skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in Search Quality at Google, and this is stated policy. Revenue from any source (the ads on the results page included) is not a metric used to make ranking launch decisions.

If me saying so isn't enough evidence for you, consider that it makes sense. Google knows that losing the lead in search would be much more damaging then shutting down all of AdSense.
I live outside a town of 750 and have fiber to my freaking house.
I put 8GB in my 5,1 (Late 2008 Unibody 13") a few months ago, and it worked great. It's running 10.6 with the default 32bit kernel and was definitely using the full 8GB, so something has definitely changed at some point. For the record, I got the 8GB from OWC.
"Peopleware" describes a solution to this problem. The basic idea is to design office buildings like hotels, where every room has plenty of windows. The buildings have to be long and thin rather than blocky.
I've made Dayta free
> I wasn't aware that not meeting that goal would result in slapping ads on articles.

Yeah, RWW says that in a couple of places, but I don't know why. I don't believe the Wikimedia Foundation has ever implied that. (Disclaimer: I work there.) The slogan/hashtag was #keepitfree, but I don't think that implies a number.

Anyway, if there had been a shortfall in community donations, the WMF would just have readjusted its budget, or sought more big-donor money. Ads on Wikipedia are not even a remote possibility.

But we prefer to get everything from the readership in small donations. Big donations expose the projects to charges of bias, or require us to jump through various hoops that don't directly benefit the community. We'd rather be working for the community 100% of the time, rather than balancing the concerns of the community and people with deep pockets.
Dayta is a great app for tracking New Year resolutions, and I'm still on a quest to get it in front of every iPhone user's eyeballs.

I think making it free (for a week) to coincide with this event would help. As always, feedback me up!
I don't agree with the author's argument. Here's one excerpt:

"In this case efficiency often means that oxymoron bureaucrafic efficiency. When something was needed fast at IBM they used to be able to fill out the paperwork and hand carry it to the group, eventually finding someone who could handle the problem on the spot. Now all requests go into a big queue in the sky and nobody knows who will handle it, or from what country."

1) I'm pretty sure a multi-national corporation with 400,000 employees considers hand-carrying paperwork to be an operational deficiency. This is the 21st century, why create an unnecessary paper-trail when your company builds products to specifically handle this type of use-case?

2) Is the author talking about some sort of routine process (Level 1 Support needs to escalate the issue to someone in L2) or some sort of special case (A client is experience a major outage and we need to find an expert who can fix it)? If it's the former, then this should be a documented repeatable process that is done many times a day, and thus why would it matter if the L1 and L2 are in different buildings/countries/whatever.. If it's the latter, then the chances of the right expert working in the same building as person seeking her out is going to be pretty low. Telecommuting does come into play in either of these scenarios.

3) The author seems to be correlating telecommuting with increased bureaucracy. I'd argue that reducing telecommuting will not decrease bureaucracy; it will still take 4-6 approvals to make that purchase, and the tools to expedite the approval process (contacting the right people directly, escalating to managers) will still be the same.
Google don't even enable NaCl by default on their Cr-48 laptops!
Any sysadmin/ops positions? Er, *nix that is. I know next to nothing about windows these days.
Put the initial description en englais.
Not what the OP was complaining about but the big issue I've run into is that large threads bring it to an absolute crawl. Get over a couple of hundred messages in a thread and it gets slow; at around 800 or so it'd take several seconds to load a thread and would cause the phone to hang entirely on occasion. This is on a G2, so it's not like the hardware's underpowered.

The only thing I can figure is that it loads the entire thread into memory when it's opened rather than just displaying what's visible. Fairly annoying either way.
Ok, so they wouldn't be called sunglasses. Either way, they have to exist somewhere. I'm pretty sure welder's masks block IR.
Changed, iTunes takes some time to propagate, my bad.
How much would that iPad app cost?
Hey,
Im ready to get my iPad-app build by a company. To be better prepared for the situation I would like to now how much it will cost. Its an app close to flipboards complexity for the iPad and I finished the design as where as it "only" needs to be programmed. Even though they might want to change a bit of the design, I am sure the basic design is finished. How long will it take the company/persons to build it and how much will it cost. My hope/guess would be around $4000-$8000.
I feel that a lispy language on the ipad should not be text-based, but tree-based: you create and manipulate the tree structure using the touch interface.

For example, you touch, and that creates a node.

o

Then you can type something inside that node. Then you drag lines out of it, and you create child nodes, and so on.

o-------o
\
\
o

The node doesn't have to be a circle, it could be a long rectangle with atoms inside

[ ____ ______ ______ ]

You can drag out an atom to turn it into another node

[ _____ ______ ______ ]
|
|
|
|
[ ___ ___ ]
Same here — I have the 1.6/4GB/128SSD version of the 11", and it's been fantastic since day one. I use it for Rails development, general web stuff & some light Lightroom work (when pressed), and as a second machine to a MBP that lives at home with a 23" external, but I vastly prefer the Air whenever I have the choice. The MBP really only gets used for when I'm editing clients' work in Lightroom & PS, where the CPU power makes the difference.

