skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're talking about what is a safer investment (for the future) so of course these are claims, or predictions.

Here is a historical chart of the price of gold (in dollars) since 1833.

http://www.nma.org/pdf/gold/his_gold_prices.pdf

Dollars originally were redeemable in gold. But because of inflation of the money supply (i.e. creating more dollars) the US didn't have enough gold to pay their outstanding debt (i.e. the dollars out there being held by other countries).

So Nixon was forced to sever the dollar's tie with gold in 1971. At that point the dollar is a fully flexible (or fiat) currency.

Look at the price of gold in that chart since 1971.

That's not the value of gold going up. It's the value of the dollar going down.

Gold supply is relatively stable. It takes investment and time to mine new gold, so only a small amount is introduced into the economy each year.

New dollars are added to the economy at a terrifying rate. Every fiat currency in the history of mankind has always gone to zero.
Problem is, due to the way Android is distributed, the vast majority of Android phones won't have ICS until mid-to-late 2012. There are still a couple popular phones like the Droid Incredible that don't even have the Gingerbread update yet. At this point we don't even know which carriers are going to be offering the Galaxy Nexuses or exactly when it will be released.
http://code.google.com/p/zxing/wiki/GetTheReader
Facebook Allegedly Building 'Shadow Profiles' of Non-Members
A macro story
I have posted another link in a comment, where you can find a list of locations. Pick the location, which is nearest to you, and you will find a time interval.

I hope that the displayed information is accurate, but to predict the peek of the meteor shower seems to be difficult.
Salary offers ranged from $132,888 to $145,000. The average salary offer was $123,972. The median salary offer was $138,944. One of the candidates was offered $43,000 because the individual was pursuing a Post-doc at a university which I did not include into the calculation.

This makes me sad.
On a regular to semi-regular basis:

http://programmers.stackexchange.com

http://programming.reddit.com

http://semanticweb.reddit.com

http://machinelearning.reddit.com

http://android.reddit.com

http://arduino.reddit.com

http://stats.stackexchange.com

http://semanticoverflow.com

http://www.metaoptimize.com/qa

http://electronics.stackexchange.com

http://arduino.cc/forum

http://www.cnnfn.com

http://groovyblogs.org/

http://www.planetscala.com/

http://answers.onstartups.com/

http://www.dzone.com/links/index.html

http://www.quora.com

http://www.phins.com/phins-urls.html

http://www.gallifreybase.com
No it doesn't. What does it do when you double-tap HN page on iPhone?

Do that on an Android and see what happens.

All it does on iOS is zoom till it removes the padding. On Android, it makes it a readable list, with correclty sized upvote icons, perfect reading size. It, in a way, instantly makes HN a mobile site. This is more than just zooming.
I thought this about the first Cars (I've yet to see Cars 2). What you have to keep in mind is that kids loved the first one, and probably the second one too. Even Pixar is going to bow to commercial viability now and again so they can make things like Wall-E.
This brings to mind a blog post published by Darryl Jonckheere in January that argued for making Jony Ive CEO:

http://www.darryljonckheere.com/2011/01/24/why-jonathan-ive-...
> "If your candidate doesn’t understand getElementById, getElementsByTagName, appendChild and removeChild, you have a problem"

Why, because you can't reach the Mozilla docs? Reference based questions are no way to do an interview. It's easy to look this stuff up.
What about links to mental conditions?
No, but that coconut bra is you!

The whole conversation is really a lot of "willy waving" as one British guy wrote somewhere a number of years ago.
Slider inputs would work better.
garbage collection is not limited to the UI. Games, etc. everything's affected by this. this is partly a Java "issue".
there is also an ethical aspect here. With "smart" handling of query, that is, not all the terms you digit are required to be on that page, it is simpler for Google (or any other search engine) to unilaterally select where to veicolate your search.

I hope that Google is not doing anything evil here, but the fact that all the words you searched must be in the resulting pages is a very good contract with the user from the point of view of transparency. But for default it is not in this way since long time.

