skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here! Except instead of blowing up the page, you shoot at links to follow them. Also, fog that is revealed as you move around, minimap, etc. Maybe this can spark some more ideas?

http://tanksurfing.appspot.com/
Correlating Innovation and Share Prices
Hey HN, please send an email to your senator regarding COICA:

https://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=Us...

Our government is looking to put its foot in the door while the Internet is young. If we sleep on these things, worse infringements will surely follow:

¶ Communications services that encrypt messages
must have a way to unscramble them.

¶ Foreign-based providers that do business inside the
United States must install a domestic office capable
of performing intercepts.

¶ Developers of software that enables peer-to-peer
communication must redesign their service to allow
interception.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html?_r=3
John Paulson's Scary Speech: Double Digit Inflation By 2012, Gold At $4,000
Already posted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1737715
Obama Says Fox News Is Hurting The Growth Of The United States
CBO Director: Actually, Tax Cut Extensions Would REDUCE Your Income
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Color Design for Aerospace Applications
We don't want them easily spying on people, but we might not want it to be virtually impossible for them to spy on people by default. I use the word "might" because I myself am not sure. But I definitely see the dilemma they face, and my reaction to it is not knee-jerk.
Some stuff happening. (by no means is this everything)

Mozzilla Thunderbird is developed in Vancouver
Stewart Butterfield's TinySpeck is half here and half in SFO.
Facebook has a bunch of employees here
Apple has a bunch employees here.
Microsoft Entertainment
SuperRewards, sold to AdKnowledge
LayerBoom, sold to Joyent
DabbleDB/Trendly - now Twitter
NowPublic, sold to Clarity Digital
Matt from Flippa, 99designs
PlentyOfFish
Elastic Path
Vision Critical
Indicee
Club Penguin (not Vancouver, but still notable)
Metro lyrics
Hootsuite
CouterPath - makers of the famous X-Lite Voip client.
Strutta
Unbounce
Mobify
Deqq
Mingleverse
Jostle
Fundrazr
Rouxbe
theKiwiCollection
Sitemasher
Bookriff
CityMax
Grooster
Fotki
Nitobi
Sosido Networks
GeoToko
IQ Metrics
Thinking Ape
Carrotlines
Contractually (Bootup)
AdHack (Bootup)
DimeRocker (Bootup)
Summify (Bootup)
Compass engine (Bootup)
FoodTree (Bootup)
Why AOL Bought TechCrunch
You might also really enjoy Snook.ca.

The Six Revisions font-face-guide reminded me of this article (http://snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/becoming-a-font-embedd...) that Snook wrote, and which I have declared to be the most complete guide on font embedding whatsoever.

It might focus more on 'front-end development' than design per se, but much of what he offers is invaluable.
A gentle request; I think it'd be better to call it DemoDay or something other than abbreviating it to DDay. (I know you mean no disrespect, it's an easy shorthand...)
I worked with a teacher a few years back who would repeat the mantra "Learning is not fun. Learning is never fun. The only time you can have fun is after you are done learning."

But you're right; honest engagement with a discipline is a brilliant combination of fun and frustrating (and more importantly: the right kind of frustrating).
I do.

At many/most well-known US research universities, a tenure-track position in Engineering (and possibly, Sciences too) is up for evaluation after six years from start of hire. The exact term may vary from institute to institute, but is six for most of the top universities. At that point, they either give you promotion (i.e., tenure) or a one-year notice (i.e., fire you).

Note that this is not "full" tenure, this is technically a promotion from Assistant to Associate Professor. However, it is still tenure, and you can keep the job for life. It doesn't have the prestige of a full tenure. Full tenure is likely to follow, if you keep similar pace, in 3-5 more years.

