skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gamasutra: John Sweeney's Blog - The Real Reasons Zynga Is Crashing & Burning
What is the problem with Larry Page that require him to go?
Bond market?
Try explaining the conservatives that NYT is the best news paper in the US.
If someone had that, I'm sure they would sell the answer to you. :)
>"but the same applies to any investment - why invest at all"

But "money" isn't an investment. It's a medium of exchange.

If you're buying BTCs to hold them as an appreciating asset, that's one thing. If the intention is for them to be used as a currency, then deflation inhibits the exchange.
Which loops back to what I was saying to start with, which is that is a business and design decision that it is completely fair to criticise if people want to.

Craigslist have decided on a strategy, and it might go well for them, or it might not. Given the amount of apparent annoyance they have stirred up, it might well backfire.

No, they don't owe anyone anything and if they decided to shut down the entire service tomorrow so they could spend more time bowling, that would be completely within their rights.

But people are free to critisise them for their actions if they wish and so I was taking issue with flatline's original assertion that discussing issues of fairness on API access was effectively outside the remit of fair criticism of the product itself.
Ladki Ki Pyaass
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ldjcvy6hNX1qe0eclo1_r3_500...
Feels Reddit-esque in terms of target -- feels like a mashup up Old Spice Guy (http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/isaiah-mustafa-old-spic...) with the gentleman-monocle meme (loosely: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/feel-like-a-sir).

A bit too tryhard though.
Everything I said is true for at least for Linux, where files are memory-mapped into the process space, and swapped page counts relate to anonymous pages (look at /proc/vmstat for the gory details; note that pgpgin/out and pswpin/out increment under different conditions).

OS X may admittedly be different. It's unfortunate that it doesn't expose more counters to help show what's really going on.

As for "reported pageouts are dirty memory pages being tossed" - where are they being tossed to, if not the filesystem?
Exceptional Continuous Integration with CircleCi.
They said that some of their optimizations applied to both Linux and Windows, bringing the final scores to 315 and 303.4 fps respectively. That's well under 10%. Seems believable to me.
Like pinterest, in the visual sense, but about family, friends and celebrities, not ads. Something that floods me with gossip and pics, people talking about people, like a reddit for the family.

I won't use a service like that, like I don't use pinterest, but that is exactly what will take FB's place in the future.

My personal digg, shared with family and friends.
Stop-losses are not guarantees of execution. If you're in an illiquid market, or one that moves faster than you're prepared for, then your PNL check may alert you, but it won't save you from the loss.
Thankfully that's a GNU, not Linux mindset. Canonical includes proprietary drivers with Ubuntu because it makes the product better, and Linus himself has said that he supports OSS because it's a superior development model that leads to better products, not because of some half-baked moral claims.
What do you think burning man has to do with this?
Dablooms: Scalable, Counting Bloom Filters
Bitcoin seems to be more like payment method than currency.
Great idea! Would be awesome if I could embed it on my personal website and have visitors leave me voicemails. What do you think, is that possible?
> I think you are confusing it with a file cache or buffer cache commit interval.

That's a distinction without a difference - the file/buffer cache stores memory pages. They are simply file-backed pages.
Currency stability is useful for trade and retail. When a macbook air costs $1000 things are simple - it cost the same amount a week ago, and it'll cost just as much next week. You can plan your purchases.

If all you know is a week from now it'll cost somewhere between 50 and 500 bitcoins, that's a lot harder to plan around.
It wasn't the most lean approach to launching a startup. If they did some testing up front, they should have been able to identify the user retention issues early on. It's weird that a team with so much experience didn't properly test the product before investing so much time and money into it.

I doubt that this is the last iteration we see from the Airtime team, but the initial product was definitely telling.

In the end, looking in to a company from the outside, no one really knows wtf they're talking about when they pass judgements.
"Too good" to be true is a bit of a stretch, because it wasn't all good. The professions in that day were ethnically exclusive, connections driven, and the everyday work was generally pretty dull. Also, getting fired seriously fucked up your life and reputation (rather than being the mild annoyance it is today, for a skilled software engineer) and so offices tended to be a lot more authoritarian. Watch Mad Men to get a sense of it. Sticking around the office till 6:30 meant you were a hard worker, but it wasn't all pleasant, and for a lot of people who, by all rights, would deserve the chance to get in, couldn't.

