skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Log onto our website, but only with your parents' permission!" died quickly a decade ago for a reason. There's virtually no way of validating that. Which is why I'm still surprised that movie and video game sites still use the faded "Enter your age to continue" screen.
COPPA is fucking stupid legislation, but Google should at least provide a "parental consent" mechanism.
"Ok, that example has a slider"

It has two. There is one below the legend on the left hand side. That smooths your data by aggregating the plots.

It also has the zoom slider under the graph. Or chart, rather.

When you mouse over the series items on the top left corner, the data of the item you are mousing over is highlighted on the graph.

You can uncheck some of those series items to focus on particular data, e.g. look at New York and Tokyo and London.

You can re-order them by dragging them.

You can switch the view between stacks, percentage, stream and lines.

"Pretty awful choice of UI"

There are some nice things that come with the slider across the bottom of the graph. When I grab an end of the slider and move it, I can see exactly what is happening to the data as I move it, and I can let my eye determine where I should settle.

The question of "how do I get back" isn't on my mind. I know how to do that.

I can pin the left hand side somewhere and watch new data come into view, or pin the right hand side somewhere to make the view momentarily static.

"Also, what about fetching of remote data of variable resolution"

You can fetch your data however you want to.

Edit: I forgot to mention that the zoom slider there is just a DOM element. You can dress it up any which way.
> The weather is pretty much the only reason I don't regret moving here

You nailed it: we're paying for the weather.

It's December 11th, and we're still able to be outside. Yesterday I did a 80k bike ride and it was perfect out. Even at it's worst (Feb) it's still quite tolerable. Every time I think about moving to the east coast, I remember the ice and snow of the winters, and am quite happy to stay here.

Also, we're geographically ideal. Want to get into the hills? take a drive down 1 or skyline, and it's gorgeous. We have ocean access. Napa and Sonoma are an hour north. Skiing and the mountains are only a couple hours east.

It's far more than just san fransico proper.
The beauty of roots
This is why you should take control of your own data, and not let your data in the hands of a company.
Buy your own email address, set up your own blog self hosted.
What about the Google commercial, where parents open a childs google account upon birth, fill it with images and commentary...

Only to have it all deleted when Google get around to it?
"""This is all just xenophobic crap, and you should know that."""

That's an idiotic oversimplification, and you should know that.

"""Life isn't a game and people who look the same and talk the same as you are not "your team"."""

Well, they are, and the team is called a "country" or a "nation". They don't have to look the same or talk the same, but they DO HAVE to share certain beliefs and agree on certain procedures.

"""You don't "lose" if people dare have different ways of doing things on the same continent as you."""

Actually, I do lose the ability to live in a country that operates the way I like.

With your reasoning, you can just as well move to Saudi Arabia, and you be fine with no free speech, women not voting/driving, religious hysteria etc.

I don't think that this is the case --you're just talking BS, secure in living in the specific environment that you like and are used to. For all your "diversity" talk, I don't think you could even make it for a week in rural Montana, much less with actual people --including people who could give a rat's arse about diversity.
Still renting your modem? Rent vs Buy Modem
Everyone in this thread seems to assume that people will have to front the cash. Wouldn't it be more likely that they'd get a loan?

But yeah, $100k does seem a bit steep. That's almost the price of a college education, and a substantial fraction of the price of a good house. And in this economy, a lot of people are already having trouble paying both of those off; adding $100k on top of that for immigration would put this out of the reach of many people that I think that we do want to encourage to move here.

As a natural born citizen of the US who has many foreign friends, I am appalled at what they have to go through to get citizenship here. Some of them have managed to pull it off; some have given up and moved back home, or to other countries in which it's easier to get a work visa. And these are Ivy-league educated folks with masters degrees and PhDs in business and technical fields. I cannot believe that we are making it so difficult for such people to come to the US.
HN is more populated in recent weeks with TC titles which would make it less read by some. Maybe the name should change from Hacker News to Crunch News or Hacker Crunch. :: eyeroll ::
Duvet Covers
Can you say "duvet"? It sounds exotic and in fact duvets originated in Europe as a practical way to protect and prolong the life of a comforter, but a duvet is really just a fancy name for a quilt or comforter cover. Duvet covers offer a quick and easy way to transform your bedroom decor - slip a new duvet cover over your current comforter to enjoy a fresh new look
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4vkVHijdQk
Exactly. Copyright used to be something that concerned companies or professional creators of content. Normal people didn’t have to deal with it. It just never happened. (I’m guessing that’s one of the reasons why copyright law is so complicated. Companies can afford lawyers. Lawyers can deal with complicated laws.)

