skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unavoidable comment from people who don't understand statistics and generalization:

"But I use Linux at Home just fine, and so does my Aunt Tilly after I set it up for her".
Has anyone tried always waking up with the sunrise?

I sleep in a house with a full eastern exposure, so I think it would be pretty easy for me to do it. Sure it would require going to bed at different times every night in order to get my 8 hours of sleep, but a simple warning alarm should do it.
What you actually just said: “Hey, why don’t you spend
some time going through your schedule, pick out some times
that work and email them to me. I’ll then sit back and
pick one that I like.”

1) When you suggest a bunch of possibilities yourself, they will still have to go through their schedule to see if they are free at any of those particular moments.

2) Going through your schedule hunting for specific moments takes longer than just finding the first empty spot that they might want to fill with your particular request.

3) Since they are in demand and their schedules are full, it is quite unlikely that any of your chosen times will fit them. As a result, they will still have to do the same work to make a 'counteroffer'.

Any arguments in favor of the thesis are lacking. It's just someone venting an opinion.
I find it odd that you should name Avatar as a movie appropriate to see in 3D. I find that Avatar had a ton of the problems that Walter Murch was talking about. It gave me a massive headache because often times the focus wasn't where I wanted it to be.

Tron on the other hand, generally didn't have this problem, there was huge depth of field throughout, and generally nothing too straining.
This is an example of bad terminology (or arguably a defective class library) clouding one's understanding. If you change the title to "MUTABLE arrays considered somewhat harmful", all of his complaints ring true. Merely changing the way arrays are defined makes the solution simple and obvious.

I am frequently impressed by the subtle aspects that Cocoa got right (another example is autorelease pools).
Maybe so. If you're right, that will be great. If I'm right, well, I hope I'll be OK. You'll be fucked, but who cares about that? Not me.
cool idea, was going to implement something similar when i got married a few months ago but i couldn't think of an elegant way to confirm when a gift was actually purchased.

you pop up a window and ask the user if s/he bought the gift. not every user will see that. duplicate gifts are huge pain.

that said, there's definitely a need for this kind of site. the only site that does this right now is myregistry.com. you can certainly compete with them on usability/design.i'd focus on that. make your interface simpler and less cluttered.
It might also be helpful if you search Amazon or Google Product Search and show me where I can buy the registered items at places other than the registered stores. Reversing that idea, you could allow someone to add an item from any website on the Internet, and then automatically add the item to the existing registries.

Here are some design-related suggestions:

- The Example Registry does not load properly in IE8.

- In the slider at the top of the homepage, I think it would be easier to read the text if it was left justified.

- The text on the site is hard to read in general. Try increasing the line-height to the font size plus 4 pixels.

- There are many spelling and grammatical errors throughout the website. For example, on the homepage, "whereever" should be "wherever".
Lists are not arrays. An array is a set of data-structures sequentially arranged in memory. A list is an interface. It could be implemented as an array, or it could be a linked list, or a hash, or a b-tree, or whatever other implementation makes sense.
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> To me their UI is just plain awkward. I use a Mac at work so most of my days are spend working on a Mac desktop. Frustration would be a good way to describe it

You can be accurately describe as an "outlier".
NB: re Quantcast -- Quantcast and Clearspring paid a combined $2.4MM [1]

[1] http://www.research-live.com/news/legal/quantcast-and-clears...
I've been using this for the past 4 years. They've got a nice iPad app that includes highlighting, but unfortunately their desktop app can't handle highlighting yet. :(

Their priorities are a bit backward. The desktop app has been surpassed by almost all other competitors mentioned here. Sad. Used to be great.
Zuckerberg, Doerr and More on How the iPad Has Changed Everything
I disagree. He really IS being flexible. Yes, there's that initial moment of 'Ah, I have to pick!?' but after that comes the realization that he probably just saved you several days worth of emails trying to actually pick a time that really will work for you.
While many seem to think this is a good move, I personally think it should be opt-IN, with the default action of no cookie being needed to turn it all off.

