skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just tweet your link as you would normaly, but use the #zob hashtag anywhere in your tweet. You will find your link in your zobmark account (http://zobmark.com/twitter_username)
I should've looked it up, but I'm on my mobile and 'net access is inconvenient - sorry. Thanks for the amswer. Your comment sounded familiar - I was at Corpus, Cambridge - so the experience is similar.
most of them? what software do you recommend?
How recent was this?

At the start of January they reduced the number of accounts who have individual reps.

However, I work for an agency; the support model might be different for individual advertisers
I don't really agree with the main point of that post (c'mon, why care so much?) but it was good read nonetheless just for the fact that it reminded me how awesome science is. Almost makes me want to go back to school.
> I know the teams that support users and advertisers work really hard to scale

If the examples given in the original article are true, esp. the fact that when one copies an ad to a different category, without changing anything, the copied ad has to be manually approved again, then it doesn't look like scaling is a concern.

But I think part of the problem is that ad-copy approval is a "ACB": ass-covering business. Kind of like the TSA.

If something gets through, you need to be able to show that you did anything you could to prevent it, and it's really not your fault.

ACBs don't care for efficiency: what they want is documentation.
Few of them are:
- I am OK you are OK, Thomas Harris (not sure)
- Fountain Head, Ayn Rand
- How to win friends ..
- Lateral Thinking, Bono
Simple Everyday Workouts For Busy People
Looks like a nice SSH terminal, actually.
I found that it reminded me of a cemetery.
Here is a StackOverflow question with a good answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2271156/chrome-desktop-no...
and ALT+0131 on the numpad on windows
I think rule 1 of working at Apple is you don't talk about working at Apple. Also rule 2, iirc.
When you have no competitors there is a limit to how much customer dissatisfaction can impact your business.
Yes, in fact western europe tops the list with ~90 points and the day just started over here. I have the feeling that the american internet userbase seems so much overrepresented on the interwebs just because it's very loud.

EDIT: ops, I misread. I thought the thread was started 22 hours ago, not two. USA still has to wake up then.
I had a friend who used to write down notes of his friends and acquaintances in a little notebook. [1] He'd use this for exactly the purposes you describe. I thought it was a great idea but too much work for me.

I'll give Recap a try!

[1] This is very meta, but gladly I remembered this fact about my friend without writing it down!
I think the idea is to use a pure JS implementation of CSS for debugging/dev, and do prerendering of a minimal CSS file before deploy.
Akashic - A Definitive Answer to Access
Using ƒ for selectors in your JavaScript might be a subtle way to say "I developed this on a Mac, because no way in hell would I type this character 37 times on Windows or Linux".
> Sony just dropped a bomb on the Japanese stage

"Someone set up us the bomb"

"We get signal... main screen turn on"

Hello gentlemen, all your games are belong to us.

I think smartphones are currently too limited for gaming. You can create some touchscreen/accelerometer based games, but still I think a resistant D-Pad and two buttons should be mandatory for phones, or maybe if Android would add support for attaching a real(preferably smaller) controller... that would be an improvement.

I don't think hardware speed is an issue for mobile gaming anymore though.
Google-APIs as the Periodic Table
The difference is the risk. If you steal (or "forget" to scan) a pack of noodles then the grocery store loses maybe one dollar.

If an inappropriate ad gets through it could (potentially) lead to a major PR disaster for Google.

Whereas you being unhappy with the product or the process really makes no difference to Google, since they are the only game in town.

(For the record I'm really not "defending" them; I just try to understand their incentives).
Welcome to Australia...
If it was worth Google's time to provide good customer service they would already be doing so.
Don't be sad. The abstract for the large-scale study itself concludes that there are too many interlocking relationships to reach a definitive conclusion.

