skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Research I've seen suggests the exact opposite

I'm not suggesting circles of different sizes instead of rectangles, which is what this study is about. While interesting, it's not relevant to my statement.

> That said, pie chart slices work for simple data not because of area, but because all you have to compare is the simple length of the circumference segments. That's a single dimension, and easy to compare.

Big whatever to taht. It's easier to compare a pie chart than rectangles of varying orientations, which is my point. I don't really care if it's because it's a linear measurement vs an area derived from a linear measurement. Let's be pedantic, shall we?
"My maternity leave will be a few weeks long and I'll work throughout it."

Showing her tenacity and super strength there! My wife was wiped out for months :-)
Game of Thrones: The Math Edition
I don't know.. if Dave Winer became pregnant, I think it'd make the HN front page.
Sadly, I think this is right. I know several recruiters at a big-name recruiting agency in Silicon Valley, they try to act like an internal recruiter (thorough vetting of candidates, understanding company culture, etc) and they make much less money than if they had just adopted the pay and spray mentality of their peers.

The bright hope for me is darwinian: if enough startups refuse to use these pay and sprayers then they will die off, leaving only the higher quality recruiters. Will that happen? Not any time soon.
Now the big question: Would either a Republican or a Democrat dare to get rid of DMCA (or even the filthiest of its provisions) or would they continue to support it as they get more donations from the backers of DMCA?

There isn't a dime's worth of difference between the two faces of the one-party dictatorship of USA.

George Carlin on Freedom of Choice

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt49DsfKDMc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC_wjQtfhZQ
Show HN: If Elon Musk can do it, why can't everyone?
Steam and Adobe are the only 2 things stopping me making the switch the Linux.
Excuse my ignorance, I've never done a Show HN post before.

This is my web site. It's an experiment: is it possible that residents of a city can exert measurable pressure on local governments and businesses by donating to charity on behalf of things they find important?

I've been struggling quite a bit with messaging and getting people to register. The charity donations are optional, and although I'd obviously welcome that level of participation, right now I'm just trying to collect the ideas that locals have for civic and business improvements, what I call "tasks." Then, luck willing, have them vote in favor of the tasks they like and against tasks they don't like.

To describe the concept verbally, I've often drawn a comparison to how rich people make bets where the stakes are charitable donations. Either outcome yields a donation to charity, making this kind of bet terrific for goodwill and PR. So I took an opportunity to describe the idea of Brian's Taskforce on top of the backdrop of Elon Musk and Dan Neil's recent wager over the Tesla Model S. I happen to be an avid fan of the Model S, so that certainly didn't hurt.

I'd love to hear any feedback you have about the message of this particular blog entry and how well (or even if) it communicates the concept. And beyond that, if you have other feedback, if you think the idea is good, bonkers, or whatever, if you think my graphic design "skills" hurt your head, I'd like your thoughts about the site in general.

Should I kill the Recaptcha on the registration page? I'm so desperate for registered users that I'd almost welcome spammer user profiles with open arms. Almost.

Thanks for taking the time to take a look! Oh, and Los Angeles, don't ban plastic grocery bags!
Valleywag was dedicated to it between 2006-2008: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valleywag .. I think it even got banned here.
You're right, it was as2. I should've mentioned this was true "at the time"
Some sideways thinking about cyberwarfare
You know, I've heard stories that Apple employs people to just unbox iPods, iPhones, iPads, etc. just to make sure that the experience is really, really good. It seems frivolous, but if you think back to being a kid opening gifts on your birthday or christmas, there is something psychologically awesome about a great unboxing experience.

Google will learn.
I wasn't really meaning I was going to only rely on personal observation per se, I am just saying that humans are intrinsicly historically wrong about everything. Thus I will not just say "those people told me that there are no other sentient beings capable of anything such as flying through space to visit a remot planet, so they must be correct!"

We have already sent probes beyond our system and to many planets within our system and we only discovered FLIGHT 100 years ago.

Just imagine 1,000 years from now.
Should we also expect to follow pop culture? the classic description of a grey turning up following science fiction and newspaper publishing.
I noticed that I can't just paste random images to your app. How do you guys detect that it is a screenshot I am pasting?
Sure, those things can be a pain if you're relatively new to MySQL administration. But luckily there's a huge wealth of automation options released by some of the world's largest web sites.

One of MySQL's greatest strengths is the maturity of its ecosystem. Tons of existing automation, a relatively large number of skilled developers you can hire, multiple dedicated conferences, good free online docs, dozens of books, several top-notch consulting firms for handling the crazy edge cases.

I'll readily admit that MySQL has its flaws, but personally I wouldn't rank difficulty of maintenance operations high on the list... at least from a practical perspective, and relative to other comparable data stores used at a massive scale.

