skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trying to speak reason to HN on this is a lost cause. Look at the results of the poll so far:

About 65% of HN use an adblocker. The general online population, only about 1% use an adblocker.

HN is heavily heavily biased away from advertising. HN also mistakenly probably thinks it's because they're "early adopters" or more "technical". The truth is more like HN is in a bubble, anti-mainstream etc. If you did a poll on here to find out how many people watched American Idol, you'd probably find similar results - but that wouldn't mean HNers were 'ahead of the curve', it'd just mean HNers aren't "mainstream".

Get out of your bubble HN. Do what your potential users do - view ads. Maybe even buy a TV as well!
May I suggest you have a look at some of these in google image search:

pier luigi nervi

centre pompidou paris

lloyds of london

frei otto gridshell structure

norman foster masdar

norman foster gherkin

zaha hadid bmw factory

zaha hadid wolfsburg

jean nouvel institut du monde arabe

renzo piano padre pio

jean nouvel quai branly

schlumberger research centre

madrid barajas airport

Thats kind of a random selection from the 'hi-tech' taster menu.
first diagram in the link is traffic flow. there's a blue circle going all the way around the building. appleinsider has kindly cropped out any sort of legend, i suppose it could be underground though.
Verizon's Samsung Galaxy Nexus may be delayed
This is great news. They have a solid product and I'm glad their success is enabling them to secure funding and bring it to more people.

Uber is an example of something you really couldn't bootstrap in your spare time as is popular around here - it's a big, capital-intensive operation requiring by-location legal and physical infrastructure... a real business.
That's 'collections' like a library or museum has collections. The Archive has a 'Web Collection', a 'Books Collection', an 'Audio Collection', etc.

FYI, I'm a former full-time and current part-time employee of the Internet Archive.
"We have our reputation to loose. That’s our most valuable asset."

You've just lost your reputation for good grammar.
This is... impressive.

Not for me, though. When I got my current webcomic up and running I didn't even bother writing a custom theme like I did before - I just made a child theme of the Comicpress theme and started hacking away at the CSS.

It is inefficient, it is inelegant... but I got it up and running in a couple of days rather than a couple of weeks of tweaking the hell out of everything. Every now and then when the comic's being hard to write I procrastinate by tweaking the theme a little more.

I don't know if this means I'm a talentless hack or a pragmatic professional. Maybe some of both.

Then again I'm also not doing a crazy dynamic site that happens to be using Wordpress as its backend.
I have a Sky box. It lets me pause live TV. Including the BBC.
There's no shortage of free, non ad-supported content out there. I would gladly ditch whatever ad-supported content there is, if that's what it took to get rid of ads.

There are only a handful of industries (like movies and tv shows) which take a fair bit of money to create high quality content (though overwhelming majority of the time the money's wasted on utter garbage). Books, stories, news, and music can be created and distributed on a shoestring budget. They don't need the ad-supported creation or distribution model to thrive. The days of content shortages are practically over.
Awesome idea man and I really dig what you have going so far. Inputting items by hand will def be an issues as there are millions of products out there. Do you think you could try to work with the Amazon Associates API and input gifts that way? I haven't really tried doing this before but you could possibly attempt to utilize that (or something similar).

As far as the UI goes I think it looks fairly clean. For me it's a personal preference to have all of the field top oriented and place the search results on the bottom (google esque). This also would allow you to have rows of 3 instead of rows of 2 as far as products go.

Just my 2 cents great work man!
Be surprised (I was). http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/117/3/681:

"Respondents were grouped by child body mass index (BMI)
percentile (<5th, 5–84th, 85–94th [at risk for overweight
(AROW)], and ≥95th [overweight])."

Apparently, those parents are not alone in thinking 'overweight' is a relative term.
I didn't know people still used ColdFusion in 2011.
Depends on the contract. It could be argued as unconscionable but that is a different matter.
I am pretty much as anti-college as it gets, but this piece really doesn't lay out the best arguments for why our higher education system is failing us.

This doesn't sound like an argument against college in general, it sounds like an argument against really bad colleges.

The problem I have with college is that it tries to do two very different things:
1) Prepare students for participating in the market economy
2) Provide learning for the sake of learning

It's best to separate these two things. First of all, doing (1) shouldn't take 4 years for most people. And it definitely shouldn't be four years of classroom learning interspersed with summer's of "real work."

And doing (2) is something that shouldn't be tied to how we sustain ourselves economically (i.e. getting jobs). Learning for the sake of learning really needs to be limited to those who:
(a) have an aptitude for it
(b) have the passion for it
Otherwise, you're pretty much wasting everyone's time.

How would this look in practice? I don't know, but I bet will start seeing this pattern emerge.

The demand probably won't come from students. It will come from cashed up employers who desperately want to hire, but see long lines of unemployed grads who have no clue how to make themselves useful.
Too bad there's no measure of the conversion rate among non-Christians.

