skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be interesting to see what tokenadult has to say about this. Myself, I do not know enough to form an opinion. One point of confusion I have is I do not think these comparisons can be meaningfully made due to certain dependencies. If the U.S. is leveraging its innovation momentum and absorbing the top Math people from the countries that score highest on Intl. Math Tests then one cannot properly state that those teaching methods are not important.

On the other hand; openess to dissent, open culture and ease of doing business can act as a positive attractor of creative talent, suggesting teaching prowess is meaningless beyond some threshold level. As such, optimizing on teaching instead of "cultural tolerance of dissent" may be missing the forest for the trees. Consider Signapore. It scores high in Education, GDP per capita, ecomony and business; it has a very low friction to business and top Math scores yet does not score so well in innovation. So maybe culture is key. Too much respect for seniors may deter trend bucking research programs.

Either way, as other countries develop noteworthy institutions, improve economies and lower barriers to business they will be better able to retain talent and perhaps we can fiinally factor out what variables are key.
I don't get how your 'desktop/mobile complex' works. 12+3+3==6+12+6??

check out http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/grid.php
It's interesting that the mundane stood out to you.

The huge Computer Activity break in the first half of August stood out to me.
From my (albeit limited) observations I thought they never turned away citizens but obviously I was wrong. Getting appointments with the US embassy can sometimes be a challenging ordeal. They do however make allowances for emergency appointments which can be very helpful at times.
I like an article about mastery that doesn't talk exclusively about 10,000 hours. The idea of nailing a subject's fundamentals is import. Similar to the story, I did some of my best academic work in the subjects that I knew the least about because I had to question everything.

I found the same thing to apply in UNIX. The folks who opened all the doors and learned all the details (beyond what class asked) were the ones who could later write 2 or 3 line scripts to solve most any problem.
No, you really can't do this. If you think you can, tell me what you think the output of this program will be:

class X
{
int a;
public:
X() : a(123) { }
int get_a() { return this ? a : 1; }
};

class Y
{
int b;
public:
Y() : b(456) { }
int get_b() { return this ? b : 2; }
};

class Z : public X, public Y
{
int c;
public:
Z() : c(789) { }
int get_c() { return this ? c : 3; }
};

#include <iostream>
int main()
{
Z *z = NULL;
std::cout << z->get_a() << '\n';
std::cout << z->get_b() << '\n';
std::cout << z->get_c() << '\n';
}
Right - I understand that this was a tangential point.

But I just see it brought up consistently (that Instagram is getting worse because of decreasing average photo quality) - which I don't get.
Step back for a second and think about what the number 0 means. If I give you 0 dollars, what have I given you?

Or go to Wikipedia: 'The wThe word zero came via French zéro from Venetian zero, which (together with cypher) came via Italian zefiro from Arabic صفر, ṣafira = "it was empty", ṣifr = "zero", "nothing". ord zero came via French zéro from Venetian zero, which (together with cypher) came via Italian zefiro from Arabic صفر, ṣafira = "it was empty", ṣifr = "zero", "nothing".'
"classic" web sites work fine, but bitmapped elements are scaled and end up looking blurry (especially compared to vector elements like text, SVG)
Ryan, your confidence means the world to us. Thanks! (And we'll try not to let you down!)
It is unquestionably difficult, but the idea here is to improve the experience for that smaller percentage while not hindering the majority. Depending on your site, you can do this using CSS media queries so the browser can determine what asset to load. The only disadvantage is an increase in bandwidth utilization for the retina consumers.

Clearly that's not practical for many sites at this time, but the options are there and it's relatively easy to do if your site is built via the spritesheet style.
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> [...]if this isn't a poorly thought out clumsy attempt at caricature/satire/parody.

From the footer: "This site is satire. It pokes fun at the destructive idea of arbitrary diversity, or tokenism, and the people who promulgate it."
Also known as: embarrassingly parallel problems.
Anything I've heard 10+ times before. If I try to listen to a new song or album while I'm concentrating I'll lose focus too often.
Sure lets 4x the requirements for download and rendering for a fraction of a % of the user-base.

