skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked at your app and my first impression was - cool! But then I wanted to see what it does and how it works and what features it has - a video or a tour or something before I go through the trouble of signing up.

If you don't give me that I'm too lazy to sign up and will move onto the next thing!

So tell me right away what and how your app does what it does and I'll sign up.

Also bug tracking is a crowded space that is difficult to perfect so the key here is perseverance!

Lastly if you have 150 people's email addresses, email them and ask for feedback on your product and why they wouldn't use it!

Good luck!
Possibly competitors of the advertiser [who can't afford PPC]?

Another thought: An advertiser could use a bot to click on ads for keywords they are targeting. If they could exhaust their competitors daily budget they could potentially get higher placement for less CPC [later in the day]. I'm thinking of Adwords here.
Good for them - let's hope more commercial space companies appear in the next decade.
It's kind of funny, because Microsoft gets derided for this behavior all the time, and now people are saying they need to step it up. Price the competition out of the market, force sales because of inertia, get developers locked in to get users locked in. Lose money now because they have money to lose, then once they're the only game in town they can jack up the prices.

It's a perfectly valid business model if done carefully and legally. I'm not sure Microsoft has the balls (or legal foothold) to repeat their mistakes from the 90s.
> But as a society, we refuse to let our male CEO's work less.

Society is not choosing how you live your life - you are.

Your point is valid, but the real solution is to simply not play the game.
This is a Christian evangelical magazine. I find the trend of increasing evangelism on HN to be mildly disturbing. Can we please refrain from using HN for religious evangelism? This does not constitute a form of repression for Christians, rather it preserves freedom for everyone who isn't Christian or who is Christian but doesn't believe in evangelism through every channel available.
Thanks again, I had no idea that browsers performed that much analysis. It's been a while since I've read up on WebGL.
"Facebook ads are nigh useless."

Is it really just the fb ads or the entire system of how ads work in 2012? Is it time that someone changes how ads work as per pg's list of ideas ?
does anybody know how this would work with a pool of servers? if servers were replicated, would the memcache pool stay in sync as well? I'd assume it has to work that way to be effective. it sounds cool though, I'm glad MySQL continues to evolve.
"you don't type git pull every time, do you?"

No, I fetch and then merge.

"Put those to your .bashrc or .zshrc"

git aliases should be added to gitconfig to avoid muddying the global namespace for commands.
Mountain Lion having mysterious effect on battery life for some users
I don't understand the strong insistence on having children that so many people have. Can anyone explain why this is such a big deal?
>Is the pursuit of equality really something you think of as strange or outdated?

Labeling your ideology with glittering generalities like the "pursuit of equality" doesn't change the substance. "Equality" was traditionally understood to be "equality under the law" not some vague "social equality" where all social distinctions must be erased.

"Feminism" is clearly not about men and women being equal under the law.
Rand should have headed this off by drafting an email for a policy that was clearly pants-on-head retarded[1], instead of only somewhat thick. The topic of this blog post is communication and culture; judging it by the content is wrong-headed. Yes, in this particular instance communication is not the biggest problem, but there's still a lesson to learn about communication.

Since we're on the topic... you're right, that the solution is not addressing the problem. He states that what he wants from the policy is just information, so he can decide on an appropriate action. That requires sending information to your manager, it does not require that your manager have the ability to deny request. But somehow managers gained that ability. That's a misfire.

[1] "Our CFO informs me that the biggest threat to our company's continued solvency is our monthly water bill. Starting Monday, staff may not use the lavatories without first submitting form 27B/6 describing their intended usage, for approval by the managers. Employees seen entering the Taco Bell across the street will be reprimanded."
> Facebook ads are nigh useless.

I guess you didn't read this: http://irvinebroque.tumblr.com/post/28415393877/how-i-made-1...
Please explain.

I've actually had a pretty good time dealing with Sprockets. There are the occasional deployment issues but the benefits tend to more than make up for any frustrations.
The magnet is in the computer. The power adapter part is just iron. If the connection is too strong with the air, the problem lies with the laptop and not the power adapter.
Absolutely true that 'tight deadlines' and 'meetings' are anathema. After all you're not working if you are 'meeting'.

That said, the thing that most affects delivery schedules are communication delays between inter-dependent people or groups. I really got to appreciate this at NetApp when a project was spread across two teams, one based out of Bangalore India and the other in Sunnyvale California. The 12 hr delay that occurred during non-overlapping sleep schedules tripled the length of time the project took.

