skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a massive difference between a CRT at 30 Hz and an LCD at 30 Hz. A 30 Hz CRT is terrible in direct proportion to how bright it is, and it very visibly flickers. 60 Hz CRTs also visibly and annoyingly flicker with eye saccades, or if you wave your fingers in front of the screen. CRTs need to approach 75-85 Hz before they are all-day tolerable with white backgrounds.

LCDs have a continuous backlight and the liquid crystals need to change orientation to change frame. There's no flicker as long as they're showing the same frame. Here the flicker is noticeable as jerky motion, and is mostly just a problem for video, games, mouse cursor motion, smooth scrolling, etc.
Google is not the only supplier to internet searches and is not excluding competitors. They are merely very popular and are thus not a monopoly.
Uruguayan here too. This makes me quite proud indeed too!

For people that aren't aware, we do have our fair share of problems, Uruguay is being being given a too romantic view by the international media IMO.

The main ones being IMO (no particular order, and many related):

- Cases of extreme poverty and "slums" where a lot of people grow up in very negative environments.

- Lack of security! Lots of problems with violence and violent robberies.

- In many cases, not good enough education for the non wealthy, same for the public health system.

- A big problem with drug abuse, specially with drugs like "pasta base", similar to crack.

Definitely gay marriage and cannabis legalization are steps in the right direction but we have a long way to go.

I agree with the OP though, life is pretty good over Uruguay, I've been living abroad for a year now and miss the hell out of my country :) It's a very unique little county, no place like home.
Well I can't prove it, but I first noticed this about three weeks ago and I'm 100% positive they haven't changed anything since then. They may have used JS redirects further back in the past, I'm not sure.
This raises a larger question about patents in software. If I can anonymously create a program or feature that violates a patent, and release it to the wild as free and open...the patent holders have nobody to go after.
What are the odds that the Linux kernel is faster than OS X for server workloads? I don't have any data to back this up but I've heard awful things about their filesystem in particular. (Supposedly they have a global filesystem lock.)
That "don't snitch" thing holds true in most prison cultures, the same as it does in many military, and business settings.

You're new to a surrounding situation about which you know very little, and your peers, be they inmates, soldiers, or executives, could be engaged in illegal matters which are connected to larger, more organized criminal ventures.

You "rat" on someone you see doing wrong, but the people you just "ratted" to are involved in the larger criminal endeavor, so the people you "ratted" on are the first to know that you did so...

Prison is not the same as your community.
Cute, but when you're confronting someone, the situation can always turn violent. Let's say that you confront someone and end up punching him/her in the mouth and get a cut on your hand. You could get a serious infection or a disease, even though you "won."
I feel like the "defining aspects" of a decade come halfway through. So the 80's to me really took place between 85-95, the 90's between 95-2005, and the naughts 05-15. I think we're closing up the current "themes" of the last decade, web 2.0, social media, mobile ubiquity etc.

There's also glimpses of what's going to define the teens, right now it seems like the augmented world might be a big theme. Things like Google Glass, VR like oculus, and maybe the beginning of drones and robots such as googles driverless car. Honestly though, the biggest things are still in labs. They're ideas who's time is tantalizingly close. I'd bet some really big things happened this year, maybe by people a part of this community, but they're not ready for the tech news to hype up or to shit on yet.
Along a similar vein you may also enjoy http://arxiv.org/pdf/1303.6576

The foundations of analysis by Larry Clifton. I always enjoy checking out the references in his papers as they are often hundreds of years old or more.
I thought you had to be older than 13 to post on Quora.
I don't find any of his points to be too far off. If they were a bit more modest and down-dressed I might think they had a genuine respect for hip-hop.
I see - I didn't realize Pong was implemented entirely in hardware.

Chronologically, at least, Intel's first commercial processor was in 1970 but Pong was released in 1972.
It's funny. when I started using fb I just kept an eye on the email notifications: a permanent stream of all activity (including posts later deleted by the poster). It worked perfectly for me; it was before the worst of the farmville-style app-spam -- but I'm sure killing that was just a (bayesian or not) spam-filter away if I'd felt the need.

With what fb has morphed into, I generally assume the only way to share stuff with friends (in a way that they'll actually have the opportunity to see it or choose to ignore it) is to tag them or share directly on their wall. In other words; I might as well send an email with a couple of cc's tacked on.

I don't really mind that they're sabotaging their own product; I much prefer a decentralized, self-hosted web. It does mean I'll see less from many friends though - people that (rightfully) don't bother setting up a home page.
You can point to a text authoring tool with a mode that will dim all but a selected syntactic unit of text for focused editing? I am not versed in the hundreds of text editors out there, but if one were commonly known surely a link to a screenshot would have made the candler argument much more convincing?