Forcing "you" "to" "type" like that makes it even worse.
I wonder how Jobs' death affected Ive? I would think Ive must be hugely grateful for what Jobs saw in him.
I've had some success with output from lattice using Cairo's SVG option, although you're right that it's never easy. Self-citing, the plots in these pubs were generated as above (JoCN may be behind a paywall):

http://www.frontiersin.org/human_neuroscience/10.3389/fnhum....
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/jocn_a_00089

I'll need to give Stata a look, too.
An Incredible Time To Be Alive
I put together http://finderr.org and use that as a search service exactly because of this. I don't keep IPs in the logs of the server.
No, it doesn't. Safari does not reflow the content of a page like the Android browser does . You can zoom to a text block, yes, but you can't make that text block bigger with wrapping. Reading stuff on mobile safari is more frustrating because it's lacking this feature.
> EDIT: Ok click to zoom is kinda there, but I like the way it works on Android better. That's just a preference, so I'll strike that from my list of objections.

What's the difference?
True,
Though if you need to run a rare or uncommon stat procedure, SAS is not likely to have it in the core, and then you are back to using what "some grad student wrote".
No, it's not. I can see the notification just fine, but if I click on it to answer, I have no one-click way to get back to the app I was in before responding to the notification.
It's a matter of conventions. Look at Linux kernel for instance. Error codes are positive, but if function is returning error, then return code is -error, i.e. negative and it's pretty sensible solution. Mind that in case of syscalls, errno stuff comes from glibc, which wraps syscalls to set errno and return -1. So searching for -error is not something awkward, but, as stated earlier, you have to quote it in google to make it work.
Goddamn reader button doesn't show up in half the places I would like to be. I don't know why they still haven't implemented text-reflow like most other mobile browsers.
This is my first iOS device, but I can assure you I'm using it!
This seems like a difficult case to make. How do you know that none of the many places you're not familiar with aren't smarter on average?

If I wanted to find too-smart, I would go to Less Wrong, (who seem to be smarter than HN on average; that might just be a side effect of the discussion topic) and ask them where they would go to find too-smart. And repeat. I don't think HN is where I'd end up.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/ub/competent_elites/ suggests "hedge fund managers" for step two.
There is probably something wrong with your iPod. I'd take it to the Apple Store. iOS 5 works fine on a 3GS, and your iPod has iPhone 4-comparable hardware.
Business Line : Ramky Group to provide seed capital to entrepreneurs
Melbourne uses a four digit number for tram stops (for use via text, automated voice, web and apps) and it works quite well. http://tramtracker.yarratrams.com.au/phone/
Hilariously it is not allowed to use the social security number as the primary key (nor is it recommended since they can, and do, change e.g. after a sex-change operation people are assigned a new number because the final digit indicate the sex of the person) but you may store it in the database along with the other information you have on the subscribers.

How they got it past the privacy officials I have no idea, you cannot normally get sensitive medical records on that many people.
Octave is Matlab clone, in fact Octave developers openly say that except for some special cases, any difference between Octave and Matlab is a bug.

The biggest difference between Matlab and Octave is JIT compiler in Matlab, which does incredibly good job at vectorizing simple (or sometimes even not-so simple) loops.

I think it's fair to say that Octave performance is very close to a Matlab in a pre-JIT time.

There's also a huge difference in toolboxes, profiling, sparse matrix operations, parallel computing and many-many more. In these areas I'm afraid Octave is light-years behind Matlab.

However, you still can do a lot of useful simple stuff with Octave and it's free! Matlab-like syntax is really, really cool then it comes to vectorized operations. So probably these two reasons determined Andrew Ng's choice of Octave as a main environment for ml-class. Huge win for Octave I guess. This might spur some interest in the development, attract new people to the product. I think it's a well-deserved success for John W Eaton and other people who develop(ed) Octave all these years.
The Millennium Villages Evaluation Debate Heats Up, Boils Over
> but if you're branding an operator, brand it everywhere.