The mechanism is a variation on the makers schedule / managers schedule problem which pg discusses nicely in his essay on the topic [1]. The essence of that is that "makers" have a synchronization time, when they change gears. Think of it as a 'makers near / makers far' issue and it has properties that are remarkably similar to computer memory synchronization issues. Engineer is cranking along on some part of the project and hit a problem in some other engineers part of the system. If they can turn/walk over and start talking to them they carry their context in their heads, discuss, resolve, and keep cranking. If on the other hand the other engineer is 'far' and not immediately available, they have to stop, create an imperfect summary, message it out, and then wait. The 'far' engineer gets the message, reads the summary, then responds with questions (generally the first engineer who has the whole picture in their head leaves stuff out of the summary) and those go back, which then interrupt the first engineer in what they were now doing so they task switch back into that original problem, add additional detail to the summary and respond, maybe at that point they can pick up the phone and call (not often to India but certainly for a remote office in the same time zone that works). And the process continues. The problem gets resolved and our original engineer is off and running again. Often times people won't even really realize how much time they are spending synchronizing as opposed to working.

The more intertwined the system these folks are working on is, the more these synchronization points occur, and the more they risk slowing everything down.

So if the problem is 'things are not getting done in a timely way' and the cause is engineers being spending time being stuck waiting for some time with another engineer who knows the part of the system they are stuck on, the solution is more rapid communication between engineers. You can focus on fixing that issue. Sometimes just having an IRC channel where folks can talk is enough, sometimes you need something more. Sometimes a sync meeting is the correct answer.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
pgmemcache is a memcached client, it connects to external memcached server. Which is, um, quite useless.
We found out a vendor was using our name to pimp their products to other distributors. That vendor was then caught with bad policies that allowed their product to become infected with malware. As we were dealing with that issue, we got a call from one of our competitors asking if we were infected as well, as they knew we used the same product from the same vendor.

You're absolutely right, keeping your brand carefully under your control is absolutely critical.
The Zune was too little, too late.

54 days later, Steve Jobs announced the iPhone.

At the time Apple was selling a 5th generation iPod or an iPod mini, and the iPod nano was less than a year away.
This is good. Use it!
I've been using this for a few years and it helps find a lot of various security issues. It's been especially useful in the appliance world.
Stompy - An open-source, 4 ton, 6-legged robot spider that you can ride
I know people have had issues, but mine works perfectly. I own a MBA and I like the Series 9 touchpad better in many aspects. I agree on the ports though, poor design choices.
It's pretty slow, among other things
It's a bit strange that most these projects seem to look and feel and sound almost exactly like quake 3, maybe with just some odd bits sticking out.

Maybe it's impossible to do coherent art direction in nebulous volunteer efforts. I don't believe the technology limits the style so much. Certainly that is not the case with something as basic as sounds.
I think the downvotes were because Peter Chin never suggested that we should focus on men to the exclusion of women, he's attacking a straw man.
Actually, that's much better because it means it's simply a quality control issue and it's thus something someone can have fixed by simply exchanging it for another (verified correct) unit.

If it is just a quality control issue, that's still sad/problematic, but it's better than a design flaw.
"Now, I'm not saying that junior developers should go using their libraries for commercial usages. But for their own personal projects, the educational value is immeasurable"

I totally agree with this. I have been learning and building web apps and I always try to re-invent the wheel just for my own purposes. Then I can always go back to more standard libraries. This I think is a very valuable and important point for people who want to learn.

So I say "break things, re-invent, start from scratch to learn. Once you do that, using proven/tested/standard libraries will be a breeze because you will know how and why they are built the way they are built.
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Given that we have less energy as we get older, the risk of birth defects goes up with older fathers and we only live so long I would be surprised if there was an evolutionary advantage to men not feeling an urgent desire to raise children.
If you have the slow consumer problem then you start forking node.js into separate worker processes (via binary or counting semaphores) and do IPC via something like dnode (locally or even over something like seaport).
He's likely to end up in jail or dead.
Personally I found the "L" shaped connector to be far worse since it blocks ports and encourages one to bend the cable when inserting and removing, easily leading to a frayed cable.
Computers Trade Quickly, but Leave No Time to Think
I wish PragProg would do a (whole) book one Haskell. The current ones just aren't very good.

Books such as "Real World Haskell", the "gentle guide" and "Yet Another Haskell Tutorial" all manage the rather unbelievable feat of making many Haskell concepts unnecessarily complex, unintuitive and hard to understand -- not something you want for a language that is already on the complex side. For example, RWH goes into an absurdly complicated sample scenario (a parser, iirc) to introduce the reader to monads, and never slows down to go back to first principles. YAHT does the same thing.

Monads have a reputation for being hard to understand, but I think this is mostly the fault of the current literature; monads are conceptually simple, yet every book manages to botch their explanation, making the learning curve particularly steep for non-FP programmers.
Other manufacturers have! Just not laptop manufacturers:

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/07/03/deep.fryers/

http://www.amazon.com/Presto-09982-Magnetic-Deep-Fryer/dp/B0...

