skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Groupon is far too big now to "quickly pivot". Changing their strategy would also be a huge admission of failure at this point.
I just rsync the important stuff to an external USB drive. Most of my important code is stored in an off-site github or google code repository anyway.
Here is an exam paper from a Scottish Advaned Higher school exam:

http://www.sqa.org.uk/pastpapers/papers/papers/2010/AH_Compu...

I had a quick flick through it and for a school level course I actually thought the content looked pretty good!
Oh yeah! It was in the changelog. I forgot, since I'm no longer responsible for memorizing the changelog. ;)
this argument was already settled ages ago. why bring it up again, and give validation to the people that insist wasting time and bytes by bringing it up?
From the looks of the pictures in the article I was certain it was the Switchblade, but now looking back at the old pics on their site, I realized that it's not the same Switchblade I saw months ago. In the article they even named it "Switchblade User Interface". They said from the beginning that the Switchblade was a concept, so I'm just glad they are releasing it earlier than I though.
From the Google Checkout inbox. The 20% is just an eyeball estimate of errors/payment declined vs actual sales.
Jugado unos juegos de cocina multi-jugador en sus vidas
En cuanto al resto de los tipos de juego, que debería ser obvio para cualquiera que haya jugado unos juegos de cocina multi-jugador en sus vidas. Tambien hay robots incluido, por lo que no se aburrira en el camino.
Not ridiculous at all, although very predictable that this would be downvoted and controversial.

I didn't say "only" Tea Party folks or fundies, so I'd appreciate not being misquoted. I also didn't say anything about "understanding" the scientific method. I think a lot of those folks understand it quite well; they just choose to cynically lie about it for political reasons, which is the crucial difference here.

You bringing up Muslims or welfare moms says all we need to know about your particular attitudes. It's really not my fault if you have a problem acknowledging the factual reality here. The facts are, the Tea Party is actively hostile to science, the scientific method, and scientific conclusions in general. This isn't my opinion, it's not controversial, and it involves no tricky judgment calls. It's a fact.
The bug was that a GET request was causing an update, which shouldn't happen because then you end up updating your settings just by clicking on a link, usually inadvertently.
20% sounds about right based on my experience.
Excellent. Thanks!

Any in particular that you think are sensible defaults? I looked at that plugin page earlier and it seemed like a lot to read. What are the core 3--5 plugins that anyone writing a blog should be using?
I'm sure this is serious. Without the Xbox Live Gold upgrade the best features are not avail.
"CPU... GPU..." who cares? The laptop is composed of a shell, battery, keyboard and the most importantly - the LCD. Nowhere in your post you mentioned the quality of those 4 critical difference-making components. Comparing computers based on irrelevant commodity (chips) is like comparing automobiles by how many wheels they have.
Possibly, but it's not really relevant.
I think you're being a perfectionist. But I can empathise. If a design is not inspiring you, it is difficult to conjure up the mental effort to code it into a reality.

Having said that, you are iterating too much. 20 times for one page is way too much. And then redesigning from scratch again. Better to have a half decent looking product completed than a beautiful one half complete.
You're correct, thank you.
How to get rid of duplicate contacts problem on Blackberry.
Make it work REALLY well... It only has to look ok. And I don't mean that the UX is broken, but that the UI can lack polish.

This is what CL looked like when I launched it:
http://web.archive.org/web/20050105024335/http://www.colourl...

The most relevant quote to this is the one about if you're not embarrassed by what you release, you waited too long.
I believe that political biases are blinding you to the even distribution of cognitive dissonance--no one political party has a monopoly.

Conservative:
"There's no way I'm going to trust those idiots in washington with my healthcare"
"I do, however, trust those idiots in washington to fight endless wars, and keep the streets free of the evils of Marijuana"

Liberal:
"I don't trust those idiots in Washington. They lied to all of us, so that we would support an unjust war."
"I do, however, trust those idiots in Washington to run our healthcare and education"

People on both sides will continue to make decisions without using past experience to attempt to determine the outcome.
> I have a few friends who did this. They were barely able to get WoW to run at the lowest settings on their MacBooks.

Were they just doing that as a test? Because there's a Mac version of WoW...
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There are other costs involved besides commodity components. Developing and producing a new input method costs more than the cost of the components.
CrashPlan to one of my local boxes (free) and to their online service (small monthly fee). Runs in the background; restores smoothly; less resource intensive than Time Machine. Also, run Carbon Copy Cloner periodically to mirror my main drive, which I can boot directly from when needed.
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Tiki-Toki looks cool. If you want any feedback or advice feel free to shoot me an email darius@colourlovers.com

And yes, passionate & engaged users are pretty important :)
I'm probably a little crazy in a bad way too :)
Completely unintuitive: The Cantor Function
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Steve Jobs' is a Tuning Fork. (just a lucid blog post)
You're a bit off about CD's. They weren't popular yet, but they did exist. They first went on sale in the US in 1983, and 4% of albums sold in 1985 were on CD.

