skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typically in UK adverts you have pictures of houses, summary of details, price, and if it's sold, they slap a big "SOLD" across it.

This shows you how well they can sell, and how much they get for properties. Adverts in papers are typically a full page, so there's plenty of space.
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Too much UV penetrating the skin (too pale-skinned under intense sunlight) increases Vitamin D but reduces folate. Lack of folate causes neural tube defects in the fetus, causing such congenital abnormalities as craniorachischisis, anencephalus, and spina bifida, leading to many miscarriages.
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So the Europeans had adapted to their environment, changed to a grain diet, suddenly had too little vitamin D.
This would mean they would increase their vitamin D, but reduces folate, and therefore increase the number of miscarriages?

Seems like a simple way to test if this hypothesis is actually true. Just look at some historic numbers of the number of miscarriages with those diagnoses (these days pregnant women in Europe get folate supplements).
they did obfuscate. see post from plurk dev here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=994473
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They acquired Farecast.
It's worth investigating why, in such a feature-driven industry, a product with good marketing but so lacking in features is so popular.

From my perspective, the feature-driven nature of the industry is exactly what left the door wide open for someone to invade with fewer features and greater usability. The dogged pursuit of feature bullet points and checkmarks may help you sell to a particular demographic, but most people were never able to exploit those features.

The most dramatic illustration of this is how Mobile Safari appeared in HTTP daemon logs out of proportion with the market share that the platform had relative to existing smartphones that already had mobile browsing.

Edit: Actually, that's the 2nd most dramatic. The most dramatic illustration, to me, is how the device was so simple to use that the TV advertisements could demonstrate it by showing a pair of hands. Sure, the ads stretched the truth on the performance, but nevertheless they were essentially tutorial in nature. Meanwhile, other smartphones showed people dancing and smiling: anything but how their phones were used.

A feature-driven industry is an industry ripe for invasion by someone who has internalized what Antoine de Saint-Exupery meant when he said "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
I will be donating and have asked my relatives, in lieu of money, to donate money on my behalf to Clojure. I humbly suggest you do the same.
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1. The mystery sign up was a little annoying.

2. I think overall you need to do a better job at telling me what this thing actually does, and why it's worth nine bucks a month. From what I can see, it just records notes about the companies I'm looking to apply too.

3. I don't like the cuteness of the language. Say what you mean; accurately, precisely. (eg: Saying you weren't a good fit actually deletes the record.)

Other than that, it looks good. I've seen some others in this space that are a little ahead of you, but that shouldn't discourage you at all. Good luck.
A reasonable person might conclude that they could have more influence over the industry in 4 years at Microsoft than in 2-3 more small startups.
When did it become a race to implement the most features? I like the iPhone because it has just the right amount of functionality for what I want to do. Add anything more, and it wouldn't be as good.
The two names have diffrent track reccords, how much would you expect to pay each of these people on your next project?

A) 5$/h, 7.50$/h, 10$/h, 15$/h
B) 10$/h, 15$/h
I can't disclose much on the legal aspects, since I might say something stupid. A few months from now I hope the war story will be similar to David vs. Goliath, because that is our current situation - i.e. we are fighting vs. a billion dollar mega corp that has stolen most of our ideas and code and uses their power to come in a market where we are banned [China].
You use a very solid metric with respect to "the value of land and real estate [...] (relative to incomes)", but how do you measure "the decline of culture and civic values"?
Article discusses "spammers and cybercriminals" but uses the word "hackers". Fucking disgusting.

(Had to repost with a new account because my old one is invisible for some reason.)
I wish I could vote this up a hundred times. I get tired of people complaining about how much the iPhone can't do. I like the iPhone because it avoids feature bloat.
Thanks for the feedback!

In your opinion, are there specific others I should keep an eye to?
You wouldn't necessarily need a RAM buffer of the same size as source storage; it depends a lot on what X% of all song-seconds will be played in the next N buffered minutes.

If X is 100%, the approaches converge... but I think lots of things (popularity of songs, discretion over next song played, choice of N, etc.) could make buffers much smaller than total catalog size helpful in seek-reduction.

(The buffer could also be read-write SSD instead of RAM. Or perhaps just for the most popular items or skip-prone early ranges of files.)
An extreme ideal? Ever heard of the National Science Foundation? The US has been funding basic research with taxpayer dollars for over fifty years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation

Actually, now that I think of it, Clojure may fall within their scope...

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503220&o...

But they are a large organization, geared mainly toward industry and academia. They list a "small-project" as "up to $500,000 over three years". It's not quite the lightweight organization I would like to see.

