skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the way, Mac OS seems to turn of subpixel AA on a lot of external monitors (it did it for me on a Dell Ultrasharp), making text look really bad.

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2

To fix it.
In my experience (in bigger companies), if you get to know (to a level of trust) the real estate people and then happen to ask them, they'll tell you the decision is top down and cost-driven. 100%. It's all about square feet (meters) / employee.

That would be the immediate, upfront cost. A real/realistic assessment of expected employee productivity is hard to find. (Though reference to various external "studies" and "assessments" may be made. "Best practices", "industry standards/norms", etc.)

The internal publicity is heavily or entirely about "collaboration" and "facilitation" and "workflow", etc. Whatever. Just ask the people over in real estate (if they trust you).
Effect is for three cups per day or more. I find more than 1.5 cups in a day... distasteful.
The installation media you receive with the OEM PC is not an authentic, original, pure unadulterated Windows installation - it's an OEM installation that, if you haven't guessed by now, comes with all the crapware.

Yes, you can buy a brand new Windows license for installing on your PC. But that'll cost you more than $99 this service costs.
Heh nice on my birthday facebook went public :D
> is it incredibly complicated?

Yes it is and frustrating is that you have to read spec over spec to follow all the conventions. You can be very fast with Rails and all its gems but to get there takes time and it's no fun anymore.
>You know crime in the USA has actually fallen a lot recently?

He's talking about late 50s, early 60s. We're not there yet. (NYC used to be safer than London. Yes, same time.)

The late 60s had a huge crime jump in the US. The 70s were even worse. We're working back from that.
First rule of tech blogging -- all stories, even those best reported as just one line, must be expanded to meet Google News's minimum word count requirement.
They probably have significantly more, considering their deployment has grown over years. Storage density roughly doubles every 2 years.

Would you start a new deployment from scratch today then yes, 25 racks, give or take a few (that's roughly 1.5mio dollars, give or take a few).
This is partly why I want to read "Better Angels of our Nature" by Stephen Pinker. It's about how humanity is now the least violent it's ever been, which could help to put my too-frequent bouts of pessimism in perspective.
Same here with Chromium 18
I remember reading on Reuters that Apple forces carriers to buy a minimum amount of iPhones now when they launch, or I would assume they won't give them the iPhone.

Also, maybe the carriers have done their research and are expecting to sell a lot of them.
Pry also has a bunch of plugins available including
smalltalk-like error consoles and multi-user remote debugging sessions. See here for more info: http://banisterfiend.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/the-pry-ecosys...
http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.1319 for the pre print version of this pay walled publically funded research.
I guess Samsung phones are more popular outside US.
Among my colleagues, of 10 smartphones, 8 are Samsung ones (includes 3 Samsung Notes) and only one iPhone4S.
Given that a barometer is seemingly so rare on the market (and your app is probably one of the few set to take advantage of it) maybe you could talk to Samsung about a cross-promotional type deal? It could allow them to further differentiate and market their phone, and you'd get your data!
D-Wave machines are good at Travelling Salesman, and it's been suggested to use them for laying out PCBs.

http://www.dwavesys.com/en/dev-tutorial-tsp.html
I forwarded this to my mother, who is a retired teacher. She was lauded for her teaching abilities and always had top scores on her evaluations. They even tried to get her to stay upon reaching the required years to retire, but health / back issues forced her to retire.

I thought this would be great for some post-retirement income. She has years of experience, so possibly, the planning part would come easy to her AND the side benefit of not actually having to TEACH the little stink-pots...
At a glance it seems to be a correlation so it could just be that people who live longer also tend to drink more coffee for whatever reason (maybe as you suggest they are driven, competitive, and use it to stay alert longer). I think the same is true for casual alcohol consumption.

In other words, it would be a stretch to suggest that coffee consumption is strictly beneficial.
How to Achieve Consumer Satisfaction?
The point is it doesn't matter how many units they sell to Best Buy, what matters is how many units they sell to consumers.

