skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you considered different hardware? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad#Power_and_battery suggests that an iPad consumes ~2.5W (0.5A at 5V via USB). An iPad, or a decent netbook, should be much easier to keep running than your current 60W machine.
I have a LED 6400 Samsung SmartTV and as I plugged my PC on the HDMI (did no try DVI yet) I simply selected the Automatic video mode and no edges are cut.
I agree with you entirely. However, that is not a deficiency in a technical skill. You cannot really say there is a shortage in technical skills while at the same time passing over technical people because you find them lacking in non-technical areas.
2012: A tech odyseyy
Some thoughts and possible predictions for the tech radar in 2012.
We just wanted to share the approach and thoughts behind our mobile app. Comments and feedback are welcome.
Thanks, if this analogy helps, we're trying to be like a Google AdSense in the real world using digital signage tech.
What's the best way for him to reach you?
- Make a list of the things you will do
- Announce this to your friends and colleagues saying you're looking to do small projects to get your process going and will take on larger projects later.
- 5 minutes are always free - This is the best rule that has gotten me so much work. Customers can always have 5 minutes of my time for free if they need, just don't string a ton of it together otherwise I have to charge you.
- Start your billing around 40-50/hour. When you find the things that pay, focus on those.

If you want to go through what talents you have that you don't think are valuable (but actually are) feel free to connect with me I'd be happy to share anything I know, I started doing the same in 2nd year uni about 12-13 years ago and haven't looked back.
I don't think I experience this problem. This may just be me, though; or, perhaps it's because everyone has these problems that we're on a level playing field.

Also, I disable the vast majority of these post-processing features the TV provides. I'm a purist and a photographer by hobby and I can see all the 'fixing' that is done in in-TV post-processing, and it looks bad, less sharp, etc, to me. That may affect my experience... Or perhaps I just buy nice TV's (for the same reasons)
Traditional news media is drivel, dying, or dead. How do we save it?
Yeah, same with our LG LED-LCD. It may have been possible to disable it in some menu, I can't quite remember now.
i'm going to try dvorak out. i started experiencing rsi symptoms last year and decided to switch my mouse hand to my left hand. it took almost 6 + months to train my hand to have the precise motion i had with my right (even when using adobe design products) . one year later, i have very little pain, if any. though, after reading this article, i'm now curious to try the dvorak layout.

also, i love my apple keyboard and was worried about using something else, as i use them on all my machines, including linux boxes. did some research and found this:

http://www.kbcovers.com/servlet/Detail?no=154

ordered three. thanks mattmight.
That's very weird. I'm seeing the same thing from any new machine from which I hit the page. If you search google, that's definitely the landing page. If you refresh the message goes away.

Sounds like the site has a bug.
While most newer TVs are smarter about overscanning signals from a PC, the issue has gone the other way - to compensate for TVs which overscan, AMD's Catalyst/Vision drivers automatically underscan their output when attached to an HDTV.
Wrappers are handy, but as soon as you need something beyond the basic use case they become useless. What’s great about Requests is that it seems to have minimal leakiness as an abstraction over HTTP.
Most hdtvs have a setting which will skip a lot of processing and reduce lag. Alternately, you can do research to find a tv without much lag.
Here's a non-facetious, completely honest question from someone who just doesn't know why- Why is is 2012 and my new TV and monitor each have about the same horizontal resolution as my CRT monitor from 1998? It's 14 years later, and I still only have about 2000 pixels to play with. I know the obvious answer is that everyone is just matching the resolution movies are sold as, but why can't I get a professional grade monitor with a "retina" quality display for my desk?
You can get away with flat rate more if you can add a zero to your quote ;)
You're thinking like someone who has grown up with the internet. Most of those owners are one foot in the grave at best.

They are not really into changing their paradigm to suit others.
To Know, but Not Understand: David Weinberger on Science and Big Data
Thanks to both of you for the input. I've never attended a local meetup before but I think now's a great time to start :).
Why cloud could make crowdsourcing the norm for scientists
Great thoughts! :)
I very much and often use the "upto 5-7 hours" of work in my quoting.
Google Maps Corner Cases
If you query Google Maps for directions to travel to China from the United States, when you get to northeast Washington state it tells you to kayak across the pacific ocean and head straight: http://imgur.com/Td8Z4. How are these types of corner cases handled in navigation software? Are they hard coded?
Ford hybrids to use Google Prediction API to drive more efficiently (May 2011)
Not currently, but that's coming shortly. The technology is still pretty new, but we're friends with AIMSuite (Intel) and have plans to use their solution in the future.
Disabling those features generally helps but does not remove the lag. It is pretty difficult to see it in action, as it's more of a subconscious issue.

