skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the tips - I've worked as a freelancer for the last 10 years, and have now run my own company for the last 2.5 years, so doer-of-everything is in my nature, and its just a matter of making the decision to really knuckle down with study and hard work.

For me, it's really about being frank with myself and rapidly addressing the areas of my knowledge and experience that are lacking, even if part of me doesn't want to. I'm surviving in my own business though, and my stronger concentration on sales and marketing is what will push me to the next level. Thanks again.
why didn't they demo today?
and the worst part is, it can be solved with a simple tiny link/dropdown 'language' in the header or footer, it's not rocket science.
Thanks to cross-browser webfont support, it's been quite some time since I've read the words "web safe fonts". I wonder how useful these lists would be in a year or two. It's already nearly useless on a vanilla Ubuntu install, for example, which contains neither Windows fonts nor Mac fonts.

It would be a fine day indeed when web designers no longer have to worry about fallback fonts that look nothing like the preferred font.
You start attracting the people more interested in discussion than actually Getting Things Done. Bikeshed discussions become the order of the day, and why not, because they are so fun and easy to answer -- everyone's got an opinion to share. And they generate huge amounts of reputation because they're easy to process. "Yup, GOTO sure is terrible, preach it brother, {upvote}"
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Does Google assumes that we live in The Matrix, and you can learn a new country’s language instantly as soon as you move there?
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Google is making the (accurate) calculation that over 99% of people coming from a Japanese IP address whose computer says "Accept-Language: en-gb;q=0.9, en;q=0.7" are actually Japanese speakers of Japanese (true preference: "Accept-Language: ja-jp;q=1.0; en;q=0.000001") whose configurations have been borked at the manufacturer or the IT department level, and who will be terribly served by content written in English. It's an act of charity that they even ask about English prior to defaulting you into Japanese. (They haven't always done that -- every year or two it seems to switch for me.)

This is a particularly acute issue since most users of Google don't actually have accounts on it, their best attempts to fix that to the contrary. As a result, in key ways such as language, the service needs to "just work" for the majority of their users. Also, if I was to have a totally clinical view of the situation, the expected value of 1 English speaker in terms of ad clicks is ridiculously below the expected value of 1 Japanese speaker in terms of ad clicks, given that both are in Japan (+), and you're asking to sacrifice 99 Japanese speakers to save the 1 English speaker. Once you accept that there will be a loser in this decision either way, figuring out who the loser should be is not that hard. Sorry: I'd prefer English, too.

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And by the way, want to check out a post on Blogspot? Off to blogspot.jp you go. This doesn’t change the page itself, only the URL. So what does redirecting me accomplish, except make me feel that I’m not in control of what sites I can access?
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This is a hack around censorship laws in a few places (most relevantly to the instant case, Germany, I believe). Google has a blogspot.jp which is a copy of .com which is a copy of .de which is a copy of... except that they enforce country-specific censorship laws. This was deemed an acceptable tradeoff versus getting all of blogspot blacklisted in e.g. Germany.

n.b. No special inside knowledge here.

(+) If this is not intuitively obvious to you talk to me about AdWords geotargetting and default settings sometime.
Employer-candidate communication problem
Yahoo Japan thinks I'm a woman despite my Yahoo profile saying otherwise. All I get is ads for women's undies and makeup.

Google's search is pretty bad too, it really pushes me to the Japanese page even though I want English since the results differ. They hide the English page link way at the bottom in small font text and don't make clear that it's the English version.
If you are traveling and Google is trying to send you to a country specific site, you can use this address to tell Google you actually really want to go to Google.com:

http://www.google.com/ncr

I believe the NCR stands for No Country Redirect.

But as the article points out, many websites make it harder than it aught to be use them from other countries. Some Japenese websites sometimes even actively try to prevent foreigners from using them by require text entry in hiragana and disabling copy-paste with javascript.
Youtube on PS3...finally
I'm sorry but doesn't a VPN solve this problem?
This is one of the most infuriating things about traveling internationally. Sites that probably know more about me than I know about myself assume that I am a native of wherever I happen to be at the moment and make it difficult-to-impossible to alter that site behavior.

