skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If chrome and safari are rounding errors, sign me up for some of that rounding action. On my site, year to date shows IE "rounding" down by some 20%. Most of it to FF, but Safari and Chrome are both growing. Seems like only yesterday Ballmer was dismissing FF as well. I'd say Ballmer's hubris has remained steady though.
That's another excellent reason why I want to get rid of it. Sorry about that, it definitely isn't intended to be NSFW but there always seems to be people that find great fun in shocking others.

Once again, my apologies. We try what we can to keep the jerks out but it is altogether an impossible task to continuously monitor 400+ video streams for abuse.
I think hughprime's point is that the bar of success is set ridiculously low for this age group. Anything remotely resembling "real work" is praised as great success.

The only "lessons" to be learned are pat-on-the-back motivational snippets. There isn't anything practical to be gleaned from it.
It is possible but it also means creating more data. I could easily see this being a pay element to gmail in the future. Basically it could be almost like a bot/spider/worker that gets a fairly recent snapshot of your data as metadata and allows you to clean up or organize based on it. It could be pretty tasking though and may need alot of engineering because right now your gmail data might be spread across thousands of machines. With more data/years this only going to get more tasking and costly.

At a certain point with data we have been living in a relative small sandbox in terms of data. As our lives spread to terrabytes of data and across many services, we to will be unable to run atomic operations on the whole of your data.
We have lots of browsers on hand in virtual machines, every major change gets tested in everything we can lay our hands on, we also ask our users to report problems through the help desk, and we work with them to get rid of bugs.

As for having every browser work with your site, sorry but that isn't always possible. There are finite resources for everything, and if you insist on using an out-of-the-ordinary setup with a miniscule portion of the users then you must surely agree that the minor discomforts of that are of your own choosing. Just like, for instance I will not support IE3, IE4 or Netscape 1.2 (and a whole host of other browsers that have met their end-of-life long ago) any more.

I've been a long time user of Konqueror myself, but right now I wouldn't know of any real good reason to continue to use it, Mozilla/FF/Iceweasel or whatever it wants to be called is available just about everywhere for the price of a free download.

Even Opera has a huge following compared to Konqueror, which is now below 0.08%, in spite of being the 'default' browser on a whole bunch of linux distros.

Chances are you're one of very few people that has ever tried to load that page using Konqueror, and chances are that the problem lies in (your old version of) Konqueror, especially since a newer one displays the page correctly.
1984 ad remade..new Dictator: Steve Jobs
Cricket and baseball are substitute goods. If you have one, you don't really need the other. For example, baseball hasn't taken off in the Commonwealth either.
Curious to know which features you miss in GMail?
Kind of misleading title - it implies that the whole of GMail ran out of storage space, whereas it was in fact just this guy.
Ask HN: Eliminating FAQs
FAQs seem to be a a required feature of most sites these days, and at best they provide answers to the questions the site owner wants you to ask, and at worst they are used only as a marketing tool. I stopped looking at them years ago, and looking at my logs, so have my users. Does anyone have any examples of a well done alternative? Is there a better solution? Are sketchy FAQs even a problem to anyone but me?
Good advice :)

>> "Fuel peer pressure: everyone's doing it"

I'd personally add a caveat here though. You don't want to over do this. If too many people are trying to convince you to do something (Apple evangelists, git lovers, tweetaholics), quite a few people just close off and assume these people are madmen with an agenda.

Can end up polarizing people.
You're writing "Mary was fucked by John." You /should/ be writing "John fucked Mary."

I can say what I need to say in half the words now.

60%
You're on the right track, but why the hell do you think your gmail lives on 'a server', much less in a fliesystem directly?

GFS normally uses chunks 2^14 times larger than a traditional inode -- you'd use infrastructure built on top of it (like Bigtable) to store email and indexes of it. You could easily end up designing a system that stores the email bodies in Gmail in a content-addressed form just as an indexing method, and end up getting de-duplication for free.
I was referring to Microsoft being rich and smart not Google.
Yes I say GFS because that is the core of why it is this way. From search to reader to gmail etc. All google data operates this way because of the architecture.

