skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a big fan of userContent.css myself.

One of the big disappointments I've had with Chrome so far is that there's no way to set default font sizes (within the browser UI itself). I suspect there may be configuration settings .... hrm .... no "about:config", damn.

I'll try the userContent.css trick next. I've long forced all sites to use both my preferred fonts and sizes. Most comply reasonably well, though some (overly specified) designs break.

And that's for a guy who's been surfing in his 20s-40s, with good vision, though I'm just starting to feel the need for reading glasses. My parents are in their late 70s, Dad's got glaucoma. I've had to push up the contrast and zoom settings in his Mac account, for which he's grateful (the Web is one of his primary outlets / connections to the world now).

Sites designed on large, high-contrast Mac monitors, viewed on smaller, lower contrast devices, suffer the most. HN definitely could use a contrast improvement (I'm viewing zoomed up a couple of clicks right now, couldn't say just how much).

The real key isn't just sizing fonts (and setting contrast) appropriately, but to design pages which resize and rescale gracefully. I can live with the first if the second also occurs. Far too often it doesn't.
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More likely the pay for psychologists dropped because the total supply of psychologists (both genders) increased faster than the population. Also the psychopharmacology industry has provided an alternative to psychologists.
Naturally. "Consumer facing" = "more widely known" = "interesting to a wider audience."
It is helpful, but somehow that did nothing for me.

You are going to laugh but I had to go and get a medal I won after running a 5K, and put it on. Somehow, reminding myself that I've done bigger things, let me acquire some much needed courage.

Weird thing is that it was a very enjoyable experience, and I want to keep doing it more and more.
Naturally. "Consumer facing" = "more widely known" = "interesting to a bigger audience."
How I Taught the Senate To Hack
Offer to buy them coffee or lunch. Be honest, telling them you're working on a system to get THEM more work, but you'd like to leverage their expertise in order to make it the best system possible. If you have a recommendation from a friend or family (ie. a roofer who fixed your neighbor's roof) mention how they were recommended because they did such a great job. Reiterate that you're just looking for feedback and information, not a sale. Offer to meet them near their office or at a worksite to make it as easy as possible for them. Try to focus first on services that are hitting their low-point of seasonality (ie. painters are busier in the summer, so try to contact them in the winter when they have the time to talk).

Like any good salesperson, you'll need to know how to talk your way from a no to a yes when talking with them.

Then focus on finding out what each of your service providers needs to know about their potential customer for them to find your service useful. For example, some electricians will only want to do (or be qualified for) general wiring/socket replacement/etc, whereas others will be licensed to hook a solar panel into the electricity grid. Some pest controllers do termite work only, others do everything under the sun. Etc.

Also, keep in mind that you'll need to weigh the amount of data you get from customers against the amount of information the service providers will want (the service providers will always want more information).

I just finished up a contract with a company in Australia which sounds like it has nearly the exact same business model (quotify.com.au). Let me know if you want to chat further about this.
You're trying to dilute Flash into a few "kinda necessary" features.

* The kind of 3D coming from Flash Player 11 makes WebGL look bad.
* Audio API?
* How about recording via webcam (kinda important to YouTube).
* Not sure how HTML5 stacks up against Flash in terms of handling advertising
(also important to YouTube), but I think Flash wins here.
* Flex, Adobe AIR?

Oh yeah, technology also evolves.

As much as I love the concept of open web technologies, a revolving truth has become painfully clear: What you might be able to do in HTML5 tomorrow, you can do in Flash today.
That's a five-page explanation, each by a different author with a unique level of skill. And taken together, a better explanation than five pages written by the one author of median skill. However even more efficient is reading the two best pages, which IMO are

http://hep.physics.utoronto.ca/BerndStelzer/higgs/higgs3.htm...
and
http://hep.physics.utoronto.ca/BerndStelzer/higgs/higgs5.htm...
What editor do you use on your linux box?
You could purchase a template from Themeforest http://themeforest.net/
8% might not "own" us, but its enough to "pwn" us.

Here's some nice commentary about the reality of the debt limit: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2011/06/22/602761/the-imposs...

Many point out that, even if the government "shuts down", we have enough to pay the interest on all our debt, so we don't have to worry about default. But that completely ignores maturing treasury bills. In order for us not to be up shit creek, we need China, Japan, Wall Street, HK to rollover these bonds (i.e use the money we owe on them to buy more).

