skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's my experience as well that Facebook pages work extremely well for small stuff, also geared towards women - I've seen shoes, bags, jewellry and arts & crafts in particular be extremely succesful, mostly thanks to viral campaigns. Facebook should try to monetize that (and it actually started doing so with promoted posts and such) instead of facebook ads which, as mentioned, are awful.

My own Facebook ad campaign got us zero conversions, as opposed to Google campaigns. BTW the Google campaign on mobiles was as awful as the Facebook campaign.
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"Facebook Inc. changed its newsfeed algorithm. You’ll never believe what happened to Upworthy’s traffic next."

The start of the article is gold.
You're really going to justify shooting Tukhachevskiy?
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Pretty big? Yes. Amazing? Not really.

Try opening it into something like http://www.spritecow.com/ to see how easy it is to work with sprite these days.

I find that the only downside of using sprite is that it's hard to make sure nobody else is adding sprites to the sheet while you are working with it. It's harder to keep track of an image than is it to keep track of code or separate image files .
Minor point, but if I'm paying for 10Mbit, shouldn't I be able to actually USE that fully?

Mind you, I'm not paying for a 1Mbit with 10Mbit bursting.

I am the revenue source for my ISP and they should have a vested interest in providing me the service level I'm paying for.

EDIT:
Also, the conflict of interest with an ISP also being a content provider should be legislated away. We have a horrible situation right now and it's only going to get worse.
As a touch typist (120-140wpm) that types entirely with muscle memory I notice that sometimes I use my left hand to type a key on the right and my right hand to type a key on the left. It really just depends on what finger is closest compared to the last key that I hit with that finger.

Unfortunately this keyboard would mess me up in that regard when I try to click r,t,g,f,v,b with my left index finger or y,h,n,m,j,u with my right index finger.

Just curious, but is muscle tension always a bad thing? Wouldn't that just exercise your muscles and make them more durable to do the same actions again? I'm sure after 20 years of typing these muscles are probably resistant to this kind of activity.
A title after my own heart, though I think you're using hyperbole in the same way I do.

I agree that charging is a weak point of modern portable computing. Having a phone with wireless Qi charging helps me appreciate that some innovation is happening, while not especially quickly. The fact that I still need to connect my tablet and laptop to charging cables betrays a curious indolence in the industry. Wired charging is not for 2014. It was for ten years ago.

My own rants: http://tiamat.tsotech.com/technology-sucks
I think that if your current employer tries to make you feel bad about taking a job taking twice as much money THEY are the douchebags, not you.
>> I’ve even seen people talented enough to breeze through the entire degree without ever running into a problem too big to intuitively understand; those people have a very bad time when they run into a 10 million line codebase in the real world.

Reminds me of the classic Eric S. Raymond email to Linus Torvalds, where he says essentially this. http://www.vanadac.com/~dajhorn/novelties/ESR%20-%20Curse%20...
That would require them to have more technical understanding than just how to use BBC CMS.

The BBC would rather "dilute" tech news to make it easier to understand than educate or challenge the readers.
it's even simpler and effective to be buying only at ema crossovers!
He doesn't have to be fishing for it. He's conducting the business of journalism in good faith and in accordance with US laws governing freedom of the press. If they're stupid enough to mess with him, it will blow up in their faces. Nothing ensures the publicity of something online like trying to take it down. Streisand affect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
You can't actually use stripe in all corresponding countries though:
https://stripe.com/global
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For all times t, there is a chart that makes it look like the market will tank at t+1.
Sorry to disappoint, this is just one mans frustration with technology and why it still sucks for me as an example of a systemic issue that will probably never go away.

As for a conclusion that can be drawn, maybe -

"This is why technology still sucks, big time. You have these arbitrary boundaries of platforms that for a million stupid reasons can't accomplish the most fundamental, basic chore like keeping a charge or wrapping text or playing a video and you are supposed to just accept this without question."

