skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2011, where could one possibly find good resources for the above. Let me rack my brain... Hmmmm.... Maybe.... rhymes with Internet? Rhymes with Google? Rhymes with bookstores?

The problem is that these are also effective ways to find bad resources. At Quora, OP can find people with education/experience to identify which resources are worth the time/money.
Windows has a "GetSystemTime" resolution of 10-15 milliseconds, hence the results:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163996.aspx

Some comments found via Google indicate that this has changed to 1ms in Vista and higher, but I can't confirm this.
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Here's what The College Board said:

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Epsilon has assured us that the only information that may have been obtained was your first and last name and e-mail address. REST ASSURED THAT THIS VENDOR DID NOT HAVE ACCESS TO OTHER MORE SENSITIVE INFORMATION SUCH AS SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER OR CREDIT CARD DATA.

Please note, it is possible you may receive spam e-mail messages as a result. We want to urge you to be cautious when opening links or attachments from unknown third parties.

In keeping with standard security practices, the College Board will never ask you to provide or confirm any information, including credit card numbers, unless you are on a secure College Board site.

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tl;dr getTime in windows only updates every 15 ms, so if your performance benchmark cares about that kind of period then it isn't going to give very good results.

Every time I hear about performance testing in JS it seems to be that it doesn't really handle IE very well for whatever reason it is today. It looks like this bug would have made IE look like it performs better than it actually does though.
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I bet it's possible to write a Firefox extension that allows you to 'apply' Google Chrome extensions.

They are, after all, just html pages and javascript with access to certain APIs that may already be available in Firefox in some form or other.
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> Quick plug: Spreedly means you won't have to program recurring billing logic. This was a major win for me.

We handle recurring billing ourselves where I work, and the recurring billing logic doesn't seem to be much of a problem. Surely one of your obvious skill and experience could whip out recurring billing logic in practically no time. How does letting someone else handle it turn into a major win?

I can see that if it lets you avoid storing credit cards that could cut out a lot of annoying stuff, but you (and others I've seen recommend Spreedly) specifically say "recurring billing logic" which I'm assuming means just keeping track of when people are due and billing them.
Seconded, well done lads!
Ask HN: Hacker news digest by email?
I have all sorts of ideas for improving HN for myself, but maybe one simple quick fix would be to get a daily mail with the best of HN of the day. Possibly that could end the compulsion to check for news all the time.

I just wanted to ask if anybody has implemented this already by any chance?

I suppose tools for mailing RSS feeds exist, but something more sophisticated might be called for, taking into account the votes.
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I'll be the first to admit that the techniques that work for me may well not work for someone running a million dollar ad campaign.

For most startups and SMEs (i.e the HN audience broadly speaking) that doesn't matter, most of us are running ad budgets in the thousands rather than millions.
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Exactly why Search engine optimisation is very important
I have the perfect solution for the pro-nuclear folks - y'all can move to one neighborhood and we can build the plant in the center. The rest of us can move 100+ miles away. You can even have the power for free, you just aren't allowed to be evacuated when things happen that weren't on the "we can solve this" list. If radiation is so harmless and controllable, put your money where your mouth is.

How about waiting until they have to stop pouring highly radioactive water into the ocean in Japan to be pro-nuclear? This is like saying "drill baby drill" while 100 days into BP flooding the gulf with oil and dispersants.

Japan built 30 foot tsunami walls around entire cities and everyone believed in them. Those cities lost 10k people at a time, dead now because of their faith in engineering as "magic". Those earthquake resistant buildings on the California fault lines? A large enough quake and they are going to be as good as a 30 foot wall dealing with a 35 foot wave.
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Very nice, this is an awesome way to get introduced to a (for me) new technology, I didn't have any experience with geospatial work before so this is a great way to visualize it.

Now I'm thinking of ways to use this!
Thanks for correcting me - You're quite right.
That's not really a contortion. yason just does not agree that the copyright laws are a good idea. And since those laws are man-made, he has every right to disagree with them.
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I like this, but there's a lot of white space .. perhaps too much. Maybe a more compact view would be useful?

Like others have said, the grey is too pale.

EDIT: It would be nice if the layout made use of columns .. this could provide innovative use of wide-screen resolutions.
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I fail to see how blogs can replace novels.
Use a fluid width with min and max width so that the reading span does not grow too big or small. No matter what screen you have, anything longer than 70-80 chars in a single line is a pain to read.