What I would really like to see is something like a cross between NSF and YCombinator.
I find that, for a lot of the job postings I read, my skillset is a pretty good match (probably because I'm subscribed to relevant job boards). However, in the past, my experience has been that people won't even bother getting back to me if I'm not in the area (I've applied to jobs in other states before). Now, it could be that I'm just not qualified for the job; I'm not ruling that out. But it would be nice to know if I was completely out of consideration simply for being on the other side of the country.

As I mentioned in the description, I would be willing to fly myself out to visit the right company (I would probably set up multiple interviews at once if possible to maximize the value of the trip), as I would really like for that not to affect my chances vs. someone local.

Maybe that's the kind of thing that I have to make abundantly clear in my cover letter, so it doesn't take me completely out of the running.

Or, maybe people think us Vermonters are a bunch of dumb hicks :p
I can't say I'm surprised that Microsoft has stolen yet another idea, but I am astonished that they didn't go to more effort to obfuscate that fact. I'm publicizing this through my networks. More people need to know that the 's' in 'Microsoft' is really a '$'.
We were going to go for the larger sized (space wise) MLC based ones except that they're in the smaller form factor, not easy to fit in the server chassis. The connector on them is also non standard, unlike the MLC models which slide right in. Makes a big difference when you're buying a lot of them.

Also, if we ever decide to re-commission these machines later, the SLC based ones will be more useful for us.
Indeed. See the related Steve Blank post and surrounding discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=981167. This is a little different since Microsoft is copying a well-known and already successful product, but the idea still applies.
How is this supposed to produce any sensible result, since their testing servers are in vastly different locations than anyone's desktop? Their testing server can't even REACH the caching resolver running on my home gateway, and even if it could, it would be many more network hops away from it than my PC is.

I realise running bind or djbdns' dnscche is not for everyone. However, even your ISP's DNS server will be much closer to you network wise and thus experience less latency. No one should ever use OpenDNS or Google DNS.

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Maybe her name was just crap, and a cool female name would have worked as well. Also she said her male personae blog was limping along until it was listed somewhere as one of the top ten blogs to read. Who says it couldn't have happened with a female name?
Another HN reader? The market seems a bit overcrowded for how many people there are browsing the site.
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Students fighting World Hunger with the 10 Million Dollar Wall.
One way to achieve almost the same effect is through Google's mobile reformatting thingy:

http://www.google.com/gwt/x?u=news.ycombinator.com

Fast, simple and ugly as hell...
To be honest, I couldn't tell you. I do remember seeing some of your competitors in this space through HN a few months back . Search YC may have more details.
What? You did not just diss comics.

Big dumb blockbusters have a quality of their own. Big budgets & mass appeal can easily seem to demand a bland inoffensiveness, but so don't watch them if you're in the mood for a smarter movie. There are still a few out there. And calling out for a time when films were Quality just strikes me as convenient nostalgia, ignoring past crap.
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I think context matters a whole lot. I'm 28. When I'm out with my parents, most people seem to assume I'm in college. When I'm out with older coworkers - folks in their 30s and 40s - most people tend to assume I'm in my late 20s (I never once got carded for alcohol at my old employer, because I'd go out for drinks with folks 10 years older than me). Most of my Google coworkers - who tend to average around 25 - think I'm roughly their age, although when I've gone out with them we get mistaken for college students a lot. I was mistaken for a Stanford student last time I caught the shuttle back from the airport, solo.

I still can't explain getting carded for Terminator 3 when I was 23, though. Particularly since I was out with a friend who was a couple years younger and didn't get carded, plus another friend who was much older (50s-ish) and had white hair. Even if I were under 17, it still wouldn't have been illegal, since I was seeing it with them.
> there is a fundamental wrong here which should be corrected for the betterment of our society

Women not being rewarded equally for equal work is a fundamental wrong which should be corrected for the betterment of our society. It's possible I'm misreading you but one can be sexist without being a cave, um, person.
That is not true. I'm on Sourceforge on a MS Corporate machine right now. MS doesn't block anything at all.

It is true we are not supposed to look at anyone else's source code though.
I'm saying that labeling it sexism isn't a useful conclusion at this point. Saying as much basically ends the investigation with no solution, in favor of a broad and arbitrary feminist agenda that may do little to actually address her specific problem.
A very interesting article. I wonder though if the same technology that is used on the windshields of cars can be applied to the glass portion of the traffic lights. Only in this case, traffic controllers would be able to remotely turn the heat on to melt the ice/snow during winter. This way, they would be able to mitigate the energy costs discussed about in the article.
Firefox on linux on a slow laptop/internet connection but the site loaded rather quickly compared to sites like new york times and reuters among others
We used Yahoo's compressor for both JS and CSS ( http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/ ). An example of our JavaScript can be seen here:
http://statics.plurk.com/5578b0a824368f9af6afa9dd6e8abf64.js. You can see that not all the variables are converted, since Yahoo's compressor is very conservative and won't change functions or global objects names.