Thing is, the Air makes my 13" MBP seem fat — and the 13" is actually a pretty slim machine as far as laptops go these days.
Having an unassailable conventional military isn't a waste of money because terrorists are the US's primary threat--terrorists are the US's primary threat because the US has an unassailable conventional military.

I'll take the Taliban over the Soviets or Axis as a primary threat, easily. The couple of generations before mine worried about the bomb, and the generation before that worried about the Japanese landing in San Francisco. All we have to worry about is having airplanes hijacked? That's success, not failure.
Energid Technologies is hiring robotics and machine vision engineers with C++ expertise for our new lab in Burlington, MA, and remote work. http://www.energid.com/contact.htm
Ouch, Sun Quentin... That will be a hellish experience for people used to the previous locations. A startup I worked for was a couple of blocks away from there on Willow and the area is a vast wasteland. Good for Facebook in some ways though, since people will have a strong disincentive to leave the campus: there is nothing in the immediate area so you have to drive anywhere you might go, and it is located at a choke-point in a major commuter route so if you leave the office after 3pm the traffic will prevent you from returning before 5pm even if you just bounce to the old Facebook office and back.
Just natural evolution of language saw them superseded by alternative words of the same meanings.

The same way in a short period of time words like "cool", "wicked", "fab. [abbrv.]" can rise and fall in cultural popularity, so can words like "thou" and "you".
Been working on a TN for a year now as a web developer, it's true to get it you need a qualifying degree under the NAFTA professions list which is really "outdated", I was lucky enough to get an graphic design related degree, so my lawyer advices to get a "graphic design/ web developer" title, had to modify the job description to match a little the NAFTA listing for s graphic designer, I should say that crossing from Mexico to the US on a TN is a very pleasant experience not sure about why would it be a different experience for Canada,
The biggest difference from TN-H1B is that on H1 you get to apply for a 5 year process to get a green card if your employer is willing to get it for you,

I think this thread was long due, there's very little support for international talent aside from companies like Qualcomm like.
USA should have a visa to help startups get international talent, making it easier for everyone
Cute little puzzle. Is "backtracking" just a depth-first search?

I've always thought solving small puzzles like this was a nice way to get a feel for a new language. I recently worked on a similar solver for one of those triangle peg jumping games (http://www.gabedurazo.com/blog/?p=86) to get the hang of C a bit. Arc, here, looks nice.
As far as encouraging new experts to edit, I like the current Wikipedia Ambassador program. What I'd really like, however, is Final Revision. On an article-by-article basis, propose articles for final rev in the same way they are proposed for FA class. This would involve a thorough review, hopefully be experts in the field, to weed out inaccuracies. Then, the article would be fully protected indefinitely. Proposed changes could be submitted, but the idea would be to consider it a final product. By moving through many of the articles that would be suitable for this process, we could focus the community's energy on improving articles that needed it. I think we've written most of what needs to be written. With the exception of dynamic subjects, we should be archiving those articles which are done.

As far as encouraging new editors, we need to stop the manic approach to vandal fighting. Vandalism is a problem, sure, but there are far more people who are driven away by hasty reverts and unfriendly warnings.

As far as admins are concerned, it really needs to be no big deal. Perhaps an admin review noticeboard, to look at questionable admin actions, and a clear demoppping process. Other than that, promote editors pseudo-randomly. I think by throwing mops at editors without requiring RfA, we could eliminate a lot of the politicking that goes on. If you need more admins, promote more. We know that the statistically optimum way of promoting people within an organization is to do so randomly, and I think Wikipedia would be a great testbed to try that theory out.
I'm not sure that's true. I have sleep apnea and I've never used an alarm on a daily basis in my entire life. I've only been using a CPAP for about 2 years... but neither before nor after have I ever needed an alarm. I simply go to bed when my body is tired... and I sleep until I'm not tired. It usually means, for me, I sleep from about 9:30 p.m. - 5:00 a.m. and work 7-3...

Prior to using a CPAP I wouldn't expect sleep apnea folks to need an alarm because they'd already be waking up pretty frequently.. after the CPAP machine I'd expect it to be super easy to just go to sleep when tired and wake up when you wake up...

and before you say, "I have to be up at X o clock and if I slept until I was done sleeping I wouldn't be able to do it" .. I call hogwash... If you purposefully go to sleep early a few nights you can control your 'well rested' time until you get it to the right point.. and after using an alarm for a few weeks should be able to remove it and let your body wake you up... as long as you will listen to your body when you are tired.

