skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Hitting numbers of subscribers is only one piece of a solution. Over the period of time the paywall has been in effect, uniques and pageviews have declined"

But does that actually matter? If they're making more money from the subscribers, and figures are high enough, why care about pageviews?
Thanks! It was just a fun little idea I implemented when I should have been doing real work. :)
Not a lawyer, but I didn't think non-competes were valid in California

http://law.onecle.com/california/business/16600.html

There do appear to be exceptions though. Can't speak to non-disclosure agreements.
I'm assuming you create a unique short url for each Twitter user. So retweets will be credited to the original tweeter. Is that correct ?
Maybe they only tweaked the free?
"Fair-minded Americans agree that intellectual property rights must be enforced if the nation’s unique brand of entrepreneurial capitalism is to thrive in an increasingly competitive 21st century."

Stating that your opinion is that of "fair-minded americans", now that's what I call objective journalism.
So what reasons are there to use flash over HTML5, I ask myself and the HN crowd?

-Video. (Mwoah, only non-WebM video, can't really count this one)
-Webcam
(thanks garethsprice)
-Simultaneous sounds (thanks AndyJPartridge)
-Cross-browser support (browsers interpreting HTML5 differently)
-???

Non competitive advantages:

-Games (see Angry Birds)
-3D hardware acceleration (both have the same security issues exposing shaders)

Competitive advantages HTML5 over flash:

-2D Hardware acceleration
-Open
-Cross-browser support (flash has it's update/versioning problems)
Sean Carroll did it in 420 characters:

http://twitter.com/#!/seanmcarroll/status/68741225250963456

http://twitter.com/#!/seanmcarroll/status/68741443379920896

http://twitter.com/#!/seanmcarroll/status/68741774100799488

(Background: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2011/05/13/...)
Here is the code from the first test.[0] It increments a variable and prints a message if their is an inconsistency. I left it running till it reached 1,351,773,471 and didn't come up with any inconsistencies.

I then modified the test[1] to look for inconsistencies where they were most likely to be found, ie ±1 of 2n. I reached n being 1024 before python complained about a 'Result too large'.

[0] http://paste.pound-python.org/show/10067/

[1] http://paste.pound-python.org/show/10068/

Edit: just reread about the 1 in 2 billion chance, I'll leave the first test running longer to make sure.
Twitter's "commons" library also features a very good stat package. Presumably used by their own services. It's designed for the JVM, so should work with any JVM language.
See http://twitter.github.com/commons/

Have used it successfully implementing stats/metrics in Beaconpush, a real-time user presence server (http://beaconpush.com).
It looks really nice, but it didn't render properly in Opera with zoom.
Just made some changes to line height that moved most of the way in the direction you suggested. You're right - it looks better. Thanks!
Gaza, who's GDP places them in the twentieth percentile, has a life expectancy more similar to countries in the fiftieth percentile. Claims of Israeli prosecution are greatly and often exaggerated by Chomsky amongst others.

Indeed the Palestinians have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity to find peace with Israel. Notice that in this attempt, they are asking for statehood without mentioning their willingness to end the government funded (and thus foreign aid funded) indoctrination of children into hatred, both in Gaza and the West Bank. This attempt to unilaterally declare statehood is a negotiation tactic--to not negotiate.

What's the next step? If this passes and Hamas still does not revise their charter, calling for the "obliteration of Israel", what will Israel be able to negotiate with in exchange for peace? Tel Aviv? All of Jerusalem?

And this doesn't take into account the absolutely ridiculous notion of any country exchanging tangible land for an intangible promise of a cessation of terrorism.

The fact that so many countries support this initiative paints a bleak picture about the world's willingness to sell out a country in exchange for favor in the eyes of the resource abundant Middle Eastern nations.
When I see a headline like this, I just think "bubble". How can that raise 2.5 bar?
As team leader, I appreciate honesty more than how someone sees their self. It takes a stronger person to be honest that they are in danger of missing a deadline. Resources and priorities can be shifted. Teams can adapt, and I'm sure that the product owner would like to know earlier rather than later that the deadline may be missed.
From the help chat on the Grom site: "Unfortunately for your year Maxima we don't have a compatible adapter." (2002 SE with 6-cd in-dash).
remembering the worst thing they can do is say no is helpful when I'm in a similar situation.
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These guys rock, they always do a great job on the pitch video too and this one might be their best.
Good luck! If you don't like where you land - it'll be ridiculously easy to find somewhere you will.
I followed the links in the credits to the two designers who made this site (http://richard.gazdik.name/ and http://www.kirowski.com)... to my surprise, both sites were using tiny low-contrast text. Huh.
> These installation issues will go away as quickly as someone puts a PKGBUILD in AUR. :D

I'm on my way

EDIT: it will take a while - ldd crayon / ldd launcher has a lot to say, there is no official icon and it is getting late here.
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If you have too many customers for the time available, why not increase the price?

