skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Success - Expectations, usually. Success / Expectations would imply that if you have negative expectations and positive success, you'd still have negative happiness, which doesn't seem true.
Mobile Marketing Trends
Going forward, the Go-oo project will be discontinued in favor of LibreOffice, as stated on http://go-oo.org/
Religion and the rise of economics
Anything you like, it is best to approach tea by taste, not by health benefits... start with experimentation -- whites, greens, oolongs, yellows, blacks, pu-erhs all have extremely different tastes.
Brussels Wants 7-Year Limit on Works Digitized by Google
It's not that Scala is Effective Java, it's that "Effective Java" (the book) is a good set of patterns of software developments in many other object oriented languages. You'll note much of the same discussed in Design Patterns (unfortunately, in a more rigid and less accessible form) and visible in well written pieces of software in Java, C++ and many other languages. That's why I highly suggest reading Effective Java even if you hate Java the language / Java the culture, the latter symbolized by horridly designed and implemented frameworks like Spring which have turned design patterns into a set of buzzwords to liberally sprinkle.
Or he's been misled by, like, every work of science fiction ever. They almost all portray it as the sort of mysterious, otherworldly stuff he's describing. I've known a lot of people who were kind of disappointed to learn that antiparticles are uncommon, but not that uncommon.
Yes, Gimp isn't competition to Photoshop for professionals. For people who want to do a variety of tasks where professional quality isn't critical, however, it's great. Gimp falls somewhere in between Photoshop Elements, PaintShopPro and Photoshop.

The UI is a huge problem. Whomever thought it was a good idea to make the tool window always on top with no way to minimize it, and no menus, needs to step away from working on UIs.
How to Improve Portability Across Personal Computers
Groupon Expands...  India, Israel and South Africa.... What Next?
I used medical journals for the research, they are all behind paywalls -- if you have access to some University Journal Databases, check the sources in the bottom of the articles. The most recent study was published in December of 2010.
Is there any data behind the stated trend towards narcissism in recent generations or is it just a guess from some cranky old people? Any study performed on today's university students tells me nothing about the university students of 20 or 30 years ago - is it possible that university students have always been deprived of self-esteem? Is it further possible that humans naturally exhibit insecurity?
Adobe Flash: A Look At Browsers, Codecs, And System Performance
World politics begins as Sudan continues vote
I truly don't understand this. Deliberately making the software less useful to you bothers you more than simply making a request?

Would you prefer it if the software delayed you for 30 seconds while forcing you to watch commercials, thereby increasing profits?
Announcing: OpenJDK for Mac OS X source repository, mailing list, project home
Sencha and its variants will have the highest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sencha

only chart I could find: http://www.o-cha.com/green-tea-benefits.htm

I'm able to buy loose leaf in bulk from a local store so I can't recommend a particular online retailer. In person I would go by smell rather than brand, the aroma of good sencha is very distinct.
wow there are a lot of items in that changelog. congrats to all the cassandra contributors. great effort.
Certainly, but I would say that there are very few Internet startups that cater to a single (or even a few) geographical locations. Your numbers currently indicate quality of service for customers in the same hosting block as Amazon EC2.

If you have enough monitors and spread them out well (which shouldn't be too hard, since you could just sign up for Perl/PHP enabled hosting accounts in different locations), you can still diagnose where the slow geographical regions are.

In short, having more data can only give you a more accurate picture, depending on how you analyze it.
The idea that stimulants only increase concentration for folks who suffer from ADD is bogus. I don't have the research at hand, but studies show that this effect is not unique to sufferers of ADD.
Android is great. The branded, bloated crap that Verizon sells on their Android-based phones is awful. Apples to apples, the pure Android experience is very comparable to the iPhone. But comparing the products as they are delivered to consumers, the iPhone has a huge advantage in that Apple refused to let the carriers ruin the user experience.
Ask HN: How can I determine what my salary should be?
I am working in the Bay Area as a network engineer and will be looking for a new position soon. However, I have relatively few contacts in the same field as I am and it is difficult for me to gauge what my salary should be. Are there any accurate tools for this?

I am a network engineer, cisco CCNP certified, about 10 years of experience and also have somewhat senior unix, linux and windows skills...
I have nothing against the Twitter folks. I don't know anything about them, and have no opinion of them either way. I'm just saying that going from how other companies have responded to the American government's attempt to bully Wikileaks (by giving in to their demands), Twitter appears to be an anomaly. I'd like to know why.
um... I do this too!
I really, REALLY hope Apple prevents Verizon from "verizon-ifying" this phone. They constantly put un-removable bookmarks, bloatware apps, and other bullshit on their phones.

