skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Landing pages are the "salesperson (or salespeople, sometimes it makes sense to have multiple)" for the product. They are absolutely needed in some form or another for a large majority of products - "products" that many of us are interested in don't need them as much, we've heard enough about them elsewhere to know we at least want to take a test drive. The majority of the web population isn't like that. They need to be convinced to take that test drive. The landing page can be a "used car salesperson" kind of page (and I generally hate those, but they work for a lot of types of products) or a "soft sell informational" kind of page; either way, they need to have good closes and other hooks.

The difference between a good and bad landing page is the difference between success and failure.
AFAIK, the answer is no. I honestly don't think they need to. The complexities are mostly a result of globalization (different governments policies, taxes, etc) and changing business models/products (material management, pricing schemes, etc)... all of this at scale.
Hearing a few convert stories over the past few months, I'm getting the impression that Google is evolving at a steady pace and is now at par with the revolution that iOS created when it first debuted. Seems like Android is going to continue to improve while iOS gets stuck in a rut.

I've been considering a switch to Android for my next upgrade, which I never thought would happen. The Android platform has reached a point where it's at least as compelling as iOS, though probably more for technically minded users. I've got increasing nerd envy over some features in Android that iOS will probably never see, or if it does it won't be for quite a while.

Has anyone here regretted making the jump from iOS to Android?
Using multiple cursors simultaneously with Vim
Does anyone know if the Lit will qualify for the US governments $7500 electric car subsidy?
Nice work! Years ago I made flexlists.com which did quite well; we have quite a bit of fanatical followers but no time to work on it. Maybe we should have a chat?
I suppose I could have written, "I could have told you that." There are also typos in my post about education. Grrrr...
My primary focus from here on out is statistics and matrix algebra focused on powering analytics. So yes, some of those functions would be of interest to me.
We're certainly hoping that the Win8 version will go well and we made sure that it would work well on tablets.

Both our iOS and Android versions have tablet optimized interfaces and we see a significant amount of tablet use for both.

A somewhat interesting side note, our iPad top chart rankings lag behind iPhone by a few hours. Presumably people get the app on their phone while at the event and then go home and install it on their iPad as well.
I don't think so, here's their full current list: https://www.23andme.com/health/all/
I don't know how this is useful, but I want to use it!
Not sure if you noticed this on their website. Covers a bit of what has been discussed already but I figured while we are talking about the insurance implications involved we should include the answer 23andme already gives the public.

https://customercare.23andme.com/entries/21262356-could-my-g...
No, I have no evidence. I'm just basing it on common sense. If you spend any time in American inner cities, you will quickly learn that it is not a place that you would wish any child to have to grow up in. The more time you can keep them away from that environment, the better, even if it is by mandating longer school hours.

The subculture of urban America is fundamentally broken. It is not really comparable to other countries' subcultures, with the possible exception of Gypsies in Europe.
What audience do you have in mind calling this advanced? (Not criticising your library, it looks useful).
Clickable links:

NotesTab: http://www.notestab.com

iPhone/iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notestab/id502287001?ls=1...

Mac (Lite): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notestab-pro/id506772307?ls=...

Mac (Pro): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notestab-pro/id506772307?mt=...

Windows 8: http://apps.microsoft.com/webpdp/en-us/app/notestab/b44bcc73...
A lot of improvements have reached production. Solar cells are much cheaper per watt than they were just a few years ago. However, as the first comment on that page explains, this article has some pretty confused numbers.
That timer is long expired. This article (which uses "craft" as a synonym for "art") directly opposes Knuth's [1] from 1974 -- I'll let you guess which one carries more weight.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html
Zynga's Patent for Game based incentives for commerce
I do love that feature. I developed something like this a couple years ago for a back office part of a project:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/4p5m4719ehvpohc/GUEHcYecYv

I don't have a good example of the project any longer, but I took a few snapshots during the development process. My test page allowed you to upload a logo and have the page dynamically change to match the new logo. The link above is a gallery of a few of my tests.

Sometimes it did a pretty good job. Other times the results were a little more 'meh.'

The original code was pretty hacked together in PHP and a little client side JS, though I've been considering resurrecting it as a ruby gem.

There was a bug in the code in one of these examples. The 5th image or so is of a tornado with a bright orange background. The code failed to select the orange as an interesting color to use. The result still looks fine but I would have liked for it to have sampled that bit as well. It's been long enough that I can't recall what the exact problem was.
AdDuplex: Surface Still Rules Nascent Windows 8 Devices Market
I have been using www.knownhost.com for several months and so far they are excellent. They offer a managed VPS which means if you need something done and you aren't quite sure how to do it, they will handle it for you. They have pretty responsive email support too and they are always very helpful.

