skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're talking about a hygienist not a dentist. They do teeth cleanings and assist the doc'. And having just gotten my teeth cleaned yesterday by my dental student sister, I can comfortably say that there is not that much room for really fucking things up. Yeah, maybe you can nic someone in the gums with the pick, but that's about it.
Interesting, wouldn't have expected the viral coefficient to go so high with such a minimal change. Did you just say that if you invite your friends, you'll get in sooner?

Care to share the exact copy you used? When I check your website, it redirects to http://sanfrancisco.usehipster.com/ and just says "Enter your email and we'll put you on our invite list." A/B test?

Also, I wonder how one might inch that viral coefficient up and above 1.0, making it a truly viral feedback loop.
His comment is written in a quite snide and belittling way. It's hard to avoid feeling that he either has a low opinion of Marissa Mayer personally, or female engineers in general.

Also, I would argue that while Google was indeed a better search engine, its clean minimalist design and fast loading times also did a lot to differentiate it from Altavista and Yahoo.
Read these two posts, you may find something useful therein.

http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2010-1...

http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2010-1...

There might be some inspiration here as well:

http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/78081/sorkin-zucke...

None of this is exactly an answer; but some of the ideas may help you formulate something to give to people to help explain the role of the hacker.
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I'm afraid to say that I don't think that's even surprising, even people you would presume to be more sensible than her (a certain few HN commenters for example) continue to spew this nonsense. If you think about it, these are people who have been deep in conspiracy theory territory for quite some time, and have invested a good deal of mental effort into eradicating any doubt in their own minds. They have preformed enough mental gymnastics that in their minds, any proof presented against their delusion is actually proof in support of it. Accusations of fraud only strengthen their resolve.

Anyone how has objectively been following this issue for the past few years should have caught on quite some time ago, why should they only wisen up now?
One could make a case against using 0x00 as NOP to prevent a rogue program from NOPping its way across zero-filled pages and into other parts of memory.
I'm pretty sure I've seen poetry in Lojban which is specifically design for lack of ambiguity. YMMV, but it's possible to have poetry without ambiguity in my opinion.
Imagine having a real-time interpreted conversation like they do in this Microsoft video:

http://zekeweeks.com/2010/03/03/real-life-babelfish-the-tran...

The delay and imperfections would mean you communicate less than half the speed you would if you spoke the language natively. That's going to get annoying quickly.
I think Adobe rarely gets accused of having their finger on the pulse of the mobile market around the year 2007. Instead H.264 was just an obvious choice, they would probably have gone with it in 2005 if the licensing situation was better, they certainly got abuse from some quarters for not doing so at that time.

My contention was that serving H.264 became feasible the day Flash started supporting it. The day before VP6 was a better choice because everyone had it installed and could therefore actually watch your video. The same is true now of H.264, it may be a wonderful codec and used in Blu-Ray and blah, blah, blah but the reason you can put it on a website and have 98% of people watch it is because it's supported by Flash. Sure Apple can force you to install Quicktime to watch their keynote, Microsoft can do the same with Silverlight, everyone else uses what's already out there on basically every machine, which is, and has been for a while, Flash.
That's not really the point though. These decisions are not made democratically with the passengers' input; passengers have no say in the matter, regardless of whether or not they are informed of the situation. A bit of extra attention should have been paid to this one passenger's situation, which would have made things better for him and had zero impact on the other passengers. The other passengers may have their own reasons for needing to be somewhere on time, possibly just as important to them as this man's situation was to him. A few extra minutes of service is all this guy needed very early in the process to make the whole situation a non-issue for everyone involved.
And the stress I'm referring to is more deadline induced than anything else. It's a fact that people in the dental world have very regulated ~40 hours/week schedules. How many all nighters do they pull? None.
I'm dubious of people who equate paying fewer taxes with the concept of evil, as if government ever did anything to earn income. There's far too prevalent a mindset in this country that sees falling tax revenue as a negative, then further perpetrate the lie by ascribing ownership of these missing tax revenues to the people. They use personal pronouns like "you," "we," and "our" when speaking of them.

Follow the money, or the lack thereof. Behind every one of these complaints lies, somewhere, someone who has some self-serving use for that money.
I think it's PC-XT. I added a lot of those parts with bits I found in a Hamfest back in the 90s. It's been mothballed for ages because I have nowhere to put it so I've honestly forgotten.
One of my nieces was photographed by her grandmother with a film camera, and immediately ran to her, expecting to see the picture on the back of the camera. On learning that wasn't possible, she exclaimed "oh, it's not working".
Probably just as well (as the deaf person wouldn't have to interpret the text-to-speech engine).

