skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chris Anderson's Free adds much to The Long Tail, but falls short
The Henry Louis Gates "Teaching Moment"
I am not sure you understand - BATS is an ECN, not an exchange. In fact, most trading is on ECNs nowadays. An ECN is basically what you describe - typically a web application (usually using a protocol called FIX) that matches buyers with sellers.

Of course they charge a fee - there is a cost to running the data centers and ensuring regulatory compliance.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communication_Networ...
I have used F-Prot extensively (20 licenses) and it stinks. A real resource hog, and very ineffective at removing viruses. Stay away - it's barely worth free.
"but I don't how high or even where to jump."

I think this stems from not wanting to put your family in an unnecessary and risky situation, and having to reconcile whether your career choices are made for your benefit or for your whole family.
Sadly, the U.S. has no equivalent insurance program.
I'm curious how that works out if you're not getting paid for your time at the company...

I thought part of the employment agreement was that you'll be compensated for your work. If you are not, does the agreement still hold up?
> By not telling us the specifics and by killing the repeatability of this benchmark, you can only say with a minimal amount of certainty that the dedicated hardware improved performance.

I can agree that this test only has a small amount of certainty that actual performance of the application was higher on the new hardware. So what? It's is possible to use correlated metrics, such as engagement, time on site, and pageviews per user to determine if the move was "successful".

37signals' end goal was most likely to -improve user experience-. If you can confidently say that a valid random sample of users on A servers have a better experience than those on B servers, raw speed numbers don't matter.

I guess my point is: Test everything on your own. In the end, it's your users happiness that matters the most, not server speed.
http://ycombinator.com/images/hntraffic.28jul09.png

Traffic spiked during applications and dipped at the beginning of summer, as it always does, but you can see there's secular growth mixed with the seasonal variation.
That's still a division by zero error. Division by zero is no more valid in engineering than it is in mathematics. While I was out on a walk in my neighborhood I thought about the practical engineering problem you first mentioned above: whatever kind of resistor you are talking about, I think a lot less than infinite electricity could jump the gap filled by any finitely sized resistor, even if you initially regard it as having infinite resistance for purposes of analyzing the circuit. But I will leave further discussion of this point to readers here who have formal training and experience with electrical engineering, as my childhood best friend does. I'm not aware that he considers infinity a number or that he puts it anywhere on the number line.

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.divideby0.html

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DivisionbyZero.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_zero
I agree and I think that too many people have turned this into a "race" issue.

My sense is that the professor was wrong in attributing racial motives to Officer Crowley's actions. I also think that the office was wrong in arresting Professor Gates for being rude to him.
Mac OS X, safari 4,
Doesn't work. When I copy parts of a story, all I get are a couple of blank lines.
The side effect could be inconvenient... anyone got the blues?
Isn't SPSS the very first independently sold commercial software package?
Something else struck me when watching that video.

I'm often struck how my intelligence diminishes when I'm frustrated, anxious or angry. I've read research that seems to confirm such--such feelings interfere with short-term memory.

But Feyman exhibited such sheer joy and, if he carried that on when he meditated on a problem, that may well have helped him.
Yes, but both are a bad idea.
Cool to find out what that actually means -- I always just knew it as the magic incantation needed to play Jumpman or Impossible Mission :)
Mac OS X, ff3.5, Doesn't work. I just get the text. No link.
Slightly off-topic, but I tend to highlight text as I read it, and I find it very annoying how they seem to automatically save the text snippet that you highlight whenever you highlight it. The progress bar constantly updates and it's quite distracting.
My only exposure to IBM products were their Thinkpads and the various open source they contributed to.

I heard about Lotus Notes, they say it's the hell-spawn of a whore and a prostitute.
Get out of there fast. Also note that very probably the company isn't sending the money it's supposed to be withholding from your paychecks to the government, so you will have tax problems this year, that are the company's fault but you will end up having to resolve.

