skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're wrong and that test is misleading.

http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=200

I'm seeing 380 points, 11 days old is ahead of 205 points and 4 days old.
Could this issue still be occurring because of the ycombinator.com site which serves the static content? As this is what was the cause of the problem previously and once in a while I still see the slow load time proceeded by a missing stylesheet/arrows.

I believe the problem is that the caching in regard to the static content is non-existent so they have to be loaded at every page view.
For Chrome OS to be considered by any reasonably large business, their IT decision-makers are going to want to know that Chrome OS is going to be around and supported by Google many years from now.

Actually, they just want to know that it will be around and supported by someone.

The change over to things like Chrome OS will be partly generational, much like it was with web applications. Young people brought up on Chrome OS will start businesses which will use Chrome OS to run their businesses fast and lean. Larger firms will have a lot of cultural inertia to overcome.
If programming shops were willing to hire people fresh out of college with English degrees and teach them programming, they would probably do really, really well.

English degrees? The number of English grads I've bumped into in the software industry has been small (in comparison to just how many English grads there are). Math grads would be better since most would have had to do some programming already (even if just in Mathematica). Even physics grads..
2 words - desktop virtualization.

then the deployment nightmare goes away, support costs go down, and a ChromeOS appliance which is a head for a PC in a data center can justify itself.
Nice! My immediate feedback is this:

Your "What does this do?" text, "We save you money by tracking prices on millions of products and recommending when is the best time to buy" is quite small. I would try to emphasize that point more on the homepage.

Naturally the functionality it quite limited right now because you've only got pricing data going back a month or so (at least on the few products I search for). I think this is something that becomes more useful the more data you build up (1+ years).

I was going to comment about including mini-pricing-graphs on the home page but then I realized you already have them. They were not obvious enough to me when I first (and second) glanced that they were graphs. I thought they were just buttons. Maybe fuss with the design on those for something that is more apparently a trend line.

Finally, after you get some good solid data you should consider adding an API for real-time stats or a way to buy historical pricing data.
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Ask HN: Is there a website to generate resized/cropped images
...based on what info you give it in the query string?

For example, you could do something like:

<img src="http://website.com/?original=http://something.com/test.jpg&height=100&width=100" />

And then website.com would take test.jpg and resize/crop it down to 100x100 and output it on the fly. Does something like this exist? If not, I want to make it.
Google wants ChromeOS to eventually replace Android. It's cloud vs native, not Touch vs Keyboard and Mouse, and until cloud based becomes acceptable everywhere, which is what Google is betting on, they will continue to work on Android.
Someone posted this awhile back and it works great on the iPhone: http://ihackernews.com/
Please do. I don't want to download the torrent and I don't know if I have ever commented on Gawker but there is a slim chance I might have.
Defenders of WikiLeaks Swarmed the Wrong Target
Our site was at the center of uncovering an individual with similar behavior this time last year. There are several similarities that may be helpful in identifying if an online retailer is fraudulent.
I'm not sure I am following this. If you want to attract actual talent, you have to pay full relocation. The good ones have stable jobs they enjoy. And they are going to pay their own relocation for a new job that may not work out? I don't think so. The only people that pay their own relocation are the desperate and the completely untalented.

As far as having to pay back if you are laid off or the company is otherwise dissatisfied due to their own lack of having a decent vetting process, ha ha ha. Indentured servitude. That's a new one. I'm sure that will get the best of the best. Not.
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This makes me think of "The Authoritarians"

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/

I think the assumption here is that segments of population shopping at Wal-Mart somehow are just the right people to collaborate with DHS. I am not surprised, but what is scary is that those at DHS have recognized that as well...
A hosting company that doesn't actively inform customers of outages? Unprofessional. Nobody is going to read a status blog every day to see if an outage might happen at some point in the future. Passive notification isn't acceptable, imo.
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Well, I'm willing to entertain data that contradicts my thesis, but I'm unconvinced by either attacking my motives or distorting what I wrote.

My point with the Microsoft language products of the 1980s was that they were willing to sell a variety of products if people were willing to buy them. They had Microsoft versions of Fortran, C, and Pascal as well. Xenix was their server solution back then, but that didn't really matter for that state of the market. The mention of the Zune was intended to highlight that the technical merits are dwarfed by right-place-and-time effects. I knew plenty of people who thought J++ was the wave of the future because, you know, that API lock-in is such a determinant for success.

As to Java, I never said that it was unsuccessful. But Sun kept trying to flog Java as an embedded systems solution and it was an exercise in futility, whether it was the original set-top boxes, JINI, or those incredibly useful Java personalization ID rings like the one I have somewhere in a desk drawer. Having a major player pitch still didn't make it popular in embedded markets.

