skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good for you to submit the canonical URL. The previous submission (3 points, no comments)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4217169

was with a noncanonical URL. What do you think of what the author proposes?
Show HN: Tired of how unorganized art/design commissions were, I made this
An Annoying Shell: Windows 8 on the Desktop
I absolutely agree with this sentiment. However, my real goal for this project (apart from learning to code it) was to place a slight barrier between me and a bunch of mindless consumption. It's pretty easy to wake up in the morning, check email, check HN, etc.

I just wanted something to slow me down each morning and bring the focus back to producing. I also have it block me at about 6pm so I have to reflect on my day before going home and reading articles.
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There's just a little bit of entrepreneurship going on in North Carolina as well.[1][2][3]

Despite the (mostly invalid, out-of-date, and or plain wrong) stereotypes about the South, the RTP area is becoming quite a little hotbed of entrepreneurial activity. With 3 significant research universities (UNC-CH, NCSU, Duke) located within a few miles of each other, and a workforce augmented by people who moved here to work for IBM, Cisco, EMC, GlaxoSmithKline, etc., etc., there is some serious talent available here.

Historically, what was missing here was the "entrepreneurial culture" and convenient access to seed stage capital. The first of those two factors has been changing rapidly in the past couple of years, and the second - while still a problem - has been somewhat mitigated by the emergence of Triangle Startup Factory[4] and at least one new angel group in the area. And David and Jason from Southern Capitol Ventures are always working to help entrepreneurs in this area in connecting with other investors, including ones from outside of NC. They're doing a seed stage funding related event[5] at the end of this month, for example.

So, yeah, definitely add NC to the list of "not silicon valley" places where entrepreneurship is blooming.

[1]: http://www.downtowndurhamstartups.com/content/startup+direct...

[2]: http://www.triangltechtalk.com

[3]: http://wraltechwire.com/business/tech_wire/opinion/blogpost/...

[4]: http://www.trianglestartupfactory.com

[5]: http://eseriesjuly.eventbrite.com/
He's probably disparaging her personal decision because he believes her personal decision is bad for her child. People are under no obligation to respect lifestyle decisions they believe are incorrect.
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Ask HN: Can someone explain the common open source licenses?
Could someone roughly explain the differences between the common open source licenses out there (Apache, GPL, MIT, etc.) and any restrictions they may have?

I'm not working on any specific project that would require professional legal advice. I just want a basic understanding of the differences between the most common licenses and how they can generally affect or restrict projects.

What is the most open and unrestricted license? What licenses have restrictions I should be aware of? etc. etc. Thanks
This may often be true, but if you work on something that is closely tied to the flow of information on the internet then it's almost impossible not to get distracted by your own product. I've been working on a stream aggregation site for some time, and I can't tell you how many times I've caught myself using the product instead of testing it. It's entirely aggravating, but it has nothing to do with working on the right project or not loving it enough.

Imagine what the Reddit developers had to deal with.
Already Valued at $4B, China’s Xiaomi Has Declared War on Apple
So how does this work in practice?

I see a friend with these glasses. As a joke I pull of his glasses from behind and pretend to steal them, then hand them back, and because it sensed that I stole them (which I did) it is now locked and my friend can't use his glasses any more.

There are a lot of details to get right. I hope they thought them all through.
Says the guy that only knows ruby.
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US Presidential Campaign Hit by DMCA Troll
Right, but that was JSMin, which is more of a souped-up find and replace, whereas this comma-replacement strategy is what you'd expect from a much more sophisticated compiler which does static analysis and complex code transformations to squeeze out more than you can achieve by simply compacting white space and deleting comments. That level of modification would be crazy and fragile if you were modifying the original source code, so it's a fair bet that ASI is irrelevant by the time you're looking at the compiler output.
They are completely standard in corporations. Once you have hundreds or thousands of employees, NDAs are the way you work, because you just have too many trade secrets to risk.

For individuals with ideas? I agree, they're non-standard.
Why, then, wasn't Skype required to implement CALEA-compliant functionality before Microsoft bought them?
It never ceases to amaze me how different American views on work and parenting are from the rest of the world. Even Canada, barely a line in the sand away, has a completely different cultural attitude on this topic than the US.

In most of the world, parenting is viewed as an important, demanding job. Motherhood - given the physical and mental demands not shared by the father - even more so. In the US it seems to be an inconvenience to everyone involved.

From a general point of view, I think it's Ms. Mayer's right (along with any other parent) to determine the lifestyle they think is most appropriate for themselves and their family.

