skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both are pretty close to the superman logo. (Another commenter has already mentioned this.) If I was chosing for a project I was running I'd be wary of that.

I think I prefer the hand-letter version. But that maybe just because I don't like the typography of the other version - I'm pretty sure that nicer typography of B would sway me.

In general I'm against hand lettered logos, unless they make sense in context.
Google contacts & calendar events as single weekly email
Ironic that Kodak started the technological change that made it obsolete. They invented the digital camera sensor.

Seems like Kodak tried investing the right area but executed very poorly. Cameras are a great business, just look at how well Nikon or Canon are doing. Cinema digital camera market is just rising by RED and recently Canon. Why a company that started and was leading camera sensor technology, OLED displays, with tons of know how of imaging technology ended up turning into selling cheap point and shoots is beyond me.
Lack IOS API support for call and text detail sux
Without jail breaking, the lack of API support for call and text detail records on the iPhone is infuriating. Apple claims this is done as a security measure. Why is exposing this data more of a privacy threat than exposing location to 3rd party apps? There are many application types that would benefit greatly from having user-approved access to this data.
Maintaining a multi-platform (iOS and Android) code base
In the mobile space, the iOS and Android versions of the same app typically have substantially different code-bases (for obvious reasons), unless they are not actually native but merely a wrapped web app. Assuming going native is the correct development strategy for teams large enough to direct resources at each platform, what is the best strategy for maintaining these two code bases? I can think of several off-hand.

1) Picking a true cross-platform stack or technologies. (In the desktop, an example would be creating a Python app with a cross-platform widgets library. A more common example is doing everything through the browser).

2) Port. Complete development of the version with better expected returns first (e.g. iOS) and then port the version (or have a porting team do it, while the original team is continuing development on the next version, and after that's done that gets ported). This reminds me of desktop apps that targeted Windows first and then had a team prepare a Mac version. These days it becomes less and less clear what "one" platform to target first.

3) ifdef type "cross-platform" hell. Maybe the code base should be in a single "cross-platform" branch, and every feature should be added incrementally such that it is only committed when it works on every platform. Is this even possible between iOS and Android?

4) parallel development. There is no porting, just two teams, an iOS team and an Android team, and they don't communicate much, except for working from the same requirements.

5) a core functionality team that makes something multiplatform, and then has the code-base finished by an iOS and Android team respectively? The why-Microsoft-didn't-port-SQL-Server-to-Unix article linked here a few days ago mentions this:
"For example, do you follow a philosophy that says the core team just worries about Windows and throws the Windows product over the wall to a team that adapts it to *nix? Or do you reorganize everything so you have a core team that builds multi-platform software and then teams that adapt it to the various platforms (which is what true multi-platform companies do)?"

http://hal2020.com/2011/07/27/porting-microsoft-sql-server-to-linux/

It seems that although desktop software is becoming less relevant, native mobile apps are as relevant as ever. What are your best experiences of substantial multi-platform iOS and Android development? Or native Mac and Windows software for that matter!

I am especially looking for high-level strategies that will scale to larger teams while continuing to target both iOS and Android, so if you have advice on how to start out small while targeting both these platforms, with an expectation to grow the team(s) substantially, I'd love to hear it!
Official Wikipedia app now in Android Market
Cheap flights to Hong Kong 
Hong Kong is amongst the most popular tourist destinations of the world. But recently the number of people visiting the country has further increased as the flight rates have further reduced. So if you were thinking of visiting Hong Kong then now is the right time.
You have 60 months' worth of saving?
Dude, take a break.
Sorry but you are just being silly now. We are talking about the current and future.

You know times change.

