skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Down arrow isn't working for me. What is it supposed to do?
I am in a position to boldly predict a new startup will emerge with what will eventually become the dominant mobile web platform.
You don't need a book. You just need to build a hello-world application with the Bootstrap CSS/JS code, using one of the layouts they provide as a starting point. Then just use the page of Bootstrap demos as an a la carte menu as you find yourself needing UI features.

The Grid Systems book that was recommended earlier is a better bet if you're a typographer or graphic designer, and particularly if you're thinking about designing novel grid systems. But you're not doing that. The Bootstrap grid is trivial and does not require any background in design to use.
Tried it, not quite what I need. It's super polished and nice.

My problem is I juggle about 10 active projects for customers where I should be working on maybe 2-3 and that's been my norm for 10+ years, plus my own projects.

DateBk had the chutzpah to keep up and keep me pointed in the right direction.
If it's part of a hiring process, it doesn't need to be 100/1. You can chain bad filters together to get a good one - that's the basis of statistical prediction.

And incidentally, cutesy programming quizzes are often a very good filter. In my last job, I tried recruiting with one after speaking to too many people who couldn't handle fizzbuzz. The exact quote was "Instructions on where to send your resume are contained in our application (you'll need to decrypt them first)." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1659735

It dramatically increased the number of people who wrote to me - I actually got quite a few responses of "neat puzzle, not looking for a job, did I get it right?" And by virtue of not giving out an unencrypted email address, I didn't talk to anyone who couldn't code.
I'm sensible of the challenges Google faces algorithmically. I was speaking solely of user experience – how the product interprets my input.
I hear the phrase 'apple fanboy' thrown around a lot, but I think the 'anti-apple fanboy' is more common and extreme
It looks like they're not trying to decrypt the laptop for the fun of it, but judge has physical evidence that the laptop contains relevant information to the case. From the article:

But the police had recorded a phone call between Fricosu and her husband in which she seemed to acknowledge ownership of the laptop and to reference incriminating material on it.
I am indeed. It was quite a journey indeed!
Do you know the service?
That jump in the current of the Energizer can't possibly be a loose connection. There's a sudden global change in the value of the plot on either side of the zigzags.
Doesn't have to be large chunks, just one block that stored the encryption key for the other partition. All you have to do is scrub the key from the drive and it's effectively erased.
I don't see how it adds complexity. Instead of sending just 3 packets we now send 10. Now we can fit more data into the initial startup window.

There is no additional complexity. This is baked into the kernel.

TCP being in user land in software would be absolutely terrible. There would be many different implementations, it wouldn't be standardised and the fact of the matter is that I as an application developer don't want to have to create TCP on top of UDP. I want to be able to say connect here and establish a connection and make sure my data makes it.
I created http://goalstacker.com to address this problem. It's not the list that kills you, its the list you can never finish that kills you. In order to be productive each day, its nice to have a small set of obtainable goals that you can actually finish. This list need to take into account how much time you have and how much time it takes to complete these tasks.

I think the author's method is pretty close, the only problem with a calendar is that if you don't finish the task then one of two things usually happen:

1. You forget about it and it fades away never to be completed.
2. You have to keep moving it to a different day until you complete it.
FYI your about.me page has a link to http://onehumanproject.org/ which appears to be a parked domain.
A self assembled PC that I put together eons ago.
Thanks, we've got similar feedback previously, but decided to stick with the name as it was memorable. I do realize that this is something that could put people off though.
Simple ETL jobs are mostly just E & L: extract the data from one system, load it into another.

Where things get complex is in the Transform aspect of some jobs. Mapping disparate schemas is complex, often messy work. Especially when one (or both) sides of the ETL job have poor/no primary keys, foreign keys, or even are just "mostly standard" CSV files [shudder].

Also: some ETL jobs can get quite large. I know one guy who had to create an ETL system that continuously moved data from one 1200-table system into some other system. Crazy.
HughW,
How is the marketing,reach,popularity compared to the iPad app?
I think Digg is an excellent comparison. Putting paid ads in the stream of Diggs basically killed them dead.

Then they had to start pretending that things had more upvotes than they really did, which made it worse.

The place ghetto-ised in a scarily quick fashion.

I'm not sure though how much the earlier 'Digg-revolts' over senselessly mucking around with the UI contributed. Had they already destroyed or eroded a lot of the goodwill of their users?

