skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Broken in IE8 on Vista SP1 (divs are placing one after the other horizontally instead of in their proper places).
What type of health insurance should I get if I am self employed?
"Hello I am a healthy female in my early thirties and a non smoker. I need to find decent health insurance that you would get from a good employer. I am new to this and dont understand what I need to have covered for health insurance. I am looking for some good advice and any suggestions. Thank You
P.S- Is it usual that health insurance does not cover maternity?"
The Looting of China by the Kleptokapitalist Bourgeoisie Roaders
RIM and Nokia were doing well before Android and iOS. LG, Sony, and Motorola were not.
Node.js How to use streams to ftp, unzip, and save a file to mongoDB
Streaming with node is pretty great. I found the documentation a bit tough to follow so I've written an example that I have in production for my company.
Agree....wouldn't having more language for these things make it MORE efficient? I'm down for a symbol for pi/2 (tau/4)!
Google+: Your Social Network Is Finally Ready, So What Are You Waiting On?
Words to live by...
Anatomy of a Stack Smashing Attack and How GCC Prevents It
Google: Apps are Chromebook’s Future
I fail to see how this contrived situation applies to the majority of the world who are not paralyzed, deaf, and bedridden.
I tested that with a yahoo address yesterday. And the yahoo address never showed up on G+ event page as Not Responded even though there was no error when I entered it. And I checked the yahoo mailbox and there was no invite email.
Milky Way Struck 100 Million Years Ago, Still Rings Like a Bell
Can some one tell me which softwares are used to make such a presentation? It was quite a neat work :-)
Ignore their dickishness, if not whatever content may be wrapped up in it.

Don't argue with the fool/dick/control-freak/etc., you'll have to stoop to their level and they'll beat you on experience.
Having used both the Playbook OS and Android, the Playbook is a much nicer OS in my opinion.

That said, they should have released BB10 years ago.
Just a heads up, it's "AngelList".
Progress? Screens can be beautiful and amazing at ultra high resolutions but...
Email me your daughter's email address used on Khan and tell her to keep her eye out for a special badge.

ben@khanacademy.org
I decided to download Movie Maker so I went to Microsoft.com. They have a Downloads menu there. I clicked "All Windows Downloads". (The site is pretty fast, BTW). I selected "Windows 7", then scrolled down until I found Movie Maker. I clicked "Get it now" and it showed me the Movie Maker page. On that page I clicked Download Now, and it started downloading!
Somewhy I could not find it with the search in the app store on iPad itself.

Just installed it. Sweet. Finally I've got the same browsing experience on my iPad as on a desktop.
The build of their phones are too inconsistent. I've gone through three different models with peers and some friends report really poor performance and major manufacture defects. Your 9900 may be serving you well but I'm about ready to slam mine against the wall. The fact that it has never crashed on you is miraculous, and don't get me started with that abysmal battery life.
Harry Levinson, Psychologist for the Workplace, Dies at 90
@chaud Wow I don't know how I completely missed it until now. Good catch though
HOORAY!! Another magincal, spectacular, one of a kind, amazing, beautiful, fabulous, all-synching, to-do-list task! Next up is the world peace I say.
Ask HN: Why do acquiring companies close acquisitions instead of spinning off?
It seems like a lot of failed acquisitions/products are just closed down, but many of them have solid features and code, a decent brand name, and were once promising. Why doesn't a company like Google try to spin off or sell an acquirer company that didn't work for them?
I have high hope for Chrome for iOS to be like the Google Search app[1] which is simply fun to use. Instead, on an iPad, what we got is just a desktop UI slab on top of touch interface… and seems to trash old tab faster than Mobile Safari. It's kind of sad.

Edit: I was wrong about tab trashing, seems like old tab reloads when you come back from Incognito mode.

[1]: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-search/id284815942?mt=...
> Google only believes in algorithms.

