skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those not in the SEO world. Google's Panda update gave my websites a big boost. However, the new Penguin update dropped my traffic by 20%.

To check if you got hit, it rolled out completely on the 24th. So compare week over week traffic (from Google) from April 24th to the previous week, and see how you did.
What if it boosted your frame rate and saved your battery?[1]

The blurry areas could be rendered at lower resolution then blurred to the final screen. I read an article where a 2D side scroller used this technique to good effect on its frame rates.

3D would require a serious mathematician to make the various edges match well enough to not be offensive.

EOM

[1] A Macbook Air that happily runs 6 hours on battery will run about 90 minutes playing minecraft.
Pornography reduces sex crimes:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/v046j3g178147772/fulltex...

> it degrades women

But not men?

Also, how do you decide when someone else is being degraded? Should they also get to decide when you're being degraded?
Survives ? From what I hear it's already being applied to medicine.
At times like this I think of Lily Tomlin's Ernestine character: "We don't care. We don't have to. We're Oracle!"

(I've been dealing with Oracle for a few years. It started with just database stuff, but they kept buying applications I supported, now they own Solaris ... anyway.)
Is √2 irrational?..
http://mathema-tricks.blogspot.com/2012/04/irrationality-of-2.html
Computing as a whole has changed. We are comparing a time (then) when physicians and mathematicians were the ones laying the ground work for what we have today to a time when people start programming to make video games and cool websites (today).

Also, getting experience back then was fairly difficult. Just getting your hands on a computer to get the experience would have been a challenge. Compare that to today where there are kids, literally kids, programming at home right now. For example, I started programming when I was 17.
3D Printers: Make Whatever You Want
Or "developer". You can probably plot the demise of programming as a respected profession as their titles changes from programmers to "software developers" or "architects", maybe using google books n-gram.
Was this a real attempt at a scam? Or just an attempt to get some news coverage - like a prank? Like the first real scam on AirBNB someone wants to be the project everyone always talks about with online fundraising.
> Books require focus and self-control.

No. People knew novels were degrading and debilitating long before TV even existed:

http://www.merrycoz.org/books/CONFESSN.HTM

"This course of reading exacted no effort from the mind, and the more I indulged in it the more averse I became to the drudgery of business, and the more incapable of that accurate thinking and careful analysis required in the practice of the law."

"My fondness for romance, now become my ruling passion, not only impaired my powers of reasoning and investigation, but destroyed the balance of my mind by giving an undue preponderance to the imagination. The unnatural activity of that faculty, by presenting false and exaggerated views of persons and events, was frequently a serious disadvantage to me in my profession. Often when I was wrought into a fever of excitement by an ideal state of facts, the reality has so differed from my preconceived hypothesis, as to produce a sudden syncope of all my faculties."

"The excitement of novel reading is akin to intoxication. When it subsides, it leaves the mind collapsed and imbecile, without the capacity or the inclination for active exertion."
I was using a grounded UK charger too when this happened (although it was Mac not iPhone). I think the chances of this happening with high quality electronics is pretty low but as far as I know the Fire Service recommends unplugging all electronics at night so it's probably not necessary but obviously the safest solution.
I was a submarine officer back during the end of the Cold War, doing special operations and what not.

Now that was a super stressful job & the hours were lots longer, major sleep deprivation.

Our therapy was debauched shore time in various Pacific ports, seemed to get the job done. But I suppose Google HR department wouldn't go for that.
www.whitetruffle.com is the best I've found so far.

It matches based on skills and a few other attributes (like location and whether you have a US visa.) I've talked to them, since this is a subject close to my heart and I'm curious, and they're planning on adding a more detailed questionnaire and a little machine learning.

Right now they're restricted to New York and the Bay Area and they're focused on engineering positions, mostly at startups. But they do a pretty darn good job. I'm on there, and I get a job offer every few weeks or so, many from excellent companies.
1. How do you handle the logical conclusion of letting your workers do whatever they want, they don't do anything? This may not apply to all employees, but it surely applies to at least one, and I wanted to know specifically how you might handle that situation.

2. What sort of system do you have to address problems with the unconditional hierarchy? For example, if an employee disagrees with Gabe, who wins and how is that handled?

UPDATE: addition to question #1
>The customers gained by Android and iOS are not as loyal or as committed

I doubt Windows Phone users are any more loyal. I'm a current Windows user and I intend to go back to Android. The app market is weak and multi-tasking doesn't work particularly well. I do love the Zune software though.
> Porn is a plague that degrades women

It's amazing how many people think it's their place to decide when someone else is being degraded.

