skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is how it's measured.

Is that measured as door to door at the gym? Weight room door to weight room door? Or time on the iron?

If you measure time on the iron, it is very short. The reality is a lot of your time is spent between sets, recovering, and then showering and changing afterwards.

Same as his "4 hour work week" measurement...
I know someone who is submitting one literally right next to me right now. We'll see how it goes.
Here are a few extra tips:

- "select relname, indexrelname, idx_scan from pg_stat_user_indexes" will show how many times an index is used, so you can remove unused indexes

- you can create indexes without locking tables (ie, while your site is up) by using "create index concurrently"

- you should use the autovaccuum daemon instead of manually running vacuum analyze in most cases
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When you define words and phrases like "subjects," "docile obedience," "science education," "scientific literacy," "educated," "school," and "ignorant" differently than their common usage (as you have done), it is possible to make an argument that says whatever you want, really.
People have been running iPhones on T-Mobile since 2007. The reason this is so big is because the iPhone currently doesn't support CDMA.
Yep, he certainly worked hard to game the NYT best seller list... just like everyone else who wants to be #1 in their section!
Sorry do you have sources? I posted a citation to a reliable study. Sorry you don't like it. I'm surprised you were able to read it so quickly, you must be a really fast reader.

Here's a column of feedback from readers to the study: http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/getting-science-...

I know right, it says "american scientist", based on your comment, that must seem like an oxymoron to you since "everyone knows" americans are stupid and don't do science. I'll be sure to mention that to Neil Armstrong next time I see him.
"philosopher and technologist": ACM offers a paper on "Ontological approach toward cybersecurity in cloud computing". Evidently the PHB is more on target than usual.
I always liked visiting Half Moon Bay, but it is at least 40 minutes from everything.

40 minutes to Cupertino with no traffic on I-280.

37 minutes to Palo Alto Square.

A mere 30 minutes (no traffic) to El Camino in Redwood City, but does Redwood City even count as Silicon Valley? It's certainly on the edge.

40 minutes to Mission Street in SF.

All these numbers are Google's estimates and are subject to going way up when traffic is happening.

Though I've never looked, my hypothesis is that Half Moon Bay is not substantially cheaper for rent than either SF or the Valley. There are fewer people, but there is also a smaller supply of housing, and the relative size of the rental market is smaller.

And, in the absence of a tremendous bargain on rent or an irrepressible love of daily walks along foggy Pacific beaches, I'd rather live right next door to something. Live next door to the night life, or live next door to work, but don't commute 40 minutes to everything.
That they do this is consumer unfriendly. As far as the evil of the overall organization, I'm not really qualified to say. I've never done business with them.
Ditto in downtown SF. The whole building wobbled.
The problem is that "1 month free trial" != "30 day money back guarantee" and many companies conflate the two.

If there is a 1 month free trial, then you shouldn't be billing a credit card upon sign up (whether you take it up front or not is a separate issue). Billing the customer and then offering to refund within the month if they don't like the service is not a free trial.

Offering a 30 day money back guarantee seems the most sensible for most SaaS plays IMHO. If someone likes your service, they should be happy to pay even for the first month. If they didn't like it, then they get their money back. Seems reasonable enough.
Is it OK to have a rational outlook on life? I have at times considered volunteering for things like CompassionPit, but I guess my view of the world might seem weird to some people. For starters, I am not religious, and for some religion might be the only consolation?
I checked out buffers - it's not clear to me why they are better than tabs. It seems like a different UI treatment for basically the same thing. Can you clue me in?
Well the point was that I started by saying that you should not be calling the government not taking as much of my own money welfare.

You turned it into the government taking more of my own money as being welfare.

So in the end my initial statement still stands. You cannot call the government letting me keep my own money welfare 'cause no body's building libraries for me with that money, are they?!
The use of such qualifiers bother me, rather the inconsistent use of such qualifiers. The media often misses those when they are needed the most. For instance regarding Sherrod / WMD...Edit: Though I believe the examples will make my comment unpopular.

Cable news particularly abuses this trick to insinuate something that they can deny later when questioned.
The Case of the First Mystery Novelist
It might be for some legal reasons until there is an official statement on the matter. In a similar way that journalists always have to say "allegedly" when talking a case that hasn't been closed. (IANAL obviously, neither a journalist)
I am in Mountain View and no one in my office felt it.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you jailbreak your iPhone and use it on T-Mobile's network you will only be able to use the EDGE/2G network as the iPhone's 3G radio uses different frequencies than T-Mobile's 3G network.

