skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This question is similar to many seen in puzzlehunts: it has no instructions, but enough information to arrive at a definite answer.

Actually, it does have instructions, but they're veiled:

"determine which order we should go after these companies. After finding the appropriate order, we’ll read down the list "

That's code for "Find a permutation so that reading down columns gives you the answer."

Also, often the way puzzlehunts work is that, when you send in the answer, you'll be told if it's right. Even if another permutation exists that produces a reasonable answer, if you hear it's wrong, you'll eventually realize you should look for another one.
yeah, all the CC's in my city were looking depressing anyway, guess they got put out of there misery.
0-60 MPH in 0.97 seconds?

Why would anyone want a motorcycle which accelerates at 2.8 g?
If the 13-year-old already has his heart set on something, I'm not going to stop him. But I suspect, at least with the first generation, they're going to screw around ... just like the first two or three years of college. Chances are good that if the area of study isn't something he wants to work with, he'll figure it out fast and get on with working on something else.
I wouldn't want to work anywhere where they value my ability to solve obtuse, poorly worded problems over my ability to get the job done and ship quality code on time.
"I would probably lean toward [repricing] if it would help keep employees."

Yeah, as if those employees have anywhere to go.
Jeff Stewart podcast interview, founder of Mimeo and Montior110
Wasnt there someone who had made a firefox extension to add surfing history to google bookmarks, and then google had scalability issues due to which they sent him a check, mug and a tshirt and a request letter to discontinue his extension...
This seems something similar! Ofcourse the load on google is gona be less as we don't bookmark each and everything
Ordering Pizza Hut From Your Facebook Page? It's on the Way.
could one even hold on?!
The need... the need for speed.
Yeah, but he had it predicted back in March, and by two weeks before the election he had nearly every state accurately predicted.
Where there is no God, all is permitted.

Yet another argument for religion based on a lie.

This widely quoted phrase (In Russian: Если Бога нет, то всё дозволено) is commonly attributed to Brothers Karamazov. Except it is not anywhere in there. I just spent a good half poring over the original text chapter by chapter and nothing. Nada. Doesn't exist.

My biggest problem however is not the veracity of the quote. It's the intellectual dishonesty of taking words from a fictional character and attributing them to Dostoevsky himself. Although I should not be surprised. Faith and the inability to distinguish between reality and fiction go hand in hand, don't they?
The New MySpace Profiles: Granular Privacy, W3C Compliance
Understanding Bilski for engineers and programmers
New version of Hotmail doesn't support Firefox, chrome and Safari.
Go figure that both the coolest looking and best performing (overall) bike comes from a chick and her dad in some garage in Sweeden, while the ones available for sale look like they require Birkenstocks to be worn full time by the rider.

Yet another example of how an uncompromising small team leads to success.
It looks fine in the PDF. It seems like a translucent layer is missing in the slideshare version.
While I haven't used them in direct comparison, it is worth noting that Evince is shipped with GNOME in nearly all GNOME-based Linux distributions, and xpdf has the added bonus of not relying on a specific toolkit. Mind, you can certainly use Evince outside of GNOME, but people have their own reasons for avoiding such things.

The bottom line is that both work acceptably well, and do so much better than Adobe's own offerings in my experience.
Google Android Phone passes typed content into rootshell
Median performance still beats half the sample. I'm encouraged by that.
It's really not terrible. America invented the TV and Zenith, the last American TV company, was sold to LG over a decade ago. Not many cried when IBM sold it's laptop division to Lenovo either. Americans just aren't great at manufacturing. PG wrote about this a long time ago here:

http://paulgraham.com/usa.html

It's not sad to pass the torch. The car is 100 years old. It's time to do something new. We should be focused on innovation not on some notion that it's our god given right to have American cars.

As of this writing there is an interview with Elon Musk of Telsa Motors at the bottom of the news.yc page. That should be the future of American cars. I heard that the Tesla engineers had a week long sit down w/ the Volt engineers. The word was that the Volt guys were an embarrassment and that they couldn't answer simple questions about their batteries. Chevy can't build a simple gas powered car that can go over 60k miles w/o having all the buttons fall off the dashboard. There is no way they're going to build a decent Prius competitor. They had a good run, let them die.
Yeah. It surprises me, when I hear stories about parents overreacting about kids doing weird things. They're kids. They love experimenting with weird stuff like that. Hell, some people keep doing it when they get older - they're the fun sorts of people.

