skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you look at Firefox memory consumption while browsing Twitter, you'll see the main culprit is, like always, DOM operations (repaint/reflow particularly). Solution: use Chrom{e|ium}.
Politicians are so short sighted. Something that has already created hundreds of thousands, if not millions of jobs, is already paying for itself. In California we could solve our budget problems any number of ways. Five off the top of my head: Outsource Caltrans construction projects to competitive bidders, reduce state employee compensatory packages to be competitive with the private sector, cut our prison budget by 50%, decriminalize and start collecting sales tax revenue on cannabis, nationalize and start collecting income taxes from the undocumented workers our state relies on. Five suggestions who hurt nobody but the prison industry and overpaid workers with too much job security.
Seems not (re-read the guidelines).
It's not poorly designed, it's web2.0 designed!
well googlesharing.net (by moxie marlinspike) prevent google from tracking your searches... its a ff addon if im not mistaken
In the calligraphy photo, on the bottom right, second column... it is phonetically similar to "masturbate" (for men). Had me LOL'ing for a bit.
Consumer Watchdog paid to put their message up on a Jumbotron in Times Square: http://blogs.forbes.com/oliverchiang/2010/09/02/consumer-wat...

That article says they paid $25000 for their cartoon that tried to make Eric Schmidt look creepy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouof1OzhL8k
I'm assuming the goal of this billboard was to attract attention to DuckDuckGo, not to live up to the marketing "cliche traps" you mention. By attacking Google on Google's turf, not only will he put himself in front of a lot of influencers, but also was able to make the billboard itself a news item.

If the billboard had said "Find what you need faster" (a benefit of special search syntax), it wouldn't be a story. But this billboard is a story.

P.S. Kind of reminds me of when the local KFC put an ad on the billboard that towered over the local Boston Market. It said: "They don't know beans about chicken in Boston." (This was in SC, btw.)
They can sue you for making this hypothesis publicly, please think of it (in your interest).
You've made a pretty nice banner creator. Might be worth looking at partnerships with publishers who have self service ad buying platforms or platforms like PageGage.
You know that in the context of that title and the article compromised meant stolen and one of the definitions of 'to compromise' is to breach a security system. Regardless of what the article meant, it's obvious that your edit to the title was intended as vote bait. Otherwise there was no reason to change it as the change was obviously sensationalist.
I think your service is a boon to local businesses... I'm talking to some local economic development people in St. Louis in the next week or so. I'll show them Punchd and see their reaction.

I think economic development groups should champion an array of web services like Punchd that are affordable, create engagement, and get measurable results.

If it seems a good angle, I'll follow up.
No need to be pedant dude.
Well, she is making a specific effort to appeal to Chinese fans by engaging them on terms that they appreciate.

I think it's interesting considering her product is banned in the market she's devoting attention to.
Could you provide a link to that talk?
The point I was trying to make (badly) was that the actual claim doesn't imply P = NP, only that P = NP-complete. Given that factoring isn't known to be NP-complete (or co-NP-complete) this paper doesn't imply that factoring is in P.
Where do you draw the line? what governments is google allowed to hand over information to vs which ones it can deny?
... and GV still cant send international text messages. I mean come on....let me pay for it at the very least.

I will gladly pay to send/receive mms, international text.

Its mind boggling that they expect your google voice number to be "the one to rule them all" when it can't emulate half the functions that are considered minimum today.
well, $50 is a real money for a third world startup like us :D
OK thanks for the precision.

I might not have the right kind of "humour" for this place. I might not like Jason Bieber's music, but I sure don't want to harm him neither...

Btw, repeat after me: trolls do not exist (the Harry Potter books get it wrong). See: http://bit.ly/gaIrQQ
Few spies self-identify as someone who hurts innocent people. They think of themselves as supporting their family while helping their government or something.

Don't focus on what nouns different parts of the spying apparatus choose to label themselves with, or what other functions they serve. Instead, consider their effects in the context of being a spying apparatus.
I guess I've had better luck--the text translation is far from perfect--BUT, it has been sufficient for me to find out the gist of the message. Also, I get an email notification--for example, today, while I was at work, I got a call from a Verizon tech that they were at my house. My phone was in my office and I was in another location (with email), so I get the notification and see the number. This is useful for me.

Another nice use case is that when I go out of the country, I can see if someone called my US number--so while the service is not perfect, at least for me, I find it useful--and free ;>
Ask HN: Do you remain friends after a startup?
Do you remain close friends with a cofounder after a startup?
Good and popular
Does Facebook only want to recruit people who careful read the directions, even when they're unclear and scattered over several different pages? Maybe they do - maybe they can afford to - but they'll get a lot of false negative that way.

