skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reasons aren't mysterious; it may be worth going over here:

1. Windows XP. XP installation media only ever came with IE6, never anything newer. Given the frequency that most corporate workstations get reassigned and wiped and reimaged, IE6 comes out of the reinstallation casket all the time.

2. Intranet systems. For most corporations of size, internal browser-based applications get the company's business done on a daily basis. Optimizing for this case is more important than optimizing for public web browsing. And these apps were written by the lowest-available-cost developers, many in outsourced shops that are long gone, who barely understood anything about the underlying technology and inadvertently rely on all sorts of browser misbehavior and bugs. (Also, the real limitation here is Microsoft-imposed, that you can't easily run multiple versions of IE on the same system, because so much of what we call IE is really integrated operating system components. IE6 for intranet alongside IE8/9 for the public web would be an optimal case but is not practical.)

3. Other browsers do exist. In several large corps I've seen, the policy (unofficial or official) is to use IE6 for the internal apps, and go ahead and install Firefox for public web browsing. The users savvy enough to install Firefox will do so; the users that don't know what a browser version is aren't missing anything.

4. User training. These are the users that will call the helpdesk and complain when their intranet app opens its popup in a tab instead of a new window and they can't find it because the instructions on their Post-it say to click on the window in the taskbar. No IT department wants to deal with that.

5. Cost-benefit, which is really a superset of everything above. There's still no compelling business benefit for most companies to buy Windows 7, so they're still reinstalling XP with IE6 all the time. There's no profitable business plan to be shown for spending time and money upgrading internal apps to work with IE8/9 and retraining users to the new workflow. Remember that these corporations are always in existence to make money. They aren't there to serve some Platonic ideal of everybody using the World Wide Web with the newest technology.
Well, what I am wondering is: is this actually an unintended consequence or a conscious choice that has been made?
Thanks for the screencast Alex, the documentation and examples around spine.js are really helpful.
Matt Cutts, why is Google doing this?
"Instead of being evaluated on their capability to manage the overall system architecture, Japanese IT project managers are often assessed on how they can personally relate to the team members. Taking team members out for a drink, listening to their personal issues, serving as both counselor and cheerleader, are important to strengthen a project manager’s people network. "

OTOH, I've worked for several western corporate orgs where we have no shortage of PMs, stuck in meetings and forwarding emails and not doing any of the above.

+1 Japan
metcalfe's law disagrees with you.
Thank you for posting this. I find myself in a similar boat; I find it very difficult to focus after work, and projects get done at a glacial pace.

I have tried what the OP suggests; set the alarm for a couple hours earlier. But getting up at 6am (need to be in the office at 8am) is also hard - it is too easy to turn off the alarm when nothing "bad" will happen (i.e. nobody will get fired) and get a little bit more sleep.

Does anyone have any particular techniques ("hacks" in HN parlance) for making an early wake-up+coding session a habit?
What a frustrating situation. Best of luck fighting for the cause of less regulation.

My advice - keep fighting the good fight by building and trialling your product in other states and countries. As unfair and unjust the law may be, there's no reason for you to sit "idle" when you could be building, growing and learning. If you're successful, it'll be all the easier to convince the state to license you.
Awesome, thanks Chris

Are there videos of the other presenters anywhere?
Although Sony has a thunderbolt display with the graphics card in the display not in the computer, so the long cable just sends higher level graphics commands and the bandwidth problem is over short proprietary stuff inside the display...
Why do so many mobile site redirects get this wrong?
That way digits[0] will be the least significant digit for any given BigInteger, and digits[1] will always be the second, and so on.

Rather than digits[2] for -123's least significant digit, and digits[1] for, say, 43's least significant digit.
A few years ago I remember thinking of applying for a position at VW, yet their blind adherence to IE really turned me off. Its gotta be a indicator of the culture there.
Well I was more focusing on the effect than the cause since this is a cause in the current context (i.e. lack of 'hunger').

But yeah, most of it IS probably driven by culture. That said, I'm sure there are some biological intricacies too. Something like x years after puberty your brain starts to want more of the same things - something that would definitely help in establishing a stable lifestyle and child rearing.
Nope: http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2010/05/2009-most-energy-efficie.... The amount of energy needed to produce $1 of output keeps falling.
it's the trade deficit that threatens the US (and other) economies. Overproduction by one country that refuses to fairly trade with another. China's weath increases should be trickling down to the masses increasing their ability to buy goods that they couldn't afford, either from China's vast supply chain, or other countries. Instead the chinese are buying american treasury notes to keep the money hidden, and keep us paying them forever creating invisible debt, as well as keeping a lid on the changes in society that come with a well fed, and powerful middle class.
Have you read the explanations? They're pretty sensible: it makes digits "align" correctly, so you can essentially just zip & reduce your digits. Which is what you want to do for many operations. Otherwise you'd have to start by reversing your digits arrays or do weird index computations.

