skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was not legal to make these drugs. However, the FDA did not want to suddenly get rid of drugs people were already taking so focused their efforts on drugs that they thought were harmful first.

Drug testing is designed to prevent actually harm. With the manufacturer's plan it seems that the only people that will have to pay significantly more make over $100k/yr and probably have it covered under their health insurance anyways.
And there's no better reward for the prankster than taking your freak-out public.
I'm in the same situation, but unhiding friends to recover sense is just not practical, with all the app-spam going around facebook these days.

I might be the only one in here who can't stand viral-app-spam, but in my social circle there's a sharp division between people who can and who can't stand it, and I think this is in part responsible to the huge drop in interaction in facebook.
I can assure you that at least some parents do know what Tumblr is.
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The zip code 82001 is not Miami, it's Cheyenne, Wyoming.
I suppose it can, but the code would have to be written prior to that and/or outside the US. The bottom line is that you can't work for money in the US, whether for yourself or somebody else, if you don't have a proper work visa. And you can't get a proper work visa, unless a company sponsors it for you. And you can't sponsor your own work visa.
It is guaranteed that someone will miss the fact that there is a joke.
I have been on both sides of the fence. As a conservative religions individual, I gave away a higher percentage of my income to what is considered charity. However, even when I don't include tithe, much of that charity was sent to evangelical initiatives, not things that actually... help people. Today, I give less as a percentage of my income, but the percentage of income that actually helps others is substantially higher.

Let's go further. What is charity, in the first place? A donation to public radio is charity, but is more of a payment for a public good. Focus on the Family? Neither of these would be considered a substitute for an abused woman's shelter or a food bank...

Note: In the time and place I was in, there was open talk among evangelicals that social spending was bad because it led people away from the church helping people, decreasing its influence. Charity to the American Evangelical church, much like Hamas or Hezbollah, look at charity as a strategy to consolidate power.
Housing and Jobs are probably 90% of Craigslist traffic (and 100% of revenue?).

AirBnB is not even trying to be a replacement for Craigslist's housing section (and it isn't). It's a replacement for Hotels.com

Indeed/SimplyHired are nothing more than modern day Monster.com/Dice.com.

I also wouldn't take that Quantcast estimated chart at face value. It could easily be that even the trend is wrong and Craigslist is doing better than ever.
Ah. I've never seen that before. Nice to know. But I'm not sure this is a "nicer layout". And I'm an iTerm2 heavy user.
"I don't think Craig's a bad guy, but he's harvesting $50M a year into his pockets and not improving the site."

Pretty sure Craig Newmark is a nonprofit sort of guy with perfunctory role in the company. Blame Jim Buckmaster for Craigslist's refusal to evolve.
Awesome, I'm deep into Lisp in Small Pieces and at times have found it assumes a bit too much of the reader.
It's likely that it's so fast-growing because it's bringing in the outliers, The unfashionable 'late adopters' that most services would kill to have, and to keep.

This doesn't bode well for Facebook because a huge part of their growth strategy was in getting the exclusive college crowd, then growing that circle to the early adopters, then growing THAT circle to everybody else. Even if they never lose their core demographic (which is to say, the students that made facebook popular, which have almost certainly graduated by now) -- if the exclusive college crowd moves to somewhere else, even just for one of FB's core services, it's a very bad sign.

What FB wants, rather, what it needs, is for people to rely on it for everything. If portions of its service become decentralized elsewhere, and heaven help them if they're able to integrate with each other, then they lose the power they currently have, which is in being able to get a pretty clear picture of your social circle from visiting just one site.
Sorry, I just posted numbers to show the difference between dev mode and production mode.

I guess what I don't understand is: if you're running a site in development, isn't 250 req/s enough? And if you're running in production, do you need to reload the template on each request?

Unless you're just using this as an example indicative of the fact that ruby/rails could surely stand to be faster, in which case I completely agree. As does Ilya Grigorik: http://www.igvita.com/2010/06/07/rails-performance-needs-an-...
I wonder how much of this disruption can be attributed to the removal of the erotic ads section. You can see a major slowing of momentum around the time they were taken down (May '09). I mean that was an area without any major competition and which I'm sure accounted for TONS of traffic.
How many people have been at the last few?
So you are worried that too many people on HN read tabloid newspapers? That doesn't seem very likely to me.

