skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strobe; A hot new HTML5-touch startup founded by Charles Jolley
Yeah, that's pretty much what I mean. :-)
Thanks for the feedback! This demo isn't intended to be functional (clicking the tabs won't do anything, that requires JavaScript code which is out of scope for this demo), it's just there to show an example of how you could style things using CSS3.

I can verify there is a bug in IE8 where there is an extra gray line at the bottom of the active tab. I will attempt to fix that ASAP. It works properly in IE6 and IE7.

Thanks again.
ISDN Long Distance Rates as low
Specializing in offering the right carrier and ISDN service for client's particular ISDN long distance and telecommunication needs.
See also:

http://searchyc.com/quadcopter?sort=by_date

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1387043

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1387312
You think that people who monkey around with eso-langs are in danger of confusing the two?
NASA - NASA and Microsoft Provide Mars 3-D Close Encounter
Yes, it's javascript overhead you have to add to your site so that people using IE will be able to see CSS3-like effects. So why add the overhead just so users of IE can have rounded boxes and gradients. Why bother? It's just eye candy...
Awful headline (on the WSJ's part).

Consumer Reports didn't say anything that could be meaningfully construed as "skip iPhone 4".

What they said is that they can't put their "Recommended" marks on it until Apple addresses the antenna problem.

They also pointed out that the phone garnered the highest rating score on their latest smartphone ratings. That's pretty damn far from telling people to "skip it".

Lazy reporting.
Indians flock to Switzerland in search of Bollywood
University of California Proposes Online Degrees
"Most software ideas can easily be copied no matter what."

Which is why there is now a gold mine for competitive advantage which is NOT from 'computer science' but IS for projects in 'information technology' implemented in software.
Interesting idea. How do you solve the problem of marshaling tera/petabytes of customer data into a system like this?
> China has more people.

Wrong. More people, more problems, the harder control will be. Think of a big company, like Microsoft.

I think the article is crap, written by someone with degrees, who value degrees and the article is based on the current education system.

> 1. China's leadership understands engineering

Hahaha. We need leaders and not Engineers, sure they need a minimum knowledge, but they don't need doctorate in Physics.

> 2. China's leadership wants to out-innovate the U.S.

That's my dream too and the dream of France, England and the whole world.

> 3. China's science and technical talent pool is vast

Again, he relies on the educational system. Who said China has a quality educational system and that the 350K engineers know really what they should know.
Unless you have really fine hair (in which shaving is probably not a problem), the cream is so corrosive it burns your skin before it burns the hair away. Plus it takes a really long time.
See this article on Digg's blog for an interesting look at the reasons why people may have IE 6 on their computers.

http://about.digg.com/blog/much-ado-about-ie6
So, how do I go about that? How much do I charge advertisers? I'm a complete n00b here.
Paternalistic design
I tried GTD once, until I found a much simpler technique I like better:

http://gradhacker.com/2009/12/11/make-lists-not-too-much-mos...

Make lists. Not too much. Mostly do.
What is running in this vm? Is this a silly question to ask?
I've found exercise to be one of the best ways to help prevent burnout. Especially exercises that put one into a meditative state. (Running, rowing, swimming, yoga, etc.)

Good luck on the 5K. :-)
There's a lot of people who look at the Ferrari and then buy something affordable. Apple is always susceptible to that.
I tried running this on my XP64 machine with IE8, and the CPU went up to 100% for a couple seconds upon loading the page. It lagged more when changing the settings and became unresponsive. Does this happen for anyone else?
Walders Law in Haskell
http://blog.fogus.me/2010/07/12/wadlers-law-extended-to-cloj... - For closure :)
>Please, HTC, no more ad-libbing your own user interfaces They suck and are hard to remove. We all call it nonSense for a reason.

SenseUI is an excellent interface. I say this as a fairly hardcore user. It's a bit of a UI stepback using my N1 instead of my Magic+. I'm a fairly hardcore user so I like it vanilla for other reasons, but I guarantee that doesn't matter at all for about 95% of consumers.

