skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit of a tangent, but this awesome song started popping up on Pandora Radio... [http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/j/jonathan_coulton/the_futu...]

[...]
Here on Earth they'll wonder
As I piece by piece replace myself
And the steel and circuits will make me whole
But I'll still feel so alone
Until Laura calls me home

I'll see her standing by the monorail
She'll look the same except for bionic eyes
She lost the real ones in the robot wars
I'll say I'm sorry, she'll say it's not your fault
Or is it?
And she'll eye me suspiciously
Hearing the whir of the servos inside
She will scream and try to run
But there's nowhere she can hide
When a crazy cyborg wants to make you his robot bride

Well it's gonna be the future soon
And I won't always be this way
When the things that make me weak and strange get
engineered away
It's gonna be the future soon
I've never seen it quite so clear
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and
it's already here
I'm sorry, but when the title says 'Performance oriented' anything I expect to see more than 'Hello world' as the benchmark.
How to Structure your Web Page with HTML5 Nav Tag
Doing something useful to the world and getting paid, improves yours and others' lives...
Lifestyle Indicators - How The Lorax and Weddings Can Help With Targeting
As much as I kind of like the idea, the inevitable result is going to be hundreds of these sites on the internet, packed with advertisements, with people asking questions, not getting any answers, and somehow always managing to be the top google results when I'm trying to figure something out.
Samsung/Apple Jury Foreman Shows He Doesn't Understand Prior Art
My current job hired me at a 40% raise. This was after telling them exactly what I made. And I did exactly what you said: I told them I knew I was underpaid.

Now, I'm pretty sure I could have gotten another 10-20% if I had not given them this information. But really, I'm getting paid what the job's worth, so I'm not complaining. If I thought the job was worth more, I'd have held out for the last bit. They did mention my existing lower salary as a reason they couldn't offer more, too.

I understand both sides of that. They have to be sure I wasn't being paid low because I can't perform, and I want to get paid what I'm actually worth. When you're as badly underpaid as I was, it's rough. I should never have let myself get into that position.
This is one of the more extreme abuses of "exact same" I have witnessed.
I rarely use twitter; I've made concerted efforts but I mostly find the SNR is too high. I looked at your front page but didn't find it compelling.

1. I don't want to filter noise to folders, I want to skip it entirely.
2. I could care less about "losing" or missing a tweet. If there's something important, I'll get an email. If there's something truly compelling to read about, there will be multiple chances for me to see a relevant tweet.
3. A successful pitch to me would be something along the lines of removing the noise so that I'm getting almost pure signal.
4. What is it that I'm getting? Is it web-based, is it an app that runs on a smart phone (which I don't own), desktop (which platform?), something else?
5. Your blog entries go from 8 May to 13 Aug. Your twitter account has a lot of gaps too. I totally understand how hard it is to keep up with this stuff (I'm guilty of this too), but it makes me not want to invest too much time into something that you aren't necessarily fully invested in.
In my option the major difference between Android based devices and Apple products is the level to which they've been polished. Every Android device I've owned has had rather annoying bugs. They freeze, menus appear off screen, and they feel less responsive. Apple iteratively tests their products to the point of perfection. Because of this, Apple is able to price its products at a huge premium even though cheaper devices run on comparable hardware.
The Weather Channel iPad App Tops 10 Million Downloads
Any time I find myself starting to trust humanity, it's a handy antidote.
2500 motion captures "free for all uses" from CMU
Shakespeare - 28 links. My personal best.
Nobody linked xkcd yet? Relevant Alt-Text: http://xkcd.com/903/
This is what I was wondering. What's the performance difference compared to using a junction table with indexes and what are the other trade-offs of indexes vs bloom filters. I'm guessing there are cases when you wouldn't want to maintain the indexes. I'm not sure what they would be though.
But you need not start at photo sharing.

There's plenty of problems troubling humanity that need not rocket scientists to solve.
Who's the target audience for that explanation? It seems like the initial question can be solved much more easily by rewriting x^2 + x = 6 as (x)(x+1) = 6. Seeing that x can be two seems intuitive, and that x can be -3 a bit less so.

I wonder whether talking about algebra as the manipulation of statements to construct consistent sets is more productive than talking about error in systems?

Instead of x hiding a value, we want to know what statements can we make about x that are consistent with x^2 + x = 6.
Apple is able to price its products at a huge premium for the same reason that Dolce & Gabbana is able to price its products at a huge premium. It is a luxury brand which gets a significant part of its value from having a high price.

D&G could produce $20 bags for sale at Target and displace some of the counterfeit D&G bags that are sold, but then they would be competing with everyone who makes a $20 bag. This even applies to bags which are physically identical to what they are currently selling.
They own the finished product, but honestly it's really frowned upon to a do a bigger budget version and lift lighting and shooting setups (or at least in photography, I'd imagine videography runs on the same rails).
Thank you for a detailed overview.

