skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The irony is anyone could be at the cutting edge of physics pretty easily.

Take a microsecond stopwatch and use it for random numbers, one num per press. Then pick from words, phrases, pages... it's a no-cheat ouija board. If you prefer, crack-open a book randomly, by hand or flip a coin for random numbers.

The Cain and Abel story is probably the most important in the Bible. Jesus said loving God was the most important commandment -- you should experment to see what He likes. Give good praise, like "the smell of rain". Or "sing a new song to the Lord" as the Bible says 7 times. God said there is justice -- better offering, better response. Experminat.

Tongues: http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/1corinthians/1corinthians14.h... or http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/acts/acts2.htm

Knowing God: http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/numbers/numbers11.htm

Precident for riddles--it's gift-wrapping:
http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/daniel/daniel5.htm

Precedent for offerings. (This is my favorite) http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/malachi/malachi1.htm

Don't do animals -- use your head: Read verse 14: http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/psalms/psalm50.htm

More spiritual advice: http://www.losethos.com/doc/AENotes.html

God says, "remittest enlightening apprehend reproves brides fable
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Review my startup: Loqly -Be local anywhere
I request the YCombinator community to help us by taking a look at our app Loqly - http://bit.ly/e5u4jv and giving us feedback on UI and user experience.

Our Pitch:
Loqly allows you to Be local anywhere.
▸ Discover what is around you
▸ Ask the locals for recommendations. Just ask a question about a place or ask for a business recommendations, we delivery your questions to the locals in that area, who then answer it for you.
▸ See Foursquare tips, Yelp & Google reviews
▸ Navigate to an address using your fav GPS app
▸ Search anything (iPhone4, lawyers, dentists, schools). We are Google powered, we will find it for you.
Compliance doesn't require that you provide them with the passphrase. It simply requires that you provide access to the material. Typing your password into the computer to let them copy the material would suffice.
There seem to be a lot of inferences made here. Do we know, for example, that the time discrepancy has nothing to do with time efficiency (speed of task) of the app? A poor/slow interface can double, triple...
In my experience, HR is often staffed by "phone people", not "email people".
The 5th amendment doesn't mean you can block normal legal proceedings just because they would happen to incriminate you.

You do have the right to remain silent, however. That might be a stronger defense.
Many people wouldn't stay interested; I'd say the vast majority wouldn't. But, after explaining those things to the extent that you thought was worthwhile, you ended up with 100 long term readers out of the x billion on the internet, I'd count that as a huge win, myself.
Philosophically it's not a problem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use%E2%80%93mention_distinction

In the context of testimony, I'd argue (as a philosopher, not a lawyer) that a mention does not count as testimony and cannot be used against you. Obviously, an observation of the mention could lead the police to consider other avenues of investigation however.
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But in this case, it sounds like FB is already taking a reputation hit (at least among the HN demographic), with no apparent effect.
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I have yet to find a project management app I like more than AgileZen. It allows me to model my workflow, assess against estimates and to top it off it's very pretty. There are a few things about it that bug me: notifications suck and there is no interaction between projects. Other than that, it's awesome.
A huge clock is nice, but we need a secret giant archive of humanity's intellectual works to go with it. We need a Foundation to support the clock keepers who will maintain this clock.
Ok.. you know what I mean :P It's more the fact that US notes tear extremely easily whereas polymer notes... you have to be pretty determined to damage one without scissors.
Still, they should be more precise in their language.
Here is Alex Rose of the long now foundation talking about the engineering behind the 10,000 year clock http://fora.tv/2011/05/22/Alexander_Rose_Engineering_of_the_...
I think the effectiveness of project management software depends greatly on the type of project being managed.

For example, I don't consider Jira as in the same arena as Basecamp (and I've used both a good amount). I see Jira as a programming/development specific management tool, to be used by programming teams and maybe the managers of those teams.

I see Basecamp as a far more flexible project management tool that can fit a wide variety of needs. It works great for organizing our Entrepreneurs Unpluggd events. It works well for some web dev projects and design projects, but not others.

Basecamp isn't always THE solution. For some types of projects, it is. For others, it isn't.

At the end of the day, the right answer is the project management software that helps you more efficiently organize your specific projects. Because Basecamp doesn't work for Joe and his projects doesn't mean it can't work amazingly for Sally and hers.
Live video of the Jita protest: http://en.justin.tv/deamosseraph It's really quite impressive!

Edit: there's another one at Amarr, http://www.justin.tv/dnah_pmip#/w/1381178160/2 but it's not as big.
Most FB games aren't real games. They are disguised simulations designed to make you bring as many of your friends as you can. Just start playing one of the Zynga games like Frontierville or such. Within 15mins I think you're asked to contact your friends for various reasons like 10 times, and could post things about the game on your wall 30 times easy. It's ridiculous.
The different sizes, I'm not entirely sure but I thought they were for blind people... somehow. Or I might be making that up.

