skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pro forma financial statements are prepared to show how an anticipated event would change your current financial statements (such as combining your company with another's). If you're not anticipating an event like that, then I would guess the investor is using the term "pro forma" when what he means is "projections."
Actually, Ferris' high school, Glenbrook North High School [1], is scheduled to get out on June 9th this year [2]. School calendars usually follow similar schedules over many years, so it's reasonable to assume that it had a similar schedule in 1985, making the last scheduled day either June 6th or 13th. Plus, snow days invariably cause the school year to go a few days longer.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091042/trivia
[2] http://www.glenbrook225.org/north/calendars/Documents/2010_2...
Assuming they mean this location:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=37.481601,-122.148657&z=1...

I worked near there around 2002 and was recently pleased to see that local business has really expanded since then. I dare say you could actually walk to a burrito or coffee now.

As a bonus, it's in the part of "Menlo Park" that's basically East Palo Alto. Driving around there in the evening wasn't something I relished. Maybe the Ikea has improved things, though...
I think it depends on the kind of web-site you are running more than anything as to which metrics are important. Just like in finance, depending on the business model, different metrics are tracked (e.g. free cash flow, revenue, etc.). Plus, hardly ever is a single metric important. Sites will look at page views for new/existing visitors, bounce rates for new visitors, time on site, etc. depending on their goals.

What this tells you, though, is that if they are only seeing 1.1 million unique visitors a month that those visitors account for 1,000 page views a month which is a lot. And that's the average! I bet a lot of sites would love to have that number.
It's not even that hard. It's not like we need them to check their kids' homework and go over it with them (though that'd be great). It's a mindset issue. If you can instill in your kids that learning is important and getting good grades is crucial and respecting parents and teachers is non-negotiable, that's like half the battle right there.

I'm not saying that all children should mindlessly obey whatever they're told by authority figures, but I think we can all get together on "shut up while the teacher is talking"
1. It can be fairly hard in a panic situation where something bizarre, previously never experienced, and very loud is occurring which also happens to cause you to travel 100 mph.

2. Many drivers really don't have a handle on, and have never actually used, neutral. Many have no clue that you can safely pop into neutral at any speed, too. You're failing to take these facts into account.
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See I have no issue with paying for how much I use as we do here in Oz (ok the prices to cost ratio may be a lot higher than for water companies for example). What I do have an issue with is for traffic to be treated unequally with no clear indication of this on the contracts.
Correct, Paul. Here is a direct link to the official announcement from a week ago: http://blog.jquery.com/2011/01/31/jquery-15-released/

It only got 7 points and no discussion on HN (bad submission timing, no doubt), so I decided it was worth it to submit this post to let everyone could hear about 1.5 (I had missed it until today, myself).
Makes the "Blackberry tablet to run Android apps" rumor slightly more interesting, even if to think about rather than necessarily believing that particular rumor.
If you are intersted in reading more about the neuroscience behind innovative thinker read Iconoclast. It is a fun read.

http://www.amazon.com/Iconoclast-Neuroscientist-Reveals-Thin...
Thank you very much, Rider - this is very interesting. I hate to take up more of your time, but do you mind if I shoot you an e-mail at your solipsys account to continue this if you have the time or interest? I'm not sure an HN thread is the best way to maintain what seems to be a dialogue instead of a discussion.

And again, thanks for the replies - this has made a bleak Tuesday fun.
The problem goes the other way. If a user says, "run this job at 1:10AM", does the job run twice when 2am becomes 1am at the DST switch? If everyone input times in UTC, it would be fine, but users want to input and output.

I am lucky to be able to avoid this problem, because while I do have users that want to read and write times in their local time zone, they are asleep at 1am and automated stuff tends to run at midnight. Sometimes the dice roll in your favor :)
For some reason I can't reply to alexophile and steveklabnik here, so I'll just leave this:

alexophile: you may be correct about this- I'm too young to remember. But I heard it used by people who had no other signs of misogyny that I ever noticed, which is why I had that impression. Carlin was one of those people to the best of my knowledge.