One thing that I really like about their support is if they do something on your server for you, they will send an email of exactly how the went about accomplishing the task i.e. all the linux commands they used. From what I have found, it also looks like they by far have the best prices for a managed VPS.

They also offer dedicated boxes so if you outgrow a VPS than you could always upgrade to one of those.
They will give the information as required by law, such as court order. So yes they will when they are ordered to.

Given the history of the NSA/CIA and so on, they probably will try to harvest all available genetic data they can to help identify people they are interested in the future. Genetic information without an identity can be matched after the fact, probably by more extensive biometric border checkpoints in the next few decades.

See the 'Information Disclosure Required By Law' section:
https://www.23andme.com/legal/privacy/
Proposed compromise:

1. Anyone can write code. 14 years old? No school? Fine. Doesn't matter. If it's good, people will voluntarily use it. Absolutely anyone can write code, and if it's good, people will use and pay for it.

2. No manager can make me read your code as a requirement of my job unless you've proven (by certification) yourself to be at a level where less than 5% of professional programmers currently are.

This would work for me.
New Twitter iPhone app has photo editing powered by Aviary
I rarely post to HN - mostly just read it - but the first page for a search on google for "vim multicursor" has three links to HN were people claim Vim's lack of multicursor support as a primary reason they use another text editor. I figured there would be some interest.
Mobile Burst (A Controversial Article by MG)
We decided to just focus on the search and map experience and nail it, rather than add a whole lot of features at a lesser quality.
Misleading title.

They have tripled the efficiency of a specific type of solar cell (organic photovoltaics), that is extremely inefficient to begin with. They are still almost an order of magnitude away from the efficiency of the best solar cells that have been built.
What you are saying is so true that it becomes almost irrelevant to the discussion. Or, rather, if people understand what you are saying then the rest of the discussion is moot. So the discussion is premised on the fact that many people don't have enough statistical understanding to consider things through that lens.

Let us assume that the absolute risk is non-negligible, and that the predisposition is also non-negligible. Even then, the way that an individual responds to knowledge of genetic risk is idiosyncratic. Some will fight the predisposition even harder, others will succumb even quicker, still others won't know or care.

Because we are talking about the psychology of the individual, and because people do not understand statistics, much less the difference between absolute and relative risk, the fact that the absolute risk for virtually every disease is very small will not matter when an individual considers the issue psychologically.
Complete solution to today's problem in one line of python

def gen(univ, n=5): return univ if n == 1 else [x+y for y in gen(univ,n-1) for x in univ if all([(x+y)[start:start+upto] != (x+y)[start+upto:start+upto*2] for start in range(len(x+y)) for upto in range(1,(len(x+y)-start+2)/2)])]

... god that looks ugly. Call it with

>>> gen(["1", "2", "3"], 5)
['13121', '23121', '21321', '31321', '12321', '12131', '32131', '21231', '31231', '13231', '13212', '23212', '21312', '12312', '32312', '12132', '32132', '23132', '21232', '31232', '31213', '13213', '23213', '12313', '32313', '32123', '13123', '23123', '21323', '31323']
Meet the world's biggest bat [video]
Calling Wordpress a framework is like calling Symfony a programming language.
Why Lisp? 3 answers
front end devs.

I speak for myself when I say a lot of us aren't that good at math.
This is clearly not my perspective. I'm just illustrating the opposite viewpoint of the one you espoused for the purpose of reminding you that there is an unhappy alternative viewpoint.
Yes, really good point about confidence and ambition too, definitely another key aspect to this issue.
Uses For A Message Queue
Looking for c++ ( on linux ) developers in Boston/SF 
I am looking for c++ ( on linux ) developers in Boston/SF area for some contract work

Work can be done remotely ( from your home and flexible hours , but need to be available for in person meetings at least once a month, either in Boston or SFO)

Strong with network/socket programming with C/C++ on Linux platform ( primarily using GCC

It's for a startup, and the rate is $60per hour

IM me for more details or with your résumé
So the question could be rephrased to a better analogy: is architecture art? A faulty building can kill people, but buildings can be expressions of ideas. In other words, there is a utilitarian form of architecture, which involves making the most efficient/simple/effective solution to a problem. But there's also the side that produces iconic and truly beautiful buildings for no other purpose than beauty.
> FWIW, it does say: "Over the next few days

Fair enough. I've got a trigger finger, probably because Yahoo has such a proven record of disappointing. (Yes I did not read her letter in detail.)
Building a kernel of your own is fairly trivial. The potentially less trivial part is keeping it up-to-date with security fixes, etc. Not impossible by any means, but it does require a bit of a commitment in time, build environment, etc.
Just sandboxing what changes themes can make to the behavior of the system would be a win. As far as WordPress is concerned today, there's "themes" and there's "plugins", but there's no separation of what those two things can do -- plugins can change the site's look and feel, themes can change how the site (and WordPress itself!) works. As far as WP itself is concerned they're both just big bags of PHP code that can do anything PHP can do.