This from Wikipedia also explains my dislike for $1:

Approximately 42% of all U.S. currency produced in 2009 were one-dollar bills.
Pretty much the same as the Google nightmares you hear about. I've come to the conclusion that the average tech HR rep is just not competent. It's a level of ineptitude far below what an average programmer (for example) would be at. Then again, I guess nobody ever dreams of being an HR rep as a kid...
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The site looks well designed and simple to use. How difficult is to expand the news story inline and show it there and then if the user wants launch it in an external window. Right now it launches by default in a new window which might get annoying for users.

On a side note, how do you post a link for review here, I have been trying to get feedback from ycombinator community for Loqly - http://bit.ly/e5u4jv and it keeps making my link [dead] the moment I post it.
True - but I think it'll be a little different if an official independent organization gives them a "Poor" rating for support or platform reliability.
Sure, if you are a celebrity.
So how did you authenticate?
It's almost like they want you to know that they are raising the price of admission to even challenge them to a fight.

Pure evil.
My school has license agreements with lynda.com.. Pretty good in depth video tutorials
Maybe now that Ted Kennedy isn't around to get paid off by the New England paper mills, we'll see the idea of removing the paper USD$1 get some movement.

Although, we've botched up the dollar coin (by not removing the paper buck) so many times, it'll probably never happen.
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Why would a popular dating service like OkCupid or PlentyOfFish open up to indirectly allow more competition and less ad audience when everyone just looks at the dating API website?

Seems to be only useful for struggling sites but even then, it looks like a myopic decision to support the API.
an EFF lawyer talked about this at toorcon last year and said the exact opposite of what you just said. What she basically said was that you can plead the fifth to not give up the password however the court can give you amnesty for whatever you say (the key) can not be used against you. The content that is found on the hard drive using that key could still be used against you. Once the court gives you amnesty you can no longer plead the fifth and if you still refuse they can hold you for an indefinite amount of time.
Catch LulzSec, in the beginning, I had nothing against them. Ok they where causing Sony harm, but they where making a good point about internet security.

Now that they are publishing all these peoples information, law enforcers, encouraging other people to do the some in other countries,.. they are going to far. That's not "lulz" anymore.
I've been watching a lot of live gaming lately. Primarily for "League of Legends", a game I've been playing consistently for the last 18 months.

Last weekend was the first world championships for the game. At it's height, over 200,000 people were watching the finals. They believed it was the highest number for people watching a streaming game online.

During the workday, I'll often jump over to www.own3d.tv/live/ for a couple minutes and watch top League players stream their daily games. As I watch now, one top player has close to 6,000 people watching his game -- I watched him start at about 800 people a few months ago.

This streaming model is worth keeping an eye on!
Old news. Facebook told us in a developer blog entry months ago that the auto-ban bot looks at user feedback such as hides, comments, uninstalls, mark as spam, extended permissions prompt acceptance rates etc. And you as an app developer can actually see all of this data through the Insights feature of the developer app.

Too many developers have their head in the sand and think just because they have 1 million users and a 4 star review rating that everything is peachy. The fact is there are a ton of crap apps that spew out BS. Maybe the user who installed the app thinks it is great to spam all of their friends' feeds, but when those friends hide the app's posts, mark it as spam, etc. then the app is going to risk auto-banning.

I know folks on HN don't play Farmville or spend all day on these apps like fortune cookie, quiz of the day, etc., but bazillions of FB users have nothing but app-generated posts on their walls.
Being from Canada, I for one welcome our new plastic overlords. I'm curious about the actual hand feel but the durability will certainly be welcome. Also curious to see how these affect counting machines, etc. I do a lot of work at large cash events so I'll quickly get feedback from the cashiers and cash managers on if they like them or not.
That only means you don't have to say anything to the police while you are in custody but have not yet been charged with a crime, and your lawyer is not present. It's not meant as a blanket protection against having to give testimony.
The different sizes make it possible to select a given denomination without either doing an O(n) lookup, or having to keep your wallet sorted.
>I really like uniformly sized bills that fit easily into a wallet

You do realize your wallets are just smaller, right? Canadians don't go walking around with bills splayed out of our wallets, our wallets are just big enough to hold them.

Not sure which countries you're talking about in regards to the paper feel. I certainly noticed that in South America. Bolivia's currency, in particular, tended to be both in varying stages of decomposition and incredibly dirty. OTOH, the portrait on the 10 Boliviano note [1] was awesome enough to make up for any lack in paper quality.

[1]http://cdn2.iofferphoto.com/img/item/581/572/71/f7ce_1_b.JPG
I wonder if there is room for a product that grows with you?

