skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree about the three options - and I think (3) would have been the best outcome - because whenever this logo is used, it will most probably be shown as relatively small badge.

For example - this blog (http://almaer.com/blog/) is listed as an example of the logo in action on the launch page.

I think this page is a good example of my point; at this size, the logo suffers from the '5-becoming-6' problem - it doesn't actually communicate its message successfully at the most basic level.

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I've had a think about this in a bit more detail - and the more I think about it, the less impressed I am.

I think the whole concept should have been based around producing a mark that can identify whether a product supports HTML5 technologies.

I don't think the logo should have been produced to place on a site (or teeshirt) to show allegiance to the cause - I think it should have been created along the lines of the DVD, USB, HD or Blueray industry support logos.

An identity that helps promote HTML5 as a consumer technology - and shows a consumer at a glance, whether the product they are about to download or buy is capable enough to adhere to the upcoming spec.

But maybe that's what this is? Still, I'm a bit doubtful about whether it achieves these aims.
I recently stated that I would very much like to short Facebook.

I would like to add that I would also like to short Groupon.

I'll let you guys draw out the parallels, I have some roti canai to nibble on.
I believe MzScheme can only use one core.

How annoying. http://osdir.com/ml/lisp.scheme.plt/2003-01/msg00216.html suggests that you're right, but MzScheme _used_ to support multiple cores.

How difficult would it be to divide HN up into multiple cooperating processes that each get their own core? With a little caching, it should be possible to get a lot more headroom.
Would it be possible to layer arc on top of clojure or is that too far distant from each other?
MacWorld Chief, Gizmodo Editor, Founder GitHub discuss Verizon vs. AT&T iPhone
I didn't know the author's gender until the end. Nice to see a woman pointing out misandry.
I always warn my kids that sarcasm (our family's primary humor) doesn't translate to the Internet, but you obviously heard it in my voice.

I'm not a Facebook hater or a Facebook fan ... plenty of my friends are there, but there are hundreds of other ways to keep in touch with them (Jabber is everywhere). In any case, Facebook and to a large degree GMail are just not relevant for me. If they weren't there, or I felt compelled to abandon them for some reason, I wouldn't have a problem finding another way to contact them.

So let's recognize that Facebook, Google and even Microsoft are young in comparisons to the average human's life-span. And when the next big thing comes along, we'll embrace it until temporarily too.

One big caveat ... these companies build up customer good-will over longer or shorter periods of time and can persist until that reservoir is run dry. With a little care, that good-will can last a long time, so I'm not saying that Microsoft is in any danger as a company. But I do think they're past their heyday and will have to reduce their margins to keep business.

Anyway, we're so conditioned to sign-up for a service at the drop of a hat that these services become "cheap" to us. They didn't cost us anything and they don't cost much to throw away. Look at the number of people who signed up for Hipster without knowing what it is. I think everything you've written is true EXCEPT, I suspect it's more common for users to simply abandon an account without closing it. I'd love to know what Facebook's churn is.
Scribd Raises $13mil
There's a pretty serious difference between arguing for reduced abstraction in software (which can be quite reasonable, and is probably more like what the author actually envisions) and arguing for no abstraction in software. The latter comes across as ignorance of the purpose of layers of abstraction.

The author points to Alan Kay's anecdote about a simple, standardized way for formatting data on cards in 1961 and then immediately turns around and uses it to argue that standardized formats do not improve interoperability. Sounds hypocritical to me.
So young that social factors can be discounted?

What age group is that, that is old enough for meaningful cognitive tests, yet too young for social effects?
HipChat + AgileZen + TeamCity + github = Remote Team Collaboration
Was anyone else expecting the thing to be fully CSS rather than a .jpg?!
I thought for sure this was a joke headline from DanielBMarkham's linkbait generator: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2112277
Why don't some of you just shut the fk up and either Sign up or not. Just because you are eager to know what the product is it doesn't mean it's suck or of the provider. You are not part of the initial launch/marketing strategy so relax.
I'm sorry, but that Metacity theme and even the GTK+ theme are really lacking. They lack the polish that Meerkat's Ambiance theme has (everytime I post a screenshot of stock 10.10 I get comments asking what the themes are).

