skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we please always try to remember that before the scourge that was IE, we had the scourge that was Netscape? If you go back and read through the W3C mailing lists people really really hated Netscape (the by-far dominant web browser at the time, for which books on HTML would have sections dedicated to optimizing for and would even go as far as to say being Netscape-only was fine) for seemingly making up HTML as they went along (almost all of the stuff in HTML that is deprecated, including all of the markup that was for style and presentation only, were Netscape-only HTML extensions) and refusing to take up the charge of CSS. Microsoft was even occasionally described as the potential savior that would come in with a second implementation that paid attention to them (and in fact you then find a ton of praise on the list from Microsoft publishing open DTDs from IE).
Replace the 'business books' category with 'self help v2' and I think you will see how and why most of that crap is written. It's not about actually helping people it's about selling books, and because companies / peoples actual problems are way to complex to deal with in book form you end up with a lot of empty platitudes and a lot of random ideas.

After all what useful advice apply's to both Bank of America and a local gas station franchise. Or put another way what book would you hand a 14 year old genius trying to decide if they should skip a grade and a death row inmate?
I, as an end user, care about what I see and interact with. Why should I care about what's behind the scenes? If replacing the X is what it takes to reach the goal so be it.

Of course, if it turns into something designed to takes away my freedoms, then I have to worry.
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If you are at the "I don't need 24/7 support" level, then sure: you might need to use something like CloudFlare ;P.
I'm not sure that it's appropriate to ask, but I would love to see the paper.
Thank you for contributing.
When we talk about sensors we're talking about the whole device
This pretty much confirms my hypothesis that Microsoft employees just don't use and/or care about their own products.

The product is undeniably broken, and you work on that product? Aren't you at all concerned about having the problem fixed, even if it is not directly under your control?
If I were to give someone a Bitcoin loan, what interest rate should I charge? The massive uncertainty of that question is enough to discourage any such activity. I wouldn't make a Bitcoin loan with a one-week period.
Your description sounds a lot like the bashing of X itself.

As someone who is happy with an X desktop I don't entirely get it. I understand that some of the folks doing Wayland have experience hacking on X but it seems a lot like wheel reinvention. X may have some warts but it's hard to argue that it's totally broken; it's also come a long way in the last 10 years or so, I'd say in testament to its ability to be extended. I think innovation in the toolkits (to catch up with where X is today) sounds like a better deal.
It probably doesn't help that we go around parroting the ludicrous notion that you don't need math to program. It can hardly be true that you need to program to do math when we've been doing math for millenia.

How long can you mock your older brother in front of your hip young friends before he decides to ignore you and go play with his own friends somewhere else?
I'm sorry, but isn't that obvious?
The first name and last name thing annoys me the most. I can't use my real name in most online services (yes, Facebook and Google, I am not using my real name, coz I can't!), because my official name is a mononym. When registering for PayPal, I had to sent at least 10 emails to get someone to respond to be able to use my real name for transactions.
The biggest advantage of Bitcoin is being able to transfer funds globally without an intermidiary. Think of it as a payment method rather than a currency for the time being and you'll be better served.
8-O wow, it's like being back at my first computer job.
Looking pretty good, privacy and IPv6 support like you might expect nowadays, only no DNSSEC. Not buying.
The irony is that I got my rMBP right after they came out, and it's been golden. It almost seems like the more recent ones have been worse?
I see it like this.

Anyone can have freedom of speech, but it's up to the people if they want to listen.

If a pedophile started preaching their beliefs in town square to a group of people, it wouldn't be long before they would be run out of town or beat up.

The same goes for any services offered to people who's ideology you don't agree with.
Although the headline is stating the obvious, this article touches on some good points that companies so far have completely missed.

"But now that companies can receive and store this data, everything from logs, to usage tracking, location coordinates, patterns and so on, the next step is to make sense of all of this."

Shameless plug, but I'm working on those problems now and it is an extremely rewarding area to be in. If you're interested in working in that area or learning more about it feel free to ping me.
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That's exactly what I'm saying. If it's deflationary then it should be worth your while to give me a loan at 0% (assuming I am low default risk). The fact that we don't know where Bitcoin is going to be in one week means that we don't really believe it's deflationary.
Today's bitcoin is a little more liquid than yesterday's, and the trend will continue as long as more and more people start accepting bitcoin as payment. This liquidity has a positive effect on value.
Interesting if anyone had conducted an experiment, whether new Bitcoin button, near old good CC payment, actually worsens whole conversion rate, due to interesting Bitcoin reputation in masses.
Site is totally broken on Mobile Safari.
That's exactly what is new, though. A couple of years ago they had much higher quality computers (and the RAM wasn't glued in). Every time I see a post on here about Apple I mention this: I think they are pushing to get into the market of people that don't know how to use computers at the expense of their customers that do.

