skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would make sense if they're counting Operations Research as a type of Mathematician. Those are the people who design the algorithms (not necessarily write the code) for air flight planning, supply-network chains, personnel scheduling, and most forms of resource allocation. Lots of applications in resource extraction, manufacturing, transportation, military, and infrastructure design.

This assumes that they're talking about "Mathematician" as a career, and not just what you can expect with a Math major. If you have a degree in math, you can get quite a high-paying job in a broad range of other industries (like programming and finance, also on the list) because people will just assume you're the smartest person they've ever met.
Does anybody know if it is possible to disable Chrome's automatic updates so that one can pin their version of chrome to the last release that supported H.264?

Edit: found it...

defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent checkInterval 0
Given that our carriers (Fido, Telus, Bell, Rogers) don't charge extra for tethering (inexplicably), I would imagine this feature isn't going to be restricted on our networks. Your phone's unlockedness, however, doesn't affect the matter at all, as the limitation is determined by the network itself (or rather, by the carrier updates to support the networks themselves).
Interesting, particularly as it suggests the XBox 360 has been sold at a profit for at least four years now. So, of the three major home systems (as distinct from portables), at least two are being sold at a profit, further reducing the argument in favour of restricting their use due to recovering initial costs.
That's not a bad idea at all, if it possible to somehow short a fund. On average, the new best-performing funds each year will invariably do worse the next year, just because on average they were lucky to do so well in the first place. But investors will be more drawn to them than to the funds that performed worse.
"No, because this is why the anti-vaccine movement started."

No. The anti-vaccine movement started because idiot parents who don't understand the scientific process wanted someone to blame for their misfortune, and because the general public remains afraid of science, preferring to hang on to their woo-woo theories and religions.

"Had they actually debunked the research in an open and transparent way instead of 'suspecting' it then vaccination rates would probably be a whole lot higher today."

The methods used in the study were immediately called into question in a public manner. Formal and robust 'debunkings' take time and have been done numerous times.

"Well, there is the fact that the pharmaceutical industry now tops not only the defense industry, but all other industries in the total amount of fraud payments for actions against the federal government under the False Claims Act."

Yes, because individual cases of fraudsters (such as Wakefield), and massive amounts of individual cases of fraud being uncovered clearly indicate that the entire industry is capable of coordinating a massive smear campaign. And not only can they apparently orchestrate a massive smear campaign across the entire industry, but they can keep it running for years. Puh-leeeaze.

Sooner or later you loons are going to have to come to terms with the facts: Wakefield lied and is a piece of scum, and you are endangering lives by continuing to blindly follow his disproved and disgraced paper.
Spontaneity. Buy it by the bag!
"Windows" was only deemed too generic because Microsoft had been using it for 3 years to demonstrate GUI's to the public.

To be clear, it's not because the name "Windows" is inherently bad and generic.
We had this before, I just didn't have time to add it back in. I'm working on it right now.
I don't think it has anything to do with an engineering response. The issue is in defining the problem where as engineering is about applying knowledge to a problem.

The theory I'm putting forth is that Google tends to see things in the abstract. "The world needs a web based office package" vs "Company X has 100,000 employees and they want this feature". The later response is how a traditional software company like Microsoft thinks.

So for Google solving the problem of medical records for the world means going to people they perceive as deep thinkers (like researchers) and devising a system in a vacuum. Where as Microsoft would go to the line-staff level and design up.

(and for the record I'm not necessarily condemning either strategy. In fact I think the best possible scenario is to have two companies with those philosophies competing with each other)
MediaWiki is one of those websites that is translated into nearly every language known to humans, and it has a pretty elegant system for this. Not perfect, but good enough for almost anything. You can get away with minimal markup in the lexicon this way:

* In the code, messages are specified abstractly, e.g.

print getMessage('found_x_files_in_x_dirs', $fileCount, $dirCount);

* Languages each have their own class with a 'convertPlural' function that maps the quantity to the forms. So in english, that function might be simple, for Arabic, it's complex: http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/lang...

* Lexicons use a simple wiki markup to define the different forms of their language. To illustrate that the arguments don't have to be used in order, I did it in the reverse of how the code passes arguments.

'found_x_files_in_x_dirs' =>
"I searched $2 {{PLURAL:$2|directory|directories}}
and found $1 {{PLURAL:$1|file|files}}"

So for a language like Arabic you write a similar pipe-delimited list of forms. You just have to know how to lay down the six different forms in the order that LanguageAr.php defined.

Note how this side-steps most (but not all) complicating issues like case or gender, so you don't have to mark it that way in the lexicon. If the word is used in the feminine gender, accusative case plural in the sentence, that's what the translator writes.