I think this previous post talks about this type of sleep ( "free running sleep"?)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=673726
the link to arduino.pde seems busted (relative rather than absolute url).
I would blacklist ezinearticles. It's an SEO farm with no other purpose than to target keywords and redirect traffic somewhere else. The value you get is minimal per click compared with Wikipedia.
Make it free or fail
I have found that if you want to work remote many times it is better to just freelance. It seems that people are far more agreeable to remote work when the projects are in 1-2 month work increments. Many time freelance gigs will lead to a direct offer of employment if that is what you are after and many times the terms will be similar to the freelancing arrangement.
I'd love to hear any thoughts or opinions on this post, and on my blog in general!

(edited post due to name confusion)
Thou/thee/thy/thine are singular forms, whereas you/ye/your are plural. Just as we and our became royal pronouns, where a monarch would emphasize that they spoke for a whole country by referring to themselves in the plural, it became popular for the upper and eventually middle classes to refer to each other as plural, as a more respectful or formal usage.

Quoting from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thou):

"Following a process found in other Indo-European languages, thou was later used to express intimacy, familiarity, or even disrespect, while another pronoun, you, the oblique/objective form of ye, was used for formal circumstances"
This sounds great! The touch interface is really suitable for drawing tree graphs like these.
It really does seem that there was less of a focus on design back in the day. Sure, times change, fads come and go, and styles change. However, you can't tell me that Youtube's page was anything pretty even with 2005 standards [1] or that Wikipedia invested a lot in their design [2]

What's not surprising is that this seems to be changing. Businesses are investing thousands on the design of their websites and it hard to believe that any more money spent in the area could really make them noticeably better. Twitter, an example of a website that is leading the next generation of the Internet, seems to have been quite stylish when it came out itself. They probably didn't spend that much money on design, but it's evident that they spent time on it. Other startups are doing the same - coming out with killer designs the moment they are released. That definitely wasn't the philosophy 10 or 15 years ago (just look at Google [3]), when design took time to evolve and never started out that good.

However, all of this brings up the issue of functionality in comparison design. I'm sure there were websites at the time that had spent money and time on a good design, but those aren't the ones that succeeded. The ones that ended up becoming the internet giants of 2011 were the ones with hideous interfaces and childish logos, but evidently with great functionality. Does that mean that all the time we are spending on design is useless, or that design itself is useful and has become a bigger factor in what makes a website successful today?

Personally, I think that the time we spend on design is worthwhile, as our usage of the web has increased dramatically over time and therefore a slick and intuitive interface is a key component for a website to have. Users spend so much time on certain webpages, that unless another one can prove to have a more productive and pleasing interface, there is no reason to switch. So what do you all think?

[1] Youtube (2005): http://web.archive.org/web/20050428014715/http://www.youtube...

[2] Wikipedia (2002): http://web.archive.org/web/20020930123525/http://www.wikiped...

[3] Google (1998): http://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/http://www.google....
With the proliferation of barcode readers, it becomes more and more apparent that traditional applications that rely on these codes: item tracking and warehousing have no built-in security, some even allowing direct executable code injection via barcodes.

http://www.securitytube.net/Hacking-Barcodes-video.aspx
> the foundation was trying to raise money for other projects and programs that aren't the encyclopedia itself.

Any info on that?
Taubes actually addresses this point very carefully in both Good Calories, Bad Calories and Why We Get Fat. He cites quite a few cases of communities with high rates of obesity, and varying rates of nourishment and sedentary behavior.

One very interesting result is that some of the communities lived in incredible poverty and with significant physical exertion.

I'd recommend that you read the book (Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It) and see whether he addresses your concern. Far from ignoring our sedentary society, Taubes makes a strong case for other factors.
So “proper” just refers to your aesthetic preference, not to any actual rule?
And all this time I just thought I was lazy.

Actually, this article made think about what the relationship is between being lazy and being a procrastinator. Once I get going I enjoy working and it feels so good to get things done. Still, I have the hardest time getting started. So what are the best methods to get going? It seems avoiding HN may be one of them.
I'd guess you're off by 10x to 50x. Your rough design specification is only the very beginning.

Would you say it's around the Obama campaign app's complexity? $50,000-$150,000.

Would you say it's around Twitterrific's complexity? $200,000.

Or Instagram, which needed back-end services as well? $500,000.

Flipboard raised a $10.5 million series A funding round to build its app, along with acquiring a semantic indexing startup and whatever other tech they're building to support the eventual advertising play.