I used to buy Apple and recommend it. But they fucked up, they are increasingly trying to prevent developers from creating apps for their OS's without getting their approval first. Fuck that, that is anti-competitive and anti-freedom. I now recommend Android to people, but I am looking forward to Ubuntu phone (shopping lens and all :) ) and FirefoxOS as hopefully better alternatives.
> There are so many blog posts that read "Paragraph 1. In this post I'm going to tell you X. Paragraph 2: X! Paragraph 3: In conclusion, I think X."

This is a classic persuasive writing/speaking technique, and often quite effective when used well. I think people try to shoehorn an otherwise expository or short-form post into that form because it's worked for them in the past.

To be clear, it's most effective when working with a subject matter lengthy enough to exceed the standard short-term attention span of ~5 minutes or so.
The ICS move wouldn't have been a bad option.

Maybe in a couple of years, but not yet. Pre-ICS Android still has more than 50% of Android's share.

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
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Yeah - me too. 2012/256GB HD/16GB RAM. Easily the best computer I've ever owned. Must be lucky?
All time began some time around the civil war, so computers should reckon to that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS#Epoch_choice
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meh, I am in a similar situation, and have mixed feelings. My parents were for it, but I was against it (because of the values my parents instilled in me... I'm pretty shocked they thought it was acceptable... but I think they were really scared that I was going to be a failure. I mean, I was a failure, at school.)

Anyhow, I'm only the second person in my extended family to not have gone to college. If I performed in school how I perform now (when I am medicated) I would have done very well in high school, I would have gone to college, and I probably would have done pretty okay.

But, then I would have graduated to the work force in 2001-2002 rather than in 1997.

do you see the problem here?

in 1997, I was able to get a programming job, essentially on enthusiasm. In 2001-2002? I would have spent considerable time unemployed, even with a degree.

(of course, that was just pure luck)

But yeah. I'm glad that the crutch is available to me now.
"5. Foursquare will fail by the end of the year."

They never really did much with the product. It could have been a great competitor to Yelp, but they stuck with the check-in concept for far too long.
>use cases are so niche

This is a first-world misperception. There is half a world excluded from traditional payment methods.
http://www.pcmag.com/slideshow/story/294758/10-gadgets-we-co...

> It had some major overheating issues that produced miniscule cracks in its porcelain body. Another major flaw was that it didn't have a fan, so users had to shutdown every so often and let the vent breathe. Apple stopped selling the Cube within a year of its release.
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"without saying the distribution name in the first place"

RHEL 6, Fedora 16, Mint 11 (while it was not obsolete), Ubuntu Maverick Meercat (amongst others)

Oh ok, so Fedora users just have to suck it up and having a crashing system? Congratulations, you don't know anything about distros.
Speaking of feeling old, I can barely see the light gray text at the footer and in some of the sub-headings.
How Facebook dug deep within Android to fix its mobile app
I agree; the narrative should bring more attention to itself. Not sure about the proper UI/UX way to do that, though...
Galt he isn't - "The universe believes in Encryption" (J.Assange) and this fact is at the same time the redeeming and redemption of the system we're watching suffer. Key point though - we're not relying on Nietzchieans supermen championing themselves or their genius. We're championing the universe, and empowering everyone. Freedom.
What's fantastic about Java is not the Java language but that you now get a JVM for just about every platform. You have Java, Groovy, Scala, Closure, etc. all these programming languages you could pick from and you get cross-platform support for free as well as being able to use all the thousands of Java libraries that are already out there. It's a powerful combination.
Bitcoin is not exactly a mature currency. When a new merchant starts accepting Bitcoin payments it's still front page news. So I wouldn't read too much into the lack of lending infrastructure. Evaluating creditworthiness, and going after defaulters, is a lot more work than holding cash deposits or accepting cash in return for products, and those things are still big logistical challenges in Bitcoin land.
The link is a link to a link. Here is the actual article that the link to a link refers:

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3289-some-advice-from-jeff-be...
uhmmm... has anyone calculated the risk of this comet hurtling towards earth after being projected by a near miss of Mars?
Android 2.2 and 2.3 devices are still being released on low end phones, especially in developing countries, so the number of pre-ICS users are actually growing, not shrinking.
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"Google Shopping Horror Express" ;)

Well, I hope not. Actually Google Checkout worked fine for me more than once. Not as smooth as Amazon, but it feels much, much better than PayPal, that sneaks up on you and tries to make you pay with your bank account every time.

Still, considering disaster with Nexus 4 delivery dates...
When I see analytics in industry I normally see a whole lotta graphs, big reports for the monthly board meeting, and so on. The way the industry is moving is basically replicating what people used to do with "small data" on the systems for handling "big data". Witness the surge of interest in SQL-on-Hadoop type systems.

