skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you RTFA you'll see:

"People said they were eating as many carrots as they always had. But the numbers clearly showed they were buying fewer. What people meant, it turned out, was they were as likely as ever to keep carrots in the fridge. When the recession hit, though, they became more likely to buy regular carrots, instead of baby carrots, to save money. But people used to eating baby carrots weren't taking the time to wash and cut the regular ones. And unlike baby carrots, which dry out pretty quickly once a bag is opened, regular carrots keep a long time. So people were buying regular carrots and then not eating them, and not buying more until the carrots they had were finally gone or spoiled."
While that may be true the comment refers to current perceptions rather than etymology.
It doesn't mean she is not aware of the issue, she might have prioritized other things and make it "good enough" for other resolutions (even the ipad has a 1024px browser). Apple must know this issue and it's site also ads a scrollbar when the window is less than 1024px...
From 0 to 1 million
I'm not sure that would apply here: in that case, you're talking about the right to make a backup copy of an item you've properly licensed, and then retain it only to use under the same terms as that original license.

In this case, you're taking content that you haven't paid for, and violating the terms it's distributed under by disabling some portions so you can consume it without paying.

I'd argue that's closer to disabling macrovision on a VHS tape so you can make a backup copy of a rental tape to keep for yourself, and I'm pretty sure that's verboten.
An athlete's or musician's salary is linked to their performance on the playing field or in the market. The people writing their paychecks are not themselves musicians or athletes. Executives, on the other hand, often make huge amounts of money even if their company is tanking. The people writing their checks -- members of the board -- are themselves executives. Perhaps they are subconsciously conspiring to keep prices high for their services?

It doesn't have to be this way. Germany requires that the board includes employees. Japan has also succeeded, perhaps by applying social pressure, in keeping executive salaries reasonable in most cases.
The people leaving Detroit are mostly white, so not only is population going down but the city is becoming "blacker".
I don't know how they perform, but I assume their successful because companies keep advertising there. I don't mind these particular ads because they're high quality, not obnoxious, and relevant to me. I never click through ads on most sites, but I actually do click through these because I'm interested in the product. It's ideal advertising to me.
he's implying that black people are killing detroit. Look at the population of whites to blacks from 1820 to 2000.
Was that your first thought? I really like your objectivity and thoughtfulness. Well said.
I'd love it if we had this sort of show o'enthusiasm in our applicants. It's more than I ever did to get a job.
I'd say the maximize button is in itself a bad design idea. Hit the green button on the browser window and it will expand to the width (or height) whereby scroll bars are no longer necessary. This 'maximizes' your screen real estate, rather than blowing it all on one window/app like a Windows maximize button. Also, while it's not a bad idea to keep page widths in the 750-1050ish range, No True Mac User would object to using their UI controls to optimize their viewing. I mean that's why they're there.
This is an excellent point. "Create an about page" is at the top of my list of things to do as soon as I get off of work.

I made this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1rOJJWyU2s

but it was wayyyy too long.
Phony SSL Certificates issued for Google, Yahoo, Skype, Others
What's HTC's secret? It's fashion fabulous
We see similar things here in DE, but the prices are a hell of a lot lower. Over here you get 100M/5M (D/U) and a bundled telephone flatrate for Germany for 45 EUR/month, some choices of AVM products (Fritzbox?) included.

I've heard lots reports about broadband being harder to get by/being more expensive in the US. Are these prices ($150 in the article) normal?
Rockefeller didn't listen to his wife :)
That was my assumption, but also why I asked for clarification. I try not to take the worst possible interpretation as truth. But if that's the case, I would just point out Atlanta. It's half-black and doing fine. So it'd be silly to claim.

"Blackness" seems like a poor metric for economic vibrancy.
But if you haven't seen how it maps into real problems, was there any insight at all?
I just finished interviewing 12 grad students from the same school. I wish someone would have come in and given me such a clear reason to place them above the rest.

