skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's about difficulty per se but the number of computations required. If 25 miles were covered by the fly and a bicycle, the fly covers 15 making it 60% (first calculation). Thus for 20 miles, the fly covers 12, bicycle 8 (second calculation). 20-16 or 4 miles are remaining of which the fly covers 2.4 (third computation). 2.4 is one-fifth of 12 (fifth computation). 12 / 0.8 => 12 * 5/4 = 15 (sixth computation). This route will always be slower because it requires more computations.

Where intuition really comes in is finding the right hill to climb - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_climbing
You should go grab valgrind and run your programs under it all the time. It'll help you spot and avoid those annoying memory errors.
This is huge. Felten is the perfect candidate for this job and it will be extremely interesting to see how his presence influences the online privacy recommendations the FTC will be making soon.
thanks! For design that was made in few days it definitely looks and works good but for something serious it's really bad :)
I disagree with the notion that simply asking the question is itself an indication of a problem. I can freak myself out about practically anything with almost no supporting evidence.
Wt-commit - for when you hate your coworkers and collaborators
It depends on the privacy setting for the status/post.
Steven Frank - Flash and Blocking HTML5 Animation
I agree with that part of copyright reform needs to deal with orphan conent.

However, approving having something deleted does not by itself make it an orphan work. After all, the copyright holder may have had it deleted in one place to publish it in another or had it removed so that it could be reworked into a new revision before being posted.

Orphaned works are those where either the copyright owner no longer exists (a corporate entity that went out of business for instance) or where there is no practical way to identify the proper copyright holder. Not merely those that have been removed from one particular place of publication.
> That's rather the problem - asking every person
> who holds the rights can be genuinely difficult.

I think that he means that he would have sold all rights when they originally published the article for $120 instead of $100 for first serial rights. He's not talking about this after-the-fact contacting of the rights-holders that you're talking about.
As I see, they use their own database.
Fb Like button is good idea.
Look, I'm not the guy you're arguing with, and I'll be honest and admit that I haven't looked at the data on either side enough to form a solid, evidence based opinion on AGW either way. I am not arguing for either side here. But what you're saying is ridiculous.

>You're saying that the only way to debate you is to go to some blog, do a bunch of research, construct arguments against that blog post, and then post them here?

He's asking you to look at scientific papers, the actual data on what's being argued here. This is completely reasonable when you're discussing a scientific matter. Looking at the evidence is how science is conducted.

> that presuppose facts you have not presented.

This would be the papers he linked.

> because this is a religion and the science really means nothing to you.

Look back up to your first sentence. Look back down here. Look up at that first sentence again. Do you see the inconsistency? He linked to the science. You refused to look at it.

Once again, I cannot honestly say that I know enough to make an informed opinion about this, but your arguing in this topic was horrible. You continually failed to address his links in every single post, and then complained he wasn't looking at the data.
Or put your blog on posterous or blogger.
Presently in Trivandrum, Kerala.

And I used to live in Bangalore till last March. You'll get a nice veg meal for Rs 30 even there - Kairali Restaurant, 80ft Road, Koramangala
Google's pages don't validate. Nobody's claiming there isn't a reason for it. Naturally, one would expect Google to adhere to the standards. As you point out yourself, they're smart enough to understand them. This is old news. Why is it relevant today? Because Google just released mod_pagespeed (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1865249), an Apache module that speeds up pages by rewriting them, using filters based on optimizations developed by Google over the years. If you're a web developer that works under the requirement that all pages are valid HTML, it's important to consider the source before jumping on the mod_pagespeed bandwagon.
That's good for the thin end of the wedge, but it might suggest that if the children are exempted from this nonsense, then the problem is solved.

Also it sets up what could be spun as a bargaining chip. Exempt the kids and they can scan the adults.
The author is not going to single handedly push forward the cryogenics or life extension industries.

