skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's deceptive. Inflation over which goods? As an upper-middle class income generator, inflation doesn't affect me in the same proportion as it does the lower income class, for instance.
Exactly right. The number of HTTP requests is ridiculous on this site. Check out the waterfall view on WebPageTest[1]; even though the files are all small, it's another connection for every single one. As ekidd said, CSS spritesheets and combining js/css is the answer.

[1] http://www.webpagetest.org/result/120528_SJ_E14/
How would we keep track of scores? would you keep editing your post to reflect changes in voting?

(this is besides the point if it is a good or bad idea. In any case, it is certainly seems novel to me)
Its very hard to show a hotel as an icon, particularly as a building. We did it by showing a building with signage of a bed (showing a similar design to the cleartrip icon). People are used to seeing a bed and making the association. So going with a simpler icon without the building also conveys the same meaning as a hotel.

this blog post shows the subtly and intricate details required in good design and UI.
Redactor - javascript (jQuery) WYSIWYG editor
Yes, the site itself is immediately at fault, but the author used it as an example of her point, which is that the web in its current state is pathetic.

There are plenty of little things that can make a website faster: image sprites, minified js, etc. Why don't the tools we use automatically handle this?

Why are we so focused on creativity and customization instead of standardization and ease of building? Look at the waves of designers who are crying foul over Twitter Bootstrap and trying to convince us not to use it because they realize that the demand for their services has just been cut in half!

Why are there no tools that provide the myriad of widgets we roll by hand each time? Lists, sliders, progress bars, drop-downs, calendars, etc. Well, there are. There's GWT, there clones of it for python, there's Wicket, and more. But few people seem to use them.

There's more that can be added here, but the point is the web needs much better tools, processes, standardization, and ease of programming.

We're giving people the tools to make the web a bad experience and in general that's been the end result, though we try to avoid those websites.
Applying back pressure when overloaded
I wish that, when quoting the maximum output of a power plant, news articles would also quote the capacity factor - basically, the percent of the maximum output that a plant achieves long-term.

This plant is likely to have around a 40% capacity factor, which is much better than the 20% or so photovoltaic solar achieves, but it's much lower than the 85-90% that baseload plants achieve.
Unfortunately these cities are part of the reason for the current problem.

You had poor people living in rookeries and tenements up against the wall of the smoke and pollution belching dark satanic mills. So philanthropic reforming politicians introduced zoning laws to separate industry and housing and move all the people out to fresh air of the suburbs.

100 years later it's not too much of an issue to have your air-conditioned condo tower in the same zip code as your air conditioned office tower - but the rules still apply.

The downtown core here is ringed with self-store, car lots, freight terminals and other low rent low density industry. While the area around every suburban transit station is ringed by condo towers.

But you can't build in the industrial zone around downtown because of planning rules and taxes. Amazingly you pay 20% tax to build on a brown field site and nothing to bulldoze trees in the suburbs.
Hundreds of millions? You're off by about three orders of magnitude, there.
Paul Lockhart said it better in his Lament - http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

This article and research is a non-starter. It doesn't address the core problem. Mathematics is a beautiful way of thinking about the abstract, yet it's taught as nothing more than a procedural tool.

Teach it like music. Instill a love of mathematics as the art that it is. Reconstruct how we present mathematics to children and they will have a chance to love it, like they might love music or art or science.

These micro-problems are just hairline cracks in the broken pieces of a shattered cup. Why patch the cracks if the cup will never hold water? We need to forge a new one.

"I don’t see how it’s doing society any good to have its members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams, and clear memories of hating them. It might do some good, though, to show them something beautiful and give them an opportunity to enjoy being creative, flexible, open-minded thinkers—the kind of thing a real mathematical education might provide." -- Paul Lockhart
Most useful 'net entrepreneur posts of the week 05/28/12 - IMNSHO
If you're making a Facebook canvas app in Django, another option is Fandjango:

https://github.com/jgorset/fandjango
Clean energy in a vast open space that will be ripe for greenery and natural wildlife as soon as the construction crews are out of there.
Even better would be firefox's javascript based pdf reader.
Hey, that was cool of you to do. I don't agree with #4 or 7, though. The text is aligned to elements other than the center and I think they look good.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/iq/guessing_the_teachers_password/

Now kids, what did you learn?[0]

Don't guess the teachers password?! Excellent! Next chapter...

[0] As I was writing that I thought that there could be a paradox somewhere in there if you phrased it right.
I agree that typical math writing must be absorbed very slowly and carefully to be understood well.

