skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can use Alexa rank and other public metrics as a crude first-approximation of how many visitors a site gets. In my experience it's usually accurate to within an order of magnitude for sites that aren't incredibly big or incredibly small.

Here are the results for the first 10 domains on the list:

domain daily visitors
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101bestwebsites 5,000
aboutyourstartup 3,500
alltopstartups 11,000
alternativeto 1,750,000
angel.co 500,000
appappeal 15,000
appmit 400
apps400 5,000
appuseful 3,000
appvita 6,000
I have been working on a few horizontal products and the starting challenge with chicken and egg is always the same - you need to attract one vertical community and allow to fill it with content.
What kind of strategies do other people use here? We tried automated import of existing content (e.g. from a publisher), paying people to generate content (with a set of rapid authoring tools). These strategies fill up content, but they don't engage a community and don't engage users to share content. Another strategy is to engage a lead user who already has a following, but this distorts the product into an individual one.
OS X Yosemite planned for late October
For many reasons, I think this will never happen. I think we could go as low as 3-4 employees for a 1B exit, but nowhere below that number.
Looks like you have some issues with SSL on a lot of the pages.
Are you not trolling? I dont think so is allowed in HN
Shoes are a fantastic idea, and highly overlooked. The biggest hurdle to wearable technology is the friction required to convince a consumer to wear it. We all wear shoes. We don't all wear glasses or watches. Some of us even wear contacts to avoid wearing glasses. The Smartshoe doesn't seem as competitive to Google Glass as it is complimentary. Glasses have a better appeal for visual media capture because you can see what you're capturing in real time and from a better angle. The Smartshoe could have a better appeal for fitness and GPS use cases. Emphasizing 'smartsole' would probably be a better sell than 'smartshoe' though. Letting consumers stick with their personal fashion choices, i.e. Nike, Vans, is a powerful selling point.
> I wonder how nuclear plants would handle this, though.

Yes, could all those aged reactors deal with large scale grid or component malfunction? Fukishima didn't do too well. FUD: Would we have hundreds of Fukishimas on our hands after such event?
IANAL, but in that case I'd write an IOU for the monetary value (i.e. your hours), but arrange it so that the technology / patents / copyright / idea is legally your own, and that your company licenses the technology from you personally; that way, later on, you could make an arrangement that the company buys up the full rights to your technology instead of licensing it. Something like that.
Speaking from personal experience (high-tech manufacturing, dealing with SOX-404, FDA CFR11 Part 2, ISO/TUV/CE/..., NATO, and DoD regulations), a lot of this bureaucracy is self-created by people who are ignorant of the actual requirements but in positions powerful enough to overcome that barrier and force other employees to do needless busywork, resulting in self-imposed regulations that don't need to exist for any legal reason, but which once emplaced are nearly impossible to eliminate.
Network stacks are layered and even after 40+ years, on every OS I've seen, L4 (TCP) never queries nor uses any L1/L2/L3 link quality/stability/availability information when computing retrans intervals, etc. Doing that would indeed be an aesthetically distasteful layering violation, but it would enable much more optimal behavior in a lot of wifi & cell network scenarios, as you've said.

It will probably happen eventually, at least in Linux, after a few more years of commercial pressure to make it suck less.
> Each sub department doesn't have their own sales team haggling internal prices & discounts with other department heads.

Yes they do. I'm working for a fairly large company (several thousand employees) where projects often covers several business units on different physical locations and each department bill their hours to the next down the factory line.

For example my team seldom deal with external clients, however our sales man has to fight tooth and nail to protect our margin against other internal dep.
People, Not Metrics – Numbers don't tell a story
> Wow, Super Mario Bros Special looks terrible. Very strong evidence that the main reason the NES was so successful[...]