Im all for advancement but doing it blindly and you will trip and fall.
export EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano
I know that Scrivener supports Latex and other formats via Multi Mark Down. It's well regarded by some writers. Since I am not clear exactly what you are trying to accomplish, I can't tell how relevant Scrivener's success is to your project.

http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener.php
Device pixel ratio in CSS is how I've seen every website implement retina support. Definitely possible, and not at all uncommon.
It is 3D. In recent years, both a 3D and 2D view has been available - the 3D view (complete with the "circle of awesome", an automated camera which analyzes the match to figure out where the action is - at least, they had that a few years ago) is flashy for the spectators, while you can get a much better sense of the overall strategy by watching the 2D view. Both views are displayed onscreen at the final tournament.
Wait... Whose Voice API is AT&T Running? Where does Twilio Land?
Good stuff, I'll probably use this for clients who say, "What have you been doing? It looks done to me!"
I didn't even realize you had to scroll down. I saw some bouncy text and images with no navigation hints whatsoever. I clicked around, went 'eww' and closed the tab. Once I figured out that you had to scroll down, I admit I found effect pretty cool. I think adding an arrow pointing down on the main page would help.
I think BitInstant is about as easy at it gets if you're in the US.
Using `find` is nice to get just directories:

$ find . -type d -maxdepth 1
Serve retina assets to everyone indiscriminately? Sorry Zach, but if that's your professional advice then you suck at serving the 99% who do not have a fat pipe and a fat processor at their constant disposal on every device they use and in every location they frequent.
Stamp Money Out Of Politics
background: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/campaign-seeks-to-stam...
We'll be creating a FAQ from this HN discussion. We intend to be very transparent.

It is free for the developer. Even though it is different, we found it easiest when employers pay us similar to how they pay contingency recruiters, placement fees. Typically recruiters charge 25-35% of your first year salary, we charge a flat 25K fee to the employer that hires you. We also have a unique offering for startups where they can amortize the payments over 12 months. This pricing structure means more interesting companies can afford to be on our platform and therefore more interesting opportunities for developers.
They went back to a purely commercial model though.
The only other open source downloadable alternative crashes on its demo web site: http://simonser.fr.nf/symbiose/

Edit: it works fine if you give it some time. I kinda like it already...
This author's insightful article is easily destroyed by his sheer arrogance and the tone at which he makes an inappropriate statement, attacking the majority of the users.

"The Retina MacBook Pro is still very much a luxury item, but we've had a Retina iPad for almost a year and the iPhone 4 for two and half years. And yet, the internet is still having a hard time adopting."

Because the rest of the internet aren't Apple fanboys and unfortunately, that's the massive majority.

The ideal solution - Don't give a shit about Retina displays, because these tiny fraction of Retina users are already 'used to' looking at normal websites in a pixelated fashion. They'll get used to your website too.

Until the retina resolution is adopted by the rest of the Internet, you have my zero fucks.
Stamping out big money in politics
site: http://stampstampede.org/
"When we make a sale, we want it to be because the copy addressed customer pain and offered a solution they could connect with on an emotional level. We don’t want to make a sale because a customer is smart enough to swim through a list of features he doesn’t care about, and come up with a reason to pay money on his own."

I completely disagree with this.

From day one, we've eschewed all of the little tricks and the mind games. We have no time for users that pull the trigger based on our font sizing or our color scheme.

On a deep, gut level, I just know that this monkey business ends up being zero-sum.

Ask yourself this: as an end user ... as a consumer ... do you think you should be trying to make yourself more or less susceptible to this kind of work ? And then what does that say about practicing it on your products ?
I have a little retina less mixin I use (when using bootstrap mostly) that I modified from the retina.js solution. It's the same solution with additional parameters. I've found it to be useful when doing retina projects.