I read all the FAQ stuff beforehand, so I thought I was prepared. I didn't know that there were additional rules/instructions when the contest started, because no one told me there were. So the first thing I did was read all three puzzles and download the test data for them. I actually solved the third puzzle and submitted my solution inside six minutes anyway, but I ran out of time on the first one (still submitted my solution after six minutes), and I didn't even bother with the second one because their sloppily worded FAQ didn't make it clear that getting through the qualifier round was competitive and that I needed to complete all three to have a chance at advancing. Their wording wasn't technically incorrect, but it gave the impression that they were just trying to filter out people who couldn't solve a simple problem.

I am pretty sure I'm the kind of person they were trying to capture with this competition, and, well, they failed to capture me.
Oh, nice idea!! (my feedback for OP)
i don't think it's an outlier state of mind at all ... in fact at this stage the majority of people in the US aren't concerned about search privacy.

but, y'know, DuckDuckGo doesn't have to get the majority of people. with their incredibly low costs, if they can get their search market share to even 1%, they can be hugely profitable. and there are at least that many people who care.
I'm quite surprised that he even bothered to say something to Doug about that, let alone publicly as HBase is not for profit and there is no trademark on HBase (please correct me if I'm wrong). Seems a little childish to me. I will say this though, Doug comes off as having HBase envy and now that he created Hypertable, Inc. I don't want to lend as much trust to his analysis of HBase.
Ask HN: issue of integrity while changing Job
I am working since last 5 yr in the present company. I am among the consistent top performer. 3 month back I decided to look for some other opportunity. And the first one only I got the offer. They are giving me around 100% hike (Not in US). Due to some reason, I was reluctant to that offer. Though at that time I was in position to join the company. Still during the discussion they said they will give 110% hike but in offer mentioned 100%. So to clarify I sent a mail to them for a revise offer. And send one more reminder. But they didn't sent any reply. So I too get busy with my current job.

After 2 month, I thought better to have a discussion with those guy. So I ringed up the HR and asked for the clarification. He told as we can give only 100% hike so we kept silent. But in friendly manner, I told him that at least I expect a professional call from you during that time. Because till that offer we had good rounds of interviews (around 4-5) which all went fine. Then in that discusion, he apologize for the mis communication and ask me whether I am again interested or not. As I was interested to join that company, I told I may be interested. Then he called me after 2 more week extending the final offer with 100% hike.

But I am in dilemma whether to join or not? Though company perspective I am interested to work. (not sure abt company culture very much though) But due to this unprofessional attitude also because I called them second times for clarification. I think I am struggling with the integrity issue.

Any advice I really appreciate.
I agree with fleitz. The users do not care about standards and the developers should focus on the users and consequently just make it work in all browsers without caring about the theoretical specification.

I just hope IE9 is released soon and finally implements round border...
There is no fee to port a number with Twilio, and once you port it in it is $1/month to hold onto the number. To port, you log into your Twilio account and visit the phone numbers tab and select "port number", or hit this URL
https://www.twilio.com/user/account/phone-numbers/porting

At this point, you fill out a form asking for the billing information and then we follow up with you to get authorization to transfer the number (usually just a signature). It usually takes about 10 business days to complete the port.

(I work at Twilio too)
Post mortem of the glif, the kickstarter funded iphone stand
Okay, so tell me something: If the bits came over Level3, but did not originate there, because the CDN was powered by idiots who didn't have a direct peering arrangement with Comcast, would it be fine for Level3?

Is the distinction really just whether or not the bits originate in Level3's network or whether they originate in another network?
"And that reason can be wholly mitigated through the use of Google's Webmaster Tools."

No, Google's webmaster tools only provide a sampling of the data. We used to provide info for only 100 queries. Now we provide it for more queries, but it's still a sample: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/more-data...

Please don't make the argument that the data in our webmaster console is equivalent to the data that websites can currently find in their server logs, because that's not the case.
Excellent point. There's a great opportunity for somebody enterprising to take the lead here and get a lot of press for it.
pyutil - A collection of useful functions and data structures (Python)
"Now is the time to decide if we want four or five companies owning and delivering all of our information and entertainment"

Way, way too late. It went from 10 to 5 a few years ago.

http://www.sarahstirland.com/archives/mediacon.htm

http://web.archive.org/web/20071025061940/http://www.thenati...

http://www.nowfoundation.org/issues/communications/tv/mediac...

https://docs.google.com/gview?url=http%3A%2F%2Fadage.com%2Fi...

Remember it makes no difference if it's Republican or Democrat they are both pro massive-corporation. Wait until Comcast starts moving it's call centers overseas to increase their profit by reducing US labor costs.

If politicians aren't going to fight corporate control of health care decisions for the nation, why do you think they are going to bother about something like the internet.
The Drake Equation's most telling fault, for me, is the "average lifetime of communicating civilizations".

