skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank science it's not up to you then.

* The improvement to forms and forms management are long overdue and extremely interesting, especially for mobile phones.

* The History API is extremely needed right now, as it allows sites to have their cake and eat it too in regards to JS-drive Single Page Interfaces still mapping to actual resources (bookmarkable, and sharable, and not blowing up if there is a JS issue or JS is disabled).

* The File API is an other domain which is full of pain right now for web applications: the only way to correctly manage files without ending up wanting to shoot yourself is to use Flash, that's how bad it is.

* Audio Data, WebGL, WebWorkers, WebSockets and AppCache are necessary gateways to move more "desktop-class" applications to the web (fully online, or offlined from the web).

The stuff IE9 is missing is actually more helpful and interesting for the vast majority of content-oriented websites (not to mention web applications, WebGL has infinitely more potential than Canvas, let alone SVG) that the stuff it does have.
<device> just a pipe dream? It has “broad support” and exists on some phones already, per ppk's latest weekly roundup. http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2011/02/linkbait_8.h...

(Grandparent: Just because something isn’t in (all) browsers now doesn’t mean it “doesn’t belong” or, less straw-man-ish, that it wouldn’t be useful for some browsers to support; not all browsers need to implement everything, that’s why we have feature detection. But having IE, still the #1 most popular browser, on board really opens doors.)
I hope people wake up and realize what contra productive nonsense those link shorteners are.
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Hey, this is HN. We're supposed to argue and talk past each other with no changes in what we've done or believe. ;)

(And yes, it does fit better.)

Cheers.
You have no idea if they tried exactly what you are suggesting. And given that diplomats do exactly that, I'm pretty sure they did, and it didn't work.
"here is the tradeoff: Use our heuristic and you get a reasonable route immediately. Alternatively, configure a network of 110 processors, then spend two months computing the shortest route to save a month of driving."

Or, of course, use one of the thousands of other heuristics, most of which will likely provide as good an answer in as short a time as this heuristic. I mean, why provide comparisons to comparable heuristics? That would be like doing science.
MIT professor Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman (Wharton School) presented the "Propaganda Model" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model) in their 1988 book, "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent:_The_Poli...).

In their research they describe the dynamics between the government, corporations, and the media. As they show, it's not so much a conspiracy, but instead it's part of the political economy.
Not sure I understood you correctly, but have you tried using css?

<style type="text/css" media="print">
a:link, a:visited {
color: black;
text-decoration: none;
}

a:link:after, a:visited:after {
content: " (" attr(href) ") ";
}
</style>
24 million people, all brainwashed. There will be a long time before this country sees a popular uprising like Tunisia and Egypt have.
In the UX community, it's well known that you don't ask people what they want, which is why they have all those clever UX research methods.
Millions of Dollars Owed Denied to Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup Crews
There are lots of practical uses. One that immediately comes to mind is cache-friendly layout of power-of-two textures, usually called texture swizzling. Another application is designing clock trees on VLSI chips to minimize clock skew; that's actually a space-filling tree rather than a curve, but it's closely related.
Other submissions of similar stories:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=921959 <- This one has the comments.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=937547

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1298314

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1629128

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1685937

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1882761
Assuming they did not want to entirely roll their own impl, I would guess they used the same (code|technique) as Inkscape: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Output_format_requir...
Seems you HN peeps are just being unnecessarily hostile to Mark. He has written a part 2 no "Never hire Job hoppers" move on.

There is nothing wrong with how the mail was written. I was expecting a discussion about Twitters approach with UberTwitter (which I think is frightening). Not nitpicking at the way/method Mark had decided to express his views.
This answer from the CEO is a bit of a garbage answer because it does not tell who control these 5 servers. You need at least one server outside of Libya and not in the direct control of Libya. If the 5 servers are controlled by Libya, they just need to SSH and run `shutdown -h now`. Then, even if in Oregon, .ly is dead.

So, the CEO answer is not enough.
You hardly have postdoctoral positions in math, physics and social sciences. Lots of people still manage to get an assistant professor position after PhD. Postdocs emerged only recently and they are a buffer for those who cannot get a TT job after PhD. In biology it is absolutely normaly, in fact necessary, to go through ~5 yrs of postdoc before dreaming of applying. The estimates I know about math is that 1/5 of graduated get a job in academia. In biology is about order of magnitude more difficult (some less backed up estimates even claim is 1/300).
We're actually BVI, although I'm Canadian. Looking forward.
The Multiverse, Quantum Immortality and the Meaning of Life
If Quantum Immortality is true and you can experience only your own survival then imagine this: You buy a lottery ticket; after that you create a room with a sufficient number of guns guns pointed at your head (for added redundancy – i.e. a big number guarantees your death if they fire at the same time). The triggering system is connected to a sufficiently secure data channel that will guarantee the security of the connection (i can’t imagine a 100% secure network but for the present matter we’ll accept this premise) through which it will receive the lottery numbers. The guns will be programmed to fire at your head at the same time if the lottery numbers do not match the ticket you played.
Orbit was ground-breaking, but it's Stalin that's the most powerful optimizing compiler for Scheme, or perhaps any other language.
Tell HN: Socialscope does a Reddit
Now that UberTwitter is taken down,Socialscope has opened up their blackberry Twitter app which was in private beta- and they seem to be spreading massively virally. Search for Socialscope on Twitter (See Real-time in Google). Their followers count on Twitter has more than doubled in less than a day!
I've created an AUR package for this script, found here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46675
Android: strong handset sales but minority position in software sales
I've had that before. I sent them the latex source and they've been able to handle the rest.
Next thing they'll want the ability to track anyone's phone calls!