Unfortunately, in the world of mathematicians, this isn't what really happens most of the time. In grad school classes (for math), students don't have time to absorb the material this carefully - they must 'learn' too much too quickly (or at least this was the case at my grad school), so that reading math becomes learning just enough to pass exams. Writing a dissertation involves a lot of talking to people and skimming papers to hopefully grab relevant bits. Reviewing papers, for professors, involves handing papers to their grad students and asking them to read it. Even writing a paper for journal submission feels primarily about satisfying reviewers and getting in to the best possible journal - being readable becomes a lower priority than space constraints and the quibbles of a particular reviewer.
Sure. If there was a 'time of synchronization'. There's generally not. The device often doesn't know when/if/who is consuming it's data. Likewise the EMR systems don't generally have any access to the device other than receiving a stream of messages some non-deterministic after they were produced.
You seem like a cool guy. I would definitely consider having you as a co-founder.

Smart and humble (may even too much so ;)

FWIW I thought the design is great, because it comes across authentic and interesting, without being a riot of colors.

Sure it could be tightened up slightly, but for a personal website, you did a great job.

As for Chris, your site looks a bit crappy to me, and perhaps I'd think twice about using that as a reference on the slickness-o-meter. ;) PS your points may well be valid though.
I agree, but I think there is a valuable distinction between making all purchases pop up a basic modal dialog that requires a second tap (the standard Apple in-app purchase flow) and requiring donations to load either a UIWebView which requires time to load a page that requests confirmation or to operate via SMS, which requires fully exiting the application to go to the Messages app. One is minimally intrusive, the other not so much.
What do you think of my upcoming color matching game for iOS? (work in progress)
Ice Cream Sandwich Running Xperia S Shown On Video
Really good reply. Thank you.
"Future anthropologists might conclude that, via the Sun, the people who called themselves Americans worshiped War and Baseball."

It may not be via the sun but I'm afraid for those of us looking in from outside the fishbowl, the vast majority of Americans indeed worship War and Baseball.
Sorry to be a bit confrontational, but can you please substantiate your claim of "Most areas of Silicon Valley are militantly opposed to anything that looks like high-density construction" with data? Are you involved in a local Bay Area government? Are you working to change the things you don't like?

The article, and this response is very frustrating to me. The notion that the government is broken and that our policies are insane and that politicians don't care just does not match my personal experience. Yes, there are many, many problems -- from the garden variety to the wickedly complex. I can however comfortably say that Palo Alto is generally run by decent, intelligent people responsible to an engaged, accessible city council.

Available and affordable housing for example, is and has been part of the city plan, done in coordination with the Association of Bay Area Governments[1], who develop regional growth projections and plans[2] that cities are required to incorporate into their general plans. These plans are created in concert with regional transportation, environmental, etc. plans. How the growth is managed within each city is up to the city of course -- and that's where the NIMBY and rich vs. poor issues are played out on the ground. I find it absolutely challenging and amazing to see (and be part of) the balancing of the various factors to actually govern. There are winners and losers in every decision, and it's important to remember that we're not playing a one-round, zero-sum game.

I can't say anything about the state and federal governments -- but it's easy to get involved and make a contribution at the city level, and absolutely will be enlightening. The first step in conquering the "denial of reality" problem you complain about seems to me to be understanding how cities actually work, and then working to make some constructive improvements.

[1] http://www.abag.ca.gov/housing-top.html
[2] http://www.abag.ca.gov/planning/pdfs/SFHousingNeedsPlan.pdf [PDF]
It depends: will you render it using Adobe's software?
If you can't make that step yourself -- it's sometimes good when life forces you that way. A good healthy kick in the butt!
Kickstarting an iOS App, Part 2: Physical Rewards
Horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines connect circles of the same color.

A move is made by selecting a column. Any color match with at least one of its two circles in that column will have them shrunk.

Roughly, circles in between will change to that color and gaps in between will create circles of that color.

When a stack of circles lands, it will be automatically selected with behavior as above.
I took a course that used this book (Boyer and Merzbach, A History of Mathematics), which I enjoyed:

http://www.amazon.com/A-History-Mathematics-Second-Edition/d...
Say what you want about America, but anti-government activists are not kept under house arrest. China does not have the moral high-ground to use this kind of ploy.
Why IPVFoo, vs other IPx-checker addons?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4024195
I agree. I think their new design looks more like a tractor than a person in a bed.
One piece of advice is to say who you are. For all I know I'm giving my email, and the right to email me daily, to some hobo on the street. How do I know who you are? How can I trust you?
So it's like a tiny section of Pinterest, but without the user base?
Corporately Craptastic Content: Avoiding It with Your Clients
I'm curious about one line in this

"Imagine for a moment what it would feel like if people walked into your company and used the lobby to call your competitors and buy their products. That’s standard consumer behavior in a bookstore. People browse, find a book they like, pull out their smart phone, and order online."

