skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the thing is that only the techies realize that's part of the seo game...99.9999% of the population will not care. And if those seo guys can't get the numbers the way they want...they'll just go and buy links.

or create a huge SEO link wheel i.e. something like this chart:

http://i55.tinypic.com/2142vdv.jpg
I don't see a daughter cell in various stages of reproduction, I see different 'cells', and I'm not sure at all if they're cells or not. They could be dead single celled organisms with some kind of outer coating.

A time-lapse series of the same cells from the first image would be conclusive evidence, that can't be too hard to make, a magnification of 1,000 is well within the abilities of oil immersion objective: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xk_piPBnwY
I did it.

I was completely burned out. I had actually had a hospital visit due to stress, and ended up still working another 5 months after that (3 of those after I told the company I was quitting and converted to a consultant, working just as many hours but getting paid hourly instead of salary).

The good part there is that I had a nice cushion to land on and do nothing for about a month. At the end of the month I had a little bit of ambition back, and decided to do some small consulting gigs to make the cushion last a bit longer while doing less than full time work. This lasted far longer than I wanted, but unfortunately, I hadn't gotten enough of a client base to kick back into gear when I needed it. Luckily, a long term client showed up right when i needed it, otherwise I'd probably be back having a real job again. I'm much happier with my current arrangement, in that regard.

The lesson to be learned from me? You can head out w/o a plan, but you should probably form one and execute on it while your surviving on your savings.
What made you settle on your current space? It may be hard to generalize as a lot has to do with personal preference, but what do you feel coworking spaces in Portland are missing?
I think there's an audio site out there using Dropbox this way. Other than that I haven't heard of it. Maybe when their API includes folder-sharing functionality more people will do it. Right now I manually accept the shared folder request.
totally off topic: I just saw the company you work for. I developed the mentality that I have while doing a 14 month bid. I did pretty much the same thing you do only I didn't have permission.
When I first launched Ping it asked me to connect via Facebook -- I did, and it worked perfectly.

I noticed that immediately after I had connected that the connect button and surrounding UI to that feature had become a search box.

The Ping community on Facebook is still up and running[1], so isn't this just a problem with Ping and its UI?

[1] http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=146879158663...
It's quite simple really. Do you like your compiler? Or would you rather write code and hope for the best? Compilers work because they have a formal grammar of what is and is not acceptable in the programming language. This same principle is being applied to handling web requests. We have a standard - HTTP - and any requests that don't conform to the protocol are immediately rejected by Mongrel2. Since many attacks against web servers involve sending improper web requests, this sort of approach simply rejects those requests and doesn't even begin to process them. This certainly doesn't prevent Mongrel2 from implementing proper security at other appropriate places in the code. It simply stops a whole lot of potential exploits before they start.
> Haven't they used a digital picture frame and though "Gosh, wouldn't it be cool if this could show the weather...and had a web browser...and let me play movies from my server..."

Yes, I have had those thoughts. I also thought "I'd be willing to pay $5 for that. Oh well." So sure I understand that these things are appealing for coffee tables or salesmen, but I (still) don't see myself using one very much.
Addressing the 'Their loss' comment - Netflix could be happy you left from a business standpoint. I've talked to wireless carrier network execs who can speak specifically to the type of subscribers who they would like to encourage to leave the network.
I blame the article for this conversation, not you.
If you can't be bothered to read it, you probably don't really care anyways, so what's the point in providing you a TL;DR?
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"Aside from the Greyhat SEO tricks, your anti-infographic infographic and the post that inspired it are actually just describing successful web-writing and content creation. It’s like there’s a reason people are clicking on it."

Ugh. She didn't read the thread, it would seem.
The market should take care of it like it has for every other type of tipping: the fixed wages of the maitre d' would drop to compensate for the expected compensation in bribes. I don't have the data to prove it, but I suspect this has already happened to some extent and the restaurants themselves benefit indirectly from the bribes.

I think the "level playing field" here is an illusion anyway. I can't afford to go to a $375/person restaurant with or without the bribe.
Quadrupling the number of pixels is what they might do (in a few years). That’s 2048x1536. Quite high for a ten inch screen today but realistic in a few years. Also not quite iPhone territory but close. That would bring the resolution up to 264 ppi. The big question is whether they want to wait until they can make that kind of jump or whether they will increase the resolution before that.
When did HDR start taking on this meaning? Iir, when I first heard it it meant an image that actually had high dynamic range, I.e. More detail in the shadows and highlights than could be shown on screen. These images could be used as light sources for global illumination in 3D graphics programs.