And this behavior is what provoked the statement that the engineers are no longer in control- branding trumping usability.
That was quick! But... it's not working here. What I meant was, instead of just the title, also output a snippet of the linked page (similar to what Facebook does when you post a link).
abi, sounds like all of these responses are for fresh grads (be it BS, MS, or Phd). It would be interesting to see the stats for offers after 1, 2, up to 10 years in industry. There was some element of 'hockey stick growth' for me from the year I graduated (unemployed for some months), to my first job (nothing to brag about, salary wise), to my second job (which is much better). I wonder if it will be the same for Stanford grads since they're already starting relatively high.
This is also predicted in the book "Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller" by Jeff Rubin. Mr. Rubin is an ex chief economist of an investment bank who quit his job so he could publish the book. Recommended.
Cool, was about to put something together just like this, but don't have to now. Just submitted it here on HN.
I haven't studied it too carefully so I'm working off impressions here, but I don't think Android zoomed-to-content the way iOS does. For instance, when loading Hacker News, the initial view would be very zoomed out, so I could just barely read headlines. If I double-tapped, it would zoom in enough for me to read normally. Another double-tap brought me back out to the page overview. It also, as I recall, would not retain zoom levels if I entered a new URL manually. This seems more usable to me than retaining zoom level, and only zooming to show content.
http://www.songkick.com/ (YC07) provides something similar to what you describe, though with a slightly different UX.

It lets you import your listenings (bands/artists) from last.fm, pandora & itunes and creates a personalised calendar - location aware - of nearby gigs.

I love it :)
It would be much more interesting to see stats about the use of QR codes in an actual campaign. If they generate even a few hits, and create a few new customers, it could be worth the inches on the ad. After all, they don't loose anything by using a QR code.
Hacker News' π submission
I'm more confused on how the average offer was lower than the bottom end of the range.
Finderr: Get exact searches back on Google without quotes
I'm happy with Firefox 3.5.16 in Debian stable. I have no problem visiting websites, and I don't have to sweat Vimperator breaking because of a browser rev.

I think that caring about the latest browser version is the domain of webdevs and teenagers.
Does it matter? I mean sure some people will hate you but properly not enough to lynch you. I would it imagine it would be worse for a start-up to be unknown that to have free publicity, even if it was negative.
The tabs I have open permanently (pinned in Chrome) are Gmail, Reader and Yammer (internal startup chat).
Is there any evidence that suggest this? I have seen people saying this against desktop Java applications as well but mostly the unresponsiveness is caused by bad programming not GC. The GC process runs mostly in sub-milliseconds and you will never notice this.
WePay Java API SDK
I learned recently that you can also do this on the command-line with "git diff -b"
What?? You de-anonymized the troll as HN's own jacquesm. I would call that bashing...
The plus sign definitely was used for that.
Well, Google is known to be doing many evil things, like providing different results in different countries for same queries in same languages (and no, it's beyond personalization). They obviously have some agreements with govts and such to filter some content etc., so I wouldn't be surprised if there was much more to it.

Despite all these left-handed actions, Google is still the best search engine and it rather won't change in upcoming future. The thing is while I criticize Google, I still use their search engine daily, gmail, reader, etc., because after all they have really useful products.
It was probably a typo ($132,972)?
You do understand correctly, and we think this is a big challenge for us. We are trying to stay away from "technical" terms (save for the API nod in the name) but stay light on the marketing speak. I could go on and on about our plans here... but, to cut it short, you are absolutely right, it isn't reflected correctly on the landing page.
Any link to the actual study?
If this is successful, the US government gets taxpayers and people out of unemployment lines. There is an upside, but not directly from the payback of the loan.
Well yes, but not really. True the government won't get interest directly but, because it can only be spend inside the US, they do get the secondary effects.

Think of it as trying to do what the stimulus should have done, leveraged quite a bit (because you only need to pay out what it cost to cover the loans that go bad).
Carnegie Mellon CS undergrad stats:
http://www.studentaffairs.cmu.edu/career/Students/gps1/explo...