It's a shame, I think Gnome-Shell looks cool and I think GNOME3 brings a lot of UI/UX changes that have been needed for a while, but they're not doing themselves any favors giving the actual appearance a real chance to shine. The "GNOME" default icons are a pity, too.

edit, I guess it's not Metacity any longer... Mutter.
black on gray95. black on white is the default xterm setup (in openbsd at least) so it's just what i've used forever, though i've recently been playing with different shades of light gray instead of white.

mutt, vim, epic, tmux, etc. are similarly styled, using color only when absolutely necessary (like flagged messages in mutt show up in red, comments in vim are a gray color)

http://i.imgur.com/6zKoK.png
Rewards programs are not what keep competitors to Visa at bay, network ubiquity is.

Phones will replace credit cards.

I have a friend who works in IT for a fast food chain. They are gearing up for the iPhone5 among others. Drivers will be able to place their order on the highway for the next franchise location. When they arrive, they waive their phone at the proximity payment box and collect their food. The phone acts as both a payment method and a loyalty card with user history data down to the 'no mayo on the fish sandwich.'
Maintainable parameterized test framework built upon junit
Even Microsoft Is Using Groupon -- To Sell Windows Phones
DOJ charging two "hackers" for obtaining emails of 120,000 AT&T iPad customers
Look for the revenue. That stuff stinks like hell.
You're only thinking about one dimension of the problem. In reality, you will run up against the "expression problem", in that your immediate use will be more apparent, but orthogonal un-thought-of reuses will become harder or impossible. A java/flash applet executes instructions and is a step towards the kind of universal object format you talk about, yet it is harder or impossible to index, style, and adapt to local UI conventions.

The primary feature of declarative protocols/formats/languages is to convey a common meaning of data without specifying how it should be interpreted. Try to pull meaning out of imperative code and you'll run up against the halting problem. We could just be happy with our binary blobs, but moving beyond take-it-or-leave-it single-purpose content is exactly what as allowed "the web" the flourish.

Programmable logic as a standard PC feature would be great, but there would still be video ASICs for low power decoding or high-quality realtime encoding. also how would you propose to set a standard format for FPGA bitstreams when the balance of topology/block capability/timing is ever-changing. Once again we'd need a common declarative format as a base, and software tailored for the different nodes.
I remember when this all got started in the early 90s. The 80s were pretty mellow but then I think the Polly Klass murder in California was a watershed moment where the politicians and the news media just went for it with the insane anti-male paranoid stuff. All the school policies changed and everything got excessively locked down and paranoid.
That's a bit much to resort to when AFAIK caching hasn't been pursued aggressively as it could be.
PATRIOT Act Up For Re-Authorization
What's Up With Gotham? Unknowingly Online Dating
Nanotechnology Is No Longer Just For Sci-Fi Movies
Macroglossa [ visual search engine ] new features : reverse image geotag
If I had to choose one of the following, to improve society:

a). More women in tech
b). More men in childcare/teaching

It'd be 'b' without a doubt. As said elsewhere, the complete lack of any male role models at a large number of schools is astonishing and very worrying. Is it any wonder girls are performing better than boys these days, as the number of male teachers has decreased to almost none?

Great to finally see an article like this one.
Cut your costs to begin with to increase your chances of success, save what you can and start with a concrete goal in mind, say $50 per month increase for the next 6 months, then when you've achieved that goal (hopefully in 6 months!) think about what you've found and if there are ways to scale it.

Projects 'on the side' is renting yourself out hour by hour, it does not scale very well but if a side project is sold as licensed software (niche software more or less by definition) you could make out very well and if someone wants to license your source code instead of the final product you could make a big chunk in one go.