Anyway. I made my point already.
Develop mobile applications for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and WP7
Wits Interactive: A 360 Communication solution specialist with vast experience in the design and development of technology solutions viz. Mobile application, e-learning, Medical Simulations, Interactive & Advertising...more info>> http://goo.gl/8X41O
Empresas de reformas
The Wikipedia description of Geohashes is a bit odd in that its base32 decoding uses the alphabet with some letters (a, i...) left out instead of simply using [0-9a-v]. Anyone know why that would make sense?
There really is no difference between successful entrepreneurs and unsuccessful ones except for the decision to do it. I find that most successful people have the trait is that they take action regardless of the fact that they have a co-founder or not. They naively move forward and as obstacles come in their way, find ways to solve them.

Most of the time what makes or breaks a startup is the tenacity to stick with it and plow through obstacles. Of course, one has to be practical in some cases (e.g., the iPhone example mentioned in the article). But I think in most cases, there is always a solution. As Brian Chesky says, "If you can imagine it, you can create it".
Nice Place In Japan, Full Of Gold Fireflies
Some nice code there. Have you thought about using less to make the css more readable?

For instance, I use a mixin called border-radius, which is replaced by all the vendor-specifics.
Mens Volleyball Uniforms
Welcome to Mens Volleyball Uniforms Dot Com
Several times, though I'm a student, so I might access it more often than others.
Can a company live forever?
Yeah, because identifying the core of a problem and trying to do something about it makes you a hypocrite.
It is top-down resource allocation, plain and simple. Very interesting for a country that calls itself a "free market capitalism". I guess that is true to the point that those at the top are free to invest the money as they like (and even "take risks" with it).
Boycotting MPAA/Hollywood: Stop going to movies Jan 20th - 22nd
"To minimize deployment complexity. SPDY uses TCP as the underlying transport layer, so requires no changes to existing networking infrastructure."
http://dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-whitepaper
looks great.. way to go..
ranking tweets based on re-tweets is the best way to filter out twitter noise..
a suggestion would be to keep it local to begin with.. india specific.. else it'll again somewhat become noise at international level..

I created something on same lines but much much smaller (and minimal) : www.lessvu.com

primarily to track certain active communities in india.. (presently works for journalists only)
> We have very rich libraries for dealing with time in software

99.9% of which suck goats though.

And then, there's the problem of correctly syncing time display with internal representation: let's say the library stores time as a monotonically increasing number (which it should, ideally, that's the first failure of many libraries). This monotonically increasing number is then mapped onto "human" dates and times via more or less complex schemes.

The problem is that those mapping change over time, for instance the leap second is provided with 6 months of advance, DST/GST changes may be provided with far less (to say nothing of timezone changes). So those time libraries need to be updated all the bloody time or to have a mechanism through which they download mapping updates.

> conversely and perhaps more dangerous, should "14:00 30 June" + 24 hours come out as 13:59:59 or 14:00:00?

Well this is a human time mapping, in human time mappings the leap second is part of one of those 24h, so it'd be 14:00:00 (same as adding "1 day" or "1440 minutes"), whereas adding 86400 seconds would yield 13:59:59.

The internal storage should not have a concept of hours (or minutes, or even maybe seconds), it would have its "time unit" and then contextual mappings from the time unit to "human units" through calendars and calendar operations.
How many times am I allowed to watch a movie after I buy it?

Imagine now that I _buy_ the movie. Can I watch it with my friends? Or do they have to pay the movie too?
If they pay _me_ then I'm a pirate. If they don't, are they pirates?

If nobody payed for the movie than me and my friends who watch it are all pirates.
Except that I didn't buy it because someone in the "extended circle of my friends that I've never met" gave it to me. At least that's how I'm pretending it to be.

Now it's not entirely like this but this is the problem with the Internet Hollywood doesn't like. You can interact with people you've never met very easily and pretend that they're your friends.
> He first explains how protests are meaningless

He's talking about protests like "changing my profile picture".

> because not enough people do them

I don't remember him saying that.

> boycotting almost everything.

He proposes boycotting a few companies, and gives a list of possibilities.
Form a group, pick a person in a 'safe' seat, preferably a senator as those are pretty much the safest seats out there, and get them unelected over this issue. Ensure the issue gets media coverage as to your group.