Can anybody here honestly say they didn't do anything weird as a kid? I remember reciting numbers from the Guinness Book of World Records into a tape recorder, in the belief that any number I said was the money I'd make. (I also think I did that with computer pixels on a low-res screen, for that matter.) I'm sure almost everybody here did strange stuff as a kid.
Deadly Expandos
Webapp Death Match: Google vs. Apple
Aspidistra was a World War II man-in-the-middle attack
Freemium Revisited
does anyone care? does anyone use chrome as their full-time browser? this thing has turned out to be a huge flop for google, and a big waste of time. as long as firefox and safari keep IE dominance in check and as a result keep the standards-based web viable, i wonder what google really stands to gain.
Tomorrow's headline: Researchers place a bowl of cooked noodles on the table, call it "brains."
Keystream launches online video advertising overlay service
Craigslist is alright, but it would be nice if you could share things more easily, say with people you know from college/uni. Which is why Facebook should be a good place for ads, but 99% of people I've seen use it just for fun. Those are the problems I have with each of those.
I would think that screwing around for a few years is exactly what you would want a 13 year old to do.

Like you said, better finding your passions at 16 then at 22. Finding your passions though is an essential part of life and shouldn't be taken as "screwing around".
does anyone use chrome as their full-time browser?

I do.

as long as firefox and safari keep IE dominance in check and as a result keep the standards-based web viable, i wonder what google really stands to gain.

It's necessary for the health of the internet. A two-browser monopoly is just as bad as a one-browser monopoly.

Assuming Google implements this correctly, it will be the first damn browser to actually make syncing bookmarks user-friendly. That's a feature that should be standard by now, but it's not. The browser space is still open to innovation.
I've probably got it too. I've managed to arrange a schedule for myself that cycles weekly so that I can predict my waking hours that works pretty well.

I tried a job at first but when it became clear that they were really buying "butt-time" in a seat and that my schedule was simply set to whatever was convenient for the boss, I had to strike out on my own.

I have not regretted it.
If you can quote Knuth, there is a a large chance that you'll be able to understand what you just quoted and be able to apply it.
great stuff in that presentation! what also interested me was the bit on application pricing because that's what I'm struggling with at the moment.

do we go the .99 cheapy-route or price at a premium to maintain a status-quo. hmmmmmm
I've come across plenty of companies that have no idea what it means to do "best practices". Companies can be notoriously bad at very important parts of their own business. Just look how many companies outsource accounting. They literally don't trust themselves to handle their money properly.

And just as there are dodgy accountants, there will be dodgy SEO/Social Media consultants. The key with good leadership in a company is being able to identify what's what.
Yeah, I sort of feel like this is safest at a relatively simple scale where the efficiency gains also stand to be the smallest. Although I heart Ruby, personally, I'd be more interested to see someone nail the deep javascript stack with quality. Something like Rhino on Rails on the server, javascript/AJAX client/server, CouchDB w/ javascript views for the DB and AIR for javascript/AJAX desktop apps and widgets. Seems like with JSON around, that could be elegant and efficient at larger scales, rather than generating code from one language to another for some pieces.
>they account for nearly half of "customers who pay for software"

Have you got any data to back that up?

More like 15% in my experience.
I would welcome a government that did absolutely nothing except stop bad guys from getting into power. Unfortunately, Congress thinks its job is to pass "legislation" and it does so in vast quantities. This has piled up over the decades covering the entire country in a gray legislative goo. If abolishing Congress is too big of step, how about changing the rules so that any new law requires a 70% majority? Or maybe even a 90% majority?

I'd also note that democracy is altogether a failure at preventing the worst people from getting into power. Some of histories worst tyrants from history have come to power through party politics.
"The process was painfully slow and took nearly three and a half hours to complete"

wtf do you do at the genius bar for 3+ hours? I can imagine maybe 1 hour talking to the bored apple genius guy, convincing him that i am just as geeky as he is, but anything longer than that and I'd be annoyed.
He might not be a native speaker.

For the many here who are not, its a word play using this word:

se·gue (sgw, sgw)
intr.v. se·gued, se·gue·ing, se·gues
1. Music To make a transition directly from one section or theme to another.
2. To move smoothly and unhesitatingly from one state, condition, situation, or element to another: "Daylight segued into dusk"
I guess I just don't understand how this helps identify talent.
I am so sick of these stories that allude to Jobs' health all the time. Sorry for the shouting but Shut Up About It! We don't know the status, Jobs denies being ill, medical evidence says that survivors of the surgery Jobs have tend to look unwell/be very thin/have difficulty metabolizing food.

So all likelihood is that Jobs isn't going to drop dead on us suddenly. Hell, if anyone looks like they are heading for a sudden death it's Steve Ballmer whose BMI must put him in a serious danger zone.
i bet videos will only be available to north-americans though.
Every generation thinks the next generation is lazy, shiftless, immoral and will destroy the world. It's been happening for a while. The worrying, not the destroying.
his is a ridiculously fast turnaround- Apple took less than half of the estimated time to complete the repair.

Promise less, deliver more.

