skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like a great service and a good pricing structure. Will definitely dig deeper into it. Good luck.

(Designwise, the gray text is hard to read in Firefox--not so bad in IE).
You're absolutely spot on but speak to any scientist or doctor and they will undoubtedly tell you that they would probably benefit from being ahead of the curve from a technological perspective. All of todays innovators embrace technology and all of todays technology require a distinct understanding of computing and/or electronic engineering.
I really doubt that making voting mandatory would make a difference in the US. A large fine for not voting would be unreasonable and universally disliked while a small fine would be ignored. For example, we take the census, a short questionnaire, every 10 years. Filling out the census is mandatory and the government makes a considerable effort to make sure that every household finishes their census form. However, this year there were many people who took it as a point of pride not to fill out the form, even though it is much easier to do than voting and is compulsory.
The font on the homepage doesn't look good on my Windows XP machine under Firefox 3.6.12, it's nice-looking using Chrome though. Maybe due to the font you're using (museo), I don't have it on my system.

Strangely, the weird looking font (as if it was not antialiased) occur on the signup page using Chrome.

Other than that, it looks really good. Is it US/Canada only ?
It's actually quite consistent when I use Firefox. There's a little bit of jerkiness on both sides.
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> If you don't vote, you have no right to complain about the next set of assholes.

Really?

I'm not sure how the UK system works, but in the US it's based on the state. (this is only re: presidential election) I live in NY, and democrats always taken NY state in presidential election just because they're democrats. Same with California. And in Texas, Republican candidate always wins because he's a Republican. There may be some exceptions to the rule, but very few.

So my vote didn't really count in the last election, because no matter how I voted, Obama would still win NY.

This is a product of a broken two party system that doesn't allow any non-asshole candidate to get elected. It's always a choice between a giant douche and turd sandwich.

Having said that, I still voted - for the third party, even though they had no chance. Maybe if one day a third party candidate gets enough voted something will change.

I think I'm gonna go vote for Jimmy McMillan now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_Is_Too_Damn_High_Party
Just curious how are you differentiating from http://www.twilio.com/ and their product http://www.twilio.com/openvbx?

It appears you are an expensive option in comparison. Good luck!
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Just bought it, it's VERY difficult to use, even harder than I expected.

There's no control over the insertion of spaces, it automatically inserts one after you release your thumb at the end of a word. So if you accidentally delete a space that you need, which is likely during the learning process, there is no way to get it back without also deleting the character before it and adding an auto space. Also there is no way of preventing this automatic space either, so web addresses and the like have to be entered as one very long continuous gesture, without any mistakes; if you make a mistake you must release your thumb to hit the backspace button, which you must now hit twice because an unwanted space was just added.

Finally, the learning process is heavily hindered by the fact that your thumb obscures at least one or two of the 'branches' during a gesture, which means when you have to visually consult the screen because you have forgotten the unusual spatial model (the direction matters too remember,) your only option is to pivot your thumb without it leaving the screen, and hold your phone at an odd angle so your can peer beneath your digit and decide where it should go next. Not very practical.

Give me a spacebar and the ability to disable autospacing and I'll try it again. Until then I'm sticking with swype, which allows me to type extremely fast.
So the way to overcome conscious suboptimal decisions is to keep making more conscious suboptimal decisions? That is what I have been doing wrong... stupid me for trying to change.

Jokes aside, you are probably correct, I have always been torn between trying and failing to be perfectly rational versus doing suboptimal emotional things.
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The reason Swype is so easy is that you don't really have to look to see where the letters are, it's QWERTY, you already know. You can type blind on it after a tiny amount of use once your brain has mapped out the keyboard size.

I imagine you'd be able to use 8pen without looking too, maybe even better after a long while, it would just take you a lot longer to get there.
My experience (Chrome on Linux) was smooth in both technologies (apart from a collision detection bug on the canvas side). Really neat demo though - when they're synced, it's weird to be aware that there's a sort of slight of hand happening with the ball as it crosses the center line.
MacBook Pro 15" with Firefox 3.6, but I noticed jerkiness on Flash, HTML was definitely smoother
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Is there a cost associated with transferring a 1-800 number?
Read to him when he is young, with him when older. It is the most stupidly effective academic intervention I'm aware of.
I am in the market for this service right now.

A few quick first impressions (I'll have more later)

You need an FAQ section, I had the quick questions of 1) Can I get an 800 number? 2) Can I get a vanity number, i.e. 1800-Stronico? 3) What credit cards do you take (I put everything like this on Amex).

Beyond that, quite good - more thoughts later.