Very nice idea with great execution surely that is worth something.
...and some get acquired by EA Sports.
Personally 160 users sounds like a lot to me. None of the unfunded services I've bootstrapped had reached that.
I think I see the source of our disagreement. You seem to say that Chrome's impressive infrastructure for web apps gives it a potential advantage. I certainly agree with that, but the capabilities of Chrome apps aren't widely used right now, so the actual strength of the system is still unknown. The Chrome Web Store could still end up like WebOS: great platform, few developers.
Alright fine, but you're not allowed to say that and not include some ways that she could make it better.

So what would you do to improve this?
Ivan the Terrible?
There's something that I think most people are missing, although many of you will already know this.

People are saying that you need to develop the intuition, to develop the visualization skills, to develop the sense of what's happening rather than simply memorizing the formulas.

But to me, the visualization is not the point. To me, the sense of what's happening based on the visualization is not the point. To me, the point is the richness of understanding, the combination of many ways of thinking.

This doesn't come without effort.

The lunk-to item seems to suggest that by having the picture in mind one can avoid all the tedium of remembering the epsilon-delta limit arguments and can avoid the definition of lim_{e->0}(f(x+e)-f(x))/e and so on, but that's not true. The point is that the formula is tied up with the image, not that one subsumes the other.

Allegedly Euclid said King Ptolemy (in response to a request for an easier way of learning mathematics) that "there is no Royal Road to geometry".[1] Likewise there is no "Royal Road" to a mastery of calculus. Or indeed, to a mastery of any subject. That which can be mastered with little effort has long been surpassed, and work is required to gain the depth and breadth required to make these things easy.

But we do these things "not because they are easy, but because they are hard."[2] They are of value, and developing the mastery is satisfying in its own right, but also makes you a rare commodity.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Road#Cultural_references_...

[2] http://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm
Unless you've got a lot of patience to fight with the people who don't like your changes and are more willing to revert them rather than improve them, getting your contribution into Wikipedia is far more difficult than it first appears.

This is often asserted, but it has never been my experience. Have you attempted to contribute to Wikipedia and had that experience? In which areas?

My observations have been, on the contrary, that there are very few areas where reverts are common, mostly areas with political controversy or recent events. And deletion is only an issue in a small minority of article classes as well, mostly things like software projects, music groups, and professors, where there's a grey area between "obvious keep" and "obviously this guy just wrote an article about himself". Some more solid data would be nice to tell either way, but I'm confident that if you ran the numbers, the percentage of edits that get reverted or deleted is tiny; probably under 0.1%.

Most articles I create have the opposite problem: they languish unimproved for years, with no edits besides the occasional maintenance bot modifying a category.
"My name is Netta & Design is what I do. It's what I'm good at so why not?"

Just what I'd be looking for in an employee — good, old-fashioned "meh, why not?" attitude.
A writeup would be great, I'd love to read more about this.
Monster Records (Laser Cut Vinyl Record Puzzles)
Ask HN: Unusual activity alert for GMail by email?
I use GMail as my primary email. But because I use it with Thunderbird (IMAP) I am forced to check the activity log in GMail by the web interface every few days to ensure no unusual activity.

Is there a way to setup an unusual activity email notice to a secondary email address to avoid polling for the information via the web interface every so often?
The "Follow All" bot strategy seems to be an optional package you can buy. We didn't even know about it until your comment, so it seems to be that you'd be fine as long as you don't opt in to that particular strategy.
Show HN: SWFMailer, send emails from Flex/AIR apps
Hi,

I've been hacking away at this project for a few weeks now (in my spare time) and I'd like to get 5-10 people to test out my SWC component for sending emails from Adobe Flex or Adobe AIR applications.