However, the professions did expect people to dedicate half their time to off-meter work, and were more reasonable about allowing people to do that and have 40-50 hour work weeks. That aspect of it is true. This doesn't mean that you could work only 20 hours per week if you decided off-meter work wasn't your thing. It does mean that you had the autonomy of an actual professional.
According to the data in this article DirectTV and Dish Network both lost subscribers as well this quarter (52,000 and 10,000 respectively). While the losses historically were at the hands of the satellite operators, more recently it has been lost to the internet.
I lack the courage or foolishness to make such purchases.
Kind of off-topic, but it's worth pointing out that Zoe Keating has done some great work with the Radiolab guys.
I think these numbers need to be scaled by the total number of employees at each company for them to have any real meaning. Consider that Apple and Zynga appear, on the first chart, to be doing similarly poorly in the "keeping key talent" department. However, Apple lost one key employee per 7,000 employees, and Zynga lost one per 250 employees. Obviously larger companies will have more key employees, spread out over more components of the company, and it is natural to expect them to churn (lose or gain) more key employees in absolute terms.
Mental activity requires a lot of glucose, whereas muscles can run on fat, protein or glucose. Additionally, people are adapted to minimise their mental output. So if you're low on blood glucose, producing a lot of mental output for >6 hours is a real stretch.
I started using the beta a while back and use it all the time now. It's super convenient and really slick. Good job guys.
It's funny how that escapes detection. I only realized looking back how baroque that was. I think people do equate doing fast calculations with being good at math. While I think everyone should certainly know how to add, subtract, multiply and divide without error, there's really no reason to be able to do so obscenely quickly, given the wide availability of calculators. If you did want to be able to do very fast mental math, there are much better systems than what are typically taught in schools.

Really though, my point was that the school system spends far too little time on solving substantial problems in Math classes. I think an integrated problem solving approach that touches on many of the important branches of Math (graph theory, number theory etc...) would serve most people much better than the current system, where we spend 8 years building up to Algebra and then engage in a smattering of Geometry and Trigonometry.

In the current system, if you're smart, you do AP Calculus, which is obscenely dumbed down. If you want to proceed to study Math in college, you'll almost certainly have to re-teach yourself calc to be successful.
The Next Generation iPhone prototype comes out in Bangkok?[Images]
It's only as good as the specs (APIs, conventions, contracts) they are working against.

In 2003, I was using a trade API that gave me confirmation about canceling an order at 10am. And then executed the same order at 1pm; Apparently, even though it did confirm cancellation, the order wasn't canceled. No matter how well your code is equipped against that - it's a legal problem, not a technical one.

Similarly, when the exchange retroactively cancels ("busts") trades after a flash crash, with a rather arbitrary rule (e.g. all trades between 3:45pm and 3:54pm in AAPL with price < $500) - you're left holding the bag, regardless of how good your code is.

The only winning moves in these cases is not to play - unfortunately, you can only tell retroactively.
I just tried it- everything is comically small :) Do you run at 2880x1800?

I've settled on 1680x1050 for browsing and jump up to 1920x1200 for coding.
Photo sharing site and marketplace Snapixel bites the dust
It's ketosis from ketones being produced as a byproduct of converting fat into glucose. Nothing to do with toxins.
All three actually.

In order to do well in paid search or SEO for the long-haul, you've got to provide a lot of clear information and really guide the user. You have to make something people would miss if it didn't exist.

The best approach to this day, imho, is not to make a straight-up site any longer. So many people create them that you are one voice in a massive crowd competing for attention. What gets that attention now is unique functionality, ie: software. Focus on developing a unique solution instead of the same-old-same-old.

Case in point: RetailMeNot was the most successful of the coupon sites. They sold to WhaleShark for about $36m and had about $1m/month in commissions. However, anybody and their mom made a coupon site, which made any search term for "insert-brand-here coupons" get bombarded with results, all pushing the same thing. They succeeded because they have great social features, deal in printable coupons now, work closely with merchants, etc.

As for us, most of my time was at first in copy/video/graphics; that ended up changing to more code related time as we started packing unique features into our sites.

Eventually, I figured out that we are a marketing-heavy software company. Haven't looked back since.
So - Path has a nice feature that lets you post pictures _through_ to Facebook, so for my friends who love Facebook, they can continue to post to Facebook through path. For my friends who have smart phones, but don't like social network, but like smart phones - straight forward - we finally have a reasonably private place for us to share stuff.

I'm not trying to convince more than half a dozen people to move though - so, don't really need the same uptake as Facebook.
Window 8 released to manufacturing, on schedule for October 26 release
I don't know about boxing but to watch the NBA (I know that's not going to cover college sports), you can get NBA League Pass for around $100. It's not necessarily cheap but it's cheaper than paying the $64 a month I used to with DirecTV (the cheapest option in my area).