Max $120k, Min $45k, Mean $85k, Median $87k

Much more diverse by region (39% CA, 21% WA, 17% NE)

MIT's is more difficult to parse: http://web.mit.edu/career/www/infostats/graduation10.pdf
Absolutely. Last year's iPhones will be running this year's iOS. Last year's Androids will, most likely, never receive this year's Android (unless, of course if you are lucky enough to get working custom ROMs ported to your devices).
Namespaces, as others have mentioned. The first question I had when I first encountered that as the Namespace operator was: "Why not the double colon operator?"

Double colon is already being used for static member referencing, and in a few talks I've heard from Rasmus, they weren't able to find a way to overload it for Namespaces.

Another option that was discussed was a triple colon operator, which most were opposed to b/c of it's length. I personally think the backslash is ugly, and I kind of like the triple colon operator better b/c of it's similarity to the double colon operator. Regardless of which one is prettier, I wish the double colon operator could have been overloaded.
Justice Scalia Rules Deep-Dish Pizza is Not Pizza
I was able to play with the device for a couple of minutes and like Engadget found it to be smooth.
Mmm, I need to rely on external JSONp services, since I've to code everything clientside to keep it scalable. I'm not sure how I could fix this, anyone an idea?
There are still other things which I find concerning. For example

" electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobile phones alters the permeability of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), resulting in albumin extravasation immediately and 14 days after 2h of exposure."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19345073

So I don't think there will be a definitive answer on the safety of these devices for a while.
I quantify successful is we used it as the backbone of a campaign for one of the biggest bands and the world and saw very little usage.
Great to know, but CoffeeScript handles most of this for you.
thanks for the great feedback!
This is awesome; let me direct HN'ers to Sage (http://www.sagemath.org), which uses SymPy, and which is also very cool. It is (mostly?) written in Python, is available as a library, and it always welcomes contributors.

EDIT: I believed that Sage and SymPy duplicated a lot of the same functionality, but as two commenters pointed out (and as I verified for myself), Sage relies on SymPy and other libraries for its engine whenever it can. I stand corrected!
I am willing to stand up to be a customer of Fisker, but not of Tesla.

I have places I go that are > 200 miles from home. I want to drive my fun car to these places. The Tesla can't do this. I can never be a customer of Tesla's with this restriction.

I will be buying the convertible Fisker Karma if they ever get to the point of selling it!
The one place I've used QR codes successfully is when friends visit and want to use my wireless on their phones. I've got a QR code for the SSID and another for the password. For laptops, I can hand out a little USB drive with a text file they can open and copy/paste.
I die a little inside every time I see:

Unknown or expired link.

My only issue with HN.
Funny, but sort of a low blow. Virtually everything in a modern X server installation is autoconfigured based on hardware detection. On my fedora 15 box, the only content at all is the keyboard setting (because the builtin PS/2 keyboards on modern laptops still can't be probed for layout), and that gets populated at install time when I select "US English" from the list.
This looks pretty promising. I guess "there's a YC for that", hehe.
> Tesla seems to have the rather limited "I'm a rich dude who wants to show how much I care about the environment by driving around in an expensive electric car" market sewn up pretty well.

I've always wondered about that. Tesla only shipped about 2500 Roadsters before they were discontinued. I find it hard to believe that there isn't demand for 2500 units per year of a unique, high-performance car like the Roadster in California alone. It seemed like the real constraint was Tesla's inability to produce them in volume, or make money doing so.
Good point, hadn't thought of that - and I imagine the job description would probably drop some hints that you wouldn't be using any external libs, no?
Dear Google

If you want me to quote a string, make it easy. Allow me to highlight the string and quote it with a single keystroke ", textmate-style.

yours faithfully etc
FTA: http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d6387
Back when this article was written, you were using these methods about every 10 lines of code or so.

If they weren't embedded in your memory, you were probably lying about how much Javascript you had written or were really bad at it.
You'd be much better off getting, say, a Nissan Leaf for local journeys and a Porsche Boxster (or whatever fun car you like) for longer trips.