It seems nice to be able to control the exposure of different parts of an image independently, but that doesn't seem special enough to warrant a special label. I dunno.
This reads like a Pravda article. Sensationalist and next to no substance.
> With silverlight, I can watch a 720p video on my mbp and use less than one core. I can not say the same for flash.

A 720p video from Netflix? That definitely wasn't the case for me last time I tried, maybe 2 months ago.

edit: to clarify, it's not even possible to stream 720p from Netflix on a Mac, regardless of how many cores it might take.
Presentation preparation
It is a $500+ device. At that point most people are looking for some guarantee that it's going to be useful.

The iPad is an unusual product, because doesn't address an obvious need. Laptops were just portable desktops. mp3 players were digital Walkmans. Smartphones are a combination of PDA, mp3 player, and phones. Most new classes of electronics are just an extension of an existing product in an obvious but technically-challenging direction. The iPad is more like the original PC - superficially similar to its predecessors, but used quite differently.

People use their iPads in their own way. For me, the killer app was as an e-reader. I could easily read books and pdfs on my laptop, but the tablet form-factor is far more pleasant for reading. Reading on a laptop is a chore, whereas reading on the iPad feels quite natural.

What trips people up about the iPad is that it isn't about the functionality. My MBP is more capable in almost every way. It's value lies in the fact that it does certain things extremely well that no other electronic device has been good at until now.
Literary Essay – Loving Literature
Writing a literary essay is an easy task if you like the subject. The students who find it a challenge often are not interested in the task. However, as a literature essay has to be done, it is wise that they learn how to do so. With knowledge writing the essay might be an easier task.
I used to get my ass kicked a lot because I didn't really understand the psychology of confrontations, and I was obviously weak. If a confrontation like the one here happens, the most important thing is to not display fear or annoyance. (The is exceptionally hard to do, but after you have had your ass kicked a lot it gets easier.) Then, you basically have two choices:

1) Diffuse the situation. An example of this would be to meet the intimidator on his own level of casual conversation, but with obvious elements of friendship or compassion (that perhaps are genuine, or just brazen). Invite the guy to have a seat with you. When the guy asks "When was the last time you got your ass kicked?" You can say "I get my ass kicked a lot, but I haven't had it kicked yet today." Once I was walking home through the ghetto with a pizza in my hand, almost to my apartment. The guys on the porch next door say "hey, you brought us pizza." I walked straight towards them, and asked who wants a piece, with a smile on my face. A couple pieces of pizza is a small price to show you are not afraid.

2) Or you can escalate the situation. This doesn't mean throwing the first punch (necessarily) but it could mean keeping your mouth shut, not responding to the initial questioning, then 5 seconds later getting up from the table. You go somewhere and come back quickly. When you return to the situation, you have the leg-up. You could have called someone, you could be carrying something. The dynamic is different though. At this point, keep your hands in your pockets, stay calm, and ask "what do you want?" After that don't say another word. You are harder to size up at this point, and there's a chance the intimidator will go away. If not, you can leave the place, or you can grab the person by their shirt and walk forwards with them and release them. They'll be very angry, but they'll realize that you are serious and unafraid to fight. There are a few key things to remember once the physical part of the conflict begins:

- No talking, threatening or noise-making. Just do what you need, be forceful and catch the other person off-guard.

- Most intimidators looking to start a fight are looking for some kind of foreplay or testing of your confidence. Don't allow that. Say as little as possible. When it comes time to act, prior to the first contact the movement should be casual but in their direction, and then silent and forceful when you have to touch the other person.

In 95% of situations, you are better off leaving. But if you are forced in something you have to deal with, deal with it confidently and calmly knowing that tomorrow you'll be able to look at yourself in the mirror, even if you do have one black eye.
Now I'm waiting for screencast of sudoku:

http://thesweeheng.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/more-sudoku-solv...

or game of life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4
Apple Violated Facebook's Terms of Service
I don't buy that. Why is Flash good enough for Hulu's content providers, but not Netflix's?
Ask HN: How can you "own" code without control over it's quality or design?
Throwaway account, for obvious reasons.

We've been told in our project that we should "take ownership" of some extremely bad code that I have been hacking away at for several months, fixing and finding bugs in the spaghetti. Any attempts to refactor the code gets rejected by management (unless we do it secretly; they have damanded "no secret development") and any new implementation ideas appear to require full working prototypes, a cost analysis and a proposal document before being considered. Of course, we are never budgeted the time to do this. The result is that we are now getting blamed for the results of bad design decisions made many years ago before we even started on this project.

I'm a developer in my 20s (but with several successful projects behind me) so I'm hoping some old HN hands have managed to deal with this problem before and can offer some advice to me and other people stuck in this situation.

