skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just tried to post this. I think this is quite interesting but would be more useful if we could import it over to production servers. I would love to have a discussion on this.
How you make people visit your profile? I keep working in improving my LinkedIn but people rarely visit my profile
The 13" retina Macbook Pro is 2560 x 1600 at 229 ppi - about the same.
What are some of the workarounds?
Hopefully Firefox will have a way to let the user enable the few places where third party cookies are desired

They do. The title of the bug is "Block cookies from sites I haven't visited" and the blog post[1] explains that any site with 1st party cookies can set 3rd party cookies on other sites. Apparently this is how Safari works too.

[1]http://webpolicy.org/2013/02/22/the-new-firefox-cookie-polic...
Or, people prefer to see no ads at all because they are more interested in the show they are watching than any ad, relevant or not.
But the question is - would I look at more ads if I read more content? right now I am reading 1 article, looking at all the content. but they have the opportunity to have me read 5 articles, thus looking at more ads overall. In fact, the current layout is so bad, I don't even read all the articles that I land on from HN, simply because I get too frustrated with so much ads.
While I don't agree that this is indictive of Firefox's demise, saying "fourth place browser does it" is hardly a compelling counterpoint.
Same here. I've been blocking third-party cookies in Chrome since the option was available, and have built up a list of exceptions that I'm comfortable with. I don't think it's reasonable that your average user would be able to figure that out though. Usually, it's not obvious at all that third-party cookie blocking is even responsible for feature breakage in the first place.
When brain damage unlocks the genius within
How you make people visit your profile? I keep working in improving my LinkedIn but people rarely visit my profile...
Most modern monitors are 16:9 to match HD movie aspect ratios. If it was 16:9 it would be only 1440 pixels tall, a reduction of 15%.
I agree.

I really dislike 16:9 on productivity machines. It's not wide enough for 2 windows side by side, and too short for a single window.

Even Lenovo has recently switched to 16:9 (probably from the incentives of Microsoft Windows 8), leaving Apple as the last one standing making 16:10 laptops.

16:10 is the maximum wideness I can accept, but 3:2 (i.e. 15:10) would probably be slightly better.
I'm actually being placed on the other side of the fence here, I don't have a clue what "gender discrimination" looks like in the broader tech world, all I know is that in my company, the techies are equal in numbers, male and female (thought not of course by design.)

I find it sad that I often see a great group of people and a group which I would absolutely love being able to join, but that it is exclusively for women, is this really how we want to solve a perceived gender discrimination? By creating another one which leans the other way?

So often politics of gender, race, sexuality, etc. seems to over shadow what these groups should really be about, which is bringing people together to learn and have fun experiences. Men and women can have these fun experiences together, we don't need to invite purely men or women, imagine the backlash if "blokes who code" had a male only tech group.

It's very easy to play the "under-represented" card, but the fact of the matter is this: women in the U.S. ever so slightly out number men. There is absolutely nothing stopping women joining in with the tech industry, there is no law, no patriarchy standing in their way, the only thing stopping a woman from joining the tech industry is herself.
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5123293
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I talk about aspect ratios with average consumers. Most people really do believe--probably through HDTV marketing--that wider screens are better. The lion's share of most people's time on the Internet is spent reading and scolling vertically, yet our devices are optimized for watching little sixty second movie clips at a time. Why wouldn't you want to make the 95% case more pleasurable at the expense of a few black bars on the top and bottom of your movie? Besides, most Internet videos need to be upscaled to fill the screen anyways, the detail is mostly interpolated anyhow.
They use 16:10 screens. The 13" rMBP has 2560x1600 resolution while Pixel has 2560x1700, 100 pixels taller.
:) I removed it, increased the font size and purged the cache.
Weird defensive gymnastics? It's just using a language feature the way it's meant to be used. How is that any more "gymnastics" than the ":=" syntax recommended by the article you linked?
There is plenty of third party javascript that is not at all predatory. Pretty much all analytics services, Olark and other similar customer outreach services, A/B testing suites. There is far more of a push to create new more secure avenues for third party js (namely cors and websockets) to exist than there are efforts to eliminate it.