The article says "Super Mario Bros. Special - PC-88, Sharp X1, Samsung SPC-1500 (1986)"

Here's the caption for the first screenshot "Super Mario Bros. Special (PC-88)"

For the second "Super Mario Bros. Special (PC-88)"

And for the third "Super Mario Bros. Special (PC-88)"

Maybe one of the reasons the NES was so popular was that games were very good?
Microsoft has a GitHub account now, and their bio is basically an apology
Zeo is dead
"Why does this exist? I wanted to write an interpreter and was stuck on a Windows XP laptop without Internet"

We have all had one of those days... :)
In that case I say we nationalize them. There's no need for more than one State.
I think that we can agree it's much more preferable than catastrophic damage to the grid that will take years to recover from.
Want to get started with NSNotificationCenter? Here you go
> I don't see mention of 4 hours, but presumably that's how long it took to either erupt or transit through empty space.

It took only 4 hours to get from the Sun to Earth, but then it 'slows down' and hangs about?
A nice Gaussian blur would probably be fine, it's specifically the pixelation technique that's leaking data.
Is there a link where one does not have to register for a forum?
people interested in regular updated on solar flare can look into this youtube channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTiL1q9YbrVam5nP2xzFTWQ
Previous entry, from 1 day ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8071532
You did deride it, albeit without any ill intention. I also do not feel overly offended by your argument, which is not totally baseless. My comment, read with some distance, came out too harsh.

It's just that the metric of speaker headcount/native economic power is not the sole metric for universal language selection, and it is one I do not think is the best.

Headcount would have us all speaking mandarin, a language with little really global world reach, and really foreign to all westerners because of its tonal characteristic.

English is probably the best option. Huge cultural reach globally via Hollywood, easy phonology and an easy grammar. If spelling could be simplified (or at least made sane) it'd be almost perfect.
Healing the heart with fat?
A University of California, San Diego School of Medicine-led study suggests that parents of obese children often do not recognize the potentially serious health consequences of childhood weight gain or the importance of daily physical activity in helping their child reach a healthy weight.
This Lego Microscope Actually Works
Ask HN: Batch snapshot web – PDF?
Does anyone know a tool that will batch process a list of URLs into PDF screenshots? I know some great tools but none that are quite right for me.

I often need to take screenshots of web pages for print-outs. As a lawyer, this is usually to show that web-based businesses are having their content copied or their designs ripped off by others.

The tools I use at the moment are:

- Nirsoft Siteshoter [0]: a fantastic tool that outputs images. Part of a wide range of useful free tools [1]... Unfortunately this adds a stage to the PDF process, though, and loses the text information, outputting it as pixels instead (leading to greater filesize, fuzzier prints). Also, it uses IE to render so the rendering is sometimes a bit off.

- Web2PDF [2]: Good browser-based tool but no batch functionality and font rendering is only average.

- Chrome: "Save as PDF" function is good for everyday use, but tends to ignore structure and background images, and doesn't allow for batch processing.

I'm not fussy about a fancy GUI - just need something that can read from a text file and output convenient PDFs. Any recommendations appreciated.

[0] http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/web_site_screenshot.html
[1] http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/index.html
[2] http://www.web2pdfconvert.com/
Has it really? What about the rapidly rising number of freelancers? Or the decreasing size of firms year-after-year since 2000?
Building 14 kernels and checking if they contain the bug manually sounds to be a lot of work for me. In that regard I think his post might not be a reasonable criticism. I think that criticism and being wrong is everybody's right, though. Therefore I wouldn't down vote a post for something like this but others seem to disagree.
Http://www.nasa.gov/missions/index.html
I was thinking about doing something like this, but mine would be a bookmarklet itself that would search in the user's gists for any gists with "bookmarklet" in the name.

https://gist.github.com/fiatjaf/f6d6fd5d23421eae95d7
So if something is 1337 days old it gets autoreposted? Could live with that.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1939607

A bit more precise this post is even older, and was first discussed in 2007 prominently in these two places:
http://www.reddit.com/comments/xaae/how_to_extract_personal_...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/01/how_to_recove...

