skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah nice, I think this algorithm is fair:

"Now instead of being ranked by points, jobs simply start at position 4 and slide down the page at 4 positions per hour. To prevent the frontpage from being overloaded with jobs, no one can post a new job when there is still one in the top half of the page."
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Australian here too. They get this from the same place we get our ideas of Indian culture - urban myth and hearsay.

Regarding slow talkers, it depends on where you come from in Aus (stereotypically rural and/or Queenslander). I travelled across the US and when I approached NYC I was eager to hear people speaking at a 'normal' rate, as I was a bit fatigued from having to slow down my rate of speech (I'm also known as 'the quiet one' among by friends). And when I got to NYC... New Yorkers still didn't speak fast enough for me. I didn't have to slow down, but it was still noticeably slower than what I was used to.

As for college being unknown here until recently, maybe they mean recently compared to India? 150 years is a drop in the bucket to several thousand...
It's an open feature request. The current issue is finding a way to do so efficiently. Adding a mouse tracking region for each link (and moving it every time you scroll) is impractical, and I'm not well enough versed in the display storage structures to know how easily you could get the bounding box of a link and hit-test for it without a performance hit.

Cmd-clicking them works though.
No, you were correct.

(BTW: Joshua)
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I love the potential for facial recognition in the future as long as their are no privacy issues and the public welcomes it without fears over privacy.

Umm yeah. How would that work exactly?

One person's privacy issue is another person's feature request.
Why not also cut off their electricity if someone used it 6 times to copy music or movies?
I'm in 50ish startups and I haven't heard of a single tranched investment. One startup I talked to several years ago had a tranched offer but it was from a Known Crazy Person.

I do think there's some pretty big regional differences in investors, so maybe that is it?
Joshua, not Josh :)
It's generally a sign of a skittish, controlling, amateur investor. You see it pretty rarely.

The investment already is tranched: Seed, Series A, Series B, etc.
This is new to me. Not sure how I missed it.
Non-https images? It is not uncommon for browsers on https sites to not load http images.
People are inherently curious about a young man who had so much success from nothing.
Hence "Having his laptop taken is obviously not really an appropriate response".
Very nice illustration. I'm a big fan of using Ghostery to block everything, it's ridiculous how much shit is on some pages:

http://www.ghostery.com/

I've also started using Better Pop Up Blocker because either networks are getting smarter or Chrome's crap at blocking popups:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nmpeeekfhbmikbdhlp...
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Is it possible that some of those users clicked on the ad multiple times? If that's the case, their browser would likely cache the images and not reload them.
Reads like an ad for webOS.
I like it when you are using firefox, and have disabled the option that allows javascript to disable or change context menus. Then you get the real "Save Video As" option. Although, it does try to save it as "videoplayback.htm", but it is the full video.
Americans have a great can-do attitude and are lucky to have some of the wealthiest land in the world. These two things let them exploit their smarts very well. But bighearted? Not really. Domestic charity doesn't really stand out from the pack and foreign aid is a lesser proportion of GDP than their contemporaries. Their foreign aid is more effective than elsewhere because of the size of their economy, but as a proportion of what is earned, it's not competitive.

My personal experience in the US is that the people are very welcoming and friendly, which leads me to think that Americans are bighearted to people they personally know, but not so much to strangers - eg witness the powerful currents of public opinion against welfare or universal healthcare that don't really exist in contemporary countries.
>> A terminal multiplexer is a way to create and access multiple ttys from a single terminal (-emulator).

> Thanks. I know that and use screen, and the post we are discussing mentions tmux, so he knows it as well.

You asked what the difference was. I told you.

>> whereas an emulator with some mux features can provide benefits not easily achievable with a standalone multiplexer.

> The op was being snarky but that was the whole point. iterm2 doesn't seem to be giving something which we(in a generic sense; I use linux and have nothing to do with iterm) want and aren't already doing in the current emulator/multiplexer setup.

Yes, I got that as well. My point is that it is in fact nothing at all like "tmux with an icon"; It's a terminal emulator, which happens to:

a) be better in various ways than hte Terminal.app that ships with OSX (256-color support, for a start. See upthread for many more).

b) have some features which overlap with dedicated terminal muxes, like tmux. If you look at the links I mentioned, the idea is to make iTerm recognise you're using tmux (even on a remote host), and translate its split panels into GUI split panels, amongst other things.