It's rather clever.
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Disagree.The Financial Times is much better than those two, which are pretty patchy.
I'm not sure why you are focussing on the percentage of people of the population. This may or may not be a problem depending on your point of view (an elitist might even think we should limit it some more) but by far a greater problem is surely that people only had two flavors they could realistically choose from. And the two flavors weren't all that different.

This is something that can relatively easily be changed. Europe has democracies with over 20 different political parties, as many as 15 getting elected representatives. Lots of inefficiencies with that many parties, of course, but at least more people get to choose something they agree with. Of course the only people who could change it would have to give up lots of power. Not going to happen. See Britain.
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I am supposed to _start_ work at FB assuming I get a visa.

I'm a bit curious about why a search for name won't show the alternate persona? I've had friends who made 2 profiles and both used to show up whenever I typed their name in; and his # being listed publicly doesn't affect the argument either way.

Edit: Reply to child comment by jarofgreen: apparently the comments are too deeply nested to reply directly: "using FB wrong therefore deserves to have his privacy violated"

I've never stated that he _deserved_ to get his privacy violated; it's simply that the behaviour of any s/w is based on what settings you choose. Your argument would have to be that it's the S/Ws fault for not being transparent enough/not easily understandable enough leading the user to be misled - but the general response seems to be that the s/w is actively out to get the user.
What about Microsoft Research Stores?

http://www.wemakethingswork.co.uk/Site/microsoft_research_st...
Microsoft Research Stores?
No, but it will sell books. It's rather gross seeing how many people are trying to make a buck off the guy's death.
Solar powered airships
That's quite standard. The sign can be taken care of separately if one wishes.

The reason for putting the least significant digit first is that carries accumulate towards the most significant digit in ordinary arithmetic. Thus many of the simplest operations want to work from least significant to most significant digit. A final carry out at the top might add an extra digit to the result. It would be really annoying to work with arrays that had most significant digit first. If you had an extra digit you'd have to shift the entire array one place to accommodate it!
I always wonder why helium-based airships never took off. Are there any technological limitations I'm not aware of? Seems to be such a simple and powerful idea (even more now that oil prices are soaring).
Having just recently started something similar on the same schedule you have, I can say the only thing that has worked so far is repetition.

I absolutely loathe getting up early, but after 2 weeks or so 5:30am begins to feel more... possible.
...exactly.

The sentiment seems to be that "we" need to somehow control these prices and markets, which has worked horribly in the past (and present).

The creation of the index isn't the problem. Wild speculation is. When you speculate the wrong way, you need to lose. But the precedent has been set --not only on the top level with the huge banks, but with main street citizens speculating on second homes and mortgages-- that the bet should be upside only.
>Apple has pledged to be true to Jobs' vision? Really? Because I think we just saw a better-sourced article state that Jobs himself said "Don't ask, 'What would Steve do?'".

I don't think that Jobs was alone in his feelings on Google and Android at Apple, whether it's justified or not. I'm reminded of a Gruber article:

http://daringfireball.net/2011/07/succeeding_steve_jobs

"ERIC SCHMIDT. Zero chance. Schmidt is viewed throughout Apple as a traitor, who perhaps used his knowledge of the iPhone, gleaned while then a member of Apple’s board himself, to give Google’s Android effort a leg up. There is a better chance of Apple choosing its next CEO through a raffle of ten golden tickets hidden inside iPad boxes distributed around the globe than that they’d give the job to Eric Schmidt. Wall Street might accept him but Apple rank-and-file would revolt."
One thing I've noticed is that education in the US seems to be lax until high school. At high school, the teachers ramp up the work that the students have and, because this increase in work is sudden, the pressure becomes more on getting the work done and turned in rather than actually learning the material. The problem with this is that this attitude of getting the work done vs learning the material hurts each student in college.

I agree that students are lax in college however, in my opinion, it is simply a reaction to being unable to cope with the increased responsibilities and pressures (not only academic but financial and social as well)

Perhaps one solution is to slowly increase the difficulty of elementary and middle schools. The goal would be to improve the work ethic in this country.

Another solution is to make it a necessity to perform well. In many colleges, the final grade is the only one that matters and this leads to students cramming before a final and then promptly forgetting the material. I don't see the work ethic in most American students I see in my Indian peers and my Chinese and Japanese friends.
Here is a javascript bigint library by Leemon Baird

http://www.leemon.com/crypto/BigInt.js

It's about the best I've seen and embodies all the principles that are being explained by Matt.
I think you forgot the fact that we eat food that takes much more work to grow. if we will return to eating mostly rice and beans(like in india for example) - the work in those fields can be highly automated , and i'm pretty sure a farmer can feed a lot more than 120X people with rice and beans.
EDIT: Emacs is pretty intelligent when it comes to indenting Python code; it does not merely insert 4 spaces for a TAB, but it automatically aligns your code to the Python expression in your previous line!

