skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen a number of posts like this, and they always seem to gather responses like "It's their store, they can do what they like."

Perhaps it's simply my European bias speaking, but isn't this exactly why governments regulate markets? To prevent anticompetitive behaviour.
I loved that show, but it only ran for 2 seasons I think. Shame.
If there ever was a certain way of killing morale in a startup it was by introducing KPIs and calling them KPIs.
William Shockley is a notable contributor to the birth of Silicon Valley (along with many other factors).

"Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 1960s led to California's "Silicon Valley" becoming a hotbed of electronics innovation."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley
I was merely pointing out the fact that it is the running of a 3 year old browser that benefits no one and debilitates the web.
No accumulator register. You have to click the keys. Reasonable evaluator. Avoids Javascript 0.1 * 0.2 float issues.

I'll stick with my 17 year old TI-92 though.
NYPD 'consistently violated basic rights' during Occupy protests (study)
I'll admit that as I'm using my laptop touch devices didn't occur to me, just tried it on my phone and actually it works really well with touch.

But when on a non-touch device, even if you click on the calculator, focus remains on the search input, that seems like a massive UX failure to me.
Or just sign up for a distance learning course from a UK university. Aberdeen gives you a proxy, the OU as far as I know, doesn't.
Go for a walk periodically or walk to work if it's not too far. The simplest solution is the best.
This is an interesting read, but the author is also a political science professor. If this article had been by a mathematics educator, it might be a bit more persuasive.

I'd argue that algebra is fundamental - the excerpts taken involve the quadratic equation and other supposedly tedious tasks, while ignoring that these are foundations for higher level problem solving. In almost any field, somebody will ask at some point "how many X do I need for Y" - and it's usually not that clear.

I would almost posit that the author is trolling the NY Times, but today that's probably not the case. While math is hard for some students, it's an essential part of education for just about anybody that hopes to be a mildly functional member of society.
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Blizzard's Rob Pardo: Windows 8 is "not awesome" for the company
The effectiveness of detector vans is an urban myth.

The only confirmed tactics is requiring stores selling TVs to collect the address of the buyer and knocking on the doors of people not paying the licence in the assumtion that they actually have a TV.
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It's ignorant because he then goes on to refresh recaptchas that are "impossible" to solve where the OCR word was gibberish (cut-off, etc.) but the key word was discernible.
Windows 8 is "not awesome for Blizzard either": Blizzard Executive VP
In order to sacrifice customer satisfaction, there is a requirement that the person be your customer.

Not giving something to someone for free just because they demand that they should have it is not sacrificing customer satisfaction.
Accessibility rules you need to know (most of them actually)
Thanks, I wonder why they would only enable this for English searches?
Bah, humbug! If it's not RPN, it's crap! :)
For a quick insight see this enumeration: http://www.protestlondon2012.com/10reasons.html

The IOC is deeply corrupt, and the olympics have long ceased to be about sports.
They are about selling officially branded merchandise from official sponsors and
simultaneously squashing local competition with ridiculous, speciallly drafted
laws, which cricitically impacts the local economy even after the games are long
over. It's akin to a swarm of locusts, really.

Also, the branding police of the IOC puts the MAFIAA to shame - you might have
heard about their petty attempts at censorship ("you may not link to our sites
if you report negatively about us!!1!1" or banning anyone from using word
combinations such as "London 2012" and "Summer Games" - which the internet of
course spitefully ignores).
I'm not involved in HFT, but I imagine the following scenario is plausible:

You place a limit order to buy FOO at $32

Someone else offers FOO at $31.90

A HFT algorithm buys FOO at $31.90 and immediately offers it at $32

You buy FOO at $32 from the HFT algo

So you have lost potential profit on the transaction even though you technically hit your limit price.
Windows 8 is 'not awesome for Blizzard either' says studio exec
Some computations just cannot be parallelized. (Yet. I'd be ironic if spammers advanced the field of parallel computing) The speed difference for single processors remain, but that's a single order of magnitude, except in extreme cases.
Sorry, I just reworded my comment to make it more clear.

This article is about Windows calculator and I'm comparing two different approaches.

Google went with simple 10% = 0.1 here, like you say.
What are the main reasons why Unix/Mac does not get viruses?
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Somebody should tell them that April 1st was several months ago.
Determining the Size Of Review Team In A Web Design Project
All web designers have to answer to someone. Employed designers hand their works over to a supervisor and freelancers are required to turn their works in to clients.
Interesting, works for:-

http://www.google.com/search?q=9/10

But not:-

http://www.google.com/search?q=9/11

Also seems like it could be much smaller, since it's following this increasing trend to devote less and less screen real-estate to search results.
With drugs there is also the placebo effect. This is where people will get better if the 'drug' is thought to be more effective. If you give people 4 sugar pills instead of 2, they feel better faster. This isn't wishy-washy 'feel better' stuff, but an actual improvement. People's brains can influence they bodies.

