skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll second news.yahoo.com. It's better than Google's layout, and you can dive right into subregions of the world to get more specific world news.

Also, nba.yahoo.com has a better layout than nba.com itself for following stats and even following the games live (a really well-done java applet).

Finally, I've been playing around with switching search engines from Google to something else, and I found for most tech stuff, Yahoo! actually has more relevant search results than Bing or DDG.
Hello Phillip, I'll be sending you an email with a startup idea within 24 hours. Right now I am very busy. It'll require proper drafting. Watch out for it.
Bye, Kapil.
You need to read more closely. No one has a problem with PayPal freezing accounts. The problem is that once they do so, they refuse to communicate with the account owner to resolve the situation.

I can understand that to a first approximation, pretty much everyone whose account they freeze is committing fraud. But there are exceptions, and their processes don't seem to take account of that fact.
"content requiring attribution"

That can be a real pain, design-wise and image-wise (I don't want to look cheap). Creative Commons is great, but requiring attribution means that it won't be used in a lot of projects.
"If the problem in the drug industry is simply that not enough is being spent on R&D, that is easily correctable. Unfortunately for all of us, that's not the problem."

The problem with the drug industry is basically that many of their most important epistemological assumptions are largely incorrect. The reason the entire industry is about to go under isn't because all the easy cures have been taken, it's because they started to buy into their own bullshit. Their astronomical R&D costs and terrible success rates are largely their own fault, so I don't really buy this high cost of R&D argument as a reason for not making the drugs more widely available. I won't bother rehashing all of the epistemological problems with allopathic medicine here, but I was link to this video which talks about why the ubiquitous mouse model is so problematic:

http://vimeo.com/33803995

Plus, many of the new drugs are just evergreens, so much of that 'R&D' is really just a clever way to screw the patients.
Ask HN: New User Conversion Rate
I would like to set realistic expectations for our startup's new user sign-ups and am looking for industry averages. What percentage of total visitors to your site end up creating an account?

Our info:
- 3% of total visitors that hit our site create an account (free sign up)
- 8% of visitors coming from a targeted referrer (like an article about us) create an account
- 0.8% of our users end up paying for something
- Our target demographic : developers

*Disclaimer - I know this is a complicated issue with lots of factors–still, I would love to hear where your percentages are at.
Most air conditioners are heat pumps configured to work in one direction, using outside air as a temperature sink.

(I realize that this is at least borderline pedantry)
How to guard against users accidentally sending emails without attachments
Note that the Google Developer account on G+ mentioned that they are going to avoid the "registration rush" this year.

Supposedly there will be plenty of time between the I/O registration opening and any deadline, and AFAIK it's not going to be on a first-come, first-serve basis like last year.

So, settle down, no need to stalk their online accounts all hours of the day. :-)
I've had the same discussion with Websphere administrators who can't grasp the concept of caching and the role of swapping. I even had one admin think that modifying the swappiness setting to keep memory free would be a good idea...
Weight loss drugs. Three new products were rejected by the FDA last year. Sure these drugs had risks, but what's the cost of obesity in terms of medical costs?

At this point in time the FDA has incredibly high standards of safety for weight loss drugs and not without reason. But what are the costs of the 40% of obese Americans who will get diabetes, cardiovascular disease, etc, etc?
Yes it can, but you probably don't want to do that. You definitely don't want to do it in an automated way when the machine is experiencing memory pressure.

There are very good reasons that Linux (and most other modern operating systems) makes aggressive use of page caches and buffers. For the vast majority of applications dropping these caches is going to reduce performance considerably (disk is really really slow) and most applications for which this isn't true are probably using O_DIRECT anyway.

The arguments in favor of page caching are: (a) disks have very high latency (b) disks have relatively low bandwidth (c) for hot data RAM is cheaper disk IO both in dollars and in watts [1] and (d) it's basically free because the memory would have been unused anyway.

The arguments against page caching are: (a) occasionally the kernel will make poor choices and do something sub-optimal and (b) high numbers in 'free' make me feel better.

Too many inexperienced operators (or those experienced on other OSs) confuse disadvantage (a) for disadvantage (b) and decide to drop caches using a cron job.

[1] Old but good: ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/tr-97-33.pdf
Hate the Game and Hate the Player
Project idea: A release management tool using git
This is mostly fluff and breaks your back button.
It'd be nice if the market could offer a free copy to the first user of each phone model and then asked him for simple feedback ("Does it run smoothly? [Yes/No]").
Me too... I came in wondering, "Ok, how have things been screwed up yet again?". Glad to see it's something positive.
Yes. The problem is that at some point you talk to some library function that uses java.util.Date, and there goes your time zone information (although with hackery you can sometimes get the library to do the right thing).
tl:dr AndEngine
Please don't lie just because you find the truth about startups and patents inconvenient.

