skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the nice thing about fireworks is that the fileformat is a viewable PNG when opened by someone without fireworks, so process files are visible by everyone involved.

i reckon we'll get to a point where early in a repo's life there'll be a concepts/design folder with process files - would also make sense to plan the architecture in the same fashion...hmmm the possiblilities

so that the dev planning the models/views can collaborate with a front-end designer as to the architecture of a site, but all within github etc etc etc. i can but hope.
Hey guys, my co-founder and I were inspired by a comment on HN where the poster said he'd like to have the functionality of "shouldichangemypassword.com" on a subscription basis. This is the result.

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Yes, that's why it's an interesting tool for spotting 'anomalies'. That doesn't mean it's spotting things that are incorrect, or fraudulent, or illegal etc., just it spots things that are out of the ordinary.
I think the point about Dublin is that it is a bit further away if you are in mainland Europe. It's not that far though, and it is closer to the USA.
Commitments to lowering barriers for NGOs
Nexmo SMS API latest blog post regarding how SMS plays an essential role for NGOs.
Now scale this idea to American metropolitan areas. 27 US metro areas are bigger than the Amsterdam metro area, and about a dozen are at least twice as big. Having been to Amsterdam, I can say that while it's denser then most American cities, it's not that dramatically different then say DC.
And why do you hack Pokemon homepages, POK3???
If you're not contractually prohibited from sharing it, it'd be great if you could share it here.
That was the first thing I tried. It doesn't work for me in Chromium 12
I've always wondered about this, and the conclusion I've reached is that we don't have more designers contributing to open source because

a. we developers don't make it easy for them to do so.

b. designers don't care about our projects.

For example, look at wordpress ... you can go in and create a theme ... today, if you'd like to, as a result there are tons of free themes out there, but how would a developer go about creating a Netbeans theme?

Also, most open source projects are created because a developer wanted to build something cool for themselves ... and it isn't often that designers find those sorts of things cool as well so of course they're not going to be designing cool ui for those things

The first is solvable ... devs need to make a concerted effort to reach out to designers, outline a design process (send us a psd of your design, we'll go over the details in basecamp/unfuddle/whatever and you can provide direction as we go) ... I can't see much being done about the second.
They show up as a hovertext in FF
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You simply highlight the blocked text to reveal it. The text is the same color as the background.
Animating a winking pink elephant (with 5 parameters)
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Steve Job's keynote from WWDC '97
Strange. I'm running Chrome 12 on OS X and I have no issue (although the contrast is very poor).
"TopCoder for real world problems"! Great idea. Hope a lot of open source stuff comes out of this or at the very least helps current projects.
But can't the time and dates can be changed those.

As for recording phone calls, the laws vary from state to state. The states I have experience with only require one person on the conversation to be aware that it's being recorded.
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I've been thinking of helping open source project as a designer but I don't 1) which 2) how.

1) Most of the software I use is commercial or already well designed(OSX/iOS), so I don't really have a personal itch to fix something I use.

2) I'm familiar with web technologies, git and development environments but I think the problem is politics or communication. I imagine it's lot easier to pull a repo, refactor a bunch of code and get it patched, than it is to submit a remake of the UI and get it on the product. Somebody probably likes the old one more and feels the 128 menu options where there for a reason.

I already have enough politics on my day job, so arguing on with developers on open source projects doesn't sound that inviting. I might be wrong, but it just doesn't seem like that designer friendly environments and maybe lacks the process/tools to be that.
'Presenting Benford's law' would be a more fitting title.
Nicely presented, and intriguing law for sure but I can't help to think "and?" At this point it lacks a more user-friendly way to submit data-sets.
I'm the kind of person that will pay a little extra
for quality. I do it with food, personal products, and
travel. I don't fly Virgin because its cheaper, though it
often is. I fly them when I can because I enjoy the
experience and don't want to be stressed out when I get
to where I'm going. If it means that I pay an extra $10
$20 to fly Virgin so that their employees directly
benefit, that's something I would do gladly.

I feel similarly, although I think most people don't see it that way, or at least aren't willing to pay more unless they know about the end result. Otherwise, average people just as well assume the company is money hungry "like everyone else". I think Branson does a good job in reaching out to customers, sadly the average person probably doesn't see it.
That's an interesting idea that I hadn't considered. Thanks.
Sorry I believe I am contractually prohibited from sharing sadly. Unless someone can read the fine print and provide me with a different opinion.
This is a good article on the same topic:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

While there are certainly valid points (re-writes take a long time, one might forget to add features to the existing code while working on the new code), it is sometimes necessary nevertheless.