Real drugs are tested against placebos, and they have to 'beat the placebo' before we call them 'drugs'. (i.e. if they don't beat the placebo, they clearly don't work). And obviously although placebos work, they don't work very well, so you can't 'think yourself free of cancer'.

The placebo effect is one of the current unsolved mysteries of science today.
I think the better solution would be to use 2 pie charts, in the first group all < 5% clients in one category "Other". In the second just map other. (again grouping clients < 5% of the other category, but not mapping them).

I think the suggestion to use a timeline series is not a good idea, pie charts are perfect for visualizing complementing percentages.

If you really want to visualize the movement of the percentages use a stacked percentage chart like this one:

http://www.highcharts.com/demo/area-stacked-percent

Ofcourse I would suggest 2 again, one for the big clients and one for the small ones :)
A bold but simple login system
My guess is 9/11 was if-ed out; if someone types that into a query, one most likely wants to see results related to WTC attack.
If you happen to have PC in virtual - or physical HW then ill recommend using the http://bbc-player.com/ which uses the TOR network to give you access to BBC channels. The iPlayer portal is also accessible with it.
I started looking into standing desks a few weeks ago, but not having one have recently started using my ironing board. It's not an ideal height for me, but it's pretty good. My goals are to use the ironing board 3 days a week, sitting the other two and alternate between over the working week.

When I'm standing I make sure I have two sit down breaks of 5-15 minutes (at least 5-10 minutes in the morning around 11am and 15 minutes around 3pm). This means that the longest I stand continuously is about 2 hours.

When I'm sitting I take a 5 minute break every hour and a 15 minute break in the afternoon.

I also try to do some Yoga 3 times a week which is working with mixed results at the moment.

The main thing I've noticed is that while normally I get fairly sleepy between 2 and 4pm and my productivity tends to drop, when I'm standing my productivity is fine and I don't get tired in the afternoon. I've also noticed my posture has improved as I'm no longer hunched over a keyboard all the time, and I no longer slouch.

The other thing I've noticed when standing is that I'm much likely to go and refill my water during the day just to get away from the screen for a minute or two when I need to. Sitting down I'll forget I have water (or at least run out) and it'll be another hour or two before I get some. I'm not quite sure why this is the case.
Many months into this experiment I barely get 2 spam comments a month on my blog, I totally respect reCAPTCHA, but demanding JavaScript, doing some minimal tests and perhaps an amount of computation (1 sec on iPad) is the FIRST thing we should be doing http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/10/04/Spam+bacon+sausage+...
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Surprisingly Good Evidence That Real Name Policies Fail To Improve Comments
From Information to Understanding: Moving Beyond Search In The Age Of Siri
Note that captchas are not (only) to prevent brute forcing passwords, but (also) to prevent bots from signing up for accounts. This would not work against that.
I noticed there is also a new visual interface for unit conversions. e.g. https://www.google.com/search?q=1kg%20in%20lbs
If I encounter a broken captcha that I have to work around, it's not me who's undermining the mission.
They could have generalized that based on result CTR.
This scam is going to be so illegal down the road....
Yes but if your product is the viewer and your decisions cause the number of viewers to decrease over time, you're damaging your product, and that will reduce the value of that product to your customers.
Almost any unique solution will work well for a small site, because it's not worth the effort to program a bot specifically for your system.

For the longest time, my blog's comments were protected by a "captcha" that simply asked the user to type the word "elbow" into a text box. The word never changed and was not obscured in any way. Worked pretty well.

Such solutions do not scale to larger web sites, though.
Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?
I know Mixpanel uses both of these, but what are some other startups that use both C and Python?

EDIT: Bonus points for any companies hiring junior developers!
ha, I wondered why I got the old interface when my normal searches give me the new one;) I have chrome set to go to the English site;)

Thanks.
Neat technique. But no IE, so not super practical.
They always test new stuff on their English sites first.
This google doc contains all known 2012 Olympics APIs:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCvYbQOu94PpkEmxXwiFFWQY...

It is maintained by @gr33ndata https://twitter.com/gr33ndata.
If you know any other APIs, please post here or in google docs
they seriously have vans that drive around scanning to see if you're watching television on a physical TV

There's been some debate about whether these vans truly did any "detection". It may actually have been an elaborate bluff.

Most of their efforts, especially recently, are just pestering every UK address which doesn't have a license (relatively few nowadays).
sure they do, you randomize algorithms or add proof of work.
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Yes, this is something I've pondered too. The language is ugly for a number of reasons - not least the constraint of avoiding syntactically significant characters for both URLs (because of pathod) and shells (because of pathoc).

