skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't meant as a comment on you personally as I've never read your blog until this entry but IME a lot of people who blog every day would be served better by blogging every day (for the practice and journal-like ability to reflect) but only marking some subset of their blogs published publicly... preferably after at least half a day of cool down after writing it (unless they are blogging about some very hot news).

I can only read 2 or 3 blog posts from someone who is clearly just blogging for the sake of blogging without really having much to say before I start to tune them out.

I won't mention any names but there are a few that appear on HN regularly that when I find myself clicking through the link because the title sounds interesting I end up closing the window automatically without reading it after seeing it is from the guy who from my previous experience just blogs obvious stream of conscious stuff without any type of useful insight.
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perhaps if he'd offered to go with em's and to just roll with keeping the design of a page relative to the font size I could understand.

But the easiest way to understand why everyone still uses px, is because when you've got a design created beforehand it'd take an awful lot of work to make it exact using relative sizes.
Seen before:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1482784
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1586740
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Pixels are the best way to get consistent cross-browser font sizes:
http://css-tricks.com/2580-css-font-size/

Also, graphics are inherently bound to a fixed pixel size... so layouts often have to follow, if you don't want things getting out of whack at other pixel densities.
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Well said.

After four years of gearing up to go to medical school, I dropped that goal and went into software engineering. I wrote about this choice pretty extensively, as it was not an excruciating decision [0]. In spite of how much I really wanted med school, I also wanted a life. I tried to maintain a life while applying to med school, full of all the hobbies that make my life fun, but balancing those two wasn't actually possible. So I chose to reclaim my life.

Reading this piece is refreshing--I haven't seen enough people talk about the trade-offs of a physician. A lot of people in software think "I would have a meaningful life if I were in medicine"--and they probably have the smarts to be in medicine--but I think we should combat the idea that moving in that direction makes for a life that's any more fulfilling than engineering.

[0]: http://wit.io/posts/pivot-my-journey-from-medicine-into-tech...
OK, but there's no way subtle bugs will be found unless the code is released. If you replicate a non-trivial piece of code, both will have bugs, and both will have subtle design trade-offs (which won't be documented in the paper). Will you publish your results, despite the fact that they don't agree with the existing, accepted ones? If you do, what will it achieve?
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/3924

if i understand this correctly, it seems like it isn't...

"It can not be merged in 1.9.3, because it is late."
http://chromium.hybridsource.org/the-iron-scam
Interesting the dupe detector didn't see it. Nice find.
Given that I'm responding to "I'm pretty sure Chrome send URLs to Google at least for indexing purposes." let's first agree that there's been no evidence provided that I can respond to. :)

I mean both Chrome and Chromium. The source is there, we develop in the open, and I'm not sure what additional evidence I can provide to you to prove a negative. Wireshark?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3034076

I can actually see your point on this. This is a weird gray area in the guidelines I think.
The idea is that someday browsers will be resolution-independent. They’ll have to let go of 96ppi and probably pixels altogether. Making this change is preparing for a future that may or may not come to be. (The Retina Display hints at this.)

The point is valid if not immediately useful. Practically speaking, if you can start and stay with pt measurements, you might as well.

(Regarding how we might bring in a resolution-independent future browser, it would have to be some sort of meta tag or doctype, or maybe CSS fallbacks as we do with font faces.)
That would be redundant, since there would be no difference from String#+.
You are correct. This article is misleading on many levels.

A CSS pixel is ALWAYS the exact same thing as a screen pixel, unless:

1. The browser's view has been "zoomed". This can occur on desktop browsers or mobile browsers, although it's much more common on mobile browsers.

2. You are on a quad-pixel display like an iPhone 4. In this case, 1 CSS pixel = 4 real pixels, exactly.

Options 1 and 2 rarely breaks anything due to a use of "px". Those situations that are problematic usually are due to a design flaw in your CSS (and will not be fixed by switching to "pt").

Option 2 will never break your CSS. The only time it matters is if you want to serve double-resolution images [1]. Other than that, you have no access to the super-grid, so don't worry.

[1] http://www.sitepoint.com/razor-sharp-images-in-mobile-safari...
Sounds like Amazon Mechanical Turk.
Kinda cool- it's clean and very focused. Reminds me of http://milo.com/, but more specific.
The suggested birds on that page are all American species, but the Angry Birds are from Finland.
This looks AWESOME. The look and feel is outstanding.