In my experience, no matter what databases you choose, if you "go big" you can't ever escape the need for robust automation and a decent amount of in-house talent.
What, like "work harder or we'll execute the lot of you"?
Yes, actually ;)

We're about a half hour away from NME 3.4
She was in charge of Geo, which is a broad product area that includes Maps, Earth, Local, Street View, Maps for Mobile, Zagat, etc. Local may suck, but most people think Maps is pretty good.
Why is this on HN? Are we reddit now or something like that? I don't know if it's only me or during the last year the amount of good technical articles on HN is decreasing month by month, whereas Techcrunch articles on startup investments, vim/sublime/whatever editor tutorials, hiring people, gadget reviews are getting upvoted to the heavens. Out of 30 articles on the frontpage 4 are technical and only 2 are really deep.

Sorry for the venting but I have the hope I'm not the only one missing old technical HN instead of what it's becoming now.
Unboxing the Nexus 7 is fun Google screws up designing a box
I'm glad they are not making their own distro. If I wanted to run a "gaming OS" I'd use Windows or buy an Xbox.

Where they could provide value though is to create a stable platform cross distro that is well supported for game/app developers. Anything that allows porting to Linux without worrying about distro fragmentation is a good thing.

Besides when it comes to more esoteric distros I'm sure they will be able to tap into the community to help bring it there.
all the more reason to avoid the hole:
why would such a smart guy take kids to ESAD?
If you want to launder money, then you need cash transactions. McDonalds was one of the first restaurants to have eftpos transactions at every store (at least in Australia).

I can think of several better ways to launder money than running a McDonalds.

I'd say it's far more likely to be a tighter than usual security restriction due to the (perceived or real) threat from terrorism.
How to Be a Modern-Day Dictator
ycombinator, summer 2012 group/class.
Please stop spamming blog spam.
Has she had a kid before? She may be underestimating the toll on her life.

edit: "that her first child is due October 7"
CyanogenMod 9 ported to the Google Nexus Q
calm down, more people have been killed on roads than due to terrorism.
Sure, here's the list: http://www.amazon.com/Fd-Companies-Spectacular-Dot-Com-Flame...

Used copies start at a penny.
Something You Won't Hear from Amazon: Insourcing is Safer, Cheaper, & Better
Really? What kind of optimizations does the C# compiler do when emitting IL? As far as I know, they are fairly straightfoward optimizations - there's nothing really that complex going on there. The C# team has said they aim for a straightfoward mapping to IL.

You won't see the C# compiler inlining functions (even though the CLR does _way_ better with large functions and doesn't handle inlining well). It won't propagate constant expressions. You won't see it transforming recursive functions into loops. Does it even remove unused variables?

All the optimizations that C# really relies on for performance are handled by the JIT, and any compiler following the same patterns will get the same enhancements, plus the ability to emit better IL than C#.

That said, I'm still unconvinced it's easier to emit MSIL than C#, and I'm rather well versed with MSIL.
Am I the only one who thought that China (22.4%) was colored with the more sharp orange shade that is associated with the >25% in the key? I actually took a screenshot and copied the color box to confirm, the color of China is lighter orange shade that's for the right range (20-25%).
Moving from Wordpress to SETT, a social blogging platform
> Adding the additional translation layer increases the potential of bugs

> the implementation has information that could be used to generate better bytecode

These are theoreticals. Let me analogize. Some algorithms have a worst-case big O that is significantly worse than the average case. So even though the algorithm could have very poor performance in certain situations, it's better for the "real-world" cases that it gets used in.

Most of the existing Haxe targets have similar external semantics(Algol-derived, GC, dynamic types), so we're in an average-case situation of both reliability and performance; the Q probability is close to zero because the code we input isn't that drastically different from human source input, and the input we pass in from Haxe can be a bit more optimized in most respects, because we don't have to make it maintainable. If we were targeting a really bad compiler, it would blow up. But in practice, it doesn't and we gain more than we lose, even when considering areas where there's an impedance mismatch and we have to, for example, add dynamic types on top.

Bytecode output is more sensible within a short-term view - a single project with known specifications. But it's ultimately the need for flexibility that drives Haxe, and you aren't gaining additional flexibility from bytecode.
So from now on, politicians could just sing all the reports they want to bury to the tune of popular songs, and the automated copyright filters would take care of the exposure problem.

And now for the budget, this year sung to the tune of "Happy Birthday to You".
Funny you say that. Finding a job recently, Palantir was the absolute worst at the recruiting process. At the end of their two months, in one two-week span I interviewed at and received offers from two much smaller startups. I told my recruiter at the end of the all-day interview that I needed to make a decision by the end of the week on other offers (it was Monday). I didn't hear from her for another ten days, at my prompting. She was frazzled, passed me on to another recruiter, who asked if I could come in again for another all-day. Needless to say, I declined and went with one of the offers I already had.
> Forking a project isn't a healthy thing to do, unless there's something seriously wrong with the existing community

Or you have goals which are substantially different from the goals of the original project.

