skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hotmail user since the pre-gmail days here. It's actually pretty good. It's a little to "busy" for my tastes, but it runs well on every browser I tested it on. Hotmail also re-directs to a very good mobile site on the iPhone.

Full disclosure - I am paying like $20 per year or something for the "enhanced" service, but I don't even know what that includes any more. It used to be Outlook connectivity and more storage. I haven't used Outlook (at home) in years, and I don't think my account goes over the size of the free storage.
Analytics has always been tied to AdWords. There used to be a page-view-per-month hard cap that could be removed by linking to an active (spending $) AdWords account. AdWords integration is also pushed pretty heavily in the GA training material, and even in the certification exam. In the real world, there are quite a lot of people whose only experience with GA is optimizing CPC campaigns. Personally, I've never used it for that purpose, but Google pushes them as a bundle.
My fiancee is a blues singer, song-writer, guitarist and actor.

And yes, she does know what I do for work, she is my co-founder after all.
The Metaphysics of Cutting Grass
Synopsi (hope you know) told me he's using Python framework named Tornado. Maybe give it try.
Funny, I've been using analytics, adwords and adsense for years (adwords not so much for the last two years or so) and I never clued in to that.

I wonder if I'm alone in that perception or if this is more common.
Cloud computing has made it possible to choose a hosting provider which allows you to scale with approximately no effort.
Arora.
http://code.google.com/p/arora/
John Gruber on iPhone coming to Verizon
The big difference is not in salary, but in benefits.
I think it may turn out that the real genius of Scala (and Clojure) may be in discovering the only truly viable model of real-world adoption for a functional language - piggybacking on a bigger, dumber, mainstream success. Just consider what Scala gets for free that Haskell has to build itself: a fast, robust VM, libraries for any mundane thing under the sun, and a foot in the door at any common dev shop.

The real cathedral vs bazaar issue here is deeper than the library issue. It's the runtime that counts and sharing a runtime with something like Java delegates all the grunt work to the legions of Java programmers and lets Scala hitch along for the ride picking up all the interesting work on the top of the heap. The future of functional languages is in symbiosis.
You're right, I could move my entire bodily self somewhere else. My expectations are realistic, so I don't need to revise them. I know that for now, wherever I go, people will demand money from me and will lock me in a cage if I don't give it to them. I also know that many people will support that heartily, because they accept the belief that without such a threat of force, people would not or could not build roads, pick up garbage, create parks, care for their health, educate their children, or protect life and property. I find that view incredibly silly, very much like the old superstitions about the Church which people held 500 years ago.

Of course it's idealistic of me to oppose the initiation of force in principle. But I reject the belief that in a purely voluntary society, people would regress into violent, stupid, and helpless animals. On the contrary, I believe that the initiation of force is responsible for the very level of violence, stupidity, and helplessness we see today.

I was amused to hear you say "too bad you're not running things." I'm sure you realize that is the last thing I would ever want to do. However, I think reasonably competent people like me are perfectly capable of running businesses, providing services such as road construction, garbage removal, education, landscaping, security, package delivery, telephone, and such. Our "budget plans" would be whatever is required to keep customers, owners, and employees happy. It is not my responsibility to devise other people's business plans. It is their responsibility to do it, and without resorting to force.

As for designing our own "countries," I think we'll see a lot more of that sort of thing in the next hundred years. Right now the entrenched State violently opposes such competition, much as the entrenched Church violently opposed heresy long ago. The trend is in the right direction, but it could be awfully bloody and messy along the way.
Interestingly, recently 2 year Treasury TIPS (Inflation Protected Securities) were yielding -0.02%.

see: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/11/why-we-need-an-i...
Wow, Facebook's site says Facebook is a good place to work?
It's a rather small world. Without glancing at the URL, I forwarded the link to a friend who turns out to be the author's brother!
That was good information. Thank you.

My takeaway for this is this -- If the utility methods are not generic functions, it is fairly trivial to write a generic function that wraps around the utility method and then play with additional types as needed. So if the problem with the data structures in scheme and Lisp are that people are spending a whole lot of time repeating conversion patterns, shouldn't those people be developing abstractions, at least for their own use/libraries?

When I read this kind of complaint, I get the feeling people tend to want Batteries Included Their Way. They do not go the one step further to wrap things in the manner they desire. Like-minded folks do not get the benefit of those wrappers. jQuery was a hit because someone deployed his library of common JavaScript patterns.
I have an unpublished, unfinished PhD thesis investigating this question. I'm working on getting permission to publish it, but for now I can only give you the summary.

The author administered standardised personality tests to people tested as fluently bi-lingual in English and German. Each of the four possibilities was tested. Everyone got both tests, some tested first in English, the others first in German. Each group had roughly equal numbers of those claiming English as their first language and those claiming German as their first language.