Edit: Just wanted to point out that it's $100 for a whole season and not per month of course.
Don't miss the Notes tab, it has some interesting and thoughtful comments.
If you don't care about types, schemas, and schema changes, probably not.
Then watch good news, like PBS NewsHour.
This is 1200/2000 billable hours per year? I'm not following the math.
> an oppressive one that doesn't respect human rights

Wait which country is that?
I'm taking a few CS courses online, and find that I have to play solitaire while listening to them (usually at overspeed) to keep from zoning out.
Article 1 Section 5

Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings...

There are no footnotes in the constitution.
Oh great! Here comes the bandwidth caps and overages for going over your cap.

Google Fiber needs to deploy nationally to stop these cable TV/ISP providers from making up their losses thru bandwidth overages!

That said for me, once I found EDonkey2000/Sharereactor I cut the cord. Cable TV sucks, specifically it's business model!
A $430 27" WQHD (2560x1440) S-IPS LED Monitor
Gross compared to a non-retina MBP. The anti-aliasing tricks that many apps use for their text rendering are broken in HiDPI mode. Use SwitchResX to change the resolution from 1440 x 900 HiDPI to regular 1440 x 900 mode and there is a noticeable improvement. I'm often forced to switch (to 1680 x 1050 so it's like the old high res MBP) because shockingly Apple's iWork and iBook Author aren't updated for the retina display.
These PSDs look great, but any advice on turning them into functional websites?
Allegedly people do a lot of drugs at Burning Man, and one of the popular uses for Bitcoins is purchasing drugs without the traceability of a credit card.
I would say my favorite example of an affiliate site today is...Hipmunk :)
It's trivial for the user to intentionally bypass. We'll see how hard it is for trojans to bypass.
I'd bet the guys operating exchanges and mining pools have made more than the creators ever did.
Real-Time Feed Of Instagram Pictures Uploaded in NYC
I'm agnostic on whether Page is really responsible in any way for Google's decline. I joined after he stepped in. I don't know anything about Page, but he seems to be a bad judge of character because of some of the things he has allowed and some policies he's supported.

What happened post-Schmidt wasn't directly Page's fault, so much as a lot of the other executives were waiting in the wings with shitty ideas that they now saw a chance to push through. Execs will attempt that any time there's a guard change, and I can't say that Page did a worse job of handling it than I would have done.

I asked a successful business owner what the hardest thing was about being CEO and he said (paraphrased) that "The job is easy, in that you have the power to have work done, but the hard part is that everyone is fucking lying to you." I don't think Page is a good judge of when people are lying to him.

I don't think any of Google's triumvirate (Page, Brin, Schmidt) are bad men. I think they're very good men who built an admirable company and kept it intact for a long time. I think they lack something in the ability to judge character (mea culpa: so do I; I tend to be too trusting of individuals despite my intellectual cynicism) which is why a lot of the middle managers and executives are problematic.

Then again, 90% of the cultural rot occurred before Page. Google's hideous "calibration score" system wasn't built in a day.
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The Rise of Income Segregation
Hopefully if/as adoption spreads, it will stabilize in value. A larger economy is less prone to manipulation.

It might make for an interesting study though, on how much stability the U.S. Treasury provides vs. an unregulated currency.
Blackberry have liscenced there blackberry connect to other mobile makers for a while, they did not invest as much into as they should of and alot of them dropped it.

Now with there new OS they realy should liscence it out there and in many ways its far from bizarre or indeed a pivot move. QNX which there os is based upon has and still has other people who use it, so its not realy a new area in many respects. Remember there email service is not the OS.

Personaly I realy welcome the day when the hardware and the phone are somewhat seperate in that you can get a phone and pick from a selection of OS's you can boot upon it.

In that Blackberry should realy look at offering the ability to boot there phones with say windows OS and android as well as there native offering. Those who want the BB OS can have it, those who don't will have the option to buy there hardware and run android or windows OS upon it. The efforts involved weighed against the return and exposure to sudo-closed markets/customers is realy to me a no brainer. But sadly they realy do manage to mismanage things.

What I think is worrying and concerning is they made hardware for a OS launch that got pushed back, they now have hardware that is not getting any more in date waiting for there OS. They could release the London phone with windows or andoid now without diluting there brand and offer the BB OS later when it is ready. Sadly with what I have seen of the new BB10 OS and the timescales it is taken to do what should be ther ebread and butter kind of applications is so far apart that if they said they had one single person working on it I would not be shocked.

If they can get others to use there OS - good for them, but until anything is released and out in the publics hands it is just vapourware (not used that term in a while - makes me feel all fuzzy inside :).
Show HN: A .Net Lisp interpreter with First Class Macros, Continuations
I work from the proposition that we are all crazy arrogant monkeys whose main talent is the ability to construct and understand stories.

This means I am constantly really impressed by the fact that we get anything done at all.

