skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still it's a big question if the dog is wagging the tail. You cannot know that for sure, can you?
I'm wondering if the ocean version of Google Earth will include a submarine simulator in the way that regular Google Earth had an airplane simulator.
What do you mean by "will"?

http://edufire.com/

Honestly though, it seems that almost all the classes on the site seem to be language learning, even though the site doesn't seem to explicitly cater to that.
Even if they weren't, it's trivially easy to center it with CSS, or attributes. In the td tag, align="center", or in CSS text-align: center;

Another pet peeve of mine with any CSS layout is that vertical alignment is a huge pain. With tables, you can use valign="top" in the td, or via CSS, vertical-align: top.
Ask HN: What would you like to see in a Testing and Targeting Platform?
I am in the process of developing a platform for enabling testing (like Google Website Optimizer) and a (on-site behavioral) targeting (like magnify360) platform.

By testing, I mean tools which enable split and multivariate testing of different aspects of the website and landing page. By targeting, I mean a platform which enables you to target your visitor based on (user-defined) segments they belong to. For example, you might want to show a visitor visiting at noon from belonging to a specific city different content (and offers) than a visitor arriving at your website at midnight through a display banner ad. My platform would make this kind of targeting super-easy.

What would you like to see in the testing and targeting platform that I am developing?
As someone who has gone through the immigration hoops, I've always been terrified of exactly this happening.

At some point, as with patent law and so many other laws that apply to tech, the "implementation" of immigration law hasn't done the best job of achieving the "intent". Surely, telling people to "get the hell out" when they've been valuable contributors, isn't in the best interests of the country?
But a lot of people use $ syntax.
Generalisations just don't work IMO.

All affirmations are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense. Consult your pineal gland! →←
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Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Tweeght.com
Hello HN,

I launched http://tweeght.com a few days ago. It's a Twitter based application to share your thoughtful and insightful tweets with #tweeght tag. Other users can Vote up, Retweet or Reply to your tweets.

The idea was born out of simple necessity - to share my thoughts, and follow thoughts from other interesting people on the Twitter. But due to other noise available on the Twitter, these thoughtful tweets were getting buried, and were hard to discover. So I created Tweeght in one week. Instead of following such tweets from interesting people in real time, I can just read interesting Tweets voted up by others.

So please review the application and let me know your all kinds of inputs.

- Do you find it useful?

- How was the usability, design and performance?

- Do you have suggestions, ideas to take it to next level?

Also, if you like this app, then I'll really appreciate if you could promote it amongst your Twitter followers.

Thanks a ton in advance for your inputs,

- Aditya
Education certainly can make a difference. However, let's consider the problems that you have in lower income school districts.

* Increased child abuse
* Poorer nutrition.
* Lower chance of a safety net. My parents helped me out with college expenses and I stayed at home, so I only had to work every other semester, taking challenging semesters off. I contrast that to friends who were working full time jobs making very little and taking as many hours as they could. It was a lot easier path for me, and it was still easier for families who sent their children off to school fully paid with spending money.

Great people will overcome these barriers, but there's a reason that middle class parents raise middle class children. Let's say that a series of median teachers would pass on students that make 1.2 million over their lifetimes, graduating high school on average. * Let's say that median teacher in a wealthy school district passes on students that averages college degrees because their parents have them, and those who don't are balanced out by those who get doctorates or MBAs or are handed their parents' businesses. As such, their studends make 2.1 million dollars in their lifetimes on average.

That's 75% more for being an average teacher.

Now, let's say that you are able to increase the average student's lifetime salary by 40% by being a great teacher. You've raised the lower income up to 1.68 million in their lifetimes, but you've raised that student from wealthier parents to nearly 3 million dollars! You have to actively decide not to pursue money in this system, even if that 40% means a world more to the lower income student than the higher income student.

* http://www.earnmydegree.com/online-education/learning-center...
middle class parents raise middle class children.

Is that always true? Do you have a source for that?
Not only that, kebabs as well: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_dri...
Unfortunately, It's hard to defend Wal-Mart for all the good they do when they insist on lobbying local councils for direct subsidies or tax breaks, often taking money from their small competitors.
I tried to open a neigborhood grociery store. It didn't destroy my life, but I did lose a lot of respect for the local city officials. Imagine if you wanted to start a website, but you couldn't work from your home on it because your home didn't have an ADA compliant restroom.
I always opt for HTML 4.01 Strict, just because the way XHTML is deployed on most sites is not actually XHTML, due to the mimetype that's being set. It really exists as badly malformed HTML.