Lets not forget that parts of Android are 'forked' from Linux (and were later merged back).
Apologies! Should have expanded on that a bit. Overall gist: billabong.com has plesk publicly available for login. Plesk allows root (full system access) logins from a remote source and has all kinds of exploits available for purchase and abuse.

This kind of stuff happens, but in essence Billabong's sysadmin needs to start surfing exploit mailing lists more than he's surfing other places :)
Thanks, Brian. Now it's our job to prove the move was the right thing to do with some numbers!
'as advertised' - there's ya terrible.
Seems to me like he needs to implement a Stephenson style panic button - In Snow Crash, at one point YT used a special button on her phone to summon help from other couriers.

It'd be easy enough to implement technically; when I hit the panic button it notifies all listeners of my location; listeners configure how far away they want reports. (perhaps taking reports from further away from people with higher reputation or from people you manually configure as more important...)

I mean, in the case of Mann, it's easy; if I was nearby and knew he needed physical help, I'd be happy to show up. The problem is for the rest of us, the unknowns, there would need to be some sort of sense of community or something.
Not sure if there is anything to this, but from what I've heard, privacy laws in France are more strict than in the US, for example. That's in theory, in practice, not many people actually care. On the other hand, some do.

Also, in theory, if you shoot with a tripod, you would need to obtain permission from a ministry somewhere, but in practice, you will seldom get bothered by the police.

In any event, photographing people in public places in France will get you more dirty looks than they would in London or NYC, for example --even if most times you will not get any reaction.

Look up Droit d'image, as it concerns France.

http://photothisandthat.co.uk/2012/02/15/the-french-privacy-...
I agree with you. They had some seriously cool stuff in 90s with virtualization. It was like pushing the limits of computer science.

But why don't they continue to innovate in that market? For Android fragmentation alone there is serious need for virtualization. If they can solve that problem then revenues will go through the roof.
Microsoft takes steps to drown Google Apps before it's too late
AT&T appears set to control and charge for FaceTime over Cellular in iOS 6
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I love my paper based TODO lists. I kind of have OCD and sometimes I will even write a TODO list for the things I need to do within the next hour. So for the type of user like me, nothing beats the flexibility, accessibility, and usability of a piece of paper. I don't think Fetchnotes should tackle TODO list functionality, I believe its awesome powers lies within long-term note taking.
Though there are also many French of Algerian extraction.
Ah! Good point, I completely forgot that existed.
Found a great paragraph..

"I am afraid we have a slight political problem. This ufologist is of course the Earl of Clancart, with whom HMG exchanged views in the Lords Debate. I feel our political masters would think it improper if the RAF News should be too rude about him. I suggest the problem could be resolved without altering any of the text from "Brinsley ...." to ".....interior of the earth" but toning down the faintly derisory setting and letting the idiocy of the Earl's ideas speak for themselves."
I'm glad you enjoyed it. Would love to read a bit about what your experience has been like on the other coast.
Pricing lessons learned from a publishing startup
> social security from the genuinely disabled

And what might that percentage be? Seeing a number of moochers feigning disability for unearned dole outs, is surely the most common disgust of our times.

And if one is disabled, they should not expect to be given free handouts from money forced out at gunpoint. They need care and consideration and all volunteer help they can get.

Its time to realize that Government should be the institution for one thing and one only. Protection of individual freedom. And nothing else.
The Death of RIM
And the most damning:

>After all, isn’t that what open source is all about – the idea that collaboration and teamwork achieve amazing things?
Only one of those sets of flaws is significant.
Why isn't this nearly as big of a problem in India?
How Apple is fighting iOS in-app purchase hack
Here's a good example: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/75426

Granted, it's a niche case, though an important one -- using a switch statement for bytecode dispatch leads to poor branch prediction in VMs, and better alternatives require either non-standard extensions (http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/07/12/computed-goto-for-ef...) or assembler.

If you're really concerned with performance when writing C, try to avoid painting yourself into a corner. Profile. Consider custom memory allocators, if much of your time is spent creating short-lived or equal-sized objects. In general, look at the tricks the really hardcore game devs do in C++.

Also, use valgrind, because you'll probably cut too many corners. ;)
Google Search is down?
Or maybe employees misses some legal autorisations to work and are afraid there is some working-inspectors that collects evidences.
Why “A/B Testing vs. Holistic UX Design” Is a False Dichotomy
A subjective analysis engine to help hackers improve their pitch
(I wrote all this then realized I've gotten off the point, this isn't really addressed at your comment. I recognize that the typical computer user couldn't give a damn about customizing their system and certainly wouldn't bother with setting up Arch, which makes it a poor gaming platform. I'm just tired of constantly hearing about how hard Arch is. It isn't hard, it just takes a bit of effort).