The data showed two distinct types of behaviour. Some of those tested showed no personality shift at all, while others showed an unmistakable change. There were none who changed a little - either they did, or they didn't.

It's been suggested that those who didn't change were, for example, compound bilinguals, whereas those who did were coordinates. Or vice versa.

The conclusion was that a personality shift for some types of bilinguals is clear and unavoidable.

I really hope I can get this material onto the web.

ADDED IN EDIT: Separating the effects of cultural influences from those of the language itself is difficult, and the author of the thesis went to great lengths to look for changes based on the language. that's what makes this research so important (in my opinion). My next step is to contact the supervisor(s) of the candidate, but that's awkward. Working on it.
I used to have a gmx.net (same folks as gmx.com, but the site only existed in German back then) account a long, looong time back (late 90s, IIRC). It wasn't too popular back then, so I got <firstname>@gmx.net pretty easily.

I didn't know a whit of German, but they had made a half-assed attempt at an English translation, which I actually made do with, because it was so awesome otherwise (superb interface for its time, POP3 access, open SMTP which didn't seem to get raped by script kiddies - and all this for free). The translation was missed out at certain points, but at least it made me look up words like ubernehmen and abbrechen.

Then one sad, SAD day, after I'd been a steadfast user for nearly 3 years, they sent an email to everyone saying they were shutting down the half-English site completely, and leaving only the German interface up. It was a really nice email too, in which they hoped the users would take this as an opportunity to learn a bit more German. Sadly I was just about finishing up with high school then and headed off to college, and didn't really have the time or energy to tinker with learning a new language as well, so it was with a heavy heart that I bid farewell to my beloved gmx.net account, after downloading all of my email into (one of the more under-rated Windows email clients of its time) Calypso.

Just created an account there again for old times sake, but I wasn't able to get <firstname>@gmx.com this time :(

</nostalgia>
When I show up and am already signed in, I'd like to be taken straight to my lists, rather than the landing page.
> By learning about you, their algorithm can adapt so that it isn't generic.

It will still be the same algorithm, for everybody. Yes, it won't offer health insurance to old people or viagra to youngsters. But it will be the same recipe. Banks and credit cards already use sophisticated generic algorithms for advertising. Just because an algorithm adapts to parameters doesn't mean it isn't generic. (In fact, most algorithms "adapt" in some way.)

A cool idea instead would be giving control to the customer. Not just configuration but allowing programming of some kind. People are not stupid (no matter what your MBA course taught you.) Sure, humans have issues coordinating and large groups tend to behave at their lowest common denominator, but this isn't the case.
Is it me or am I reading too much into "Finding out that he also played guitar sealed the deal. " My first thought was this comic: http://www.explosm.net/comics/897/
Ask HN: Noticing new comments on HN
There is a lot of valuable content here, and comments add great value, ihmo.

Let's say you just read a thread on an interesting topic. Once done, do you have a way to notice the new comments on HN? (e.g, after a few hours, days)

Any tricks? This could improve the visibility of 'late' comments that I miss most of the time.
And people wonder why marriage is in such a downswing.
Acrobatic RC helicopter
If you read the entire section from the beginning, you'll notice that you don't really need to know what a Hamiltonian cycle is to understand the explanation. A made-up property would have worked equally well.
See my response above please. I'm not saying people should slash spending on roads, education, and security by 100%. That would indeed be madness, and utterly self-destructive. I am simply saying that all such spending should be done voluntarily.
Next Apple TV to be renamed iTV, drop 1080p, gain apps - rumor
I think people aren't looking at the bigger picture here... In 5 years the internet is going to look incredibly different than it does today - regardless of Google's, Verizon's or the FCC's position on "Net Neutrality".

Whether it's IBM's laser/light data transfer technology (http://www.pcworld.com/article/202018/intel_turns_to_light_t...) or something we haven't even seen yet, the power of innovation will make the net neutrality argument (almost) irrelevant.

You should choose the product that best fits your needs. Also, do you really think Microsoft is less 'evil' than Google? I'm driven crazy every day by Microsoft products and their business practices!
You probably can't get into the more important and interesting classes without taking or testing out of data structures and algorithms. I refer to, e.g., Programming Languages, Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Robotics, etc. Looking back, I would put Compilers in there too.

Make sure you know enough to get into the cool CS stuff. Don't assume that SW development gives you a CS background. One informs the other.
Tabfusion - Facebook Tab Applications
The school I'm at costs ~ $55k per year in the end, and the grants I get bring it down to about $30ish, and my parents make not much more than $100k (by working a full time and a part time job each)

The public schools I applied to that weren't rolling-admission 5th year of highschool types ended up costing the same in the end, because they didn't give need-based aid, and their merit scholarships were not large for people who don't play sports.
At least he didn't mention how great the food was. That's a step up from every "I love being at Google" post ever.
My wife is an attorney. I enjoy listening to the problems she faces in her cases. It is interesting to help her think of innovative solutions. It's a little like hacking code once you abstract away all the legal terms and focus on the concepts.
i grew up speaking german and i live in SF.

