skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah... I just stumbled on that recently (like 5 minutes before) in a google search was doing. Wild. Too bad google seems to really only know one of my connections and all that they are linked to. Also too bad that that connection is really a weak one to me.
Exactly, there needs to be a separate feature/page where submissions are sorted by most recent comment date.
I keep somewhat up to date with news via this site, and some from NPR. Between the two, everything major and most I'm likely to care about is covered, and I feel no great loss at not knowing that there was a 12 car pileup in Kansas, nor do I lament wading through the websites / 45 minute piece covering it to get to anything remotely important.
I would never work for a company that measures a person based on what school they have a degree from, and I never have.
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Poll: If you had to optimize for 1 screen resolution, which would it be and why?
Place your vote and explain why in the comments.

I would love for people with enough traffic to make a statistically significant recommendation (i.e. 10K uinques/mo+), to look at their Google Analytics and use that information as their vote.

As an aside, my target market is designers.
1280 x 800
1680 x 1050
1920 x 1200
What you expect as defaults can be quite subjective.

Having worked on Vi/vim for over 20 years on a variety of systems, I actually expect other apps to behave like vim. I too have used a Mac for over 10 years but use vimperator on my FF browser, use file managers and other apps that allow for hjkl and other vi-ish strokes.

I am not sure the defaults you mention for C&P and Undo were around when Vi was written. So expecting Vi to behave as a Mac app may not be very fair. I've tried MacVim, but i prefer using Vim inside a Terminal in Screen.
other - if you chose this, tell which it would be in your comment.
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If I start with full bars it's hard to lose a bar at all because of the 20db drop and how the bars are calculated. When I start with less than full bars the most I can get to drop is a single bar.

I've never been able to replicate the youtube video even in areas with a weak signal. My guess all along has been that yes you can get a 20db drop in signal with touch, but that also some phones from the early batches had manufacturing defects. Combine the two (plus the software that showed more bars than you really had) and you can get the go from 5 full bars to no signal problem.
You've gotten pretty far with this, and for that it's worth commending. Nice job. I look forward to seeing a polished version of this. You should offer it up to the BBC. :)
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So true... my dad had some stomach pain years back and went into surgery and during surgery they realized he had a cancerous growth. He went through chemo and got through it after 6 months and managed to fully recover. We thought we were through hell but last year, he had some pains in his shoulder and always felt like there was gas in his stomach.

We didn't think the cancer would return since he had already suffered a lifetime's worth. But sadly enough, it was a relapse of the cancer in a different area and since it was his second time they recommended a stem cell transplant. This time he took a trip to hell and back and he is recovered for now and I hope he manages to live peacefully. But once you go through something like this, even a small symptom can really scare you.
Mine are all museums and photography sites. But then, they're all through a single contact, who's a professional photographer.

Guess my friends are tight-lipped with Google.
There is no wonder in Mark Hurd's ouster. He was a corporate butcher. In the name of cost cutting he has made the life of many people miserable. Rather I would say that the curse of thousands of people who got suffered because of his dictatorial policies punished him by sacking him. He would have got millions of dollars as severance payment. But history remains that “Mark Hurd has been fired”. Instead of finding new avenues and channels to accommodate the efficient employees, he has simply turned out to be a butcher of sending the people to burial ground.
> If it helps 10% of homeless get off the street, that could be a huge victory in and of itself.

Or, it could be a huge disaster. It depends on the costs.

> Yes, I have, which is why I said it wasn't a magic bullet, but something that should be given more of a shot.

Feel free. As the article points out, the experiment doesn't cost much, so you can do it and tell us how it went. It's <$400/month and it's tax deductible.

What? You're not willing to spend your money to prove your arguments? Then why should I spend mine? (And yes, I pay a lot more than $400/month in taxes.)
I love this type of stuff. The project I'm working on right now is all about having a better experience than the iPad magazine apps, while using HTML/JS instead of proprietary tech.

Here's a video demo of some of the layout, for the curious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt2iJZGqMpw
> Mandatory setbacks (20 ft between buildings, mandatory front and rear yards, minimum number of parking spaces...all practices counterintuitive to effective land use.

It depends on your definition of "effective". Folks pay more for houses with 20 ft set backs than they're willing to pay for 10 ft set backs. Folks pay more for single-family detached than they're willing to pay for townhouses. And so on.
IMHO, bums me out about it is that it looks like a really creative, artistic game from an obviously talented team. And while I don't play many games anymore, I used to play a lot of games like that, and I hate to see the art form die out. And IMHO, it will die out if the developers aren't making any money. Or at least, become so damn rare as to be all but extinct.
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yeah i was reading his blog ,great example
also yes.
I'm pretty sure they are still arguing over the Jesus article (I got sucked into it once, not pretty)
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> Did you read the article in full?

