skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m glad I’m not the only one bothered by this technicality. It seems everybody talking about how the American employment situation worked neglected to what degree individual employees could adapt to change. Economists always talk about how changes in technology or employment patterns have little long term impact, since a job pool will provide labor that is in demand, but “creative destruction” is not an instantaneous process, and the people hurt by it are the type of people that economists, politicians and business executives ignore, robbing them of the power needed to fix their situation.
For the record, Ben is an incredibly inspiring designer at Facebook who brings a whole 'nother dimension to tech and design.

http://designforfun.com/display.php?id=99
It seems that the rating system might have prevented this... maybe others thought the driver was "creepy", etc. and might have given him/her a bad rating, which might have dissuaded your friend from choosing his/her car.
I love the Internet as much as the next guy... but unlike most people, I understand that anyone can post anything on an Internet forum and many times they do so anonymously (except for an IP address). The more savvy may use TOR when setting up forum accounts and postings, but most people don't know or care to do that.

Some day soon, I expect the falsely accused individuals will have legal recourse when their reputation, livelihood, etc. are damaged by these anonymous postings. Companies too. Court orders will be granted and presented to ISP's. "Show us what address posted this libelous content." And then the shoe will be on the other foot... provided there is enough money to litigate.

The days of the Wild West on the Internet are soon to end. And that's a good thing.
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Audi USA's site is broken in Mobile Safari--the menu bar stays in position when you move the page which covers up text. Looking at the desktop version it appears they always want it to be on the bottom of the page, but Mobile Safari behaves differently enough for that to break.

Oh and did you check out the R8's photos and video page? Flash required error. You can't even see a photo gallery of the car.
HN Bug? Screenshot included.
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The argument about not knowing how someone drives applies to any bus, taxi, etc., regardless of how it was booked so long as you haven't ridden with the driver before.
tl;dr: Don't post contact info on Reddit, they'll delete it. Also, internet vigilantes ruin the lives of innocent people by accident.
I wonder if, and to what extent, the existence of reasoning engines and frameworks such as Jena has played to the alleged Prolog murder.
Why is custom anything so popular?

People have different ways they like working, routines and aesthetics. It's all just personal preference really.

The font is simply about how easy it is to read and one's aesthetics sensibilities.
A very good comment. It's interesting to think that the Internet lynch mobs of today are not entirely different than the lynch mobs from several decades ago.

Sure, the motivations are different, but both groups consist of people falling prey to mob mentality and trying to enforce extreme levels of "justice".
I hung in there with the Amiga until around 1996. I truly enjoyed that computer system, in a way I haven't enjoyed any computer since. Perhaps part of it was the overall novelty of personal computing, as there was still so much totally new development going on... but I sure didn't have that same enjoyment factor when using IBM-PC clones or even Macintoshes of the same era.

I think, maybe, somehow, probably unintentionally, the Amiga captured the 1970s/early-1980s "hacker spirit" better than any of the other personal computer systems. It wasn't a Lisp machine, and it wasn't a PDP-11, and it wasn't particularly used for artificial intelligence, but its users thoroughly enjoyed tinkering with it and making it do awesome things.

And awesome things it did.
Have you ever sat yourself down and considered whether you aren't the problem?

If you know someone who you regard as a good manager, try and persuade them to come in for a couple of days (pay them for this, obviously) and do a sanity check on your management style.

I had management coaching years ago and the results were pretty hard to take - but it was an invaluable experience for me.
Good to see someone standing up to this sort of thing. Internet vigilantism is creepy, disturbing and usually disproportionate to the severity of the crime being punished.

They also seem to go after soft targets. I can't remember seeing one of these go after (for instance) a violent criminal rather than some ordinary schlub who's done something rather fucked up.
"My perspective is that of an iPad user. I like the damned thing. But I feel like a pawn, and I don't like that."

I'm tired of seeing people complain about this. Apple has made their intentions clear from iPhone 1, day one. You are buying a read-only pass into the walled garden. If you don't like it, pick up a Galaxy Tab on VZW (arguably a better network) or wait for Motorola's dual core tablet later this year running the more tablet-centric Gingerbread. But cut it out complaining "as a user" about Apple.

Also:
"Maybe if (hint hint) Gruber had comments on his blog, his minions wouldn't feel the need to vent on the sites he points to? Just a thought."

...this again? Really?
How to make a startup whiteboard?
I just noticed that item #94 is also identical to #91 and #92. All the items link to the same discussion.
Tried Absolute but am now back at Monaco, and happy with that.
I'm guessing it's internal, but made one of their marketing teams. (http://www.notesondesign.net/inspiration/advertising/google-...)
"A working mobile flash implementation does not exist"

EDIT The TL;DR; version is, at knowing acceptance of downvotes: denial isn't just a river in Egypt; It's also the clutchings of the Mac Faithful who are going to go down parroting the Flash rhetoric straight from the hands of Jobs.