If I was a completely anonymous user coming in from a location it would be an understandable. But I'm not anonymous, I am logged in to the same account I've been using for a decade that in almost every other use case was US-ian English. So there really isn't any excuse. Absent any active attempt to change settings on my part, that I prefer US-ian centric settings is an easy inference to make even when I travel.

I want to believe there is a rationale for doing things this way but I can't think of one. All it does is make the Internet barely usable when I travel to many countries.
because they are automated bots...
Cool tool, but unfortunately it doesn't always autoupdate when I change numbers. I'm using Chrome on Mac.
The phrase "steep learning curve" is probably a misnomer, since the graph most people are talking about has "learning" or "experience" on the dependent axis, and time on the independent axis. So a steep slope on a graph like this would represent something that's very easy to learn.

What most people seem to refer to with this phrase, however, is some kind of exponential function, where the slope is really small (difficult to learn) at the start, and hopefully increases as you get past the initial hurdle.

I guess it stems from confusion with other real-world metaphors, like climbing steep hills, which also happens to be difficult.
I would say that a startup is something that generates value (hard to do), not cash flow (which is easy).

I had a lot of businesses that generated $10 K+ a month, some without me doing much at all, or working 5-10 hours a week. But they didn't worth a dime, so they weren't startups. I couldn't sell them for any meaningful amount. So is yours.
Beyer-Dynamic DT-770 Pro 80 ohm.

They are very comfortable, even with glasses on, for any period of time. They are very effective at blocking outside noise, regardless of whether they're being used as headphones or earmuffs. They've lasted about three years, while all other headphones I have used didn't make it past the two year mark. I bought them for non-DJ use, but now use them for everything. DJing, Pandora, White Noise, movies, gaming (with a $7 Zalman clip-on mic), you name it.

headfi.org is probably the best place for advice, if that's what you are looking for. Nothing beats trying on headphones for yourself though.
Are you willing to wait "6 to 8 weeks?"

http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/21/3257144/bitinstant-bitcoin...
I'm really confused. Is Makr open source? If it isn't then how is it a companion to Diaspora?

Also, you can't realistically expect to build a company (around Makr) and still have any time left over for Diaspora...unless you're Jack Dorsey.

Again, just confused.
The only thing I don't really agree with is the last one: "Integrate source control with other tools"
I actually find this quite annoying. Not only does it often become very talking, but often it is not as good as its "not integrated" counter part.
Never explain with malice what is adequately explained by a decisionmaker who hasn't touched his computer in three weeks and needed the email responded to by his secretary saying "I don't want anyone copying our website!"</painful memories>
Apparently down (is it "Hacker News-ed"?). Nyud.net-link:

http://norvig.com.nyud.net/21-days.html
I agree with you for logged out users, but these things happen even when you are logged in.
That's it in a nutshell. Thanks for expressing my frustration so clearly!
Yes, thanks. Great article!
It appears they're desperately attempting to spend all of their time working on quirky ideas that will never make a dime
Ryan Singer on Keeping the goal in sight while designing component flows
Nice work! The speed is particularly impressive.

I'm not in the target audience, so take this with a grain of salt:

1. You might want to feature some of the better-looking deals on the front page. At first I was confused as to what kind of deals the headline is talking about.

2. The big technical problem seems to be distinguishing between X and "X accessory". The very first sample search, "LCD TV" turns up a bunch of TV wall mounts instead. I suppose you do some result prioritization based on price?
Where's Steve?
There's a huge gap in the complexity of getting your product perfect and not making grade-school level grammar errors on a 20 line 'parking ticket.'
Today, we celebrate, our startup day
Yes, selling "licenses" which can be transferred, redeemed, and re-used is pretty plausible. However, your average Mexican cartel leader doesn't understand software, and is going to be a lot more comfortable with a sketchy mundane business where he can physically see it and understand it.