It sounds to me like the author doesn't like software patents regardless, and was offended by a misreading of the word "cheap": I don't think the original blog post implied that copies would be cheap-as-in-crummy but cheap-as-in-easy.
It can be too cold at times. The (SF) Valley is horrible, Westside a bit chilly... Hollywood to Downtown perfect, best weather in the world (unless you like rain).
I was thinking about posting something like that too. FreeBSD is a great operating system and we'll all benefit from having more choice than less, therefore I've already donated to the FreeBSD Foundation, and I encourage everyone to do it as well - every little bit helps!
I don't think organic links matter much at this point when you can't even Google their name and find them on the front page.
If it behaves the way it's described, it sounds remarkably useful.

It sounds like the syntax highlighting that every half-decent IDE and programmer's editor has had since forever. Which is odd, since there's no way that should take 4 years to implement.
I was expecting Ruby benchmarks, not Rails benchmarks.
FreeBSD used to release official torrents of ISOs, but the torrent server was taken offline due to a data center migration last year and wasn't ever restored.

I suggested putting magnet links on the download page so they wouldn't need to run a separate server to seed the torrents; as a bonus, they'd be able to use the "web seed" functionality supported by many torrent clients to seed the ISOs from their existing distribution infrastructure.

Discussion on the FreeBSD Forums: http://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=35711
The Year in Review Cartoon
"Internet founder"?
They can go after everyone who downloads it, because they will be violating the patent too.
The FreeBSD Foundation set up a Bitcoin donation page recently, so you can donate that way if you'd rather:

https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/bitcoin
Makes you wonder, that your parent didn't know it is the law. Makes you wonder how many rules of the road are not known to be law, and mostly just followed out of social enforcement?
I agree weather is an important factor. I live on the west side, about a mile from the beach, and commute to Culver city by bicycle. I'm lucky there is a bike path that accommodates me in the least bike accommodating city.

To the previous commenter's point: Culver City has it all in terms of food, rental space, and access to the (albeit lacking) LA Metro.
While I totally agree many hackers and designers want to bike, walk, and mass transit,

I've visited LA recently (I stayed a week to see if I might live there) and I can tell you that many of those types actually live and work in Santa Monica which is quite bike and ped friendly.

I have a friend who is working on a startup there ( http://www.homehero.org/ ) out of one of the coworking spaces. He bikes to work.
> The hackers and designers that startups want to hire seem to be disproportionately likely to want to travel on foot or by bike

Startups clustered first in the aggressively car-centric suburbs of Silicon Valley and in large part remain there. Even the YC offices are a long slog from Caltrain, on foot through big streets clogged with cars and parking lots. If Mountain View can attract startups why can't LA? I don't even agree with these jaywalking fines but there seem to be at least as many car lovers among my startup friends as my writer pals. (More, actually, when you factor in all the friends who live in NY.)
Well well well,...Einstein must have been quite a stud.Why did he even suggest that they should stay together for the sake of their children?That is soo brutal.
Upon consideration, this article is really just a bunch of intellectual masturbation. A set is a function mapping from the universal set to true|false. A relation is a function mapping from some tuple space to true|false. No generalization of functions required.
(Almost) No One Is Reading Your Tweets
You can't ignore the practicalities of what iA are dealing with, but it does suck to try to control what other people do by artificial means. If writing the "Syntax Control" feature once meant it was done forever, usable anywhere, untied to their product, I might sympathize more with the idea that nobody else should build & sell it because it wouldn't preclude using it. They'd be selling a software product in that case: the "syntax controller". But here they're basically requesting payment for the privilege of re-implementing their idea. Well, sorry, screw you. Information Architects doesn't really provide any service when they collect that patent money.
Yes, we should certainly muddle the merits of a philosophy with its generational philosopher. That makes a lot of sense.
I'm wrapping my JavaScript in a TypeScript "facade" to get some of the benefits of type checking and advanced IDE support in a large project. Works for me
Except this isn't a programming editor, and I've never seen one of those that uses dimming aggressively on all but a single syntactic unit. Maybe one exists. Screenshots welcome. And this is assuming I understand the feature correctly.
Google has an acknowledged monopoly.

