skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With e-ink, how would one at a glance know wether the battery is dead or not?
Hacked together in a weekend with the help of $50 on fiverr gigs (a story in itself!)
Real Time Foto Moderator – The Rambling Anti-Elevator Pitch
They are now available from Mouser;
http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Sharp-Microelectronics/L...

I'm pretty sure that they were only added very recently. I searched a few weeks ago and they weren't listed.
Utilitarianism 102: having firm written rules, even subobtimal ones, can often have better consequences than evaluating each action on its merits. I've seen it recommended on this very site to avoid any hosting provider with a "morality clause" in their T&Cs. A service that will host "any legal content", while it will aid a certain proportion of unethical actions, ultimately contributes more benefit to society than one that hosts "any legal content, except that we morally object to".
Coder trying to be a designer here. I've spent a lot of time reading books and experimenting, but what I am really missing are beginner tutorials on how to make the popular elements I see on websites in photoshop (or even principles of creating the different elements).

Maybe I am not looking in the right places, but I would love to be able to find an exploration of gradients (for example) in Photoshop and/or css and how different configurations create different visuals. When I open up Photoshop and try it myself, I feel overwhelmed by the seemingly infinite color and position choices I have in front of me - and every attempt comes out looking horrible.
Yes, but at the end of the day, underneath it all, you gotta have threads because that's what the hardware understands. Even if you use hardware interrupts to detect IO, you still need a plain old thread to handle it. The only difference between various languages and runtimes is how you distribute tasks among the threads. Some environments provide green threads that have a partial stack, but even they are handed off to a thread pool (or a single thread) for execution.

It's been found that if you employ only a single thread (that can run any number of tasks) you get a performance boost over using a larger threadpool under some conditions, but a single thread wouldn't let you scale by taking advantage of all processors.
Is really ripe for disruption? I would think that if it was very ripe that the arXiv would serve a broader purpose than it currently does.

The problem is a social one -- academics want to post their work to well respected journals, because the respect is the currency that their future career advancement runs on.

A market is ripe for disruption when every stakeholder except the entrenched competition wants the product to be different AND that difference is readily available through low-cost solutions.

Typically the new, low-cost solutions that haven't already been tried, are only recently available through new technology.

Given the maturity of the market and the social nature of the business, (even considering how squeaky clean arXiv's brand is versus Paypal's) I think the same people who aren't very excited about putting arXiv papers on their CV are those who would never dream of taking their money out of a big, traditional bank.

Even though all of their money is digital, etc.
This is excellent news! As someone working on a project in this space, it's a HUGE relief to see that they aren't planning (or publicizing, at least) any of the features I think are missing from the landscape.

Seriously, for the last 6mos or so I've really been second-guessing whether I can solo something that sites like this won't come out with before I have a chance to finish, which slows down development, so to see that they're going in a different direction is a great thing.
Since it has changed so many times and there still isn't agreement it wouldn't be prudent to even pretend that this is shimming something that is planned for CSS.

Indeed, this is merely one new selector that Hitch provides - there are lots more, and a plugin model which allows an unlimited number in the future. They all follow CSS' forward compatible parsing rules and so, by their nature, they sort of have to follow prefixed pseudo form as a rule.
So what's the endgame here? Drive Elsevier out of business? Watch as its hundreds of journals (some great, some not so great) vanish? What happens to the zillions of papers in existence in those journals, currently available from their website with a few clicks? (What does happen to the copyright holdings of an entity that goes out of business?)
Hungry: We just raised $2.6MM To Build EveryMove
You can do something similar with Synergy. Laptop acts like another monitor, e.g. mouse over to the left and your keyboard and mouse now control the laptop, and cut&paste between machines mostly works too.

Synergy works well, although it is old and unobvious how to set it up. I haven't seen anything better yet :-) However, I only used it between Linux and XP (I use virtual machines now).
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R. Daneel Olivah to the rescue.
Distributed works for us most of the time, so we plan to stick with it. But we are looking for ways to improve the feature planning meetings, which is our major pain point. We usually use the white board a lot, and using virtual whiteboards is not as easy.

So we have thought about three possible ways so far:

1) Making Planning meetings only for major versions only and meet face to face for it in a central location. (This involves traveling).

2) Remove planning meetings all together. Focus on small features and no planning. (Not likely. Being remote requires us to at least sit down and talk about the future.)

3) Invest in better teleconference technologies to improve the interaction between us.(Very expensive, but maybe worth it.)

To be honest, I am looking to #3. I still don't know if it is going to improve the flow though. We are also looking for ways to change the way we work to make those feature planning meetings a lot more interactive using technology only.
That may be a good thing - some people were asking how soon the e-ink would wear out.
Usually you're not required to record this in general, but you'd have to convince the police or the judge that you don't have it. If you just sold €1,000,000 worth of goods yesterday, the police might not believe that you (now) know nothing about this person. However if the cops ask for exact details about a €10 sale 15 years ago, you should be able to easily convince them that you no longer store that information.