Cellphone stores are often used for this, I think, though.
Do me a favor, and write a good intro to Category Theory! (I'm shutting down my laptop and going to bed, and I saw all the Category Theory tutorials I currently have open in other browser tabs).
Right. A case I've used them for is a recursive query which returns a set of rows, where each row is some end-point that matches the query criteria, the rows can include arrays representing the list of nodes traversed to reach that end-point, or some notion of the path cost by hop.
Ask HN: What are exactly, High Performance Web Applications?
Recently, while chatting, I came across my freinds discussing about high performance web apps, having heavy number crunching ability on both client and server side.
Exactly what are these applications? Where are they used?
A better explanation is that Yahoo! Japan believes you are a cross-dresser...
At least for me, that does not work anymore.

However, http://www.google.com/?hl=en works.
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I use Hulu daily, and am a subscriber, and I have to say I LOVE this new layout. I clicked on popular shows. Clicked on The Office. Drop down by season. Zipped through the episodes, and picked one.

I don't think it gets any easier than this.

It also remembered the last episode I was watching above the other episodes. Perfect.

Before, to pick a season, you had to pick 1 or the highest season, then do a strange paging thing to get all the way back to the first episode. It was a mess.

The viewing area is now larger it seems, with more "black" area around it without having to turn on the night vision thing.

At any rate, as an avid user, I think they nailed it.
Is the apps gold rush over?
Password resets, airgapped devices, and data over video
> This is a hack around censorship laws in a few places (most relevantly to the instant case, Germany, I believe). Google has a blogspot.jp which is a copy of .com which is a copy of .de which is a copy of... except that they enforce country-specific censorship laws. This was deemed an acceptable tradeoff versus getting all of blogspot blacklisted in e.g. Germany.

what event/law are you referring to? why blogspot should be censored in germany?
Google customises its searches to such a degree that I've set up two different quick search keywords in chrome:

ge : will search google.com with primary language = en
g : will search google.co.jp with primary language = jp

I get wildly different result sets every time. And usually, one is spot on with what i'm looking for and the other is useless.
I think the point of the subscription is actually that you get more content, not less ads.

I watch a lot of past seasons of shows, and frankly, there are so few ads I barely remember the last one I saw.
And speaking of those methane lakes, the lander was designed as a boat that would float around in one of them. To me that seems pretty interesting from an engineering point of view, not to mention Titan being a pretty cool place from a scientific perspective.
I've also had several problems with compilers and IDE. Recent example: Visual C++ detects that my computer has a Japanese environment and switches its messages to Japanese. Qt Creator takes these messages and displays them in its output box, in the process borking them completely (□□□□ etc.), even though its own interface is in Japanese as well. Now I couldn't find a switch to make the compiler output English when called on the command line, so I eventually just used VC++ as the main IDE.

A lot of programs require command-line switches on every invocation to change the language if it's not the same as your OS locale.
Besides the points about not sharing products I haven't bought/tested/tried/etc., your page is not visually appealing. It's hard to take anyone claiming to 'design' shirts seriously when their launch page is poorly designed.

Things you could improve:

* Use a nicer font.

* Use horizontal space more effectively.

* Even if the shirts were great, tweeting about 'HappyNerdShirts' is just asking my friends to flame me.
Maybe their machine learning thinks your transsexual.
Here are Arq developer Stefan Reitshamer's initial comments on Amazon Glacier:

http://www.haystacksoftware.com/support/arqforum/topic.php?i...
There definately is a correlation of "coming up with this thought" and "what username do I pick on HN?".
It also introduces other problems, like latency.
I'd posit that threaded discussions are a problem.

Particularly with the nerd community, the ability to reply and pick apart what the parent post said almost ensures that every discussion devolves into inanity.