I put it up on github here: https://github.com/erikflowers/retina-mixin
In what way are HDPI assets going against mobile initiatives? The vast majority of Retina display are on mobile devices.
Quadrupling, surely?
Looks pretty sweet. It's been a few years since I've done the job-search thing, but this looks like what I'd want to use.

Now that I think about it, this reminds me a bit of Feynman's pickup technique [0] - why waste your time with the whole song-and-dance routine if what you want was never on offer to begin with?

Anyway, good luck!

[0] http://www.roberttwigger.com/journal/2010/9/16/richard-feynm...
There are also distortions that can seem cataracts like when you wake up. That's just a residue/film on your eye that gets rehydrated and cleaned up as you wake up, it's not a cataract.
ah, ok. that's conveniently left out of the 'demo' ...but what was i expecting from a youtube video?

thanks!
Our focus has been developers because we are most familiar with how messed up the status quo is for us and how we can improve it.

That being said we have also seen an overwhelming response from those that don't write code. We are figuring out how to expand the product.
Fitness Workouts for the Startup Entreprenuer
Do you think the desktop is dead?
There's a lot of hype surrounding mobile first. As long as they keep manufacturing large displays, I believe we still have a long way to go. What do you think?
But if I quit LinkedIn, what will be my honeypot for professional interviewing or recruiters, and where will I keep my long-form resume ;-)?
Right but that's not what the article advises.
Earnings are what's left after they make their capital investments. And after they make all the investments they deem necessary, they're still posting large, stable, recurring profits.

Ah yes, only non-telcos should show a profit for shareholders. My point, that you go out of your way to miss, is that 1. both sides are for profit corps 2. Free.fr and other might have to increase prices to keep up with demand 3. if Free.fr, Verizon or At&t imposed usage caps the same crowd would go after them with as much vigor.

And bringing in Google is just a complete non-sequitur. AT&T can't afford to pay for upgrades because Google has a lot of money? Nonsense.

How about let Google (or Netflix or ...) chip in? They are making a killing relative to telcos.
Blogs have indeed disrupted print, which is why the New York Times lost its bet in 2002.

http://blog.longnow.org/02008/02/01/decision-blogs-vs-new-yo...

Long Bets has arrived at a decision for Long Bet #2
between blogger Dave Winer and Martin Nisenholtz of the NY
Times. At stake is US$2000.00 plus half the interest that
has accrued over the last 5 years in the Farsight Fund,
all of which will go to the charity of the winner’s
choice.

In the bet Winer asserts, “In a Google search of five
keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories
of 02007, weblogs will rank higher than the ‘New York
Times‘ Web site”. ...

The Long Bets decision on this bet is in favor of Winer’s
side, weblog page ranks came out ahead of the NY Times. We
will be calculating interest and sending a check on to
Dave Winer’s charity of choice the World Wide Web
Consortium in the next month.

How could it be any other way, with hundreds of millions of people -- each with their own domain expertise -- now able to compete with journalists who often have little knowledge outside of J-school? For the topics one cares about (whether they be Linux or photography or finance), you can and will find much better reporting on specialist blogs for free, outside of the lowest-common-denominator mainstream media. And everyone has some topics they care about.

Similarly, I encourage people who believe otherwise to go ahead and bet like Martin Nisenholtz of the NYT bet. Bet that Hollywood will survive unscathed in the wake of SOPA/PIPA and YC RFS9, in an era of 1 billion plus portable high quality video cams (soon depthcams), in an era where a Macbook Pro can do professional quality video editing. Bet by buying the stock of movie companies if you believe they haven't yet hit their peak, by investing in the current physical distribution model, by wagering that actors and actresses will make tens of millions in perpetuity. Bet with the confidence that only internet nerds believe Hollywood is due for a reckoning with technology.

