skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's wrong with that? This is a business we are talking about, not a charity. Anytime a business finds itself in a good position to profit it should. A blunder is a great way to get new customers if you handle it well. For one, people will have seen your customer service in action. Nothing says trust me like showing people that you can make up for stupid mistakes. After all, customers just want to be done right. Two, you will get a ton of attention, mostly being free! Its like a second launch for crying out loud. Now its the time to show people what you offer. But dont just show them a catalog. Do it in a manner that is parallel to the issue at hand. Did you send a Darth Vader figure to someone who ordered a Luke Skywalker one? Apologize and make a special sale on both figures.
Three, I believe you think that all of this should happen in a short time-frame. Not at all. You should let some bit of time pass by (but not too much) in order to let anger calm down. On week #1 you fuck up and apologize. On week #2 you make the sale. Rinse and repeat. That's how a lot of PR strategies work (ahem, AirBnB). They make shit up, stir it, calm people down, and then grow like stink.

I know this will make people here angry, because some of you think the business world is all pink unicorns. Nope. Its a make it or die environment. Thats why most startup people never want to go out and make a sale. Its so much easier to just talk about traction than to hit the pavement to get some money in your pocket. Send all insults and hate to my inbox (address on profile).
True, it's a 2560x1440 display, but it's not “retina“ yet. There is still a big difference with and without subpixel rendering, especially for smaller texts. Well, at least to my “retina” spoiled eyes. YMMV.

iOS does not use subpixel rendering at all, possibly due to the inconsistence of text rendering in different orientations.
>If you take the slower ISP's and siphon away money from them to give to faster ISP's, they'll never have any hope of catching up.

You're assuming that the effect would be that strong that fast -- that it would be large enough that they could never catch up. There is no reason the amount has to be that large.

And the Houston ISP doesn't have to catch Verizon in DC while Verizon is receiving the subsidy, it only has to catch the next-best ISP in the middle third who doesn't get anything and then it can get out of the bottom third who has to pay. Moreover, Verizon still has the incentive to improve even if they're the leader of everyone because the ISP currently at the top of the middle third is angling to get into the top third, and the ISP at the bottom of the top third is trying to get ahead of Verizon to keep themselves from being pushed out when that happens.

I mean what's your alternative? If you want ISPs to pay for upgrades either you reward them for doing better than average or penalize them for doing worse than average or both, and doing both has the added benefit of being revenue neutral. Is there some better alternative, or do you think the entire goal of upgrading connection speeds is unattainable?
How many requests per second do you think a website needs to be capable of serving to handle the traffic from HN? (Performance newbie here)
A new UI annoyance
Running unsigned code on Windows RT
Chrome has a setting to only run plugins with the user's permission. I'd advise it for anyone even remotely skilled enough to use it. I work for with quite a few java applets. Everything I need still works and the bullshit walks.
Obama tech team talks winning, disrupting and sticking to basics
It's related to the Java Plugin (AKA Java Applets), running in the browser, so anyone running a Java (or any JVM based language) on the server, is not related to this specific exploit.

As quoted:

> "To defend against this and future Java vulnerabilities, disable Java in Web browsers."

There are so many JVM based services out there (Including from Google, Twitter, Foursquare and many others, even many Ruby on Rails apps running on JRuby) that if it was also a server side exploit of that level, it would have been even a bigger concern. (Users getting their bank account stolen is terrible, bank get hacked is a different level of terrible)
If you're genuinely interested, here are some nice analytical chemistry books:

Quantitative Chemical Analysis (Daniel C. Harris)
Principles of Instrumental Analysis (Skoog, Holler, Nieman)

The following one, which you should read first because it's free, is also good:

http://www.asdlib.org/onlineArticles/ecourseware/Analytical%...

Just ask questions if you're interested.
so please tell me how safari is important?
Yes thanks, someone linked me to the relevant Meteor docs page below. I'd expect most users to enable multiple OAuth providers, too.
A couple of refinements that might be useful.

Separate the bottom line of the new page from the top line of the old page with more space.

And also add or remove each line all at once instead of gradually.
Ask HN: Is design intrinsically about being unique?
Head Start has long been known to be more positive for the parents than the children. The real problem is Head Start is too late to find some of the biggest problems. A physical problem that affects learning can be caught and corrected earlier. Instruments such as the Denver Screening, ELAP, or LAP will catch stuff in the 6 week to 3 year range. HS has a program in this range (Early Head Start) which evolved from earlier efforts (e.g. CCDP), but it is not common. 0-3 programs are better for kids long term, 3-5 year programs benefit parents more.

Disclaimer - I have 5 years of data on a study program under my belt in this area (0-3).