That will be a total deal breaker for me, if they do.
A Light in India
Why would anyone? If they clearly hate school it seems like a mistake to try to entice them

I think this is an admission that college, and defiantly CalTech is not about knowledge but academics, and the two are not the same. Imho, academics is also not the same as learning.
This seems relevant: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/play/snake-oil-supplem...
It says that green tea may be beneficial to people's health- although doesn't specify L-Theanine or the attentiveness.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11897173?dopt=Abstract
I was never on staff, but I spent a year working full-time with MySpace and so I have sadness and hope for the reduction.

I don't really know anyone who still works there but it is obviously sad when people you worked with in the past are laid off. However, I do think the reduction in size will help them focus - I'm guessing they will strip back their huge international efforts (which IMHO are waste because MySpace is really a US-orientated service) and most of the non-core products that just add bloat.

The new incarnation of the site isn't all that bad actually, but it needs to exist as a leaner machine of ~400 people in order to look like an attractive acquisition and find a home away from News Corp -- the only way the site will ultimately flourish again.
The 13 Point Formula for a better Pakistan
If your CEO blogs it is probably not an asset for the company
That's a very good point, which I'd forgotten. Thanks ever so much for the reminder.
That was one of the more interesting stats to me as well. Given my IE trauma I actually read it as 6% as IE6 users but 6% of all IE versions, wow - Microsoft has really lost credibility with the web developer crowd.
> There is a major difference between being annoying about it's hardware "preferences", and a legally bound license and it's protection to prevent end-users from breaking those defined rules (VMs, Debuggers, and cryptographic DRM). The first doesn't do anything. The second protects profits and secrets.

Yes, exactly. Another way to say this is: an annoying message about platform "preferences" still ultimately respects your freedom, including your freedom to install and run the software on OS X. You are even free to distribute a copy that doesn't display the message -- indeed, I would encourage you to do so. A proprietary license and the technical means used to enforce it do not respect that freedom.

You seem to think that these two approaches carry the same moral status. If that's true, I must respectfully disagree. I don't believe that "protecting profits and secrets" is a sufficient justification for preventing people from using computers and software in a way that best suits their needs.
I'm genuinely curious -- really don't want to start a debate -- what do you prefer about the iPhone over the other devices announced at CES this year?
I wonder if this phenomena is at all related to red sprites and blue jets http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Jets
"The ECN is aimed at institutional investors such as mutual funds, hedge funds, pensions and endowments."

Here's a better solution for us poor people: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0085&...
Actually since it is aimed at institutional investors such as mutual funds, hedge funds, pensions and endowments this will force you to buy mutual funds instead of being an individuall long term investor.
I was going to make a related point. To get into the $100K-200K range, all you need is hard work. Study in school, do well on your standardized tests, get into a good college, pay attention to salaries when choosing your major, show up for on-campus interviews, and do your job well when you're hired. It's not hard to be making six figures a few years after graduation on this plan.

But to break the 99th percentile - I think that was $342K/year for 99.5th percentile of single filers - you need to take on some risk. Like forgoing your income for a few years to found a company. Or taking on a lower salary and the risk that you'll be laid off in a year and getting a job at a startup. Or putting up your own money to invest in one. Or taking on high-visibility, high-impact projects that may fail - often at the cost of your regular duties - within your day job.

For people whose whole life has been a steady upwards progression, risk is scary. It often looks impossible. And so they're stuck at a point in life where they know people who have vastly more money than them, but they don't understand how or are unwilling to achieve that.
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High Pre-Launch Expectations Can Doom A Company
Tell HN: Tech Founders #5 is tomorrow in NYC
Looks like we might get a blizzard, but we are doing another Tech Founders tomorrow night. Tech Founders is an event by and for engineers. We filter out startups we think are worthy to pitch us and only engineers, programmers and CTOs are allowed to attend the event. This makes for a high quality gathering of folks.

Tomorrow night, Saadiq Rodgers-King of Hot Potato is going to be giving an intro talk and then we will have pitches.

If you qualify as one of the above join the group on meetup to RSVP: http://meetup.com/Tech-Founders-NYC/
Your operating includes a page cache (in some cases it may have even more e.g., ZFS on Solaris with ARC). It can very effectively load these indexed values into memory. Of course your own cache and direct I/O may be more efficient if you're building a search index or a relational database, but for a key/value store the page cache should be very effective.
Clickable Link: http://meetup.com/Tech-Founders-NYC/
I'd say I do this more on an "as-needed" basis, which I doubt is every day.

I typically do sit down at the end of the day and go over a list of all the things that have been done and those still yet to do and prepare a plan of attack for the next day, which, from time to time, does include improvements in workflow.

Over the last year or two, I've taken to thorough note-taking. Every time I'm on a phone call, I take notes. Whenever I'm working on some bit of code and happen to see something that needs improved later, make an improvement, get an idea about a feature, etc. I take notes. Whenever I review things with a client, I take notes.