I am still confused over the mechanism used to identify a "species" via mtDNA. I understand that the meaning of species as it stems from Linnaeus is unlikely to be useful in the DNA age, and I grasp the impossibility of defining when one species stops being another, but I would like to
understand the science first, then the more political side of how to apply a loaded word like species to a DNA result.
The reason people don't read these is length, not the organization of the text.
Another thing to add to this: Factored equations can be computationally cheaper to execute.
"Greg James" As in Radio one DJ.....Doesnt work!
Sounds from Mars? Why Curiosity has no microphone.
How does that get there slower than "fart" ??
Your link to TheNextWeb also makes me realized that you don't show pricing on your front page.

Also, realizing that I'd have to create rules for the filters is a downer. I was hoping for some kind of machine learning that does the opposite of spam filtering. (I guess that's what I really want -- a "ham" filter for twitter.)
JQuery Gantt editor - bugfix: invalid project handling
Yes, but instead of being a giant, monolithic wall of pain, it's now broken down into much less daunting chunks of text.

I caught myself actively reading the agreement like it was a blog post. The questions helped frame what I was about to read, and made the answers feel a lot more accessible.

(It also helps that the answers seem like they were written for normal people to understand. They're a little wordy, but in a thorough-yet-not-quite-legalese-y kind of way.)
18 months? That's a problem if you have the bad fortune of being put on a project you don't enjoy. I've heard you have little to no say in the project you get assigned when you first join, is this true?
Not constructive, but I lolled.
Thank you for this.

I'm so sad that the comments that top HN comment areas are individuals complaining about implementation. This should be a place to find inspiration and encourage innovation, not nitpick those who are willing to try for great things.

/renewed hope
Well we get a lot of posts about copyright, client work and so on so it does seem to fit.
I took a similar approach. When I found a guess that returned a result that didn't make sense (due to the jitter/business of the server) I kept track of it. At the end, I looped through each of those weird results and hammered them until I got something that seemed stable.

I actually had no problems with chunks 1 and 2. Half way through chunk three the server started acting up so I aborted my script and added the modifications that I mentioned above. I tweaked the server and client so that they had a hard coded value for chunks 1 and 2.
Keep in mind it is much more complex than that. Siri comes from SRI International which did work for the Defense dept., etc. When Apple ate Siri Inc, which formed from SRI, they probably ate a lot of IP with it. SRI dates to like the 1950s at least.
What powers Etsy
Where are you located? If you're in NYC, I'm a new hire there now.
Samsung Galaxy Note II users to get 50GB of Dropbox space for free for two years
I don't think he should sit out Google discussions. He had the experience he had. Others have the experiences they have. We're all capable of assessing his reports for ourselves.

I might add we're also all capable of assessing the responses of Googlers to his reports for ourselves, and those responses don't always speak well of Google.
Glad you like it! I feel the same way (I work for Mozilla, but I don't work on BrowserID).
"I wasn't confused, but some of the jurors were". Does it seem crazy to anyone else to have non-experts making enormous rulings like this? This bumbling fool did some "calculations" to "zero in on 14%" ("I'm familiar with P&L statements") and decide that Samsung owes Apple a billion dollars!?!? I'm not saying that Samsung is innocent, but this seems like a ridiculous process.
Educators Evaluate Khan Academy's 'Flipped Classrooms' Idea
I believe it IPOed at $38.

"The $38 IPO price is the rate at which Facebook's underwriters will sale shares to their clients."

http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/17/technology/facebook-ipo-fina...
As a sibling post said, where are you getting your figures from? If they're correct, I'm tempted to apply the economists' argument: why aren't insurance companies doing this already? We see specialized companies (mostly just "imprints" of existing ones) for old people, women, track day enthusiasts etc. I could believe a plan to make say 10% ROI, but if this venture was as crazy profitable as you're suggesting I'd expect a "traditional" insurer to have done it already.

Bear in mind that your customers will choose the cheapest insurance: only those who are being charged more than #600 will apply. If that average of #2342 was actually 95% of them getting insurance for #300 and then 5% super-dangerous teens who're charged #40000 each, only the latter will take you up, and you'll pay out a lot on their claims.

All that said, I do hope you find a way to make it work. Insurance for under-25s is crazy expensive.
Is Android not open-source? You would think any surreptitious phoning home it does would be well-known by now.

If Android devices really send data to Google -- even after disabling Google Sync, uninstalling Gmail, etc. -- I'd love to what it is.
Interestingly, Paul Graham [1] leads to the photographer, but still leads back to the Web before heading to philosophy/proposition.