Also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpqknwKbvDE :-)
Oh my god, the political coverage is the absolute worst. I am embarrassed by the system of politics the US has slipped into.

I had friends in high school who had post-middle-age parents who were absolutely insane politically. Magnets covering their fridge, signs in their yard, on their walls; their house was just full of propaganda. And they would sit there after school watching the fucking news and getting outraged every time they were supposed to. It's clockwork for these news channels.
When it comes to games, OpenGL is still the best option. The animation system works well for moving around interface elements in two dimensions. The animation system does not work well for 3D or when you are modifying the bitmap content of a layer on the screen.

Will OSX ever catch up to Windows for games? Maybe. Some game companies take the approach of writing everything in OpenGL to make it easier to port between systems, writing a layer of native code to support their cross-platform code.

However, some studios use DirectX which is windows-only. The popularity of OSX and iOS will only increase the pressure on game developers (and engine developers) to write code that is easier to port.
I've had similar experiences. Hopefully Phil Haack's move out of MS doesn't affect its future moves in support of OSS.
> if you are on the front page of HN for a wrong reason, you leave everything aside and fix it.

I don't think example code as an image on one page of a site as large as MSDN is a good reason to leave everything aside and fix it, regardless of whether it is on HN or not.
No, I think you're wrong. It's not for everyone but I highly recommend you look into one of these. I'd say look at LESS or SASS (they're basically the same) because that's what I'm most experienced with. Here's why it makes sense to use these languages:

First off, these languages help you write faster, and more efficiently. They mostly take a lot of the repetition and mental strain out of writing code. In my experience with LESS I'm always able to do things faster and don't have to remember color names or keep track of certain styles that I repeat many times especially if they include vendor prefixes.

Then once you've "compiled" the code it's the same as if you were to write it normally. Some may say "so what's the point then?" but again I must repeat that you are able to work more efficiently and still have yourself normal, totally compatible CSS, js, or HTML.

As far as performance goes, there really is no loss in performance as your abstracted code is compiled to the everyday kind with option to minify it too. I use LESS for all ky styling and on my Mac I use either Less.app or CodeKit which automatically detects changes to my .less files and compiles them on the fly to normal .css ones. The source of every page always asks for normal .css files and I really don't have to do any extra work besides making sure the app outputs my stylesheets in the right folder. As a bonus, CodeKit also minifies most languages, detects and syntax errors, and does some image optimization. On my Linux box, I just run a quick terminal command and the compiling takes a couple seconds. Barely any extra work at all.

The only time I'd see ant performance issues is if you were doing client or server side parsing/compiling of these abstraction languages in production. For example, you can use less.js and have your .less files linked in your HTML and it'll turn it into CSS on the fly. That would be a problem. Otherwise, as long as you're taking your HAML, CoffeeScript, LESS/SASS/SCSS, and whatever else and converting it to everyday js, CSS, and HTML then you have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

I used to believe like you that these superset languages were just a novelty and had no truly useful purpose. Then I tried LESS and still thought it was lame for a short time (I only grasped the concept of variables and thought the only benefit was being able to name colors) until I really understood it and now I can't live without it. Give one of these a try and I think you'll appreciate them.

Edit: I understand that not all of these work the same. For those that require server or client side parsing with no option to convert prior to production then you have a point. But most of these abstracted, superset languages can be compiled to normal CSS/HTML/js before production and those are the ones that are truly beneficial.
Sedo Sells 3D.com for $500,000
It's a bit distressing that a lot of the most interesting .NET things (such as mono[touch,droid] and asp.net MVC) are either black sheep or 3rd party projects. .NET is a solid technology, but I fear it may end up having a limited lifespan due to being so heavily tied to windows, especially as the next generation of systems (tablets, non-traditional PCs, etc.) starts taking over the market.
> 2) Don't give free content. Make me pay for it. If I like it I would.

You might. 99% of the population would not.
"None - my stock option vanished and don't own any". What does this mean? How stock options vanish?
My options per se were not worth anything, but the company that acquired my startup gave employees a bonus on closing and held out additional bonuses if we would stay for two years.
The three main reasons I block ads:

1.) Speeds up the web dramatically
2.) Increases privacy (Ad networks track users across sites)
3.) Improves security (Ad networks have been known to serve malware)

I also dislike looking at them, but if it weren't for the above three problems, I'd probably skip the ad blocker and just ignore them.
You know how many officials you can bribe with $1.6 B? Here's a hint: LOTS OF THEM.
You can just come out and say what you think, no need to hide behind "finding that interesting" and "devil's advocate". I happen to disagree that Android/Google in general steals IP, but it is better to say what you mean to have a real discussion.
Thanks for clarifying... my bad.

