skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Untangling the Mystery of the Inca (2007)
Great in theory, but in practice it would be really tough to implement. A lot of assumptions would be made. For example, what should "01-01-01" be interpreted as?

Also, date format strings are pretty standard. If you ever forget them, just type `man strftime` at the command line.
It has nothing to do with sorting networks, as far as I can tell.
And they should be telling these lies: http://www.onlinedatingmatchmaker.com/lie-online-dating-prof...
I didn't know you had a huge exit.

Aaron's company Infogami merged with reddit before it got acquired by Condé Nast.
> However 'in touch' Old Spice might be with the online generation (as someone wrote elsewhere in this thread), the product still smells like what someone's grandpa would wear.

Is that automatically a bad thing? People like fedoras, and that's certainly something a grandpa would/did wear.
They need:

1. An actor

2. A shower

3. A writer

4. A camera and computer

I assume they'll do it for one day and people will talk about it for weeks. Pretty good return on investment.
Thanks , This is very helpful tip
I don't think they can't charge that, nor find customers happily willing to pay it. The issue is that if you're going to break from the norm in your industry (and analytics for startup companies, oh yes, they did) then it would be nice to give people a heads up before reeling them in for a free beta. In this example, the guy actually invested time writing code to integrate with it. There's a learning curve associated with beta testing a product and without giving any indication of price ahead of time, it's a reasonable assumption that it will be ballpark what it's competitors are, not 10X that. This is not a complaint about the price they chose, it's a complaint about spending a great deal of time and money marketing to startups (god, did I see them everywhere) and then flipping to a point where they could not afford them. I do believe that someone who has made his money not off a disruptive product or social media network, but carefully analyzing metrics and conversions (like Patrick) could benefit from it, and perhaps that's who it's for, but that's not how it was marketed. In his case, he clearly feels he can make > $200 a month by using it. But what if it cost $1000 or $1M? The point is you have no idea and they clearly aren't concerned with ballparking where there competitors are. I've always been nervous about signing up for a "free" beta that my business can become dependent on without knowing the price. This just convinces me to continue doing that.
Array literals: This one bugged me too. Try this:

#define NSDICT(...) [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: __VA_ARGS__, nil]

#define NSARRAY(...) [NSArray arrayWithObjects: __VA_ARGS__, nil]
God! I'd love to talk to you much about this. Please shoot me an email at hajrice@gmail.com.
That would suck, but a more apt analogy is if Ford made a car that had a defect, and Chevy owners created accounts on Ford owner forums specifically to complain about the Ford, even though they didn't own one, and even though they had never driven one before.
My personal peeves along these lines: "add to cart to check price!" and not displaying shipping cost until your credit card data is entered.

That last one prevents me from buying a lot of things, because it seems a downright insulting thing to do to a potential customer.

"How much is it?"
"$10 + X"
"How much is X?"
"Hand over your wallet first. We'll return it!"
I just got downvoted (and upvoted) for pointing this out in my grandparent comment. The anti-Apple force is strong with these ones...
Strange Loop 2010
Evidence?

Threads get modded down but that's a bit different.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1511121