In summary, tenure can be had in as little as 6 years after completing PhD for professors in Engineering. But, those are probably the 6 hardest working years of their life. Makes the PhD almost feel like a cakewalk.
does arrington get an @aol.com address now?
Thank you for this. I especially appreciated that you have brought the concept of "publication bias" (though not by name) into the discussion of AB testing. In medicine there is a tendency to publish positive results and not negative results, leading to a bias in favor of positive results. Most likely, this is an equally large or larger problem for bloggers.
Since this is Arrington you have to take things with a grain of salt.

The technical reason seems like a very bogus reason. Its true that the TC design could use some help and the general site layout and speed could use some improvement. But any half-decent developer and a designer who is worth his balls could solve this problem. After all they are running on wordpress using PHP. In regards to the speed of the site, its no so much of a technical problem as it is a "widget problem" they have more external JavaScript widgets pulling in than the site itself. The only solution to that problem is a reduce the number of external calls.

The other reason he used was that he is tired. I can understand that, it is very much possible to get tired of something that you have been very involved with for several years, even if the project is the love of your life. It can be both mentally and physically taxing. But he is not going anywhere... he is staying with TC even after the sale. What responsibility is he offloading other than the technical aspect of the site? And it isn't much offloading because its not like he is sitting behind the computer and developing the site, he would be hiring someone to that job.

The only thing that he doesn't mention and doesn't talk about (anyone else in his position would have done the same), is money. It is possible that AOL offered something that was too good _for him_ to refuse or he really needed the money. Everything else he mentioned sounds like a bunch of hogwash to me.
I use Brizzly on a daily basis, but I might switch to the "new" Twitter. And I too wonder if they'll die off.

What I love that the new Twitter UI has:
* infinite scroll
* in-line media (embedded videos/images)

Why I might not make the switch yet:
* their mute feature (useful when following someone who's tweeting way too much irrelevant stuff)
* they crowd-source explanation of trending topics (offers a quick way to find out what's going on w/o doing a search)
I'm sure somewhere somebody few years ago thought "what happens when all the phones will have a qwerty keyboard?"
This is true, but the very good deep learning results are very recent (from less than 5 years ago), and they generally require very different models and/or training strategies from the standard multilayer perceptron you find in most AI textbooks. So it's an omission, but I'm not aware of any textbooks that cover these new neural networks in depth, as basic research in this area is still going in a frantic pace.
Just replying to my own post to mention that I didn't get around to it yet... No excuses really. Just being lazy. Hopefully soon :)
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That's very true. Philly in particular is a pharma mecca. So if you are health 2.0, this is a great place to be.
Test your website on an iPad
Second Mini Flash Crash In Apple In Same Day
hoo - boy! here we go with another web framework religion throwdown.

Well, here's my quick answer: pick the one you think you can get going most quickly with. It's better to just get something started that does something than to spend 6 weeks configuring the latest/greatest web framework before you can get started actually developing your app.

If, on the other hand, you want to use this project as a way to play with some particular framework - well, then you already have your answer: use that one.

Don't fret too much about your initial decision. Your app is going to grow/morph over time. At some point, you might "outgrow" your initial choice of framework. No worries - by that time, you'll probably have learned a thing or two about what you really want the app to do. A major refactoring phase is an opportunity to change frameworks, and it's not always as painful as it might seem at first.

So, yeah - that's a non-committal answer. But, that's because I think the focus should be on getting something running quickly. If you have the ASP.net stack on your system already set-up and you know how to get started, fire away. If you're starting from a blank slate, then poke around the documentation for some of the major frameworks (rails, django, cake, etc..)...and have a look at the "quick start" guides. Pick one that seems to make the most sense to you and that you think you could get up to speed quickly on.

Once you picked your framework to start with, head on over to StackOverflow and peruse the latest questions for that framework. It will give you an idea what kind of issues people are dealing with and what kind of help that community can provide. For each framework, there are other more specific forums/communities, but SO offers an easy way to have a look at a cross section of users/issues.

good luck!
Embrace the trackpoint!
>Did they actually do something wrong (on purpose?)

