skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The image is the most important part of your ad. I've played around with copy, but the image will make or break your ad.

Ads to Facebook pages work better in my experience. I convert a lot of new fans through Facebook ads.

I'm actually driving a lot of traffic to an external site through Facebook ads. My current CTR is .061% and I'm paying $.44 a click for one particular campaign.

Facebook retargeting is also getting a lot of good buzz, but I have yet to use it.

Personally, I don't think a 12% conversion rate for your completed surveys is bad. Conversation rates have a lot of different variables. Your ad might have set certain expectations that your survey didn't support. Hard to say without knowing specific ad creative and survey topic.
It's all games, western games are also much more graphically intensive:
http://www.battlefield.com/battlefield3
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/
http://www.callofduty.com/mw3

Not too sure why this surprises anyone...
I agree with you. But there are a lot of professors that won't share data when asked, so they deserve credit for that.
sadly it depends on location, i understand that a 'street legal running car' in the rust belt can go for $250.
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Surely the ordinary regular tick would use exactly the same hardware to get the regular tick interrupt as the tickless one would use to get an irregular preemption tick?

(I suppose I sort of don't get why this is a big deal - theoretically, I mean. Of course changing a system as widely-used as Linux is probably a challenge itself.)
It may seem like they value a lot of text on page, but in fact, they just value content over presentation a lot more.

There's a good reason for this: A LOT of mobile users in Japan who prefer to interact via text, email and/or short form message board, uploading photos/vids as needed, than through their desktops/laptops (although plenty of those as well). Because it's so mobile heavy, you'll often find a lot of sites, usually personal ones, with barely enough HTML to render a usable page in Shift-JIS and that's good enough for them.
Just to clarify: Japanese consumers feel more secure with more text than they do with less text, or Japanese consumers feel more secure with a lot of text than American consumers?
I should have said Flash is available for IE, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, and Safari for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Considering that some of those browsers have a "no new plugins" policy, it seems likely that they will not allow any third-party CDMs. Thus it's hard to imagine that any single CDM will reach a 95% desktop install base.
Yeah, the lack of transparency is what made me explicitly mention it when creating Persowna (https://www.persowna.net/).
The author says that Glass doesn't work with prescription glasses. This contradicts what I've read in several other reports. Also, this reads like hastily written first draft.
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Excel/OpenCalc.
Sure. I spent 30 seconds on it but are you saying the only way to show you care and not sound generic is to curse?
I think the issue is that you don't necessarily know when you need to preempt before hand. For example, if you are a normal computer idling, in theory you do not need to do anything until something happens. However, you need to constantly check to see if anything happened, and the process of checking is doing something. With hardware support, you can skip checking when nothing happened.
Just simply because the outcome was much less than the ideal outcome. Yes, accepting the reality that no one else could understand his output (assuming the output was correct), then that organizational outcome was the correct one. But it's a tragedy (again, assuming this guy was correct) that his knowledge couldn't be taken advantage of. I just think it would be really tough to feel the realization of being so powerful that you you are impotent.
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An interesting idea, but I would be amazed if even 1% of the population took that into consideration. I'd never even though of that before.

Besides, a car weighs about 2500 pounds (more in the case of a van or SUV). That 13 gallons would only increase the weight of the vehicle by 3%. I'd be willing to bet you would get more fuel efficiency by just slowing down 3 mph than you would get from keeping your tank only partially filled.
It's not the only way, it's just a damn good way!
My wife and I hired an investment coach for less than $5000. Now we have our first investment property (cash flows around $10K annual) and a plan for early retirement.

Knowledge is valuable, knowledge that helps me create free time is even more valuable to me...
Totally agree, and not just because of your last name.
The title fits in nicely with the other slogans:

WAR IS PEACE

FREEDOM IS SLAVERY

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

DRM IS OPEN
Are you sure that isn't due to duplicates in Apple Mail? If I'm remembering right, things with labels (including "Inbox") will have copies in All Mail as well as each of their label "folders."

