it.

If you're solving any problem at all, it's the wrong one. I don't want more job applicants, I just want applications from better candidates. My experience, and the studies I've read, say that offering more money won't help. I hope you understand that I'll put more stock in them than in your naked and unsupported assertions.
I might be wrong, but yes it looks to me exactly like this. No one cared about the same issues on the Nexus One phone.
Well, I can report from the high end Nokia user side (9300, > 5 years old, changed battery, still in great shape).

It very rarely drops calls and I never had a reason to suspect that it makes a difference how you hold it.
Actually; I have.

A number of my past phones (particularly Nokia's) had reception issues when held.
Totally recommended for any college student. Anyone who has lived with roommates knows the pain of fronting a bill and having to collect later.
Do you have iPhone which has reception problems when holding it in the left hand?
Holding phone specific way may cause signal drop, iPhone or not:
http://funsizebytes.com/post/745721120/instructions-from-my-...
I kinda like the app, but the comments get very laggy on older devices if there are a few of them (like 100+).
Good riddance.

The Kin was the Hip-e of smartphones.
I always think, when someone is ASKING for a niche, then their project is doomed to fail. Things run well when people care in, believe in, live and breathe the thing they are selling/supporting/running.

If you don't having something within yourself that fits that bill then don't just try to service someone else's whim - you will never truly be 'in' it.

I've set up countless forums, sites and groups - those that did well were those that I wanted to do well, that i totally understood and that i believed in. Every failure I've had has come from me not understanding what someone else (the audience) would want out of the site, as i am not the target market.

You can do a lot of work to get yourself into the mind of the target market - but it's far far better if YOU are the target.
It may be hard to buy extra vacation, though.
Internet 'basic right' in Finland
You can't eat grass: an edible yard, 9 months later (video)
For a very long time indeed in America, the majority of medicine was practiced at community clinics by nursing staff. A doctor was consulted only when necessary.

The vast majority of medicine could easily be done by the intelligent layman. Like programming.
> the average, non-geeky customer is totally confused

I must be average and non-geeky then. I'm totally confused by Microsofts mobile strategy.
What about just make a new def-macro for python? A very simple common lisp-implementation would be something like this:

(defmacro defmemoize (fn val &body body)
(with-gensyms (lst hash-code)
`(let ((,lst (make-hash-table :test #'equal)))
(defun ,fn ,val
(let ((,hash-code (list ,@val)))
(or
(gethash ,hash-code ,lst)
(setf (gethash ,hash-code ,lst)
,@body)))))))

In which the standard fibonacci-example would be

(defmemoize fib (n)
(if (<= n 2) ; first two = 1
1
(+ (fib (1- n))
(fib (- n 2)))))

Obviously, it would be something more advanced than this, but it shouldn't have to be much more advanced.
Rakudo Perl 6 gets into databases
Is FOSS actually important to anyone?
thx. i'll keep you in mind. ordered the issues to a friend in .ca :)
They offer stock options.
Borders are now claiming to price beat amazon (http://www.borders.com.au/borders-price-guarantee).. Not that they do - but I guess that menas if you're willing to go through some hassle - you can get books even cheaper.

Someone on /r/australia recommended http://www.booko.com.au as a book search comparison tool as well.
Because it's entirely feasible that they go out of business?
It's really frustrating that they don't ship internationally.
You could turn the device by 180 degrees. The orientation flips automatically, or you can lock it that way.

It makes keyboard access very awkward, of course, but for reading it should not really matter.
Tons of people do. The appengine blog featured a number of prominent ones. We own http://news.priorsmart.com which runs on there.

Is a great platform for all the same reasons Heroku is a great platform: scalability, easy deployment, no sys admin.
AsAble.com interview of Anibal Damiao, Founder of InluAds
Looking at a lot of the posts on here, it seems that the bar to finding good programming staff is (1) finding good programmers and allowing them to find you and (2) weeding out the chaff.

