skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that it's great that this is on the front page of HN. There are a couple of great things we can learn from classics like this. For example, let's talk about how art can provoke some kind of emotion.

Specifically, Aristotle discusses tragedy and explains why it can be one of the best mediums in art in creating strong emotional connections with the main character. To do this, he says that the main character must be:

- Good: because if a bad thing happens to a bad person, the audience wouldn't care.

- Believable: because it would disrupt one's ability to empathize with the character if they had some unrealistic/rare flaw.

The audience needs to believe that they could have made the same decisions as the character. If you look at most classical Greek tragedies, this is true (given Oedipus's information (or lack thereof), would allow many people to make Oedipus's mistakes). It takes a masterful author to be able to predict and understand people's emotions like this on the scale of an entire audience.

I think making a product requires a similar amount of empathy. You need to ask yourself who your audience is. How many customers really need that feature? What are they primarily using your product for? etc.
I've failed to prevent people from getting caught up on the less important parts. Okay, how about this:

MS Excel is a product that accomplishes a certain set of objectives for a great number of people. Suppose the title of this thread were "Why do people say Excel is broken?", to which someone would respond that they can't clickity here and there and have Excel take complete care of their investment portfolio. Whether or not this is technologically feasible, saying that Excel is broken just because it fails (out of the box, at least to my knowledge) to support a particular feature in some particular way that someone may want is silly.

Of course anything can be better, but let's be realistic about what's broken and what isn't.
Airtime is fizzling out despite Parker's fame and connections
http://www.wired.com/business/2012/08/airtime-stuck/
Slightly off-putting that I have to enter my email before I can even see what this is/does. All I see is "social network"; how does that translate into collaboration tools? Perhaps some pre-signup screenshots, videos, or even an FAQ.

I don't want to give out my email to every website just to get to page 1.
How to read/write to the Windows registry using Java
Tempted to call this blogspam; the actual information is from http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/02/paytv-idUSL2E8J29M...
Tea Party is not populist.
"...investors will be very unhappy with you, possibly up to the point of using their ownership stake (or joining with other dissatisfied stakeholders) to have you tossed out and replaced with a "better" manager in order to "save the company."

You need to add "if they can". One of the fantastic things of Zuck is... he accepted the money but gave himself 51% of the company. So investors are f*cked and can't do anything.

That someone could invest under those terms is beyond my understanding, but they did. Greed is going to make people loose a lot of money.
This is a bad idea. Email is simply the a horribly ineffective way of communicating with your boss , especially for sensitive matters. Instead treat your boss to coffee/tea/beer and bring up whatever is bugging you. The worst thing you can do it to involve a third party.
I see. Well there is this study that concludes that meat from grass-fed cows is healthier than their grain-fed counterparts [1] but I'm not sure if you can still consider either healthy and I think you can find other foods that are much healthier.

>Red meat studies generally consider hot dogs to be red meat.

I don't think that is generally the case. There is this study that differentiated between the two [2] and the conclusion was that there was an increase in health risks for unprocessed, but the processed variety was worse.

I understand that it's not good to use one study as proof (or for that matter any number of studies) but there seem to be more than just this one.

[1] http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/switching-to-grass-...

[2] http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=11348...
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A lack of fonts? No. A lack of high-quality, relatively-complete, free fonts? Absolutely.

Free fonts usually come in one width, two weights (regular and bold) and two styles (roman and italic), for a total of four variations, and usually cover the Latin alphabet plus a few relatively-common variants (accented characters for western European languages, and maybe a couple of additional characters like the the German eszett or the Icelandic eth).

Professional fonts will often come with perhaps five weights (light through black), three widths (condensed, normal, wide), and two styles, for a total of thirty variants. Some will also come in different optical sizes, or have other variable properties. Additionally, they'll have much larger character coverage (perhaps including Cyrillic or Greek), and have multiple stylistic variations of individual characters (stylistic alternates, swashes, old-style figures, etc.), as well as ligatures of commonly-colliding pairs of characters like "fi." Professional fonts can thus have literally thousands of times more glyphs, are very labor-intensive to produce, and are fairly expensive.

This font is certainly less rich than most of Adobe's "Pro" line of fonts, but still looks much better than a lot of what's out there in terms of open source type.
"More developers use DirectX because it has a cleaner API and better documentation."

Sounds about right. If raw speed was more essential than less problematic development, we'd all be writing in assembler.
One thing I do is start with something like 5 base colors and then in my stylesheets (with SASS), I lighten or darken those colors.