> I think Apple is leading the way here (with a metal case and a very high-res screen), and that HTC is just going to copy.

HTC Legend was out before the iPhone, largely composed of a single piece of aluminum. HTC has absolutely kicked Apple around when it comes to screen resolution. So how, exactly, is HTC copying Apple? Quite the opposite.
"I was merely suggesting"

No, as is clear on the screen in front of you, you wrote

"I think it's fair to assume"

No it's not "fair to assume" that.
I've always been a bit bemused that any branches other than the Navy are operating reactors. At least, until there are nuclear aircraft and tanks!
Welcome to the Museum of Mathematics
Googles making App Creation easy... finally...
If by "real" financing you mean a series A round, then you're probably mistaken. People who join a startup with just angel funding might get roughly 4-5x as much stock as they'd get post series A. It's only a worse deal if a series A round makes a company 4-5x less risky.

There's a market price for all the different options, from founder to early hire to later hire. It would not make sense for there to be points on the continuum that would suddenly be a much worse (or better) deal, and in my experience there aren't.

You're also mistaken in saying that an early hire will get 1 percent tops. This number varies by 30-40x, depending on where the company is and how early the hire is. 1 percent would be typical for a very good hacker fairly soon after a series A. You can get much more pre series A.
Apple Inc. (previously Apple Computer, Inc.) is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Apple software includes the Mac OS X operating system; the iTunes media browser; the iLife suite of multimedia and creativity software; the iWork suite of productivity software; Aperture, a professional photography package; Final Cut Studio, a suite of professional audio and film-industry software products; and Logic Studio, a suite of audio tools. As of January 2010, the company operates 284 retail stores in ten countries, and an online store where hardware and software products are sold.
Come on.

>Asians, unlike blacks and Hispanics, receive no boost in admissions.

Just not true.

>The admissions disadvantage was greatest for those in leadership positions in these activities or those winning honors and awards. "Being an officer or winning awards" for such career-oriented activities as junior ROTC, 4-H, or Future Farmers of America, say Espenshade and Radford..."

SHOCK! Blue collar "career oriented" awards don't count for institutions who primarily push people into white collar organizations?

This reads like it was written in 1992.
Designing Row Groups
How many hours of that would you say you are in flow? [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
Almost everyone that has noticed my iPhone 4 and wanted to talk about it (strange how much attention it gets, compared to what the 3G and 3GS did) has asked about the antenna. The issue has been talked up enough in non-tech news that it's hard not to know about it.
I think he's been busy. Contrary to the other reply, he does have a job. My understanding is that family life has kept him very occupied.
presumably through scientific process

Thats what bothers me - where is the data? And furthermore, is CR testing signal attenuation, or an actual loss of functionality? Not having a phone myself (but knowing someone who is quite happy with hers) I remain unconvinced that there is a fundamental issue until I see data correlating hand position to actual dropped calls or reduced data throughput. Anything else has the feel of weather prediction.
It's not true. Octopus are colorblind.
In IE6, here, there's a big gap (~1em) between the tabs and the content.

I'm on a public computer though, with an old IE6 version (6.0.2900.2180, XP SP2) infected by the Babylon toolbar.
Fine if you want to play semantic games, let's say it's not free because they require your email address. How does that make it OK to provide a fake one? The deal is: you get the ebook in return for your email address. Either you take it or leave it, you don't take what is offered and then return nothing. The level of denial and cognitive dissonance in your answer is mind boggling, how can you justify what is plainly breaking your end of the deal on an offer that is already very reasonable?
There's a possibility that after he started being well-known, the players gave him more credit than he was worth and got psyched up, or psyched out, by his predictions.
I use a Dell Latitude D630 as my primary/only machine. It has a dual-core 2.4GHz Intel, with 4GB of memory. Serves my needs well - which include a lot of Chrome tabs open (around 30), development in
Eclipse with some decent size projects. I also develop using vim/gcc, but that's generally lighter-weight relative to Eclipse.

