skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of the article was that a confluence of factors come together to reduce the effectiveness of cell phone calls, not that the Cell signal results in failed calls each time. Though, that does certainly seem to be a problem in many areas of Redwood City, CA - which is clearly not in the "Desolate Wasteland" class.
Note the “Wintel” cohort consisting of Intel, Microsoft, HP clustered around the Low growth, low valuation quadrant in the lower left (coincidentally co-located with IBM).
I think that the public's idea can only be more positive. I think people in the industry or people with interests related to the industry will gain some bizarre step-up in the amount of interest and respect they receive from strangers and those unfamiliar with the work. I think that slight bump up will be especially present among college peers.

I have been aware of this movie's release for a while now and I look forward to it. I plan on spreading word of my own project on campus soon, and I can't see how this movie would hurt me in any way. I can even understand how it could boost interest in my project.
Agreed, just was curious to see if anyone had any experience with a situation like this. I'm already planning on getting in touch with our "tax guy" Thanks for the reply though!
A study has shown that slouching may actually be better than sitting up straight.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article65231...
This is pretty hand-wavy. For certain types of companies where the software can be isolated this might not be so bad. But I expect most users would expect to be able to use cloud services internationally, sharing with people in other languages, or porting their account to another language etc. The external licensing model introduces user experience and logistical nightmares a plenty.
It's not about user decisions. It's about maintainability and testing. These are factors that are hugely affected by the combinatorial explosion of a ton of different settings.

Developers often have to make a choice, and this is one of those times. You may not like it, but I don't blame them.
Firstly, let's truncate this list:

1. Either one of you have a weak signal.

2. Either one of you are using an earpiece or headset.

3. The other person has a cell phone (delay problem).

4. Either one of you are multitasking and can't think.

5. Either one of you are in a noisy environment, such as Earth.

6. Either one of you get another call you have to take.

7. Either one of you have a dying battery.

8. Either one of you have a phone that drops calls for no good reason.

9. Either one of you are in a restaurant and isn't a jerk.

10. There is a child within 100 yards of either of you.

While each of these gripes are very legitimate, I don't think that they indicate the bell tolling for the end of wireless voice calling. It's very obvious that they both have their uses.

Voice calls work best when the environment is well suited for it: quiet place, clear signal, and lots of time/minutes to use. SMS is better for very short exchanges, keeping a record of conversations, or when your signal is unreliable(i.e. the other guy knows exactly what I said or doesn't, shouting through static doesn't help), or when speaking on a cell phone simply isn't appropriate(i.e. library).

Sorry Scott, but I have to disagree.
I don't think any BIGCO would go for that since they need to build it out or buy it one way or the other. That would be nice, but I don't think it is feasible. Also, regardless of the law, I don't think it would be worth the cost or time pursuing. In general, the process was okay, the main issue was the very obvious change in communication half way through the process. If they launch and fully copy our innovations that will be somewhat annoying but the cost of doing business. I may post a follow up then if it happens. So far they haven't done anything nefarious.
...and then realize how awesome it is, and turn it back on.
Hm, I see your point now.

So if we can both assume that things are only better or worse in context, maybe we can look for ideas there.

My attempt: If we looked at a mincraft player and a television watcher's brains under an MRI, I can imagine people exercising more decision making and critical thinking areas of their brain while planning buildings and playing in minecraft. I assume in the hacker context people value those forms of mental play more than passive television staring.
Speaking about GC behavior of other benchmarks:

1) one with Buffers is also causing mark-sweep/compact pauses (7-15ms each) because Buffer constructor calls AdjustAmountOfExternalAllocatedMemory which triggers full gc cycle if it thinks that too much memory is held outside V8.

2) GCs in string based benchmark are mainly scavenges taking 0 ms plus < 10 full collections taking <6ms each on my desktop.

That is all I can say. V8 GC is performing well here from my point of view.
If only the author would implement the proper google app engine image caching (via the get_serving_url) method. This is a true cdn (in that content is held close to the user) and allows dynamic image sizing by changing the URL!
I find the challenges with payment and fraud to be especially interesting. Your app can have some errors but nothing threatens the future of your business more than not dealing with fraud or not doing payments in the safest (perfect) way. It seems that no other feature has that.

Payments/Fraud are two issues that PayPal had to overcome before succeeding and put Square into a big problem earlier this year.
>As you can imagine a hospital with a multimillion dollar patient tracking web based application doesn't want a silent or automatic upgrade to their browser that could in fact jeopardize their patient's safety.

I doubt I'm the only one, but... I'd be willing to bet the delays in adopting updated browsers is a far worse security hole. I can't count the number of times I've heard of a company getting a virus into the network through some specific version of IE, and which only works on some specific version of XP. Businesses which don't update are a script kiddie's wet dream, because they're such an easy mark to cause trouble to.