For portable music in 1985, there were also cassette tapes.
Is Iceland the future of politics?
If project is written in Ruby, take a look at Engine Yard and Heroku (it also supports node.js, Clojure and Java).
Haha whos says that google isn't doing this either?
you'd be surprised at how close to reality that idea is
You can't in a single case, but over time and many cases, pattern of discrimination can be suggest via statistical methods. This is how covert racial discrimination cases are tried.
Josen this is not really serious....
IBM Building worlds largest data array, 120PB
If you don't like it or it doesn't provide you with value you don't have to use it.
Damn Iceland is son beautyful. Politics destroys all.
Unfortunately most people who frequent that section tend to forget the second half of the quote.
A tip. Don't think too much about the design or the coding.

Instead, think about the product you're making. Make it the focus of your imagination and energy. Imagine it complete. Dwell on the people who will be using it. Dream of all the money that will be coming in.

I find, at least, that when your focus is on the product and completing it, you get less distracted by redesignitus. You are more willing to put up with minor design issues or slightly imperfect code because your primary goal is not to create an amazing design or do beautiful coding (though both are good) but to release a product.

I hope that makes sense!
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Sort them alphabetically as when one reddit dies, the URL won't work and you need to debug which reddit is at fault. If you sort them alphabetically you can easily do binary sorting.
I agree that they are too different to directly compare.

For me, the real $150 premium that makes the MacBook Pro justified is the fact that it runs OS X. For hardcore gamers, that's not really a plus. Also, the optical drive is a "meh" at best.
Not the largest.

I find it interesting that IBM doesn't get the whole 'you don't have to put it in a 1960's data center' mentality.

120PB is 120,000 TB drives, is 10,000 12 disk 'shelves', at NetAPP connectivity standards that's 120 filers, at Facebook's open compute standards that is 5,000 machines. Cut those in half with 2TB drives.

'course they don't say if that is 'delivered' storage or 'raw' storage, but sadly its not quite the engineering feat that it would have been 10 years ago.
You may be interested in the Implicit Association Test: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/

It comes with a disclaimer:

"Important disclaimer: In reporting to you results of any IAT that you take, we will mention possible interpretations that have a basis in research [...] If you are unprepared to encounter interpretations that you might find objectionable, please do not proceed further. [...]

I am aware of the possibility of encountering interpretations of my IAT performance with which I may not agree. Knowing this, I wish to proceed. [Click]"
This wasn't an argument on whether a Tea Party backed political party would be detrimental to science in general. Your assertion was that we should control for Tea Party members in a particular scientific study.

If what you say is true
--That a certain subset of the population, that you find undesirable, will negatively impact the results of the study
--Then, I will point out another subset of the population who, given you're apparent political leanings you won't find undesirable, that will impact the study in the same way.

I did this so that hopefully you would see the problem with arbitrarily deciding to exclude a group of people who you disagree with from consideration.

Btw I'm certainly not a conservative. I would also ask you to read my response to the comment below.
Gamers care. The Macbook Air got away with not having normal things inside it because everyone knew it was for looks alone. This thing is being marketed as a gaming rig, which necessarily means you have to care about what's inside.
It's all public on the MLVM list. Unfortunately there's only a handful of dynlangs actively hitting this stuff. Would love to see more Clojure folks get involved.
This article helps one to picture the thing. I recommend reading it if you didn't understand the mountain/flat bowl of stuff.
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... and the Greys killed Kennedy because under his presidency mankind would finally unite and get to the stars. The Greys had to stop this at all costs - they wanted to trap mankind on Earth.

This drivel was posted here a while ago and, oddly enough, it ended up being killed. I have a radical theory as to why: it's off topic.

Take your conspiracy theories elsewhere, or be prepared to offer proof. Preferably while not wearing your tinfoil hat.
$100/hr for salary and benefits? Maybe a half that...
We reviewed a bunch of these and finally settled on Amazon's Simple Payments Subscription service. Easy to integrate and decent rates: https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business/asp/subscript...
JailBreakMe Developer Nabs Apple Internship
This is one reason I never explored it. There has been some research into "gradually typing" dynamic-typed systems, and it gets hairy pretty quick.

In any case, I know JRuby's not going to be able to get boxed math as fast as primitive math, and that's ok. We'll just make it easy to use languages that can do fast math, and make method invocation against normal objects as fast as possible to compensate.
Ask HN: Which open-source Ruby project to take part in?
I think I know Ruby well enough. Recently, I was thinking about joining to some open-source project to become better as a developer. So now I have to choose which Ruby project to join. Rails is great but I think it's hard enough inside.