It's quite difficult to say what you can achieve without having a good grip on your situation and your skills but if I had to start over again from a day job I would do something like that.
#d2d2d2 (very light grey) on #292929 (very dark grey)
When people flag submissions that acts as downward pressure on the page position, similar to how a down vote would. There doesn't appear to have to be any moderator involvement (though if there is that will weigh heavier)
Thanks man, it was quite the whirlwind.
Why I Need To Quit Facebook
I tried that same strategy with sitcoms for a while, but they all just turned into "I Love Lucy"
Yes, the "Show HN" is essential in the title.
If you "did" this book at the age of 14 and came away with the idea that it was about "hard" math, your learning/time ratio might not have been as high as you imagined.
Joyent employs ryah. They've been around for 6 years, although I'm not sure how long they've been doing server-side JS (at least since they bought Reasonably Smart at the start of 2009).
There is a huuuge demand for ssjs but hard core coders don't want to accept JS is a great programming language for the whole web stack, including mobile apps.
The Solution To Google's Search Problem Is The Next Google (Facebook)
A good way to help old content "decay" is to multiply the votes/relevance by the current timestamp (which is always greater than previous timestamps). If you, say, round to the nearest hour -- then there would be an inflection point come the next hour when a 59 minute turns into a 60 minute old post and gets its point total multiplied by a smaller bin than posts coming in during the current hour.
I like it! Tried it on a couple non mainstream sites and it parsed everything pretty well. I think I would use it more on my phone or iPad than a desktop, cool that it works on mobile devices.
gotcha! the hosted platform is killer! When I want to take the dive into node, I'll be sure to try this out!
A BBC story from 2006? Stories from her friends? That's the best she's got? Would be nice to see a real article on this topic with actual analysis and data.

Of course it's stupid to label all men as possible predators, but there's another side to it: when a single pedophile can damage literally hundreds of children, who wouldn't have cause for concern?

The challenge is to find the level of concern that is reasonable and warranted, but this article can't be bothered with gray areas.
Looks great! Looking forward to trying it out on my iOS device.
e: interesting; HN won't let me post my full comment. It just times out. I'm going to try posting bits of it at a time, as edits.

e2: I give up; HN just won't let me post the whole thing. I've moved this comment to a pastebin, at < http://pastebin.com/bVn91ApU >
Enforceable probably only in Canada. I doubt there is little to no legal redress for anyone competing across the border, esp in California which bans non-competes.

I personally wouldn't put an employee under a non-compete - a) because they tend to be unenforceable and b) I wouldn't work under such a contract myself.
No it's true, bizarre as it sounds.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/mozilla-posts-2009-revenue-sur...
I have yet to hear a convincing explanation of how technology is the answer to our education problems.
I'm also having issues with hitting the Rails 404 page after submitting the Create a Project form
I love your use of the word "infected" to describe this.
Great post, the excitement pops off the page, it wants to make you leave your cube right now, drive to the nearest airport and fly to the Valley, without even getting your coat (which would be awkward in Chicago's miserable weather today).

I've been in the SF area many times and seen many of the things he mentions, so why does it effect me so, I thought? It must be the excitement of just venturing into the startup world, meeting all those people, and just having that awesome feeling that things are finally happening to you. It must feel like your first kiss ... you can watch people kissing on TV a million times, like reading about companies on HN, but it's a total different thing when it happens to you.
I bought this book a few years ago, by Koza. It has tons of working code in it-- each problem he steps through building up a solution with a working program:

http://www.amazon.com/Genetic-Programming-Computers-Selectio...

This is one of my most prized computer books, perhaps the most prized book I have. Even though I wasn't a Lisper when I started reading this book, I ended up building (without realizing it at first) a little Lisp inside Python for exploring the concepts.

If you thought Koza's old website is inspiring, consider getting this book. It's huge and expensive, but to me it feels like one of the 3 books I'd want to bring with me to a desert island or through the destruction of civilization.
Did you just characterize a science/engineering Ph.D.'s time to completion as "Short"? Or am I reading that incorrectly?