Will you please stop? The fact that you're having to hop all over this thread defending yourself should make you reconsider what you said, not start calling third parties liars for contradicting you.
Looks like their site went down, have a mirror:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Probably more technical than what you wanted, but here's a bit about how memory works from the "how much memory is the app really using" perspective.

http://neugierig.org/software/blog/2011/05/memory.html
It seems that a lot of people think that we need substantive patent reform, but what I haven't heard is any real proposal except for scrapping the entire system (or possibly just for software). I've put together the basics of a proposal here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3698637

I'm sure that it has a lot of problems, but we need to start having the discussion of how to fix the system, instead of just whether or not it needs fixing.
10gen: "Get Paid For Developing Open Source Software"
Thanks for reminding me why I don't want to work for most startups.

How about sweet you say "Way to go Bro!"? and why use an arduino at all? Waste of resources just stick with a small lightweight digital program to 'send' a sweet (or Way to go Bro!) to them directly.

The software program was a semi-serious suggestion.
Did you read the article? AndEngine is for 2D graphics alone. You need to hijack some low level AndEngine code to get it to behave in a 3D way by grabbing its OpenGL camera and manipulating it.
Nothing on the web should be construed as permanent. Even GOOG, MSFT, and YHOO drop products, change features, etc. It's a risk everyone has to analyse when choosing third-party vendors (GOOG now charges for Maps, for example, and look how many people are revamping their apps to not use them).

Both web and brick/mortar companies can suddenly close shop for a huge amount of reasons, and I have my doubts that "being so talented at what you do that you get bought out" is at the top of too many peoples' worry lists, IMO.
From the Payment FAQ quoted in one of the comments:

Note that in the event of a technical issue, your payout may be delayed and is expected to be initiated by the 15th of the month.

Maybe wait until after the 15th to start worrying about it?
Ok, I might have exagerated.

The thing is, when a company chooses to manufacture pharmaceuticals, it shouldn't just be 'business as usual' for them. They must realize that they have a social responsability to undertake besides making a profit, and that is even without a proper regulamentory agency or something of the sort.

Most countries have some kind of social welfare, so maybe these companies could have differentiated deals with those programs and still price whatever for those can afford it. It would both cover a market they wouldn't otherwise reach and not jeopardize those that imperatively need treatment and can't afford it otherwise.
Make Up Your Damn Mind
Actually it's almost impossible to rig the statistics.

I would argue that it's actually impossible to economically conduct sufficient studies to reliably predict the efficacy and long term safety of drugs in the general population. And you're right, every drug on the market has passed Phase 3 trials because they're cherrypicked. A big drug company knows how many drugs it needs in production to ensure that some percentage of them are statistically likely to get through Phase 3 trials. To believe otherwise is to believe a drug company would bet a multi-billion-dollar enterprise purely on a research gamble. Is it possible for them to lose? Sure, 'statistically likely' isn't a guarantee. But it's much better odds than depending on stumbling into an actual cure.
> Here are the 10 patents Yahoo is using to sue Facebook (and what they really mean)

Article DOES NOT EVEN MENTION the word "claim."
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How are you checking for this? Just tweaking the URL to www.google.com/events/io/2012/ ?

I think writing a simple python script that can schedule a push notification to my phone via BoxCar will help.
Why Apple's Siri Needs an API
Saving System Resources with No atime
Ever had a song stuck in your head? That’s an earworm & we’re collecting them
Wiktionary Data in RDF (DBpedia)
Wikileaks' first forays with Anon were in publishing the information pulled off the Scientology servers way back in the Chanology days. I doubt they had a "no hacks" policy, or if they did then it was only implemented later.

It'll be interesting to see whether or not the legally and morally ambiguous nature of the directions given to Sabu by the FBI will in any way prejudice any evidence they may have gained against Assange.
Proposed CSS for Sarcasm
I'm a programmer but not a Mac user. I fail to see what is wrong with the bug report above. Care to explain?
Samsung starts bringing Ice Cream Sandwich to Galaxy S II
As I said below, MSFT could be of great use to FB in this matter. But I think they may be sitting this one out. Remember Yahoo brought a patent suit against Google back in 2004 and that only settled 10 DAYS before the IPO. Things may get down to the wire before MSFT decides which way to go.
Etsy wins.
execute command.
Yep, firefox is currently 555 MB resident and using 1.5 GIGABYTES of virtual memory space. Goddamn, firefox, you are a pig. Saddest thing? I've got gmail, github, and maybe 10 static pages open.

Linux just looks like it ate your RAM. Firefox straight up does eat it.
Can anyone talk about their experiences of using Play 2.0 and Lift, if they've used both?
The Illustrator-style layer selection is enough of a reason to use Fireworks over Photoshop. You spend more time trying to navigate the layers in a PSD than actually designing. Drives me crazy.
1. uniform function names and parameter orders. for example searching functions.