From Dr. Howard Friedman's other research (evidence humor and its underlying personality characteristic may be more good than bad for life satisfaction):

"Results indicate that emotionally expressive, extraverted, and physically attractive Subjects were evaluated more favorably in these initial encounters than were Subjects scoring low on these dimensions. The relationships between expressivity/extraversion and initial likability were independent of the effects of physical attractiveness. Results suggest that conceptions of overall attractiveness need to move beyond the physical qualities to include dynamic, emotional aspects."

And:
"Two groups of Type A's were found: one that was repressed, tense, and illness-prone, and another that was healthy, talkative, in control, and charismatic. Furthermore, in addition to the expected healthy Type B's, a subgroup of Type B's was found who were submissive, repressed, and tense; had an external locus of control; and may have been illness prone."

http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~friedman/nvcabstract.html

http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~friedman/longabstract.html
JS doesn't have optional static type-checking, does it?
This is evil. They should rather tweak their algorithm instead of blacklisting phrases?
A Model of Chaos and Social Conflicts
Correct. Cars are actually more expensive (often ridiculously more expensive).

And premium computers (cough Apple cough) are more expensive than the US counterpart.
Go Belgium !
The benchmark results in this article (as well as the benchmark itself) are not very representative. There are just too many use cases to consider and the benchmark seems to only deal with a tiny subset - one that IE9 happens to handle nicely.

I believe that some browsers struggle with this benchmark, because it uses 2 canvases on top of each other (one for the background, one for the sprites).

Here's a benchmark I just put together, that only uses one canvas:

http://www.phoboslab.org/crap/notjsgamebench/

Chrome 10, Firefox4 beta 7, IE9 and Opera 11 are quite on par in this one. They all draw about 1000 - 1400 sprites at 30fps on Windows 7.

And here's an example where IE9 performs very poorly (press F during gameplay to see the fps):

http://playbiolab.com/hqx.php?s=4

I just have about 20fps in IE9, whereas all other browsers draw at a steady 60fps. This happens because IE9 seems to only accelerate the drawing of IMGs into a canvas - drawing canvases into a canvas is still extremely slow.
The article is not about bandwidth but about the amount of data you can download at a reasonable price. People are actually willing to spend more time downloading something instead spending more money.
I believe Perl6 will fulfil those requirements because the language is built & hosted upon Perl6 Grammars which makes it totally reconfigurable.

ref:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6_rules

* http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1280021

* http://perlcabal.org/syn/S06.html#Macros
Same experience here. Nokia phones (esp. basic ones -- the less buttons the better) are virtually indestructible.
While Android is great, I hope you realize that it's not some magical operating system that makes every device with it better.
Much advice about the effects of drinking proves to be false
My favorite was the gorgeous 29 year-old chief resident in pediatrics who said it's strictly a back-up plan: she's marrying a neurosurgeon and has no plans to work after residency. Um . . . Do you think the admissions committees would have committed the social resources of a coveted medical school seat (only 45% of applicants ever get in, and the total cost of the education is around $400,000 per seat) or residency (her training involves other people dying) if she put that in her personal statement?!
Mind asking where you are?
Four Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris. My life was never the same again.
Have the same issue with Poland. We need this damn Central Europe category so we can escape the dreaded "Eastern Europe" badge... And since we are in no way Western, Central is the only way. </sarcasm>
Or more surprising, twigging a bug in some code you previously considered fine :)
Nice work!
It's really impresive how fast you detect bookmarks and achieve relevant semantic tagging.
Упражнения
Упражненията са част от здравословния начин на живот. Те тонизират и укрепват тялото, като в същото време стимулират мисловните функции.
It's also possible to just undercharge for support (and maybe even advertise that fact to limit expectations), but use the money as a filter. Ideally, you could even charge exactly cost, and then you wouldn't have misaligned incentives (and I would factor into the cost the information you'd gain from working with customers, so I'd say that to exactly align incentives, you'd want to charge somewhat less than the "support department" costs).
It uses "Web Notifications". You can read the draft spec here: http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/WebNotifications/publish/
A couple odd things about this benchmark:
IE9 runs different tests than the rest of the browsers. I'm not sure why, and there's no mention of this anywhere in the documentation. You can confirm this by running the benchmark - IE9 completes it much quicker than the other browsers, and if you click to see the results, you'll see it only ran 4 tests (while the other browsers run way more tests). There's a chance this artificially skews IE9's test scores up.