If this is the case why don't stores like B and N just offer free WiFi and add an affiliate link to anyone going to Amazon. It would let you get some profit from people buying on their phones in your store. My impression was you can more or less redirect/adjust the traffic of anyone on your Wi-Fi. Is there some ethical or logistic reason why Best Buy and B and N don't do this?
You can always open it inside a throwaway VM. I keep a couple ;-)
Agreed. I ignored the hyperbole about future anthropologists and took this as tips for photography in Manhattan.
Average User Response to an expected Action (AURTEA) 
I conducted a research on some of the numbers i gathered in one year of web activities and reached the conclusion that AURTEA is 3.2%

What do you think ?

More information can be found in this blog post: http://karim-ouda.blogspot.com/2012/05/research-average-user-response-to.html
Since it's basically a rounding error, I'm not sure if there's any way to avoid the gap without some overlap. In that example, a :before pseudo-element that's the same width as the box and one pixel above the triangle can provide the overlap without needing to offset the triangle itself.

http://jsfiddle.net/enTz9/
Curicon Launches Social Network For Collectors
Maybe mathematics papers would be improved by hypertext links to background topics or explanations of sub-problems at the places where they are needed?
A complete digression, but I see people say this all the time: when they want to use the "take with a grain of salt" metaphor, they increase the amount of salt to try to make it seem like the information is even more untrue.

But the whole point of the "grain of salt" metaphor is that it's so minuscule as to make no difference. So it would make more sense to say "take it with a half grain of salt," since that would imply the information is even more useless.
I'm sure the submitter is somewhat new / inexperienced on the web and was quite excited by Wolfram Alpha, and wanted to share his joy with his fellow interwebbers. There is one problem though -- (almost) everyone else knows about it!
I've always wondered if cyber criminals have tons of undiscovered security holes in Windows and other major pieces of software that they just don't release.
Managing multiple projects with a single resource pool is a problem I've been working on a lot lately. I tend to allocate based upon hours in the day (4 to one project, 2 to another.) The scheduling is quite complex and I'm uncertain about the trade off between the productivity from focus and effectively working at capacity 100% of the time with project switching. Every project I've ever worked on typically has downtime (e.g. waiting 3 days for Client feedback on a milestone deliverable) which creates opportunity for the parallel project to be worked on instead of waiting idly.
While I - as a Canadian - am not a HUGE fan of America(nothing personal, just spoiled in the great North), I find it more than a little hypocritical for China to be pointing the finger at anyone for these types of things. Which isn't to say that fingers shouldn't be pointed. But maybe countries should start pointing them at themselves first? Look inwards and fix your own problems.
I addressed your point directly.
"For 2012 they fall on May 29th, and July 12th" and "These two days happen to correspond with Memorial Day and Baseball's All Star break".

More mystic crap. Memorial Day in 2012 is May 28, not May 29 and the MLB All Star Break beings July 9. Neil deGrasse Tyson shouldn't even write like this, getting drawn into mystical interpretations, even in jest, just reinforces the idea that it's worth thinking about crap like that.
You've just reduced 20000 lines of C to 13 lines of LISP :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-OjTPj7K54
It turns out that as a kid, I always hated "math". This lasted well into college and actually hurt me quite a bit. When I found out later what math actually was, I felt immensely screwed. If I'd been taught to be a mathematician instead of a computer when I was a kid, I'm sure I'd have appreciated math a lot more.
Design-time Versus Meeting-time
44 points?!

I get the US is not perfect, but this propaganda piece would make a lot of my friends in advertising and marketing pale.
My (possibly wrong) assumption is that the primary purpose of this release is to target Chinese people, not to get the rest of the world thinking "holy shit, America sucks".

And so they don't really need the high ground for this to work, they just need to be able to control local propaganda and press..

That said, just because they don't have the moral high ground, it doesn't mean the points they raise aren't perfectly valid (n.b. I haven't actually read their release yet, so I'm not going the opposite direction and saying believe everything they said).
Camper could fix their site by tiling all their little PNGs into a couple of large PNGs, and merging all their JS into a single file.

Or the various parties could implement SPDY or a similar technique, resolving most of the issues without adding maintenance issues.

EDIT: Really? Downvotes? Some people are a little too invested in their hackish, half-measure optimizations.
There is a serious lack of comparison to any other countries in this report. Just spouting statistics like "The violent victimization rate was 15 victimizations per 1,000 residents" is worse than useless.

That said, they raise many good points and we should be ashamed of our incarceration rate and out-of-control "national security" apparatus in particular. Of course they are in no position to scold us on most of these points, but that doesn't make their criticisms necessarily wrong.
Of course. OSX users are forced to use products like XCode. I would grab a table even without a single light and do ObjC on paper instead!
Responding to 2) in my experience as a web developer divs are generally no longer used to round corners because the market share of the browsers which don't support css3 rounded corners is increasingly negligible.

