skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my first open source project; I would appreciate any feedback.
Boston police use video to laugh in hacking group Anonymous' face
Looks cool; nice job!

Some notes:

When playing around with the |X|Y| functionality

BUG - Dragging the slider on a compare window beyond the container and releasing the mouse causes the window to follow your mouse around. Your drag and drop "sorting" functionality seems to kick in.

BUG 2 - Adding multiple versions to the compare frame works well, however it was initially hard to tell how to remove a given frame. Some ability from the frame would be nice, but that wasn't the bug. When you add multiple versions to compare you see them highlighted below. Then when you go to another view (i.e. the single revision view) and back to the |X|Y| compare view the frames you were last comparing are still there, however they are no longer highlighted.

Again, this looks great, just keep going! :)
I think you're right. Today I've been reading the exact opposite of what people were saying about IE a decade ago.

I just hate the hypocrisy from people who claim to be all for web standards, except for when there’s a shiny new feature that only works in Safari, Chrome, and iOS.

I'm right there with you. For a while I've been coming to realize that the standards never actually mattered for these folks, its just that "IE6 doesn't conform to standards" made a more convincing argument for firefox than the real reason which was "IE6 is a pain in the ass and I hate it."

Now the people who want the new hotness are realizing that the standards they tied themselves to have become an albatross. If they actually ever gave a shit about standards, they would have been pitching ideas about how to update the standardization process to work with today's implementation realities. They actually would have been doing it along the way, and we would have never ended up where we are now.
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do you know http://www.rrrather.com/ ?
You can add a description after adding a project. I just wanted to keep the first form as short as possible. But maybe I should make that clear.
Beautiful, but too confusing to be informative
You'll still need to pay for the bandwidth, right?

I've set it up in my home server (it's seems really easy, at least according to their instructions), but I only have 512kbps of upload, which will probably limit its usefulness.
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If it were to be done that might be the only way to do it. The author is going to have a better idea of what they feel is the meat and potatoes than I would.
I start typing in what I used to build it, then you didn't have "Stripe" yet. OK, no problem.

So I click "add a new one" and it takes me to a new page, deleting the stuff I've already entered.

Come one, man! New window at the very least.
Wait until you find out that some of dijkstra's letters make it to the front page.
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We are all known about the importance of Education. It is not need to say the importance of Education in life. A proverb goes that, 'Education is backbone of a nation' .
Thank you for the advice.
I'll do my best next time.
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Looks great Hrishi. Nice work.
Familiar with it. It's interesting how they break down by country and make pictures the focal point of choices. We opted to go for a rapid fire approach using HTML5 History API and local storage to allow quick cycling.
Have Americans Given Up On McMansions?
Sorry, that's a terrible first user experience. I'll fix it.

Edit: Btw, BoxRowSeat looks awesome! You should probably make the tagline - "Sell your stub to your own hub". It rhymes better.

Edit 2: Fixed! The tools link now opens in a window. I'll soon add a way to add new tools in the input box itself.
Need a designer?
Wanted to reach out and see if anyone is looking for an enthusiastic designer to work on their startup remotely?

I've done design as a hobby for the past 6 years and I'm currently looking to take on a client with a steady stream of work.

As a quick example of my work, I designed www.cardnap.com - a site that continues to receive fantastic feedback and was featured on TechCrunch.

If you're looking for a friendly and smart designer to work with, let me know. Catch me on skype at josh.uk123 or on Twitter @joshkdavies.