Maybe life will be significantly longer in the near future, maybe not. In the 60s we expected moon colonies around now and in the 50s top researchers considered AI almost around the corner. Science predictions are meaningless. From what I see right now my parents at their 60s aren't much different from my grandparents at the same age.
i'd like to note that you cannot actually develop a tolerance to alcohol. if you're a hardcore alcoholic (maybe the case for you!) you can condition your body to metabolize it slightly faster than normal people, but if you're a 0.100 your cognition is still just as impaired as anybody else's at a 0.100.

what you've done is gotten used to it, and learned to school your behaviors and reactions so that you've removed the more obvious signs of drunkenness. (for instance, you've probably learned to stand with your feet slightly further apart, so that you don't wobble or fall as much.)

so when you're home alone with your children and drunk, you're just as incompetent as any other drunk to care for them or get them emergency medical assistance if necessary.
I agree. Until you deal with the root issue, you're only going to replace one addiction with another (beer for weed). Why be addicted to anything, or what's the fundemental cause of your dependence on substance? That's the real question you need to answer.
Tech melodrama is something I can tune in or out, and it doesn't have the same emotional damage. It's more like eating too much popcorn for your brain.

The issue with cable tv and news is that many still rely on it to keep up to date on current events. The portrayal of current events is sinister.
Mozilla Labs lead: Why you want a world with multiple app stores
Look at the bottom of the article for an explanation of why he hasn't an impressive portfolio.
Brad Feld Solving Venture Bias PtII
I want the airlines to pay attention to what I'm about to say: Until these electronic strip search machines are taken out, I will NEVER fly again. I've done nothing wrong and I will not tolerate being treated like a criminal simply because you think you can get away with it.
Magic Launch for OSX
right now they're extra sensitive to issues that upset their constituents

Quite the opposite. Right now is the maximum time before the next election. That means they've got the longest time possible for you to forget. Any shenanigans they'd like to engage in would be safest now.
We actually made a site that helped people find what candidates were in their election PLUS showed how the incumbent performed on issues important to the user. Thus, if you choose a cause like pro-choice, the system shows you how other interest groups rate that politician on this issue. You can check out the voter guide on http://www.votereports.org

The big problem was getting candidate data. We're working on this for the next election but one key observation is that a lot of candidates are very vague about their positions as to remain unoffensive.
I based the price on The Little Schemer, which is even smaller, has even less instruction, and goes for $29 retail, $23 street. If TLS were 8.5x11 like mine it'd be 30 pages long.
Coverflow for your contacts seems a bit superfluous.
Why do you think the amount of radiation is dangerous?
Twitter Staffs Up in Washington DC
Ask HN: What other news sites do you read daily?
I've noticed that more and more HN is becoming my default go-to news site when I have a few minutes. I don't submit new articles very often because it seems like the "new" page has more than enough help, and there aren't many other news sites that I frequent.

So what about you guys? Is HN your main resource for news, or do other mediums take up more of your time?
I absolutely agree with this %100, "Get up, go outside, move around, and come back. You’ll get more done."

Not only helps with the Vitamin. D, but gives your sub-conscience time to process the top idea/problem on your mind.
Whenever I see things along this line, I think back to something a mentor and close friend of mine has said, repeatedly:

You should never do this. Unless you have a really good reason.

Do not think for one second someone from Google is going to see this and go, "Oh darn it, I knew I was supposed to do something before google went live."
Not true, your total morbidity risk decreases if you consume any type of alcohol up to 2 drinks per day. I'm guessing it still isn't great for your mental health, though I'm not positive on that.
Microcredit 'death trap' for Bangladesh's poor
I wonder if women might, on mass, protest these machines by saying 'I may be pregnant' or 'I am breastfeeding'. If this is a suitable means of gentle civil disobedience, perhaps another method is suggest for men? I myself am considering to use the 'possibly pregnant' method next time I fly in the US and am curious what the response will be, and how I am treated in the pat-down.
The "Ask HN: Who's Hiring" posts are great. Lots of really great shops post on those threads. We're one of them, btw. Link's in my profile.

