skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More people would read the article if it wasn't a solid block of text. Good typography makes all the difference.

For paragraph comparison:

NYTimes:
font-size: 15px;
line-height: 22px;
width: 600px;

Men's Journal:
font-size: 12px (small);
line-height: 15px (tight);
width: 800px (I lose which line I'm on);
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I can remember from when I was doing ICPC, I wasn't allowed to bring in anything in electronic format. I could, however, bring in printed materials.

Have the rules changed? Or are these libraries just for practice problems?
I like that captcha because I can do it in my head which makes me feel special. Too bad there isn't a button just to check the captcha for those of us who don't want to sign up for an account.
And suddenly, I really, really miss the 90s.
Why will a huge portion of people not upgrade from XP? It's been at long time since you could buy a computer with it preinstalled (unless you specifically ask for it). Hardware attrition, upgrade cycles, and hopefully the end of the global recession should clear out those machines.

Any computer that came with XP preinstalled that is still around 15 years later is going to be so slow that an outdated browser is going to be the least of its worries.
Does anyone know about the algorithms behind this? Are they still using Neural networks?

I just can't fathom how a computer can know how to drive.
My intention wasn't to be literal. I was really curious what kind of food is available over there and what would you recommend eating. Not everyone eats Chinese, Thai, Mexican or other foreign cuisines.
Compatability mode doesn't support ie6, and I believe its only for the renderer, not the JavaScript engine.
Not sure why we have Robert X showing up here on HN. Seems to me to be a low thoughtfullness to opinion ratio.
Some great points.

John Sweeney's "Innovation at the Speed of Laughter" has some great innovation lessons from improv comedy. The workshops we did with Sweeney at Microsoft got amazing results, and it's all very applicable to startups too.
Any other ICPC world finalists on Hacker News?

Stockholm '09 here.
I use keyword analysis for alot of discovery before hand. As for testing and feed back of your MVP try buying some specific adwords related to the topic. Google gives away $100.00 adword gift cards like their santa. That should at least get you 100-200 somewhat relevant hits. Remember that no response is a response itself.
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Nothing is ever as risky as you think it is
I have to answer to this comment since this is the same argument governments had back in social and communist countries in Eastern Europe.

It is not about whether majority of people approve government or think their government is a "brutal dictatorship". It is about what that government does with people who doesn't approve the government.
I think you've misunderstood his post (or I've misunderstood yours (my friend))). He was saying that the linked website was illogical in using a method to distinguish humans from machines, that most humans would fail at. Grandparent wasn't attempting to construct his own logical argument.
What you say is perfectly logical, but subtly flawed when it comes to the USA.

If you're poor, odds are that you're eating fast food. The primary cost of fast food is not the cost of the raw ingredients, it is the time and effort to make the fast food. Furthermore many of the customers there see large portions as a value. Therefore fast food places have found it worth their while to offer large portions at a low price, and to inflate those portions with the cheapest foods that they can - french fries and soft drinks.

As long as fast food places do that, there is no real cost difference between 2500 calories and 3500 calories. Given how addictive most people find food that is high in sugar, fat and salt (which describes soft drink + fries), people tend to finish the portions that they are given. That will make you obese fairly fast, even if you don't "supersize" your portions.

Food banks often offer similar foods to fast food places because it is cheap and what their clientele is used to. This causes similar consequences. So in the USA even if you have no money at all, it is easy to get fat.

If there were cheap, convenient places to eat that made you pay according to calories and were willing to give realistic but smaller portions for significantly lower prices, then your reasoning would be absolutely correct in the USA.

Now you can argue that the underlying cause that makes this possible is that the country is rich enough that we can afford to be wasteful even on poor people. This is absolutely correct. But for practical purposes that detail doesn't matter. If you personally have little money and live in the USA, it is really easy to become fat.

An incidental note on exercise. Exercise burns calories. Obviously. However it takes very little extra food to offset the calorie expenditure from moderate amounts of additional exercise. Luckily exercise also affects appetite for many people, and muscle mass increases your basal metabolism. Therefore exercise is a win, but for moderate amounts of exercise not mainly because it directly burns off calories.
It's relatively easy to test though. You can look at life expectancy figures of hunter gathering cultures (which are a useful proxy for pre-agricultural cultures) that don't deal with modern issues, or didn't deal with them at some point that we have pretty good data on. For example the life expectancy in Papau new Guinea was flat lined at just over 30 until about 1940.

You can see similar trends in other non-agrarian societies.

http://www.gapminder.org/world/#$majorMode=chart$is;shi=t;ly...,

There are studies that go along with your POV

http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/gurven/papers/GurvenKaplan2...

but they are, to date, very much in the minority of research in the area.
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> The site got twenty-two hundred hits within two hours?
Thousand. Twenty-two Thousand.

