skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sega says hackers stole data of 1.29 million users
Baseline isn't so much current pay, but what others in the same company are making (if that applies). That's what makes them think "we can hire someone to do this for X".
According to Wikipedia, yes:

The balancing properties of a gömböc are affected by mechanical defects and dust both on its body and on the surface on which it rests. If damaged, the process of restoring the original shape is more complex than producing a new one.
You need to apply for jobs at other companies first.
Hmm... you can buy a variety of these starting at €119 here:

http://www.gomboc-shop.com/app/urwfilter/catalog/do/action/S...
I am annoyed at the "feature". I am fearful of the day I will not be able to disable it.

When the Chrome development team decides something should be a certain way, they are sometimes not at all accommodating of differing viewpoints.
The speediness you get is algorithmic. SkipLists can give you log time operations on a list - Python can largely only give you linear time.

(The above is a serious simplification, but contains enough truth to be worth stating. No doubt others more knowledgeable than I can expand and enhance.)
1. Figure out how much money you make from an average customer in total.

2. Experiment with ads and affiliates and such and keep the cost per new customer below the one you figured out in 1.

It's really that easy.
Well, calling it "decoration" in itself implies that it's not important, so it's not saying much. Not sure I get your point…?
At least for Django, there's no reason your built-in admin has to be on the same site (or /admin). You can just create a new project, add the same apps of your main in addition to the admin app and hook it up to the URL of your choice along with whatever authentication you want (even limit to internal IPs).
Similar submission from a week ago - many comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2642320
Companies can sue you for anything. The question is whether they have a case that involves taking your ownership of your startup. Have you been making minimum payments (at least) on your credit card? If so, they won't do anything about it. Otherwise they will probably, at some point, throw you to the collections agency.

The IRS is tougher, since not paying your taxes is a felony. I suggest you do everything you can to pay your backtaxes as soon as possible.

And yes, of course your personal situation is a liability. Investors, should they become aware of your situation, will know that the first $50,000 or so will sink directly into your bank account, NOT the company. Therefore, your startup will have to be very compelling or the terms very good (to them) in order to make up for it. This is in addition to the signal you send, since managing scarce resources (money) is a critical skill for running a startup.

Good luck.
I regularly see someone make a Python extension in Python and then rewrite the critical parts in C. It might have been made with this kind of process in mind.
Clickable: http://www.seioo.com

This is not an endorsement.

It never fails to surprise - and to be honest, to vaguely annoy - me that people don't make their links clickable. It's almost as if they don't want us to find it easy to give feedback or advice.

(Yes, I'm in "Grumpy Old Man mode" today)

It also doesn't fully fit in my browser window, forcing me to use the slider bars, and I'm almost certainly not in your target audience.

So you can, and probably should, ignore me.
- I am beginning to think $30/mo is way too low as well. As a programmer, I've always had a tough time selecting prices. I'm going to start high and see how it goes. I can always lower the price later. This has been the most commonly echoed piece of advice that I have received since the posting (both in thread and out.)

- Re: the documents. All of the documents are of public record. (SSN, full account numbers, etc. are all censored by both the debtor's attorney and by the creditor's attorneys.)

- re: Calendar consolidation. One client is currently testing a desktop app that downloads all of his PDFs and organizes them on his local share and also syncs his calendar entries with Exchange. I plan on allowing syncing with Exchange, Outlook, Google Calendar, and iCal after I see how this test goes.

I appreciate your comments. I'd love to hear more about your marketing software idea as well.
Of course it's worth implementing better data structures in Python. There are two ways to make a Python program faster: make the Python program faster, or implement computationally intensive parts in another language (including using a library written in another language). Which of these approaches is 'best' depends heavily on what your goals are. There are many advantages to keeping code in pure Python rather than moving to C - not least issues like portability and maintainability.

There are also some Python operations that have a large constant time - operations which are much slower, but still O(1), in Python than they are in lower level languages. In these cases, choosing algorithms which reduce the number of operations of that type can be a bigger win than a simple big-O analysis would suggest and allow pure Python code to compete better with code written in lower-level languages.

Better algorithms are the right answer the fast programs more often than faster code. There is room for both, but the "if the code isn't fast you may as well not bother with a good algorithm" claim is generally false.
After thinking about it for a bit, it is definitely too low. I'll be starting higher and will adjust the price downward as necessary.
The take away here is that Google may be far too powerful for our own good. On any given day, if Google and its algorithms deem you unworthy, your livelihood, income, traffic, etc, could be washed out to sea and there isn't much you can do about it. We've all allowed Google to have this power. Oops.