I meant to reply to this, didn't notice until after the edit window closed...
Yeah, wouldn't say they penalize, but since your site actually is at the URL of redyellowblue.com, and there are other sites (probably with some authority) linking to it, it doesn't surprise me that it would rank highly. Additionally, I doubt there is much competition for this keyphrase. It has a global monthly search volume of 1,600.
It's not hard to see the decline. A year ago, pithy, baseless insults typically languished at 1 point or went into the negatives. Now they're getting voted up more and more. I wonder what PG has in mind to fix this, or if he has the time/inclination these days.
it looks like there is indeed some potential:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/07/the-manufacturing-future.ht...
You go to war with the Wikileaks you have, not the Wikileaks you wish you had.
I don't understand the comparison you're drawing. On most platforms, they don't have the option of using Objective-C (support outside the Apple ecosystem could charitably be called "anemic"), and on Apple platforms, most native development is done using Objective-C.
If it's made to be swapped out? Yes. Grab handle & pull. Drop in replacement.
Thanks for the feedback. Noted on points one and two. Re: 3 - I'm not sure what you mean. No, we don't do rollover popups. 4 - will run some A/B tests.
and when I forget "man strftime"?
Out of curiosity, does anyone here use OpenSolaris for anything?
for income, I'd be interested to see what it's like for those who don't report their income...so that you have a baseline to compare against
Ah. Cool. I've ran into him here and there in cyberspace and a had a few good discussions, always knew he was brilliant, just didn't know how successful he was. :)
FM Radio Enabled on Nexus One (Community Kernel)
An instance like this is when a Good IDE with nicely documented functions is a huge plus.
their height data makes me wonder about their conclusion. if the average height data includes all ages, i think the differential could be more readily explained by the fact that okcupid tends to skew much younger than the average population sample, and young people are simply growing taller now on average due to a higher quality average standard of living.
Do you really think that it is only people who don't own iPhones posting about it?

Like...the iPhone people don't really care or something?
Anyone looking for a place to stay, send me an email. There is an extra room available in my 5BR house in North Berkeley, available right now. ~$750/month +utilities.

Live with hacker types, and... me. If you're interested, send me an email and tell me about yourself, what you're looking for in a housing situation, etc.
Pretty rare and overblown. The issues only affected some campus wifi networks with short DHCP leases. iPad has some unique features that allow it to receive push emails and notifications even while it is in sleep mode, by keeping the wifi connection active. Apparently it isn't yet smart enough to renew it's DHCP lease while in this sleep mode, so it was staying on a leased IP after the expiration time.

You were probably only affected if you were using an iPad on specific University campuses, and I see no reason why the network admins couldn't work around it by giving out longer DHCP leases to iPad specific hardware, at least, until an official fix was issued.

The iPad has overall been surprisingly bug free for a 1.0 product.
Which one(s) did you look at?
I don't have an iPhone but as far as I understand, the first iPhone was absolutely awful as a phone even though it had a great UI and was amazingly functional in general (I've used the iPhone's camera function and it rocked).

An ex-boss stopped making cellular calls and used skype instead just so he could keep doing other stuff with his iPhone.
γνῶθι σαὐτόν - Get to know yourself!
Good reference. I wonder if they'll listen to reason?
Some prior articles:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1383376

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1060019

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1460852

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1447428
I wonder if there's a similar effect in populations of men where metric heights are commonly used.

6 ft ~ 183 cm, which isn't a particularly round number.
Maybe that psychological benchmark occurs at 180 cm, which suggests Europeans and Asians aspire to be approx. 5'11.
Make sure you have 'showdead' on in your preferences. You'll see occasional flare-ups of whiny or repetitive threads all [dead]-ed. One recent series was a bunch of "why did thread X get killed?" "why did the question about thread X get killed?" etc.

You'll also see what looks like arbitrary [dead]ing of plausibly topical submissions -- and with what appears to be HN preference against offering explanations or answering questions, people are left guessing why. Sometimes I think it's just that a few users who like to use flags-as-downvotes wander by at a time, triggering an auto-[dead], and then no attentive admin is sufficiently motivated to reverse the decision. (A bunch of submissions and comments that seemed harmless to me were [dead]ed over the July 4 weekend, perhaps because more surly flaggers than magnanimous admins were online.)

Also, I find it ironic that people are downvoting my defense of forum-moderation. Don't they realize their downvotes are -- by causing my comment to fade and drop out of view -- censoring me?

Hypocritical basterds! :)

edit: added 2nd paragraph with more anecdotal examples
Going deep in Algorithms and Data structures, Solve as many problems as possible from books, sites like TopCoder, SPOJ, Euler, etc. Probably I would achieve a good rank in a Google code jam by I am 25 years again :)
Problem: the batteries on a Tesla Roadster weigh about 400 lb. Have fun lifting that!

