skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to disagree on the ridiculous part. They are all busy and dense, but they are not ridiculous per se when detached from the movie they came from.

Sometimes, you have to convey a very large amount of information in a very confined space. The glass-cockpits in planes are a good example - very dense displays that require some training to use.

And, once it works, there is little reason not to make it look cool.
Read why OpenDNS does this:

http://blog.opendns.com/2007/05/22/google-turns-the-page/
You think you don't really notice it. However, Google has measured that rendering even 100 ms. faster increases the number of pageviews (and hence a add views). Moreover, it has been established that snappier website feel snappier, even if you don't notice the difference in each snap.
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needs audio
Oh, I don't doubt that. My point was that it's not a universal "Don't Work Here!" message. In our case it seems the staff are happy to put things up like this because they are happy and secure and simply think the strips are funny.

It's the same with all the "629 signs your company is XXX" - they are guidelines, indications, suggestions, and sometimes wrong. There are very few absolutes.

Remember, Bayesian spam filters work because they look for several indicators, good and bad, and combine them. The simply black/white, yes/no indications of whitelists and blacklists don't work as well as taking several indicators into account.
Glorified cubicles.

Notice that the majority of the shots are of communal areas or conference rooms. There's a few shots of a "collaborative workspace" and another shot of part of an "open workspace". This is just a dressed up cubicle farm like all the others pervasive throughout the IT industry.

This is such an annoying trend because there's plenty of sound research that developers with individual offices are more productive (due to fewer interruptions, or at least a greater ability to control interruptions).

Say what you will about Joel Spolsky, the guy at least knows how to treat developers right by giving them real offices instead of yet-another-glorified-cubicle-farm: http://picasaweb.google.com/spolsky/FogCreekSNewOffice#
For what it's worth - which is probably not much at all - I don't think negative pays off in the long term. Take it from a lifelong troller, now reformed (mostly).

Some time ago there was some site which became semi-internet-famous for its scathing reviews of startups. I can't even remember its name, which might tell you something. The guy behind it eventually went on to found his own startup, which promptly failed.

Sniping at others is easy and, in the end, pathetic. Real hackers create stuff. Anything else is just .. kinda lame.

So yeah, my advice .. walk away from this childish shit. Do something cool, create something new. And when some loser is taking potshots at it on his lame-ass blog - well who's writing about who?
I suppose the ISP can do that anyway, no matter what you do. Even if you use Google DNS, your ISP can still know where you surf to.
so kind of like epoxy puddy:
http://www.made-in-china.com/showroom/injoy365/product-detai...

http://www.lareynademesones.com.mx/catalog/images/K02-002.jp...
When is eliminating a stack frame a sensible optimization?

Off topic, since this isn't what you meant, but in the July issue of SIGPLAN notices, there was a paper entitled "Eliminating the call stack to save RAM" or something like that. It was an interesting little trick that exchanges code size for RAM usage.
Google's new fade effect on its homepage
All content except for the search box has a fade effect when you load the page.

Also if you type right away the other content doesn't appear until you move your mouse.
Yes, I am TeX-damaged. A friend of mine even tends to use \"u for an umlaut.
I fear it is not the browser that is the problem: just that your workflow is unique.

As an aside I'm surprised you can survive with FireFox and 200 tabs. Once I get above about 50 the memory usage and lag just gets too much for it to be usable. Any tips?
> If it were not for the addons, I would have dumped it by now. It makes me sad to even type that

I was with you for a long long time. But I think Chrome avoiding addons for so long was a brilliant move. I haven't really missed them since moving exclusively to chrome (which was a shock to say the least!) and I think a big "performance boost" exists there too.
I've been using ninjawords[1] for awhile now. Looks like they have pretty similar source material, but ninjawords actually feels much faster.

[1] http://ninjawords.com/
(A close variation of the line works in non-business interpersonal relationships, too.)
1. The dead link problem is that Google, for example, can't control whether a bit.ly link will work but they can ensure maps.google.com links will always work if they want to. And they have a bigger incentive to ensure this than bit.ly do (since they consider their Maps service to be an important service).

2. True, but there is a vast amount of valuable information held in tweets (along with the noise), each with a permalink. A tweet's permalink is useless if it contains a shortened URL which no longer works. Do we really want this body of information to become useless at soon as URL-shortener-of-the-week loses funding and turns its servers off?
I feel you can disagree with Plato on philosophy. We know much more than the poor chap. E.g. I think that seeing numbers and math as a inter-mental construct (with remarkable applications) is a more adequate point of view than claiming they are in any sense `out-there'. (Of course it's hard to prove either way.)

