skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that hsl is a breeze to set, but a pain in the ass to get. Browser engines convert it to rgb(a) and if you want to check if anything has, say, saturation 100% you must first convert back to hsl from rgb.

To make matters worse, the hsl color spectrum covers colors that RGB can't represent, so you if you're checking for a particular color the conversion algorithm will throw you back something with a few digits off.

Otherwise yes, hsl rocks!
Actually, to make the analogy to Goldman closer, your financial advisers wife would be the one actively managing his personal portfolio. And his wife would be legally barred from telling him what positions she held.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall
dramatically improved their staff's working conditions, for example by experimenting with shorter working weeks, complete flexi-time, allowing off-site working by default, etc.

I believe it is a case of known cost, hidden benefit. Basically each of those items has a fairly easy to measure cost(shorter work weeks for salaried individuals basically means you are paying more for less.) Where as improvements in productivity are not so easily measured before implementing them.
The cup is half full... of Internet Explorer. :P
Anyone in NYC want to meet?
> That depends what you mean by "speeds."

Same as everybody else, the ratio between an amount of stuff S and the time T it takes to execute a set of operations P on it

> I used an ARM3-based desktop machine for a while 15 years ago.

So?

> Personally I think it's a meaningless comparison, but there you go.

It's not so much meaningless as irrelevant. I interpreted "ARM chiops are soon at desktop speeds" to mean "ARM speeds are soon at [processing] speeds corresponding to x86 desktop machines at equivalent prices" which definitely isn't the case, not by a long shot. Soon at desktop frequencies yes (the A15 is advertised at up to 2.5GHz while retail desktop CPUs have been stuck under the 4GHz barrier for more than 5 years), performance per watt definitely (ARM has blown x86 away forever there) but actual, raw computational speed not really.
Independent from whether or not this particular opportunity was a "sweatshop": you mention that you sent a list of web sites you've created and applications you have in Apple's App Store, but I didn't see anything in there about "code." Absent any actual code (not counting HTML, and assuming the web sites you mentioned weren't primarily JS) I'd certainly ask you coding questions as well.

EDIT to add reasoning: I've seen people that can release applications and put up web sites, the code for which is unreadable, unmaintainable garbage. I'm really happy to see that you can ship, because that is important, but if we're going to be coding together I also need to see that your code is passable.
If Google would like to make a big stance for Net Neutrality, they could block connections from them. But I think that would be a big issue by itself.
Swarm Intelligence or Herd Mentality?  When to heed your neighbors?
I definitely agree, but to be fair, JSON wasn't introduced until around 2002, whereas Jabber was created around 1998.
Mobile data seems very expensive in the US compared to Europe

Just don't get on a train for a couple hours and stop in another country. Roaming data rates will kill you in Europe!
> First, have you really done the math on how much money Facebook earns for each penny it extracts from end-users? Do you use Facebook today? I do, and I couldn't tell you what they're really making money on. They don't appear to have turned on the money spigot yet.

No. I was talking about revenue, not profit. From the OP: $50B valuation vs projected $2B revenue this year. No idea what they do with what they get to keep.

> When you cry "bubble", you have to be talking about the market as a whole. It makes less (some, but less) sense to me to talk about there being a "Facebook bubble".

FB is a private company. The distinction is that it's a huge company that now major players on Wall Street are trying to invest in. These types of dealings could potentially put Goldman in a compromising position with another bailout just over the horizon. Also, could this trigger a bunch of inflated valuations of other companies in this industry?
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Minecraft wasn't first to the party. See Infiniminer. Don't give up -- just write it anyway.
I think a lemonade stand beat you speed-wise.
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I assume so. Someone must be misinformed about value/cost ratio of advertising on FB. Sooner or later it will come to light.
> My counter-contention is that they're a very small drop in the bucket compared to the pre-existing incentives and disincentives.

And Facebook isn't exactly "at the margin" either, where that drop in the bucket might make a difference.
I wasn't pivoting, I was pointing out a fallacy.

Fannie Mae and Sarbox are tiny, tiny pieces of their respective puzzles. Blowing them up because it's ideologically satisfying is thinking with your amygdala.

(BTW, the "big government / little government" argument exists entirely in the heads of the ideologically pure. The rest of us are more concerned with the "works / doesn't work" argument, on a case by case basis.)
I am in a suburb a good ways south of Atlanta, Georgia. Apple seems to have a relatively low market in general in my immediate vicinity except for iPods.
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Nice resource!
Ask HN: Am I there yet? (Repost)
(This is a repost. Apologies in advance but I need some more advice.)