The default is 10,000 years. That results in 10 civilizations.
A 1,000 year lifespan means there is only 1 civilization, and a 100,000 year lifespan means there are 100 civilizations.

As if we have any idea how long a communicating alien civilization would last. We don't even know how long we will last, and aliens would be completely different to us.
How does ddg make money, anyway?
with state budgets in such a mess, expect to see a lot more of this. in California, it passed in 2009 but Arnie vetoed it.
In case you were already familiar with Narcissus, this appears to just be Narcissus packaged in a Firefox addon, not a new JavaScript implementation written in JavaScript as the title implies.
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FaceMagazine is actually worth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf7uJDhVZIE

Because I said so.
Don't forget Antiweb, by Doug Hoyte (the author of LoL). Original software architecture, and very performant.

http://hoytech.com/antiweb
Use MongoDB. It's web-scale.
Ah, thanks very much for this advice. That would be great.

I did relaunch the app, but with all the violations disabled. I sent them a message explaining. I had users who were kind of desperate to get their content out of the app.

But maybe I should take even that down? What do you think?
I don't think they have a policy on that, do they? I was moderating out obviously objectionable content. I actually had a pretty lengthy thread on my App Wall regarding the F U banners and I felt like the community thought it was better to let that stuff go than to be overly strict.
Article seems to complain that Apple pays its employees less but makes more profit. I'm just baffled. Yes, they make more profit BECAUSE they pay their employees less than Goldman, and because their gross income is higher than Goldman's as well.
LivingSocial Exceeds One Million Amazon Gift Cards Sold With Hours to Spare
Fact checking is important:

Tippr.com Guy:

"If Amazon knew there was a way to buy say 100 vouchers and receive $2000 of
Amazon merchandise for $1000, they would probably blow a gasket.
Jeff you better sit down. "

livingsocial disclaimer: (I bought one - apparently I could have bought more. :-)

"* Amazon is not a sponsor of this promotion."

This is a customer acquisition/affiliate/advertising play on living's social's part. Plus, they'll probably make some money on breakage [1] which is a component of all these coupon vendors. Certainly got my attention.

With regards to the exploit - I don't really get it - you don't get the Gift Certificate right away - I still haven't received mine, though I did get an email:

"Thanks for getting in on this sweet deal from LivingSocial:

$20 Amazon Gift Card*

We'll send you an email tomorrow letting you know how you can get
your Amazon Gift Card* code"

Doesn't this give LivingSocial the opportunity to validate whether I'm receiving more than one coupon at a time? If all the deals go through this server side validation, does it really matter if the someone tries to play games on the client side and put in 999 coupons (and, supposedly, pays for them) - I'm presuming LivingSocial reserves the right to change that number back to "1" (and probably take their time returning your money)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakage
The article says did they client-side validation to ensure that a customer could only get one of a special offer. Sheesh. Security 101.
Akamba
(disclosure: I work for Mozilla)

Is any JavaScript engine faster with GCC than with MSVC? Most of the difference I've observed has come down to compiler quality on 32-bit Intel systems. I don't think Linux vs Windows has much to do with JavaScript performance.
I'm sure I'm not alone in that I read HN comments before I hit an article, often because so many articles are linkbait, misleading, lacking content, overly saturated in ads, etc. I very, very rarely click through to TechCrunch articles, for example, as they're rarely satisfying.

If the comments suggest the article is especially worth reading, then I'll click on. If they don't say much about the article itself or suggest that it's not worth the click, I feel as though I haven't rewarded average behaviour with that page view.

In this case, I checked the HN comments for a direct link to the image because that's honestly all I wanted to see - the design and wording of the billboard. I didn't want the article, comments, masthead, everything else that comes with a news site pageload these days. I use AdBlock so the ads weren't going to reward the site owner and I'd just be chewing up extra bandwidth. When I didn't see a link to the image, I wondered if anyone else might've been looking for one too and thought I'd put one up. Easy to click for those who wanted it, easy to ignore for everyone else.

I assume the couple of downvotes are people thinking along your lines, or being against deep-linking?
Google, Bigtable, Compression, Zippy and BMDiff (2008, but still informative)
Seriously, Coq? What a name.
This seems like a really big deal for SW developers. The return of the desktop would be incredible.
I've been on top of that billboard to photograph the sunset. It's about the only use of a billboard I've ever found. Oh, there are ads on them too. Do people actually look at billboards?
Wow, Steve Jobs is out of the office for only a few days and now this!
Introduction to Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2002 Tutorial
Powerpoint was initially developed by Dennis Austin and Thomas Rudkin of Forethought,Inc. Powerpoint was developed for Mac Operating system. Microsoft corporation acquired this company and the ownership was moved. From being a linear presentation software, power point was added with capabilities for containing other objects in a single slide.
How big is the open-source community?
There are many variations of this question. For example, "How many unique individuals have ever pushed code upstream successfully?", or "How many active open-source projects currently exist", or "How many individuals have pushed code upstream in the past year to any well-known project."