I find them believing more and more in mouse hover and js animations.
Sigh, that would have been nice to know. Arun told me to unpair and pair the wakemate again. That was it. After telling him that didn't fix it, I got no response. :\
I stand corrected. Perhaps we should pick a different compromise, say, tau with Unicode combining ring above: τ̊.

Edit: On Mac. Trying to do that on a Kindle Fire was ... unproductive.
I clicked on the thread to leave this exact comment. I will miss his homely voice on Apple's product videos.
I actually thought RIM would go Windows Phone and it made more sense before Nokia. The enterprise fit would have been nicer maybe for them. Not that I am buying any of it, the old days of enterprise pushing consumer sales I think has flipped with Apple. Consumer usage now influences work more maybe.
Ask PG:Startup School application?
When does the application open for Startup School 2012?

SS2011 was such a good time for me, well worth the trip from the UK!
Mining Bitcoins on any CPU is incredibly expensive. The largest VM would generate about $11/month.
I disagree with the author. I think writing an app is easier than making a website.

HTML was invented as a format for document. it's essentially a document format like Microsoft word file. Now, with the idea of web app, people try to make a document look like an app or even a desktop application. And this is difficult.

will you use Microsoft word to develop an app?

I feel that writing an ios prototype is much easier than working with javascript.
JQuery 2.0 Drops Support for IE6/7/8; API-Compatible with jQuery 1.9.
Really cool responsive design, works and resizes smoothly both on FF and Chrome, while I've seen some similar implementations being very slow on Chrome.
I am in shock. He doesn't seem like a guy that would retire at such a young age. He's such a workaholic that I thought he would work well into his 70s. =\
how do people discover a new website then?
The programmer who went up a hill & got stuck on a mountain
This is a reference to Bill Gates ranting about not being able to download Movie Maker easily. See here: http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2008/06/24/full-text-an-...
Basically, it gave me a new vocabulary for thinking about the decisions I make every day when coding. It opened my eyes about things to look for, to focus on, to change, and so on. With regards to decisions, I also love Dan North's Decisions, Decions from NDC recently: https://vimeo.com/43536417

It's mainly the basic philosophy that Hickey focuses on that changed a lot for me, not any of the specific examples. After watching Hickey I've read great books such as Pragmatic Programmer, Passionate Programmer, Coders at Work, and other books that have helped me, as a recent university graduate, build my "coding philosophy". Hickey was just a very inspiring "first step" in changing how I look at code.
Slight correction: *she

And maybe it's just me, but I almost stop thinking of startups as 'startups' when you're at 40+ employees. I don't know if that's fair, or even rational, but it's much harder to be the same plucky young company with 40 employees that you were with three to five.

Probably I'm just being obnoxious though, because clearly there are cases where it's still 'obviously' a startup, but I'm having a hard time thinking of any that don't involve VC.
Majority of the stuff I work on are generally for personal use or solving a personal annoyance/pain point. A good chunk of them ends up being launched as good side businesses as a byproduct but they weren't done with the intention of such.

I previously did a "traditional" startup in 2007 (scaling, hiring, etc..) and sold that company in 2009. Now I pretty much just focus my time on projects. I have a huge preference to do 1 man projects/businesses vs doing a large startup again. Its more fun.

As for anything being cool, its totally subjective.
Were you carrying out the "BillG test"? http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2008/06/24/full-text-an-...
Why are we Australians getting ripped off again. 200USD < 200AUD, so why are we getting charged $250AUD?.

It's not because of shipping because that is added separately. Even if it was $50 is way too much.
I've really never seen a "facebook sucks" post that wasn't based on one of the following tired arguments:

- Ludditism
Usually of the form:
Technology is *TEARING US APART* don't you see?! (Response: No, not really, perhaps you just suck at communicating?)

- Ignorance of use
Usually of the form:
WTF I got fired for posting all those pictures of me using drugs?! (Response: Learn to use the privacy settings!)
or: It's too noisy, all of these stupid game requests.. (Response: Block the offending apps and ask your friends to knock it off)

- Bad connections
Usually of the form:
or: [annoying/offensive] $person keeps appearing in my news feed (Response: Block the offending person!)
or: All of my friends post pointless, boring minuate of their lives! (I.e. the Twitter argument) (Response: Don't friend those people!)
or: I don't want to turn down my Boss' friend request and look bad! I'm $sociallyUnfasionableThing! (Response: Use lists.)