I believe a large amount of this is crap.

Only actions lead to improvements. The tighter your observe/act loop the more chances to win you have in any given timeframe. Computers can act a heck of a lot faster than humans. Computers can also do a better job for balancing risk than humans in many situations.

If I was a consultant I would definitely be selling my report generating ability. If I was a company that really wanted to win big I would investing in automated decision making systems.

(Ob plug: My startup, Myna http://mynaweb.com, is one small realisation of this idea.)
John McCarthy (AI, Lisp) once said something akin to: "I think everyone should learn programming. It's the language we'll use to talk to our servants."

I want to use this great quote to advertise a programming class I'm teaching. Can't find the original. Any ideas?
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There really is a huge difference.

For someone with ADHD, a single Adderall isn't going to make them stay up all night. It isn't going to cause them to stop eating. There is no "razor sharp infinite focus".

Instead, it just brings things up to normal. Rather than being unable to even have a chance to focus, the possibility now exists.
This is a genius idea. Sort of like a freelancing website, but if you somehow manage to make it a credibility driven platform that has repercussions for those who fail to deliver then it affects their credibility ranking this could work. I really like the idea and think it works well the way it has been executed, will keep an eye on this in the coming months.

How will you ensure that developers get paid correctly? Forgive my ignorance if this has been explained already, I've had a few beers and skipped through the site as my screen is getting harder to stare at after 13 hours on the computer.
> Namecheap offers free anonymized WHOIS by default on their domains ... its called "WhoisGuard Protection".

Free for just the first year after transferring/registering a domain, after that it costs you.
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Who is this guy and why should I read his multi-page armchair analysis of Yahoo! PR releases and leaked memos?
Soon - Just added to metascribe.com (just hit MVP - designed to cover exactly this scenario: To preview a list before deciding to signup)
Ask HN: What all things can a developer on H4 visa do?
I can at least answer interviews and get someone to sponsor me an H4 ?
Hey, thanks for the questions!

1) Many different providers have different pricing for their different availability zones. On our part this is partly due, because we want to offer competitive pricing out of London (but also because there are different costs involved per zone). But thank you for the comment regarding the unified pricing, we'll add a tick to that in our roadmap :)

2) When setting up servers in Helsinki, for example, you can clone the server to London with just a few clicks. This automatically sets up the same server in London based on its status it was copied from in Helsinki.

We believe this is currently as far as we want to go with the automation (meaning that our clients choose where they want to clone the servers to) as it would not make sense for us to clone servers without customers' consent to other availability zones.

Let me know how you feel about the above mentioned setup!

Thanks again for your feedback, greatly appreciated!
I don't see how you make Yahoo! a great company again without having employees work hard (not just smart) and work side-by-side, physically.

Whatever percentage of Google or Facebook works from home, I'd argue the percentage at Yahoo! should be less.

It's clear Marissa is on a mission to make Yahoo! succeed at playing catchup and righting the ship.

Folks who wish to work from home should go to more established, relaxed institutions.

This isn't your daddy's Yahoo! anymore.

Go long Marissa Mayer.
It's going to take a lot of money, time, hardware and infrastructure to beat Amazon. We're talking about a company that failed to deliver the Nexus 4 to customers resulting in a lot of anger, now multiply that by tens of thousands of different products and you've got a scary situation. It would be in the best interests of Google to acquire a company already innovating in this space, I am not really up-to-date as to what startups actually are that Google could buy though.

Amazon has the space well and truly dominated for now, but I would love to see some competition. Who knows, maybe Google can nail this and give Amazon a run for its money. I think Google has spread themselves far too thin, they've got their fingers in too many pies and I think it's why most of their non-advertising and search efforts end up failing because no matter how big you are it's almost impossible to truly be good at 1000 things as opposed to one or maybe even 3 or so (like Amazon is).
Also, as Bitcoin matures, you'll see businesses pop up that will insure against the risk for a small portion of the transaction allowing near instant confirmation for merchants.
The objection is not that you're an idiot for not wanting a locked down device. It's that you're a socially inept whiner for showing up in stories about Apple products to complain that Apple continues to make Apple products rather than Android products.

You'll note we're not in your Android threads telling you how much better Apple products are–at least, not on HN. The conversation is one-sided. We understand why you like what you like, there's no need to barge into our conversations to condescendingly remind us that Apple is Apple. We get it. If you can't understand why we might value other things besides openness, it's your limitation, not ours.
Sure, but I still have my doubts. Apparently merchants like Namecheap accepting Bitcoin don't name their price in Bitcoin, they name their price in USD. Again, if you believe in Bitcoin, shouldn't you name your price in Bitcoin?
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Quite like the idea if this. How long till its available?
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Who exactly is your intended customer currently? I'm honestly curious. Your site currently doesn't support things like "I'd like to leave from anywhere in CA and go to Europe sometime in August and have a really great experience and a really good deal" and you're also claiming it doesn't work for the style of the person you're responding to... so... who exactly is it that you think is the target user of Adioso?