A great litmus test is Assassin's Creed 2. I worked on that, and for all of development I had a CRT hooked to my dev kit. The game was always super responsive and I never missed a jump. And then, playing at home on my LCD TV... it was kind of insane the difference. It suddenly felt kind of mushy, and kind of like I was fighting the controls.

The reality is that we as developers do as much as possible to hide it, but it's still there if you know what to look for.
Your best bet if you are worried by lag is a PC monitor. But I don't think I've ever seen an HDTV that was verified to be below 60-100ms of image lag.

Also, doing that research is nearly impossible and will in general result in a TV that's inferior for the majority of what you'd do with it.
How Getting Featured in the Android Market Boosted Downloads by 637%
Retainers can be helpful, it means they get priority access/response time from you for a fixed fee per month. There are other forms that you can google.

It's fair to increase your rates 2-3% every year for inflation, send out a letter 2-3 months in advance and it teaches your customers that things cost more every year.
Every single TV I've got right now does overscan (two HDTVs) only one gives the option to disable it. I've even got a computer monitor that has only HDMI connectors and overscans by default.

It seems that it's a wash as to whether you will hit this or not all depending on the brand.
These things are not mutually exclusive.

Most incubators can be ghettos AND there can be too many.

While I partially support the algae bloom theory, I am asserting there are companies that deserve incubation and believe they are, but are in fact not getting good advice nor real opportunity through the program.
I used to write SW for TVs... Any HDTV worth it's salt should have a "game mode" if it doesn't take it back and buy a nicer one.
No reason why you can't compete with those working for $100+ an hour from turkey if you are able to deliver the same or more value.
I think you misread and/or misinterpreted OP's point and then jumped on a smug rant on a topic that was honestly quite irrelevant. Later came these repeated and almost manic allegations of some secret cabal of MODs (using your capitalization) who are after you. And then the repeated claims that the wretched lot of ungrateful CS profs should justly suffer, now that they do not have your help to drag them out of their wretched mess.

It would also help if you could be less dramatic please. No, even though you think so, it is not really a "scandal".

Though I downvoted you for your tone, for sounding too full of yourself, harping on personal issues that I think were irrelevant and for your unfounded insistence about personal persecution, I have to admit that the puerile delusion of grandeur on display was mildly amusing and continues to amuse me. FYI I am just a random unregular on HN. No MOD this. You complained that downvoters did not leave explanatory comments, well, your tone does not really encourage that behavior. Remember it is always a tradeoff. People will evaluate whether it is worth enough to engage in the discussion.

Your so called "help" amounted to a rant about your knowledge about measure theory and anecdotes about how you got yourself published, what I gather in journals, and the ignorance and/or the lack of background of the editors/reviewers (I gather) in continuous math.

Its great that you have learned some measure theory and real analysis. But assertions of the like, if I may put it in my own words, "I know measure theory. Learn about conditional expectation and Radon-Nikodym theorem and Shannon's work you bumbling fools" does not exactly constitute help or a contribution or as you put it "I did a great service to some lost CS profs".

On other hand if you can show that your favorite Neveu calculus can be proved sound according to some computable logic, that would indeed be helpful. Dont let your knowledge in continuous math let you believe that it has never occurred to computer theorists to "mathematize" CS. Computer science (as opposed to engineering or practice) is after all a branch of mathematics. The major chunk of real analysis cant be used in CS because no one yet has a proof that it is sound. Non standard analysis is field that is developing tools so that those concepts can be built ground up keeping computability and soundness in mind.

As you have passive aggressively conjectured, a lot indeed has changed in the last 5~6 years in CS publishing and publishing in journals and conferences are a lot different. For example, to follow up on your own example, you wouldn't have had a chance to address the editor or reviewers queries in a conference. This is regardless of whose deficiency it was, such a submission will just get dropped and in the competitive conferences it takes no more than one less than flattering review to ensure a rejection.
Cool to hear about your positive incubator experience. I'm a little confused though. The main vibe of the blog post was generally critical of the value of most incubators and you said you "tend to agree." Not that these opinions are technically mutually exclusive, but i did go "wait. what?" and reread your comment over a few times.

Can you go a bit more into your incubator experiences (positive) and the parts of the post you agree with (negative?)?

(Not asking you to rant/heap praise/ do anything you're not comfortable with.)
NASA on 2012: It's really Not the end of the world as we know it
I have one of those terrible older 1366x768 TV's. This TV accepts input at 1080i and 1080p as well as 720p. What they don't usually tell you, is that some of these TV's will up convert a 720p signal to 1080 and then down convert it back to 1366x768. So you're actually better off with a higher resolution signal.

