skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Always fascinating watching this kind of delusion in action.

This complete rewriting of history so that every Apple product before Jobs death had some extraordinary level of perfection that somehow doesn't exist anymore. When in actual fact the quicker release cycles for Apple software is resulting in less bugs.
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sweet! I had to abandon Cheddar when I went abroad for 2 weeks (no constant data plan) due to no offline support.
On the individual level, you are correct. However, nationally significant statistical difference, that might indicate a problem. Furthermore, salaries are whatever the market rate is, and few women have any way of knowing they are or are not making less than their male peers.
I would be super interested in seeing this too!
There is probably something a little wrong with all of us being on HN on a Saturday... although I see it as entertainment more then business.. its what I do to waste time for the most part.
But returning already cached GET response to DELETE request is not.

I, however, agree that this behaviour shouldn't happen.
LOL, totally. I remember entering in the escape codes for an Epson FX-80 dot matrix printer because there was no such thing is a printer driver. Just copied it from the back of the manual. Took a weekend.
HTTP keepalives just means you only need to negotiate two extra SSL connections instead of n (n being the number of images in the page). The overhead of that is certainly noticeable. If there's no actual benefit, then it shouldn't be in his list of "stuff you have to do (and nobody actually does)".
However, unless there are some areas of the country with disproportionally more female developers, this should balance out.
Did you read it? No where does the author say "Apple makes bad ads". He said Jobs made cheesy, empty ads. "Genius" isn't a cheesy, empty ad. It's just bad. In an article that starts with "Apple makes great ads", continues onto "everyone else makes poor ads", reaches a conclusion of "Apple hasn't made a bad ad since the G4 and Powerbook were hot" and finishes with "Apple's advertising is getting worse, but you can't blame them for that", the last thing on my mind at the end was "Apple always has bad advertising". Because in the last 5-10 years, that just hasn't been true.
It draws about 350-400 mA when it's running but then another 100 mA per USB port in use.
Both that prototype and the Lumia appear to be based on the iPod mini/nano.
Sad. Too many people operate with the motto 'its not illegal if you don't get caught'. It nearly always turns out badly for them.
These are good info. In my past life, I oversaw the web monetization pipeline as part of my job. Click fault detection was part of it. It is a hard problem and there's no 100% foolproof solution.

As in your case, it's nearly impossible to detect click fault real time as the clicks streaming in. We batch-processed the clicks throughout the day and do daily billing settlement at the end of the day. It's easier to detect click fault over a period of time. Obvious bots are filtered out, like the search engine crawlers.

For click fault, it's impossible to distinguish one-off click as a user click or fault click. We tried to catch repeated offenders. we looked for duplicate clicks (same ip, same agent, other client attributes) against certain targets (same product, product categories, merchants, etc) over a period of times (1-minute, 5-minute, 30-minute, hours, etc). We also built historic click stats on the targets so we can check the average click pattern against historic stats (yesterday, week ago, month ago, year ago).

We ran quick checks every 1 minute and 5 minutes to detect unusual click patterns. These were mainly for detecting DOS attack against our site or against certain products. We actually had a realtime reaction mechanism to deal with it: slow down the requests, throw up CAPTCHA, redirect to a generic page, or block ip at routers.

Every couple hours, we batch processed the clicks so far and ran the exhausting checks to flag suspicious clicks. At the end of the day, definite fault clicks were thrown out, moderate suspicious clicks were grouped and reviewed by human. It's a fine balance to flag less suspicious clicks since there's money involved.

The sophisticate click fault I've seen involved a distributed botnet clicking from hundreds of IP all over the world doing slow clicks during the day. We found out because it's targeting a product category of a merchant and causing unusual click stats compared to historic pattern.
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Browser-cache my friend. You'll need to poll the server on page load (or even better in this case, after you load the ad)
We've found that identifying sources of traffic and patterns of usage is superior to simple user-agent detection, particularly as, since you've noted, user-agent spoofing is trivial, and/or some bot traffic is driven through user-based tools (say, script-driven MSIE bots).