Still, it's not really a cause I value.
Is The Big Bang Theory Producing More Physics Majors?
According to the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), there was a 10% increase in the number of students accepted to read physics by the university admissons services between 2008-09, when The Big Bang Theory was first broadcast in the UK, and 2010-11. Numbers currently stand at 3,672. Applications for physics courses at university are also up more than 17% on last year. Philip Walker, an HEFCE spokesman, said the recent spate of popular televisions services had been influential but was hard to quantify.
Phil also invented C#, the Faux Hawk, and Daft Punk
House updates 1988 privacy law to allow online sharing of Netflix choices
Perhaps a better question is "Was it worth it?"
"didn't serve the news consumer well"

Certainly not for every type of story (where accuracy counts more, say medical information or a lost child) but for a story like this it's more like entertainment. I mean does it really matter other than being interesting that this even happened at all?

Side: Agree highly with your PR angle. And even if rights weren't signed away even a good litigator knows what they can or can't get in damages from a case like this. It's not an automatic win with high dollars. You need to prove damages. The physical damage is easily remedied. The psychological damage is hard to prove. And ultimately the lawyer would do better to take his 33% of a quick settlement than to drag this out.
Pretty sure it wasn't, but I didn't really have the resources nor the energy to fight it.

On the one hand, I was told before that the CEO would be buying out all the outstanding stock of people leaving the company

On the other, I was never presented with any kind of form or bill of sale to sign, which is what I was waiting for so I could contest it and attempt to keep my shares.

At the end of the day, the amount of shares I owned was so incredibly low, that I figured it didn't really matter, and that I was incredibly eager to be done with the whole place after all of the shit I had been through, that it wasn't even worth fighting for.

So on my next to last day, I was simply handed an envelope with a personal check inside, made out to me, for the amount of One Pittance.
Is this before or after taxes? In my case, the difference between 60% of $0 and the full $0 is drastically different.
> "If the Gatekeeper says "I am examining your source code", the results seen by the Gatekeeper shall again be provided by the AI party, which is assumed to be sufficiently advanced to rewrite its own source code, manipulate the appearance of its own thoughts if it wishes, and so on."

This IMHO is a huge loophole. I would not accept the bet with this in place. In the real-world scenario I would expect that there would be a copy of the AI's source code somewhere outside the box which would provide some useful information, unlike this protocol which allows the AI to lie about the nature of its code (making the "I am examining your source code" question completely useless.)
5 Design Decision Styles. What's Yours?
This was my contribution to the SO thread! Super handy feature. I also use the - highlight block - then 'C shift -' to undo in region
Yep, I had nothing to do with TDL. Wish I could claim it, but I can't. I mean, I guess I could and lie about it, but no. Won't do that. Not yet anyways. :)
Exactly. I don't think that a re-write for WordPress will be the best solution for the moment as it'll wreak havoc on the thousands of themes and plug-ins that exists in the market.

I'm thinking of a theme framework that ease the theme creation process. It keeps you focused on doing what matters: putting the theme, CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Mainly there are three things to care about

- A routing engine. Similar to the Ruby routing engine. A plain and simple one.

- Views with a templating engine; and avoid the PHP/HTML mixing non-sense.

- A simple solution to create Admin panels on the fly.

I think this could serve as a solution for Theme Authors which helps them focus on the design rather than fight PHP loops and lookup WordPress functions.
Not all minorities are offended by mentions of Christmas. I'm Jewish, and find the whole "Happy Holidays" thing to be bizarre and unnecessary. Christmas is a major Christian holiday. Hanukkah is a minor Jewish holiday. The only thing that they have in common is that they both take place at roughly the same time of year.

If you're Christian, and want to celebrate Christmas, then that's great; go for it! Don't go watering down your holiday messages, or attempt to include Hanukkah in your celebrations. (Government and the public sphere is a different thing, at least in the US.)

I live in Israel nowadays, where Christmas exists mostly as an item on the TV news. But I still find it amazing that anyone would be offended when someone expresses excitement and positive feelings about their own holidays.

Meanwhile, I found this marketing test to be fascinating, and a great demonstration of the need to actually test, rather than just go with gut feelings.
U.S. Justice Department turns antitrust eyes toward pricing of ebooks
I'm more interested to learn how SocialCam managed to get so much interest? Is it ThanksGiving, therefore giving people a reason to show something off?
From what I can see, there is a shortage of free, non ad-supported news of the level of the NY Times. The only two venues I can think of that qualify are the BBC and NPR - both take government subsidy, and one does do infrequent pleas for money.

Then there are some of the webcomics I like, which has no alternative. If I want to read Penny Arcade, substituting another comic won't help.