Mozilla was a re-write of Netscape 4.6. Can you imagine if they hadn't done that? Would anyone still be using Netscape today?

When Steve Jobs was brought back on board to Apple they decided to create a new operating system rather than continue with their legacy Mac OS. OK it wasn't a complete re-write (they had NEXTSTEP) but it still took years before Mac OS X was released; many parts are indeed new. Can you imagine what would have happened had they not taken that decision? Linux, Windows 7 64-bit, and Mac OS 9?
> the only way to increase staff pay would be to raise fares which customers don't want.

This is far from "the only way". Southwest Airlines, for example, has excellent fares and excellent pay.
Not just that, although that is a problem IMO especially with PS where the files can get very big.

But also just a problem of state.

A lot of designers who use PS use layers and groups to show different scenarios within the same file.

But as I originally stated.

The reason why many designers don't joing these projects is because it doesn't take their way to work into account.

Yes you can learn to use Github or other versioning tools but that's not good enough if you ask me. Especially if you want to have more designers to participate.
I think it depends on how you look at it. From my perspective:

pg added a useful feature, hidden comment scores -- then asks if you liked it better with or without them -- took that information into account along with data on comment voting patterns he has presumably collected since the change and made a decision.
Indeed though the ones I've read about uses some type of liquid coolant for heat/cool interchange. Just curious if circulating just air through the piping would suffice as a poor-mans implementation thus reducing the need for the above ground exchanger.
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Somehow they heard there were 3 passengers (us and another fellow) who had missed the flight. They all ended up getting off and giving us their seats.

They heard you were there because the gate agent went aboard and told them (nicely, I am sure) to get off the plane.

Employees flying standby are always at the mercy of late arriving paying passengers.

And, sure they had no compunction about getting off because

1) they were told to

2) employees are keenly aware that grousing in front of the customers is a Bad Idea.

I'm sure they were actually in good spirits about it: flying non-rev you know you can be bumped and after all it's in favor of people paying your salary.
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So, who's gonna do a weekend project that solves 1) by bringing designers and free software projects together? Kind of like a match.com made for content...
Googles new look and features?
I've been hit with this problem before and had never found an explanation why some scripts worked and some didn't.

I eventually just added it to the crontab of a user and that was that, but I'm so glad to finally know WHY.

This is such an arcane restriction and its really hard to debug since there are no errors anywhere.
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How about you start your own open source project as a designer and try to recruit developers to do the coding? Never seen this approach before but it might be worth trying.
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Obviously, the main argument against a $1 per month is the fact that you need to provide a lot of support. From my experience, this depends heavily on the target audience I guess, but I completely disagree.

I ran a website for a couple of years without thinking about turning it into a business. Finally, shortly before I graduated, I decided that I need to make money from it, otherwise I can't sustain it any more. Over the years, 30,000 people used my "startup" and in the end, I had a round 5,500 active users.

I thought a lot about the pricing model, but turning a free service into a paid one, is not easy and truth is, I'll never find out how it would perform with a different pricing model. So I just made a decision and tried it. I decided against freemium and started charging 1€ at the beginning of this year. The intention was to make it a no-brainer and convert as many users as possible. I converted about 50% of them. People pay either 6 or 12 months in advance (to lower the transaction costs).

My greatest fear was that there would be a lot of people who are not satisfied and want their money back or that I'll end up spending a lot of time on support emails.

Thruth is, from now 4,000 paying customers. I had exactly 1 person who wanted his money back. I receive about 2-5 emails per day, mostly telling me how great the service is and what kind of features they would like to see.

I literally spend 10 minutes per day on customer support.

Fact is, it depends on your business and something that doesn't get mentioned in the blog is that people don't care too much about a lousy dollar or euro per month to complain about something (some do, however, but rarely).
FYI,
The text of the article is scrambled (Chrome 12, Windows 7 64 bit)
Have you experimented with monthly subscriptions for BCC? Intuitively, I feel a one-time fee for software is an easier sell. At least I've myself bought some web software impulsively because it was a one-time charge (like early Appsumo deals). But I've also read about some tests where it was just the absolute figure which was important and customers didn't seem to care if it was a one-time charge or a recurring cost!
He was here this winter and I can tell you it was pretty cold, so he already experienced it.