It is all in 1000 buckets. Ever gone beyond page 100 in google results? You can't. Even though there are millions of results you can only get to page 99 at 10 results per page because it too is built on GFS.
Username: test
Password: password

Sorry!
everyday...
Movie info is coming from several different sources. A lot is coming from wikipedia.
The Dominic System (mnemonic)
I just got 'Gnuplot in Action' (http://amzn.com/1933988398), and it's been fantastic so far. I do plan to check out matplotlib one of these days though.
I think you're right about the language barrier.

Also, I don't really care if these community enhancements make it to the "proper" Ruby or not. The main thing is that it is available to the community, whether christened as the "Matz" Ruby or not.
Yeah, that and Toyota were really hard to tell. Anything with a lower-case t, a or r; or an upper-case C were very obvious, and that was most of them.
Somewhere along the line I learned that you make science writing objective by using the passive voice. I would draft "I analysed the data and found that murder causes death." Then I re-wrote mechanically to "The data was analysed and it was found that murder causes death."

Such a waste! I should have dropped myself from the story but stuck with the active voice and written "The data show that murder causes death." Notice the jarring effect of such forthright prose. Do the data really show that murder causes death? Atleast the writing lives up to the ideal of scientific objectivity: the focus is on what the data do or do not show.
This is a fascinating subject for me. I have an uncle who by all accounts was a 1st-rate genius until he got to college, went mad and now spends most of his days sleeping from all the medication he takes.
Likely so their request got higher on the list. :)
You are correct: http://www.google.com/search?q=blue&start=1000

>
Sorry, Google does not serve more than 1000 results for any query. (You asked for results starting from 1000.)
Hey, that's a fun game!

Ryan, 14 words to convey the message, "That was boring"? Really?!??!
Hmm... there's an interesting disclaimer at the end of the document. It's "for informational purposes only and does not constitute... legal advice."

This sample Memorandum of Terms has been prepared by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati for informational purposes only and does not constitute advertising, a solicitation, or legal advice. Neither the transmission of this sample Memorandum of Terms nor the transmission of any information contained in this website is intended to create, and receipt hereof or thereof does not constitute formation of, an attorney-client relationship. Internet subscribers and online readers should not rely upon this sample Memorandum of Terms or the information contained in this website for any purpose without seeking legal advice from a licensed attorney in the reader’s state.

The information contained in this website is provided only as general information and may or may not reflect the most current legal developments; accordingly, information on this website is not promised or guaranteed to be correct or complete. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati expressly disclaims all liability in respect to actions taken or not taken based on any or all the contents of this website. Further, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati does not necessarily endorse, and is not responsible for, any third-party content that may be accessed through this website.
19/20 here. North Face got me, but in retrospect the R should have tipped me right off.

Helvetica is a clearly superior typeface, and I'm not just saying that to be cool.
For Toyota you can tell with the 'o'. Helvetica appears like an almost perfect circle, Arial is more oblong and oval-shaped.
Secret Service Probing Facebook Poll on Obama | 44 | washingtonpost.com
It might explain why his software is hated so much, if it routinely rounds off 5+%.
You can manage your provisioning profiles more easily through XCode -> Window -> Organizer.

It'll list your profiles by name and expiration date. You can click on them to see more details, and also delete them from there. You'll stil need to update your project manually after you've swapped out the provisioning profile.
The only "lessons" to be learned are pat-on-the-back motivational snippets.

You and hughprime both bring up valid points, but both of you still missed the lesson that jumped off the page at me. It's simple, but incredibly elusive. And included in my original post. Look again.

I was referring to being "beaten down". I'd be willing to guess that the biggest reason that this 11 year old was able to accomplish anything at all was because she didn't know that she wasn't supposed to be able to.

