skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The new look has tempted me to rejoin facebook...
Google Flip Flops, Concedes Vringo Entitled To Ongoing Royalties
The total number of steps in neat, but I'm more interested in seeing how often and how long I move (or don't move). I consider 20,000 steps followed by 6 hours of non-stop slouching in front of the computer less ideal than just 10,000 steps but never sitting for more than an hour at a time. Fitbit doesn't provide this analysis, but I can do it myself with access to minute-by-minute data.
I'd say that was the killer full stop. I would dearly have loved to have kept on buying netbooks, but they're still at 2GB RAM, (mostly) one core and 1024x768 even 3-4 years on.

Microsoft put that ceiling there, not Apple.
I would say the look and name of HN do impact growth in certain "demographics". That might even be the idea.
Article author here. Thanks for the feedback.

I perhaps didn't word that paragraph as well as I could -- my point there wasn't to introduce quotas, but to attempt to nip the problem in the bud. If I'd been organising EdgeConf, and had got to ~80% of my speakers being male with no female representation, I would've dropped everything and made sure that the rest were women. I guess when you include the numbers then this feels like tokenism, but it was mostly arbitrary. My point here was that they should have realised they had a problem before it reached 100%, not start out with the intention to recruit x% women (no matter how relevant or qualified they were) -- that's tokenism, right?
Very nice! I like the demo - How did you make it?
Agreed. Just flagged the article. These people with unethical journalistic bias are only causing more confusion amongst the readers usually leading to an unwanted debate so they can benefit (=pageviews) out of it.
What killed the netbook was smart phones. Why by a netbook when i can buy a smart phone and browse the web while in bathroom and also use it outside the house and as a phone.
The problem (mostly) isn't the renderer, it's the content. It does actually need to be a reasonably reflowable html page, as opposed to too many manual line breaks, excessively indented blocks, etc.

For code, that's just not easy.
Designing the Ubuntu for phones page.
In that vein, discouraging memes, insider jokes, meanness, snark, and flamewars, also impact growth.
Actually this happened way before Microsoft bought Skype. For Hotmail one used to only need change the country setting in his profile to make sure his data is out of Chinese jurisdiction. Quite handy, not sure how it works now though.
The strength of the correlation or its time-scale have no bearing on whether the correlation should be considered evidence of causation. The fatal flaw of a correlation is that it can be specious — it can appear to explain reality, but really there's a third variable responsible for driving the phenomenon you're interested in.

In this case, lead exposure and crime rate are correlated, but maybe lead doesn't cause crime at all: maybe something else causes crime that also happens to correlate with lead exposure. Who knows, maybe a certain pesticide was used at the same time that lead gasoline came into vogue, and that's really the true cause of the rise in crime rates.

In research like this, when you can't do a manually controlled experiment, you have to control for hidden variables by some other means. And that's precisely what the investigators in this article did: they varied the input data to try to "shake out" other variables that might be behind the correlation. They looked at different time scales, different geographies, and different demographics, in an attempt to control for hidden variables that might be related to any one of those things. Every time you vary the input data and keep finding a correlation, your evidence of a causative relationship goes up.

The gold standard, of course, would be to expose two random, double-blind sets of infants to lead and to a control substance and see what happens. But since that would be unethical (as we have reason to think lead is bad for you), we're stuck with animal studies or retrospective studies. Personally, I find the evidence in this article impressive, but it would take quite a lot of looking into their specific methods to come to any real conclusion.
Maybe the Universe somehow has a natural form of this effect in the intergalactic medium (or in spacetime) that causes negative pressure and is the mechanism of dark energy?

"Negative temperatures imply negative pressures and open up new parameter regimes for cold atoms, enabling fundamentally new many-body states."
works well enough with opera mobile. it reflows them so they fit the screen.
Types for method and constructor parameters are always explicitly specified. Type inference generally used for local variables and method return types. This strikes a good balance between having no type info (e.g. python) and having type info for everything (java). The convention in Scala is to specify the return type of a method if the return type is complex.

In practice the type which is inferred is pretty obvious:
val x = 800
vs.
val x: Int = 800
Fight Government Censorship Stay Anonymous Online
Hello, blogpost author here.

I don't really buy that logic (if something is complex, people who write about it don't "respect" it?). My goal with writing this (as stated in the article) isn't to launch some Twitter hate mob or cancel a conference, but to start a dialogue (which I couldn't continue with the organisers). I don't claim to understand every facet of the issue but I'm most definitely an interested "amateur" if that makes snese.

I don't think it's fair to say I "ignore the possibility" that women could've been invited / applied. My whole point is that we have no idea about this process because the organisers are being opaque about their methods, and in my opinion, if your speaker list is 100% male, you should explicitly explain why that ended up being the case, otherwise we're left to assume that you think there's nothing wrong with that. If they genuinely tried every approach they could to make things more diverse and weren't able to, good -- I'm happy to be proven wrong. But we have no idea whether they did and we can only assume from the communication that it isn't an issue for them -- that's bad.