I also checked out Pluggio, great work. Using it as my twitter client now
Can't get much simpler than that, right?
How is there not a stigma attached to non-reproducibility? If it is not reproducible, then the findings are incorrect, and an investigation should be made to determine if it is just incompetence or out right fraud. Otherwise fire up the nobel prize committee for I have just discovered cold fusion and cured cancer.
Is storage furniture the best niche for this? I wouldn't know, since I'm not in the market for that, but I don't think the pain of comparison shopping in that subset is particularly high (I could be wrong of course). Another slight foible - how often does someone buy a dresser? You only have a brief window to acquire a user between the time they decide to buy but before they make the purchase. The polar opposite would be something like diapers where parents purchase on a regular basis. Are there any niches more like that?
Professor Einstein, you can relax. E still equals mc2. Probably …
This is basically how I learned one of my great loves, composing music.

Ten years ago, I was goofing around with an old copy of Cakewalk and clumsily aping elements of cinematic soundtracks in General Midi with a keyboard at my parents' house. I just kept at it, though, observing how the pieces worked together in music I liked, developing an ear for harmony, composing lots of throwaway stuff and a few occasional good ones. Over the years, I acquired a bit of synth hardware, took a tiny bit of music in college, later moved from hardware to soft synths, picked up bits of music theory and sound engineering, and never stopped making things (at least for long). I still don't consider myself a master by any means, but I enjoy what I compose. Perhaps most importantly, it's a creative process I find incredibly rewarding, even if I'm not scoring any indie games or films.
It is possible that Linux does not reinitialize the wireless chipset in the right way, leading to a performance loss after hibernation. Quite a common bug in that area.

The level of detail in this bug report is a little low...
Yes I agree. I don't currently have a win-win solution in mind. A great solution would be one that allows facebook to still gather information provided that the "correct" privacy controls are in place for users.

I think, since this is so new, there is no clear understanding of what the "correct" privacy controls are. That is why I love the fact that G+ exists. Competition will help solve this problem.
I've also seen demo videos of people walking around with infrared LEDs strapped somewhere near their face - blinds the cameras.

Although, obviously, this is much more noticeable to whoever's watching the results.
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Applications of algorithms are patentable, not the algorithms themselves. (un-cited e.g. using machine learning for handwriting recognition)
Show HN: NinjaReply
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Excellent! Now go forth and MUL, ADD, & JMP.
can you clarify? both ghostery and disconnect do install and run in chrome - i have them running now. are you saying that there is some particular functionality that they don't provide?

also, responding to the (grand) parent, someone else mentioned that flash cookies are cross-browser. so if fb uses those you need to also make sure that the fb browser doesn't have flash installed.
This is an excellent point, let me pass that on to the platform permissions people.
Yep, this still appears to be the case. It establishes a long-lived SSL connection to one Google's servers few seconds after the start. If the connection is forcefully killed (e.g. with SysInternal's TcpView), it won't be re-established, but needing to kill it every time I need to use Chrome is really annoying.

It is also the reason why I have Chrome updates permanently disabled - I don't trust Chrome enough to let it run anything in a background.
Some people have friended you in the past but have never interacted with you (so there won't be any posts or other activity on the wall). Yes, Facebook automatically posts that 'Sue is now friends with Joe' on your wall but that gets removed when someone defriends you.
Also, you can use Better Facebook (http://betterfacebook.net/) and defriend monitoring services to make it more obvious to you.
These are all good questions, of which I don't have answers for (yet). I created this in response to my cousin (a professional organizer) complaining about finding products within certain dimensions. If she had this problem, I figured others might to. Only time will tell if this will actually provide value, but its certainly not all dressers.
The myth of science as a public good
> "Any attempt to access our data via the website in an automated manner using download utilities will be blocked."

Yeah, good luck with that.
As others have said, Detroit is a scary place. But I would much rather live in Detroit than the Valley. The "risk takers" of the Valley have nothing on living and playing in Detroit. The complete societal collapse of Detroit has provided amazing opportunities for entrepreneurs, artists, and assorted weirdos. You don't try to start your next <insert freemium business model startup> in Detroit. Leave that to the unimaginative valley folk. It would be a complete waste of the freedom offered by a lack of legal, social and economic constraints. There just aren't many places where ventures like the Russell are even considered let alone viable: http://ricdetroit.org/
I understand the article is sarcastic, but let's look at what Facebook actually is doing for humanity: recording the individual histories of hundreds of millions of people. From a wide angle view, this is pretty significant.

Imagine if you had the capability of examining your great-great-grandfather's life at the daily level. How amazing would that be? To localize this, imagine yourself in your 80's being able to zoom to any day of your life at any point to relive and review how you thought, what you thought at that particular moment.