What if there were a product that is exposed to you first in the simplest form. It's clean, elegant and simple. Easy and not intimidating to use.

As you use the product, your needs begin to increase and suddenly you need a new feature. As it turns out, the product actually supports this feature and so you turn it on. Now, you are turning on feature X, not feature package premium--just feature X.

In fact, the product actually has several additional features and functionality that can be enabled and disabled one at a time. None of these "extra" features cost "extra". They are all included in the base price of the package.

What if your product has a training module, where users can be guided through test use case scenarios that expose and demonstrate new feature modules. And what if we make it so that when you enable a new feature on the product, that feature only shows up to users who have completed the training guide for the new feature in the module.

In other words, in order for any specific extra feature to show up it needs to be:

1) Turned on by the administrator.
2) Flagged as "trained" on a per agent basis.

This way the base product has easy accessibility and additional features can be exposed gradually not taking effect for an agent until they have gone through the training to learn how to use it.
We are rapidly approaching the point where all intellectual activity by men of average means is likely infringement of some kind or another on corporate "property". Only the rich can create. Right to read? Heh. Right to think.

Edit: Perhaps I should have said "Right to write." The return of read only culture with an ugly vindictive vengeance. I just didn't like the homophone. (Plus "write" didn't quite cover stupid patents, ridiculous trade marks, and silly copyright claims all together.)
http://safaribooksonline.com rocks. Thousands of books in pdf format for you to read. I am lucky that my company provides free annual access to it though.

-Nick
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Hides count against the app. More comments count in favor of the app. And you don't have to be a user of an app to review it or influence whether it gets banned.
Huh, so it isn't just me...
YouTube videos capture huge Syrian protests
Speaking as a visual designer, I would advise you that iA's template is heads above, and actually starts you off with the "stunning" typography this template attempts to describe and demonstrate.

Type freaks will tell you that the key to setting text is all in the negative space. The homepage in particular uses white space around the headline and button in a very static, uninteresting way. The huge misalignment of items in the footer looks like something got broken. Know why? Because although the footer category heads are evenly distributed into four divs, the text contained in each column has a different visual weight. The third column should be optically aligned (meaning you need to eyeball it), so there doesn't appear to be a gaping space to the right of the "Connect" list.

Moreover, the 'About Space' block is crashing into the text on the left. Even the Space logo is poorly kerned, causing the A to float in an ambiguous way.

Take away what you can from the article submitted as there are some sensible tips, but don't don't pay for this template hoping for something competently designed. My design advice is to trust your eyes. Designers use some rules of thumb but looking carefully for the places where the rules fail is how you get to be great at setting type. Even a great template can't guarantee to make _your_ content look great.
The Commodity Concern
Here's a look at some of the most striking commodity rises over the last decade, and which ones have crashed in 2011.
I was actually in a meeting today where someone was showing us mockups using Balsamiq. First time I've ever seen it - looked pretty cool. He was able to make interactive PDFs so when you click on an element of the mockup (say a button) it showed the action (like popping up a dialog). He seemed to like it well enough too, but like you said it's not free and requires Adobe Air...
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If they every put hard API limits on how apps can post they would be cutting Zynga off at the knees. On the day that happens I'll be at the snowball fight in Hades!
Maybe some of the PayPal Mafia could "take care" of the problem. I mean, ya know, buy the building or something.
>If they create their own internet in a war torn country, what's our excuse?

Pennsylvania has a law that gives Verizon a right of first refusal to prevent "Municipalities and school districts from being able to compete with regulated phone companies".[1]

[1] http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/35702
Captcha chaos
Urban brains behave differently from rural ones
Primal Rage: The Forgotten Fighting Game of the 90s
> (can't believe I used to use pure PHP!)

Actually, pure PHP (I assume by "pure" you mean "with no framework") is the safest of all, providing that the programmer is experienced. Hackers target known vulnerabilities in popular frameworks/CMSes/etc., so with a homemade mini-framework built by an experienced programmer you're better off security-wise than with a popular framework.

My point is not that you shouldn't use a framework. I personally love Django and two or three PHP frameworks. I just wanted to add a little perspective to the discussion of "pure PHP".
Or the TSA's base argument for their actions. At some point the friction from this type of stuff leaves a oppurtunity for the next guy.
There's nothing wrong with such an agreement (as you describe KL), and though this type of explicit inventive plan is not so common in Silicon Valley, it is surely valid, ethical, and and useful wherever it arises. (To be more complete, in Silicon Valley there is usually such an incentive plan concerning liquidity events, but it's tacit and is anyway orthogonal to stock/option grants.)

But you say it explained to everyone at KL "clearly" what was going on. Don't you see that this is one complaint here is that not only wasn't this done, but perhaps the very opposite?