Cheers,
Josh
Zubin Mehta honoured with Israel's Presidential Medal
FYI have you checked out http://geekli.st?
It's curious that a ton of particles stream out of one city, those die down, and then a nearby city explodes. Obviously, I doubt people are actually moving in such patterns. Maybe it's the underlying data - I assumed that tax deadlines aren't city dependent. Maybe time passing in the animation isn't truly representative of time.
My point exactly. There's a reference implementation, not a thousand page standard document.
Good point. Webkit even changed the way it handled gradients about a year ago to be in line with standards (at the time I liked the webkit way).
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Apple seeks Galaxy Nexus injunction in U.S. over four patents
Yet mainstream languages are just catching up now to the state of the art of 30 years ago.
When defining a new IPTV service for an ISP, then what would it be?
Let's say you could define the IPTV service of an ISP. What's the features you'd like to have there?

Here's my list:

- Time shift (pause/rewind current stream)

- DVR (watch one stream, record another in parallel)

- Voice/Video calling directly from my TV with an attached webcam (plus recording of the call)

- Sync with cloud storage to easily view pics/videos taken from my phone on TV and vice versa

- Share recordings with friends

- Chat overlay to discuss in real-time a currently running show directly on the TV

- The possibility to consume a (different) stream on an iPad in parallel

- Video-on-Demand with Netflix etc.

What's your take on that?
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i understand that there's 15GB/month of bandwidth included in a free micro instance (and i have used one as a personal ssh tunnel without paying anything). the images in the link i gave - https://cloud.torproject.org/ - look like they include some limited to the free amount.

for something like this, personally, i am also willing to spend some money [i am still working on aws trying to get an image working - last attempt failed through lack of scsi drivers afaict - will post here if successful].
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Show HN: The web is my CMS
It's funny I found out about geeklist much after I first made Swym. I think it's an awesome site, but I have a slightly different take. Firstly, although the initial seed of my users is programmers, I want to keep open to all sorts of creative people. In fact, that's very important to me. I explain why in this article - http://swym.me/story

Also, I want to focus on the simple tagged browsing approach because it's fun and enables serendipity.

Plus, there's no private beta! You can join now.
There are only two points in time here – registered address 1.1.2006 and 1.1.2007. The first animation sequence is therefore in the order provided by the tax authorities and roughly follows postal codes (starting in Oslo, moving round the coast up to Northern Norway). The particles simply spawn at a fixed rate as we move through the data with the camera attempting to follow the spawn points. Whenever you reach a large city you'll see a concentrated burst as you ascend through its postal codes. Other orderings can be quite informative as well: sorting for age or income in a particular region can display distinct patterns for segments of groups. As was pointed out: the particle animation is too complex to have much salience, but I'm prepared to argue that the slower animations towards the end show clear patterns when comparing different demographies.
And you can also configure Tor to only use a certain bandwidth quota per day/week/month.
Not often I see Fredrikstad (my hometown) on HN :)
If you were to submit a paper to a conference or a journal and they asked you to provide an abstract -- would you be offended? Why not? When you read ACM or IEEE journals, do you see the abstracts as "dumbing down to TV-style sound bytes"?
How much does Objective C matter outside of Apple's ecosystem?

It doesn't need to. Apple has demonstrated the agility of a wholly owned, vertical stack. The pace of change has qualitatively changed since the days of language standards set by plodding standards bodies.
Some related discussion on the Loudness Wars:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1030026

http://musicmachinery.com/2009/03/23/the-loudness-war/

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2011/07/from-the-trenches-of-t...
If your Norwegian and know a little about the migration in the country, it's actually really informing.
The original question was to know how Google was driving their G+ feedback feature. In the context of capturing user feedback, the point of a screenshot is to relay information about the state of the user's environment to someone else, without the need for physical proximity.

In my experience, users who report feedback are typically concerned more with the data on the page than how the page itself looks when it's rendered. In these cases, a screenshot acts as proof and can immediately focus the problem without requiring a lot of written description. Among users who have non-trivial feedback about a website, the likelihood of their being able to clearly and concisely describe their problem is vanishingly small, and removing the friction of attaching screenshots to their issue reports is immensely helpful.
I used to do per project fees exclusively but I found that with certain jobs, mainly ones that involve a lot of drawn out unpredictable grind (like repairing broken circuit boards), hourly is much better for me. Different situations call for different solutions. I still charge per project for jobs that don't lend themselves to being measured with clocks. Oh, and just FYI: not all freelancers are programmers! In fact, some people do work that doesn't involve computers at all. True story.
... and much of the "ACTA myth debunking" has in fact been disingenuous or plain dishonest. Glyn Moody [1] has tackled a few of the most obvious ones.

