skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was about to post this same thing. It's the same for any stock that opened this year, and doesn't have a comparable previous year of data e.g. Zynga:
http://www.google.com/finance?q=zynga
You got me there. I wish I could think of a word to describe the group of people who have been brainwashed into thinking that if they don't spend shitloads of money on stuff, and buy a big house in the burbs, that they are bad parents......

But you are right, saying it's a "white" thing is racist of me. There are people of all colors who get trapped into this bullshit, as well as people of all colors who are not fooled by it.
As awesome as RRAM is, and as much as I've boosted it in the past[1], there are still lots of things that could go wrong. Unless its practical to manufacture in large quantities, this won't go anywhere for instance.

[1]http://hopefullyintersting.blogspot.com/2011/12/resistive-ra...
Food experiments suck. Coffee is a complex beverage. I see a few variables that must be isolated; caffeine and sugar intake being the biggest two. What do non-coffee drinkers drink more of on average? I'm guessing sugary sodas.
My folks are both Esther2s, and consequently I was until about 30. Then I started getting into various self-help things, aligning myself with others of like mind, etc... basically just doing whatever it took to cultivate PMA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_mental_attitude) and ridding my emotional lexicon of victim mentality.

I can't remember what the name for it (or even if there is a name for it), but one of the best tricks I've learned is to self identify any negative thoughts as they stream in... when they come, just acknowledge they exist, don't beat yourself up over it; but take a step back, imagine yourself in the 3rd person seeing you get wound up over it, laugh it off and relax if you can. If you can't that's okay, it's just like attaining any positive habit or trying to quit any negative one. Persistence and time will make things come around, as long as you want it and continue deliberately practicing to achieve it.

It was a process that took a couple years to sink in but surely will be ongoing until the day I die - the funny thing is, for years now, only my folks have been able to get a physical rise out of me (and perhaps rush hour traffic, haha). It's like some weird Pavlov's response. And of course there are times when a situation is just a little too tough, scary, or stressful, and I catch myself falling back on old patterns. In other words, when you find your comfort zones stretched, you also have to keep in mind that your mind will try to deceive you to keep you out of harm's way.
I find this infographic really helpful: http://blog.kissmetrics.com/facebook-ipo/?wide=1
It says ARM in the beginning of the article. I expect Intel ones to be even more expensive, and I don't think there's a market for a $800 Atom tablet that runs like a netbook (the Core i5 Samsung one they showed earlier was around $1200, and it didn't even have retina display).

The iPad has what now - 150,000 touch-optimized apps? Windows 8 x86 has - 100? What are you doing to do with all the unoptimized and sluggish apps on a x86 tablet that will have half the battery life of iPad or Android tablets at best, and costs twice as much?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ND_a8rA67VA

Until schools are palaces, and teachers earn high six figures, I have no problem with 1) teachers earning extra income, by 2) sharing knowledge with other teachers.

If you want to make the world a better place, then argue that all teachers should have a budget to buy lesson plans from places like this.

...so that they can focus their time and energy on the students who need help, rather than on creating lesson plans, over and over again, all across the country, for the same topics.
I always assumed that these kinds of anonymizations were to protect your former employer, but apparently it goes both ways. Thanks for the tip.
Interesting. I'll look into that. THanks.
Once you hit the front page, the time is quite relevant. But before then.. /newest is so poorly visited and read that you're really throwing yourself into the hands of lady luck and hoping there are more than a handful of people who even see your item. (Yep, tons of good stuff doesn't get voted up at all simply because no-one sees it.)
Actually that UI was first popularized by Altavista
While I can both relate and empathize with the story here- the initial "crisis" seems forced and arbitrary. Once a company becomes sufficiently large to mandate a promotion process like the one described in this story, the management would probably know that there is no "immediate" changes that can be made unless they want to bypass those processes. Further, if it took 6 days to change a line of code to meet everyone's standards and satisfy requirements, imagine how long it would take to push through a layoff. :)
> I expect the price to be higher as Intel windows 8
> tablets are an order of magnitude more useful
> than an iPad

Right now I can do many useful and/or fun things on iPad.
What can you do on Intel Windows 8 tablets now?
Trades can go in at 10:45, Trading begins at 11 is the current plan.
I've been thinking about contacting the manufacturers for a while, but the task is daunting. Does this kind of thing actually work? I'll definitely investigate this with the kind of response I've had here on HN, it sounds like it may almost be common. Thanks for the help!
For an application with the traffic and size of twitter, you're going to need at least three dedicated DBAs managing your MySQL installation (never have an even number of DBAs - it leads to tyranny), which is probably going to be spread out across a cluster of replicated servers.

You're going to have a very beefy load balancer, behind which sits a bunch of nginx installs and you'll have likely thrown CI out the window because, even though it's fast for a PHP framework, it's not fast enough for what you need. You'll be using PHP, likely with a few homebrew extensions written in C.