And were you given detailed instructions on how (and how quickly) you must exercise vested options if you quit,

even though this had no meaning at all whatsoever?
If the answer is no, please imagine it was yes. Would you have still been totally confident that you understood the mechanism (wouldn't you have wondered: why are they explaining something that is in practice irrelevant?)
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>But that tends to discourage people without substantial wealth from pursuing cases.

Really? It seems that if you don't have much money, you don't have anything to lose. You know, like the average American buying a house during the bubble; if values go up, they make money. If values go down? bankruptcy.
I think many people would be uncomfortable with being patronized by a website. Switching on advanced features should be driven by the user.
Good luck trying that kind of regulation in the US.

Indeed, it's about as likely as getting Germany's system of universal health care here. It just reinforces the fact that conservatives favor draconian government regulations when they benefit corporate interests but argue against those that benefit the public at large.
We use Assembla - between tickets, wikis, forum, chat, and unlimited repos we have all our project-management bases covered.
i don't know much about this, but it seems that they've introduced vanity items at "real world" prices. so you can buy, say, "designer" clothing for several hundred dollars. at the same time, the hardware you use in the game is staying at a much lower level. now obviously they can't charge realistic prices for spaceships, but the resulting contrast seems to be surprising a lot of people.

from a non-involved viewpoint it's an interesting take on what "price" might mean in post-scarcity environments.
...And many apps don't make it 100% clear that wall spam is going to be the consequence of your choice, or that not sending spam is an option.

Send spam: "Click big happy green button to share!"

Don't spam: "Click tiny, scary 'X', which is followed by deliberately confusing confirmation, 'Are you sure you don't want to continue?".

They just keep asking you over and over; eventually you either mis-click or give in.
Pennies do have their place though. As much as I dislike carrying them around, imagine not being able to divide up money past the 5 cent barrier. Every store would have to change their prices to the exact point at which the price of the item + sales tax equaled a multiple of 5 cents. Or they would keep the item prices the same, at which point customers might not like they are being charged, at the maximum, 4 cents more than they should. Those pennies add up.
I find it bewildering that anything else is in use anyway.
Certainly, yes, and appropriately so. Furthermore, ”code can be beautiful” entices attention and curiosity while ornate language does not. That’s all I meant.
The cheapest Basecamp plan (Basic) is in fact $24/month, not $49 as mentioned in the article.

If you run a full time consulting business, $24/month is a negligible expense for software that supports the core function of your business.

I'd argue that all the prices are negligible as they scale with the size of the business. Even the Max plan ($149/month) is only $1788 per year, which is equivalent to less than 2 weeks worth of man hours. Logically, if using the Max plan of Basecamp saves you and your team 80 hours over the course of a year it should be a no brainer.
Yeah, the penny thing is annoying. 100 years ago a penny was worth about a dime today. At the very least we should make the nickel the smallest unit.
I think you are on track for an interesting idea but forcing training is certainly not the way to do it. I hate doing training in any software. UI/UX is all about keeping things intuitive/similar so new users pick it up with ease so there is no training required. Training is a buzz kill.

However, I think a piece of software that evolves is what most people intend when they start with a minimum viable product. What you don't see too often are benchmarks to "grade" users and automatically move them up to more advanced features. I'd have to think more about it to see how it could be implemented and how beneficial it would be but I think its interesting none the less. It would be similar to a game in which you "unlock" certain maps/levels/etc.
Anathem was inspired by the Long Now, not the other way around.
If you get booted off Steam or call them to delete your profile you lose your library. The games are yours until Steam say they're not.

The same goes for the full-price titles on OnLive. The playpack is different, it's the same flat monthly fee model as Netflix. And you can also rent the full-priced titles for a short period of time instead of buying them.
That is how emacs has felt to me. There was a large amount of upfront learning, more than there probably should be for this example to make perfect sense, but after a few months with it I am able to do the basics pretty well. Every time I wish I could do something in emacs, a little bit of googling shows that there is a key binding for exactly what I want. So bit by bit, emacs is going from a weird text editor that does the basics into something way more useful than I thought.

/noob rant about the magic, magic!, of using emacs.
Sounds like a really intriguing idea. I thought of one hurdle you didn't address, though. It's not a showstopper, but since this is your idea, I'm curious whether you think it needs to be addressed and, if so, how you'd go about it. Isn't part of the experience at a nice restaurant that you have a wait staff that knows the menu inside and out and can make recommendations? If you effectively have 4 menus that are all changing relatively frequently, it seems like you're asking a tremendous amount of the wait staff, which is either going to drive up your labor cost or make it nearly impossible to find waiters? After all, if you're able to familiarize yourself with 16 new menus a year to the point that you know how every dish is prepared and what compliments what, you can probably do something with more social standing. Do you see this as a problem?