I try to make it a point, if I'm going to comment, to just leave a top-level comment and not respond to replies. It works well enough, and it might be worth considering as a rule.
Imagine a scenario like the movie Iron Man:

Drug cartel kidnaps Sebastian Thrun and forces him to build an autonomous flying drug mule.
This post may not be perfect, but it's just what I've been looking for.
Quoting the old Erlang meme: did you just tell me to go ---- myself?

Seriously. I won't jump through hoops to give others my money, broken copyright or not. I don't see a huge push by those companies to change the way things are. Wheres the lobbying for a global copyright or easier access rules? Where are the visible changes? As long as all those efforts don't lead to a change, they won't have my business.
It can be done, but it's much faster in Win8, for example. The start menu search in Win7 is noticably slower.

And there are new shortcuts, like "Windows-x." It's the closest I've come in a while to feeling as productive as in my old FVWM setup.
Same idea, better execution?

For investors you also get startups that have already been vetted enough by the ycombinator team for them to invest time into, so you know that the startup already has connections in the right places
Germany has many laws which are different that e.g. the USA. In particular, in the US certain sentiments which are politically and socially radioactive are protected by the US Constitution and the laws, traditions, and expectations of the American polity. Germany is similar in some regards but there is one particular politically and socially radioactive statement you could make -- support for the Nazi Party -- which, owing to the laws, traditions, and expectations of the Germany polity, will result in the government coming down on you like a ton of bricks.
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Clickable:

https://github.com/twcamper/sicp-kindle

https://github.com/downloads/danchoi/kindlefodder/jquery_fun...

https://github.com/downloads/danchoi/kindlefodder/rails-guid...

https://github.com/downloads/danchoi/kindlefodder/unix.2012-...

http://git-scm.com/2010/06/06/pro-git-on-kindle.html

https://github.com/zacharyscott/whys-poignant-guide-for-kind...

https://github.com/visionmedia/masteringnode

https://github.s3.amazonaws.com/media/progit.epub [Can be converted to mobi]

https://github.com/igstan/learn-you-some-erlang-kindle

https://github.com/igstan/learn-you-a-haskell-kindle

https://github.com/turesheim/Guide_to_Fortran77

https://github.com/propella/DesignPrinciplesBehindSmalltalk
Arrays aren't really in the spirit of relational design. This means that using them will change the ACID characteristics compared to a relational design. In the article's first example, it would seem like adding another item to a purchase would cause the entire purchase row to lock - this wouldn't happen if items were stored in their own table.

That's not to say they aren't useful though; read performance would be much better with all the data living in a single row somewhere on disk. SQL queries would also be easier to write.
Yeah right, Its a viable alternative to C or/and C++. I would go as far as to say that it is the 'mid level language' of the 21st century.
I think I've read this at some point -- I've at least seen the 10 years / 10.000 hours numbers before.

I did a quick calculation with respects to martial arts practice -- and if you want to get in 10.000 hours in 10 years -- you do indeed need to practice quite a lot.

Start with a strong foundation: 2 hours 3 times a week, 48/weeks a year. Add 5 hours of training every other Saturday (or Sunday). Take seminars. Lets assume they amount to a full week of training/year (40 hours). You'd still by below 500 hours/year -- and you'd take 22 years to attain "master" level.

This actually fits quite well with the arts that still do rigorous gradings, like traditional ITF Taewkon-do, or karate and koryu styles that generally have two sets of gradings, first grading up to 4th dan, then to instructor grades -- and 5-6th dan generally being considered "full proficiency".

It also follows a somewhat simple rule of thumb from the traditional grading systems (before splitting the white belt into many colours -- at which point it is no longer white, to paraphrase Gandalf): After 1 year of (intensive) practice grade up to 1st dan, practice two years for 2nd dan, 3 for 3rd and so on -- for 21 years to 6th dan (assuming no breaks or injuries).