You'll have better fuel economy and about $20K in change.
Here's a paper that seems to say that by making some reasonable assumptions about early-universe hydrodynamics, you can almost assume that life originated very early on. sdcc3.ucsd.edu/~ir118/STPA35F10/FirstLife_Sept19_JofC_arXiv.pdf

That's why we see DNA fragments and possible microbial fossils in comets: DNA-based life originated well before the first planets. Weird speculation, but it does seem to hang together.
Yes, I really miss being able to search for new.york or los.angeles, for example. Those terms used to be equivalent to "new york" or "los angeles", but now they are equivalent to the phrases without quotes. I.e. the words no longer have to be next to each other.

Also, requiring the quotes is really painful on a mobile browser keyboard.
Apple has been showing "how it's made" videos for a very long time.

http://vimeo.com/11899632 (see 35:05 to 39:00).
I agree with your take on Octave performance relative to Matlab. The Matlab parallel toolbox is getting more and more useful in a multicore world.

As you note, the Matlab profiler is very nice. You can zero in on the 80% of the 80/20 tradeoff very fast, during your usual development cycle. It's as simple as:

>> profile on
>> do_something
>> profile report

and you get a nice graphical/textual report on time usage in everything do_something called.
Well obviously it's not "magic." Magic is just a marketing term anyways.
Richard Rumelt talk on what is "Strategy"
Is the "cowboy code" any less reliable than non cowboy code? I feel like the extra speed of writing in this case may be more valuable than using strict javascript.
Where to use a depilatory
well..not really.. what are you good at?
it's a widely known issues.

If you allocate objects in a user interface loop, you will force a periodic garbage collection,
creating little "hiccups" in the user experience. The concurrent collector introduced in Gingerbread
helps, but unnecessary work should always be avoided.
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/design/performa...

Why should I avoid garbage collection? When Dalvik does a GC, most of the time your game will have to wait until the garbage collection is complete. It will often take in the order of 100 milliseconds to complete. Doesn’t sound like much but in your game loop this is huge – causing a horrible stutter or lack of responsiveness.
http://fanitis.com/2011/02/09/android-game-performance-garba...

Garbage collection and async operations frequently block UI rendering.
http://www.satine.org/archives/2011/01/01/the-care-and-feedi...

Android Garbage Collector Slow Down
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6742314/android-garbage-c...

I'm performance tuning interactive games in Java for the Android platform. Once in a while there is a hiccup in drawing and interaction for garbage collection. Usually it's less than one tenth of a second, but sometimes it can be as large as 200ms on very slow devices.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2484079/how-can-i-avoid-g...
What SaaS Metrics Do You Track?
I understand that, but what keeps someone from pulling your key and secret out of your app and creating a trojan app? For example the app could look like your app, use the same key and secret, still authenticate as the user, but then steal their data and upload it to a third party server.

That may not be easily doable with iOS since Apple does a good job of curating their market, but I can imagine someone making a fake app like this that runs on Android and getting in to the Android market.
Conflict Invigoration
I'm curious how well the study results reflect actual numbers of offers, salaries, and benefits. I would expect that since it's a voluntary survey, there would be some amount of the 'high school reunion effect' going on here and that the survey results would skew higher than the actual. In the same way that those who look good and have done well are more likely to attend a high school reunion, I would assume that those students who have had relatively successful job searches would be more likely to respond to the survey.
would be interesting to know how many graduates would be willing to join very early stage startups. humble salary, good equity, great idea, great work.
I've been in it twice before giving up on my Ubuntu 11.10 upgrade (worked lovely on 11.04. To be honest I gave up on trying to get x repaired because wifi didn't work either and I really don't like unity-style stuff. Nor the hidden scrollbars I can never find even though I know where to look.)
Microsoft Store opening, queuers admit they only want free concert tickets
printf("goodbye, Dennis");
Warning sign: When you start fucking with your core product.

Qualification: Ultimately, your customers define what "fucking" means with respect to your product.