(please refrain from responding with XKCD references, I'm aware of that, just want to link to older discussions)
I just wonder why this isn't 64bit? Seems it should profit vastly from being able to use modern amounts of RAM plus better registers.
Isn't that still forwardly deterministic i.e. you can apply the same algorithm to it but at a higher resolution?
The title is pretty crappy: it implies that if you learn to interrupt, you'll somehow get ahead. That's not what the data shows: the data shows that women got ahead, interrupt. It could be that there's a causal link, or that the causal link is in the opposite direction (they interrupt because they are senior as opposed to senior-because-interrupt; that link is also backed over the entire sample set, not just women, by the same data!), or that there is an underlying cause that both makes them more likely to get ahead and more likely to interrupt.

(The article makes no such conclusion, but merely suggests it.)
It's the same Le chal shoe from Ducere Technologies
Someone in PR at Microsoft will see that bio in 10... 9...
You think the technique mentioned in the article doesn't leak data? It actually leaks more data than a gaussian blur.

Gaussian blur suffers from exactly the same problem, although a different difference function is needed for it.
this is cool. Would be nice to have a way to pick palettes directly at your site instead of going to colorlovers. Maybe by searching?
In some cases even blurring faces might be a bad idea. Just because we are unable to unblur a face today doesn't mean we are unable in 10 years or 100 years. In many cases this might not be a problem but in some cases this might lead to trouble later on which can be avoided just as easily.
While I suspect that Professor-of-Entrepreneurship has a lot of the details worked out in his book, I would be concerned about tax implications (higher-basis/more-recordkeeping) and the distractions/morale-risks of constant rolling renegotiation about "latest contributions".

For example, when the company hits a rough spot, it may be best for a team of N to be thinking, "We all need to work extra hard this month so that our 1/Nth shares wind up worth something, rather than nothing." Rather than, "I need some recharge time, I'll let others earn a little more this month, and re-engage for my increments if and when it gets less crazy."
The idea that rebuilding from disaster generates jobs doesn't require a mention of the Broken Window Fallacy. No one is creating the disaster with the aim be 'generating jobs' or attempting to argue that the disaster is a good things because it creates jobs.
Gog.com Now Supports Linux
Need a Debit Card?
will it tickle the feet?
Codility's programming interface is now open source
True, its got a totally apologetic tone to it!
"We have changed, please forgive us and write code with us. Please!" That's what it sounds like.
Yes it is reversible for practical purposes. There is some data loss on edges, which will manifest as noise on recovered image.
Currently:

Microsoft has changed as a company
and is becoming more open in the way
that we collaborate with others.

Will it change?
Email with just subject. no body
Hopefully your first statement is true, but I've seen individuals do really dumb stuff.

A true AI would have the ability to learn and to evolve. Watch the movie Transcendence, I see very few flaws in that movie's logic.

If humans posed a threat to the AI it could certainly be malevolent from our perspective, to it it would just be doing what's necessary to survive.

Computers were "impossible" 200 years ago, the internet was something that few people could even imagine. I don't really consider anything impossible, what would make it truly impossible given enough time, resources, and motivation?
And .... netscape saw it coming...
If the only purpose of these shoes is to get directions, I would prefer a pair of bracelets, which I could wear on my wrists or my ankles.
i am in no way connected with this site and the people behind it.
i just found this a few minutes ago, and i cant decide if i like it or not. or if i would use it or not. its such a weird idea!
Gaussian blur is a 100% reversible! You just sharpen using the same Gaussian settings for a Gaussian sharpen. It's only due to rounding to 8bit per colour that causes it to loose any information.
You cannot unblur mosaic blurring. It's the equivalent of a hash. The best you can do is brute force possible input vectors. There will be many collisions. This technique only works because digits/numbers limit the input space for a credit card or bank number. For faces, the best you can do is validate if someone you already suspect or someone you have in a database, is the origin of the mosaic. If you had a picture of every person in your country, you could run them all through and find the origin - but you're not really unblurring as much as extracting information to do process of elimination on a 'image hash'
I a not convinced of the benefits of wearable technology in the immediate future. The watch was the original piece of wearable technology for years, but many people including myself don't bother with them now, because they can check their phone. The other application I can see an advanced version of a heart rate monitor. The fact is these will only appeal to a small part of the population. There are far more people who don't give a shit about their health than do AND want to shell out for something like this.