Maybe you can suggest me some interesting projects I can contribute? This project shouldn't be a web framework or a web app though. Just some cool command-line app or gem will be fine. Any ideas?
Or "Babelization"
How Chilean-born Arcaris is bringing gamification to call centers
This is supposed to be an introductory tutorial on Backbone. That should not be a concern. Second, the author makes the claim that Backbone is an MVC and makes things simpler and yet violates that. His way you literally have to go through the view, the collection, the model, a trigger, and back to the view to select a new image. WTF?
A “Special” Emergency Loan for Greece
You'd also have to have a liquid options market, and counterparties you can trust to complete the trade when you exercise an option.
Do More, Own Less: A Grand Theory of the Sharing Economy
I have just ONE thing to say: Do not change anything Reddit.

Seriously, it's working, it's great to have, and I would be completely bummed if they pulled their own "Digg v4" at broke a perfectly working system.

Sure, infrastructure can get better, or maybe small improvements as you see happen on HN like with voting, points, etc, but otherwise, just let it ride.
I think what's missing in the formatting is the dimension of "time" - I noted this on the article comments as well.

I'd love to see an animation that reflects the visual attention of multi-user studies across time span.

Throw out the noise, give an "average" of how and when users see each page element and then you're solving not only for the "where" but also the "when".

That's a crucial piece of data in trying to solve for user abandons, etc.
We've been using dotcloud (https://www.dotcloud.com/) and are quite happy with the results in testing. Haven't gone to production yet though so we'll see how they pan out in the long run.
Perpetuates the myth that mattresses carry the statement "Do not remove this label." , when in fact they carry a statement more like "Not to be removed except by consumer." Free yourselves; discard your labels.
TED Talks: Kevin Slavin - how algorithms shape our world
> The thesis referenced above argues (and provides examples) that you cannot overcome important problems by separating transformations. You need to combine them.

The transformations need to be applied together, but they can be specified together. One of the many impressive things in that thesis is the framework which lets optimizations be independently specified, but applied together. Unfortunately, the code does not seem to be available.

For a more recent system that echoes that particular aspect and does come with code there is Hoopl
http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/pubs/dfopt-abstract.html

It's on hackage
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hoopl
Did you put much effort/research into choosing your keywords?
Android users are paying, I can attest to that as well. Mind sharing about how high you rank on iOS?

Also, I just went to download BridgeBasher. Your game wants crazy permissions. Why should a game have to update my SD card contents, need my location, AND have access to device calls and identity?
why is he dressed like norman bates mother?
Haven't you heard of the Silk Road? ;P
> or maybe small improvements as you see happen on HN like with voting, points, etc,

Hey, that reminds me. I use HN every day, but I still don't have an handle on when the arrows appear and don't and when I can edit and can't.

Is there some page somewhere that actually outlines the rules, or do I have to read the code?
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Seems as though that person has tried a lot of different heroku setups... also got playframework running https://github.com/lstoll/heroku-playframework
Much of this (the use of scores of adjacent stories to suggest anomalies) can be explained by the karma system. It seems like the author doesn't realize that points are weighted by the user's karma.
I can't decide if you genuinely view this as a "major problem" or if you're making a wry commentary on the current state of education in some places?

That is, I would argue that you should have to pass prerequisite modules before moving forward. Right?
What do you use in regular development? What itch needs scratching? Best to help out on something where you're a user and feel motivated to improve things.

Also, pretty much every project needs help with documentation, especially Ruby itself. One way to improve your Ruby-fu is to read the Ruby source code and write (or add to) the documentation. (This is more needed for the standard library than the core stuff.)

Warning: Not a single person on the planet thinks this is sexy. However, better docs will help make everyone using Ruby better at it; think of as lever that can move the world.
Would you mind disclosing your sales for the past week? What did you do (without pushing an update) that made it shoot up so much?

http://www.appannie.com/bridgebasher/ranking/history/#view=g...
I must remind you this site is called "hacker news".
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Sigh, I should have simply copy&pasted the "Ask a Physicist" from the title. And I actually know the difference between physician and physicist (when I consciously think about it), but when not careful I do sometimes mix them up.
Looking you up on the Market, you have 5k+ downloads. Your competitor, X Construction has 100k+ downloads for the paid version and 5m+ for the free version. So that's roughly a 2% conversion rate. If you released a paid version instead and got 2% of the downloads, you'd have $100 instead of $10. Still not near the iPhone version, but I'll guess you didn't have an entrenched competitor when you started on iPhone.

(Give or take a little inaccuracy as I'm just using the lowest possible figures from what Android Market gives me)

Also, if I search Bridge Builder, (which is pretty much the name of the genre) their app shows up and not yours, which may hurt your visibility. Maybe try fit that into your description somewhere?
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My homedir sits on a fast RAID-backed NAS which is backed up nightly. All the programs I use are installed in ~/opt on this homedir, and all my window manager settings, program settings, etc are also in my homedir. If my local drive fails, I can reinstall OpenSUSE, set up NIS to pull my user from the yp server, set up autofs to grab my homedir and other remote mounts, and have my entire dev environment all set up in under an hour.