steveklabnik: But there are terms that you "can't use" now that were never perjorative. The scientific name for the race to which African-Americans belong is "Negro." Sometime in the '60s (I think) the leaders of this ethnic group took offense at the term. So, you can't say that somebody who used the term in, say, the '50s, was necessarily using it perjoratively (although you could make the argument that somebody using it non-scientifically in the '80s may have been).
Being seen doing the dishes obviously made an impression on at least one employee. Maybe time optimization isn't the only factor?
Wait, other countries and cultures don't adhere to the United States finely ingrained, unforgiving gender stereotypes? Let's have a laugh, they have girly-men. Sigh.
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Did you notice that it uses accelerometer data? That's the most impressive part to me.
the problem with maemo/meego isn't the app ecosystem, it's the half-assed platform itself! there were all the apps that I could possibly need on my n900, it's just wasn't very enjoyable to use them. for example the built-in browser sucks on both maemo 4 and 5. thankfully Opera is still building their mobile browser for both, so my n810 is quite usable device after 3 years.
I always thought the magnetic connector was patented; otherwise it's shocking that more manufacturers don't use it - I've seen laptops ruined by a single "tripping" incident. Also, I have to sheepishly admit that the magnetic connector was what pushed me over the edge into buying a MacBook.
Ah, nice. I just mentioned the first perl fsevents google result, AnyEvent definitely looks nicer :)
Feel free. No time, responses will be sporadic, but happy to engage as able.
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In a private school, that's probably a decent solution. Generally, people willing to send their kids to a private school are probably the parents who (a) put a premium on their kid's education and (b) make their children behave at least somewhat civilly most of the time. That cuts out a lot of the problem cases of children who face no consequences at home and who have no incentive to learn. Private schools also get to select on competence in many cases. You're not going to have someone who's reading on a 4th grade level in your senior English class, as happens at public schools. And you can refuse hard discipline cases and/or expel them, which they can't do in public schools.

In that environment, a teacher should be able to control the students. But you can't expect a system that works in those conditions to work in non-optimal conditions.
I think it's a bit of a misquote. I've heard it as the CEO saying something like "since you're under a lot of time press to get the stuff out the door in a week, and I don't know how to code, this is the only thing I can do for you right now"
It's not a purse! It's a European men's carry-all.

Regarding the "7% of men in the U.S.", I wonder how many of that sample bought them as gifts for women? I mean, I've stepped into Coach once to buy a wristlet, but it was because my sister had it on her wish list as a gift.

Then again, Coach does make men's accessories. I have a belt from coach, which my sister gave me as a gift. To be entirely honest, it's held up far better than any other belt I've ever owned.
If there was a foul bunt with two strikes then he would have struck out and not had a chance to hit that two run home run. Unless that particular rule has been added since 1985.
1. A fairly shitty AJAX prototype of a calendar website. You could drag and drop appointments and add new ones, drag to resize, and turn on and off multiple calendars. (This was 2005)

2. Yes.
I've been working from the British Library in London lately, and it's been great. If you're working at a library, though, please do consider making a donation. Sure it's free, but...
Whilst the link was just to the js file, a discussion with 263 points is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2161614 - which probably explains why the blog link got so few upvotes.
How do UVs matter more now, for advertisers?
Additionally, don't most countries have more men than women?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_ratio
The article's not very clear, though -- the implication to me seems to be that Facebook wants the information, but you're still free to use pseudonyms on the service itself to keep your name private.

Some Japanese people have major problems with revealing their name -- either part of it -- online, though. It's not something I've ever encountered in America outside of, say, 1998.

On the other hand, it might help to add some context that, before Facebook, there was Mixi, which requires you to have a working cell phone (with e-mail) for verification. Since you have to submit all of this data (and more) to get a cell phone in Japan, you're already pre-verified if you have one.
Rate my (friends) idea - Simple Ipad Stand
Most of us have 10 fingers, which makes counting easy (although you can count to 12/20/24/40 on your fingers too, I admit).
> It doesn't seem like living inside CN has a ton of advantages anyway.

It did for the founders!
Chris Holmes' Privateer Manifesto: Can It Save Music?
yep it does. Try grabbing the latest version of the script. It should ignore IE9
Absolutely no content, sources, or anything new whatsoever. Not news.
There is no valid solution for #2. Even for someone with a genius-level IQ and a desire to learn, making up for a few missed weeks of school is challenging. Making up a few months is basically impossible, especially if you're the type who was pre-disposed to drop out in the first place. With intensive one-on-one tutoring maybe, but that's not realistic budget-wise. And nobody is going to want to go back and be the 17-year-old in 9th grade with a bunch of 14-year-olds, because it's embarrassing (and if you think you can change the dynamic of teenagers teasing each other, good luck).
Researchers develop "thinking cap", aids in creative development
Bottom line, it's still 30 million guys not getting laid (or married, at least). I think this is an instance where the raw number is important.
Have you tried folding your bike up, then putting it inside a golf bag?
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My friend @kevmoss came up with the idea for the stand and is giving it away via a CC licence and/or selling the final product via a cool 'makers' service - ponoko.com. Pretty cool tech there!

Any tips / feedback from the HN community would be really appreciated, thanks!
I'm talking about data caps kicking in at 200 MB per month, a cleverly chosen amount of data which just coincidentally happens to be hard to stay under with any serious usage of a smartphone, and then a big dollar jump to the next cap of (typically) a few GB a month, which most users who aren't uploading/downloading a lot of video can easily stay under.