Furthermore, I wouldn't say it's propaganda. In a sense it's somewhat like the difference between functional programming and non-functional programming, i.e there's a difference there in the interest of maintainability.
Native speakers of English can pick up a lot of Greek and Latin etymology, even if they don't formally study Greek and Latin etymology (which is a pretty good idea, by the way) so that they can find many technical terms to be every bit that transparent.

How transparent is the term 車床 ? It doesn't mean "chassis," nor does it mean "flatbed of a pickup truck," nor anything else that a speaker of another language might guess. Some terms in any language are just plain arbitrary, even if they are made up of simpler morphemes.
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Edit* this must be why google patented the floating offshore datacenters...so they can operate outside of territorial waters and evade extradition.

If Exec's are directly personally responsible for content created by user's of a site in Italy it kinda makes you think twice about operating a site there. Pretty scary actually. I don't condone the video, nor do I think web services should not take some responsibility to monitor content, but it's not feasible or sane to assume they can catch all or most of what might be illegal in one country or the other.
For me, it was basically a question of "what is the simplest thing that could possibly work?". I started with just taking a quick lunch and then going for a walk, then I added some running around the block near where I live, and finally I added in some basic body-weight exercises (push-ups, sit-ups, etc).
I guess the way I'm looking at it is that this argument has already happened. CSS doesn't necessarily need to be improved, rather the browser situation does, which is certainly not helping CSS to look better in comparison to Tables.

CSS3 (and CSS 2.1, which is still not fully supported in some cases) have various properties for forcing display models, but the caveat always ends up to be IE6/7.

Though to be fair, I guess you're right, this argument is rather essential to the web moving forward, I just have to wonder if this is really the argument worth having.
No. Just no.

Sure, once you have some users (and are actually providing a useful service, or something fun, to them), you could encourage them to get other people to join, perhaps via an invite link, or just a note on the main page asking them to. You could even give them benefits if they attract more users to the site (temporarily remove ads, give them some benefit, or whatever, depending on what type of site it is). But requiring users to get more users to join will drive them away, and is sort of an admission of the fact that the site isn't very good. After all, if it was, users would recommend it to their friends because they liked it, not because they had to.
It's clean, fast, and simple. However, I think the start page is a bit too busy. However, if you just list the States people might not bother clicking through. Not sure what the answer to that is! :)

You might want to do is allow people to select the State they want to see by default. Either via a cookie (but if most of your users use Internet cafes that mightn't work well) or by logging in. Or you could try guessing by IP address.

Also, you might not want to let user put their e-mails in a posting (like this one: http://www.nairalist.com/taraba/dating/1). If their address is on a public page it's going to get scraped and used by spammers.

Some work arounds to this might be to do what CraigsList does and allow people to use an anonymous address that you provide (which means you need to host and run your on e-mail server & service. Or use some JavaScript to obfuscate the addresses from e-mail harvesters, and so the actual address only get's assembled in an actual web-browser.

On the jobs section, I'd suggest categories for people to list their jobs under (Construction, IT, ...). It'll make it a little easier for people to search for jobs, especially if you get popular.

Anyway's good job, I hope it's successful, feel free to message me if you want more suggestions. :)
Why not try to give a good education to kids even if their families didn't teach them the value of it?

Fully agreed with the goal. And in fact the newly industrialized countries of east Asia (where I lived for many years) are conspicuous in reaching this goal. But they are also conspicuous in ability grouping of a certain kind (although with higher expectations for the below-average students than the United States has for above-average students) and for a substantial degree of family-chosen, privately funded supplemental education after school hours. My claim is that the instrumentality I propose, letting state funding follow the learner and letting the learner choose the provider of schooling with the program best suited for the learner, actually better achieves your commendable goal of providing all learners with a better education.
Readernaut Launched, Gorgeous book sharing site.
But there aren't a lot of differences in Spanish: sometimes "x" is "ks" and other times "j" (and which one can vary, for the same word, between regions); the "k" sound can be either "k" or "qu"/"c"; and outside of Spain, the "z"/"c" is indistinguishable from the "s". And there's the silent "h". And "ll" vs. "y", and occasionally "i" vs. "y". And then there are regular phonological shifts that vary by dialect, but those don't really pose a problem for spelling. But that's about the extent of the exceptions. It's very rare that I mispronounce a word after reading it, or misspell it after hearing it, the way I did as a child with "diarrhea" and "albeit" and "pe des tal" and no doubt dozens of others I can't even remember now.
I'm not sure what to think of your comment, to be honest.