I.E., your paystubs say the company withheld $5,000 from your paychecks and gave you $10,000. You file your tax return, and the IRS comes back and says, "We don't know what you're talking about, Company X didn't send us any $5,000. You can go ahead and send us the $5K now though."

Missing payroll is a VERY VERY VERY VERY bad sign. Do not continue to waste your time working there for free.
Sudoku Magic could be a great app to open a conversation with a top girl on the Tube!
If a top babe is playing Sudoku on her newspaper, you can help her to solve her puzzle with your iPhone ;-))
On an ordinary weekday, HN gets about 3x as many unique visitors as my site: 33k vs 11k. When a new essay is very popular, my traffic spikes up to 30 or 40k a day, or in rare cases over 50k.
This has been thoroughly discussed in other threads. No need to bring it into this one.
I'm not getting an inserted link. I am, however, using NoScript, and this kind of nonsense is exactly why I love that add-on.
Well, he wasn't Russian, was he? In New Joisey they spell it with a 'y'.
Does anyone know what this API might do? It looks like you have to sign up to read it. I am too lazy/paranoid/etc.
What's really strange to me is that 3rd party notifications get more prominence on the locked screen than the 1st party apps like email. My emails are much more important than a sports score or IM but the 3rd party stuff has access to the screen and email doesn't publish status there.
In the DC area there are various trails that you can use to bike to work (or other recreational uses) however it is hard to actually map you route or see if there is a cut through between a parallel road and the trail. I would use this right now if I could.
The "red text" suggestion won't work for some color-blind people. There's got to be some non-color visual representation of the state.
True, you are gaining the information of the -exact- number of missed calls you have. The information isn't important on the main screen though. The current design tells me about the -absence- of a voicemail, when it has a red (1) on it. That is what I'm losing in this design.
It was described as a Google Killer by many of the media outlets that covered it. The problem with that description is that it doesn't attempt to do what Google does, so users going to the site hoping to do a search they'd typically send to Google quickly realized it's not for them. Rather than a fad, it will probably continue to be a decent engine that's very useful for a certain segment of users .... but not a viable general-purpose search engine for mainstream users.
Congrats! You win!

It is sort of a silly feature, but I figured the discussion here would be interesting. I was right :)
Firefox on Linux. No link.
Haven't bothered looking through the JS source, but it seems to be something bound to C-c. It only works for me on Linux when I use the main clipboard; highlight-and-middle-click doesn't do it.
Well, it works for me on FF3.5 and Linux, which is a bit more exotic, so...are you sure you have JS turned on?
Many frontends simply emulate the behavior of the backend. This is unacceptable if it interferes with user experience - and really is just lazy design. You want a comprehensive user experience, not a thin wrapper around the command line.
Just How Much Does a Lite Version Help Boost App Sales?
It's Tynt Tracer: http://tracer.tynt.com/
I read your article. I wish you'd have done my comment the same courtesy. You address none of my points. You haven't tried another cable. You haven't had the issue confirmed by support. You haven't tried with protected vs. unprotected content. You haven't found other users with the same problem... You can makes excuses for why you haven't done these things. They may even be good and reasonable excuses. But until you rule out the obvious and likely, your explanation of "my cable doesn't work because Apple doesn't like us" sounds like something of a conspiracy theory.

Also, for what it's worth, I'm comfortable labeling any new iPod/iPhone user who's most recent Apple hardware hails from over a decade ago as "new to the brand".
"Paul Graham has a nice article on how to start a startup up but does not get into defining the term technology startup."

I'd already covered that here: http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
Yandex is the best Russian search site (like Google, it is more than just a search), but if you read Russian, you most likely already know this.

More interestingly, it has a great blog search tool (at http://blogs.yandex.ru/ or better http://blogs.yandex.ru/advanced.xml?) which can search in blogs, comments, etc, on sites like Livejournal. It is, however, heavily tilted towards Russians and does not even have an English-language version, it seems.
Internally we prefer to refer to it as "Bloatus Goats" :)
http://ya.ru/
This is a great idea on their part.
Thanks! As a comparison, how's this essay looking today? I only saw the link because it was on the front page, but I think that's one of their most popular blogs. Is the NY Times as powerful as claimed in PR circles?
Must recommend this book again...

