skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks about the features page. I was worried the icons might be a little cliche, so I'm glad you like them.

As for setting myself apart, you make a great point. I will add a "What sets Turnip apart" section/page somehow to highlight that, or maybe just modify the features page to better show it. You're right, it's a really really saturated market (in fact, I asked about the best way to handle that here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1797803).
Yes and no. Yes, moderate alcohol consumption is fine for most people.

But a real alcoholic can't just stop at a few drinks. For them, it is a binary decision. It's very rare to find a former alcoholic who now drinks lightly or moderately. Most can only overcome it by quitting entirely.
What's the current name for that? Do we still call it "slashdot effect"?
MOObileFrames - collection of mobile wireframes
I had the same exact problem. And the lower level the position e.g., school board, the harder it was to find any position information. Some of the candidates didn't even show up in Google searches.
That's because the person in the other room can stare and share your image for quite some time after it's taken. 3 seconds for you, but as long as they want for them.
Evilgrade is like Firesheep for Software Updates
Exercising after alcohol consumption (during hangover phase) is flat-out dangerous. Not sure whether that is affected by tolerance, but chances are you are not getting the most out of your workout routine.
Didn't see the submission, and haven't heard much about PD but I'll check it out. Thanks for the link!
A decent history essay takes you back in interval
History essays are assigned to students to improve their knowledge of past incidents. There are many ways in which this essay can be written. Whichever way selected, students should ensure that their history essay takes the reader back in time.
It's advisable to learn to spot a publicity troll when you see one.
I never said it did.

The implication of the comment I was replying to was that it was a bunch of men wanting to look at naked women. I just didn't see how that could be if you were only allowed to observe someone of the same sex...
If enough would choose opt out (despite the obvious intimidation tactics), then the entire process would become so inefficient that an easy, efficient alternate would be provided (or the scanners removed altogether). It would likely take a majority of people opting out though.
How is aging ridiculously unfair?
Have you watched Flashpoint? It's a HK action film from 07, one of the earlier films to incorporate MMA.

It's still kinda laughable, but people (except for the last fight...) seem to take realistic amounts of damage and bruising. As a wrestler, I cheered when I saw someone actually sprawl (well,try to sprawl) on a shot. And then facepalmed when I saw a double leg to suplex...

I'm sure MMA fighters will do the same. Cheer in some parts, and then facepalm so hard in others. At least the facepalming parts looked really cool. And no flying armbars from what I remember.
Nullification is the idea that states can override federal laws.
Well, really it's the algorithm that needs to be published so others can reproduce the results. In principle, publishing code is similar to publishing the sequence to put together your experimental apparatus, which isn't done either.
I don't have one. That's why I didn't claim it as fact.
Work on the next feature every day.
Markup validation of http://www.google.com
> Imagine a democratic political system in which no one is allowed to be a member of a political party. How would things be different?

In many municipalities, this is how it works - all elections are non-partisan, and setting up non-party slates is similarly prohibited.

What happens? Councilors are still widely known as being part of the left-wing/right-wing/Conservative/Liberal/Labour factions of council, and form as-hoc groups once elected accordingly. Low-information voters - the people who would vote straight-ticket one way or the other in a partisan race - tend to pick a single issue and vote for whichever candidate identifies with that particular one.

One of the benefits (and I accept that this being a benefit may be controversial) of a party system is that it makes it easier to participate in the process for low- and medium-information voters. If you're super-involved, I salute you - and you're more than welcome to do a detailed analysis of the candidates and their positions, and pick whichever one appeals most to you. If you're not that involved, you can pick the party that broadly represents your values, and be confident that the local guy you'd end up voting for backs those positions (for the most part) and will help move them forwards. It means that someone who can't/won't spend an hour an evening reading up on the horse-race has a way to contribute to the electoral process at a level of confidence higher than "well, this guy is listed first on the ballot."
Honestly, it's more annoying for you to specifically not name anything.
I would have expected better from google.
Supplying the torrent isn't directly commercial but upping others' content with your own ads, is. And should be subject to claims to account to claimants for income received unless they published under a wide enough copy-left licence.

However, a reform to copyright law I'd gladly see happen is that orphan content (which officially deleted websites arguably are) should be exempt from copyright. I mean, how can people seriously retain rights to profit from work which they OK'd (explicitly or implicitly) the deletion/ending the publication of? What reocities does, in my mind, whether commercial or not, is great.

I also think there should be a default, opt-out licence covering all new content published, along the lines of CC share alike - attribution - noncommercial. Creators are free to opt out of the licence - explicitly - and reserve ALL rights if they want.

Wouldn't cover CooksSource's actions (commercial) but it would stop you infringing my copyright when you forward my emails.