From my personal point of view I can tell you that it's bearable. I biked all winter long and I can bear it. That's not the only way to move of course, and a lot of people take public transport during the winter, even though a good percentage still bikes.

Moreover I like much more changing seasons and I'm not really a fan of hot weather. That's why I love the summer here, it's more like a long spring.

Anyway, weather really comes down to personal preferences. I know people here that don't like the weather and others that live with it very well. Here I learned not to care that much about the weather, and it works for me.
Yes, but when speculators push the prices higher, won't supplies increase as it becomes more profitable to grow food? I can understand a transient phenomenon, but that would eventually hurt the speculators if they try to lift pricing out of the demand-supply curve.
I'm really not sure what you're talking about, but this might be relevant:

"The net prices I mentioned don’t take loans into account. We consider loans to be part of the students’ contribution. The students have to pay them back eventually."
So, if it is raining and the tree gets wet, it will not transmit through the tree, correct?
I don't believe CentOS distro has this problem?

I have plenty of scripts and php and such running in crons all over the place.
About.com's problem is that a lot if their articles are poor quality, meaning factually inaccurate in parts, and/or outdated. They're not generally spam, though. I'll take about.com over ehow's vacuous crap any day.

How to install a sprinkler system.
1. Decide what kind of sprinkler you need for your yard.
2. Buy the sprinkler system.
3. Install the sprinkle system.
4. Test your new sprinklers.

This kind of junk from ehow (and others) shows up all the time, very high in the results, when doing searches for home maintenance.
>>In the Unix shell, since every basic operation spawns a process...<<

That does not seem to be the use case that's being examined.

The use case that's being examined is - "writing shell scripts / cron jobs / random commandline utilities".
Cool stuff. However, something mostly entirely offtopic that I genuiunely wonder about: it seems everybody registers a .com just to make a HN post. What's the point of this? Why not post the same data on your blog?
I probably missed half of what you were trying to explain there, but I didn't see a good solution. Are you suggesting we should give up speed for reliability at the PHY level?
Ages ago I used to work for Employment Conditions Abroad, they have type of info, but I'm not sure how they sell it now (back then it was about selling CD-ROMs)

http://www.eca-international.com/
This bit me as well. It is particularly annoying, as it takes forever to actually find the problem.

In addition to that, the restriction is silly and utterly pointless.
I am using Thunderbird everywhere. Any one knows how it works with two-factor authorization?
What is the advantage of the course (on discount today)?
The guy in the article is using Amsterdam too much as the reason for Appsterdam; in the end the _community_ will make it what it is, whether it's the best city or not won't matter if the community is a success.

That being said Amsterdam has enough of the ingredients to make that happen, and I think it's a wonderful initiative, keep it going!
They want the fax likely because it's legally binding.
They also want to ensure that it's clear they are the authoritative source for those zones - so no sharing what you download.

If you want it on any regular basis.. send the fax :)
What's new in the 2nd edition? Couldn't find a list of updates/additions anywhere.
According to the summary on the Ubuntu bug:
"Essentially, we don't want to allow a '.' because of .dpkg-old and .dpkg-dist files."

Is the implication that you can have .dpkg files in cron folders that you wouldn't want to try to execute?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debianutils/+bug/3...
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=68561
Searching reveals lots of previous discussion on Benford's law on here, so I won't give all the links. Of course, it's an interesting observation, so it's worth advertising every so often.

Here are some hacker-newsers testing files in their home directories:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1076534
Me either. But if you double click on the block it will highlight the text.
Simply transparent: the "What We Know About You" report
Popvox has a great transparency tool to inform users about the data that they've made available simply be becoming members of the site. Now THAT'S something I want to demand of every site I register with.
Because many designers don't know how to code :) That doesn't mean they wouldn't be valuable for your project.
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I posted a link (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2701527) to a Debian bug that explains the rationale (aside from the historical behavior argument) a little better: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308911
What better way to get your new website to show up in relevant search results?
run-parts is used in many places on linuxes (anywhere you see a .d directory) so this is not a cron pitfall.
I can't speak for everyone else, but in this case we were hoping to create something that could stand on its own and (hopefully) grow over time as more datasets are added. The domain wasn't registered just to get on HN - the idea lent itself to a simple site of its own, so why not use a fitting domain name?
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I go to college in Richmond, but live in Fairfax during the summer so I'm pretty excited to go to one of these after almost a year of "Oh, I should drive up but I have class the next day".
Benford Law applies to anything where values appreciate or depreciate exponentially. Kind of weird to see it relate to passcodes (where it isn't really Benford's Law at all, but instead is simply numeric proximity), but for monetary values, forces of nature, population counts, etc, Benford's Law will always apply to a large enough set, for reasons that become very evident once you understand the reasoning.