I block all cookies for Google by default anyway and virtually all ad networks and tracking are blocked too (check out Ghostery for Firefox).
I keep Calibre's library on Dropbox, and so also solve the problem of keeping my library in sync between different computers.
World of Uncertainty
This game allows you to increase your accuracy in answering this question and train to quantify your confidence.
English. You did mention the generation gap. Languages evolve, it's ok.
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Hmmm, you're right. The bit about REST and CouchDB is a bit misleading.
I'm reminded of a line from a simpson's clip show: "from now until the time it becomes unprofitable."
What a cynical way of looking at things.

When I use this I mean "I will adjust my schedule to fit yours, because I am the one asking for your time."
Yojimbo (http://www.barebones.com/products/yojimbo/) plays quite nicely for this sort of thing, and works with Dropbox too to keep your library synchronised across multiple machines.
Yep, but Roberts is doing statistics, not witchcraft. Even if this is the only post of his you had ever read, I don't see how you would claim "statistically insignificant".

Seth Roberts understands research on one hand and statistics on the other, better than about 95% of people who publish results.
Good question :)

I started Webdis because I thought it would be a cool project, after seeing suggestions about such an interface on IRC #redis.

Other that the cool factor, the main benefits are IMO:

* Javascript clients can access your Redis base. This is already done by CouchDB, on a much larger scale. Webdis is nowhere near such capabilities.

* A “Comet” interface to Redis pub/sub commands to stream data using either HTTP chunks (or WebSockets, not implemented yet).

* A way to query your Redis server without having to write code. Point your browser to Webdis and see for yourself if the 12th element in that list is what it should be. Having a public interface doesn't mean you have to expose it to your clients, it can be for internal use.

* A remote access for heavy clients such as Flash or Air. Webdis already serves a crossdomain.xml file for Flash clients; they can query Redis themselves instead of going though a proxy that you'd have to write by hand.

There could be other ways to use it; I'm glad to see the project gain some traction, it will help me figure out what's really important.
Ask HN: Why is it so hard to find a job?
Thought you lot may have an answer for this

In short I've been living in the SF bay area for 3 years with a 7 years total of software development experience (last 4 years mobile stuff mainly Android) and just struggling to get a job.

Yes I'm a bit fussy, I'm looking for a senior role with a decent commute from where I live, which still leaves me with heaps of opportunities.

So you can come up with the assumption that I'm useless (don't know you may be on the ball with this one), but my last interview experience kind of proved to me that that's not the case. In essence the company changed the description after making the decision not hire me (The message to the recruiter was we didn't employ him for a given reason here is the new job description)

Any tips, or personal experience will be appreciated!
Ohh, I missed the problem with dynamic IPs. But what about MAC-address, why browsers don't bind the cookie to the MAC-address of the computer?
When I was drinking caffeine I did!

That stuff is particularly bad for me, so I'm off it totally. I definitely feel more energetic over the course of the day than I did drinking as much caffeine as I could. Or anything in-between.
The LESS CSS Grid
Hacking your mini-golf game
Where do you sleep outside? I usually keep the curtains open, wake up with the sunlight.
Isn't the whole point of an encyclopedia to be text laden?

That Wikipedia is already so successful seems to suggest to me that it is very consumer friendly.
Sure, just don't judge a book by it's...

I don't know what, if any, magic Qwiki has cooking but I think the OP is excessively harsh. My point was that a lot of startups have needed a big round to go to the next level from a limited proof of concept where there's nothing special on their public facing service. So what? Hopefully the vision and potential is evident under the hood and that's what the investment was predicated on.
it isn't anything particularly new.

pronoun

when (interrogative) What time; which time

"Since when do I need your permission?"
Agreed. I wondered if this was the inevitable conclusion once I saw the "Amazon Tote" announcement a while back: https://tote.amazon.com/AmazonToteLearnMore?refId=
1) Working with a few possibilities is easier than 40 hours of openings. Especially if those possibilities are pre-selected.