No need for rhetorical questions:

In the "Postscript" below the entry itself I recommended a good amount of local-or-close-to-London female devs who could've spoken. For all I know, they were approached. But I don't know (see above).

I also tried to answer the question of what "good" I hope to bring: by highlighting an "injustice" as I perceive it, and starting this discussion. It needs to be on everyone's minds.

thanks!
intel likes money. if atoms have lower margins than bigger cpus, then intel will try to make people buy bigger cpus. simple.
MS killed the netbook not Apple. They did this by inducing OEMs to make more powerful (expensive) machines that would run XP. XP didn't work on the first eeepc, for example.
That's what nailgun and zinc are for...

See what the Jetbrains guys are currently using:
http://blog.jetbrains.com/scala/2012/12/28/a-new-way-to-comp...
French ISP Removes Google Adsense From Websites
Worst I ever saw was an advertisement proclaiming that the car in question had "Advanced ABS Braking System".

I consider that an example of "Maximally Redundant MRAS Acronym Syndrome".
Moreover it's quite weak on cross-browser compatibility

I too took a note of this. Most (all?) examples comes with -webkit- vendor-prefixes and nothing else.
Hi, article author here.

I did state in the blogpost that I know Andrew is a good chap and I respect him and his intentions, and I don't for a minute think he set out to make this event 100% male. My issue is in his response to my challenge on it, and the lack of acknowledgement by the organisers that an 100% male lineup isn't ideal.

I also find it quite hard to believe that amongst companies like Google and Facebook, there aren't enough highly-qualified female/minority devs who could've spoken. And besides, the speaker roster isn't exclusive to those three companies, either.

thanks!
just use a different browser that let's you set your own font size.
Most folks find that the IntelliJ Scala plugin is the best tool rather than Eclipse.
I'm glad it doesn't have those silly wavy I-can't-draw-for-shit lines. Also the interaction is very intuitive, and it's great that you can dive right in. Great tool overall. I'll be bookmarking it.
HN: please fix hotel search in Australia
Why can't I search for hotel deals within X kilometers from a specific location?
With respect to a pure technically translation from one device to the other, you're absolutely right. The problem is in interpretation/representation/communication of information/ideas/knowledge.

For example, I've built an interactive computer simulation connected to a graphing component to enable students to explore rate of change. On a computer screen the simulation and graph are thus positioned that there is a direct link between what happens in the graph and in the simulation. It doesn't fit on a smartphone. I can (automatically) change the setup to put the graph after (below) the simulation, but if the student cannot see the graph and the simulation simultaneously, they miss out on the support for learning the concept of change in the original configuration.

Another example, I taught a course on regular expressions and that included a unit on deterministic finite automatons. For non-trivial examples these automatons aren't comprehensible on small screens. Zoom and pan doesn't work to get a picture of the whole. On the other hand, I can think of a simulation of an automaton that would give a better picture on a small screen how a particular automaton works by using a simplified track representing the whole and focusing on a local state and input to see the effect of connections in the track. However, this would mean two different approaches to learning automatons that aren't necessarily compatible, especially in an introductory course. Students will have different questions and problems with the different representations. They will construct different ideas about automatons that might make communicating in class about automatons troublesome as students don't understand each other while talking about the same thing. But it goes further than that, these representation will need different introductions, different exercises, maybe even a different structured learning trajectory to build a similar understanding of automatons.
Huntsville has one of the highest rates of Phd's per capita in the U.S. Originally, this was due to the space program - and to a lesser extent TVA.

These days, much of the technology sector is defense oriented. That may or may not make it attractive.

What it lacks is a first class university. On the other hand, there's the Rocket City Rednecks.
This article reminded me of a Flash game I played with several years ago:

http://www.redistrictinggame.org/

If you work through the levels, you'll see that voting districts sometimes must have highly irregular shapes to ensure maximum representation of the various groups of constituents. You'll definitely see cases where "objective" boundaries leave some groups completely unrepresented.

Gerrymandering definitely happens, and it's a big problem, but it's not a simple one.
Building a Sensor for Low Latency VR
And if you got the money legitimately and if you have a legitimate purpose for having it on you (or even no purpose!) then you're fine.

Read here for an interesting story about $247K:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unione_Corse
It is working for me just fine.
using hn with a small touchscreen (phone or tablet) makes you really appreciate the magnitude of the irrevocable misclick problem.
The Romans used to use lead acetate, i.e. sugar of lead as a sweetener.