Makes the choice seem a little backwards then doesn't it?
Yep. Newspapers have developed a kind of shorthand to deal with the tight space constraints on headlines. Putting a description of a person in quotes is short for "who has been called…".
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Same here, I didn't feel it in Los Gatos.
I will now share my secret SOAP API Pro Method:

Step 1: Ignore all tools which supposedly make things easier (very important)

Step 2: Find the web service API documentation

Step 3: Ctrl-C example XML request

Step 4: Ctrl-V example XML request into program, replacing appropriate parts with program variables

Step 5: Parse the response. You're on your own here... Godspeed. :)
Do you really want to grow? Why?

If it is about getting more cash, you could try increasing your fees.

If, however, it is about seeing your business grow and mature, then you need people to delegate stuff to.

You most difficult task will probably be to find consultants how are competent, communicative, effective, trustworthy and not too expensive. It can be a pretty difficult process that can easily take months and even years if not properly managed. Depending on the complexity of the work to be done, you can look at everything from freelance marketplaces (low complexity) to more reliable third party providers that advertise on various web design/development sites. One advantage of using freelance marketplaces such as elance or freelancer.com is that they offer fairly good mechanisms for managing projects, deliverables and payments so that you don't have to set up your own infrastructure.

I wish you the very best and hope your business turns out the way you want it to be.
Steve Vinoski on CORBA after discovering Erlang
I'm currently inside the 30 day window return as a brand new iPhone/AT&T customer; I wonder if any minor differences in this phone or in Verizon's service (I really haven't had any problems with AT&T so far in the NYC area, I make very few voice calls) would be impetus enough to switch.

Anyone care to speculate where the smart money might be on choosing AT&T or Verizon for service?
I don't know, I think it's much more likely that letting Verizon host the event was a concession made to retain other control, like keeping Verizon branding off the device and letting Apple publish software updates without Verizon review.
Same here in Berkeley.
Net Access Corp is the owner of the datacenter Linode uses in Newark
The problem, for me, is an irrepressible love of water. Are there other places to live that are "on the water," so to speak?
I think the term "welfare" fully applies, because it pertains to the welfare of the society you live in. Again, I believe you're reacting based on an emotional response to what is often termed "welfare" by detractors of social programs

All classes benefit from social welfare programs, albeit in different ways. If your tax dollars are not paid towards society you benefit from, but instead returned as a tax credit, that is as much a form of welfare as the person who pays into the system for 30 years and then receives disability, TANF, or unemployment benefits.
Um, 4.1 isn't really all that big. There was a 5.something when I was in the Bay Area and a 7.something when I was in Southern Cali. 4.1 was like an aftershock of those two.

Any damage? I think that would be more of a concern than the number on the Richter scale and damage isn't necessarily proportional to that number. Other factors come into play. (Wasn't much with the 7.something. It was probably the least damaging large earthquake ever.)
> SOAP is just another protocol and as messy as any other.

I think that's where you and most of the other people on the thread are losing it. SOAP is way messier than just good old REST.

(disclaimer: I've never been forced to actually use SOAP.)
I expect to see this change to match desktop expectations eventually, but I agree. Connectivity, and web apps themselves, can be unreliable, so it feels safer to see a new page load to confirm that our settings have been saved.

Additionally, many Windows apps still use OK, Cancel, Apply buttons in settings dialogs. The instant saving of settings is more of a Mac thing. Users are going to expect similar things from UI on the web, and the majority are probably new to the idea of no save/cancel choice.
nothing at stanford
And there we go.

Taking a short-cut when the well established long route is clearly more sustainable, more likely to produce results and going to be cheaper.

Hacks are just that, hacks. Used short term to solve a problem, not fix the cause. Tim's studies are short term, and the long term effects of his hacks is not really known.
I find it hard to believe that Verizon branding on an iPhone was ever a point of negotiation.
It might be time to buy more Qualcomm stocks as it will be the provider for the CDMA chip.
Maybe I'm in an even further minority - I read math books for fun. The books that I read are almost always either Springer books if they are recent, or Dover books if they are older reprints. With math books, there is significant value in being able to write in the margins - Fermat comes to mind. The amount of infrastructure support required to get that working properly in electronic form (either free-form writing, or LaTeX support) is more than what a mainstream publisher would be willing to invest in. So, for me, it's still paper.
As long as your product/service rocks you can definitly get away with a .net domain. Most users simply don't care about what the tld is.

Relevant article from SEOmoz:
"Do Search Engines Give Preference to Certain TLDs (Top Level Domains) Than Others?"
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/the-tld-debate-revisited
Magnitude 4.1. About 0.01% of the big 1906 quake (magnitude 7.9), 0.1% of the Loma Prieta quake in 1989 (magnitude 7.1).