Instead of that, we'll watch for patterns of use in which high volumes of traffic come from unrecognized non-end-user network space.

"Unrecognized" means that it's not one of your usual search vendors: Google, Yahoo, Bing, Baidu, Yandex, Bender, AddThis, Facebook, etc.

"Non-end-user network space" means a netblock which is clearly not a residential or commercial/business networking provider.

For this you'll mostly want to eyeball, though when we saw very high volumes of search coming at us from ovh.net (a French low-cost hosting provider), it was pretty obvious what the problem was.

Using an IP to ASN/CIDR lookup (such as the Routeviews project: http://www.routeviews.org/) and a local ASN -> name lookup. One source of this is http://bgp.potaroo.net/cidr/autnums.html
All Work and No Play Make the Baining the "Dullest Culture on Earth"
Not quite. A Growth Hacker can get 100K users/customers once a startup is past Product-Market Fit.
Getting volunteers to do canvassing or similar things is a very common problem. Working in person with an organization is one form of volunteerism but especially with awareness or issue-based organizations (which political campaigns roughly corollate to) getting people to active themselves and others is a huge idea. What Amicus is doing - making it more likely that these "unactivated" supporters get a contact from someone they know could be a big deal for increasing the success rate. Congrats on the story guys.
DHH has been pretty clear in the past what he thinks about LinkedIn - that they're a disaster waiting to happen - and looking at the P/E he may well think the same of Zillow. The saying about markets staying irrational longer than you can stay solvent applies here.
I agree that there isn't much that Apple has done lately that has been truly groundbreaking. The last time that I was really surprised by Apple was the iPhone 4. That said, it's totally unreasonable to assert that Apple is declining because Steve is gone simply because their products haven't "thrilled" you or because they ran a bad line of ads.

The Retina MBP is an excellent machine with one of the best screens to ever be put on a consumer-grade device. It might not blow everyone's mind, but it is at least as interesting of a product as the scores of laptops that were put out under Steve.

Mountain Lion isn't groundbreaking by design. It's an iteration on Lion, and so it's unreasonable to expect a massive amount of new features. The iPhone 5 and iOS6 haven't been released yet and in the case of the former the rumors are so vague and unsubstantiated that it's categorically ludicrous for you to pass judgement yet.

Lastly, I have to ask why the amount of "thrill" that a product brings matters anyway. Most consumers don't want to be thrilled. They want to buy a computer, and that's it. Apple is successful not because they thrill people, but because they make good products. The Retina MBP and Mountain Lion are still good products.

I think the biggest annoyance in the post-Jobs era is that every imperfect action that Apple does is automatically passed off as a result of Steve being gone. Steve wasn't perfect, either. We need only look to the iTunes phone, Ping or the button-less iPod Shuffle. Apple has never been perfect, and the post-Jobs era is no different.
I just watched the new Apple ads and think they are fun. I don't feel they were directed at me. But I do feel for non-Apple and non-tech people they could raise the question, who are these Geniuses and perhaps they'll look deeper into it and visit a Apple Store.
Awesome visual. I just threw up.
Simple rule of thumb:

The resolving power of a telescope is a function of aperture (diameter of primary lens or mirror). A telescope with an aperture of 100 mm (4") has a resolving power of 1 arcsec. Then 200 mm of aperture buy you 0.5 arcsec, and so on.

What is the minimum size of detail to distinguish those objects? Let's say 10 cm - kind of blurry, but intelligible.

What's the distance to them, from a telescope in low orbit? It's approximately the semi-major axis of the orbit of the Moon - 384,000 km.

arctan ( 10 cm / 384000 km ) = 2.6 * 10^-10 radian = 5.4 * 10^-5 arcsec

The aperture you need to get that kind of resolving power is:

100 mm / (5.4 * 10^-5) = 1800 m

You'd need a telescope with 1.8 km of aperture to see the Moon lander with 10 cm linear resolution. Scale down the aperture if you're content with less resolution, the function is linear.