You can also disagree with Warren Buffet, though his case is stronger than Plato's: There's evidence in Warren Buffet's favor.

E.g. George Soros made a lot of money with speculation.
That's your choice of course. If you work in a small school it's easy to block unsuitable sites this way.Another alternative would be the level 3 dns servers, easy to remember, pretty fast and no alteration of records.
the English->Chinese has audio

http://www.google.cn/dictionary?langpair=en|zh-CN&q=news...
I won't listen to a sales pitch that is under NDAs. But I also won't ask the seller to specify the solution for free.
direct clickable: http://thewikireader.com/

I wasn't suprised when I read the footer of the site, which credited OpenMoko :)

They are the same guys who make the OpenMoko phones, Neo Runner and the like. So I just dug up a bit more to find out that this device, like the OpenMoko phones runs on linux. atleast thats what I concluded when I saw the source code here http://github.com/wikireader/wikireader

The article above says it's developed in Forth and also links to a part of the source code. Anybody has any experience with Forth?

The only caveat is this: http://thewikireader.com/store.html

The updates for the data in this device (all data is stored in the device), will cost you $29 per 2 updates per year. Heck, why not just have an updating software and let it update whenever it detects a wifi connection? Paid updates for an open device accessing open content sounds locked to me.
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You can be a lot more efficient in what you can communicate in 800 words.
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TripleFi 10vi also dropped to $99. It has a mic, so it's perfect for mobile phones.
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Ok, that makes sense. It was just the way he wrote it looked like he was comparing having a special drive letter with having a special folder which didn't make any sense.

Being able to use arbitrary folders is indeed a very useful feature. I'm on Linux so I've just been using symlinks but on Windows I can see it's pretty vital to have it built into the software.
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Found a useful link from the article on how to care for MacBook batteries: http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
Does anybody remember if the design was like this (without layout of any sort) or is Archive.org missing some file?

Also notice, the website is in PHP
It would be great if "define: WORD" returns the definitions. It appears to be more better than Wordnetweb's results.
I have a pair of these, bought about a year ago for ~ $170, from Amazon. Still a good deal though.
It's a tactic politicians have successfully used for ages. If it works, you can't blame a company for doing it. They're not in it for the ethics, but for the money.
And you love them, of course, right? I listened to these a year ago and they blew my mind, even after having owned SuperFi 5 for 2 years before that.
(upvoted the parent; although I don't agree it's a reasonable point that deserves an answer)

Firstly the data is interesting in it own right, and secondly it's useful for people considering where to get seed funding from.

The value of YC (and others) isn't in the money they provide (I suspect most YC funded startups could easily have got the money from other sources), it's in the expertise and connections they provides. When picking an investor you can either go on "gut" feeling about the extra value the investor provides, or you can look at hard data.
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From their FAQ:

>> Is Google Public DNS based on open source software, such as BIND?

>> No. Google Public DNS is Google's own implementation of the DNS standards
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agreed! very pretentious. when i look at this space, i imagine immaculately-dressed people standing around congratulating themselves on how fabulous they are.
They didn't approach Fabergé with a sales pitch out of the blue. I wouldn't expect a NDA for that. But Fabergé did ask them to come up with a pitch to relaunch their brand - I wouldn't come up with it and present it without some kind of document saying that they can't take the idea and run with it with someone else.
You mention conversion ... Anybody have any suggestions about how to convert an S3-backed AMI to an EBS backed one (linux)? I'm wondering if there's some grub trickery that needs to happen over and above the file copies to make booting work?
Partly I was playing devil's advocate, I think YC do a great job overall (although I do think a little more transparency on failures would be good for everyone), but it is a criticism I've heard repeatedly.

As I do point out in my conclusion YC do look like they do much better than angel investors and provide real "extra value".
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They are pretty amazing, although the foam tips they came with wore down. Need to buy some replacement ones.
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English <-> Spanish has it too.
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Some of the best interfaces I have written have been in good old-fashioned curses. If you need a "dashboard" for a complex system for a skilled operator, you can convey an awful lot of information in a maximized xterm on a 1280x1024 screen, it's dense but it's not "cluttered" if you lay it out and use colour intelligently.
I hope an Android client is in the works.
The 29 dollars is for two memory cards in the mail. You can update it for free via a 4GB download and a microSD card reader.
This is really exciting stuff. She's got a business model that both smaller startups and larger organizations can take advantage of... and it's scalable. Big time!
You can actually do that from the Google search box
I had a bit of a dilema on that point. I'm reasonably connected with the london startup scene, which naturally has connections to the YC scene, so I know through a fairly reliable grapevine that some of the acquisitions were "mercy acquisitions". However given this information is essentially "private" I don't feel comfortable publically disclosing it, so I've stuck to public published data about acquisitions.