Addendum --- I missed the toll free bit of text on the home page before
Don't the authors of the article mean your attentional resources are drained because you can only hear half of the conversation? I think in most open offices one can hear both ends of the conversation, or do you mean you can hear people talking on the phone?
As an out of state college student, I'm very much so fond of voting by mail.

I voted about three weeks ago.
I've had this argument with my parents on saving for retirement vs paying off loans.

It would seem like one would prioritize savings, but due to the variance in interest, the net gain is in favor of paying off high interest loans vs building low interest savings.
I assume because these plugins use unshifted letter keys to control browsing, but pong wants to see these keys.
Ask HN: Review my startup Starteveryday.com
The URL: http://www.starteveryday.com/

It's basically a service to send inspirational email to your friend every morning. We create unique and beautiful email everyday :)

Any feedback would be great!
Agreed and this is something I started whilst he was still in the womb!
Twilio is targeted towards developers, while this appears to be something I could point a less technical client to and say "Go to town!". As developers we often fail to take into account how much usability can effect product uptake, and there that seems to be the prime differentiator.
Currently yes, only US/Canada. Fonts by Typekit, I'll have to check into it a little more!
DNSimple uses Enom as it's accredited registrar.
I think that advertisement needs to sell people a little better on why they would want to switch.

What specific pain does this promotion address, and why is it worth $10.50 + $3/mo to switch to your service?
Gestures that are like handwritten characters are harder to deal with on the software side and slower to use on the human side. Handwriting recognition has been around for a long time. I don't know how this will compare speed-wise, but it's definitely simpler.
These tests have been used to discriminate against various minority groups throughout the years. For example, you may have a perfectly good grasp of the issues and who best represents your point of view, but you suck at math. No votes for you. Or, you can't read. etc... that's why these tests have been been illegal for quite a while.
Thanks! Bootstrapped by far!
Clickable: http://www.starteveryday.com/
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Finally Flash for iPhone and iPad
Politicians also love an ill-informed population. By forcing everyone to vote you also force people who don't have an interest or opinion to vote.
I mean sure that makes it more representative but I wonder if it is not better that these people don't vote, especially if they don't exactly appreciate why they are voting or the differences between the parties and policies.
"The best part of Git? More and more people are using version control and a lot of them aren't even developers"

At assorted Web design/development gatherings I've seen a big divide between coders types, almost all of whom use some form of version control, and designer type, whose idea of version control is the periodic use of winzip or stuffit.

Having more articles like this is Designer Land is fantastic.

I would urge developers who work with designers to consider arranging some sort of presentation, perhaps at lunch, about version control. Spread the love.
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"if too much text didn't work, none of those "buy my crappy ebook and make billions like me" sales pages would work."

You're referring to 'long copy' which is wholly different from 'throw a couple of paragraphs of text on my website because I'm too lazy to make it short or replace with graphics'. Writing long copy is a craft, and is structured completely different from the websites in the review.
Blaming the Republicans doesn't make any sense. Democrats have the votes to do whatever they want to do, which is why it's so easy this year to hold incumbents accountable.
In general, ideas without early paths to revenue are riskier (but have higher upside). Just because they don't have an obvious path to revenue doesn't mean their isn't one. For example, if you created a fun/viral facebook game, you could probably find a way to make money. But there are famous examples of high adoption startups that failed to monetize (recently: Xmarks).

It sounds like you enjoy products/coding more than you enjoy businesses. Be careful here- Every month that passes in your startup's life, you'll be spending LESS time on user-facing product/code and more time on marketing/sales/support/hiring/etc -- all of the things that fuel and sustain growth.
CPU was pegged. I'll blame the flash side.
>Clearly the optimal strategy is to pay off the debt with the highest interest rate first.

Clearly? This is plainly wrong. Let's say we have two debts: $1000 with 0.7% interest rate and $40 with 0.8% interest rate (these rates are daily). Assuming our daily salary is $19, having payed off $40 debt first, we will never be able to pay off the $1000, as the interest exceeds our salary. The other way around, we pay off $1000 (then $2546.5) debt after 135 days, and then a week later we pay off $40 (then $128) debt.

It is not the sole interest rate, but the ratio between interest rate and debt that matters.
I'm doing my current job for now, but there's plenty of other stuff I could be doing afterwards. I imagine that I'll probably take a break, but sitting at home growing olives and playing tavla isn't something I could do forever.
My advice:

Start with something that generates revenue. This will give you experience with making money. It will give you experience completing a project. In other words, it will give you a track record.

A track record will help you attract people (co-founders, investors) to your next idea (or to your initial one). Revenue will allow you to pursue other ideas or expand your first business.