You'd also be right if the typical overage fees were within an order of magnitude of what it actually costs the provider to ship those extra bits over the wire. Or even two orders of magnitude. But from the figures I read (costs to the provider of circa a penny per megabyte or well under that), we're getting jobbed.

Don't you find it a bit silly to constantly advertise "4G" networks and their supposedly blazing speeds, and in the same breath set up data plans which will only allow you to use your phone at full speed for circa 1 minute per month? Do the math yourself.
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Emacs never ceases to amaze me. I've been using it for 15 or so years and yet had never run across the "kbd" macro or the "remap" event. Both seem very useful.
Which ironically means that the private schools get to bleed the public schools of their positive influencers and can shove all the discipline problems right back on the public schools.
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When you travel, how do you know what time it is?

Either way, you have to adjust something. Right now, you adjust your known time difference (i.e., change the clock, either by knowing the difference or by asking someone local). With that proposal, you would adjust the known opening times.
You're just not familiar with the matter.
Smuggle Truck: new iOS videogame about illegal immigration
The creators mention that it is a critique on the immigration system based on one of their friends. Seem legit but I wonder if creating a "controversial" app is an easy way to get attention for future apps.
Incredibly moving ending of Wael weeping as he sees photographs of some of the killed protesters for the first time. Truly sad and heartbreaking, yet highly inspirational moment. In the end, one can only hope the Egyptian people finally find the peace, freedom, and fairness they have been fighting so diligently for.
Yes, I see it as a potential side business.
Is that market averse to monthly subscriptions? Charging $5/mo. Could triple your revenue and turn a side biz into the main stage. And 5 bucks is a latte a month.

I recall patio11 speaking about marketing to the educational market but not sur if he covered recurring subscription revenue vs. Flat annual rate or not.
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No, everybody has those. Do you assume someone's rich because they are wearing nice headphones? I don't; I assume they are a college student who just got back to the city after Christmas break.

Hence, not a status symbol.
lawl "it's not a crime" good one dude.
What's stopping you? Starting now, whenever you give someone a time, specify UTC. If someone tells you a time that's not UTC, ask them to provide it in UTC.
"Absolutely no content, sources, or anything new whatsoever. Not news."

Normally you'd be right, but the WSJ regularly gets the pass from people on the need for actual sources due to their reputation. This is news.
No. USSR was always divided into several time zones. Moscow time is just a soviet analog of GMT.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Russia#Developments
I'm impressed with The Next Web.

I hadn't heard much about them before last week - when we launched http://lanyrd.com/ on TechCrunch they conducted an interview with us that same day (through olark, our live-help chat widget) and posted their own story, which was well written and had new information not covered by the TC story: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/01/31/lanyrd-launches-to-cha...

The Harj interview series has been excellent too.
With a single timezone then you need to know the longitude of the remote location instead. There's a book (called Longitude, unsurprisingly) about the piecewise invention of accurate chronometry in order to solve the problem of knowing your longitude at sea. Latitude you can work out pretty easily as long as you have an almanac, compass, and a protractor, but longitude is a problems sans clocks and logs of distance traveled.
Real geeks use milli-fortnight
"The Unix-style process model has virtues that the OP doesn't seem to grok. It's sometimes helpful to be able to restart one server from a completely clean memory image without taking the rest of the system down."

Unix processes virtualize real processes by providing indirection to the basic state identifiers of machine code - memory addresses. It's actually much simpler to virtualize a Lisp image - the basic identifiers are symbols. Dynamic binding already lets you do this to parts of the Lisp process. What's needed is an extension to let you do this for packages/modules.

"That is --- "omit safety checks, just trust me that my array accesses are all in bounds and I'm getting the types right." Code compiled this way is not inherently safer than C, and has to be coded up with equal care.

So, at the very least, the "quite safe" guarantee applies only to code compiled with full safety checks, which typically come with a very large performance hit."

With the Common Lisp model of optimization you can do this selectively for parts of your code, and the compiler can ignore your type hints or declarations if it wants to.

Array bounds checking can be lifted out of loops because CL arrays come with information about their dimensions. This is a fundamental and unfixable problem in C.

Type safety checks are only a performance problem in numeric loops, where it's always possible to provide the compiler with type information so that it can produce provably correct code (if you're looping over arrays of floats, you only have to check the type of the array once outside of the loop - again, this is a fundamental problem of C that is unfixable).

People have wasted hundreds of man-years trying to come up with automatic verifiers and safe subsets of C, but the language has so many problems and so few upsides that none of that work is worth it if you want to build reliable systems. Everything about C that is broken is actually very easy to fix, as long as you don't mind not using C.
if losing people is a disaster, you should be paying them enough that it would be insane for them to leave unless they were planning a complete career change.

