skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(TC writer here)
I'd say send an email, and if you don't get a response in 1-2 days send one more saying that if you don't hear back in the next 24 hours you'll probably try your luck elsewhere. Don't be threatening about it (the reporter doesn't owe you anything), just be transparent.

Setting a 'time limit' like this helps makes sure you don't end up on the reporter's mental backburner indefinitely. Of course, if the reporter is super swamped this may lead them to simply pass on the story. But usually if it's good, they'll try to find another writer who can take it.
Darwin's travels may have led to illness, death
There are a lot of people in this space. By specializing your sign up is slightly more streamlined than groupme .. but only slightly -- http://groupme.com/ -- how do you see yourself comparing with them?

Clickable link: http://textmyfamily.com/
Microsoft wants you to 'do the math'
Or, to make it _really_ simple:

<div class="column">1</div>
<div class="column">2</div>
<div class="column">3</div>

div.column {
margin: 10px;
width: 200px;
float: left;
}

EDIT: Missed the key constraint, resizable center column. What I have above won't work for that, but shows that replacing tables isn't very difficult.
http://humanstxt.org/

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2131692
Your ISP? Youtube takes 10-20% of typical internet traffic (more than bittorrent) and competes with telecom TV offerings.
Were you on the guest network in Google?
That may be a bit harsh. If your input size is sufficently large, I would bet that encryption would get a pretty big boost. I know convolution operations are a lot faster (not sure where this would happen in a kernel though).

I think people often forget to factor in data transfer time. Matrix multiplication is 98x faster on my gpu than on my cpu, but I don't actually break even on real world time until the dimensions are up around 2000 or so.
> Only uses ~5-10 watts so you can have it on 24/7 at virtually no electricity cost.

Idling MacBook Pro (screen off) uses 8-9W according to Apple (http://images.apple.com/environment/reports/docs/MacBook-Pro...).

If you already have laptop running most of the time, addition of such device probably doesn't save much (if anything).
True, but neither do cell phone mintes to a cellular company. They just figured out a way to make the economics work while providing a better service to users.
One fairly simple solution would be to reduce the frequency of mail delivery. Instead of Mon-Sat, we could deliver mail Mon-Wed-Fri or Tues-Thurs-Sat (different days for different zones).
I disagree completely. It's just like real estate: since I only use about 50% of the floor space in my apartment at any given time, I roll over my unused square footage and only pay rent every other month.
That is a great focus. Remember the "Internet Buttons" app/site that was featured a while back? If your app is designed with that audience in mind, I think you could have a great opportunity. Best of luck.
Great idea, great news! Tech Crunch couldn't resist using the phrase "cough up" in conjunction with a food startup, eh?
Google Apps professional, you know the one that makes sure you don't see random 404s on Spreadsheets and have no one to talk to one fine morning, that costs $50/yr per license.
Upcoming CSS3 features (some browsers support some, but not others).

<section id="box">
<div class="left">...</div>
<div class="center">...</div>
<div class="right">...</div>
</section>

- Template layout module (W3C)

#box { display: ' a b c'
200px * 200px;
width: 100%; }
#box .left { position: a; }
#box .center { position: b; }
#box .right { position: c; }

- Flexible box model (Mozilla)

#box { display: box; box-orient: horizontal; width: 100%; }
#box .left, #box .right { width: 200px; }
#box .center { box-flex: 1; }

- Grid positioning module (Microsoft)

#box { columns: 3; grid-columns: 200px * 200px; }
#box.left, #box.right { width: 200px; }

Disclaimer: I didn't test anything, just wrote the code from memory, peeking at random on-subject Google results. It is possible that I forgot, misspelled or misunderstood something.
But is it really an hour? I doubt that Apple uploads the code they actually used: it's likely that code, and then lots of removed components that would reveal too much about how something works (e.g. there are no build scripts or Xcode projects for JavaScriptCore releases, only the code itself).

At least, they would need to make sure that none of their proprietary code slips out. That likely involves more than "svn checkout; tar; ftp", maybe even lawyers to check it.
I can't seem to get to the site. Requests are timing out. HN effect?
The base functionality - being able to text from my computer - is great. I wish the texts in Texty were kept in sync with those on my phone, though.

UI is a bit buggy as well, too.

Again though, the base featureset is a big win.
A better solution would be mailboxes all in one area for the neighborhood. Eliminate door to door.
As do I. Throttling per user (as in per customer port) rather than per traffic stream (the latter can cause net neutrality issues) is obviously a superior technological solution. Traffic caps and overage charges do nothing to prevent people from saturating links at peak traffic times (evenings, for home ISPs).

How do you know Charter doesn't throttle bandwidth at peak times? Do you track packet loss, and would you notice if it went up by a percent or two?