Most of this debt is short term (less than two years). What happens to our economy if China decides not to rollover $1T over that time? Or starts selling it? If it doesn't end with everyone else throwing in the towel, it will at least end with huge interest rates. The only thing stopping the US becoming 1930's Germany is the Chinese. It's nice that we have all the other requirements in place: Father^H^H^H^Hhomeland Security, Christian Fundamentalists, huge military, secret police, massive jails.
Thankfully, I'm dumb enough to keep trying.

Thanks for the input.
> If we stopped onanastically solving the non-existent problems of poor white techy twenty-somethings and started producing actual value, nobody would say word one about prices.

I spent a few minutes trying to figure out what onanastically means. I was pleasantly surprised to learn it means "in a masturbatory manner", though I think it is spelled onanistically.
If your goal in speaking is to communicate something to the listener, then it's helpful to use terms in ways that will make sense to the listener.

How is that wrong?
i should have mentioned. Our UI is GWT and not sure if custom template would work.
The GPL doesn't even mean much for SaaS. The AGPL is the license that best fits in with the FSF ideals in that scenario.
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"And you would not argue that IE6 was better than Firefox 1.0, I am sure. Microsoft had waaaay more resources than Mozilla then too. That is not indicative of failure."

At the time, Microsoft was not providing shit for resources to the IE team (by that time they had already creamed netscape), so really that's just another example of how insufficient resources will starve a browser project.
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To me, there's a distinctive difference between adding a non-audible watermark to a audio file vs. watermarking text with text. I can listen to purchased iTunes music all day long and never even be aware of the watermarking existing, but I can't look at a single page of my [one and only] Packt Publishing ebook without their giant logo, my name, date of purchase and my address being displayed in the footer.

If they wanted to watermark my info into the file to prevent file sharing, that's fine. Printed on every page? Obnoxious. It's another case of legitimate purchases having a disincentive that piracy doesn't. I bought the book, I know I bought the book, I don't need to be reminded 272 times in the process of consuming it.
end-consumers.
Unless the title of the article has changed, there's some editorialising going on in the headline here of a type that is usually frowned upon on HN. And the result is, in a sense, completely absurd.

Most people have no idea what the word hacker means to us.
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Fat Free CRM (http://www.fatfreecrm.com/) is a pretty nice self-hosted, RoR, option. There's an iOS app for it called Senbei, off the top of my head, although it is a little limited.
Hmm,

The two biggest treasury bond holder are agencies of the government. Which essentially is money that's been printed rather than debt.

The third largest holder of the debt is China. China plus Japan have more than US house holds.

The banks, mutual funds, etc. could themselves be owned by anyone, so I don't those figures saying much.

So, as far as I can, the figures seem to say foreigners own a huge amount of US debt. Of course, this "bonds in America", not "stock in America" so they don't have any option to remove the "board of directors". Still, given how the current management is doing, I almost they could.
Isn't this the same as http://totally.awe.sm/?
Burglarized Silent Barn needs help (Arcade, Theater, Music Venue, more))
I think if anyone figures out a general solution to that one they'll probably have solved a much more important issue than corporate cultural dynamics; they'll have solved government.

The dynamics of risk change with the size of the entity involved. For example, in a small startup, losing a hard drive could mean the end of months of work - could kill the company. Or since everyone makes backups / uses hosted services these days ( right? ;) ), maybe a better analogy would be an employee being lost to sickness for months.

In a 100+ person company a broken hard drive should never be anything more than annoying, losing an employee is going to be unfortunate and might even significantly delay a product/feature; but it won't be the end of the business.

There's a raft of interpersonal dynamics which change too; the larger the company the less likely you are to be pally with everyone. Simple factor of surface area - you can't cover them all. So relationships become more formal. As spheres of responsibility begin to form, people develop moats around those responsibilities for better "separation of concerns".

At some point I suppose stuff starts to slip between those self-defined spheres, especially as people move in and out of roles, subtly redefining them each time.
Making sure you're not being negligent (or seen to be negligent) in a multi-million dollar company is kind of a big deal if you expect to work somewhere else in future (and especially if you intend to keep working at that company).
There are two contributions to the load factor: number of processes/threads on the ready-to-run queue and the number blocked on I/O. The processes blocked on I/O show up in the "D" state in ps and top and also contribute to this number.

This article entirely ignores the number of processes blocked on I/O. A load average exceeding the number of CPUs (cores, whatever) does not automatically mean the CPUs are overloaded.
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For those fellow readers with a distaste for obfuscated links:
http://www.businessinsider.com/government-tax-receipts-by-so...
Attractive layout, simple 1 click twitter login, easy to choose categories and follow people. Well done.
You better save some up for when we raise the next round! :)
The black-on-grey is hard to read for me, especially at default zoom. I'm bumped up 4 steps (just checked) which gives a bolder text.