All this is mediated with the amazing http://translatewiki.net/ website, run mostly by volunteers.
Those of us working in the low revenue-per-employee companies really want to work for the high revenue-per-employee companies. It also makes me wonder if the high revenue-per-employee companies are getting the 10x value out of employees that is oft mentioned (and debated).

Of course, revenue is misleading as others (Torklingberg, _delirium) have pointed out, because it doesn't reflect cost.

What I am most interested in is the productivity per employee, which is rather elusive.
Take this and Word Lens like capability -- if I was in junior high, I'd make the argument that there's no need for me to learn a foreign language. In a few years, I can speak and write any language there is!
JRuby on Windows
... Marissa actually proved to be good at it.

Except that, as far as I can tell from the vast majority of Google's products, Google (perhaps not Marissa?) has a design sense that ranges from "poor" to "incredibly poor". Chrome, perhaps, being a singularly notable exception.
My god - that's a blast from the past. I actually credit the fact I ended up studying history to the 'Doomsday disc' the produced in the UK... would love to see a copy now. Do people still have the hardware knocking around?
If you view their trademark list (http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/en/us/IntellectualPrope...), they haven't listed Word, Publisher or Office. The page you linked likely refers to the use of "Microsoft Word", "Microsoft Publisher" and "Microsoft Office", which are fairly uncontroversial.

Access and Outlook don't seem particularly egregious.
Maybe I'm just a slower writer, but 15 articles an hour seems impossibly fast, especially considering that the articles require some degree of research. Do you honestly believe someone could write 100 of those articles every day? Even if it were possible (and I'm not really sold on that), that sounds absolutely soul-crushing.

And yes, you (and other commenters) do bring up a good point in that $1 has a lot more value in many parts of the world. And while it still strikes me as a bit exploitative, I fully understand how untenable my complaining about this is considering basically every piece of electronic equipment on my desk was probably made by someone earning the around the same, if not less. The same is probably true of the clothes I'm wearing.
So when you screw up you have the potential to fuck up someone's teeth, draw blood, or generally cause pain and discomfort to your client? Personally, I just edit and re-run the program.
Yes, because the average user knows what either of those are. Let alone the millions of businesses who might use this service.
A VAX 11/750 was my 4th or so computer.

Of course, that was after an Apple II clone, and C64, and a 286. They were scrapping it and I (my high school, but really me) ended up with it. Can't remember if I ever got it working properly, but it was really impressive. It had been used in an NMR setup and had really neat vacuum tubes to do connect to that.
true, but there's always other options - having a fulltime job and running it as a sideline, doing contract/consulting work...

Or just running toward 'profitable' earlier on.
Analog oscilloscopes have a save feature, it's called a camera hooked up to the trigger output.
Fine, but investment bankers are still a small minority in finance. I lack the proper English terms for the different banking job descriptions, but bankers dealing with customers personally (loan approval etc., which for commercial clients can be pretty big), internal auditing, etc. have standard hours and, if they are doing a good job, a good career.
"The IPv6 designers made a fundamental conceptual mistake: they designed the IPv6 address space as an alternative to the IPv4 address space, rather than an extension to the IPv4 address space." -- djb (emphasis mine)

It's true that it would have make sense to embed IPv4 address space into IPv6!
Information overload: Internet 2010 in numbers
Who would have thought that alpha software is in fact very alpha-like in it's qualities?
Show HN: Math.ly (MVP) Do you think there's a market for something like this?
Indeed. I wish, just like for Firefox, there was an extension which could tell me what protocol I am using.

As far as I know, Firefox does not discriminate nor positively favor neither IPv6 or IPv4. So far, this is what has given me the best IPv6 experience, and I'm very disappointed Google/Chrome has decided to do their best to conceal from the internet that there are users out there, and that they are ready.

IPv6 deployment is largely a chicken and the egg type of problem and IMO this decision doesn't really help.
What a coincidence that Nancy was the step-mother of the ticketing agent!
PS3 Root Key finders served with TRO, suit by Sony
Totally, two well known blogs with a big community
Another point is that once a civilization becomes advanced enough to be capable of intergalactic travel, maybe its resource needs change. The earth is great for us, but who says aliens have any need to visit here.
Hi! So far, I've had around 130 signups, 5 of which are paying. I launched last month with a tiny MVP, and built the features up around it as I learned there was demand. Since the launch, I've been making small fixes and adding a few tiny features, but the first paying customer after 4 days of launching gave me enough validation to focus more on the marketing side of things (as a developer it's not something I'm naturally drawn to do). I've been adding more information to the website based on some feedback, and I've been working on trying to help people "get it" quicker, since initially people were saying "why not just use Hootsuite" when Buffer is actually quite different. If you have any ideas I'd love to hear them!
Dual form has been disappearing for past couple centuries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_(grammatical_number)

quoted // Of the living languages, only Slovene and Sorbian have preserved the dual number as a productive form. In all of the remaining languages, its influence is still found in the declension of nouns of which there are commonly only two: eyes, ears, shoulders, in certain fixed expressions, and the agreement of nouns when used with numbers.
"While probably not the best strategy" was probably not the best caveat. I agree that this is dumb, but I also think it's the underlying reason some founders spend so much of their time hiring.