However, don't take any of this as advice to start your own company in lieu of taking a job.
Why I don’t write my slides in HTML
When I try to type quickly not even the iPhone knows what the hell I meant to write. :)

And that doesn't help for words it doesn't know. Turning auto-correct off might actually be a good idea for me. I'll have to try it and see if I like it any better.
You are correct. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529
From http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529

> pg
> I've often thought of it. The reason I had downvotes
> originally was to deter people from saying things that
> were mean or stupid. But maybe the right way to deal
> with that is a separate mechanism from voting, as it
> is with stories. Maybe the right combo for comments is
> an uparrow, plus a flag link, and encourage users to
> flag comments that are mean or stupid.
>
> I'll think about the real solution more after I'm done
> reading applications, but I'll increase the downvote
> threshold to 500 now.
I would definitely teach 3yr & 1yr a lot of Mathematics & Finance. Flashcard and iPhone apps definitely helped.

IT skills become more of a necessity once they hit school. I see Programming as a form of art, unless you are interested in it. It's not going to be of any interest to them, like it is to me.
I'm sorry that you're offended. However, stating that you are offended, and then re-asserting your belief in voting really doesn't do anything to show my where the error is in my argument.

I'd have an easier time understanding where I've gone astray if you could address my two questions:

1. Is it immoral to vote by dice?

2. In what ways does an ignorant voter, reacting emotionally to propaganda, differ from voting by dice?
Could you elaborate on this a bit - examples of functional languages in systems programming would be nice.
I just tried the default F14 desktop and the KDE spin (both on Live CDs) and I can't believe how depressing the desktop environments still are.

The colors are depressing, there are little tiny buttons and icons everywhere, but no indication or popups as to what they do. The UI transitions are clunky (at least what I'm used to on Mac OS X and W7). Fonts are blocky. The KDE desktop looks kinda nice in screenshots, but once I started interacting with it, my positive impressions changed.

I'm a guy who spends his time in Terminals, but like it or not, the GUI has become an effective management tool for all of this.

Everything is virtually as I left it in 2001. This is depressing, because my plan was to eventually go back.
No cost. Will add that into the FAQ.
I believe it's also called "fuzz testing"
Built using Twilio and a few portions of OpenVBX, yes!
No. I won the match. He lost.
I'm really tired of Git standing in for "DVCS" - there are so many better options. Bazaar, Mecurial, Monotone, Fossil - check those out. The only win I see in git is the adoption rate. Which doesn't seem like a real win, just populist shackling.
Primary source discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1857871
I think making computing more accessible to thousands or millions of people is kinda impressive, and could foster the collaboration you're looking for.
And based on the way he worded it, he would agree with you now. His point was that you need to apply both theory AND practice and not just blindly cite theory.
At the time of writing the comments seemed to be leaning towards flash performing better.
Just signed up, very easy and intuitive. Great design.

One question (for personal needs, not necessarily a site criticism): do you offer bulk SMS? Couldn't tell if you offer automated outgoing services.
You must understand that other people don't necessarily share your idea of what's important. To me it seems you are saying that people shouldn't vote unless they know these subjects from this particular viewpoint and in extension therefor also share your view of what's important.

If you made the argument that no one should vote because no one can fully understand all different viewpoints and you yourself won't be voting, then I would at least understand the argument. But I don't think that is what you are saying.
Thanks, that's a good point. I've updated the promotional page a bit to discuss the specific pain points that I've experienced with GoDaddy that I am trying to solve with DNSimple. I'm open to suggestions for more though. :-)
Would you mind explaining why Git is inferior?
>You pointed to one, single, crazy group that may or may not even be affiliated with religion.

Would you like some more?

http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/hate.htm

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map
(Click on any state)

Look at any of these groups and you'd be very, very hard-pressed to find one without an ideological claim to a Christian identity. These groups pose a very real threat, which is why the FBI tracks and monitors them. However, the existence of right-wing Christian hate groups does not indict all practitioners of Christianity world-wide.

As for the rest of your post, you've simply attempted to rebut a series of arguments that nobody actually made — I believe they call these "straw man" fallacies. E.g.: I never mentioned "profiling" — the issues are religious persecution and outright harassment by government officials, in a blatantly unconstitutional fashion.

>"Lefties are against religion." "Lefties are against the United States."

Really? Seriously? Why don't you read my posts again — this time carefully, and try once more.
I think that what people buy has a pretty important effect too, especially in the U.S. considering that corporations fund political parties/interest groups/politicians.
Dental health is really interesting to me right now. There are cultures that have little decay but don't clean there teeth. It's all in the diet. I am also interested in Weston Price's research into Root Canals causing all manner of diseases - the idea being that bacteria and toxins can remain in the tubules of dead teeth and with this as a base, branch into other parts of the body. Dental health is linked to longevity.
I am skeptical that any Russian phishing gang is paying 7 figures for XSS vulnerabilities on random Google properties.