That leads to all sorts of debugging fun when something weird is happening, and opens up naïve users who assume that a "theme" is somehow safer than a "plugin" (because all themes do is change the look and feel, right?) to security risks from downloaded or hacked-up themes.
I wish there were more screenshots of the App. I know you are pushing people to get started on the free trial and to actually experience the app but I really like to browse through all the various screens before diving in.

Looks like something I would consider dumping campfire for (campfire has never made me happy).
Netflix Ranks Google Fiber as Fastest U.S. ISP
Do you have a source for PHP 5.5 dropping straight MySQL support? I'd like to read more.
This reminds of the work @matasar and @attaboy did back in 2007 on Dabble DB:
http://blog.dabbledb.com/2007/04/white--or-green.html
I think you may be a little confused about the difference between causation and correlation. There is a correlation between obesity and poverty, but whether poverty is a cause of obesity or not is far from certain, and it is my stance that it is not a cause at all - and especially not because 'processed foods are cheaper than healthy foods.' Anyone who believes that has not spent nearly enough time in grocery stores, and anyone who believes that poor people are fat primarily because of an inability to afford healthy foods has not spent enough time around poor people.
I signed up for their service few years ago, honestly didn't get any useful info. My wife has genetic mutation that seriously affects her health, nothing in their profile is even remotely indicating (that we could see).

Overall I am pretty disappointed with data I received from their service. For example I supposedly have genes that make me risk for obesity, yet I was most of my life very skinny and in recent years gain some weight because I thought it wasn't healthy to be so skinny. So, I wonder what kind of useful into others can get, when we can't even confirm basic info. I also believe (it was a while ago) that color of our eyes was 'guessed' wrong'.
Quite unrelated but could I ask you a question or two (via e-mail/irc) about working in Swiss IT?
Much like Drupal, WordPress can be bent into something vaguely resembling a framework, if you're the type of person who enjoys that sort of thing. But being the type of person who likes using WordPress as a general-purpose framework is sort of like being the type of person who enjoys being tied up and beaten with a rubber hose. It's a weird, weird kink.
If upgrading is not for you, ArchLinux is not for you. You should run a full pacman -Syyu at least once a week and clean up .pacsave files at least once a month. Probably even more often if you are on testing.
So, what's new except for the size? GaAs has been around for _quite_ a while.

Discrete high-frequency and low-noise transistors are made from GaAs for more than 15 years.
_why took it pretty far, indeed (these are images):

http://viewsourcecode.org/why/redhanded/images/hpricot-aby.p...

http://viewsourcecode.org/why/redhanded/images/a-personal-ex...

http://viewsourcecode.org/why/redhanded/images/aside-from-th...

http://viewsourcecode.org/why/redhanded/images/gem-mirror-on...

/!\ /!\ Epilepsy warning: /!\ /!\ http://viewsourcecode.org/why/redhanded/images/irb-lex.gif

Ditto, to a lesser extent: http://viewsourcecode.org/why/hackety.org/images/goa-trance-...

And then, of course, Hackety.org:

Hackety.org is for artful computer hacking. Mind expanding code.
Hobbyists & amateurs welcome. Business trends and language wars?
None for us, thankyou!
[More](http://viewsourcecode.org/why/hackety.org/about/)

http://viewsourcecode.org/why/hackety.org/
As usual, the numbers in the pop media news article are nonsense.

From the paper's abstract:

In harvesting scattered light, the Omni acceptance can
increase PCE by additional 81% over ITO-SC, leading to a
total 175% increase (i.e. 8% PCE).

PCE is power conversion efficiency-- 100 watts of sunlight in, 8 watts of electricity out.

Very good for an organic solar cell. Pretty bad for a silicon solar cell. (which will do 27%) Absolutely terrible for a multijunction cell. (44%)
I've gone to a number of hackathons in NYC in the past few months. As a designer you have to be very versatile. If you are a designer with front-end chops like me, you will be in VERY high demand since you have a good idea of the LOE for design implementation in HTML/CSS/jQuery.

Also, many back-end devs like to use bootstrap in interest of time, so knowing when/where to use custom design elements vs. using native bootstrap elements helps a lot. I've personally worked on bootstrap projects as well as 100% custom-designed.
I think it's important to note, as the article does, that Union Square Ventures has put out more money this year than any other year since 2004.
>No manager can make me read your code as a requirement of my job unless you've proven (by certification) yourself to be at a level where less than 5% of professional programmers currently are

You mean if you were hired by Facebook in '04 you'd have refused to read their source code?
Electric Sheep for iPad Launched
Is there any way to go to a real doctor and get these tests done? It would be very interesting information to have, but I don't trust a startup with it at all.
Why don't you A/B test your theory?