Also, why women? Why single out a specific gender?
This happens a lot. HR ends up being in charge and comes up with requirements that don't make much of any sense.
CoffeeScript ReplConsole for Chrome
http://www.knewton.com/, education platform.
Is it known that Valve employees frequent HN? I'm not sure why this story is here.
I like how Oracle educates developers about the proper handling of DTD's. (They didn't break it by accident for the third time already, right? RIGHT?!)
Next up: "Poll: How many people consider switching to Valve organization?"
Really like it!
The point that fishcakes raises is one important element. Make sure to understand the picture fully (not just the % of common shares currently outstanding, but the % of the company if all preferred shares were fully converted to common stock, etc).

There is something of a red flag in how you've phrased your question. It's curious that you say that you will be joining the company, but then your post is all about the fact that you haven't yet negotiated the equity you will be receiving. This makes the most sense when you only are considering joining the company. If you already have an agreement to join, then this agreement most likely stipulates what equity you are owed, and on what schedule it will vest.

Part of the overall package that is required to convince you to work for this company should include a specific % of the company's equity. Surely your bargaining position would be stronger if you hadn't already agreed to work for the company when making an ask for equity.
Paper handbag design
I think you and viraptor are right -- the answer is still "yes/somewhat" to avoiding hosted solutions for a lot of people, and especially companies. Ten years ago, many small-medium businesses had their own IT staff running an email server, file storage, and maybe even a little intranet site. Many still do, but I'd guess the fraction has gone down significantly as companies slowly get comfortable moving some of their bits out of the building. (Key word is slowly.)

But it's happening: I'm sure there are tens of thousands of HN readers who today keep their important data in hosted source code repositories, hosted accounting/invoicing packages, hosted CRM services, hosted e-mail services ... where both the software and the data do not necessarily live on their own machine. It hasn't happened as much in creative or engineering tools yet, but in my opinion, that's rapidly about to change as browsers become more and more capable platforms for powerful apps.

Furthermore, the line between "my software" and "cloud software" is being quickly blurred from both sides. From the existing desktop players, consider Adobe's Creative Suite becoming a subscription service / SaaS (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3877191). And from the web apps side, consider that if we knew that people were willing to pay enough for it to be worth our time, we could package up CircuitLab to run as an offline app (already in the Chrome Web Store, but requires connection right now https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/haghanbgfkfpmepooh...).
Last Chance for Hackers on Planet Earth / EFF benefit tickets
For the past month, the Hackers On Planet Earth conference by 2600 Magazine has been raising money for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The internet would be a scary place without them around, so HOPE is donating 10% of the entire ticket sales for the month of April to the EFF. It's been a fantastic month, and yet it's almost over, so if you want to be part of this awesome effort, buy your ticket before Monday!

Conference runs from 13-15 July 2012 in New York City. Buy tickets at http://www.hopenumbernine.net
7Live7.org: User Account, control your postings.
It's amazing how so many of those projects remain largely unsolved today.
That's a really cool idea, good luck!
Find the music
As if you could compare the creative process for different innovations on a spreadsheet.

I heard someone talking about how innovative Bell Labs was. Which actually collected a 1 or 2 percent charge on every phone bill for decades. Well, you BETTER deliver something if you're sucking up that kind of money.

I'm more inclined to thin that people are mentally compressing the past and comparing it to how slowly this moment seems to be going by. Of course it feels like nothing significant is happening.

The reality is that we are all learning about whats going on much faster than every before.

Maybe we aren't coming up with things that are truly unique because we are not as isolated anymore, just as we probably won't be encountering any new languages from here on out.
Stop worrying about little arrows, and just be polite, post intelligently, and contribute.

I think that's what he's trying to do!
At the least, the program could use a singleton to fetch and cache the DTDs. To just pull it over the internet every time you need it is, ignoring the practical problems, just flat out wasteful.
I have no problem with people enjoying the medium of their choice and if vinyl turns your crank more power to you, but
as far as revivals go, this is not gigantic.

For 2011, a grand total of 3.6 million vinyl records were sold worldwide. The best selling vinyl album for 2011 was The Beatles' "Abbey Road" which accounted for 41,000 sales or a bit over 1% of all vinyl records sold last year.
Men also, but to a far lesser degree.
Bostinno also recently reported another project that simply failed to deliver: http://bostinno.com/2012/04/25/kickstarters-dark-side/

Could this create a market for 'verified' kickstarter projects? Kickstarter as an organization states they dont verify, but as they grow the need will also grow. I'm thinking this could be an optional feature that everyone would be aware of (IE: grayed out badge when not invoked). For a small fee a typically background check will be performed, either by kickstarter or an independent.
I use monoprice for many cables. But their knockoff iPhone earbuds of a few years ago were disasters[1] and their iPhone charger cables haven't lasted well.

