skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There should be a 3rd option: Ads on Facebook? Really?? (Adblock-effect)
Also says something like "shoutout to AAPL GOOG MSFT :)"
What Are Considered The Best Records Labels
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The hardware is the tricky part, has always been the tricky part. $20 a node is cheap for these things - in some cases, unrealistically so. "Control everything" is that with a big multiplier.
Looks interesting!

Any way to try it without signing up through Facebook?
More like "makes bomb from sunlight".

H2+O2 mixture is very unstable, and explodes violently.
image of the ending: http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/5455/screenshot20110930at857....
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I find it really hard to doodle and listen at the same time. I'm terrible at drawing (really, any art in that family), and even drawing a few random lines I'll suddenly realise that oh shit, I don't have a clue what the person on the phone just said to me.

I do only do it when I'm actually bored by the call, not when I'm subconciously bored - so it's not a problem too often.
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Thirded. Though in high school I did go through a period of designing handguns which went thankfully unnoticed.
Will Mashable be a new Social Network? whts ur opinion?
-www.StudentsCrunch.com .
We all know Mashable.com has become largest leading social media guide .It doesn't stop adding new designs ,features like "follow " for subscribers and Sign up option since its Unique visitors and pageviews increases significantly..

what would you like to say ?
So? Desktop HTML/JS was too slow for a while, all the way until the point when it became fast enough to handle maps, email, finance etc. Remember MapPoint? It used o be a desktop map application. No one uses it anymore.
A Lie Detector Test for Online Reviewers
I certainly don't disagree that there are opportunities to game the "system," but in startup environments there are lots of people keeping a close eye on development and production environments. Someone gaming it will quickly be exposed.

Just to clarify, I'm not recommending this approach to enterprise corporate environments where layers upon layers of management and developers could easily derail what I am suggesting.

But for the startup, it is worthy of consideration.
Here's a video screencast I just made of it:

http://youtu.be/Yxz6D83Ljp0?hd=1
This is about companies buying ads to market their product or service on Facebook, not about users' view on ads.
I used this trick when I launched http://anynewbooks.com. I used existing credits (if I remember correctly) I had on both LinkedIn and Facebook to target publishers, book bloggers, and journalists. It worked, to a certain extent.
I work at a place that runs an ad network for facebook apps (so it is ads in Facebook, but not run by Facebook). It definitely works well in some particular areas, like in driving app installs or reengagement. For example, if you've got an app that has a high ARPU but low virality, then fb ads might be an attractive arbitrage opportunity.

Generally, I think the ads are good if you aren't seeking a commercial exchange right away, but rather are trying to build some type of relationship that can be capitalized later on.
I have to wonder who is the downvoting person, who beleives the above post does not contribute to the discussion? Would you rather this not be posted at all? Because if you keep with the downvotes that's what's going to happen - no links to Sencha demo, no keen observations about tap areas, no personal opinion from experienced i-thing developer.

I also wonder where are the people who would appreciate this sort of contribution. They gotta be somewhere...
Ironically, I submitted my app with the some sort of thinking, and my startup is trying to compete with them.
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We wouldn't leave our cars on 80% of the time idling, but servers, well, why not? Every little bit helps guys.
Thanks, that was a really great talk for non-specialists. I’ll definitely pass it along to family and friends.

The one bit that was sort of unconvincing was when he argued that if we create an exponentially growing photovoltaic industry it will (implication: indefinitely) take more energy to build than it provides. But it’s silly to assume the exponential growth to be unbounded: the whole idea is that once we build enough capacity, we can stop making more of the things and after a few years we get energy coming out without so much further (energy/money) investment. He made it sound like building photovoltaics at scale would be overall detrimental.

Other than that though, really excellent introductory background to put papers like this current one in context.
Neat. I'm pretty sure that text at the beginning is a reference to a similar easter egg from an old version of windows (95 maybe?).
Yes and No (it's a bit of an art):

The trick with Facebook ads is create that magic combo of the right keywords, demographic profile and creative approach to making your ad stick out within the limitations of their format. It also depends on who you're going after: I ran one campaign for a content focused website and that did well -- did another campaign aimed at a professional audience and had mixed results at best (maybe my product was too specialized).