Please feel free to sign up and try it out. Any and all feedback would be greatly appreciated.

http://SWFMailer.com

You can use the support form or email me directly, paul -at- swfmailer.com
Anyone else see gibberish? (Chrome 11/XP) This can't be good. http://awesomescreenshot.com/0e59u240c
For the mobile, I would most likely want to use the same network for consistency. And the main reason I want to use one of these networks is because the ads are high quality and relevant. I'm less worried about maximizing revenue, and more concerned with the ads being helpful and unobtrusive.

Thanks again for the tips. I haven't done much with advertising, so it's definitely helpful to hear.
I'm not sure. There are sparks happening right now in Detroit but it's going to take a lot more entrepreneurs and businesses than Slows to revitalize Detroit.

SE Michigan does have one of the highest rates of engineers in the country. It's great for manufacturing but Michigan needs more business sectors. As it stands, Ann Arbor is the only tech hub in the state and even then, plenty of talent is leaving for Silicon Valley.
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The critique might have been harsh, but it was also constructive. It's not like he came out and called her work crap. He gave useful feedback on the design.
I think the web browser is the new place where you can teach yourself with immediate feedback. (I also learned from the Apple BASIC prompt, and simultaneously from the HP-41 command language.)
I love raw carrots as well but JoeAltmaier pinpointed the reason I don't buy baby carrots anymore: they're slimy.

I have no idea why but a couple of years back the carrots started getting slimy and it got progressively worse.

Now, instead of eating a bunch of baby carrots as a snack I just take a whole carrot and cut it into quarters lengthwise and eat that.
"Active applications" seem to be the norm for 37signals: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2497-jason-rehmus-joins-37sig...
Time for the decoder ring: Oracle ends Itanium support, ruckus ensues
When I moved from Europe to America, my neighborhood went black. White flight seemed to kill all the businesses around my neighborhood. The "Blackness" of an area can't be ignored but it doesn't account for Detroit's problems.
Do you have a hackerspace? Or any local meetup groups of coders? Is there a University nearby?

I'm partially talking to myself here (so please excuse me), but I don't think "The Bay" is that magical.
It's not a plot, just a derogatory term they use to belittle a trend they are most definitely not happy about.
Curious, can you point me to your sites design?
My bad, I meant Evernote.

I also see what you're trying to do and albeit a thoughtful exercise, it seems that outside of a niche audience it wouldn't scale these days. There are just too many meaningless threads that will never die out there.

Good luck though.
I'm sure it was a joke from thankuz. Otherwise I can not explain the oval-designed resume.
Personally I like SizeUp better. Keyboard controls for multiple positions and layout combos, moves windows across spaces and monitors too. It even has border control. One of the first, most useful apps I found when I made the switch to my imac.

Both can be gotten through Irradiated Software (http://irradiatedsoftware.com/). Free demo.

I'm just a happy customer too.
What is described should be effective, but seems like too much work to me. I prefer the advice I offered in http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=70113 instead. Besides, you get the benefit of looking like a really lazy genius.
I spent a lot of time searching for a service exactly like this and considered building one myself. Does it still exist?
And my question would be, why did it get to the top of Hacker News? I tried making a website like this and failed to get much notice.
Yes.

When I first saw the change from the PowerBook keyboard to the MBP, I couldn't fathom why they would make such a decision. The new keyboard, while not as bad as it looks, is still nowhere near as comfortable.

Then came the iPod shuffle: switching from a tiny device with few buttons, to one with no buttons at all. "Tap 3 times to...." I don't know anyone who would jog with earbuds, let alone reach for a thin cable while running. What was the target audience for the shuffle?

The Mighty Mouse? No buttons at all? Inability to rest your fingers on the mouse. Inability to click both "buttons".

Glossy screens? Which people defended to the death. Only until Apple finally released an "Anti-Glare" screen on the higher end models.

I don't know. Apple, when the aluminum PowerBooks just came out, was melding form with function. Removing the latch that snapped off on laptops, hiding it in the bezel with a magnet. MagSafe plugs. Not having all the worthless little switches and buttons on the laptop like that oh-so-useful "Wireless" switch.