Personally I prefer CSS3 rounded corners because they do a better job of decoupling design, functionality and content (which in a perfect world would each fit completely into css, js and html respectively).

Most developers I know followed suit with Google after they dropped support for ie7 in Google Apps back in 2011: http://googleenterprise.blogspot.ca/2011/06/our-plans-to-sup...

EDIT: Looks like rounded corners only got added to ie9 so Google's ie7 stuff is irrelevant, my guess: a degraded experience on ie8 is generally taken as acceptable.
I never evaluated any project by the design of its web page, I evaluated a web page by its design.

I never evaluated any project at all, just asked why anyone should take you or this web page seriously, and you have been nothing but dismissive in response.
On the face of it a very nice editor - good work.

some confusion on licenses - MIT is available but with a caveat and I don't think you can do that.
I believe it because the alternative – that humans cannot find new ways to create value for themselves – is harder to believe.

Assume that there is a point in time in which humans run out of ways to create value for themselves. If you were among the displaced masses, wouldn't you like to have work? Oops. We've just created a new way to create value: by helping you find work. Which contradicts our initial hypothesis.

In other words, the reason I believe that humans can create value for themselves for as long as they want is that the alternative requires me to believe things that are absurd.
Sorry to be a bit confrontational, but can you please substantiate your claim of "Most areas of Silicon Valley are militantly opposed to anything that looks like high-density construction" with data?

Read the original article. Edward Glaeser also discusses Silicon Valley in his book The Triumph of the City.
Not to defend China on human rights here, but to those accusing China of hypocrisy: China does this to point out the hypocrisy of the US - who is too happy to accuse others of human rights abuses while running turning a blind eye to its own problems (for some modern examples, see the latest NDAA or the patriot act). The economist actually had blog about this just recently: http://www.economist.com/blogs/analects/2012/05/americas-exa...

I don't think anyone in Chinese government expects the world to take them seriously on human rights. They're just trying to deflect criticism.
Because it is infinite. We have a kind of imagination and creativity that horses lack.

Look at the arts -- particularly the modern ones of music and filmmaking. Can you not see that there will always be room for songs and movies that say something truly new about the world we live in? I suppose you could wave your hands and say that's all the "content industry" and counts as only one "thing", but I don't think that's fair. Great (or even good) works of art enrich our lives in different ways. "Content" is not a single commodity, like gasoline, of which we only need a certain amount.

And it's obviously not limited to the arts. Every significant new Internet business changes the landscape, creating new opportunities for others.

The silver lining in the cloud of this recession, I think, is that collectively we have a lot more free time. As the OP suggests, perhaps some of this would be well spent in face-to-face interactions. But you can also see people being forced by circumstances to reach into themselves and come up with new ways to create value. Oh, they're on a small scale, mostly; I'm not saying everyone who sits down to write a novel is going to create something as successful as Harry Potter. But they are new.
But that's the exact point they want to make regarding the U.S. pointing the finger at everyone else without first trying to fix itself.
I don't think that was their intention. I believe their goal was something along the lines of, "You can point out our flaws all you want, but you've got problems too." type of thing. Although, I think it was primarily just a propaganda piece for local citizens. None of this is to say that fingers shouldn't be pointed. Everyone has flaws, it's a question of whether those flaws are being addressed and worked on. I think I know which country of the two is making a genuine effort...
Instacast doesn’t have an Android version but there’s Podkicker Pro with Flattr integration on Android that does pretty much the same.
Unlucky you have been curtailed by Apple for now but sure you can rework your model to fit within what is allowable. Keep persevering as you seem to have built a useful application.
With the same logic the US human rights report should not contain anything about other countries that respect human rights better than th US. That would lead to the exclusion of most other western countries from the report.

Everyone should be allowed to point out everyone else's human rights violations. Sadly most western countries are not gonna confront the US on this because they don't want to harm relations.
I've heard the meme, but it surely doesn't justify any more of this crap...
Should we maybe be ashamed of our crime rate, that causes certain individual who commit said crimes to be incarcerated?
On iPad the opening line says "Hi, I'm Peter? I build Web System"?

The S off the end of system is missing, it's actually their but out of the black box, so very hard to see.

Dave
by some people's quality metric, the Valley is such a great place to live

And, by other people's, it's a terrible place to live because you have to drive everywhere. As "The Soul of the Commuter" describes, driving makes people unhappier in almost every possible way: more socially isolated, fatter, and less connected to their communities: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/04/16/070416fa_fact_... .
Agreed. I'm not disputing that. I don't think America is actively trying to not 'fix itself'. I often wonder if some of its efforts are misguided, but I do believe there is a genuine effort. This is just China's way of saying, "You've got problems too, fix your house before pointing fingers."
Can you explain why you think this is crap? Don't you think it's important that attnion is brought to every human rights violation everywhere?