skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The _reason_ everyone decided to kill Flash, is because it, combined with pdf reading, is responsible for the majority of browser crashes.

That a company with such incompetent programming and slimy marketing can come to be so ubiquitous -- this indicates something is broken in the functioning of our software market.

The last time I visited my sister, I asked her why she had Adobe Reader installed on her new 15" Macbook -- AFAIK, she doesn't need it, and Preview, which comes pre-installed, is so much more responsive. (Yes, I was watching her wait for a PDF to come up.) She just pretended I didn't ask. I wonder what trick they pulled?

Once, a few years ago, I started snooping around my old work laptop. Some background process was soaking up large amounts of CPU, even when I had no applications up. I found it was some Visual Basic background process polling so it could instantly spring into action with some Adobe Suite thing. After I deinstalled Adobe and installed Foxit Reader, my machine was much snappier!
Non-Compete is Non-Competitive
Very nice. They could have added the effect of the person popping out when the mouse is hovered above them. =)
You don't have to find solutions to point out a problem. He might be so fried by the experience that he doesn't have the presence of mind to come up with solutions.

It seems like the goal might have been to put academia on notice so _it_ could determine whether or not it cares about the problem enough to solve it.
Unlikely, without an automated duplicate-check this will pop up every time it pops up somewhere.

I might however delete it, if that's of any help.
I consider myself libertarian, but welfare is the last thing I'd cut. It's true that the notion of welfare strengthening the overall economy is rooted in fallacy (ignoring unseen costs--read Hazlitt or Bastiat), but if we could do things like cut military spending drastically, let banks fail, get real currency, eliminate the income tax, the drug war, etc., it would have such a huge positive impact that very few would even need welfare once things got straightened out, and it would be a much easier pill for people to swallow politically--less destabilizing and divisive. Imo, it's stupid for libertarians to even talk about welfare. Just focus on getting rid of the things that have the biggest impact, and that almost everyone hates anyway, then go from there.
For me the turning point of The Motley Fool was when they started to send out those loooong 12 page email marketing pitches that reminded me too much of a penny stock pitch. ALL CAPS PROFITS!!!! 127% Growth! They still send them out.

It took me too long to realize the site I had loved was gone.
Cute and all, but why is this on the front page?
Google, Best Buy, and Sony ally against Big Cable
Network creators admit[1] that the architecture of CoralCDN isn't very well suited for supporting content availability (as opposed to helping with handling load & bandwidth usage).

For example, at any point in time, content can be removed from cache—before completing its usual 24h lifecycle—to accommodate resource usage for different sites.

[1] "Experiences with CoralCDN: A Five-Year Operational View" http://www.coralcdn.org/docs/coral-nsdi10.pdf
Ask HN: US Federal Deficit - What to do?
So while driving this morning, I had NPR on listening to US lawmakers give the typical run around about spending cuts. It seems like we are coming close to a dangerous stand still, which would obviously have dire consequences for the future of the US.

How come both sides can't seem to realize that when it comes to spending cuts EVERYTHING needs to get cut and unfortunately taxes need to be RAISED. No one wants to hear this - heck I don't want to pay more taxes. I also don't want to see gov agencies doing great things be cut severely, but the fact of the matter is that 14 trillion isn't going to go away quietly.

Now regardless of whether you think I am right or wrong in this assessment, I have continuously been impressed by the massive brain power behind HN and I am curious to hear people's thoughts on what needs to be done and why. If you are an international reader, feel free to share your outside perspective!
I guess I'm doing it for the end-goal's sake. I really do want people with disabilities to be able to communicate better, including my own cousin. As long as my bills are being paid (regardless of the source of income), I don't need any rewards. I'm not a saint or anything - I just don't want to deal with the overhead of funding, grants, scholarships, sales, marketing, clients, customers. I want to make a usable, innovative product and keep improving it. A few years ago my preliminary version got #1 on HN ( http://chir.ag/projects/ktype/ ) and since that day I have been working hard to change my life so I could work on it full-time. Took over a year but I can finally do it now, so I'm very happy.
That is cool that he enjoys the device he purchased, that is really what matters, but I feel that he was hardly entrenched in this so called war. Not only that, he is comparing the experience of a 1.5th generation phone versus a 4th generation phone. The Droid is a good phone, but I wouldn't call it great. It has a slower processor, less ram, the hardware feel is what some call flimsy. In my opinion Motorola didn't make great phones at first, and their drivers had lots of issues. Don't get me started on their penchant to lock down the phones.

The iPhone 4 is a great phone, but I wouldn't trade my Nexus One in for one, not even if I was paid. There are a lot of reasons, more than I wish to extrapolate in a comment. I started out with a G1, I have been in the 'trenches' if you will since the start. I know what Android has achieved, and how great it really is, because I saw it when it wasn't so great.