Woulda-coulda-shoulda arguments about Lisp only lacking major backers are arguments based on a lack of data. If major backers are so key, then why were Python and Ruby so successful?
Purchasing power way up. Quality of life? A draw at best, probably a loss. If I had my way, I'd be back in Boston tomorrow.

Just taking a rude guess here (sorry if I'm wrong) but it sounds like you might be making a sacrifice for your family or partner? If so, you need to factor in how much they mean to you into your quality of life score for Columbus vs living alone in Boston. (I'm not judging you - a lot of us are in a similar situation!)
I meant you couldn't hire all senior engineers, or at least enough to fill every position you'd want.
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I worked at a profitable, medium size company with a startup-like hacker culture and it was still very difficult to hire talented programmers despite being able to offer interesting work that provided a net benefit to society, normal hours, free soda and career development. We'd have to go through many, many candidates who looked good on paper (lots of experience, top tier education) but were awful once you presented them with basic programming problems. It was actually pretty demoralizing to have to reject the volume of people that we did.

I do agree that there are a lot of silly startups these days, but it doesn't mean that there isn't also a shortage of quality hackers.
It's not about browser wars and "web apps", it's about net neutrality, and that all applications/protocols should be treated as equal -- shaping and throttling per user is legitimate, but (so says the article) ISP shaping and throttling by protocol is not.
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Brandon,

I think you need to give us a bit more information about your data in order to get meaningful answers.

When you say "data grows with time", you mean the number and type of fields for an "entity" change right?

Mongo or any document db fits that purpose well. I am not sure I understand your question about matching things up? You can store all "related" objects together in one document, you can "link" objects together like done in Riak (or with a list of incoming and outgoing relations in the document) or you can use a graph DB (like Neo4j).
Aah, economy on HN… : ready, fight! More seriously, as Einstein put it quite briefly, economy is not a science because it is not testable. I would even add, following some philosopher's wisdom, that behind all those pretty theories you can sense their authors' fears and desires (plus some coherence and maybe even some stats…).
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This is a great comment. I've always thought 'reading level' as a bit bogus and looking at the wrong thing. When determining the quality of content I look at it from two ways. Does content convey the idea the writer intended and does the reader comprehend the idea the writer intended.

If I'm reading something I would prefer it be written as simply as possible. From a writers standpoint though this can be much harder than just explaining an idea in complex terms.

To paraphrase Pascal, "I apologize for the length of this letter, but I did not have time to make it shorter." I like to think length in this case meant complexity.
But IBM etc supported their cheap dumb terminals.

From the server side -- sure you can continue to patch/update your citrix apps etc.

If Google drops Chrome in 5 years time and in 5.5 years there is a massive flaw (some form of root-kit that saves every username/password and grants you access to the citrix system or the ceo's cloud based email account). If google decides that it wants to focus on Android and drops Chrome -- the pain could be immense.
// This obviously doesn't apply for smaller faster moving companies.. But if you roll out 10,000+ Chrome systems -- Long Term Support plans are a good thing.

Otherwise - I agree. If you can replace a complex win/mac system with a cheap dumb chrome terminal -- the benefits for support are immense.
http://pagerankgraph.com/#www.recojeans.com

Interesting, certainly not the sites I expected (the place I tested thoroughly and know I get most of my juice from isn't there, but that's all based on anchor text.)
I'm sort of mixed. On one hand, you're right: it's a little ridiculous that users who are known to be affected wouldn't be alerted in advance.

On the other hand, it is great that Linode had alerts posted on the status blog in advance, and worthy of note that every host will have downtime. Having a backup solution in place should be a responsibility that lies in the hands of the customer, but you're right: without verified notification it's a little hard to plan ahead.

I have to say though, having switched to Linode from a more crowded, oversold host (BurstNET), the difference is amazing.
Also, the maginot line was a system of heavy (i.e. immovable) fortifications and France's only defensive plan. Once germany found a way around it (duh), France could not quickly change strategy (it didn't have a Plan B) or mobilize the resources sunk into the Line (they were concrete). Oops.
I find TWC's concept of reality rather ironic. TWC's stock is at an all time new low, and they have been given permission by the FCC to break the rules on the maximum bill for service packages.

I have TWC here and can't get Sat, and am paying $75 a month for 40 analog stations; soon as I figure out how to switch to, say, Google TV + Netflix without loosing too much, I'm switching.
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Ask HN: Does YC interview twice a year?
Hi all,

I'm just interested in hearing about when YC does interviews? Do they only do this once a year - every winter? Or do they do this twice year?