Sounds like a nice cautionary earthquake. Bolt your shelves to the walls, and store some reserve drinking water.
Thank you for the word vainglorious.
The title is a little misleading considering the actual title is, "Pupils think they know more than ICT teachers".
> when submitting data the users have been
> clicking on submit buttons for more than
> a decade to do so

So you only want users on your site that have at least a decade of experience with the internet?
Do they like Facebook, or are they only on there because of peer pressure?
Let Me Pirate that For You
Or door 3: Let bad software stay bad, use good software instead and format our text naturally. If somebody chooses to use software that can't wrap text, that's fine for them personally — but I shouldn't have to deal with their artificial limitations.
Different paragraph, different concept. A cracked and affordable PS3 with HD (Blu-ray) media player and trivially changeable HDD can be very attractive. And running a *nix home server on it could be a definite plus for many people, anyway.
I am talking about the original experiment. I am wondering whether people actually give ESP a serious possibility.

I am all for running experiments and finding out new things, and if this really happens to be a ground-breaking new discovery, great! That being said, what's more likely? That someone just _revolutionized_ physics and completely changed our concept of time, OOOOOR that there is something wrong with the experimental methodology? I don't know about you, but my 23 years on Earth make me think that the latter is quite a bit more probable...
I decided this is the year I'd start hitting some health and fitness goals - http://www.adamnuttall.co.uk
Exactly. That's why I'd rather use Android over iPhone.

I'm hoping for one that uses their HSPA+ technology that gives 42 mbp/s of blazing speed.
That seems to be a plausible explanation. I am still puzzled how the work ended up being published, though. Surely, the reviewers must have thought the same?
OK, at least for now. Nothing better for fickle teenagers will pop up in the next 6 years? Doubtful.

EDIT: fickleness with social networks not restricted to teenagers, obviously.
You mean 10.5, right?

I've got a fairly large install base, and I'd like to keep them happy if at all possible. In the future, when I have to get them to buy a v2 release on the App Store, then ideally I've made a good impression on my customers and they'll happily buy a license.

It's also not that big a deal to do. As long as the developer tools continue to let me target 10.5 from 10.6, I'll be OK.
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What we've been waiting for... Penthouse 3D Channel
you could try redwood shores or foster city. If you are planning to live in SF, the marina has some great water views
Yes, I meant 10.5, sorry.

I hadn't thought about upgrades for existing customers, that makes quite a bit of sense. I was only considering that all New customers were 10.6+, so targeting 10.5 didn't make much sense.

Thanks for clearing that up!
Talk and data at the same time isn't technologically possible on cdma. How do you figure they'll pull it off?
Rumor: iPad 2 is coming soon
What you need to know about A/B testing and conversion optimization (audio)
If you read Consumer Reports, they recently had a large survey, and AT&T came in last in pretty much every single market, and Verizon was in first in most of them.

Anecdotally, in NYC, the voice reliability on AT&T was terrible for me - every other call would drop within the first five minutes, many within the first two. I never had issues with my old verizon phone, I could count the number of dropped calls with one hand.
I live in Seattle, but I grew up in Minneapolis, and still fly out from time to time.
Well, I am sure they got the same top left on every Springboard screen deal as AT&T, which is actually more prominent branding than even Apple gets.
The transaction is very clear for linkedin, not so much for facebook.

LinkedIn gives recruiters in various companies and consulting industries a way to find passive candidates that they will not be able to find on a job board like dice, mosnter, career builder, etc.

Passive candidates are ones that are not really looking, they have the skills that the recruiter is looking for, but candidate needs to be convinced to take another job.Passive recruting tools is a huge need right now, especially for areas and industries with labor and talent shortages, ie high level tech jobs that is being talked about now.

So think of how large websites like career builder, monster, the ladders, etc are.They for the most part offer actively looking candidates. Linkedin is the only player offering a database of passive candidates that you can get in contact with, build a relationship with and track.

LinkedIn is in control of a segment of a very large market, with a very definsible competitive advantage. They won't be a game changer or the next google, but they will be positioned to make a lot of money in the future. LinkedIn provides a legitimate solution to a legitmate demand and the demand is huge.

Also, a lot of the high level tech people i've spoken to do want to keep work and personal life seperate or keep facebook life and linkedin seperate.
Justin (me) and Jason speak with conversion expert Lance Jones about the three fundamental questions that need to be asked to optimize conversion and the tools required to answer those questions.
The hide is useful, but the unnatural part is the "everyone you ever met listening". The great thing about Facebook when I started was it was like blogs or photo sharing, except that everyone was a trusted, real-life friend. Facebook was like sharing photos, jokes, and stories with your circle of friends.