This happens all the time, we hear about X millions of units "shipped" only to find out months later that a small fraction of those actually made it into consumers hands.
According to the article, teachers sold $7 million in lesson plans. The site creator has earned $700k.
Many fewer people in North America were awake and on HN two hours ago. Timing is key.
You might want to read http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2012/05/emscripten-opengl-webgl-... for some eye-opening about what one can do with porting to JS in a _modern_ browser.
> 2) Having children: Interesting how white, middle class people think having kids is the most expensive thing ever. It's not.
...

Exactly.

Our child's clothing, toys and books come from:

1. Yard sales
2. Helping hands
3. Friends and neighbors
4. Craigslist and Freecycle

Guess what? We give 100% of those things away in time. We've taught our son the concept of not holding onto physical things. All of his things came from someone else, and he gives all of his things to someone else.

He's completely good with that; at 9 years of age, he'll bring a bag of toys and books to the car and say that he'd like to give these away.

Our biggest child related expense is where we're living. We wanted an excellent public school, so we're living in Mountain View, where it's CRAZY expensive, instead of somewhere else that's cheaper.

We are fortunate that we have very solid and affordable health care through my company, though he has needed very little of it.

Thanks, JPKab, for pointing this out.
Yes, brokerages offer qualified customers access to IPO allocation that the brokerage has access to. It is at their discretion who they allow to participate. Generally, most brokerages will ban you from IPO access if you get allocated shares and sell them within a certain period, usually 90 days or so.

Here is a description of the process for ETrade: https://us.etrade.com/e/t/prospectestation/help?id=130105000...
Yes, I'm Danish.

My point is that I can treat a taxi driver friendly, respectfully and as a fellow human being without treating him like a friend who's doing me a favour.

I'm not worried about tourists, they are plenty scared by the cost of living already, I'm worried about a culture where you don't say "no, I need someone else to do this task for me, my time is better spend on something else". When you're uncomfortable getting in a taxi, you're not going to hire a secretary for your office and then your productivity suffers.
I have the Samsung Nexus S and it's the best phone I've ever owned. (I had an iPhone before this one)
> CPU	Quad-core 1.4 GHz Cortex-A9
> GPU	Mali-400MP

Finally, smooth animations?
Pre-ICS versions of Android kind of sucked, due to the lack of GPU acceleration.

I suggest you look for a CM9 ROM for your phone on XDA.
What I get out of Goedel is this: There are some things that are true that cannot be proved.
http://www.livestream.com/nasdaq/
I should also add that the contract bidding for this project was a 'closed' one. So they are just transferring tax money into their friends' pockets.
20:00 in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
I got 50 shares from e-Trade. Never used eTrade before. It was one of the few platforms that were open for retailers. eTrade mentions that if I flip those shares in less than a month, I might not be able to get access to future IPO shares.
First of all, you're not bursting into someone's office. Second of all, if you burst into my office while I'm working and start making smalltalk, I will, depending on my mood and whether or not I've previously judged you to be a useless person, either immediately ask you to get to the point, or throw you out.

Stop wasting my time. If sending "Hi" makes you feel better, fine, but the substance had better be on my screen by the time I look at the window, or you've wasted my time.
There might well be a term that says they can return unsold stock.
If M$ is involved, it can't be good.

These people have no morals. I remember reading some documents about how neighboring Bulgaria was talked into buying Vista+office licenses for EVERY computer in every high school. At the time, the average computer was probably a PIII if not even PII. Doesn't make sense does it? Well they still did it!
I don't know if this is still the case, but I know a couple years ago Chrome ignored desktop hinting (on Linux specifically, not sure about other OSes) and handled its own font rendering independently.
Twitter Is Tracking You On The Web, Here’s What You Can Do To Stop It
Anecdote time:

I was in the Army before I went to college, so I didn't graduate until I was 27. I got a 3.8 GPA in electrical engineering, but I was still unemployed for over a year before I got hired as an engineer. It was a pretty disheartening year, and I doubted whether I was worth anything to anybody. I finally got a job through a friend. All the cold calls, resumes and interviews were for naught, I got hired through cronyism.

