skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do any of you buy your tea online? I've heard good things about Adagio, but haven't had a need to buy from them.
Congrats! IMHO, that is a success
That seems kind of unsafe to me, since it's all keeping it in one file.
Please report your SVM’s kernel
Does anyone know what law firm represents 50 Cent, and how I can get some shares in it? Talk about easy money!
It took a day or two for reality to set in, and 50 Cent (whose real name is Curtis Jackson) began backing off of his cheerleading Monday, The New York Observer reports. He began sending more cautious messages to his followers, saying things like "I own HNHI stock thoughts on it are my opinion. Talk to a financial advisor about it."

seems like hyping preceeded disclosure
The Political Power of Social Media
"Easy reading is damn hard writing."

-Nathaniel Hawthorne
> WebM is probably patent encumbered. We just don't know who owns the patents yet.

Actually we do, because Google used the very clever strategy of essentially copying the H.264 algorithm and then methodically working around all the patents. This means that if there are outstanding patents on WebM they are probably on H.264 as well. But the great likelihood is that there are not outstanding patents because any such patent holders would have long ago put their hands up to join the H.264 patent pool and reap the benefits.
HN is a great reference library as well as a news source and a community. The 'front page' is great for keeping your finger on the pulse, but what about more tools for finding and keeping up with subsets of the astronomical amount of information.

For example, what if you could look at all postings that have at least 10 but fewer than 30 ups? What if you could look at the posts with the most ups of all time? A data-mining point of view might accentuate the depth of the knowledge represented here.
Performance of the WebM implementation in Flash. It took them years to take advantage of hardware decoding for H.264
It's low level pump and dump, CNBC does it every day so he should be fine.
Have you considered glass? My favorite whiteboard was recycled from a 7-foot tempered glass tabletop.
Do this, follow it up, expose the thief, make a blog of it, and the advertising income from the blog will probably recoup the laptop cost.
Phone me when Youtube only supports WebM, this is just a PR stand.
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> this insistence ... that everyone does things on your pace, your schedule, your needs, your preferences, on you... is just so whiny.

We're talking about the "Everything that differs from the HIG is a fucking abomination" crowd here, right? </sarcasm>

I value civility, pragmatics, and constructivity, and you evidently don't. I think we've reached the point where it's clear we have two fundamentally different opinions and continuing to talk past one another is pointless.
I recently bought a theme from http://www.mojo-themes.com/html-css/ for $20, and I absolutely love it. The theme I bought was perfect.

It saves so much design issues, and time.
Sorry, my intent was not to belittle or enrage. I was merely pointing out the fact that, based upon provided data, you, as a developer, are quite far removed from the lower end of the income spectrum. Your comment seemed to give a vibe of "I don't care about this because it doesn't affect me and the fact that I am even hearing about it is pissing me off." My apologies if that is not the case.

(Disclaimer: I am not from the USA.) White people make up the majority of the population in the northeastern USA. Minorities tend to be poorer. That's a statistical fact. A developer in a white town is probably doing better than most people around him.

It's an important issue. I hope there are more articles about this topic. They're more interesting than articles about del.iciou.us being killed by Yahoo.
If HN has jumped the shark, what's the next hip spot?
First freelance job I did as a teenager (around 1996 maybe?) was for a sporting celebrity in my country. I got paid $90/hr which I was particularly excited about.

I spent so much time on this web interface, 'Shopping my brains out. The result was, for the time, amazing. People, who didn't have to use the site on a day-to-day basis, gushed.

Then I happened across an absolutely brutal, brutal review by some random on the net. At first I was crushed, but soon I realised that, though coarse, they had made good points and I became a better designer because of it.
Venture Is Harder These Days, Says Industry Sage Bill Davidow
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. -- Tony Hoare
It's valid when it ships.
MacHoopla - Home - Tablet, Slate, iPad
O great now its back to flash.

Pretty shitty move by google.
I've got a Macbook5,2 which is documented here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook5-2 I am presuming other models have similar treatment.

I salute you on your ditching OSX, but do you not miss it at all? My biggest gripe is the lack of something like apt-get / synaptic for OSX, if Jobs really was super-smart he'd bake something like that in real quick and no, I do not mean the App Store though that could have been a chance to get a whole repository thing going for OSX. Say I read about Haskell on HN and I think, I'd like to play with that - on OSX I have to fire up a browser and find out what is the best way to install it, on Ubuntu it's just apt-cache search haskell and apt-get whatever seems to be the compiler. Sigh I'd miss the eye candy though. And I'm presuming that suspend/resume works. And battery life is good. And. And!
HTML5 is not a standard. It does not yet behave the same in all browsers that implement it. Different browsers implement different subsets of it.