Good luck on your search!
I actually got pissed at an editor who tried to change that. Poor guy. :-)
Or they could have just bought all rights at the start. Then the author gets paid / is happy and they can do what they want.
They cut their bandwidth in half by not validating.

Care to elaborate on this bullshit about cutting bandwidth in half? I just want to remind you that quoting attributes and leaving out some tags is perfectly valid in HTML5 and HTML4.01. Even in strict.

Converting their markup to the valid one would not be difficult, and they could even save some bandwidth.
For example: drop those stupid attributes for body tag.
drop <html><head> - these tags are optional.
Why do you waste precious bandwidth with <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">? Your DOCTYPE claims that page is marked up in HTML5 so use it: <meta charset=UTF-8>.
Drop thet method=GET from your form: it's default. Alias your document.getElementById: you repeat it 7 times what a waste.
Etc., etc.
Is Cloudera the Next Oracle?
If you're in a US state that allows it then get your medical card for marijuana. That would in fact be legal.

I've found weed to be a great alternative to alcohol and undeniably a lot less destructive and better for your health long term.
Well, I read HN by default and my news service and eat my own food at http://www.mcsquare.me/ , those are my two starting points, mcsquare.me also helps me catch up on stories.
I have techcrunch, readwrite web, and a few other tech news sites in a folder on google reader. I glance through the headlines two or three times a day.

I go to reddit occasionally, but besides HN and my subscriptions on google reader I don't use any other news sites.

For real-world (as opposed to tech) news I'm a big fan of NPR's daily 5-minute news summary in podcast form. I also have the NYT and BBC news in a folder in my reader, but even keeping up with the headlines is too much.
We could call it MinesSQL.
Facebook knows when you'll get dumped
The world is pretty drab in hindsight! He used a checklist (saving millions in malpractice suits); he connected two computers together with a cable (internet); he asked the people their opinion (democracy); he specialized workers (assembly lines)...
That is only true if more obtrusive ads were necessarily the more revenue-maximizing. Even the article admits that the obtrusiveness from up-selling can be counter-productive and be revenue-harmful.

I believe that when Google changed the ad click area to just the title/link rather than the whole div, the total # of clicks was lowered (fewer misclicks), but revenue was not affected since the value of each click was higher.
Great job. Like other posters have said, this to me seems so new and innovative in an otherwise commoditized space.

Is it intentional that there's such a big whitespace gap on the 'home' page? (Chrome 7, OS X 10.6)

http://img.skitch.com/20101104-n3yd14f7s73ddkdxaqxyuda5hr.jp...

I really hope, and believe, this will replace my use of google reader, which I have found to be absolutely painful to use. I wish google products had more inspiring interfaces.

I'd love to talk to you about your decision to open-source it sometime.

Keep up the good work.
That's terrible advice. Benzos make your anxiety vastly worse after the first six weeks or so of use, and they're vastly more addictive than alcohol or just about any other drug, legal or illegal. When you try to get off them you can have physical withdrawal symptoms for up to a year, e.g. not being able to sleep, anxiety so severe you can't go outside, etc. Plus they significantly raise your risk of committing suicide, and they are one of the most common drugs seen in people brought to the E.R. for overdoses. Plus if you go to your doctor and ask for them you will likely be put on a watch list for drug abusers, meaning you will have extreme difficulty getting any prescription medications in the future even if you're in extreme pain.
Today, the RoarVM supports the parallel execution of Smalltalk programs on x86 compatible multicore systems and Tilera TILE64-based manycore systems. It is tested with standard Squeak 4.1 closure-enabled images, and with a stripped down version of a MVC-based Squeak 3.9 image.

