skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to say! Most parents would be overjoyed if just one of their children or even grandchildren turned out like this.
Flash does not play WebM. How would "the fallback to Flash" work in this case?
This seems to work under a bit of a hazy assumption that there needs to be a "baseline" video codec. The image tag has worked fine without a "baseline" image format since the dawn of the web.

If using a baseline format was their real argument they wouldn't be supporting a patent encumbered MP3 format for the audio tag, same as Firefox.
If they're firing people for using Firefox, that's one thing. That's just absurd.

But having people bring in their home computers that might be virus-infected or part of a botnet to work? Err, no. I've had more than one home computer brought to me to fix and I have never once let them on the network. I don't need to find out that the next Sasser/Blaster/whatever is now rampaging through our internal network.

That's not to say that there aren't people and companies (likely small ones) that couldn't handle this. But unless each person was a pretty decent computer admin who was not likely to install crapware, kept themselves patched, etc., I wouldn't trust them at all.

But, like I said, I've seen the home machines of the people at work and I've removed viruses from them. There's no way I'd put them on our network even though I don't think there's anything they could infect. It's just not smart.
Your user id is just 82? Have you tried disabling all the apps that have issued an offline_access request?
Set a keyboard shortcut for Readability with this Chrome extension
Even better: http://tpdsaa.tumblr.com/post/2731266235/submitted-by-adamle...

That silly call center woman that's on millions of websites.
Pay your taxes on your smartphone using Intuit’s SnapTax
Pretty cool!

There's a bug at 315 degrees: cos is listed as -1/sqrt(2), when it should be +1/sqrt(2).
I worked at a company that tried this in the late nineties. They ran afoul tax and accounting problems, since it wasn't seen as a business expense but rather more like a bonus since you kept the hardware if you left the company.
WebM will work on all major browsers, IE9 by downloading and installing the VP8 codec on Windows, Safari by installing the codec for quicktime. Of course it will work on Opera, Firefox 4, and Chrome.

The problem is getting it on iOS devices.
This is a mix of half-amusing misconceptions -- "Of course I'll spend eight minutes of my life watching your branded content" -- and details that advertisers should care about -- "I love the copy, but it feels off brand". Most of the pictures fall into the latter, and are very "inside baseball". Why would you expect "real people" to talk like that, or chastise advertisers for doing so? People who buy from Amazon don't care how many servers Amazon has allocated to recommend products to them, but Amazon engineers certainly care. People searching Google don't care about the inner workings of how MapReduce distributes the work over multiple servers.

This website feels like a bunch of immature complaints and useless mockery.
Alternative interpretation: I can buy an Android phone at any time and be sure I'm getting something reasonably current, whereas I have to track iPhone release schedule rumors to avoid paying full price for a year-old model. Trolling is fun!
I've always understood the character to reference a section in a paper/document (eg. §249).

Not sure if there would be a different context on Euro-keyboards.
No offense to Knuth, who I'm sure is a great dude, but the fact that he of all people is releasing this as a book in 2011 is totally ludicrous.
This is the reason you should always configure your web server to serve an HTTP 503 "Unavailable" when your backend is not online or not fast enough. This will tell the Google bot to come back later and not index the result.
If Youtube goes WebM/flash only, iOS will support WebM, period. Not being able to watch youtube videos would be like the Flash noise of a year ago, but worse, as there's no reason not to support WebM.
nice & concise article trying to explain why most socnetwrkng sites fail. my question/response is, is it as simple as creating "groups" for a site or is there a more complex, disciplined, and or structured approach to creating "groups"? I mean, a "Sexy Exhibitionsts" group might attract a lot of users but what kind of user community will that build as opposed to "Little Old Ladies Who Bake Cookies for Free"? There is a dynamic involved that i would like to try and breakdown in greater detail.
For the particular point that private school isn't the difference see this report:

http://www.suttontrust.com/research/applications-offers-and-...
Of course...I don't mean to imply that you could have put together any real meaningful time series data in such a short period of time. I only mean to inspire you to do it in the future ;-)
Who on earth is the target market for this? I wasn't aware that people were doing their taxes so frequently as to require the ability to do them any time on the go.