I wonder how much of history can be explained by this use of lead.
Toyota, Audi Move Closer to Driverless Cars
Javascript Inheritance
FWIW, I asked for (and got) access to Fitbit's "intraday" API without much trouble (or extra cost).
Really really nice. I don't do a lot of wireframing so I'm not sure what it's missing that's essential but it's definitely the easiest tool I've used. Well done!
Fair points. I'm sort of going by the price points from when the iPad first came out and I really don't recall the real price, but the baseline was definitely higher than today's baseline models. Quick search suggest $500 for the baseline, which isn't competitive to $300.

Yes, I agree that the "incomplete" OS is sort of a fallacy, but not in all cases. Even if the iPad started up at $300, I'm pretty sure most people, especially those who had no computer at all, would dive toward a netbook, since yes, you could run Word + Browse the Web + listen to music (no flash! no youtube!), plus, you know, type on it. The big fallacy with the article is that the author is suggesting that an iPad could have replaced a netbook, and this, I hope you agree, simply was not, and is not, the case, and I really don't believe that many people would have bought an iPad if they didn't already have a computer of some sort, though I could be wrong here.

In regards to how much you can push an Intel Atom. Well, let's see here. I watched youtube lecture videos, ran Python IDLE, and even had other programs open while doing all of this. I also had successfully installed and ran MySQL, Xampp, Drupal, Gimp, and Emacs simultaneously. Not saying this is optimal, but just saying that you could do it. I ran Eclipse and Java for a week to test those waters too. It was fine for my first forays into development, so I think it would have been okay for the Average User. I still have the thing sitting on my shelf.
Ask HN: checking/cleaning a domain's reputation with SEs
We purchased a domain from a competitor last year, because it was our brand with a different TLD and we were looking to grow our business in that country. The domain had been in use for more than 10 years by different companies and the seller may have engaged in shady or at least questionable practices (like offering "free counters" for web pages with links to that domain among others).

We have found a few backlinks from "adult" sites and got these removed, but no tools available to us give a complete assessment of links that might hurt us. Google Webmaster tools does not even display backlinks for this domain at the moment (even though it gets several 10.000 clicks from Google every day).

What could be done to assess the backlink status and how it might affect the domain's reputation with major search engines? Please recommend proven tools.
If I may ask a second question: what do you think of emissions trading as a solution instead of bans on specific sources like leaded gasoline?
fn-delete on the mac (ie delete - not backspace) deleted the elements for me. Would be good to stop backspace too - that's definitely not something you want going wrong while you're working.
Just because of this "Unknown or expired link" thing, i fill up my browser with lots of tabs.

When i open HN, i open the links that interests me in new tabs. And immediately click on "More" to see the next page.
Mean much?
With respect to "rent capture", they're referring to economic rent. Basically, a situation where competition cannot affect the price of a good. Great if you receive payment for that good, less so if you're paying it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent
Google Discovers Fraudulent Digital Certificate Issued for Its Domain
Google Discovers Fraudulent Digital Certificate Issued for Its Domain.
Very very well done.

I wonder if there's anything comparable open source version? I'd like to hack on it a bit.
This navigation and grid layout looks ironically similar to the new and redesigned MySpace. When screenshots of the new MySpace were first revealed, there was lots of hype and praise for the new and aesthetically sharp designs. But now that users are able to access and use the product, haven't heard much more besides the usability being poor and product being an example of feature overkill. I would predict a similar result if Facebook were to implement this
2647 connections per server per second is pretty abysmal for modern server hardware, especially if you had to rely on a whole bunch of caching front-end complication and proxy web servers to make it happen.
The Verifone OMNI-395 payment terminal inside
SuperKid
Drinking 5 Coca Colas a day cures all cancers.

Since you have no studies proving that I'm wrong, then I should be given the benefit of the doubt?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If the "Brain Training" crowd can't provide any conclusive and scientific evidence that this stuff does what they either say outright or imply strongly depending upon how "on the record" they are, I don't see why we shouldn't presume that it is all quackery until proven otherwise.
Install Openldap From Source And Configure Multi-Master Replication
http://phrase.it/show/gYTbo
Thanks for the recommendation. I did not found them when lurking the webhosting forums but they also got recommended to me on another forum so they are now my top choice with rackspace uk being the 2nd.
My thought is that it is a manifestation of a tendency for tribalism that was selected for during the hundreds of thousands of years before modern society made the concept largely obsolete.

That would at least explain why people affiliate with teams based on geography, which doesn't make sense to me otherwise.

(There have probably been thousands of proper studies on the topic. I have read none of them.)
A recent interview with one of the leading Diaspora developers:
http://podroom.a2zen.fm/podcasts/exposing-the-truth-radio/ex...
I won't deal with a company that uses small terms pricing. It was easy for me to spot the displayed prices are for 3 months only but I stil find it deceiving.
> I bet you have a long wishlist of features yourself.