He didn't abandon anything, he just got a new phone.
Celebrating Watson as an innovation
Startup Quote: Roger Ehrenberg, managing partner, IA Ventures
Not an ad, it's a customer query response to this article:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2214158

This page will show you how to turn a $199.95 (Canadian – Suggested Retail) pair of Sennheiser HD 555 headphones into a pair of Sennheiser HD 595‘s that cost $349.95

All you had to do is remove a piece of foam.

St3fan must have emailed them.
Do not let failure dictate your future choices.

- Roger Ehrenberg (@infoarbitrage)

http://startupquote.com/post/3362840664
I think that compute power moving towards commodity status would be a great thing, however, I also think there's one big problem that needs to be surmounted at present: bandwidth isn't free.

Practically speaking, to be properly fungible, it should be possible to move compute workloads across the 'Net into whatever environment happens to be cheapest. But for anything being done with large amounts of data, there's a non-negligible cost to moving that data across the Internet, and this in turn can lead to things like lock-in. In fact one could argue that it's almost the only form of lock-in practiced by AWS.

On the other hand, if compute power DOES become a commodity, that would be great, because then Jevons paradox would probably kick in, which could itself lead to true ubicomp etc. One can dream :-)
Hi-- I'm the author of this blog post. I just wanted to say that I really enjoy the discussions on HN, so thank you!
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The right way to go about it is get a good lawyer to represent you. It seems like an overkill but sounds like you can afford it.
My valid visa case was rejected by INS and I was asked to go through a number of hoops because the lawyer had entered information in a different format. I changed lawyers and it made a sea of difference. Learnt the lesson that never skimp on lawyers. Try talking to Aron Finklestein or Alisa Klein at http://www.murthy.com/attprofi.html. They charge 200$ for a 20 min consult and will tell you what to do exactly. I was not sure if 20 mins would be enough to explain my complex case but 20 mins is all it took for them to come up with a strategy. Best of luck.
Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television

http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...
How to determine the value of a search engine keyword
I hope this is a farcical attempt to write an academic-style review of his Dear John letter to academia.
It is a bit long, but you can also use Python for parsing the json files from command line:

echo '{"a": "hello", "b": "world"}' | python -c"import sys,json;j = json.loads(sys.stdin.read());print j['a']"
Bulletproof Rails Asset Caching
Google, Best Buy, and Sony in a new alliance
Links to the actual papers (PDF):

Part 1: http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/JDEnP...

Part 2: http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/DJEnP...
Recruiting tools for HR people are typically designed by non-recruiters. Most HR department get overwhelmed by volume past a certain point but the tools don't eliminate bottlenecks.
No, but a lot of people on Hacker News like to pretend it does and react badly when anybody presents them evidence to the contrary.
My aunt (who lived in a staff house in a student complex, and found she had inherited some of the bad credit associated with it) managed to greatly improve her credit rating by adding a 'B' to her house number.
Doing independent research like this is very cool. I admire your willingness to take such a risk and make this sacrifice. One comment I would add is that, while you might be more "productive" solo (less context switching/blocking I assume ;), working with others forces you to maintain a persuasive, crisp story about why what your doing is the right thing. While early, exploratory research can temporarily delay the need for this story, it can't be delayed long!

From the info on your website, it looks like you are developing keyboard layouts that would be useful for people with disabilities. However, I was unable to figure out what your elevator speech for this work might be. What is your hypothesis? What evidence do you have for it? What disability(ies) are you targeting? How will new mobile keyboard help?

Lastly, this looks like a useful project for others (you're not just proving random theorems in your basement :)! Why not re-frame this in your mind as a startup? Good luck!
I guess in California it's easy to say "we can use solar". But I look outside my window here in London and it's overcast and hazy. I don't recall it was windy either when I went out for a sandwich.
I have been called a whore and a traitor by my friends, but I did it anyway. Last week I turned off my Motorola Droid, and activated an Apple iPhone 4 on Verizon. This was considered by some of my Android loving friends as an act of war, by some just an excuse to banish me from their twitter circle.

Friends dumping you over your choice of mobile software aren't really your friends. Not even by the loosened-up social networking definition of 'friends'. Useless melodrama...
Ehmm... who cares? Your so called friends are not talking to you anymore 'cause you changed phone?
They're not friends, that's all. Go on and live with it.
Ugh. You can pave the Earth with solar panels and wind farms or you can save the Earth with nuclear energy.

Intermittent renewables aren't a complete solution to our energy needs because they aren't available when we need them. They either need to be supplemented with fossil fuels or we'd need to build an energy storage system that would cost as much, if not more, than the energy production system.
I had the fortune of working with Jonathan Sobel at IU and hearing this story.