It is tempting to think that a better mouse trap does not need marketing. But a better mouse trap + marketing beats a better mouse trap every time.
Anyone who chooses to use "TL;DR" at the start of an article where professionals put "Abstract" or "Synopsis" (or, God forbid, "Introduction") is, whilst not necessarily a posing hipster, at least subverting their own credibility.
Wave's solution sounded good, until the part where they mention for automated tax deposits it's an extra 25/user so it becomes the same prices as most other providers.
With 1 million genotyped customers, they could probably start inferring the genotypes of many non-customers with a modest probability.
> Ad-Hoc builds, which must be specified for each phone. Again that doesn't scale.

It's not strictly one-to-one. You can stick all your test devices into one provisioning profile, and then all your builds will work on all the devices.

So the hardest part is asking your test users for their UUIDs.
It's a music manager you're forced to use on Apple hardware. It's awful for everything except automating what music goes on the device for those who don't care about what they listen to.
There is, strace does just that. perf trace is still evolving though and appears promising. See, for example, scripting support:
http://lwn.net/Articles/371448/
Ask HN: winter break goals?
For those of you in university/college (or just have a longer holiday), what are your goals for the break?

Personally, I'm working on my art/drawing, CSS, and hoping to launch a beta version of a site.
You can already see system calls with strace.
CentOS 6 actually does support the initrwnd 10 modification. I forget what exactly is involved but we have it working on our servers where I work.
I just shot you an email to try to see if you'd be interested in trying out ZenPayroll as well! We strive to be the most delightful payroll software out there. Part of this is making the initial setup process as painless as possible. Getting setup takes less than 10 minutes for most companies we've onboarded.
Great resource, I just added this to my list of programming puzzle resources -- http://joshbranchaud.wordpress.com/2011/07/09/my-somewhat-co...
Of the 2 I very much prefer Drupal. It's a bad CMS, but a great CMF. Wordpress is in my opinion the exact opposite.

That said, I haven't checked out the last 2 versions or so.
Playing God for Fun and Profit
At some point, the results of what the side process did have to get communicated to the parent process. You can reduce the size of the channel, but you can't close it completely. Bugs happen. Bugs in never-executed code happen and tend to stick around longer.
Visualizing the Heartbeat of Twilio: a datavisualization of Twilio calls
Voxlineas is a live visualization of phone calls being made on Twilio. We built this as a way to show the heartbeat of one call and of all calls being made on API in context of each other. This data installation gives form and tangibility to Twilio’s complex yet otherwise invisible system. It shows an anonymized view of calls routing through the Twilio platform.
That's not their fault; that's the fault of the state of genetic research. (And of the fact that the heritability of any given trait is not 1.)
Linux kernel 3.7.0 released
> Really? I've always felt underpaid.

I think the sentence before the one you quoted clears things up:

>> Many of us survive by Google searching, using stackoverflow and better documented frameworks. And, there still aren't enough of us. Many of us feel we are overpaid, but most would never admit it.

If you're shipping real software for real businesses that weaves a half-dozen technologies together in a way that none of the business guys knew was even possible, and you proposed and executed on the idea.

If you're in a large corporation working 40 hours a week, always clocking out at five, and there are no consequences for dates slipping, then yeah, I could maybe understand feeling overpaid.

But if I'm building the systems that make the business? The business could not operate without this software? About to make 5 salaried employees 1.4x productive? Yes, I'll charge a lot, and yes, I'm worth every penny.
I said that information is intangible, not that all intangible things are information.

You are being absurd. A physical book and a digital representation of the information are completely different. The only thing that they have in common is that once used you get the same information. If you steal a book, that is theft. If you copy a book that is copyright infringement. The difference is that the person who had the book stolen from then is deprived of property in one example and in the other they are not.

This is not a simple matter. Making a copy is not theft. There are not clear lines here.
Thanks for the feedback, we'll be adding more of them, and blogging about individual features.

We actually have a Campfire importer in case you want to retain your chat history.
It really strongly depends on what you're writing. There's a world of difference between hacking together a social networking web app and building software for a flight guidance system.

Professional accreditation and training may well be wasted on social web app coders, but I sure wouldn't want to fly in an airplane that was controlled by a weekend hacking project written by someone who just learned their first programming language the day before...
A biased RNG for a stream cipher is very difficult to recover from.
http://news.php.net/php.internals/53799