My point is that the article doesn't contain all relevant data.

> A doctor ordering what some would call excessive tests for a patient is doing the right thing.

May be doing the right thing. Some people think that my life is worth $X. Who's to say that they're correct?

> Consider the complicated medical conditions that homeless contract on the streets with illness on top of illness requiring weeklong ICU visits, it becomes drastically reduced if a person is living in a home.

Assumes behavior not in evidence. Homeless in SF have "not street" options that they refuse. What makes you think that they'll take different options AND that their risks will chance correspondingly.

I note that lots of folks with homes manage to get "street illnesses" so it's not true that homes solve disease. There's a decent correlation for current "homed" populations, but that doesn't tell us what would happen if we "homed" other populations.
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The essay makes sense as far as it goes, but if it's true, there's going to be a change in both board of directors and advisors as well.
Sampling from 500,000 unique visits from 2010 that I randomly selected, I note that roughly 2% of visits were from iPhone-sized displays and 2% of visits were from 800x600 or 1024x600. At most 2-3 additional percent of visitors might have had resolutions worse than 1024x768. (I am uncertain because in the long tail of atypical screen resolutions, a few are lower than 1024x768 but most are actually atypically high. So this is a ballpark.)

Roughly 90-95% of visits had resolutions at least as good as 1024x768, with the modal resolution being 1280x800 (30% of all visitors).
> When I look at a method declaration, I want to know that it only works with integers, the same way I look at a field in the database I want to be sure to expect only integers, and nothing else.

That's fine, but it doesn't help me with the errors that I make.

I don't make representation errors. I make kind errors. The difference is that the number of apples and the number of bananas are both non-negative integers, but a check for non-negative integers doesn't keep me from adding apples to my bananas inventory. Remember that I do want to add both apples and bananas to my fruit inventory.

Yes, I care about representation, but things shouldn't go south if I happen to have half an apple.
Simulated and real world are two different ball games. In the real world tests with sh- er um crappy AT&T signal strength, they were testing in privacy cases. Ideal tests in the anechoic chambers or iVans were just that - ideal.
As an immigrant here in the United States, I feel like I must be totally out of touch. How is this politically incorrect?
Okay, then. Since neither of us wants to violate our NDAs, I'll just say: you're wrong.
So out of curiosity, which option did you choose in the poll?

1024?

Btw, thanks for this comment....very, very useful.
> But the real reason RSS loses is that it's built on XML, and because nobody actually wants to look at XML a feed is read and written solely by computers, for whose convenience its design has been optimized

Not really sure why you say that. RSS was pretty successful for a while - successful enough to get built into every browser and most email clients. End user consumers never saw the XML and the publishing side was usually built into blog software so neither did the publishers. I think this is not so much about XML but rather a more generic notion of simplicity - the whole concept of Twitter is so brain dead simple that it removes nearly all friction in adopting it. It's a much more general simplicity than just the encoding.
Invest in some online colleges?

Those who lost their jobs due to efficiency and technology improvements are going to become the target customers of many of those online schools in hopes to switch to a new sector. They will take on a large amount debt as a result and might never actually be able to find jobs -- but the colleges need now worry about that -- they'll get payed by the government...
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Absolutely. Their reach would be downright tiny if we couldn't use Echofon on our iPhone, or tweet blog posts we find interesting with one click, with those pesky url-shorteners making it possible to share links.

It's the ecosystem, not just the product.
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Correct, I voted for 1024x768. That was the second most common resolution (17.5% of traffic).

Update: looks like W3Schools also keeps track. Here are their data http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp
OK,

We have many countries already competing on the world market by trying to offer little regulation and lots of flexibility for investors.

How's that been working?

Are Chinese workers going up towards American standards?
Or are Americans moving towards Chinese standards?

If Africa could also compete here, would living standards going further down or further up?

What do you think?
Also check out the book "The Thinker's Toolkit" by Morgan Jones. He was a former CIA analyst. It contains 14 different analytical tools in the book that were taught to CIA analysts (including an extensive discussion on testing hypotheses).
God, I love this story, along jwz's story about shipping Mosaic (http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html).
Two 555's are used as the key components of the "Atari Punk Console" - a simple noisemaker synth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OScKPHnFv8
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In a recession, it appears less skilled people are hit hardest in terms of underemployment and unemployment, perhaps the minimum wage needs to be "seasonally adjusted" in terms of the economy, otherwise the subsidy for skilled workers will be higher relatively during recessions. Unless, of course, that's what you wanted in the first place.
I wrote ISO9660 support for my operating system. ISO9660 requires bigendian.

I wrote .SND audo file support. It is bigendian.

http://users.telenet.be/it3.consultants.bvba/handouts/ISO996...

You're in denial if you do not accept that I wrote all of LoseThos from scratch myself.