On the other hand, I've been getting gorgeous, well made XLR cables from them for a great price, and I've never had a problem with CAT 5/6 cables or HDMI cables[2] from them.

Maybe we can say that low price tolerates more variability.

EOM

[1] They dropped those earbuds pretty quickly. I see they again sell an iPhone earbud, maybe it is better. For $2.36 each I'll probably add three to my next order just to see.

[2] Whenever I need a common cable, I generally buy 3 to 6 of them on the theory that my friends and family will have problems that need solving with such a cable. Then I can give them a $3 solution instead of them going to BestBuy and dropping $30.
The latest version of Xubuntu (12.04) is just stellar IMO. It's turned me into an XFCE user. I've been a DE refugee since Unity and Gnome 3 came along. Glad to see some of these new features being added, particularly the tiling support!
I kind of do. I have an iPhone for personal use so I choose to have an Android phone for work. Not because I particularly like Android but simply because I'd like to have one to play around with. I'll probably swap it out with a WP7 device sometime this year. I can't really justify carrying around 3 (or more) phones though. 2 is enough.
What are the laws and/or precedents which establish the risks you're claiming here? Why does giving a candidate general feedback on their interview presentation expose a company to accusations of discrimination?

I have received straight-up feedback on job applications in the past, so I don't think every employer sees it the way you do.
How many Valve employees does it take to change a light bulb? Who orders the light bulbs and who decides when and where it is to be installed?
Believe it or not, there are also plenty of "Defense" jobs that contribue to safety and the preservation of human lives.
1) I'd assume that the bottleneck is IO, not CPU. But I could be wrong.

2) The JVM is pretty fast, especially for threading and the server workloads.

3) Clojure is not-so-slowly making its way on to several other platforms.
Great links. I've certainly made a habit of hanging out with those Fat Guys, though at this point I'm in Boulder, so while they still have neck beards here, they tend to be pretty thin. Though honestly we stopped playing Settlers years ago, and have moved on to games like San Juan and Dominion. ;)

To tell the truth, I have a love/hate relationship with C++. Yes, I know it really well at this point. I've learned everything I know because it (at the time) was the only tool reasonable to get the job done. Now I actually avoid using it as much as possible.

The perfect combo for me (in games) is C++ for performant code combined with tight integration with Lua. I hear you on higher-level languages being more productive, which is why most of my game code ends up written in Lua. (I'm far from alone in using this combo -- most major iOS games seem to use the same combo, as do a lot of games in general.)

Why not use one of the three you mentioned? Size and speed both.

LuaJIT is pretty much the fastest dynamic language around, and the overhead of linking into a program is tiny compared to Ruby, Python, or JavaScript. The language itself gives you advanced features like coroutines with upvalues and operator overrides, but at the same time it's super-simple -- to the point where non-programmers can use it to script behaviors.

If you're doing server code you can afford to have things be a bit slower and/or huge (relatively speaking). If you're doing games downloaded OTA on a phone, and you've got a 20Mb limit before they have to use WiFi...well, size is critical (an extra megabyte or two means a lot of assets won't fit any more) and phones are far more processor-bound than most server tasks you'd use a scripting language for. On the other hand, with distributions like OpenResty [1] that hand you an extremely fast server and LuaJIT all bound up together, allowing me to create a cheap server that can handle 3000+ requests per second without barely breaking a sweat...well, since I know Lua ANYWAY, I use it on the server as well.

YMMV. :)

Addressing what you asked: C++ development is in reasonably high demand compared to the number of Fat Guys, so it tends to pay well. Having experience in a niche can also be handy -- by virtue of knowing Android C++/NDK development I've had random people contacting me to ask if I want to work for them, with no real promotion on my part. I don't even want to say what my rate was publicly, though I will say that I expected him to turn me down when I said how much I wanted.
The office will most likely change and what has traditionally been the office of cubicles or whatever can be benefitted by these sorts of things. Having a huge salary won't always motivate people, which reminds me of an interesting TED talk by Dan Pink [1], mentioned in the article on page two.

[1] www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
Google Engineer Told Others of Data Collection
The mathematicians, physicists, and engineers of that era helped to preserve the survival of our civilization so you could have the luxury of being an idealistic pacifist.
Only in multiple-monitor setups, and for applications that don't support it well, or at all. It's clearly designed for a single display and trackpad gestures, where it works nicely in most cases.