That is the reason readability and Safari Reader are designed the way they are. Use em/% to go screen size free.
doesn't the marketing site run on the platform?
what about "eat your own dogfood?" :)
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I just watched his entire presentation, which was better than his blog posts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFSPHfZQpIQ&feature=relat...

absolutely brilliant and a must see. Steve's blog is great, but he also has a good presentation style thick with interesting content.
None here. I'm pretty proud of how much I suck.
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A lean software anyone???? (yotpo.com)
Anyone knows a good online software for creating surveys and polls and send them by mail?

We are a new startup, and we want to send a poll for our future early adapters......
BTW if anyone wants to make his/hers readers happier pls register:
http://yotpo.com
I, for one, feel incredibly inadequate for lacking the stuff that you'd get on a CS course which I think actually matters - stuff like algos, operating systems architecture, etc.

I think lack of confidence is a huge factor and it's one that's plagued me for a long time, though I don't want to project my issues with it onto all self-taught programmers.

<oversharing>

I had a somewhat unique situation when it came to choosing my degree course - having been brought up in a new-age spiritual belief system, I was pressured into asking a woman in Indonesia what I ought to pursue (yeah seriously :-S), and ended up doing civil engineering despite having no interest in it. I had grown up coding from age 9, and that along with maths were my passions.

I had the added pleasure of having a vast family crisis occur during the degree which caused me to fail a year and end up with, though a good grade (a british 2:1), nowhere near the performance I could have achieved had the shit not been going on.

So I've got a degree in the wrong subject, and have had to work from scratch into some sort of development career, and now I'm in an internal job working on CRUD apps.

</oversharing>

The really frustrating thing is that many (though thankfully not all) potential good employers seem convinced that you must have a computer science degree or otherwise you're not worth considering (and yeah, I'm looking at you google and microsoft), I know I can learn the things I'm missing and contribute to oss, etc. to become a viable coder at a good place, but if you are basically turned away at the door because you lack the right degree it just doesn't matter.

Obviously for me personally, my degree was plagued with problems which weren't my fault, another way in which I can potentially be deselected from the hiring pool.

To end on a positive note - I am working on fixing these things by filling in the gaps and contributing to OSS - a good solution for people who feel similarly inadequate I feel.
I think you need to consider what country you're doing business with. Libya was never exactly a 'friend' of the west. Risking your entire business to have some strange extension (I don't see the appeal personally, but to each their own) seems somewhat foolish. There are gTLDs (com) which avoid all these issues along with stable countries that are far more trusted if you really want a ccTLD (de, ca, etc)
NBC wrote about us in 1 week
Me and my brother started Snack&Munch to solve the problem of broken and uncooperative vending machines. NBC liked the idea so much they wrote about us in only 1 week after we launched!! http://www.nbcwashington.com/the-scene/food-drink/Online-Vending-Machine-119185494.html

How did we do it? My brother wrote a press release and then we put it up on this service called HARO. http://www.helpareporter.com/

After we did this we have been getting hammered with emails about stories! You should try it if you have a new site or business.
I could feel myself stop squinting....is this what usability feels like?
microsoft azure - they have some large datasets...
Start at http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/.
Whether or not he is suitable is a co-founder doesn't seem to be the issue. The issue is, is he a suitable co-founder for you? Judging by the way you have phrased everything, I would say he's not a good match for you.
Of course it does. We eat our own dogfood, and it's damn tasty thanks :)

You'll note I specifically mentioned "front end performance tweaks"...
Yeah, particularly with the follow-up:

"An amazing technical achievement" ... "will get better as the price comes down" ... "and they work on reliability".

No wait, I don't see it. Tesla apologists can go home. If a company has to SUE over a bad review of their product, then that company doesn't deserve our business. EVERY product gets bad reviews, real, fake, whatever. Sueing the reviewer is the WORST path you can take.

I was so looking forward to owning a Tesla some time in the next 30 years. Now, I'll never give that company a dime.
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We use CPM. When the user registers we store their source (facebook Ad, AdSense, organic, etc.), and we derive how much are we paying for each user, as I said, a few cents for each user registration.
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Nwzer - You are the journalist (new startup)
The site is taking over 5 seconds to load, and the signup page is down. Don't make excuses, that's not acceptable. You have to understand that we don't judge your service by looking at the code you write, we judge it by any means we can, which unfortunately includes whether your own site is accessible, design (yes), writing (your writing has quite a few spelling mistakes in it, no biggie but it helps if it hasn't), what others write about it etc.. All thoroughly unfair. Don't take it bad, but that's the way it works.