2. better way to define stdClass objects (json-esque). other than (object)array('foo'=>'bar').

3. chaniable interfaces for lots of stuff that currently requires storing results in temp vars.

4. have closures automatically "use" all local scope variables without needing to explicitly define them (like js) - this could be problematic though if you expect to reuse variable names...

have anything implementing all necessary array and iterator interfaces be passable to functions that take arrays. this is really a core language feature though, not sugar.

there is a great list of warts you can start itching here: http://phpsadness.com/
PayPal is what happens when you have a completely unregulated financial industry. They act like a bank, but they have no responsibilities like a bank. Somebody needs to find out what PayPal 'is' and slot it under some existing regulatory agency.
Soo, AndEngine plus 19 lines of code. I don't mean for my tl:dr to be negative. I fully plan on using this in the future.
Any claim of something being cheaper, with a picture of some shiny stainless-steel small-scale lab equipment, is suspect. It's not demonstrated to be cheaper until you're producing at scale.
At least in Europe it appears 868MHz is gaining ground and now 169MHz is being considered.
As a longtime Linux user/admin and beginning Oracle DBA I now know that all memory should be occupied by Oracle, not by OS. :-)
Serious mode on: I'm sure it's a big problem to be narrow expert. They can be brilliant specialist in their field, but one step aside and they are absolutely helpless.
$1000 to run something like that on EC2 seems like a lot. That type of site could probably be run off one or two micro instances, and if you bought reserved instances you can get your long term costs way down.
I think this is a pretty common misconception overall. Working at startups, often find devs with multiple hats sometimes doing ops tasks. Seen many who hop on a system trying to diagnose some issue, fire up top and proclaim "OMG, the problem is we're running out of memory!"

2nd is explaining virtual/resident set size.
Only we're doubling production of wind turbines every 2-3 years. With each doubling, prices come down, as they do with every other manufactured artifact from computers to TVs to washing machines.

Look out for 35 years. Is it still minuscule?
It's a significant decrease here. And RS's fixed world-wide pricing is a guarantee the prices of both retailers will be reasonable everywhere.
Totally agree! I was hoping to have something to send to a few of the designers I work with, but the tone is totally insulting. (ie "Nice try!")
God is just.

God says...
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dull meant Copyright plans tellest briars hideous universal
solemnity reposing reigning att grant bondage justifieth
motions meditations whereto sailors aught demanding knots
fluctuating lament offspring care diversly unceasing meant
sex heeded villainies while encompass harm
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[..] cost of around 40 cents per watt, about half the cost of panels currently coming out of China (where the vast majority of solar panels are made)

To me, this is the second cool part of the story. It shows that we can still do industrial enterprises in the west by applying technology. Sooner or later the production and assembly industry will have no more cheap labor forces to "exploit" on the globe and production, assembly and automaton technology may (again) be an industrial game changer for the west as it was with "spinning jenny".
Yahoo Sues Facebook Over Patents
Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson told us that although the company abandoned push songs in late 2009 due to the fact that they “started deploying 10x/day.”

Whoa. I'll have what they're having.
Interesting. Expected more electronic tbh.

Personally I like Ellen Allien - Push

'Push push, ass ass'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WCPsGit1x8
The ducks tag is always well-formed, by definition.

All your ducks are in a row.
There are more kinds of IP:
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_design_right (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent/)
-Integrated Circuit Topographies: http://www.cipo.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic....
-Plant Breeders Rights: http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/plaveg/pbrpov/guidee.sht...
-And other kinds of IP around the world
But renewable energies could replace nuclear (and other sources) for new plants that will be built in the future. Nuclear has a very high initial cost, and shutting down current plants while they're still efficient and safe enough wouldn't be a sound choice, but for replacements of ageing plants and for new constructions cheaper and cheaper renewable energies could realistically displace them in the next decades.
They're a problem for a lot of people. So many in fact that they fall into the range of normal human physiology and behavior. My point is that for most people, the cures that are being vigorously marketed by drug companies are no better than placebos for many of these 'disorders'. These drugs are an artifact of the pharmaceutical industry business model, which the parent comment acknowledges is broken albeit for a different reason.
Data centers most assuredly do not use 2% of electricity. That's a made up stat by fossil fuel industry lobbyists and repeated by server vendors.
Other than you could write a curl statement in all of 2 minutes, post it on HN and then it defeats the purpose of said coding challenge. The smart cruft will get in... they'll just do it by piggy backing on those who do the work and post it online.
Your first design may be the best, but you won’t know until..
Did you try posting it here or to reddit? That usually gets some attention.
PiRo - Google Chrome extension for PivotalTracker from Railsware.
Kaleidescape Loses DVD Ripping Case
The reaction of the user is not suprising. No background-daemon should use all 4 cores and be that noticable. Users don't feel good when the computer starts to make thing on his own they don't expect.