This was the best available option at the time we wrote Plurk. We will take a look at Google Clouse Compiler, thanks.
Also the website in safari works pretty well :/
> You may want to check out the writings of Gary Halbert or John Carlton to see it in action.

Will do - cheers for the recommendation.
What about at home?

I realise the policy is probably not as originally worded here: but I was taking it somewhat literally to point out the fallacy of it.

At some point we have to trust devs to do their own work. This should show that no amount of policy can stop people ripping off work! Whatever the intention.

Reading code is always good; there is usually a net gain as long as it is ethical (i.e. not copied)
X25-M 80GB: $270
X25-E 64GB: $890

At that price you can buy 3 X25-Ms and still have more space.

The real difference is in write cycles though: the X25-E can do ten times as many as the X25-M.
Boredom is a problem of depth and duration.

TFA is putting expectations on GO that seem out of line with "Systems Implementation Language". The article expects that each new language will be an "advance", whereas in the school of Arthur Sale or C.A.R. Hoare often advocate removing stuff from a language to make it better.
Maybe the E90 but, come on now, a circa 2001 Nokia Communicator doesn't have 3G or wifi. It has a 66Mhz CPU. It's browser was a bit useless when the phone was released and probably completely incapable of rendering any non-WAP web page today. I don't see how it's even remotely possible to compare the two devices. It would be more apt to compare the 2001 Communicator to a Newton.
Forget being nice, how about some constructive criticism? That doesn't have to be nice, but in contrast with the article, has valuable content put forth.
This article was totally reasonable and interesting until I got to this part:

Employee office chairs – $60 to $80 (must be ergonomic!)

Your office chair – $150 to $200 (it is worth it)

Huh? Now I'm left wondering what else is wrong with this guy.
Not poor backups, poor restores. You're missing the point of the article!
The thing is though, I don't see "Writing OSS" as research. Not really. It's not furthering our understanding of science.

Don't get me wrong, it's extremely valuable, but it's "building stuff" rather than furthering science.
I've been using both the MLC and SLC Intels and they both have the same standard SATA connector. Also, server chassis are moving to 2.5" SATA bays, our latest servers have 2 dual processor motherboards in 1U (Supermicro calls them 1U-twin), with 4 2.5" bays for each motherboard.
I don't know about this; it doesn't appear to support authentication, or allow me to upvote/downvote (I get that it probably can't). My only gripe with using HN in Mobile Safari is that sometimes when I go to upvote/downvote I press the wrong one (my thumb lacks precision). This doesn't solve that problem for me, so I can't really see myself spending $2 for increased padding.
For students, a right to be mean online?
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One of the more horrific color choices I've seen in a while.
And besides that, she's clearly leading the witness (Hammy). See the outtakes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmZ7p3ExIc8
Fair enough – the intent was to say as the founder you should splurge on yourself a little – not to say you're providing others with inferior stuff. I was able to find great chairs at an affordable price. When I can afford Aeron chairs for everyone, I would do that!

I removed that part because it takes away from the point of the article.
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I like this rule of thumb a lot. It's very straight-forward and easy to remember so you can apply it quickly to see significance and then use a more rigorous method if necessary.
Just remember to include a text/plain message too for those of us who keep text/html in their browsers as God intended...
Just a thought - You might want to extend the free trial for a month at least or offer a free version with basic features that people will be able to try out. Job searching is a long and tiring process. Not to mention, the process hardly ends in 14 days. So a 14 day trial would be hard for someone to truly experience the "personal assistant" value proposition that is being advertised.
Precisely. This was a junior dev somewhere far away from Redmond making a terrible mistake. It's about to get thrown up to the highest level, and I can pretty much guarantee you that MSFT takes the site down.
I don't really disagree with you, however:

- minifying and gzipping the javascript files is considered standard practice now, and the code I posted as-is is actually shorter than David Marks' case [* I lied! It's not, by 100 chars. Even shortening the object references kept it a bit longer. I don't think this defeats the rest of my points though.]. It could further be shortened, a lot -- to the point that for all practical purposes it's as small as a non-memoizing version.

- I tend to use a camelCaser in much more than simple animation loops -- any time for example that the style attributes for any element are referenced. i.e., it qualifies as an inner-most function.

- Although it's true that in animation loops you just have to beat the frame rate, let's keep in mind that there are a wide variety of processors and systems in use, and not everyone is using the latest dual-core Intel system with 3 gigs of RAM.

As a point of personal style, I much prefer to take the shortest, fastest, least-resource-intensive path for any given task, even if it's not strictly necessary to do so. As an end-user, I'm disgusted beyond description with the mindset that has become so prevalent among programmers, where efficiency is something that should be solved in hardware. It's absolutely frustrating that there are sites where the programmers have made so many concessions to speed in the name of rapid development that I can't even get the site to load in a few seconds on a 1.5 ghz G4.