The price to pay for this is that booting and local file access is, on average, an order of magnitude slower than with an SSD. Even over gigabit ethernet the latencies are killer. This is not generally a problem once things are set up, though; my code is on the RAID anyway so the only additional latency is when some config file falls out of the cache and has to be reread.

(Remember, though: RAID Is Not Backup. My homedir is backed up nightly and snapshotted hourly.)
I would suggest Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Bishop.
god, thats a sexy idea. but then again im the kinda person who choses laptops based on what their keyboard looks like. (ifi could get macbook pro style, with ubuntu, for not quite macbook prices, life would be good.) and by macbbok style, i mean yes, metal case, sexy keyboard, and awesome track pad features go a long way with me. and I dont think im too much of an outlier when it comes to asthetics. the pc world needs more innovation in this direction, and even if razor doesnt hit exactly the bullseye, its not giving up without a fight.
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Some more resources about virtual machines and a little TinyVM overview: http://himmele.blogspot.com/2011/08/virtual-machines.html
Prediction: Facebook Will Enter the Search Market Next Year
You beat me to revealing the Kennedy truth to the masses. Good to know I'm not the only one who knows the real story. :)
Q&A for Linux and open source softwares
I have another app, SimplePhysics, which is a far better app, and I made it free last week. I have a notification in it that says: "If you like SimplePhysics, then you should check out my other game, BridgeBasher!" and redirects them to the download page for BB. Since SP is free, it's getting around 80k-100k downloads per day, and really driving sales for BB.
I haven't had an average education, but even other, much lower, poorer schools in my area still did IT early. Microsoft Research is in Cambridge, I'd say more but I'm annoyed at Schmidt for clearly not looking at it. I've never seen a BBC Micro, but I've seen all sorts of people, even ones who are sure their success is somewhere else, be engaged by IT (if only to get round the filters, which still counts).
All that seems like a big hassle. Why not just put the files that you are most concerned about on an encrypted USB stick?
You have to read the code. What do you think this is, Reddit? ;-)

(with tongue firmly in cheek, etc. etc.)
An XMPP server with Node.js
I keep waiting to get the ability to downvote. Every 50 karma I get I think, "maybe I can downvote now", but it never happens.
The orders show up as "Payment Declined" in the order inbox, or "Cancelled by Google".

If a customer just refunds, then the order just says "Cancelled" and the details of the order say that the card was successfully authorized.

It's those people that WANT to give you their money but get stopped because of a Payment Decline or Google Cancel that are ridiculous.
MobClix has big promises as to eCPM, but in the past month, AdMob has been KILLING my MobClix performance. I have AdMob AND MobClix in place, and recently dialed it to send 80% of my impressions to AdMob because of >$1 eCPM from AdMob.

Also, be sure you HAVE a paid version with no ads available to buy -- and don't forget to cross promote it using house ads. I have about a 1.4% conversion rate to paid (at $2), which accounts for more income than the free version so far.

Granted I'm still not getting rich on my Android version, but I'm trying to get a publisher for it (ONE clause left in the contract still to iron out), which should help a lot.
(Sarcasm noted :-) For the uninitiated, this was around the time comment scores were hidden. Only PG knows whether this had any real effect on traffic; and even if so, whether that's a good or bad thing is subjective (less poor quality traffic / comments is good, and since HN is not directly commercial, lower traffic is not necessarily a bad thing).

Loss of value to everyone else from lack of comment scores is another question entirely...
You need to define your interpretation of "cloud host". It varies a lot. Are you looking for a virtual machine host with a decent API? Or are you looking for someone to manage the stack of your software? In which case, what is your stack?
(If this photo is genuine...) It's a very surprising photo because Steve didn't look anywhere near this bad just 2.5 months ago during his keynote at WWDC on June 6th.

Here is a screen grab: http://cl.ly/0G140D1Q2h3x0o1x411h/o

(You can see the full video at http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/11piubpwiqubf06/event/, needs Safari)

Looking back on it, you can see that Jobs appeared wearing two tshirts, make up and even perhaps slight shoulder padding in his clothes.

But if this photo is genuine, his condition has certainly deteriorated in the last 2.5 months.

Very sad.
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HTML5 is just HTML, and unless that fundamentally changes, it should work "forever."

That is, if you don't use the bunch of temporary CSS properties browser vendors are supporting (-moz-, -khtml-, -ms-, -o-, etc) that people often assume to be "ready" but that will be deprecated in the future.
I did the current UI design and some of the implementation. Thanks.