I like having only one system to do all my work. I don't have to sync across multiple machines. I do take backups every week and use external keyboard/monitor to round it off ergonomically.
I admit my knowledge of stateside engineers in the large defense contractors is secondhand; trying to convert known deployed salaries and known eng and pm salaries at small product companies selling to usg.

Substitute working for a fund on the dev side and double my numbers to make the original argument stronger.
Believe me, I have a lot of sympathy for this viewpoint. We don't want people continuing to use IE, so it seems logical that we should make their experience "lesser", using CSS3 for browsers that support it and falling back to flat square boxes in IE, and that will force them to change browsers, right?

Unfortunately, my experience over the years has brought me to the conslusion that this assumption is incorrect. If an IE user comes to your site and it doesn't look pretty, they're less likely to switch browsers than they are to just go to your competitor's pretty site instead. It sucks, but that's the reality, and that's why almost nobody gives IE a totally degraded experience.

Instead, web developers use all sorts of tricks of the trade (sliding doors, complex overlapping sprites, empty divs positioned to corners, etc.) to "fake" the features that CSS3 gives us natively, solely because they are forced to support IE. That's what PIE was created to change. It's not about giving IE users a better experience (most sites already do a pretty good job of that already), it's about making the web developer's life easier so they can deliver that same experience with less code and fewer images.
Yes, I've heard that argument. I even worked at a company that was locked down to IE6...I know all about it.

But again...we're talking about adding overhead to a site JUST for eye candy. Let the boxes be square for IE...is that detrimental to your site's message?
On many sites, IE 6-8 users account for more than half of visits, and are often the single largest block of visitors by browser. Assuming you have such a site and don't want to just write off 50% of your users design-wise, it's nice to have the ability to use border-radius and other CSS3 advances, because they save you from a lot of time-consuming, repetitive work.

If you are in a situation where you can simply forget about what your site looks like in IE, then I envy you. Most web designers are not.
Point one is irrelevant. Lawyers make good politicians because law and creating policy are similar. JinTao's job is to be a politician provide leadership and design policy that is benefitial for the country and not be an engineer.

2. Everyone wants to out innovate us. If you innovate you can create wealth for your country. If your country cannot innovate then you are reliant on foreign direct investment and jobs from richer countries because your country cannot generate jobs and wealth itself. Innovation allows countries to control its own destiny.

3. I would agree that the pool is huge and advanced. Chinese students are well discipled and they have a lot of pressure to get advanced education, do well in school and get good jobs.The pool is so large that there are millions students with advance degrees that are unemployed living in slums near technological cities waiting for their big break because there are not enough jobs for them.

4. America is failing in science and math is a big worry. We need to create better incentives around these fields.

5. China is stealing our technology and improving on existing ones. If we don't change I see a lot of middle tier engineering jobs going to India and China.

China is good at copying technology and selling for cheaper or improving an already existing product, but real innovation, such as creating new technologies that create whole new indsutries still will be from americans.

Americans, culturally, are used to thinking outside the box, critically thinking and using their imagination in applying what they learn in new and intersting ways. Chinese work force are robotic and respect authority and have a big fear of losing face or failing.

What i am trying to say is America will come out with real innovation and china will copy it. China will also steal a lot of the low level to mid level engineering jobs, which contributes in building our middle class.

The best way we can combat this is be good parents and don't let our kids be self entitled lazy biatches and have them strive for higher education on the technical side. We should also make sure we support policies that provides an evironment that allows us to be competitve to with China and India in terms of value or put pressure on chinese and indian businesses or the countries to raise social standards of its people so the american worker is competitve.
Euclid fanboy!
SparkFun: Fake IC's Identified
Hmm, interesting, I wasn't seeing that a minute ago. My bad. I'll try to fix both bugs tonight. Thanks for the feedback!
Google US vs Google India
Awesome Documentation
How to use HTML5 today
How is it not true? When ranking avg test scores & gpa the average asian and white scores are usually higher than other ethnicities at top tier universties.