Maybe if you're a theorist, or if you choose a fortunate field, but at Cornell the average experimental physics Ph.D. used to take 5 or 6 years. 7 was not at all rare, and it was not hard to find someone who had been around for 8. Meanwhile, most of the EE Ph.Ds I know took at least 5 years.

And then your postdocs start...
Sadly, it's difficult to compare the hand-wavy benefit (letting children interact with men) with the real cost of having something happen to your child.

As a parent, I'm of the opinion that the media blows kidnappings and the like way out of proportion. Even then, it's difficult to look at the data objectively, because it's your children.
The media deserves a good chunk of blame for this phenomenon. They have inflamed society's fears into paranoia by hyping and over-reporting exceptional events, giving the false impression that child predators are anywhere and everywhere.

Meanwhile, children are far more likely to be physically or sexually abused or kidnapped by close relatives. But that story is less compelling from a media perspective so the public is less exposed to it.
High unemployment is great for corporate profits and it keeps wages down
> As has been shown time and time again, vendors really don't want the burden of keeping your handset up to date forever because there is nothing in it for them, aside from perhaps avoiding too much negative press.

Then stop locking the bootloader and let me put the latest version of CM on my phone. I'm not going to buy Motorola and I'm not going to buy Samsung. Samsung won't release their kernel modifications for Froyo which are needed by the CM team to get CM7 running on the Galaxy S devices... Motorola is keeping the bootloader (and thus kernel) on their phones restricted. They're also not even close to timely on their updates. My D1 is running Gingerbread fairly stably, especially considering it's ONE maintainer disappeared two weeks ago due to personal financial concerns. OTOH, only one device is running GB from the manufacturer/carrier and that is Google's own phone.

Let me use my damn phone, I'll take care of the updates. I don't know how much simpler we can make installing CM7 and I know there are some/many/random-number people who have gone CM just to get the latest Android version.
It's about time. I love this blog but stopped reading it when they went to the NYT and stopped providing a full RSS feed. That was years ago!
Typically if you start the work when you need it you're actually too late, if this is a direction that is viable the work could get underway long before there was an immediate need and it would probably be done that much better for that reason.

Again, I have no idea if this is even feasible, the differences between the various dialects of lisp seem to me (as an outsider) to be considerable.
Hello there,

First of all, the overall design is beautiful, bright and esthetically pleasing. I enjoy the use of the bright colors and vector graphics to make the home page more appealing.

Although I do think that there should be more information on the home page. Probably a tabbed format or a simple slideshow to display the main features of the application. I understand you are aiming for simplicity but I personally enjoy a more feature filled application.

When visitors access the "Features" page, you can add a more detailed description explaining how the application works. Maybe a step by step process to setting up the API.

The "Pricing" page is great, simple and answers the most common questions users might have.

The "Developers" page is also very instructive. Although as a PHP developer, I would like to be able to access a wrapper example or a step by step tutorial explaining the process. Maybe a tutorial to match the Demo Dashboard setup.

For the link to the blog, I would have liked to see a dedicated blog for thesunnytrail.com. Seems unprofessional. Could be a simple Wordpress installation with a matching theme. You could even use a simpler platform such as Posterous and create a matching theme.

I enjoyed the simple and straightforward "Dashboard", but the sidebar seems empty. Maybe add additional submenu items horizontally under the main tab bar.The interactive jQuery charts are a must.

Overall, I think this is a fantastic idea and a fantastic application. Great job. I think it will be very popular for any web startup. Good luck!
"The reality is that there remains too much investment capital in pursuit of funding the handful of companies started each year that will generate outsized returns for limited partners.... For now, this new normal seems to be limited to the private investing market, not the public market, suggesting that this is not a bubble like the one experienced a decade ago."

The second sentence seems a stretch.
http://newlearningonline.com/new-learning/chapter-1-new-lear...