Edit: Incidentally, I always assumed this is where Apple got the idea in the first place.
> Egalitarian marriages last longer.

Do you have any data for that, or even a rigorous definition of an "egalitarian marriage?"
Simpler/faster is relative and interpretative. I loved playing with machine code on the Commodore Amiga until I found out about assembler. Lacking in interpretation should not set the code reading skill entry level to some fashionable default. That is lazy and arbitrary, and just because someone likes the cozy space something like that creates, doesn't mean there isn't more out there.
90 is a nop. You build from that just as you would when reading about type reference.
It is possible and rewarding. The other way is to abstract everything to the point you don't really know what you are doing while being fluent but oblivious to how confined you are.
Fascinating article. Some unsettling excerpts:

"Corruption has reached such extremes that businesses involved in preparing the Black Sea resort of Sochi for the Winter Olympics of 2014 report having to pay kickbacks of more than fifty per cent. The Russian edition of Esquire recently calculated that one road in Sochi cost so much that it could just as well have been paved with, say, nine inches of foie gras or three and a half inches of Louis Vuitton handbags."

"[A high-ranking official of Russia's ruling party, speaking on public radio] accused Navalny of terrorism and of working to undermine the country, implying that he was receiving financing either from the C.I.A. or from the U.S. State Department, if not both."

"When I asked a Transneft [Russia's largest oil exporter] representative where the charity money [$300,000,000] went, he responded, angrily, “We don’t like to publicize such things. We don’t do charity for the P.R.” And he compared Navalny to Goebbels."

Granted, those latter two quotes wouldn't be entirely out-of-place in the US, either.
I went to public school in Iran until the age of 12, private school in the UK from 12 to 15, and spent my final year in public school in the US.

Observations:

Math: what I was learning as a junior or senior in the UK/US was what I'd already covered as an 11-12 year old in Iran. The only new subject we covered was calculus. That really sucks and is a big concern for me since my kids go to public school in the US.

Science: was very hands-on in the UK (lots of experiments and labs). Much better for learning than the text book approach in Iran. I only had 1 year in the US, but it was much less hands on as well.
What you likely consider Desert - Osoyoos
Then there's all that tundra we're talking about, which is desert as well.
Jungle is tropical, so there is no jungle, there are temperate rainforest though.
Where's the jungle in China?
So elephants can hear sounds at frequencies that humans can't. This seems like the most obvious explanation of why elephants ran to higher ground before the Thai tsunami.

Does anyone have authoritative insight on the topic?

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0104_050104_...
Personally I hate Magsafe in all its incarnations, it's always been too weak. Many times I thought I had been powering my laptop for a few hours but I had accidentally unplugged it and the battery was dead. At one point I had a laptop that had some kind of battery problems and I figured I could just use it as a desktop machine and leave it plugged in all the time. But Magsafe would just randomly detach when I moved the machine and it would immediately power down. I really don't understand the giant benefit that people see, I've never had the theoretical someone-tripping-on-the-cord-crashing-the-whole-laptop-to-the-floor problem actually happen on non-Magsafe machines.
1. Long polling can tie up server resources too. There is a process on the other end of that long AJAX request. The mechanism for delivering the streaming connection to the client is orthogonal to the mechanism for handling that connection on the server.

2. You say a streaming connection "ties up a huge amount of server resources," but the whole point of the linked article is that this does not have to be the case; Node.js can (when used correctly) handle loads of connections in a single process, and Phusion Passenger is clearly trying to evolve their model to achieve similar if not fully comparable results.
So the author claims that if Surface is as good a device as the iPad, even if it has the same price point, that is too high a price point. But I don't agree that the dilemma is so similar to iPod vs Zune.

The iPod/Zune content environment was music. Yes, iTunes was (to the general public) a pretty good music service that locked you into the iPod ecosystem. But in general, people already had/could get digitial music. They just needed a great portable device. The Zune was not a better device than the iPod, but even if it were equivalent by some objective standard, people will gravitate toward the leader, all other things being equal. And unless they were locked into the iTunes music system (and if they were, then they're already an ipod owner, so not really relevant to the question), consumers could port their music to either iPod or Zune and get roughly the same listening experience.

So without a financial incentive, why go Zune?

But in the Surface vs. iPad debate...Tablets are still a relative niche market compared to the number of people who own/use a regular desktop/laptop. iPads absolutely own the tablet market, but there's still plenty of room among regular computer users who have been waiting. Moreover, there are people who are still hesitant to live Mac/PC dual lifestyles (even though that's not an issue for any experienced computer user).

And most importantly, there is software that is entirely exclusive to Windows systems, not least of which is Office.