IMAP and POP use hierarchical folders and don't understand that a tax email might be marked as both "Government" and "Finances", or whatever your filing system happens to be.
Python accepts:

1 + True == False + 2

It should have to be:

1 + int(True) == int(False) + 2
Virtues of a Slow Launch (Lots of time to learn & test messaging / value-prop)
*lack of incentives for savers"

Do you mean aside from the inherent motivation of being able to weather the small financial storms of life and generally being able to build wealth and have significantly more options available to you in many parts of your life?
Haskell looks very interesting but I can't help but ask 'why do I need it?'. Currently I am learning Java since I want to get a jr.developer job later on and Ruby for some scripting and personal projects(maybe even Rails later). So Java is used in industry, Ruby is used in web and metasploit/ronin (something that I like to mess with), but what about Haskell? I am genuinely curious what Haskell can offer. I always see it mentioned on Reddit but I have yet to come across any notable project written with it. Could somebody with experience give me some reasons for me to learn it?
I don't like reward driven systems.

Did you read Punished By Rewards from Alfie Kohn[1]?

I discovered this book from this Aaron Swartz post on productivity[2].

[1] http://www.alfiekohn.org/books/pbr.htm

[2] http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/productivity
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This paired with the notion that you "can't patent math" could give a compelling argument against software patents.
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A lot of my work also happens on paper, and I don't share those either, as they are my notes and designs. Anything that needs to be sent on to the customer I transfer to electrons.
This is pretty cool Jason. It's clearly not perfect, but that's a feature rather than a bug - it means you launched at the right time.
I believe Verizon's LTE network assigns a publicly routable, persistent IPv6 address.
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We're unlikely to become like New Zealand with regard to software patents. Its easy for New Zealand to not recognize software patents categorically, its not a major export for them. It is for the US and that's going to carry a lot of weight with policymakers.

That said, I think what Judge Moore calls a "narrow" exception to patentability needs to become bigger. It shouldn't be possible to recite some basic boilerplate and patent an abstract idea so long as you tie it to a specific hardware platform. I think this ruling helps set the stage for a reasonable decision by the Supreme Court on the issue, in the vein of its very measured patent jurisprudence over the last decade.
Would be worth a conversation if this guy was atleast a programmer or a designer or a business/finance guy with relevant experience.
« I know, I'll patent "being a trusted middleman to stop people cheating eachother... on a computer". »

Somehow I think the possibility of this stopping all software patents is a bit exaggerated. And since half the judges disagreed about why these patents were invalid, it sounds like the quoted EFF lawyer is probably right: "No one understands what the hell is or isn't patentable, including the ... federal circuit."
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Debian is a distribution for bureaucrats. For installations that are just being maintained. If you are anything close to hacker do yourself a favor and use something else.
Completely unrelated, but how old is that computer? Is it PPC or Intel? How well is it holding up?
I sell a SaaS product with an average price of around $18/month. We (my wife and I) aren't afraid to pick up the phone and call someone... even if it means finding their phone number on a website or online phone book.

The typical account expired / billing problem call is usually along the lines of the customer saying something like "I got your emails and have been meaning to get my billing info updated... can you help me with that now?". Customer saved, churn rate decreased, customer lifetime value increased.

The occasional cancellation request call often starts with us saying "I understand you had some questions about [our product]. How can I help you?". Next, the customer says "I like your product but it [was too expensive / did not have feature X / seemed hard to use] and I want to cancel." We always agree to honor the request but also add a "well did you know...". Our save rate is over 75%. Again customer saved, churn rate decreased, customer lifetime value increased.

If a customer took the time to sign up for your product, try it out, and maybe even give you money... they recognize they have a problem that needs solving. Sometimes a personal call can be a great way to help a customer find a solution to their problem.

I can't recall the last time we had someone be anything but appreciative when we called them. The world moves so fast nowadays and life gets in the way, so people can easily become distracted. A little personal touch can sometimes go a long way.
Indeed. Also, not publishing the bulk of data is, unfortunately, standard procedure, not something those particular authors made up.
What I said was that it is completely illogical to say that because you think heroin can fight depression and its also addictive and destructive, that therefore real anti-depressants must also be addictive and destructive. You cannot infer the properties of anti-depressants from the properties of a bunch of illegal drugs that you (a lay person) consider to have anti-depressant properties.
It's a tiny detail but learning some functional ways of thinking gives you great alternatives to for/foreach loops when dealing with large lists/arrays/hashtables of data, even in other languages like Ruby or Java.
Is the name of this book some sort of inside joke or something?
True, but LAMP and vulnerabilities are BFFs.
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Is software patent licensing a major export? Software exports certainly are. How much revenue is lost by our industry because of patents? More than is gained by the exporters of patent licenses I would think.
Ah, I think I get it. You're saying we should keep content locked up in Flash indefinitely because you don't believe that a better solution can get the penetration of Flash? Is that right?
it's interesting how it's the complete opposite of what japanese design is known for...clean minimalism.