2) Not if they have a busy schedule.

3) If their schedule is that busy, their counteroffer will be the only time they have free, and that will be that.
I think Qwiki raised $8 million becasue they have excellent team (Louis Monier, Christian Le Cocq, etc.).
However, I'm bothered with the fact that such a excellent team is working on something which is not really groundbreaking nor disruptive. Not something it will change the world (as search engine changed it).

However, it could be also that they have vision of the world which is hard for me to comprehend or imagine. The question is: what is their vision?
I was hoping to see how affordable it is to buy in different cities around the world. Unfortunately, this data covers 50 cities in just one country.

It should really be the "Top 50 Cities in the US". The US-centric nature of websites like this is even more irritating when they don't state it up front.
Browsers? You mean web servers, surely? Servers don't know the client's mac address.
"...of Top 50 [American] Cities"

It's odd seeing lists like this that focus only on a specific country, ignoring important neighbors. Take Toronto, for example. That city is more important than 40-45 of the cities listed, but since it's a few miles North of some border, it gets completely ignored.

Why not focus on a geographic region instead?
The bigger picture would be:

1) Don't give a reference to your mutable private/shared variables because it's dangerous.

2) Because we still need to let people read this data, give them copies (of a potentially large structure) instead and lose performance.

It just happens to be that arrays are a common case.
10 Coolest Typographic Infographics
A picture is worth a thousand words. But when that picture is itself made of words, your mileage may vary. Take the case of type-based infographics. Bad use of type clutters an image; it acts as decoration – yet becomes a roadblock to information transfer. However, good use of type can add an extra layer of data to a graphic. Text and type within an infographic can be used to place high-density packets of information within a larger context. Here are a few standouts.
>Google allows the forwarding of your search information to other sites. It's not unsubstantiated, and well established. It's the point of all of this. Yes, it's being done in your browser. But it can be fixed on the search engine end.

They forward along the keywords. Useless for identification purposes.

There isn't a point to arguing this any further with each other, as I think we've both made our points clear. Good Game.
Cleveland is included, but not Pittsburgh? Someone's a Jets fan...

On a technical note, the information in the hover bubble is mis-aligned; the right side is a space below the left side, at least on this older version of Firefox.
As a general practice it's bad to return List<T> for that reason - it's bloated with additional members and state to match to support just-about-anything out of the box.

Return IList instead of List on any public interface you define is the rule I try to obey.

Basically it's all about how you implement arrays in your called classes - do they expose some internal state by returning a deep clone of the array each time it's called (which is what the examples Eric used were doing) or does it expose its contents via a read-only List?
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Nota bene, the author is a PM at Microsoft on Bing. (Not meant as a 'gotcha', just a bit of possibly interesting context.)
I'm not saying this will replace Wikipedia and I'm not saying there's a problem with Wikipedia as it is - I'm just saying that there are use cases where everything is not a nail.

I'll bet you that 90% of the time you hit up Wikipedia you'll only read the top paragraph. At least that's what I do and I've seen more people use Wikipedia like that.

In fact, I love duckduckgo's 0-click result because of exactly that.
Hmm... so you can publicly share your mp3s and videos?
Haven't we heard of this before (mp3.com)... I wonder how they'll deal with "infringement" cases from the media cartel?

As a current dropbox user, I'm a bit concerned about this functionality (since by default public means public but unlisted, it can still be shared). Hope these guys did a bit of homework here.
Then again, if someone would go the lengths to hack into someone else's account, I think it's possible to spoof a MAC-address.
Trulia's Q1 2011 Rent vs. Buy Index provides guidance to help you make a smart decision on whether it is better to rent or buy in each of America's 50 largest cities by population.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230441050457556...
Why the Gift Card market is prime for a major disrupt
How we are still doing it wrong when it comes to Gift Cards/Coupons, and how we need to take advantage of check-ins to give people what they want, where and when they want it.
you guys have officially crossed the threshold from disagreeing to flaming-without-purpose. dial it back a bit, or take it outside.
As I am sending out wedding invitations today, this is well timed. Looks like a great idea and I will try it out.