This article actually gave a new case, for blind people. But considering how frustrating a conventional smartphone can be to get directions (no GPS lock, no signal, the phone has just decided to run slow while you really need it, or it crashes), I am skeptical about how good it will actually be. What is the advantage in having your shoe tell you which way to go over a handheld device like a phone?
Their answer is to "color over it", but BE CAREFUL if you do that. I'm sure that some of us remember the US government document(s) in the late 90s/early 2000s that were released in redacted form, but the person didn't realize/understand that people with the Acrobat editor program could remove the black bars.
I'm going through a review of MCDBio right now in prep for grad school (surprisingly, I actually enjoy the MCAT Bio book, as it is a good and quick review for non-bio peeps). This description is incredibly similar to that of a cell tissue, intentionally I think. From above, we see membranes and cell walls, areas that are cordoned off from another. They have internal chemistry that is separate and free inside them. Interactions between cells are controlled and directed, as in a synapse. Everything is in thermodynamic chaos, yet the membranes keep it separated and then structure can be seen. The boundaries, instead of limiting growth, provide a basis and framework for it to occur.

As I am on travel, I can see this in more than one facet of life. The boundaries between France and Switzerland are like membranes. The boundary between the ocean, shore, and sky at the tidal zone is most interesting. Where things mix, where the differences occur, then you have dynamism. You need the gradients.

How to apply this to capitalism? Well the Valley sure is. You have boundaries everywhere there. There are cells (startups) all over. And you also get a sense they are prokaryotic (no nucleus) and have a strong cell wall, not just a membrane (stealth mode). The trick you get into is how the signaling between bound areas works. The signaling provides the goal, so to speak. With neurons, you signal in certain ways and to certain other cells to provide a way to have the organism process information and survive better. The France-Swiss border signals are there to make sure war doesn't break out, diseases are semi-contained, politics are separated, etc. The tidal border is natural, but gives a flow of chemicals, elements, and solar radiation that gives life a easier time to survive in. So, you need bound areas (companies, cells, tidal zones, etc) that are self consistent internally. The signaling from there is goal directed (profit, mitosis or homeostasis, chemical gradient producing, etc).
> It's commonly asserted that ideas are worth next to nothing, the difficulty is all in the execution, etc. I don't think that's entirely true. If your idea is just a vague one-liner like "facebook for pets", then sure, it's not worth much. But as you start building out a prototype, you're forced to be more specific and refine the idea, and it becomes more valuable.

This is a very important point you make. I guess the exact dividing line between an idea that's worth something and an idea that's worth nothing is whether time or money has been invested into the idea or other forms of personal risk by the time it was just an idea. It is the investment and commitment that makes an idea valuable, not the idea itself.
There was a time when email was all body, no subject!
Coinbase Vault
Corebird: Native Gtk+ Twitter client for the Linux desktop
Yes: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABAP
I am fairly sure when I was a teen in the late 80's that trainers got stolen. They were a status symbol for that age group at the time, and we had fancy tech like Reebok Pump built into them.
I don't understand much about IT security and privacy matters, but does it really say anything about Google giving data access to the NSA?
I'm missing the significance of quoting the screenshot captions. The parent post was suggesting that the NES provided a platform that made it easy to create sidescrolling games. From the article, one of the major failures of this game is the lack of decent side-scroll.
TL,DR: Here is the thought experiment, 4th paragraph after 3 long paragraphs of stuff I didn't want to read.