Not to go against the immediate interests of my fellow workers, but how often have we seen advice to people to build up a fund so they can afford to go off and do what they really want - 6 months in the bank (or whatever) to let them really test a theory and start on their dream project? The better you pay those staff, the quicker they can build up that fund and leave you.

Which isn't to say staff should be underpaid and glad of it! but that salary is only part of what keeps someone working where they are. Pay people fairly for the value they add to your business but treat them well and value their skills and intelligence and they won't need to move on to try out their dream because you'll be providing them a platform where they can test it and you can reap the profits.
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That's a cultural issue, and Spain has only one time zone anyway. A lot of business can be conducted across the United States, which is fairly consistent in its hours. I suspect that Russia is fairly consistent within their borders as well.
"A great place to find some legit quiet time is in departmental libraries."

This has been my experience too. My current favourite is the Earth Sciences library. It's in one of the older buildings in my university, so the whole place has a much more humane feel than the concrete box of the main library. There's also more space to stretch out, and it's not as busy.
What? Then some musician would have to work during the day and sleep at night.
Instant app compatibility? Wouldn't they also need to provide the same set of APIs that Android provides?
That's funny, I thought it was about cohort analysis for spotting trends that might otherwise be obscured in confounding variables.
I think its safe to say they agree with you already. From the post: Even after making it easy to skip levels, the game will likely still be too challenging for some players’ tastes, but we’re OK with that. It’s a puzzle game, not a scenic tour of Kyle’s artwork.

That being said, I wouldn't mind having a scenic tour of Goo artwork..
Both NestedVM (http://nestedvm.ibex.org/) and Javum (http://sourceforge.net/projects/javum/) do this for the JVM.
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There are definitely more stats sites care about, but question number one from CPM ad buyers is universally "what are your uniques?" They care about the specific demographics of those uniques too, but when they're doing branding (vs conversion based advertising) they really care mostly about how many distinct sets of eyeballs they can address.
To me, a Markdown preview is somewhat orthogonal to the process of storing and retrieving notes for personal reference, so I've been hesitant to add it so far. But if people derive value from a live Markdown-processed web page, then I can try to find a way to incorporate it without it interfering with the normal workflow.

But I would appreciate it if you could give credit by linking to the actual app from your post:

http://notational.net/
> reddit rose 11% from 1.0 to 1.1 million

The numbers that they show (the same place the one-billion pageviews stat comes from) indicate that they're now closer to 14 million monthly uniques:

http://www.reddit.com/tb/fdyyf
I think the uses of "sloth" and "lazy" here are quite importantly different. The idea of working smart by being lazy, really means (at least to me) coming up with a better solution than the obvious hard work, time consuming approach, then going off and doing something better with the time that you have saved. Sloth implies to me sitting around doing nothing.

So: general sloth=bad;lazy approach to some tasks=good when it frees your time to do more important stuff.
I see this too, if I have autofill enabled, and at least one autofill address entry.

I would guess that Chrome is sending a hash of the <form> (perhaps URL + method?), plus a hash of each of the <input> tags, and Google returns some sort of information about what kind of form it is?

If so, it would mean it's pretty easy for Google to determine which sites you're on from the pattern of hashes sent for each site. e.g. I see this data sent in the clear for pretty much every page on https://www.facebook.com/
They do. I think they've ported almost the entire Android userspace and called it "Dalvik".
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I used to run the student advisory board for our college. We had a new dean and we were hosting an event for the first time since he arrived. After the event, many people left including some of our members and we had 2 rooms to clean up. We all went into the first one cleaned it up and came to the second room to find our dean wiping all the tables. We hadn't asked or expected him (He's the fricking DEAN!!) but he took it on himself to help out.

The trust he built in the students carried on and we still have a great relationship. Washing the dishes indeed.
Things like Node Knockout and Rails Rumble are a great way of identifying potential problems relatively quickly. From experience, it's high-stress and you're more irritable than normal because you haven't been getting enough sleep. It's very easy to get annoyed, even when you're doing it with the people you work with all of the time. You discover who you can work with well and who you can't pretty quickly.
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I have heard this place referred to as "Sun Quentin"
Has no intrinsic competitive advantage

Sure it does. You're just thinking about "cost" only in terms of money. In order to use a piece of software (and use it well) you need smart people, time, the right kind of infrastructure, and the knowledge that it's actually worth using.
> Not an apples-to-apples comparison.

So why did you make the comparision?

I am just pointing out that ck2's summation of Twitter understates the complexity of the problem they solve.
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For anyone who is interested or not, it was my 3rd birthday
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