Now that everyone and (and every company) are on facebook, I'm more comfortable back on a blog, where there isn't the illusion of anything but talking to the internet.
Remind HN: FB Hacker Cup is on
Facebook Hacker qualification round is open at http://www.facebook.com/hackercup/problems.php?round=4
http://lmptfy.com/?q=hackers
I wonder if Apple made any compromises with Verizon regarding the software on the phone.
Clickable: http://www.facebook.com/hackercup/problems.php?round=4
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A recruiter friend asked me how much a company should pay a cloud developer. I had no idea what to say.
Interesting; I appreciate the many, large warnings not to use this in anything serious.
That doesn't matter until browsers start paying attention to which authority signed the certificate.
so does "Don't be Evil" company (for Apps for Business product at least)...

so does Apple (for Me.com)...

etc. etc.
is this why at&t dropped the iphone 3gs to $50 today?

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/06/atandt-selling-iphone-3gs...
I think you've got it way backwards.

Apple was in control during these negotiations. If Jobs even shows up, you can be sure Verizon was begging him to do so.
Yeah, right. Let me know how that works out for ya. Like anybody is going to trust something like this, when the US Federal Government has it's fingers in the pie. This thing is dead in the water from day 0.

This idea is about as dead as the Norwegian Blue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npjOSLCR2hE
Increased to a 500 karma minimum - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529
I think it's conceivable for a fix to exist such that
1. knowledge of its inner workings could be used to prevent it from being applied.
2. it will take weeks to reverse, by which point most systems will be upgraded.
3. once applied, the trick used to prevent it from being applied cannot be used to remove it.

trivial example: the fix creates a new file "supersecurity" only if the file doesn't exist. by creating an empty with that name, you can upgrade but dodge the fix. but once you've got the supersecurity, you can't delete that file.
Reason and logic are not imperfect, only used imperfectly by flawed beings.
Venn Diagrams as UI Tools
It seems this wish is being fullfilled:

Tumblr:
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/suicide?before=1294400750

Scribd:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/46479466/Bill-Zeller-Suicide-Note

Also, his twitter account is alive (his last tweet is from last year):
http://twitter.com/billzeller
T-Mobile in the Twin Cities seems to have been going down hill (brother has it). The company is cool, but their service is poor. His wife's iPhone is doing great (Woodbury / St. Paul area). Also, one or more cell companies had towers on the old 35w bridge before it fell down and I seem to remember an article talking about problems arfterwords. T-mobile used to work fine down I94, but now much west of St. cloud is dead.

// sorry about above, deleted comment because I saw this thread
I posted this comment on the subject a while ago that describes the process I would use:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1966689

The responses were interesting, ranging from "that would never work" to "that's what we do and it works great".
Not 'fair' if you're posting statistics from one nameserver of each in order to represent uptime for the service as a whole.
I'm pretty sure the carrier name on the top of the screen isn't more prominent than Apple's own branding on the iPhone.
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prgmr will appear has Hurricane Electric ash thats who I believe provide all their IP space.
I would have told him that it doesn't matter as long as they are paid in cloud dollars.
Reminds me of the Penny Arcade comic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/3/25/

"God. Let me break this down for you. It's server-side. It's like, over here? Servers."
If the issue came up at all, I would expect Apple dealt with it easily by saying one word to Verizon: "Sprint".
http://pocketnow.com/tech-news/simultaneous-voice-data-comin...
Maybe not, but if you're going to dream, dream big, that's what I always say.
Nobody likes Facebook.
Is it GSM+CDMA or CDMA only?
In berk; I thought someone was shaking my chair to get my attention (had headphones on).
Our local Borders was in a leased building (it's closed now). I'd be surprised if they owned any of the stores.
"If one wants a more educated populace, the answer is less school, not more."

This is the most ignorant statement I've seen on HN so far this year. Institutional education is far from perfect, but that hardly means we are better off without it. You denounce education because people manage to learn a lot outside of schools, but the materials and resources that enable such learning are direct byproducts of academia itself.
Are these next-generation iPhone drawings?
re: getting the Verizon iPhone:

Reminder: date of product announcement != ship date
Wasn't data access very slow up until recently? From the outside I question how important GAE is to Google, has it got a decent sized team behind it and will it always be around. With Amazon cloud hosting seems much more of a key business. Of course this is from the outside if I were considering options, I don't use either of them.
Can you guys see if your submission is ok? I couldn't figure out if my submission is correct. It seems to say that the results will be available after the round, but there is a page with the current ranks. How is that possible?
I think it’s rather unlikely that ESP is real. It’s a reality of statistics that scientists will from time to time get wrong results; that and possible methodological problems leave all scientific results (except maybe the most obvious ones) up in the air until they have been confirmed again and again and again. (Psychology could also pick a smaller alpha value like maybe physicists and avoid being wrong more often but it’s questionable how practical such a change would be.)

Still, this is a neat DIY experiment. There is quite a bit you can criticize about the methodology but that discussion was pretty fun. Oh, and this experiment doesn’t even seem to confirm ESP. (I think. I didn’t break out the calculator.)