skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to but I don't have enough traffic to conclude this in faster than like, a year.
What does being a girl have to do with sales?
Could you give an example query, and the non-Google search engine that gives better results?
And a video of them doing so - start at 8:45.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfK2BQCIIes
i thought the same thing at first, having just read the title, but it seems it's really not about the "social network" part at all. this is more like arXiv.org in that it's a platform for academics to publish their own research papers.
I went back and found that I was mistaken. JPG files that were altered were in fact completely unreadable.

In the confusion, I missed that JPGs with certain naming patterns were encrypted and others were left alone. I took two unrelated facts, 1) that plenty of images were readable, and 2) that plenty of images had binary differences, and put them together to arrive at a faulty conclusion. I am not going to be too hard on myself based on how that day was going for me.

IMG_????.jpg and presumably DSC?????.jpg were encrypted and other patterns were left alone. I presume this is to inflict damage as quickly as possible without getting bogged down encrypting stuff from "Temporary Internet Files" for hours.

I wonder if they'd improve their conversion rate by leaving behind a thumbnail to remind people of how much they liked their pictures that now risk being gone forever.
Or even an implicit acknowledgment that I do indeed have the power to call you out into the rain.
Only a very small proportion of the population cares about this.
Absolutely. Tesla is very well known and is not a common word that you can brand in your space and develop over time like the word "Square." People will always think of the car dealer.
Node v0.10.21 Stable has critical security fix
App aiming to become the Amazon of all local services
But we aren't moving the gpu to the screen.

With it's currently advertised feature set, there is no need for that much ram.

Assuming future-proofing support for 4k monitors with framebuffers in 16bit floating point format, That's still only 48mb per buffer and there is no reason to have more than two buffers in a screen.
I use Google Bookmarks. Any online bookmarking service would probably work, though.

Just make sure adding items is as seamless as possible (I use a bookmarklet). If there's too much friction adding items, you're less likely to do it.

Also, I'll sometimes add certain keywords/phrases in the "notes" field that match how I anticipate I'll try finding it again.

For example, if a Django app uses redis but only for optional features, I'll still add "redis" to the "notes" field. In six months when I'm trying to remember the project, the only thing I may remember is it featured redis in some capacity. From there, it's pretty easy to find.
Very cool. I'm still amazed by people who try to solve Rubik's Cubes with the least moves possible. Unfortunately it seems the speed solvers get all the glory, though.

Stats: http://www.worldcubeassociation.org/results/e.php?i=333fm
That's the thing I've never gotten about many of the examples of 'zomg-too-many-ads' they're mostly searches that you'd normally be looking to buy an item off of.

On a side note I don't actually get the map results most of the time anymore. Guess I'm in a separate test group.
Fathom.io is an easy-to-run cloud that supports the OpenStack APIs
10 aircraft carriers, not 13 (though it will be 11 again in a couple years).

The reason extends from matters of strategic planning though. Carriers provide "power projection" capabilities to about 90% of the populated earth.

Power projection is inherently needed for the DoD planning assumptions (which are now, IIRC, to be able to fight and win 1 major conflict while responding to at least one other military contigency). The expected military requirements for those worst-case plans probably involve having at least 3-4 carriers.

However, this is a worst case plan, which means those 3-4 carriers must be available, and on station (or nearby to respond), at all times.

When you include the requirement to maintain/repair/overhaul the vessels, handle training periods for embarked aircrew, training and certification workup periods for the embarked ship's crew, you quickly end up multiplying the ship count you need by at least 3-4.

In this case when they crunched the number I believe that they came to 9-10 to handle defense requirements. And then Congress told them to keep an 11th carrier anyways...
I don't know about this. The post compares items where the seller chooses to price at whole numbers versus where the seller chooses to subtract a penny. It seems to me like a more likely explanation is that less savvy sellers who produce lower quality products are more likely to price at whole numbers. A 100% jump in conversion based on a change of 1 penny seems kind of absurd to me.

If anyone has done controlled tests of this effect and seen comparable results, I'd love to hear about it.
>We're bound by neighborhood covenant laws from having an antenna outside, so having Aereo would be great.

Are you in the USA? Laws* that interfere with antenna use are not enforceable.

http://www.fcc.gov/guides/over-air-reception-devices-rule

* "applies to state or local laws or regulations, including zoning, land-use or building regulations, private covenants, homeowners' association rules, condominium or cooperative association restrictions, lease restrictions, or similar restrictions on property within the exclusive use or control of the antenna user where the user has an ownership or leasehold interest in the property"
Has Carmack actually predicted that Haskell will be a big deal? I know he's said he WANTS functional programming to be a big deal, and that he's looking to do a Haskell-coded game or engine. But I can't find a prediction on a quick search. Pushing is a lot more sane than predicting. :)
Ask HN: How do you tell stories about trips or adventures?
What (if any) tools do you use to build the story of that adventure? My current solution is keeping folders in Dropbox as "chapters" of my life with photos but would be neat to have text, check-ins, etc.