Sources: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/209170/how-much-does-it-c... && http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/flipboard_new_social_ip...
This sounds like a great app, but is it really appropriate to link to an iPhone app on Hacker News? Personally, I think it's good that you linked to the direct source, but I did not see any news noteworthy content other than what you told us in the title. Perhaps you should link to a blog article you wrote about making the app free.
Lots of communication via Skype chats in which I don't pay attention to the count of people in the room, and developers split into a bunch of small product teams so I don't have personal dealings with most of them on a daily basis.

Also I'm bad at estimating these things apparently. :P
I'm a layman, but I'm highly skeptical at the amount and complexity of information in this field with respect to your average person (which is not the same as scientific and medical research into the subject of nutrition, chemistry, etc.)

What's better? 5 servings of fruits and vegetable. Unrefined, whole foods. Water. Legumes and grains. Fish.

Combine such a "diet" with 1 hour of light exercise (for example walking) a day and I bet most people would be considerably healthier (all the better if they can do aerobic exercise a couple times a week, say on the weekend). Most impressive this is also normally a cheaper way to eat and doesn't have to taste bad.
So I had to go look up noatime. Here's what I found:

"Linux [and presumably Mac OS X] has a special mount option for file systems called noatime that can be added to each line that addresses one file system in the /etc/fstab file. If a file system has been mounted with this option, reading accesses to the file system will no longer result in an update to the atime information associated with the file like we have explained above. The importance of the noatime setting is that it eliminates the need by the system to make writes to the file system for files which are simply being read. Since writes can be somewhat expensive, this can result in measurable performance gains. Note that the write time information to a file will continue to be updated anytime the file is written to."

(http://tldp.org/LDP/solrhe/Securing-Optimizing-Linux-RH-Edit...).

stcredzero, I'm curious to see how you set up your partitions to take advantage of noatime.
Business Isn't Fun
They also have substantially fewer carbs--which is Taubes' point. By reducing your caloric intake you also reduced your carbohydrate intake, and so you don't know which was responsible for your weight loss.
Azul isn't a scam - based on past performance on other platforms I'd take their claims fairly seriously.

Having said that, prices would be nice to see.
Very interesting. Everything is so clean and uncluttered. It looks like an under-dressed set in a low budget porno movie.
The old Build vs. Buy dilemma

Facebook == Buy

Apple == Build

Apple is building a new campus, "City of Apple". Famed architect, Norman Foster, is designing it.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/12/06/acclaimed_arch...
We know that the statistically optimum way of promoting people within an organization is to do so randomly,

We do? What is the citation for that conclusion?

and I think Wikipedia would be a great testbed to try that theory out.

You don't think Wikipedia is already trying out promoting people randomly?

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/20...
What I find most frustrating about online comments on Taubes work is the amount of people who assume that this is just another crank peddling nonsense.

Instead, Taubes has spent the better part of a decade reviewing the state of research and putting forth a compelling, detailed argument in favor of his position, that the high-carbohydrate diets associated with civilization are also the cause of the cluster of diseases known as diseases of civilization.

His latest book lays out the argument in a more reader-friendly way than his earlier tome (Good Calories, Bad Calories), but it's hardly junk science, and Taubes is hardly a junk scientist. He has been a very good science journalist for decades, and has won the the Science in Society Award of the National Association of Science Writers three times. He does his homework.

Again, I recommend that those whose gut reaction is to be skeptical of Taubes' thesis read at least his latest book, which addresses, very carefully, virtually all of the common reactions people have in these kinds of online fora. There are certainly areas still open to debate, as Taubes himself says repeatedly in his writing, but they are not about the knee-jerk topics most people think they will be about.

If you're curious, feel free to take a look at the wikipedia post summarizing the results of low-carb diet trials at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_research_related_to_low.... You'll find, at the very least, some cognitive dissonance. And that's really what Taubes' writings (in book and blog form) are about.
http://daytaapp.com/

Link to the apps site itself instead of the iTunes Store site.
Problem is that this was tried before, with SearchWiki. When it launched, it was widely derided as being useless and distracting. Its usage numbers didn't show widespread adoption. And then when it was removed, there was much rejoicing.

Now, it's possible that SearchWiki just needed a few more iterations, and with a few details changed, could be a big success. There have been a few other recent launches that were tried years ago, didn't work then, but had a few more iterations and now are big successes. I could at least raise the issue. But unless I can tell a convincing story about why people would use this when they didn't use SearchWiki, it may be an uphill battle to get resources devoted to this.
Thanks for making this free. I'll install it tomorrow and hopefully come up with some useful feedback.
You mean, people in my email address book gave permission to FB to show themselves up when I get on FB?

If this is correct, how do I prevent this for myself? How do I not give permission to FB, prevent myself from showing up in someone else' FB profile when they get on FB?
Question #1 for 2011: House Prices