I sell on android. Very soon the new market client is supposed to come out, based on what they said at Google I/O. On that day, I may never sell another app, but I have no idea what will happen, maybe I'll sell a million, but at least I'm aware that I'm at their mercy.
blogspam? Why not the source http://www.whoisd.com/oldestcom.php
Submitted six hours after this was, but it's got all the comments. Go there to avoid dividing any discussion.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2670674
1) pretty small sample size
2) go to webmaster tools -> your site on the web -> search quieries -> look for answers
It's an interesting thought experiment, but the 1% is an oversimplification - necessary, perhaps, in a general audience. The 1% difference he talks about is not phenotype (reasoning ability) but genotype (DNA). It's not hard to imagine a few critical changes such as more cortical folds and improved myelination leading to most of the phenotypic cognitive difference. These could be controlled in some key fractions of a % of the genome.

While it works as a metaphor, it's flawed as a general metric. A species in which Hawking-level ability is - if not average - at least commonplace, would require the average IQ to be 2-3 standard deviations higher (relatively) on the human scale. IQ being, itself, a rather flawed metric of course :)
meta:...and here come the downvotes for presenting factual information with no rebutal. I hate to say this is typical on HN, but it's definitely something that occurs in certain "hot-topic" discussions. A downvote here without rebutal is a bit like:"no! you're wrong!"

"based on what specifically?"

"you're just wrong!"

Common HN, we're above that kind of childishness...let's get specific.

Either nutmeg contains Myristicin, which is deadly at about .15 grams of the substance, which occurs in natural concentrations in nutmeg or it doesn't. (it does) We're not talking about car loads of the stuff.

A dosage of about a tablespoon of nutmeg contains a lethal amount of Myristicin, or it doesn't. (it does)

We appear to be in violent agreement about the percentages, dosages and other particulars, so what parts of my statement appears to be the problem?

For fun, I looked up some more:

Comprehensive Review in Toxicology for Emergency Clinicians, Bryson, P. D.

"The chemical agents which are thought to give nutmeg its psychoactive effects are myristicin and elemicin, which are amphetamine-like compounds similar to MDMA...The ingestion of as little as 1 to 2 tablespoonsful, which may contain 5 to 10g in each tablespoon, is capable or producing psychoactive effects described as hallucinations, euphoria, and other distortions of reality as well as many undesirable effects.

The symptoms begin 3 to 6 hours after ingestion and generally resolve in 24 hours. The first CNS effects are giddiness, tingling, dizziness, apprehension, anxiety, and a generalized feedling of excitement. Later, euphoria, visual hallucinations, distortions in time and space, reality detachment, sensations of limb loss, and fear of death may occur. This may progress to extreme drowsiness and lethargy that persist for a day or more."

And another from Emergency Medicine News
"The study itself conducted a retrospective chart review of the California Poison Control System electronic database for cases of isolated nutmeg exposure during the years 1997 – 2008. The authors identified 119 single-substance exposures, collected descriptive data, and compared intentional recreational abuse (86 cases) with unintentional exposures (33 cases)."

On Elemicin, the other psychoactive component of nutmeg.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elemicin

"One study found it to comprise 2.4% of the fresh essential oil."

So nutmeg is probably toxic in slightly lower doses than I've been claiming, but it's hard to find specific toxicity studies that isolate both compounds.
TLDR: yes
Asking if design makes a difference is kind of a silly question. We know it makes a difference. Using A/B testing, or even just by changing one element at a time, we can measure improvements in things like conversion ratios or download rates.

Of course, to measure if each part of your design is effective, you have to change it in isolation. I wouldn't surprised if there are elements of the new Wordpress site that decrease conversion, as well as some which are increasing it. If the design had been iterated on, instead of just rolling out the new design, we might know which elements should have been changed to create better results.
Are you retarded? That is not the point of the story or even relevant.

The story is how to avoid the unnecessary block. If companies want to play games, the tech world isn't impressed. As you can see, it's easy to view the web without restrictions.

Besides it's not relevant. Other sites link to these two sites, but the links don't work on the iPad. That is the problem.

Who cares about the editorial content on the websites? It's not the issue.
Throw Grails in there too, except with more Groovy if you don't want just plain old Java.
People may be able to distribute copyright violating material on Bittorrent, but the Bittorrent clients themselves are simply downloaded from normal websites. If they are found to be in violation of this patent it would be pretty simple to just send C&D letters to websites distributing the clients, a far easier task than going after individual Bittorent users.
Design is more than just decoration. If design is done right, design is how it works.
We actually do know what each one was built for. Rails was originally used to make Basecamp. The closer in functionality your app is to the apps the core team builds, the better Rails fits.

Django was originally a CMS for a news site, so it's no surprise it's stayed good for that.
> if you could build an approximation that works most of the time with much less precision, then you might be able to make sale-able objects that do such...

They're called turtles.

http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/biomechanics/10309/the-livi...
They still get the coveted "Click Thru" on links, but iPad users are stopped at the error page.