In any case the article here does not seem to fall into that category, yet the silly comparisons had to come out.
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Problem is, while you can devise ways of converting 24p to interlaced 29.97, getting from 48 progressive frames to 60 progressive frames isn't obvious to me at all. You'd have to add a frame every 4 frames. This would likely ruin the whole large framerate experience.
Yeah, because encyclopedias did not exist and library catalogs were never invented.
Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga Visit Rebecca Black at Twitter (Video)
You're not the only one. Facebook has terrible conversion rates on its ads. Ultra-mainstream stuff like ringtones or weight-loss might sell, but niche products will die.
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Thx--I checked that, and nothing for PageLever or Page Lever appears.

Anyone have know an article that can walk me through the process of filing a trademark?

(I'll probably have our lawyer do it, but I want to make sure I understand the process)
I am actually really glad Craigslist doesn't try to Buzz or #Dickbar itself and doesn't have those obnoxious social buttons/plugins all over the place. Newmark just wants to maintain a useful simple site. That's why Craigslist will be around forever, he doesn't spring unwelcome surprises on his userbase.

Also Craigslist probably gets used more heavily when the economy isn't doing so well. I'm not sure his magical line graph is as predictive as he imagines.
>"I don't think Craig's a bad guy, but he's harvesting $50M a year into his pockets and not improving the site"

Not sure about the definition of "improving the site" here. I'm thankful to CL for not building gratuitous UI, or half assed "social" element, or "tweet this post to your social graph". Instead they work on improving the content by fighting certain types of abuse, having the founder do customer support and keeping the site working under the huge traffic it's handling.

I don't remember seeing CL down or even slow - no cutesy "site is down" pages - which says to me they're improving the site constantly, just not in the way that gets the hypeosphere excited.
> For instance planar graphs cannot contain in any form 5 points that all connect to each other, nor two collections of 3 points that all connect to each other. (These are known as K5 and K3,3.)

Huh. I know this intuitively from doing those "try to connect the three houses to the three respurces without crossing any lines" kind of puzzles when I was younger—but I never made the connection that this kind of puzzle is basically the proof of the four-color theorem. My (puny) knowledge of topology has been made slightly more concrete. :)
There is a cheap service that could help you with the authenticity. But I don't want to spam good ole HN with it =P.
He seems to think higher frame rate will make his movies suck less.
I thought there was something about where if we're legitimately using the name, then even if we don't file the trademark, no one can come along after us and file for it... am I wrong?
If they have any interest in the topic in the first place? Of course.

I certainly did, so many years ago...
Ask HN: Is there a better way to manage deployment of web apps?
I've worked on two major web applications (site+service) and it seems like every company develops their own infrastructure to handle the complex deployment process (code migration, building, pushing to servers, updating routing, data migrate, etc).

There are "configuration management tools" like Puppet which run on-premisses, but is there a cloud-based service? I think AWS Beanstalk is the closest but it is still far from what I invision.

Please let me know if there is anything like that out there or what you use in your company?
HDV has nothing to do with H.264, or any of the MPEG-4 standards for that matter.
Louis Theroux: Westboro Baptist Church revisited
Biological half life is the time the body takes to eliminate half the substance in question (or half the toxicity thereof). In this case, the shorter the half life, the less dangerous the specific thing is.
Ok my fault that did not said this in the blog post.

I was playing with Sinatra, and my real page involved substituting a few nested templates, with different parts of the site. News box, comments boxes, ...

The result was... 30 requests per second once a few templates started to stack, and with mostly toy code.
It is easy how things can get worse just doing a few mistakes along this path.
If you haven't altered the signature, I'm thinking it's an April Fool's prank.

- Alan J. Shore is the name of James Spader's character on "The Practice" and "Boston Legal".

- Bar IDs in the state of Florida do not have hyphens.

- 1-2345 is a very unlikely Bar ID regardless of the hyphen.

- There is no registered "Alan Shore" in Miami (though there is an Allen M Shore in Fort Lauderdale).

- I can't find any Trademark registration for either PageLever or Page Lever.