Also, responding to a takedown is a completely non-sequitur to 'how is that commercial'. For better, or worse; commercial, or not; you have to comply. Insane that such a logical fallacy can attract such karma.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1868736
I mean, I was raised Catholic, so I'm not exactly the model of immodesty, but yes, its not the 'omg they'll touch my junk' part as it is the infringement on basic human rights part.

And being reminded that some people think this is okay. And that most people accept it.

I have slightly unusual polititcal views, so such a visible reminder that I'm 'the only person who cares' really riles me up.
It's not even the nudity that bothers me, personally. It's the radiation. I didn't sign up for unshielded exposure to dangerous levels of radiation when I bought my airplane ticket.

Ultimately, I think a public health angle would have been a far more effective tact to take in the lawsuit or in the arguments against these scanners. It's the trump card. Privacy always loses an argument to fear and "security" in our post-9/11 national discourse. Sad to say, but that's true. Health, though? That's a different matter.
I'm surprised it doesn't convert to (and if possible serve in) WebP, the image format created from WebM.

It was these guys (the "speed" folks) within Google that came up with the idea.

http://code.google.com/speed/webp/

Maybe in a later version?
I think you misunderstood me or, more likely, my argument wasn't clear. What I really meant was that the "money" generated by startups > "money" invested in startups. Which implies that on average a startup makes more money than it loses (expected value is positive). This is opposed to gambling against the casino where on average, you lose money.
One idea would be to remove party information from the voting ballots. It would be interesting to see what effect that had.

Obviously the party information on the ballot is designed to give uninformed voters at least some information about whom to vote for. Instead I propose each candidate submits a 10 word or less description of themselves to be shown under their name in the ballot. E.g.,

Joe Clown
(More military, public praying, better schools)

I guess you wouldn't be allowed to mention a political party in your submitted description or it would defeat the purpose.
"They figure out why the response time for the worst query is bad and then fix it."

This can reap huge benefits and doesn't need to be difficult. Just enable the slow query log in MySQL, use the EXPLAIN command to analyze the results, then add indexes where appropriate. I was able to fix poorly indexed tables in a vendor's application with dramatic results. In one case, a twenty-minute(!) query was reduced to less than a second.
Any particular reason you're not just using the community edition? Do you need the innodb features? (I'm asking because I've been wondering lately if I should make the switch...)
Yes, but it's annoying you can't set the callback name to something static (for when the JSONP provider doesn't support variable callbacks). You can, but need a Jquery JSONP plugin for that.
You're unintentionally hilarious. You know nothing about Google's technological challenges nor the decisions behind the various circumstances where they chose to ignore the standard.

I guarantee you that there are thousands of people working at Google who are:

1. Smarter than you

2. Know more about web standards than you

Seriously, get the hell out of here.
Electric zap could boost you hacking skill maybe?
A little over a decade ago, my company used a local charter company when Northwest's pilots went on strike. We were able to get a five-seat turboprop with two pilots for $2000 for 70 minute flight (about 400 miles.) A full-fare ticket on Northwest cost about $540 at the time. Our total travel time was cut in half--no ticketing, no security screening, no baggage claim. We even convinced the rental car companies to run our cars over to the charter office. All we had to do was say hello at the charter office and head on to the plane. This particular company also had seven- and ten-seaters which were slightly cheaper per person per hour. I assume the prices would be more expensive now. Anybody have experience with netjet or similar fractional ownership?

EDIT: Forgot to mention that the same flight on Northwest was 50 minutes in the air.
That was my reaction as well. I've been learning Smalltalk recently, and this seems like a really great addition to Squeak!
that's because very often a person has more than one QQ for different usages(working or personal), and a lot companies use QQ as a tool, aside from tel, for their customer service, actually the largest social network in China did not rest in renren but QQ
Have you read how each of them actually write their code? Both write them precisely how the other poster noted.

And I've read the Quake 3 code extensively. Great code, but certainly not pristine, and I'm sure if you handed it to code review to virtually anyone you know, they'd find a whole bunch of sylistic and architectural issues with it. Like take a look at the playerDie code. You're telling me you wouldn't have said, "Rewrite this?" if you a colleague handed this to you?

And yes, Knuth is the author of literate programming, but that's not how the code started out. Read his letters on computer science.

Tarjan wrote a similar thing, I think in his ACM Turing Award lecture.

I picked those names because they are the best our industry has. But even with that, they all pretty much write code the way the previous post noted.
That's not been my observation: queues are longer, and people have to take more stuff out of their pockets for the full body scanners. The scanner also takes longer: you have to be stationary for a bit, while you just walk through the metal detectors. The speed of the metal detector queues is limited by the speed of the hand-luggage x-ray machine, not by the speed of the metal detector.