Most adults I know don't even try something they should because they have already beaten themselves down in their minds. It's so sad and such a waste. They could learn something from this child.
Or you can just copy the text out of the flash preview via docstoc's right-click menu.
Following White's rules will do a good deal for those whose writing is not yet enjoyable to read.
FAQ's are a poor version of 'context sensitive help', the context is usually a lot better known than the 'FAQ' link would have you believe. Over the years we've collected the questions our users have really asked and we really answered them, that's the basis of our FAQ, and it is being used (even by users from off-site that come in through google).

If I would do it again, I'd use a simple 'help' (or ?) button in most places to link directly to the relevant FAQ entry.

If your website is very technical in nature (and some are), I don't think there is a way around the FAQ, the people that use their FAQ for stupid marketing speak ought to be shot for misleading the public and devaluing a genuinely useful construct.

It seems that with the increase of time the probability of any surface turning into a bill board approaches '1'.

Unfortunately FAQs seem to be subject to this law.
Strunk & White devote a lot of time to misrepresenting grammar and presenting rules that don't mean much. Both of these distract an author from writing with irrelevant questions of passive voices and adjectives.

Pullum points out how silly most of the book is in this article:
http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/2549...

A better respected book that wastes less time is Joseph William's Style: Lessons in Clarity and Grace.

A short review, with some excerpts: http://econ161.berkeley.edu/Econ_Articles/Reviews/williams.h...
It's weird that Jeffrey Kalmikoff (cofounder) left for Digg earlier this month and now the CTO's leaving, too.

Especially at a company that's had years of seemingly happy, noneventful growth.

Guess it could be just a coincidence, but I wonder if it's not something else (purchase, etc).
This is the biggest problem I have with gmail, and one of the principle reasons why I don't feel I'll be using it "permanently." My search queries very rarely find the emails that I'm looking for.
Securities offerings only need be regulated if they have over a certain number of investors (I believe 100). There's nothing wrong with asking people to invest in your company.
People do gamble on chess... but I guess "people mostly prefer gambling on games like poker rather than gambling on chess" would be too long for a proverb.
If you have 50k in the bank that is not small change for a startup. That is plenty for you to show off your skills and get things going. Just because they have 8 mil and can hire a ton of people, does not necessarily mean they will be able to execute at your speed. They may have countless discussions, meetings, changes, upgrades, etc... that keep them from releasing product. I've built stuff in a few days with a friend that some companies can't build in 2 months due to the endless meetings and other such nonsense.

Focus on your users and give them what they ask for and remember this: To an end user Yahoo and mydinkysite.com look the same, they have no idea if there are 13,000 people backing it or just you. 10,000 servers or a shared hosting account. All you need to do is give them what they want better than the competition.

You can buy/rent a lot of talent in the valley, but you can't buy is domain knowledge acquired by talking to your users! Engage them and they will give you ideas that are will give you an edge.
I know Greece has insane immigration from illegals and it's not going to stop. Imagine they take some barren Agean rock, ~ Manhattan sized and allow free immigration with no minimum wage or constraints on voluntary contract for people over x years of age. Eastern Mediterranean New York in 15 years.

What if the result winds up looking less like New York or Hong Kong and more like Mogadishu? There are no guarantees that this bold social experiment might not wind up going wrong in all sorts of ways. What will Greece do if it finds it suddenly has an impoverished crime-ridden city on its sovereign territory?
15 words to say "loser?" Really??!?!
I think it was a bit of coincidence and a bit how we grew up doing threadless and needed to graduate to move on. it was hilariously timed though.
1) Why do you think Google has the canonical copy on a disk?

2) Why do you think Google ever intentionally deletes anything? Concurrent deletes are hard and expensive no matter what, and all of Google's tools make it much more so. They've gotten in all kinds of trouble in the EU for not being able to provide guarantees about how long they retain data.

3) Store headers, body, and MIME chunks separately. Your datastore will make hashes for its own reasons, and can make the de-duplication decisions independently of your app.

4) Your datastore is using hashes as the keys for retrieving the data already.