- Edit: 12345 belongs to Samuel O Carson, of Gainesville, FL; Deceased.
http://www.floridabar.org/names.nsf/0D856BE6EA32ECE1052576D9...

At this point, I'm thinking you've been Punk'd.

You should note, however, that if somebody else comes behind you and registers PageLever as a Trademark, it's very possible for them to take your domain legally.

Edited to add a link to Samuel Carson. Thanks FirstHop
Those integers don't mean anything unless they are actually file descriptors, so the statement "Everything is an integer." is inaccurate.

And of course there are different sorts of files... everybody knows that.
Could be worthwhile seeing when something goes wrong on one machine. It would be great to bundle all terminals that look the same though
>"I don't think Craig's a bad guy, but he's harvesting $50M a year into his pockets and not improving the site. In ten years I think Craigslist will be an afterthought..."

If I were pocketing $50M per year for 10 years, I wouldn't give a damn if the site wasn't around at the end.
Why hasn't Craigslist been replaced? It has.
One Company that not only handled mid life crisis well, but actually came back with a vengeance to rule the industry it kickstarted. Hat's off to AAPL!
Craigslist is the most UNBROKEN site on the web. It works flawlessly. Just yesterday I bought a cell phone from a local guy on Craigslist.

Scrolled down the page. Found the phone I wanted in the city I wanted for the price I wanted. Called him, met at a restaurant, paid for the phone, and we went on our way.

It was perfect.
I couldn't tell who was interviewing who.
::Sigh:: With the exception of the marquee element, I prefer HTML3.2-style designs...
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Anyways 12345 is for a dead lawyer. I would be freaked the hell out. A Zombie Lawyer!!!
You can log to mongodb capped collections. You get a semi-structured ring buffer with fast writes. I'm not a huge mongo fanboi, but this is one situation I've seen it excel in.
Show HN: Hashtagpedia: Twitter hashtags explained in 140 characters
This is my little weekend project that I made mostly to learn how to use the Django framework properly. It doesn't have much content yet (and most of it is added by myself). Let me know what you think about it.
Let A be the statement: "P=NP or P!=NP" (in other words, suppose P vs. NP is decidable in some chosen axiomatic system, like Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory with or without axiom of choice).

You first said:

Suppose we proved A. Then we could also prove that we proved A. This is practically a tautology, since if we proved A, of course we can prove we proved A. I'll just hand you the proof.

Next, you said:

Suppose we can prove ~A (in other words, suppose we can prove that P vs. NP is undecidable in the given axiomatic system). Contradiction!

To sum it up, you said: "Suppose A and ~A. Contradiction!"

Or am I missing something here?
With 600 million users you can't just generalize a noticeable trend in your personal account to reflect that of others. If anything, my Facebook feed has been more active than ever.

View a friend's profile and FB will know you show interest in that person, putting that person's stream on a higher rank to show up on your feed. The feed becomes more relevant the more you use it I suppose.

There may be a lot of small talk on Facebook, but for me that normally leads to longer discussions in person.
As a business in 2010 CraigsList derived an estimated 53% of their revenue from job listings, 30% from adult ads, and 17% from rentals.

The adult ads went out the window which is going to hurt them, a LOT, in terms of both traffic and revenue.

So the more material question is has CL's largest revenue category - job's - been disrupted?

I was able to dig up this graph of job mention volume and it appears that CL, in their most important category, is gaining velocity, not slowing down:

http://www.jobgoround.com/tools/craigslist-job-trends/ (set to one year)

and
http://www.simplyhired.com/a/jobtrends/trend/q-Craigslist

Reference for percentage of revenues: http://www.ere.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Craigslist-201...
The same exponential social forces that drove Facebook to prominence can turn on it surprisingly quickly and cause exponential decay. If anything keeps them up at night, this is it.

I've refused to join Facebook because of an inability to partition my life appropriately. I have at least three personas I don't want to just run together (family, friends, coworkers, probably an online shard as well). If people as a whole realize they can't express themselves freely with their friends because mom is online, that's going to be a big problem for Facebook. This could yet kill them if they continue to choose not to allow fragmentation.