Or you could just use Node. It has non-blocking IO. :D

Realistically, write it on a crappy linode with the default MySQL install and your PHP framework of choice. If you ever get as big as twitter, you can worry about scaling up to that size then.
Ask HN: Is it normal to have 0 signups from tech journalists?
Hi,

I've sent concise pitches about my startup (general, and for various features) to around 20 tech journalists from a couple of tech blogs/sites (mashable, techcrunch, tnw, rrw, lifhacker, venturebeat, etc.), both to their own emails and to the designated pitch email. I got 0 signups, and just one reply (after I repeated a previous pitch due to suspicion that my mails may be treated as spam). Note that I haven't contacted random people - I have selected them based on the articles they have written, which were on a similar topic to my startup. And I have pitched them at different times, a couple of them for each new feature (not 1 email to all of them at the same time)

Two questions:

1. Is this the regular case? My expectations were that they would decide not to write about something after they've seen it in action. My homepage (http://welshare.com) is not so repulsive and lame. One option is that they decided based on the list of features, which does not require registration, but I would still signup to see how it actually works.

2. Should I continue sending pitches about new functionality? I've read a couple of times that you should send pitches as often as possible, but this sounds a bit rude: sending similar information over and over to the same people until you 'break their defense'. I'm constantly looking for new people to send pitches.

Thanks in advance.
A high GPA is not caused by a massive intelligence, it is caused by the ability to study effectively. Intelligence and GPA are often correlated but not always. Don't make that assumption.

There's a ton of people I know who did poorly in their coursework but their design skills and ability are bar none. I don't look at GPA as much of an indicator anymore. It shows potential, only.
I think the data you're looking for has to come from having good relationships with your employees. For example, did you know the following about your ex-designer:

1) Is he married or looking to get married?
2) Does he have kids or plan to have them soon?
3) Has he had any serious health issues in his family (e.g. history of heart disease)?

Obviously, those type of questions can get you in trouble if they are asked on an employer->employee basis. But in the course of really getting to know someone, those types of things will come up. It's then on you to think about what you'd want in that situation and do it for them.

So if ex-designer was planning on having kids, you might consider the cost of the family plan and be willing to splurge on that at the expense of the beer and snacks budget (or something focused on single people).

My main problems with employers have been their ignorance and/or lack of concern about what is important to me. I had one company that bragged about fully paying for our health insurance. Well, the owners of the company all had several kids. I didn't even have a girlfriend at the time. Health insurance as a young, healthy, single guy was barely even on my radar. That was easily accessible data (which they had), and yet they didn't act on it at all.

Simply, put yourself in their shoes and ask, "What would I want in this situation?" Considering you were friends with the ex-designer, my thought would be that you could have probably spent more time thinking about what he wanted instead of just asking. For some reason, many people won't speak up about what they want. Many times they themselves don't know until someone shows it to them.

My 2 cents.
>If IM is specifically a way to get you immediately, start blacklisting people who can't get to the point and waste your time and have they go through email.

But of course they won't use email, they need the answer NOW. No, they'll come over to your desk and start tugging on your shirtsleeve.
The opening ceremony was actually kind of cool:

http://www.livestream.com/nasdaq/video?clipId=pla_80cca9bb-4...

Seeing the sheer joy on Mark Zuckerberg's face was nice. I thought he was going to shed a tear, actually.

It's always inspiring to see a geek get his day.
It sounds like a case of activist journalism, or a reporter got duped into thinking some injustice was carried out by TED. The power of media at play, folks.

Maybe i'll have to go back and actually watch the speech now. Funny, though, how this fellow, if he did feel slighted by TED and sought to get his speech publicized, is now getting all this attention ... Seems he's the beneficiary of a lot of interest at TED's expense.
It should be noted that while this is written with Rails in mind, the techniques can be applied to any web language.
This isn't necessarily true. Many algorithmic trading strategies are driven by correlations between historical prices, none of which exist yet for FB.
I'm just dumbfounded that we in the software community, with all of our tools for sharing knowledge, and buying apps, would have any problem with this.

Tools that share knowledge are inherently good. Creating an efficient marketplace for knowledge transfer is good. Allowing a mixed for-free, for-pay market is amazingly good.
How could we let this happen?

When I was at school, all the teachers told us, it doesn't matter what degree you do because you are "learning to learn" and employers don't care anyway, just that you have one.

Even 17-year-old me could see that this was obviously complete nonsense, but not everyone's such a cynic by that age...
PhoneGap (Cordova) for iOS games - why not? why yes?
X% of college graduates shouldn't have gone to college, where X is some non negative number. Depending on your views, that could be as high as 50% and as low as 1%.
I disagree, since both soccer and football are correct terms. It's more like calling it basketball (they are both ball sports, right?), so the correction is warranted.