It was refreshing to see one that actually lays out with an actual example what the problem is, in this case, algorithmic changes which ruined his experience. He veered toward #1 above at the very end, but still this was interesting to read.

Every single one of these things above, though, traces back to ignorance (usually) or cirucmstance. Could Facebook do a better job of making these things obvious? Absolutely. Facebook is not an intuitive site to use, and even when you have your head around it, they usually change something arbitrarily (the recent email thing comes to mind).

However, that said, you really shouldn't dump on the site wholesale just because it doesn't work for you. It works for millions of other people just fine.
Do you use (){}[] and others to move about? I rarely need to know the line number to move to on the screen.
Google Compute Engine–Day One Analysis
Sorry, it's not possible, but the main reason to create a child account is to get around the Google/Facebook requirement -- since you've already surmounted that hurdle, a child account probably wouldn't be of any more use to you.
As a consultant looking to make the jump, this spoke volumes to me and I think it's just the push I need to make the jump.
There is also incentive for OPEC nations to cheat on their quotas. Told they can only sell X billion barrels of oil, they in fact sell X+10% billion barrels to get that extra slice of pie for themselves.
Good to see that the use the "menu with down-arrows" correctly, that is "on click", rather than flickery on hover.
good swag = makes me worry about a bubble
Waiting for a bad experience with an American company so that they can swear off all United States based manufacturing and move everything to friendly Mexico.
> Especially considering the fact that the work on the laptop is probably more valuable than the machine itself.

I'd hope then that you are using proper backups, it's a lot easier to keep copies of your work remotely, than make a copy of a laptop.
LTE.. fucking LTE is here. RIM, you dun goofed.
Your reply is so full of wowo nonsense that I won't bother to rebut it piece by piece but I'll end with this. You completely fail to understand evidence based thinking and falsifiability and thus your opinions are not remotely rational, they are emotional. You need to learn to stop trying to explain yourself, and start providing evidence that anything you say is true. You just look like a crazy person to me; I doubt I'm alone in this assessment.

I'm not interested in your opinions of why you're right, I'm interested in evidence of your claims. If you don't have that, you aren't worth my time.
Because the people who ran the product are more useful working on other projects than pursuing something the company clearly felt was a failure.
> A 7" tablet is just about exactly as much bigger than a 4" phone as a 10" tablet is bigger than a 7" tablet.

I'm surprised that nobody else has pointed this out, but that's not true at all - we measure screen sizes by the diagonal, but the actual screen size is a quadratic function of the diagonal. If the aspect ratio were such that the screen were a square (it's not), this would mean that a 10'' screen would be more than twice as large as a 7'' screen, which would be three times as large as a 4'' screen.

That said, the screen size is really only part of the picture. At least for me, I like the size of the Kindle Fire (also ~7'') - it fits perfectly in my hand both when traveling and when reading. A 10'' screen to me feels massive enough that I'd just as rather have my computer (heck, 10'' is almost the size of some ultrabooks or the Macbook Air!)
That's also why I thought Hacker School was such a great idea.
One way to determine if a module on NPM is "decent" is to make sure they implement some way to stream or pipe data in this way. It seems pretty core to Node.JS and is a big win for processes like this which are basically transforming data from one source to another.
I wonder if the price includes GST (a 10% sales tax)?

Still, that's only an additional $20.
Army Developing Laser That Shoots Lightning
Congresspeople in the US recently attempted to make the case that a startup was a company with revenues under $1 Billion.
I think this makes a lot of sense.

One of our products is a B2B analytics tool that leverages a custom Chrome extension for one piece of functionality. As a result, all of our users are on Chrome.