On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore
http://www.amazon.com/Edge-Spectacular-Rise-Fall-Commodore/d...

As I recall the responsibility of getting the 1541 working with the C64 was the responsibility of one of their more crazy, drunken, hard working employees. His name escapes me...Bill....
It would be easier to record if the call came in via Google Voice...
"the nervous system is essentially an electrical aparatus using very low powerlevels"

Signal propagation in neurons is not by electrical conduction, in the wire sense, i believe that this would actually be incredibly slow for the conductivities / currents involved. Rather signals are transmitted by an active chemical process where potassium ions are pulled into and out of the axon in serquence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_potential.

I'm not sure that this has a direct implication for any kind of interference effect, but just wanted to point out that nerves don't really work like metal wires so how external fields effect the internal currents is not trivial. Also skin-depth/screening is going to play a big role in stopping most of the external radiation.
Worked at Hursley for 11 years, now on a year out travelling and working on a startup.
We do exactly what you do. And that's fine.

A good methodology is not like SQL programming. The system doesn't explode if you don't follow every rule to the letter. In the immortal words of R. A. Heinlein, a methodology is an art that you pursue rather than a goal that you expect to achieve.

A methodology is like playing Dungeons and Dragons. There are rules. You gather together, you play the game, and you generally follow the rules. But the DM is empowered to bend or break any specific rule if it makes the story better or brings the game closer to the goal.

Many RPG designers have suggested that you don't even need the rules. You could just gather everyone in a room and say "okay, let's all pretend that we are elves and dwarves". And that can work. The very best storytellers can get away with this. But, in general, people prefer games with rules, even if they're very sparse and loose rules. They provide important structure, and they give you an excuse for saying or doing things that other people might not like.
Not sure that matters. This is how these sorts of things work: Massive publicity at launch/open-beta, then a major drop-off as people realize "Oh, this app isn't the Jesus-app the PR made it seem like", then a gradual, permanent build-up as you slowly iterate and improve your site.

Furthermore, let's get rid of "Google-killer" as a metric. If Alpha can exist in a separate niche and be a useful service to people and make itself money, it's a win. It doesn't have to beat Google all-around to be useful to people or to make money.

We live in a ADHD society. Our 24-hour cable news and blog-centric Interwebz demands that things happen way faster than the real world works. The way people today make it sound, Wikipedia went from launch to "beating Britannica" in a few weeks, when in fact it took several years. Similarly, things like Wolfram Alpha are going to take years to go from launch PR as a "Google-Killer" to actually killing Google. The way our news system works, it expects news stories to unfold over hours, not months, and to be world-changing, not merely big.
If there's no users, why would it deserve so much attention?
The pictures certainly seem convincing, but they don't necessarily show a trend.

Here's a picture of Barrows Alaska from 2008 showing that there's as much ice there as in the July 2007 picture. http://blog.politiken.dk/lomborg/files/2009/07/picture-1.png

I wish these environmentalists would do some proper datacollection and analysis instead of feeding us half-baked truths. It would further their cause tremendously.
Wow... my situation exactly, except I have kids but no mortgage.

Any advice would be appreciated.
Or ClearCase.
Downside Of OpenDNS: It Can Extend Website Outages
Ah, thanks for clarifying that.

Should I delete my question?
Maybe this link will help:

http://scienceblogs.com/goodmath/2008/10/infinity_is_not_a_n...
Ron Rivest on why MD6 was withdrawn from the SHA-3 contest at NIST
Hmm... compromise perhaps: Voicemail page stays the same, loses an indication of new voicemails, Call log keeps indication of new calls and ability to play voicemail associated with a call. No change to coloring of missed calls.