I personally believe the e-gold guys were working in good faith to produce an alternate currency, one that functioned like cash, but that was backed by actual gold. However, it is generally agreed that the majority (or at least a significant portion) of the business transacted with e-gold was illegal in nature, and much like cash, once you spend your e-gold, you can't call up the e-gold company and tell them to reverse the transaction. you have to get the other party to return the money, and much like cash transactions in the real world, that can be quite difficult. In fact, the anonymous and electronic nature of e-gold made it better suited for many criminal activities (especially fraud) than cash, as the fraudster never had to actually meet his mark.

Obviously, all this caused a lot of complaints. Add in the fact that the anonymous nature of E-gold meant that most people weren't paying taxes on the transactions in question, and the government was going to step in and shut them down.

Now, I'm no lawyer, but I'd bet that if you set up something like e-gold tomorrow and made it non-anonymous, that, by itself, would make the thing largely acceptable. You would probably need to set yourself up as a bank or something, and you would probably need to set up something to make it easier for your customers to figure the taxes they owe, (and for the IRS to figure the taxes they owe) but I think the big barrier was anonymity.

As a secondary step, some sort of dispute resolution protocol like paypal has would probably also help, but I believe that is secondary to the first concern.
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Outstanding. I'm fascinated by this and off to Google away. Are there any other specific resources or articles you can link to that you think are an especially good discussion of activity systems?

Meanwhile, for others, here's a PDF of the document in question:

http://www.ipocongress.ru/download/guide/article/what_is_str...
They were all recently changed to @teamaol.com from @corp.aol.com
The effective lifetime of a trading algorithm is only weeks. They need to keep iterating to remain competitive.
There's a lot of user experience that takes a lot of coding to get right. Sites, apps and devices with good user experience didn't just get it magically, they worked at it. Copying it would also take work.

It's similar to startups. Ideas are cheap and easy, but executing them well (profitably) is hard.
Not sure why you got down voted so +1.

You're right about the technical. As for what he's offloading I guess that's running TC as a business. Ad sales, budgets and so forth.

On a side note it's very strain to me to run something so intertwined with the valley from... Seattle.
collaborative ad filtering
Thank you kindly for the great advice, mellery451.
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You make a good point. It also gives credence to Calacanis' allegations that Arrington blew up TC50 to screw him out of a payout.
Few people know that in Las Vegas, cogeneration is essential. MGM Mirage owns the Grand, Luxor, Bellagio, Mirage and now the City Center. They do their best to provide their own power or at least provide complete backup capability in the event of an outage. The new City Center development has its own 8.5 megawatt generating facility.

http://www.energytimes.com/pages/departments/1002/earthmatte...

Most people think all that glitz comes from the Hoover Dam, but I think they they generate a lot of it themselves.
I once one $100 in a mega millions drawing. I bought the tickets when I was tipsy so maybe that's the key ;)
The Facebook friend who told me about this link is a tall woman. She says that when a woman is shopping for size 11 shoes, it's more of a hunt than a gather.
Offtopic, but am I the only one who finds it incredibly annoying when blogs like this disable the back button by overwriting the last item in your history?
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Does anyone want to explain how this works? I had no idea dragging onto a tab could start up javascript on a page. It's amazing!
In addition to the "What is Strategy" article, there are several related (academic) journal articles. These articles are quite dense, but interesting nevertheless:

Evolution toward fit - http://www.management.wharton.upenn.edu/siggelkow/pdfs/Vangu...

Change in the presence of fit: The rise, the fall, and the renaissance of Liz Claiborne -
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/papers/872.pdf
I can think of a few ways they continue to be discriminated against:

- More likely to be the victim of a rape.
- Representation in the media. http://bechdeltest.com/

I'm sure there are more that a better feminist than myself could share with you.
Maryland Judge finds that it is legal to record police in public
Financial backing is a huge weight off his back. Not necessarily for his personal cash flow, but the business itself. The company now has a much better cash flow that can allow them to branch out to do other things.