I launched CinEight, a movie recommendation site which helps user to manage their movies too, a couple of months ago. The response I got was not all that great. So I put it on the back-burner while I got busy with my job and other projects. Finally around mid december, I got some time to revisit the project and I decided to integrate it with facebook. I am not on facebook and have very little understanding of social networks in general.

Anyway, the app is finally out (http://apps.facebook.com/cineight). Its just my main site shown inside facebook. I do not know if this is the right approach.

The basic idea behind the app was to help people like me, who watch a lot of movies, find a place where they can manage their movie lists and get to know about which movies they may like to watch next. So apart from following people who I think have a similar taste in movies as me, I can also keep a track of movies I have watched in various All-Time best movie lists (Palme d'Or winners, TIme ALL-TIME 100, IMDB 250 etc).

It will be great if you guys would help me in deciding what features should my app have now that its on facebook (Social features, things that users like doing on facebook etc.)

The most important question is whether I should start spreading the word around or wait and add new features and polish the app some more. Basically, In your opinion, Am I there yet? If not, what do you reckon I should do, if yes, then what do you reckon I should do?

Thanks in advance.

http://apps.facebook.com/cineight
Having bootstrapped my own business, my biggest issues were dealing with stress and 'the unknown'. I was unmarried at the time so I could handle the pay decrease and living without niceties.

Cash flow was always on my mind - if a client postponed payment, or flat out refused to pay for whatever reason (happened to me a few times, even from 'established' clients) I would be mentally overloaded trying to figure out how to get by for the month.

You go through such a roller coaster ride of emotion - There is no better feeling of joy and accomplishment than having a client sign a contract and pay with a nice check; there is no worse feeling than sitting at your desk, staring at the wall trying to figure out how you'll pay the bills for the month...

Anyhow, I would never trade the experience for anything, though I'm not sure if I could have handled it if I were married at the time; I would echo Dave's sentiment that bootstrapping is hard but also extremely rewarding. You'll come out a tougher SOB for it, thats for sure! ;)
See also: http://www.paulgraham.com/thist.html
Providing a commercially supported, UNIX-like platform.

I got nothing..
Yeah, that's what it boils down to - but I have to say deep down I don't really like that idea.

Often times, the questions asked by people new to SO are legitimate questions, and not necessarily your typical "newbie question" à la How do I run a compiler? So I'm not talking about 101 or RTFM questions.

We all started out as newbies at some point, but also, just because someone hasn't got a lot of reputation points on SO doesn't necessarily mean that they're a newbie programmer.

I believe that SO should be a place where everyone can ask a question whether you're new to programming or an old-timer. If it's a thorough question it deserves a thorough answer. But then that answer deserves due credit, too - whether it's me or someone else answering.
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I'm not sure I understand your question. I'll try to answer anyway.

An internship doesn't mean free labor. Although I guess there are some people who do try to get people to code for free and call it an "internship" or "portfolio building experience", that's not what I do.

Where I work, we hire college students as interns, where they learn how to do test-driven web development using Ruby and JavaScript. They get to work with student data and records and it's a really great program. The students land excellent paying jobs and have access to a network of former interns who from time to time offer advice and sometimes share code.
So how many bootstrappers have spouses and families? Seems to me like the kind of risk that's easier to take for those who are younger and/or have fewer responsibilities.

Also, how many boostrappers make lifestyle changes months before they leave their day job for the uncertainty of boostrapping? I would imagine you'd want to have enough saved for 6 months of expenses (the general rule of thumb for anyone actually) and an idea of what your new life is really going to be like.
Derp. Thanks, completely forgot about URL encoding.
I think part of this problem is that Stack Overflow will make users wait 2 minutes before voting an answer as correct, so they go the easiest route and leave a comment thanking the correct author instead.
Maybe.

There isn't necessarily a points-based incentive system that will achieve the desired goal here, at least without breaking something else.

You can consider points and social norms as combining to form a global incentive system that is more robust (but less well defined) than a strictly points-based system.
I'm a near-statist liberal, so I'm pretty sure it doesn't just exist in the heads of comic book caricatures. I take your point about making scapegoats of things like SOX, but "unintended consequences" is part of the core narrative of regulation, even minor regulations (SOX isn't minor), and you're really not answering my question with this comment.

Do you think more companies should go public?

If not, do you think private companies should be forced to be more transparent? Why?

If so, do you not believe that it's become more expensive to be a public company in 2010 than it was in 1995?
I end up meeting other HNers when I go to user group meetups, Barcamps, StartupCamps, etc... In most large cities I imagine the same thing happens.

But about your site - it looks fine to me, although I would make the 'cards' smaller and over a couple of columns because it takes a lot of space this way. Also, I'd make the "Location" a field rather than something you put in the description because it's going to get difficult to find a relevant entry very quickly.