* Point 1 is mitigated because missed calls show up in red.
* Point 2 is mitigated because voicemail page remains.
* Point 3 is ignored because it's probably not a huge concern.
This is very good advice. I worked for a small start-up when I entered the industry. After two years, due in part to factors outside of the company's control, things started to look bleak. One of the founders, my boss (and the only other programmer) pulled me aside and explained everything to me (the other founder talked to the sales and marketing guys). He told me I was free to walk away, and he would gladly recommend my work. Or, I could stay on, work part-time for the company and part-time for his consulting business (this was the primary source of his income while he did the start-up). I really appreciated how upfront the founders were about the situation.
Synthetic benchmarks are far more subjective than actual production traffic, which is what we used to test. We ran the various configurations in production beside one another and compared the relative performance.

Is it possible that the vagaries of load distribution through our load balancers skewed the results? Sure, it's possible but it's not terribly likely with the volume of traffic we receive on a daily basis.

In the end, we wanted to see a response time comparison between a few different server configurations, using our production traffic as the load. That's exactly what we ended up with.
Much, much, much better then the Don't you dare link to us! strategy.
Necker Island is where he goes. Any maybe he just does drink tea and read the papers there, no-one knows, since he owns the place :-)
Given the sheer number of startups, isn't this a rather statistically likely outcome for at least one individual from a purely random perspective?
Why don't you just do that math? E=hf -- you know the frequency of the radiation, so you know the energy. Go ahead and assume that people are all water, you will be mostly correct.

Then, when you're done, compare E to the

+2 NAD+ + 2 ADP + 2 Pi	-> + 2 NADH + 2 H+ + 2 ATP + 2 H2O

(simple glycolysis reaction and synthesis of NADH and ATP).

Hint: The amount of ionizing energy of a 5GHz signal is noise in the amount of energy created by normal biological processes. Ars is careful not to say "it can't happen," but I'm going to come out and say -- it can't happen.
Did he ever work at SCO?
It is completely irrelevant how many users use it.
If it is a great tool for just a minority, then it deserves attention in that minority.

edit: Am I missing about the number of users deciding about the quality of something? Or why on earth am I getting downmodded? I don't have a problem with that, but I feel stupid and I rather not.
Esquire is doing the same http://www.esquire.com :

<!-- Tynt Tracer Beta -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://tcr.tynt.com/javascripts/Tracer.js?user=aTIf7gthSr3P6...;
<!-- //Tynt Tracer Beta -->
</div>
In IT it seems that nearly all middle managers ended up in that job specifically to keep them from touching the systems or the codebase...
Can AT&T Handle The iPhone?
"Stupid." The title wasn't "wolfram alpha deserves no attention".

A fad is defined by a traffic spike followed by a return to normal.

So a group of people checked it out and it didn't stick to them. That's ok. No need for anger.
The real command was LOAD "$",8
No you didn't. Had you read the article, you wouldn't write what you did.

As for your points:

Another identical cable: I don't have two cables

Another iPod: worked other 1.x

Protected/uprotected: they were unprotected podcasts

Users with the same problem: didn't look for them. Assume my cable is "weird"

The cable ceased to work on the nigth the device was updated. Worked the night before. It would be incredibly weird if the cable broke by itself while hooked up to the TV the same time the iPod was updated, wouldn't it?

And while I didn't mention any hardware that is not part of my rather extensive collection of interesting Computers (not limited to Apples, of course), there is a rather new Macbook at home and a couple Macs at the office. Why would you suppose my newest Mac is a museum item?
I don't know; Yahoo Store only updates stats once a day.

If I used Mixpanel (http://mixpanel.com) I could see stats in real time!
Good heavens. Reading the NYT comments I'm surprised at how many people take issue with the choice of words- "maker" and "manager," or assume that pg was somehow trying to degrade one or the other. Sometimes I wonder if there's a secret contest going on somewhere on the web or something where the goal is to get offended (on record, with full name) at the most innocuous thing possible.