Furthermore, it seems that weeding out the chaff is something probably everybody could agree on - that is, what would be nice is some kind of informal certification process or standard test. Nothing like an AMA board certification or the attorney's bar in terms of formality and obligatory nature, but perhaps some kind of hoops to jump through.

Perhaps some kind of list of programming tests and a way to administer them?
GreenSould shoes founder & CEO - audio interview
This doesn't surprise me, it just confirms what I've always thought:

That Tesla is one of the most underrated scientists/inventors/engineers that has ever lived. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tesla_patents)
Shoe Spam!
Cross-browser break-word support
The Great Ruby Shootout (Windows Edition)
You might also not want to murder your MAU by upgrading your app in such a way that your permissions would broaden, causing every user to get BIG SCARY WARNING CLICK TO DENY.

Incidentally, we are seeing -- again -- that people's beliefs about how much they value privacy ("Privacy is important to me: 9 out of 10.") contrast sharply with their actions ("I will give you my email password for a chocolate bar, hehe, sure.").
The Road to Passenger 3: Phusion Passenger Lite
Yes, at http://rethinkdb.com/jobs/. It's quite public.
FunBolo.com : Hollywood Movies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03PQyWp0mWE
Employers: It's not about pay it's about value.

I agree with the original poster to the extent that I see some employers trying to get a "deal" on a great programmer without compensating the lower pay with great work, meaningful equity, or good work/life balance.

You've seen the job posting by Big Dumb Company that wants a "rock start programmer" but has strict policies that won't let them pay rock start salaries or give more than 2 weeks vacation their first year, telecommute, etc.

Then there are the small guys that want you work for peanuts in exchange for worthless stock options i.e. they want you to take $30K less pay per year and if they ever have a liquidity event your diluted stock would be less than that $30K you per year you gave up. If they fail (and they usually do) you'll get squat.
Q: How do you make a herd of nerds stampede?
A: Make them think computers are being stolen

I worked for our college IT department one summer, performing computer upgrades. The schedule was relaxed - one lab in the morning, 20 individual rooms in the afternoon, and plenty of downtime for personal coding projects + games. We just finished upgrading the Psychology department, and were waiting for the cafeteria to open. So we were probably goofing off. All of a sudden, our less technically inclined coworker Dave comes into the room and drops a bombshell:

"Who left all of the Dell boxes in the hallway? I just saw someone walk off with a couple of them."

We freaked! Someone stole computers?! We sprinted from our desks into the hallway, and stared blankly at a bunch of empty cardboard Dell boxes in the hallway.
Documenting electronic health records for CSC paperless office Software
Dial 1-877-323-4707 for medical transcription support to CSC Paperless office & AS/PC Practice Management Software, dictations documented for a cost of 9.5¢/line with a T-A-T of 12 hours
Attacks on the Windows Help and Support Center Vulnerability
The title is beyond linkbait and well into the realm of utterly misleading. It's annoying, because had the title accurately described this as Apple's customer relations script for dealing with iPhone issues, I would have skipped by it.
Buckminster Fuller [1] did quite a bit of research on natural cooling and figured out how to cool buildings using Berhoulli's principle [2]. Unfortunately, I am unable to find any good references online, so you may have to chase such information down in books. :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoullis_principle
I used Adobe's Ideas app for the iPad to sketch UI ideas & DB schemas last weekend. I also downloaded 37signals' Draft app but it sucked major monkey balls & I will be hitting them for a refund if they don't fix the bug they have managed to sneak into an app that has a grand total of 4 features.
I have often laughed at the stories on "The Daily WTF", and afterwards thought that it would be nice to have an "inverse" site, which highlights really great code. This looks like a great contender for that role!
Instead of dealing with annual subscriptions, I think you'd be better off making it easy for people to sign up for a recurring monthly charge to paypal or whatever.

Annual subscriptions have too many negatives for the time required to handle them.
I thought I read that enough flags if a story has less than 10 points will automatically kill it.