So do you not read the NY Times, Washington Post, or any online newspaper that has ads? Do you not read print newspapers because they have ads?
I've been a staunch .Net defender for a long time, but have almost entirely thrown in the towel at this point. MVC is awesome, C# is awesome, F# is awesome...

but, unfortunately Mono just doesn't cut it (Boehm GC? Really? s-gen is a nightmare too, before you counter with that) and Windows isn't a realistic option for a lot of people.
Whoops! I totally forgot he left. Thanks for correcting me.
Are you in the club of people saying she needs to document all of the times that card was played against her in the past (and not played against male coworkers), or "it wasn't sexism"?

I'm in the club of people who don't think she told a convincing story in this blog post. All she illustrated was a scenario where she felt she was treated unfairly, annotated with her opinion that it was out of sexism. There isn't much to learn about there--certainly less than I've learned from other stories of sexism in technology. There's a difference between picking out a subtle instance of sexism and picking out a completely ambiguous situation where one person feels they've been mistreated and assuming it's sexism.

Really, I'm not especially critical of the author here. She was probably just venting. For something to be Hacker News material, it should probably be a little more than merely an instance of venting.
I disagree, the reporting is much more restricted and guided on TV what with all of the advertising partners and the push to be "family friendly."
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And your organization has much more than 3 teams? The article specifically says this is a large multi-team coordination issue.
The absolute worst is when before a commercial break they "tease" the result of the experiment, by showing the results!
There's a lot of good stuff coming in that respect. As long as ScottGu carries the torch, things are good there. :)
"I don't think this comparison has any place in this discussion"

I agree. Comparing markup languages to programming languages is even worse than comparing js to assembly. But since we are on the topic... I am not quite sure i undestand what " xhtml is unsuitable for the real world" means. Xhtml is a contract between a content author and a browser. Why do we call the browser's failure to implement the contract "unsuitable for the real world"?
That's what PR news stories are for. If you do something interesting enough, people will seek out more information on their own.

For example, how many people will admit to having read about the place that was giving out free cows as a signing bonus?
I'm guessing if the company was put under administration, employees holding stock (which is bound to fundamentals anyhow) would just be another creditor realizing market rate.
Well, the lead developer is still on the project. He started on MVC even before me. It's in good hands. :)
My Xbox LIVE for iOS
You may have unwittingly purchased an item because somebody else purchased it after seeing it on an Internet ad though...
Thanks so much for linking to this post. I was just thinking how I would go about caching QuerySets for a Django project.
I did get your point. I was being sarcastic when I said that using XPath is "cool." I guess should've marked it with <sarcasm></sarcasm> to make it clear ;). I was trying to convey exactly what you just said: it doesn't make sense to use XPath to query relational DB.
I think the 61K - $150K option covers that pretty well.
Fluxus is a 3D game engine for livecoding in Racket. http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/

Example video:
http://vimeo.com/6744140
Perl 5 (or, more accurately, CPAN) compatibility mode is only really interesting in two cases: when converting a project piecemeal from Perl 5 to Perl 6, and in the time between when Perl 6 gets generally usable and when it gets sufficient library support with native Perl 6 code.

All of this depends on Perl 6 being generally usable and having a working Perl 5 compatibility mode.
For the record, there are a lot of big .NET projects on Github already:

https://github.com/mono
https://github.com/nhibernate
https://github.com/ravendb

Good to see more momentum in that direction, though of course!
Perhaps there should be a "Haven't had an exit or IPO" so we can get a sense for how rare these events are?
This article is a straw man.

I don't think most economists would seriously suggest that the market lives, should live, or ideally would live in a static equilibrium. I know that most economists wouldn't say they can predict the fluctuations of the market. The ones that think they can, of course, get disproportionate amounts of airtime on CNBC or wherever, so it's an understandable misapprehension.
Because defining every word one uses in a forum post is incredibly tedious, and even when you try to do so preemptively, someone still comes in and asks you for definitions of more words.

I'm using them in a colloquial rather than rigorous sense, because that's the lowest friction way of communicating in a casual setting.

But at core, when I say 'static', I mean something determined before execution, by means of static scopes and compile-time types; when I say dynamic, I mean something determined at the point of execution, by means of dynamic scopes and run-time values. When I say 'static scopes', I mean scopes determined through lexical nesting and static types. When I say 'static type', I mean types determined without need for any execution of the target program. When I say 'dynamic scopes', I mean scopes determined through dictionary lookup at runtime (vtables are dictionaries too), possibly even including dynamic scopes (cf Lisp, Javascript eval, etc.).

Most languages have both dynamic and static aspects, but the mixes vary greatly. Languages designed to be compiled typically use far more statically resolved features, because if you can afford the time to put into analysis, and you have all the source immediately available, you can find a lot of common bugs and generate faster code. Languages designed to be interpreted typically use far more dynamically resolved features, because that gives less latency to execution, more expressiveness, more flexibility with modularity and program composition, and is also easier to implement.