Sorry to wax philosophical about technology and not deliver enough research and bullet points and trends and obvious conclusions but it would be interesting if you had any opinions on how these seemingly petty issues shape our behavior without us thinking of it. Reading the web on an iPhone IS a horrible experience yet nobody admits it. I conclude with a thought that I was hoping would lead to discussion of this unquestioning adaptive behavior we have with broken technology but as with most comments on HN it goes meta instantly.
Lose your belly fat with this one weird trick... Seriously? How is this on the front page. Keyboards like this have been around for ages.
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My sister swims for exercise, and asked for a waterproof ipod shuffle for Christmas. I thought she was joking, but they do actually exist. Apparently they are quite popular at her pool:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_18?url=search-alias...
Awww man I missed it. Novare Res is a fantastic place, too.
In that case we may as well post every article on http://springwise.com/ to HN. I thought people here were a bit more hard-nosed.
I would imagine one of my showers takes at least 10 minutes. I think if I'm really tired or cold it could take 15-20 minutes.

I am not a morning person.
That is a common overgeneralization. I think you are closer to reality with: "reddit isn’t weird, people are weird."
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They are also looking into replacing Google Analytics with an open alternative, such as Piwik.

https://twitter.com/the_intercept/status/432970191308218368
Because he's betting on your productivity. You can choose to make that bet true if you want, but you don't 'owe' it.
There's a legal issue with universities though. While the research being done may be public, they could also involve private corporate entities, restricted data, or patentable information. A lot of people forget that, while universities are oftentimes public institutions, they're also very large bureaucracies. Most of them are very sensitive to how data is handled and published, as incorrect findings, proprietary code, and other leaks can be very costly.
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What an excellent concept. Reminded me of the '80s(?) when the waterproof Timex (or was it Casio?) was displayed in fishtanks - you immediately knew what the product was capable of, as well as it becoming one of those "guess what I saw earlier" things.
Could that be fixed by having certain keys from the middle of a standard keyboard appear on the inner side of both haves of a split one?

Or actually... Could we just use two keyboards?
dangrossman said Mb/s
samstave mistakenly read that as MB/s
I'd recommend looking at alternative serialization formats. Pickle is a security risk that programmers writing distributed systems in Python should be educated about.
First off I love the "we'll call you and do all the work" implementation. Really lowers the barriers to entry.

Second there are two tricky bits of the workflow that didn't quite work for me.

1. Feinstein doesn't have a mailbox, and if you wait on hold for more than 2 minutes the line hangs up.

There was no mechanism to have tdwfb "try again later." So now the burden is on me again. (tiny violin)

2. I was connected to two congresspeeps.

Only one is valid, but zip is ambiguous. I suggest that if someone spends time talking to the first rep, then the second shouldn't even be mentioned.
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Whoever came up with this is still wet behind the ears.
We aren't asking for vocational training, but for teachers that teach how to think, how to design, how to run experiments, and so on. So many schools (even the 'top' ones) turn out people that cannot do this, and I find it appalling. These things are foundational, they are not vocational. Unfortunately that does in fact meaning having to learn some tools which will become obsolete. So what? I did EE labs, and while resistors are the same none of the digital components really are. I learned how to design NPN junctions, which are now largely replaced with CMOS, but so what? It was the experience that mattered. You can't hand wave that away ('you' is global, not you mandor), teach the math of junction biases, and expect that anyone will be able to do anything with it once they graduate. But so many CS programs try to do exactly that. I walked out of undergrad knowing how to do recurrence relations, prove the complexity of graph algorithms, and so on, but with almost no clue about how to actually design an algorithm, how to structure and design software, and so on. It took grad school and some good teaching professors, to change that.

I've rewritten this three times or so - it is hard to address without sounding like I'm attacking you, which I am not. But I am truly dismayed about the skill sets of people graduating from CS programs. I'm not asking for Java vocational training, but for a recognition that 99% of the graduates will be asked to function as "engineers", not "scientists". The people that come out and that function well seem to do so despite the schooling, not because of it.

Incidentally, the best EE teacher, or any teacher, that I ever had, had worked in industry for many years, decided he wanted to teach, and went into teaching. His classes were practical and pragmatic. Oh, you were failing if you didn't master the math and theory behind the material, but he taught you how to design, how to think, how to manipulate all of this book learned stuff to make real things that worked. We had to cost out our projects, write design reports, and so on. Extremely hard courses, but absolutely fantastic, because of, not despite, the focus on what might be called 'pointless' things (who cares what the cost of a transistor was in 1986, after all?!)