I'm curious how this change will effect services like optimizely that rely on third party cookies to prevent tests being run on the same users multiple times.
Who makes the panel, is it custom?
The oculus rift is going to be an unbounded monitor. It has no screen size!
Microsoft's tough Friday
There's cultural acceptance of Google even though they use third party cookies and ads are their primary source of income.
This is cool as long as you have no friends or social calendar?
Thanks, I feel the same way. My Co-founder found this for our site, but unfortunately we haven't launched publicly yet.
You can use hsmaker.com to do your own site!
Google should make Android tablets 3:2, too, if they aren't going to make them 4:3 like Apple. It should be a bit better than 16:10, which I think still turns a lot of people off from using Android tablets vs iPads, knowing they can't really use them in vertical mode.
It seems to me that every site is adopting this technology, so what, exactly, are you waiting for? The writing is on the wall.

Personally, I would suggest using a cookie management tool like cookie monster [1], and other tools like Request Policy [2] or Ghostery [3], depending on your browser of choice (i.e. RP doesn't have a Chromium/chrome extension, AFAIK). Adblock is great, but your reluctance up to this point suggests you would like to support some sites via their advertising efforts.

[1]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/cookie-monste...

[2]https://www.requestpolicy.com/

[3]https://www.ghostery.com/
This is a great idea for a book. I would love to see this as a site with a Q&A type search for on the fly suggestions. It's a major timesaver instead of scavenging through Google with "the best of" type of searches.
I read some documentation and I don't think I entirely get the whole "emulate a network" thing. What can be done with that? What exactly is a network? What this project makes me think of is as if one would replace the internet with another substitute internet or intranet, but I don't think thats the case. Something that it makes me think of is the idea of downloading a website with something like sitesucker and then changing your host file so that you can browse the internet via saved pages on your computer. But I don't think that this Mininet project has anything to do with that. I'm interested in trying to "get-it" if anyone has a clearer more non-obscure definition of what this project entails.
Is this based on FreeBSD's dummynet? I use to use that a long time ago and it was really cool.

I was kind of sad when Linux didn't really have anything close to it.
Disqus not working sounds like a feature to me. What extension were you using?
Ask HN: Entrepreneurs, what do you think of my web-based startup idea?
Hi all,

Doing some early stage research for a startup I have in mind and I'd love to get some insight from other entrepreneurs.

It is basically an odesk-type platform for connecting small businesses to MBA students. The idea is that MBA students have valuable skills (many are former financiers and strategy consultants) and small businesses/startups in need of professional business advice for things like project valuation or corporate strategy may lack the resources to hire top-tier talent for these problems, or just lack the bandwidth to do it themselves. Essentially, you'd be getting McKinsey level talent for a fraction of the cost, maybe $100 per hour.

Is this a service your business might be interested in? Thanks in advance.
Currently they say the battery comes upto 5hrs. If they could double it up, it will be great,
Use xmonad, reclaim your space.
I suppose I got carried away with the lambdas :)

Thank you, you gave me a great compliment. Norvig's short spellchecker was very inspirational for me.
The lack of relevance isn't what bothers them. It's the fact that the ads are not the show they intended to watch. And in fact interrupts it.