FWIW, it's only in US airports that I've had to take off my shoes for the past year or so.
I was more concerned about the copyright repercussions on clean-room reverse engineering the protocol. Obviously the protocol includes copyrightable information, now.
Precisely. This is the typographic equivalent of advising "don't use colors that clash" without specifying what "clashing" means.

I actually think you could teach objective if subtle rules about this (for instance, compare the lowercase 'n' for the fonts in the first example) but this article doesn't do that. Instead the article uses terms like "neutral", "outspoken", "conservative". "dynamic", etc. to describe what to a casual observer are quite similar fonts (it's not like we're comparing Helvetica to Karbine or Comic Sans).
I wish your followup focused on things I did both right and wrong, and how I or other people could improve my comments next time, instead of acting so defensive.
My all-time favorite post on combining typefaces comes from the world-renowned H&FJ: http://www.typography.com/email/2010_03/index_tw.htm
Anyone who desires karma could just post a link and then you'll be on the front page again.
Gee, with so many brilliant people working there, I would have expected better from Google.
"It is OK if a query is slow as long as it is always slow"
I find this enlightening.
I think it is just one instance of difference in emphasis between Google and Facebook. Google, a technology oriented company, would minimize the average response time, while Facebook, a people oriented company would minimize the unpredictability (by minimizing the variance)
See http://www.seoconsultants.com/validation/google/
How is the title boring? What could be more telling? Having "Facebook" in the title makes it clear we're going to be talking about astronomical amounts of data. "[insert any db] at Facebook" would be an interesting title in my opinion.

The fact that it's MySQL makes it even more interesting, given the shift of scalability interest to MongoDB, etc.
Any chance of getting an invite? Recently engaged and would love to check out your service:)
With the push in the design community to create some sort of replacement for psd comps, I could see a new file type becoming accepted.

The problem is that web design inevitably ends up in pixels, and I will always have to move to that level to tweak, anathema to version control.
> ...but they never asked.

That's rather the problem - asking every person who holds the rights can be genuinely difficult.

In your case, the original magazine was published years ago. Even if the publisher had kept your contact information - and didn't lose it when the got bought out by another company, and THAT company didn't lose it in the next level of buying out, etc. - the contact would no longer be accurate all those years later.

Even if they did somehow manage to contact you, it's possible that you wouldn't have responded to the letter asking for rights anymore than they responded to your letter asking for payment.

There could be this same problem for every article in every issue for the entire span of the magazine.

Hasbro could have noticed somewhere along the path to you initiating court procedures and have offered a quick payment of $120 to make you happy instead of the $2000 default judgement, but a corporation as large as Hasbro probably gets a lot of complaints, some of them nuisance complaints or crank calls.

It's quite possible that the $2,000 they had to pay was cheaper - maybe even dramatically cheaper - then the filing and/or legal footwork involved in accurately determining that it was necessary to pay you.

And when determining what you need to do in order to comply with a law is very burdensome or difficult, I would say that it's fair to call that a problem with the law. A good law should make it easy to obey the law - not easy in a moral sense where it's a low standard, or easy in the loophole sense that you won't get caught anyway, but easy in the accounting sense that accomplishing non-nefarious, law-abiding objectives should cost small amounts of money in overhead activities.
Yep, I'm reading this.

The intent of the Tweet links is to remove the barrier to entry for people who want to quote pieces of the article. I've found that removing even a few seconds of work increases the chance that someone will think "hey, that's a cool quote to tweet."
ubuntu is coming remarkably close these days, and i think 11 will be even better. it's just that it's not fully functional on newer macbook pros yet. not sure when support will get there for things like "automatic graphics switching" either. but when if/when it does, i'll probably jump ship.

i just get a warm feeling from using ubuntu. i've already got it loaded on my old white macbook and it works great.
We have evolved into a two-party system because it fills a need: convenience. When most don't bother to vote, and even fewer vote with a functioning knowledge of the candidates, there is no need for a third party. This makes things easy: red versus blue, good versus evil. Like two football teams.

There is a enough distinction (arguably) between the two parties that one may confidently align themselves with one or the other. With extremely rare exception I vote party over candidate, not so much because I like the party, but because I dislike that party less.

The only way the current party system can be broken is if the system itself breaks -- it's going to take systemic political and financial failure to see any difference.
Revenue and relevance is not quite the same. A 1% clickthrough rate would lead to great revenue for all concerned, but it still means I'm annoying 99% of my users (or one user 99% of the time).