This doesn't excuse applications (e.g., VMware Fusion, sorta-kinda, and then only in some cases, and apparently now Firefox) that are replacing their existing full-screen support that works better in other situations, alas.

Trouble I see is figuring out what a "universally applicable full-screen mode" should even look like in the possible presence of one or more displays arranged arbitrarily, each with one or more virtual desktops. For instance, on my single 27" 16:9 display, I'd prefer browser and e-reader full screen modes with configurable left and right margins, and PDF readers that force portrait documents ONLY into 2-up, non-"continuous" mode, in all these cases with no chrome whatsoever (even when browsing with tabs), while in VMware, I'd prefer an option to choose either Lion-style or "classic" full screen, as I like both for different applications. But, on the whole, imperfect as it remains, I prefer the Lion set-up to Snow Leopard's in most cases. If I ever have room on my desktop for TWO 27" displays, I might say the opposite (and did, in fact, when I had two smaller screens rather than my current set-up).

And both are better than the Windows 8 preview's "full-screen only for crippled, tablet-style applications" model, because, e.g., I WANT Remote Desktop to stay connected in the background (to be fair, though, Windows 7 and 8 do have better built-in "fullish screen" window management features than any OS X version, but this is very easy to fix in OS X with either AppleScript or third-party tools).

Short of writing my own window manager, Web browser, etc., I'd personally be very, very hard to please all the time. Case in point: should Apple support TWO multi-touch trackpads with independent, configurable gestures? Probably not, but that didn't stop me from finding a workaround (hint: Wacom's latest tablets have gesture support).

Heck, I've seriously considered wiring up a MIDI pedal controller as a hyper key in Emacs, but I certainly don't expect any OS to support this out-of-the-box...
That sounds really bad. Do they continue the meeting?
especially for 3 days..
There's a big difference between HTTP User-Agents and this PEP's sys.implementation. User Agent sniffing is a bad idea because browsers are outside of your control. They evolve while web sites stand still.

In this case, you can control which implementation you run. You can control what software runs on that implementation. You can change both of them. They are both under your control.
Pajax.js - easily page through ajax requests
Haha I remember when it was the other way around...
is it really valuable to keep the svn repository up for scripts that do automatic updating? since nothing further will ever be pushed to it, those scripts are now tracking an increasingly out-of-date repo.

the other point of view is that there are servers that the admin has had a reasonable expectation of being able to set up and let run itself, but those servers shouldn't be pulling from anyone's svn repo anyway.
coughretrospectivecough

A postmortem is what you do when you try to understand the cause of death: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmortem

</nitpick>
The future is awesome.

Another company, Z Corp, has youtube videos of their machine scanning and reproducing a crescent wrench, complete with moving parts. Could a future car be assembled completely from printable parts, whose blueprints are open-source? What about bicycles and office chairs?

Who wants to start a business researching which objects would be cheaper to 3d print than to get from a wholesaler, then build a retail operation around it?
I hate this "low innovation" meme. Seriously?

Imaginary example, but real tech: Suppose I remember the first half of an Irish reel I heard somewhere, but can't remember the name or where I heard it. In 1980, trying to track it down would involve months (maybe years) of asking every musician I met if they knew it, hunting through obscure books of music, and if I found a good solid lead, perhaps an expensive international phone call to order a recording of it from Ireland.

Today? I could play the tune into an app on my phone and within seconds know its name, have multiple different sources for downloading (free) sheet music, and in another couple of minutes have purchased and downloaded multiple professional recordings of it.

Two things about this:
1) It's a net negative to GDP. Before I would have spent lots of money on a phone call, a full album, and overseas shipping, now it costs me $1 to get the one track I want. My personal consumer surplus from the new arrangement is really impressive, but the money and time I save doesn't get calculated into the economic figures these people are looking at.

2) The benefit is mostly to the long tail. You've always been able to easily buy Top 40 albums pretty much wherever you were. But now buying any genre you can imagine is easier than buying Top 40 was 32 years ago.
For the Americans an RCD is the same thing as a GFCI, it's also called an ALCI in some places.
> they don't do anything

I don't know about you, but not doing anything is boring to me. Working is so often much more fun than doing nothing.
Do you hire a light bulb changing contractor to change light bulbs in your own home?
Actually I checked with the dictionary before posting, because I had that same concern. (I was a newspaper copyeditor for a while.) Postmortem can mean "any analysis following an event." It's not just for death.
When you start collecting money from people a prank becomes a scam.