Unfortunately, I am also a crazy arrogant monkey, so am also constantly really deeply disappointed by the fact that we haven't all got jet-packs and holiday homes on the moon yet.
Ask HN: Why is Twiiter always over capacity
I understand sites can sometimes experience periods of unexpectedly heavy traffic but Twitter seems to complain about being 'over capacity' more often than other sites.

How come Twitter hasn't addressed their capacity problems yet?
You can get one for $285 on eBay with free shipping:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/27-Inch-Matrix-NEO-LED-270WQ-IPS-256...
In the white-shoe days, attorneys were expected to bill 1200 hours per year, which comes out to 23 per week. There was still a 40-hour expectation, but they could spend the rest of their time on self-directed pursuits professional/career development, networking, looking for clients, and call it "work".

Now, attorneys in those firms are expected to bill 2000 hours, which means they have to be putting a full-time commitment to just billing, and any professional development or networking has to come on top of that.
I've posted a follow-up blog to the one linked above: http://nicegirlslikesextoo.com/2012/08/02/this-is-why/
This is great. Just need to figure out who to bid for now. Good luck guys.
No, Solid-State Drives Are Not Going To Kill Off Hard Drives
LinkedIn Q2 earnings beat the street
Any performance benchmarks of pgsql on heroku?
Sounds reasonable. Can you explain why "acetone breath" only happens to some of the faster, and never (AFAIK) more than once per fast, or other than in the beginning? If it was as simple as you describe, it should be very consistent or completely random.

p.s: I don't see anyone mentioning toxins before you did
I think that you're dramatically overestimating the amount of drugs that people do at burning man.

On top of that: if you're bringing drugs to Black Rock City, you probably do drugs in default world anyway, and have a dealer back there for them.
Yes but one jpg of, say, a tree might contain thousands of colors and would completely throw off the data.
I'm not estimating anything. I'm just explaining what was most likely meant by the reference to Burning Man.
Isn't this just voicemail? There are even services that let you leave a voicemail directly without actually calling the person. How is this different/better than that?
When you're as large as Google, these kinds of talent losses are natural. Take, for example, Marissa Mayer, disregarding whatever people on HN might think of her (she almost certainly represents one of those 'Key Employee' numbers). She clearly has ambition, and she was clearly not going anywhere at Google, so the only thing to do was to leave.

I also suspect that the challenges Twitter faces are more business-oriented - they probably attract a different type of talent.

TL;DR Google is frickin' huge and just plain different than Twitter. It makes no sense to compare the two this way.
Compare with PSYC

http://lib.psyc.eu/bench/
What is that phrase about putting all your egg's into one basket again!

If I wanted to combine all my credit cards into one easy nickable device I'd do it with a NFC mobile phone.
Dextrous robotic hand gets thumbs up
Statistical power is hard, let's go shopping!
And, your boss may be able to figure out who the feedback came from, based on the feedback itself. Weakens the anonymity.
My best guess is that payment is based on some sort of revenue sharing agreement. So Spotify takes a portion of it's revenue for a certain time period and divides it equally among the artists based on the number of times their songs were played.
It's worth taking the time to read his comment below the comic as well. Nothing to do with startups but still worthwhile.
DisplayPort is worth ~$100 for many people since otherwise they'd have to buy a dongle. Also, there has to be a reason why the Korean brands are not stocked by any US retailer.
I thought the easiest way to was a post office address and let peole mail them to you, certainly safer.

I'm not also sure I would like to recieve files from anyone.
The data types being discussed here are 32-bit integers and floating point numbers; radix sort can be made downright epic for these types.

http://stereopsis.com/radix.html

Also, the reason I mention quick sort is that that is the algorithm the EXPLAIN output of PostgreSQL claims it uses: I agree that for more complex types or complex comparison functions radix sort will not work, and agree as well that some other sorting algorithm may be preferred to what PostgreSQL currently does.
You're technically correct, but you're really just splitting hairs. If it runs on Windows 8, it's a Windows 8 program. Windows 8 was designed to run both desktop and Metro applications. We're not talking XP Mode from Windows 7 here.
Upwards volatility creates a similar problem on the other side of the transaction, though.

If BTC is rapidly rising against the dollar, then I'd rather spend dollars because I'll want to keep the BTC in my account in anticipation of further appreciation.

And, for that matter, the fact that the entire conversation is framed this way doesn't bode well for BTC as a currency. People who use a currency as a currency measure its rises and drops in value by comparing what you can buy with a given amount of the currency in the present versus what you could buy with the same amount of that currency in the past. When people measure something's value in terms of some other currency, as is the universal practice for BTC, that indicates they're thinking of it as a commodity for investment or speculation rather than a currency.