I'd say Arch is pretty simple, just not easy [0]. Easy would be inserting the install cd, walking away, coming back and being able to hit the internet. Which is fine, if that's all you want to do. Arch installation isn't easy, it's simple, and more importantly it works. When I install windows from scratch you know what it comes with? Nothing. No drivers, no programs, nothing. Not even an ethernet driver for me to get the other drivers. Arch comes with all of it out of the box, you just need to go through the tutorial so you can choose which things in the box you actually want.

Arch is simple in that if I go to any scary looking file in /etc and open it up I won't be completely baffled by what's in it. I can randomly shut down any service running on my machine and I know my box will keep chugging and I can recover from it. There's no weird services that I don't know what they do, no scripts that run on startup that I can't understand let alone find. There aren't inter-dependencies that I don't know about. When I run ps aux I can account for every single thing running.

And even then, the package management is simple AND easy. I have never had a problem installing something with pacman, not once. There's this oft-repeated line about upgrades breaking systems, but I've never seen it. If an upgrade fails I look at the front page of archlinux.org and see that some manual commands are needed, copy-paste them and voila things work. I've used arch on three computers now, two laptops and a very old desktop, and have never had any problems. I know there's going to be some horror stories, but I can counter any of them with a quick search for the same in windows. Problems upgrading happen, but they're not common, and not something that's inherent to Arch like I've seen people suggest.

[0] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
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But then you'd have to account for the mixers.
Interesting; I had always taken Sagan's opinion as gospel, but I suppose there is room for questions. A bit of googling shows both Jimmy Carter and Dennis Kucinich have seen a UFO, and they're honest people. That certainly doesn't make me a believer, but it's nice to see there's at least a small possibility.
What's new in HTML5: The Track Element
How to create deadlines that your developers will be happy about
I can confirm that the file upload works since beta 1. However, if you choose to take a photo (instead of selecting an existing one), the photo orientation may not work correctly. Tested with an iPad 2, beta 1 and beta 2. Will update my reply after testing with beta 3.
I'm of South African 'extraction', but you wouldn't know unless you asked me.
Nexus 7 tablet is $50 more in Australia then the US
The Nexus 7 tablet is $50 more expensive in Australia even though the Aussie dollar is almost the same as the US dollar. What's going on there?

* Go to the nexus 7 google page http://www.google.com/nexus/#/7

* See the text "The new $199 tablet from Google"

* Click "Buy Now"

* Prepare to be disappointed.

I would have thought Google would be above the regional price discrimination that regularly occurs in Australia.
The US middle to upper class generally seems to look down at McDonalds as being a place where the poor, fat, or simply lazy go to eat. That's just not the case in other countries.

I can only speak for Paris and Tokyo, and the very upper class may not eat there, but nobody else has a problem with it. It's not just American tourists keeping them in business.
On a Methodology of Design
SMS Messaging Software – An Innovation in Telecommunication
SMS Messaging Software a new idea in telecommunication industry. SMS messaging software helps companies to cut down their marketing expense by sending bulk sms, Using of sms software provides sms solutions to send bulk sms.
Can Netflix Stay Afloat?
> Amazon is winning that market using an open source stack

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2012/04/03/be-wary-of...

Leaving that here...(Ignore the article, read the single comment below by Jim Plamondon.)
You mean, since leaving Yahoo? In that case you're probably right. Carol Bartz did great things for Autodesk.
[How to] Remove Multiple Players from Ubuntu Sound Menu
Marissa Mayer is expecting a baby
I use a random alias whenever I am not using my real name. The habit comes from a combination of laziness, paranoia, and dissatisfaction with various aliases I have past used. The downside is difficulty to login from other machines, though I could use something like lastpass.

I use an Alfred plugin (http://trepmal.com/alfredapp/random-password/) to generate logins.
CloudFoundry is a compliment to, not a substitute for EC2. Many organizations use Foundry as their abstraction layer over EC2, including some very large installs.
Bagels are stranger than fiction
They do it by withholding ketchup and other condiments. ;)

I'm almost serious, because I was in this exact McDonald's in 1998 (I'm not making this up) and was verbally abused for asking for more than the provided two packets of ketchup.

In their defense, it was Bastille Day and more than a little bit crazy in there.
The agony of feeling no pain
Might just be a new beginning for Yahoo
Having seen a UFO myself I can safely say that there _are_ aircraft with capabilities far above that what I would expect from our own air force in our skies.

A friend and I witnessed formations of lights sweeping across the horizon making 90 degree turns in the blink of an eye.

There you go.