Further restrictions:
> Intuit says it’s for people who make $80,000 or less a year; only have income from W-2s, interest, and unemployment; and don’t owe any property.
It's not meant to be a claim at all: the italics were meant to convey a sense of wrongness, that it feels wrong, not that it's actually wrong. Like noticing that a dog's "knee" bends the "wrong" way (that joint actually corresponds to our ankle). Or like fractions of bits, as in Arithmetic Coding. It's just wrong. How can you have a fraction of a bit!? Ridiculous! (note: my masters involved arithmetic coding; I actually do understand it). Another one is an existence proof, as opposed to a constructive proof (ie. where you demonstrate that something must exist, without actually constructing it).

joeyo's right: non-deterministic. It doesn't actually nail the problem, it just "usually" works out "OK". Although, you can prove things about it, like how often it works, and how well. And that's very useful. Actually, I think it's to do with the algorithm not embodying a perfect solution, but rather a method for arriving at the solution. It's an engineering "how-to" hack, rather than a science "what-is". EDIT ie. a heuristic

Note my explanation of the algorithm, including a way to "lower this risk as much as you like", which is saying that it does work, within tolerances. Any interpretation of "wrong" could take that context into account.
I'm not sure that beyond 1 minute or so it actually matters whether it is 2 minutes or 2 hours. The system is down. Period. The average user will acknowledge that the system is down and will try again in several hours. From this perspective, it is definitely better to have one big 2-hour outage than a ton of small 2-minute ones.

(EDIT) Saw someone post something like "miltiple small downtimes erode the user's belief in system stability". too bad he deleted the message : it was nailed spot on!
How so? I am sure that there might be some who would prefer to read a work as difficult (and intricately typeset) as TAOCP on a screen instead of paper, but I imagine they'd be a minority.
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Not sure if you already knew about this and are just joking, but the locked hypervisor approach is actually one that Citrix (mentioned in the article) is touting.. their XenClient stuff does that.
No. In fact, there haven't been any pre-fascicles (electronic drafts) released yet, either.
Beta only, no invites?
KrackHo.com Released TODAY
A Great little site for some quick buying and selling.. but make sure to bring a sense of humor.
This is very targeted programming. It is not like they picked up enough skills to be hired as a developer at Facebook or Google. As a programmer who went to a good school, I spent (and still spend) a lot of time studying things these guys don't give a crap about.

They probably don't know much about software engineering practices, security vulnerabilities, esoteric editors and dev tools, the details of networking, regular expressions, profiling or O-notation, design patterns, discrete math, etc.

They don't really have to know that stuff. They can just focus on iOS (which nicely abstracts a lot of things) and throw themselves into a project until it gets done. It is like learning enough about your car so you can fix and maintain it. You don't have to become an expert, you're not opening a shop.

Now they ceartainly put a ton of work into this, but I imagine they learned the minimum necessary to be effective. Of course, they'll probably have a bumpier road in the future than a seasoned developer would. But they seem scrappy enough to handle it. :)

Related story: I had a friend with zero programming exprience who did this with the LAMP stack since he had an idea for a website. His code was atrocious. As he learned a little more he would scrap and rewrite huge sections of his software. He'd stay up most of the night and work on the simplest parts for days. But he got shit done, and it worked well.
I was actually referring to the style/design/layout of the site more so than the interviewing style. The style of interviews is probably the most differentiating factor between the two sites, IMO.
Thanks for your helpful comment. But it looks rather like Addison-Wesley Professional exists only as a brand name now, and as a publisher they seem to have been fully absorbed, and their former offices gone some time ago by what I now gather.
No, I don’t ‘like’ you.
That's one way to increase page-views. In fact, I would consider building this into the CMS. If pages per visit is below the goal, adjust the page break factor to create more pages. If the server is under load, make it generate less pages. If the user has a history of not clicking "next page", make his web experience show less pages per article.

There is a lot of fun stuff that can be done with these idea.
This is a disappointing answer. Yes, most firms don't manage to beat the market average. The apparent answer would be that about half of them do, probably slightly fewer due to occasional runaway successes.

What you seem to be saying is that there is a complex system guaranteed to beat the expected return of buying and holding a single stock. I don't see how this can be true, although it's certainly possible that the lower volatility is preferable enough to offset the slightly greater costs.

Do you really believe that it is 'exceedingly unlikely' that a firm would exceed the market average for a 15 year period? I haven't done research into this, so I'm happy to learn. Instinctively, it would be a pretty frequent occurrence.

Are you saying that more than 95%[1] of the individual underlying stocks held by a major index fund will underperform the market over a 15 year period? If yes, how can this be? If not, what are you saying? Are you a betting man?

[1] "Extremely Unlikely" is typically defined as a less than 5% chance. Here's an example: http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/ch1s1-6....
Hmm, interesting. Whatever it is, it also happens for me in Gmail, so perhaps Gmail does the same thing. It's in Gmail that it really bugs me.
Never. Google is not actively attempting to promote Vorbis or non-MP3 technologies at the moment. It'd be silly to waste resources doing that as MP3 patents are nearing their end-of-life. MP3 is already a lost battle and the patents have so little life left in them that it's not worth trying to squeeze what can be gotten out of that.
This article desperately needs a diagram.
^ This.