I am equally skeptical that there has ever been a "million dollar" vulnerability sale; that's an order of magnitude higher than the most inflated claim I've heard for reliable remote code execution flaws on Windows.

Note that for $500,000 --- half your bounty --- Google could get any security team in the business to find horrible things in any of their platforms. $500k buys a meaningful project from anyone from Cryptography Research to iSec Partners to Mark Dowd or Dino Dai Zovi.
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It's quite common for both of the main parties in the USA (Democrats and Republicans) to try to disenfranchise voting districts that vote predominantly for the other party. This can be done by sabotaging voting machines, resulting in long wait times that will discourage people from voting (as mentioned by another comment); or intentionally underestimating voter turnout and delivering too few machines in the first place; or by spreading rumors that it's a landslide and they don't need to vote; or spreading misinformation on how to fill out the ballot, resulting in failed votes; or intentionally putting polling places in the bad part of town to scare away voters; or putting polling places far away from public transit and/or sufficient parking space; or any number of underhanded tactics designed to prevent people from. None of it is ever really proven or investigated, but you tend to get a lot of highly significant p-values on election day, indicating that most of these events are probably intentional, and not accidental.

And don't forget Gerrymandering, in which the party in power redraws the voting district lines to ensure that every district has a majority of their party (though that happens before election day): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrymandering

Edit: I added a few more examples from other replies that represent common methods of intentional sabotage.
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I'm pretty confused about this. Are you guys trying to compete against GoDaddy's domain name registration service, or something more like EasyDNS's managed hosting?

If you're doing the latter, then perhaps you should focus on explaining what the benefits are.

What does "Easy Billing" mean? Other DNS or web hosting services are really easy to pay for. Is this even easier some how? Why are you even emphasizing this?

And again, why is domain registration emphasized on the home page, if this isn't your core business?

Take a look at the homepages of Slicehost, linode, prgmr.com, Amazon S3, DNS.com. They all have different designs, but one thing in common -- they have way more information density than your site, and I only need to scroll up and down that one page to get a great idea of what it is that they do.

Edit: I read the other comments, and have a better idea of what you're doing. It looks cool, and the developer API is a great idea. If you're targeting developers, then you could definitely do with de-dumbing-down your site a bit.
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I don't think it is. But even so as they live next door to Russia I think it's probably a good thing to try these things out and learn things the hard way.
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There are too many movies and works of science fiction that explore this landscape to convince me this is good.

To erase our memories, our fear, and our pain is to erase what makes us human. Yes, there are terrible things that happen to people that we want to be able to help. This is our humanity.

But where do we draw the line? What happens when this technology falls into the wrong hands? I don't like it.
That depends entirely on what the "0 day" is, and how it's packaged. Again: do you really think anyone's getting 5 figures for XSRFs in random Google properties? These are flaws that have instantaneously ZERO value once Google finds out they're being exploited --- unlike remote code execution flaws, which have a half-life.
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The gradual shift in strategy has actually been evident for a while. With Silverlight 3, they introduced the ability to run outside the browser as a desktop app, and with Silverlight 4, they placed a lot more emphasis on this scenario and less on in-browser scenarios.

The point of writing a Windows desktop app in Silverlight is that not only is your code more portable (relative to a native Win32 or full .NET/WPF app), but SL apps are like iOS apps in that they are isolated from each other, easy to update/service, etc. If Microsoft introduces a Windows app store soon as is strongly rumored, it will probably feature prominently.

I think what has most developers upset is not so much the substance of the message, which most of them already knew, but how it's being picked up in the media (for which Microsoft's delivery of the message is to blame). The media don't really care about development frameworks, so to them Silverlight-the-browser-plugin (the part they see) = Silverlight. Therefore if Silverlight is being de-emphasized as a browser plugin, it means Silverlight is dead, so that's going to be the headline, and CIOs etc. who only read headlines are going to see that and decide not to allow Silverlight development, even out-of-browser.
That's an interesting boundary case, but you are arguing the proper way to pay off a debt for someone who is clearly in a bankrupt situation.
Doesn't sound smart to me.
Unless you have a personal financial runway that you can / are willing to burn through or investors lined up, you should focus on the revenue-oriented ideas otherwise you'll simply run out of capital.

When you are deciding what your venture should be, I try to think about risk vs. reward ... make sure those "fun" (read: risky) projects have the potential to be home runs, otherwise it is a bad investment of your time and effort.
http://squidder.com/face/ - real time face detection with flash
though I don't understand language of that site. I tried with google translator it shows some Dutch , Portuguese ;)
Quick note: "happiness" is spelled with two 'p's.