Others will bet the other way. That's the only way to really test the confidence of an industry prediction of this kind.
judofyr's code is actually valid. Most "value" classes have compare: — NSString, NSDate, NSNumber, etc.
find . -type d

edit: for the same output as your command you can use:

dir -l
>We want to avoid becoming legal advisors who are required to know the law in every market we operate.

Uh, sorry. I like Airbnb, and I like to support startups, but trying to make the claim that you should't have to know the law in every market you operate in just doesn't fly. If you don't know the laws in a market, don't operate in that market until you do. Hire people who know the law. Bring on lawyers from different regions. Have even just one person whose job is to research the laws in the markets you're moving into.

I don't want to have to know the speed limits of every road I drive on, but if I don't pay attention to the signs (or the highway code for unmarked roads), you better believe the officer won't care what I do or do not want to know.
Very fast and unfiltered initial reaction:

This site is very heavy. Literature reviews are a process of finding the tens of papers you need out of thousands of candidates, and this site gives ten results per slow-loading page. The results take up a lot of screen real estate, and are not optimized for scanning. Whitespace usage seems to be intended as something to make the site look pretty and modern without any particular functional value.

The right column is annoying. The "Authors" heading is way to the right, making it hard to figure out what it's supposed to be. And all enties in the search I did seemed to be labelled "related publications", so it's not immediately clear why it would be headed "Authors". The author pages are pretty slight when you get to them and, again, are not well-optimized for quick visual extraction of information.

The paper page is terrible. Even on my 1920x1200 screen, a long paper name takes up over half the page height. Useful targets (like obtaining PDFs and bib info) are small and hard to find relative to the giant, useless title. And why on earth would one need to click on a "see more" in order to see the full list of citations? When you do click through, the sliding transition holds no value and the list is filled with duplicates (e.g., http://scholr.ly/paper/2887595/enhancing-search-performance-...).

Google Scholar, despite the fact the you can't easily surf citations in both directions, is very useful for hoovering up a large number of papers so their relevance can be assessed. This site is not, and doesn't seem to provide any particular new value in paper discovery. If there's something else going on here, it isn't immediately obvious.

The academic search space has a lot of opportunity for improvement, but for me the interface of this site just adds friction to an already painful process.
As much as I find LinkedIn's web site overloaded and hard to follow, unsubscribing from the emails is trivial. It's not just that they have a convenient "Unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the email, you can actually use that link even if 1) you're not currently logged in or 2) you are logged in as another user (I have several accounts).

I give them credit for that.
How embarrassing, I guess I'd better close some bugs.
I use long URL because I want unique URL that will never change.

Specifying what item(s) should be targeted in a pool of possibly millions, with endless possible combinations is bound to require some kind of precise pointer.

Here is an example URL I use:
https://bacnethelp.com/vis/overview/KHs6cHJvamVjdC1pZCAiNTA1....

What I could do, however, is use some kind of shortening url scheme, kinda like google maps: http://goo.gl/maps/3uP8y.

I'm still uncertain about which way is better.

EDIT: Of course I mean a local shortening url, pointing to my own databases.
Hooking up a bank account to a bitcoin related startup seems risky, and waiting 4 days for funds to post seems inconvenient.
Here's my list, a very compact plaintext file: http://mmb.pcb.ub.es/~carlesfe/unix/tricks.txt
Dunno what "better" means, but this also works:

find -maxdepth 1 -type d
I'm curious: in

"Every pitch received improves our personalized matching algorithm, making pitches get even better over time."

how would you distinguish a "good" pitch from a "bad" one?
I guess that people who are living with change can't see it clearly. Whenever someone tells me "we're not innovating any more" I suggest they try a simple exercise;

Revert your life to the standard it had at the 'end' of the innovation period (this guy would have to go back to 2000). Remove all of the things you couldn't do then, today. Convert your utilities to the same that you had then (for many that would mean going back to dial up Internet but I digress). Now spend a week in that life, come back and tell me that innovation has stopped since then.