Even if you think you can find a solution for your client in three days, tell them it will take a week. If your estimate is accurate, they will (probably) be happier than if you told them it would take three days originally.
Keystream Unveils SmartAd, Wants To Turn Watching Videos Into A Painful Experience
The other acceptable rearrangement is: PLEASE HELP US UNDO VISTA.
I don't get it. One of the best things about Rails is that I don't have to pick and choose my components. I use what everybody else is using and I know that means it's likely to work and be reasonably well documented. Any small gains I might achieve by swapping out one layer of Rails are going to be more than offset by the extra complexity of my unique Merb environment.

DHH's arguments about "opinionated" software seem to have been lost on the Merb crowd.
Actually, they believe strongly in black/white and right/wrong in Russia, but within a tighter social circle. This difference between Russia and the West is of degree, not of kind. Most Americans care little about how their actions affect people in the third world, for example.
The Eureka Hunt: Why do good ideas come to us when they do?
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In North America, Google still supplies close to 70% of web traffic (according to study from Comscore). So SEO is still important. Now I think learntoduck.com writes this article for "link-baiting" purposes, that is for SEO purposes :-)

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This is fine and dandy if you live near an Apple store. If you don't, especially if you go overseas with a US bought product, things get much less pretty.

Non-US Apple has refused to handle my US warranties, so the only recourse was to ship it to the US for repair, which means you're without your machine for several weeks.

I think with companies like lenovo or dell that cater to corporate customers worldwide you probably end up with better service in more "remote" locations.

When I was living in NYC, owning Apple products was relatively painless because of the Apple stores there.
Sony Ericsson F305 Black Unlocked
This quad-band 2G phone looks great in its all white case, with various buttons located throughout the front of the phone that let the user select which menu they want in a flash. The navigation key in the middle of the phone is a great way to select different menu choices one by one for a more precise selection.
Where could I find a list of terrible tyrants that came to power in a representative democratic system? That ought to be interesting.

Or are you saying that all systems with parties are abominable because of parties, regardless of the details of how the systems work?
The Killacycle is a platform for A123 nanophosphate batteries, which have an extremely high discharge rate. It's a drag bike which doesn't have a range much over 1/4 mile. To put it in perspective, a bog-standard ZX-14 or GSX-R 1300, perfectly usable on the street, does 0-60 in under 3 seconds. It doesn't feel that fast once you've gotten used to it for a few weeks.
I am not a fan.
Duplicate, flagged for admins.
Facebook wasn't designed to abet marketers - not in the way that some people do it, using their own profile to advertise their company. (Facebook Pages and feed messages are completely fine.) Neither was MySpace originally, though once it started happening they reversed positions pretty quickly.
The author laid out a pretty clear bias from the beginning and followed through to the end to let the reader know that "graphical froufrou is bad". While he's certainly entitled to his opinion, he really only represents a small subsection of users. On the whole, I would've liked a more open-minded analysis rather than "text is good, images are bad".
The part about thinking hard then stepping away from a problem before the eureka moment reminds me of "A Technique for Producing Ideas".

http://books.google.com/books?id=a8EqjMJXXEMC&dq=a%2Btec...
I was in the Apple Store for a similar amount of time - Windows XP's install disc utterly trashed my computer, and it took two reinstalls to get it working right. (System Preferences is still messed-up for me.) I spent the first 30 minutes or so checking out the iPhone 3G, which had just come out. After that, I spent my time backing up my computer and restoring my original settings.
Hacking intersections? Diagonal crosswalks in Los Angeles
Howto use USB to Recharge Lithium Battery (Li-Ion)
Thanks for this. It looks excellent.

I've been stewing myself in planning and scheduling algorithms lately. I don't have an application in mind (yet), but I am sure one will come along if I prime the pump enough....
For an embedded system with USB that requires recharging of Lithium batteries there are many considerations to be made before you can safely, accurately and quickly recharge the batteries.
because then if the iframe covers the whole screen, it'd be impossible to scroll the document?
This is great if you happen to love every design decision the Rails crew has made for you. If not...

I don't think Merb will replace Rails. I think, ultimately, the two appeal to different crowds. Too some extent, I hope people who are happy with Rails stay with Rails. Merb feels like it's more aligned with the Ruby community than the Rails community. If that makes any sense.
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If you're good, there are plenty of opportunities in the Valley.
Perhaps they need people with good puzzle solving / reverse engineering skills to help them figure out how Windows actually works?
If writing were required to be maintained, you wouldn't want to repeat yourself there, either. (Think of wiki articles.)
Hey Dell, where's your iPhone killer?
On non-Apple-systems, typically you can try the right mouse button or browsing the menus.
Geek Pop Star (Malcolm Gladwell)
Of course. There are different forms or chapters of bankruptcy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bankruptcy_in_the_United_States...