Using this analysis it would appear that we're all over the place. But in reality there are subtle changes using lighten and darken in sass to address what notJim is talking about in his comment -- "perception of color varies on size, background color, surrounding colors".
Simple: We will not reveal any details regarding your identity unless we are compelled to do so by law.

Once you decide to be the arbiter of what constitutes abuse or foul language, you're embarking on a trip down the rabbit hole.
...and then you can say "so and so voted AGAIST GRANDMOTHERS!!!"
What was the risk of getting mauled while doing this?
> Citation needed.

How about the FAO:

This report aims to assess the full impact of the livestock sector on environmental problems, along with potential technical and policy approaches to mitigation. The assessment is based on the most recent and complete data available, taking into account direct impacts, along with the impacts of feedcrop agriculture required for livestock production.

The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global. The findings of this report suggest that it should be a major policy focus when dealing with problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution and loss of biodiversity.

Livestock’s contribution to environmental problems is on a massive scale and its poten- tial contribution to their solution is equally large. The impact is so significant that it needs to be addressed with urgency. Major reductions in impact could be achieved at reasonable cost.

http://www.fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e/a0701e00.HTM
"What advantage would someone gain over Adobe by selling freely available fonts "by themselves" with no added value?"

The price it sold at. Just like people sell public domain texts, or even chunks of wikipedia as Amazon ebooks, with no added value.
Looks like they haven't released the monospace variant yet.
That's exactly what I meant, I paid $.45 but the city likely paid $.31 in fees. Braintree for example would run 2.89% + $.30. That's a very high percentage (69%).
I think there is a bug. I ran it on my own site (http://nickknowlson.com) which is pretty simple in terms of colour. I got a large list of colours (33!) that contains colours I can verify are not in the stylesheet or present anywhere on the page.

EDIT: Nevermind, false alarm. Forgot about the syntax.css file for pygments.
H1-B?
Congrats man. Be sure to send the announcement URL to your old friends at Arbor.
You can use Bootstrap today...
Because as people state in this other thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4176658) quite clearly:

"It's not about pointing the finger or otherwise apportioning blame. It's about learning from mistakes and preventing them from happening again."

Just assigning blame is a cop-out that doesn't do anything other than make people better by finding a scapegoat and punishing that scapegoat as a result.
I'm curious: do you think all elections should require a supermajority? Perhaps we shouldn't elect a President unless one candidate can get 60%? And why shouldn't all elective bodies require 60% to pass legislation? For that matter, shouldn't all corporate boards use the 60% threshold?

This notion that majority-rules is a great decision procedure everywhere EXCEPT the US Senate seems very odd to me.

I think an even more stringent bar for legislation would produce better legislation rather than more of it.

Why do you think requiring a supermajority increases the quality of legislation?
Maybe this might help some helpless other Clojure newbees like me: I just compiled clojure and core.logic from the github repos, and it seems that the author just changed "everyo" to "everyg" very recently:

https://github.com/clojure/core.logic/commit/f831accb0659d04...
It can be used as an adverb though.
I think some of these can be explained as hacked accounts. I've had more than one friend who got their accounts hacked and FB wouldn't do anything to reset their password or give them back control. They just simply created another account and just forgot about the old account.
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That would be my guess as to what's propelling it so high.
One thing I missed after canceling pay TV is the way I used to watch news. You just turn on the TV and there is news. So I created http://tiltview.com to gather current news and play it without having to do any work.
What I have opted for when doing modern web development is to eschew the idea of session all together. Decoupling authorization and authentication from data storage is one of the advantages while the other is that you do not run into the standard anti-patterns that session creates on the web. With AJAX style request you can exchange authentication and authorization tokens like SAML or oAuth. This can be done by adding authorization headers to the payload, and employing some form of salted encryption. Given that I am not a security expert, I tend to use patterns and encryption algorithms that the security community has endorsed. Some of the more comprehensive JavaScript frameworks like Dojo have crypto implementations. From there I tend to use a cache on the client side, to store transient data that needs to live from request to request and cannot be retained in memory for whatever reason.
I was under the impression that games could run at 2880x1800 natively, but this only shows a few games. Can anyone confirm whether other games are supported?

The only game I've played so far on my new rMBP was Civ V, which supports Retina in that its buttons and controls are blocky and double size and the map itself is rendered at full resolution.
You're not the only one. Valve are not the first people to port Windows games to Linux, and while some people claim they're faster, the general benchmarked consensus I've seen over the years is that both platform are, within 10% or so, basically identical.
Extra light olive oil is garbage. One should not use it for anything. It is "a mixture of refined olive oils that are derived from the lowest quality olive oils available through chemical processing."