Flash works brilliantly on my Nexus One for those few times I need to use it. I've used it to watch Escapist videos, to order a pizza at a local pizza place that inexplicably uses Flash for the entirety of their site, and on and on. 99% of the time it sits disabled, but when there's the little box and I actually want or need to see the content, I tap it and voila, a few seconds later I have it.

Of course not all Flash works (though I come across very little that doesn't perhaps because I consider it an emergency technology, not the foundation of my experience). Some instances rely upon keyboard input, or hover events, or other interaction mechanisms that I can't duplicate on my smartphone.

Which is exactly like many HTML sites (where keyboard, hover, and drag-drop functionality that can't be duplicated on a mobile device is often used. I've yet to find an HTML5 demo game that actually works). Do we say HTML is failed because not every site works perfectly on mobile devices? Abandon the whole platform and embrace the App Store?
Flax HTML5 Weekly Game Engine Development Diary
I used cabulous to hail a cab in San Francisco this weekend. Very similar service, but uses medallion taxis with regular meter rates. You have to pay the driver normally. It was a great experience and I imagine these types of services will be commodity eventually.
I could only imagine what Jay Miner could have done in the mobile space if he was still alive.
Should have said Px size (given that we're talking bitmapped fonts)...

I work on Linux(Redhat) with bitmapped fonts.

ClearType screenshots (from my memory at least) have all still been fuzzy around the edges (at least for my taste).
Medallions are a conspiracy against the public, especially the poor and minorities, who both are disproportionately refused cab service and prevented from lawfully pursuing a value-creating occupation in their communities which requires only modest capital and no special training.

See also hairdressing regulations and a host of others.

I could be persuaded there exists an optimum amount of regulation for compensated car rides north of that for uncompensated car rides, but medallions have to go. With market values in the six figures though, good luck: holders have solid incentives for corruption like their lives depend on it, but the average citizen just gets minority overcharged, and the worst affected do not vote or matter in most political calculuses.
With Linux, I use a transparent terminal when I am looking at commands on a webpage and entering them in. Then I can just move the mouse over (but not click) on the webpage and use the scroll wheel to scroll down, all while maintaining focus on the terminal. I don't know how technologically possible that is on other OSes, but perhaps difficult? (Otherwise it would be done already.)
Big firm life is not for everyone because the grind never ceases, even for those who are young partners. Therefore, many chose to leave just to preserve their sanity. Whether by choice or not, anyone who leaves after having done a reasonable stint at such firms historically has had an open ticket to all sorts of other premier jobs within the legal profession (prominent in-house positions, partnership at mid-sized firms, senior government positions, etc.). This is another reason why associates scramble so hard to land positions within the largest firms. In essence, once you have proved yourself there even at the earliest stages, you have an open ticket to do well in the field generally from that day forward. Of course, this is not automatic and must be accompanied by lots of hard work, etc. One thing that is almost guaranteed about such lawyers is that they are highly disciplined lawyers who take their careers seriously and who seek to excel at what they do.
Dave should be able to sympathize with John, given that he's deleted quite a few comments off of that page (no cussing either).
"You'll note there's lots of uncertainty, but a rough rule of thumb is that each doubling of carbon dioxide will raise the temperature around 3 degrees Celsius. Of course people love to argue about these things: you can find reasonable people who'll give a number anywhere between 1.5 and 4.5 °C, and unreasonable people who say practically anything."

What is this scientific method you speak of?
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Android phones support flash these days [1]. I have been told it works pretty good.

1: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/android-froyo-with-so...
Easily provide online gift card services to any business trying to offer gift cards through their website and facebook. Simple setup and no sign-up fee.
I really like the fact that you did not try to create yet another social network and just exploited the existing social graph of twitter to make the connections. I totally agree with thehodge about the fact that a natural extension would be to use also the facebook social graph to offer a beter ux.

That said, the site seems a bit too dependent on twitter. I just added an "unlinked person", meaning somebody without twitter account and it seems impossible to add a picture or an url for those persons.

The UI is very nice, except maybe for the intrusive tag at the top left. It is too big IMHO

Finally, as this is a "startup review", is assume you wish to make money with this. Do you plan to do it with referees fees from Amazon for the sales of book ?
The Internet is a unique place of expression and that comes with the obvious downsides of such anonymity - child pornography, piracy, threats and trolls are just some examples. If governments continue their trend of monitoring and locking down the Internet, an alternative will crop up. I would be willing to bet large sums of money that you're wrong anyway.
I caution you here, the problem with UX design groups is that you can become a product of group think. You have to remember above all else, that you users first and foremost are the greatest experts on UX design. While professionals can teach you theory, they can also become dogmatic about sticking to the principals (some, not try to generalize here).