Personally though, I think this is a horrible life choice that shouldn't be culturally supported. A child is not an acquisition that will accompany your life; rather a child is a commitment to you changing into a new life. It would be the same as deciding to move to a farm in Brazil. The expectation that you can move to a farm in Brazil and still be an effective farmer as well as a CEO (or whatever your current position is) would be laughed at as being hopelessly naive. It would also be taken as a given that your farm would probably suffer, unless you pretty much outsourced its operations completely.

Alas, that's probably what will happen in the case of junior Mayer - assuming hubby continues to work as well, which admittedly is a large assumption. As a society, we should discourage parenting at arms length, in the same way that we should discourage those not committed to child rearing from having kids in the first place.

It's a shame that one has to bring another human into this world that will immediately be disconnected from their parents in a way that others aren't. I think it puts us all at a tremendous disadvantage not to create this strong bonds.
It should definitely be valid. Apple should pull down the app until EGLS can disprove infringement, and if Apple doesn't they are just as liable.
Chicago’s Dabble creates a Craigslist for casual learning
I meant what you know. Not what wikipedia knows.
I'm a software dev but my favorite thing to do in the world is fish. Last month I took a vacation to the Caribbeans, which has some amazing surf fishing. My goal was to get up and fish every sunrise. I did this for 4 or 5 days but ended up sleeping in a few days because, after all, sleeping is fun and fishing can wait.

I do really like fishing and had a goal to do it each day but failed. I'm guessing you think I don't really like fishing after all?
Hrm, I was under the impression it had built-in wifi, but, as far as firmware/software, almost all of the usages in my list would probably be done by the type of person (e.g. me) who would re-image the boot sd card with his own distro anyway, so drivers would be an issue for the first image, but the nth (assuming the same wifi dongle) would be 0 extra cost.
McDonald's staff took offence to digital glasses, inventor says
Where do you get this impression? I'm a grad student at Los Alamos National Lab, a partner of Lawrence Livermore and a major contributor to NIF. I don't do nuclear physics, but I've attended a couple talks on NIF and spoken to several of the contributing physicist. The impression I get is that the number one purpose of the NIF is stockpile stewardship. Fusion energy research is a side project which is highlighted mostly for public relations.

In particular, I never hear anyone talk about the laser technology in anything but instrumental terms. (Instrumental to understanding the nuclear physics.)
Hey they're one of the most profitable companies in the world. I think they should wear that badge with pride.
This has been posted before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4106880
Beautifully designed investor pitch decks made for you
I love what I work on, I also love knowledge. Turns out the internets isn't just a place where people go for the latest Success Kid meme or double rainbow video, it's a link to the entirety of all human knowledge.

Oh yeah, and it's a link to the people I love and care about as well...
I tried installing the existing binary from the market, but I'm not seeing it. Has anyone else been able to play with RedPhone?
I had a response written out, but took a step back to see what other people had to say. You've pretty much summed up what I had to say in fewer words. I absolute deplore the parent comment, which is the typical response to these kinds of "hacks". While they're not ideal to actually solve the problem, they may mitigate the symptoms until they can solve the root cause. To each their own, and what works for one will not work for another. Keep on keeping on.
We cannot engage into this kind of discourse until every party agrees on the definition of "intelligence," and whether intelligence is biological.
It's an iOS game -- doesn't that mean it's distributed through Apple, so they'd be able to pull it in response to a notice of copyright infringement?
Robot Speech Control with Raspberry Pi
I agree, over zealous mods are really having a negative effect on this site lately with submission renaming.

In this case both the current title and the original title (if memory serves) give the impression that twitter is somehow at fault.
I'm not sure you can call the internet "one trick".

I do get what they're saying- New York doesn't have (m)any hardware startups, for example. But the city also depends on the startup industry less.
Part of it might be a confusion of terms. I would argue that if you really wanted to do something you'd be doing it or it would already be done (by definition of the word "want"). Same with "care". The very first episode of the podcast I listened to was Merlin and his co-host discussing the word "priority". He was giving a talk at a company and someone in the crowd claimed to have "27 high-priority items" which Merlin thought was completely insane. He says you can tell something is a priority in one of two ways: you're doing it or it's done. Calling something a priority when it's not obscures the real problem. I think it's the same here. Calling something a thing you care about but never do doesn't solve anything.

I wrote down Merlin's definition of procrastination: procrastination is what happens when you temporarily forget who you are, what you should pay attention to, and what your options are for doing something about it.

Do you need an alarm to remind yourself to play video games? Do you need a "distraction-free gaming environment"?
When I first had a look at the bootstrap source I was astonished. It seems to be a rather vain thing to do.