The site you cite is meant specifically to show how Apple is doing with their HTML5 implementation. There is simply no point in viewing it in another browser. Viewing it in, say, Firefox would tell you nothing at all about how well Apple has implemented HTML5 in Safari.

This is completely different from the "Designed for IE6" sites. Those sites were generally presenting information that was useful to people regardless of which browser they were using.
The encoder is good, but it doesn't hold a candle to x264. It's is still _very_ slow.
My testimonial:

I, a random person, was walking down Madison one day when I found the Todd and Holland store. Bill Todd spent over an hour introducing me to some white teas that were new to me, including providing taste tests. He was extraordinarily nice and I found a new favorite white while I was there. I can find tea I like cheaper online, but I am happy to pay a small premium on occasion just for his expertise. I sold my home in Oak Park, so I don't get in there as often as I would like anymore - but I can definitely recommend them as a great local merchant that knows their stuff. Unlike the mall shops where the staff tend to know little to nothing about tea.
On http://simplton.com/philosophy I would make the bullet points the only content on the page. Click them and it expands to show your explanation.

For something that focuses on simplicity, you sure have a lot of words. If I were you, I'd look to cut 75% of your verbiage.

I don't understand what the companies represent on http://simplton.com/pricing. Is that companies that use your service? Am I buying real estate in this imaginary town? I think you're overusing your town metaphor.
Also Unladen Swallow, which was developed inside Google, is based on LLVM and they have sent a lot of useful patches upstream.
I'm also in a similar situation. The name I'd like for my webapp is taken and i'm considering hq.com or app.com. Or would it be better to use a .net or .biz?
Yes it would be a useful endeavor. You will save hours of time on each new product. I would suggest that Google SketchUp is easier to learn (and free) but SolidWorks is very common in manufacturing. Doing a quick mockup in SketchUp is the new version of the cocktail napkin sketch, but with 3 dimensions instead of two. I recently used it to explain to a contractor how I wanted my bathroom remodeled (keeping my wife happy) and the time it save in discussions was immense. The contractor could immediately see what I wanted to do - move a wall, change a doorway, move a sink. Easy.

Make sure you learn how to specify dimension in SketchUp when you learn it. That will save you a lot of effort, and find video tutorials on YouTube. It was much easier for me to understand it by watching the video than by reading Google's documentation.
> Gratz makes clear that point systems are illegal, which was my claim.

The original claim was "They said they didn't lower the "academic" criteria- i.e. test scores and GPA- for minority students."

Grutter said that they could use race to decide admit certain folks according to different criteria than they use for other folks.
Thanks for the shout out. Just doing what I can!
This sounds like insider trading / pump and dump fraud. I don't think a safe harbor statement regarding forward looking statements would even fit in a tweet.
Hey, I did say one heck of a re-skinning :) There's no GNU userland? I find that hard to believe ... Care to expand? So you mean I can't grumble (all Stallmanesque-like) when my Mom doesn't say GNU/Android? grumble grumble grumble
One of the hardest things I've found is putting limits on things and getting others to understand that they are better than not having limits. If you're your own boss, it's pretty easy to dictate these things, but if you have to answer to others... Ugh.

From a programmer's point of voice, one of the best things about (sane) limits is that it's much, much easier to program for. Non-programmers tend to think that not having limits would be easier, but that's rarely the case.

From a user's point of view, limits help them make decisions faster. You aren't going to post a recipe on Twitter. You're going to use it for 1 thing: Quick status updates to your friends. It isn't an address book or a calendar or a webpage host. It could be, but they wisely chose not to be.
Speaking of NYTimes, Safari user stylesheet has a line to disable the annoying word definition popup when selecting text.

.nytd_selection_button { display:none; }
Flash is bundled in chrome so that they can do the security update pushes.
If you haven't yet, go and watch the Pixar Shorts Films Collection[1]. It includes a fairly long extra with interviews with early Pixar employees, and the challenges they faced with the limited technology at the time.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Pixar-Short-Films-Collection-1/dp/B000...
The Forgotten Social Network
In response to the auto-playing video advert on that page:

I have nothing wrong with advertising on the web, I'm not against commercialisation of the web. I fully understand that the economics of the web require that we trade easy cheap access to information for small portions of our eyeball-time, but the recent trend towards full-screen interstitial advert pages, large banners hovering over content and autoplaying audio/video adverts, as well as the not-so-recent rise of multi-page articles to inflate CPM impressions is really bad for the web, and to me heralds a return to the bad old days of popups and shoot the monkey adverts from the 90's. We don't need to reward this with pageviews.

I know the alternative many will suggest is adblock, but that option is equally as damaging - it hurts content providers as much as gratuitous advertising hurts content consumers.

So please, disable adblock, and next time you find a page carrying an interesting story but with unacceptable adverts, find another source[1] to share, or downvote/flag it.