We already use chai for testing, which doesn't really work in older IE versions, and it'll be great to get the performance improvement from this change as well.
This is true. I can remember waiting for a Nokia android device / a good touchscreen device with an app market before I got my first android. At that point I'd only really owned Nokia's and loved the reliability of them, but they just took far too long to come out with anything that could compete.
The last 5 years must have been a thrilling but exhausting ride for him. Wishing him a nice retirement.
You can only do so much with gigabit ethernet. Add to that the fact that whatever apps you're running are competing for that same bandwidth and it's super hard to get good I/O out of it.
The most important products Google needs to launch are: Real Customer Service and Sensible Account Dispute Management.

Without these two I would not touch any of these services. They are, almost without a doubt, radioactive.

Why?

It's an old story, really: Get tangled with Google algo's for any reason and your account is suspended with no recourse. There goes everything: adsense, adwords, plus, gmail, drive, docs and whatever else was linked to that account.

No thanks. Make a real commitment to behave like a real business partner with me and my clients and you have a deal. Until then, thanks, but no, thanks.

Don't get me wrong, I would definitely like to use these services. I most definitely do. However, the risk of the totalitarian account suspension mechanism chopping your head off is just not worth my time.

Charge me $99 a year (think Apple). Put me through the vetting process that Apple puts you through when you register as a developer (company data, etc.). Get comfortable with the fact that I am a real business. Then, from that point forward, let's have a real business-to-business relationship as opposed to a totalitarian-government-to-insignificant-ant relationship. That's a winning formula.
Why drain just one battery when you can drain two! </tongue-in-cheek>
Yup, there's a big difference between being employee 1-3 and employee 25-50. Get in early!
Also, do not curse out your competitors. You may end up being partners one day, or worse, get acquired by them! I have seen the latter happen and feel embarrassed for those who disrespected others.
How Reddit initially seeded content with fake users (video)
Actually, 250AUD is pretty much exactly 250USD. But remember, FX rates are spot rates, they don't take into account the FX risk incurred by holding money over time in the foreign currency. So it makes sense to for a US company to charge a premium to customers using a different currency. (Note the forward prices vs. spot for AUDUSD here: http://fx.sauder.ubc.ca/closing.html)

Besides, by the time you pay for shipping and tax in New York, the $199 tablet is $232!
BAE Systems' Navsop navigation system rivals GPS
Sure, hit me up at my HN username @ gmail.
Software is even harder than you think
Do not get any Android phone that is not Nexus. You will regret it in the end.
Usually there is a premium over last trade, and the patents are potentially useful to trolls, etc. now. The main reason for a sale to happen now vs. waiting a year would be if some kind of competitive bidding happened. The big change is that RIM's (worthless) board and senior management are now open to the idea, unlike the previous several years of decline (where it was obvious to everyone, but RIM wouldn't do anything).
I won't be using for a few a years but I am glad it is leading pushing people to CSS3 compliance.
This should be a cautionary tale about contracting out manufacturing (which in today's world, nearly means "trying to make anything physical"). Nothing is particular to China, although time differences and language barriers surely didn't help the matter. I say that having dealt with trying manufacturers myself.

When it comes to contracting out work, the first time is always going to suck. This whole industry has figured exactly who needs to provide what, and what every word they use means, and you'll always miss something. Ideally, you have somebody who's done it before coaching you through the process (well worth hiring a consultant do that and save you some stress).

Less ideally, ask the people you are interfacing with a lot of questions. Clarifications about what a word means. Or how they count days. Every step of the way, ask them "what do you need from me? how can I speed this up and make it easier for you? what's the next step and when does it happen? did we miss anything?" Ask if they can send you example of the documents that they need, so that you know the format and type of content they want.

Yes, it's a lot of leg work. It's worth it when the manufacturing goes right, though. And it gets easier every time.
Windows Mobile is a bit player still, doesn't matter for startups (or non-startups).

That leaves you with Android and iOS. Most startups can start with iOS and add Android later -- there just aren't the sales numbers to prioritize Android development.