What does it gain you?
For Excel in particular the list is actually really long. The big ones are flash fill (pattern recognizition for data cleansing), quick analysis (live preview of different analysis elements with your data), side by side Excel sheets, Chart animations, automatic PivotTable recommendations, automatic Chart recommendations, Data model (Powerpivot - in memory data analysis engine that allows creating relationships between data sources -db style), among 100 more.
so... Heroku runs my ruby bot to play the game for me?

sweet.
No, definitely not. IBM sold a 22" 3840x2400 (205ppi) LCD monitor over a decade ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors

Panasonic has also launched a 20" 3840x2160 IPS LCD display, too.
If you guys have any feedback, we would love it!! So any suggestions you might have in regards to design or anything else, please let us know.

We are growing like crazy and hiring for all kinds of positions. E-mail us on support at virool.com. Thank you.
I submitted the OSS build to the "Play Store" about 30 minutes ago, but it's still not visible. Seems like a caching bug in Google's stuff.
That's not how the DCMA works however. The purpose of the DCMA is accountability not enforcement (when it comes to the Safe Harbor provision).

Runic can, through the DCMA ensure that the content is either taken down, or they are put in touch with the party they assert are infringing. From there on out, it is the responsibility of the two parties to work out, as far as the DCMA is concerned.

That said, Apple can do whatever they like with their platform, and show little compunction about doing so.

I'm reminded of all of the cyberpunk Gibsonian/Stephensonian worlds where governments have given way to governance by and for corporations. Welcome to the future.
Yeah this is a fantastic book if you look past all the hyperbole about reinventing science, it's chock full of fun experiments like this.
True, but I couldn't find a better title, especially since it's so closely linked to fail-over... It did start as a webfaction fail after the two rather extensive downtime periods. Luckily it turned out for the best!
I have been trying to use tools (Stayfocusd, Rescuetime, /etc/hosts) to enforce self-control and discipline. Didn't work.

Realization - it seemed like trying to shut your eyes when there are lot of pretty girls in the town. It requires lot of mental training for self-control. Still trying.
Data Jujitsu: The Art of Turning Data into Product by DJ Patil
Moose is nice and full-featured, but slow. So Mouse was created to be similar to Moose, except a bit more limited and faster. However Mouse still has a ton of features and complexity, so Moo was written to be just the most used 60% of Moose, implemented as simply as possible.

Different Perl libraries have chosen to use different ones. So in a large Perl project that uses a bunch of standard libraries you can easily wind up pulling in all three. Thus the common desire to produce something lightweight and fast has created bloat and slowness.
Oh, I don't mean swearing and eloquence are mutually exclusive.

But eloquence isn't binary; it lives on a gradient. Where there's a common, monosyllabic, four-letter word, it could be displacing another with a fair likelihood of being more interesting.

In fact, I'd argue your Shakespearean actors are far more likely to be making a compromise than an ineloquent person who'd otherwise drop the modifier or use a simplistic alternative.

So they're not rendered ineloquent as people, of course; but less eloquent than they'd be without that crutch.
Amazing news, guys. Congrats to the team!
I've got a question a lot of people might find useful. An American company employing freelancers from another country. When do you start withholding taxes on their income? Ever? Never? Can you just pay them a lump sum and forget about it? What are the rules for figuring out how to handle recurring freelance expenses.
In our case, we're a travel magazine, employing freelance authors. Some authors are citizens of the U.S. living abroad, and others are non-citizens living in their own country or a third country.
The right thing is what is here being called a "bound pointer". It is actually the correct implementation of a closure: a code pointer paired with a data pointer, where only the code in question needs to know the type of the data pointer.

I proposed it to Stroustrup et al. in 1992, but was ignored.

I don't recall their rationale for rejecting it, but I think time has borne me out.
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Wouldn't the jurisdiction be Canada? As that's where they're selling it.
> You lose nothing, and gain nothing, so it makes absolutely 0 difference in your workflow.

It does to some people. To steal from my comment a few days ago:

"I could care less about Apple's Fullscreen API -- what I hate is that apps are replacing their old Fullscreen behavior (like Chrome has) in favor of the Apple standard. Which led me to make this comment on a Firefox 12 HN post a few months ago: "... it will be a shame when they implement full screen if it takes away the current layered option. Firefox is the last major OSX browser to work in fullscreen while still allowing apps to be above or below it. With Moom's hotkeyed window positions--it's extremely convenient to bring a text editor to focus and still be able to scroll the web in the background. Mozilla, please don't let this happen!" Apple's Fullscreen API just seems like a lazy approach to delegating UI real-estate and the last thing power-users would want."
Here's one way to get people's email addresses. For what it's worth, I emailed DropBox about this a long time ago (months ago) and didn't even get a reply to my email!

If you use your DropBox referal code, on this page:

https://www.dropbox.com/account/bonus

You will see a list of peoples email addresses that clicked the link and signed up. Unbeknownst to them you have their email addresses.