You also have to design your strategy to work with the ecosystem of facebook and play their "game". Their game is that they want you set up a page on their service and for you to feed it with content which they'll do you the favor of maybe getting through to your audience (and yes that content needs to be crafted just as much as an ad).

My suggestion is to look at other ads that appear on the system and then play with your creative and then measure your results.
Same here. Simple, unplanned, abstract geometrical shapes do work for me though. Maybe try that?
My relatives went through the H1B process. I know exactly how employers treat them. They understand that you're tied to them, and even though you could transfer, it resets your greencard process.

My father was making less money than the people under him, even though he was the chief engineer (vs regular engineers).
Doesn't work for me either, and I'm definitely webgl-capable. Maybe it's just a limited rollout?
There’s an irreverent wagging tongue in there, too.

greetings

to

AAPL GOOG

:) :P :)

MSFT

Was it prophetic of iCloud and Google Drive??
> Android UI design is easier coz it's XML so you can do it programmatically!

That is absolutely not the point raised in the article. XML based declarative UIs help to keep your view code separate from the application's logic allowing for faster iterations. I don't think anyone manipulates XML views in code except in corner cases.

The simplest way to get a big picture idea about Android's XML based UI is to think of them as HTML+CSS with the addition of good layout managers.
No, you can have many users, and this way you try to guess everyone's password at the same time. Also, sadly, passwords tend to be repetitive, so now someone can accidentally guess someone else's password.
Snore Pillow 
When you are looking for ways to stop snoring you will listen and read up on many solutions. A snoring pillow is the first option that you should go for. When snoring is caused because of clogging or blockage in the throat or nose you will see how effective a snore pillow is to curb snoring and enjoy the peaceful and restful full night’s sleep.
The animation looks like bog-standard CoreImage effects.
I believe these chips can decode full HD in realtime because they have hardware acceleration for this. Remember, not even an intel dual core @ 1ghz could decode full HD in software in realtime.
Psychedelics are definitely interesting. I recently came across Ibogaine (http://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Ibogaine.shtml ) derived from roots of the iboga tree. Surprisingly many experiencers report to have seen a man point towards a door or convey some messages to them in their 36hr long trips!

A substance that can give very similar results to multiple users is definitely worth the research.
Tom Hoover is Drew's fraternity bro, MIT '05 Course 6 classmate, and Bit 9 co-worker prior to Dropbox taking off.

He also installed Gentoo on my old laptop so I could take a Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics.
So the only thing that really separates Italy from Greece is the market's expectation that Germany won't let any of the other sovereign nations default. Absent that expectation, Italy and Spain are one good speculative attack (a la Soros vs. the British Pound) away from insolvency.
Modern Lisp didn't came out until much later, but still, Common Lisp was out in 1984, and that's still very early, especially considering the fact that it was a response to already widespread use of Lisp languages with Lisp-like features.
It's entirely up to you: there's no mention of Stripe. Most of our customers simply put their domain on the statement.
They never give resolution info for the original Kindle.
What does Turing-completeness have to do with it?
What is Insurance and Why do we Feel Cheated?
You say samsung lose margin to retailers. Well amazon lose margin to manufacturers the same way. Prices haven't been reasonable yet because Apple showed people will pay a hefty premium; android tablet makers neither wanted to shrink this pie nor to appear inferior ('cheap'). Amazon is selling the fire as an upsell on an ebook reader, so they can't afford this luxury; $200 is already expensive for what is primarily positioned as a book replacement device.