>You are not likely to profit from the "recruiting arbitrage hedge" you've come up with;

If I understand you correctly, I don't agree with this completely. One of the reasons outsourcing and temp companies exist is to perform recruitment that their clients are incapable of doing themselves. There is good money in recruiting arbitrage as a business plan, but in most circumstances "we'll do that if our real strategy fails" is completely useless as a hedge.

(edited for clarity. still a mess)
This is the first time I've heard someone argue that undocumented bugs are better than well-documented ones.
Related: The Germany-based IT book and magazine publisher Heise (http://www.heise.de) did this back on 2010-09. The test has been such a success (practically no problems, for their share of readers, though) that they made that permanent. They wrote that those Big Guys had asked them on their experiences. Maybe this actually works out. (Source, German: @ http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Globaler-Test-fuer-da...)
If your horrified by comments, you should stop coming here and seek help.

> Your comment is the kind that makes me glad I've been avoiding HN for the past few weeks.

Coincidentally, your comment is the kind that makes me glad you've been avoiding HN for the past few weeks.

Rather than simply posting insulting comments, you could attempt to contribute. It takes a bit more work and a bit of intelligence, but I'm sure you can manage. The net result is a better HN.
I'd agree with you if this were just a link to a local news story covering the event, but since the bulk of this article is an anecdote about two ways of doing customer service -- compassion vs. indifference -- and what a difference it can make, especially when the company stands behind it - there's definitely a business lesson to be learned here.
Hacking isn't only about software. He showed up 2 hours in advance and was still unable to board his flight in time. If any system is screaming out for a hack, it's the screening process in US airports.
How Gnip unshortens URLs from the Twitter fire hose
It's not lost. Since it is legal to begin with then the government cannot lay claim to it anyways.
It appears to be no such thing. Nowhere did I suggest my opinion was poorly thought out or impractical. I suggested that the parent's position was overstated and that people such as myself have very little to do with public policy.
Or perhaps her skills and sense of design were what was needed at the time and things went well. If she was useless apart from one good decision there's very little chance they'd give her anything meaningful to do. She's been working on the products that seem most important there so I sorta doubt your theory.
The Most Amazing Press Release Ever Written
Right. Because the current price they're charging is going to be all that they're ever going to charge until the patents expire.

Or, you know, what's actually going to happen is the price being kept low until H.264 is well-entrenched, and then being jacked up when there's no competition.
Who's the target audience or what's the prototypical use case?

Also, I'd switch it from multiple choice to having a free-form text input field that allows the common ways of expressing rational values, e.g. "5", "10/2", and "5.00". (And make the equation generator generate only problems with simple rational representations.)
This isn't necessarily false, but I think it's too simplistic to work well. How long before it too is being gamed?

The current PageRank system is essentially that the creators of web content vote for what ranks highly based on what they link to, with the strength of their vote based on the strength of their incoming votes. Seeing that this difficult to compromise system is falling to pieces, I worry that an easy to game system such as you suggest will be laid to waste within days.

Email filtering is a bit different, since you can only vote down the things that you've been sent. It's difficult for you to mark your competitors correspondence as spam since you never have a chance to vote on it. Whereas with search, you can vote on anything you choose to search for.

There's also the question of whether it's really in Google's best interest to remove the spam. It's a plausible argument that they have no easy way out --- if they remove all the links to spam sites hosting Google ads, it's entirely possible that their revenue would fall precipitously. To argue that they need to remove spam, one first needs to conclude that they benefit from doing so.

I have more hope that a 3rd party might be able to solve this. Offer a series of browser plugins for Firefox/IE/Chrome that will allow you to black list sites from search results? Everything you mark is blacklisted for you forever, and once there is a consensus (likely with human oversight) it's globally blacklisted as well? AdBlock essentially works on this model, so it should be possible.

ps. Google already offers an official Chrome extension that does much of what you suggest: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/efinmbicabejjhja....
It's somewhat ironic to note that many of the 'user reviews' for it on that page are actually spam.
“Who is it that paid for the underlying concept on which they built these billions of dollars of revenues?” Briloff said. “It was paid for by the United States citizenry.”