Please note this is for a scope in vacuum, above the atmosphere. Air turbulence will reduce its resolving power dramatically, requiring some kind of adaptive optics to dynamically counteract the blur, which typically is not 100% efficient.
Khan Academy Statistics videos are not good
and then we find out drunk or stupid people accidentally click stuff.
It's an extremely hard problem whether you tackle it in realtime or post-processing. We're talking about being able to separate one group of real people at computers sometimes clicking ads, from another group of real people at computers sometimes clicking ads, where the only difference is the second group has been paid or their computers are being remotely controlled. Nothing in your access logs is going to leap out and say "hey, 123.123.123.123 is an office worker interested in this ink ad, and 123.123.123.124 is a competitor that wants to drive up the price of this ink ad".
Pinwheel is now Findery
I agree. It's absolutely garbage. But, still, it's better that everyone now has a simple reminder app. Those who need a "proper" to-do list, will use OmniFocus anyway.
Shamelessness is probably a required 'skill' for a writer. You are right about the having to do something in oppose to waiting for something to happen, and although my article may have made life seem one way my life is quite the opposite, I'm always searching / chasing new ideas and ventures. My dad told me that 9 out of 10 business fail, so I've always been of the belief that I'd need to try at least 9 business ideas before something is likely to work. I figure I'm at about 5 or 6 now.
9GAG is Reddit for the 90%. They Cherrypick the best memes from Reddit and wrap them in a social layer of Facebook comments and timeline integration to make them even more viral.

This company will never be nearly as big as Reddit but it seems to me that they're going to become more of a media company than a democratised news platform.

We'll start to see 9GAG Magazine, the book and TV shows. Like SocialCam, if Facebook cuts off timeline access I imagine they'll see a huge drop in engagement.

Although anyone can submit content it's very much editorialised and I think that will become more about submitting content for the editors.

A huge problem they're going to face as they branch out is copyright. They're trying to make a more legitimate FunnyJunk and this requires them to start looking at revshare and how they deal with copyright as they're promoting copyright content rather than it just being user added.
Oh, it's irrational alright. No arguing there. However, while there might be now fewer bugs, there count of imperfections that lie on the surface and contribute to the spoiled first impression is on the climb.
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It is interesting that this duplicate submission (submitted 14 minutes after http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4314048 ) is on the front page, while the original submission only has one upvote :)

[edit]: response to th0ma5: As the smiley and the comment should have made clear - this is not a matter of anyone being "too upset" about anything (and you th0ma5 were the only person investigating and talking about karma :)

Btw in spite of the downvotes, the comment is back in positive territory, so presumably, other people disagree with your comments about what is OT

As for the title, the NYT headline doesn't fit into 80 chars, which is why one submission removed "Dylan" and the other removed "New Yorker"
So how do you go learning about those industries?
What the fuck did I just read? Growth hacker? Give me a break, it's called Viagra. "Mommy, he stole my dolly."
It looks like they get the info from http://www.brewerydb.com/developers?
Well, we know the ones it turns out badly for. Who knows how many out there got away with it.
syntax is the user interface of the language. it is one of the parts you have to deal with on a constant basis, both writing and reading code. i can well see how an unpleasant syntax can be a constant, grating annoyance when dealing with a language. (i happen to really like erlang's syntax, but it definitely has very different aesthetics from javascript's)
Amicus is about more than just the political campaigns use case - since the submitter is the startup founder I'd imagine they wanted to make sure people knew there was something here for people beyond those interested in that one use case.
Thanks, this is good advice - life is a series of small wins and loses.
The only thing clunky and lacking is your logic.

