skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back then, RAM was vastly more expensive than it is now, and processor speeds weren't great for processing gigabytes of data. Nowadays, the bigger address space is a big deal. Some of this is the OS (Windows is the biggest offender with its <2GB available user space addresses).
Or is it pseudo-irony?
SERP = Search Engine Result Page
I think it makes sense in extreme cases. For a 'real' page (e.g. with useful content and ads that are secondary to the main content) CTRs are unlikely to be that high. From experience I would say its hard to get > 10% CTR in such a site.

However, for 'spam pages' (e.g. those that have little information and ad links in primary positions) its common to have much higher CTRs. The prime examples are those sites that present AdSense links in with navigational links so its not clear you are clicking on an ad. CTRs of >50% are not uncommon.
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There are always unknown factors in any relationship, friendship or acquaintance. We can never know the full sum of another person's experiences, or how these have shaped the way they see the world.

More than anything, the next time I feel wronged or judgemental - I'm going to make more of an effort to give the benefit of the doubt. The world isn't black or white - the shades of grey seem to increase with every day.

Really, really sad.
Not all spam sites have ads. Many online stores are quite spammy, for example, and they only promote stuff they sell themselves. On the other hand, would you consider Wikipedia's huge Jimbo Wales banners as ads?
Windows running on X86 will still be popular, and, in fact, will likely be managing greater than 90% (95%? 99%?) market share for the foreseeable future, particularly on windows desktops/laptops. The point of the article, was that it's no longer "Wintel" - Windows will now run on ARM. That was the big news of the day.
The web is a customer service medium ("why wasn't I consulted?")
The trick will only have the effect described in the article if the airline is a monopoly. With competition they won't be able to extract all the gains. So you will have to pay less, eventually, and profit from other people's willingness to get off an overbooked flight.

Remember: Overbooking is usually not a problem, since a few people don't turn up anyway.

Compare an English auction to a straight sell: In the latter, the supplier just guesses a price, and you can accept it or not, and unless they guess right, there will be surplus left. In an auction with multiple bidders who value the item in question at similar levels, the supplier doesn't have to guess. The bidders will make sure that almost all surplus goes to the supplier; essentially the winner will pay slightly more than the second highest bidder was willing to pay.

Still, auctions are good for buyers, if there's competition between suppliers.
Internet Porn Reduces Rape?
I put a great deal of effort into trying to understand why people do not believe me. I am well aware that many don't because they are basically incredulous -- what I am saying flies in the face of everything they know to be true. It is not only hard to believe, it is very upsetting to believe because it calls into question the trustworthiness of their doctor, which is very threatening when you have a deadly medical condition.

Currently, the average life expectancy in the US for people with CF is about 37. I have talked to quite a few people online -- there are only about 30,000 diagnosed cases of CF in the US and some lists have hundreds of members, some of whom have more than one family member with CF. I don't know "everyone" but it is a small enough community to know quite a good cross section of such people via the internet. The folks who are doing better than expected generally make a lot of dietary and lifestyle changes and do a lot of research. The details of what they do and what they think may vary from what I do and what I think, but dietary changes are a very consistent aspect of what I have seen work for this population.
What increases signups by 28%? ‘Watch a video’ or ‘Get instant access’
Linux now free from Big Kernel Lock
RE: "seems very cumbersome and obsolete compared to capacitive multi-touch screens"

There are fundamental advantages that the surface technology has, but obtaining them (currently) requires the fundamental form factor disadvantage. These would probably balance out, but Microsoft has failed to capitalize on the advantages properly.

The advantages stem from the infrared camera hardware.

Advantage #1: Multi-user, not just multi-touch. You can see the direction that hands are coming from, even when they aren't touching the table. This lets clever software identify people, so that you could have UI pop up to face that person. Different people can do different things with multiple focal points and varying UI orientations.

Advantage #2: Identification of non-capacitive objects. For example, imagine a car customization app. The idea being that you'd sit with a salesperson and work through options together. Place a key on the table and a 3D model of the car that matched that key would drive onto the scene and then park next to the key.

Hopefully someone can figure out a form factor and price point that can capitalize on these advantages.
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I think that what killed him is mistrusting other people.

He said he never talked to nobody about his situation, but it's impossible to have a good relationship with a great secret like that. He mentions his darkness, but I don't think that's what ended his relationships.

He also mentions counselors reading notes from previous sessions, but to me that's a sign they were doing their job properly; as they say "the devil's in the details".

I replied to you, seeing that you've got the same problems. I've suffered depression at some point, I can relate (somewhat), and I've gotten over it by being sincere about my problems with everybody and by fixing whatever I could fix (instead of hiding / ignoring them).
True but misleading. Germany has some of the lowest university enrolment figures in the EU. There are a couple of reasons for this but the most important are

1. They stream early (10 years old) and savagely. Only those who go to grammar school (Gymnasium) are eligible to go to a classic university. That's less than 40% of the population.