"It's a sign of the European Commission's increasing desperation over ACTA that it has been forced to send out a document entitled "10 Myths About ACTA" [.pdf] that purports to debunk misinformation that is being put around. Unsurprisingly, the EC's document is itself full of misinformation. Here are just a few of the more outrageous examples."

[1] http://zine.openrightsgroup.org/comment/2012/10-myths-about-...
Does dopamine regulate risk tolerance?
Let's put it this way: if you can't figure it out from the title of the article, it's just not for you.

The article was not meant for people with a casual interest in the subject, but those who wanted to know about the details.

If that's not you, so be it. I would note, however, that at this point you've surely spent more time complaining here than it would have taken you to read the entire article.
When tutoring I use the Socratic method to find out where a student is stuck. If I ask them a question that they don't know the answer to, I back up a little and ask a different question that should help lead them to the answer to the first. (It helps a lot that I tutor math and programming, two subjects where topics build logically on simpler topics.)
Expedite local UI development with DevStash.js
Spectacularly accessible article, going from Hilbert to Goedel to Turing to von Neumann. And nice to see that Simson Garfinkel wrote it.

This is exactly the sort of thing that can explain the beauty of computer science and discrete mathematics to people who think that just means "programming". It's so much more.
One of the reasons I got into the demoscene was that I wanted so badly to make a animated versions of Escher's works, particularly Metamorphosis I-III. This is seriously an amazing work; he does honor to the original painting and goes above and beyond. Simply amazing.
Virginia school district considers ban on cross-dressing
What base image are you working from?
Emulating default arguments in C99 using the preprocessor
As someone who's read the gamasutra article before. This was really annoying to read because of the new content being mixed in with the content from the gamasutra article, without anything to distinguish what was new and what wasn't.

Why mix the stories together like that?
Yes. "let x=1" is quite clearly syntactic sugar for "(lambda(x) { ... rest of block here ... })(1)" so while you might argue that it's unnecessary (I'd disagree, but it's a respectable argument), you can't realistically claim that it would be adding a layer of complexity. The complexity is there already: the sugar is just encapsulating in a more eyeball-friendly format
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Biggest problem with Bootstrap was non-distinct visual design. All sites created with bootstrap had same loon and feel which is bad for visual distinction and mind-space.

Themes will be useful in solving that problem. Way to go.
SWYD (Share what you do). My name is ___________, I am a ________, specialized in __, __, __. I worked at ____, ____, ____.
You could "package" it by creating a separate component that's simply a pandoc process and have the two parts talk via one of the various serialization protocols on hackage (after all, web browsers need not be gpl just because the web server is). Itd be a shame to have to redo stuff that pandoc already does very nicely.
I'm looking for something kind of like this. Our company website is generated from Markdown, which is great for the devs on the team, but the marketing folks still struggle with it from time to time. So I'd really love to provide them with something that (1) forces UTF-8 on Windows, (2) eases writing in Markdown, and (3) shows the folder structure.

I'm currently setting them up with Sublime Edit, but it's not quite ideal as it's overly complex for what they need and I still have to manually configure it to default to UTF-8.
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What's replaced Tk for an easily scriptable, cross-platform GUI language? What I see the most in practice is PyGTK, but it's pretty hard to love. Javascript+HTML is probably the most capable alternative but the lack of a simple container for native-feeling apps is really limiting. I was surprised to learn Lua has quite a robust series of GUI options, but I've never seen it actually used.
I think you should make the "OR" button turn into the REFRESH icon (like how browsers have it) so that you don't have to move the mouse all the way over to go to the next question.