Now I don't get it.
Ask HN: Do you need a reverse proxy ("RPaaS") in the cloud?
I've worked on numerous web service/sites which needed a reverse proxy either for load balancing, versioning, or deployment. This was usually achieved by using a custom system or nginx; however, it would be great if this was an offering part of EC2, Azure, etc. Would you want a reverse-proxy-as-a-service? If so, how would you use it?
Stop the AT&T Merger
I never wear high heels. So I can crawl into cracks and crevices to snap awesome pics...

AFAIC, automatic interview line. It says so much:

- She understands the ugly stuff needed to get to the pretty stuff.

- She's willing to do the ugly stuff.

- Her work is more important than her ego (I think).

- She "gets it". (Somehow I don't imagine a poser would have ever thought of putting it quite this way.)
Really? Did you sell them to people you trust?

Personally I just don't sell hard drives. They get destroyed. I don't have anything illegal or immoral on there, I just figure, I've had financial info on there, pictures, etc, and who knows what somebody else might do with that.
SO is usually really good for stuff like this. If it doesnt work in a few more hours, also try the other SE sites.
Quite exciting this IE resurgence. It's a good reminder that you can't sit on your laurels - you have to keep innovating - and/or push yourself ahead of the pack.

To the average Joe - what makes the new Firefox any different to the last version?

Javascript and rendering performance tweaks are great - but the UI still sucks.
Poll: What is your experience with EverNote?
I've had EverNote recommended to me by someone whom I respect, but with whom I share very little technical background. As a result I'm happy that it's good for him, but concerned that it might not suit me.

As an idle thought, I wondered what experience you peeps here on HN have with it.

Please select both your experience, and your OS. I've not bothered to try to be too comprehensive or detailed.
Never used it.
Idly considered it, but never went ahead.
Gave it a bit of a go, but moved on.
Used it for a bit, but never really got going.
I've used it, and it's OK.
Use it all the time, even with its few foibles.
Brilliant - everyone should use it all the time.
In my experience, it’s the transition from 1d to 2d that’s the most important. You learn the concept in 1d, then carefully transition to 2d while still keeping an eye on the 1d case and on what the extra dimension contributes. The understanding of the latter helps to get from n to n+1.
Technically, they've produced evidence that someone using a PlayStation with the same serial number as his signed up for a PSN account.

There are several possible explanations for that, for example, perhaps a friend used it or it was a refurbished PS.

Of course, I have no way of knowing one way or the other, so we'll have to wait and see how it plays out in court.
He's not being negative he is critiquing a designer's work on the merit of that work. These are facts.
Knowing a domain and being able to predict success in it are two very different things.

EDIT: A better example. Before Ford released the F-150, it seemed to be a solution in search of a problem. It was somewhere between the F-100 and F-250 and none of the pre-market reviewers really seemed to like it. Ford released it anyway. The F-150 went on to become the most popular variant of the best selling truck series for 34 years.
at least 78% of her qualities are not duplicates
Attackers Generate Fake SSL Certificates for Popular Domains
These are just the browser stats for this site and I see your point. However, the article is implying that there is going to be a trend toward browser apps in the future and Firefox does not have a built-in browser app platform.
I had the same problem and gave up after going around and around in circles for a while. :-(
There is a lot going on in the West Side of the State. There is an incubator http://momentum-mi.com and we are having a Lean Startup Conference (http://leanstartupmi.com) there as well.

In Detroit, I am helping with FutureMidwest (http://FutureMidwest.com) and FundedByNight (http://fundedbynight.com).