I am not "swooping in," I noticed your comment and decided to remark that your terminology is incorrect. I did this because by referring to it as stealing you are taking part in the rhetoric that supports such acts as PIPA and SOPA.
What timing.

Seems like a pretty specious lawsuit. Is the whole case that Facebook didn't delete all of its cookies after users logged in? Don't they realize that any site can set a cookie, whether you're logged in or not?

I understand the need for privacy, but I think people should also understand a bit how the Internet actually works.
adding two more to the list - peace and quiet, and as less meetings as possible
Here Today - Gone Tomorrow
The Genius of Pink Floyd
Diederich, it's interesting how you pointed out living in an expensive school district is your biggest child related expense. My wife and I did the same thing. We chose to live in a 1 bedroom high-rise, so obviously we sacrificed on space and "the yard." Instead we get a short (walkable or train) commute, nice parks, and have a adapted our apartment to imitate those of the Japanese (and other space efficient cultures) so that the 1 bedroom aspect isn't a problem.
I love what you were saying about teaching your son to donate toys and other possessions. My son is 5, but we still need to work on that with him. Thanks for mentioning that, because it reminded me of how important it is that we follow your lead on that.
Many teachers are currently unemployed.
I'm a 26 year old liberal arts grad. Only about half of
my friends have started a career. Many went for secon degrees.

It really is a common phenomenon.
Kn0thing on Facebook
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/facebook-european-premarket-bi...
Do you think this doesn't happen in private companies I know of a recent case where some one went down for or a major 10+ years stretch for conspiracy at British Telecom - passed address location to a hitman.

Google also has fired several people for this and in the US I bet a few people get fired every year for looking up Obama's tax records etc
Good call. I sent an email with a UTF-8 version of his article attached to the address listed at http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/, but it bounced. Any ideas for how to contact him?
The same way you know he's not at his desk when you type that useless "Hi": you don't get a reply. How long do you wait after typing a useless "Hi"? Wait that same amount of time after typing your relevant question.
Now nothing.

When released, whatever I do on my laptop, which is an order of magnitude more than I can do on an iPad.
How is The Motley Fool a related company?
Yes, but, competition is fiercer. The beginning of a business day in the US is also the time when a lot of strong, interesting articles (from newspapers, blogs, etc) are being read by awakening HN'ers and then submitted. They can crowd out your post. But if you succeed, you'll enjoy strong inertia for a long time as people keep coming back when they should be working. Like right now :)

[I think; subjective analysis etc etc]
Be careful. That's a naive view, and drawing more conclusion than I think you mean.

This it more like it: For any consistent, finite axiomatized formal system that is sufficiently expressive (such as the Principia Mathematica), you can construct a sentence in the language of that formal system that asserts its own un-provability. Therefore, there does not exist a mechanistic method for enumerating over all true statements in the language of that formal system.

By stating "there are some true things that cannot be proved" goes too philosophy deep, and is outside of our pay-grade. Just consider: humans don't reason based on mechanistic principles - and there's no proof as to the expressability of natural language (though we can be sure it's aggravatingly inconsistent)

EDIT: I just want to say that in general, if someone does not really grasp the technical notion of a formal system, consistency, expressiveness, provability, soundness, or recursive enumeration, then it is basically impossible for them to appreciate the incompleteness theorems, and they are very likely to grossly misrepresent it.
About half of our developer group has made the change in the last month and everyone seems to love it.

There's a brief Railscast on it as well: http://railscasts.com/episodes/280-pry-with-rails
You might want to reach out to PHPFog (https://phpfog.com/), as they (can) offer what you need.
Correction - iPad has 149,900 shit apps and 100 good ones as does every platform.

Also if its a problem for you personally, just buy a laptop :)
App of the Week: Pulse
I don't mean to be a jerk, but do you personally know any teachers?

If you do, ask them how many hours per day they have set aside to create lesson plans, and grade papers.

Then ask them how much money out of their own pocket they have spent buying supplies for their classroom.

If the teachers you know are paid to create lesson plans, are paid to grade papers, and do get a sufficient budget for school supplies, then please tell me where you live, so that I can tell the teachers that I know to move there.
I'm in Montreal, and will definitely check out regional opportunities! What sort of help did they provide you with? I always imagined it would near impossible for a small, part-time dev to talk to a giant company like Samsung.
I'm in an Apple store, so I don't have a ton of time to compose this, but here goes:

You can't make much of an impact on the world if you're not happy with your life. You'll spend most of your time trying to find happiness, instead of moving on to help other people be happy.

Now that I don't believe in 'saving' people (in the Christian sense), there isn't a higher purpose for me other than helping others find contentment.

Now that I've found contentment, I can start to focus on others.

Note that me finding happiness or contentment isn't because I've bought things or have cash in the bank.