If you want a battery that one man (or more to the point, one woman) can lift, you'll have to settle for a drastically reduced range.

Alternatively, you could have twenty easily-removed 20 lb batteries to swap out. It'd still be a bit of a workout, and beyond the capabilities of your average grandmother.
I'd prefer to see these where each step in the algorithm was a fixed width that is the same across all of the images. As-is the step width is dependent on the number of steps. This fails to show the speed of convergence.
I use it every day.
Odd that killing the baby is first on the list, yet further down there are at least 4 other suggestions directly or indirectly leading to having that baby.
The opening example does not demonstrate diminishing returns. Posted this comment when this arricle was submitted before http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1508600

Diminishing returns says that as you increase a factor of production the output relative to tha increase becomes smaller. In other worse return per unit investment gets smaller with each increase becomes smaller. In other worse return per unit investment gets smaller with each marginal investment. The author totally gets this concept wrong with the bowl of nuts analogy. If you are using one hand to look for pecans in a bowl of nuts and the pecans become harder to find over time, then this does not demonstrate diminishing returns because no factor of production was modified.
Why do they need a blessing from Oracle though? "If you don't like it - fork it" doesn't apply here? Licensing issues?
For some reason Apple spawns the opposite of such hatred. Zealous apple fans stand in lines for days to purchase products, I think some of the hatred is directed at that behavior. Back on topic though, some people just haven't drank the kool-aid and want to discuss problems in a support forum. I don't see this forum moderation as an issue, as it seems only disruptive threads that didn't address problems were deleted.
Ask HN: Should hackers know how to design? 
Just curious how everyone deals with the design of their sites. For a one-man bootstrapped startup, outsourcing is not an option. How much should a programmer (with no design skills) know about design, and how much is usually required for a decent looking site?

On another note, is it pretty much impossible to be a freelance web developer without knowing or having someone else take care of the design aspect?
I'd love to have a lively discussion here about OpenSolaris, could not upvote this enough (actually I don't think my upvote counts at all, is that because I don't have karma yet?)
Tim and Eric did do some commercials for Old Spice, but none of these. All of the ones with Isaiah Mustafa are from Wieden+Kennedy.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieden%2BKennedy
One of the best things about this is they've made the videos unlisted (at least some of them - the one's I've browsed anyway) on YouTube.

Relatively pure, realtime feedback on their ads has to be pretty fantastic for the team.
Wait, was that a compliment? I forgot what they felt like for a second! ;-)

Regardless, thanks for the feedback and kind words. We're targeting mid-tier bloggers who are already advertising but don't know how to leverage it or don't have the time to spend on affiliate marketing. We're already making money so it's been working so far. Re: suggesting links to other blogs, it's actually a crowded space and not what we went to get into.

Thanks again.
The last year I lived in San Francisco, I quit being an overworked startup employee and took an easy contracting job. I could leave the office around 4pm most days and made an effort to go to as many art and music things as possible.
So you are taking me too literally, but I wasn't exaggerating by much.
The Future of Gaming
> How does this relate to startups?

its a great example of innovative marketing and making good use of the tools they have at hand.
So on 64-bit architectures Obj-C messages are eight times slower than a vtable lookup. There's no way that could make or break an apps performance, right?
Well, an interesting study would be finding out if rich couples opposed to couples who find each other attractive are happier overall.

One may or may not be a better indicter of long term compatibility.
Your theory doesn't explain the sudden jerk around 6'. Your theory doesn't explain why women self-report as shorter than the overall population. And also, anecdotally, I've known women to complain about men lying about their height on online dating sites. If it is common enough for women to complain, then it should show up in their statistics.
The idea might sound good, but the moment localization comes in, you learn that you'd much rather specify your date value in a template with some function like

date_for('de_CH', SHORT, some_date_value)

and be done with it. In Switzerland alone, we have three ways (or four, depending on who you ask) to specify and format a date. Heck, we can't even agree whether the decimal point of numbers should be a period (de_CH) or a comma (fr_CH)
Hey Brain, long time no see!