I don't know which one is the "right" way, but I certainly prefer Emacs's default behaviour. Maybe I just didn't configure my Vim properly :-)

Example:

In Emacs:
def _five(one,two,
....,,,,..three,four):

In Vim, with 4 space Tabs:
def _five(one,two,
....,,,,|hree,four):

| => cursor position when you press ENTER.
The quantities of CC'd addresses were kind of kook-like. There are better ways to challenge unjust laws than writing loser-length mail to people who are working lousy jobs with no power to change those laws.
That's strange... could someone confirm? I would be very disappointed if that was true and not widely known. On the other hand, I didn't have any problems with submitting that link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3146239
If you want to put HTTP methods in terms of SQL CRUD then think of it this way.

POST is like a INSERT on a table with a auto incrementing primary key, you insert the data into the table and the SQL server tells you what the data is identified as. When you POST to a web service, the web service tells you what the data is identified as.

For SQL:

INSERT INTO people (first, last) VALUES ("Eric", "Moritz");
SELECT id FROM people WHERE first = "Eric" and last = "Moritz";

For HTTP:

> POST /people/
> Content-Type: application/json
>
> {"first": "Eric", "last": "Moritz"}

< HTTP/1.1 201 Created
< Content-Location: /people/1
<
< {"first": "Eric", "last": "Moritz"}

PUT can function like an UPDATE on a table using it's primary key. For instance:

For SQL:

UPDATE people set first = "Eric" where id = 1;

For HTTP:

> PUT /people/1/first
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> Eric

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-Type: application/json
<
< Eric

A PUT can also be used to create a resource:

For SQL:

INSERT INTO people (id, first, last) VALUES (1, "Eric", "Moritz");

For HTTP:

> PUT /people/1
> Content-Type: application/json
>
> {"first": "Eric", "last": "Moritz"}

< HTTP/1.1 201 Created
<
< {"first": "Eric", "last": "Moritz"}
Once in a while we should stop and think that Sun is the major energy supplier for the planet. Nature has found a way to turn it to plants, life, wind, petroleum etc. I truly belive we can perform equally well.
This is an interesting bit of information. I sometimes find that an equation is harder to read after breaking it in many parts due to the 80 columns limit.

It seems there is a compromise to make between the readability of single statements versus the readability of the code as a whole.
The beginnings of a BSD licensed bignum library
I love hacker news as well as reddit. I have noticed a trend though, and I'm unsure if it's intentional, or just a result of how both sites are used: 1.) The stories on Hacker News are mainly about start ups (not all, but most). 2.) The users of /r/javascript, or /r/programming (and other programming related subreddits) are very helpful when it comes to finding answers to programming related questions.

I find myself pursuing reddit more often because I am not involved in a start up, or have any interest in starting a start up. I just like to code, and reddit fuels my interest more than hacker news does in that regard. I'm sure I'll get "downvoted" to hell for saying that.
Visually I prefer the first. You need to find a way to keep it as visually pleasing as it is while integrating some more info about the actual product. But I would avoid the second screen -- too complex for a newcomer.
But that would only be a problem if you wanted to move large amounts of wealth infrequently. If you only wanted to move small amounts of wealth frequently (like Paypal), then there wouldn't be any problem.
I've often thought of creating a "Cult of HTTP" that goes door to door and hands out pamphlet versions of Chapter 8 of "RESTful Web Services" to web developers.

http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/web-development/web-ser...
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I've often had the thought that you can split the day into thirds of 8 hours each, 1/3 is work, 1/3 is personal time, 1/3 is sleep.

The usual pattern is work -> personal time -> sleep. Why not reverse personal time and sleep? So when you come home from work, you sleep (thus getting an 8-hour rest), wake up around 2am fully charged and then work on your bootstrapped business during your personal time. You'll get more than 2 hours. Finally, work time comes last.

This way, your business gets your best energy and effort for that day, you get more rest, and work won't notice the difference.
A website like HN is really simple to make in PHP. I don't see the point in making it open source. I don't see the point copying HN either.

HN is not a great website because of it's design (which is really poor in my opinion). It's a great website because of the community.
Thanks for this. I've joined.

What I'd really like to see is "$NAME, like Hacker/Lamer news, but for book reviews". The submission has a title which is $BOOKNAME - $AUTHORNAME; then the post contains maybe a link to some online store selling it. (affiliate links are allowed). After that the first post is a review of the book. That allows people to upvote the book, but downvote the review (or vice versa.)