but I find that the marketing in Japan tends to reflect the emotions that are generally repressed in their daily lives. the beer ads for example are colorful and wild with joy...imho.
> many people (maybe more than half the world?) don't actually measure out their hunger in grams and milliliters

You seem serious here, so I have to take it seriously. Then I'll break it to you: people who measure their hunger in grams are at most 1% of the world. Nobody does it in France and Europe, neither in China, India, Africa, etc.

What seems a rational and normal behavior to you is a crazy and facepalming waste of time.

Moreover, despite the down votes (thanks for explaining by the way), I still think this behavior is harmful and anti natural. The evolution gave us a stomach that, normally tuned, will react to hunger, good food, bad food, with sensations of pleasure or displeasure. Bypassing this is risky, increase your fragility.

Food is not chemistry, it is more ancient, more important in our daily lives, it is has a direct influence on health and mood, it should be taken with precautions, and it must be eaten with enjoyment.
Thank you for this. It looks like all the 'depression is an invented conspiracy' folks have already weighed in, so this may be futile, but: you're entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts. Specifically: depression is a brain disease influenced by environment, but ~1/3 of the risk is inherited. [1] While antidepressants don't work a lot better than placebos, this is because placebos work well. This does not mean treatments don't work (and the widely-cited studies that argue otherwise have major flaws). [2, 3]
Treatments (not just meds) save lives - and sadly, one of the consequences of scaring folks away from treatment is more suicide. [4]

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22783273
[2,3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20800012, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22136980
[4] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17728420
> Hardy rejoiced in the idea that his work on primes would never be a weapon of war

What about RSA encryption, and the former US export controls thereon?

Also, what about more exotic mathematical objects, like finite fields for example, that have a lot of structural properties but don't seem to model much of anything in the real world, but are still useful theoretically?
While looking on the subject, I do recall something about old PostgreSQL versions having something like it... But I've always wondered how they deal with changes to database schemas, types, etc.

While googling I've found from this post: http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/Pine.GSO.4.64.080203152...

this free (?) book - Snodgrass/Jensen "Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications
in SQL" - http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/rts/tdbbook.pdf

Haven't read it, so I'll spend some time through it.

To me this is an interresting thing, since I would like to know whether I can do history tracking of game asssets for game development. E.g. often in our studio someone would like to compare data, how it was before this and what changed. We do have the mechanism, but they are not so ellegant.
IMO, there's not need for a patent on an algorithm to "allow one window to display partially occluding another" or "method to display multiple items on a drop-down menu".

I can understand patenting things like file formats (e.g.: PSD) but general computer operation "controlling tones over a device connected to telephone lines to initiate a connection between a remote computer and a local one" or the more stupid GUI patents or obvious usage patents.

I have no problem if they all go away.
Ask HN: Any interest in a service for cross-platform app subscriptions?
I have created a cross-platform app, and have built up infrastructure to manage subscriptions allowing users to access the app from up to N devices. Is this a shared concern with other developers? Would you be interested if I productized it? If so, what are you looking for?

Thanks!
Without knowing the extent of your coding experience and the extent to which your CS degree taught you the fundamentals, it's difficult to tell.

Some thoughts:

1. Dev Bootcamp in specific seems to be geared to beginners. Which is great for a beginner but not so great for someone with even some experience.

2. I've sat in on some of these programs, and even in programs that bill themselves as faster-paced the majority of students will be beginners. Which means that to a certain extent many things will have to be geared towards the lowest common denominator and a lot of time will be spent going over things that you already grasp well, while comparatively less time will be spent going over more complex topics.