Thanks for commenting and the feedback. A/B testing the points you mentioned is on top of the list. Hope all is well.

Best,

Yasmine
Does anyone know how to get off-the-shelf servers like Apache or nginx to serve gzipped content based on a cookie and hot the Accept-Encoding header?
Don't greet me with a negative message.

"For now you can login with facebook only"

Also I found the animation distracting when I clicked on "2". Just show the slides right away.

And finally the navigation bar is less than optimal. All of the links except the last two lead back to the same page. Don't confuse your first time visitors like that.

Other than that, the design looks nice at a glance.

Edit: After logging in and clicking around for a while I sort of like the idea. But your algorithm doesn't seem to work very well - or I'm understanding it wrong. I was looking for shorts, so I clicked on "More of this style" for them repeatedly. But it would keep showing me all kinds of pants without any indication for learning - even after 20-30 cycles.

I could not make out a pattern in the styles presented. It would walk me through just about any trouser-style there is, from carrot jeans, over shorts in all shapes an forms, to baggy pants. It seemed just random and completely resilient to my attempts of narrowing it down.
Microsoft to keep Windows XP downgrade option until 2020
Hah, okay, make it 3 then. I was only thinking of NSString and char*.
the Reddit threads about this are hilarious as usual, and the Old Spice man appears to be answering comments from some of the users there. for those who want to read more...
That's true, in Germany 180cm and 185cm are certainly such marks men like rounding to.
> I'd rather see an HN filled with articles that help materially in getting there,

It is.
Sounds a bit paranoid.
if you read Reddit, they appear to be getting lots of realtime feedback on their abs as well
I actually don't have a lot of opinions about funnel tracking, so I'll keep this simple and limit it to what I do have an opinion about:

If $200/mo is a lot of money to you, you either shouldn't be spending a lot of time on funnel tracking, or you don't have a business. $200/mo is below the noise floor in company with just four people at ramen wages in the Bay Area.
How are you so positive about the lack of value to the programmer? What if you are programming at a low level?

Performance-optimization/OS kernel/HPC inner loops/Power-sensitive code (think mobile devices)?
I do, our webservers run it. ZFS with automatic snapshots has saved my ass quite a few times already.
Sending incremental snapshots (for backups) to offsite location (another OpenSolaris machine) is also easy and efficient.

But, if linux had ZFS i'd probably use that instead.
> ... because she loves the abs.

FTFY
Well - it wasn't "that" close - but it was pretty darned chilly.
Thanks Jason. The plugin is, well...just okay right now to be honest. It does the job, but it's not near the level it's going to be in the upcoming weeks.

It's going through a major overhaul that is going to make it easier to use and that will also include more intelligence features - I hope you'll stick around until then.

And you're right, it's more for bloggers who have content. We plan to branch out to other types of advertising in the future that would be a better fit for the latter.

Thanks again.
I find SEOmoz's "black box breakdown" really insightful on SEO. 4 out of 5 of their top factors are all related to inbound links. On page details factor in very little comparatively.

http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors
True, I wasn't considering the added amount of batteries in electric cars. But at that point you bring in the machinery, maybe loading from the bottom of the car, for precisely the for-people-who-can't reason. Someone would win a lawsuit, and they couldn't allow the average person to do it any more.
No, there isn't. Because in any application where that code path was at the top of your profile, you'd code around it with direct function invocation, just like people do in C++ with expensive chains of vtable calls (which you end up with in GoF-style code).