Really, I should just buy some hosting and get my head round hackernews / lamernews.
Very nice indeed. Simple, clean and enjoyable :)
> Good grief, it's so lame it's almost trolling.

Because it is trolling. HN is reading, upvoting, and commenting on an economics essay by someone who studied "Fine Arts" at the "School of Visual Arts" in NY and now works at "CYCLE Interactive" as a designer. The author hand waves about the 80/20 rule as if discussing things using their own common sense is equivalent to mathematical rigor or scientific evidence. It's simply a link-bait headline that evokes a response from a large portion of the users on HN.

Honestly, it's disturbing how many red flags there are in this article and yet it makes the front page of HN.

Everyone's half-baked opinion is not equal. The way I feel every time I watch a movie where a machine spontaneously "comes alive", and then have to listen to people talk about "what if it really happened", must be similar to how economists feel every day. No wonder it's the dismal science.
In my case (I am the OP) it was easy enough because I'm close to the first beta release and I'm pretty excited about it ;)

I can only add that the comment that inspired me was from someone who woke up at 4 am and did exercises immediately, to really wake up. I told myself that if he could do it at 4, I AT LEAST had to wake up at 6!
"This almost sounds like a spiritual leader declaring a jihad on Android as his dying wish"

What the hell? Beyond the fact that this is one small part of a book (not the same as him saying it on video or written by himself on a website), there's no way the average joe is going to have his purchasing decision swayed by the opinions of Steve Jobs. Everyone who would already has (or is planning on procuring) an iPhone.
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I typically use a TiddlyWiki (supports tagging of entries) stored on Dropbox.
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Or Azure
Maybe because you are younger than all of your peers and you end up missing out many things because of it.
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How does Quicksilver compare to Alfredapp or other launchers? I've stayed away from it because of tales of crashes and poor performance.
That FB responded 2 hours after the post here on HN speaks for itself. I had logged some bug reports the regular way, and FB got back after one year. Yes, one year.
Quality sleep is very important for long term productivity.

Anecdotally, lot of people need to 'wind down' after finishing work, so that they get a good sleep; hence the sleep-work-personal ordering.

On a related point, is it bad to set out to shortchange 'work' by giving them your least productive hours? Wouldn't it be better to try negotiate a 6 hour working day with them, on the basis that you weren't going to be productive for the last 2 hours, anyway?
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Here is open source software with a great UI and because of being open source had a resurgence. What a great story and a great piece of software.
Idiot implementation.

If you think about it, there shouldn’t be that much of a difference in markup between mobile and desktop, so serve the same shit, and only change the presentation. I think a lot of engineering groups try to over-complicate this, or simply don’t care. One document, one url, different presentation.

I’ve used this to great effect before, in conjunction with media selectors: http://detectmobilebrowsers.com/
It went through a bad patch a few years ago. For more than a year now it has been rock solid for me.
Um..... I don't get it.

How can Facebook have access to numbers on anyone's phone?
I ditched Quicksilver when Spotlight became fast enough.
Mobile apps.
Seems down. Can somebody paste here?
I've started to do this also. However I have a hard time tearing myself away to go to my 9-5 contract job.

It does set your priorities in order though, my side project deserves my most awake hours & my most productive hours too.

Sending your e-mails first thing means responses come back by the time you're home. It speeds things up so much it results in more than double productivity!
The mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart and 'stolen' by Xerox and then 'stolen' by Apple. Apple's mouse was well designed, compact, cheap, reliable, very dependable and consistent in its function. None of this was true of the two previous mice.

This is the difference when Apple 'steals'. They are inspired by something poorly executed and create something much better than the inspiration.
Oh, that makes sense.

So it is sort of "centralized" with the hologram makers, right?
I have seen this banded about the internet too much of late and it's about time it stopped, I mean it's not as if the information is out there, is it? The mouse wasn't invented by Xerox. The concept was invented by Doug Engelbart of SRI in the 1960's and first demoed in 1968 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs). The GUI was around as a concept before PARC existed. Ivan Sutherland is credited as creating the first working GUI with Sketchpad in, released in 1963 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOZqRJzE8xg). You'll notice that the interface ideas found in the Alto and later systems (Star?) by PARC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alto_Neptune_Filemanager.g...) were influenced by those of Engelbart in his demo, or to use your language, "stolen". If you look back further, you'll come across Vannevar Bush, who outlined the majority of what went on to become modern computing in an essay about a conceptual system called 'Memex' in 1945, so I guess using your language, everyone 'stole' from him.

As a footnote, Xerox/PARC were remunerated fairly by Apple with 1 million pre-IPO shares, valued at around $7/share which Xerox later sold for $16 million (~$45 million today).

Finally, making criticisms like that is fine, but at least get the meme right. Apple were said to have "stolen" the GUI concept that Xerox apparently "invented".
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