I think that's the main reason why it's not. It's fine as it is. The minimal features list and quirky HTML is part of HN identity.
In 1996, the New York Times reported that crime had plunged for the third straight year, the sharpest drop since the end of Prohibition. Since 1993...

Need I remind you that HTML 1.0 was released in mid-1993? The Internet wasn't exploding like you are thinking quite yet. Sure, it was on the rise, but certainly not among the sort of folks breaking windows and selling drugs.
The 18-Year Side Project: Why I Built and Sold The First Fantasy Basketball Site
Ack! I wish designers would not always augment their designs with good looking people smiling, it only slants the emotional reaction in the designs favour when the real content in practice will rarely be as pretty/optimistic.

I think all designs should use unfavourable photos so as not to influence the overall design... e.g - http://i.qkme.me/3sfkf8.jpg :-)

Otherwise it's a vast improvement over the current FB
They seems to only want to block Google ads. Free and Google have had issues for a long time about 'who pays for bandwidth'. Google doesn't want to pay, so Free blocks their revenues.
One of those designs that make you wonder whether design without function is design at all.
Comletely agree.
Following this logic, the internet and all web services could be regulated using the most most severe laws on this planet due to the global nature of the internet.

What this shows is, at least for me, frightening trend to ignore the souverenity of foreign states when you consider them less powerfull than yourself. Germany is doing it with Switzerland for example too.
Perhaps we need to invent different ways of displaying information when a lack of space is a given.

For example, with your interactive simulation, could the entities change colour or shape to show rate of change?

With your automatons, I would have thought it wise to try to separate the different groups and then step through each group. Understanding each group in order for me would be the best way to learn it than nitpicking at different parts of the whole system.
> This post should serve as a chance for all of you to learn why you are often Balkanized in business decisions and business structures. It should serve as a chance for you all to show that you actually understand business realities and can propose rational arguments.

Heh. Because "business decisions" are always so rational, demonstrating a genuine understanding of the product and what the people that actually are going to use it will want from it?

> And remember... this is Hacker News. We work at Start-ups. We believe in shipping early, shipping often, and iterating to improve. Your answers and perspective MUST work within this construct or we will ignore you (and you will thus teach all of us that designers are, in fact, crazy).

Sigh. Some of us want to ship genuinely high-quality products, not ship whatever we manage to shit out every other day.

If my users are noticing my bugs (or design faults), that adds up to an aggregate middling opinion of my product. One thing you got right -- I do want to be Apple, not Time Warner Cable.

> Ball's in your court.

Not really. You sound like someone that will willingly produce mediocre products, and I don't really know why anyone interested in excellence (and the rewards that it brings) would want to work with you. So this becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy for yourself.
Wed, 2011-09-14 13:30
Would you at least agree the correlation seems strong enough to warrant further investigation?
>>> I don't really buy that logic (if something is complex, people who write about it don't "respect" it?)

you're right. i was being too broad and my intent was to suggest that anyone who places the blame on one thing does not understand the complexity. your tone here feels less accusatory than the blog post.

>>> if your speaker list is 100% male, you should explicitly explain why that ended up being the case

i agree in that i think this would be the proactive thing to do. i disagree in that i don't think this is a requisite. and that's my point of contention: your post is criticizing and questioning a group of people for not being as proactive as you think they should be. this seems arbitrary. and by this definition, hardly anyone is as proactive as they could be. and that is certainly a problem. but i don't think the way to approach that discussion is by singling out (for most intents and purposes) one guy.

>>> I also tried to answer the question of what "good" I hope to bring: by highlighting an "injustice" as I perceive it

what is the injustice you perceive, while admitting you don't know any of the details? is the injustice that the speaker process is not transparent? if they had a 50% female roster, would you be ok with it not being transparent? what about 20%? again, your flag for concern seems arbitrary and hyper-directed.
Imploring isn't really right either, because it seems too subservient to enforce a requirement on calling code.

It's more like the feudal lords obligation to his vassal - that he provide them with the use of the fief and protect them from others. If the function is the fief, then you provide the use of it only to those other functions that will swear fealty to you.
Probably the NY AG was after someone elses ass and just decided that he could get all the information need way more easily from the programmer than using his own means? And when he realised that his strongarming didn't work, it was decided to actually put th programmer to trial. Just my theory...
Doesn't google maps do this well enough? They seem to have pretty much everything now.
Yep, it's dated (those issues with Diaspora mentioned there, like no video posting, are already fixed), but at the same time it describes the current situation with problems of centralized social networks very well, and the main point behind the article applies now all the same.
An excellent example of an MVP the way it should be - minimal, yes, but definitely useful and providing great value. Bookmarked. Thanks!