This is what I use Facebook for. Sure, I use it to connect with my friends, but I also use it so that when I'm knocking on death's door, I'll have something concrete to look back at that is more stable than my ailing memory will be. I'll also be able to hand it down to my spawn and their spawn.

I've always considered Facebook a new kind of public utility, just as revolutionary as the post office used to be.
Inflicting an implicit form of censorship on a website to do away with threads you don't agree with is anathema to grown-up, intellectual discussion.

I'm just one of the naïve newbies speaking out here but if you don't like something, either enter the discussion with your reasons thus or ignore it and move on.

And just to prove my point, I could flag your post without thinking twice about it. But that's not in the spirit of discussion and is a negative influence.
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What kind of accuracy are you seeing with the background location check? Does the app accurately pinpoint you at Joe's Bar, or the dry cleaners next door? I think it's a neat concept and remedying your black out is only scratching the surface of possibilities. Nice work.
You can use this Chrome extension to kill cookies when logging out: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bgonpegbhnjepleakg...
How long is the bus ride?
Is the app economy killing online publishers?
No, the difference between MySpace and Tumblr is that the latter has a dashboard that gets rid of everyone's theme and by extension their autoplaying music, etc.
Try putting up new pages, only visit them in non-Chrome browsers, and see if they still get indexed. If they do, then it's not Chrome.
I'm getting the error message that I need the latest version of Chrome, which I'm already running on Windows 7. Is it only me?
My reply:
http://matjaz.posterous.com/why-you-should-log-in-to-faceboo...
This is OT but the term upvote inlfation made me think of it.

I don't see why any story gets more than, say, 300 votes. Honestly if a story gets more than a couple of hundred it's on the home page for at least a day - is that not enough? Why do people even bother continuing to upvote those stories?

To me it just suggests that comparatively no-one reads the newest section or votes there.

Basically the new pages is moving way too fast compared with the front page.
"If you are entrusting your life data to Facebook, or if you are depending on Facebook and its platform for your livelihood, beware. In the real Facebook world, there is no trust, and there is no friendship -- there is only money and power. Think really hard -- really, think -- before trusting Facebook or its employees with anything. Don't be a Facebook fool."

You have perfectly worded what I have felt. I've watched Facebook evolve into Big Brother over the past few years. People seem to have no idea that they don't see us as beings but as bytes.
Well the source for Chrome is not open (edit: correction acknowledged - I thought only Chromium was open), though if you are a Chrome developer confidently saying this is impossible then I would give merit to that. My experiences were non-scientific but still gave me enough suspicious to right this. I may try a more rigorous/careful/documented experiment sometime in the future.
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Is this just furniture? I searched 3-6 x 7-9 x .5-1.5, which is about the size of art supply box I was looking for a while back, and it couldn't find anything.
I found out my blatantly fake account was disabled this week, after more than a year of using it. Oh well, (almost) nothing of value was lost. Wondering if I can make a new one (also fake, of course) with the same email.. probably not I'd guess.
Many times I go shopping for something relatively expensive where I don't know exactly what I want. In almost every case I am disappointed with the typical online research/purchasing decision and wish there were way more intelligent vertical shopping engines.

Recently I can think of this happening to me for video cameras, regular camera, honeymoon spots, projectors, health insurance, apartments, outdoor camping gear, etc. Flight & hotel search has made real progress in the last couple years here but there's still tons of opportunity.

I can't say this category of items is super important to me, but I certainly welcome the idea of making purchasing anything online smarter/easier. With so many affiliate programs out there they should also lead to decent/good businesses.
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For a base web server included in OpenBSD by default, I don't think dynamic loading is actually a huge win. Auditing and hardening a single, statically-compiled binary is easier than doing the same thing for one that loads shared objects at runtime.

Since adding and removing Apache modules already requires a restart of the httpd process, a good source-based build system like ports can make adding and removing modules via build flags nearly as straightforward as dynamic loading.
He's good, but he's no Renoir, Da Vinci, or Degas.
I'm not sure about email addresses, but political parties often have exemptions in lots of laws about privacy, fundraising, etc; for reasons which are obvious.
Better off using something like Yahoo! Query Language

http://www.yqlblog.net/blog/2009/06/02/getting-stock-informa...
Would love to hear some details on how you built it / got your data
For a language I know well, this is not appealing, but it could be very useful at the level of (non-native) language proficiency where I can write well enough to make my meaning clear, but can't avoid sounding stilted.
Thank you. However, statistical outliers (you) don't make strong counterpoints.
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I've found that Facebook's friend recommendations are a good way of being able to tell who has defriended you. For years now, in fact.
The Sibling Effect
The Milo Criterion
If you just want to give stuff a try, go look for a used Graphire (kinda hard to find now), or a used Bamboo. You can usually grab a decent (8x6) sized one for like 50-80 bucks on craigslist.