Unfortunately, you cannot gain experience, and develop the process, without using tools. It needs to be part of the education. Just look at the post by the poor person you are responding to. Think of how much better his entire education would have been if in some freshman level lab he had been taught some of these basics. I shudder to think how much he probably spent for that education vs what he got.
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There were (are?) watches sold in water-filled containers as well.
Competition does encourage efficiency, but competing ISPs are starting with lower efficiency because their infrastructure passes so many homes that aren't connected.

Pretty much no one understands how Google Fiber can be profitable at its prices, so unless they open their books or someone replicates that business model I'm not going to call it a solution.
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Are there any split keyboards like this that have mechanical keys?
I'm fond of developer-QA folks that automate most of their pointing and clicking. There is, absolutely, a skill in finding bugs by exploratory testing, but someone who can combine that with automating previous tests (thus building up a regression suite) in a way that's maintainable is a real keeper.
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Why npm needs funding? ($2.6M)
They want to hire team or it's for...?
They need to keep on top of existing demand as well and start running over-capacity. Not joking but it's pretty long wait to get an instance up in a preferred DC sometimes which is putting a lot of us off the platform.
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I don't know if it's a lot, but waterproof music players have been a thing for at least a decade if not more.

I'm with you: I prefer being present and in the pool when swimming. One of the things I dislike about gyms is the (almost always crap) music played.
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Bummer.

But it is still amazing that BRL is supported at all, given the insane regulations.
i HATE "news" like this. we know it's not correlated, but it's scary how the media can essentially manipulate the market. hope this doesn't get covered by more popular news outlets.
I think there's a typo also in the phrase "All rights reserved" - "reserved" is misspelled.
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Yes, but for what's worth, the Pound Sterling is readily accepted in Gibraltar.
+1 for OSH Park. Great quality boards, unmatchable prices, and ordering was painless.

I'd recommend using Eagle CAD and just uploading your brd files directly.
If you want to meet me at the next NANOG conference, I can send you my personal email address to get in touch.
Coordination of phone calls and emails to legislators seems to make a bigger difference than uncoordinated phone calls and emails. Posting banners on websites and sharing it on facebook isn't enough - by miles - but it helps people feel they're a part of something and if we hammer home that there are next steps to be taken maybe we can make some difference. Mockery only helps the establishment.
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This explains why some people type with only two fingers: no blood in the other eight.
FYI as of 11:30am ET there are approximately 5,000 calls per hour going into Congress right now through this effort. Keep it up everyone!
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You're welcome! Not a problem at all.
I probably trust his analysis more than yours though, as at least he managed to get the name of the game correct.

Happy Birds sounds fun though. How do you play it?
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>So, you say you went off and built a slide-rule, strapped on a rocket pack, and obtained a PhD in psychology and statistics, and an MBA in marketing. Now, Facebook Ads work for you. Great! So I guess it was me and the other 90-something% of Facebook's ad customers who were wrong after all. We should just do what you did.

No, I'm saying that you marketing is a field like every other and should be treated like it. It's like me saying "Oh, C++ is so stupid, I can't do "X" with it, although this book says it's comprehensive. Btw, I'm a mommy blogger".

I will give you the benefit of the doubt on your accomplishments and tell you that if you are good at marketing facebook is a goldmine. Go read whitepapers from success stories. Read Gary Vaynerchuk's stuff. Be super precise with your targeting (like laser precise). Think differently about facebook traffic. Get in the mindset of your customer when he's on fb. You are not looking to fulfill a demand. You are looking to create it, so all your efforts should be completely different from adwords for example.

There are 2 groups of people who whine about facebook ads - marketers who fail to adapt and people with 0 knowledge about marketing/advertising.
Your loss USA, your loss.
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That is great! I wish that was more common.
If they go insane or experience serious anxiety, it's because some of the players are nit-wit jerks who feel the need to disparage, insult and threaten the developers on forums and social media outlets, and sometimes in real life.

Seriously (in the case of the Nguyen [1]), threatening a game developer of a (arguably) very mundane and free game because the dev decided it's not worth his time nor is the game's popularity aligned with his moral imperatives? This type of shit GRINDS my gears.

[1] - http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/02/at-height-of-popularit...
Did you have a look at urho3d ( http://urho3d.github.io/ )? (just curious)
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I think that if this chart does have predictive power, the implications are far stronger and weirder than just "the stock market is going to drop next month". If there is a match to these random ups and downs, then why? What does each of them signify?