I dont see why things like this always come up. That there is preference exhibited during admissions is fact. It is by design. The real question is if these practices have the desired effect on society.
I agree with your globalization assessment, but disagree that america is at a natural disadvantage agaisnt china for the reasons you stated.
Due to Idaho, I think the army may have the worst accidents per hours operating ratio.
The assumption is that like many natural phenomenons (height, weight, etc), driving skills are distributed normally, which means mean = median.
Safari Extension: Live CSS Editor
15" Macbook Pro
Interesting how did I manage to miss that piece of news.
Was everyone so fed up with waiting?
I don't completely disagree, but wouldn't you agree that for every company so amazing at design as Apple and Google there are 100 or 1000 who are successful for other reasons? And therefore just saying "better design" is not IN GENERAL something you can compete on?

Furthermore, wouldn't you also agree those two companies also have a tremendous quantity of innovation, and never take the gas off innovation, to an extend probably not feasible or necessary with other companies?

I would agree with you that if you have the design talent of Apple, plus the output of Apple, plus the marketing success of Apple, that this is of course a wonderful advantage.

But that's rare... maybe other paths to success are more practical for many founders out there.
I'm somewhat sure that would describe National Instruments (IPO'd at a $380M market cap)
15" MBP(2.8GHz core 2, 8GB ram, 500GB 7200RPM seagate) w/ 30" Dell Ultrasharp.

Magicmouse with magicprefs to allow for the middle mouse click.

USB adapter to PS/2 Natural Keyboard.

Sizeup and cinch for keyboard window management. (makes me feel like a robot, but in a good way.)

xGestures for mouse gesture support. I cannot live without this utility.

This is by far the best setup I have ever worked on.
In a long enough list, by definition it's reasonable.

The problem is, this was a short list.
The Climategate Whitewash Continues
>What they said is that they can't put their "Recommended" marks on it until Apple addresses the antenna problem.

Which means "skip it".

They've done the same thing with vehicles, saying "We love this vehicle...but the reliability record isn't good so we don't recommend it." Not recommending it = you should skip it.

Of course I take all Consumer Reports reviews with a grain of salt. They're good at reviewing dishwashers and power washers, but their reviews of tech are usually seriously lacking.
Next Apple TV to offer 99 cent streaming episode rentals?
Could someone explain what this post is about, I'm dumbfounded.
i can't hear your post over the sound of you being a longwinded asshole
You can check your hardware drivers, and see if they really up-to-date. Then try all kinds of antivirus and scan your system for malware and spyware. Then try a registry cleaner to clean your registry file.
OR Just install linux you won't regret it ;) that was my best decision ever.
"You're also mistaken in saying that an early hire will get 1 percent tops. This number varies by 30-40x, "

so the #1 and #2 employees are going to get 60% equity combined?

Or was that x supposed to be a % sign?
free with paid admission, that is ;)
Maybe you should look at web2py then. The database abstraction layer is ready to use gae out of the box.
What? It's even easier in the US. Credit card data is just text. Hook up a magstripe reader to a PIC and go to town (literally hah). People have been doing it for years especially at gas stations and seedy bars where it's too dark to notice/patrons are too drunk to care.

http://www.identitytheft.com/article/identity_theft_gas_stat...
As a long time Java programmer I recommend these two:

http://www.amazon.com/ERLANG-Programming-Francesco-Cesarini/...

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Erlang-Software-Concurrent...

Okay, just kidding. =)

On a serious note, Effective Java is one of the best out there.
Awesome points. But keep in mind though that the IE team has really stepped up lately with IE9. IE will no longer be this cancer to web devs anymore. Let's stop wasting the time to make old IE "look pretty" and help people move forward and update (as best they can). Again, good points though.
Those interested might want to check out Cascading (http://www.cascading.org/), and open-source project tackling this very problem.
I'd recommend starting off with easier primary sources. Per that lesswrong post about coming up with solutions too early and how that constrains thinking, the same critique applies here.