Garrett Hardin (the Lifeboat Ethics / Tragedy of the Commons guy) actually had several of his books published with a deep brown ink on cream-colored paper, for maximum readability (c.f. _Stalking the Wild Taboo_ referenced here: http://books.google.com/books?id=jT-pl1LQTIIC&lpg=PA101&... ) Note that that particular reviewer didn't care for the effect.

HN _does_ have a simple layout that's highly amenable to resizing, to its credit.
I replaced the head unit in my car with this: http://www.amazon.com/Sony-DSXS100-Digital-Media-Receiver/dp...

Works very beautifully.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_surgery
GPL was chosen in this case as it was the best way for us to maintain control and fund this as a startup. That final pledge tier wouldn't exist otherwise. As we're trying to do this without large amounts of financial backing it would be difficult to ensure that development stayed open otherwise.
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Finally someone who's going to port VIM! to the browser ...right? Right? RIGHT? :(
Vim, but there's no reason to start that discussion here. ;-)
Didn't Bespin already do this?
Browser trends from a fairly-well-trafficked site, this month: 31% IE8, 18% Firefox, 16% Safari, 11% Chrome, 11% IE7, 10% IE9, 3% Other (IE6, mostly).

IE8 has dropped 12% share in a year. Firefox has dropped 2% in a year. Safari has climbed 12% in a year (iPad and iPhone usage). Chrome has climbed 6% in a year. IE7 has dropped 7%. IE9 obviously has climbed 10% share.

That's 55% of audience that has an HTML5-capable browser. Enough for us to put in CSS3 tweaks, selectors, etc., but not enough to abandon the metric ton of legacy Javascript and div soup that we have. At its current rate, IE8 is going to be around for a long, long, long time, much like IE6 was.
I had heard that the load averages were the size of the scheduler's ready queue. If that is correct, wouldn't a load of more than 1.00 on a multi processor machine still be bad, since processes are ready to fire but are waiting for the next jiffy?
John is one of the most on to it people i've ever met.
He arrived in NZ after a delayed, long flight from the US and went from the airport to a presentation (to over 400 people) without fault.

He'd already adjusted his sleep patterns to match NZ time.

Awesome dude.
You're allowed to found a company in the US - just not work for it nor be paid by it. The B1 is a 3-6 month visa, most people just use the visa waiver program.
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Series of photos of the interiors of refrigerators in homes across the US
Quibbles...

A good portion of titles are cut-off.

As has been pointed out, it's doubtful the US treasury itself counts as being in the same category as US house-holds (the US treasury prints the money it uses to buy US debt, that's hold money gets printed).
What about making a custom device in a garage and selling them over the Internet?
Animated images win an instant ad-block from me.

Regarding headlines, Jakob Nielsen addresses this too: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/headlines-bbc.html

Traditional print headlines fare poorly in Web form.

There's been a fair amount written as to how HuffPo writes web search/link/click-bait articles and headlines as well.
I don't know about the 70s, but one of my (female) professors worked on the code that took Apollo into space in the 60s.
Ask HN: Should I form a new company, or sell a new product under the old?
My company is developing a new product. We are trying to decide if we should sell it under the existing company directly or form a new company to sell it under. The two products are similar, but cater to vastly different markets.

What kinds of things do we need to consider to make an informed decision either way?
Very neat idea and implementation. I can definitely see this application making money if you release a paid version.
I don't know if the writer of this article is ignorant or cynical (leaning towards the latter), but spinning section 18 as fair takes a healthy dose of one or both. Section 18, at its root, is another attempt to invalidate a handful of patents owned by DataTreasury because their existence is expensive for a few financial institutions.

"Patent reform," in this case, means "pay us^H^H^H^H^H^Hdonate a lot of money and we'll pass a special law to try and invalidate an inconvenient patent."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DataTreasury#Ballard_patents

Note: I'm not arguing one way or another about the validity of these patents. Even if they're invalid, passing a law specifically targeting them and claiming that it's somehow a fair attempt at patent reform is insanity.
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Using the actual Wikipedia search involves an extra step where I google for "wikipedia". I can skip this step if I just google for the thing I want directly on Google.