2. They have an absolutely excellent apprenticeship system. All businesses pay taxes to their local Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and these coordinate training at a state and national level. Apprenticeships last 2-3 years, you spend a third to a half of your time at a trade school and the rest working for your employer.
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I don't know. A subjective judgement of the results doesn't mean that a study isn't scientific. You just need to be systematic and to be explicit about how you measure.
I for one, thought that it was quite positive thing and I respect his decision to take his own life.

I disagree. Maybe it's possible to understand some of what he felt from his eloquent explanation, but I don't think suicide is ever the only solution.

There will be other people reading this, who will be in similar situations. It fills me with so much sadness to think that there might be one who reads this and thinks .. 'yep, that was the right thing to do'.

There isn't anything brave about taking your own life.
In reality, like in many markets, speculators will probably lose money more often than they'll make it.
I want to start a dipshit company and later sell to Google for $25 million
Brilliantly written, despite the seemingly over-discussed topic - esp. here on HN.

"Private victory precedes public victory" - this resonated most with me.
So it seems like this could be even more useful in Europe, where getting volunteers to get off the plane has a higher opportunity benefit compared to involuntary bumping than in the US.

(I don't know if opportunity benefit is actually accepted terminology. I just use it for negative opportunity costs.)
It's "The Mythical Man-Month".

Which makes sense given the content of the book.
Not anymore - Thumb2 is the new standard and supports everything that ARM does (at least, the last I read it did).

One of the big differences is that you now need a marker instruction for predicated sequences, but obviously the encoding is quite different.
I suspect the main challenge is cooking for 100+ people.
You can also use "HTML-style attributes" [1]

#main_page(data-role='page')

[1] http://haml-lang.com/docs/yardoc/file.HAML_REFERENCE.html#ht...
Emacs introductory video tutorials (Hack Emacs)
Microsoft didn't capitalize on Touch-based computing (a la Surface - didn't imply about pixel sense at all) when they had the chance before.

Microsoft labs has a lot of crazy cool stuff, but they don't see daylight in the hands of the consumer. There's something to be said about that.

The point is that they missed the boat, but shipped late.

"Gates's admission that he looked at the iPhone, unveiled three years ago in January 2007 and which went on sale in June that year, and thought that "Microsoft didn't aim high enough" is a startling revelation from the man who drove the company to focus on mobile." http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/12/ipad-bill-g... - that says it all!
I think what saddens me most about this note is his experience with counseling professionals

I can relate to that part of the note. With one (minor?) exception, I've never seen a proper doctor about my issues, but I've been to a number of counselors over the years. Almost all of them have been completely useless to me, because I can clearly see that I'm not safe there.

I think it's a bit like the situation Mr. Zeller faced. I don't want to go far into my issues, because this isn't the place for that and, even if it were, my issues are nothing compared to his, but suffice it to say that in high school I was pretty concerned about my ability to manage my anger. I managed to tell a guidance counselor this, one I'd known since I started high school (she had first been my French teacher, then was assigned to me when she transitioned into counseling), and asked to be referred to a counselor before I hurt someone.

When I was with the counselor, however, although I was there explicitly because I was worried about hurting people, I was always measured in my responses. I limited what I said because I was always trying to determine where exactly the line was where a counselor becomes legally obligated to report me to someone, and I tried my damnedest to stay on my side of that line. It limited what I said, and it limited how much I could get out of the experience, and so ultimately everything broke down and the counselor more or less told me to come back when I was willing to actually talk. I ended up getting basically nothing out of the experience, except for some extra time with my grandparents since they lived near the counselors office. Considering my grandfather died in April, and I still think of him every day, I suppose I should be grateful for the experience because even if I got fuck all out of the actual counseling, I still got to see my grandparents more.
You are incorrect: In the US, two 2009 H1N1 vaccines distributed in multi-dose vials were approved for children >= 6 months. See:

http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/vaccination/dosage.htm#table1
This is correct. If you don't present the exact information someone is looking for but provide links that look like they will, they will click those links.
It's Alana Morriset irony.
Interesting results. Will you be running any tests on the bar you added to the bottom of your site? I'd be interested to see if that increases conversions.
Like it was pointed out elsewhere, it's not the first time Windows NT runs on non-x86 platforms. MIPS, PowerPC, Alpha and Itanium had their ports, along with some limited software support. It was this limited support that doomed those machines, despite the fact they had enormous speed advantages over their Intel-based counterparts, something ARM doesn't.

Unless Microsoft can pull an unprecedented movement in their 3rd party ecosystem, I see no reason to consider this a world-changing event.
[Since my BF never comes here, I can say this] It isn't hot when he farts. At all.