I suppose it means that the main points of the essay are holding up quite nicely, on the other hand.
Oy! But his dad was sort of Russian (of Belorussian Jewish ancestry and growing up in a country with Russian the official language). The native spelling was not in Latin characters so there was a bit of freedom of how to transliterate the name: Фейнман.

Had he moved to the USA in the middle of the century, the standard of the transliteration then was to convert the "й" character to "j" so he could have been Fejnman.

It is also possible that the original name was indeed Feinman in Yiddish with "ei" read as in German (the long i), which would explain how it became Фейнман in the first place (transliteration from German Yiddish by a simple substitution based on the spelling while distorting the phonetics). Some Russian Jewish names appear to have gone through a similar process. This is speculation, however; I have not done any research on the origin of the Feynman's family name.
I worked at a company that missed payroll. They told us that they "couldn't stop" us from taking our laptop and marking its fair market value against what we're owed.

I asked about the desktop next to my laptop. "Can't stop you." "The Server under the desk?" "Can't stop you."

I drove home with fourteen PCs in the back of my car. It was so heavily loaded I had to peer over the hood. This was early 2003 and I'm still getting rid of them.

It made the eventual "yeah you had some entitlement to money but there wasn't any after the lawyers got done with it" letter all that much more sweet. :)
A bug in my code to determine the type of content. It should work now. Thanks for reporting!
I agree and argue that it is against the guidelines due to 'hacker' being gratuitous. Either the submissions stands on its own merit or it falls.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=728020
> My guess is that more damage was done by the head-on collision with the wall than by the errant spring

Given that the medical treatment Massa has received all seems to relate to head/eye trauma I think it's pretty safe to say it's the spring that did the damage. Kovalainen's impact into the tires last year was similar and he pretty much walked away from that.

> but without an airbag there isn't much to help the driver in a head on collision with no deflection

That's specifically what the HANS device is for, it's a huge amount of help in that situation.
Thanks. It was jquery, and I've moved it.
The article misses two really important points.

1. Police officers are people under an intense amount of pressure in a dangerous line of work. Ability to dissent from police is good - abusing police really, really isn't. The vast majority of police are really nice people, and will work with you and help you on a wide range of things. Like in other professions, some cops suck or are incompetent to varying degrees, but most are pretty good sorts. The officer's report from the Gates incident had Gates coming out onto the street and yelling more after Gates had left his home. I don't know at what point yelling at police officers starts getting in the way of that work, but there is that point somewhere.

2. The article did gloss over it, but yes, it is really impractical to get hostile to anyone that has power over you - even including the electric company. People are people - you remember the last time someone was seriously a jerk to you? Remember how you felt? Now, do you remember the last time it happened in relation to your work? Would you say you worked harder to please that person afterwards, or would you say you held at least a bit of an "F you" attitude? That's just a practical point. Police officers are people. They undergo training to react more sensibly and less emotionally, but they're going to react way more friendly and cooperative with people who are friendly and cooperative with them. Yeah, sure, it shouldn't be like that. I guess technically an employee at the electric company should work doubletime to get your power back on even if you're cursing and raising your voice at them and calling them names. But the world doesn't work like that.

So many places like to list every police misconduct incident in the last xyz years every time something happens. They don't mark down or just pay lip service to all the lives saved, and all the officers killed in the line of duty doing good work. Police and citizens are fundamentally "on the same team" - less tension and more respect between both groups would be a good thing. Articles that go hard to one side don't promote that.
IPhone Jailbreaking Could Crash Cell Phone Towers, Apple Claims
I agree. I negotiated my salary the first three years I was working full time. I did it politely and with respect. Truth is, you've got to look out for yourself.
The counterpoint to this is a bankrupt company may well not have ever reported your income to the IRS, at all.

Process that however your ethics guide you.
That reminds of a short story I read recently:

http://www.ftrain.com/robot_exclusion_protocol.html