The web doesn't need this.

[1] - http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=50+cent+stock

edit: I mean: It's a web, a network, in which we exist, and it would be great to reach an equilibrium where people producing content can get paid, and consumers can not get treated like cattle. The alternative is an ever-escalating war between advertisers and advert blockers, which ends up with no-one having a financial incentive to produce great content...

Although as I say that, I realise that the incentive for creating my recently-popular genetic algorithm hello world thing [2] wasn't financial at all. So maybe fuck it just block the damn ads. Hmm. Your thoughts?

There are a great many people who are professional bloggers though, and I think the advertising model really is key to the web - we just need to find a way to make it mutually beneficial (without encouraging click-fraud). Really the ball is in the advertiser's court, but somehow I think they're in it for short-term gains rather than the long-term well-being of the web.

[2] http://www.puremango.co.uk/2010/12/genetic-algorithm-for-hel...
Sorry for the downvote but that was a very early analysis and the story has progressed a bit since. There's room for a more nuanced evaluation of WebM which I'd like to hear.
If your product is killer I don't think it matters what your domain name is. People are going to get the word out.

Look at "blekko" for crying out loud.
The Atrix runs Android 2.2 (Froyo) which shipped last May. I was just talking about CES because we've been bombarded the past week
Reminds me of "embrace, extend, extinguish".

BTW, will it be possible to enable it back with an extension? I don't really want to stop using Chrome because of this.
> Hint: whenever a bank invents a product, the main idea usually revolves around them getting a cut.

Replace "bank" with "just about anybody" and you have a winner.
> Census estimates suggest 1 in 6 Americans live in poverty

Which definition of poverty are we using?

I have two. According to one, 90% of Americans live in poverty. According to the other, less than 1% do. Which one is correct?

Note that the 1% is based on world-standards for poverty....

> 1 in 7 Americans rely on food stamps

And taxing rich people more is going to change that how?

Govt aid is basically a no-work/low-pay job. How is reducing the amount of money in the private sector going to put more people to work?

Note that reducing the amount of money in the private sector doesn't necessarily increase the amount of money in the public sector. The US govt has never managed to collect more than 20% of GDP in taxes, so if your plan assumes that we can, you get to explain why this time will be different.
CNBC does not directly benefit financially from price increases in stocks they cover. In this case, Mr Jackson (50 Cent) has a financial interest in the company and does participate in stock price gains - That is where I see a significant difference.
If you fail tell your audience you don't have the time to be brief.
Did anyone else notice that the Apple Human Interface Guide is hard to read on a widescreen monitor? I clicked on the link and the text was a good 18" wide. You would think they would know about making a website readable.

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/UserEx...
Yeah, as far as I understand it you can talk up a company or stock as much as you want as long as you disclose that you have a financial stake in it.
It's not exactly insightful but it does have some merit. Apple's approach is an odd mix of open and closed. You could describe it as 'strategically open'... (of course - this applies to Google too to a slightly lesser degree).

No company supports open-source if it directly conflicts with their perceived interests. Some companies just take a wider view than others.
Generally, no, there are very specific conditions which make such a statement legal.

Statements such as "you will double your money" should always be avoided. Ideally you want a closed-loop system in which people viewing your statement have read to and agreed to the fact that you will be making money from your claims and your statement is marketing material and should not be construed as investment advice. Without such statements and provisions people reading the tweets could easily mistake such statements as investment advice or guarantees in regard to returns. Also, include a safe harbor provision regarding forward looking statements.

Basically, if you're going to talk about stocks or other investments in which you have a stake, consult a lawyer, specifically one who knows the securities law in both the jurisdiction you're speaking, the jurisdictions in which the company is registered and the jurisdiction in which the exchange operates, and for good measure the jurisdictions in which the message will be received.

This is the reason you sign 50 pages of legalese just to open up a trading account. It details exactly how, where, why and when your bank will fuck you over. This is why GS doesn't tweet about their Facebook deal and why 50 will be in jail long before Blankfein.

50 should be smarter than this. 50 cent doing this is the perfect opportunity for a beleaguered SEC to 'crackdown' on securities fraud on a very public figure in a very open and shut manner.

This statement should not be construed as legal advice and you should retain counsel in order to obtain such advice :)
When Roles are More Important than Titles
I've always found the mac software space to automatically weed out bad UI. The userbase is used to certain behaviours (as generally described in the UI guidelines from apple)- and apps that don't follow that tend to not gain much traction.

Sure, the app store will expose a bunch of crappy apps from people who don't read the guide - but the market should weed them out in a hurry - those who develop according to what the market expects will succeed over those who write junk.
I dont know why you're being downvoted. I design in autocad, revit, sketchup, visio and inkscape.