Is this generated dynamically? If so, awesome. If not, still cool.
Ask HN: Any Chicago Startups Need An Android Developer
Hello, everyone.

I thought I would ask if there are any Chicago startups that need an android developer.
Gosper's Algorithm Meets Wall Street Formulas
Wall Street's money making formulas need to be as explicit as possible for efficiency purposes. An old, existing and famous formula — binomial options pricing formula — has now been scrutinized for theoretical optimality in a forthcoming paper by Evangelos Georgiadis of MIT using Gosper's Algorithm, proving that no general explicit or closed form expression exists for pricing.
That's why I supplied the information.
It very nearly describes how I find myself to function as well. As long as there is theoretical possibility of doing an improved job than I am currently at, if i did something and delivered right now — I will most likely procrastinate into related subjects that indeed could help improve my response to the task at hand.

While at a the start line we have all this potential (we are perfectionist ), we see this perfect solution we will deliver, but deep down we do know that once we actually start — it just does not happen. Its like if we start we know that we will limit our potential because we have to make choices; narrowing down the possible result.

The reason I/we procrastinate is because not doing so means earlier realizing we will not live up to our own high so-believed standards.

To simply tell myself "do the non-perfect thing" might work from time to time, but it doesn't really solve all that much, its just a way to get by.
I'm missing something... Are those more useful to competitions than to general use for some reason?
75% of his followers have <100 followers
44% of his followers have <100 friends
40% of his followers have <100 tweets

...
These numbers are useless on their own. Maybe every twitter user with >1000 followers shares similar stats.
You can always bring codes in the form of printouts. And these libraries are mainly for practice problems on ACM UVA Online Judge.
team@angel.co if there are fake profiles, the team at angelist will want to know
Russian Payment Processor Runs Massive Scareware Operation
LocalEngine - A platform for building local (city) portals
Is this beautiful or ugly to a "C/C++" programmer?

template< class T, int MAXN >
int BST< T, MAXN >::count( const T &x ) const
{
return find( x ) ? 1 : 0;
}
Or just iecountdown :)
That's a true hack ... :)
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Uh, no. Don't even think about getting into a "you don't do this" argument with me, because I have a list of exactly where most my spending goes, and I spent a year living in the desert on sustainable goods, don't own a smart phone, have bought everything I own at Goodwill, don't own a car, and work at Kiva.

Ok, lets address the holier than thou argument which is exactly what I'm talking about. You live in a city, have a featureless phone (still made in China no doubt! Maybe a Nokia?), played camper in the desert for a year (Sustainable as long as everyone else stays away!), buy up the affordable clothing that poor people could use, and work for a place that causes suicide thanks to usurious interest rates. That about sum it up? You going to brag about not owning a TV as well?

Seriously though, I'm pretty sure my comment got the point across that I don't think I'm better than anyone else specifically because I don't give a crap about buying a shiny device from China, or paying Dell for a keyboard from Thailand. And that's why I find effort-free comments taking a moral high ground to be pointless.

edit: I want to say I think Kiva is a great company implementing a great idea. I am only knocking it to say that the moral high ground is not defensible. It's always easy to spit downhill, but someone else can always spit on you. I certainly take no issue with nowarninglabel personally. Living in the desert sounds fun and educational. I just don't think there is a point where suddenly you reach a point that you can say someone else's dealings with a bad country is over the line while still claiming you're only dealing with a necessary evil. It takes the collective action of a government to actually effect change, such as NK or Cuba, and even then not so much.

Free markets has done more for a free China than politics ever could.
I'm pretty sure I dealt with an ISP that distributed a pirated copy when I was going to school up in MN.
We're now international air travel's "wrong side of the tracks".
I think this illustrates why FOSS hasn't taken, and probably won't take the "mainstream" by storm.

Users communicating directly with developers is a nice idea that sounds good at first, but unfortunately it can't really work when

a) there are many orders of magnitude more users than developers

b) users are not technologically advanced enough to provide the developers with useful (and preferably only useful) information about the bugs

This means that developers are effectively DoS:ed to death when trying to directly support a piece of software with lots of non-tech-geek users. What could solve the problem would be a group of people between developers and users which could translate normal language to and from tech-speak, and evaluate the importance of different bugs. I guess this can be automated to some extent with bug-tracking software, but I don't think it's enough when the software in question has lots and lots of users.
This is a quotation from The Social Network. It's static. However, at the current rate, we could easily be passing that number... yikes! According to mixpanel, we've processed nearly 18k battles in less than one hour.
Show HN: Real-time US gourmet food truck map
Web app is at http://www.foodtrucksmap.com/

We also have a free iPhone app at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/truxmap-lite-food-truck-map/id391286574?mt=8

and free Android app (not that great) at https://market.android.com/details?id=com.truxmap