"What if, in the future, a somewhat malevolent AI were to come about and punish those who did not do its bidding? What if there were a way (and I will explain how) for this AI to punish people today who are not helping it come into existence later? In that case, weren’t the readers of LessWrong right then being given the choice of either helping that evil AI come into existence or being condemned to suffer?"

I don't think it's that interesting of a thought experiment, there are dozens of much more insightful and thought-provoking ones out there.

Search for "best thought experiments" on Google if you want some cool things to think about. It might be taboo to mention but weed will make thought experiments really fun, in my opinion.
How often do companies deploy?
I remember seeing a great diagram showing how often Salesforce, Facebook, etc deploy. I've found a blog post on GitHub. But I'm looking for some real data which shows how often typical companies deploy. IS there a resource out there with a comparison?
It will be worse than that. Pixellation destroys information, it's not reversible in general. But in this case, what is left is enough for recovery, as source domain (check number) is small. Gaussian blur is theoretically lossless (rounding loss and loss on image edges in practice) - you can take arbitrary image, blur it, reverse and get original+noise
Joel's Canonical Guide

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-allocate-ownership-fai...
Sounds like something like the Xiaomi MiBand that was announced a few days ago.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/xia...
Gaussian blur is equivalent to an auto key cipher [0] without a key. Each pixel is composed of a couple pixels from the original. With some simple algebra, cross-examining pixels that have values determined by the same origin pixel, you can reverse the operation.

[0] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autokey_cipher
Murdoch’s bid for Time Warner threatens the golden age of television
it's an admission they think they should've been
Maybe the scientifically correct definition of "to unblur" is reverting the process directly by applying a mathematical algorithm. In a normal conversation like what we have here, bruteforcing a good enough result can also be considered "to unblur" because for the person it's the same result: Everybody knows who it is.
European Central Bank website hacked
Incorrect. There are no "wallets" on the blockchain. In fact, the blockchain is not even organized by address. The blockchain is simply a ledger of inputs and outputs, most of which refer to a certain address or addresses (but not to wallets).

If someone uses a new Bitcoin address for each transaction, there is no way outside of statistical analysis (which may not even work in many cases) to know which addresses belongs to which wallets.
I would say the app icon is very much important. People are visual in nature; this is why we have designers and not just programmers. An icon should ideally represent what the app does; should possibly share the apps / companies color scheme; should be easy to tell apart from the next app in it's category and should be recognizable in a sea of other apps.

Nothing sucks more then wanting to use an app you haven't used in a few weeks, but not being able to find it swiping past numerous other apps on your phone.

I'm a programmer, but I always like to sketch out what I want first. Setup some ground rules - color, major design points, etc... then give it to a designer and let them take over.

Ask for 2 or 3 versions - possibly even ask multiple designers for a version and see what you like best.
Yay, I'm lucky too. Not only that but 2 out of 3 MacBook Pros in my office do very badly with WiFi - slow to connect (my android phone is 10x faster) & they drop at the first sign of a flaky signal.

The most robust laptop I've had on wifi was a Samsung running Fedora 20. Very fast to connect and never dropped. The pre-installed Windows 7 dropped continuously and often failed to connect.

I suspect the "issue" may be very hardware dependent.
It probably says the same as Microsoft giving data access to the NSA (and they do).
Transaction costs are psychological and informational rather than administrative. You can send messages instantly around the world, but that does not help you know what message to send.

It's certainly got easier to hire people for work fragments (mturk etc), but that only works if you can specify the work and verify its quality. This is the problem of "outsourcing" on a small scale.
Algeria lost contact with Air Algerie aircraft
Scrapped EU surveillance law throws doubt on US data agreements
Is there any good resource that compares the various NoSQL databases and what they are best suited to (and what they are not)?

I am involved o a project at work where the other team are insisting on using NoSQL despite it looking like a relational problem to me. Unlikely that the database will grow over a few terabytes (should stay on one server).