I'm going to go into the acquistions a bit more in another post, I'll see if I can find some way around the dilema.
I don't think Amazon affiliate links are appropriate for posting to Hacker News. Does anyone else think it's ok to do that?

edit: Non-affiliate link: http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Ears-Isolating-Earphones-Micr...
Now we need an API for this, please!
I've got most of the companies that failed to launch, plus we know how many companies YC has funded in total so we can deduce how many never launched but aren't listed either.
It sucks that someone used your idea.

If it's any comfort, I pitched exactly the same concept to a purse designer a few months ago. (We didn't get that one, either -- no word on whether or not it was IBM.)
But, a query of [define:WORD] only shows 'web definitions' for WORD. It doesn't show these new dictionary definitions, and it doesn't even include the handy top-right-header link to dictionary definitions that a normal query does!
With minimal research it seems that JB Weld is epoxy resin and cures to be hard and unyielding. Sugru seems to cure to a silicone finish, and hence is firm but yielding. Sugru also appears to be more adhesive - JB Weld has to be moulded around something to make it adhere.

Its properties are here : http://sugru.com/about/ : and even to my first glance it seems completely different from JB Weld. Did you bother to look at the web site before asking your question?
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Neither do German keyboards have the nice German quote marks. You can fake them like ,,this'' however.
network.http.proxy.pipelining = true
Seems to make browsing through a Squid proxy (3.1.*+) much faster. Tried it with Polipo too, but I've been experiencing crashes (of polipo) with proxy pipelining.
I agree, and wish I'd noticed the affiliate link before I clicked. Now I'm afraid if I buy the things I'll be encouraging the affiliate spam.

Anyone know a certain way to wipe the affiliate-association from a future purchase? (I can clear cookies, but I was logged-in at click time, so they'll know my viewing history.)
Perhaps not in the first picture. They are clearly visible in the later parts of the slideshow.
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I just use Firefox (currently 3.6b4) with a few addons, and don't do anything special at all. Memory usage tends to be 600-700 MB, which isn't enough for me to care. I'm not sure what you mean by "lag" -- I don't use any web apps, so there's very little background stuff running.
Unfortunately, their first production run is already sold out. Would have made a nice gift for geeks.
You guys made the right move. Harvesting ideas from pitch work is disgusting.

Great work/creativity on your teams part. Faberge should be ashamed of themselves.
That's a sensible question to ask. (Though hundreds of calls deep could be done on the stack. Think more like thousands or millions or more.)

Have you ever heard of parsing with combinators? This may be an example where you can see that tail call optimization really improves things.
Eight interesting techniques to test how a project is going
Couldn't disagree more Jacob. They didn't badmouth IBM. They badmouthed the disgusting act of idea harvesting from creative companies.

I'm sure they wouldn't go public without the material to back up their claim.
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That's the last straw, I'm going to make my gilded egg purchases elsewhere.
During the Embedding Agile Methods mini-conference in London last week, Keith Richards suggested several interesting techniques for checking how a software project is going.
Leaflet printing
Typically business cards are printed out on card stocks with standard sizes. There are country-wise and locality based norms that determine card sizes in general.
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I agree that this is appalling behaviour from Facebook, but how anyone could give a third party website access to their Google Mail account is beyond me.
I agree that the data is interesting* and I apologize for over-reacting. I also agree with your second paragraph completely.

*Performance metrics for many of these early stage startup funds are skewed by the quality they attract. Ycom and TechStars have the creme of the crop, I expect to see better results overtime... 3 companies from S09 raised >$1M. And as you know, the rate of failure in startups is also naturally high - there are far too many factors involved that my decision would be less guided by metrics and moreso toward your second point.
No, you are assuming that 20 MB number is all heap. Wrong assumption.

Anyway this article is flawed about the number of MB each process uses because I think hes using PS to get the numbers and that shows shared libraries too. Shared, as in single code segment used by all the processes. Also he's making bad assumptions about the work load. Shit maybe I should blog.
This doesn't seem right:

>Her recommendation was to cycle the battery constantly, running the machine on the battery almost exclusively.

I have a MBP that had to use starting summer half a day on battery exclusively and the other day plugged in. It has reduced my battery life a lot (currently running on a new battery actually, that's how much it got trashed). This on an 1.5 years laptop.
Unfortunately this is a very common introduction to the Video games industry. At least in the UK.