Except on T-Mobile, whether you need it or not, take the free phone. Then sell it for more then it's upgrade price (people not eligible for upgrades will be happy to pay $100 or more for a phone if they need it, even one you got for free, because its cheaper than what VZW/ATT will charge them).
The use of common stock photography just makes it even better lol
Comparision of file system
Or, inductive versus deductive.
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Not currently but WebM (VP8) will be supported in Flash (http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2010/05/adobe_support_f...)
okay, i also could not help but think of the seinfeld episode where george screwed the cleaning lady in his cube. that's cube screwing, i guess lol. you are RIGHT about the light-heartedness--there needs to be humor. i do think people would LOVE to go to/contribute to a site like this. i like that your idea brings up the old adage, "That idea is so self-evident, why didn't i think of it?" That means it is a very good idea.
We'll be inviting users on a weekly basis. We need to make sure our architecture can handle the load.
They wouldn't say it those terms, but they might very well think it or say it in other terms. You wouldn't say, "Holy shit! This call to action button is better" but you might want to click it more.
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Yes. I don't have any apps.
Her daughter Ronda Rousey is a 2008 Olympic bronze medalist in Judo, and is on her way to becoming the next 145 lbs female MMA champion.
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You can also buy Edward Bernays books Propaganda and Crystallizing Public Opinion for a very fair price on Amazon, though Propaganda at least isn't so great.
The compiler may not mind, but isn't that what they are actually used for?
It was xuland.com. If you want to see the text of the post, you have to turn on showdead in your profile settings.
I agree with OP, here. This site had the guys at my agency rolling, but it's so funny because it's true. No one in my office thinks real people talk like this.

We know that when my aunt Kay visits a website and thinks it feels cheap or just doesn't hang together or seems like it's not safe to give my credit card to; it's because they used tired stock photography and their web copy is in three different voices, or that their copy leading and margins are inconsistent, or that they have no design language or brand focus.

Real people don't pick it apart like that because they don't care, don't have the talent to do so, won't acquire the skill to do so or a mix of all three. However, WE do think like this. And the fact that most people don't think like this is why all six of us still have jobs after five years.

Also relevant: http://wademeredith.com/2010/12/your-customers-care-about-de...
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/22/17-gifted-childre...
Better than relying on the Fed to make the right decisions - "quantitative easing", huh?
DjangoCon Europe 2011 announced
Notes on repoze.bfg (now Pyramid) and ZODB
Tired of ANNOYING Ads? You bet.
I bought a new MacBook Air on my own dime for company use. Beats the hell out of a 3 y/o $400 frankenbox running XP. Worth every penny.
Ten changes we'd like to see at the Mac App Store
Well, in the publishing world, a "brand name" is known as an imprint, and many major publishers fall into that category. For example, Penguin and Viking are also imprints of Pearson. Random House, Doubleday, Knopf, Bantam, Ballantine, Pantheon, and Vintage are all imprints of Bertelsmann. And so on...

And I apologize if my original response came across as snarky-- I was aiming for jovial.
I am "mixing up" nothing. The author may conclude that any number of things are justified by his opinion of Apple's behavior, but that conclusion is hardly beyond criticism in the way you try to imply.
Speaking of figures, I wonder how this would compare to what can be gathered from ambient radiowaves with a device of a similar size.

I remember a posting from somewhere where Nokia claimed to reach in the miliwatt range only using ambient radiowaves. Can't seem to find it again though.
If Google really wants to force WebM adoption they need to go "all-in". Set a deadline for pulling all h.264 videos from YouTube and force Apple and Microsoft to support the WebM standard.

I know that sounds worse than what they're doing but hear me out. Right now they're creating an environment where everyone will have to do twice the work to support HTML5. That's not good for anyone.

So if they're insistent on making WebM the standard they need to pull out the big guns and force Apple and Microsoft to capitulate. It'll be bitter and nasty but at the end we'll get a standard out of it and not a fragmented mess.
Or in any job where mobility is desirable. A good laptop is not cheap.
Passwords over WiFi should have at least 9 characters from now on
I've tried several times over the past couple of months to read articles or introductions to git. The one thing they seem to have in common is that it looks like they're having a contest on who can come up with the most outrageous ways of saying how bad other version control systems are. Anyway so I read through this whole website, but again this one fails to say: what does git do that others can't? Specifically, what is better about git than Subversion? There's the 'distributed' aspect which in some specific scenarios is nice. There seem to be some niceties like adding files to a commit one by one and doing a 'final' commit only at the end; that's a pain to do with the commandline subversion client (but it's really easy with Tortoisesvn).

So, is there a concise explanation somewhere of what makes git better than subversion?
You can't, UCAS won't accept your application. There are a few exceptions where you are allowed to apply for both, but in general you can't.
What I find funny is that half the Internet was complaining when Google announced to support H.264 in the first place when, clearly, supporting nothing but open formats was the right way to go (see Mozilla's decision to only support theora)

And now that Google is removing H.264 support again, half the Internet is, again, up in arms about the decision, using the same arguments as before.