5) No, because there is no algorithm for this feature -- you got it for free because of other architectural decisions.
Yes, but in this case the software in question is a tip calculator and Dali clock.
Well, it takes a trivial amount of time to loop through an array with a million results. So can you please clarify the benefit of the class as-is, besides its purported future extensiblity? I don't get the time to unset() the array before I return it, but you do?

BTW I did a test, and it seems that $array[] is a faster way to append.
If a website needs a FAQ, it needs a revamp! If you know what your users are asking, simplify your navigation and copy so that users can find these answers easily.

The answers to FAQ should be on the front page!

If your users stopped looking at them pat yourself at the back and remove them :).
A couple tips to address some of his issues:

Issue: .app directory is browsable, don't use Vista to decompress.

Solution: Package your app as an .ipa. It is now no longer a directory, and your use can drag and drop this into iTunes. iTunes will handle the decompression. I usually send the following link to the users to help them through the install: http://www.innerfence.com/howto/install-iphone-application-a...

Issue: user needs to delete old version in order install new version. Can't test upgrades.

Solution: Increment your Bundle Version for each version.
>See above, re: "being smart". Were you not reading what I said?

That "being smart" sentence was pretty convoluted, so I chose to interpret it as something I disagreed with just to be safe. :-)
you can't really blame him. ballmer's primary job is to be a cheerleader for microsoft.

ballmer also said that the iphone would get absolutely no market share at all. i doubt even he believed that.

the practical upshot is that you can't trust high-tech ceos to tell you which way the wind is blowing.
NASA picks up new target for collecting water on moon
That's true, and in that sense being a little 'childish' (as in ignoring people who say 'you can't do that') can go a long way. After all, 'you can't do that' usually means 'I can't do that, so I think you can't do that'. But that's not always true.

The general case of kids optimism is that most of their optimism turns into realism (or worse) by the time they're young adults because most of their little schemes at world domination have failed.

The child from this story operates in a make-believe ecosystem set up by her parents and grand parents. In the real world, with bills to pay and going it alone she wouldn't stand a chance.

When I was 15 or so I had a little gimmick, people would throw out their old TVs, I would fix them and sell them on Queensday (the only day in the year when anybody can sell just about anything in nl), and I'd rake in a pretty penny.

After all, my 'source' was the garbage dump, my gain was 100% profits on everything I made because I didn't have to pay any taxes and there were no costs for parts (I'd just cannibalize another TV). My only real 'cost' was the solder (and it doesn't take much to fix a TV in terms of the solder you use) and some tools. I'd be kidding myself if I thought of it as a business though.

I certainly learned plenty and it was a useful experience but lets reserve the words for what they're meant for. Anybody that is not able to sign a contract in his/her own name should probably (but not always) not call themselves an entrepreneur.
What does a trillion dollars mean to you?
Note: You can click on the images instead of the little radio controls to select your answer. Wish I had noticed that sooner.

Mattel and Toyota got me.

And I found 3M to be absolutely hilarious. Next time someone asks me why Helvetica is better than Arial, that'll be my example.
Here is another option for you. Look long and hard at your business and your partners. Decide if you want to compete w/ Ask.com (maybe you do) and also entertain the possibility of switching directions and doing something different.

Maybe some of the code is reusable? Is there a better idea? Ask yourself if you were to start today, what you would do.

We went through a similar situation and we changed direction. We were lucky to have a flexible and talented team, and looking back on it, it was the best decision we ever made.
Rackspace is on a roll.
I failed on Toyota. :(

The rest are easy; Helvetica wants every line to have a straight ending, Arial doesn't.
Same for me, got all of them except Mattel. Very interesting to see so many top brands use Helvetica in their logos.
How great would it be to be able to say this:

"the goals i had set for myself were all accomplished. I was done. We had accomplished a lot and since threadless image was in a great place – i was able to exit without feeling like there was more to do."
Quality SEO Services | Increase Website Traffic | Niche Web Services
We have the experience and the expertise to provide you quality SEO services with different tactics. Specialized in Search engine optimization services, Niche Web Services is fully geared towards helping our clients generate Higher Return on investments.
> See, in general, http://green.venturebeat.com/2008/04/11/why-the-california-h....