Copying is cheap now, as is publishing. Everyone can easily infringe copyright now, something that just wasn’t possible only twenty years ago.

My hypothesis is that people never understood copyright – they never had to – and now we are living in a world in which everyone can infringe copyright and hardly anyone understands what it is.
You're the Product.
"""This later caused many problems due to the English and Native Americans having very different notions of property and what buying land meant."""

Yeah, especially as for the English it meant "taking your land for peanuts".
More funding? Who cares, how about whose companies are making more revenue and holding onto more of their equity?
Nice tool! This will be helpful in the Sencha forums when a dev asks you for code related to bug reports. Although, I wish it was using ST2, and not ST1.

Here's one I did in a couple of minutes that displays HN items:
http://senchafiddle.com/#Ba4nZ -- Fiddle Mode
http://senchafiddle.com/server/full.php?token=Ba4nZ -- Full Screen
Book Shopping in Stores, Then Buying Online
Created Community for Technology/Environment/Entreprenuers
Whatever happend to "If you are under 18 (or 13?), ask your parents or gaurdian for permission"?

Believe that's the current Dutch regulations, not an expert though. It's quite unfair to assume that companies will keep track of this. Kids under 13 should probably have parental/monitored internet usage anyway.

(Though I have to admit to having had a Fb account back when it was 18+ when I was 17. School wasn't on Fb and everyone did it...)
I love the assumption that the men currently in startups have female partners who would want to reverse roles. Most have female partners who would prefer to stay home or work for an established company, so the actual effect of those men staying home would be a smaller talent pool. That is, unless she's trying to tell men who they should marry as well as how they should run their careers. Nothing she suggests would actually lead to the change she supposedly wants. The best way to get more women in startups is to let them see supportive role models . . . most often, their fathers.
Big equity with profit-sharing.

What do you and anyone else in the thread consider "big equity"? Please give specific examples.
I'd suggest a Fastmail.fm account instead. Their TOS says:

This Service is provided to individuals who are at least 18
years old or minors who have parental permission to open
and maintain an account.

I think I read somewhere that they consider a charge on a parent's credit card to be explicit parental consent. Makes sense to me.

Also, since you are paying them a little money, they offer actual technical support, unlike Google.

They also have family accounts, where you can have one person take care of billing and administration of several accounts. That's what I use for my whole family, including my parents.
Pretty well covered here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3010687

TL;DR: The account in the commercial is the parent's, not the kid's.
A very simple ExtJS MVC app in JSFiddle
B-b-but Google made this fancy video advertisement about how I can give my infant daughter a Gmail account and write to her as she grows up! Does it only work if she never uses it? You've gotta wait until you can hold a bat mitzvah to hand it off to her?

This kind of chicanery is why I can only chuckle when Google announces new initiatives that require significant customer service, like selling telephones or providing a fulfillment system to compete with Amazon Prime. They treat their users like ants. And given the way their business is structured, that scale is about correct.

Google doesn't need for any given user of their service to be pleased. They're a whale, straining krill from the ocean, playing a vast advertising numbers game on a scale individuals can barely grasp, and can barely factor into.

Which is not an illegitimate position. But it poses a problem for individuals who are swept into its gaping maw - there is zero incentive machinery to compel Google to ever get things corrected. Depending on where a product is on its growth curve, it might even cost Google more to fix the problem than to replace the users. Your only recourse is to hope for enough public embarrassment to short-circuit the system.

It also calls into question the viability of their entry into any business where service is a differentiating characteristic.
What? Kids cry all the time, come on.
> What happens when a generation completely comfortable with remix culture becomes a majority of the electorate, instead of the fringe youth? What happens when they start getting elected to office? (Maybe "I downloaded but didn't share" will be the new "I smoked, but didn't inhale.")

Yes, that's exactly what happens: nothing. The US has had (publicly confessed) former drug users as presidents for over a decade and a half now, and look at how it changed the "War on drugs": if anything, it intensified.

This is just wishful thinking.
If you're implying that I can tell by "looking" at them, I certainly didn't mean it that way. However, I do overhear things, and I'd guess that at least half of the people on my floor are here on a visa. Granted, it's not a huge floor. But still, I doubt that my experience is unique.
Losing access to Chromebook is an interesting case. Where did we go so wrong that breaching particular point of AuP causes our own hardware to become inaccessible?