So yes, it does (or will) provide additional features.

>> One example would be mouse-based text selection. Using vertical splits in tmux, and triple-clicking to select a full line will select the contents of both split regions, whereas a GUI app can limit it to one region. I'm sure there are plenty of other features.

>I don't use tmux but that's the behavior in gnu screen vertical split as well.

Precisely. But iTerm2, being a GUI terminal emulator, can do that. That is a feature.
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I didn't work on this project personally, but others at Unspace did and I'm quite proud.
you may want to try out http://prolinkd.com then. It runs on top of Linkedin and provides most of the things you are looking for.
This reminds me of one of my favorite features of Stainless (http://www.stainlessapp.com/): You could have one tab with a session in which you are only logged into Google, and use that tab only on Google websites, with a bookmark to access that session in a new tab. Then you would not be logged into Google in any other tabs.

I would really like to see development of Stainless continued, or for some of its security features to be adopted by Google Chrome. If anyone knows of such functionality, I'd like to hear about it.

Also check out the Ghostery extension (http://d.pr/DzJt); it blocks some of these sorts of elements (it doesn't, for example, block the Twitter follow button, and I don't know whether it blocks Google's OAuth)
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Some sort of seamless client certificate functionality to help out with authentication and identity.

The "com.google" vs "google.com" is interesting since it obviously should be "com.google" except that "google.com" is better for presentation purposes.
I agree. But on the other hand, lightbox style advertisements are just popups that you have to actually click to close, instead of command-W.
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It certainly does seem to tell us something about the deep-seated character (or lack thereof) within the company.
Off-topic, but what was responsible for the steep decline from March to April? http://siteanalytics.compete.com/duckduckgo.com/
Try to explain to them that the first click didn't count because the form didn't have focus.
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"...the import service is doing a full binary copy of the disk into Amazon EBS..."

This enhances their preexisting import/export program. As good as free inbound traffic and something that separates the AWS stack from the rest of the virtual pack. I can easily see AWS becoming standard off site backup for enterprise's large and small. Just unplug the multi TB disk(s) and send them to AWS.
There are a lot of businesses that could very much benefit from this model. In fact, it's a bit surprising that more don't.

However, a few off the top of my head are Video Game Magazines - Nintendo Power, Official Xbox Magazine, and Playstation Official Magazine seem to all be in part or in whole sponsored or run by the console companies themselves and it makes total sense - you get your users to love the product all the more and promote your product along the way.

Most successful online businesses tend to have a fairly strong content component to them somehow either via user generated content or professionally generated content.

The real kicker is that most people don't want to pay for most content because most content is now a commodity - it is available everywhere for basically free. Worse, paying for content wrapped in ads seems extra pointless.

People WILL pay for content if it has real value in terms of scarcity or convenience or useful knowledge or a high level of entertainment.

Most interestingly is people don't seem to mind content generated around a brand or product if it makes sense to do so.
Except that by almost any measure Facebook runs one of the leanest engineering and tech ops organizations in existence.

And don't forget that the author's main thrust was that Facebook faces a "fate worse than death". Adapting a technical architecture to keep up with growth doesn't really seem worse than death, imo.
How is Asana? I've been following it for about a year and it looks like a really solid project. I was impressed by it and think it'll do really well, but I haven't had the chance to actually use it.
hence the range.
Whether people would be unwilling to listen  content on their mobilephones?
I created a app "PlayText" on Android which lets you play content from websites as audio..(Articles on sites would be played as audio)

It has been one month since I launched it and the response has been lukewarm..

Whether it's good to put time and effort in developing this app further for all sites as it seems people are not interested in listening to the same content they browse..

In the era of texting whether this is really worthwhile?
The main big negative implication that I can think of (and that caused Google to back off the research) is governments using it for surveillance. I think a lot of the potential features of the technology could be really cool, but that's a pretty serious negative.
It's not the same thing, though. If the entire country watches big brother, that's entertainment. Do I understand why they enjoy it, no (though I do enjoy X Factor!).

Reading a terrible newspaper is different, and worse. They're not just getting entertainment, they're getting news, they're getting their world view and their political beliefs influenced by it. That's the difference.
1. It depends heavily on location.