I have been fortunate enough to have been the prodegy of Denny Denker and Peter Gadwa from Ticketmaster.

You're in denial on God talking, too.

God says...
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Paranoid secrecy probably costs more to maintain than the benefit they receive from it. Their secret isn't much of a competitive advantage. Their brand is. Keep trademark, kill patents.

> "Some bakery experts were skeptical about Bimbo’s claims of top-secret processes, saying the mythology surrounding Thomas’ muffins was more about smart product branding than proprietary baking. The basic techniques for making an English muffin were widely known, they said: English muffin dough is very watery and when it is cooked at high heat the water evaporates quickly and leaves large air pockets."
It almost makes it worthwhile to keep it in a state of perpetual alpha, doesn't it?

It's clearly incredibly lucrative already and he's not at all constrained by the formality of a product that must be maintained or kept consistant, no worries about making significant or breaking changes to game mechanics, no formal bug reports of any sort... he doesn't have to worry about any of the things people expect from even beta software and instead gets to focus on the things he really wants to work on.

Seems like the perfect system to me.
We have about 13k uniques/month. Here is our break down for the last 30 days:

1920x1200: 19.98%

1280x800: 14.38%

1440x900: 13.25%

1680x1050; 13.03%

1920x1080: 7.20%

1280x1024: 6.31%

2560x1440: 5.08%

1024x768: 4.69%

1366x768: 2.24%

2560x1600: 2.16%

Important caveat: our market is professional photographers, which have larger than average monitors.

EDIT TO ADD: If it helps, our OS breakdown is 58% Mac, 39.5% Win, and the remaining mobile/linux.
That is...interesting. What are the aspect ratios on those monitors?
Impressive. I propose we change the title of HN to "Chimpanzee News" for a day.
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Twitter creates one of the best interfaces possible for a person to filter through messages. 140 characters is a big part of that, but I think profile pictures play a pretty serious role in that too. I can go through a massive number of tweets in a pretty short time. I see quickly who tweeted it, and I see any interesting keywords. This problem comes up in so many different areas, and it is a non-solution that works so well. The take away should be that the best way to filter a firehose of data for human consumption is to have a source indicator that is very quick for a person to parse, and a limited set of keywords.
Does a second monitor improve productivity?
I just tested it in 3.6.8 on Win 7). No crash for me. Though Firefox has a hard time rendering it (~30FPS, or about 1/2 the frame rate of Chrome, IE9 Platform Preview 4, Safari, or Opera!). Try another browser perhaps ;-)

Also, if you have a lot of add-ons/plugins it could make it even slower (some of these try to modify the page every time it changes).

If you get any error codes, I'd love to know the details! Thx
"..Dozens of people collaborated spontaneously, motivated by loyalty, friendship, or the love of craftsmanship. We were hackers, creating something for the sheer joy of making it work."

This.
Yeah, it seems like an interesting mix of game-design and a forum: people are basically paying $10 to get access to a community & experiment, the way you pay $10 to get a SomethingAwful account. They're not paying $10 to buy a product that's expected to work to any particular standard, which is certainly nice from a game-design point of view.
"Why did Twitter succeed where Wave did not?"

Well, I can think of a few differences off the top of my head,
1) Twitter had to succeed, but Wave did not. Google will continue to thrive without Wave (in it's present form)
2) Unfortunately, Wave was over-hyped way too early. It's the same problem that the children of well-luminaries and famous artists have. The expectations on the kids are so high that even when they're "just" successful, they're considered a failure.
3) Twitter spawned a bunch of alternative clients early (because it was easy to come up with these alternatives). The User Experience is not one of Google's strength and it showed in spades in Wave. The Wave client was a out-the-lab capabilities demo ("dude, I can see every character you type in real-time"); it was not a UI.
4) The Wave federated backend and its protocol have not failed. It even has products by SAP and Novell based on it. In fact, I am hoping that now that the bright lights are off it, the real experimentation can start.

Twitter had time to create a base of early adopters, many of whom were also "influencers." They became the "value" that the rest of us came to check out and then strayed.

cheers -- matt perez
A potentially interesting idea. To attract visitors, you need to give them a reason to show up. You need to bake this into the foundation of your idea. I discuss this a bit here under the heading "network effects":

http://solsen.net/?page_id=377

Perhaps you could make a deal with a shipper to provide you with a lot of packages, then post these packages on craigslist as a way of attracting drivers.
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Is this a project or a startup? I think it's wise for most entrepreneurs to steer clear of social. It's saturated.
Not true. Most of these early adopters were upgraders who probably still have te 3GS in their possession.
My problem with the Social Circle stuff is that it apparently never ever removes anyone that it’s pulled in through external services.