Also, much has been made of how this young generation has no desire for privacy and can't understand why anyone would want it. I've thought for a while that there is still the plausible outcome where instead of never growing a privacy sense and being unprecedentedly open, that they would instead collectively discover the ancient social reasons for privacy the hard way instead. It will never be a single event that makes good copy, but it sounds to me like we may be down this path now, though still in the early phases.
Funny, seems that the author of the image in the article only uses "adult" and "rants and raves" categories on Craigslist. :)
For the source of the amazing graphic cited, see the following post:

http://thegongshow.tumblr.com/post/345941486/the-spawn-of-cr...
gnu grep disrupted, folks using new fangled Google instead. Craiglist is a great, stable design that works with a uniform interface to do common transactions that occur in most peoples lives. Can they be outpaced within a vertical? Sure, but their USP lies in the newspaper classifieds that they sought to displace originally. Until someone else comes up with a better catch all for real life transactions that is more economical and convenient, I wouldnt consider craigslist disrupted.
NP is a superset of P.
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One of my colleagues has a very strict rule that he does not become friends with current work colleagues on Facebook or any other social network. Seems like a good idea to me, although there is sometimes a blurry line when you work with some of your good friends. I'm sure having such a rule makes him less concerned about the compromising photos or status postings.
Sounds a lot like Usenet in the late 1980s. Then Earthlink came along and normalized everything, leaving only spam and porn.
Not sure about the definition of "improving the site" here.

How about some sort of reputation system? And decent moderation? As it stands, CL is a great way to (not) meet flaky people, and to have your posts taken down on the indecipherable whims of a few obsessive users.

I've gotten one job, bought a few things, sold one motorcycle, and gave away most of my possessions via CL, and it was consistently an awful, frustrating experience.
Craigslist runs something like 50MM ads every month without a leak of personal information and a user-driven moderation system, all the while fending off myriad abusers for whom free (or nearly free) advertising isn't enough and think Craigslist should be their personal global spam shitbucket.

When the only thing people have to criticize you for is your appearance, I think that says a lot.
> "To the best of my knowledge, H.264 only supports two GOP structures (short = 6 frames / long = 15 frames), both of which operate independently from the playback speed.
In other words, a short GOP setting produces 8 blocks per second running at 48, and 10 per second running at 60. Assuming a constant bitrate (I know, I know), the throughput of the entire system needs to increase by an additional 20% to handle 60."

I'm sorry, but it needs to be stated: the above isn't true and the calculations have nothing to do with reality. H.264 supports pretty much any GOP structure and you don't get from frames to final bitrate by dividing frame rates by GOP size.
I think people will start to see that social networks don't add that much value to their lives, and they'll just stop using them. Maybe they'll meet up with friends for a chat, instead of sitting at home talking to each other online.
Another Craigslist posting. I think that guy who answers the question is slapping him self in the face with a pretty obvious reason why Craigslist is still around. The graphic with all the competing websites...I stopped counting after 10+

Seems like Craigslist has something for everyone. I could visit all those websites or just go to Craigslist. And not have to get around prompts/asks to tweet or like or share or spam my friends.
> I seem to have almost no interest in programming in a Microsoft environment.

You've just answered your own question. Don't take the job if your heart isn't in it.
It always takes more than "a few obsessive users," and there is a flag help forum on Craigslist to help explain how your ad might have trammeled your area's standards.
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Seriously, it amazed me everything. You see everything life, from he mesh that holds the very matter to the limits of the universe; and you can control the hole this, with a Flash slider.

Reminds me of the "Known Universe video from AMNH" So eye opening: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U
Are you implying that that won't or can't happen with Facebook? Isn't that sort of the point of TFA?
I completely agree with Josh that there is a gap in functionality that needs to be filled. I often hear the argument that I should be grateful for this free online service... Poppycock! My attention on the internet is worth something. Especially for such a profitable industry as classifieds.

If I'm looking for a house on the internet I want to be able to zoom into a certain area on a map and click 'refresh' to see all the relevant rentals with little pins on the map. This is not rocket science. Craigslist has a rich database and could make it far more useful and user friendly. There is something to be said for simple and minimalist design. Craigslist, however seems 'not designed' at all with little regard for making things easy to find or relevant.