In short, how can you accept ownership or responsibility for code that you don't have control over the quality or design of?
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That's what iOS 4.1 does.
Fox news has an agenda with stories like this. Can we get a better source?
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Handy if you're viewing a live log file and want to see
what's been appended since the last time you've opened
it:

(defun force-revert-buffer ()
(interactive)
(revert-buffer t t))

(define-key global-map "\C-cr" 'force-revert-buffer)
For your budget, you can get a dedicated machine with much better specs than the VPS slices.

http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/eq4/

8GB RAM, 750GB Hard drive space, 1TB traffic and a truely dedicated machine there, for 49euros a month. Only downside is you have to pay a 149 euro setup fee.

I haven't used this service, but I found out about it because someone on this forum recommended it. It is the best deal I've seen for dedicated hosting by a good distance.
My usual advice:

Start with three books:

(1) The most thorough book on English grammar you can find.

(2) A relatively complete dictionary of English.

(3) Strunk and White, The Elements of Style.

Then

(1) Write, about nearly anything for nearly any purpose, and think about what you would like to do better.

(2) Read some relatively good writing and see if by example it provides some good answers the questions you had in (1).

Then rinse. Repeat. Many times.

My evidence is that good progress takes years: When I was a college prof I noticed that the much older evening students were much less good students except for term papers where they were MUCH better. Net, learning to write well takes time.

For some good writing, in math read Paul Halmos. In science, read a good freshman physics book. These examples are high among the best ever at communicating rock solid information with some of the greatest clarity yet achieved and are crown jewels of civilizations.

For persuasive writing, practice on, say, Reddit or other fora and see what reactions you get. Rinse. Repeat. Many times.

For writing for the humanities, mostly just learn about humans. For this purpose, my favorite Humans 101 for Dummies is the now classic E. Fromm, The Art of Loving.

Then for Beowulf and Chaucer through Milton, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Dickens, and Henry James to the present and for the rest of this millennium in English literature, and its history, techniques, values, and goals, I would treat it as at best meaningless and otherwise as toxic waste of great danger to humans, this far into the 21st century still stuck before the 18th. Here I am straining as hard as I can to be astoundingly diplomatic and omit remarks about detritus of the ascent of man, effluent, and septic tank of civilization.

Actually in England in the 1600s there was a good writer, Newton.
The Future of Screens, Circa 2014
God did not create the universe, says Hawking
Not speculation. Stated by Google employees on the Protocol lists explicitly last year.
disown

disown [-ar] [-h] [jobspec ...]

Without options, each jobspec is removed from the table of active jobs.
If the `-h' option is given, the job is not removed from the table,
but is marked so that SIGHUP is not sent to the job if the shell receives
a SIGHUP. If jobspec is not present, and neither the `-a' nor `-r'
option is supplied, the current job is used. If no jobspec is
supplied, the `-a' option means to remove or mark all jobs; the `-r'
option without a jobspec argument restricts operation to running jobs.

The important part:

That means...

$ ./some_really_long_process
(crud... I forgot to open GNU Screen first!)
^Z
[1]+ Stopped
$ bg
[1]+ ./some_really_long_process &
$ disown
$ pgrep some_really_long_process
12349
$ logout

Now, log in again...

$ pgrep some_really_long_process
12349

I do not know of a way to "reclaim" a disowned process, though.
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A facile answer.

How can you tell if I invented the circular ice scraper, or the folks who hold a patent on it invented it? If they invented it, why do I still scrape frost and ice off my car's windshield with a yellow plastic coffee mug, manufactured by "Tupperware"?
Good news
Seriously, I don't know what is that new rating system, but news got so much better this week! Congrats.

(Ok, I won't abuse the system I promise, can someone tell me what's the new alrogithm)
Thanks for asking this question.
Sigh. Lots of senators voted for it, because at that point in time, with everything falling down around our ears, it was the safest move, flaws and all. That particular situation was actually bad enough that a majority of Congress forgot about partisan silliness for a second. Unbelievable, I know. Last I knew, the overwhelming majority of the money had been paid back.

Anyways, score 1 point for you, you can take that one right on to Fox News.
New Facebook Security Measures Out And One You Might Not Of Known Existed
Monitoring how flocks walk can prevent attacks by mad chickens
But everyone can afford a computer that is very powerful by historic standards.
I would make a flowchart but here goes:

Are you a good engineer? If yes you can work elsewhere.

Do you have good rapport with your managers? If yes you will have decent references.

Are you well known or popular? If yes most people will applaud your courage.

Do you have money saved up? If yes you have a small runway to figure out what you really want.