[1] http://wikiloopr.com/Paul%20Graham
I clicked on Substituting Raster Images for Vector Alternatives. I like how they describe different techniques, but use png files to display them.
The ABCs of Factoring Risk into Cloud Service Decisions
> Do you really want to handle error conditions in a resumey way far further up the stack?

"Way far" is relative and depends on a number of factor. And I don't consider half a dozen stack frames "way far", it's very easy to attain when using a coding style emphasizing small short methods which call one another.

You also have no bloody idea how the library works internally.

> I'd expect most cases are either handle the error close to the cause

Again, "close" and "far" is relative. I want to handle the error at the closest point to its triggering, but I'm also limited by the data available to know how to handle it. One pushes the handler down the stack, the other up.

> The condition handling approach just seems too magic to me.

There's nothing magic to it.

> It seems to mean the "inner" code calls another method defined somewhere else - but that "somewhere else" is defined by the call stack

Welcome to dynamic scoping, there are cases where it's useful.

> something that's not really very visible in the code.

How is "I'm signaling a condition" not very visible in the code? It says right there that it signals a condition.
She stole money (credit cards) from her "friends." I think that makes her sex a non-issue. She's a psychopath.
This seems like a confusing explanation to me.

We factor equations because that makes it easy to figure out what x is. If you did not know any algebra, and looked at an equation like

Ax^2 = Bx + C

it is not obvious what x can be. But if you factor it into

(x - D)(x - E) = 0

then if you know how zero multiplies, it is fairly clear that x must be D or E.
That's not the tldr I got from this at all. The solution to having bad ideas is to stop and ask yourself if an idea is bad before you pour months or years with of work into it. Everybody has bad ideas, and everybody has a few good ones. Filter your ideas, instead of jumping on the first idea you come up with just because you want to found a startup, any startup. Don't waste your time.
FYI, my corporate firewall is blocking the folyo.me domain as a 'spam-url'
Being happy improves my life, if my meaningless project does that then so what?

And just because you stop the next person from making a group chat app doesn't mean they are going to put a rover on Titan
> Since I run Folyo by myself I have very few expenses, and can always feed myself by taking on client work if need be.

I believe that's also true if you're a team. In my opinion even more, because you don't have one person being distracted by too many things, but can distribute tasks to various people, where each of them can focus on those that are related.
I have to disagree with the last line. The only way we'll never have to face this is if we stop going into space, which would be sad. Otherwise, sooner or later there will be an accident that strands someone.
And they were probably a mistake. (http://permaculture.wikia.com/wiki/Tree_bog)
Service Level Disagreements
Every time I see you write, i get the picture of a drunk guy in a bar walking around saying "lemmme tell you about the time i worked for google" in slurred speech to anyone who will listen.
This is very cool.

Beyond the obvious benefit (as stated in the blog) for developers not needing code for db access, authentication, and the overhead of deployment, such apps can bring trust to a different level.

We can now have apps that store data in a location controlled by us users. Dropbox will need to support finer levels of folder access with their authentication, as well as support for making sure the apps don't access other sites.
I disagree that the sweet spot of Go is in the same place as the sweet spot of Python. Go has put significantly less emphasis on transparently readable code. Viewed from C++, Go looks like Python, but viewed from Python Go looks like a less crazy Java.

Fast compilation (merely being-interpreted) is surely a very cool feature which makes Go more appealing, but that is not the only productivity feature of Python.
I was a bit bummed to see so much blatant information leakage after a while. :( Thankfully I finished before that happened. That just ruins the fun.
That is the key - with low downside, you can afford to take a risk on the untried "potential" - payoff could be huge.

With high downside, you want to minimise that risk.

So, no brain tricks, just risk/reward behaviour
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Your explanation doesn't address where the zero came from in the second step. In other words, you're presupposing that we already know what "factoring" is, which is what this article is meant to explain.
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It's funny, but it's true that everything in life ultimately leads back to philosophy.

As noted by XKCD, everything is based on something else: http://xkcd.com/435/

And I think after Maths on that should come Philosophy.
See the other front page story about startup founders and bullshitting.
> seems intuitive

You can't really write "well, it seems intuitive" into a logical proof, or into an algorithm.
Compare that with SPLK. Apparently there's something to this whole 'build stuff people will buy' thing.
They were missing two, directly related things: a revenue model and paying customers. (Not meant to be snarky or to point out the obvious, but simply factual.)
The Long History of Americans Debating Empty Chairs
If adding teepees adds clarity I certainly have no business teaching anybody any math.
Local politicians united in anger at Ulster Bank compensation scheme
Half of the 512 MB is dedicated to video, IIRC.
false modesty, sure. Personally, I don't think false modesty is so bad; I know I'm kind of arrogant, and most people in my industry are kind of arrogant. It's irritating to deal with an arrogant person, so yeah, I try to tone it down. It's real common. 'I might be wrong' etc, etc... I don't see anything wrong with it; I'm just trying to be polite.