My point being is relying on UX patterns and human factors theory does not negate the most important UX principal and that is A/B testing. Users may not be able to vocalize what they want but their actions and conversion rates speak volumes about what is intuitive and what is not. Employing this simple technique can teach you volumes about intuitive interface design.

Now with that being said these communities are great for inspiration and as a support network when creativity or ideas fade. When you hit a creative block they provide a plethora of talented people that can be extremely helpful.

Just remember, if you A/B test something and it goes against conventional wisdom, stick with what works avoid the dogma. Always do what works, not what is supposed to work.
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Ask HN: Which PM tools do you use for software dev projects?
What are your favorite project management tools for software development projects?

I've used MS project in the past for engineering projects but it's too cumbersome and is just more than I need. Are there any great online tools out there I should check out that are designed for software development projects?
What were the comments about? Why were they deleted? Critical of the author, content, etc?
I've been using this for a few weeks and it is really solid. It feels nice to have my analytics data on my own server instead of the GOOG's.

Now they only have access to almost all of my data...
Yahoo's Fantasy Football Application Comes to Android
I agree, flash can work well. Google was foolish to not set the "Enable Plugins" to "On Demand" though.
Sweet Talking Your Computer: Why people treat devices like humans
Don't know how I missed that. Thanks.
apt-get install xfonts-terminus
We can talk, sure.

And yes, pxlpshr speaks truly--Ben is a great designer, the founder of the root, and he was the first rooter to work for FB.
The dashboard view which is a list of upcoming conferences that you and/or your friends (as determined by your Twitter account) are speaking at or tracking is hugely valuable and great for discovery -- as in, hey, there's a conference I didn't know about but a bunch of my friends are attending, I should check it out.

It would be nice to see this same association of my friends to conferences in the search result views as well.

Great start, Simon & Nat! (Who, incidentally, are touring the world on an extended honeymoon, so extra kudos for launching a new startup together from Gibraltar or Casablanca or wherever you are logging in from ;-)
Code reviews are very important... You should always have another team member review the code produced by any of your employees..
Well, I can't say it's the only possible solution, but of the many that have been tried, it's the one that works best, and it's the sole reason the NFL has achieved such dominance.

Socialism works great for small groups, such as 32 team owners. FWIW, NFL teams don't share all revenue. They still compete on ticket and merchandise sales. They also get bonuses for winning. Some teams profit much more than others, so it's still very capitalist.

In the end what the NFL realized that the MLB didn't (and the NBA did but couldn't enforce for political reasons) is that what fans love is parity. A league with parity will eventually eclipse one without, every time.

Parity only comes from a salary cap. Otherwise the teams that make the most (without true socialism, some teams will always have far more revenue than others) will simply buy the best players, as the Yankees do, leading to a self-perpetuating dynasty.

You might be able to get there with incentive structures instead, allocating large enough amounts of money to winning teams and fining perpetually losing teams, but I'm always leery of that as incentives can be gamed. A salary cap is quick, easy, effective, and unless a team flagrantly violates it by funneling money to a player under the table (which is rare since not many NFL owners want to risk their ownership) totally enforced.
Droid Sans Mono. You can't improve over perfection; can you?
Various commenters are saying that cities would simply define "mobile hailing" as also requiring a license. Okay, maybe, but would it matter? How would it be enforced? And could any particular city hold UberCab liable? Enough to force them to stop?

The whole concept sounds particularly disruptive because it seems that it would be so difficult to police.
Browsers don't support flash, the Flash plugin for a browser supports flash. It's not about the browser, it's about the platform or the operating system.

A Flash SWF is not an executable binary blob. Many parts of the SWF spec are even open.
I had the same 404 but they fixed it very quickly. Adding a new conference was extremely easy which impressed me.
What's an automatic teller machine machine?
Are you promoting IRS payment sites, structured settlements, mesothelioma suits, online colleges or college loans? No? Then go with my blessing!
The point Dave makes in the original post, is that he sees new flash content being produced, so the boycott is not working. I think it is more productive to focus on promoting html5 to make flash irrelevant.
"People who agree with Gruber are cut from much the same cloth as people who want the choice of whether to run Flash."

Can't say I understand your sentiment. They are ideologically incompatible and driven by polar interests.
The Last Temptation of the Linux Application Developer
I have not done either of those. I did watch a couple of his math videos on the site. It just so happens that we are teaching our son math this year. What great timing for this post. The videos were very good. I had my son watch the the "Division 1" video for a bit and he was tracking with it very well. Kudos to Khan Academy.
Technology changes fast. So fast, that now days the most effective strategy is not to know everything, but to know how to find relevant docs efficiently. Of course you also need basic skills for understanding and using them properly.. Now that, comes from experience.
this could almost be one of those turning points in html5 acceptance where you would say: and then i saw the arcade fire video and everyone has been using canvas ever since...

is there any more detail on how they made it besides chromeexperiments.com?
How to telnet into an iOS app and get an interactive console.
I think there is an important difference.