2. It depends on what stage the company is at. Have you raised capital or not (and do you intend to) or are you planning on scaling without capital. Equity, if any, is directly tied to this which can influence pay.

3. Depends on the experience.

Without knowing the above factors, the range can be anywhere between $20k and $250k (albeit, the $250k side is usually not going to happen)
Couldn't this be accomplished on the level of web browsers (and lower), just by rearranging the domain name before asking the DNS? It does seem very abritrary convention-y, you know.
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This looks great.

I think the tagline used in your title is confusing though. My first reaction was "But Facebook is social sharing for Facebook!"

After clicking I see that it is about file sharing, which I think is fairly essential for the title to be clear.
I remember arguing extensively with a friend about this.

Whenever I switch plans, I demand free, unlimited SMS (local and international), and it doesn't take much bargaining to get it. This friend of mine from another country had to pay to receive text messages from anyone (myself included at a premium, for texting him from abroad), which I consider downright apalling.

I told him to negotiate a better deal or to switch providers because he was being blatantly ripped off, and no: he argued quite religiously that doing so would be promoting low standards, and that commodizing his phone service was the last thing he could ever possibly want (no further reason given).

When I argued that I was just trying to be helpful, he accused me of being a nonconformist (as if the expression is inherently derrogatory) and started ranting about how little grasp of economics I have. (At which point I lost my temper to because, as XKCD quite nicely has it [1], someone was wrong on the internet.)

[1] http://xkcd.com/386/
The decree was that they couldn't charge by the machine, regardless of whether MS software was installed. I believe that Microsoft's response was to charge by the CPU instead, which technically wasn't covered in the decree, but had almost the same effect.

In this case they aren't charging by the CPU, they are charging by the operating system that ships with Microsoft's "intellectual property". If they got away with the per-CPU crapola 15 years ago, nobody will blink an eye at the current arrangement.
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Another common problem I think it that people realise that their product has a potentially huge market but they haven't thought about how they can engage and raise awareness amongst that market.

In other words, identifying a market is not enough - identifying and proving a repeatable way to sell to this market is key. If it costs too much to get attention versus the profit you'll make from a sale, the size of the market is irrelevant.
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It's absolutely astonishing to me that nobody ever mentions how Github handles viewing code. I always thought it's painfully obvious why Github won. They make viewing code easy. Duh. They have that nice little animation of code sliding in which lets me think that I'm not waiting forever, and I can actually navigate and explore other people's code.

I may overestime myself a little here, but I'm pretty sure that's the main/only reason Github succeeded. Not some new pricing scheme.
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LinuxMag is hardly high-profile. It's audience is pretty focused and limited. I imagine the audience size of the referring site influences Google's rank on the SERP.
Something to keep in mind: HVM is generally slower(even with VT-x) than paravirtualization...It's not by a huge amount, but you'll definitely be seeing higher IO latency. While this is a neat hack, you're paying more and getting poorer performance.
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The article directs you to a download page... URL:
http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html

Interesting.
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Solved in ChromeOS.
HVM is generally slower(even with VT-x) than paravirtualization

Not in this case. The problem you're talking about is with emulated hardware; EC2 uses paravirtual devices with HVM, so the performance there is identical to completely paravirtual instances.
That's a taboo I don't understand.

What's wrong with talking about what you earn? I can understand if it was pride/ego preventing people from talking about it. But from the workers' perspective wouldn't it be better to know what the going rates are to make sure you aren't getting ripped off for your work.
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Thank you! Being able to shorten the animation is the only thing I felt was missing. The default animation is way too long for my taste.
nearlyfreespeech.net is the way to go.
I hear what you're saying but I would give a "pass" to this particular try since it's reasonably well-done and the screencast approach probably works for a certain segment of the population. What I don't care for is when a company puts out something like this and it's obviously just a weak marketing tactic with very little value.
Who are you to decide whether his work is or is not art? I agree that censorship isn't relevant here in the sense that it's applied to art, but there is a legal question of whether or not what he's doing is protected by the First Amendment. It's a novel take on the "public spaces" argument, but not by much. If he had put cameras in the eyes of a statue in a park and recorded people interacting with the statue, would that be forbidden as well?