I have a friend who got a degree in sociology, at the age of 28, by working at a hotel and paying out of pocket for a class or two per semester for a decade. She still works at that hotel, two years later, making just above minimum wage. I thought I had it bad being unemployed for a year, but I had military experience and technical skills that were at least somewhat in demand. She's was looking in the social work field, but now she's just looking for any job with benefits and growth, paycheck or industry be damned.

You could argue that sociology is not a degree you should get if you actually want to work. But this woman was written off as "not college material" by teachers and family alike, mostly because she was socially awkward in high school. She worked her ass off for a decade to put herself through school and I'm proud of her. She's shown more grit and determination than I have, certainly. And yet she's unemployable. Hell, she probably couldn't get that hotel job if she started now, because she's got a degree.

"My anecdotal observations are that the longer people I know waited to get their first job, the longer they've remained unemployed or stuck in dead end jobs."

Who is waiting?? We're talking about people who've been trying to get decent jobs for a long time, and have come up empty. So saying "They should have gotten jobs before" is begging the question. They've been trying all along.
Show HN: Real-life "Portals" using a Projector and a Kinect
How "white"? How odd. I didn't know attitudes and ideas had colors.
First, how are you getting the device? Second, don't assume screen size = low bandwidth, and DON'T assume that just because someone is using a small screen, that means they are only interested in 'mobile' content. You should be using one set of HTML markup for one URL. The Media Queries should determine the styling and layout differences.

Also, don't feel like you have to have media queries for every major screen width(320,480,768, etc...). Start out with a linear, 'mobile/small screen' first layout, and then increase width and see where the design or layout could use refinement, or breaks totally, and then add a media query and adjust for that resolution.

Good luck!

For articles/links, follow @RWD and read the book he wrote, if you haven't already.

For images, look at <picture> polyfills and keep an eye on what's going on with the Responsive Images community group. - http://www.w3.org/community/respimg/

(by the way, my web design app, Edit Room will handle all of this gracefully for you very soon, and gives you visual layout, design and content organization tools to build finished designs without initial coding. http://www.edit-room.com )
IIRC ICO had rather strongly indicated that this would be the case. I'm not surprised, but let's face it -- even if they did enforce a fine it would almost certainly be so laughably small as to make it useless as a deterrent.
If you look at the bottom right under "Key stats and ratios"[1] you can see a trace of Google creating a time with 0 (default I guess) and spitting out the year (+/- 1 because of timezones) of the Unix epoch.

[1] http://d.pr/i/sMYb
Look here for good times to post: http://hnpickup.appspot.com/

Hope this helps. :)
"The researchers found that the association between coffee and reduction in risk of death increased with the amount of coffee consumed."

Unfortunately, drinking too much coffee in one go can kill you, as it is toxic.
I knew this would happen, but nobody seemed to believe it. If they can't even compete with the ARM versions because of the cost of Windows, imagine how much more expensive the Intel tablets will be - and they probably won't even support any retina-like resolution (definitely not on Atom).

Also keep in mind that the costs to manufacturers usually double at retail ($300 components - $600 product, etc). So $100 on a Windows 8 license to manufacturers, will be about $200 added to the tablet's price at retail.
I wonder what the optimal time is to post to HN. Do people usually wake up, check HN and then go about their day? If so, around 9-10:30AM EST? Or maybe if most HNers come from the west coast, would it be 9 - 10:30AM PST?
Both interesting and useful.
Pics : All-Night Hackathon Leading Up to Facebook IPO
Our split is fairly even (I lead a mobile dev team in London, both Android & iOS). Maybe it's a demographic thing: most developers have a Galaxy Nexus, and they don't really see any compelling reason to move on to the S3 right now.
Dildo
It's dangerous to go alone. Take this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3991859
No amount of being rich is going to make that stuff not happen.