I call bullshit on TFA, because last time I checked the german speaking area was culturally diverse in the traits mentioned.

Repeating stereotypes: people in Vienna don't yell and call bullshit on people (they are more likely to talk behind each other's backs), while people in Berlin yell at each other all the time to resolve conflicts (which seems way more healthy to me). These are stereotypes sure, but not more so than the ones mentioned in TFA.

So if there's no uniform behavior identifying even stereotypical german speakers, how can this guy pick up on behavior that is different just because of the language?

OTOH, hanging out in a culture that is more verbose (or not) about their conflict resolution can surely change you. But that's independent from language.
My girlfriend is actually the one with the CS background, not me--I'm a mathematician. She's working in Computer Vision right now, and I have a passing knowledge of the algorithms she uses, like SVMs.

More importantly, I am now an adoring fan of doom metal, and have a greater appreciation for 18th century European literature and philosophy. I'm not sure I'll ever match her encyclopedic knowledge of obscure metal sub-genres (electro-Tolkien thrash metal?) but bands like Anathema and Ulver now dominate my last.fm account, and I have a finer appreciation for non-English-language films.

Conversely, she just finished Half-Life 2: Episode 2. I'm so proud of her! I also taught her to cook, which brings me more joy than I can put in words.
Ask HN: where did you order your startup T-shirts?
We are looking where to print our startup t-shirts. We want good quality t-shirts and good quality printing.

We are not thinking cafepress.

Any ideas? where did you print yours?
You mean like Xobni?
I have the same experience. My wife is a photographer and I could rattle of lots of stuff about Polaroids, medium format, the darkroom, film vs digital, and other things I would never know.

I stiff can never remember what an f-stop is, but I pay attention. And she listens to me the the same way. It really matters, even when we don't know what the other is talking about.
Wife with remarkably similar interests to husband takes interest in his passions, story at 11.

Hrm. Not that I disagree, but it is abundantly clear that this husband and wife combo are very similar people. At least on her end.

If she is suggesting that she learned Ruby and started writing a blog because she wanted to know her husband better I'm calling BS. She did these things because she herself is interested in them.

If I am to be cynical: She shares her husband's interests, that much is clear, but is the experience mutual, and if not is she in any position to critique others?

He was a trooper.

This is what you say when you know someone is participating in an activity simply because they know you enjoy it, not so much because they are avid hikers (or rubyists) themselves.

None of that bothers me. In fact it seems to be - at least on her part - the key to enjoying life with another person.

What bothers me is that she openly mocks women that don't seem to have an passion for all the things their husbands do. It ignores that there (should be) a whole lot more to a person that a single passion. It ignores that many of those particular things may be what is shared. Most importantly it ignores the fact that she actually isn't doing what she claims to be doing at all.

There is no reason why any particular passion should be elevated to a level that it cannot be "excluded" from an important relationship, provided there are shared experiences in other areas.

To suggest otherwise says more about the person with the passion than the one forced to accept it, really.
Have you heard of feedly.com ?
Thanks, I had tried to install Arora before but couldn't find a package for Ubuntu (Hardy at the time). I just installed it, and crashed it too :(
This amuses me. After re-implementing all possible IO libraries on earth with epoll() and callbacks, I predict the NIO nerds will come to the inevitable conclusion that they need to put CPS-rewriters on top to actually do anything useful (you know, things other than re-implementing all possible IO libraries and blogging about how awesome node.js is), thus completing the great circle of life/green threads.
lol you and me both my friend, I dropped a lot of karma on this convo...
I actually WAS saying it's not unethical any more than bluffing in poker is unethical.
but I guess people can downmod as they see fit
Firefox addon, like SiteDelta?
"people in Berlin yell at each other all the time to resolve conflicts"

Oh, I thought the real German stereotype was that you sued people if they annoyed you even the slightest.
Needs a mirror - he's getting hammered
That's a false dichotomy. We don't need to run things with our private data on third party servers.

There is a way out: browsers have very powerful JS engines and it is possible to do client-side processing and even store private data encrypted somewhat securely without the service provider having access. But since this concept doesn't lead to profits it is completely disregarded. There are many systems using this approach, like password managers and secure email services. It's not perfect but it's been out there for many years.
I usually scan the comments page: http://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments

I also have scripts that pull discussions and compare new versions with old, although they're fragile, and I don't use them much.
That's not completely true. Consider the difference in benefit rate. For private-sector, the benefits are about 20% of the salary. For federal employees, the benefits are about 50% of the salary.