Then, AFTER we sign up (if we ever do), we can judge it by how well it works.

Good luck!
Just a bit of background info. Fowndr is a Forrst for startups, it's invite only and was featured on HN a week ago. You can read more on my blog: http://stugreen.com/blog/2011/03/introducing-fowndr
For the love of Kernighan & Ritchie, please do not promote this as "a convenience library aimed towards non-expert users." The only way beginners are going to learn is experimenting with the command line, not having their hands held with a tiny subset of what's available.

And the positioning -- what's agile about knowing your public ip or uploading images to imgur? Is this a belated April Fool's day joke I'm not getting?

Ok, now that I'm done venting, here's the *nix equivalents for all but the pair command (will edit in. EDIT: added. also did s/python2/python):

# base64 is already a command, supports -d

function imgur_up() {
curl -F key=yourkeyhere -F "image=@$1" http://api.imgur.com/2/upload
}

function public_ip() {
curl -sL myip.dk | egrep '[[:digit:]]{1,3}\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}\.[[:digit:]]{1,3}'
}

function sloc() {
sed '/^$/d' $1 | wc -l
}

# no args clears users
# with args, assigns usernames
function gpair() {
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo "Resetting to default user"
git config --unset-all user.name
else
git config user.name "$(echo $@)"
fi
echo "User is now: $(git config user.name)"
}

function tab_to_space() {
sed 's/\t/ /g' $1
}

function space_to_tab() {
sed 's/ /\t/g' $1
}

function url_decode() {
echo "$1" | python -c 'import sys,urllib;print urllib.unquote(sys.stdin.read().strip())'
}

function url_encode() {
echo "$1" | python -c 'import sys,urllib;print urllib.quote(sys.stdin.read().strip())'
}

function web_serve() {
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
}

EDIT: Brought to my attention: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1448309 =\
Not in my experience, those have patience to study a phd or a masters are those who are really passionate about the subject. Those who move on to them tend to be the hardcore kids who started programming from 13 years old.

They may not be good in work environment doing some random UI work, it would turn their brains to mash.
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Geospatial+Indexing

I've been doing Geospatial queries lately. It's pretty fast when going through 280k+ city coordinates at ~1-20 ms (Can't go lower than ms though) to find cities near [0, 0], [100.752, 120.236], etc.
Don’t Think Android Fragmentation Is A Problem? Most Developers Disagree.
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A basic diagram with some arrows explains pointers pretty well.
Yeah, i am in verge of adjusting my expectations.
Hm good point. Built-in C string handling is much too painful for me to even consider doing a web application in C, and you have to worry about buffer overflows and memory leaks all the time. I'm so happy I don't have to do that in Python.

Then again, if you have a sane string handling library in C instead of messing around with strcpy/strcat, malloc/free and fixed-sized buffers, I guess it could be made more convenient.

so that the user would find the string creation and destruction just as seamless as in Perl or Python

If you manage to do that, please send me the link :)
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seen Dasher? http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
I'd second that. Its damn nice.
Does this support HTTP 1.1 and WebSockets?
Many proxies don't, just wanted to check.
You're exactly agreeing with me here. These are bad practices, and we should rail against the practices themselves. The root of the problem is however, in a different place.

Unfortunately the author writes the article from a point-of-view that implies that this is a "Microsoft versus Open-Source" issue. This is a pity because it allows people to choose sides based on their personal view of Microsoft. It hides the real issue, which is that the Patent system is broken, and the legislative system is bought-and-paid-for by companies who can effectively afford to buy an election.

Patent litigation, and the threat thereof affects software companies in numerous ways quite independently of their open, or closed, source nature.

Company-favored-legislation is rife across all industries.