It's not an issue of how CSS was created that would cause the scenario (need to be an expert for CSS) that you indicated, rather it's how CSS ended up being implemented by the various browser vendors.
First make sure your enthusiasm for an idea is not resulting from hidden assumptions you have made and not realized. Examine all your assumptions.

Also try to avoid falling prey to any cognitive biases. There is a list of them at wikipedia that is probably worth acquainting yourself with. Perhaps you might favor one idea over an other just because you have been thinking about it more recently. This would be related to the Recency Effect - increased saliance and recall of recent stimuli. Thus you will weight the benefits (and drawbacks) of recent ideas more than the benefits (or drawbacks) of past ideas.

One way around this might be to rate your ideas at multiple times after rethinking various past ideas fully.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recency_effect
Two main reasons why working is important to programmers in particular:

1.) In general, programming is a well paid, lucrative profession. It takes a long time to learn how to program well, so naturally the rewards are large. However, these rewards really don't mean all that much if you aren't in a position to enjoy them. Becoming a millionaire before you are 40 is cool and all, but most people would rather have a long lifespan full of good health.

2.) Programming naturally leads to a large amount of time sitting down in front of a screen. It is also a pretty high stress job, which often results in excessive use of caffeine or other stimulants. Both of these habits are draining and unhealthy. In the long run they are bad news.

My biggest challenge when working out is the mental focus required. It takes a lot of energy to manage your sleep and eating schedules to the necessary degree. Also, there is a lot of background knowledge and thinking involved in planning proper work out plans. Bottom line is that as a Computer Science student, I work on things that require a large amount of mental focus every day. Adding another item to the list is of course difficult.

Having been in excellent shape only a year or two ago (I was a competitive swimmer in high school), I can say with full confidence that being in shape has a huge impact on how you run the rest of your life. I found that I was able to accomplish much more with my time and take on larger loads because of the discipline I learned through being an athlete. There's no question in my mind that staying in shape is worth it, but the difficulty in doing so should not be ignored. I am still struggling to adjust to the demands of a Computer Science education. In high school swimming competitively pretty much meant working out 4 to 5 hours a day all total. That's simply impossible in college when studying any type of Engineering or Science. I'm sure it's also impossible for a founder/working professional as well. Instead I'm trying to figure out how much I can accomplish with only an hour a day. With proper dieting habits, I'm convinced the hour will be enough, but it is a challenge. It will be worth it, but it's not easy!

Friends I've talked to who also struggle with these types of issues talk about how they don't have time. Obviously I understand that, and I'm sure most readers of news.YC can relate :-). Ultimately though one hour a day is a small price to pay. Mentally programmers are capable of doing some pretty crazy things. Anyone who's done an all night coding marathon to finish a project on time knows what I'm talking about. Getting in shape is simply a matter of redirecting that mental energy towards a different cause.

EDIT: Something I forgot to add. Another big barrier that people face is an aversion to going to the gym, where there are people who are in really good shape. It certainly can be intimidating, but have faith in the fact that your body is biologically designed to respond to regular and difficult work outs. The difference between you and the guy next to you bench pressing twice your body weight is a lot smaller than you think.
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Let's say that [...] students that averages college degrees [...] make 2.1 million dollars in their lifetimes on average.

Does having a college degree increase earning power/potential? Do you have a source for that?
We need to start a hacker health site. Hackers know that there is the way everybody does it, and then there is the less obvious, simpler and infinitely cooler way to approach it. The same has got to be true for fitness. I for one hate the idea of driving to a gym to stand next to a bunch of sweaty guys who look like they actually belong there for an hour 6 days a week. There has to be other, more fun way of getting in shape and eating right that will work better in the hacker lifestyle.
My main beef with Walmart is the service. Fry's and Walmart are the only 2 big stores in America I frequent where service is this bad.

Target is much better. Compare returning an item or disputing the scanned price with Walmart; it's night and day.
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Flash mobs for not only fun/doing good, but also profit? This doesn't sound like something you can get wealthy doing, but if you have other priorities, seems reasonable.