But it should also be a payday for him, a more reliable one at that.
For me, before I find out a tech issue is minor, I have flashbacks to all those major issues that caused major headaches. Minor issues tend to be an "oh crap not again -> relief" ride rather than "I wonder whats wrong -> that isn't so bad".
> The technical reason seems like a very bogus reason

That reason isn't a technical one. As an administrator of your small company you have to hire people that are good enough and keep them happy.

All small companies have this problem. Programmers don't want to work for small wages, feel unappreciated, work on uninteresting problems forever, or be second-class citizens. Those that do and are half-decent, would rather prefer the job security of a big company.

Another reason would be the stress of any small business to be profitable. Not only that, but you've started the business partly to get rich.

If what he's saying is true, and AOL can't interfere with their writing, and it's in the contract, and he also earn a handsome sum of money, then I can see why they agreed.
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I remember how surprised I was when a painter friend of mine pointed out that shadows on snow were blue, not gray.
MobilePay May Be The Death Of The Wallet. Yes, For Real This Time.
In a way, we live in a very fortunate time, when there are several perfectly good web frameworks (not to mention several perfectly good web browsers).

what about ASP.NET MVC...?

ASP.NET MVC is underrated. It's a well thought out system that makes it easy to get things done very quickly. I highly recommend at least taking a look at it.
If this means we don't have to see any more TechCrunch headlines on Hacker News, then I'm all for it.
Could CA do anything to him even if he came right out and said, "I moved so I could avoid California taxes"? There's nothing illegal about that.
Perhaps it should be.
What you're talking about has been around forever, and is called a "bookmarklet"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet
Tell HN: Personalized streaming video workouts (my second start-up)
I very recently soft-launched http://www.physicalfix.com, my second start-up. While it is still very much a work in progress, I thought I'd share it here since health and fitness seems to be something HN cares about and also because I value the feedback this community can offer.

The basic premise is this: We provide you with highly personalized and customized streaming video workouts with a 'virtual training partner'. The partner will do the complete workout along with you and provide tips on proper form as well as provide some motivation.

We also have a food log, activity log, and weight chart. We tried to tie these all together so that when you do a workout it shows up in your activity log and when you enter some food it'll calculate your caloric balance and forecast your weight in the future.

We've got a ton of features planned like mobile apps, augmented reality workouts, an educational series to help people learn about health, fitness and nutrition as well integrations with things like the withings scale.

What do you guys think?
I agree with you mostly.

On point 1: I don't think there is much that is more important than personalized time. I don't think 2 minutes of 1-on-1 time a day is ideal, though it's 100x better than what we have now. Something better may be if each week a teacher spends 10-15 minutes of quality time with each student, rotating who to spend time with from week to week. Still, naturally we need to try to have less students per classroom.

On point 3: Ideally there would be more autonomy, though as a first step to be significantly more successful, some slight bending of rules would do mounds.

On your conclusion and mine: I believe a major re-education of teachers would solve a lot of the issues. Most teachers think their main job is transferring knowledge in whatever subject they teach. However, in today's world where practically all knowledge is freely available, that job has been mostly taken care of. I believe a teacher's role is being a mentor for each student - assisting each student in discovering the world and their respective subject, inspiring them, freeing their minds, passing on curiosity and intrigue.
clickable link: http://www.physicalfix.com
Hey Carbocation, yeah, the file-drawer effect can be particularly strong with results for A/B and multivariate testing and partially I wanted to make sure people knew it was hard to get right and also to spread the word about our folly in the hopes it might save others time! :)
Sachin makes an important point about what makes people love a product and stay with it.

An important counterpoint, though, is that feature lists sell: http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/simplicity_is_highly.html

My experience validated Don Norman's. After I read his essay, I removed the carefully crafted sentences on http://ourdoings.com/ describing the experience, and replaced them with ugly sentence fragments cramming as many features as would fit the layout. My KPI for new users spiked. YMMV.
Maybe it's a name problem. It was said ruby-full provides the full Ruby language, while ruby provides the export-restricted version Debian has to distribute in order not to have police officers knocking down doors. In Python's case (sorry, I am more familiar with Python) there are python and python-minimal packages. They may or may not mean the same as ruby and ruby-full, but their names communicate a similar intention.
The Fexl interpreter is simple, elegant, and fast. The core "reduce" routine runs about 43.5 million cycles per second on a simple infinite loop. If I set max_cycles to a billion it stops after about 23 seconds.