People rally against zealous lockdown of PC (recently restricted boot in EFI, earlier TrustedComputing in general). Not being able to install any software of choice (with reasonably little effort) sure is bad, but having an already functioning computer swept right from under your fingertips could easily be way more damaging. Government couldn't do that without serious due process. Why a company can, and why aren't there voices of stern protest?
Okay, fair enough. Can you tell us why? And even if we accept that it's incorrect does this mean that people who can't afford it should just be able to take it for free? Charity is great but piracy in these terms is like forced charity.
What happens if the number of H1B's doubles? Suddenly availability of candidates skyrockets. The number of job openings plummet. Perfect setup for employers to get away with paying people much less, IMO.
To be honest, it its merely personal. I don't like Thomas, even if he can be a good laugh sometimes.

Edit: There we go folks, all it takes was a personal dig and those upvotes cascade into downvotes ;)
This is a common case of "If you are not paying for it, you are the product being sold.", this is what happens when you engage in careless computing and put your data on a third party remote server under their control.

Don't be careless and it won't come back and bite you.
The base kernel is not a lot bigger. There are about four times as many drivers. (But bellard's compilation only included the ones needed, IIRC. google tccboot for more info)
True. My experience is probably not unique, though - however, I would agree that it definitely would vary from location to location.
Good life lesson for the kid about government, and why freedom & liberty are so important.

And set her up with her own website already. Show her the power she has to not put up with such stupid limitations.
The trick is, you wouldn't necessarily. If your workload can be handled with one beefed-up lots-of-RAM-and-solid-state-drives server, you could spend your money on two of these instead of having 10 smaller servers, and be perfectly happy with it.

I don't care about what sells NoSQL products to enterprise users - there are lots of workloads where the data fits in RAM (for some reasonable quantity of RAM that money can buy) and you still prefer the durability and consistency that comes with standard SQL databases, even if you denormalize and/or use schemaless (XML or JSON) storage.
Good thing Yahoo didn't do this in the 90's otherwise no one in my middle school class wouldn't have had an email account.
That's exactly what the Nook Touch is, though: Android 2.1 on an e-ink screen.
"That's an idiotic oversimplification, and you should know that."

It's really not... You are a xenophobe.

"team is called a "country" or a "nation"."

1) That is an absurd concept.

2) No part of "political entity" implies "ethnicity/language/tradition"

"Actually, I do lose the ability to live in a country that operates the way I like."

1) Xenophobia, again.

2) It's still allegedly a democracy isn't it? That has to be worth as much as it ever was.

"With your reasoning, you can just as well move to Saudi Arabia, and you be fine with no free speech, women not voting/driving, religious hysteria etc."

Strawman. How mature.

"all your "diversity" talk"

Where?

"I don't think you could even make it for a week in rural Montana"

You know precisely nothing about my personal life. Do not pretend that you do.

"Regardless: You asked for a citation that strict immigration policies are hurting Japan, and I believe I have adequately provided them."

This is still the case. Unless you wish to discuss that further, this conversation is complete.
If Google did not collect and sell its users' personal information, they would not have to worry about a law saying they can't do that to kids.
>"Friendship wasn't an affectation, it was a necessity; humans are effectively incapable of surviving as an individual with no social support, and these people were, by modern standards, in a constant state of just barely scraping by."

That's just society though, that's not friendship. Going out on a hunting party requires me to be friendly, cordial at least, with those I hunt with. Being friends would probably help as it implies a better understanding and ability to predict action, compensate for inaction and so work better toward the goal. You can do useful work with people you don't get on with at all.
I bet the biggest thing holding Google back is that many will say they're under 13 just to take advantage of the ad restrictions and privacy protections placed on those accounts.
You dont want flops figures - no floating point is used to compile.

Bogomips lives up to its name.

I suspect that compiling has fairly poor locality and is quite cache dependent, so you might be better off just benchmarking on a mobile cpu.
Kansas, pancakes, and the Mariana Trench
That is a horrible and illogical assumption to make. Stereotype threat is shown to exist for white males. There is a stereotype that white people are less athletic than black people. If you prime white males by reminding them of the stereotype that they cannot perform well athletically, they will do worse.

Source: pages 8-11, Whistling Vivaldi, by Stanford professor and stereotype threat researcher Claude Steele.

Stereotype threat has been shown to affect any group subjected to a negative stereotype. Steele's book is rife with examples. Stereotype threat can also be dispelled with enough encouragement and the right kind of mentorship. You can, for example, decrease the performance of Asian female math students by first reminding them of their gender, but then you can improve their performance, too, by reminding them of them being Asian.

I am appalled that you made the leap from "women experience stereotype threat" to "they are inferior and have universally inferior psyches" without considering "hmm, do other groups experience stereotype threat too?"
What would you suggest for comparable calendar and contact management software?
they've chosen to act apparently without ever considering how their actions might affect the people who use and rely on their services.

Hyperbolic nonsense. Their consideration for multicultural, international, legal, technical, practical, and end user issues under time and effort constraints doesn't come out exactly the way you wanted it to under one edge case that you happen to hit therefore they "haven't ever considered"?

