skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi! Former Christian here. I don't mind the idea of proselytizing -- if you genuinely believe the stuff about salvation, then it's practically your duty to proselytize -- but your methods leave something to be desired! The main problem is, that wasn't persuasion; it was an infodump about basic Christian doctrine and eschatology, couched in vaguely Biblical language. That may sound good to you, but to people who don't already believe the same things you do, it sounds like a concentrated load of crazy. I'll give an example:

The core Christian belief is that _all_ humans are sinner (or evil) and that none of us are deserving of anything but death. But God so loved us (his creation), that he decided to save us by taking the penalty of our sin (which is death) upon himself on the cross.

That's weird! That sounds like some creepy human sacrifice cult thing. If there's some context which makes this sound reasonable, then you need to include that context if you want to avoid turning people off. And that part about how we're all bad people and deserve to die? I would be insulted, if I thought you could actually believe something so horrible. I think you're a nicer person than you pretend to be, though! Here's a smiley face to soften the blow of my words! :-)

In other words: know your audience. And, I guess, try not to spring such aggressively creepy-sounding beliefs on people without some justifying build-up.
Are there any forums like HN but more focused on areas that are, as the author put it, more "steeped in reality"? I love having the ability to follow some of the best minds in SV's tech scene, but ultimately I would be much more interested in things like (off the top of my head) cancer research, sustainable energy, or education than the latest social network.

I understand, as other posters have mentioned, that work in HN-friendly areas can potentially have important effects, such as the democratic empowerment enabled by social media for example, but I'm sure there are amazing technical things being done in all sorts of interesting fields that don't get much traction here.

Also, I think the author is misunderstanding the business model Dalton is proposing. The platform will be paid for via subscriptions; the crowdsourcing aspect is just there initially to ensure a critical mass of participants, something crucial for venues with network effects.
Webkit? Do you mean Trident, the IE rendering engine?
Pictuo is basically a visual RSS reader at its core. I'm a designer and I was tired of using text oriented readers like Google Reader to consume all my image based feeds. I've been working on this for awhile, but I recently removed the invitation system. Feedback welcome!
Vector graphics are not a panacea:

http://simurai.com/post/19895985870/icon-sharpness-limbo

http://www.pushing-pixels.org/2011/11/04/about-those-vector-...
I mean, there are widespread DH vulnerabilities that are trivial to test for that you haven't mentioned here. Obviously, you've written code to do DH before, and crypto code in general, but how confident do you feel about telling generalist developers how to do crypto? My job is to find flaws in other people's code and then effectively exploit those flaws in front of them, and I certainly don't feel comfortable recommending implementations.

Incidentally, there's not much controversy about encrypt-then-MAC vs. mac-then-encrypt. You E-t-M, so attackers can't play games with ciphertext bits. Also: if you have the choice, you'd probably want to avoid using public key signatures when you could just get away with using a MAC. The public key stuff strictly adds vulnerabilities; it doesn't ameliorate any.
I agree that it seems weird Microsoft would implement an open standard like WebGL. Microsoft doesn't implement open standards, they create their own one and make it fundamentally incompatible with the open one (ODF/DOCX, OpenGL/DirectX, UPnP/Windows Media Shares, SMB, Direct2D, H264/WebM, etc).

Microsoft is known for their embrace, extend, extinguish strategy. I think given the chance, they would do the same to WebGL. But at this stage they don't see WebGL as a serious threat: if they do, expect to see WebX, or DirectWeb, or something like that. I think Microsoft is 10x more likely to implement their own 3D Javascript API than to implement WebGL in Internet Explorer.
Fantastic. I should have known better than to have loaded this at work. Thanks for citrus fruit party, mature peers.
HTML doesn't support vector images well. Yeah, you have SVG in modern browsers, but which one is easier?

<img src="logo.png">

or

<embed src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg" type="image/svg+xml" />

(fails in IE8- and IE9 quirks)
This site also looks like it was made by a couple of men. Specifically, the current layout/content, with the exception of the inventory itself, looks like it could be recycled for any number of online stores. There's nothing on the site that screams "we love fashion", and you might as well be selling electronics.

Maybe if you had some featured pieces with an explanation of how they fit into current trends, e.g. "Color blocking is really hot right now, so check out these shoes and dresses.", you'd more effectively create a fashion-specific brand.

Another thing you could do is, for each designer, show any press they've received right out of the gate. You say your designers have been featured in Elle etc, but I have no idea which designers they are.
I had to read it twice to not see Poutine.

Looks pretty cool, out of sheer curiosity though, what is the female/male ratio in at this startup? Seeing stuff like this makes me wonder what more women in tech/startups would create. This seems like an ingenious use of social+fashion to me.
Zero chance of adopting WebKit outside of the Mac version. I'm assuming it'll just use the machine's default rendering engine (so, Trident on Windows)
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waxman,

Have you actually lived in the Valley?