At the moment, my stance is that the syntax needs to be as terse as possible so that it can comfortably be specified in a URL, or in a snippet in a unit test. In the current master, there's a variant syntax that lets you use newlines (or arbitrary whitespace) wherever the more compact syntax uses colons. In time, I could see an argument for also expanding the single-letter abbreviations in this mode to make a more verbose syntax. There's also no reason why we couldn't add a way of describing requests by manipulating an object, which then compiles down to the request language.

Anyway, this is all still evolving - if you have ideas for keeping the language compact but making it less like line-noise, drop me a line.
Netflix scores $1bn own goal after company shoots off mouth
The captcha 'arms race' will continue until reCapcha can not distinguish any more between the bot and a human.

Turing test passed. ;-)
Apple Talks With Twitter Said to End… Without Investment - Bloomberg
aristidb (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4308149) reports that you have to be searching in English (which can be done manually with `hl=en`).
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>Have you tried automated testing on a large complex web application? It's an insanely monumental task.

What's so insanely monumental about writing unit, functional (i.e. like these http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/testing.html#functional-...) and Selenium tests to cover everything before committing new changes? It's just like any other code - test the main condition and edge cases and everything will be running smoothly next time you come back to that feature.
flash in OSX will work just fine through a SOCKS connection that you setup in systems prefs -> network. however it won't work with just an HTTP proxy.
Things are in transition, and it is going to be a slow grind. Why would you expect cable companies to start acting before they have to? They're still making plenty o' money on the 'old' model.

They won't change until the absolute last second, if even then.
I merely provided a rebuttal to the argument that PHP, or any other language, for that matter, is unreliable. I did not make the case that automated testing somehow makes PHP a preferred choice. How you test the code is what dictates reliability, not the language.
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Faces will be pre-registered with Facebook (and the Face.com tech they just bought). Anyway if it's that useful, people will learn to keep their heads still while waiting for the computer's assistance :)
But it this really nytimes? It claims the article is on page A21, but it is not there.
We use Python as our main Language, since it has pretty syntax and you dont have to spend hours to understand the code my colleagues have written.

And mainly it has a wide scope, so there are all kinds of Libraries available so you can achieve alot with just a few lines of code.
In the early days, when TVs were badly shielded and (more importantly) few and far between, and where radio transmitters were rare, it's plausible that simply listening for electromagnetic noise would yield usable results.

Today, to believe that a machine exists (in secrecy, no less) that can detect from a considerable distance, through walls, if someone is watching live TV (watching non-live TV without a license is legal) on iPlayer on their computer in a setting overflowing with all sorts of legitimate electromagnetic radiation is, frankly, laughable.
NetNewsWire for the win!
And which organization do you see stepping forward to foot the bill for this? Not to mention the current companies who have permission to distribute Olympic data feeds would fight it to the bitter end because obviously they make tons of money off of that data by selling it to all the big-name sports sites out there.
Intel and Google working closely to bring Android Jelly Bean to Atom processors
On a sidenote, mpd + ncmpcpp is a killer combination for playing and managing music. I can only recommend that to anybody geeky enough to use a CLI music player :)
I'm using a library I made in node.js (https://github.com/danzajdband/Tuiter) to retrieve the tweets server-side via the Twitter Streaming API (https://dev.twitter.com/docs/streaming-apis). Then I send the "Twitter client" to the client using Socket.IO. I'm refreshing the chart, not the entire site, every 500 ms = 1/2 seconds to update the chart.

I'm updating every 500ms and not every time I receive a tweet because of performance issues.

Thanks for the feedback.
And then, there are units and bc.
the often forgotten unix, linux command line calculators I use all the time.

bc -l

or for those who like rpn

dc
Http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2012/07/stop-crapping-on-start-ups.html
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LaTeX 3 News July 2012: floating point calculations, regular expression support
I use the Vim file explorer all the time. The only thing I miss is having a multi-column layout when I've got a directory with a lot of files.

A couple additional tips:

1) You can quickly and easily search through the files the same way you would search through code (regex included) with something like:

/filename

2) You can easily jump into the Vim file explorer without the steps of opening Vim and executing a command:

~/vim .

This will simply open vim with the file explorer in the current directory.
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The way Microsoft did it is the same way most physical calculators I've seen work.
why the fuck was such an old article posted
What's the relationship of LuaTeX to LaTeX 3? I thought LuaTeX already does floats/regexps?
Isn't TextEdit sandboxed in Lion + Mountain Lion? If so TextEdit most likely cannot execute any non signed code or open a network connection... But of course sandboxing should only be used as a last resort. I am not a security expert - can anyone comment on that?
Note that the iPad doesn't ship with a calculator app.

(Equally annoying, Android doesn't have a simple stopwatch/timer built in.)
Another company in this sector not mentioned in the article is Reckitt Benckiser:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reckitt_Benckiser
My recommendation to HFTs to counter this would be (a) do a better job explaining the mechanics of how you're providing a valuable service;

Shameless plug:

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology.html

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology2.html

http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_whats_broken.html
Who will regulate government and assure it is regulating fairly?