Oh wait.

All I can say is: leave our internet alone.
If you're interested in such a comparison, Google is your friend. Here, I've tried this search:

http://www.google.com/search?q=comparison+of+heuristics+for+...

It depends on what you actually want, but here are two links that might be the sort of thing you're looking for:

http://www.agent.ai/doc/upload/200302/stut00.pdf

http://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/people/uploads/TomOrmerod200712...

But let me just say that I found your reply to be unnecessarily nasty in its tone - snippy and snarky. You seem simply to be criticising the authors because they produced a brief paper describing a particular heuristic, and you seem simply to be demanding that they do go further than they have in this paper. Perhaps they already have, perhaps it's work in process.

I find it frustrating when people criticise a link largely because it is what it is and isn't something else. If you want something on comparisons, go find it. Or alternatively, do the work yourself. Then regardless, come and share your results.
Sure but it's mentioned in-thread already, while Orbit explains the CPS and others well.
And I wouldn't say they're slow, on the contrary. They've been adding features to AWS like clockwork for like 6 years now. Every few months, they add something that a large amount of people love. And then it just works. That's awesome. They're running a marathon, not a sprint, and doing awesomely well so far.
MASON: fast discrete-event multiagent simulation on the JVM
When you said that they decided to hire you, was that something they told you right after the interview? If so, I think it would've been prudent to follow up with both the CTO and the recruiter after a week or two had passed. Worst case you'll just look enthusiastic about your new job, and there's little harm in that. It's always possible for these sorts of little mishaps to happen, even if it weren't through a recruiter. A short email could've saved much confusion.
The birthday paradox
I actually looked at that. But for what I read, the cost is then based on user base, 8$ per user per month at a max of 1000$ per month. So we would probably reach that on the first month...
Not all emails are deep. Twitter is good for the short to the point stuff.
I've had the same main email address for over 15 years. Back then, there was no spam. I can recall my extreme annoyance when spam started ramping up in the late 90s. Eventually, I installed a fantastic challenge-response system called Active Spam Killer. This program cut my incoming spam levels from around 600 per day to close to zero. Some spammers have figured out ways to get around it, but my Eudora filters get most of the rest of it.
And Dick Costolo responds:

@msuster your post is a misinformed and contrary to what I'm certain you would counsel as an investor.

[1] https://twitter.com/dickc/status/38853714320166912
That's genius. So simple and elegant.
It's a bit annoying to me mainly because this sort of thing is really common among heuristics developers (even in papers submitted to conferences/journals). They develop a heuristic for a problem, and then show that it beats the exact, guaranteed optimal algorithmic solution. But that's only the right comparison if it's the first-ever heuristic for a problem! Otherwise it's a bit of a straw man, because its real competitors are other existing heuristics and randomized or approximate algorithms for that problem, and/or general, domain-independent heuristics like randomized hill-climbing.

Apart from the claim that it beats competitors, it's a really interesting post, though; light-weight heuristics based on clever connections are interesting in their own right. (So I sort of agree on the tone.)
I didn't want to, but I have to agree with pascal_cuoq. It isn't useful to view this space filling curve as a revolutionary alternative to computing the provably optimal solution. When the author decided to include comparison to other solutions, they should have included comparable heuristics and evaluated them on runtime and path efficiency.
The Solvers' Manifesto
Presenting Wireframes to Designers
I misunderstood that to mean that his share of Elevation Partners share was ~1.5% of Facebook.

Thanks for the correction. With hindsight I should have put a question mark in the title as I was surprised when I read it and wanted to know more.
Disciple: A Strict Dialect of Haskell
I think that is just their App Engine for Business costs: (for others' reference: http://code.google.com/appengine/business/)

You may want the extra services that this gives, but it is not the standard App Engine offering.