Now, since large components of benefits (notably healthcare) are essentially fixed, independent of salary, then if private-sector jobs tend to be of a different class that are lower paid, then that fixed portion of benefit ought to make the benefit rate be higher for those private jobs.

But just the opposite is shown in the data. Not only do pub sec jobs get paid more, but they get a higher rate of benefits on that pay.

I can't conceive of any explanation for this difference that could be in any way equitable. All I can see is that pub sec workers get an obscene amounts of benefits relative to what I and my colleagues get -- yet the ones paying for that are, in fact, me and my colleagues.
Ha, that's funny, I thought I was the only one. I have noticed that when I speak English (to my wife and daughter) I speak in a higher pitched voice. As soon as I switch back to my native Dutch, I drop to a lower pitch, because to my ear it would sound ridiculous otherwise.
http://www.davical.org/ maybe an option, but getting a web based front-end may be a problem, if you need that.
I would also like to point out the conflict between

"Has written a compiler or OS for fun +15"

and

"Has Ph.D -1"

and also wonder why having a Ph.D gets a negative mark?
site seemed ok when I loaded it just now, but here's a copy in case it goes down again:

http://i.imgur.com/yvNQm.png
Ask HN: What is the Google/Verizon net-neutrality story all about?
Can somebody explain, briefly and in layman's terms, the scandalous pact of Google and Verizon?

Was this truly surprising? How bad is it really? In short, what is going on?
Honestly, the biggest thing that stopped me from using Bing was the interface and the left navigation bar. The subtle thing prevented me from transitioning from Google.
She doesn't say that couples have to have the same passions. She says that you should at least know something about what your partner does, beyond just their job title.
Does their town have many villages in it?
SLAs and the Managed Private Cloud
What gets financing is founders. And what smart founders do is launch as soon as they have anything usable. It's not the last thing they'll build.

See part 8, and in particular the third paragraph:

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

It makes me wince for HN to see so many people upvoting the parent. It's not just the meanness of it; it's that it's both mean and wrong. Surely at this point everyone is at least familiar with the strategy of launching something minimal and then expanding it. And yet here is a startup doing exactly the right thing, and they have a mob jeering at them.
"Is it dangerous to draw a correlation between high divorce rates and the lack of interest that people have in their partners lives?"

Perhaps not, but "in their lives" need not mean "in every aspect of their lives". I think it's great for anyone, in a relationship with a programmer, or not, to learn about programming. But simple observation tells me that a relationship does not rely on the s.o.'s ability to talk learnedly about Perl v. Python v. Ruby.
I don't have access to StartupToDo.com but essentially it's a bit like Flattr with a closed community, right? People earning small proportions of others' monthly fees based on upvotes acting as a tip.

The problem with this idea in relation to the stock market is that anyone with worthwhile investment ideas isn't sharing them for micropayments, and upvotes are very easy to game and bear very little relation to the one metric that actually matters - performance.

If you want to try the "paid community with upvotes being worth money" idea, your niche probably needs to be a considerably less cynical and big-money oriented one.
Actually as of right now it is easier for governments to get out of their obligations in that they can legally void union contracts (private companies can't do that according to federal law).

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202429132330
I'm not sure what this means: "When Facebook pushed Questions and then retracted it"

We didn't ship and then retract. We just started with an extremely small seed community and are rolling it out very slowly over time.
I think this is a misconception. You can't discharge a student loan, but you can just stop paying them. The worst that can happen is that your credit gets ruined and you get your wages garnished at a rate which has a cap based on your income (which isn't much if you don't make much$$$).

Three years ago they thought people wouldn't walk away from underwater mortgages either.
I've run into problems with hitting a number of limits on Analytics as well and still have no good solution.

A couple of solutions I'm aware of:

1) Omniture Site Catalyst: A lot of big sites use this but it will cost you dearly. My site runs about 85mm pvs/month and they quoted me close to a million dollars a year at those traffic levels! I didn't even bother negotiating it down, even the negotiated price would still have been way more than I'm willing to pay.

2) Urchin: I don't know how similar/dissimilar Urchin is from Analytics, but the Urchin 6 software runs about $3k. This option could prove labor intensive since you would effectively be running and logging your own metrics on your own server. So the actual costs could go up (wrt to time, equipment, etc.)

There are plenty of smaller players in this space, but the problem that always comes up is, "Will these guys be around in a year?". When looking for an business solution, it's nice to know that your data won't up and disappear should the company go bankrupt.

I do wish Google would provide a paid service for those of us that could use it and would pay for it. I'm already using Google Doubleclick for Publishers for ad serving (which costs money), you'd think they'd also want to expand their other complementary offerings (like metrics).