Even if an ISP doesn't voluntarily throttle traffic, border routers automatically will with WRED or some other more modern queue management strategy if there's too much traffic buffered for the link it's trying to send on. It's more a question of whether packet loss is managed on a per-flow or per-ip basis, on egress, or whether it's managed on a per-port basis on ingress from the customers to their ISP.
"This will be my greatest lawsuit since 'The Never Ending Story'!"
My I.S.P. (Frontier) wanted to cap DSL at 5 GB a month!

I'm not against metered billing, in principle, but the rates would have to be reflective of what it costs to provision the marginal bandwidth.

The bandwidth cap issue highlights two crises that the industry faces: (i) the nature of fiber optic networks is such that it's several orders of magnitude cheaper to move data between hubs in major cities than it is to move it over the "last mile" to the consumer and (ii) video streaming from Youtube, Netflix and other providers is starting to provide real competition for cable television.

(i) leads to pricing schemes that don't reflect the cost of provisioning services; installing the "last mile" might cost a few thousand dollars up front, but this gets amortized over bills that a customer pays over a long time. Upgrading a customer to a higher speed tier is the only way that the ISP can offer "better service for more money" to a customer but the increase almost certainly won't be reflective of the difference in costs. As we've seen in the airline industry, crazy pricing leads to pathology in the long time.

As for (ii), ISP's can't be seen as good actors when they are in the competitive cable television business. As customers turn on to streaming video, utilization is outpacing the rate at which ISPs want to invest in infrastructure -- and in the long term, the many ISPs which are cable providers realize that customers who've got access to Netflix and other streaming video services might decide they don't need to blow $80 a month for 500 channels full of crap.
I had no idea data caps were this frequent. I am all about net neutrality and the more selective throttling and data caps our data providers implement, the less innovation we will see.
Wow, simple finance can still be tricky.

I don't know if my understanding is right but so far as my understanding of the language goes, both you and the parent are wrong.

He's paid 1.4 bn for control of WB and as a condition of the deal he took on 1.9 Bn in existing debt that WB already had. Assuming that WB was solvent and those debts weren't written down, taking on this debt would be transaction that involved spending no money as such - if a parent company takes on the debt of a solvent subsidiary, there's no real money being spent (the subsidiary increases in value by debt amount, the parent decreases in value by an identical amount money and total transaction's bookkeeping value is zero - though such a transaction would make a banker holding the debt feel more secure and would involve money if the transfered debts had been written-down and were now going to be paid in full).

That's my understanding, some true finance wonk can correct me if I'm wrong.
Programming is harder to break into a set of rules and formulas that you can just apply to an artificially constructed problem.

You just can't "fake" it. You either get it, or you don't.

Most high school teachers won't "get" it.

> Ditto mathematician. Most high school teachers I know of who are teaching math have no idea what math is really a

I know, but they can fake it, because the curriculum is designed as a set of rules that must be learned.

> So, no different from math, then.

The difference is that programming cannot be taught as a set of rules that must be learned and then applied without much understanding.
The issue with articles like this, for me, is that it doesn't quite specify who this will work for.

As in, it works for sites that just need a ton of users - but not so much for niche-specific webapps that charge.

If you are trying to build a community and need a lot of numbers in a very short period of time, then sure....but if you want to find your users for your specific niche...this advice doesn't quite work.
Patent for dividers on a toolbar invalidated for obviousness
Ask HN: Can anyone explain the (failing) technology Amazon is using?
Reddit and similar sites seem to crash an awful lot with the common thread that it is "Amazon's" fault. Can anyone explain the technology that's failing here?
That is quite a list of investors. Ashton Kutcher is all over silicon valley right now. Congrats, GWU.
But wouldn't it be beautiful if you could abstract away the hardware so that the drivers can be uniform? I call it the driver-driver.
How did you notice it?
For sure, I'm not defending them. I'm just trying to drive home the point that Apple is going to do what's good for Apple. Unless the community makes the promptness of source releases a business concern for Apple, they have no incentive to improve their process. Contracts are only binding insofar as they are enforced, in this case either by litigious means or by negative PR that impacts Apple's bottom line.
How is http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/humans.txt the 4th result? Google fail..
In my opinion, personal blogs are a bigger problem. Even wordpress.com does not sanitize pictures. I believe many bloggers are unaware of that.
I've been using a standing desk all day, every day at work for 3-4 months now. I like it.

For the first 2-3 weeks, my feet were absolutely killing me. Between getting used to it and switching to more appropriate shoes (which I keep at the office) from Shoes for Crews, the only pain I have is sore heels, because that's where I keep my weight. I'm working on changing my balance. My heels stay sore for days; by the end of the weekend they're still not completely relieved.

Facilities set me up with a Fredrik desk from IKEA. The desk portion is adjusted so my elbows are at right angles and I try to keep the keyboard and mouse at the edge of the desk. The monitors are at eye level and pushed to the back edge of the top platform, with their brightness turned all the way down.