Luckily I can get 1360x768 though the VGA port but the TV only accepts HD resolutions over HDMI -- this is becoming more of a problem as many computers now come with only with D-DVI or HDMI ports.
How Universities Fail Women Inventors, Confirm Gender Bias
>Unfortunately, it didn't work out that way.

We're still very much at the beginning, and it's far too early to say anything like that. If at all, we've been slightly thrown back.

I still believe everything you dismissed as "techno-utopianism" to be possible one day. Social change rarely happens overnight. We have to work and fight for it.
> For all the Apple hate, Jobs stared down the record labels, and unlocked music.

Amazon is responsible for getting the record labels to release music as DRM-free MP3.
The Design Decisions No One Ever Sees
Regarding [1], each bus company has a different color. The companies won different government contracts for different parts of the city, so the east side is roughly red, the south blue, the north-west green, etc.
I don't have these numbers, but you'll want to pay very close attention to how many of the requests on your site can be satisfied from memory, and how many will require hitting disk. Virtual servers often have pretty bad disk I/O, so this is even more important than usual.
I think we're on the same page on this one. I was mostly trying to explain this sort of behavior based on the (semi-)efficient market hypothesis, and its implications.

VC's (and their customers) tend to portend some sort of knowledge that a sufficient portion of other market actors are unaware of, or are unable to act on. If you (a VC customer) believe the VC, and perceive his reasoning to be correct, that's all fine and good. Don't expect to win every time, though, which I guess was the point of this thread.

That said, thanks for pointing my direction to the MPT!
I guess as cheap monitors became good enough, demand for pro monitors plummeted, giving them diseconomies of non-scale. The good news is that you won't suffer buyer's remorse since prices don't go down.
Volo: A JS tool for JS projects
Speak HTTP. Encode in JSON. Prototype in Python. Speed it up in C.
If Python has a better standard library than the other languages you know, then you should learn some more languages.
Help I've created 5 little communities... now what?
I've spent the past 4 months obsessively browsing craigslist. This summer I moved out of an apartment (non rent-controlled) because my rent was increased from $2850 to $4,150. http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/apa/sfc?query=&srchTy... is a search of 2br apartments in the city of san francisco, all neighborhoods. It returns 253 listings. Raising that to 3000 -> 4000 gives you 265 listings.

If I exclude the neighborhoods where I wouldn't live due to distance, safety, or a dislike of feeling like I'm in the burbs (bayview, excelsior, ingleside, north beach (fuck tourists), portola, richmond/seacliff, sunset, tenderloin) treasure island) then those searches (http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/apa/sfc?query=&srchTy...) drop down to 106 and 184 apartments, respectively.

The competition for apartments is fierce right now due to a combination lack of credit keeping people leasing rather than owning, and the current tech bubble having imported 10s of thousands of new dot-commies happy to spend 50% of their salaries on housing, because they're young and stupid.

If you make under $150k, are fiscally conservative and don't want to live with roommates, then you're priced out of San Francisco.
Yes - I've tried that a number of times - the problem is you always _think_ you got the right app, but you are never 100% certain. And you are always worried that you just happened to have shut down an App, at the same time that the poorly behaving background app decided to Idle a bit.

Better solution will be for Apple to just tell us how much power each of the running apps have used in the last 1,5,10 minutes.

I agree 100% that the user _shouldn't_ have to worry about that, but when they do, it's annoying that it's so difficult to track down the problem.
Doctor Who Ratings (1963-Present) - webscraped and plotted without context
Colemak is supposed to perform slightly better then Dvorak as a layout, and be easier to learn for a qwerty typist.

http://colemak.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Colemak
If you've ever seen Rush live, Neil Peart actually plays every piece of kit he has. Its all basically necessary based on the music rush plays.
Danny is the best search engine journalist on the planet. This is what he does, about search engines, day in and day out. I expect no less than this level of scrutiny from him, and that's why I read his posts.
I'm only postulating, but I think gains in flat-screen technology were put into other quality factors other than resolution.
Yes, I guess that makes sense.
I need better clients.
Ask HN: Become a freelancer/contractor or keep working on product in free time?
Hi all,

After reading through the recent thread on freelancer rates
(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3420203) I'm once again considering making
a go of freelancing, but am worried that it will take my focus away from the
product I'm building in my free time. Here's my situation:

I'm 26 and I have an awesome day job. We do rails consulting
and I'm surrounded by incredibly bright people in very good working conditions. There's really
nothing to complain about. The pay is good, but not enough for me to save for
anything substantial before I turn 30 (or fulfill my goal of moving back to
Japan with my wife before I turn 30 either).