I guess all this is neither here nor there, but I found the correlation interesting.
Twitter cedes to government demands, blocks fake parody accounts in India
There is nothing that unique about the inline support of other data structures. Many databases have done it in the past e.g Oracle and do so today especially in NoSQL land e.g. MongoDB, Cassandra.
The math doesn't come close to replacing tape - basically once you go north of 100 terabytes (just two containers - at my prior company we had 140 containers in rotation with iron mountain) Glacier doesn't make financial or logistical sense. Far cheaper and faster to send your LTO-5 drives via driver.
I also love building things, but, to use an analogy, I also love playing music. I practised for years and years, until I could pick up whatever music I wanted to play, and then I wanted more - some kind of validation - so I wanted to play to other people.

It is a bit the same with me and programming/developing. Revenue is my new metric for how well I am doing. It makes it harder - yes I can come up with a solution, but can I do it in a short time, suppressing my perfectionism (come on - we all have it), and in a responsive enough manner to get people to pay for my work? It is just taking it to the next level.

And I do rather like money.
I have actually recently started using Vim with folding (set shiftwidth=2, set foldmethod=indent) for my nested todo list and also note-taking. I have a single file with the following items:

Work
Topic 0 (work-related)
...
Personal
Tasks
Ongoing
...
Completed
2012-08-22
...
Future
2012-08-23
...

One thing I like is that it's trivial to make subitems of an existing item. I often end up taking notes (such as URLs of consoles or associated bug IDs) under tasks listed in "Ongoing", which I think saves me a bit of time.

Anyway, while there are some things I still need to tweak, I am, overall, quite happy with the workflow it allows and so just figured I'd share this in case it helps someone else.
U.S. Election on YouTube 
Looks like they will be putting up videos of speeches, debates, and town halls.

The homebase for all of this is: http://www.youtube.com/politics
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why is the prize so small when the economic benefit could be much larger?
I have a similar compounded problem:

I live in Japan, my systems are configured in English, but when I'm at the office my internet is routed through a proxy which is somehow localized to India (I have no idea where is its actual location).

- I get Google in English most of the time (though sometimes it will pop back to Japanese)

- Google account settings on the other hand will most of the time show in Japanese (I'm OK though, I know the language)

- Search results include Japanese language websites at home

- I get Japanese ads at home and Indian ads at work, especially funny on Youtube.

- Google Maps is all over the place though, sometimes showing me Japan, India but also defaulting to US of A...

Note: you rant about two settings for language, but that makes sense. I want to see the Google interface in English because this is my preferences for interfaces, but I want local search results including Japanese language websites because that is what's useful to me most of the time.
The Indian Government, just needs a false excuse to bring the free internet onto its knees, and have full control over the internet.
It has already banned private radio broadcasters to broadcast news. For a while it had also blocked torrent sites.
I am logged on to Google, and they know I want English results and an English interface, because I've gone through and done all the settings. And yet, occasionally something goes wonky and they start showing me the interface in Italian again.

I have no problems if their default is the local language - that's pretty much a no-brainer - but when I've told them in no uncertain terms what my own preferences are, they ought to respect that.
>Google is making the (accurate) calculation that over 99% of people coming from a Japanese IP address whose computer says "Accept-Language: en-gb;q=0.9, en;q=0.7" are actually Japanese speakers of Japanese

From the article:

>The problem is compounded by the fact that most of the time, you have no way of doing anything about it. And when you can do something, it’s often buried in layers of menus, which –don’t forget– are all in Japanese, Bhutanese, or Martian…

I think you're missing a key point in the article.
Yeah but, https instead of http does the trick in case of tpb.
Baking a New Site With a Sprinkle of SEO Part 2
In part one of Baking a New Site With a Sprinkle of SEO, we covered some of the more important things a developer can do to help their sites find their way into the top positions of the search engines. This week, we look at more advanced steps you can take to really help catapult them up to the top.
For me, cost per hour of involvment cost, game < book << dvd, sometimes with the double angle brackets on the left and sometimes not on the right. However, I don't re-read novels, and only re-skim technicals.