It's hard to reproduce the other scores from the benchmark (IE9 is certainly fast, though)... Chrome 8, 9 and 10 all put out a miserable 350 sprites by default on my machine, so I suspect he had to change some settings to get it to perform well. If only he had provided those settings along with his results, I could reproduce them.

Likewise, I cannot reproduce his Firefox results either - Firefox 4 manages around 1800 sprites on my machine. This is probably because he ran it under a VM - VMWare does a pretty good job of pretending to be a 3D accelerator, but it's not a real video card. I wouldn't be shocked if this negatively affected the performance of other browsers on the benchmark as well.

The difficulty of reproducing his results, along with how utterly bizarre the benchmark is - I need to compile node.js to run a canvas benchmark??? - makes me wonder whether it's of any value for actually measuring real-world performance.

Ultimately, though, an even more important factor is that this benchmark does nothing to measure the consistency of framerates - modern browsers can suffer from some pretty severe garbage collection pauses while running games and applications written in javascript. Even if your game is running at 60fps, if it pauses for 50ms every 5 seconds to collect garbage, it's going to be a pretty terrible experience. At present, both Firefox and Chrome suffer badly from garbage collection pauses in many browser-based applications, but this is not represented in most modern benchmarks.
A simple resolution for the question of this thread is easy:

For now, girls tend to pursue what girls do and know that computer science (CS) is for boys and not part of what girls do. So, girls try to avoid CS in college. When they try CS in college, mostly they don't like it.

Why don't they like it? Girls are (1) much more emotional than boys, (2) much more social, (3) eager to get praise, acceptance, and approval from others from work that "helps people" in the sense I explained (essentially volunteer work to help suffering people), e.g., one of the daughters of Bush 43 went to Ethiopia, and (4) better at, and more strongly seek, human to human contact.

So, on these criteria, girls see that CS is so detailed and technical it seems (1) emotionally cold, (2) not very social, (3) not good for work that "helps people", and (4) not good for human to human contact. So, many girls who try CS soon conclude that they don't like it.

For the future, girls who do not want to concentrate on being mommies, unlike for nearly all of history, will be able to so not concentrate and, thus, on average will be removing their genes from the gene pool. What will be left will be genes of women especially determined to be good as mommies and even less interested in CS.

You missed it with my:

"He's all fired up about the technical topic. Sorry, but boys have strong desires to master any technical topics around them that appear important. In part there is a lot of innate curiosity."

Then for my

"I'll let you justify that yourself"

you didn't!

The "technical topics" here are not yet nearly all that would be popular on Hacker News. Instead the topics are whatever are "around them" (the boys as they grow up). So, depending on what they see in their family, adults' careers, neighborhood, community, etc., the topics might be about cars, cattle raising, household electricity, operation of a commercial pizza oven, cardiology, roasting pastrami, trading foreign currencies, computing, etc.

Why? The usual explanation is that the boys know that they are small versions of men, that men take competency in their careers very seriously, that they, the boys, do not have such competency, feel vulnerable and out of control from the lack of competency, and, thus, as part of growing up into such competency are eager to soak up everything that is relevant they can. That's the standard explanation. Although you didn't 'get it' the first time I explained it, didn't work it out for yourself, I believe you can understand this point.

For whatever reasons, you are straining to disagree with what I wrote.