Would definitely improve the experience
The small "next" button is annoying, took me a few seconds to realise how to get to the next, my natural reaction was "oh I have to sign up to vote on more?" only stuck around to see how the site worked and then realised there's a small next button below. Maybe change that? Some form of highlighting / pointing to the "next" button.
On the one hand, I just want an unencrypted RTSP feed that I can plug into my MythTV. 2 at a time minimum, and I'll pay for more simultaneous feeds. Here: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/IPTV -- that will make all of your potential subscribers happy.

My parents are closer to the general market. They want a catalog of what's available. They would like to mark episodes or entire show seasons for later viewing. They don't care whether the storage is local or remote, as long as it's available when they want it. They like pausing while they get up to get a drink, or to pick up where they left off yesterday.

They really don't care about anything else: if you've got the shows they want to see, when they want to see them, it's all good.
Things aren't looking too good in Saudi Arabia either:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/02/20122116495...
You can use your keyboard arrow keys to navigate too.
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Former EDA GUI programmer here, I feel your pain!
The lack of multithreaded execution can be a bitch. Worse is the lack of ways to "group" data together, I don't need full out OOP concepts like classes, methods and inheritance, just simple C structs would improve the flow of large programs a lot.

I also found a few bugs in the file selection dialog code. Someone on my team got an error during bug testing. I traced it to the file selection code built into TK and patched it there. Then I got curious, the same bugs were reproducible in ModelSim.
That's true, I was being a "green freak."
Doesn't look it supports server sent events, a pity as they're much nicer to deal with than websockets (which it does support unlike the native browser). Still going to be a long time until we can depend on these technologies for android as uptake on chrome is going to be slow.
I think #15 - attacking a bug directly instead of going about it with patches (although possibly there could be a fine line between "direct' and using patches) can be especially relevant for anyone (even outside of games).

The CRC one, #16, was cute.
That would only work if the filter was an endpoint. The filter isn't making SSL connections, so it doesn't care if the other side stops mid-transaction. All it has to do is look at the headers and drop packets with the target SSL handshake header.
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> Var is broken in js because it does not obey sensible semantics

Scoping is broken in pretty much all modern dynamic languages.

Take Ruby for example:

i = 10
[1, 2, 3].map{|i| i * 3}
[1, 2, 3].map{|j| j * 3}
puts i # prints 3
puts j # raises undefined local variable

Or let's look at Python:

def maybe_append(b=[], n = None):
if not n is None: b.append(n)
return b
print maybe_append(n=20) # prints [20]
print maybe_append(n=30) # prints [20, 30]

So there's only a single instance of [], so that the default argument "grows" over time.
Actually i think having online identity's being flexible is good thing what we don't need is some 1984 enabling tech.
I like the idea, and I hope it does well. But what I would pay money for is a series of lessons on how to customize bootstrap. The whole reason I'm using bootstrap for my site redesign is because:

- I can't find off the shelf themes that meet my needs.
- I want to learn how to do it myself.
- I want a solid foundation to start with.

A codecademy for CSS "cooking" with bootstrap would be great. A quick mover with good design skills could probably make a decent amount of money in a short period if they sold tutorials with focused content. [I'm just throwing this out there in case someone wants to bite.]
You can look at markdown et al. from another point of view: it's a file format that is human readable (text) and therefore "safe".

Many people care more about rendered markdown than about raw markdown, and would prefer to edit closer to the rendered result than to the human readable but not what they're interested in text. For those people, this eliminates the "write - render - check" cycle.
That's Linkedin, innit? :-) But I think Swym is a more fun way of saying the same things. The focus is on the process of making stuff.
What's the advantage of using the headphone connector rather than the dock connector?

edit: thanks all, I forgot about the licensing requirement for the dock connector
I can't read that blog post. And I tried. For one line. I just don't know any person who is REALLY good at anything starting a 2000 word text with "I am great at ...". It just doesn't happen.
Clickable http://swym.me/story
Like mechanical_fish says, lots of people have migrated to the web. Others use Qt, although it has some licensing limitations, or used to at least. Plenty of people interested in getting stuff done still use Tk, be it with Tcl or some other language, quite successfully. It does look better these days.
The running mice clocked up an average of 15 miles (24km) a day!