Anything else will do pretty much nothing. In two years get someone else unelected.

Diane Feinstein would be a perfect target, she represents the valley, has been in the Senate forever, and won the last election by a HUGE margin. If you could get her unelected you would put everyone else on notice.

The reality of the situation is that this won't happen. There is no permanent solution because everything is triangulated and marketed so well that it's virtually impossible to change it. People pass this legislation because no one cares and whatever negative ads get run during the 30 days before the election matter far more than anything else and quite frankly most people will be more upset about THEIR pet issue than YOUR pet issue.

If you could get Google or Wikipedia, etc to focus solely on getting ONE person unelected then it would show clout. But they won't because it would cause such a shitstorm of unimaginable proportions because 1/3 of their user base votes for her party no matter what they do, and 1/3 dislikes both parties and something about keeping politics free from corporate influence, which is something both parties agree on unless that influence comes in the form of campaign contributions, PACs, lobbyists, etc.

You've got a political system in which no one cares about habeas corpus. If they don't care about that then they aren't going to give a shit about dismantling the internet. Bread and circuses my friend.
Free classifieds in India, 
Local Listings India is the next generation of free online classifieds. Find so many classified ads in so many categories in through of India and USA Countries
First Look: Lenovo Ideapad S2 10-inch Android Tablet/Laptop at CES Unveiled
Hitchens on Orwell [podcast]
Well you start with the paranoid early adopters, don't you?
The Merlin
The Merlin Vasundhara - SKG group offers 2/3 BHK flats in sector 13, Vasundhara Ghaziabad. To get best offer in the merlin vasundhara call us @ 09250922822.
40$ : The effective hourly rate of an Internet entrepreneur
How Linux is the natural choice for intelligent appliances
When someone takes your factory and materials and electricity, you don't have them any more.
It's done all the time, mostly to reduce the number of requests needed. It's similar to spriting, but can be even faster depending on the images you need.
McAfee tackles 'spam hijack' flaw in anti-malware code
Why? So that you don't have the overhead of a http request and image download as each image is used.

I'm guessing sprites waste memory?
I'm with mindcrime - count me in. You all busy tonight? :)
He's raging against slacktivism, and advocating for real activisim. Punch supporting companies in the wallet and get supporting congressmen unelected.

He's right.
Encoding the images into the HTML file together with the rest of the game allows you to redistribute the entire thing pretty easily.

But I guess, the actual answer is the same as to why would you implement a game only in HTML and CSS: because you can.
Does anyone else feel like they can predict what Maddox will say about any particular issue at this point?

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2pv/intellectual_hipsters_and_metaco...

BTW. The same could be said about DMCA, when it was passing. It just made everyone used to even more abuse.
This is not how to show them, nor is it a way to justify piracy.

Unless you really can't live without the next version of Windows, don't use it at all. Keep with the current version for as long as you can (I'm still on XP on the only Windows machine I have) or switch to an alternative (this may be the route I take when I next rebuild).

I'll be rebuilding that desktop machine at some point this year and what-ever OS goes on the new build I hope will not need reinstalling for a few years (so I'll have to upgrade from XP as it drops out of security update support early in 2014). I'm trying to decide to go for Windows 7, or just go completely Linux - currently the Linux option is winning in my mind.

Pretty much the only reason I still run Windows on this home desktop is games. I use OpenOffice for my own documents, and when I need access to MS Office, Visual Studio, and so forth from here I simply VPN+RDC into my machine at the office these days. The rub is that lately I've not been playing that much (I've not had time) and there aren't any games in the near future that I could name as being something I'm waiting for (I'm done waiting for HL?EP3 - if they release it before I leave Windows-land then I'll pre-order, if not then they'll only get a sale out of me if it runs on Linux fine), with PC gaming apparently going in the "beg and jump through hoops or we won't let you play" direction (http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/01/17/1838237/ubisoft-has...) I can see myself simply refusing to buy any new games from the major publishers even if I do keep Windows, and most of the games I have played much of recently could probably be implemented in browsers soon enough (if not already) at which point the choice of underlying OS becomes irrelevant.