If you could make all the ads I saw on TV perfectly relevant, I would still fast forward. Because I would like to get back to the show, OK?
His recent Bloomberg interview shed some light on one reason for YC's success: luck.
Loophole- Hijack a company in the Cayman Islands in four easy steps
What the author does is something people used to do in the past.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/24/sleep-tw...
Yahoo’s backwards move
I think the 16:10 works very well for the Nexus 7 which is primarily used in portrait mode.
Forget fulltext search, I'd like to know how he pulled off that 3d cube scrolling! *Found it: http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js
I wouldn't disagree with what you said. The CCP definitely gets away with more than the US Gov't in many respects. I could add that the Chinese people I've met have a wonderful affection for children, especially babies. I spent a fair amount of time over there a few years ago. But, there are a lot of cultural differences that are hard to express in an HN post.
What kind of competition are we talking about?
How to confirm that your calculation of pi is correct
Love love love this! It is precisely the kind of ideology-agnostic change that needs to start happening! Most of us argue politics in a state of almost complete ignorance. Politicians take office not knowing the first thing about the actual job itself. Ideology is a preoccupation, governing is an occupation.
From 0 to Launch in 14 Days
I thought everyone knew about Bhopal. Maybe I need to re-calibrate my worldview. Now that I think about it. Yes, I do.
* case sensitive symbols in C and its derivatives -- thank goodness I can declare int Int.

* C declarations (experts can get into flamewars discussing good ways of reading C declarations)

* C (and worse C++) keyword overloading

* C strings

* Most of C++ (i.e. most of C++ - C)

* Most Java libraries

* Objective C's declarations (which at least have gotten markedly better recently)

* Perl's variable prefixes and subroutine declarations (even if you don't mind Perl's other quirks)

* semantic whitespace in languages with semantic whitespace

* PHP -- which I find useful and perfectly capable of supporting large projects -- is hilariously awful.
No, but Mininet uses dummynet like features in Linux: netem [1], htb [2], etc.

[1] http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networ...

[2] http://luxik.cdi.cz/~devik/qos/htb/manual/userg.htm
Ask HN: Which Companies in SF have office space to sublease starting March 1st
Please mention:
- Neighborhood (or cross street)
- Number of desks available
- $ per desk per month with all utilities combined
- How other people can contact you!<p>Thanks!
I have to concur, the visual side of the presentation is quite nifty and appealing.
> I would rather have relevant ads

Me too, soo much. I was really counting on that until it never actually materialized.

Looking over my last few months of purchases, advertising could have struck a real coup by helping me find the lowest priced dry cleaner in my area, or by letting me know I could buy a USB device that lets me use an xBox controller in Windows.

Instead, all I hear is that when I drink a certain Vodka I'm on top, and that Budweiser loves horses. Also, everyone wants me to start using credit cards.

Yeah, I don't drink, and rotating credit with abusive APRs sounds like a criminal enterprise.

Maybe everyone else is getting the perfect ads right now, things that really help them decide what to buy. I've been let down. I don't think I'm the only one though.

Because giant companies from a select few high-margin industries are the ones buying the power ads. Hulu can only choose between ad spots for things I will never buy, there's no amount of profiling that fixes that.

There's just no relation between the amount of information a company has that would help me make a purchase and its advertising budget.
Mute Spotify ads with a python script
Sib has it about right. It is an NP complete problem, and I'm pretty sure the solution is using a Heuristic, but it does seem to be pretty suboptimal during lunch time. Then again, maybe it just seems worse because you wait longer as a tradeoff to having a faster ride to your floor.
> The truth is EVERYBODY is struggling.

Bullshit. I probably won't be able to pay rent unless my client pays my invoice next week. And that isn't very unusual.

I'm not about to kill myself, because I am used to the constant stress and poor health and barely getting by, but the point is, a lot of that post was just bragging, and financial security DOES matter.

I honestly don't feel sorry for rich people who want to kill themselves.
> I don't have a clue what "gender discrimination" looks like in the broader tech world

Here's some reading that might help you get started with educating yourself:

* http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2012/mar/22/techno...

* http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/business/global/measures-p...
I had not heard of the Plasma Economy. That is horrible, that's just unbridled greed.
In these cases, for phone interviews, it is best to reschedule. This happens enough that it is not accidental. It's likely a trick to get the interviewer to give a softball interview.
On Filters
I did agonize for a bit when people say things like "the best minds of our century are working on people to click on ads", but I've made peace with myself. I chose advertising instead of finance because I deemed it to be less scumbaggy than finance (not really, online advertising is a shithole filled with mines and there are many many faces of online advertising ranging from the very clean to the very dodgy)

I thankfully work for a company that tries very hard not to work on the dodgy side of things, and we do actively work on tackling really dodgy stuff, so I don't think comparing online advertising to spamming is quite a valid point.