It is turtles all the way issue.
"Server OS design needs to be mouse-centric"

I'm glad I got off the Windows treadmill, and manage only Unix-based things these days.
I just fire up irb these days
I think you mean this one:

http://blog.simplehoney.com/how-to-build-a-startup-from-a-be...

I was looking for it as well :)
They ignore long-term studies [1][2] that look at people's mortality broken down by how much time they spend standing. While there are some ways in which standing is less healthy, on average people who stand less die sooner (by a small amount).

[1] http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/172/4/419.full
[2] http://www.natap.org/2010/newsUpdates/SittingTimeCauses.pdf
Ask HN: Are any of the Olympic Hacks safe?
Multiple Articles on HN the last two days on how to watch the Olympics on your PC if your provider isn't being "helpful". Below are the list I've pulled. Since many of these are services or products I haven't used before, are there any of these you can vouch for - i.e. that will not use a Man in the Middle attack to take my passwords or install malware? List is below in the order that I understand "should" be preferred for security:

bbc-player.com

privateinternetaccess.com

vyprvpn.com

tunlr.net

unotelly.com

un-blockus.com (does not support some BBC items)
There wasn't a question in my post.

And the rate of blocking bots doesn't enter into Google's book digitization process.
Sure, the opening ceremony has more than 8000 seeds: http://torrentz.eu/search?f=olympics
Just come to Sri Lanka.

Here you will find the nice tropical weather, decent infrastructure (there's 3G coverage in most areas) and living costs suits for startups on budget.
Sorry NBC but I am going to watch the Olympics live Anyway
> YouTube has joined a growing list of social media companies who think that forcing users to use their real names will make comment sections less of a trolling wasteland

Do they?
LOCOG could provide the feed and it could be sponsored by IBM, Oracle, Accenture or any one of those big IT consulting companies.
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It's great that they're continuing work on Latex, but actually, I think my biggest annoyance as a fairly casual user is that different third party (even those that come in texlive) packages don't play well together. I've always had problems trying to get multi-column text and figures to work as expected and it's invariably taken a lot of fiddling. I'm slowly starting to move towards markdown and other markups that output to Latex to avoid this...is anyone else doing this?
Unfortunately if you use google without javascript this is a pain as it does not fall back to the inline calculator.

If anyone knows or figures out a url option to make it do the old inline math, please let me know ?
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Discussion of HN at 4chan's /g/
"ridiculously high standard of TV broadcasting that the BBC provides"

Heh, it's good, but this is overstating it a bit.
It's the citizenry's job to regulate the government.
Money can't buy open-source love... only code can
Vimwiki + github is a great combination. So far the best "personal wiki" solution to me - and I tried many.
You place a limit order to buy FOO at $32

Someone else offers FOO at $31.90

At this stage, the matching engine observes that you want to buy at $32, and someone is willing to sell at less than $32. You trade directly with that person at $32.

It's actually illegal for any matching engine to match the $31.90 bid, they must cross trades at the NBBO.
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I just use spotlight
According to the FAQ they're still working on a built-in user authentication.

If you have to implement a separate, server-side CRUD security check by hand, then I don't see why I would choose Meteor over say Rails or Express plus Backbone.
A quick search through github, i found there are so many open projects out already, you just have to know how to search.
for example,
https://github.com/Maedi/CometHop
https://github.com/jonathanKingston/britto
https://github.com/chris-ramon/minitrello
https://github.com/maeharin/dokoiru
https://github.com/tomsoderlund/MathPlay
https://github.com/philippkueng/rock-paper-scissors
Also cool: In Chrome, type "0xff in decimal" in the address bar.

"=255" appears as one of the suggested searches.
Ask HN: Can you type the "reCaptcha Audio Challenge"?
Hi hackers

I was reading about that somebody hacked succesful the Audio Challange, and then Google changed it.

But now it is impossible for me to beat it! There is simply too much noise for me to understrand what she says. I am even sitting with headphones on.

Can any of you succesfully type it out?
If you say flash orders were abused, I'll take your word for it, but it wasn't designed to be a way to front-run. Its purpose was actually to help.

And at least 30-40% of the time, it did help. Anyone with a flash fill rate lower than that was kicked out of the ELP program.
I never thought that real name are required to reduce the amount of trolling, but to ease tracking of individual users. Of course, the latter cannot be stated publicly, so the first is given as a reason.
Real names in themselves solves nothing.

It's when what you write gets broadcasted to people you know, it starts to have an effect.

But IMHO nothing beats a strong debate culture with strong pre-emptive moderation, clear rules and an intelligent crowd.
That is to say there was one earlier. It used to be just result, no interface.