They're all handwritten, with a good pen, in Mead notebooks I get for $0.15/each during "back to school" sales. Each project gets its own (labelled) notebook, and I have another one for miscellaneous notes.

This all sounds very simple and obvious, but the act of physically writing things down in a book I can flip through, mark things out of, and scribble on (vs. typing them in a text file to get lost somewhere on the hard drive, or in an application I have to open amongst other windows) has done wonders for my productivity.
Hey Square: Ditch the Dongle
Give Camp America - Coding for Charity
No pictures. It's not really imaged. I'm refusing to believe it's not cheese or at least selenites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Men_in_the_Moon).
remote?
Visualizations of web data
The testing stuff is good and it's the direction everyone should be going but not having it obviously isn't too much of a problem because so few systems currently have it....

The Perl 5 Porters mailing list has automated mailings which test CPAN against bleadperl to discover which, if any, commits break existing CPAN distributions. This helps p5p revert genuine mistakes and CPAN authors to patch their bugs.

I know that several minor revisions of other languages have broken several popular extension libraries.
And a good fraction - maybe 20-25% - of the people I interact with have more money than I can contemplate. I work with a fairly large number of pre-IPO Googlers, plus here in Silicon Valley, you're always running into people that sold their company for $20M and are starting a new one.

I think that was the point of the article. If you actually get close to the brick wall in your profession, you'll meet people who've gotten past it. And suddenly, what seems like an enormous amount of money is just the tip of the iceberg, and you're left wondering what these people have that you don't.
I live in Madison WI. 200K is C-suite territory around here for a mid-sized company. An exec at one of the huge insurance companies or biotech companies make more but that not typical. We have an Amazon affiliate here and mid-level managers make around $80-100K I think. I highly doubt their Chief Architects make more than 200K. 200K for mid-level management in the Midwest (outside Chicago) is unrealistic for sure.
Mac App Store Sales Figures from Realmac
Ask HN: Buy domain name now or later?
I'm wondering what your perspective is on whether to purchase a domain name for your startup now or later. The domain name we want is selling for 15k USD. Our team is in the idea formation stage and would launch a MVP (Minimum Viable Product) within 1-2 months after securing the domain name. The other option is to use $10 domain name and just launch the MVP to see if it gains traction or not. If it does, then purchase the domain name but it may sell for more than 15k later. What should we do?
Huh?

Gratz didn't overturn Grutter. (They were issued the same day.) Grutter says that some things are permissible while Graz says that some other things aren't.
No. Stop creating crappy website/app that have no content/value and expect me to contribute free content/value for it using points and badges.
Email Disclaimers hurt the Environment
If the software's business model was to be free, but be supported financially by ads or commercials, then that is still another business model to give contribution to the authors. It actually does something.

As a user of free and commercial software, I would prefer in my dream world if everything was free under a BSD-like license. As a programmer, I realize that I need to feed myself just as the authors of the software I use do. Apple needs to protect their business model, one of which is that their OS should only run on hardware they sell. It ensures that their employees and shareholders can feed themselves and their families.

Compare that to Xchat, which is free in all forms except a Windows Binary. Reason being it takes significant effort and time to build and test on that platform. Remind has every opportunity to do something similar, by providing binaries and source free of charge for any other platform, but to distribute protection that makes sure that it does not run on OS X without payment or some other contribution. Just asking, without legally binding the end user, to not run it on the platform accomplishes and protects absolutely nothing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
This is great, thanks!

This is part 2, folks may want to check out part one as well:

http://marakana.com/forums/android/general/230.html
Salary.com has reasonably good data that I have found to be at least directionally accurate.
hey, OP here... Researchers are still out to lunch as far as tea goes with: weight loss, cancer prevention, anti-aging, and diabetes as many conflicting studies have been made. The affects L-theanine, and the combination of L-theanine with Caffeine have been studied and there has been little variance in their conclusions. Myself, along with a few other tea industry-ites have been following these reports. We scoff at all of the weight loss tea spam out there and question each study that comes out. This is only to serve as a culmination of several studies done specifically about the combination of L-theanine and Caffeine. Enjoy! Questions? Find me on twitter: @worldoftea
This is has been on HN a few times, old comments can be found here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=555549

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=750858

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=555971
Focus group and test markets. Do focus groups of your target customer to get an idea on optimal pricing. Then randomly create separate pricing points and monitor the conversion rate. Find the point of profit optimization (# of sales vs. profit) and you have your price. Beware you also want to be aware of any growth rate influence (word of mouth) that might occur at different pricing points.
I'd rather not share conversion numbers just yet. I would say though that the free plan is definitely a good thing for us. We originally tried to make it harder to find, and found it actually hurt our conversion. I think an obvious free plan sends the message "we're confident in our product and we know you're going to want to upgrade."
Riak has "windowed merges", ie you can schedule compaction at your off-peak times. Or not at all, I guess, if you never delete or modify existing data.
That makes a nice, pandering story, but it's really a very very complex.