Of course, not all non-clickers would be terribly annoyed, but many of the clickers might still be annoyed by the distraction even though the ad was relevant enough to click on.
If you're from the US, maybe. But if you're from Bangladesh and looking for a place to do a startup, you may decide to go to London for the visa.
The IV drip of pleasure you get from solving one little problem at a time
Can your iPhone make you more entertaining than you already are?
Since you have done it for four weeks, would you consider trying it for six months or even a year?

It sounds like we have similar work responsibilities. I too am married. Up until June of this year I would drink a few glasses of wine and/or cranberry and vodka each night “to relax”. In June I was asking myself why am I drinking several nights a week. I wondered what it would be like to never drink alcohol again. So I quit. The only exception was during a Caribbean cruise. I don’t regret drinking it then and may consider it for future vacations.

For me, I find myself as a leader at the office, at home and at church. Not having alcohol is also consistent with my new minimalist lifestyle and consistent with my mindset that I don’t need everything I want.

The part I miss drinking the most, I my lack of variety on beverages while eating dinner.

Best of luck to you, hopefully you will find out you are not addicted.
Why the hell wasn't this an election issue? I would have gladly voted against any candidate who supported this.
There are hundreds of games that revolve around stories, and always have been. Not sure what is so special about the OP's approach.
Are you fat? Alcoholic beverages can spike your BP, but being fat contributes more to high blood pressure. It seems hard to not be fat with that much beer drinking. Even at the low end of your stated range, you are gaining 20 pounds a year unless you're running marathons and not eating. Which I guess I wouldn't believe. The main difference between beer drunks and other types of drunks is that beer makes you hungry and it's almost impossible to not get fat.

I used to be sort of like you. I would have 2-3 pints a day 3 days a week. Over a few years this was enough to make me gain about 45 pounds. I developed high blood pressure.

I quit for a year and a half out of vanity and to save money. I lost 25 pounds without thinking about it and my blood pressure went back to 122/70. I then lost the rest of the weight through exercise and a restrictive diet.

Unfortunately I am single and live in NYC so my social life suffered a bit. The default thing to do is meet for drinks. If you're just drinking seltzer the girl tends to think you're either an alcoholic, rapist, or worse... a mormon.

I got into going to a popular craft beer bar just so I'd have a place to go and not seem like a teetotaling weirdo. Somewhat strangely, after 18 months off, I now find beer, even fancy beer, mostly disgusting. I'm not sure I could drink 2 pints if I tried. I find it hard to choke down a single pint. The ridiculous $12/beer movement is great for me, I can just get a single "cask" whatever-it-is and leave it sit there for the duration of the date.

The point I'm making is that I had drinking habits maybe a notch lower than yours but was able to reign it in to 1 or 2 beers a week, that I nurse over 2 hours.

All that said, being a drunk is not really compatible with success and 6 beers a night 4 times a week in your late 30s is being a drunk. Any drinking that gives you a hangover is bad behavior. And, definitely that much BEER is going to make you blimp out and worsen your high blood pressure. Either reign it in, and if you can't, you might need to stop completely.

In addition, the fact that you're reaching out anonymously to a hacker forum, and begun your post saying you cut down "substantially" to drinking 6 "high alcohol" beers a night 4 times a week seems to indicate you have a much worse problem than you want to admit. Everything you've written down sounds like textbook definition of functional alcoholism.
I kind of agree. I had a discussion about this with a friend of mine who was the lead architect at the last company I was at and he made a good point.

Every manager, once promoted to management, needs to make a choice between:

1) Being on the side of upper management

2) Being on the side of the employees they manage

3) Being on the fence, where they neither have the trust of their bosses or their employees.

We came to the conclusion that the best place for a manager to be is on the side of the employees. The reason being is that the healthiest, most productive teams have a manager that the employees trust in. They know they have someone higher up looking out for them and shielding them so they can get things done. If the company isn't one where this is possible, a really good manager will probably leave for greener pastures.

The next best place for the manager to be is on the side of the upper management, because at least this leaves no room for confusion among their subordinates (uggg, I hate that work, but it's appropriate here).

The worst place to be is in the middle. In this position the manager sabotages his own career and therefore his department because his upper management doesn't trust him and his employees don't trust him because they don't know if he has their best interests at heart half the time.

I think Todd Jackson, GMail product manager, said it best, when he said that "[A manager] can either be a shit funnel or a shit umbrella."

ref: http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/14/key-to-gmail/

I propose that we call this new metric a manager's "body count".

After an employee leaves, his compatriots should rate him to be an asset or liability. Those who quit voluntarily and are considered assets are added to a manager's body count. If the manager is on good terms with the employee who should know why the employee left and will have incentive to raise issues for living that are not his fault as a manager.