Fundamentally, people seem to start 'seeing' innovation in their teens, which seems to be coming out of everything, and then by the time they hit their 30's they stop seeing it. My thesis is that it isn't because innovation and change has stopped happening, it is because they have become accustomed to it. Hence the exercise to 'see' what you couldn't see because you were in the middle of it.
It all boils down to the server/client. as in: does it matter if the http spec says X if the most used browser only sends X/2?

back in 90-something i had to research that for url and cookies.

msdn specs said something like
"[url|cookies] should be at least [some size]"

mozilla's and w3c specs said:
"[url|cookies] should be at most [some size]"

for everything. url lenght. cookie lenght. number of cookies per domain. number of cookies per subdomain... it was like that for ALL items. one said 'at least' the other 'at most', and for added fun, all the values where exactly the same on both.
The Transaction processing always will be desktop.
Yes, very! What about amending our profiles? I just signed up and have a github profile, but not a resume that's particularly up to date. Is there some way I can add it if I brought it up to date?
Fast hacks: GameDay Live, a second-screen experiment in about 14 hours
Every single developer is reviewed by a human before we begin any matchmaking and we also screen every employer (this means names are in a predictable format).
Would be nice to have this automatically generated for a given URL.
> Are you honestly suggesting that it's worth doubling the size of all your assets over the wire

a) it's nowhere near 4x unless you are using uncompressed images. With something like PNG compression most of the difference is negligible and there've been some interesting experiments showing that with JPEG trading resolution for quality is roughly break-even: see e.g. http://alidark.com/responsive-retina-image-mobile/

b) Even on mobile, latency is WAY more of a factor than bandwidth. If pages load slowly, it's almost always the case that reducing the number of CSS / JS files will help significantly more than reducing image sizes.

c) One of the approaches for dealing with DPI variance is to replace images with vector / webfont / CSS alternatives which don't require scaling. If you do that, you're also going to significantly reduce the total asset size for the page which is going to help everyone get a faster time to paint.
I agree that the fancy legal/business structures are offputting.

On the other hand, AT&T is making a strong endorsement of the product by offering it under their name. Since the customer trusts AT&T when it comes to telephony technology, this saves a lot of money for the 'subsidiaries and affiliates' on marketing etc. AT&T saves money by not having to develop their own in-house product.

Who doesn't win here?
The incentive structure of an IT worker is similar to that of a government bureaucrat: When in doubt, ban.

Because the one time something happens, you're gonna hear that the systems were 'improperly secured.' Then they'll call in external auditors fresh out of school working from an over-photocopied checklist to tell you how incompetent you are.

Personally, I'm happy with trends like BYOD etc. If the CEO loses data because he wanted email on his iPad (and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that), then IT won't be blamed for it.
Slightly tangential, but I'd like to shamelessly plug my HDFS client library (with nice Python bindings)[0].

If you want to access files on HDFS from your Python tasks outside of your typical map / shuffle inputs from the streaming API, it might be handy? It doesn't go through the JVM (the library is in C), so it might save a little latency for short Python tasks.

[0]: https://github.com/cemeyer/hadoofus

Also, I'm pretty new to publishing my own open source libraries. If people would be so kind, I'd love some constructive criticism. Thanks HN!
My 2c from personal experience:

1) Pick a place. Let's say Paris.
2) Go to hostelworld.com, sort by highest review, choose the first hostel in your price range, book a week stay.
3) Sit at a large table in the common room, nurse a beer or coffee, work on your laptop, wait for others to wander by.
4) Strike up conversation, ask about where they've been, what they've done, and what they recommend.

I traveled for 3 months in SE Asia in this way. Everybody is in the same frame of mind as you, ready to meet new people, share stories.

It really is that simple.
Pretty awesome solution to this is the browser based page compilation for GWT:

http://retina.teknonsys.com/

Works really well and non-retina clients don't even have to load extra css or javascript for retina images, and retina clients don't have to load the small-version images. Fairly perfect solution... provided you use GWT, I guess, which is rare...