Personally I believe the problem started back when they decided to boot Apple stories off the front page, and twiddled their algorithm to achieve it. Yes, Windows fanboys hated seeing those stories popping up all the time, and would go in and troll the Apple fans something chronic (and then complain that it was justified because the Apple users were doing the same thing - even though they weren't)... but doctoring the results like that just meant that what was (at that time) basically one of the few IT companies doing new and interesting things, instead of just being a "me too" copycat.
I think the problem is that people feel forced into agreeing with Google's decisions when they don't, and people don't like being forced into doing something. As an example, say you won't use Google+ because you don't like their account naming policies. That's fine, don't visit plus.google.com, don't use it, and it doesn't exist to you. But when Plus results start appearing in search, a product that you like, you are reminded of a community you can't participate in. This leads to resentment for search, because it is reminding you that you aren't getting the same service that everyone else is.

Facebook, on the other hand, is very easy to ignore. I killed my account there several years ago and haven't really thought about Facebook since, since Facebook is nothing but a social network and I'm not really a big social networking guy.

I think that's what's going on here.

(I would say, "people are worried that there will only be one provider for XXX", where XXX is mail or search or chat or whatever, but I know that's not true. People did not mind AOL or Windows or the three big banks, so I doubt they really care that Google is "the only game". Slashdot users hate monopolies, but I'm not sure the average consumer cares.)
Up shows comments on reddit. Down then hides those comments. Until you press up, down doesn't do anything.

Btw: appropriate user name.
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Anyone know what their cash on hand is? If they aren't going to start paying dividends again, it seems they must be saving up for something major. Any speculation as to what it might be would be just that, but I can't see them leaving that cash laying around.
Isn't the beer example somewhat self-defeating? It seems to me that the only reason we don't need to tell our friends how to get the beer is because he has already those concepts abstracted away, but he still had to learn them, mostly by imitating others, but also by being explicitly taught.

Sure, he didn't have to be taught how to fetch a particular kind of beer in a particular house, but then again, when I make a new e.g. Starcraft map, I don't have to change the code to teach units to move from a coordinate to another. The learned algorithm is just general enough that it applies to any object that fits a certain interface.

And humans make a lot of errors to correct their internal spacial navigation algorithms. To correctly fetch a beer, it took years of bumping into stuff and falling down until the algorithm was robust enough.

Seems to me that a system with hand-written imperative algorithms and a general mechanism of iteratively improving them by trial-and-error is much more close to what we humans to than a compiler that simply comes up with algorithms from scratch from just reading intents and goals.
Without paying dividends, how is a stock any more an investment than baseball cards?
Something needs to happen when you fill the bar, otherwise, why is it changing?
twitter and facebook are big enough to complain. they dont need google right now, thay can stand on their own.
Once mobile web browsers have access to most of the APIs that native apps have access to, and they have good offline functionality, developing a web app over a native app will be a no-brainer
I'm still figuring things out. It's like the second language that I learned thoroughly, APL, where i knew what worked but I couldn't explain anything (which made code reviews challenging) I would say make your own cheat sheet, with these terms on them, understand them thoroughly. The fixed GHCi in 7.4 should be useworthy soon if not now. And monads are not burritos.

data, newtype, type, class, instance, kind, deriving
where, let in, case, do, <-, return
pattern matches, lambdas, guards, lsit comprehension

I'm taking the ezyang approach, absorbing the tesselations in the RWH code to prep close reading of typeclassopedia. The Stanford class notes are great, as are these others:

http://www.scs.stanford.edu/11au-cs240h/labs/resources.html

http://acm.wustl.edu/functional/haskell.php

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Category:Tutorials

http://ezyang.com/haskell.html
| Fascist oligarchies are not conducive to startups.*

*except almost all the ones that get talked about here every day.
The only thing I really want is better urls. If I see an image/thread I want to share I would love to just be able to simply copy the url.
Definitely. We'll probably add a counter next to it to show the number of sets you've viewed (as suggested by franciscoapinto)
> - In portuguese, and I imagine a lot of other languages, "mongo" is a pretty nasty word. Think "retard", only worse.

Were they going for "mongo" when they called it "mongout"?
Chessudoku
Quantum computer might open unexplored doors.. :)
HP has never gotten their laptop thermal solutions right, sorry cant help you with that.
For the other problem - create a virtual machine with windows installed. Then use a clone of this virtual machine to do your actual surfing. Once that gets infected just make anohter clone of the virtual machine and resume surfing. I am assuming that there is something windows specific in what you are doing, if not just surf in linux and kiss most malware goodbye.
I have often heard Haskell called declarative, it all just depends on how you go about writing your Haskell code.
Theoretically Haskell is "time cheap" it just requires more time upfront. That is not to say Haskell is exactly what you are looking for however, I think it is at this point, the closest useful language to what you are looking for.
More than that. Make it feel like I'm accomplishing something.