http://blog.yafla.com/Demystifying_Benfords_Law

Best page I've seen on it.
implying i said they wouldn't be valuable...
I am a designer and git is not coding, its merely about learning a tool that helps with collaboration, git/github being one of many. :)
They could at least log the skipping, by default.
I don't think I ever really understood how "odd" I must seem to some people when using YubNub...
Hipmunk has a great product, strong brand and a promising business model. It sounds like they are targeting more of an early adopter technology audience in the hopes that the 'digerati' will eventually spread it to the early majority and late majority. Both of my parents use Expedia out of habit, and even though it sucks they have learned how to use it and would only switch to Hipmunk momentarily if I hounded them. Even though much of technology is painful to use the prospect of learning yet another new tool exceeds the pain of using something that sucks but gets the job done.

One way for Hipmunk to reach the baby boomer demographic would be to build awareness among the 18-35 link-happy crowd and let them demonstrate it to their parents thus creating a seamless user recruitment experience.
I highly recommend In the Plex to anyone on Hacker News interested in tech folklore. I'm sure even Googlers would find stories they hadn't heard before. The story of Google is an epic story fit for Homeric interpretation.

Steven Levy also wrote the excellent Crypto which covers the emergence of strong public cryptography. It is not a story of accidental discovery, but about active sabotage by the NSA and perseverance by a number of visionaries like Whit Diffie and Martin Hellman working under the radar and outside the mainstream.

http://www.amazon.com/Crypto-Rebels-Government-Privacy-Digit...
That was the first thing I tried, to no avail. I was able to see his response by going to his profile and hovering over the word "spoiler" in his comment stream. The word "spoiler" doesn't appear for me in the threaded comments and clicking through the word "spoiler" results in a 404.

Very strange.
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Well, I've never looked at it that way. Next time I will be more thoughtfull.
The article mentions 2 apps, but I'm sure these are not the only ones. It would be nice to know about others too.

One note of caution, though: some states are 2-party consent states, which means, both parties have to consent to an audio recording. If you happen to be in one of those states, and the cops find out that you've been recording them, you can be in deep trouble.

On the other hand, sometimes just recording the cops in plain sight can get you into trouble, as evidenced by Emily Good's arrest in Rochester, NY. http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20110625/NEWS01/...
Are there open source versions of mapping tools, etc? I know there are clones. Are they compatible?
I have a feeling that datasets that are largely defined by human psychology - the list of iPhone passwords is a good example - are less likely to adhere to Benford's law than "naturally" generated datasets.
Really? I tried to set up the CSS so it would be white on black. What colors do you actually get?
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Thanks for your reply. I guess I was thinking of low-controversy articles such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System , but given your background I'm sure your perception is closer to reality than mine.
For lack of an FAQ:

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I can't tell either. You can review the new edition in HTML for free here: http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/
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I think from the designers I know and from my distant former life as a designer before I ended up as a CS guy, it only really comes down to one thing:

What's in it for a designer?

* It's not scratching an itch that they have.

* It's not great promotion (design has worked on a portfolio system for generations, so they have them already - showing someone what you've built is new and revolutionary for development in relative terms, but for design that's just how it is).

* It's probably not much fun (it's a skill to work with designers and to manage a project such that it comes out well - one that most OS projects do not possess if I had to guess).

* It's probably quite thankless (by no means a universal attitude, but plenty of developers think of design as an add-on, or a nice to have - not much of a situation to be in with your work).

So why would designers volunteer for this when they could do work for themselves and their portfolio that they may actually enjoy? How many projects will provide enough exposure to make this a good use of time?
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Am I missing the obvious here or are there really neither documentation nor examples/demos? Because the few source files I opened were pretty much just pure script libraries.
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