I'd wager that this project was built on the back of GOOG-411.
Partial answer to my question. Paul Grahahm's "How to Start" (http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html) addresses how to do it, but not why the traditional model won't work.
This is very useful to me, but I feel like it might be too harsh to direct business clients there initially. Perhaps there is need for a ijustneedaprogrammer.com with a friendly explanation of why that won't work.
The reg is hardly a reliable source these days, but even they think its fake. I looked at the first video, looks like a bad copy. Too light, no UI interaction, iPad 2 looks very unapple.
This post is incorrect. The problem is not a bug in GCC, but rather the PHP developers making unwarranted assumptions about the hardware.

The C standard allows compilers to keep floating-point intermediate results in registers; this is both faster, and can give more accurate results. Since it is allowed, GCC does so when IEEE-extended mode is enabled by compiler flags. PHP enabled those flags, so GCC enables IEEE-extended math, and thus keeps results in registers.

There are a couple ways the PHP developers can fix this:

1. Since the code explicitly says it does not work in IEEE-extended mode, they can disable it by adding "-fexcess-precision=standard" (for GCC) or "-fp-model precise" (for ICC) to their CFLAGS.

2. Alternatively, they could compile in C99 mode; C99 changed the floating-point semantics to make IEEE mode the default.

3. They could use the system's strtod() or strtod_l() , which is presumably designed to work on the current architecture.

Finally, regarding the author's suggestion to use Clang: the only reason Clang works as he expects (eg, incorrectly) is because it apparently does not support IEEE-extended math on x87-enabled processors. Suggesting that users switch to a compiler because it is missing features is ridiculous, especially if they add support for this feature later.
Especially considering the skill discrepancy between first and second string in almost all positions, ejecting the player with substitution is still a huge penalty.

I also wouldn't be surprised if teams responded to this by rewriting their contracts to clarify what happens to the salary a player would earn for a given game when they are ejected. Those two factors are likely to be control enough.

My concern with it is more that we'd end up with the same silliness that soccer gets where someone is barely touched and falls over looking to draw a foul.
Many airlines offer bereavment fares already, with straightforward requirements on providing documentation to legitimize the request.

It would seem to be easy enough to also offer "golden tickets" to expedite security screening under these specific circumstances.

I lost my father several years ago, three days before Christmas. My family and I flew to Nevada to lay him to rest at a family plot, I remember being hyper-sensitive to everything at the airport.

Holiday decorations? Terrible, tacky, and painful. Happy travelers made me think how long it would take to regain an enjoyment of the season. Travelers frustrated or annoyed for no good reason made me want to throw punches.

There are little things, and big things. Airport security and travel logistics are little things you want no part of while dealing with big things.
Another good option: only integer answers.
This is an awesome article. I've been teaching myself/experimenting with data visualization at my job, but mostly just with excel tools. This definitely opens my eyes to a whole new level.

I think the most interesting was when he laid it into a grid, and then going backwards and seeing how difficult those trends are to spot in the previous graphs.
There are some problems with displaying in firefox 3.6.13. The symbols appear for a split-second, then disappear for a few seconds and then reappear again.
> Don't charge me $100 for changing an entry in your database!

Maybe they use Oracle. :-P
Ask HN: How do I get a physical product manufactured?
So I have an idea for a simple physical product with a fairly straightforward design that would be made out of plastic. Does anyone know where I can go to get that manufactured? I've looked around but haven't found anything that fits what I'm looking for. Does anyone have any experience with this?
Thought experiment time:

Say you have created a site -- one that sells goods and services. You have written a bunch of code, and leveraged libraries and other components for the rest. Now, say, if I put certain values into the forms on your site, I get your services and goods for free or extremely reduced costs. Say that value looked something like this:

sophacles'; insert into discounts (code, percent_off) values ("sophaclesmagic", 100);

for my name, and I put sophaclesmagic as my discount code.

Do you consider this acceptable? Your code allowed it. It's not like I would be doing anything so crass as stealing, you can't claim I broke rules. I just did something you allowed.

Or perhaps would you try to get "your lost money" anyway, as the code that allowed it "wasn't perfect, but obviously not what you intended".

How is this not basically the same thing as the laws?
Yeah, this stuff is written more for us than for the business types. But you could probably take some of that and use it to help formulate a post of your own... if you're so inclined. Anyway, it's food for thought if nothing else.
You can also get free hosting at Cloudant.com as well.

I have accounts at both, however at Cloudant they have a pretty nice UI for managing your databases and also give you a slick way to setup rewrite rules. That way your CouchApp can have a nice memorable URL instead of the sometimes hard-to-remember path to the design document.