I'm not just giving you a hard time, either. I'm planning a trip soon and we've got a lot of flexibility in a lot of ways combined with some whacky constraints in others. Is Adioso right for me?

I honestly can't tell. It seems like I should be able to.
I'm curious though, under what authority is the Librarian of Congress allowed to modify the DMCA exclusion list?
Any two colors start to look very different when you put huge blocks of them next to each other. It's called Color Relativity. (That's half of why Josef Albers's illusions work in the first place...)

Regardless, it's clearly _very_ inspired.

The face icon:
http://dribbble.com/shots/884574-Designer-News-Badges?list=u...
http://dribbble.com/shots/800428-LayerVault-icon-set-for-del...

The gears icon:
http://dribbble.com/shots/800428-LayerVault-icon-set-for-del...

The newspaper icon:
http://antoniopratas.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/des...

The clock icon:
http://antoniopratas.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/des...

Don't really know what's going on with the icon collection... they are all in slightly different styles and don't fit together at all.
I searched the site a bit and saw no information whatsoever on what is behind it, so I'm going to guess:

For the local store, probably something like
an append-only (aka copy on write aka persistent)
B-tree-ish data structure.
This guarantees good behaviour on SSDs, and cheap/easy transactions. It can also be scaled linearly over multiple spindles.

For the distributed aspect, I guess they use some paxos variation (I guess this from the separation between logging the transaction and durably applying this)

But again: I am merely guessing.

With regard to flow: Is it just me, or does it look like a poor man's concurrency monad.
This just isn't true. Adderall is several amphetamines and the drug definitely produces a high. The medical application of the drug is this rush of dopamine and seratonin allows users to focus and ignore distractions.

There's no rush of serotonin. Amphetamines primarily affect the norepinephrine and dopamine transporters. They can affect serotonin transporters, but only in very high doses. (MDMA, or "pure" Ecstasy, affects primarily serotonin transporters, and has very different effects.)

The ratio of affinity for the dopamine transporter vs. norepinephrine transporter is substantially different between methamphetamine and dextroamphetamine (the principal component of Adderall). While both bind to both, methamphetamine has a stronger relative effect on the dopamine transporter as compared to dextroamphetamine.

The "classic" picture is that the norepinephrine transporter affects dopamine levels in prefrontal cortex and norepinephrine levels throughout the brain, and the dopamine transporter affects dopamine levels in the striatum. Striatal dopamine release is probably important for both the reinforcing effects of the drugs and their effects on motivation. Prefrontal dopamine release is probably important in improving focus. Because dextroamphetamine has a stronger relative effect on the norepinephrine transporter, it causes greater prefrontal dopamine release relative to striatial dopamine release, although both drugs still cause both.

So, the drugs aren't quite the same, and there's a reason Adderall and not methamphetamine is prescribed for ADHD, but you're right that a high enough dose will produce a high in either case. However, the action of the drug that produces the high isn't necessarily the (only) action that has therapeutic actions on ADHD. Atomoxetine (Strattera®), which only affects norepinephrine transporters and is comparatively non-addictive, is also effective against ADHD.

(While I am a neuroscientist, I'm not entirely up to date on the literature here, so take this all with a grain of salt.)
Finding a host on couchsurfing can be difficult in big cities at peak times. I was getting five requests per day at times. Try to bring something to the table where you surf rather than giving a potential host the impression that you're only in it for the free accommodation. One great way to do this is to increase your
commuity value by hosting some people before you leave.

also check out WOOFing. You can stay for free on farms and such in return for some work, not necessarily farming, sure there would be plenty of opportunities for web design or SEO work
You can easily fit all of them on one page, as long as you build enough scaffolding theorems to get there.

I am not that familiar with the field, but http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/infpnlem2.html fits on one page. If you fully expand the proofs of each subclause, I don't know how long it is, but it won't fit on a page. You will get through to the 'bloody obvious', though, with such things as http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/syl.html "if A implies B and B implies C, then A implies C", which this system proofs from http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/a1i.html "if A is true, then anything implies it" and http://us.metamath.org/mpegif/ax-mp.html "if A is true and A implies B, then B is true"
With the volatility of Bitcoin's price, it's quite hard to do. They can't set a single price, so they would have to modify their existing site (where most people probably come to pay in USD anyway) to automatically fetch the current market price.