I remember a girl in the fifth grade: Her handwriting was good, and mine, as is common for boys at that age, was poor. So, she looked at my paper and said that she couldn't read it. So, I copied the paper again in block letters, and again she said she couldn't read it. I copied it again in larger, extremely clear block letters, and she gave the same answer. Of course, she was lying and having fun manipulating. You are doing much the same. Enjoy the games of fifth grade girls.
$21k full time developer.

The UK sucks.
"I am using a large number of div tags within the website (previously it was completely tables based)." That's one part of the problem. Why not use tables if you are using .title, .body and .footer for DIVs when tables have this as default?
I see a lot of people using DIVs on places they shouldn't. They use things like <div class="title" ... Why not use H1 - H6 instead?

HTML tags provide structure. Structure means less complexity. Using only DIVs will get you into CSS trouble.

Edit: A good tip: your website will look more consistent and clean when you try to build your pages by only declaring HTML tags in your CSS at first. Only when there is no other solution declare classes and IDs. And even then remember you can use multiple classes in your class attribute. Things like: class="width50perc floatLeft textAlignRight textColor1" are very handy.
It's a little absurd to about the simple changes / features necessary (variables? nesting? c'mon) to make CSS bearable again (if it ever was).

Then you take a look at some of the additional goodies - fadeout(), desaturate(), etc - that have been included in the most recent release, and you wonder how you ever kept your color palette organized before.

Less has prevented me from wanting to claw my eyes out during a recent round of frontend work - just for that, I'm incredibly grateful.
Maybe we should wait to see the distribution in the results before deciding whether-the-buckets-look-right-or-not.
Tell HN: my first DDG result that is better than Google.
The DDG search:

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=maz+narooma

The Google search:

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=maz+narooma&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

I was after Maz's cafe in Tilba (although I didn't know that was the name of her cafe). I've become more and more annoyed at Google the last half a year or so. Quite often I have to molest my search such that Google gives the desired result.

I think this should be DDG's aim: to be better than Google. I don't care about tracking, privacy etc. If >50% of my search queries are better answered by DDG, I'm switching.

(But a question to Google: under what earthly circumstances would anyone want the weather returned when typing in a person's name followed by the city you think they live in?)
Clickable:

Google: http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=maz...

DDG: http://duckduckgo.com/?q=maz+narooma
What is your start-up the airbnb of?
Amazing Concept Buses, Designs And Modern Concept Buses, Photos
Yet another enormously USA-centric poll.
Men and women have different chromosomes, organs, lifespans, brain chemistry[1], expressed genes[2], and the list goes on.

In particular, they also had/have substantially different risk/reward payoff functions. A man who risks all could potentially have thousands[3] of descendants if his bet pays off. A woman will have, at most, a few dozen children.

There are good mathematical models [4] of evolution (as well as data from mammals closely related to humans) that show that a high risk/high reward strategy is going to be differentially selected in males, where there isn't a lifetime reproduction cap.

The genome is upon us. We will soon need to stop ignoring biology.

[1] http://brizlab.ucsf.edu/brizlab/home.html
[2] http://adaptivecomplexity.blogspot.com/2006/07/gene-expression-differences-in-males.html
[3] http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article444767.ece
[4] Google Scholar starting with "Male Reproductive Skew"
Playstation Suite: Sony Brings Playstation Games To Android Phones
This is inconsistent with Google's policy of not allowing competing app stores on Android.

http://venturebeat.com/2011/01/19/kongregate-arcade-appban-p...
No, we don't need any new categories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Europe_subregion_map_UN_ge...

Unless we speak colloquially, then there's an infinite number of groups to qualify. The OP should use some reference to choose categories ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2147290 ), his are a bit strange and subjective.
Personally I like the Karate method: everybody teaches what they know all the time.

High requirements are a good way to get started though, that way you can set the bar high, guarantee good reviews and happy customers, then slowly relax the rules. The other way around wouldn't work nearly as well.

I'd say being a college student should allow you to help out high schoolers in the subject of your studies though, likely you are aware of the problems the high schoolers face better than anybody else, likewise high schoolers should be allowed to tutor grade schoolers.