Lying to the police/courts and obstructing criminal investigation blatently is, obviously, a crime. You shouldn't do it. Also if they get a warrent you are breaking the law by hiding that information.
Interesting, I effectively always use ' as an apostrophe.
Javascript Hero: Success / Your Big Moment
Ihnatko on iPhoto for iPad, the app that could have been called Aperture
Was any mathematics ever lost because it was developed on bad foundations?
hmm, i was thinking along these lines: http://jsfiddle.net/gDfcY/6/

this gives NaN, tho, because I suck at javascript, but I'm sure there's something workable in there.
Founder Arrogance
This seems like a very "beginner" presentation of some very interesting (and normally considered advanced!) concepts. I'm curious how it will do.

I love the information, and I love the "prove it works in Ruby code" concept.
It would be helpful in cases of dynamically inserting markup into the page. If the CSS was coded to account for the possibilities then you only have to insert your new HTML into the page without having to add a class to its parent.

Say, an unordered list and the list items it contains can be styled based on the content that the list items may happen to contain; again without having to add classes to the parents.

Or maybe a form, you can add an error class to one of the inputs and then style the entire form based on the fact that one of the inputs has the error class.

Another use if you have one person entering text, such as with a CMS, then you can have another person code the CSS to handle differently possibilities of what different parents might contain. That way the person entering the text through a WYSIWYG editor wouldn't have to worry over adding classes to the parents while editing. It'll just happen.

It's not one of those features that will change CSS as we know it but it would be a useful feature. Over the years there were times I really wished I had this feature, mostly because it involved server-side generated HTML that would be a pain to get altered for one reason or another.
Many would gladly pay a reasonable price.
Just sign in on next.soundcloud.com and that'll add you to our list.
Sorry, but I don't think they're giving you free icons to use for your website.

The article says Octicons are "a custom icon font for use on GitHub.com and GitHub products". In their companion Making Of post, they answer a question about licensing [1] by saying "The font is for GitHub use only." [2].

[1]: https://github.com/blog/1135-the-making-of-octicons#comment-...

[2]: https://github.com/blog/1135-the-making-of-octicons#comment-...
E-ink Kindles write a "Your battery is empty" message to the screen shortly before the battery becomes completely discharged.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickbilton/3636447946/
I am wondering why you would need expensive equipment to teleconference effectively. Aren't there all kinds of web based options you could explore?
Business Model Generation[1] seems to be the canonical work about this sort of thing

[1] http://www.businessmodelgeneration.com/
Sphinx, Solr[1] etc cannot be run on AppEngine.

[1] Technically you can make Solr run by using a AppEngine port of Lucene and a lot of hacking of the Solr code, but it doesn't work well.
Mac Bartender (Organize/Hide 3rd-Party Menubar Items)
This is a scam, I distinctly remember from my time playing this in the early nineties, that holding down the I + L + M keys all at the same time would give you full health, full ammo, and both keys.

This doesn't have that!!!!
You think all the police and courts and attorneys and judges and clerks and secretaries have a completely set up, and working private key infrastructure?

You know that the police routinely handle & store information that people would kill to get at (hint: mobsters)? Do you not think they know how to protect information like this?

If you were to email it encrypted, you'd have to send a follow email with the decryption key. Encryption would only be a inconvience and would not protect this information at all.
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I think learning design can seem really difficult after a cursory glance at the design community.

Sorry to mention this, but it's the best way I know to help. I wrote an ebook about design specifically for coders and technical founders. It actually covers several of the issues you mentioned, like creating a gradient in Photoshop and how to use and pick colors. You can see a sample at http://bootstrappingdesign.com/pdf/sample.pdf
I’ve been trying to correct this for weeks too.

E-ink watches do exist though: http://www.phosphorwatches.com/v/site_pages/mens-watches.asp
Consmr Brings Product Reviews, Ratings, and Recalls to Grocery Stores
Big Brother is Watching: 007 Style
I agree with you. But I think you misspelled Clojure - it starts with S - Scala.

(I'm not actually serious about the last bit).
Pebble Closed on KickStarter.. Replaced with GetPebble.com
The guy isn't very smart doing 10X the normal amount of transactions. He should limit it to 25% more than everyone, so it at least seems believable.
No, that doesn't make him a scumbag.

I don't understand why people post these things though. Are they really looking for validation?
Definitely many startups end up using several different angles over the course of a 30+ min conversation. I think generally you'll end up have one archetype that is really the most important.

Think about it this way - when someone asks the investor why they backed you, they are going to have a one sentence answer. "Because _____" What do you want that sentence to be? That is your archetype.
"Either all those sources are wrong or my case holds."