Life's too short to hate your life.
Berkeshire hathaway and AFLAC both have returned above your target rate over the course of decades. There are also many canadian resource companies that will return a good percentage in dividends and then stock appreciation, plus you'd benefit from the depreciation of the dollar against the CAD. IF you go that route, look for one that is adding resources faster than they are depleating them-- some have really high dividends but they are burning thru their reserves.

%12-%15 is not that hard to get, and doesn't involve substantial risk, but does involve doing your homework.

I would recommend one of Timothy Vick's books on Buffett for some advice.

Back when I was in the equities markets, I was able to predict the return I would get from a stock, buy it, and then, on average, exceed that return. Stocks are not gambling when you buy low, pre-calculate expected return over 5-10 years, and only buy when you are getting a good deal based on the expected return.

I'm out of the equities market because the US dollar is in serious danger, and I would not recommend bonds for this very same reason. I've been doing better in precious metals than I did in equities. But if I were in equities I'd also research some of the good precious metals companies-- some are very well run, and have both equity and growth appreciation by moving assets from discovery to production, as well as leverage to the decline in paper currencies which will cause their resources to have a larger market value. It is one thing to buy gold in the ground for $20 an ounce, it is quite another when gold is going up in price while you're doing it. But this sector takes more research.

IF you're willing to put in some time, it isn't that hard, but first I would recommend learning. The vick book, or Mary Buffetts "buffetology" are good resources. Find people who cover the sectors that interest you, learn all you can, and only invest in your circle of competance.
Um, HDR isn't exactly a big secret that Apple couldn't figure out themselves without this "help".
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Also, one thing, if it is a new sector, consider if you can do some paper trading based on actual returns in the past. For instance, get annual reports from several companies from 2004. Try to get a survey of companies in the sector, and not be influenced based on what you know now about the companys.

If you're married it would be best to have your spouse anonymize the companies by copying down the key figures from the annual reports, and then the price on Jan 30th, for each of the next 5 years. Have her keep the company key seperate.

Analyze them on that basis, then look into the prices on the stock market in January 2005. Use those prices and discounted cash flow analysis to predict what their prices will be in 2010. Invest a fake $150,000 in the companies based on those calculations.

Then wait a week. Each week, look up the prices for the companeis a year later and decide if your thesis still stands. For this example, lets just pretend like you have no access to news, no annual reports for 2005, just the price on Jan 30th, 2006. Decide to re-allocate if you want, but pay $100 for each transaction (sales and buys). IF you're down and you sell then you're locking in that loss.

Do this for the next 5 weeks until you've covered the time period to Jan 30th 2010.... and then look to see how your companies did.

Try to draw your conclusions before you connect the fake companies names with the real companies.

Don't forget to account for dividends in the interim as well.

This can be very instructive-- but be sure to learn about how DCF and current trading price affect risk. IF one of the companies did poorly, was it because of bad management? An externality that was unpredictable? etc.
No, I thought it'd be that too! Send a message to the trapped miners! Top answers will be curated/voted up and then sent along!
Take the time to make new stuff as good as you can possibly can and try to make old stuff as usable as you can possibly can.

Even thought they say you now "own" the code, they perfectly know that you haven't coded it. So you can't be taken responsible for bugs that appears in code you don't even know.

Maybe you should work in a startup and be happy instead :)
A "detailed work flow" that consists of taking multiple exposure shots and merging them together with local tone mapping? That's the textbook definition of HDR.
It is indeed a pretty realistic preparation for mechanical factory labor from the industrial age, which is when this model of institutionalized mandatory schooling took hold. Sit down, do your work, obey authority, don't ask questions. Factories and corporations both benefit from these sorts of workers. Follow the clock. Awareness of this connection between these two is a good part of what led John Holt to write his books.
I think you're referring to the dynamic range of the screen, which might have been the original interpretation, but most people these days think of the range of exposure that the sensor can handle. I first heard it in reference to Half Life: Lost Coast, but since then I've only heard it in reference to multiple exposures in photography.

I might be wrong, but I'm that the sensors in modern professional SLRs can handle much more difference in exposure latitude than smaller digicams and especially cell phone cameras, with film holding even more latitude. Though I cringe at most over-processed HDR-styled photos, this seems to be a valid use of the technique, overcoming the technical limitations of such a small sensor.
Hey HN, I'm trying to target tweens/teens in the iPhone app market.
Besides facebook ads, what are some other methods of reaching out to that demographic?

Shameless plug for the app -http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/collegestories/id389715323?mt=8 #iTunes
_was_ pretty much a replacement. The app is still banned from what I can see in iTunes. Considering that the app was making 250k a month according to their blog posts, the decision to add in the easter egg is one of the dumbest things I've seen recently.