So my position is: if I buy Windows 7 in the next six months it may well be the last Windows license I personally purchase. If I don't, then XP will have been (unless you count the Windows 7 Starter license that came with my netbook but currently remains unused). Either way I won't pirate it: it is a buy or don't decision. Heck, if I decide to not keep up-to-date games wise (and decide that I'm not likely to be bothered by losing access to the games I've bought previously) then I'll not only save £80 for the Windows license but I could save a chunk getting a less flashy GFX card too (I'm only upgrading that in this build to get a card with 3 or more outputs that can be used concurrently).

Pirating will just tells them that you want their platform but don't want to pay, using something else tells them that you can live without them and if they want you not to live without them then there are things they need to change.
At least two of the legislators on his target list have renounced support for SOPA:

Dennis A. Ross (R-FL)
Lee Terry (R-NE)
Kodak officially announced its bankruptcy | World New Electronics
Jelly gamat luxor
Jelly gamat luxor di buat dari Gamat emas mengandung banyak zat gizi seperti protein, mineral, omega 3 dan Bio Active Element. Dalam sejarah tradisional China Gamat telah digunakan sejak lebih dari 1000 tahun yang lalu untuk membantu mengatasi keluhan seperti menyembuhkan luka
In what way is it abusing data urls? Carrying small images is a pretty popular use.
PIPA = Protect Internet Pornographers Act. I mean, big professional studios that never make any art, just dumb porn.
I never thought I'd see the day that Maddox was on the front page of HN. With the redditization now complete pg should bring back the display of the comment scores since it obviously didn't help preserve whatever it was that he was trying to preserve.
Slashdot was always an advocacy site.
Rob Malda posted about a similar action he took in 1996, before /. got its name.
https://plus.google.com/u/0/105030465637303791249/posts/MTYL...
This article doesn't give clear enough reasons for abolishing leap seconds. One passage says:

> But those seeking to abolish the leap second say these one-second jumps are becoming increasingly problematic for navigation and telecommunication systems that require a continuous time reference. These include satellite navigation, financial services, the internet, flight control and power systems, among others.

But elsewhere,

> Ron Beard, chairman of the ITU's working party on the leap second, said: "This is not a technical issue, it is more a diplomatic one."
Oh, thanks. One more question: Why didn't you get the pdf version? I also want to participate in the reddit collective reading, but since you've chosen a paper book over a pdf, it makes me think that I shouldn't use the pdf version.

(I'd buy the physical book, but there isn't even a Czech translation that I'm aware of, so no publishers here have it in their catalogue.)
At minimum, a patch to the legislative system that requires actual voters' opinions (and not just lobbyist voters, but rather a statistically-random sampling) somewhere along the track to getting bills passed, even if it's just as a veto.

Preferably, though, a more complete restructuring of the legislative system that more tightly constricts what an individual bill can do (so nothing can be "tacked on" to anything else), requires that bills expire and must be re-evaluated after some period, and perhaps enables something equivalent to the "double-jeapordy" condition of the judicial system, where once a bill has been rejected for containing particular offensive clauses, no bill may then be introduced from then on if it contains those clauses or anything which would be equivalent in effect to them.
Not sure what this does on HN. Perhaps people don't know Maddox?

Here's an old classic where he's judge art work done by other kids on the internet;
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=irule