Do yourself a favor and buy jugs of canola instead. (Really you should buy small batches, as oil does degrade over time, but it's arguably worth the cost tradeoff.)
Lesson learnt: keep your fingerprints safe, people!
Jesus, another no-revenue Silicon Valley social startup acquired. This madness will never end.

Congrats, though, Thomas.
Just one, small, simple thing... why don't you consider changing the highlight color of the texts/words in yor website to orange? The regular blue its just regular (one thing that YCombinator isnt) and the orange would really add to your website structure (everything is delimited in the textbox size) and its and the company's logo color.
Sorry. Right you are. Obviously I completely misread it Humble pie for me. And wow now I understand what the fuss was. That is amazing
In India it is common to discipline kids by beating. This is practised not only by parents but also in schools. It is getting rarer in middle and upper class but predominant among poorer families.

It is very difficult to keep your composure when you are living on a day-to-day wage basis. While you can argue that beating kids is no way to behave. I believe that thinking stems from one's upbringing and social standing.

I think one isolated incident is not a good ground to call someone an abuser.
Yes, it can be.
> You first have to do market research, come up with an angle, partner with a merchant or five, write a content plan, build it, market it, etc.

It seems like you could make a website about that without some kind of selling angle because those were the first questions I had. I can't think of anything I know to write that anyone would be remotely interested in reading; i have no life, can't relate to normal things like bars or restaurants or whatever people do in their spare time.
Will fix thanks.
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What I'm personally interested in is how well can you write pure ObjC apps while using RubyMotion's build and test infrastructure. I've spent some time searching, but I haven't been able to find many people talking about or doing it, at odds with the real-world interest I've seen so far.

Has anyone spent time using RubyMotion to simplify writing ObjC apps?
Much better than the $3 a while back, but still not close enough to the $14 I paid for mine. (Not very many, just for fun).
This is super fun. Two things you need to steal: Canv.as's (old?) click to play GIF functionality, Pinterest's url updating so you can easily share the permalink. Took me a long time to realize that the url was down in the share button section, which I usually ignore.
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NHL - https://gamecenter.nhl.com/nhlgc/secure/vaultsignup?cmpid=vl... $5/month = $60/year

NBA - http://www.nba.tv/nbatv/subscribe $5/month = $60/year

NFL - http://www.nba.tv/nbatv/subscribe from $110/year, $130 or $200/year (depends on what you want)

So, range for the three would be $230/year, $250 or $320/year. I went for the season pass in NFL, so $250/year.
Well I think part of it might be because these people grew up eating meat and like the taste and texture of it but don't want the negative aspects associated with meat. As others have said, it's not something that we would want at every meal or every day. But, maybe you will be the one who will be eating this fake meat instead. It's just as much for you as it is for a vegetarian.
It was the last section though, so I guess you read it all regardless.

That had me wondering too. Does anybody actually work in a place where there are tiers of programmers like that? Where the "regular programmers", when facing something complex, give up and walk over to a person with the title of "architect" and have them plan out the high level tasks for them? What a strange place that must be to work.
There aren't, yet, any fonts named "Cookie recipe", which would be a great name for a semi-serious handwriting font that's readable at small sizes.
Wikipedia sister sites are down as well.

en.wikiquote.org
wikimedia.org
https://secure.wikimedia.org/ is up, but all the links provide "502 bad gateway"
Obligatory wikipedia: http://xkcd.com/903/
This is the my tried-and-true method for my meals in a rush. And I imagine that restaurant staff in airports are particularly well accustomed to customers wanting to move through their dining process at an accelerated clip.

Given all the inhumanity now part of modern air travel, it's nice for me to have a little personal interaction to look forward to in between security screenings and boarding processes.
There's an alternate l available via OpenType features.
Arch Linux packages I just created/added to AUR:

otf-source-sans-pro: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=61403

ttf-source-sans-pro: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=61404
Note that Karl Bode of DSLReports.com speculates that the tethering decision may mainly be cover for a less-watched pro-Verizon decision coming down the road:

From: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Wireless-Settles-...

In other words, the FCC took action and finally enforced 2008 rules when they knew Verizon was already changing their ways -- without FCC involvement. Meanwhile, the FCC is rumored to be ready to sign off on Verizon's marketing relationship with the cable industry, despite the serious anti-competitive and coverage issues that deal raises. This tethering ruling could be a way to pretend to appear "pro consumery" before approving the Verizon cable deal.

The FCC: even when they do something superficially populist, on the big things they're in the incumbents' pockets.
Do you get Freeview?

The selection of free broadcast channels in the UK is really quite exceptional:

http://www.freeview.co.uk/Channels
Mobile is up.
This is correct. If you take McConnell at his word, then the objection on their side was in the process alone, not the content:

The Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said that “no one doubts the need to strengthen our cyberdefenses.”