Advice - if you have a kid in the 0-3 range, get them screened often and get any problems corrected. It will save you grief and taxpayers money later.
There is a natural order to this world, and those who try to upend it do not fare well.
Sorry, rereading what I wrote (argh, typos), perhaps I've been a bit unclear. I don't mean to imply that any of the record viewing is unprofessional (although I know this does occur). The 5 people viewing with only one being the doctor is professional and appropriate. One person books the scan, another greets them and enters their details into the RIS, another scans them, another sees them off, takes payment (or confirms who is paying) another reports the scan, another types the findings, and then someone distributes the findings once authorized by the reporting doctor. Sometimes these roles are filled by the same person (eg typist greets patient, takes payment and types the report), but the point is, there are many steps to the service and appropriate use of the patient record requires many people to have access to it.
Indiegogo's Successful Crowdfunding Year In Review 2012
Storm 0.8.2 released
Shanghai is an exception, as are the SEZes. Shanghai almost seems like another country -- it's not as uncorrupt as HK, but is pretty similar to a place like Thailand, from what I saw of it (I know some people who have businesses there, and have spent about a year in total between HK, Shanghai, and Thailand, although I only did business myself in HK)
Likewise as an Australian. If you're going to make things like this, please consider non-US users.
Makers of Violent Video Games Marshal Support to Fend Off Regulation
I don't think so; it's about being harmonious. Otherwise you have the triumph of form over content.
I don't think faster Internet is really a pressing national issue, and I think your idea is bizarre and smacks of the same kind of "clever" ideas that always end up disastrous in practice.

If high speed Internet is such a national priority, and the market won't provide it because of natural monopolies, then simply break up the utilities and prevent consolidation.
Watching Fish Climb Darwin’s Mountain
Yeah, I'm not really including Tibet. I see that as a geo-strategic thing vs. India, and Tibet wasn't exactly a progressive wonderful state before the Chinese, either.

However, in Western China, non-Han seem to be treated better by the national government than by regional or local. Although the weird "Uighurs in Guantanamo" thing was just totally surreal (we essentially bribed China into supporting us in the Iraq war by letting them classify muslim semi-separatists as global jihadis, and thus cooperating with the Chinese government in detaining them)
These figures are huge compared to international normals. I'm sure that most here are aware of this and Im also sure there are better sources, but here is an easy find http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/07/violent-cr...
Extreme weather grows in frequency and intensity around world
I am afraid that history doesn't show that we wage wars "for no justifiable reason".
Tasks people are willing to do for money - Affordable Gigs
I have no idea what this machine can do, but while dreaming having endless computation power I'd do something for number theory and start thinking about how to proof that PI is normal. If that happened and only a few suggest PI is not normal, probably the inner nerd takes over and searches the position of all current top forty songs within PI and spreads this info. Then I'd buy some popcorn and follow future attempts of justifying copyrights onto a vectors into PI in front of a court while a direct master cut vinyl playing live recorded free jazz provides chilly background atmosphere.
Any special reason why "Objectified: A documentary for design" is on Netflix (as it's not available in my country) and NOT Youtube ?

Also, getting heroku application error several times.
Thank you for your post, which again starts off sounding reasonable and only later loses the plot completely.

> On week #1 you fuck up and apologize. On week #2 you make the sale.

Have you considered developing this into an ebook?

> Send all insults and hate to my inbox (address on profile).

What?

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[Edit before seeing reply:] With apologies in business, you want the reader to believe what happened was a mistake, an error, and that it doesn't reflect on your internal ethical code (corporate or personal). In order for that to happen, people need to know that you recognise that you did the wrong thing, but that's only half of it. They also need to figure out whether you're likely to do more bad shit in the future. And your ability to transmit that information to them by talking about it is extremely limited. So: don't fuck up! Because it's really not a marketing opportunity.
Site is down. Scale the servers!
Be careful when you think you really understand the meaning of atime/mtime of findutils.

E.g. man find

-atime n
File was last accessed n*24 hours ago. When find figures out how many
24-hour periods ago the file was last accessed, any fractional part is
ignored, so to match -atime +1, a file has to have been accessed at least
two days ago.
I was under the impression that Java still prompts the user to allow applets to start before they're even called - is this still true, or am I missing something? The dialog always advises not running applets from places you don't trust, last I checked.
Indeed they are, which is why I asked about _that_ on Quora some time ago:

http://www.quora.com/Is-it-technically-possible-for-current-...

Solving it quite literally requires boiling the ocean.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_China is a start
http://www.transparency.org/news/feature/fighting_corruption...

There have been a fair number of executions of local government officials.

It's much easier to make the case "corruption at the local level is really bad" vs. "the central government isn't corrupt" -- I'm just saying the local people are worse than the central government in a lot of ways.

The least corrupt entity is the PLA, which has the most power at the national level.