Random hate mail;
http://maddox.xmission.com/hatemail.cgi?p=1
Sadly, it's called HTML5 : DOM + javascript + CSS + AJAX
Google and Apple and Microsoft have locked things down pretty good, otherwise. The best portable application appears to be Mozilla compatible.
In -Vehicle Infotainment(VI Addition:MeeGo:
IVI (In-Vehicle Infotainment) systems are systems that provide entertainment, navigation and networked computing services in cars, planes, buses and the demands are increasing and MeeGo is rising to the challenge, accelerating the pace of innovation in IVI and car entertainment.
Looks awesome !, really interesting data in my city Bangalore
Are you ppl looking only at no of Retweets ?
The Gaming Community vs SOPA and PIPA
Find a class of client which either pays invoices promptly or at least pays enough to cover credit risk. Also, charge more.
That's no zero - I'd give you it as a backwards null.
Miami Boat Rentals, Miami Yacht Charter Rentals
Golden Yacht Charters Provides Miami Yacht Charter Rentals, Miami Boat Rentals, Miami Boat Tours, Miami Luxury Yacht Charters and Tours.
Check out the icon and the point scoring for the lampooning badges: zero points and a picture of a guy running with scissors.
Escort In Toronto
Dynamicescort.com the best of Asian Escorts. Asian women are known for treating her man right. So what's more appropriate than treating yourself to an Asian escort? Check us out, we offer the best of asian and oriental escorts. Do you want more sexy escort laides swarming around you?
You should also note that the US Treasury ended up making $12B on that deal after repayments.

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2010/12/07/treasury-near-10-b...
It doesn't matter. That was his whole point.
Facebook’s biggest change yet: Actions are here
Ask HN: Did Google protest by crawling (a lot less) yesterday?
One of our sites is routinely crawled by Google (Bot) at an average of 300k+ pages daily.

Within the last 24 hours, it crawled less than 30k pages. (It has never crawled less than 200k pages/day in last many months.) Makes me wonder if this was a way of protesting against SOPA/PIPA?

Any others here with similar observations? Please share.
There will be no permanent solution that works for "the people".

Think about it, throughout history when a sufficiently powerful or profitable medium of information exchange has arisen (think radio, television, phones, mail), the govt. at the behest of rich corporations has legislated it. Every single time!

Laws are first passed to "curb criminal elements", which is what we are seeing now, then a few years down the road laws will be passed to allow the activity with prescribed limits...imagine Internet permits. Then, finally, tax money will subsidize the actual sell of the medium to large corporations to dole out in prescribed amounts to the public...for a fee.

This is how it is and how it will be.
Significance of 'Death of the Document Web' to Security
Best Cleaning Services - Bond cleaning, Carpet Cleaning, Regular cleaning
We provide all cleaning solutions including bond cleaning, carpet cleaning, regular cleaning and lawn mowing with excellent service quality, trusting relations, punctuality and reliability at http://www.gwiza.com
Not a protest, no.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/115984868678744352358/posts/iUN5...
You really should read all of it before commenting on it. His point is that stopping SOPA is meaningless because it will simply be tried again. "It has to get worse before it gets better".
Did you read anything he said? While there's a lot of bluster to filter through, his points were more something like the following:

1) Americans want to "protest" by doing things that don't cost them their comfort.

2) We are (successfully) protesting SOPA/PIPA, but the real problem is not the legislation. The problem is how the legislation got created (companies lobbying Congress, and Congressmen acting solely in those companies best interest).

3) In light of 1) and 2), we should use what power we do have as consumers and voters to prevent such legislation from being created again.

While we can debate the merits and effectiveness of boycotts, or voting, let's try not to strawman the article.
Small comment - actual voters' opinions isn't necessarily enough, if voters aren't informed about the actual consequences/implications of the legislation.

When SOPA came up in discussion recently amongst a few folks I was talking to, as soon as they heard the full spoken name of the bill - 'Stop Online Piracy Act' - they began to put their support behind it. That's how quickly and easily opinions can be formed - it took some calm and open discussion before they began to even consider it as a potential gray area.
Marshall amplifier
Marshall Amplifier and Effects In Stock at Gear4music.com. Marshall Amps include the MG, MA, MB and Haze series. Order a Marshall Amplifier now for rapid delivery.
And Petzl claims to have never supported SOPA:

http://www.petzl.com/us/outdoor/news-2/2011/12/22/petzl-amer...
Q&A Video: Should Print Be a Part of My Marketing Strategy?