Suggestions?
Thanks! I am looking at BackBlaze, Arq + Glacier, and now CrashPlan as relatively cheap additions for extra peace of mind.
It might be to differentiate from the competition. You might see enough orders from people picking the .95 over the .99 to make a difference.
Ask HN: Onboarding flow description; "Quick and easy" or "Takes 3 minutes"?
When describing an onboarding flow for an invite email, would you opt for "quick and easy", and let the reader apply their own definition of quick, or, "takes 3 minutes" and anchor the reader's thinking in more absolute terms?

Is there any research available about conversion rates for these two approaches?
The Navy has actually used Linux within warships for awhile now (via its defense contractors). The boat I served on a few years ago used Linux for at least two different subsystems. And before Linux they've used UNIX so it's not as if the Navy is completely new to all this.
>It should be brutal and bloody and messy at every stage, so we can't isolate ourselves from what we're doing.

If you believe that carnality would put a stop to warfare, I think the last couple thousand years of it might disagree with you.

Granted, the sight of carnage can turn the tide of public opinion against a war... that's been the case since World War 1 put an end to the idea of war as a noble game where boys became men. But it's not going to stop wars from being waged, just make the politics of managing them more difficult, and make it more torturous for the soldiers doing the killing. The generals probably aren't going to lose a night of sleep even if people have to hack away at each other with machetes.
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The fastest growing companies in America: The Inc. 5000, visualized
actually i am more or less like an employee with options etc but 1099 instead w2

most of the website work i cant do much since its on the server with login etc for anyone to see and access, but on the mobile apps, its pretty much ipa/apk you upload to the app store.

I believe like there are lots of instances of startup unable to pay etc in bay area, I just need to understand my options.
But the point of getting titles right is to save us from wasting time reading stuff we don't want to when we could be wasting/spending time reading stuff we'd rather.

To my mind a truncated page title taken from the page itself along with a subtitle provided by the submitter and optionally a user selected number of lines from the submission content itself would provided a more useful and informative page for triaging content one wishes to consume/discuss.

However it seems that moderation of titles isn't working so simply reverting to using the given page title created by the content creator is probably the best immediate option.

IMO a site like HN should be highly customisable. If I want page titles and you want the submitters titles and someone else wants only the head lines from the submitters content then why not. If you want votes hidden and I want them visible, why not. If you want votes weighted by longevity of the user and I want votes weighted by people I've upvoted, why not.

But that's not HN and primarily it's the corpus of people here rather than the site that generate the worth.
EBay and Hortonworks Team Up for MTTR: Recover, HBase, Recover
If you're curious, I shared all the numbers I could on a book I wrote for Apress several years ago (Beginning Ruby): http://beginningruby.org/what-ive-earned-and-learned/
I've always noticed higher-end restaurants tend to price everything in whole dollars.
I would say the CO deserves it.

But the Navy normally uses O5 to command ships of similar crew size. Very rarely, even O4... it all depends on what exactly the ship is, and what the expected mission set of that ship is.

Obviously the Navy wouldn't slot a random O4 into minesweeper command even though it's a small ship, so you're really talking about a "better than average" O4 even for those, it just reflects back to how scope of responsibility can change things even for the Navy.
i wish it was that simple. there are 2 parts website and mobile apps, obviously with just the mobile apps src code, people cant do much with it.

Someone in news.ycombinator here must have dealt with this problem or at least a number of people, I know we usually only read successful stories everywhere but there actually thousands that dont make it
There were plenty of complaints from some film critics, which is a particular audience, but I don't think you can take that and say most people didn't like the high frame rate version of The Hobbit.
No, there isn't. The hypothesis they were testing was whether a superfluous apology would increase the likelihood of strangers behaving in the desired manner. All they proved is that making a lead-in comment had this effect. We have no way of knowing whether it was because the lead-in comment was an apology, or if a broader range of comments would have had the same effect.
Replace 1 word with 3? That is not a good pattern.
at least in bay area, i never seen any company do any down payment.

except if you are a big design agencies, then yes your client will do that. my projects usually is on going with specs that keep changing on the fly whatever bizdev people decided.
It might be fun to introduce some crowdsourced summary or reputation based summary of a title. This way HNers can see if they want to read the whole thing.