It's the state of mind that my blog post talks about (and how I'm tempted to break out of it all the time).
Start-up Canada Proves Greed is Good
>Apple effectively gives iOS away (it’s a hardware company, after all), and Amazon gets Android for free

While I get what the author's saying here, it's a bit disingenuous to call either of those situations "free". Both companies invest nontrivial amounts of money into their OS. Apple develops their in-house OS, and Android is a "some assembly required" product.
As someone with both a CS and a Philosophy degree I can tell you that my ability to write effectively and communicate well in general seemed to make a massive difference in likability compared to some of my CS peers.

You have to remember that Philosophy is not just Aristotle-Nietzsche-Kant-Mill. There's entire other worlds contained within the subject. I think a Philosophy degree, especially if the philosophy studied involved lots of formal logic and methods of reasoning (game theoretic decision making, fallacies, philosophy of language, other subjects that approach cognitive science) would have immense value in any field.

I think such a degree would be valuable in sales, marketing, journalism, editing, etc. Pretty much any job where clear-minded communication and analytic skills are more important than mere training.

In fact, if you accept the caveat that you will get out of many degrees what (work) you put into them, I can't think of a better general degree to get than a Philosophy degree.
There are tons of Facebook shares floating around - at least partially due to the fact that they increased the offering size by 85 million shares (25%) on Wednesday. Morgan called four separate times between weds and Thursday trying to sling shares.

In general it's usually harder to get allocations but not as hard as you imagine - retail investors always seem to get some.
Sweet, could you add the option to change the timezone though please? (Maybe even detect mine? :D)
They weren't saying it was a bad phone. They were saying it was a joke that would never sell and the marketing for it was wasteful: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/02/15/geller-galaxy-no...
The Sins of Mobile Website Design
> You have to back this claim. There were incidents where some blogs were blocked but that was because of a court order which was caused by an individual, not government.

Some parts of the claims can be backed. Just looking at the Internet connection of places which managed by the Ministry of Education can prove that the access WILL be limited.

For example, social networking sites (not just big players like Facebook and Twitter, small ones like FriendFeed as well), most of the blogs, YouTube (and many of its alternatives) CAN NOT be accessed in schools or any of the ministry buildings.

I know blocking social networks and sites like YouTube can be understood since they are distractions in school but the blogs which are blocked shows what they are trying to do. All blogs which has some kind of non-muslim information is blocked. Even my blog, a 17 year teenagers blog, is blocked in schools in Turkey. The reason for it, I believe, is the fact that I'm not Muslim and said so in an old video of mine, which is not removed.
Quantum computing is not the same thing as quantum key distribution. QKD is already in use "in the field". QC is still pretty useless and only exists in labs.
I'm guilty of wishing FB a bit of schaden myself, but if they actually have a business on their hands and the market reflects that in the coming months and years, the effect is that access to capital for all of us will not be a problem for the next decade.

Think of the effect that the Google IPO has had on access to angel and other investment capital. Two of my angels are former Googlers and my previous business was a vertical search sold right after Google IPO'd.

All our destinies are in one way or another wrapped up in this little ticker symbol for the next few years.
I think at this stage of the game if Microsoft has any hope of penetrating the market they pretty much have to subsidize or make WinRT licenses free for approved devices rather than charge for it and if that's successful recoup the losses off the market.

Apple seems to certainly be in a position where they could do this and absolutely crush the competition, they must just not feel threatened with the competing products available today
Protecting Your Organisation’s Intellectual Property – Part 2 - Jeff Schmidt
Shaping up to be a momentous weekend for tech!
Practice Linux Penetration Testing Skills with Metasploitable
I just went to finance.google.com myself and then thought it would be interesting to HN users and posted it right away. And to be honest I didn't check the "new" queue for already submitted links.

Regarding the accidental split test I think the "NASDAQ:FB" title is somehow more appealing.
You don't even need to travel through time to witness suffering, space is good enough. For perspective rebalancing reading, just pay attention to the news and average living conditions (not to speak of those who suffer relative to their average) of any developing nation.
I'm getting the device by the User-Agent Header with a regex, but I'm curious, why shouldn't we go with small screen == mobile, the largest mobile width I know of is 800px, and occording to most stats I've seen, that seems to account for less than 2% of all desktop users.

Thanks for the links - also good luck with edit-room.com!
I hope it will be featured live on NASA TV.
Don't forget the following:

1. Sit PHP-FPM behind nginx for a bank of persistent PHP interpreters. Access this via a Unix socket.

2. Use Memcache to cache your records.

3. Use APC to cache your PHP byte code.
I read this as, "Coffee increases your chances of living forever."
Lots of people are waiting for a crash so they can buy it. My guess is there won't be a crash today or in the coming days. I believe it will open well in the 40s and never come even close to the offering price.