I like the idea of this study but that's an awful lot of running. What if a human had to run a marathon every day to see this benefit?

Maybe someone will find that running in Call of Duty has the same effect.
It's a good little MVP and already seems to be gaining interest. There are other similar sites out there such as about.me, virtualrockstars.com, etc.

I'd love to see you take it "all the way": profile pics, markdown support, screenshots and embedded videos of the projects, etc.
Very well executed, IMO. Some other people have mentioned that themeforest doesn't obfuscate and they're doing just fine, which is true, but they also have additional assets that are needed in addition to CSS. Namely, PSDs.

One way you could increase incentive to buy instead of steal is only show CSS on the preview, but download the LESS file on purchase (if the author used LESS). I'd certainly be more interested in a LESS file.

In the end, I wouldn't worry about it too much, like someone said, people who are gonna pay are gonna pay.

OT: Are you using some sort of "food ipsum" generator for the StackLayer theme? I love it.
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What feature can Parse build for you so that you don't need to hook up with Heroku just to manipulate data? Perhaps a way for you to author data manipulation macros in the data browser and the ability to run these macros based on events?
If that's his strongest apology for ACTA, I think I can go back to bed. Kudos to Andrew for not using the word "freetard" in this one.
In classic "disruptive technology/business model" terms, I agree.

(1) What is disrupted? Existing means of accessing capital (banks, individual investors, corporations).

(2) It's coming at it from the low end of the market. Small little projects getting funding, nothing that hits the bigger players' radar. But slowly, it starts to grow in terms of volume, and funding project size.

(3) It's addressing an end of the market that was really underserved by mature sources of funding.

Based on all this, I would say crowdfunding is disruptive, with Kickstarter leading the way.
I was hoping there'd be a free version of this - though with a paid version you'll certainly get higher-quality options ---- but I can see free versions being useful enough, where there's not too much customization.

Perhaps have a free section? It would be a good way to get free traffic which you can use to upsell to paid versions.
Thanks for the encouragement. Sometimes I really get bogged down with self-doubt, so it's awesome to see people liking this.

Some simple things like profile pics, screenshots and videos are on my list to add. But at the same time, I want to find one simple aspect that people find really useful and focus on that. It might turn out to be discovery of apps, tools or people.

Do you think people would be interested in selling their apps or other projects on Swym?
The best description of Tcl state is that its creator John Ousterhout now teaches students how to write web apps in Rails.

It's like Larry Wall would write a book about Django.
The point is that this garbage collector is unsound. It may collect memory that is still in use. That's bad.
The idea is great but I think there are a few things that you should look into.

1. What if there are so many entries in the main page, that eventually it becomes just noise?

2. There should be some way that I could follow/know more about one who shared his/her work, so that in future if he creates something new I am notified.

3. Wouldn't be better to give some kind of rating system and a search box.
The animation around 0:30 that gives the impression that the data is being accessed via a 100 baud monochrome phosphor terminal is nice. ;-)

Is there some software that can generate that, or was it done the old-fashioned way, by filming an actual terminal?
I have experience with Amazon customer service and they are excellent. Bookdepository was exactly opposite.
It's visually delicious.
Thank you!

Yes, the additional assets are the big gotchas (especially with themes that have text embedded in images) and I like the idea about including the LESS source. I'll get on adding that to the StackLayer theme!

By the way: Veggie Ipsum. It's awesome. http://veggieipsum.com/
Found it... :D Thanks.