As for google, they have motorolla. And their 'content sales' is web use ( > advertising). But do they need a cheap tablet? No, Amazon is making it for them already, for a $10 loss.
> They take the standard, off-the-shelf component prices

Do you have a source for this or are you just making an assumption?
Apple also provides very detailed human interface guidelines for all their OSes. They are all more than 100 pages long, and describe how every single UI element should act and what the user should expect. When designing a UI using Apple's provided graphical tools, it actually guides the programmer to follow those guidelines, in terms of button sizes, spacing, etc. Apple cares about UI/UX, and it trickles down.
Timelines.com Sues Facebook
Note that the biggest accusation of them all is not addressed: that grouper is a lie, and is just old fashioned human matchmaking.

See http://gizmodo.com/5845467/how-i-was-nearly-seduced-by-group...
For me, it has always resulted in a significantly lower CTR and conversion rate than AdWords–and that's even after accounting for the higher CPC at AdWords. So I gave it up. Also, the number of clicks I paid for was always higher than the number of visitors GA told me I was getting from FB–and that kinda ticked me off.

The only time I've seen it work is for some wedding photographers I've worked with–and this is mainly because you can show ads to "women who are engaged".

So, it can work for some service providers whose target market can be sliced out of FB's demographics. But for most software-type businesses, there's dozens of better ways to put marketing money to work.
The ternary operator has its uses, such as in assignment.

var foo = bar ? a : b;
IBM beats Microsoft in tech giants ranking
Think about good topics for research papers
You might wonder how you are going to find good topics for research papers for the subject that you are doing in college.
The problem is that desktop computing is based on mouse interaction, and the precision unit is the pixel. On touch-based devices, it is the human finger. The actual physical dimension of the buttons and other UI elements, including spacing, start to matter a lot more. When you allow for a huge range of resolutions all at different physical dimensions, it's nearly impossible to craft a good UI for all of them. It's going to be a lot of work (too much for most devs) to verify that their flexible layout is going to work from 320x240 to 960x540 and remain usable and readable. Because it's so hard to craft the perfect experience for all, most just don't bother and just settle for good enough. In the end, there are huge benefits to the way Apple is doing things from a UX perspective.
Elon Musk: The Future of Human Spaceflight
Nocera is a pretty good (funny) speaker too. Talk from Jan 11 http://youtu.be/D3HNrAGWoAI
Early on in its history, I promoted JavaScript Weekly (an e-mail newsletter) on there aimed specifically at people with an interest in JavaScript. I seem to recall it converted at about 70-90¢ to the signup. At the time it was just a side project and made no sense but that's a pretty attractive price from today's perspective so I'm likely to try it again very soon.
Yeah, the 10% figures are greatly exaggerated. More like 5%.
How Adobe Flash Lost Its Way
We tried recently tried relatively identical campaigns (few grand into each) for AW and FB for http://premium.wpmudev.org - AW was by far far the winner... can't beat people actually looking for stuff, rather than annoying them while they're trying to socialize!

In my view, that's where FB falls over most of all, they're only fundamentally attractive to agencies looking for 'in your face' rather than 'purpose based' ads... pointless for a highly niche relatively small budget crew like us.

And why goog will kill them in the end :)
Wonderful!

Upvotes, upvotes everywhere!
It's unclear why would need an account in order to interact with other users?

This isn't Reddit or 4chan, this is a site where views and opinions are being exchanged. User accounts have been a way to monitor interactions and store data relative to a certain person almost since the Internet was created.

edit: TwoSides is for constructed, meaningful interactions, from what I've gathered. Reddit is pretty great but far from what TwoSides can achieve.
A good thing, it means that this Easter egg takes up the least amount of space possible :p.
To be honest, I think he was making a joke about the HN post being its own reference, although I'm not too sure...
That's what the iPad 2 has and it doesn't seem tight on memory.
I'd swap 2 and 3. We'd rather fund good people in a small market (since they can change what they're doing) than bad people in a big market (since they can't change themselves).

And since 1 is not usually something applicants can dictate, it comes down to 3.

To me the most important thing is whether the founders seem impressive. If I find myself thinking "these guys know what they're talking about, and they get stuff done" I give the application a good grade. So the most valuable thing you can do in the application is to convey that.