I think that says more about how good Google is than how bad Wikipedia is (although I do agree that the Wikipedia results page needs work).
Not that we can tell. At a minimum, this is free and super simple to use. We asked around for a solution, and no one we knew had a good answer. This does one thing really well
Why Canvas for rendering text? Makes very little sense, DOM hardware render support is better on many platforms right now.
I wonder what your theory is on how these "anti-Firefox fanbois" are created?

I used to be a "Pro-Firefox fanboi", had the apparel and everything. Now I no longer use it and on occasion like to publicly comment about my new dislike of it.

Since the facts are apparently not on my side, what is going on here?
Glad they have the option for the gift code. Will be giving that away in my next issue of Hacker Newsletter.
"Most of them aren't interested in developing, but in functional analysis and leading teams."

That was the impression I had of SEs in general during my undergrad. The CS kids wanted to be developers. The SE kids wanted to be managers.
Notch already dropped $2K even and is sitting at #2 right now, "@witnessgame"(who I'm guessing is Jonathan Blow) beat him with $2,718.28
> Tiger Joyce is president of the American Tort Reform Association, based in Washington, D.C.

It's not journalism at all, it's an op-ed piece.
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Here's a more thorough treatment (with maths and all):

http://www.teamquest.com/pdfs/whitepaper/ldavg1.pdf

http://www.teamquest.com/pdfs/whitepaper/ldavg2.pdf
Ask HN: List deduplicator w/fuzzy matching?
Hi. I have a spreadsheet with semi-duplicate entries that I want to merge (like merging Google Contacts, for example).

Input:

-- Robert Smith, 123 Main St., New York, NY, $foo

-- Bob Smith, 123 Main Street, NY, NY, $bar

Output:

-- Robert Smith, 123 Main Street, New York, NY, $foo, $bar

Googling, I see all sorts of various Windows-only list-management software that you can buy, or companies that will become my list cleanup provider for a couple thousand dollars, etc. This is for a one-shot merging. Is there any free/open-source software I can use? Or a web service that I can pay $9.95 to and upload my list, download a cleaned/merged version, something like that? I don't even mind making the final decisions about what is and isn't a duplicate entry - software doesn't have to be brilliant, just vaguely smart.
Well put. I often make this argument. Just imagine all the hormones and processes that must happen outside the head just to keep you sane or at the very least conscious and remotely functional.

The brain upload hypothesis seems a bit naive. I could see a synthetic body hypothesis. Imagine if we could reproduce all these organs via some method and move the brain or the head to a new host. But turning this stuff into software? Very implausible

Longevity research is probably the way to go. I imagine that's the first baby step in creating synthetic hosts anyway.
For me, the biggest problem I have trying to use HTML5/Javascript/CSS for a game is sound.

I can't get background music and sound effects working simultaneously under iOS using just those standards.
10 year Treasury interest rate: 3%

interest on 40% of GDP: 1.2% of GDP

QED.
Yep, and they did it well!

Here is a demo if you are interested: http://ajaxorg.github.com/ace/build/editor.html

And here is the GIT repo:
https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace

Notice the last commit was only hours ago, so its still quite active

How will this be different?
Are you talking about the un-released version of WP7, Mango? Because as far as I know HTML5 support is missing from WP7 currently, with its IE7 mobile browser.

If you're going to compare the IE9 mobile browser, compare it with iOS 5.0 browser and Android 4.0 browser (also coming out this fall).
That is rather disingenuous. While the Fed can make decisions outside the purview of the government, its power is derived from Congress, and its governors are appointed by the President and confirmed by Congress. It's certainly not an entirely private organization.
You mention black-on-grey. Are you referring to HN or my site, www.filterjoe.com? My site is close to the color of a faded paperback novel, a yellow/beige. HN looks halfway between beige and grey on my monitor - so I'm guessing you're referring to HN. I've noticed that the higher the resolution is on a monitor, the easier it is to read lower contrast text.

I've noticed large color variance on different monitors. When I first started my site I went for very low contrast link color with no underlines (trying to reduce links as a source of distraction) but some people on some monitors couldn't see the links at all. So I put back in the underlines.
I enjoyed your reply! I wish I could even begin to define a clear position on issues much simpler than the value of a human mind. I'm fairly Platonist even beyond math, so to me any mind is ultimately a more or less gifted spectator, and hence dispensable. That said, I would gladly agree to extend this modest mind's life span indefinitely.

On the other hand, I have my serious doubts about the psychological resilience of human beings under indefinite life extension, even if carried out flawlessly (big if). I would gladly pay a chunk, more than on anything of this kind, to travel in time and see how this would play out.