I'm not defending RapGenius - I think what they did was slimy. That doesn't change the fact that it's Google who decides the rules and polices them.
Do these APIs cover similar ground as Firefox OS's APIs?
I just looked at the cabal file, which lists the build dependencies. Also, there's a lot of OpenGL code in the repo :)
The Achilles heel of the lean startup
It's a difficult distinction to make, I don't see the harm.
From I what I heard the penalty is only for a month long? Still, what other practices has Rap Genius been using all this time, without being caught, in order to gain so much traffic?
I'm in the same exact situation, except for the amount of BTC (I purchased 10BTC). The ACH was cleared on Friday Dec 11th and the message read "Your bitcoin will arrive by the end of day on Friday Dec 13, 2013.". The actual coins didn't show up until mid-day Dec 18th, 5 days later and $400 below the Friday's levels. Can I have my purchase price adjusted as well? Or Coinbase have some sort of a preferential treatment program? My Case # is 73898.
Email is the new Fax
Put it this way -- it runs on just as many good cellphones as firefox os and you can use it to write desktop apps that will potentially work on mobile. I imagine that at some point a dominant HTML5 wrapper for OS level functionality will become ubiquitous, doesn't really matter whose it is.
I'm one of the authors of this post and am happy to answer any questions people may have about Replicant.
Adam Carolla has a segment on his podcast he calls "chicken-shit tickets" where he complains about this.
Am I the only one who finds the UI is horribly ugly? The tabs make no sense. Why is it all hogging the ide space when most of the things are rarely used (services, build) - why not put them in the menu?

Products likes these are what give HTML5 a bad name.
>> "This is bullshit and dumb advice. If someone steals my bike and I find out who it is, I'm not going to go to his apartment and beat him to death in the middle of the day"

It seemed to me he meant if you have an issue with someone go to them and work it out before taking further action. e.g. you hear word someone has a problem with you. Go to them directly and try to resolve the situation. It could be a simple misunderstanding. If you go the authorities straight away you will make an enemy for yourself for sure.

I doubt people are stealing each others bicycles in prison.
Not sure if this has changed since 2011, but according to this article:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/11/technology/diversity_acceler...

Another Y Combinator representative told CNNMoney: "We've never collected any stats about people's race or ethnicity. It's not a big factor when we're judging applications."

Maybe the founders (if any) can identify themselves
He engaged that particular poster's issue just fine: the word salad he threw out to appear intelligent. You know how I can tell? "with regards to" and "that is now apparently" for starters.
A human-friendly JSON-like serialization format.

Time permitting, a simple bitcoin gambling site.

Time permitting, a really easy way to do microdonations.
McDonald's on employee resources site: Not lovin' it
Million is probably immodest too. Whoops, i think apple and samsung sold a million phones just then. Oh that's silly, it takes them a day or two to sell a million phones.
Completely agree with the open sourcing part. It looks like they want to create HTML5 app for their own sake.
There is one sentence missing from each graph that would've made this a lot easier to grok:

"x is better" where x is more requests, faster startup time, or less memory usage.

I prefer graphs that lead me to what I should expect and that sentence would go a long way to eliminate the "mental math" I had to do to understand each one.

On another note, the 2 year graphs are particularly interesting. They're more consistent than not but those inconsistencies seem a little awkward.
>I don't have the stamina to debate with libertarians...

Probably true; I guess my comment can thought of more as counter-propaganda.

>Suppose, for example...

I imagine if I could get someone to question the premises of their hateful, retrograde philosophy I could get them to engage in further inquiry, which might open their eyes.

>You say you have lost your taste for intellectual debate online...

True, but I could also cultivate other interests. I'm sure eventually it will entice me again,

>Your starting point is that you know the truth

Marxists don't believe in absolute truth.

Do 'debate and reason' derive their power from the material world? It seems to me that they only exercise power in shaping one's consciousness to the degree that they reflect facts about the material world.

Following on the heels of that, what facts about a humans physical presence in the world carry more import for every other facet of their life than their economic position (position meaning, in particular, class)?

For what it's worth, people can and do argue against economic determinism. The degree of success that they have in that regard is a matter of continuing debate.
Getting Out of Discount Game, Small Colleges Lower the Price
Java Programming Timelapse - Space Invaders
I was wondering that as well.

I guess many foreign founders will be from countries that are part of the visa waiver program, but my understanding is that it doesn't strictly allow working (as opposed to business meetings) within the US, which would seem to rule out being actively involved in a YC startup.
I've only ever sent maybe three or four social emails. Email is only for signing up to things, sending a CV or printing boarding passes etc.
[serious]

I'm building http://techendo.co/ and it's running rails on heroku. I was wondering if there was some easy ways to get some better performance out of it immediately now that we're picking up traffic. If anyone could give me some pointers or link me to a page I'd appreciate it.
The Most Powerful Picture of 2013 For Me
Reflecting upon “equal justice under law”
While information architecture is important, having a dedicated information architect leads to an "ivory tower" effect. This generates massive amounts of paperwork and unnecessary design artifacts and also decouples the resulting architecture from the needs of the application. These effects more than negate the benefit of having a specialized resource fill the information architect role.

Don't support information architects... hire multi-skilled developers who can do the information architecture themselves.
I'm from Uruguay too, and while I didn't vote for Mujica, and probably wouldn't vote for his party, he did pay for his crimes, and in a pretty inhumane form too (11 years in a well) and we agreed as a country to leave those crimes behind for peace sake.