Content links without content?
Our new tribal web. (Userbase self government)
Solving the problem of job search and hiring
Keynes was making hay out of a disaster. The banks enabled a speculative boom, resulting in a massive mis-allocation of capital for many years. Then when the boom ended, they had mass unemployment. No surprise there.

Keynes was wrong to think that (3) is better than (1). All that does it take capital forcibly out of one individual's hands and put it into the pocket of someone doing something useless. You might as well save him the trouble of digging the ditch.
sorry, but with a sample size of 250 visits / day /blog such a takeaway is a little bit overblown. rankings and google traffic are a fickle thing, yeah, so what? that just means that you heve to be clever-er.
Has anyone written an alternate history novel along these lines?
I've been considering a local install of DSpace for my organization so that we can have, among other benefits, good universal document identifiers for publications we generate (e.g., contractually required documents, conference papers). I would be interested in knowing of any experience others may have using DSpace or similar systems.
Why does an advanced internet automatically imply space travel?
If I'm not mistaken the screenshots in the manual for Altsys Virtuoso (basically FreeHand for the NeXT) were Display Postscript captures.
Ma-Bell breakup?
Standard Oil breakup?

I fail to see how things like that never ever happen. It doesn't happen in quite the same way, but the fact is, anti-trust isn't antithesis to the American ideals. Allowing one company a position where it can toss abuses both upstream and downstream of its supply chains doesn't mesh at all with a market interested system.
With all the effort they put into cloning the iPhone case and UI, you think they would try to create something new and innovative.
This just rehashes an old (and fallacious) argument under the guise of neuroscience. Bobert Blatchford tried to push the same view 100 years ago (see his article "Defense of the Bottom Dog"). He didn't convince many, though. There are some puzzles about the concept of "deserved punishment" (what do we say in cases of brain tumors?? omg!), but it isn't clear that we can reconceive of criminal justice on the model of putting someone in quarantine (where we don't blame them, but force them into a room for public safety; we also give them goodies to compensate for how we treat them..)
DPS wasn't a NeXT product. They shipped the same Adobe code that had been in use on SunOS NeWS for 3+ years (and in fact on hardware that was very similar to the Sun 3 workstations).

NeXT did more with it, and clearly NeWS failed in the face of X windows in Sun's market.
DPS wasn't a NeXT product. They shipped the same Adobe code that had been in use on SunOS NeWS for 3+ years (and in fact on hardware that was very similar to the Sun 3 workstations).

NeXT did more with it, and clearly NeWS failed in the face of X windows in Sun's market.

[Edit: wikipedia tells me NeWS was a PS reimplementation, not the Adobe product. That's not how I remember it being marketed, but hey: learn something new every day.]
it's very useful. good luck...
Resolution independence in OS X didn't happen because of UX issues - if given a very small space (16x16 or 32x32), a hand crafted pixel icon will generally look better than a scaled down vector icon.

For examples, compare the sidebar Finder icons with their full size counterparts, especially in the Places subsection. Some are scaled down versions of the larger icons (Documents, for example), whereas some are stylistic extractions (Downloads becomes a green download arrow in a circle).

I'd hope that when 2x mode comes to OS X for high resolution displays, when you take a screenshot in 1x mode it would use the 2x mode assets to create a higher resolution screencap, but that does sound like a lot of work for a very minor feature that would increase screenshot size.
So do the self-righting properties simply degrade or fail completely, if say an eyelash drops on it?
It's a well written opinion piece just a few hundred words long. By what standard is it lacking some research?
A/B tests show their limits when it comes to design. You can't A/B test a brand or a logo, or even a background or a font. And you can't test elements of a new design in isolation, that doesn't make any sense. Elements of a design have to work together as a whole.
Take any circle: There are two points opposite each other at equal temperatures
> This week, the Department of Education released the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress, which found that only 12% of high-school seniors have a firm grasp of our nation's history.

I wonder whether anyone ever wonder about the history of the rest of the world.
In the linked video they appear to demo it on a wood table which almost certainly doesn't meet the 10micron flatness.

For an interesting analysis of a practical application of this, namely turtles and tortoises righting themselves, there's a full text analysis of the dynamics involved available here: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/275/1630/11.f...
That should really be the "100 Oldest .com Domains". Before the .com days, the internet had two top-level domains: .ARPA (for ARPANET -- universities and companies) and .MIL (for MILNET -- U.S. military). BBN was BBN.ARPA long before it was BBN.COM (they developed the original internet routing hardware).

Since the old .ARPA domains no longer exist, the oldest domains still in use today would probably be the .MIL domains (e.g., army.mil), which date back to 1983.

Wikipedia has a diagram of what the entire network looked like in 1977: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arpanet
Notably absent from the list: Microsoft.com
Secret messages hidden inside equations
Barring total collapse of civilization (in which case this will be a golden era), we will be seen as barbaric. But it isn't very easy to predict in what ways, without merely falling prey to ideas that will further prove to be modern fashionable ideas that don't actually work.