Luckily, it has no such predictive power.
'Internet "Blackout" is already forgotten and just pissed people of, it didn't encouraged anyone to resolve or change anything.'

SOPA and PIPA were defeated after several legislators changed their stance, purportedly in response to phone calls surrounding the blackout.
A lot of people actually : http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/egaliteetreconciliation.fr
I think some Kinesis (http://kinesis-ergo.com/) split models do; the Advantage isn't technically a split keyboard but has Cherry Brown mechanical keys by default. (I wrote more about it here: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2011/07/17/further-thoughts-on...).

EDIT: Didn't realize that Kinesis only makes a single split model. Sorry! The Advantage stuff still stands.
It's all about incentives. A professional athletes popularity directly translates (mostly) to them getting to play more, play longer, and make more money. On Jeopardy, if you lose you're off. The buzzer and the board don't care if anyone likes you or not. Obviously in some extreme circumstance they could kick someone off the show for spouting racial slurs or assaulting another player or something. And injury haunts pro athletes no matter how well liked. None of that changes the fact that in jeopardy there's no incentive for showmanship or PR.
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> The problem is that weed out classes substitute the easier task of deciding who is prepared for the harder task of preparing students.

I don't think this is the intent, at least in some disciplines. For example, I minored in math and went through the weedout class. It wasn't intentionally difficult (for some it wasn't even difficult). It weeded people out because it was the first class where you actually learn what math is - proofs, mostly. The people who thought it was going to just be algebra/calculus backed out.

I think maybe an important point is that almost no one fails the course - it was structured and taught such that anyone who cared could get through it. People backed out because it wasn't what they thought it was, not because it was too hard.
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How do they keep bacteria from growing on it inside the water?
If Stalin was able to save the lives of 50 million people who would otherwise have died by killing 10 million of them (which I don't necessarily think is actually the case, but supposing it was), I call that a good act. "initiation of force is bad, period" is not a good moral philosophy.
And this is what we built so the world can get their PCB components super easily: http://www.sandsquid.com
Open-source hardware and DIY, too!

Thanks.
My thought when I saw MS OS/2 1.3: "Hey, an old version!"
> We will purchase a $600 rice cooker.

If you had A/B tested for optimal responses, this wouldn't have happened.
Someone should help him out with thumbnails...
DigitalOcean Excited To Announce Singapore Datacenter (SGP1)
For an alternative, check out RQ: http://python-rq.org/

We use it in production and it's been rock-solid. The documentation is sparse but the source is easy to follow.
The marketing campaign, or my pun?

[edit @snowman41: Yes I know "wet behind the ears" is another pun. I was asking whether "whoever came up with this" refers to the campaign or my comment.]
The y-axis tells the story. In 1928-29, the market lost about 45% of its value (375 down to 200). If the pattern holds, the current market will go from about 16400 to 12400, which is 25% of its value. That's still bad, but not as bad as 1928-1929.
Maybe they could ship it through the water pipes direct to your house, thus saving packaging and transportation costs, and the pesky plastic for the bottle.
Ok, this is nonsense!

DigitalOcean did not "open" a data center in Singapore. All they have done is rented some racks / colo space from Equinix in an existing facility.

http://www.equinix.com/locations/singapore-colocation/singap...

They're just another customer - to spin and imply they have built or opened a brand new data center is ridiculous.

"Our decision to open a new datacenter" is really "We've located servers in Singapore". What's wrong with telling the truth?

Just more evidence that DigitalOcean is all PR and hot air after their pot-shots at Linode and brushing off security issues as "features".
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Someone told me that part of the reason for the great returns of the stock market in 2013 was because of the fed's quantitative easing program. They said that the easing was increasing the money supply, and that money has no where else to go except into the stock market, because all other investments haven't had great returns.

Is there any merit to that? I was planning to keep investing in stocks because of that. But, really I know nothing.
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Dramatically different price point, but I've been using my Sony Xperia Tablet for exactly that. Completely submersible = NPR & email in the shower every morning. Admittedly, I take longer showers in the miserable winter of norther Vermont, so I like any excuse to stay under the hot water longer.
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