A man can't know as much as a teacher.
I spent several years working with elementary-aged kids in our church. For one whole year, it was me and another dad with a class of a dozen or so 5 year olds. (We're all background-checked, for what little that's worth. We also have child protection guidelines to follow - foremost of which is to never be alone with a kid and no other adult.)

It was amazing to see the reactions of moms dropping off their kids when they realized it was just us. Only once did I get asked "is there going to be a mom here with you?" but I know it was in a lot of their minds. But I never had one refuse to leave their kid with us. Over the years I've had plenty of moms eventually tell me how glad they were to see men working with kids.

I did get a chance for 2 years to run more "boy-friendly" activities at church. We did mock camp-outs, blanket forts, went outside for classes whenever the weather and sunlight allowed, and even had campfires outside during what otherwise would have been time spent sitting around a table trying to pay attention. Boys don't work well indoors trying to sit still and pay attention. They really do absorb more if they're outside and their hands are busy.

I even got to work with a special-needs girl that was horribly abused by her birth parents. (I'd happily beat her birth parents within an inch of their lives and worse if I ever met them.) In two years she went from screaming fits if an adult even accidently touched her arm to the point that she'd walk up and hug me. I was honored to be a small part of her recovery.
"AN OVERVIEW AT A GLACE (sic)" ???
Computing in general is simply schizophrenia as applied to Arithmometers.
An interesting statement about their costs in the article, "Sending a disc round-trip can cost as much as $1, and Netflix mails about 2 million DVDs a day, whereas streaming a movie costs the company about a nickel."
"Simply Beautiful". It feels weird that the fonts on the site are better than on the screen shots. The font on the top and in the "Messaging built-in" is really grandma-sized and not really beautiful.

As said before, the theme and icons are really really lacking. I'm sure however that it will work great (and look great after some modifications like adding the Ubuntu font and Faenza Icons).
The submission title is inaccurate. Some schools are augmenting their workforce with technology due to unfunded legal requirements, see key quotes below.

Under the state’s class-reduction amendment, high school classrooms cannot surpass a 25-student limit in core subjects, like English or math. Fourth- through eighth-grade classrooms can have no more than 22 students, and prekindergarten through third grade can have no more than 18.

School administrators said that they had to find a way to meet class-size limits. Jodi Robins, the assistant principal of curriculum at Miami Beach High, said that even if students struggled in certain subjects, the virtual labs were necessary because “there’s no way to beat the class-size mandate without it.”
Hi Josh. I'm very sorry about this bug happening. I'm working hard to fix it asap.
When this was first mentioned at E3 last June Tycho from Penny Arcade had this to say about it:

For people who game primarily on consoles, you might not know what it means to have Steamworks integration. It varies depending on the implementation, it's sort of a la carte, and the PSN itself delivers some features by default. But you wont be paying for DLC on Valve games, ever. That is not a thing that will happen. And since Microsoft won't allow you to charge for something that is free on another system (recall R6: Vegas, or Burnout Paradise) it's an end run that's given Valve a lot of leverage. To sum up, Portal 2 isn't the surprise - Steamworks is the surprise. The porous nature of the PSN's functionality is an amazing opportunity for a company whose platform practically defines "platforms." Plus, there's no license associated with its use. Think about what this means for other developers, up to and including first parties. Why Sony would cede this kind of power to a third party I couldn't say, and why they would undermine the Playstation Store as a venue for premium content I couldn't tell you. This is important; we should be paying attention.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/6/16/
Is this information still relevant?

From the Try It link (http://www.gnome3.org/tryit.html):

GNOME 3 is under active development and will not be completed until April 2010. We hope to be able to provide live USB images really soon. Watch this space!
After A $20 Billion Plunge, Apple Stock Powering Back As Earnings Near
Am I the only one that finds the aliasing created by slightly tilted lines a design flaw? It was meant to be displayed digitally, and the designer should have avoided aliasing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_anti-aliasing