The "bubble" indeed exists but there are so many things about the Valley that outweighs that negative.

What are the chances in NYC that I go into a cafe and meet a startup founder?

For me, being in the Valley means I'm surrounded by people who understands what I'm going through. It keeps me motivated.

I haven't been to NYC for years but I'm pretty sure that when I walk in a cafe there, I won't think that the people there are probably building the next great web startup.
Getting people not to make dumb crypto mistakes, by getting them to either (a) not write crypto code in the first place, or (b) if they have to encrypt stuff, to use GPG to do it, or (c) at the very least, to use a library interface that has been bulletproofed like Keyczar or cryptlib --- that seems way more productive than leading people down a garden path of the individual flaws I know how to test for, and letting them think they're secure.
I really like what you're saying.

I don't think designers have to give up on "pixel perfection" - well, they don't have to give everything up.

We already have an enormous gamut of displays for any website. Forcing iOS users to a broken "mobile website" is never going to satisfy the designers who care about being pixel perfect, so they were grappling with these issues already.

And I can't say it enough: we're finally getting past 1920x1080 screens again. CRTs had higher resolutions a decade ago.

Some of us _do_ have good enough eyesight, and some of us _do_ work with videos that big (and the associated images) - yes, there's the Apple 30" Cinema Display, but I seek real competition between manufacturers.
Relevant links in this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4252640
Yeah, I should have put a warning somewhere. I was foolish not to expect that.
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Too bad http://www.styleowner.com launched like 1.5 years ago.
Depends heavily on the project. I have worked for some 'big' (in terms of cost, number of people involved, number of companies involved) projects where the spec was basically a series of storybook style 'then this happens...' user experience walkthroughs conceived by a top level manager and recorded by non-techs of some type (project managers, etc.) in a meeting. Horrid. But in that case, things went backwards from functional tests as the spec.

Normally, I don't do them since I'm working on smaller projects with non user experience level outcomes or tech-audience projects (eg. a fluid user experience developing along with a more prioritized technical platform, or technical audience focused projects like APIs).
>"so if anyone can turn Yahoo around it's her."

Do you really believe that? I mean, of all the potential candidates out there, she has the best pedigree?

I think the negative commentary stems from there. You think this is a coup. To me, it's sort of a ho-hum, predictable hiring. Yahoo! needs an overhaul as a business, and to do so they hired someone with SV name power.
Alloy: an MVC framework for Titanium Mobile, developed by Appcelerator
The blog post demonstrates a package in Haskell that uses GLPK API calls to make things simpler.
Your SGS2 can plug into a TV with an HDMI adapter. Your SGS2 (if running 3.0+) can also support a Bluetooth controller. Your SGS2 is a little pokey compared to a Tegra 3, but there's just not that much difference between a HTC One and this console.

The optimism is nice and all, but the console is nothing special and it has a laughably small userbase. Even XBLIG is a better bet than this, and XBLIG is terrible. There's no way Ouya, or any other "open source gaming platform", is going to disrupt, or even come on the radar of, Sony and Microsoft's game groups.

You're in "year of the Linux desktop" territory, and it's important to realize when you're doing that and stop wishcasting.
Sad news about a distinguished man. His "7 Habits" book was one of the very first books that I read on personal development.

One of the best things about his work is that it focused on deep change and fundamental principles and values, not quick-fixes. He never promised that self-improvement or improving your relationships with others was easy, but he did show many people a way that worked well.
I don't do this based on specific people; it's more, "I'm having some friends for supper this Wednesday. You coming?"

K.I.S.S.-- this admit's of a binary argument only.
"If you can't pull the process together to make a quick decision, you're not only going to lose people, but you're going to signal that you can't move quickly on other decisions as well, whether or not this is really the case."

This one is important. Recruitment leaves impressions on the candidates. You better make sure the impressions are positive ones, because they matter a lot.

The world is small. An unsuccessful candidate might get successful elsewhere. Their opinion about your company might soon affect its future. Other candidates passing on your offer because they heard your process sucks is just the most obvious and immediate way, obviously there are others.
When was the last time you talked to your plane flight friend?
thanks, i'm going to try that.
Re "download a handgun", that debate is already happening:

http://boingboing.net/2011/09/20/3d-printed-ar-15-parts-chal...
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Of course, for Retina displays, those small vector-based graphics will look great. For everyone else, they'll be blurry.