“We all recognize the problem, that’s really not the issue here,” Mr. McConnell said. “It’s the matter that the majority leader has tried to steamroll a bill,” he said referring to Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/03/us/politics/cybersecurity-...
http://nagios.wikimedia.org/ looks like lots of the front-end machines are not responding
Thank you for your response. This makes much more sense. Never realized how intense fonts were.
Sounds like a simple poison pill meant to get the Democrats to vote against an issue they are usually for, if they were voting for the bill.
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I await Gruber's lengthy analysis of this font.

(and the monospaced version)
I don't know, I haven't seen one in the wild yet, hence the lack of any technical speculation.
Cable television subscription rates falling; but where are they going?
Not down here (mid-atlantic USA)

e: en.wikipedia.org that is
Real estate, essentially everywhere in the western world. The range I have observed in multiple countries is 0.5%-1.5%, and it isn't always called "property tax" (e.g., in the UK it breaks between "council tax", and various other taxes, none of which is specifically named "property tax"; in the neighborhoods of CA I'm familiar with, it's 1.2% in the last few years)

Car licenses in many places are also essentially a property tax of 1% of the car value, or so.
Oh, Boo Hoo! The market lets Apple get away with stuff that Microsoft got pilloried for a few years ago. Look, I like Apple as much as the next Linux fanboi, but Apple just doesn't have the monopoly power that Microsoft still has. Nor has Apple have the long history of getting convicted of illegal monopoly maintenance.

I can't get too worked up about a minor-market-share company locking others out via hardware. It's not like UEFI "secure boot", or the IDE CPRM a few years ago, which locks out everybody from everything.
Sure, but that doesn't scale as easily as being able to push malware on every device out there. They receive software updates somehow, right?
en.wikipedia.org is up.
There's a not-always-unjustified perception in the SV startup scene that it is the end-game, at least of a particular run, because so many startups' products are shuttered by the acquirer. So it better be a big enough payout that you're satisfied with that cashout.

But it looks like this is a quite different kind of acquisition, where they'll basically be doing the same job as before, just under a new umbrella, so it's not really cashing out and shutting down the old business at all.
I actually submitted a bug to the chrome team about this. Both Apple and Google have screwed up their scaling algorithm, they're using bicubic scaling instead of nearest neighbor scaling and it make everything as you say look "gross"

You can see the issue here http://craftymind.com/factory/retinascaling/retina.html
Coffee is great.

Guess what? They have it in NYC, Boston and everywhere else there are amazing entrepreneurs doing interesting things.
The 90s balanced budgets were caused by 1) the PAYGO rules enacted in 1990 that were allowed to expire in 2002 2) the huge 1993 tax increase 3) the strong economy and runup of the stock market in the latter part of the decade.
I love bow-fishing! But shooting targets as a child is hardly the same.

Getting a powerful, accurate shot in itself takes a lot of concentration. But when hunting for sustenance it means getting up before dawn, tracking animals for miles on rough terrain, and managing to approach the animal in complete silence. Once in sight you have to stalk the animal and look for the one perfect opportunity because if you miss or are too loud it will run and you will have to repeat the whole process again. Add in the stress that you and your small group have to be successful or your tribe might go hungry and it's a whole different ballgame then shipping code at the end of the day.
Please no, computing in general has flourished because we have navigated well clear of any massive regulation. Regulation will only serve to protect established players and create a large barrier to entry. Innovation will suffer and everything will slow down. We already have regulations on critical technology like missile systems, life support systems and avionics. We do not need regulation on general purpose computing devices.
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This is really good, and great gift to the Open Source community.
https://www.wikipedia.org/ is up, search and links working.
Random terrible brainstorm idea: purchase the cheapest available airplane ticket for your delivery person for late in the evening. They can now pass through airport security.

Obvious problem #1 is that ordering drinks is now impossible, but what does a delivery service offer that in-airport restaurants don't?

Another obvious problem is that the TSA agent may arbitrarily claim that you can't bring in X pounds of food, all pre-packaged, into the airport - especially since it rapidly becomes obvious that you're handing it to a total stranger.
> Our military is strong because if it wasn't we would be

> getting attacked constantly

Which is why Sweden, Cabo Verde, Malaysia and Trinidad are getting attacked constantly.

Or maybe the USA gets attacked because it routinely decides to "FUCK UP ENTIRE COUNTRIES" ?

Or even better, why not leave your foreign policy ideology out of a thread about a cultural/sociological article?

I was enjoying it until you ruined it
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