The industry trades on how 'cool' it is to work on games knowing that there are hundreds of talented kids who will do anything to get in to it. They often end up doing poorly paid difficult work under tight deadlines with bosses that make The Office seems like heaven.

Unfortunately people like Liddon are few and far between within the industry.
Great service and full PCI compliance. Watch out for monthly minimum and early termination fees. Not supported by any of the SaaS billing frontends yet (though Spreedly is willing to make it happen).
I may have a link in there, but it's a legit post made from my heart. For what it's worth, here's a review I've done 3 years ago of the SuperFi 5, which is a step down from these: http://beerpla.net/2006/09/18/review-of-ultimate-ears-superf....

I've listened to TripleFi 10 too and they're even more amazing, if that was even possible.

Fatwallet has a discussion on these with a very green rating for those in doubt about the real hotness of this deal.
affiliate links are valid only for 24 hours. So if you don't purchase anything in that 24 hr period, affiliate gets nothing.
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Fabergé the present-day company has also made sure that an exhibition of Fabergé eggs in a museum in Baden-Baden may not be called anything with "Fabergé"[1].

I'll buy my gilded eggs at a local eggsmith instead.

1. in German: http://www.badische-zeitung.de/baden-baden/faberg-darf-nicht...
true, but still a bit sleazy for a company to back out of a contest. i wouldn't want to use a company's api if i knew they did this type of stuff. who wants to work for a company that treats their developers as marketing opportunities?
See also:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=974963

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=975205
I wish there was Latin too.
What's so special about macbook pro batteries that other laptop batteries do not have ?
> It's not that I don't see the potential benefits of static typing. I just don't see the cost-benefit being that compelling.

Now you are not talking about generics in Go, but a major philosophical position in programming language theory. I think your question is disingenuous. It is because you don't understand why some people prefer static typing that you don't understand the need for generics. Until you do understand that, you'll remain unenlightened with respect to generics.
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The interface is uniform, but the quality is highly variable. There are some excellent electronics dictionaries on the market, but generally not for free on the web.
If the key element that you're upset about was telephone guided co-browsing, I call "not unique".

You may very well have been the ones to introduce the idea/term to Faberge, but if you were the first ones to pitch AJAX or Flash to them, should they be barred from using that in their eventual solution, too?
The thing to do in the pitch is to demonstrate that you understand the problem space thoroughly, i.e. rather than pitching the solution, pitch yourselves as the best people to discover and implement the solution.

I too have worked at a company that learnt this the hard way.
It's not the number of words, it's what you do with them. You can be long-winded in one sentence if you try. I found myself thinking "get to the point!" with this article.
Good dictionaries are hand-compiled by experienced lexicographers. Not Google's strength, to put it mildly.

What Google would be extremely good at is creating corpora for all these languages. An example of an excellent Spanish corpus is the following: http://www.corpusdelespanol.org/x.asp
160 cycles. 14 months old. 5 (or less) percent of original full charge capacity. Replaced without any fuss (only a lengthy phonecall, but I didn't have any explaining or convincing to do - we had to wait until someone higher up the chain, who is allowed to authorize such exchanges, was no more busy).

They say the capacity goes down to 80 percent after 300 cycles. If the battery doesn't make it for that long and they don't replace it on warranty I full well would have made a fuss. What you got was normal service, this is what you should expect, not something to admire.
I'm not sure exactly how you can accidentally include an affiliate tag in a link. That and the rather over hyped title really do make it seem like this was rather deliberate. If I were you I'd either edit the link (if that's possible) or delete and repost.

I guess you should be given the benefit of the doubt this one time, but I really don't think that's acceptable behavior. Hopefully an editor will notice soon and change it.
And probably a bit of profit too.
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Fortunately, the Watcom compiler (tool of choice at the time) had a mechanism for describing register use and side effects of embedded code fragments - somewhat like gcc.

It was common for any 3d games to have 16.16 fixed point type all wrapped up in macros using asm fragments. The crucial thing was using a 64 bit intermediate for muldiv and mulacc expressions.
I am reminded of this story:
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/17.06.html#subj7
How well do you trust your code?
Submitted after reading this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=959165

in which I also submitted it as a comment.

The Risks digest is worth reading in its own right.
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The economics of trust.
"hackers plural

1. A computer hacker is someone who tries to break into computer systems, especially in order to get secret information.

2. A computer hacker is someone who uses a computer a lot, especially so much that they have no time to do anything else."

http://www.google.com/dictionary?langpair=en%7Cen&q=hack...

I guess we're number two?
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