So maybe that will simply add to the "tough for non-Retina users" momentum...
That didn't take long for someone to break it.
Certainly, a refesh. He was not instrumental to defining Instagram as a recognizable product though, that's my point. He's a great designer, but labeling him as "of Instagram" is unfair to both him and Instagram's original designers.
You overestimate the downside of a reputation hit. The business world loves failures, and in fact it promotes them as people experienced with problems.
There aren't many new York startups that are aimed at solving the so called serious problems you mention. A large number of them are focused on online fashion sales, with a mixed bag of other things. Foursquare is in NY, but it's mindset in terms of revenue appears to be no different than any company in the Valley. Tumblr hasn't really figured it out yet either. Hopefully this will change but as of now the various industries you are exposed to in NYC hasn't resulted in startups serving all of them. Otherwise you'd see a whole slew of financial startups but that hasn't been the case. The one that comes to mind at first is banksimple (or simple) which was trying to tackle a behemoth of an industry that needs change, but even they took off for Portland.
Sometimes a revolution comes from the outside.
Interesting. So that reply was ages old, but in the event that you're dealing with a manager like that today - what is the best thing to do outside of leaving the organization?
Relative to the purchasing options, it's free insofar as the marginal cost is zero.

Yes, technically someone - whether a donor or taxpayers - had to buy the book, construct the building, fund ongoing operations, and so on. But any of your tax money that you might have paid for this is a sunk cost - there's no additional user fee you pay in order to take out Seven Habits (or any other book).
Nice. The world is finally ready for this!
If you are competing with your coworkers, rather than working together as a team, to make sure there are opportunities for all, you don't need friends: you need a new job.
Apple's the one that originally didn't want to certify, so I don't think you can say the news organizations are creating anything here.
Convenient access to Gapminder's datasets from #rstats
> Isn't public oratory (a.k.a. "speeches") the most flagrant manner of "giving his speech away"?

Are Paul Simon's songs in the public domain because he did a concert in Central Park? (No.)

"I Have a Dream" is definitely owned by King's estate. King actively registered the copyright on it. This wasn't an accident. There is no doubt he wanted to keep on owning it.
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Windows 8 moves to IPv6 Internet
Good question about the ratio. In the office right now, there are 3 men, and 7 women. Boutine was founded by guys, but the key branding and merchandising decisions are made by women.

I totally agree with you though - more women in tech is a good thing!
aboslutely - my team and I are close to finishing ours (shameless plug: http://www.jollycorpse.com), and I already mentioned Unity and Flash in my prior comment.

Though there's no way I'd write our 2D platformer using HTML5 due to absent gamepad support, a laughable audio engine, abysmal load times, and dodgy multiplayer capabilities, my original counterpoint was that WebGL support has absolutely nothing to do with developers' gravitation towards windows.
Can they? The best I've seen was an image of one battery cell pried half off next to a comment saying they gave up trying to get the battery out safely.
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Not really. This isn't an exact science - it's just a list of practices that can help a person live a happier and more successful life. A lot of it corresponds to common sense, but the way he explains it drills into the 'why' in very clear language.
Further,

I don't want to need muscle memory for editing!

I would take the hard stand that any repetitive keystroke combinations inherently implies inefficiency - ie, an ideal editor should provide enough shortcuts to give your keystroke stream a fairly high entropy content. Maybe we're not there yet but I don't want to develop habits which would stand in the way of such an ideal.
Well that's just a mess.
Safari in iOS 6 and Mountain Lion allegedly have support for -webkit-image-set to specify 1x and 2x imagesin your css.

background: -webkit-image-set( url(...) 1x, url(...) 2x) ... ;
Search for "Catleap" or "Qnix" on e-bay.

2560x1440px 27" IPS displays at $295 (free shipping).

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Qnix-27-LED-Monitor-Full-HD-2560...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Qnix-27-LED-Monitor-Full-HD-2560...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/27-Inch-New-Potalion-2710QW-2560x144...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Tempered-Glass-27-Yamakasi-Catle...
> so can recyclers

Recyclers have to work fast - otherwise it's not worth it to them, and they'll just toss it.

So just because it's possible to remove the battery doesn't mean it's practical.
So, people like to be destructive. That's pretty obvious.

I'd recommend creating a new pad with the button at the top if you really want to play around with it without any interruptions.
For the cite see above.

Yes, my main problem is the patent system itself and that it allows basic patents to be used to ban competing products. Notice that a patent itself is not bad, only the holder decides whether to use it destructively or defensively.

Apple was sued originally by Nokia for the iPhone and they had to pay some money as a result. However, in the case of Android Apple sued first and has been continuing to be the aggressor. All the FRAND lawsuits were only brought later, although they were in response to years of Apple not paying any royalties as demanded by FRAND, the only vendor to do so.