Also would be cool to introduce tags and let people follow those tags.
Thanks! The code is on GitHub: https://github.com/lkesteloot/turbopascal

It's a two-pass compiler. The first pass runs the code through the Stream, Lexer, and Parser classes to generate a parse tree (with type information). The second pass generates bytecode using the Compiler class. The compiled bytecode is then handed to Machine to execute. Start in IDE.js in the _run() function. Also go into turbo.css and comment out the "display:none" line in the .debug-output block. That'll let you see the parse tree and generated bytecode.
How does one obtain a .edu domain name?
Have you tried actually logging in? This is not quite arxiv.org — I'd estimate that 90% of the engineering going into academia.edu has gone towards features on par with LinkedIn for their spamminess. I signed up, and was asked about 10 times to connect to Facebook, Gmail, invite my friends, etc.

They have some interesting features (such as feeds of recent articles organized by journal you can sign up for), but by far the most important feature of academia.edu is growing academia.edu.
Tech headquarters around the world
One Third of All Paid Clicks on Google Now Come from Mobile
This made me wonder what the state of the art is in open source realtime operating systems these days. RTLinux is one of the options, but I've forgotten many of the rest by now. Anybody had any positive or negative experiences with any of the RT flavors?
If the game ever drops below 120 there will be a benefit.

Another way of putting it -- you can crank up graphics settings so that you don't need to stay way above 120 just to maintain a minimum 120, because dipping to 90 for a second no longer produce a huge drop in quality.
Freescale unveils first ARM-based QorIQ SoCs
a collaborative filtering server.

It strikes me as a lot of overengineering with no real meat at the core.
Other than a physical mistake of clicking the wrong link in a moderation interface I can't see how anyone can support this as effective moderation?
Not publish: share and discover. That's how we network.

Having said that, I haven't found Academia.edu useful. I like Google Scholar better, and that has plenty of problems.
Thank you for the twitch link!
The stat is unclear. I'm a member of the website, but I'm a college student. A Google search shows that there's about 20 million college students in the US alone.

I agree that the platform is growing quickly and I wish them the best, but I don't think they have 25% of the world's academics right now.
As an aside, even though it might ruffle some feathers, I don't think it would actually be illegal to do so — right?
Wow - wasn't quite ready for this to go public, but I guess the (Octo)cat is out of the bag now. FathomCloud is an experiment in a really lightweight cloud, supporting existing cloud APIs, starting with the OpenStack API. It uses LXC so you can set it up on any Linux machine, even on EC2. It's also an experiment in trying to figure out new functionality that may be missing from OpenStack or other clouds.

Anyone that builds an XaaS (or even a complex website) ends up building a management layer on top of their cloud; there's no point in everyone rebuilding the same thing, and it should probably have a sane API. FathomCloud can replace that management layer.

There are definitely lots of rough edges. If anyone wants to try it out, please email me with any issues and I'll do my best. And I'm happy to answer any questions!
Pretty pussy preggo gets laid -
Resumes are mostly useless. First of all, people lie on resumes. All the time. Second of all, even assuming everything is 100% true, what does it means he knows CSS? I can learn some selectors and properties but be unable to apply them to create a visually appealing page, or I can remember nothing but be able to create stunning sites while constantly looking up technical details (just to remove the doubt, real people are neither, it is the extremes). If he worked on project SuperPowerX in Yet Another Big Business Corp., how do you know if he was the most awesome engineer there or just muddled through and had everybody else pick his slack? Of course, you have an interview, but you can only learn the most basic things in the interview. You can do offline interviews - like homework of a kind - but it introduces significant delays in the process.

The best candidate I have ever interviewed (unfortunately, we didn't end up hiring him, but not for the lack of effort from our side) came to the interview with examples of his code and explained what his code does and why he did it this way. Everybody loved that. Unfortunately, almost nobody does it.

Having a place where the candidate shows what he can do - prior to the interview - is awesome, plain and simple. It immediately removes a whole layer of questions for the decision maker - you know who you're talking to, what they are capable of, how they prefer to do it at some level, etc. - and makes the decision much easier to make and less risky.
mpyne and rayiner have hit all the high points, but if you're interested there's more detail here:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2012/07/17/why-does-the-un...
If more people, like me, don't have java plugins, here's a cool video about the 'superflip' to make up for the site-animation not loading: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTyzE-NDga8
ORCID is sneaky in the way it's integrating itself into existing publisher workflows so seamlessly. All the vendors up and down the traditional academic publishing food chain seem to be racing to support it.
Yea--I found this site's flaw. It's a huge flaw too. I'm
not used to any censorship, but I guess those days are over
when big money is floating around? I had no idea what
Hell Banned was until I came here.
This is a good example of why libertarians are evil.
Visa hankers for San Francisco a year after leaving
I do run a few sites whose goal is to attract search traffic (hopefully by containing useful content to people), and the data in this particular post comes from one of them. I'm no stranger to different strategies of making a site attract search traffic.

However, this site is just my personal blog. It has one post because I just started it today, which is why it is fairly sparse. I'm not going to put any ads on my personal blog, so even if it did attract some amount of search traffic it would be worth very little to me. I also highly doubt it will attract that much traffic, anything related to "SEO" has a significant amount of competition for obvious reasons. I prefer to compete in places with high upside and low competition.