And, to the writer of the tl;dr version: wow. That's a billion times more readable than the official responses, and remarkably accurate for the ones I was able to stomach reading. Excellent job.
I run a similar setup on the Rackspace Cloud (1 DB + 1 Web) for multiple sites. I use iptables to lock down all non-essential ports, I setup MySQL to accept connections over the private IP and, frankly, that's it. (FWIW, I use Moonshine on my Rails app to keep the config easy/repeatable.)
Why would you work for a software company if you are making that much?
That scenario exists no matter what the topic. There is almost always a cheaper alternative.
Not surprised. What could a job at either Valve or Bungie give him that he doesn't get now?
Presently I'm in the middle of nowhere, on the other side of the country. Ohio is just the only thing I have for comparison.
First look: Unboxing Apple's new $99 Apple TV with streaming HD content
Jack Welch always got a lot of flack from people about "differentiation" (GE's program of cutting the bottom-performing 10%).

I think the key (and I don't have a lot of experience with folks who work at GE, so I can't speak to it's validity) is that it works if deployed as part of an overall system.

That system is that you reward the top performing earners heavilly (with bonuses and promotions), and remove the bottom 10% annually. In theory, people are constantly being kept abreast of their performance, and given opportunities to improve; so that those in the bottom 10% shouldn't be surprised when the end of the year comes and they are laid off.

Welch defends the practice by talking about the alternate scenario where people are kept on staff for years who aren't performing well, have never been told that is the case, and are suddenly surprised when one day the company needs to have layoffs and are terminated. He calls it "false kindness".

I've always like the part of Differentiation where you let people know where they stand. I've thought it would be nice to work somewhere that had a better model for performance reviews (where I work presently, they are basically a checkbox).

I'd love to hear from someone at GE as to whether the system actually works the way Jack Welch describes it.
It's an interesting window into their operations and an outstanding recruiting tool. Someone will beat down their door to help solve one or more of these.

When I was a kid, I'd imagine one specific thing for the future. I'd see unused space and resources around the house or in the neighborhood. I'd think if only there were some meaningful way to inventory all of it and present in a central place, people could horse trade and we'd all be happier.

eBay satisfies 5% of this promise.

Airbnb is interesting because your spare space is much easier to catalog than any other resource. I'm excited to see them succeed – it brings us closer to my weird childhood imaginings.
I've never even seen the "arrow" and I use my iPhone every day.
Show HN: Review our public website?
Before I tell you what we're trying to do, please take a look and see if you can figure it out for yourself -- after all, that's what our public website is for isn't it?

http://salesathand.com/ (Why isn't this becoming a link?)

Okay, back? If you didn't get it from our website we are doing mobile point of sale and electronic menus for restaurants, cafes, vendors, and retailers.

We have the prototype done and we have some initial customers that are really interested in what we're doing but we want to try to bring more people on board and generate that elusive buzz with our public website. We just "launched" (lol) the public website yesterday and we're getting good traffic from Ad Words on a campaign we're only running locally (Seattle, WA and Portland, OR).

What kinds of things can we do to improve our public website? I know the markup is pretty gross but we didn't think that was necessarily pertinent to our target audience. Will this impact SEO? Is the message clear? What kinds of things would you like to see on a home page?

If there's any interest I can show off our prototype, too! I really respect the opinion of most of the people on HN so any feedback that you guys can give will be amazing!

Edit: Wow, lots of good feedback. We actually posted a demo on our site, if you click the "Try for yourself" button on the home page it sends you directly to the prototype and logs you in and everything! So, if you have feedback on that it would be appreciated!
Have you ever tried to make a sale to this sort of company? It'll take three years before they even bother to react.
"that recently upgraded from IE6 to IE7 internally"

Why on earth didn't they go ahead and make the jump to IE8?
I worked for a company that did a lot of DARPA/DoD work, there were plenty of amazingly bright people who spent all of their time making things to make the military better. Sure many were for defense, and often found uses outside of the military. But at the end of the day they all support goals that in the end probably cause a fair amount of more suffering in the world.

So if someone wants to spend their time on something that is completely harmless, and probably brightens a few people's days and may even inspire others to go out and learn something new, I feel that this is a much better way to spend someone's mental energy.
Not working for MS, etc. But I wonder if this is intentional. I'm sure this is how it can come across to a startup, but for Big Inc. I doubt they setup these meetings to "outsource" product management work...
I think when you're BSing, you're allowed to make any claim you want.
> "we're really successful, therefore we don't have any big problems or need to make any big changes."

That sounds almost the exact opposite of almost every decent hacker I've known.
What should I buy my CTO for his Birthday?
Using a throwaway because we normally chat through my normal handle. Any suggestions?
>That's not an upside.

right. The upside, from my first post in the thread:

"Personally, I'd like other people to see when I upvote them (especially when I am arguing with someone... it makes me look like a good sport, and it's an easy way to say "I think you have an interesting point, even if I disagree with you.")"