Edit: You'll need to open up your permissions on your Cloudant DB to replicate his db. They default to all private.
What makes most sense probably is for them to restrict use initially when (1) there is a shortage of hardware and (2) the hardware is often being sold at a loss per unit.

When the hardware is not being sold at a loss (which was from day one for Wii, and after years for the others) and the units are readily available so that repurposing isn't preventing gamers from getting them, then dropping all restrictions makes sense. They'll sell more units (which is good for them since the units are profitable per unit) and hence make more money.
Is the iPhone bad for the American economy?
perl -e "print map {chr} 119, 101, 39, 114, 101, 32, 104, 105, 114, 105, 110, 103;"

is the best my version can do. I still need to read more of that book of yours. And update my install: neither say nor -E exist.
A quick trip through your commenting history reveals that you frequently troll vaccine fraud related articles in support of "anti-vaxers". That is as good as "supports Wakefield" to me. It certainly demonstrates the same ignorance and causes the same harm.
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Thiel is very intelligent, but the problem is he is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is. That is a common problem with a lot of successful people.
That sounds pretty awesome to me. Build it and I'd probably sign up.
Some may argue that waiting 15 hours and being submitted to a cavity search means the terrorists have already won.
That's what makes this stuff so tough, tho. How many folks on that plane are in the midst of a personal emergency of their own? From my experience, it's rarely zero. Maybe someone on that flight is going to miss a connection to see their mother for the last time? Or the premature birth of a child? I've had both sit next to me on flights just this year. Not everyone lets the airline know what's going on.

As for why special accommodations couldn't be made for this guy, lets use what I like to call the "honeymoon principle." It used to be that when you went to Vegas on your honeymoon you simply had to tell everyone (from the desk clerk at the hotel to your waiter at dinner) that you were on your honeymoon. They went out of their way to make it special.

Then everyone found out about it. Two things happened: 1) a LOT more people went to Vegas on their honeymoon and 2) every couple told everyone that it was their honeymoon wether it was true or not.

So now, you might as well not even bother. Honeymoon's in Vegas aren't special, they won't even get you a room with a view.

It's the same thing here. In the course of a single day there are literally thousands of emergencies (both real and imagined) that people are tending to. How do you decide which ones get to skip the security line? How do you decide which ones get ride the golf cart to the gate? You can't, because as soon as you do everyone has a heartbreaking story to tell.

I wish it wasn't so, but lets face it, people suck.
DJB's proposal ignores the fact that v4/v6 translation requires new equipment and it wasn't clear where these boxes should be located in the network or who would pay for them. What is now called NAT64 is pretty similar to DJB's proposal and a few ISPs are planning to try it. Most people still prefer variants of dual stack, though.
In the last 6-12 months alone i'm really starting to see "the future" that I dreamed of as a kid.

Between this article, http://questvisual.com/, Microsoft Kinect, Nintendo 3DS, Microsoft Surface 2 (first version didn't impress me, was so huge and clunky), Amazon's Kindle 3 (huge fan of HHGTTG, the Kindle basically IS the guide) etc...

As a life-long nerd/geek, it's pretty awe-inspiring.
When you solve Project Euler problems you can see previous solutions. The F# solutions are astoundingly concise.

I regret I have not yet learned F#, but studying the Project Euler solutions would be a good approach.
Reminds me of when I got irritated at a long wait for my doctor's appointment. Dang it, I made an appointment! Finally the doc came out and apologized profusely for the delay, saying he had a patient come in with a life threatening allergic reaction.

My irritation promptly vanished and I told the doc he had no need to apologize for doing what was right.
See also Project Euler http://projecteuler.net/ . Maybe you can use these as advanced captchas?
But Maps' UI is atrocious for anything beyond the most basic tasks.
Here's a nice chart that shows the history of different investments, when and how much: http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/facebookgrap...
I have to groan when I hear people talk about "lost" money like this. Whether it's the RIAA/MPAA or a government analyst, the money is not lost, it is simply being put to (ostensibly more productive) other uses. Of course, the governments of the world could choose to stop trying to sway public sentiment and just close the tax loopholes. Unless they compensate for it in some way by significantly lowering taxes for startups and small businesses, I wouldn't be surprised to see general technological innovation significantly hindered.
Could you scale this by having experts that have reached a particular level paid to answer enquiries for solutions. Then a student could pay for the answer to be explained there and then?
Cool idea. One thing:

1. When the page loads, the question & answers flash for a second then disappear. Using Firefox 3.6.13 on Windows.

Otherwise I have the same suggestions as Andrew.
Sure, decisions were made on the battlefield that at the time and considering the circumstances were optimal (for local maxima.) This kind of glib remark doesn't really prevent anyone else from making the same mistakes.