If there's something you can tell about yourself that demonstrates you're an effective person, tell us about it, whether it has anything to do with this idea or not. And if you have some insight about the problem you plan to solve that shows you understand it deeply, be sure to include it. We ask leading questions designed to elicit both; you can probably pick them out pretty easily.
Multiplatform interactive photo-scratcher solution with iOS apps to kill videos
How does it compare to the HN effect? :)
1. The pitch. "Get your own Groupon in 30 minutes" (paraphrase) doesn't inspire confidence.

2. The name. Zuppy? Zoopy? Not sure how to pronounce it or what it is. The name is confusing at best.

3. Overall organization from an advertising perspective: pitch (stimulus) at the top, cost (response) at the bottom. It's too long and perhaps the wrong message.

4. Maybe start with the example site, along with a clear pitch like "Our customer sold 10 zillion Zuppys worth Billions of the Kuala Lumpur tour." (All numbers fictitious.)

5. Then lead right to the pricing section as page 2; and put "as seen" and the tour after that on some other page.

Establish value first, then tell me how much it costs, then back it up with credibility.

The page problems, though, are kind of trivial compared to the overall business problem.
Email Paul directly and hope he can help. Best of luck. Things tend to work themselves out.
Ellison Stirs the Pot Over H-P Deal
Cyberwar, Lawyers, and the U.S.: Denial of Service
Thank you Stripe. We will become good friends.
Yup. A country made up of 99% ignorant twits (your math) is responsible for one of the largest and robust economies on the planet. Good one.
This was published 5 years ago?
China Venture Is Good For GE But is it good For US?
Google's Fix For MS Security Essentials
It worked very well for my startup in the restaurant reservations space. Our objective was brand awareness in a specific city and our target audience were journalists and social media influencers in general.

We also used it to target those who were already using competitor's services.

It is not set and forget, though. You have to tweak it constantly and, as other have said, it works better for "soft actions", like "likes" and email subscriptions.

You can't compare it to adwords, it's a different beast entirely.
Amazon Cloud Boosts Fire
Europe, like America, is run by politicians with a 2-4 year election cycle "accountability" making long term multi-generational fiscal obligations (i.e., here is a tiny raise now, but we'll promise to give you free healthcare benefits 20 years from now)

Europe will play the "austerity" game for a bit (cut this & that, raise taxes, etc), but it will only kill economic growth and make the problem worse.

Inevitably, the "social contract" will be broken. Current working age generations are not willing to live with both "ruinious taxation" AND government "austerity" -- just to maintain the status quo of retiree benefits and government largess.

Old people might vote....but young people fill streets and use firebombs
Nice, but my browser (Firefox 6.0.2) hung up for a few moments on the last slide and it took me painfully long to close the tab.
I believe it's what they design for at the central switch nodes. The buildings would have entire rooms if not floors dedicated to nothing but 48 volt wet-cell batteries.

Of course the "last mile" infrastructure is not so reliable. That said, in over 20 years I've had POTS service, I can't ever remember not having dial tone when I lifted the handset.
Nokia Cuts 3500 Manufacturing Jobs
I think the idea they're pushing is, why force a centralized structure for product development/design decisions, when your programmers are intelligent and independent enough to do it themselves? It's not just a free-for-all where people work on shiny toys; developers should be allowed to think about the customer too! It's quite a different energy when the same guy is recognizing what needs work (i.e, what a 'product manager' would do) and developing it.

Think about the Linux kernel - contributions are distributed and asynchronous, and most of the authority figures arise organically rather than by decree. I don't think you need product managers, they just relieve the developers of having to do that work themselves.

And yeah, it definitely helps that github uses github to write github. But dogfooding really isn't that unusual or difficult.
Healthy Eating and Cooking with Kids - Yes, Healthy Eating is Possible - Part 2
Looks like it requires the Google Earth plugin:

http://www.google.com/intl/en/earth/explore/products/plugin....