Now, maybe that's not enough of an upside to counter the badness of reciprocal voting, but it is still an upside.
It's kinda sad that the Dwarf Fortress creator only earns about 2k a day. It shows what some business savvy will do for you.

Then ago, the DF creator is passionatr about his vision, so who knows.
They should just buy the fraud detection from Cardpool [YC W10], if they're not doing that already.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1669480
Everywhere I've ever worked, people's performance isn't that wishy-washy. There has always been a "normalization" of performance that becomes apparent based on people's fit within the organization and abilities.

Now, I agree that quantifying that is non-trivial. I've always been interested in places where they actually do that (and wonder how accurate it is), but I wouldn't be surprised to find that people who find themselves in that lowest 10% don't find themselves there on a whim.
Interesting Take on Memorization
If it makes you feel any better the airport was named after George Washington first and pretty much everyone who lives in DC calls it "National"
Quite true. Notch has the potential to build his own 'Valve' or 'Bungie'.
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Nice bottle of Bourbon. Can't go wrong (unless he is a friend of Bill Ws)
The most refreshing part of this story is that it's not about the Apple / Google / etc App stores.

Shows that exceptional indie products can get huge traction on a traditional platform, sort of like Braid on XBOX / PC / etc.

That said, also excites me for the future when MSFT's & Apple's standard OS come with a servicable app store baked in.
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I haven't looked into JetBlue or Virgin America, but a big part of why I use Southwest over others simply due to their frequent flier program. I take a flight from SF to LA about once a month, meaning I can spend as little as $1,300 to rack up enough credits to get a free round trip, which I use on flights to the east coast that would have cost me $400.
Was Stuxnet a work of hackers?
These hard open book test stories are great, but taken in the context of it being high school and the other suggestions ("Weigh the merit of using any essay questions at all", "Offer a maximum of 3 choices", etc), it's pretty clear that the suggestion of open book tests with page number references is not meant to ensure that teachers give tests that you can only pass if you actually understand the material--it's made so that people will do better on the tests because they'll be easier.
Geez, man. Do you ever sleep? :-)

Oh, and just out of curiosity, what guitar music are you spending the most time on? Is it mostly your own stuff, or are you learning a lot of things written by others?
Note this is a course in EECS department.

Where are you from?
In US, at least in NY state, junior level high school course can't cover probability into that extent.

Not all CS people need all those math, some of them just want to be programmers. In fact even if they become computer scientists in academia, not all of them need to know abstract algebra.

The course is about breadth instead of depth. If you septate the contents into 'real' courses, it will increase the huge amount of course load.(but, I heard MIT students can handle the load...so idk)

MIT has [course 18-C](http://www-math.mit.edu/academics/undergrad/major/course18c....) for people who does like math and CS.
Think Hollywood director type job offer.

Use somebody else's money to build your dream product with a huge incredible staff.

Get gauranteed, huge up front salary to do so.

Take away a sizeable piece of the action on the success.
"The worst offenders are the people in cars who don't have satellite radio, or books on tape, and they're just calling to make their drive less boring."

This, of course, triggers about half the list. Noisy environment, makes phones drop calls, sporadic week signals, and of course the other person is now multitasking.

The loss of these would be the perk of cell phone bans for drivers.
This, but ultimately, I really wish people would inline-reply on longer correspondence, particularly in mailing lists.
I'm with HilbertSpace here. "Mathematics is a language of science" was said by a great one. A thin tourist-level english-spanish (russian-chinese, ...etc ) phrasebook is good only to make sure that fish is ordered instead of chicken when fish is what one does want.
What? Water under the bridge? This is relevant for the immediate future of the web.

They should support features like WebSocket, because to not do so will dramatically hold those features back.

I’m glad they are supporting SVG.
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ultimate way to compile incidents on web... http://crowdzilla.dev3.webenabled.net/
View the HTML Source of subway.com; it's a marvel of modern browser technology.
As someone who's looking to move to New York in about a month, I'm hoping their site picks up pretty quick.

Also, hoping they expand into other areas; no reason to limit this to NYC. I've got a couple of places in Dallas I'd gladly register to bitch about.
it just told me (in a popup window) i don't have flash 8 or greater...
Valve: "We heard you were making $350k/day, how would you like a job making $50k/year?"
Create a video tour.

Add a contact form at Contact Us instead of a mailto link.

On the homepage, in the right column next to the MnuBox explanation, I would include a contact us form (but say it is for purchase/information inquiries) OR a quick registration form.

Remove "Products" page with only 1 thing on it and replace it with a Tour or Pricing page.
The thing is, most web developers don’t learn technologies which are not supported yet, authors don’t write books about them, neat abstractions aren’t built on top of them, etc. etc. So there’s this huge chicken-and-egg problem.