But if pointing out your own weaknesses looks like you are trying to deflect criticism, you are a long way from honesty.
Unforunately, the filter set up is something that we're struggling to simplify.

Hootsuite, Tweetbot etc offer searching and muting based on tweet content. Tweetdig offers the ability to filter based on a wide range of criteria (such as filtering out tweets from a specific user like you mentioned). That's our differentiating factor.

Thanks for the comments on hiding add/edit/manage under configuration. We'll take a look at where we could fit them into the interface.

We're very interested in the user experience, and we've improved it a lot over the last few weeks. It still needs a lot of work, but we're finding that the first thing new users see is the design. I think to get them past that, we need to take a look at the UI. People don't seem willing to give things a try if it doesn't look pretty, no matter how easy it is to use.
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> Even run-of-the-mill joggers typically do between 3.2 and 4.2 meters per second

4.2 meters per second 15.1km/h. That's faster than any jogger.

6.5 meters per second is 23.4 km/h which is faster than my treadmill goes. Can humans really sustain that speed over a a marathon distance?
People idolize the breakthroughs but tend to discount the 99% of the work that comes afterwards to turn the initial breakthrough into something fantastic. The first versions of the internet, car and plane were pretty poor and unusable by today's standards, it took a considerable amount of time and effort to make them into what they are today.
It is going to be a bumpy road if they miss future earnings estimates. Negative sentiment around this stock is strong.
The article is not correct. The original source says these apps get 0-10 downloads per day. So they could be getting over three thousand downloads a year and still fall into the category that the article says has "never been downloaded."
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I don't think the loop is the interesting part, what's interesting is that articles lead to philosophy.
Mr. Rogozin is famous for announcing products and initiatives that turn out to be a vaporware. I doubt that anyone would remember this announcement and no product will be ever released.
So I'm an ex-Google employee and I can tell you that is an earnest, but ultimately unanswerable question. Google, like any organization, changes over time so for some it wasn't cool before but now it is, for other it was cool and now it isn't, and for still others it never was and may never be a cool place to work. (And of course those for whom it will always be a cool place to work, looking at you Larry)

Engineering work is generally referred to as "R&D" which is short for "Research and Development." That is a spectrum where Research results in a peer-reviewed paper, and Development results in a shipping product. For many years Google was pretty hard into the R side of the equation for most people, and hard over into the D side for a smaller group of people. It created a lot of unhealthy tension where the groups were near each other.

It was a little too much R and too little D for me, I prefer working on problems that have an impact on the business as opposed to just pure coolness factor [1]. But a number of people I know are quite happy just working on science projects.

Also note this is no different than Sun Microsystems for the 10 years I was there, it went from Workstation company to Enterprise Server company to Web services company. Very different companies all in the same skin.

So the only thing you can do is interview, accept if they offer a job, and form your own opinion.

[1] In full disclosure I would have liked to have worked on the Self driving car since it combines my interest in robotics with programming/engineering but alas Sebastian turned me down.
The sales from your Father's payroll system paid the taxes which paid the salaries of rocket scientists and medical researchers.

There is all too often an indulgent strain of self flaggelating snobbery on hacker news about what matters and what doesn't. "what matters" is the subject for an entire branch of relativistic theses and not an absolute designed to hold aspiring entrepreneurs to.
Ask HN: The dawn of a new monetary system.. or just a hoax?
http://www.recipco.com/

I came across this website while mistyping a research. Recipco aims to provide a new non-monetary trade system. And they seem to have quite a lot of resources and people behind this, from what James Fierro says in his last newsletter post from April 2012.

And here come they great big BUTs:

- Google search results for Recipco: 4,520
- Google News search results for Recipco: 0
- The website and their pitch seems like it was made in the early 2000s
- Businessweek profile (http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/board.asp?privcapId=7284104)
All recipco board members who actually are from Recipco have 43 relationships, which is the number of board members. I usually don't go into pseudo-paranoid mode but I'll allow it just this once.

Call me crazy but such a disruptive idea which is said to have interacted with over 200 multinational corporations should at least come up in a few random newspapers. This is just from a quick research I did,I find the idea interesting but something seems out of place.

Any thoughts?
thank god my math teacher didn't teach like that. This is the most confusing explanation of factoring I have ever seen.

for the apparently numerous people here who have no idea how to solve this equation generically, read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discriminant or watch this: http://www.khanacademy.org/math/algebra/quadtratics/v/discri...