I shift my weight and move in place a lot, and I find this preferable to being completely sedentary. Meetings are much more tolerable now, because they're the only time I'm not standing. I'll still sit to read papers and books, and occasionally to "think differently."

I don't know if it's made me more productive or healthier, but I feel better at the end of the day (when I leave at a normal time; long days are much longer by the end because I've been physically exerting myself to some degree).
I find faster internet stops meaning anything once I have reached speeds that allow 100MB downloads in less than 30 seconds, and the connection provides < 100ms latency.

I am not every user, but I personally find that I only rarely download files larger than 100MB, so anything faster is generally underutilized.
Jsherry...I am with you on competition...it definitely raises the standards of all of our endeavors, i.e., with ourselves and the evolution of our ideas, with startups and every business out there under the sun.
Wow. Voted down. Does the HN crowd have no sense of humor?
The best way to find a problem is not to ask for it, but to observe users and see their frustrations yourself. To be specific, look for weird behavior - things that a kid wouldn't understand (software so badly designed, you need to train people to use it OR awkward learned behaviors that exist to get around a non-obvious problem). You might see an employee who sits on a ball instead of a chair, in which case the problem is that chairs are not comfortable and healthy.

If you want more help/tips, contact me at ssebro at stanford dot edu.
That could be the intermediary solution. Or a neighborhood could get together and deliver from post office to the neighborhood boxes via a third-party delivery provider. I think that we cannot completely eliminate door to door. There are lots of people out there that are not able to make the trip even down the street to the community mailbox and that rely on the mail system daily. However, saying that door to door delivery is a premium service would at least help USPS not go bankrupt.
The USPS makes money on the spam/junk mail and packages, not on letters. The profit incentive for them is not the same as their customers desires.
Fair enough, thanks for the correction to the data. I think the Wikipedia article could use an edit to note the discrepancy.
Yeah, Apple is chronically unable to ship diff updates (or more generally updates). They just can't do it apparently. iTunes update? Download everything. Xcode update? Download everything. AppStore app update? Download everthing. iOS firmware update? Download everything.
Very nice to see a good computer vision app make it to the market. This has certainly brought the future closer to us :)
I still read Japanese graphic novels or Mangas. I hope that counts.

Growing up in Vietnam, my parents generally forbid us kids from reading comics because they're not... smart materials. I don't know, but I tend to disagree with that.

I find graphic novels/comics fascinating because it seems like the writers can get their messages across with just an image an a short bubble/line of text. On that front, I think web creator should learn a thing or two from comics writer :)

I love the older cartoons. I think waking up Saturday mornings or rush home from school to watch cartoons was so good back then.

That's why I archive a lot of my favorite cartoon series (Arthur, Life with Louie, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, etc.) for my future children :)

My hope and inspiration to make the web a more positive experience in my daily work definitely has something to do with the simplest stories which come from some cartoons I saw as a kid.
I think humans.txt is great, but it would be even better if the "standard" was to use a human/machine-readable format like YAML. The example on the website is really close to that.

Yes, I know it's an ironic request.
Look for places that are using antiquated systems (I know my dentist was still on Window 98 last I noticed), those are potential markets in the waiting.
> Why spend man-hours putting together an automated workflow for source release when you can just do it manually (and lazily) every time someone complains?

Because doing it manually every time ends up costing more man-hours than having an engineer or two bang up some check/upload script in a morning.
I've got a SaaS product that I'd like to build, but I'm a pretty novice programmer. This is a new idea that fills a need, but it's kind of a niche market. If you're interested let me know and I'd love to talk more about building it.
The author is aware of that, but you have to remember to use "with". If you forget to use it, you can still have unclaimed resources.
I don't know. I guess the answer to your last question is that I don't want a system that thwarts all kinds of social filtering or control and at the same time makes it impossible to trace people who commit horrific crimes. I think we want to decentralize social control, not abolish it completely.
they stated it absolutely honestly and clear :

"we are committed to protecting them [sources] to the fullest extent possible under the law."

i.e. when the law come and say "give them to me", they would give. Though i don't think it is that relevant as that seems to be just a nice Honeypot.
The post office already can and does get this efficiency with community mailboxes. My grandmother and I both use a key to get our mail from a large mail drop. She lives in an newly constructed old person neighborhood in rural Florida, and I live in a Manhattan apartment building. My parents get their mail delivered by car to a personal mailbox. I agree with your suggestion, but how do we get existing neighborhoods to build a mail drop? Who pays for it? Who maintains the keyed mailboxes? My parents would be completely okay with having a mail drop and picking their mail up at the entrance to the neighborhood, but I don't think they are interested paying to build it.