Outstanding job, the interface is as simple as it could be.
I'm not the one who made this, I just thought it was quite useful and posted this. You could try and create an issue to ask. Sorry!
Yes netflix has now replaced flash as the top frustration on linux. No easy solution seems to be in sight.
A typeface for Pictograms and icons
Success stories are more valuable than research.
Hey guys, should I know what spyw is? The article doesnt see, to say.
Good work. It's pretty clean.

Consider mapping a key to share links too
'Filters'
Robot think-tank Willow Garage has a large mindshare with their ROS Open Source robot stack, and is having an appreciable impact in the robot research community. Founder Scott Hassan was a very early Googler and is thus very rich. WG doesn't need to make money in the short term: it's success should be measured in other ways.
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Dremel aka BigQuery has a dedicated execution engine, roughly an order of magnitude faster than MapReduce for typical SQL queries
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No, I don't think so. I've heard the phrase "to mong out" before. But still, the word is in the URL. Just like how Expert's exchange didn't mean to create a reference to gender reassignment with expertsexchange.com.
Nimblebit Responds to Zynga's New Game
I'm fairly sure not, but it was one of the first things that I thought about when reading the URL.

The portuguese/brazillian web users are suckers for this sort of quick-fix, instant-gratification entertainment [1]. I, personally, would take no chances with the apps name. It wouldn't be the first time the portuguese language had a play on significant naming decisions [2] :)

[1] http://www.appappeal.com/maps/9gag/

[2] https://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/01/19/1025...
Well, all the "christians suck, athiest rule!" posts do give it a more hostile tone. I'm not aware of any other subreddits with what amounts to hate-speech being allowed on the front page.

Yes, we, the rest of the world understand that the 'religious issue' in the US has become tied in with the 'political issue'. But (again speaking on behalf of the rest of the world) we just wish the US would grow the @@@@ up and get the @@@@ over it.
But one day, maybe around 2009, something happened. Where once I was delighted with Google's search, it started getting annoying. Things like automatically showing you a SERP for a different spelling of your query, because Google thought you were looking for that. Then they started matching to synonyms (tear and rip, say). And so this tool that used to do exactly what it was asked became too clever by half.

I'm pretty sure that most people like this. I hated this feature at first; I would search for "obscure error message" and Google would say 'Did you mean "non-obscure error message"?'. It's annoying because that's not what I meant, but I realized that there were simply no pages on the Internet that answered my question about "obscure error message". So Google assumed I made a tiny spelling mistake, and tried to give me relevant results.

For everyone who's not searching for programming error messages, I think this works really well. I've watched my family and friends use Google and they can't spell or even come up with good search terms to save their life. Despite that, Google always gives them relevant results, because 99.99% of the time, it knows what they want.

Remember, Google doesn't change their product to make it worse. Every move is designed to improve relevancy (or revenue, perhaps), and features that don't work get reverted. (Remember Code Search or Google Video? They didn't work out, and they're gone now.)

Social is the 2012 version of "let's try to make search better". We'll have to wait a while to see if it does. Going with our gut will tell us to refuse change and keep everything the same forever. But data will tell us what users really think, and Google+ hasn't been around long enough to collect the data.

Meanwhile, SERP quality began to deteriorate as well. We suffered for something like 18 months under the regime of those Stack Overflow scrapers and their ilk... and now there's the comically titled SPYW.

Don't you think having your friends affect search results is a good solution to this problem? Google couldn't figure out which site with SO content was legitimate. Now it sees all your friends linking to StackOverflow.com, and it knows that it should probably trust that content more.

I think geeks dislike social networking (I do), and so they assume Google+ is going to fail. But I think that having my friends carve out a little part of the Internet that's most relevant to me is going to be helpful in the long run. More helpful than "Your Friend has given you 86 potato seeds" that you get from social networking on Facebook, anyway.

Matt Cutts wrote a good article about this, BTW: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/search-plus-your-world/
I have to agree here. I had an XP install for 5 years with no problem, built a new computer with Vista that I upgraded to Windows 7 somewhere over the course of 3 years, and built another Windows 7 PC last year have yet to have a problem on it. The first computer I built is now repurposed as my parents computer and runs fine. My laptop has been running vista/7 dual booted with Ubuntu and has had no problems.

Conversely, I use an imac at work that is relatively new that runs horrifically slow and spends alot of the time I'm at working having programs or the whole system crash. Can't explain why, but that combined with what I feel as a much less user friendly interface compared to any Linux distro I've ever used has completely put me off ever owning a personal Mac.
I like mine for reading the news (HN and otherwise) in the morning, still laying in bed (takes me a while to become fully awake).