Chapter 7 is liquidation and Chapter 11 is reorganization.
I'm obviously missing something, but from studying the ascii diagram I don't see what the problem is? 3 columns with defined heights, widths, and margins. What's the thing I'm missing?
I don't believe in monkeys? At least take the time to elaborate. That's a reddit response, not a y!hacker one.
This (Seo) stuff has been known for a very long time, nothing new has been released so the average person can rank higher than another - there is no 1 click answer, it takes knowledge and time. - Time for SEO is rented like time your employer pays you to program.
I for one think freemium isnt dead just - a part in a pendulum swing in the other direction, now-a-days its not ok to produce crap or stolen content.
He compared more than just images. Although, the post should have been a comparison of MobileMe and GMail.

I do agree with the conclusion:

The media-appropriate approach of Google shows that the interface is not a matter of graphic design, it’s a matter of how it works. With all the glitz Apple brings to the Web in an attempt to win a beauty contest, they lose the true contest: the beauty of usability. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give your Web app a manicure.
Statistical evidence would say no.
I don't think Paul Graham's analysis of the US auto industry is accurate at all. Toyota is the number one manufacturer of automobiles right now and outside of the Lexus brand, none of their designs are significantly more stylish than any GM product. Where Toyota was able to flank America was on quality. That advantage is pretty much over at this point as U.S. automakers have made huge strides in initial quality over the past several years and have implemented quality procedures on par with Toyota. In terms of style, Europe is well ahead of the U.S. but that is how they differentiate themselves. European cars are more expensive across the board than Japanese & U.S. If you look at the styling of Japanese and Korean cars, you're not going to see much of anything better than what GM and Ford are doing, yet Toyota, Hyundai, etc. are not having the difficulties that GM is having.

Where GM is failing is in two things: marketing (mainly positioning and products) and labor. GM workers are making a lot more than Toyota assembly workers, especially those that have been around a long time. This problem is fixable with cooperation from the UAW but it's not going to be easy and a lot of buyouts will be necessary.

The next problem with GM is that they failed to forecast the markets. They largely ignored the compact market, were behind the curve on crossovers, and didn't put enough money into their sedans. They put all their eggs in one basket with trucks & SUVs. Those vehicle sales were dropping off even before gas was $4/gallon. While their sedans have caught up to the Japanese in real terms, they still have a serious image problem and are still viewed as inferior. I haven't seen much advertising that really addresses these concerns. You can't reposition yourself overnight with advertising and you definitely cannot reposition yourself overnight with new/improved products but GM is on the right track. There are a lot of other macroeconomic conditions that get involved if GM does or does not receive bailout money but if they do get it, I don't think it will be wasted.
For those curious about why some of these bikes can be so powerful (besides the fact that the bike itself is very light compared to a car), it's because an electric motor delivers nearly 100% of it's maximum torque constantly. What's amazing is that it can do it at nearly 0rpm.

That's like jumping on your bicycle and having the muscle to storm up Mount Everest without breaking a sweat. You can't do it, but an electric motor can.

A gasoline engine will only begin to deliver this level of torque when it's spooled up, and even then, only does it for a limited time of the overall rpm range.

(And that is why most trains run on an electric motor!)
True :) The only thing I would miss in Emacs is a visual debugger. I used to write Scheme in a "code carefully so it works the first time around" mode. It worked out because I worked on small systems and Scheme has extremely clear semantics. But imagine having to dive into a framework-based project, big enough that you can't understand it all at once by reading the code. Then, I find that using a debugger and stepping through the code is a really good way to get a grasp of the system. Perhaps, slime provides a good debugging interface -- I just got hooked into visual debuggers before I could find out.
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology [But We Can't Make Money Now]
This isn't FUD as another commenter suggested. There are significant issues with transmission management when you start adding significant percentages of renewables into your electricity mix.

The folks that manage real-time demand (i.e. ERCOT, SPP, MISO, IESO etc) haven't yet figured out how to deal with the huge transmission swings that come from large-scale wind generation. They're used to much smaller problems, like a transmission line going down, or a generation facility going offline unexpectedly. The idea of a ~30% swing in generation within a matter of minutes is new.

As for problems with the transmission infrastructure, there are two big issues. First, infrastructure doesn't exist where it's needed when it comes to renewables (you don't do capital investment in the middle of nowhere for no reason). Secondly, there's going to be a huge workforce crunch in the next 10-15 years in this sector - electricity isn't a 'sexy' industry these days, and a large (50%?) percentage of the workforce will be at retirement age in the next decade or two.

A smaller transmission issue is related to the rules currently in place for approving build outs - one representative of a regional transmission operator claimed they had over 1000 years of backlog in their transmission request queue if the existing rules were fully applied.

My 'day' job involves working with a variety of companies that are in the electricity sector, both wholesale and residential. This specific problem was the subject of a talk at a trade conference I was at a few months ago, lots of concern in the room.