We have hundreds of these email addresses in our account as we have been promoting DropBox on our website for a long time. The referral status page also shows information about how far through the install they are, when they signed up etc.

This is bad because it makes phishing quite easy.

Perhaps not the source of the spam, but nonetheless still a bad execution in my opinion.
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This seems like it would be more of a hindrance than a help. Implementing anything to force yourself to code is a good indicator that you really don't want to code in the first place, and is just going to encourage you to write perfunctory code. It will probably also just make you more upset and contemptuous towards work in general. After all, who want's to be forced to something they don't want to do through negative reinforcement?

If you need this, there's most likely a bigger problem and you probably should be doing something else. Additionally, even if this gets the job done, it's going to piss you off to a large extent.

Lastly, this method is antithetical to coding in general. You most likely NEED the internet to code. Without things like Stack Overflow, you won't be able to solve problems as quickly and your productivity is going to go down.
How to add transparent image or writing text on an existing image using CSS
Yeah, I don't know anyone who got grindr for this.*

Grindr solves the problem of "I want to find someone nearby for sex." Now, I know people who have found friends and relationships through it, but that's not why they downloaded grindr.

Does this get anyone to fucking any sooner? If no, then it's not grindr. (or scruff...)

NOW... if you want to infiltrate this space, make it HTML5 only, and allow X-rated pictures on it. Make it seamless for android and iphone to install (particularly iphone) and you have a market.

But you need to look deeper into the market (particularly adult friend finder!) to understand the problems attracting women. Also check the okcupid blogs about their experiences and data. Women, in general, don't respond. I think an interesting experiment would be to have a service where only women could initiate, because otherwise they're bombarded and men rarely see return emails.

(* I say this as a gay man who has played with grindr and who has many friends with it, but is in a happy relationship.)
They've been hired to work on their respective libraries and publish the code openly? What's Valve getting out of that?
Free Screen Readers For Blind Or Visually Impaired Users
Relax, it was just bad word choice.
Yes, which was the point of the original statement: "there is little else that anyone except Apple can do".
The title originally included something like "visualization with D3.js", which has been removed for some reason
It's imaginable the process could be reverted, likely with a Google account password. Similar technologies exist today with phones.
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He's talking about the inability of Hacker News submissions to retain their title when it differs from the title of the article. This is particularly bothersome when the title of the article is something vague like "Prime number patterns" or "On concepts and realities."

It is against the rules to talk about this problem, though. From the guidelines: "Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com."
I had a lot of fun a number of years ago coding similar visualizations using processing. Turns out making each pixel a distinct object with it's only rules and behaviors is really fun!
My fav:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPdNoqJaPI4&feature=plcp

Others:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDlgdfZ1gWk&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we4qiJnnb_8&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ErrQmBPXbw&feature=plcp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S0wx7nCl0g&feature=plcp
Not to be a jerk, but you've been able to run PHP on Heroku for quite a while now, even without buildpacks. Create a facebook app and set language to PHP and you're good to go. Also, if you look at the heroku facebook php template app, there is minimal config needed to run php on heroku.

Also, PHP is not a web framework, it's a language.
If poverty doesn't cause lowered IQ how would explain children adopted into non-improrished households having higher IQs? I don't have good evidence that nutrition is the primary factor here, but there is a lot of research saying that nutrition is important with respect to IQ.
yeah, free Heroku services, doesn't get much better than that.
The company is based in China, and when it comes to IP and copyright China typically doesn't care. Sure they could file against them in Canada but it will get them nowhere.
Purity. Read the issue tracker threads about it, he's militantly against semicolons, even when it's demonstrated to introduce problems with other software (like minifiers).

Update: Here's the thread I was thinking of https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/3057
This looks more like an attempt to compete in the normal online dating area. Grindr is a phone app - period. You only ever see people who were logged in recently and who are close to you, which is much harder to do from a website.
I'm on Google+ because I have a Gmail account.

I'm on Linkedin (and Facebook) because they offer value.
> If what you're working on is important enough and you love it enough, you would never need this.

If what you're working on is important enough and you love it enough, you can afford a second desktop/laptop/tablet/smartphone that is designated "work only" and so offers fewer distractions than your primary device.
The title of the book appears to be "Effective Programming" and not "Efficient Programming."
Very nice! Looking good Schemaverse.
Apple Wins Patent iPhone and GUI for Displaying Electronic Lists & Documents
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those numbers seem really really low for Facebook and Youtube.
Love the comment. Maybe I should use another phrase other than "have a great time"I tried to keep it a bit G-rated. Maybe not the best way to go about. But Thanks again
The article state that they gave notice, and that Apple hasn't done anything yet. It's interesting to see what Apple bans from the app store without a thought, and what they're reluctant to do anything about.
i dont see it up anymore...