I use it the same way throughout the day: casual browsing, social networking. Doing that helps keep distractions off my real computer, so I can stay focused on and do real work. Plus its convenient to take with me and read articles during lag time when I'm out and about or running errands.

That said, while I love my iPad, the whole syncing thing is a major quagmire. One of the "geniuses" at the Apple Store accidentally wiped my boss's iPad clean during a one-on-one session. I wasn't surprised, given that iTunes pops up attempting to do that every time you plug your iPad into a computer other than the original host.
I disagree. I can get the "facts" from Twitter or Reddit or HN. What's missing from those streams, however, is a well thought out intellectual discussion about the facts and what they mean from different points of view.

The OP is a bit light on discussion, however that doesn't mean they should do no discussion whatsoever.
Google is impressing me.

Really? All that to get what I used to get for free? Not to mention that German is just one language, and "translated foreign pages" sounds like it might search the translated text, which is nice, unless it doesn't deliver results in untranslated pages, which leaves me wondering whether Google translates all pages or just some, and whether it's sufficiently integrated with Google Translate to filter out words that can't be translated, which are often exactly the words I want. That puts me right back where I started, sitting in front of Google wondering how the hell it works and what it's filtering out of the internet as a result.
More perspective- domestic box office for any given year hovers around $10 billion.
The Myth of American Productivity
A false negative in a job filter results in a phone screen with someone who can't do fizzbuzz.

A false positive results in a candidate who can e.g. write a kernel memory allocator walking from your process because you're too much of a pain to deal with.

Too many interviews, or losing the best possible candidates. I know which one I prefer --- especially because I know when I'm getting too many interviews, and can tune other things (most notably: where I post about jobs) to adjust that. I can't know who I'm losing as a result of my recruiting process being cumbersome.
Homebrew, 3D printed Fisher-Price record-player disc plays "Still Alive"
Just wanted to chime in with an "me too".

I had an iPhone 3G for three years before I ended up switching to AT&T from T-Mobile and bought an iPhone 4S and too date it is still my most favourite purchase.
And this is a company allergic to paying dividends. If I were a shareholder, I would be asking some questions.
Boston area comcast my only choice. I called them today because I need to activate new service and I was told the 250GB cap is mandated by the government and not comcast. When I asked for details I couldn't get any further.
Well done. Kept me engaged to the last picture. A couple of observations though:

The left-right keys still advance to the previous / next picture in the background, when the comments are in the foreground. Suggest that a left or right hides the comments as well as moving forward or back.

I second the comment made elsewhere on pre-loading the next picture to save your users waiting for the load-time.

How do I navigate the comments with the keyboard? I use the cursor keys to scroll down, and it doesn't work, as up / down is mapped to show / hide comments.
right/left was pretty snappy for me, but I found myself wishing it would preload the reddit page each time. I found myself hitting [up] for every single image (because I needed the explanation that often..)
Why Social Search Doesn't Matter.
Yes, they've fixed this. They call them "precharged rechargeable batteries", but what that really means is that they don't self-discharge anymore. (And hence, are usable out of the box).

I've used them in everything for about a year now, and they work extremely well.

(They do self-discharge a little bit, but not enough to really matter. If you are going ice-climbing around the world for 8 months, bring lithium cells. If you want something for your bike light or TV remote, get a precharged rechargeable.)
Facebook forces Timeline; tips to hide users' past
I love not having to use my mouse.
Just to show what I see when I search Bing versus Google: http://i.imgur.com/b3Oig.png

I didn't find a relevant result at all (I searched the first 3 pages - didn't bother going further).

Bing may be improving - I hear Bing Maps is pretty good - but the search is not even close.
psh, who cares MongoDB has the full-blown Mongo in there and they're doing fine.
Add &nfpr=1 to your queries to disable full page replacement. You can trick your browser to doing this for you if you use the search bar by setting a custom search engine with that parameter.
This is how Apple’s top secret product development process works
Can you please put a note in your calendar to do a new post on January 25, 2013 "I Launched my Startup one year ago, this is how the hectic year went" :)

Great job on the launch, sounds like you got some good numbers coming into the site and it was good to get an inside look into response rates/conversion based on a moderate initial launch email list.
One reason Facebook's opt-out policy has annoyed people in the past is that it is rarely one click - the opt-out is usually buried deep within user settings, and generally users haven't been alerted to the fact that anything has changed to require them to opt-out.