Now don't get me wrong: All other smartphone companies aren't saints either. Nokia wanted to protect their market share and the FRAND guys probably also didn't press for their royalties at first, thinking Apple might get into a cross-licensing agreement with regards to their patents. But Apple has been the lone company not willing to license their patents at all. As a customer, ask yourself: do you want to be dependent on just Apple for continued innovation? If you think they cannot do any wrong ask the early adoptors of Mountain Lion (especially power users).
I think the challenge is to be your real self, not the pretend self you present to the world. For most of us that means confronting a lot of fears.
What's so ridiculous about hjkl? I'm actually an emacs user, and I've gone to great lengths to set up hjkl layouts in my editor and browser.

It seems like the perfect setup to me. An inverted T would cause you to reposition a finger every time you wanted to change direction. I do that often enough that it doesn't seem very efficient to me. I had some doubts as to whether jkl; would be a better option, but it really does seem more convenient to have the "down" key below your index finger.
Style Owner was definitely an inspiration for us when we started -- I think they're a great site.

The biggest difference between us and them is how we get our products. Each of the designers is hand picked for the site, whereas they partner with major retailers and pull in products from there. In that regard, our catalogue is growing MUCH slower, but we think the careful focus on finding designers our users will love and can connect with makes a huge difference.
lol, it or someone on there sent me to google.com somehow.
It's a fairly fluid concept. In Italian, for instance, spaghetti and capelli ("hairs") are both plurals, rather than their "uncountable" English equivalents. I.e. "We're having spaghettis for dinner, but first comb your hairs".

I always played with "Legos" as a kid, so for me that's what they are.
haha this is fun.
California is an "at will" state so she's under no obligation to give Google any notice if she intends to quit, just as Google doesn't have to give her any notice if they intend to get rid of her.

In most cases 2 weeks is a professional curtesy.
Well, of course OOP isn't required for a good design. What I'm saying is that, as far as not redefining functionality for different types, it doesn't work against it. At least not if we allow for static polymorphism, and I'm pretty sure that's considered an integral part of object orientation; at least I remember Kay talking about it.
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Why bother? The sad state of Office 2013 touch support
Ask HN: Have you ever changed your mind right after accepting an offer?
If yes, have there been any heroic acts on the parts of other companies (companies with whom you were currently interviewing or also had an offer from) to get you to change your mind?
Don't forget the continuous protection backups...
I think this could really be fun and very useful if you have mature ethical adults on. You can try this one if you want http://jlongster.com:4007/noassholes
I guess Yahoo just became a tech company again not a media one. This is actually a brilliant move. YHOO's biggest challenge is retaining quality developers. Developers will feel way more inclined to either a) Stay or b) Think about joining than they were under the previous several leaders.
Do you think there might be any potential problems considering even your taglines are practically identical? "Build. Share. Earn." vs "Style. Share. Earn."
Speak again in 3 years.

Today, I am a geek (not really a designer) and 2 out of 3 of my devices have retina displays already (iPhone and iPad). Within much less than 3 years, all my devices will. Within 3 years, there will be no Apple device being sold that doesn't have a Retina display. Will other vendors follow suit? If they don't, they'll be left in the dust, so I imagine they will have to, if they can.

It's usually a good idea to skate where the puck is going, rather than where it is now. In 3 years, the puck will be retina. My Macbook Air is not Retina, so I can't be arsed to design for Retina... yet. Once my Mac has a Retina display, I will design for Retina, and let the lower-res experience be inferior. By then, most of the people who care about such things will have Retina displays anyway.
I didn't think this was a conspiracy theory, I thought it was obvious!

Maybe not now but in future if 3D gaming is equally great on all platforms, who needs windows?

In fact I thought this was just part of the broader strategy of Internet Explorer. Read Bill Gates' 1995 Internet Tidal Wave letter. He's worried the Internet will become the new platform where people use apps and make Windows irrelevant. What did they do? The first browser wars left IE6 stagnating - meaning you had to make any serious apps for desktop, and that meant mainly Windows. Even though they're losing share now, they still won: 5+ years of extra Windows license sales. That's a lot of money, and even arguably bought them enough time to survive Vista.

Microsoft are more forwards-looking than they are given credit for, I think. Gates foresaw what is happening now, which is apps are moving to the web and making the OS irrelevant, as far back as 1995 - and took successful steps to stop it. Lack of WebGL support is exactly the same routine for the same reasons.
Aren't you getting "We've temporarily limited requests for old items." for that link?
If passively sharing engagement with people who share similar interests is the only point, I think HN is the logical conclusion down that road of thought.
The Road Ahead for Yahoo
Marissa Mayer: "it was a reasonably easy decision" ...

This is probably what went through her mind... If Larry can lead Google, and I being the smarter one of the two ...

Despite all her flaws, she may actually succeed at Yahoo! just to prove her critics wrong. So congrats, and best of luck!
Did you A/B test the conversion rate or is that from a poll?
Can you send me a screenshot. That may have to do with my CDN but I want to look into it as this is not something I had planned for.
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