So, yeah, I think there are valid reasons for wanting non-gassy beans. :)
Great idea. Would you consider changing the "pit" part of the name?
Don't you think the different button styles are affecting the results? The "Watch the video" button looks more familiar to me (it's like an Amazon button).
Yes, definitely. Right now watching the statistics of how users interact with the bar. Next step is to split test it with different versions and also presence and absence of versions.

Though I noticed that not as many people interact with the bar as I imagined. CTR of creating a new test using that bar is < 5% now. Any feedback?
Albert Einstein:

"Education is what is left after you've forgotten everything you've learned."

Learning only things you think you'll need (e.g. coding) limits your thinking considerably. I always find it amazing how knowledge from absolutely unrelated fields helps me to solve specific problems.
The definite answer can be had using a multivariate test with button style and text. But I doubt that style here would be a major influencer because landing page focussed all attention of the visitor on the button. So, visitors would have definitely not missed noticing the button (which is the primary role of button style). Button text would make them decide whether to take next action or not.

EDIT: clarified
If people are saying bad things, you're doing something wrong.

In my experience, for things like games, people on forums moan about almost anything, often irrationally.

I find that criticism is best when filtered; for example through a bug tracker. Most people just want to rant for attention (a silly number of people in my experience :(). Having a bug tracker next to your forum can do wonders for filtering out the trolls.
But how do you know it's the text of the button and not the style which increased conversions?
While I think that "the nail in Wintel's coffin" headline is, to put it kindly, hyperbole; I agree the the smart phone market has really given a boost to the ARM ecosystem. I can't help but feel their success is directly tied to Windows 8 supporting ARM. I hope for NVIDIA's sake that it doesn't go the direction of WinFS.
IIRC here in Canada you have to have all your vaccinations or by-and-large you will not be accepted into any school. However, I don't remember this being needed in the UK, but then again I remember getting shots during class time so I probably never paid enough attention because everyone got the vaccinations.
YAML: YAML Ain’t Markup Language
This is a sad story. I am reminded of another Princeton suicide, Manzili Davis '06 drove to California during spring break of his senior year, rented a storage unit and took his life inside of it. It was weeks before he was found. http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S14/54/83M99/

We had mutual friends and I met him a few times. He had his own "darkness" just like Bill Zeller.

I do wonder if places like Princeton bring out the darkness in people there. I enjoyed my time there but spent the last year of it in and out of counseling and more depressed than I ever hope to be again.

There were some good counselors there in the health center who were kind and patient. It's too bad Bill wasn't able to connect with one of them.

A lot of the problem is with the town. The "town" of Princeton is a sham propped up to impress visiting students. There's really not a whole lot there. Meanwhile, students are required to live in dorms all 4 years, which gives them a really artificial "home life" that doesn't help ground you very much either.

I lived and worked in the town of Princeton for two years after graduation and it was a thoroughly depressing and isolating experience. Unless you're a member of the university community, there's just nothing there to get excited about. You have to leave on the train for the day to do anything interesting.
I believe it is a significant change for the focus of NVIDIA, less so the world. It has long been rumored that they might be working on a CPU. It is a little bit like the surprise of Apple's A4 processor.
I noticed recently that Google has started to give explicit answers to some search queries - e.g http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=json+content+type
Making it easier to support alternative architectures beyond x86 might have been one of the motives behind .NET. After all, .NET bytecode, like Java, is platform independent, or can be made platform independent with minimal effort. This means that ARM windows will already have a "3rd party ecosystem".
This is one of those things that can amuse, impress, and horrify you all at the same time.
have you tried CrossFit.com? WOD (workout of the day) is only around 30 minutes :)
Neat - just tried it and it seems very polished. Just got to get my head around emacs now.
I agree that, in theory, button style could have influenced conversions and a follow up test would definitely prove this conclusively.
Off-topic but why do you have a donate link on your site that goes to PayPal? What are you offering?
Whether or not taking one's own life is brave, having read his suicide note I think he lived a very brave life.
Er, yes? Guess what the first results are when you type in "American Nazi Party?" That's right - the homepage of just such an organization.

I rather doubt they have any real influence or electability, though. As bad as the dichotomy in US politics is /now/, there are some levels to which we just can't quite stoop to.
above anything it was a battle against extreme economic exploitation.

The Crown's North American subjects were the richest, most lightly taxed group of polities on Earth, the Crown's British subjects the second richest, most heavily taxed.

The American Revolution could more accurately be called the War of American secession; substantially the same people were on top in NA at the beginning and the end. The American Revolution was a different creature to the French and British.
Two favorites parts

It's called the Toylet and has an USB for storing highscores.
I for one, thought that it was quite positive thing

How, really?