I get where he's coming from, and I get that some people would be upset by it. That's why we need to have a conversation about what privacy means in this day and age, and how much of a reasonable expectation of it you have in public spaces (and what constitutes a public space). I think the fact that it's the Apple Store in New York is relevant. It's not a Best Buy in Bellingham. That store really is a public place, and the computers within it are basically public in every sense of the word.
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I'd like to apologize for an inappropriate, tired and not very thoughtful comment. I would like to amend it to refer to Sorkin's character of Mark Zuckerberg, played by Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network. Although I'd very much like to, I do not know Mark.
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Interesting topic as I recently spent three months on customer discovery for a CS researcher/wannabe entrepreneur who developed a spreadsheet consolidation (combining data from disparate sources) solution. My discovery work was primarily focused on enterprise. The primary finding was that everyone in enterprise claimed that they have the problem but the pain is not high enough for them to consider buying a solution that only consolidates data. They were looking for end-to-end solution.

Have you looked at google fusion table and google refine? These are powerful tools in same space for non-enterprise applications.
I gave up on Java for games because I couldn't find a way to do vector math that was both clean and efficient. Basically, the options are:

Immutable vectors - loads of temporary heap objects

Mutable vectors - spaghetti data flow

Implicitly grouped primitives - horrible verbosity and repetition

And of course, there's no operator overloading.

There are potential solutions to this that could be implemented at the language level e.g. stack objects or macros that expand to primitives at compile time, but none of the other mature JVM languages seem to do any better at it.

Say what you will about C++, but it lets you write code like this:

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that compiles to something efficient. With all the vector math that ends up in my game code, I just couldn't live without this.
Right I would say that is the same for most of the US. If I had to venture to guess, I would imagine the national average for entry level is around 50-60k and senior developers are north of 100k in most major metros.
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Can you explain how you'd solve this using A* efficiently? You will see what I mean. A* finds the shortest path, this problem requires a Hamiltonian cycle, two entirely different problems.

Finding a Hamiltonian cycle has much more in common with solving a sudoku puzzle than with finding the shortest path in a graph; both are problems for which no polynomial time algorithm is known. Now, this problem is about finding a Hamiltonian cycle in a restricted class of graphs, so there is a chance that you could solve it efficiently, but it is non obvious. If you know how, perhaps you should publish a paper on it: that might be a major breakthrough.
The other meaning that you are thinking of really is just a mistake and not a correct usage.
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I had a concept about something like this about a year ago. I mocked up some draft designs for a homepage and user profile. You can see them here (although the domain is expiring soon):

http://sharemeup.com/sharemeup/index.php

Only the tour and index page have content.

Basically, my concept was socializing and in essence, noobifying the stock trading process. You buy shares based on dollar amount (fractional ownership, ShareBuilder.com does it as well). Ticker symbols are accompanied by company logos, so its obvious that you're buying Apple Computer stock, not just AAPL. Your portfolio is also gamified; win achievements for doing well, get placed on a leaderboard, share with friends, etc.

In general, everything about trading is complicated. If you look up your favorite company, and you're overloaded with stock information about High/Low, Bid/Ask, Volume, closing price, etc. And the more investment options are given, the worse it gets (mutual funds, options, currency, etc.). Everything appears complicated, so yes, it is intimidating. To get a better grip of what a better UI would be, it would be a good idea to look at the intentions and desires of a new trader. I think the average joe wants to start trading because: a) They think they're smarter than the average person, and can make a few bucks off their stock picks. b) They think it'll be fun to learn.

Feel free to take any of my work or ideas.
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I would love to hear your take on how we can improve on the first 2 aspects. I am not too worried about Rails because I use Rails and I use Padrino but despite the increasing modularity, using Rack/Sinatra/Padrino is a qualitatively different development experience.

But in terms of the first 2. How can we improve our documentation, please let me know, we have a bunch of guides http://www.padrinorb.com/guides and decent (I hope) READMEs as well as a written and recorded blog tutorial screencast. Also Padrino is just Sinatra, so all the Sinatra docs here http://www.sinatrarb.com/documentation http://sinatra-book.gittr.com/ work just as well.

How can we be more effective at evangelism?
5% of world's 10 largest GDP is huge. At 5% of 1.5 Trillion dollars its about 250 Billion US Dollars. Also, the growth in BPO is also much more significant than the regular industries.

In any case, it is hardly insignificant (or nonsense).