Maybe you're right and Paul Krugman is wrong
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/down-argentina-w...
Lots of people like having a car, but some people also like not parting with their money.
I think it makes for an interesting discussion.
Source is: http://www.facebook.com/eric.migicovsky (not sure how to link directly to comments on Facebook).

"All good things must come to a close! Just a few Pebbles left on our Kickstarter before we close it down. In a week or two, you'll be able to pick one up from our site www.getpebble.com" - Eric (Main guy at Pebble)

Apparently there are less than 400 Pebble left (from an expected manufacturing run of 85000 units). UPDATE: They have all sold. You can't pledge towards the project any more (aside from $1 to receive nothing).

Other thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3950169
And as from the other thread:
Ever heard of a combine harvester? Go for it :)
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The quote explicitly states this was occuring in 2001-2004. In 2012 you are right that Java developers are in very strong demand. However, in 2002 that was definitely not the case.
The Importance Of Networking
FBI Bitcoin Intelligence Assessment
I just reported the bug with the appropriate team - should be an easy fix and resolved shortly. (In theory) it would only show if you already have an account though, so perhaps just try signing in instead of signing up?
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It's interesting that in my observations of designers and developers - it's the designers who have more catching up to do... See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3949467 for some of my ramblings on this earlier today.
That looks surprisingly good for me in Firefox, but from my experiments making these tricks work in production, browser standardization is a long way from the point where we can do this at arbitrary sizes in the real world.

The problem, more than anything, is the way these css-only triangles get aliased. Since they're a side-effect of rendering borders, they never get properly anti-aliased the way fonts and shape edges do, and as a result the edges end up jagged at certain sizes and color combinations.
App Discovery By Quality, Not Popularity: Facebook Announces App Center
Simperium dev here. We're launching our beta to gather feedback. Let us know what you think.
I wish more people screencast like Notch. He spends most of his time coding, and very little talking to the camera.

Most people who code for the camera thinks it's the 'Me Show!' and act like a starlet.

He also codes from scratch, without practicing beforehand. (At least, not that exact problem.) This means you get to see his thought process and all his trial-and-error. When watching most tutorials, they've got it all planned out beforehand and it doesn't teach you to think, just to copy.
In some ways arrogance in a founder is necessary though. While confidence and arrogance are different - if you really think that you are going to be the one that gets it right and creates a successful high growth tech company... that is a little arrogant in and of it's self... or insane. Either way - it's necessary.
All it would take is one comment from pg and this would be the hottest dotJS project on Github. Imagine Google adopting this!

It could automagically generate Doodles using continuous integration and continuous deployment through Jenkins CI.
I imagine you mean that servlets are the most performant web stack, not the most scalable web stack. Scalability != Performance.
awesome !!!
Like others are saying, he should (gradually) reduce the output of his automation system to something more believable/less noticeable. Instead of going after the meager bonus, he should put his time into doing some kind of side work. Of course, that would be highly unethical and possibly grounds for firing, but I think his employer might angrily react with the latter if they found out what he was doing already.

Incidentally, back when I worked in Arizona, I was told that a previous employee of the company had been running a side business during working hours. His coworkers ratted him out, and it went up to management. It was decided that it was okay, so long as his assigned tasks were being completed. Of course, one wonders why he was ratted out if he was completing his tasks... :-)
Or even better, have a randomized upper and lower limit.
I am giving away stock in my start-up
Good point, but shared memory via mmap isn't very Pythonic since you have to manage the shared memory manually, you can't allocate Python objects on the shared region, etc.
What's Your Biggest Problem With Email?
Not exactly:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C
Pebble breaks the $10M funding barrier
It would be nice to see differing MurmurHash performance on different string lengths as well.

Not that I can't do it for myself, of course :-)
I took a quick peek and am not familiar with the Facebook app ecosystem; but am I getting it right that if you develop an HTML5 Facebook app that it will be able to run inside of FB's native application on both iOS and Android?

Or is this just a showcase for Facebook enabled applications (native & web.)
Warm clothes. Seriously, when the fog comes in it gets damn cold.

A CalTrain pass can get you between 4th and Townsend (the southern end of town, in the 'south of mission' area) and Palo Alto. There are cars with support for bikes, so if you ride your bike you can hope the train to ride south.

If you are a serious bike rider you can check out the http://sf2g.com/ stuff (Originally Googlers who rode from SF to Google in Mtn View) which has lots of resources for bike commuting to the 'south bay' from San Francisco.

It is also possible to take BART to the Milbrae Station and then transfer to CalTrain south to Palo Alto. The two stops CalTrain makes are 'University' (which is right next to Stanford (and you can pick up the campus busses there) and Calfornia.