Thank you
Sorry to reply to myself, but I actually forgot to put my main point in, which was that British English generally refers to the group itself as the entity, whereas it seems that American English refers to the group elements individually.
It should be pointed out here that 1) the code base for the site is available for download and 2) you can not only inspect it but set up your own 'competing website' with a better UI.
doh, ja
The underwater mortgages are a very good point. Many engineers bought expensive houses and are now chained to them. It is not unprecedented for companies to cover full relocation, including when necessary buying the dud house themselves from the new employee at a price that allows him to move.
Netflix responds, "Who?"
And there we have it. Thanks.
It isn't so far fetched. Time Warner is a producer of content and has a large library. It doesn't seem unreasonable for content producers to cut out the middle man and have a streaming service of their own. Disney in particular could very well build a Netflix clone of their content. Aggregated services like Netflix allow for more content and smaller library owner participation, but one wonders at what size of library could $5 a month be justified? How about $10?
Good idea. You should download the Arc source for Hacker News and patch it to allow such UI testing for the site.
it's fixed now. - version check is build in and a nasty random IE8 crash is fixed too.
Words that describe themselves: short, convoluted, awkward, multilingual.
"If you have a family and need a bigger place you can always live in New Jersey."

Right that makes sense, because top talent would like to live in a craphole just so they can have the privilege of taking a massive salary cut.
Twice a year. http://ycombinator.com/about.html
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It looks like Blekko might be including nofollow links if the rel attribute isn't identical to "nofollow", for example on Twitter user profile URLs it's rel="me nofollow". Definitely a bug though.
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It's All Your Fault (About Resentment)
You're right - I didn't explain what a monad is a priori, just some of their properties and reasons they're useful. Thanks for calling me out on that, as I should have made it more explicit.

I didn't mean to "hold the real definition behind my back", just felt that others in this thread had explained the definition better than I could. I also wanted to make the point that the definition is not that important unless you actually want to implement your own monad.

You don't need to understand Monads to understand Haskell but they're how you print "Hello world"??

Yes, there's no contradiction here. The idiomatic and easiest way to write Hello World in Haskell involves some unusual, but fairly intuitive, imperative-looking syntax. That syntax only works because the Haskell IO API is monadic, but you really don't need to know that, nor to understand what a monad is, in order to print Hello World.

LINQ is very similar to Haskell's do-notation, and LINQ providers (LINQ-to-Objects, LINQ-to-SQL etc) are monadic, but you don't need to know what a monad is to write "from u in users where u.age > 21 select u.name". If you want to write your own LINQ provider, though, it's probably worth knowing the monad laws.
This is a great idea. Why don't you patch the source for the site and make those changes available for use by the site.
Midway through this wandering missive I was unsure as to what point the author was making. Although, quite obviously, a concerted effort to paint Mises and Ron Paul as cranks and weirdos would set the tone for the rest of the article. In the end it was just a call for more Keynes (or what passes for Keynes, these days) and to invent unnatural markets like a 'carbon' market to solve unproven and unprovable problems. It also talks about German hyperinflation like a problem that can't possibly happen again because we've somehow evolved past it. It's a fallacy to think that somehow, we're collectively smarter than our grandparents when we all share the same human traits.

My main problem with this (apart from the unnecessary smearing) is that it continues with the thought that current market failures (housing, derivatives et al) is from letting free markets go. When in reality it is because of excessive intervention in markets by the state. Which proves Hayeks point perfectly.
Netflix isn't competing with cable in terms of getting eyeballs for the same content, but it is competing with cable in terms of time spent on entertainment. I know several people who have canceled their cable subscription because they found they had plenty of things to watch with a $10/month Netflix subscription and no longer found a $50-100/month cable subscription to be a good value.
The 'Radiolab' Effect
The people sending the sms messages are very poor and will have the simplest phones on the market, I have one of these such phones and it doesn't seem to be able to send sms to email.
Cable is on its way out. Maybe not today, maybe not next year, maybe not in five years. But it is surpassed and supplanted by the Internet.

Movies, news and TV shows will continue, and online pricing will, in the course of time, adjust to reflect a profit margin that doesn't involve existing cable TV.

That doesn't mean Netflix is going to rule - it's much more reasonable in my opinion to assume a cabal of motion picture industry will form and cut out the middle-men.

My 0.02c.
Prototype based vs. class based inheritance
I have an undergraduate degree that's completely unrelated to CS and I want to go back to school one day for a master's in CS. Is research experience also necessary for a master's at a good school (like UCs)? Or will industry experience and recommendations for being a good student in CS classes be sufficient? It just seems pretty hard to get research experience without having been a CS major in undergrad. If anyone has any tips on how to approach getting CS research experience post-graduation as an unrelated major I'm all ears!