To achieve my goals, last May I started work in my free time on a side
project ((blog.)japanalicious.com). It's subscription-based app that helps you
learn to read Japanese. I'm not convinced that it will be the product that will
help me achieve my income goals but it's serving to teach me a hell of a lot
about building/desigining a product and marketing. Because it's in my free time,
it's like a startup in ultra-slow motion; sometimes it feels like I'm making
hardly any progress and that perceived momentum is important for morale.

At the same time, freelancing/contracting/consulting is something that I think I
could be good at. I'm not afraid of networking with clients, figuring out how to
provide value and then charging accordingly for delivering it. I may be
overconfident with this, but I'm pretty sure that given a couple of years I
could build up enough of a client base and savings to move back to Japan and
do remote work exclusively.

I read a lot of comments from people on HN who have apparently decades more
experience and I keep seeing the theme of 'transitioning to selling my own
products'. If the end goal is to make your own products, then perhaps I should
just keep working on the products and skip the contracting/consulting phase
entirely? This obviously assumes that I am extremely lucky and japanalicious (or
one of my next few ideas) is successful in making me in the region of 10,000 USD
per month.

So for those experienced technical consultants/freelancers, in my situation what
would you do? If you could go back in time to your 26-year-old self, would you
just focus on building products or would you still go the route of freelancing
first?

Thanks in advance for all feedback.
Obama signs NDAA, now with indefinite detention for US citizens too
> I learned Dvorak to help with RSI.

Indeed, it always bothers me when Dvorak enthusiast pull out the speed claims; the comfort advantages are much more compelling in my book.
Actually, they are losing users in the countries where they first emerged. But for now, growth is sustained by late-comers in other countries, much like it happened to RIM.

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/06/12/facebook-sees-big-t...

I think when your core users and initial early adopters are leaving your product/service, you need to start worrying immediately, rather than wait for that 3-year late "financial impact" to "believe it" that you're in trouble.
You probably won't get a straight answer to this so I'll say the tough words.

Anyone who's established will be easier to philosophize about why you shoudl charge more.

At the end of the day, no one pays your bills for you but yourself. Getting any work is more important than getting good work. Getting great work is more important than getting good work.

I don't know if I am doing it the best way but I did start ($50/hr in 1999) doing absolutely anything anyone would pay me for at that equivalent rate.

Also, figuring out your processes and services is complete BS. You never stop developing and improving them. I've trashed my entire setup and rebuilt/programmed it from scratch 5 times in 10 years only to finally settle on a happy-ish medium of Fogbugz and Freshbooks.
Show HN: Twilio Christmas gift unwrapping game
How do you find the two-backspaces-no-caps-lock thing?
You can, phone any medical imaging shop. Keep in mind you'll pay professional grade prices for such a device.

Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors

201 DPI for the T220/221.

If you think about it their pretty cheap too. Remember paying 2K for a monitor back in the 80s? It's basically the same price once you factor inflation.
If you can't make use of your technical skill (solve the problem) you definitively don't have it. That's why you need to be a problem solver in the first place.
A mixture of it becoming much more expensive to produce large high-density panels with an acceptable number of defects and the disproportionate increase in bandwidth and memory required to handle larger screens. Single-link DVI only supports a resolution of 1920x1200. HDMI didn't go above 2560x1600 until a couple of years ago. Displayport's still in that ballpark.
I switched to that keyboard after I was bothered with RSI. A few years later I started using my laptop a lot more, making it impractical to lug the keyboard everywhere, but I found that the Natural had forced me to improve my posture in general, keeping myarms at 90 degrees from each other with wrists straight.

Now I can type without pain on any keyboard, which is a relief since after using a Thinkpad the mushy key response of the Natural drives me nuts.
My intention is to serve everything from memory. The page set is fairly small (a couple of hundred pages, i.e. less than 300MB of content).
>I expect Apple will solve this problem in their usual way; pick slightly less stupid settings and lock those in.

As someone who's dealt with the inimitable joy of trying to get an MBP to work with an HDTV, Apple's "usual way" appears to be to code to the standards and to hell with anyone who breaks them (or the users stuck with non-compliant products). This appears to apply to wifi as well. There's been an open bug in OSX for years involving OSX assgining its own DHCP lease when it fails to negotiate one with the router. This results in the dreaded "Self-assigned IP" message, which is nigh-on impossible to rid yourself of short of voodoo dolls and wifi dances.
Please, no more list posts on HN.
You make a great point about IP. If the customer wants to save money I retain the IP and license it to them.
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What's particularly interesting is the fact that based on two identical sets of invention docs (but one tagged with female names and pictures and the other with male equivalents), both male and female technology licensing officers were "more likely to report that they would dissuade the female inventor from starting a company".