So, yes, you're right, but I think the bit from David Marks' code is still naive and still does not make best use of the language:

camelize = function(name) {
var m = name.match(reCamel);
return (m)?([m[1], m[2].toUpperCase(), m[3]].join('')):name;
};
Not if the text has an unusual character distribution.
It's also amusing that the author is displaying blatant sexism towards this woman and at the same time complaining about sexism against her.

Women can still be misogynists.
This blog posts lists no agenda, broad, 'feminist' or otherwise. I respectfully suggest that you may be assuming a broader context than is warranted.
What? JK Rowling is a woman?!?!
Not condoning MS, but does anyone else find it ironic that a chinese company is accusing MS of piracy?
This illustrates the importance of iteration.
There are tons of tools that can test statistical significance for you:

For example, http://www.splittestcalculator.com/ or http://www.usereffect.com/split-test-calculator
Is our memory really this short? The original iPhone was frequently sold out for months, and sold a million units in the 2.5 months before the first price cut. They lowered the price as soon as their manufacturing could meet the increased demand.

(I left a more detailed comment on the post itself.)
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I think that first sentence is profoundly wrongheaded. It's not just unpleasant, it's also penny-wise and pound-foolish. It is very hard to keep employees happy over the long term. Turnover is extremely expensive, and expensive in insidious ways. Employees already think that the founder is getting all sorts of perks that they aren't getting. Making that clearly apparent to everyone by giving yourself better digs is a terrible business move.

I just tracked you down on LinkedIn (we're only 3 hops away!). This is your first company. I'm not on my first company. Let me spare you a lesson I am still gradually learning the hard way: whatever day-to-day pains and frustrations your team is dealing with, you should be sharing.

Take the extra money for the Aeron chair and buy a couple of six packs for the office. I may have just saved you several tens of thousands of dollars with that bit of advice.
Reply to this comment on LW:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/1j7/the_amanda_knox_test_how_an_hour...
What are your thoughts on social entrepreneurship?
Sorry for the slightly off topic, but I can't watch the video for this app due to the following. Its probably an issue with Vimeo but I figured I'd just post it here.

My flash debug player through this off for the video player, seems that vimeo is missing a crossdomain.xml on their assets server? Or I have a finicky flash player.

SecurityError: Error #2123: Security sandbox violation: Loader.content: http://bitcast.vimeo.com/vimeo/swf/moogaloop_np.swf?clip%5Fid=8131906&server=vimeo%2Ecom&show%5Ftitle=0&show%5Fbyline=0&show%5Fportrait=1&color=00adef&fullscreen=1&autoplay=1&embed%5Flocation=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgrinich%2Ecom%252Fhackernews%252F&moogaloop%5Ftype=moogaloop cannot access http://assets.vimeo.com/portraits/defaults/d.75.jpg. No policy files granted access.
at flash.display::Loader/get content()
at com.as3.moogaloop4::ClipInfo/onPortraitComplete()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at com.as3.classes.loader::MassLoader/onComplete()
at com.as3.classes.loader::MassLoader/onFileComplete()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at com.as3.classes.loader.items::ImageItem/onComplete()
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Scientific this is not. Even for anecdote the story seems rather weak. But I guess he/she is very good at writing what people want to hear.
Methinks Ms. Galore doth protest too much.
The Wikipedia article on "defamation" might be a good start.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation
The irony is that there are fewer females on HN than reddit and most other online communities. Maybe it's popular here because the female presence is notably lacking.
>But simply cloning a user interface is legal, at least in US case law.

Can you give us citation that it is legal, or are making your claim based on the above lawsuits?

Having a look and feel that is "similar" but "not the same" is open to debate, but having 90% of the interface ripped off, pixel by pixel can't be just "ok". We don't know that because something so dumb didn't happen before in the highest level.
Hmm. I'll check it out. What's your browser/os?
Scratch is worth checking out, especially if you have kids.

There's a Linux installer available here: http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Linux_installer
It's also poor backup. They thought the backup was being done by their hosting company while in reality it was failing silently.
That looks very nice and easy to hack on. As long as all the drivers are open-source. The lack of open drivers for the eInk displays used to be a serious problem. Not sure what the current status is.
It follows, then, that shaving will make you live longer...
What's a decent ergonomic chair for under $100?
Full disk image backups are a good solution for this problem. No worries about partial backups or a complex restoration process. It's totally inefficient but storage is cheaper than man hours.
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Employees in this office will have plenty of perks – including $100 travel reimbursement per month, plus free lunch every day. I would not want to hire someone bogged down into such minute details of chairs when the entire space is obviously meant to make it as comfortable for them as possible.