To test it with something more real, I wrote the "cat" program in Fexl as follows:

\cat = (get_char \ch eq EOF ch I; put_char ch cat)

Then I pumped 30MB of data into it, which took about 42 seconds:

time (head -c 30000000 /dev/zero | fexl_cat >/dev/null)

Of course that's a lot slower that pushing the data through the Unix cat program, which only takes about 0.14 seconds:

time (head -c 30000000 /dev/zero | cat >/dev/null)

But think about all the gyrations happening here:

\cat = (get_char \ch eq EOF ch I; put_char ch cat)

That is translated into the closed (variable-free) form:

(Y (S (C get_char) (S (C (S (S (eq EOF) (C I))))
(S (C (S put_char)) C))))

Then that runs like the wind, applying combinator rules such as these many millions of times:

C x y = x
S x y z = x z (y z)
I x = x
Y x = x (Y x)

Not to mention that get_char and put_char are handling and building characters one at a time, and the "eq" function runs as a combinator as well.

By the way it is quite trivial to add new combinators written in C. For example, the fabled Y combinator is defined in a single file "type_Y.c" as follows:

#include "node.h"
#include "type_Y.h"

/*
Fixpoint function (Y combinator): (Y f) = (f (Y f))
*/
static void step(void)
{
int f1 = pop();
if (!f1) return;

set_pair(f1, R(f1), P(L(f1),R(f1)));
}

int type_Y(void)
{
static int node = 0;
if (node == 0) node = new_combinator(step);
return node;
}

The type_Y.h file just says:

extern int type_Y(void);
Fun, and it doubles as an easy way to spot table layouts.
My understanding is that Quebec has a system not unlike what you describe with the extra 2 years.

About your point of going back to pursue advanced studies - the problem there is that most people end up not going back once they've stopped, even if their intent is to return. This once again though is a matter of having them truly understand the benefits.
I'd go a little further and say that the actual gain is the value of your productive output minus what you had to pay for it.

If you're producing $100 worth of value, but you spent $100/hr to get that time then you're not really gaining any ground (and you won't be able to improve your leisure time). If you produce $100 worth of value and spend only $10 to get that time, then you're producing value that can "spend" to enjoy life.
The most commonly used framework is not useful information if you're interested in "the advantage of using it over others." The most commonly used languages are Java and C++, but almost nobody would list them as the best languages. They're common because they were the chosen languages of the enterprise sector.

Nobody can tell you which framework is best. It's just not answerable question. Bob will tell you one thing, Alice will tell you something else, and then you'll have Devon over in the corner raving to anyone who will listen about how he wrote a complete Facebook competitor in thirty seconds using this cool up-and-comer called PHP On PCP.

What you choose is between you and your team. There isn't a right answer, or even something approximating one. If you've read pg's essays at all, you'll notice a common theme is that using a completely out-of-left-field language like Lisp was a key component to his company's productivity.
YC is meant to be beneficial to founders. It may not always benefit VCs. Complaining about it is a bit self centered in my book.

Extreme example: Wealth also prevents quality people from pursuing aggressive startups (yes, there are plenty of exceptions). And it would be incredibly self centered to complain that you can't fund entrepreneurs because they're satisfied with their savings account.
Best comment:

"Congratulations, Mike! Now stick to your roots and leak the price! :-)"
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Later in the post, they mention having to use https:// -- that won't produce a timeout for you, but you'll still be unauthorized.

twurl is good for some quick playing around via curl: http://thechangelog.com/post/536535280/twurl-oauth-enabled-c...