We were taught to translate a recursive program to continuation passing style in a way that many variables could be translated to registers directly. If I remember correctly, Jonathan translated this from Scheme to C and just compiled that result.
I was very careful to pick realistic, targetable goals for my research project, KType. World peace wouldn't cut it. KType has the goals of:

* Improving communication for people with disabilities
* Creating low-cost software / hardware tools, customizable for each individual
* Providing useful research material and articles for families & friends
* Sharing case studies of actual users

Money doesn't factor into this because over the past few years, I've worked hard to ensure my bills are paid without me having to work full-time. My research project goals have to do with the real project's usability and accessibility and not orthogonal accomplishments like publishing papers, getting grants etc. That's all I need to keeps me in focus. Every minute I work on KType, I am actually working on KType. It's a very slow process but at least I know I'm moving in the right direction.
I was a developer at the studio that did this. Brands like Nissan think much more ahead than this, and the two development efforts went on in parallel (another studio did the iAd work.) In fact, if I'm not mistaken the leaf site launched before the iAd did, or at least really close together.
Neat as this may be - optimizing a trivial algorithm is not something you'll encounter out of school.

The lesson learned is a good one though: Good design always wins. In real life, that's obvious almost immediately, yet the concept seems to elude the vast majority of programmers.

In reality the difficulty in programming is creating powerful, flexible designs. If you can look at your own code a year later and say "wow - this is good" - then you win.
Vehicles, ships and trains would be powered by electricity and hydrogen fuel cells. Aircraft would run on liquid hydrogen.

Hydrogen carries a lot of energy for its weight. Unfortunately, it's not all that compact. I've seen comments online that even liquid hydrogen doesn't so much fall as floats downward. Still, for all that, I can see ships and trains, maybe even busses, using hydrogen. As you increase the size of a vehicle, the internal space increases by the third power, so space is not such an issue for large vehicles.

A good interim step would be for the US to go to natural gas for vehicular energy. We have a lot of it. It would be more efficient, and it would help decrease the importance of petroleum in our industrial infrastructure.
They are extremely paranoid of anyone "sneaking" in, especially from countries that could be considered "poorer". I agree, the process of a visitor's visa is insane. You are probably much better off if she just came as a tourist...

Also, when you are inviting someone into "Schengen"/EU, you are taking quite a huge responsibility because any and all costs for the state or hospital bills can ultimately be billed to you. So trying to see the upside of things, you could say they are just making sure all bases are covered.

On the upside, you won't get shot at the border - I'm looking at you, USA/Mexican border.
Refuse? Refuse? You can fly to the US - some 4000 miles away in 7.5 hrs for the East Coast and 11 hours for the West coast. You then may have a little bit of a wait at immigration (or not as the case may be). I've gone through in 5 minutes and one time it was 45 minutes. Seeing as you state you're in the UK, you also eligible for the VWP which means you can travel to the US whenever you like.

Just consider what it was like to travel before the invention of the airplane, or the steam ship. Please appreciate that you live in a time when travelling the world is very very easy. And please watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk
I've been looking into Haskell for web development—in particular, the snap framework. Did you consider using other functional languages before choosing OCaml, as in does OCaml have any specific advantages for web dev?
What is mobile augmented reality for?
Thanks for the links, I actually applied the second one on my own, without much success. Right now, I'm looking at a server with no swapping, normal memory usage, low processor usage, no IOwait, but serving HTTP requests at the speed of a dead snail nailed to an ice cube.

I'll try to install the cache plugin as soon as I retrieve control over my server.
The creepiness probably has more to do with their color choice and cut out triangle than the shape of it. Their model makes it look more sinister than a ball with ribbons taped on to it.

For me, though, it gets disturbing when you think about how many people are killed by what's on your screen.
I find this offensive.. I don't live in San Francisco and I can't speak to the specific situation there, but people are not parasites.

And if you are categorizing things into 'productive' and 'non productive', what kind of net benefit to society do you think Zynga produces?
His story reminded me a lot of the time I switched from Linux to OS X. There was a point where compiling my own kernels stopped being fun and I just wanted a computer that I could work with instead of work on.
New thought: academia isn't broken, there are just too many people who want to be academics. What do people think?

Not too much of a new thought, the recent Economist article [0] on academic made a similar assertion.

[0] http://www.economist.com/node/17723223?story_id=17723223
I'd be interested in the actual application of that. Scheme and Lisp don't seem to lend themselves to a powerful object oriented design very much. Since that is IMO the highest order task in programming, I have never been that interested in them.

I guess if you only write number crunching code, then yeah. But if you write an app (web or client) - what good is Lisp?
"If someone told you there was a way you could [do amazing things at a cost comparable to the Moon landings], why wouldn't you do it?"