People I haven’t followed on Twitter or Flickr in a year still show up in the ‘Direct connections from links that appear on your Google profile’ section.
That might happen at some places, but often the opposite happens: companies go into maintenance mode where they hire the cheapest possible "just keep the thing from falling over" programmers and sysadmins, and get rid of the expensive programmers, who are often seen as an "R&D" luxury that can be dumped in a recession.
Computer monitors generally use square pixels, so it's trivial to calculate the aspect ratios using the resolutions.
How would you have liked me to phrase it?
Cloud based IDE's will happen. But unless you have a unique angle on the execution of that code, you will be entering a very difficult arena.

This is a "Class A" problem, and big players are going to spend a lot of bucks in this field. As indicated by mozilla working for years on this product already. So I would say be prepared to go big if you really want to address this need. This isn't really a product for a small lifestyle company.
Using patents to fight corporate giants and level the playing field
Lowercase p, dangit
Like Flash and Actionscript?
wow, yeah 1920x1200 usually corresponds to a 24" monitor, which regular moms and pops aren't likely to have
I think a /whole lot/ of this current 'cloud' craze is just an overreaction to the
bureaucratic problems with internal IT departments... like SysAdmins not
providing timely support /and/ not allowing access/tools so that devs can do it
themselves.

That's definitely one of my reasons for going that direction. As a soon-to-be-an-academic grad student, it's nice to have my own thing I can take place-to-place anyway, but due to inertia, it being free, and essentially infinite bandwidth, I'd probably be using university IT stuff if they would let me do anything on it. But, the fact that I have to round-trip through a person to get anything installed, and also have a big hassle of explaining why I need it and hoops to jump with their security policy, just makes it easier to buy a server somewhere not on the university network where I have root.
This is very interesting because it is highly likely that my target market (designers) has a similar screen resolution as yours.

Also interesting.....1280 x 800 is your second highest - i.e. 13" Macbook Pro.

That's very, very interesting.
Agreed. Looking at the same 500,000 uniques that I peeked at above, only 2% of our visitors have 1920x1200.
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The point is sort of that they're taking ideas from languages like Java and actually using them for OS/system code. You're right, it's all old hat for programming languages, but using it for the OS itself (usually done in C or assembler) is quite unusual.

So it's at least an interesting experiment.
I drew a hyper cube. I'm also wasted. Doesn't look much like a hyper cube.
What does this mean? Can I play without paying for it? Or are the 85% the usual rate of illegitimate copies?
Uploading multiple photos/videos from an iPhone. If this is possible in the fb app I can't find it. Pixelpipe is the best solution I can find.
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Well said!

If a company like Google is not going to invest in such technologies who will. This makes me think if Google is turning into a company which jumps on to a bandwagon once it starts rolling rather than be a creator of new ideas and technologies.
A large part of the customer base for our premium web app is corporate. That means a lot (about 30%) run at 1280 x 1024, which I don't see in the poll as an option.
I think it depends (like most everything at MS) on your team. Although actually what I'm referring is to legal restrictions on software we can actually use in production.
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Html5 on the ipad is still wishful thinking by people who don't want to bother being an ios developer. This demo is clearly worse than the BBC app and i have yet to see an ios web app that doesn't feel hacky and make me wish for a native version.

In a couple generations when mobile CPUs are faster and ipads have more than 256mb of ram, we will see a repeat of the web app takeover that occurred on the desktop.
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our market is professional photographers

Here is data for an audience of amateurs and professionals (Steve's Digicams). 1 million unique visitors/month.

1280x800 16.45%
1024x768 14.09%
1280x1024 13.02%
1680x1050 10.34%
1440x900 9.53%
1920x1200 6.03%
1366x768 5.08%
1920x1080 4.62%
1600x900 1.79%
1152x864 1.63%

80% Windows, 15% Mac
Regardless of which screen I happen to be using, my browser windows are usually 800 to 1000 px in width. If there's content beyond that width then it's probably just ad space.
Very similar. I'm not challenging Actionscript developers, this is an entry to the JS1k.com competition. I don't understand why it's being compared to C++ (a language that isn't web compatible) and Actionscript (a very fine language, but not part of the JS1k competition).

FYI - there is no war between HTML and Actionscript, the whole tension around that has really been getting to me. They are both good, I use both - PixelBender is especially amazing. I don't see why when anyone mentions HTML5, Javascript, or <canvas> it triggers so many emotions. We're all trying to push the web forwards together.
What part is the reddit-speak? "This."?

I saw that on MetaFilter long before I saw it on Reddit.
Great story. Also, it includes a link to commentary on Appleturns.com. IMHO, 'As the Apple Turns' was the greatest Apple website out there. I still miss it dearly.

http://web.archive.org/web/20050219104130/http://www.appletu...
I design so that people can use a display of any resolution to read my content. Why guess and be wrong 90% of the time when you can not guess and always be right?

The web is not print.
I should have mentioned it's for the js1k.com competition - which is why it's in <canvas>.
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