My point is not that it's ok for MS to behave like this - my point is that to pitch the problem as being caused by MS allows the issue to be clouded - for example should we picket outside Redmond, or the USPO in Washington?
You should've used csspivot.com for a quick preview link :)
Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2165497
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=764982
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1024966
While I don't agree with your original point, I do appreciate your code! You get a few key benefits from operating inside of the Node environment, but I also think it's important to present users with the *nix way of doing every command. I mention this pretty clearly in the ReadMe

Would you be willing to get a fork going on Github? I don't want to just copy and paste this code without getting a proper attribution going. It would also help out with the collaboration process as I'm sure more people are going to want to update these snippets. I should also point out that most of your commands don't run correctly on my system, I'm running Mac OS 10.6.4. I'm assuming that some of the tools you are referencing have different names or need to be manually installed.
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A few feature requests...

1. Provide buttons somewhere to increase and decrease the speed. The keyboard shortcuts don't seem to work for me (OS X, Dvorak keyboard layout).

2. Even better, ditch speed entirely and let me click "next" to see ALL of the lines of text up to the next bit where I'm expected to interact.

3. Don't make me guess how to do things! I'm lazy and in a hurry.

Maybe this just isn't the right style of learning for me.
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Well i think you need to adjust your routine. I think both startup and relationship are equally important and you have to manage accordingly.
Relationship stands on top of understanding and i think you both should understand each other. If your girl understands you and you do the same then i dont think it wont be any problem.

Good luck.
Thanks Peter. I don't feel I was making excuses, but communicating our immediate priorities.

The signup page seems fine, would you mind checking it again? I take your point on first impressions etc., well made.

Would you mind telling me where you've seen spelling mistakes, I'll correct them.

Thanks :)
Actually I thought that yason provided a well reasoned argument (hence the upvotes). Your comment, on the other hand, is nothing but an empty statement of disagreement.
I think we tend to lack a deep knowledge of those aspects of programming that bore us.

I love learning, and I still do a lot of it by myself. But there's an infinite amount of cool shit out there to learn, and a finite amount of time.

That's why--despite having written several commercial software products, and having worked on systems deployed for years at a stretch--I can't even code a bubble sort or a quicksort, in any language, without resorting to google. ☆blush☆

The implied deficiency doesn't offend me; I don't really want to sit through two semesters of algorithms classes in C or Java, but at this point I definitely wouldn't mind having done so fifteen years ago.
Very well made, I have learned a lot while using it!
The article alludes to but does not directly state the most likely reason that the Android 3.0 code remains closed: that Google was forced to rush out Android 3.0 for a few tablet manufacturers but did not want smartphone makers to sell phones with a crappy, unfinished version of Android 3.0.
I just ran a quick test on Win7, it's 1 ms.
Ask HN: Kickstarter for designs?
Is there some kind of website where you can upload a design (poster/t-shirt), and get people to pre-order, but it'll only go into production at X amount of orders?

Of course I could just get people to pay via Paypal and refund if I don't reach my goal, but that looks a bit sloppy.
Nope, hadn't seen that one yet. Could be interesting, thanks.
Wow, they don't stop. Geesh.

For the record, I thoroughly condemn these ceaseless attacks on StartupBritain and other government initiatives by people who really don't seem to have anything better to do with their time (call it an ad hominem if you want).

These people would have torn down Mother Theresa and burnt her at the stake if she'd decided to try and help startups. It's oh so easy to criticise, but none of these dissenters seem to be capable of doing so constructively. Sure, everything has flaws. This kind of asinine anger-cum-outrage achieves no improvement, however, it just destroys.
People forget that there was deflation during the Roaring Twenties, and several economic booms before that.

I think there are two kinds of deflation. One is just the currency getting more valuable. The other is deflation due to everyone having to stop and pay down their debts. The latter is horrible because the deflation makes the debt harder to pay off. The former is no big deal.

Some economists talk about the "spiral" caused by people putting off purchases, since they can get more for their money later. Those economists have yet to explain why people keep buying so many computers, cellphones, and flat screen TVs. If people don't actually put off their purchases in the expectation of lower prices, the spiral argument fails.

Finally, it's important to remember that bitcoins are not legal tender, and quite likely never will be. Deflation of one currency in the context of multiple competing currencies is going to have much less of an overall economic effect.
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Correct. I have two 'normal' people in this house, and neither of them could or would get their work done on today's iPad. They are on Macs. For them, and myself as IT support person, the most interesting feature of the iPad might be the app management model and anything that makes maintaining the OS and applications (not just 'apps'), plug-ins and other resources (eg. fonts) easier.
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Don't look too good at 1920 × 1080, copied bg image :D
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