By the way - looks like a search and replace for form -> registerForm went awry. The sign up page has inregisterFormation in place of information.
The Java Ecosystem [Infographic]
A good article, but personally I'm concerned that your "safe picks" such as government bonds/ sovereign debt might be exactly the kind of black swan Taleb is talking about. He doesn't seem to be such a fan on US monetary policy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyHnPkXZYNI
I suggest you read Tony Hsieh's book Delivering Happiness. My interpretation of his history of Zappos is that they were fantastic before they were efficient.
Disagree completely. Please do this if you want to schedule a meeting with me. That way I can pick a time when I'll be in the best mood and least busy.

A meeting with me Monday at 9AM is very different from 2PM on a Friday.
In the post I meant server-side, in my comment I meant client-side.

The general question - why not to bind the cookie to some other identifier of the user or user's computer to make cookie useless in thief's hands.
Share any folder or file in your Dropbox without having to
move it to the Public folder. So you can just right-click
on a file to share it.

Hmmm, I have to say, this concerns me. It seems to open up security vulnerabilities that are currently not present. I'm sure they'll do a fine job implementing it, but this makes me wary and watchful for the security of my files.
I agree it's not too surprising. What's more surprising is that efficient-market theorists ignore the fact that so many traders in the market are using the self-referential algorithm.
By suggesting several possibilities, you're saying "these times really do work for me, so if you pick one, we're set, you can put it on your calendar". When you say "let me know when works for you", you're still leaving open the possibility that you're not actually available at the time they choose, possibly leading to more scheduling emails.

Plus, when I'm on the receiving end of a "let me know when works for you", I feel a little presumptuous assuming that I really can pick any time and that person is going to clear their schedule for me.
Mozilla Leads the Way on Do Not Track
This is a great point. Theaters are pushing 3D because it means more money for them. Apparently Avatar was amazing in 3D, and theaters used that fact to make a lot of money off of underwhelming 3D experiences.

I saw Tron in 3D and suffered very mild side effects -- facial tension and a headache that went away after a few glasses of wine. The 3D effects weren't enough to make even those mild side effects worth it. I'm not even sure the 3D effects were a net plus for the experience without considering the side effects. Add a 40% premium on the ticket price, and it was a great deal for the theater and a lousy deal for me.

Until the technology changes fundamentally, I'm starting to think 3D movies are like heroin: we'll see a periodic resurgence and decline as the lessons fade away with one generation and are relearned by the next.
I updated Calibre for the first time in quite a while recently, and I'm really liking the new interface.
Glad someone pointed it out. Even when you're tired it seems that specifying what you need to do makes you much more productive.
Web Tool On Firefox To Deter Tracking
The border likely affects the availability and format of the data needed to make the calculation.
These are some use cases that I do not deeply consider, actually. They might change the context a bit.

I still don't see it as anything more than a toy, even in these cases, and how the valuation could be at all justified, especially given their usage trend while in the alpha, even with all the TC hype.
The concentration of high-population areas in California does some strange things to the map when the city circles are sized by population.

The positions don't even seem to be constant. If you sort by something else, the circle move around, but they don't necessarily move back to the same place.

I have nothing interesting to add about the content of this site; I was too befuddled by its presentation.
Your post, while insightful, doesn't really provide much reason as to why there seems to be a huge influx currently of high funding rounds for seemingly basic or non-profitible companies, the likes that I have not seen since the 90s. The companies you mentioned, Pandora, Dropbox, and Facebook are probably the exceptions, and don't release financials to my knowledge. It will be interesting to see what Facebook actually makes when they publish numbers next year. Last I heard Groupon started with huge profitability and now is burning way more money then it makes (I also doubt it to be a sustainable biz model).