If you are not using App Engine for Business, the costs are for CPU and bandwidth, etc., and not for users, and so should be significantly less than that.

edit: The standard pricing structure is at http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/billing.html and there is a free quota as well which is pretty generous.
Or s.coop which although longer has the benefit of being run as a cooperative and currently the paths being generated are just 3 characters long
Wouldn't researching and discovering 0-day vulnerabilities be treading close to DMCA violations and/or cybercrime laws? I don't see why this information isn't causing Microsoft and/or the Government to go on the offensive legally against the likes of HBGary.
Maybe instead of trying to get more power they should get their heads out of their respective asses and start doing their damn job: catch and prosecute criminals on behalf of the victims.

They have no reason to be in Washington at all.
This is extremely common in compression algorithms "research" as well. At least in video compression, the vast majority of papers are complete tripe, comparing only to algorithms known to be bad (i.e. an exhaustive search). You can easily spot the few good papers simply by looking for the ones that compare themselves to good algorithms.
I'm pretty sure they are not brainwashed that much. There are people who are like those young actors. But that engineer (father of actress) understands situation better: there is reason why he does not want his daughter to be actress. Actually looks at reaction of parents when actress told the story how she became actress. They are trying to hide their eyes like they could betray them. This video alone is enough to understand what price she might pay sometime.
Intel boss searches planet for post-Nokia MeeGo spouse
Ugandan girl, Phiona Mutesi leads chess revolution from the slums
Ask HN: How do you approach UX?
I was wondering how fellow HNers approach, User experience design and Interaction design. Do you create client personas? When, building an app how often do you do usability tests? How did you handle redesign?
By the same logic .com domains aren't safe either given the recent ICE shutdowns.
Are you the author, or connect with the author?

If so, remember that HN readers tend to be a lot more critical of the article than towards other comments.

Anyway, the article didn't really claim to be the fastest heuristic, just an elegant one with some nice properties. It's O(n log n) - what more do people want? O(n)? O(1)? n log n is almost always fast enough.
Is the multiplayer cross-platform? i.e., PS3 vs PC?
London Stock Exchange price errors emerged 20 seconds after Millennium launch’
Almost any of those resumes would get you a job offer from us (Shopify) after the most basic cultural fit evaluation.

Putting something like this together demonstrates a tremendous amount of desirable skills: Design skills, creativity, humour, but most importantly: resourcefulness, the desire to combat status quo, and the ability to ship a project and be proud enough to (literally in this case) put your name all over it.

Here is a great example of an applicant who build an entire Shopify store to get hired recently. Turned out we had the position already filled but we created a new position out of thin air just to get him. He starts on wednesday: http://mikefreeman.myshopify.com/
Not sure why you've been downvoted here, you make a valid remark. I'm pretty sure the flag on this site's logo is the flag of the jihad.
Since that wave of 'revolutions' in the middle east has started, a lot of disinformation has been spreading, and some wolves seem to be hiding behind the cute flock of sheep. It wouldn't hurt to care of where we're picking our news from, and take everything with a pinch of salt
Nice designs, but terrible at conveying information.

(I found the one with the box particularly funny.)
or Facebook.
Lemmings office gets a plaque
True, but if I were any of them I'd just give a more readable version along with the incredibly creative one.
Weird nobody else mentioned ruboto: https://github.com/ruboto/ruboto-core

It even has an app for android (https://market.android.com/details?id=org.ruboto.irb), which works very well, even with OpenGL.
Still do not get all the Java hate--- it's plenty valid enough for Android dev-- and easy to use. Some people just like hating it because they think it's cool to do so. :)
If anyone is interested been doing this for ages.

You can get the template by
git clone git://github.com/dscape/NunoJobResume.git
ha! awesome!

re: Twitter - it's not that it "replaces" email. I just find that when I land on a plane and reach for my blackberry and have a choice between email or Twitter I find myself doing the latter.

I get way too much email. I read it all. But it's hard to process it all. Writing back, deciding whether to accept meetings, giving answers to questions, etc. is so time consuming and people are rarely brief.

On Twitter I get to meet new people, interact with friends, have debates, discover information, send private (and short) DMs. Well, on most days I do. Yesterday, my service was cut off because I use a product that Twitter doesn't endorse. That's what prompted my post.
You need not quote revolution: it's real. And Jihadis have NOTHING to do with the Arab Spring. They would rather kill strangers in strange lands, instead of actually rising up against their own despots.

Saudi Arabia funds them, and you heard what the fuckwit Mufti said about the Egyptian uprising: he said Mubarak is the rightful rules of the soil and Muslims must obey him.

Muslim people have woken up to the lies of the Islamists.
Nice words, though personally I don't like the sound of "We are a tribe" and "Just show some appreciation once in a while." Both seem kind of negative in one way or another, though maybe it's just me.
Yep. I responded before reading the whole thread.
Why not praise them for both. Joel Spolsky wrote a whole book on the importance of hiring smart people, but also people that get stuff done. I tend to think that having a strong work ethic is more important than being smart, as longs as you are smart enough to complete the task at hand, but if you spend all your time grinding on the wrong thing, you aren't going to get anywhere.