Never assign to malice what can be adequately be explained by stupidity needs a corollorary - never assign to malice or stupidity what can adequately be explained by being outside the normal patterns of a huge system.
For someone like me who buys a lot of books is it worth paying an extra 30% every time to keep a large chain alive? What's the difference between taking a picture of a book and writing down the title? I still buy a lot of books from brick and mortar stores anyways. Also, I think buying the used books at my local bookstore is more profitable for them than buying the new books they sell.

Edit: I'm a Canadian so the special "Canada" pricing makes the price difference 40% sometimes despite our dollar being close to parity. I don't like the disappearance of small bookstores either so I do the best I can to support them. What can brick-and-mortar stores do against Amazon? What Chapters does is sell a lot of other stuff besides books. Stuff they can mark up with higher margins.
I was just about to reference this article. Same shit, different day.
Spaniards prototype ARM-GPU hybrid supercomputer
Here is a simple idea:

html(
head(
title('This is the title')),
body(
div(id='header', body=...)))

We could also create a shortcut for div ID and classes.. for instance a keyword capitalized is an ID, or something starting with _ could be a class.

It could then be possible to make "custom" fields:

html(
headers(),
left_side(),
content(),
footer())
Any resources for mobile app website design?
I am currently designing a website for my company's app. We are a company that started on the web and we are making our first foray into mobile with this upcoming release.

The problem is, I can't find any articles written about how to best design sites to promote an app. I've looked through the list of top paid apps and investigated their sites and there is a lot of design variation. This suggests to me that there is a lot of room for improving on first attempts.

Are there any useful guides or empirical evidence (I'm thinking A/B and multivariate tests) that suggest what needs to be on the page?

I understand of course that each app is different and will require some customization, but as someone coming to this without experience, I'm lost as to site features. Should we include Facebook share buttons? Are longer or shorter pages better? Does motion (video or otherwise) help sell apps or does it distract visitors? How much of the page should consist of sales points vs images? I guess what I had hoped for was a lengthy Smashing Magazine article about the topic, but can't find anything!
That's why no one should ever trust $GenericCompany$ blindly with their data without having a backup.
I believe so but don't quote me on that.
An open letter to Skype
That is exactly the right thing to do.

But completely honestly, why did you even develop this kind of culture in the first place? Don't you think you should have prevented the whole situation in the first place?
That's really cool, I've been interested in using a constraint solver to solve some unrelated problems, but not considered doing it for UI.

One problem I see is that much modern UI is being done on mobile devices, including the ipod which afaik have licenses that are incompatible with the LGPL, and there doesn't seem to be a more liberally licensed constraint solver.
How is adding a decade or two to your age when registering any less difficult to validate?
Unfortunately, that's easier said than done for people who can't afford hosting fees or who don't understand how everything works and would not know where to start working on something like that. People go to the free services because they're free of charge and often far easier to set up than rolling your own.
So - when was the last time everyone reading this backed up their gmail?

Take the next 5 minutes to install thunderbird (you'll be impressed if you have not seen it in years) and enter the IMAP settings for google and download everything in the background while you work.

When your account gets hacked and you lose everything, you'll appreciate the backup.
Let's dig through it a bit. Our hstore column isn't directly on the document row, but rather in a joined "docdata" table. There was a semi-raw migration to add it:

https://github.com/documentcloud/documentcloud/blob/master/d...

The "Docdata" model handles serializing JSON hashes of keys -> string values into the hstore format, and parsing 'em back out. This is a little loose, but works for most of the simple things you'd like for tagging documents (senator: Kerry, statecode: WV, recordid: 019281)

https://github.com/documentcloud/documentcloud/blob/master/a...

... the resulting effect is that from the Rails side, working with "document.data" directly is like working with a lazy-loaded hash.

The more interesting bit is the search side of things, here's the query parser and query object (which generates SQL and Solr queries):

https://github.com/documentcloud/documentcloud/blob/master/l...

https://github.com/documentcloud/documentcloud/blob/master/l...

... for any given query, we detect if Solr is required (if full-text is involved), or if the search can be satisfied purely in Postgres. So there's one way of generating the key:value query for each back end.

Hope that answers the question.

(Edit:) Forgot to mention that we add a little extra on top of vanilla hstore "key:value" queries. You can write "dob: *" to show documents with any senator tagged, and "dob: !" to show documents that haven't been tagged with a date of birth yet.
There is a saying in my language:

To be friends with someone you have to eat a handful of salt together

In other words strong friendship bonds are formed through sharing of adversity. Also, during difficult times people will bond together for support and thus form strong friendships.