Loosing the title sensitivity, and some of the pressure precision is no loss if you're just starting out and not attempting really hardcore painting/airbrushing.
Zoz, won the 2009 DEFCON badge-hacking challenge with something similar http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/hacking-the-defcon-...

Edit: Zoz, not Joe Grand
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The idea sounds pretty cool, but 20 cents seems pretty low. I'm no sure what the market for reviews is though.

Is it possible that those reviews can be made public? It seems like if there is a bunch of rave reviews but it's all private, it's kind of all for nothing.

If you turn it into a public forum where people can search for app reviews, then that turns into something very valuable.
I've been ensuring I log out for quite a while now. I also have all platform functions disabled in my settings. It's all extra work though. There's a lot of friction involved in remaining private
Wow. Just wow. :/
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> And even if you could convince me

What evidence have you heard that patents actually help?

> that patents in field X (say, patents for mining machinery) were (at present) holding back rather than encouraging innovation in that field, this might not be a convincing argument anyway.

Wow, that's harsh. "These arbitrary rules against redheads are ruining Ireland but at least we're enforcing the rule evenly across countries."
Thanks; dupe detector did not trigger.
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Actually, if you read through that issue there is a different patch that got accepted instead of xavier's that has similar performance improvements:

http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/3924#note-45
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One of my Facebook friends posted a link to a story from The Guardian yesterday, I thought that was interesting so I clicked to read.

The Guardian pretty much demanded that I installed their app. In the end, clicking 'cancel' turned out to be the non-intuitive way to actually read the article.

Yes 'cancel' let me continue with the action that I had been attempting.
Ann Arbor definitely has a music scene. I wasn't in to it, but I know it existed. I believe the blind pig is pretty famous http://www.blindpigmusic.com/
This thread is useless without Ikea.

But seriously, Ikea's EXPEDIT series should be in here, at the very least, and considering they have a whole "Storage Furniture" section, is a better target than Target.

Storage furniture:

Pantry
Wardrobes
Bed storage
Headboards
Nightstands
Dressing tables
Bookcases
Cabinets & sideboards
Chests of drawers
Clothes storage systems
Drawer units
DVD & CD furniture
Filing cabinets
Heavy duty storage systems
Shelving units
TV stands & media solutions
Wall shelves

I was planning to drive to Ikea tomorrow and was thinking about a search that would show me the options that fit the wall space in question.

Your app is great -- just needs the goods.
I started the med school track late in life (27 when I started taking premed classes), and while I haven't finished, I have to say that all of the complaining I hear from fellow students and doctors is ridiculous. All careers take up lots of your life. All careers end up dominating your social circles. All careers leave you feeling underpaid, including the people I know in finance who makes tons of money and work 12 hours a day 7 days a week minimum. Life is hard. I'm glad I took a lot of my 20's to experience that in other ways, so now that I've come to the medicine path, it really feels great. I agree that the decision to do this is not one that an 18 year old starting undergrad should make. But nonetheless, medicine is no worse than anything else.
Enabling click to play for plugins in Chrome is already possible and makes you much less trackable. You will get much less bits of identifying information in panopticlick because your fonts and some other things can't be read out without Flash or Java.
Not for OpenBSD, maybe, but for other operating systems based on precompiled binary packages. Nginx uses a forked worker model that probably would allow adding/removing modules without restarting the entire server.
That might be the funniest thing I've seen in ages. The last line is killer.
Just use Yahoo Finance like the rest of the punters out there. Why on earth would you scrape data this way when Yahoo gives you a simple, clean, dummy proof API. You can get end of day prices, dividend information, volume, all sorts of information.
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Project T.B.A.C.—Reaching high altitudes with trash bags
You may have seen something about the Air Mag auction over the last few weeks. (Nike's limited edition run of the sneakers Marty McFly wore in Back to the Future 2.) When the auction popped up in the news I ended up on Nike's promotional site and read that the idea was born when "...in 2005, [the shoe designer]’s attention was caught by an online petition asking that the shoes come back." (http://www.back4thefuture.com/#!shoe)

It struck me as the first time I'd ever heard of an online petition achieving its goal.

Here's hoping this becomes second time.
I guess I misunderstood your definition of "in place". That jives with what I've understood about Ruby so far.