There are a lot of Michigan ex-pats so to speak, it's a matter of showing them we can create a tech community (that unites AA + Detroit) and get then pool our resources.
That true, but it's worth noting that "passive" when used in this sense is a reference to income, not to work. Passive income to me means a business earns profits when the owners are sleeping. I've never taken it to mean a business where due diligence is not required, or does not require hard work.
Yikes. Somebody needs to buy himself a pair of Silly Pants and have fun once in a while.
Exactly. If this woman was to be hired, she'd probably take in everything shown to her. Honestly, if there's a position open for someone that passionate but a bit rough around the edges, find a junior role to put them in within a team she can really learn from.

Depending greatly on the short and long term situations, I'd rather hire someone enthusiastic and wait a few months for them to get up to speed than hire someone with more experience who is dispassionate about the job. There's just so much more room for growth with the former (and initial salary negotiation should be a cakewalk from a management perspective).
i did, just adding/validating a data relavent data point.
Just curious - why couldn't the police help recover your stolen property?
Glad I can help. I understand your desire with helpful/unobtrusive ads, but I would just caution you to not leave money on the table. Do some testing to find that balance - let the users help you decide :)

Best of luck!
It was always PRONOUNCED twitter, but we did write it twttr, everywhere, back in the day.
You're definitely not. Carrots are awesome food to eat while working because they don't leave any residue on your fingers.
She did say things that would be hard to get across on a paper resume.
The best in my opinion is Linode. Their service is just outstanding and they don't oversell. They are not the cheapest though.
unfortunately no ... no hackerspace, no local coders to speak of really (probably less than 20 programming jobs in out city of 250,000 people)

most of those are older married guys to boot. I started early and honestly had no idea you could even make a living doing this so i just did it for fun and kind of accidentally built something people wanted.

Basically now that I have done that and I realize what is possible as a hacker and in business I plan on repeating, hopefully on a larger scale
Magazines are almost always released before the cover dates; some just transferred that practice to the web. Where I think it is really annoying.
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The manifesto manifesto
Doesn't work so well with a tabbed browser, where each tab is going to have a different optimized 'maximize' size. It's decent for folder windows and etc. though.
Yeah, i thought i had it back up, went in to a meeting, came back and it's down. When i went in and looked at it there were a ton of apache2 processes. It's my blog server, so i don't pay a lot of attention to it, i probably should.

I dropped down the number of preforked apache processes, we'll see if that helps. It's also where i run some rails experiments, so we'll see. Load's back up to 7...

I had no idea hacker news got a lot of traffic.
Feminism as a "women's interests lobby" is vaguely like calling the free software movement a "geeks' interests lobby" - it's both condescending and inaccurate about the nature of movements, among other things.

Anyway, sounds like the article agrees about the usefulness of helping more people get on IRC and contribute to wikis, and I agree too. They're fundamental tools for community projects.
Microsoft readies tool for managing iPads, iPhones and Android devices
If I were you I'd add a facebook like button to each thing and allow people to create lists of things they love just by clicking the facebook like button (no registration required, just save their list to a cookie).

Then if they signup they can save their list. This makes it easy for users to jump right it in, and may bring in a lot of traffic from facebook. Of course, some users may not want to share each thing they like on facebook, so you'd probably want a normal "love this" button as well for logged in users.
It's even better now on the new iPhone app. I use it to remember and organize everything that's not a task or appointment. The only thing I wish it supported was Markdown in the editor, and maybe more export formats. Highly recommended.
"Still, uptake is slow, the on-ramp steep"

So at ThinkUp she does all these things, and still hardly any women contributors. Maybe something is wrong with her theory?

It also doesn't explain why women need special treatment - isn't it in fact rather demeaning to claim they do?
Here is an awesome documentary about Detroit that was made really recently.

http://www.palladiumboots.com/explorations

It made me want to move there. It also plugged omnicorp, which is a pretty cool hackerspace located there.
It's not challenging enough for me, but more importantly I'm not convinced it's an effective way to increase vocabulary.

I should warn you I am probably not a normal customer: I enjoy reading the OED and I think the best way to improve in English is to learn Latin...so just take this as one data point.