So we're back down to one platform, with native development providing definitively better results with less time.

Supporting differing platforms is not ideal, but somehow we built the entire PC industry on top of this concept, and it worked out. Maybe we should be looking at ways to bring ObjC code bases over to Android, or something that would let us re-use non-UI code.
Isn't one of the reasons for jquery to "abstract away" the differences between browsers so I don't have to worry about it?

Dropping support for popular browsers doesn't seem to help me much.
IVP raises new $1 billion fund
I think many people are still not aware of MiFi[1] and the ilk.

If you are amongst those who miss 3G in $device then check them out now, you might be in for a pleasant surprise.

(personally I have a huawei 585 and can recommend it wholeheartedly, it's even smaller than the MiFis!)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiFi
In this case, it's reasonable. There are many reasons to avoid China, very few of which are intrinsic to China. Manufacturing in the US means your manufacturer is in the same time zone and speaks the same languages. You both have the same understanding of contract law and a court system that you are both familiar with. Traveling to the factory takes less time.

Honestly, I'm not sure why their made-in-china pens cost $50 each. It's a five cent block of aluminium that's been hit with a laser. That probably costs $1 to make in China and $20 in the US (worst case). Selling it for $50 still leaves plenty of money for the designers.

Anyway, their decision is reasonable. Hiring people in your own country is easier than hiring people half the world away. If two Chinese guys wanted to make a similar pen, I'm sure they'd be successful in China.
The point about offices is that the root cause of the issue is the design of the space.

The point about white noise is that an open office should have about 45db of background noise (white or pink). This means that a person is less likely to hear a normal voiced conversation 20 feet away.

What makes noise distracting is that it stands out from the background (just as automotive headlights stand out more at night than during the day).
Did you read the article? 1.9 will keep oldIE support, get minor updates, and be API-compatible with 2.0.
I did the opposite. I had a modest exit on my startup, and worked for the acquirer until my time was up. Then, instead of just taking a dang break, I was wooed by a Random Giant Agency with more than I'll ever make as straight salary in my life probably.

Despite how well I was treated in general, it was the most angst-inducing and soul-draining experience of my life. I left after only a few months and felt incredibly spoiled for doing so. Now I'm a smelly startup hippy again.
Fuck IE - they've done the same to us for years.
US citizens most certainly can.
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Hi, I work on the BigQuery team.

Keep in mind that you only pay for the columns you query. The Wikipedia table as a whole is 35GB, but if you only query one column, it might only need to scan a couple of GB. If you can limit the columns you are querying, you can save a lot of money.

If you have a high-traffic analytics app, it would probably make sense to cache some of the materialized results, which are usually orders of magnitude smaller than the source data. BigQuery supports writing its output to another table, but it would probably be even faster for you to cache these results client-side.
Am I crazy? Google Glass sucks (At least for now)
I like this article but I found myself kind of weirded out by the introduction (so here is my version of the intro).

I started using a computer when I was 7. I knew nothing and virtually nobody. It was 1988 and it wasn't easy to learn the ropes back then. This was before much of today's infrastructure existed. There was no broadband or world wide web or wifi or AOL. This was before VGA graphics and the Pentium processor. CompuServe still had more users than AOL. Windows was just getting started.
I don't find PDFs to be a problem on an iPad unless the PDF publisher has done something wacky (nonstandard paper sizes is a big one).
شفرات المزرعة السعيدة 2012
Yep. A lot of groovy adoption is "under the radar" precisely because it blends so seamlessly with Java. It may just be a build script or used in unit tests, but it is popping up all over the place.
Not sure if you read the article, but 1.9 and 2.0 will basically be the same, just different underlying code. 1.9 will support IE<9, and 2.0 will be smaller/faster/more stable
Agreed! I noticed it plays very nicely with the window docking features in Windows 7. Beautifully done.
Adding to the stack of people reporting that Amazon's paid support reps are great. Amazon is about putting the customer first and although their services occasionally have problems I never have any doubt that the people I work with are smart and care.