There's some truth in the idea that the rich get richer, faster than the rest of us. But today, in a practical sense, what does it mean for someone to have much more money than I do?

And what causes it? It's certainly not that some plutocracy is holding our heads below water, as much some people like to paint that picture.

I'd encourage you to read this article, which has a pretty insightful analysis of where this inequality originates, and why: http://www.the-american-interest.com/article-bd.cfm?piece=90...
scala vs. F# is a mroe interesting:

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/9095/what-are...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1374635

http://www.developer.com/features/article.php/3883051/Scala-...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2905081/scala-versus-f-qu...
The look and feel of your site is great! Nice job! I agree with other commenters about the need for richer data. For example, just picking on the "top performing" site in your list (skysheet.com), here's the yottaa report on that site:

http://www.yottaa.com/url/skysheet-com-4d2ca049038ade0c05000...

Yottaa notes a similar reachability time as stella does in the "Reachability > Washington" metric. But response time performance is significantly worse at other locations.

Also, it's important to track not just response time of the server, but actual browser performance. If you look at the Page Load Time metric, you'll see that even when the server responds pretty quickly, the actual browser experience is significantly worse than a simple HTTP Client.

Overall, I like the site a lot. If you could get some more accurate metrics, it'd be great. Keep going!

BTW> Here at Yottaa we're beta-ing an API that would let you run tests and access all of our browser and low level data. Would you be interested in getting some better data from us? Contact me : jrosoff AT yottaa DOT com
Be realistic about it. This project doesn't sound funded, so odds are you can't quite shell out $15,000 on a hunch that your site might take off. Perhaps come up with an even leaner MVP and release it sooner and under a similar, cheaper .com. This way you can gauge interest a little bit before you make the big domain name purchase.

I say this because, if you're like me, I buy up domain names all the time and most of them end up going unused. Some of them I never even configure once. Would be a shame to spend $15,000 and have it do nothing.
Sounds like the shotgun-collar trap in Saw III.
Are there any plans to have the Scala compiler emit native code?

An LLVM front-end would make it much more appealing for general use. Perhaps as a sane (?) alternative to C++ in the high performance computing arena.
So they've only tested heavy access load on a double-digit gigabyte volume? That concerns me a bit, as I'm considering migrating from HBase to Riak, which would be several TB of data.
Is there a tutorial or something for MobileOrg? I just installed it, but I feel like I must be missing some functionality (e.g., how to get my agenda).
Archeology of a Floppy Disk
if this holds true then I need this stuff in my energy drink of choice. no time to prepare tea during work.
Hands-down the best resource for visualizing and comparing different sorting algorithms I've seen.

However, I'm missing the best algorithm of them all - bogosort! It would definitely get a unique visualization using this method, lots of random noise until it's suddenyl all sorted.
Not So Superior Chinese Mothers
This came out at just the right time. I've been pushing my team towards a releaSe cycle very similar to this one, not modeled after any particular system, just seemed like a good. Idea. Nice to have some outside vindication from such a respected source.
Any idea how most modern CRTs handle color? I'm not seeing anything specific on Wikipedia's CRT page...
Well at $30k, were you:

A) Paying for your own healthcare
B) Saving for retirement
C) Saving for buying a house, a car, retirement, a wedding, future children, or other large purchases?
D) Paying off your loans for undergrad?

Because my girlfriend and I are 22, make over $100k, have less than $30k a year in expenses combined, and still feel a little "tight" on the budget. But we're both maxing our 401ks to the company match, paying for our healthcare, and paying down our student loans (over $60k) in 3 years. Plus saving for a house, and maybe even a little wedding and a vacation. $100k goes quick.

Note that we both drive 6 year old cars and have no plan to replace them, rent a relatively small apartment and keep our expenses below $2.5k a month combined which is pretty good. I don't feel poor by any stretch of the imagination, nor am I complaining, and the situation is improving steadily as we pay down debt and have more cash, but the saving really puts a crimp on how much "fun money" I have.

We are currently (again with 2 people) putting over $3k a month into savings and paying down debt which are prudent decision but don't feel all that fun and don't really make us feel any "richer".
> I think from a certain comparatively low threshold, my worry would be how to use my money to make the world a better place, not how to get a even more luxurious lifestyle.

I expect many people feel this way, at all income levels. The point is that the "comparatively low threshold" varies depending on your current income - the more income you have, the higher your threshold becomes.

"If I had a little more, I'd give."

"I have a little, so I give." (widow's mite)

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