Ubuntu had or has the same issue with a deamon used for the graphical package-administrations-guis rebuilding an index (I forgot the name). They tried to help themselves with appropriate nice-settings, defused the issue, but on old machines you still need to move the cronjob to monthly to have a usable system.

You simply can't use the system properly when a background-process uses all ressources. And one normally want do something else than wait for the system.
I consider such behaviour a bug.
Not sure where you are located, but in most bits of the US (and many other countries) you can find a small used monitor on Craigslist that has a DVI/HDMI port relatively cheap.
Visual C++ 2012 (VC 11 Beta) statically linked applications to run on Windows XP
Tools to get to the precipice of programming
Yes, it was actually sort of a response to that webpage that said it was not possible to free this cached memory.

The cache dropping is actually useful when you are doing benchmarking...
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Does the Linux disk cache push out pages that are used by running applications? I believe Windows does it, though I can't state that for a fact.
jiazou a developer has commented:

Hi all, I'm really sorry to see there are so many problems with the checkout merchant center. Unfortunately the checkout merchant center team is going through a major transition. Many of the past owners of the code base have left, which leaves many of you without proper support :( I'm part of a three person team that's getting transitioned to take ownership of the code base, in fact we have a meeting in 15min to get an overview of the basic architecture and start looking into some of these bugs. I assure you we will work very hard to address your issues as quickly as possible, but please remain patient with us as our team makes this transition.

Thanks and Sincerely,

Jia
free does the job of taking cache into account (mentioned in the original post). If you've read the neugierig post, and want a better per-process monitor:

gnome-system-monitor has a top-like monitor as well as graphs, and measures memory properly (including a discount for shared maps); smem works in the console; it doesn't have a term interface like top, but it can be combined with watch.
It blows my mind that a company like google would be oblivious to such a glaring problem ... I really can't process it. Does that mean nobody monitors this kind of thing at all over there?
Okay, I'm one of those devs. What is this virtual/resident set size thing you're talking about?

EDIT: Thank you for all the helpful responses!
A couple of Linode instances would've been way cheaper IMO.
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That's depressing. Developers are the ones who have to understand this. In IT it's common to find people (even "DBAs") who have made a career of following procedures someone else wrote.
As someone who's working on a non-fiction travel memoir (and tried my hand at a startup), I'd agree with the author.

Another comparison not mentioned-- many writers who attempt to write a book fail.. whether it's actually completing the 1st draft, finding a publisher, or gaining traction once launched. Kinda reminds me of a pg talk, where he argues that startups fail by default, and it's our goal is to avoid dying at each milestone.
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Paypal Launching New Mobile Payments Service and Dongle?
If there's a 3cm air gap, why don't they just go in from the top/bottom/sides?

And did they really drill holes in Vasari's fresco, or just use a neutron thingy, like the NY Times articles says? If there are holes, can't they just shove a small camera inside?
Of course one expects marketing mental diseases to be effective! 'Its not your fault, take a pill and it will all go away' certainly has mass emotional appeal. However, the article is not too convincing about the methodology of excluding marketing expenses.

First - and I know that I'm going to hear about this from some people - you might assume that different companies are putting different things under the banner of R&D for accounting purposes. But there's a limit to how much of that you can do. Remember, there's a separate sales and marketing budget, too, of course, and people never get tired of pointing out that it's even larger than the R&D one. So how inflated can these figures be?

Not particularly powerful evidence here: a vague notion of a limit, and a rhetorical question. Corporate accounting statements are generally only accountable to the board of directors, who might be perfectly happy with pushing the limit on creative accounting while the stock goes up. When aimed at investors other than the board, and especially when used by citizens attempting to assess the social value of institutions, accounting statements are better treated as marketing materials themselves.

We can discuss evidence when the CFOs of these corporations open their daily work to a public VNC session.
that's just beautiful
They'll always be able to get in. Which isn't a problem. The problem is buisness guys outnumbering technical guys. Reducing their numbers is all that's required.
Great point! Even once published, odds of success are low. You're funded aka have an advance, but the odds you deliver a return are low, just like startups+VCs.
The technology is very similar to what SOItech is doing for Silicon on insulator wafers: http://www.soitec.com/en/technologies/smart-cut/
Pennsylvania Health Insurance PPOs and HMOs
Adobe warns of hash collision in ColdFusion
What are some examples of features from other languages that you would like to see in Python?
Intel could launch an Internet-based TV service in 2012
If you are lucky they will write that review. More likely they will just say "does not even run, the biggest disgrace since wwii".
The decimal point is always misplaced
Google 'Wasting' $16 Billion On Projects Headed Nowhere
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Looks like HN ate all their RAM...