Nice try, though.
it's done in one take without any cuts
FreeBSD has ZFS too. We've been seeing a lot of people migrating from OpenSolaris over the past few months due to Oracle.
I wouldn't necessarily say "not to worry about it" -- though I agree with your point. For example problem #1 -- "too many database calls" (and the related #4 "wrong use of O/R mappers") are good warnings to those either just starting out in a new project, or in web development at all. Sure -- don't go crazy optimizing your app just yet, but for goodness sakes -- turn on SQL query time reporting and have a glance at what your app is doing...
Here's a harshly negative review of Ridley's book.
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2010/06/19/ridleyed-with-err...
Ridley's views are strongly colored by political dogma, which makes his ideas on science suspect.
Did you know you can get skype on Ubuntu/linux?
As Campaign Ends, Was Calling Out "Dying Platforms" Good for Posterous?
Exactly wrong. If we're going to discuss Wikileaks, we have to discuss the one that actually exists, not the idealized fiction we wish existed or hope develops over time.
I was being sarcastic:)
Could you clear something up for me? If ZFS is so highly coveted (which I've inferred from recent discussions), why doesn't every operating system under the sun support it?
The difference is that gold-diggers don't want to sleep with rich men just so they can bask in the glow of their richness. They want to sleep with rich men in the hopes that they'll buy them fancy things, or at least fancy experiences. They want to enrich themselves at the expense of the rich man, whereas the man chasing beautiful women isn't hoping to make himself more beautiful and them less so.

This is also the difference between gold-diggers and normal women: gold-diggers are conscious of the fact that they're trying to score with rich men.
Exactly. The Sun Community License.
It's coming along.

http://wiki.github.com/behlendorf/zfs/
I watched that and kept waiting for it to be funny. Then I went to reply "That's not funny" and realized the genius of the clip.

Well Played Sir.
i have no doubt that lying does happen. i also have no doubt that i have no data to back up my theory. but it seems somewhat unlikely that lying about your height is so uniformly prevalent that it affects the curves as uniformly as it does.

also, the article doesn't say that women self-report shorter. they also self-report taller. almost exactly the same as men. which again makes me feel like its just a growth thing.

just throwing out an alternative theory, though. i could be wrong, of course. i'd just rather see the data pulled out better -- self-reported height by age, vs national average by age.
Bah, I was expecting something relating to Hofstadter. :)
Not to give such behaviour a carte blanche, which it doesn't deserve, but are you really surprised after some of the stuff Apple and their fans dish out?

Every time an Apple fan mentions Windows crashing, every time someone says he's glad he uses a Mac after a Windows virus invariably activated by user stupidity pops up, every time a cringeworthy Mac vs PC ad (that's almost all of them, BTW) airs/aired, an anti-Apple troll is created.

It's not cool, but you can't be surprised it happens.

By the way, before yesterday, the last time I pulled the battery out of my ancient Blackberry 8100 (used daily) was on June 9... to swap a SIM card.
I've been following this for a while. OpenSolaris, VirtualBox and MySQL are all things I was worried about surviving in the wake of Oracle's takeover. I use all three quite a bit.
You were whining about a title. Worse, you were whining about an obvious metaphor being "misleading", which only makes sense unless you expect HN readers to believe concepts can literally, physically copulate.

There is nothing polite or fact-based about that. You were just making a complaint that was neither relevant nor useful.
My Top Applications to install on a new PC
Phones are sold with airtime contracts - refunds are usually difficult to obtain.
The whale internet: communication over hundreds of miles
"What's really incredible is how all these whales showed up overnight," Black noted in an e-mail. "We do know that blue whales have long-range communication. Their low-range frequency calls can travel hundreds of miles through the oceans. So it seems likely that the whales communicated to others about the food source here."
google date formating (and please, no "if I forget google")
Quote: "What's really incredible is how all these whales showed up overnight," Black noted in an e-mail. "We do know that blue whales have long-range communication. Their low-range frequency calls can travel hundreds of miles through the oceans. So it seems likely that the whales communicated to others about the food source here."
They're not meant to be replaced by hand - it's an automated process that swaps the batteries after you pull the car into the proper position, sort of like pulling into a car wash.
> The funny thing is, I don't actually see this sort of behavior from Apple fans.

> We're generally happy enough with our choices

I realize this is anecdote vs anecdote, but I see plenty of it. Where do you usually hang out on the internet?