Combined with the recent efforts to tidy up and pare down Squeak's image, this is really exciting!
Machine needs: How technology is shaping humanity
There was even a study of this. Some, but very few, alcoholics have been able to stop at 'just a few'. But it turns out that after a decade members of that group either relapsed or became entirely abstinent. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12873238

So even if someone anecdotally knows a recovering alcoholic who can drink in moderation this is very likely to only be the case in the short term.
Another theory: people spend time updating their facebook status when they're home on vacation from college (spring break, beginning of summer break, x-mas break). Perhaps the break-ups themselves are evenly distributed but those are the most frequent dates for status-updates. It would be nice to see some data on frequency-of-status-updates alongside.
My problem always is that I care way too much about the quality of my code, and that wastes way too much time for me to get anything done. My other problem is that I need to write quality code, otherwise there is no point for me doing anything in software. I'm retarded, I know.
"Who's Hiring" threads on HN: http://bit.ly/cPTz5Q

http://craigslist.org/

http://indeed.com/ [aggregator]

http://jobs.37signals.com/

http://careers.stackoverflow.com

http://authenticjobs.com/

Tech-specific boards like:

http://jobs.rubynow.com/

http://djangogigs.com/

http://www.python.org/community/jobs/
Horrible! Completely agree: this window can't be resized below 400 pixels wide. Crazy. I used to have the skype contacts as a long column on the right of my screen (less than 100px width).

They do have an option to sort of still do that, but it's a floating window that appears in front of everything else, with very high transparency.

Frankly, if I could revert to the previous version with one click, I'd do it instantly.
In most patent lawsuits, the defendant invented independently [pdf]
It's likely that many people who are alive today will be around to take advantage of future anti-aging treatments. So if you're young enough, you win the birth lottery. Hooray, indefinite life span is yours. Otherwise, you wither and die.

How is that not ridiculously unfair?
Helvetica Monospaced
I'm pretty sure "jenny8lee" is Jennifer 8 Lee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_8._Lee . Awesome journalist extraordinaire.
Skype 5.0 Beta for Mac OS X
What age?
11, 16, 18 ,21 ?
No affiliation, just a fan of Yayquery, CodeLesson, etc, etc...
Synergon - Business Live Action Role Playing (BLARP)
I think the point of the article is that being productive outside of the madness is more important for success than what you do during it. 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.
It's also very important to note alcohol is one of the very few chemicals where withdraw can actually kill you. If you currently drink heavy and are thinking of quitting cold turkey or cutting it out from your day entirely definitely consult a doctor first.
You might want to read this little tidbit beforehand:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode18/usc_sec_18_0...
The original title was sensational AND true... There was no need for them to attempt to improve it.
Does anyone have any suggestions for the best way to contact Microsoft and negotiate an XBox Live Arcade publishing deal?

I've been developing an XNA game full time for the last 2 years and am unsatisfied with the state of XBox Indie Games. I have little business experience though, and have no idea how best to approach Microsoft. If money is a problem, I'm fairly confident I could raise 50k-100k on the merit of the current build.
I'm impressed you could do this sort of work on a train. In trains/airplanes my working capacity seems to be limited to emails, reading, and brainstorming. Sketching designs is the closest I can get to coding.
Untappd
Untappd takes advantage mobile web technologies to create a brand new social media tool for those who enjoy sipping a pint in the pub. Users can "
"check-in" the beer they are enjoying, add the location where they are enjoying it via Foursquare, and share this with their network of friends as well as the broader Untappd community. In response, friends can comment on or toast these "check-ins" with any questions or feedback they may have. This interaction allows users to discover different beers outside of their normal drinking preferences, as well as different places to enjoy those beers.
Pretty awesome! Not something I'd be using in CSS, but certainly cool for an editor.

Time to see how it stacks up against some other Monos for code readability...
> you can DMCA someone's hosting provider for less than $6 and ten minutes of work or less.