This has been a work in progress for over a year and a half, but I'm now feeling confident enough in the app to ask the HN community for feedback.
FWIW, my sister-in-law took stopped in LA bound for South Korea without a Visa and wasn't just kicked home. The US embassy ultimately got things sorted out.
Do you have a particular algorithm when selecting pictures?
Re: Keeping what matters better organized
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Can we all pitch in and buy John Gruber a nice, legible font that's larger than 9pt?
Actually, everybody was lactose intolerant 15,000 years ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerant#History_of_g...
Have you checked www.ccavenue.com/ ?
Nice! Give it a day then see how it compares to the Flickr interesting photos. I bet there's more off beat and a better variety of photos. Human vs. Machine.

Are you sharing what rises to the top via some feed? I'd love to plot them on a map.
A question you have to ask is, "Are people that are still running Windows XP a market for my product?" If your product is software, it seems highly unlikely.
I like how it keeps going even after it finds the solution.
The fact that transit visas are something you need to apply for, pay fees, and risk being refused (and that going into a permanent record) makes no sense for me.
But please, nobody comes from doctors saying they're bad communicators.

Actually, my girlfriend complains about this all the time. (She's African American.)

There have also been a number of recent studies that support this. In many cases, doctors have already decided the diagnosis after only 18 seconds. (So they completely tune out the rest, which is not always optimal.)

But everybody is an expert on software - since their mother told them so.

Everyone's also an expert on their own bodies. Ballplayers have been saying for years, "everyone in the stands is an expert." Programming isn't unique in this regard.

I'm an excellent communicator, I can figure out how to talk to anyone about anything

Possible red flag here. It's the other direction that's the hard part. Also the vital part.
Could you be a bit more specific about your idea? I could recommend a few resources that i've used to help me.
Many of our customers (non-tech companies in Europe) are still largely on Windows 2000. We're still supporting a handful of systems running NT4.

People don't buy new computers unless they really need to. XP is going to be around for a long, long time.
Instead of the government investigating the MPEG LA for anti-trust violations, how about they spend some time fixing the patent system. This whole h.264/VP8 brouhaha is a symptom, not the disease.
That's not the point. The point was to let visitors to the site know that this is a Microsoft effort. We can figure it out, they likely can't.
TechFlash is fluffy Seattle-area "tech" company news. Mostly covers consumer-facing internet "startups" or Microsoft. Doesn't really talk much tech at all.
Bit pretentious, bordering childish. Also easy to crack WolframAlpha if you don't know the math
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I thought you meant 'original' inventor, not just independant invention.

Also it makes sense that most cases would point to independant invention, as if a business stole it they'd have every reason to believe they'd get caught... maybe. My point is that if independant invention was a successful defence then perhaps 'everyone' would use it and most patents wouldn't work at all.
FWIW, as a EU citizen the things I've heard about traveling to/from/in US have mostly made me go wtf. Perhaps it's just because I spend too much time reading about TSA etc. on reddit, but maybe not.
I'm a big fan of crowdsourcing. So what is more natural than asking entrepreneurs to self-select by meeting each other? The most interesting ones will rise to the top, via consensus. Then you put those people in front of 600 people, and everyone wins. Any flaws with that plan?

I'm writing a blog post on the kinds of entrepreneurs I have met so far, and let's just say that I'm hooked (obviously I'm biased, but still...).
Massive database launched to help build the next generation of music apps
Nice, bigger scratch pad, will go well with Khan Academy's exercises.
Doesn't infant mortality greatly skew life expectancy? I thought I remembered reading that it's the single biggest thing we've done to increase life expectancy, meaning if a hunter-gatherer reaches adulthood, they don't have an especially short lifespan compared to a developed country.
Show HN: Inspired by Snowpocalypse, we created OneSpeedGo last night
If I was a foreigner I would have stopped traveling in the US, as soon as they started rendition in 90s. It was only in the 00s that the fact of being a citizen didn't really protect us from the threat of being disappeared in the US. In my not so humble opinion it's a disgrace, and that it continues to persist is even worse - It shows that no matter who is in power, this lawlessness is tolerated.
I believe all such automated, bulk SERP checking tools are usually frowned upon by the SEs and these are also probably in violation of the search engines' TOS.

Having said that, I've seen a number of such tools come and go in the past decade or so. Since I don't use such a tool, I don't know of any currently active ones but if your check with/ask at the WebMasterWorld forums, I'm nearly sure you should be able to dig something out.
Natural selection is just one component of evolution. Genetic drift and, especially, artificial selection are certainly in full swing.

And anyway, I completely disagree that we're no longer subject to natural selection. We're always subject to natural selection. We're not immune to everything.
Actually, Windows 7 is significantly easier† to pirate and still get updates than XP and involves far less risk. I won't provide links here, but you can download the ISOs directly from Digital River, guaranteeing that no extra code has snuck its way in and the image is untouched (something that is not the case with most copies on Bittorrent websites, for example).