Steve Jobs was alive when iOS5 was previewed so he would have seen AND approved it.
OP here. The title of this post is more accurate than the title of the TC article. The reporter focused on only one small use case of the product. In fact, politics is only a tiny part of Amicus' overall focus.
HILARIOUS
Windows RT = Windows for the ARM processor, i.e. for the non-Pro version of the Surface tablet. All apps must be compiled specifically for Windows RT, and so legacy x86 software will not run. There is a desktop in Windows RT, just like regular Windows, though there likely won't ever be much non-Metro desktop software for the platform, besides Office, since the platform is geared towards tablets with touch as the primary input.

Re, grandparent post: Windows RT looked very rough in the last public demo, with units crashing on stage. I'd consider it a developer preview platform at this point. The only people to whom I would recommend purchasing a Windows RT device are software developers who want to get their apps ready. For everyone else, I'd wait for the Intel-based Surface Pro three months later, or wait a year for the bugs to be ironed out and software to be available for the platform.
A lot of the Rocket to Nowhere arguments address your points: http://idlewords.com/2005/08/a_rocket_to_nowhere.htm

In short, as soon as large hairless mammals are involved in the mission, 99% of the mission's resources are suddenly consumed with keeping said large hairless mammals fed, watered, breathing, amused, etc. So basically, there's nothing left to do anything of much value, especially on any kind of reasonable budget.

Cost is the main reason robots have gone all over the Solar System and beyond, and the farthest any humans go these days is to LEO to hang out at the ISS.
you just got to keep on trying, eventually something will work out.
easy:
< script >
(new Image()).src = document.location.href + "Hey, i have javascript
< / script >

And then compare in the log.
Did the 9GAG team join YC before or after developing this site?
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Just in case you're skimming: this comes at the end of a bit of a saga for Lehrer, who had also been discovered "plagiarizing himself", recycling significant chunks of previously-published work in new New Yorker pieces. No doubt there's been a fine-toothed comb running through everything he's done since that first story broke.
Are you guys a nonprofit? Some of the wording in the article made it seem like that was the case.
But it's such a massive improvement over trying to manage to-dos in iCal.

I suspect Steve just didn't care about to-do lists and now someone who does care has managed to get a (minor) improvement through.
"What creates wide gaps in achievement in math (and many other subjects) in minority students is lower expectations for success." And then it links to http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/feb0...

But to attribute the entire discrepancy to lower expectations baffles me. How is it that so many people are so confident in their various contradictory theories surrounding educational outcomes?
Yes, it is hindsight bias, but that doesn't make it invalid. They are Apple-like because Apple made them. Because Apple made them. They cannot be confused with any other brand. Apple is the only thing that comes to mind when you watch an Apple ad of the last 5 years. They have defined themselves on advertising, and their advertising has equally defined them back.

Now when the Genius ads come on, I don't immediately think "this is an Apple spot". It feels like Best Buy, or Dell, or Samsung, or Wal Mart, or... It's generic, it's uninspired, and it definitely doesn't feel like Apple the same way their old ads felt like Apple.

The old ads were Apple-like because Apple ran them, and Apple ran them exclusively. The new ads are un-Apple-like even though they're run by Apple because they don't define themselves. If you replace Genius with Geek Squad, the ad still holds true. Apple doesn't normally do that.
Please, the day that Apple loses market share because the phone looks the same as the old phone is the day pigs fly. The phone will sell. Personally I love the newer design. Sales of the iPhone 4 and the 4S have shown that the form factor works. There's no need to fix what isn't broken. Other companies don't realize that and they spend their time coming out with phone after phone every three months. Since all phones do "the same thing" according to the article there is no need to focus on the aesthetics. What matters is the ecosystem and the software now. Get with the times.

Also if one more journalist proves that they can't even keep up with the number of iPhones that have been released and calls it the iPhone 5 again...
I wouldn't say it's whining, its a possible perspective on a life thus far.
So, if the music has stopped, is now a good time to sell chairs?
I'm just not buying any more Ubisoft games. Between the abortion of the user experience that is UPlay, their crappy always-online DRM, and then this, I'm just done giving them my money, I don't care how much I like their games.