> Short of not caring about what happens to it.

How about doing that then?
How is this a disadvantage? MS can ship cleanly installed hardware.

In fact, they do:
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msstore/cat/categoryID.4...
Ask HN: Server Infrastructure recommendations for a PHP app
What would you recommend as a good server infrastructure recommendation for a PHP web application running on CodeIgniter and MySQL?

For an application with the traffic and size of, maybe, twitter?
Linux is a PITA for the average computer user. Keeping a distro current sucks compared to patch Tuesday and technical support blows...problem with Firefox? you will get linked to some page unrelated to your issue on Ubuntu's website.

It's not a conspiracy. Linux is going to require more manufacturer resources to support consumers while producing less revenue - i.e. most people aren't going to choose Linux unless it is cheaper than Windows.

On the other hand, FreeDos is so simple and limited that hardware vendors don't need significant resources to support it, so it is more profitable than Linux.
The secrets of Facebook's profit engine - Fortune Tech
As much as this sounds counterintuitive, say no, and stop being a team player.

Petty requests for emails that someone should have are their responsibility. If you think about it, why should your resourcefulness help them complete their job while it blocks your own progress?

Your boss is doling out reviews, he's #1 priority. Everyone else gets "no" and no access to your time without talking to him first.

"Being a team player" is a fluffy way of saying "do other peoples jobs for them". Sure, help people out and don't be a dick.

It does sound like a mess, but this type of mess exists everywhere. When you meld highly technical people with less technical people you will get these scenarios. Before you know it, you will be expected to replace the toner.
This is like a NASCAR race, many (most?) of us watching secretly hope for a spectacular crash. It's wrong, but the potential of schadenfreude is very tempting.
Can someone explain this graph to me? In particular, I don't understand what the blue line signifies.
Nagel's book is a wonderful exposition (three-page-long footnotes aside). In addition to these two, I might recommend Torkel Franzén's book "Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse". Some of the content is fairly technical but not inaccessible by any means. If you're interested in the corner cases of how incompleteness theorems can be applied, it's a terrific resource.
Are we talking ARM or Intel. If its the latter, I expect the price to be higher as Intel windows 8 tablets are an order of magnitude more useful than an iPad. ARM? No chance.

Either that or they don't want to compete with the iPad...
We have one studio of our own in Helsinki (see http://letgostudios.com/), but otherwise we're partnering with studios in different places.

Traditional labels don't always pay for studio time either, but at least we can provide different options in that area...
The True Costs of Paper
What rubs me the wrong way is they have all this initial buzz based on just imaginary fluff - they don't even have a full product out yet.

Also how many middlemans can you have in a transaction? You got the affiliate network. You got Viglink, You got the person who referred the customer. Then Referly finally gets whatever is left.
As someone else has pointed out, talk to Samsung. I don't know where you're based, but they have regional teams that do developer outreach. I've found them to be very helpful.
I think referly actually uses the viglink api to do what it does
This is a great point. Not to get political myself, but if you compare this talk to Elizabeth Warren's "The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class"[1] from a few years back, it's night and day. Before she made economic claims, she described her exhaustive process with government agencies to get reliable data; the ways she tested the data when it seemed implausible; the various theories she tested and rejected to explain the data ... it's gripping stuff, because she develops insights based on research and hard-nosed science. That's what TED should be about.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVL7QY0S8A
politics, speechwriter or civil service fast track if you can get on it (better have a first)
How do I know you're even at your desk? After I type in my problem how long should I wait for a response before giving up and doing something else?
Haha! Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't mean to leave them off. I met you guys in 2009 at a semantic tech conference, back before Metaweb was purchased. So glad to see your work being pushed to the most popular website in the world.
I must say I feel a bit bad for the writer, especially after the update. He reads, to me, as feeling a lot of pressure to self-identify as happy. As if a truly brilliant entrepreneur, a real success, couldn't struggle with, for example, anxiety.