Also, he unintentionally perhaps shed light on programming

By killing himself?

Like Bill Zeller, I retreated into programming

Did you kill yourself?

It's difficult to read what you have to say as anything but self-absorbed wankery but perhaps I've got it totally wrong.
Most likely never actually said
http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/antoinettemarie/a/histmy...
Really? I just checked my cheese in the fridge and it costs €3.83 per kg. At that price that would mean about half a kg of cheese on one pizza. Anyway:

- flour: lets say 200g for €0.10

- cheese: 100g for €0.40

- olive oil: say €0.10

- mushed tomatoes: €0.10

- onion: €0.10

- yeast, salt, water, etc: €0.10

I think I'm being pretty generous here with the amounts and the cost. Total is €1.
A teacher whose students consistently perform below grade level, but who jump 2 or 3 grade levels under her teaching (in the course of a year) is probably not a bad teacher.

Easy, reward the improvement in test results, not the test results. This could also encourage good teachers to go to lower performing schools (since they might see the largest gain (and hence pay rise) there).

for one, do we have a hidden reserve of these "excellent teachers", and if so, can we convince them to leave their more lucrative jobs elsewhere?

Yes, pay them more. If you are very skilled at mathematics or engineering, you might be a good maths teacher. However you can get much better money working in Google, than working as a teacher. So pay maths teachers Google level salaries. You would have to pay teachers different amounts depending on what they teach.
Especially considering that measles has no effective treatment whatsoever. The treatment for measles is piss poor symptomatic treatment (IE you've got a fever? Here's some ibuprofen. You acquired bacterial pneumonia as a complication? Take some antibiotics.)

I really don't see symptomatic treatment as "effectively treated", I see it as a barely more effective treatment than placing leaches on a plague victim as they have to face the disease alone. Given that acute measles has a 15% mortality rate, I'd say it isn't effective treatment at all given that the measles mortality as a whole is 3 in 1000.

I find the blissful ignorance these people live in to be baffling. Do they not comprehend the statistics that there were hundreds of thousands of infections per year before vaccinations began and that this was attributed to deaths in the ten-thousands and countless more blindnesses.

I guess I'm rare in that I would rather see my kid alive and not suffering an agonizing death in childhood above my inconvenience of taking care of an autistic child and feeling like I have to blame someone else above simply accepting genetics.
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Well you could use peer ranking, and see how well the rankings correlate with one another. That's the method they use in expertise studies for subjective fields.
Just got a mail from Duck Duck Go that they're already working on that one:)
I agree. I think we need a protocol which is both package manager (dpkg, rpm) and environment (emacs, python, ruby) agnostic, with plugins to handle the specific cases.

I think the starting point should be an RVM/perlbrew-alike for each environment; that'll keep the environment developers and those who like to be on the bleeding-edge happy. Then plugins to handle {gem,elpa,pip,...} -> (sufficiently general intermediate format) -> {deb,rpm,msi,...}, and we're done.

Seemples.
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Trying to live through this must have been so hard - and yes, maybe that involves bravery; but I think 'bravery' is the wrong term.

I think he lived an extremely difficult life - and I think it ended in tragedy.

It's a tragedy that he was subjected to abuse, it's a tragedy that he wasn't able to ask for (or receive) help and it's a complete and utter tragedy that he ended up taking his life.
It's easy to filter out spam once we identify it; so the question is: "what is spam"?

Some argue that content farms such as Demand Media aren't spammers, because the content they produce actually satisfies better the casual searcher than elaborate, savant exposés on the same subject. Casual content for casual searchers.

Others consider that content farms-issued pages are the epitome of spam: spam that doesn't look like spam, and that ends up cluttering search results. Spam is not irrelevance: spam is clutter.

A corollary to "what is spam" is: "who should make the call"?

Originally, Google tasked itself with making this call, and it did a pretty good job at it.

But why not me? It should be possible for Google to make a difference between "casual" and serious content, and then let the user decide which they prefer.

Well actually, that is already possible: it's called "reading level" and it's accessible in the advanced page.

Searching for "how to wire an outlet" gives ~12 M results, the first of which comes from about.com.

When filtering the search to display only "advanced reading level" results, there are only 264,000 results left, the first two coming from Wikipedia (and the 3rd and 4th still coming from ehow.com).

So Google already knows what is "casual content" and already lets users filter it out.

Maybe a simple solution would be to add the filter directly in the search results page instead of having it buried in the advanced options.
For me time spent cooking is incredibly creative and relaxing. Similar to a walk at fresh air it gets my body in motion and thus helps my brain think.
Why? What's wrong with student tests? What would you suggest?
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You should try taking a 10-15 minute break (no media allowed). It will refresh you and give you more productivity for the rest of your work day.