There's no shortage of good games to play, and I'm just not going to give my money to companies that abuse their customers like Ubisoft does.

Hey Ubisoft, because I hope someone there is reading this thread: When your DRM is so bad that it makes people who would otherwise buy your games want to pirate them, you have utterly, totally, and completely failed. Pass that on to your boss please.

Edit: Protect yourself in Chrome by going to about:plugins and just turning it off.
Hey sorry this is so late. Didn't realize what you meant by contextual input or how that could be useful, but you're right - I can't deny such a fuzzy statement. It's somewhat possible that this could help something sometime in the future, definitely. Apologies for calling you incorrect. Eye tracking is however not efficient or useful as a main input for typing and will very likely not take a leading role in helping to recognize word/sentence input to computers.

On the second statement, I meant my original comment about google handwriting, the one at the top of this tree - not your comment about eye tracking. So I apologize again - I must have not been clear in the way I stated that and I'm sorry you took offense.
> This is the first clear sign that Apple without Steve Jobs is not the same Apple.

I was mad at these ads at first. They're ridiculously stupid.

But then I thought, maybe I should be happy about it? Maybe they learn from this failure? Surely, seeing the reaction, they must've been brought back to their senses...
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Spam and eggs Codecademy goes full-on Python
The full AP story has more info at the bottom. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iEB7lzn2h8...

Among Lehrer's inventions was a quote that first appeared in the famous documentary from the mid-1960s, "Don't Look Back," in which Dylan tells a reporter about his songs that "I just write them. There's no great message." In "Imagine," Lehrer adds a third sentence — "Stop asking me to explain" — that does not appear in the film.

According to Tablet, Lehrer also invented quotes on how Dylan wrote "Like a Rolling Stone" and, when confronted about them, alleged that he had been granted access to an uncut version of "No Direction Home," a Dylan documentary made by Martin Scorsese. Lehrer now says he never saw such footage.

Still curious to see a full account of all the Dylan quotes in question. Anyone have it?
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> When you say things like this, you presuppose a world where we could take all the money, put it in a pile, then share it equally.

This argument could be made regardless of the numbers.

0.1% of the nations richest individuals control 42 percent of the nations wealth?

One person controls 42 percent of the nations wealth?

Surely at some point enough is enough?
It's not a big idea, because if you use iCloud, you can't have a webapp that use Cheddar, you can use only on iOS devices and Mac OS X, that would be a HUGE limit.
I love the webapp, and I like the idea that multiplatforms clients can be made in fucture (windows, wp7, android, etc...)
Tossing out half the pool at random really wouldn't hurt.

There was a story posted here before about a hiring manager that flipped coins to sort the candidate pile. "We only hire lucky people here." I wish I still had the link...
You don't know me or anything about me, you just know the contents of one article I've written. For all you know I could be Mark Zuckerburg.
They have a billion page views a month. I have no idea how well they're able to monetize, but at a $.20 CPM that's $2.4 million in revenue a year. Presumably they're still growing too. It seems pretty realistic that the investors could make their money back on this deal.
There's an actual app called River of News for the iPad that does it quite well, but no Mac version, sadly.

NNW can be configured to work this way, but it's a bit clunky. Everything else I've seen seems to go with a standard Mail-type setup.
Trust me it isn't newsworthy. Granted two of them made it into the top 5 but hey those folks who bought BRHM, they are feeling some real hurt now.

[1] http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/performance.aspx
> "WTF is this? We can't release THAT! Fix IT!!"

But he was also the guy that missed in that regard multiple times as well. Sure, he might have stopped a lot from going wrong, but the stuff he didn't say "No" to quickly became a blight on the company.
really I see only dump complaints :-) which you refer exactly?