If the hacker lunch idea doesn't work out, you can turn it into a hacker friendly cooking/food site for lunch ideas. :D
This is why I like the GetClicky / MixPanel approaches to bounce rate better. I might have the details wrong, but the idea is as long as the page is your active browser window/tab for more than N seconds, you will no longer be counted as a bounce (despite only performing one action).

They can constantly reping to estimate your time-on-site within the ping frequency.
Paul Irish might be one of the most productive web developers of the past 6-9 months.
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You are the first person I've heard that objects to what Goldman is doing because it might harm Goldman.
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> This "bubblicious" stuff is only valuable if you support it with evidence.

I think it's going to be difficult to get our hands on that until hindsight clears everything up for us a few years hence. There's just too much that we don't know right now.
I agree that the experience is worth it. I'm currently in it with a wife and 3 kids, and I wouldn't trade it for anything right now.
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The ssh and vpn charges will predictably be outrageous and seriously curtail the popularity of darknets. Similarly with any alternatives that are centralized by service or protocol. It'd be an awfully tall technological order to create a distributed Tor-style traffic relay to the darknets.

Or are you suggesting pirate wireless carriers?

That said, if such a too-difficult-to-effectively-filter Tor-style relay came into being, that certainly would be a Big Deal.
I would add as a couple of other tips:

1. Provide a contact email, esp. for larger companies, filling out a n page submission form is a killer.

2. Use LinkedIn and the other boards not headhunters, Dice and Monster feel like headhunter spam. At least with LinkedIn you can connect from a posting, to a company to an HR person.

Personally I would love it if Dice had a filter headhunter option, but it probably would kill their #1 revenue stream.
Reminds me of the success Steam has had fiddling with their pricing structure. Can't find references now, but reports say that they've been ridiculously successful with it.

Though I assume that Valve consults with the publishers before putting an item on sale. I guess Amazon figures it would be inefficient to have to do that will the multitude of apps they are expecting.
Now translated here:

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> As soon as you get even remotely serious, for example spending money on marketing, you're going to wish you captured email addresses up front.

Just to add a dissenting view, I am ruthless when it comes to who gets (or, usually, doesn't get) my e-mail address.

If you require one at any stage before I am ready to commit to your company, you will almost certainly lose me as a customer forever.

If you take one and ever use it for anything other than the explicit purpose for which I gave it, including sending unrequested marketing spam, you will almost certainly lose me as a customer forever the first time I receive such a message. You will certainly get killfiled so you can't reach me again in future.

The only exceptions are likely to be established companies with which I have some sort of history, if they are sending something that might be genuinely interesting, e.g., when Amazon started sending out recommendations e-mails and gave a clear way to opt out right from the start. If you are a start-up, it is highly unlikely that you will be in this category, however.
Send me a list of your orphaned answers and I'll upvote em (subject to quality review).
I own startups.org, what shall i do with it?
So if you need to handle the 228 countries this lib handle, you only need 228 to 556 hours of work ...
Really cool tool. It's just data porn, maybe, but fascinating porn at that ;)

The pair-wise comparisons and the analysis of unique knowledge of people who've left is what interests me most.
Everyone seems to ignore Facebook Credits as a revenue source. That market is still in the very early stages of development, but it doesn't take a lot of imagination to see some very profitable directions for it to go.

In the short run, how much is FB extracting from Zynga alone with the Credits scheme?
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You call that user a product!
Where is this online market that the bots interact with? I've always wondered how you actually connect to this thing. I'm assuming you have to pay a fee of some sort.
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I'm absolutely agreeing with you - I was giving an anecdote explaining why a bank might consider a business loan to purchase a durable good a low risk investment.

I don't ask questions like this of that many people, but I'm on friendly terms with my local pizza guy. I'm often his last client of the night. He didn't seem to mind telling me about running a pizza place, at least in broad generalities. On the occasions when I've asked small business owners about such things, they are usually happy to talk about it, provided they aren't busy and don't think I'm a salesman.
Prices are dictated by the market, since everybody wants to generate as much profit as possible. Not to mention covering development costs as soon as possible.

iOS is more popular than OS X. Selling for iOS means more copies sold. It's not hard to do the math and nothing stopped the hordes of iOS developers from attacking the OS X market anyway.

If anything this will provide a channel for crappy apps that you can develop in a weekend and still generate some revenue for it (instead of giving it away for free).

And Windows has had a shareware culture for quite some time (tones of crappy games included, e.g. Zuma). It did nothing to stop the selling of quality apps for higher prices, as prices are only affected by other apps in the same category.
Ah, you're right. I thought ErgoMacs had its own unique keybindings but it copies the default Windows keybindings well enough.
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I've been waiting for these to come out since the TED video (http://www.ted.com/talks/david_merrill_demos_siftables_the_s...).