The most corrupt things are land sales, which are handled at the local level.
what i meant to explain was, this.. the LED's fade over time. hence their color changes over time. and making two LED's display the same color and making them time equally is a very challenging job, some thing which current day technology is unable to do. yes, led's have a bigger color gamut, but the accuracy is definitely to b improved. gamut is the range, while accuracy is the exact color required i.e precision
@bennytjia read this thread slowly.

WebKit, the rendering engine originally used in Safari (not Safari the application), nowadays powers Chrome, iOS, Android, BB and a hundred other browsers/platforms. In simple words: the absolute majority of mobile browsers use webkit, plus >50% of desktops/laptops.
On the other hand, China has a lot of investment to do in its western part of the country.
Do you allow advertising?
Give it up people. Put down your rocks and go home. You are a mob. A bunch of bullies.
It might be interesting to estimate if or when a (parallel) implementation of Strassen's algorithm tuned to the Titan architecture might exceed the performance of some comparable (parallel) direct method for matrix multiplication. It is not your own field per se but since the computation underlies many things you would like to do it could still be interesting and approachable.
That number is staggering! Thank you for your input. =)
I didn't know that. Will take a look.
This doesn't mean much to most users, like my parents.

There's a generation of computer users who were dragged into the technology. Sure, now they may or may not love it, but throughout that time they were conditioned to just click 'OK' if it got in the way of whatever they were trying to do.

This isn't an exploit targeted towards the security experts, much less people who know what "not running applets from places you don't trust" even means.
Agree. I flagged this for being blogspam. Thanks for linking the original article.
That's a fair point, I misunderstood the word "to police" your initial post.

Unfortunately, the system is already supposed to work like this, yet the problem remains unsolved. I have friends that are teachers that make constant calls to police trying to get these kids kicked out of school, all to no avail.

Additionally, my teacher friends say that probably 60% of their students would be in "juvy hall" if the police would respond to their pleas to remove these children from the classroom.

I personally think it would be worth the money to do the experiment, but I'm not sure that everyone would agree. Here are the costs that I was able to find quickly on google:

http://www.bestplaces.net/county/illinois/cook
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/us/reducing-jail-rolls-wou...
http://www.illinoisloop.org/spending.html

Cost per student per year in cook county Illinois: $11,333

$/Adult Inmate/year in cook county Illinois: $50,000

Note:it costs $240,000/juvenile inmate/year but I assume this is because there are so many fewer juvenile inmates.

I think that there are probably cheaper ways to incentivize students to not use physical violence, but of course the proof is the results of the experiment.
Compile the Python Interpreter Statically
This keeps happening, so maybe it should be. I don't want to discover that this has happened yet again, the hard way, before there is another noisy public disclosure. Not interested.
webkit.org has many posts detailing bits of the implementation. Here's a series on rendering: https://www.webkit.org/blog/114/webcore-rendering-i-the-basi...
Well, it recovered pretty well after a 6 mile wide rock going millions of miles per hour hit it right in the face and cause one of the biggest extinction events in its history.

If that didn't destroy its habitability for good, I'm not sure we'd be able to do it.
Interesting. It seems to me that in the United States, many people have relatively advanced cell phones and a computer. But in many places in China, this isn't yet the case. So while Apple might sell more products in China in the short term, it's hard to say that this will be the case in the long term. For example, Apple will never sell so many iPods as it did in the past, since so many people these days have an MP3 player or a phone that can do the job--or even an old iPod.
The Making of the 1984 Space Game Elite [video]
Interestingly, I've been reading a book on the Wright brothers. Even experimenters who were aware of the Wright's progress before they flew were unable to capitalize on the (correct) Wright ideas, because they didn't believe them, or they had to do it their own way, or whatever.
Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) - Not what the Dr ordered
Yes, you are right. My tone is off. Sorry about that.

May you explain where I lose the plot? I'd like to clear it up in a manner that is beneficial to all.

I'm constantly getting hate mail for being a marketing/sales/copywriting consultant. Every post here usually gathers me some nice hate mail from other members. Not meant to you personally. I apologize if that came out wrong.

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Thank you for the edited response. That is actually my point. Though you write it in a better manner. Sorry for the miscommunication. I'm tired from coding all day (its almost 1AM and Im not done), and do get stupidly cranky. Apologies.

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The stir it part refers to how some marketers hack growth. I personally don't use such techniques because it can easily backfire. My personal opinion is that some big startups that have enjoyed quick growth have used such manner. But I think that is another thread altogether.

Experience has taught me that even when we make business mistakes we can still profit. In fact, a lot of growth can come out of such situation if it is handled correctly. My example above is not so good. Let me usea better another one.