There is definitely a bubble right now, I've seen average 8-15mil rounds for companies that offer something tangental to a popular service (it's LIKE FourSquare, or it's LIKE Pandora) despite the fact that original services themselves are not necessarily making huge exits. Perhaps it's just that the horizons on the dotcom VC funds are expiring and there are lots of new funds?
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Hey @atomical - Yes, definitely. You can use SaaS like Encoding.com or Zencoder to scale your video encoding easily in the cloud. 2 hours of content probably won't take that long because parallel encoding (and finding other smart ways to accelerate the process) is the name of the game in cloud. I'd be happy to set you up at Encoding.com if you're interested in testing us out.
You didn't read the article did you? It mentions several other projects he worked on prior to threewords.me.
You also have to wait for the person to confirm before you can really put it down on your calendar definitively.
I'm all for an F# talk!
Very very cool!

I'm wondering why they chose 15 / 20 as the cutoff ratios though. I'm a licensed real estate agent in NYC and I've helped a number of clients make purchases where it was actually cheaper to buy than rent (usually a studio or 1BR, or outside Manhattan).

It seems like you can finance a home purchase these days at 5% or less on 30-year fixed. Add in the mortgage interest tax deduction and you are really borrowing at 3.00% (assuming your marginal tax is 40% including state / local taxes, which would be true of anyone buying a $1.3M 2br as referenced in the site).

That seems to justify a break-even ratio of about 33, not 16 or 20. Of course, you do have to add back HOA dues / coop maintenance + property taxes, and the nasty transaction costs for buying and selling. That is somewhat tempered by your rent (and property values) going up with inflation while your mortgage payments are fixed. Therefore, all the usual disclaimers apply that you need to be willing to stay there and own the property for quite some time.

EDIT: clarified that 5% rates are for 30 year fixed mortgages; 15-year amortizations would get 4.25% or so, changing by the day.

EDIT2: The tax deduction is LESS good in other metro areas. When I used to live in Redmond, WA, my marginal rate was not 40% (there is no state income tax in WA and houses are much cheaper). Also far more subtle but often ignored, in Washington most renters would take a standard deduction and only home-owners would itemize their deductions. Itemizing mortgage interest means you lose out on the standard deduction. In NYC, just about everyone itemizes because state / local income tax is already compelling enough to do so, therefore almost all the mortgage interest is deductible except for the amount subject to Pease provisions.
That might be right.

It is both a blessing and a curse to judge these things based on your own opinions and maybe that's what I'm doing right now.

Because I actually want to use this. Not for everything, but I for many things I can imagine myself using this. At least I've put it in chrome's search bar under the keyword qwiki, let's see if it sticks :)
You are right, in the case of Facebook in Tunisia - providers could inject the code which store user's cookie and MAC-address. My idea is useless. :-(
You could at least add some commentary to your comment. I've read that article and I don't see the implications to our discussion here. They linked together all the information that women (and everyone else) put out there for others to scrape. That is not the same as the keyword/referrers/logged into Google argument that we are having.
The statistics on this infographic are misleading. It does not cost 200,000 to buy a house in San Diego or San Jose!

Maybe the average for downtown San Jose and San Diego are close to 200k, but that is the poorest area of both cities and not what should be used to compare. The green bubble on the point for San Diego should be much much smaller in radius(like miniscule), otherwise you think the 200k number refers to the entire city!

People should not be using this to make informed decisions (obviously).
Qwiki might be good for the blind...
The Secret Life of the CEO
That makes sense. It would still be nice for the title to reflect that, though, rather than the ambiguous and misleading "Top 50 Cities" that it is right now.
Well, it may be a little heated but aside from that "you'll be fucked, who cares" comment I don't think we're going to far. I doubt anyone here has had their feelings hurt.