Because such large and complex projects are bound to seriously overrun initial budget and time estimates, and sometimes fail altogether. I'm always suspicious when big and fancy promises are made, if only we're willing to pay an arm and a leg. Tell you what: pick the bluest of the blue states, where the political will definitely exists, and implement all this stuff there. (You did say it could be done with today's technology, and only political will was needed?) Then we'll talk about the world.
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I have used drive savers before (that was years ago), they have been around for a long time. As well most drive manufactures offer recovery services. Granted they are usually just subing it out, but they do chose reputable vendors. There is a lot of sleaze in this industry so be careful it is worse that auto mechanic scams by 10 fold. As well a high price would not scare me as much as a low ball quote. A low ball is a guarantee that they are just going to try to run some software tools on it. A high quote does not guarantee that they are not so it is not a great indicator.
>Thinking about this some more. Anonymity is required for democracy to work properly.

There was a thread on hacker news about this recently. I can't find it but here is the article it linked to.

http://open.salon.com/blog/kent_pitman/2011/02/12/using_real...
I was a developer working at the studio that did this. Development took roughly the same amount of time in JS/HTML instead of flash.
that sort of subject matter might at least be interesting
in the sense of telling me something I didn't know,
rather than discussing current US politics

I am of two minds about it. Learning is important and essential to our profession. But does all kind of knowledge belong in HN? I would not say so. Where the borderline is I am not yet sure.

(Regarding politics, I would say whatever affects the professional life, scientific research, etc, is in; pure politics is out. But it's just a single person's opinion.)
My current theory for success in academia (and I'm not an academic so take it with a grain of salt) is a sort of synthesis of Dick Hamming's thoughts and other things I've read.

1. The purpose of a Ph.D. is to become a pre-eminent expert in a field. It's not to get a piece of paper. If you're not working on a career that will make you an expert, you'll be disappointed with your options after you have achieved your doctorate.

2. Find the interesting problems that people are afraid to work on and work on them very hard.

3. Use lots of techniques and approach your problems from many sides. Often something cool will shake out of the mix, and it won't have been in your research proposal.

4. If you aren't self-motivated, it's not right for you. If you don't enjoy the work, take your masters and go do something you enjoy.

5. Prepare your life for long hours and low pay with lots of frustration. Research doesn't proceed easily from point to point and it's all about being around when you accidentally make a breakthrough.

I'm sure I'm about 90% wrong, but perhaps less wrong than the naive, "Ph.D. is a way to stay in school and not have to face the real world" point of view.
Sorry about the confusion!

Queryable, Corp. is the corporate entity that we set up when we founded the company.

Answerly.com was our first consumer product. We've always been known to our investors, partners, vendors as Answerly because that was the consumer facing piece.

We've stopped actively developing the Answerly.com q&a search engine and are focusing all of our time on InboxQ now. It is the exact same team, same corporate entity and much of the same core tech.

Hope this clears things up a bit. If you have any questions, just let me know.
I'm also not enamored with the idea of planes flying around with tanks of liquid hydrogen.

From what the article says, it seems that the paper hasn't considered very much of the follow-on effects.
This isn't actually too far from what we have now and is a terrible idea.

Below a certain income level in the Australia and parts of Europe (in all probability) you not only pay no taxes but you get low income credits. This is a negative income tax as you describe it.

The problem? Let me give you an example (and this is purely fictional):

Joe earns $5,000 a year in part-time work. He pays no tax. He gets $2,000 a year in government assistance.

Marginal rate of tax: -40%.
Net income: $7,000
Total tax rate: -40%

Joe finds a better paying job and now earns $15,000 a year. Now he's paying $3,000 a year in tax and his low income tax credit is gone.

Marginal rate of tax: 30%
Net income: $12,000
Total tax rate: 20%

Seems reasonable right? Now consider the difference:

Extra gross income: $10,000
Extra net income: $5,000
Marginal rate of tax: 50%

You see this with government benefits (that taper off and then cut out at certain income levels). The marginal tax rate low income earners end up paying can be well beyond 50%. Add in child support and this can go over 90%.

Call this a disincentive to work.

Let me give you a concrete example:

http://www.centrelink.gov.au/internet/internet.nsf/payments/...

> Income over these amounts reduces your rate of pension by 50 cents in the dollar (single), or 25 cents in the dollar each (for couples). For transitional or saved cases, income over these amounts reduces your rate of pension by 40 cents in the dollar (single), or 20 cents in the dollar each (for couples).

Bear in mind that you're losing 50 cents of tax free income for every $1 of taxable income that you gain.
"The Battalion" would be the only appropriate name.
"It ordered most to pay the children's education costs but fired one contractor which was using 42 minors and had 'chosen to overlook the issue', the company said."

So it's not as if they overlooked it.
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