I'm particularly interested in estimating the number of active projects, and the number of active developers across all projects, where "active" is less well-defined, but perhaps reflects activity within the past year.
I barely feel the connection between your tagline "like foursquare for the masses" and your actual service--which I think has far more potential because your are always involved with the transaction whereas 4sq is occasional and purely social in ~94% of my use.

How about:

- Starbucks Rewards for the masses

- One punch card to rule them all (I'm watching Two Towers, sorry)

- Frequent Flyer Miles for small businesses

- American Express points for the rest of America

Or something else. Because you're better than that. You are next to transactions. 4sq is next to brands. I would bet on you over them if you can execute.
The simple answer is wherever they have operations. I don't think it is unreasonable to say that if you are going to run ops within a country you implicitly have to follow the law of the land.

That being said, thinking they shouldn't be in a particular country which obligates them to do these things is a much more sound position than just saying they shouldn't follow the law in a few particular cases.

Ultimately, if you know they are operating in a country with a government which likes to do these sorts of things, caveat utilitor. (At least, try not to look so surprised when the police come knocking.)
Introduction to Microsoft Visual Basic.net 2008
Microsoft Visual Basic .Net 2008 is a language derived from BASIC that is used for robust and sophisticated programming of GUI applications. VB is easy to learn and programming is also simple because of the Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
Perfume was illegal in USSR until 1986.
Interesting to hear that they went through 10 iterations with a 3D on-demand printer before even posting to Kickstarter to pay for injection molding. Among the advice the pair of entrepreneurs give is (1) to make pricing tiers easy to understand, and (2) build a relationship with a niche blogger for coverage in the future.
If you really wanted to get multiple deals, wouldn't it make more sense to just make another LivingSocial account with a different e-mail address?

That way if/when they invalidate all of the orders from people who ordered more than 1, you won't miss out on the deal.
Textcluster - TD-IDF and inverted search to cluster similar strings (Python)
These providers appear to be supported:
Verizon Wireless
AT&T
Sprint (As well as Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Nextel and other related providers)
T-Mobile
Tracfone (And other related providers)
These providers appear to be unsupported:
Cricket Wireless
US Cellular

according to http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/voice/thread?tid=76caf...
I also find this reason for patents very wrong, but it's the current reality - even good-minded company has to have a briefcase of patents to protect itself.
But how is it spying if you use the service voluntarily, they tell you exactly that they collect and often (always?) let you opt out of the collection.

That's a really diluted standard for "spying".
> For a Japanese person to be making any effort to learn anything Chinese is really huge.

Er, not really, Chinese is the 2nd most popular foreign language in Japan. Besides, since Japanese characters are a subset of Chinese characters and calligraphy is a subject in elementary school, it's not a big deal for a Japanese to make a half-assed job at drawing Chinese characters (i.e. just copying them down, it's not even "learning Chinese").

That said, I agree she's doing right, by paying attention to her fans and making them feel they have a connection.
On the cruelty of really teaching computing science [pdf]
They'll probably check billing methods as well, so you'd have to generate a lot of extra credit cards accounts. And they could ensure that the #'s for these can only be used once by one amazon account or shipping address.
Good (and I upvoted you from 0) but the question is how good the US govt will do.

What about US current govt healthcare convinces you that the US govt will do well? If you think that it will do better in the future, why?
You make it sound like they're making their own game and ripping off the Blizzard characters/mythos/etc, rather than using Blizzard's own content creation tools which they release in order to promote modding...

What are they going to do, give you modding tools and then tell you you're only allowed to use them completely out of context of the game they came with?
At the risk of taking the joke too far, "pedant" is a noun and requires an article preceding it.
> I agree that businesses should be required to collect some sort of sales tax, although I'm not entirely sure how. It's one thing to say that businesses have to collect sales taxes for the state the product is shipped to but what about local sales taxes?

It's not just variation by geography, but variation by product.

Different things are subject to sales tax in different jurisdictions.
Facebook's attitude toward privacy today is like GM's toward safety in the 60s
Moving stuff around is not cleaning
Part of the argument for sales tax used to be that the biz imposed costs on govt/community and the sales tax paid those costs.

If all of the sales tax goes to where the customer buys, who pays those costs?
It's rather telling that he gets to work on DDG on his own terms from Pennsylvania.

(I'm a coder that pines for mudding and visible stars, so the fact that my career choices are NYC/SF is disheartening at times.)
Are they using the 4sq reference anywhere besides the Hn title? I kind of think it was a marketing ploy to get people to click through.

As for your slogan suggestions, those are pretty amazing. I want an ad recreating Lord of The Rings with punchd :p