I put in my pre-order and can't wait for them. I've been trying to think about what I would do with a Siftables API, just for fun.
Where's the Android 3.0 Honeycomb source code?
You could just differentiate your product by releasing the Amazon super version that includes some trivial feature not available in the Android market version. Clearly such a feature is worth doubling the list price.
I would welcome any candidate who could show me examples of past work, but I would still ask the normal tech questions in addition to reviewing and talking about that work.

Why? I have to be fair, both morally and legally. If I decide that there's a set of questions that an applicant must answer correctly before I'll consider him suitable, then everyone has to answer them. If you get that right, and you have some impressive work to show me, you'd be way ahead of the pack.
How does a small customer battle a large company?
How does a small customer battle a large company?

What should I do? I run a small company that ships water saving toilets. Today, I set up shipping through frieghtquote.com. I was charged $400 last night for the shipment. I looked at the Bill of Lading today before the shipment was to be sent and saw they had put the incorrect address for pick up. I asked my representative to change the address and about twenty minutes later I received 5 additional separate charges totaling around $1000. Plus I now have 1 overdraft fee and several more seem to be in the works.

Obviously I don't have that much money and I need that money in my account plus the overdraft fees. I called my representative and she was blatantly rude and still hasn't called me back after 2 hours. I called customer service twice and talked to two different people. They have not called me back. I need that money back today and all they said was they could put the money back into the account in 3 business days. I have already cancelled my card, so this plan does not even work. I have also lost much of this day working on this situation.

Does anyone have any input for how to solve this situation in timely fashion. I am sick of getting taken advantage of because I am small business but I don't know what to do.
Twitter’s Golden Egg: Location
You sound very sure. Do you have access to private data?
The author lost me at "I haven't coded in Scala".
What if they don't keep a blog? I'm pretty sure I have a decent amount of technical information in my head, I just don't bother to blog about it.

As for Twitter ... seriously?
I mentioned it in another comment, and maybe it's not clear from my post, but I'm married (14 years) and have 3 kids (ages 8, 10, and 12). Being bootstrapped with a family like that probably requires more adjustments than for those who aren't married and don't have kids.

But you bring up a good point about prepping for those changes before you get into it. If you have the notion to start down that path, then making those adjustments ahead of time will help ease some of the "pain".
I have these kinds of conversations with small business owners all the time. Businesses I use on a regular basis or one-offs, doesn't seem to matter, they all seem to be willing to talk how how things are.
So, you didn't win the Mega Millions...Neither Did I
Please explain the proper way to form priors, then. 50:50 is widely used, as is "0 for obviously wrong stuff". The author here suggested "something sufficiently close to 0", which to me is indistinguishable from the second one. Should an accused's guilt prior be based on the jury's own guilt, the number of crimes they've heard about recently, or the judge's conviction rate? Or maybe the accused's socio-economic class?

Bayes's rule doesn't help with the point that suggestive evidence is not convincing evidence. It just points out that prior beliefs are part of the equation, but will hopefully pale in comparison to actual data. In fact, I was taught to set practically useless hyperparameters to ensure that they do. No one does that outside of an experiment.

Let's say I believe (I don't) the height of pygmies is normally distributed, where the mean is also normally distributed with mean 130cm and standard deviation 10cm, and the standard deviation is inverse gamma distributed with shape 7cm and scale 1cm. Assuming the height is actually normally distributed with mean 160cm and sd 15cm (it isn't), how many pygmies must I measure to admit that P(height>160cm)>20%? I'm not sure I can even do the math.

Here P=50% for the unknowable accurate model and P=0.13% for the prior model. How does the situation change when my prior is "sufficiently close to 0"?
how do you know those are newbies asking questions? A lot of Q&A content is either generated by code or outsourced content generated to capture long-tail SEO gaps.
This is pure crap. The jokes suck, the designs are awful and CafePress is garbage.
Clinical researchers working for non-profits / universities do, occasionally. I suspect it has become popular recently not because lives are at stake, but because it lets you publish something meaningful without having to run complex, error prone and lengthy experiments.

Regardless of the true reason, these are never carried out before a new drug or treatment is approved (because there is usually one or two studies supporting said treatment, both positive).

And if you have pointers to techniques developed for/by EBM practitioners, I would be grateful. Being a bayesian guy myself and having spent some time reading Lancet, NEMJ and BMJ papers, I'm so far unimpressed, to say the least.
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Hmmmm. I was just looking at one of my old game prototypes, of a tunnel-run.
Is there a date/time/place set yet? I'm right near westport and would like to meet up somewhere.