Additionally, I don't place much value on transient links (in my personal SEO opinion). When Google crawls the homepage of HN today, there will be a link to my site. But tomorrow and forever on there wont be. If I'm going to work hard to get a link to my site, I sure as hell would want it to be permanent.
I don't know whether it's Rao's write-up or not but this sounds like absolute rubbish written by yet another "business management" "consultant".

Is Hacker News about hacking or about lame web-2.0 bubble business bullshit?
>It's true that when submitters change titles, their new titles often contain more information than the article's original title. But a significant percentage of the extra information added in this way is false. The only way we can tell if a newly created title is accurate is to read the article, and we're not about to read every article submitted to HN. The only option is to revert to the original title, which is at least what the author intended. //

This doesn't make sense.

If the extra info added to the title is false, how did the moderator know without reading the article? If they didn't read the article what basis do they have to revert the title? If they did read the article then we shouldn't be getting issues like the "leaving twitter" reversion unless it's a mistake in a moderation interface or something.

Seems like a crazy way to do moderation - gather user submitted title, assume those titles are wrong and revert them, then return to the title and re-instate when there's objections.

There's sub-optimal and then there's eating soup with a fork.
Air Pollution May Be The Leading Cause of Cancer
The problem with vsync is that if your FPS drops below the refresh rate, the next frame is skipped, straight out halving your FPS. So if you have a 60hz display, and you're capable of rendering at 59fps smoothly, you actually end up rendering at 30fps.

Worse, if you're alternating between 55-65fps due to subtle changes in scene complexity, the FPS will flip between 30fps and 60fps erratically, which is absolutely horrific (worse than just sticking at 30fps).

To get smooth vsync 60fps, you probably want to be capable of running at 100fps on average, so there's a margin of safety and your worst case doesn't drop below 60fps.

If this technology can make 55-65fps rendering seem as smooth as a 100fps capable machine with vsync enabled, it just nearly halved the system requirements.

If it sounds like a mundane way to progress, that's because it is. All this is doing is replacing a system of bad design due to legacy reasons. Pushing data when it's done is almost always more sensible than an awkward fixed interval polling loop.
I don't get it. A good book is an enormous amount of work.. probably several months full-time, at the very least, and a bigger risk than contracting for example. If it's about the money (which happens to be the title of the post), it doesn't look like a success to me. What am I missing?
so is failr.com :)
I certainly don't mean to imply that any of the moderators have malicious intentions.
>I understand that, but if you have vsync there is already no tearing, and with a 144Hz refresh rate your lag is at most 1/144th of a second, or 7ms, and on average 3.5ms - I don't think that's something noticeable.

If the game never drops below 144 then it's not going to be very noticeable, still get extra performance of having vsync off and lower latency though. Even if you could run something that fast, though, it would likely be better overall if you could run it slightly less fast but with higher quality lighting model enabled or whatnot.

And so another way of looking at is: this lets you run at high quality than before, resulting in lower framerates of 30 - 60, because the negative effect of those lower frame rates between 30 and 60 is so minimized.
Say it ain't so - Walmart has the cool and cachet of SV's hottest startups? You mean I took a 40% salary hit for 0.00001% of worthless equity (and free Red Bull that makes me jumpy) for nothing?

Noooo...
Early Birds and Night Owls Are Real.  What Are You?
The IPv6 looks interesting, but how do the containers talk to the rest of the internet?
It would be intuitive to imagine that the rates companies are willing to pay vs demand would form some continuous curve. i.e., as you increase your rate, the demand would steadily decrease allowing you to find the optimal balance point.

However, my experience, though limited, has offered a very different picture. The vast majority of companies have a number in mind that they consider to be the standard rate for development work in their city. It looks like in London that's about £50/hour. Once you attempt to exceed this rate, regardless of qualification, the number of companies willing to hire you drops significantly to the point where you would have trouble finding steady work.

There are exceptions to this rule on both sides but most freelance developers will face this ceiling until they master the skills to overcome it (which, as you can probably guess, are sales-related, not technical).
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Facebook, Google Reach Surprise Detente On Advertising
> liberating and making easily discoverable the world's academic papers

Annoyingly, you have to register an account and log in to download any papers. The uploader doesn't have any control over this. It's still free, but distinctly worse than arXiv, or heck, even the classic academic homepage with PDFs on it, both of which already exist.

I would guess this also inflates their membership count, which is, I assume, the reason for the requirement. I myself never use academia.edu when I can help it, but I have an account because I must sometimes log in when someone has chosen to host their paper there instead of somewhere better.
great - now all we have to do is make sure we stop at 1-3 degrees,and we are all sorted :>