AT&T is an ok provider as is Verizon. AT&T coverage in Cupertino around Apple HQ is excellent btw :-)
It was done for a contest with a given limit LOC. The idea of the guy was not to create a perfect port, was to create something like wolf3d with little lines of code.

It is buggy on "purpuse" in some kind of way ...
The page structure with the audio timeline serving as a navigation cue to the content below is great.

Could someone point me to how to make the audio image waveform reference the on page anchors? I scanned the developer page and couldn't see where to start.
Human powered helicopter on Kickstarter
FB trending articles? Feature? or Pain?
Facebook's Trending articles. Is it a feature or pain in the ass?
> 45% of Chileans are online vs 36% of Argentinians for example, over a whole population that adds up significantly

I don't understand your point, that's 14,883,552 (Argentina) vs 7,535,921 (Chile).

India has a 7.50%, but that is 87,983,101 people online, (additionally i know some pretty good hackers come from there)
His purpose - get as much money as possible here. And get it now, 'cos tomorrow it might not work, since someone can come up with same idea or bonus rules will change or something else.
It was not created by NeXT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objective-C#History

There's no such thing as language copyright.
See the app at http://crowdflower.com/rtfm
As a software company, I would be wary of doing anything, whether legal or otherwise, to support a software patent troll. Having access to your software is clearly in the interest of your real users, and this access is threatened by the practice of patent trolling.

I understand your reluctance, of course, but a company whose business model that abuses the legal system at the expense of companies that produce software seems like a reasonable thing for a software company to avoid dealings with. How can your users trust you if they think they might wake up one day and your product is gone because of spurious patent litigation?
Just published another story here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3950628

Pebble has now been closed on KickStarter. You cannot pick up any from the KickStarter project.

If you wanted to "pre order" you will have to go through GetPebble.com when they get made available.
I'm not convinced it's selection bias, but just that there is a huge range in skillsets now. In my personal network, I'd estimate that more than 50% of the designers I know are competent front end coders. (I've worked at a couple of large agencies, so I know quite a few designers.) It's very rare that meet a designer who doesn't know any code or who isn't at least trying to learn. Most job posts for designers that I see expect knowledge of HTML/CSS as a minimum, but often also Javascript & frameworks, or even Rails.

I don't really know of many programmers who have even a basic understanding of design. Sometimes, they even lack appreciation for design. Maybe that's selection bias too. Just speaking of my personal experience here.

Maybe we're all just pointing fingers at each other. It's obviously productive for everyone to gain basic competency in the opposite discipline.
This kind of made me laugh. I've used RentShare before - and I'm pretty sure Chris Toppino isn't a made up name. Nicely done.

It's a waste of emotion to get angry over misplaced advice. I would say advice is a waste more often than not. Yet, people are compelled to hand it out. The advice that you're talking about is a selfish act. "I haven't spent any time thinking about this...and I probably won't think about it much again...but I really want to help in this moment, and I want you to appreciate me." The advice is not based on "arrogance and presumption of idiocy". They haven't thought about your perspective on the matter at all. It's too big of a problem, and would take too much time to give it that much thought.

They don't give a shit if you follow the advice - rather, they prefer you thank them for their "interesting" perspective and say you'll give it some more thought. Why not allow that to be your reaction, rather than fury???
Anybeat Acquired and Closing Doors
Virtualenv is an antipattern
Well the goals are good, but if you buy into the whole "noble savage" thing, the goals of a lot of the first-round colonialists weren't so bad either. I think the distinction between extracting vs creating wealth is a narrow one, when the mechanism for creating wealth is essentially mining the local native population for its labour rather than its natural resources---and extracting the created wealth.

I mean, if you think colonialism has a net-positive effect on the natives, you would not be alone, and there are certainly some positive effects (which may or may not outweigh the many negative effects). But denying that the OP proposal is a form of colonialism seems disingenuous at best. If you're going to promote it as a good thing, you might as well embrace it.
Extremely awesome. My only (nitpicky) objection: I wasn't able to do a simple

$('#myProgressKnob').attr('value', _new_value_);

and have the graph around the edges update. The number in the center changes, but the circular part doesn't get updated (at least, for me). I really wanted to use this in my latest project (shameless plug: http://wwikt-peterldowns.dotcloud.com) but couldn't make it happen so I'm switching back over to the twitter bootstrap progress bars in the meantime.

Disclaimer: I'm a totally new to JS and could be trying to do something un-possible. Thoughts? Has anyone else been able to make this happen?
I hadn't seen that thread. Interesting that our experiences are practically opposite.

I left a comment on that other thread, but I think this part is relevant here:

Maybe we're all just pointing fingers at each other. It's obviously productive for everyone to gain basic competency in the opposite discipline.
I have no idea what this does from reading the homepage. You need use cases for where your product shines.
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