I don't know what the correct approach should have been, but it seems that changes to support other architectures should have been made independently from other fixes and tagged such that they could have been backed out rather than contaminating your source and pushing it to gold. (Remember this is before the days of Windows Update!)
Thanks for your help! You're right, there seems to be a need. I should post something.
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So long as you know what you're counting, you're fine, yes.

But the real problem is that we have a different problem in each language. Every single language has its own way to do things and that's where we run into trouble, because you need generic ways of doing things and there really isn't one for all languages. You essentially need one function to create text for each language, even though some of them can share helper functions, like that one for numerals.
This is where you just need to give your employees the very BASIC ability to make decisions on their own. If someone comes up to you and says "My grandson is going to be removed from life support and I need to make sure I catch my flight", you should know the difference between that and "I'm late because traffic was heavier than I expected" and act accordingly. At the very least, employees should know an extreme case when they encounter one and at least take it to a supervisor for escalation, if needed.
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How about use a star-diagram to show results and then use a thumbnail version of that same one (coloured for scale) as a users avatar?
You can watch 3D WebM videos today (with nightly Firefox 4 and nVidia glasses at least) but I don't think the 3D extensions to Matroska that make this work have been standardised into WebM so it's maybe just a fluke that it works.
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IIRC, the first (briefly) trillion dollar company was Volkswagen.
If you want to build some volume product you will need some kind of drawings, get a steel mold, find a place for production, quality inspection, packaging, marketing, sales ... and so forth. As you can see that is not a simple answer.

You can check out quirky.com maybe that is a way to go for you.

Or read this blog indicating the effort you will have to put in place

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/10/going-it-alone-how-to-m...

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/11/going-it-alone-how-to-m...
I basically exclusively fly Southwest now. They fly pretty much everywhere I need to go from Denver and they've never really let me down.

They've made some changes to their frequent flyer program that kind of suck (apparently it's now based on what you spend, not flight segments)... but I can deal with that.

I'm excited to see what the pending merger with Airtran looks like. Hopefully it will extend their reach and maybe give them some routes down in the Carribean:)
Um, I don't find "Food Store" to be a ridiculous trademark at all.

Have you heard of The Container Store? They'd definitely argue that their trademark isn't ridiculous. And in my city, there's a burger restaurant called Burger and a drinking establishment known as Bar.
Great observation, saturdayplace. Your comment reminds me of David Brown's comment in the TechStars book _Do More Faster_:

"...we have to strike while the iron is hot! My experience is that this is rarely true."

This from a guy who's President of an Emergency Medical Services firm and a TechStars advisor. Probably good advice for many of us here.
I see I'm being downvoted because HN is becoming more like reddit in terms of discussion and debate.

To make my point clearer: You can own a physical device, but the software (IP) on that device is not your property. Is anyone familiar with court cases that might set a precedent if the root key is considered a software feature or a hardware feature? My bet is Sony is claiming it to be a software feature, and thus, not part of the property you purchase when you buy a PS3.
Is there a missing </sarcasm> there?
it's sad, but the iphone ecosystem says apps should be very cheap. i'm going to guess that there is no way you can convince people to pay five bucks for an app that simple. my guess is the market will value it closer to two bucks.

here's what i would do. start it off at two bucks. call it an "introductory price." if you get any takers at that price, try raising it a buck or two. but my guess is that you won't get many, so you're next step is to drop it to free for awhile.

i went through a lot of this for my first paid iphone app. it is in many ways counterintuitive and ugly.
and 95% of software engineers don't either. My roommate in college works an exact 40.0 hours each weak doing ASP.NET coding for enterprise stuff. Basically zero stress what-so-ever, and makes $55k at age 22.
But after four years of high school Spanish, my communication is probably even worse.

Plus I can take that four years studying Spanish and instead work on improving the translation. :-)

But if I ever leave my shoes in the library, I am ready!
"Mi zapatos son en la biblioteca"
Why do you recommend upgrading to a Kindle 3 even if you have a Kindle 2?
And they would be very, very late in making that argument.
In Ontario, there is "The Beer Store", so I wouldn't say it's that ridiculous.
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I agree with your notion to release this for free but the $4.99 price point is kinda high for just one value prop of scanning to add to my netflix queue.

Maybe you can make more money if you add a feature where you can add to cart and buy through amazon or price comparison while getting affiliate money?
I've never believed that this was an acceptable rationale for treating everyone the same. A lot of people suck. So what? Punishing the whole because of the depravity of the minority (or even the majority) is the kind of least common denominator nonsense that causes customer service to suffer in the first place.
Yes, more people would die from stress than terrorists could kill.
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