Too much hot air. How about some real numbers from historical data?

From "Sustainable Energy - without the hot air" by David McKay, p.121.
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/Books.html

Energy consumption

(kWh per 100 p-km)

------------------

Car	68

Bus	19

Rail	6

Air	51

Sea	57

------------------

Table 20.8. Overall transport efficiencies of transport modes in Japan
(1999).
Tim Schafer is awesome. I'd hire him in a second. Except we'd be paying a lot less than $27k, it's not the 1980s and he doesn't speak Chinese. No dental benefits either.

It's pretty cool that he kept the letters. I hope I can build my own company into the sort of place that will have people keeping random HR stuff like this and reposting them to the net years on to reminisce about the days we weren't a soul crushing corporation. In the meantime, anyone who hasn't yet should buy Psychonauts and help keep these guys in business. Best game I've ever played.
20/20. Mattel, North Face, and Toyota were tricky.

The hint book: terminals in Helvetica are always straight, and Helvetica has slightly more uniform strokes. In uppercase, C and G are good tip-offs; in lowers, 't' is a dead giveaway.

Look again at the two 3M logos if you want to see why designers hate Arial so much.
Correct results. I assume you didn't give some students lower grades just to hurt their feelings.
It is certainly an amazing situation. it took a long time and a lot of work. but when i was there it was clarity. i felt like i could see forever. ;)
Why I am being down voted? I was just saying my opinion. Also this opinion comes from the fact that I have tried riding bike with my legs not on the pedals and it felt unstable and uncomfortable.
Wonder how you can use the word "penguin" as a curse word...
The Mattel logo has all straight lines too.

I think the correct analysis for this case is that Helvetica has proportional line widths for vertical and horizontal lines.
Joining all famous people on Twitter
What we need is a "keep for 30 days" button, rather than "archive". Sometimes I mean keep forever, but more often my reaction to mail is that I don't expect to need it, and if I don't need it in the next month, I definitely don't need it, but maybe I'll change my mind next week and want it.
The 'C' and the 'R' in Crate&Barrel pisses me off too.
Or buy Brutal Legend, his company's new game. Or better yet, both (Psychonauts is available on the XBox360's back catalog of original XBox games, and I would hope Double Fine still gets a good cut of any sales of it).
Heyzap (YC W09) hiring a Startup Software Engineer
Most math is boring, and the homework he refers to would better be assigned to octave, not to humans.
Nice to see someone else had the same experience with roller coasters as me! Same with swimming too - I wonder if kids with a "scientific head" over-rationalize fears of things that look dangerous but that are, statistically, quite safe.
No, text-messaging is actually being killed by twitter and tweet-deck on iPhone. ;-)
18/20. Everything but Mattel and Toyota. I didn't know Arial was so ugly before taking this.
Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott is an amazing book about writing. It's funny, very helpful, inspiring, etc...

http://www.amazon.com/Bird-Some-Instructions-Writing-Life/dp...
I mostly agree you and think I wouldn't trust this guy as the CTO of a lemon aide stand. I do think we'll start seeing limits on data transfer in the future though. Very high limits but limits none the less.

It's sort of like Gmail. 99.9% of people never come close to filling it up. But for those who go over there's a way to pay for more. As digital video becomes more prevalent I think providers will have to institute some kind of system to crack down on the biggest of data hogs (many already do)
I could see all of my friends with original iPhones paying for this on the app store... make it a native app with some polish and a one tap 'save to photo library' feature and charge $1.99
19/20. Mattel kicked my ass.

Now let's see a 3-way quiz between Helvetica, Arial and Akzidenz Grotesk!
Memcached: More Cache = Less Cash
Besides some penguins being subjected to imprisonment in arch/sparc64/kernel/smp.c I can't find anything that would qualify.