:)
On Ubuntu, I also had to install mikmod.
I urge you not to plan on such a hot market for software developers forever. Anyone who was around when the first wave of dot-coms laid everyone off around 2001 knows how quickly and severely the well can run dry.
Your answer to the "why don't you write a book" question was as concise and cogent as can be imagined (a priceless summary of what can make the conventional trade a sucker game for authors) - that said, I can't help but see a book in your future at some point, even if someone has to hog-tie and torture you to give it up. Your public will demand it.
And medical education doesn't have to be structured that way at all. Medicine could be like engineering, where you start on day one of your undergrad and take 5-6 years in an average university setting, and 80 hour residency programs are just counter productive.
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I use Windows at work and Lion at home with the new scrolling. Have not run into any issues or annoyances yet, not sure what the big fuss is all about.
That is how medical school works in most countries.
I don't know about Europe, but in the US "Droid" refers, specifically, to an Android device offered by Verizon; and, it is an exclusively licensed trademark by them to use in this context by Lucas.
Thanks. Terreta mentioned the same thing about compressed line heights on lists so I just changed it. What do you think now?
Stuxnet Anniversary: A look ahead
FTA: "A positive outcome from the Stuxnet infection, Burnham said, was that the victims of cyberattacks realized the value in going public.
By doing so, they alerted others to their problems, and allowed systems administrators to patch vulnerabilities more quickly, blunting the effectiveness of future Stuxnet-like attacks."
In the leak file u will fine

Really?
No, I have a gmail account, but don't use it. I understand that it's not in Google's interest for me to "log out" (regardless of the service) and I think the location of the button reflects that.
"My point was that your accusations imply that Apple/Google/etc will, at some point in the future, go back and remove the Location API or Local Storage APIs or future Device APIs from their browsers..."

Throughout this entire discourse (and I'd challenge the claim that you've "tried to be nice", unless you just didn't try very hard) you've thrown out various accusations of what I think, then dismantled them- despite me having never suggesting anything of the sort in the first place.

Why on earth would I accuse Apple/Google of planning to remove HTML5 APIs? I genuinely have no idea why you are projecting these ideas. My point is that HTML5 could be a first-class citizen when it comes to app making. It is not. And the fault for that lies with the phone manufacturers. Therefore, in my mind, Apple does not have "massive support" for HTML5.

But hey, let's leave it here, while you're trying to be nice. I'm not sure I'm interested in finding out how condescending you'll be when you aren't.
Have any evidence that Firefox performance is "atrocious"? Firefox JavaScript is faster than any other browser except Chrome (and beats Chrome on some apps like JSLint), and it has GPU acceleration while Chrome does not.
I'd rather be a millionaire in singapore than a billionaire in china. Any wealthy person who stays in capital hostile places deserves what they get.
If you write the javascript code inside an anonymous function, outside code by the user can't interact with it.

However, the user can still use javascript to manipulate the dom, and hence the canvas (I think).
> I disagree with 0.7 being the starting point for investigation on extraneous load, but you should be more worried about changes in 1st or 2nd moments in the load (velocity and acceleration), which as analogy on the link, you don't care too much about steady traffic, it's when traffic starts bursting at the seams.

Caring about 0.7 load means you've got some capacity left if traffic does burst. You generally don't have warning, so having a healthy amount of CPU left available is generally good.
Yup. And suddenly, your moves involve strategic decisions, not just automated replies. And the game actually is interesting.
I think video will remain one of the last applications of Flash on the web, because there is no way to implement DRM in HTML5. What's interesting is that even the latest video chat applications by Facebook and Google do not use Flash but their own proprietary plugins (though Google aims to replace this by standard web technologies).