Well, I guess this time it's the half of the Internet that wasnt complaining last time :-)
I think you're taking it way too seriously. The author clearly has a good grasp of advertising and why the statements being lampooned are necessary. Humor doesn't have to be derisive.
That's just petty nitpicking, the h264 patent threat in much more immediate and substantial so an alternative is needed specially since we are at the beginning of this shift and setting open standards now will save a lot of heartache in the future.
No. But I just can't stand juvenile behavior.
Apple and Jobs aren't shy about saying, "Nope, not doing it". Especially with those they view as enemies and trust me, Google is their arch enemy now, much moreso than Microsoft.

A big reason they may not do it is backwards compat on HW accleration. They have a working solution on all devices today (H264). They're not likely to want to screw their old customers over a codec they aren't particularly fond of that was rammed down their throat by Google.

Here's what I'd do if I were Apple, host my own video service, that serves H264 or Flash. MS and Apple throw their marketing weight and services around that (their various products auto upload to this new service). Now all iOS devices can play this video AND so can everyone else. YouTube dies a MySpace like death.

If YouTube tries that I really think they may be sealing their own fate.

To put it another way, people are NOT going to give up their iOS devices. But they will use a different video service.
Um....that's a fairly typical dashcode output. You're being high and mighty about a website design from an apple tool that comes for free with XCode.
Indeed, performing a hex dump, the second space seems to have been replaced with 0xc2 0xa0, which is UTF-8 for:

U+00A0 NO-BREAK SPACE character

Which is the same as HTML entity &#x00a0;
Any other active sessions under Account Settings -> Account Security?
It's a dashcode output (aka the free web design thingy that comes with XCode).

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

Apple makes the tool that makes websites look like that.
I am amused that yesterday a top HN story was about the demise of internet advertising and the associated HN comments trend towards agreeing that ads are not effective:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2098301 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2101163

Then today the top story is poking fun of "advertising words" which is an intellectualized kick in the face to the techniques that marketers use to draw you in.

And yet meanwhile we're all discussing for the 5th time the WSJ linkbait article on "Chinese Mothers" that exists for the sole purpose of promoting Amy Chao's book the "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" from which WSJ's original article was copy and pasted.

She arrived at #6 on Amazon's top sellers today.
Ask HN: LinkedIn DirectAds versus Google AdWords?
Has anyone experimented with both LinkedIn DirectAds and Google AdWords for an enterprise product or service? What were the results from your campaigns using these two services? Thanks in advance for sharing any thoughts!
The only explanation needed is a fact. Linus Torvalds made git. Sold? :)
Were you there at the dawn of the web? I wasn't, but it's my understanding that GIF caused a ton of legal problems.
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Despite what some may say TAOCP is a very readable series of books. But they do require being read in hardcopy, at a table, with a pen(cil) and notepad.

This isn't something you read on your Kindle while taking the Subway uptown.
This "twice the work" argument was clearly addressed by the post. Firefox has a much larger market share than Chrome and has already clearly stated they will not support h.264. If anyone created a problem of having to do "twice the work" it was Firefox and Google has just decided to support them in it.

And using their position as owner of YouTube to force h.264 out before WebM is ready would just hurt YouTube and make everyone with a mobile device made prior to WebM decoders being included (assuming that gains momentum) unable to watch YouTube videos.
The img element has baseline formats. GIF/JPEG pretty much from the start and now also PNG. If these formats were not there the img element would never have worked.
Hydridic Earth theory
Or release a WebM playback enabler which is more sensible and as effective:

The WebM Project team will soon release plugins that enable WebM support in Safari and IE9
Wow. That's doubly irrational.
Its not petty nitpicking, its their entire argument. Including H.264 doesn't in any way prevent WebM from becoming the more mainstream standard. Except for the fact that likely more people would choose to use H.264 over WebM so they don't have to re-encode their video catalog using inferior tools in an inferior codec. The "Video Startups" he's defending aren't being stifled under H.264's licensing fees. The fees exist but they're pretty much negligible to a video provider compared to any other cost they are incurring. If they are really concerned for the poor video startup give them options to use the best tools for their need.
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iOS appliances have hardware support for H.264. If Apple can actually keep H.264 content available by refusing to support VP8/WebM, their captive users would benefit by longer battery life and maybe smoother playback.
I started in early December, I think? Graphics/html/css were my specialty before, so that wasn't the hard part... took me quite a few weeks to wrap the concept of Django around my head.

Thanks!
I think it's more like a hash than a "shortened" URL. Kind of like thingler.com
I'm going to be out of town for work so I won't be able to make it. Hopefully we can get some more meetups going, maybe once every other month? every month?
Branching works. I know it works in theory in SVN, but in practice one often runs into problems with any non-trivial branch. With git (or really DVCS), branching typically Just Works.