Praise kids for effort put into intellectually challenging work that they complete with good results. We should praise intelligence, it's what our society runs on. Intelligence certainly doesn't need to be devalued any more than it already is.
Here is a sound recording of it being erected:

http://www.lemmingsuniverse.net/downloads/kling.wav
I'm not sure which bit was misinformed. If I learn that some bit was I will correct it.

My premise holds:
- issue a public warning to UberMedia & its users and allow 72 hours
- if not resolved take action then
- don't issue an advertisement for your mobile product the exact same day you block a large mobile client. It is in poor taste and this is evidenced by the majority of the Tweetstream that trashed Twitter on this issue

I'm all for fair & hard competition. But if I were an investor this is what I would have counseled. And if Twitter or its investors know something I don't (which I concede is possible) I would suggest that they have a marketing offensive to make more information available.
Agreed. Most of my Twitter network is South African and the adoption in our area has been huge.
"This is where Scheme
really won. Because of its extremely algorithmic---almost
mathematical---nature, Scheme can be easily manipulated in a sort of
algebraic style. One can follow a series of rewrite rules (just about
blindly) to transform a program into another form with some desirable
property. This was exactly what I needed."

Can anyone explain this with an example? I have been pondering what he meant with this for a long time.
empowerment of people to socially engage & communicate is the basis on which all democracy is built. That is what is beautiful about Twitter.

Shutting down competition or dissension is decidedly undemocratic.
I accept that this is possible.

If I were Twitter in this case then at worst I would issue a public statement of why they don't support UberTwitter's moves and I would encourage users to migrate over 72 hours if they saw fit.

Then at least the user community would be more on Twitter's side. What they did today is block us from using their product on our mobile devices. I'm not sure that's sound policy.
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To answer some of the questions and address some of the issues raised ...

I'm not the author, not connected with the author, and don't know the author. I found the "paper" and thought "That's neat and elegant."

Yes, we could do with a complete analysis of all existing algorithms and heuristics, finding the strengths and weaknesses, and for each one, finding and characterising cases where they do well and cases where they do badly.

But personally, I like to see papers like this, papers that can be considered to be a "work in progress." I don't want only to read about studies that are exhaustive, complete, and answer all the questions. I think there is value in seeing descriptions of algorithms, along with a simple comparison to known algorithms largely for the purpose of understanding the detail and the potential.

This is an invitation to explore, not a closed and completed "job done." This is an invitation to Google for other heuristics to enhance my understanding of the field. This is an invitation to wonder if my unique range of experience and skills might find a better heuristic.

Full analysis is the work of a Ph.D. and more. Don't expect it in a paper on the web.
It contains my home address, mobile number and so on, so I'd rather not post it.

But it looks like a plain article class LaTeX document, except that I changed the margins and the font (Palatino instead of Times). If you want a more sophisticated layout you can customize the LaTeX-specific options; they'll be ignored when you export to other formats.
I think it's perfect for the target audience. Most of them, if not all of them, were for designer positions. This demonstrates their skillset for design, especially if the job is for advertising creative work.

If it's for creating functional user interfaces, maybe not as great, but I think it still achieves the overall goal of demonstrating their skillset for design work.
Why You’re a Bad PHP Programmer
Most of them seem over-designed.
Like pascal_cuoq, I was bothered by the apparent lack of rigour here. The problem is a mismatch of expectations. The post is presented like a paper (references, novel algorithm, comparisons, future work), but it isn't a paper. Viewed as a blog post or work-in-progress, it's very cool. Viewed as a paper (which are available on the Web nowadays), it has some misleading statements in it. There is nothing anti-wonder or anti-knowledge about pointing that out.
That's brilliant. "(Mike Freeman not pictured)".
Make sure you look at the "Book a meeting" page.
Lam phat anh huong chien luoc kinh doanh 2011
Suy giảm lòng tin vào triển vọng kinh doanh, nhiều doanh nghiệp cho rằng lạm phát ảnh hưởng đến chiến lược kinh doanh của họ.
True... There are actually a number of players involved. I should've linked to this earlier - we have an ebook that explains in detail how this works:
http://feefighters.com/ebooks/what-is-credit-card-processing...
It's a shame it's so chatty. Unless you're using it as a simple IFrame embed, it will fall over on xss errors.

In Twiddla, for example, we'd like to include a bit of custom script to detect when you click the "next page" button so that we can keep everybody synced up. That means we have to proxy it through our server and mess with the markup a bit. That's easy to do in Scribd's viewer, and it actually worked fine in Gdocs' view before October last year.

Then they changed things & got all fancy. Shame.
Exercise #8: Counting and Sums with awk
Apple reportedly considers making iPhone less expensive