He says that as though they got nothing in return for the time / money they spent on Google.
misleading article... most other countries don't tax foreign earnings the way the u.s. does...
Localization is complex, but it is nothing to be scared of. It can be done with proper forethought and planning, but it is by no means trivial. The translation itself can be tedious. Actually getting the translations onto your site is more difficult. Maintaining translations as your original content changes is where the fun starts.

I have had experience localizing web applications and it was not pleasant. We had to design the site from the start to account for multiple languages. It complicated the design. The alternate languages were, at best, several days behind the original English. A couple weeks was more typical. Localizing an existing site where we had not planned for it from the start was not practical.

Personally, I would recommend outsourcing localization if that is an option. It just isn't worth it to do it yourself. It is time consuming. More importantly, the time spent localizing is time not spent on your real business. Then again, I am completely biased because I make my living at a company where we provide this exact service.

(It may be a shameless plug, but it's on topic and might be useful to someone... The name of the company I work for is in my profile.)
You may be right, I do not speak Swedish, so I cannot read your references. It really depends on how believable the complaints were.

But nevertheless your post was misleading because you made it sound like he was reinstated after the scandal. Also, again I do not really see the connection with the writer Larrson. Just because he is a leftie, he is not responsible for every remotely left wing politician out there.
Honest question: do you think more wealth/jobs/long term economic growth is created by Google having that $60 Billion or the government having the $60 Billion?

Second honest question: a corporation is owned by people. People pay taxes. Why should those people have to pay taxes twice on the same money - once one it gets to google and once when it gets to them?
The "design" of the original Google search page was not so much in the aesthetics as the loading time. Every other search engine piled on decoration and most users had 56K connections. She was the one who convinced the founders not to imitate the other search engines, not to be portals, just let people search as quickly as possible.

That might have been more important than their search results in many cases. Design doesn't get better than that.
I know it's backwards to create something, then wonder if there is a market for it. But, I created this site after I tried to find some random algebra questions to practice and found nothing clean, for lack of a better word. So I made this to fill my own need/want. But I wonder if others would actually use a site like this.
Airline Surprises travelers with personalized gifts on Christmas Eve
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I'm not saying they did the wrong thing, but once you delay a previously on-time flight, you start affecting other people on that flight who might have tight connections.

Hopefully if they were informed of the situation, every person on the plane would acquiesce to a 12 minute delay. I know I would.
I can't help but notice that, with nothing in the way of demonstrable evidence, you are _presuming_ a female engineer to be incompetent and referring to her by her first name to boot. You're further implying that design is trivial work ("Okay, you can do the page layout, while we code"), subordinate to the real labor of coding. The general consensus I've surmised on HN is that design and UI are crucial for adoption; do you believe that Google's success was independent of the way that users used their product?

And if the public face of the world's most powerful search company has your imprint, isn't that _ipso facto_ evidence of merit? If design was in fact irrelevant, how could _any_ number of successful designs ever constitute evidence for the skill of the designer?
The title implies that Google alone is "skirting" the $60 Billion, when really it is all the companies using this strategy combined are responsible for the "$60 Billion"
I wonder how much these figures are skewed by hiring practices at google, et. al, where they tend to outsource a lot of non-tech jobs.... are all those amazon people who pack boxes counted as employees? Maybe some of those figures would be different depending on who you considered an employee.

I'd like to see an analysis of revenue per engineer......
> 1 billion actions per month

What a bamboozlingly humongous number! So I tried to figure out what it might mean in concrete terms. Assuming an "action" is some tuple of (32bit timestamp, 32bit customer_id, 32bit user_id, 32bit action_type_id, and say, 64bits for some custom value associated with the action)..

>>> (((1e9 * 12) / 365 / 86400) * (4 + 4 + 4 + 4 + 8)) / 1024
8.9183789954337911

Amounts to about 9kb/sec of raw data.
Short version: Given the fact that it's sitting on top of the front page with 87 points, the community seems to disagree.

Long version: I don't specifically come to HN to read about why Google stopped doing something with H-2xx in Chrome. I don't specifically come to HN to read about Clojure 1.2. I don't specifically come to HN to read about a fantastic human interest story based on excellent customer service and human decency. What I do come to HN for is the over all quality of the content whether it's technical in nature or not.

It is an extremely narrow view to hope that articles submitted to HN are only technical or related to whatever narrow "belongs on HN" viewpoint you hold. I enjoy reading about Clojure but I also enjoy reading about a tiny little thing going right for humanity because one person (and by extension a huge company) did what was right and I think the community at large does as well.
Harvesting energy: body heat to warm buildings
Yes, you request the codes each time the app is updated in the store somewhere on itunesconnect.apple.com
24% ± 2%
Somewhat related: Plentyoffish is also an excellent example of this principle as applied to hardware architecture. POF was doing insane levels of traffic for most of its life on 2-3 average-sized servers.