He writes a post about experiencing anxiety despite his obvious success so far, about "constantly fighting" his temptation to feel bad about where he is, about his drive to dissociate from his current live in favor of an imagined "perfect" future life that's constantly changing. He's sharing a set of feelings I think a lot of people, especially ambitious people, can relate to.

But then he feels the need to say he's "100% happy." What does that even mean? Why does he (probably correctly) think that his social context demands that he be unnaturally happy, and that sharing inner struggles will be problematic for him as a public figure? I wish he was OK admitting that sometimes he's not happy. That inexplicably (and yet predictably), meeting one's goals often doesn't actually help you feel any better.
As the article says, they don't own the old games. Squeenix does. If the games were released on steam, it would have just raised money for their old publisher.
While licensing (without a doubt) is a big issue, I think the infrastructure that Apple have in place for manufacturing and sourcing of materials is second to none.

This is only possible due to forward thinking people and a ridiculous amount of demand, the two together mean bulk buying prices available to them only.

The competition will catch up at some point, but I fear that it might require a couple huge mergers for this to happen.
This law was half-baked from the start. I'd sooner see legislation requiring adherence to the Do Not Track standard. http://donottrack.us/
The Nasdaq will be FLOODED with orders when FB begins trading. Will be interesting to see how their systems handle every algorithmic trading machine on the planet trading FB's stock...
Is there any way to know who owned the shares in Fb (and how much) as of yesterday evening (pre-IPO)?

I don't know if such an info is made public. If it is, anyone has a link?
Well, considering the number of people who aren't exactly fans of Facebook, I wouldn't be surprised if some of the people watching with the most interest were the ones actively rooting for it to be a spectacular failure.
Maybe you can convince Samsung to install your app as part of the phone's app package...
The government could "unfreeze" enough of MU's frozen cash to pay Carpathia for the data storage.
PayPal handles 60% of web transactions, leaves Google in the dust
>>I'm pretty certain the carriers do their homework before placing orders.

The Android manufacturers cited deliveries to stores as sales for the first generation of pads too. That didn't exactly work out...
The servers aren't running, but keeping dozens of racks in a secure, climate-controlled environment isn't cheap.
Cultivate a less intimidating environment. I jabber all week and clam up in a 1, even with a nice manager.
ask people to write down their thoughts during he week, email them to you or jot down notes, then discuss the notes in the 1:1. And if you ever show a hint of condescension or retaliation for feedback, it will never appear again.
Here are Friday’s tech headlines in roughly chronological order
No, everyone - either for the passion/happiness of the work, or the passion/happiness gained from the pay. Even having food to eat is a small happiness.
http://whoownsfacebook.com/
We have to switch to hemp as lots of companies will continue using paper for many years to come, regardless of best practices.
Does Gates think about himself as future CEO of Berkshire Hathaway?

That's ... unexpected. To leave his own baby to run someone else's company...
SpaceX headed to the ISS tomorrow
This legislation makes me die a little inside each time it comes up, utterly futile crap that will be ignored or worked around via more nefarious means by those that abuse tracking methods anyway.

Why they didnt legislate that it be baked into the browser, where the problem should be solved, I will never know.
How can this be true? When companies are hiring, do young people suddenly get better at finding work? Or is it more like the bottom X% of job seekers will be under- or unemployed, and sometimes X is 5%, sometimes it's 40%? A lot of people got jobs with these same tactics in previous eras, so there's something about "now" that's worse than before.
There's a live discussion on the launch here: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/edu_flash.html
This is all I could find, from 2011:

http://www.learnvest.com/2011/01/a-money-lesson-from-faceboo...

I believe the figures were also based on an earlier $50 Billion valuation.
So we pay them to spy on us. How surprising.
Just get a cheap VPS. If you were hosting an application the size of twitter, you wouldn't be asking on HN for advice :-)

Seriously, as your application grows, you'll improve your infrastructure. Nothing kills a project as easily as building an infrastructure for millions, for an app with only a few users.