When someone attempts to remain anon for their own safety and privacy, then that is perfectly fine (providing they are not committing a crime). Political dissidents, celebrities, etc.

But when someone attempts to harm another via an anon posting to a forum and they think it's OK to do that, then that is wrong. Libel and slander are just that. Whether they occur in an Internet forum or in a newspaper. People doing this should know that they can (and will) be sued and that they are not anonymous.
I’m sad that that stopped about halfway through the story, I think they were shooting for about 10 parts or so. But part 7 was a kind of sidetrack listing games on the platform, and the writer might have run out of contacts or behind the scenes info to finish the narrative.
If only :).

There are ways how to get around cross-domain security restrictions. Long ago, I have done it myself by a simple server-side proxy here (few lines of PHP):

http://alteredqualia.com/visualization/evolve/

About Globe Genie optimization. In fact, I implemented it, sent a patch to the author and it's already live there (check the source code). It cuts cross-network locations validity lookups by about 60%.

Here I didn't do proxy, just fetched a complete set of overlay tiles once and stitched them together with a Python script:

http://alteredqualia.com/tmp/gg_overlay_optimization/data/ov...

It's just a static prebaked lookup map (served from the same domain), though if you really want to have it up-to-date, you could hook up Python script to cron.

All this took few hours (Sunday evening hacking) and was quite fun to do.
; Ignore the most recent 5 comments since they may still be gaining votes.
; Also ignore the highest-scoring comment, since possibly a fluff outlier.

http://github.com/nex3/arc/blob/master/news.arc#L2301

It may be slightly different now, but probably not by much.
You understand this works by proxying webpages, right? The URL bar is going to show the URL of the proxy, not my bank.

If you consider this to be dangerous that's a flaw in every web browser ever, not this piece of software. This kind of thing was possible 10 years ago too.
I wonder what the world would be like if somebody designed a nice variable-width font for typesetting code. It would be different than a font designed for setting English, but I wonder if we wouldn't get the same benefits of beauty and legibility.

I mean, it's kinda silly that we continue to program in fixed-width type, given what modern software can do with setting type on the fly...
In the UK, 'mobile hailing' would be equivalent to pre-booking. In many parts of the UK pre-booked cabs are referred to as Private Hire vehicles. The only cabs you can hail on the street are Hackney Carriages. I believe unlicensed minicabs are illegal in the UK but London still seems to have problems with them.

For both Private Hire and Hackney Carriages, the cars/drivers are licensed and must meet regulatory requirements regarding vehicles and insurance policies. I believe the requirements for Hackney Carriages are more stringent.

Those licences exist to protect the public.

For both types of licensed drivers, UberCab would be a great extension. However, I can only imagine it working if the taxi firms themselves were willing to implement it.
It's a cool idea. And an evolution of black car service (they have to be called and don't normally solicit for work).

As like any other hire service, they operate under a difference set of rules. They have to be licensed, need to meet size requirements, and they have to carry much more insurance.

Some random driver with a pickup and just basic PIP coverage probably wouldn't be a good choice. Especially if you are paying for it.

Also, reading their website, they are very interested in working with limo companies and cab services not random guy with 30 minutes to spare. So no, this is not like AirBNB, at all.
Same here, and I really did want an Amiga at one time. One of my favorite internet comic writers still apparently uses them to this day.

http://www.sabrina-online.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mg6wrYCT9Q

That said, I ended up on Macs, and for the longest time, I though we were going to end up in the same boat. (And in a way, we did. To me, OS X isn’t quite the joy to use due to it’s complexity and design compromises for interoperability versus the classic Mac OS.)

EDIT: Every time this topic comes up, I’m reminded of an old USENET thread I posted to back in the day.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.amiga.advocacy/brows...

I’m the first “Mac user” in that thread.
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1) The parent's link indicated that this is real usage data, from Campaign Monitor. CM and similar use tracking pixels, and can detect what client is being used to open the email.

2) I use Outlook all the time, as do many people I work with. Gmail is great for webmail, but its not a replacement for Outlook, especially if you rely heavily on contacts, calendar, tasks, or search.
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Is “everyone could be a cabbie” really such a lucrative prospect, from the drivers’ point of view? My understanding is that when you take into account the uncertainty of income, the fixed cost of leasing and maintaining a cab (of course, part of this is the cost of leasing the medallion), and the risk of passengers attacking you or simply not paying, cab drivers don’t net that much money... which may be one reason why, at least in Boston and NYC, cabbies tend to be immigrants.
It wasn't the font I was looking for.