† If you are a geek, that is - you do have to modify the bootloader or your BIOS, but unlike cracks and other activation work-arounds, it keeps working.
That link says 13% of the world's tantalum comes from the Congo, meaning a lot of it doesn't come from there ("Congolese coltan is globally speaking only a minor source of tantalum"). 100% of the world's .ly domain supply comes from Libya.

WP also mentions that Sony, for instance, stopped sourcing tantalum from the Congo. On the other hand, WP says Sony's claim is "inconceivable", citing a web page that no longer exists.
I'm not really looking for a business guy (I'm a business guy turned developer/entrepreneur) as much as im looking for a designer who needs some help.

Thanks for the suggestion though!
Hahahah just realized there's another facemash style app up at the top of HN right now...

Funny how the world works.
new slogan: Only Communists use IE6
Hello, I am seeking a person who would tackle a machine learning problem for a social TV application. interested? shoot me an email. info in profile.
Market Samurai does a decent job of that.
Couldn't anyone register a domain with that info though? Obviously not the name servers though if they want the domain to resolve to their site. Just curious.
Rackspace CDN finally adds HTTP Compression
Back Up Your Blog Work
Haha my bad.
This book is like a self-help book... it mostly makes you feel good, otherwise mostly worthless. People who like this book are probably bad programmers.
Are you allowed to use STL/BOOST in the competition?
Its Debut.
Intel's New 6Gps 510 series SATA SSD, Tested and It's Fast
in 2007 i was working on "paintbrush.es" which was basically this. (i was too cheap to spring for "dra.ws" which costs $1k and may still be available). i thought that by enabling people to do derivative drawing that it would totally revolutionize art, kill deviantart, etc. super creativity! ultimately it was a total failure and all i got were a bunch of penis drawings. i mean art is primal but i wasn't expecting the venus of willendorf
rCDN started offering http compression on text/html,text/css, and application/x-javascript*. Its enabled by default. Along with last weeks CDN edge purge, this is great. Just need CNAMEs now. and ssl.
Red Hat's response to the "obfuscated" source code accusations
> Specifically keyword position in Google.

A word of caution: be very careful using any automated tools to run queries on Google (unless they use the official Google search APIs). For easily understandable reasons, the folks at Google are generally not very happy about such things and this could lead to some harmful consequences for your site if you're found violating their TOS.

HTH
The Folks that Quit Facebook to Start Their Own Companies
These are eerily beautiful. Any idea where I could find hi-res versions?
HP CTO teases interconnected “Metal Watch”
:) great minds think alike!
Ask HN: List of web development firms on HN
Drop yourself on here if you're a web development firm and on HN!
STL is allowed in all the competitions including TC, ICPC, SPOJ, etc BOOST is not allowed in any.
Are all the components made in Japan too?
Nice! I think it’s not exactly for the same purpose: your UI is very “touch friendly”, and has some nice drawing tools.

Keep up the good work!
I like the name, it's much catchier than some of the other sites jumping on this meme.

On the other hand, is the general HN population okay with this becoming "Hustler News"? I ask this genuinely, as some of the entrepreneurs and investors that I've met have an aversion to make-a-quick-buck or lifestyle businesses.

Thoughts anyone?
The point being that if Ford tells you your Toyota is dangerous then you are likely to ignore them due to bias, but if Toyota tell you your Toyota is dangerous you would listen.

A car analogy? I spend too much time on /.
"I can tell you: VP8 is not patent-free," Mr. Horn said. "It's simply nonsense."

These statements are conscience injections, red herrings, and convenient sound bites for zealots like Gruber to use in their "see I told you" agenda-driven opinion pieces. Truth is, patents for a video codec to be used on the web is simply nonsense. It's a stifle of creativity and hopefully we end up winning with a free, open codec that can be used in open source software. This is the formula that encourages innovation.

H.264 hardware inconveniences, gripes - to the wind.
Mind-Blowing Satellite Pictures Show How Cities Grow Over Time
The idea isnt inspired imho. That being said, allowing the user to vote using the arrow keys is. The fact that I could vote with barely any hand movement got me through ~10 votes which is 8 more that I wouldve had I been required to click on each image.

Also, the design was simple, clean and effective. Good job.
What is up with the erratic commas and spacing in this article?
The world interprets the US as damage and routes around it.
What is the Indian opinion of Opera? I've run Opera 9 on 200 MHz, 64 MB machines just fine, where Firefox wouldn't cut it.
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I absolutely agree with everything you said here. Avoiding failure isn't the key. You HAVE to fail. As long as you learn from the experience then the failing is worthwhile.