For MS to say “we’ll start supporting this technology once you start using it”.... well....
With iPhone IOS 4/4.1 Go into Google Maps application and look in your upper right hand corner.
Most of Stanford's CS exams are open-book and/or open-note. (There's even had one where we were allowed to browse and search a PDF of the course text on our laptops, on our honor not to use our laptops for anything else.)

Helpful, but as others have said, most of what it means is that the exam questions are much harder.
Is the content not held close to the user for non-image content in normal GAE apps?
I was referring to the comment by "Insider".

In any case, I think Andy Grove's book is a better citation, but some people on the Internet don't read books.
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I don't know enough about the specifics of the case to assess the new policy on the merits, but I will say that as a piece of writing this is a model of how to change policy gracefully: clear, forthright, and non-defensive.
Will Talk For Food: TourBoarding in China
Maybe texting isn't the cause of most accidents. Maybe people simply replace the outlawed bad behavior with an equally bad but legal behavior. Maybe we should stop wasting everyone's time with see useless laws; I'm pretty sure we already have a law based on reckless driving.
There is another similar project called cirruxcache (http://code.google.com/p/cirruxcache/).
Was about to post exactly this.

The novelty here is a plane which does not change the shape of the wing in any way to attain maneuverability.
ok

> Take my opinions with a grain of salt if you must, but my faith is important to me.

fair enough, but some of what you said was very normative - for example:

> However, if you are not serving others, you have not found your calling.

in a neighboring post you also say

> Please note that imo my faith is a choice, it isn't "programmed in".

so if you suddenly decided not to hold that belief anymore, it would suddenly be valid not to help others?
That sentence in isolation was not MS's response. Let me break it down:

1) MS thinks same markup and standards compliance is imporant.

2) More than one dominant browser is necessary or you end up with defacto standards, which often leads to problems down the road (as we've seen). They reference a blog post that talks about this problem today with Webkit. And frankly the same problem existed with IE in the past. I recall the same issue with gcc on Unix platforms in the past too ("Is that legal C?", "I don't know, try it in gcc").

3) How do you get same markup and prove it, once you've established you need more than one browser? You probably need comprehensive tests and working with W3C is probably the best group to handle this. That is the reference to the sentence you made.
Sorry, I forgot to check the source for the /sarcasm tag :)
>How do you know they didn't? Maybe they did and Microsoft ignored their advice.

I now have reason to believe you're correct.
Subcontract the IE6 compatibility work to someone who doesn't know how much you're charging for it.
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Not sure if it's business savvy. While Dwarf Fortress is a great indie game I don't think it has the wide spread appeal of a game like mine craft. Mine craft's 3D world and game play is more intuitive to your average person. Not to mention Notch's luck with going viral certainly helps as well.
You mean like http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/templates/builtins/... or something different?
that might be part of the sarcasm in the post title.
> Sure, you'd make tons of money, but is that what you really want?

Well sure, that's why you've been agreeing to do it for that price. If doing it so much makes it not worth it, increase the price even more, eventually demand has to decrease.
I just found out the same. So I guess it must be some intra-VM data shifting? Anyway, I'll update my posting accordingly.
It's in microsoftish, it means: "go buy windows 7 and make us more $$$"
I see what you're saying, but it might still be useful for them to know what trade-offs are being made.

Like, "for this site and audience, we recommend supporting IE6. But FYI, that does eat this much of our costs, which can't be spent on shiny new features for modern browsers. So maybe for other projects, if you do something that targets a different audience, we'll want to make a different trade-off."

If I were the client, I think I'd appreciate that info. It might affect what types of sites I want to launch, for example.
I don't know where this website pulled their numbers from, but I think they're incorrect.

According to Minecraft's stats[1], in the last 24 hours 12,025 people bought the game, times 9.95 Euro = 119,499.50 Euro, which is a bit less than $163k/day in American dollars.

[1] http://www.minecraft.net/stats.jsp
In the book "The Pragmatic Programmer" they refer to this as "rubber ducking". The origin of the term was from a particular programmer who kept a rubber duck sitting near his computer (I believe on his monitor, I don't have the book handy right now). When questioned about why the duck was there, he said that when he got stuck on a problem, he would explain the problem to the rubber duck (full well knowing that the duck was not going to respond :-D ). The purpose of having the duck was just to have a target to explain the problem to, knowing that the act of explaining the problem would often lead him to the solution.

There's a wiki article about it here:

http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?RubberDucking
lol, don't rush me.
Excellent, thanks for the feedback! We will incorporate this.

Edit: What would you like to see, exactly, in a product tour? Do you have a particular example of a product tour that you like or dislike?
A week ago, he was selling up to 36000 copies a day.
That of course is the problem with the premise. People are motivated to complain more than they are to express that the apartment was adequate.