3. The programs do help with introductions and they do a lot of heavy legwork in reaching out to employers. However, at the same time, the process of getting a job is, as I imagine (I have no personal experience with getting a job through this process), very much like a career fair type affair. I doubt the introductions will be the kind of quality/personal introductions that provide an advantage in applying. The introductions alone are nearly certainly not worth $12k+.

4. I think that as long as you have a marketable core skill (iOS, Android, Rails, Django, frontend JS, backend JS, etc), you should be able to attain the same job connections by attending engineering meetups and events in SF.
I keep thinking about Mesos and I don't get what the big deal is here. With low-overhead virtualization like linux containers combined with configuration management tools like Salstack, Ansible, Chef or Puppet, it isn't a big deal to have multiple properly configured applications running on individual physical machines. And to then distribute out workloads to those machines isn't super hard if you use distributed frameworks or job managers such as gearman, celery or something built on top of ZeroMQ. Am I missing something here?

You could even get all fancy by using openvswitch to configure your own virtual network topology. It just doesn't seem so complicated what they're trying to accomplish.
The best way to eliminate pay journals is to start lobbying public/nonprofit grant providers to require all research done to published in open journals, similar to what the NSF is doing right now. Pressure can also be put on the state governments to make public universities require publishing in open journals.
There is not much discussion about Windows internals, not only because they are not shared, but also because quite frankly the Windows kernel evolves slower than the Linux kernel in terms of new algorithms implemented. For example it is almost certain that Microsoft never tested I/O schedulers, process schedulers, filesystem optimizations, TCP/IP stack tweaks for wireless networks, etc, as much as the Linux community did. One can tell just by seeing the sheer amount of intense competition and interest amongst Linux kernel developers to research all these areas.

The net result of that is a generally acknowledged fact that Windows is slower than Linux when running complex workloads that push network/disk/cpu scheduling to its limit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3368771 A really concrete and technical example is the network throughput in Windows Vista which is degraded when playing audio! http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2007/08/2...

Note: my post may sound I am freely bashing Windows, but I am not. This is the cold hard truth. Countless of multi-platform developers will attest to this, me included. I can't even remember the number of times I have written a multi-platform program in C or Java that always runs slower on Windows than on Linux, across dozens of different versions of Windows and Linux. The last time I troubleshooted a Windows performance issue, I found out it was the MFT of an NTFS filesystem was being fragmented; this to say I am generally regarded as the one guy in the company who can troubleshoot any issue, yet I acknowledge I can almost never get Windows to perform as good as, or better than Linux, when there is a performance discrepancy in the first place.
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It's difficult to compare the two because they describe different aspects of the product. The English page has testimonials, pricing information, and some miscellaneous FAQ; the Japanese page has comparisons with email and Skype (the FAQ and pricing are on separate pages).

The Japanese page describes the product's features a bit more succinctly, as they forego the tabs (Group Chat/Mobile/Files/Tasks) for a flat layout with a single paragraph describing each.
Maybe you can add a section where you show your previous work.
What kind of images are good you think? Say I'm promoting my Windows 8 app - would the logo be good? Or rather a screenshot? Or something completely different?

(building a google analytics app btw)

And have you tried other services like adsense? Which one is better?
As someone newly entering the workforce, this is a really depressing view into how bureaucracy can squash innovation.
Japanese is generally more compressed than English. For instance, consider "dragon" vs "龍". The exception is when polite/formal language is being used, in which case it can get more lengthy. Instructions and descriptions would generally use more polite language, where navigational elements would be more pithy.

If I was to offer a theory on why the Japanese tolerate more text, I would say it's related to higher "skimability". It's easier to pick out symbols within a block of text and get a general feel for what's there vs. words in western alphabets. If this is the case, we would also expect Chinese websites to be similar, and I think that's the case.

Or, it could just be a design trend. For instance, usage of the color pink is much more prevalent in Japanese design.
"till it reached some kind of moderate scale where I realized it was a terrible choice going with a NoSQL db (Sometimes, I'd have to duplicate data because there were no Joins, etc)"

That statement doesn't make sense to me. One of the first things you do with a sql database when you reach moderate scale is denormalize data so you don't have to do joins, or shard which prevents a lot of joins. Joins are super convenient, but they don't scale.