What other use cases are there for Flash (let's say in one year, when HTML5 capable browsers will be the default for everyone and their grandma)?
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Then the apps wouldn't be DRM free which for me is one of the selling points of the Humble Bundles.
Ask HN: Ok done with our website. But Look and feel is developerified.
We got done building our site but it has developer looks.
How to find a cheap way of improving the look and feel? What sites/designers have you guys looked at to improve the look. I know many people on hacker news suggest hire a professional, but where to hire a cheap and reliable professional?
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Ridiculous, stupid, idiotic: these words cut communication with people who have differing views. Difficult to believe you sat through 1500 pages (why?) and have only that comment to make. On the positive side, you've more dedication or is it stamina (?) than me.
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You might've already seen this, but if not, this is pretty interesting to see: http://success.heroku.com/

Click on the "Read Success Story" links for each app. It shows how many web dynos, worker dynos, and what add-ons and database are being used. Might also provide some information in the actual "story" regarding traffic and what not.
Check your disk stats, or memory. Most of the time when I've had high load averages, it's been because the disk system is swamped and there's a whole bunch of processes waiting on io.

For example, in the classic apache dos failure state, you wind up with enough apache processes that some of them are forced out of memory, and then you start swapping and fall over. What you'll see then is a really high load average and long page load times. Looking at something like vmstat 1 or top, or iotop you can see if it looks like memory, disk, or something else.

From your description, you probably have enough cpu resources to saturate something else. Maybe the DB server, maybe your memory. When that happens, your processes stack up and your load average rises. It looks like you don't have neough CPU, but that's probably not it.
It's a lot more complicated than that. Bayesian analysis alone is insufficient to produce accurate diagnoses, and even with more advanced clinical decision support tools you still need a human to carry out the observations. Physicians won't be generally replaced until we have strong AI (at which point everyone gets replaced).
I worked many years ago as a substitute teacher in Oakland, CA. During that time, there was interesting pattern. The vast majority of the older teachers were black and the vast majority of younger teacher were white. At a glance, this would seem strange given that discrimination was being actively attacked. But what was happening was more socially prestiges opportunities were opening for black college graduates and so few of them wanted to go into teaching, a field with less prestige than, say, law or business.

I suspect something different but with related qualities is going on with women and programming.

* Women now have more and more opportunities in a number of fields (I recall a statistic claiming the average income of a young woman college graduate in New York was higher than that of the average male college graduate).

* Programming has become a less desirable, less socially prestiges occupation.

* Programming became a more hobby-based occupation - the expectation is more that a programmer have been tinkering with computers forever and thus (as per the article).

* Programming became a more male-identified occupation through the media and through the hobby aspect.

* Age discrimination pushes the previous women programmers out of the field (and contributes to the field losing social prestige).
I hate to be that guy, but why use the GPL? Why not use MIT, which is popular in the Node.js community, or Apache 2, which is popular in the CouchDB community, or even a tri-license like the ACE Editor and many other Mozilla-related projects use?

GPL or not, I wish you luck in this project.
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That's probably because the game was never designed to be fun. It was designed to be a lesson that demonstrated the negative aspects of land monopolies, and that a land value tax was a good idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)#History
Who's got the time though?
> And still no one knows about it, because it was never explained in that article either.

It's explained in the linked article, so I think marco decided not to reiterate it once more.
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Unless we are talking about China using the debt for hostile purposes, in which case the independence of RoC and what it may be willing to do to stay independent, might be exactly what matters. Ditto HK. I assume everyone involved has plans to move their money if PRC attempts nationalization, but if its delivers instructions to "keep your money, just dont roll it over" or "dont roll it over and we'll cover any loses as the dollar ceases to exist" then some people will have some hard choices to make.
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We are thinking about support custom urls. Ex: you assign the subdomain a.your_domain.com to us, we use that in the tweets. Would you pay $2 / month for this?
Is the "U.S. Treasury" here the Federal Government, or the Federal Reserve?
What's interesting is this combined with housing-price protests... there are interesting times ahead for Israel:
http://972mag.com/breaking-protesters-block-streets-in-centr...
Actually I did not realize that. Thanks for that clarification.
Totally possible that when you get down and dirty with games they are not great, but from the perspective of a general web dev they are awesome and let you do any of the standard things you'd want to on the desktop side with ease (again, talking about regular web apps here, not games).
DRM will be obsolete, because there's no consumer demand for it.
That's just wrong :(.
Based on the handful of women I know who can program, there seems to be a few reasons why not many go into CS:
1) It seems they aren't exposed to it as much. They're less likely to read about it on the internet. Or learn about it from relatives. Or take classes in it.
2) The handful that I know who took programming in high school never (or barely) turned it into a hobby, even if they later declared CS as their major.

Meanwhile, I know tons of guys who got into programming by themselves, or because their parents did it. Also, all of the CS guys I know who took programming classes in high school did some outside of class for fun.