I don't think it's cultural acceptance. I'm just being open with my views. My views on online advertising is similar to my views on guns: advertising is not inherently bad neither is it inherently good.
Intuitively I knew that scam existed. I appreciate getting the number. It's hard to monetize 210K, but for a vanity project by a CEO, why not?
I read that as "homeowners shoot people all the time". I meant that his scenario, where there was a real threat of violence, was rare. It's entirely possible for you to shoot a guy who would've run off. That doesn't mean it was necessary, or defending yourself.
It emulates a network. You would use it to, for instance, test if your OpenFlow controller is reacting to appropriate traffic in the correct way, or (using netem and gang) to see what happens when you introduce delay or packet loss over some interface.

An existing use for this sort of thing is as a prototype environment for a software defined network. See 'Live Migration of an Entire Software Defined Network' for an example of use.
Data structures called "distance oracles" handle such problems. However, most research results are for static graphs only.

If the graphs are grids (as in the cstheory.stackexchange.com question) they are planar and some dynamic data structures exist (unclear whether the constants are small enough for the application in question):

Exact shortest paths:

Jittat Fakcharoenphol, Satish Rao: Planar graphs, negative weight edges, shortest paths, and near linear time. J. Comput. Syst. Sci. 72(5): 868-889 (2006)

Approximate shortest paths:

Philip N. Klein, Sairam Subramanian: A Fully Dynamic Approximation Scheme for Shortest Paths in Planar Graphs. Algorithmica 22(3): 235-249 (1998)

Ittai Abraham, Shiri Chechik, Cyril Gavoille: Fully dynamic approximate distance oracles for planar graphs via forbidden-set distance labels. STOC 2012: 1199-1218
It's all about networking. Take advantage of any connections you have. Meet as many people as you can.
Black hat SEO for the real world.
Yep, that's why I meant by "oversupply". The dumb money is rather plentiful, and quite desperate for a ROI, so it's thrashing around making lots of noise.

It's also an interesting departure from the 19th century when capital was scarce and labor was plentiful. These days qualified labor, or as we call it now, "talent" is in short supply and capital is plentiful. It's as if the capitalism has ran its course and produced what it could in the end - abundance of capital. Not a bad time to be on the "talent" side of the table.
The Nexus 7 viewport feels very book-like as portrait. The iPad is the one that looks "wrong", too fat.
The cache system isn't aware of threads or processes, but it's clearly aware of address spaces.

No, it's definitely not aware of address spaces. Caching is based on the physical address.

In fact, it's based on the low-order bits of the physical address. So, things that are in different physical pages but have the same lower-order bits can conflict.
PDFs and READING.

Those are MAJOR use cases of my iPad Mini. I absolutely love it.
It can mean different things to different people.

If you're a distributed systems developer, you can use Mininet to create a topology and emulate the interaction of 100s of, say, bittorrent clients.

If you're a graduate student in networking, you can use Mininet to experiment with your new routing protocol and compare it against existing ones such as OSPF, BGP, etc.

You can also use it to put existing research papers to the test: http://reproducingnetworkresearch.wordpress.com
Well, that's the mobile version of the site, so there are going to be some constraints. The non mobile has much more breathing room. Also, I'm not sure why the image is in red as it's contextual if not relevant. It's not an advertisement.
Parallel.js: A javascript library for parallel computing
It lowers their income by forcing them to succumb to non-targeted advertising which is less effective and brings less money.