If it were possible to only play Beatles and Lady Gaga MP3s exclusively on Zune, isn't it feasible that Zune would've gained a greater foothold? In the tablet wars, Microsoft has the power to choose which platforms its popular software will run. And considering the market penetration of Word/Excel/etc., even as Google Docs and other alternatives grow, that ecosystem is much more prevalent a feature than it was when it was Zune vs iPod
Why are gender roles a "problem?"
Your reasoning is definately correct. I haven't made enough measurements myself to justify the statement, but the couple of times I did, OpenGL was usually a tad quicker. However that's more anecdotal evidence than anything else.
I have paid for Google Apps and have in the past called Google. It hasn't been an issue getting someone on the phone to walk me through something or at least help me try to figure out why something wasn't working.

Yes you won't get support for their free version, that isn't entirely unexpected.
On OS X files aren't memory-mapped by default.
You do understand that Schrodinger's cat was a reductio ad absurdum, right? An argument against the Copenhagen interpretation?
Unrelated technical note: when you copy text from the New Yorker's site, it automatically appends the following to your clipboard:

"Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/04/110404fa_fact_...

...but only if you copy eight or more words. It's actually quite an interesting approach.
One of Musk's stated goals is to reduce the cost of spaceflight by a factor of one hundred.
> Who benefits from these click

The guys you pay, most obviously.
I graduated from University of Washington, a school that ranks 41st on that list. My roommate in my freshman year of college was Chinese. His dad, a college professor in Hong Kong, always gave him shit for not attending a university that placed higher in the rankings. This is despite the fact that my roommate was a computer science major, and UW has one of the best Comp-Sci programs in the nation. It always seemed to me that his dad cared more about the prestige factor than the actual quality of education his son received. It wouldn't surprise me to find out he has dreams about bragging to his friends that his son went to Harvard or Princeton.

What a shame.
I think you are misinterpreting what I'm saying.

I'm not insinuating that women are generally gold-diggers. I'm saying that ultimately status and income are considerations that come into play when it comes to the mating game. Physical attractiveness aside, a male doctor or male CEO is going to attract more interest than a male barista by virtue of his occupation and income. Income and wealth for men is a sometimes a consideration not different from height.

Let's put it another way: A minority male in the U.S. like an Asian male who earns a certain amount above the average is going to have significantly a lot more choices in interracial pairings than if he were at a low paying job. Statistics show that Caucasians females rarely marry Asians in the United States, but when they do, that pairing has the highest median income level compared to every other pairing in the U.S., including Caucasian/Caucasian and Asian/Asian. Anecdotally, all the Asian men I know who married Caucasian female are well-paid relative to the average Asian American male.
I completely disagree, my company (Fashiolista) advertises almost exclusively on Facebook. The results are great. My reasoning why Facebook works so well can be found here:
http://www.mellowmorning.com/2011/09/21/5-ways-in-which-face...
I think the point is that there's very real value in understanding how the machine works at a low level. While it might seem like arcana, and while you might think that you understand the constraints more or less and be aware of how the machine is programmed, the value comes from actually asking the hardware questions using those methods.

Unless you're very lucky, at some point in your career your high-level development is going to get constrained by some very low-level fundamentals. Knowing what's going on in the machine is going to be key to working your way through it.

Not to mention the fact that you'll have the ingrained mentality to always think about the performance and bottlenecks in your code and systems, even if you're highly unlikely to ever hit practical limits.

Knowing that stuff -- more importantly being an experienced practitioner -- just makes you a better programmer overall, and makes you more sympathetic to the hardware that has to execute your code. It's a dying skill and it's very far from being nostalgia when it can bite you in the real world very easily.

That's the point.
Freelancers and health insurance
Dragon is already designed to fit their requirements, IIRC.
Sucks for me. I'm from the UK
Have you tried Learn You A Haskell? It's a gentle and humorous introduction to the language, and I rather like it's take on the more important typeclasses. As for monads in particular, I think the best introduction is "You Could Have Invented Monads."
A high degree if genetic selections is a high risk thing. For a long time you just get a lot more of what ever you want, milk, eggs, etc. And then a virus appears and kills 99.9% or more of your animals because they were all so closely related.

The free market rewards the up side of closely related species but does not cost you anything for the potential catastrophe. Day to day the probability of a catastrophic disease is near 0, but in the very long term it is near certain. Our free markets have no smart way of pricing that kind of stuff.

That's why we've already lost several varieties of banana to diseases.
I wonder who created that Ahmed Ronaldo profile and why? I.e., paid social networking is nothing new, but liking random pages doesn't bring in any money by itself, so somebody has to pay for that for some reason. The only party that profits from fake likers is Facebook, but assuming Facebook pays these guys is kind of far fetched - if they did, that'd be outright fraud and possibly criminal. So I prefer not to assume that without evidence for it. Then who pays for it and why? What is the incentive to fake-like advertisers on facebook?