There might be a nice 'certification' gig hidden in here somewhere.
Hey, there's South and Central America. Where do you think Brazil is for example? Don't you think Mexico has enough population to worth a mention? No mention of Africa either?
Ouchies. Microsoft needs a win in their web services division ASAP.
I wish my designer would read this ... but he's just a designer, what does he care about the quality of his CSS.

Any good stackoverflow answers for that? Making people who think "code" is a side-product take pride in that part of their work too?
Sony's PSP2 announced: stuffed with tech, no price or release date
Hva med det da?
FFC taps Googles Page for mobile white space spectrum
One of the things that annoys me in Java books is that every meaningful example is a couple pages long, most of it giving context to a function or method. The process of writing a meaningful may be so painful and risky Java programmers defend themselves by starting with code so generic they believe it won't need rewriting in the future.
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I think people tend to forget how large Europe is in total (larger than the United States), the size of the population (731 million) and how large the economy of the region is.
And yet, of the cities you named, Philly is the only one I would even consider living in. Maybe Phoenix if I were desperate, but never anything in Texas.
What's wrong with using UN's geoscheme http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_Nations_geographica... instead of inventing your own categories?
The same people are also working on re-using much of the hardware designed for the Pandora (the analog "nubs" are said to be very good) in a device called the iControlPad. See http://icontrolpad.com/.

Please note that the current hardware to uses Bluetooth to interface with the phone, rather than a physical connector since there seem to be licensing issues with that on (many/all?) of the Apple devices. Here's some video showing the iControlPad connected to a PC and used to control a game of Quake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg7AtVuMqZU&amp;feature=p....

ObPandoraJoke: I'm expecting my Pandora in two months, tops.
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In spite of that HN is very US centric and I fully expect the situation to be reversed by 5 PM GMT.
he definitely meant Rhino, as in Rhino on Rails http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rhino-on-rails.html
HTML5 Games 0.1
I assumed the figures were in USD. So the majority of the kind of employees that would be here on HN, such as software developers, earn less than 37k EUR in Italy?

True, the upper end of the range, 100k USD = 73k EUR would be pretty high. But in management or consulting, with a few years of experience, it wouldn't be unusual in Germany, for instance. The 250k, on the other hand, are far out of reach for virtually everyone, I agree.

I'm in Switzerland now, which is probably shifting my expectations. Salaries are pretty high here.
That the UN doesn't break down the United States in to high-tech regions. So 'North America' would lump together 9 regions in the list above each with a different taste.

The poll is basically a US centric poll with the rest of the world thrown in as an afterthought, unfortunately that's a pretty accurate representation of the way many tech people see the world.

This actually causes a feedback mechanism that now means that being located 'in the valley' translates in to a very real competitive edge.
the company running this operation is lybianspider, which is good because its the largest registration company for LY domains. Only companies with a lybian physical presence are allowed to sell LY domains.

Their previous registration website was pretty horrible, but this new updated version seems much better.
Jeff, are there any plans to support mailbox provisioning?

At the moment I'm using Rackspace's REST API to create a mailbox for our new customers. I like their API, but I don't like the fact that we have to communicate with their IMAP and SMTP servers to receive and send email. It forces us to write a lot of bug-prone email handling code.

Could Amazon help in this kind of a scenario?
Do you mean £21k? because if you're really working for £13k in the UK as a developer then there's something seriously wrong..
Wait, for me there's nothing wrong in narrowing specific regions (such as US or even silicon valley), but the rest (like dividing Europe into west, east and other) leads to confusion, not to mention that forgetting South America is pure ignorance.

> unfortunately that's a pretty accurate representation of the way many tech people see the world.

True that.
May these categories should be logarithmic.
Does someone want to just conduct a google spreadsheets poll?
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Interesting one.
The European startup ecosystem arrived