I'd love to see your ideas of a free and secure web without marketing money flowing into content provider websites.
3:2 used to be the standard screen ratio.
just look at your 15 inch CRT monitor.

the industry then went for 16:10 the so called "WIDESCREEN" at that time, and now 16:9
I've noticed the same kind of distraction-free productivity in the wee hours and thought about starting my day at midnight, but usually I have a hard time taking my hands off whatever task is on hand. Consequently, I am usually a night owl who wakes up nearly at noon (I'm a student, as well), and when I actually need to be somewhere in the morning, I power through with a few bags of black tea.

I admit the 5pm bedtime schedule is a lot healthier and syncs with the 9-to-5 work schedule nicely, though.
We can't be having with Sloppy Saturns.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who is bothered by layouts like this, I found that it's rarely discussed.

(Also this was funny to me because I also made a screenshot on a forbes link earlier, but haven't had much to say - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4960590)
Twitter bootstrap is the shizzle!
Why carry a notepad?
No. In my experience it's not the ad companies that ask for them. It's usually the advertiser (i.e. the people advertising) that ask for them. Market forces (i.e. the demand) means that technologies will be made available to them if they're willing to pay high enough a sum.

As for evercookies and TCP stack analysis, I'm pointing out that the technologies to do cookieless tracking is already being used. And I feel it's a bad move. I would rather have cookied tracking where it's easier to control things, than to have cookieless tracking where it is generally grey area'd and difficult to see what advertisers are doing.
It would be a mistake to assume that readers are all the news sites optimize for. Don't forget that they get readers to get impressions, and impressions to get ad dollars.

By increasing the real estate focused on creating more clicks, they increase the chances they can get somebody's attention, send them to a new page, and thus create another impression, and more money generated.

It's the same reason that news sites will have a "Top 10" article with images and divide the content up into essentially 10 sections you have to keep hitting Next to see more on. More page loads = more impressions = more $$. Simple

Additionally, pages rank higher for SEO in SERPS when they have social proof that the content is engaging. So yes, the social sharing is necessary.

So while I agree your comments on how to optimize purely for readers are valid, you may be forgetting to take other things into account.
For a book length treatment of some modern "sneaky" PR stuff, check out Ryan Holiday's book Trust Me I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator.[1] If you currently trust the media, read this book and see how you feel afterwards.

Then go listen to some Queensryche:

I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?

[1]: http://trustmeimlying.com/
There are some cases where the F# compiler emits slightly less-efficient code than the C# compiler. However, in my experience I've found that I'm able to implement algorithms much more efficiently in F# than C#, which more than makes up for any compiler inefficiencies.
The content is blocked without javascript.

I know this is off topic, but I really wish the web didn't make me choose between opening a vector for malware and reading raw text content that shouldn't require javascript at all.
This isn't about the article, but I would like to point out that New Hive is really a _fantastic_ publishing platform. There's just an immense amount of creative content on it. It reminds me of what I like to think were the glory days of the Web: you know, when people were on GeoCities crafting pages about their DIY electric car or whatever. It seems like today everyone is feeding what they ate for lunch into some reverse-chronological blogging system and calling it a post. Call me old-fashioned...
Aha! Installing the libtxc_dxtn_s2tc0 package fixed it, and it ran smoothly (with a small periodic stutter). That fixed BananaBread too (well, it's still buggy, but sometimes it works correctly). That package seriously needs to be a default for Ubuntu, given how many WebGL pages I've seen it break.
While I'm sure F# is nice -- any reason why you wouldn't/couldn't use Iron Python? Is it "dead" ?
It came up in a time when raising money without connections was hard-to-impossible and there was a lot of young talent eager to take a swing at the startup game.

Y Combinator had the reputation and credibility instantly (as opposed to other, mostly undistinguished, incubators) so it could take equity at extremely advantageous valuations-- justifiably, because just being able to say you're YC improves the value of your company by at least 1.1x (probably 1.5-2x).

The problem right now is that it seems to be a "feeder school" for traditional investment, and it won't be able to replace VC outright. YC is an impressive and commendable project, but its value is prestige and it's hard to scale without losing it.