For the record I've always been a hobbyist programmer and have about 2 years of undergrad CS courses that I took for fun.
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I don't really have any disagreement with what you've said, but I don't see the value proposition for RIM in using an open platform that can be duplicated by one of the Android phones. It seems like an incredibly bad way to treat your current Java developers and provide no diferention. Putting your development future in a 3rd party's hands seems rather wrong.
This is the first time "in at least a decade" the magazine was profitable, so this common sense might be worth noting to the establishment. Some elements in this type of business must still be psychologically adjusting to the ocean of choice that people now have.

Whereas before it was a question of what of a finite number magazines or finite channels, showing finite programs, you chose to buy with your definitely finite dollars, now it is more of a question of what media, usually free, do you consume with you increasingly finite time. Choice used to always be something that you paid for and now it is often free. Where before you money was the scarcity now it is effectively you time.
The problem with these virtual currencies so far is that they're very unstable and they suffer from quick and dramatic deflation and inflation (usually the latter) that makes them absolutely terrible as primary currencies

What is different about Bitcoin is that the amount of it will be fixed, therefore no monetary inflation is really possible.

That said, its value in dollars can depreciate if M3 in dollars + outstanding credit in dollars contracts. And this might happen in the following years since outstanding credit in dollars, with the exception of Government debt, is contracting.

I think Bitcoin is a good idea but it solves a problem (hyperinflation) that we don't have right now. If we had hyperinflation Bitcoin would become the Napster of central banking.
Economic theories cannot be tested, but there is definitely merit in historical evaluation of policies implemented.
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You make a good point about salary not being listed in ads. Here's a heuristic. When it's not listed, that means "Substantially below market rate, but we'll claim otherwise." Some might then say, "But none of the ads have salaries, isn't it impossible for everyone to be below market rate?" The answer is no. Those who pay at and above market rate don't have problems hiring and never have to resort to advertising positions in classifieds. This explains why all these unfilled positions that are advertised month after month are all at below market rates.
Web companies fear Google's reach
I never said human rights are being violated. I'm saying that human rights work the same way by allowing you to do whatever you want as long as you don't step on others freedom.
Art of the Steal: On the Trail of World's Most Ingenious Thief
It seems most of these corporate "dumb terminals" are running Windows 2000 or Windows XP. In a few years (or already?) Microsoft will stop releasing security updates for these operating systems. The argument to switch to a new system, especially one that is free and open source, more secure, faster and better in almost every possible way, will be clear and obvious.
I flagged this. The lessons are very generic and uninformative.
Wow free soda! I can't imagine why top talent wasn't beating a path to your door!
Just a thought that occurred to me. Why does there have to be 2 levels (new and frontpage)? Why not 3 levels. New, Frontpage, "Best" or something.
The comment scores need to be hidden for comments you didn't write

People keep saying this, but it would severely limit the utility of the site. When I chance upon a post with more than ~50 comments, I only want to read the 6-7 or so that the community has agreed are best. I perceive a positive correlation between comment scores and quality. That is, the odds that a post with 50 points contains good content do empirically seem to be higher than for posts with 2 points.

In short: I need a comment filter that is more strict than than simply "appears on Hacker News". I don't want to read every single one.
This is why my password is always the first 4 letters of the domain, a dash, then my password.
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I assume swah wasn't expecting any results, it is most likely a reference to http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/its-over-9000 .
Yeah. In some sense, it's an advanced thin client with local persistence, portability, with additional security and better performance than a traditional thin client.

The hardware will be cheap, and the software will be ridiculously easy to maintain. It will be easy to adopt, and comparatively easy to abandon, if needed.
Am I the only one who actually thinks they are scared and worried if they find the need to downplay Netflix and condescendingly compare it to the Albanian army taking over the world?

If it isn't a threat, why bother even talking about it...

Do the corporate PR types and CxOs really think they are being smart and sly when they all of the sudden, out of the blue start telling everyone "we are doing very well, we are not afraid of anyone, everything is fine" and not arouse suspicion?

Last time this kind of excessive chest pounding and excessive boasting happened in a company I worked for, a week later we read from CNN financial news that we have been sold to some no-name equity holding company... and it wasn't because we were great, it was because things were going South.

Now what I am interested in, does the management actually brainwash themselves to believe their own lies or do they know things are bad and just try to lie and talk their way out of the problem with pure "leadership" and "decisive" chest pounding...