I think we should combine some of the ideas:

If your neighborhood has community mailboxes, then you get mail every day. If you have personal mailboxes, then you get mail 3 days per week. If you want mail everyday, then organize your neighborhood to have a community mailbox.
That just pushes the problem around. You don't have to worry about forgetting to catch an exception, you have to worry about ignoring an error code.
Probably Amazon's S3 cloud service
Advantages Of Using A Free People Finder
What you really want is something along the lines of:

void myMethod()
{
disposable File myFile = new File(somePath);

// ... do stuff with the file

// "disposable" modifier causes myFile to be
// forcibly destroyed upon leaving scope for any
// reason (except if the disposable object itself
// is returned from the method).
}

An idiom designed specifically for the purpose of resource management would make for a far cleaner implementation than shoehorning an existing mechanism.

You'd probably also need to add checking for references to the object by still-living objects (i.e. objects not eligible for gc). If any live object has a reference to the disposable object, its "disposable" status gets removed. Similarly, returning the disposable object from the method also strips its "disposable" status. It would add extra processing at the end of the scope level, but generally methods that create/use resources don't need to be lightning fast anyway.

You could even add the "disposable" modifier to class definitions, making all instances of that class disposable by default (and thus destroyed unless referenced or returned).
Could the rankings be factoring in how many people looked at the app? Or maybe the sales rate? Maybe everyone flocked to the app right at the same time creating a spike over a short period of time that Apple noticed. I actually heard the podcast in question (5by5) and it's broadcast live, so there could be a discrete bump.
The short answer: I don't fly anywhere to look at porn.

The long answer:

There are laws that tell the airlines and the railroads to whom they are not allowed to sell information on my travel habits. Restrictive ones. There are certainly laws against wireless companies selling information on my whereabouts.
Benton Harbor Council pass resolution, stating EFM is unconstitutional
It seems your site is having some trouble with the load.
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There was actually a question there. I wrote it. I asked whether or not humans.txt is speciesist, and narrow minded. It's a reflection on our current understanding of who our peers are. I felt that future generations would look back on humans.txt with contempt. What might AI, aliens, or other hereto undiscovered sentient organisms think? There are groups working on genetically modifying dolphins to make them more intelligent. I wouldn't want them to feel like they are second class citizens. I proposed people.txt.

Stackoverflow was probably not the right place for the question so it got closed with extreme prejudice.

Probably should've tried LessWrong
Incidentally, I just did the same thing to you :)

Had emailed you yesterday, no luck. Sent a gentle reminder to you again a couple of hours back. Still no reply, but keeping my fingers crossed :)

PS: seriously, though, sometimes I wonder whether journalists get my emails or it simply ends up getting into the spam box. Sadly, there is no way to know for sure.
Works in Chrome without Silverlight, but not in Firefox.
Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day, so plan accordingly
I bought a Geek Desk a couple months back, ot as expensive as the Steelcase.

I'm not standing all the time yet, but am doing so more often now, I expect in a few more months I'll be standing as much as sitting, if not more. Certainly feel more energetic than I did beforehand.

The other benefit of an adjustable desk is it works for various tasks, you can change the level from programming to something more suitable when you are dissecting a pokey computer.

Along with that desk purchase I got a great chair (not an Aeron, but still quite comfortable and adjustable.)
You asserted that the tax is somehow driving public companies out of SF, so you get to back up your assertions first. Pointing out that Twitter threatened to move to Brisbane doesn't count since it didn't actually happen.

Bear in mind that every big company attempts to squeeze concessions out of the cities they're located in when their leases expire. If you think the Twitter in SF situation is unique, you're profoundly naive about how big companies and city governments interact.

SF is attractive to startups in large part because it has an educated population. As the frenzy to roll back taxes continues to take its toll on education (both K-12 and the public universities), that attractiveness will diminish. Technology companies will do just fine in this environment; they'll simply move their operations to states and countries with better education systems. But when the education system in California utterly collapses, it's the employees of these companies who are going to be left wondering what happened.

The phrase "it will become literally impossible for fast-growing startups to stay in the city" is utter nonsense. If that were true, why is there is a single startup in the city today?
Right, and if it's not really a tax, then there's really no point in repealing it, is there?
That doesn't reduce the mail volume. Then you would have to store the mail somewhere, and still have the same amount to sort. So on the days when they did deliver, it would take longer to sort it.
Apple is indirectly competing with record labels and the services they once provided--promotion, distribution (iTunes), publicity (Ping).

But you're right, Apple isn't trying to be a one stop shop like a record label, Apple is only going after a piece--that is what record labels should be adjusting to. Record labels should try to differentiate and offer whatever services Apple isn't--marketing, advertising, studio space, etc.
> Dead tree mail isn't dead just yet; they definitely have enough time to figure out a plan.

Traditional printed mail (flats, letters, etc) will not go away until every person has an iPad (or equivalent) and has broadband. Many many areas of the US are still without broadband access.