And there's no guarantee we wouldn't likewise consider the future barbaric. Is it really that "civilized" to be able to look at someone's brain, figure out precisely what it is that makes them $YOUR_LEAST_FAVORITE_POLITICAL_ORIENTATION, and precisely remove it with surgery and personalized drugs, forcibly applied? Or possibly even $YOUR_POLITICAL_ORIENTATION? I can provide arguments in favor of any political position of your naming being proof that the holder is a bad person that threatens all that is good in civilization and all necessary steps should be taken to eliminate the ideation entirely, lest it successfully spread. (Including mine.) Just as one for instance.
That list is just for .com domains. This Wikipedia entry lists old .com, .org, .edu and .net domains: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_currently_re...

Also, I found it amusing how much overlap there is between the 50 oldest .edu domains and the US News list of top CS grad programs: http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-gradu...
Security.

Though bitcoin banks probably will be much different (e.g. they won't be able to spend bitcoins of their clients as modern banks do. Transactions will be signed both by client and bank, so you will need both to spend it).
I do think the human brain is flawed in some ways. The human brain isn't perfect, even though we like to think so.

The human brain has flaws that can't be controlled by its owner. We like to think that we're always in control of ourselves, but most of our actions are actually not pre-meditated. We are not ruled by logic as much as we think we are, instinct and emotions are way more powerful forces of actions in daily life. Many of us don't like to acknowledge it, but we're still animals.

The vast majority of murders are, despite what the mass media wants you to think, not premeditated. Most of them are committed either by accident or by rage. Rage is determined by genetics and upbringing.

Premeditated murders are considered "worse" than rage-induced murders, but then we're back at the issue - when you can commit premeditated murders something is wrong outside of your control.

Our legal system is created under the assumption that we're Vulcans, but we're not. Logic is (unfortunately?) not as important to how we act like we think.
This spreadsheet is gone. Google says its might have been deleted by the owner.
It's filtered to only contain .com. The first .se domain was registered sometime in 1986, which would definitely place it pretty high on that list.
Actually, I'm not sure why the website doesn't mention that, but we were aware of that. Our lack of experience in security was one of the factors in why we didn't continue further.

- Paul, OmegaSDG
I like how the first two paragraphs of most of the Bitcoin articles I've read are like the ones in this article.
It can work, it just takes longer and is harder to maintain the momentum when you are only working on it in small chunks.

If you could drop to part time work to cover the expenses then that might be a more viable approach but unless your startup is launched and generating revenue (even 1 sale a week) within 3 months you will notice that it gets harder to keep going, pivot and really get decent traction.
One could do the same on a religion-free mountaintop.
It is not necessary to own a domain to connect a node to the Internet. DNS wasn't introduced until 1985, and as there was no domain sharks back then, there was really no rush to register.

Edit: DNS dates from 1983, the TLDs we know today from 1985.
Ask HN: Election coming up, any political projects?
While the historical context you have provided is certainly very interesting and it's something I didn't know about, I stand by my assertion that, at least today, the target audience of The Economist is economists and people who are generally interested in economics.
we did have a fallback which worked offline. the problem was that without wifi we had to rely on the iPad's compass (previously, with wifi i was proxying gyroscope data from iPod Touches tucked in the back of the iPad cases) - normally this would have worked fine. when we were onstage with so many cameras there was so much current flying around that the compasses went completely haywire and we were truly fscked. I wasn't kidding when I said on stage that if the iPad 2 had come out a week earlier we wouldn't be having any problems :)
"SkipLists can give you log time operations on a list"

So can balanced binary trees, and a number of other structures. I'd demand benchmarks, because Python is not C (and I don't mean just trivially, I mean, it is very not just C); just as one for instance, are you hitting a pessimal case with the GC with this algorithm? You never know.

I'm not actually demanding them, since it didn't seem the point of this exercise. My point is that you can't just assume.
Qt's QPainter can actually serialize draw calls into SVG; I used that to make "SVG screenshots" of Qt apps from time to time. The resulting fidelity lacks some polish, and when the app buffers any rendering through pixmaps it has no choice but to embed raster data for those elements into the SVG which then can't scale, but it's a cute little trick nonetheless.
I made the implication because something seems to have changed fairly fundamentally, and although it may be ridiculous to extrapolate from such limited data I wouldn't be at all surprised if other Wordpress.com users are affected.
I'm looking forward to learning RoR, even more thanks to this article. But please don't get the impression that only Rails works well with jQuery and SASS. I've been using them with django as well. They're not baked into django, but nothing prevents you from using them effectively.
Chrome 14 advised me not to enter the site. "certificate not trusted".

Just a heads up.
Taking on Wall Street from home