Does anyone have figures/stats on how much of an impact social or "web 2.0" for-profit do-gooders are having?
2 Kids + 0 Husbands = Family
This article made me realize how much the internet has changed our expectations of what makes a good analogy. I seemed almost odd to base an analogy on an actual, physical process as low tech and fundamental as carving. I'm more used to hearing abstract qasi-buzzword laden analogies built on some ethereal technology illustration. Here's to returning the the real world in our online literature.
Google Earth dives under the sea
Google has lifted the lid on its first major upgrade to its global mapping software, Google Earth.
In theory it should be fine, but let's see how that kidney and its recipient do before declaring success on this one. And I'm sure the organ traders in less regulated parts of the world will be ecstatic at the possiblity of covering their tracks better.
Oh, I didn't mean YOU you. I meant the original author. :)
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Pretty neat idea.

I'm amazed at the variety of different apps that have been popping out around such a simple concept. Kind of reinforces the concept of Twitter as more of a protocol than an actual tool.

What kind of mining are you doing on twitter? Public timeline? Firehose?
Can you make the original data available? There were news of some data being made available some time ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=406664 but it quickly got taken off line.

Any body else has any data they can provide privately (or otherwise)?
The article didn't say anything about 'relocation'.

It only said that they Friendster's office is located in Sydney.
dupe:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=115216

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=187231
Couple of points:

1) I understand the use case, but asking people to trust you with their twitter credentials is bad news bears. Isn't some combination of OpenID/OAuth supposed to fix this (once twitter gets around to it, or whatever)?

2) I think the intersection of digg with twitter is interesting (don't know if it is novel), and using a tweet tag is a clean way to do it.

3) Your design is pretty clean, don't know if I like the color scheme or name though.

4) Is "thoughtful tweet" an oxymoron? Is there a good use case for high SnR microblogging?
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The best way to acquire or extinguish a habit is with consistent, salient feedback. noprocrast is a tool that helps to remind and reinforce the user of their desire to not procrastinate. i think adding a captcha to the noprocrast page would make it more useful as it would require more thought than a simple click-through, which is easily habituated as well.
Friendster has the biggest office in Manila, Philippines. If the execs are smart, they'll relocate to the same spot. Having all of your devs in Manila and execs somewhere else doesn't work well in practice.
There has to be other, more fun way of getting in shape

Say hello to 7-OXO DHEA (also known as 7-Keto DHEA): http://www.bulknutrition.com/advanced_search_result.php?&...

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Well, it's not even so much that. In general, corporate actually knows better than the local guy how many of an item are selling, they see it in the reports. Local guys don't have any better information.

Local guys don't control pricing either, in general. That too is set by corporate.

What was common, and I think what he may have been talking about, was employees discounting things for certain people. That's the only time I can think of when you'd look at profit margins. Maybe something placed in clearance, or resold open box after a return. Or, for instance, we'd give our bigger clients a discount on bulk orders of printer paper if they asked. Paper was pretty close to a loss leader anyway, so we'd sell it at "cost" or maybe even very slightly below.

The other thing that's ambiguous about what he said (and Wal-Mart's numbers in general) is exactly how they compute margins. Wal-Mart runs their own distribution chain, so unlike a mom and pop, who simply buys a product for a set price including delivery, Wal-Mart buys the product for a lower price and deals with getting it to the stores themselves.

So they pad their "cost" as seen by the employees by some amount to account for the supply chain, which can include a profit, or so I was told. Meaning that a store could still sell an item at what they consider cost, but corporate Wal-Mart might still make money on it.

Also, the lowest level employees are not empowered to change prices, though the supervisors (next to lowest level) generally can. However it's very common for the average floor person to ask the supervisor "hey can I sell this to this guy for $x because it's open box and I need that space for the new seasonal products tomorrow anyway" and the supervisor to simply approve it.

Wal-Mart pays generous bonuses to stores for achieving certain profit amounts, so employees, knowing the margin, are encouraged to not dip below it where possible. Otherwise for all an employee cared, he'd sell everything for $1.
i cannot stress enough the need for a warning before looking at that image.
Relevant is this snippet from http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html:

In my own work, we do a dozen or more experiments every day, and our typical value is p=0.0000001% -- one in a billion or so. Sometimes we get a p of one in a trillion. And even then we agonize over whether we should believe the results of the experiment.

Don't you wish you could do a dozen or more experiments on human subjects each day, with a p of one in a billion?
Preventing the most common CSS bugs
You're talking about a tool whose name is "ps". Unusual names for commands are par for the Unix course.
yes a strop is more meaningful on a delicate foil-like edge of a straight than something like a chisel

shaving with a straight is a real challenge and fun. it also teaches you to chill out, relax, and pay attention. one slip of the wrist and...