I do network designs in visio, 3d BIM models in revit, small home stuff in sketchup, presentation graphics and icons in inkscape.

I export visio stencils to .dwg format which we then bring into revit and turn into 3D blocks for rack elevations etc...

There are so many tools to use.
I think you're generally right that people would normally choose the better prices. A few hypothetical reasons why someone might not could be: once fees/commissions are included the exchange with the worse price could actually be cheaper; an exchange might offer a rebate based on volume so trading on the more expensive exchange could help someone gain a larger rebate; if you wanted to trade a large quantity immediately in one order, and your quantity was greater than the quantity available at the best price, then you'd need to eat into the order book, and the resulting average price might be cheaper on the more expensive exchange; you might be banned from the cheaper exchange and so would have to trade on the more expensive one.
What are you looking to build/make?

If you want professional architecture Autodesk Revit is the best for this.

If you want quick and dirty modeling, even for products, use google sketchup!

There are a lot of product designs that have been done in sketchup.
Read [this](http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/archives/377). VP8 is basically a slightly worse version of baseline H.264.
At my school students recieve Photoshop for free if they are in a class that requires it, and if not they can buy it at deeply reduced rates---about ~90-120 for CS4 if I last recall.
You can buy theanine as a supplement. In combination with my zoloft it gave me some fairly monstrous panic attacks.</anecdote>
So.. let the consumer decide, no?

The people were free to publish applications anyway. The good ones will rise to the top, the bad ones will fail.
> Sorry, my intent was not to belittle or enrage. I was merely pointing out the fact that, based upon provided data, you, as a developer, are quite far removed from the lower end of the income spectrum.

Bite me.

You don't know anything about where he comes from or how he got where he is now. Heck - you don't even know that he's not one of the saintly 3%.

You're just looking to claim some high ground so you can start a pissing contest.

> (Disclaimer: I am not from the USA.)

Perhaps you should refrain from comments that depend on knowledge that you don't have.
HFT has a negligible effect on long term investors anyways, its all on the the underlying company.
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> That is way too high a price to pay for the freedom of mentally unstable people to have access to guns.

The police had plenty of opportunities to do something about that, and decided not to. (It's unclear whether that was due to his mother's political connections.)
Now if we could simultaneously make him governor of Illinois and do the same thing. Over here we are about to donate 2% of everyone's pay to one of the most corrupt state governments in the world, without any meaningful cuts at all.
Problem is you can see by the comment count how much people don't care about the actual startup news.
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Everyone saying that there's no real definition of strong and weak typing always confuses me. In my view, strong typing prohibits implicit conversion between types, and weak typing allows it.

This is, of course, a scale - for instance, Python, generally viewed as a strongly-typed language, allows you to say something like

foo = 'lolsomestring'
if foo:
[code]

where a string is implicitly converted to a boolean (as opposed to using bool()). However, an exception is thrown when attempting to add 5 and "5", where a language like PHP will happily provide an integer result.
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May I suggest that you learn to draw. The old pencil and paper way. Technology marches on, but core skills will hold up well. You'd really communicate more effectively with visually oriented people if you can sketch on paper or a whiteboard to illustrate what you are trying to convey. You can always scan your work or use a tablet to create directly on the computer.

Take a look at Betty Edward's book "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". It's probably the best intro around.

As a "Biz Guy" your enduring quality and contribution is to hold the vision and communicate it effectively to the specialists, be they PhotoShop or CAD skilled.
Last Week, IE Was The Top Browser On TechCrunch. Wait, What?
With Chrome(ium) you can just replace the copy of the libavcodec dll/so, and it magically supports whatever codecs the new one is built with.

For Firefox, you'd have to fork it along with Gecko and XULRunner.
Be creative with TLDs maybe if .com and .net or your countries TLD is no longer available (.de, co.uk etc)

I feel like I've seen .io more often recently. It fit my app perfectly, well, because it takes stuff in and gives stuff out (I/O, will also make for a cool logo).
"In the US, we like to think reporters have no bias, but of course, they do. In Europe, the biases are much clearer."

Not related to the main point of the article, but I don't agree with that. It was very subtle, but in my opinion that is a big lie.
Do you know what dialog this came from?
I'm looking for ideas for what to hack on, any ideas that HN would like to see built?
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Great Job. It allows new type of queries where normal map-reduce ends.

May I ask?

1) Does the index building start on the first query as with normal views?

2) Will it be open like BigCouch or is it a premium feature for Cloudant customers?
In fairness, bro, I never mentioned WebM in the post you are replying to, nor did I suggest that "de facto standards" are irrelevant. I merely disagreed with your use of the phrase "de facto standard" in and of itself.
You're kind of derailing the thread here, but between Fink, MacPorts, Homebrew, etc. you have an embarrassment of riches in the package manager department.