You can say a lot of things about him now, you might disagree with every single one of his political decisions, but you can't say he didn't got rid of his violent ways, in fact, for someone who used to be and extreme leftist, he is pretty centered now, and definitely not violent.
Not only in any fashion (.NET and C++ are still supported) but yeah, they do have a very strong dev pipeline for HTML.
lol how people cant admire those exclusive photos!
Very true about Xamarin - that has exploded in the last six months or so.
Ah, that explains it. Pretty massive difference really. I guess that makes Torquebox+JRuby the best way to run ruby code? I wonder why the RoR community generally ignores it? Maybe it's just a timing thing and as more companies learn about Torquebox they will swap?
I love the free healthcare, which is paid for by our higher taxes, which I am very happy to pay because of the benefits I (and, more importantly, other people worse off than me) get as a result.

Higher taxes in the UK do not, however, explain why the same product is 1.6x more expensive here. Part of the different will be accounted for by VAT (20%) and import duty (14% for this product, I think), but nowhere near all.

Incidentally, the US has import duty too. (But I think it's generally lower than for the UK.)
Their product has a monopoly in most of the world. Therefore it's a rule for the internet.
Depends on where you live. I was robbed twice this year (two laptops, a Kindle, and all my electronics, which as you mention are twice as expensive than in the U.S.).

Some neighbourhoods are really safe, I used to live in Punta Carretas for a while, and it's equivalent to an European city, but many others aren't - never ever go downtown after dark, and some other neighbourhoods are like the Brazilian favelas - police doesn't enter there.

Housing is in a bubble right now, it used to be affordable a few years ago but it's not right now (I had to move to a cheaper neighbourhood because I was priced out of my rent, went up 20% yearly). Food is a little more expensive than in Europe.

Education is universal, everyone has access. The country is doing consistently bad on worldwide tests (the PISA score) and that's being made a big deal.
Not just the theme. The alignment, layout, heavy use of text everywhere is just off-putting.
Welcome to Google TiSP: Sign up for our free in-home wireless broadband service
I think a big, dense city with narrow roads is a different case. Cars are mostly slow moving in that case. LA has wide boulevards with cars sometimes moving at high speed right next to peds... crossing becomes more dangerous.
And I very nearly picked up both of those that night. I'd grab them right away if my physical to-read stack didn't already stand a few feet high.
OK, I need to play with Pandas to be sure, but it sounds like the people using it in place of SQL (and commenting on Reddit) probably don't know SQL very well, as the joins look like a limited subset of SQL. I am sure there are advantages for further data analysis one the data is extracted.
I'm curious to know whether you have a citation for this automated flagging process - not because I don't believe you - I think it's very likely to be true - but because I've never seem this acknowledged.
E.R. Costs for Mentally Ill Soar, and Hospitals Seek Better Way
Yes! Yes! Yes! I don't even have to read it! That's the orange and black I was talking about! You can't imagine for how long I actually thought about it without no many ways of actually looking for it.

Thanks a bunch!
This is the case in some parts of Hong Kong, and it works beautifully — it's actually part of an active campaign on the part of the HK government to increase HK's pedestrian accessibility[1]. Interestingly, even here in one of the most densely-packed cities on earth where 95% of the population uses public transportation on a daily basis, pedestrians are only now being thought of as more than second-class citizens.

1. http://www.td.gov.hk/en/transport_in_hong_kong/pedestrianisa...
as long as you use that one IDE for it yes?
I mostly keep my twitter account as some sort of a diary where i post cool stuff i occassionally come across that basically means i dont care about followers but anybody is free to follow me.
+ "(2007)"

See http://www.google.com/tisp/press.html
Record-Setting Holiday Season for Amazon Prime
Wut. Try reading the article next time...
You can test it out by running a regular monitor at 30Hz. I've tried 24Hz before and mousing was definitely too laggy/painful, but 30 might be enough.
> Sure, this advice might be helpful in the context of "you're in prison, the person that slighted you is also in prison," but outside of that, it's advice that only serves to aid the aggressor.

I've actually found "deal directly with the person with whom you have the issue" is a good default rule in most areas of life (work, social, etc.) even where the issue is the kind of thing for which there is an available authority.

Recourse to authority when that fails, or when there is a specific reason in the immediate case to believe that dealing directly will be ineffective or involve intolerable risks is still part of the equation, but not the default action.
Eh... no it doesn't.
Probably in Bizarro World [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizarro_World
Going off the techempower benchmarks, looks like you should be able to get some speedup by switching to TorqueBox. No guarantees, but if you've got the time and need the performance it could be worth testing. Here seems to be a decent guide you could follow: https://gist.github.com/bbrowning/4296297