"The plug-in is also used on Earth view in Google Maps."
Cool just signed up...what is the relationship between Mixtent and Reference.me?

Really like the design.
Prohibition: The History of A Calamity
> I think you are saying wealth == happiness.

Not at all.
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Why A STD Dating Site Is Great To Find Someone
You know, the spectrum of human words and the syntax of sentences does not provide enough power to describe nor to solve the problems of today. But even if you call me a nazi or racist, just answer me this, do you really think Germany can hold up such a strong currency and economy if 65% of all kids here are not German?
Rolling the Dice
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I like this article, but it seems mostly geared towards social or web products. It'd be really interesting to discuss giving less "charismatic" types of products personality such as software for data integration or other enterprise services....
Numeric labels also don't work:

10: PRINT "hello"
GOTO 10

This works though:

label: PRINT "hello"
GOTO label
Corruption Bureau assigns fox to guard henhouse
If we consider the money/medium of exchange as its own resource. When someone invents a hoe freeing up time for other desires, its not the value of the crops that falls.

Wealth is not a zero-sum game. The new houses built have added actual value, its just that the amount of money to distribute is limited leading to the appearance of the price of crops falling. This is called monetary deflation, the value of the money itself has gone up since there are more things to buy (demand) while there is a fixed amount (supply).

I would argue that the new houses add value. even though I feel that satisfaction is a good measure of wealth and not precisely quantifiable, happiness(Man with house + crops) - happiness(Man with cave + crops) > 0. In short creating wealth. (Some people might argue, his total happiness is a constant and its just dependent on more things now "Simplify Man" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Man_and_the_Lisa)
Benefits of Using a Tongue Scraper
You know what they say...

You have a problem, so you suggest "I'll make an algorithm to solve it!"

...now you have 2 problems.
Facebook is showing a real time like count on Mark Zuckerberg's status updates
Real competition from Redmond: Windows Phone 7 "Mango" reviewed
Well, the mayor's public pool creation program was very well received. This could be an extension of that.
It'd be interesting to get an idea of how the "HN affect" compares to slashdot. Followup article by chance?
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The margins are off.
What are your thoughts on the design and functionality of this site?
My attempt at building a web site for my friend's baking business. Done entirely in HTML/CSS/jQuery.
Critique, suggestions, etc. much-appreciated.

I'm also ready to do pro-bono work for causes I deem worthy. My contact information is in the footer of the site. I'm happy to hear from you, if you need a site.

Thank you HN readers!
so if we don't have phenomenal growth (ie "$100k in revenue in your first month or 10k users in 24 hours") we still have a chance?

Does anyone know examples of YC companies who are in small markets? I was under the impression they only liked larger markets (since they are more fundable by vc's and the like).
Switching to a common currency had enormous benefits in terms of reducing the friction associated with trade between nations in the Euro zone. It wasn't a bad idea to switch early but at least two glaring mistakes were made with the implementation:

1. The European establishment decreed that no sovereign in the region would ever default on its debts and backed that decree up by allowing banks to hold the debt without allocating capital against it. This was the European equivalent of US rating agencies rubber-stamping toxic mortgage securities with a AAA rating.

2. Member states have been allowed to cheat outrageously on the Masstricht treaty criteria, even before shenanigans like Greece window-dressing its numbers by disguising some debt as currency swaps, without much enforcement.

If these errors hadn't been made, they probably wouldn't be in a situation in which member states were allowed to paper over their problems with cheap credit while digging the entire continent into a very dangerous hole.
Bing Enters the Deals Space.
Why is there such a lag when coming here
It's so fucking annoying to dial into HN only to have a dossier of this and that sniff around and delay resolving the HN hompage. Link me to the reasons why I should be grateful below.
In order to make some project popular, you need to show it's powerful in doing REAL work. Ruby on rails did it for ruby. Paul Graham's success and writing did help lisp.

Is there some similar proof for ometa ?
It's on their deathwatch: http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Deathwatch

Hopefully they have a chance to mirror it all.