Please, nobody tell /b/...
A lesson in Neuroscience: the common point between light, weed and homosexuality
Climate Hawks Take Wing
"Advocates for a switch away from fossil fuels to help prevent disastrous climate change have had sound science on their side for years. What we haven’t had on our side was rhetoric. Not only have we been divided about what to call our opponents ... we haven’t even known what to call ourselves."
You do realize that the way the incentives are laid out, it's exactly the people who do what you ask who will not get permanent jobs, so you'll still be left with those who don't. You can't accomplish what you want by bitching. As someone said in the discussion about Google hiring yesterday, "incentives matter". I agree with you that more emphasis needs to be put on careful work instead of cranking out flashy publications, but until people are rewarded for that, things are not going to change much.
The side-by-side examples should be in the same colours.

It's impossible to separate the psychological effect of the typeface from the effect of the colour changes.

I'd like to learn something from the content of this article, but I suspect that I'm likely to learn the wrong thing, due to bad experimental design.
I'm not sure what this means, but I think it reflects an incorrect bias that everyone you ever hire must necessarily be "plug and play". This assumes that humans are not educable which is not the case with the possible exception of certain conservative legislators.
Why do you think it isn't ?

There are over 800 million airline passengers in the US each year. If this radiation causes cancers in 1 in a million thats 800 people/year.
I write most of NewsBlur on the A train, 35 minutes each way from Brooklyn to midtown.

This is fantastic, and very inspiring.
If anyone knows where I can find resources about the history of such machines, such as early reviews, screenshots or manuals – either of academic research prototypes or of commercial products – I’d really appreciate it.

I intend to sometime in the not-impossibly-distant future write detailed descriptions (beyond the level of any of the PS books or online resources I’ve seen) of all the tools in Photoshop, and some critiques/suggestions for improvement. A lot of the ideas seem traceable to 70s/80s research at PARC, NYIT, Stanford, etc., or to these early workstations like those made by Scitex, Tektronix, etc., but there’s not much material online about all of that history, so my knowledge of it is pretty sketchy.

[My email is in my profile, for anyone who has advice.]
This is how it appeared for me straight after installing and closing the welcome dialog:

http://imgur.com/3e8kv.png
Thanks for the reply. I really appreciate the inbound marketing stuff. I focused on that sort of thing in the SpiderOak email, and thanks for pointing out that's where I need to stay focused.
From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_X-ray)

The Health Physics Society (HPS) reports that a person undergoing a backscatter scan receives approximately 0.05 μSv (or 0.005 mrems) of radiation; American Science and Engineering Inc. reports 0.09 μSv (0.009 mrems). At the high altitudes typical of commercial flights, naturally occurring cosmic radiation is considerably higher than at ground level. The radiation dose for a six hour flight is 20 μSv (2 mrems) - 200 to 400 times larger than a backscatter scan. According to U.S. regulatory agencies, "1 mrem per year is a negligible dose of radiation, and 25 mrem per year from a single source is the upper limit of safe radiation exposure".

The radiation exposure with Backscatter X-Ray's is really a non-issue.

IMO its much more damning to bring on the "think of the children"/"The Chinese government can hack your wife's nude pics" angle to convince the public against these machines.
Our Blackberry Development Environment
As an FYI, don't forget to add a timestamp to your JSONP request URLs, otherwise the user's browser may cache the results.

Had that problem once. Once. (But for way too long.)
Just use Google books (or something similar). It allows you to view certain pages. It's not optimal, though.
This is a great story, and the outline of it parallels my own experiences with small claims court. When big corporations mess with you, small claims is a very effective way to level the playing field.

Here is some additional information on the process. You have to find the "registered agent" for the company, which can usually be looked up online at the Secretary of State site for the state where the company is located. If they are out of state, serve the complaint by certified mail, with return receipt.
Certainly, it can be viewed as a craft - but isn't 90% of craft learning to do things the 'right way?'
Definitely concurring on NPR; that broadcast is quick, informative, and gives you a pretty good view of what the average persons sees when they watch the news.
Patrick, what service are you planning to use for billing (presumably recurring)?