So, when some women become CS majors, they get intimidated. They see "everyone" outperforming them, since everyone is mostly guys with a pre-built set of skills. Even guys who are so-so at something quite frequently talk like they know stuff; that's just the way guys behave. This worsens the above impression. There's an actual culture difference. Can't stress the importance of this enough.

As a result, instead of thinking "These guys have years on me and I need to catch up and put lots of work in," many women think "I suck at this," and quit. Then next set has the same problem.

EDIT: removed a bit of unintentional italicizing
Nice! Cool way to see what my friends are thinking about everything.
From the HTML5 spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/video.html#video

User agents may allow users to view the video content in manners more suitable to the user (e.g. full-screen or in an independent resizable window). As for the other user interface features, controls to enable this should not interfere with the page's normal rendering unless the user agent is exposing a user interface. In such an independent context, however, user agents may make full user interfaces visible, with, e.g., play, pause, seeking, and volume controls, even if the controls attribute is absent.

User agents may allow video playback to affect system features that could interfere with the user's experience; for example, user agents could disable screensavers while video playback is in progress.

So basically, it's up to the user-agent. If you want it right now in Firefox, just right-click on the video and click "Full screen".
> I never really played a game of Monopoly where the person who landed somewhere didn't buy whatever they could.

True, but the rule would still come in handy. When my brother and I would play, he would buy everything he landed on - which meant by the second or third trip around the board, he wasn't able to afford the more expensive properties without mortgaging (which he never did). So if they had gone to auction, I could have taken them just by offering more than he had, or mortgaging my own properties.
sounds good but wish you had more live examples of how this can be implemented with examples of value and cost
Intel has included BSF and BSR (bit scan forward / reverse) since 386, which would presumably also give you the magnitude of the power of 2.
The entire attitude suggests a dysfunctional team environment. The author is creating a divide between him and those who report to him. All three points come across as complaining; complaining that it irritated him when someone on his team did not ask, debrief, or warn. My guess would be that the team lead is not an approachable person.

No where does he ask what he can do to help the team operate better.
I find this to be a silly discussion. Word have multiple meanings, words are confusing and ambiguous, people are confused and ambiguous. But somehow we muddle through, despite different people assigning different meanings to "hacker." I really just don't care about this.

Then again, I consider the meaning of "hacker" to include both the "amateur script kiddie" types AND people like Peter Norvig, Gerald Sussman, and Rob Pike. It's just a matter of degree and of focus, with context to provide illumination.
Cafes/coffeeshops/etc. downstairs, offices upstairs?
It is unclear by your comment whether you are aware that the Federal Reserve is a private organization, and is not part of the US government. Or, perhaps that is your point?
nice idea...(chat roulette - video)!
Sorry, when one part of a government "owes" another part money, the only meaning is political rather than economic.

As far "unfunded liabilities" liabilities go, that's another politically-motivated relabeling.

The US will spend more on military spending than social security next year, just as it did last year and intends to do ten years from now. But social security is called an "unfunded liability" and military isn't. Guess why?
There's tons of demand from consumers, if the consumers of your product happen to be movie studios.
That's because it's slang. How do you define a "jerk", "mensch", "momma's boy", or "hoopy frood"?
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35 years for copying some academic research papers that should be available to everyone for free in the first place. In the mean time the bankers that have collapsed the economy of the whole globe run free.
There's plenty of content-provider demand, though. :)
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They also originated a bunch of other words, like using foo as a metasyntactic variable.
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/TMRC.html
This brings back memories of me 15 years ago with the phone in one hand and Thomas Register in another, trying to drum up business.

Tons of calls, not a single sale. But the education was worth it. Be unfailingly polite, "smile" at the phone and never forget that the worst thing they can do is hang up on you.
One aspect of this phenomenon that I find amusing is how low the bar is set in terms of programming to qualify as a "hacker." e.g. "I hacked together this RoR site over the weekend" makes me think, "You used a popular, well documented website building framework for it's intended purpose... how exactly is this hacking?"

I'll argue that it is hacking, where "hacking" is largely about exploring the unknown and/or creating things that didn't exist before. Just because the tool your using is common, doesn't mean the result is. So depending on what the RoR site is (or maybe I should say, what it does) I think it's construction could justifiably be called hacking. But that's just me...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8002801113289007228

ftp://crisp.dyndns-server.com/pub/release/website/dtrace/
Cross-browser support. Getting much better, but HTML5 is still a pain to test/debug cross-browser (or, "in IE and in everything else", which is mostly what CBT comes down to)