But, cultural background is useful, I would place that in a different category than the secondary summaries of philosophers' work.
We've had a great experience so far. Our company leverages their Queues and Worker Roles for our event processing.

Our biggest challenge was deciding between SqlServer or Table Storage. We were already familiar and comfortable with the 'relational' way of doing things in SqlServer but we knew we would scale past the storage limits pretty quick. So we decided to jump into the world of denormalized-key/value systems. Luckily, .Net lets you use LINQ with Table Storage and makes querying for your data VERY easy. The biggest 'gotchas' were when we realized that aggregate functions like COUNT, SUM, DISTINCT were not supported (yet?). But, we did find ways to leverage the schemaless nature of the tables to our advantage.

Deploying/Updating our ASP.Net MVC Web Application and multiple Workers is now a one click process.
Knew perfectly well about the issue, still got iPhone 4 last week.

Crappy antenna is something I can live with. Crappy display, battery, software and user experience are not.
that's exactly how I've read the headline on WSJ newswire too.

IIRC they also explicitly said to choose 3GS over 4G.
Copying credit cards in the US is trivial since you don't have chips in the cards.
Well Braun's not out of the question:

http://gizmodo.com/343641/1960s-braun-products-hold-the-secr...
Have you measured quantum entanglement? I'm trying to.
Ask HN: Direct advertising experience?
I have a site that generates around 500,000 impressions monthly (and growing). I'm interested in getting away from Adsense, but I don't know how much to charge for ad space. There are alot of blog articles about this, but I'm wondering if anyone here has any experience, advice, or tips for me.

My site is extremely targeted: http://www.ThatHigh.com

Some stats:

May 2010: 300,000 page views

June 2010: 600,000 page views

July 2010: 400,000 page views (so far)

Always about 4 pages per visit with a very long length of visit (anywhere from 2 to 15 minutes).

Thanks for your help. Email me at dave@thathigh.com if you have any questions or private inquiries :-)

EDIT: Do I need to be incorporated to accept money from direct advertisers?
Do you some concrete examples of some of these details where being native makes it far and away better or easier than a web UI?
> The human visual system adapts to the level of illumination it is looking at

Anecdotally false. On really bright summer days (and on sunny days in the winter with a lot of snow), outdoors are too bright for my visual system. I have to squint or my eyes will hurt, no matter how long I stay outside to adapt.

Anecdotally this is true for at least some of the people I know as well.
heh if thats true perhaps we should talk. grab matrixownsyou on skype or gmail
In the future, it might make more sense for Apple to release several flavors of phones, diversify what they are selling, rather than lumping their entire strategy with one product that might have unforeseen problems.

Technically they are: the iPhone 3GS runs the iOS 4 very well and doesn't have the lovely antenna bridging issue.

That said, I'm having trouble imagining Apple going the iPod/iPod Nano/iPod Shuffle route with the iPhone. Whereas an iPod is used to play music 99% of the time, an iPhone makes calls, sends e-mail, surfs the web, and runs hundreds of thousands of apps, all of which expect a certain screen size and hardware components. An MP3 file doesn't require much.

So, as neat as it would be to see Apple make many flavors of iPhones, I doubt it'll happen. This is the company that doesn't make a sub-$2,500 workstation with a replaceable graphics card, and whose netbook competitor costs $500.

(Still, I would love to see an iPhone Shuffle. No screen. Press the button and it calls someone at random.)
The King is Dead? Long live... Scala? Clojure?
Simple text file with TODO and highlighting works perfect for me. 3 types of tasks: not started, finished and in question.

Stick notes (physical ones) work as well.
Hacker Monthly could be an inspiration to Condé Nast - use your viewership to choose stories for a print mag?
As employee #2 of a now well-funded startup, I would have to agree with this whole heartedly. I wrote a large part of the company's initial product. I can't say that it's translated into nearly the respect, career advancement, and stock options I was sold on. Remember that a startup is as much about business connections as anything - who do you think the VCs are going to credit with success, the guy like them, or the technical founder(s) they barely understand?