Startup A manages to get into some hot water by wronging a customer. The issue is that a credit card charge was improperly handled, and they did not take care of the customer as they should have. The customer writes a blog post venting about how frustrated he/she is. The blog post goes viral. Startup A contacts the customer, fixes the issue by calming the person with gifts and apologies. Then they go and make the press release explaining what happened. They scold their stupidty publicly, and show how they fixed it. Then they have the customer give faith that all is now good. Some days pass, and Startup A makes a new blog post explaining the new measures they are using against improperly handled credit card charges. In the blog post, they include a comprehensive tutorial on how to properly handle credit card charges for other startups. It goes viral, because it is showing the human side of the company. After that, the startup creates a special offer and markets it to its new audience. People make notice of how "well" all was handled and say "let's give them a chance" and order.

Startup A managed to turn a blunder into a marketing opportunity. I have personally seen businesses go from broke to gold mine by using such tactic.
Ceviche doesn't require much more than a fridge and a knife too ;)
Campbell's Soup Offers $50,000 Prize in Hacker Contest
Warner Bros. blocks its own add on Google
Why do people play the same videogame for thousands of hours?
> "If that didn't destroy its habitability for good, I'm not sure we'd be able to do it."

But we sure can make it a lot more miserable to live on.
As the developer, I am proud of this making Mashable.
"For versions of Java older than Java 7 (which you shouldn't be running anyway), the de-Javafication process for Internet Explorer involves editing the Windows Registry," he notes. "If you don't know what that is, don't do it. Instead, stop using Internet Explorer entirely."

Best advice ever.
Fred Wilson hints that Twitter is profitable
Wow! I never expected a C3PO division of NASA!

http://www.nasa.gov/offices/c3po/home/index.html
I think the point is that Apple didn't treat Safari/Webkit as being a competitive advantage so much as nullifying a competitive disadvantage -- it was a defensive play, not an offensive play. (A nice analogy is Android, which Google developed out of fear they would miss out on the mobile market rather than out of any desire to "own" the mobile market. Google didn't want Apple or anyone else to own its destiny, just as Apple didn't want Microsoft to own its destiny.)
> "But the vast majority of these are changes that frankly they don’t completely understand"

Sounds like over-fit to me. I much prefer interpretable and plausible models to magically accurate predictions.
The proper way to do this is with hollow sliders...

[off]on

rather than an opaque one...

[xxx]on
There is that. There is also the fact that there are between three and four times as many people in China as in the US, and in the long term it's a growing market for those who sell middle-class goods like smartphones and laptops.
What Is Bifidobacteria?
Flight Delays Causes Domino Effect
Failed with this :(

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/11/06/article-2228752-15...
Things users don't care about
How do you break up a natural monopoly? They tried it with AT&T along geographical lines and we got what we have now. The expectation was that the Baby Bells would expand into each others' territory and compete with each other instead of buying each other, but if you prohibited them from buying each other, it still doesn't give them any reason to compete with each other instead of just continuing to milk existing infrastructure indefinitely without upgrading and silently agreeing not to expand into anyone's territory who doesn't expand into yours.
> May you explain where I lose the plot?

I guess, if I were to pinpoint, it would be with the words 'stir it'.

BTW, I neither deserve nor need an apology from you. Don't be sorry! We're just disagreeing. And I really do think we have a fundamental disagreement about priorities here. Apologising doesn't resolve that (though I acknowledge I haven't articulated my side of it very well).

I don't know why someone would send you hatemail over you expressing an opinion. That doesn't sound right at all.

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> People make notice of how "well" all was handled and say "let's give them a chance" and order.

I think that's fine in cases where the 'mistake' clearly (or with reasonable doubt) was an actual mistake. This applies to outages, billing issues, product quality issues... Hounding on Twitter, not so much.

> I personally don't use such techniques because it can easily backfire.

I think if the reasons why they backfire were more important to businesses than the fact that they backfire, everyone would be a lot happier.
Pretty sure he's talking about (what iOS calls) segmented controls (Buttons that work like radio buttons), where you have a choice between options (e.g. Library/Store) rather than an on/off decision.
What about the bug where Edit > Find scrolls the page so that the hit is at the top of the window, but there's a fixed element hiding the hit?
Exactly what I was thinking. This is a classic foot-in-mouth case where he didn't understand the implications of his actions. Isn't pretty obvious that acting like a brat was going to blow up in his face? To a fairly regular YC member at that? Additionally, didn't this same guy say he wasn't going to apologize? Contradictions everywhere...
For an article obviously aimed at non-technical people, I am amazed at how not-incorrect this is.
I'm struck by how much more gentlemanly Guido's tone was than some other prominent open-source project leaders when they criticize publicly. (Linus Torvalds comes to mind.) I think that level-headedness may underlie the essentially sane, middle-of-the-road nature of Python.
Campbell's Hack The Kitchen, Launches Monday
'"Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is."'
- Charles Dickens