skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just remember, that pretty much all you see here are the end results of these projects. When something amazing pops up, and you think, "Man, that's cool, somebody went and created that amazing widget!" remember that there was, indubitably, a substantial period where that widget was being developed, and wasn't done. Results make news stories, y'know? I've never seen "Show HN: Today I'm starting to write <application>".

Ok, enough HN, I've got to go do some work. See you all in 25.
I think we're both wrong to a certain extent - you're de-emphasizing the differences between states in America too much, and I'm overemphasizing them. You believe that countries are different enough culturally that not knowing which culture a city is part of is ridiculous, I believe that states are different enough geographically that not knowing which geographic area a city is equivalently ridiculous. It's a pretty dumb argument.
I worked on something similar but more generic - http://www.complainator.com/

The idea is that for example you like service provider (gym, dentist), you want to keep coming back, but you want to let them know about something that's bugging you - noisy music, messy office, toilets etc. I got feedback from some people where their issues were resolved.

When it comes to bosses ... I just can't imagine it working unless you have 10 or more people on the team. You can't discuss particular situations because your identity would be revealed. But that's me, I wish you good luck
God bless sourceforge; they were there at the beginning in our time of need.

At this point, however, GitHub is a far larger organization. They host an order of magnitude more projects.
I think its designed to keep someone from taking the work, and selling it as their own. If you look at fonts, there are hundreds of thousands of unique fonts being sold individually.
> Everywhere in the world, people are getting stuff done.

A person in a depressed state of mind would answer: "Except me!" To themselves though, since they're aware of that fact and it can only make them feel worse. Why can't they just be productive? They're quite capable of repeating the various motivational mantras out there; those are more likely to just contribute negatively to the feedback cycle they're in.
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The Protean Echo Reduces All Of Your Credit Cards To One Ubercard
That would change the size of the effect, but OpenGL would still be faster. Also, 60fps x 5 = 300, so 1/5th of 20% ~= 4% faster which is still significant for them.
yay the government protected us again from the government. oh wait...
From the same chart:

Extra Light (Olive Oil) - 468°F

Maybe that's what GP was referring to. I would put the oils with higher smoke points in the chart closer to exotic territory (avocado, ghee, rice bran, tea seed). I buy my Extra Light OO in jugs at Costco.

Short takeaway: I use EVOO for dressing/cold applications, Extra Light for frying.
Unfortunately, for developers, CMS adoption is driven by very low-tech problems
Technology is Tearing Us Apart
Interesting. I understand the value of keeping design simple and CSS readable, but are there performance implications (page load times, &c.) to using a large color palette?
It's a mix of Claire et al's ideas and my own. A distinctfd constraint takes a list of vars and creates the real distinctfd constraint for each var, these are put into the constraint store. They do not run unless the var reaches a single possible value. At which point they run once and are purged from the constraint store. Each constraint has a list of the vars involved plus the list of known single values for the other vars. When it runs if the constrained vars' value exists in the single values set it fails. If it doesn't, the constraint removes the value from any other var that has a domain of values.

It's actually pretty simple. Most of the performance is from Clojure, the purely functional design which gives us backtracking "for free", and the random access nature of the constraint store.
Chinese Blogger: Please stop sleeping with Foreigners
I think it's recreating something more like a simpler Mixel (mixel.cc) or Canv.as than Pinterest or Facebook.
No problem. Also, I just pushed out an update that automatically brings you to the login screen if you are not logged in. Hopefully that'll clear some confusion.
Dalton’s point
I must say that making $1,000 in a year from passive income is a pretty low goal. I make that in under three months with my "now passive" income. (I prefer to call it "now passive" income because it came from a lot of hard work in the past, but requires little to no upkeep.)

The author mentions that he plans to set another goal once he reaches the $1,000 goal. My advice: definitely do so! It may not be easy, but it is possible. And yes, reaching an originally low goal may give you the motivation to continue.

My personal goal is to eventually have enough "now passive" income that if I were to lose my job, I could lower my standard of living and survive unemployed without dipping into my savings.
If you're interested in seeing what's happening, fire up Activity Monitor and hit Sample on the app when you see the beach ball. It records the call frames of all threads a couple of thousand times over a few seconds, so you can see what that app is waiting for.
Here is my experience: I am in Egypt, and I decided to stop working at all in Ramdan's day.. I work only during night, because its very very hot here, which you start feel you need to drink by 11 am, and our stupid government keeps cut electricity during the day, so we can't even use air conditioning most of the time, because there is no electricity, and if you don't know, using air conditioning helps so much reduce the need of water.. which is the main problem in a very hot weather like in Egypt.

I spend all the day sleeping, and start working after Iftar.
The Startup CEO Starter Kit Part II - Barf The Startup Guy
Comic relief. Techcrunch posted the original Startup CEO Starter Kit - http://techcrunch.tumblr.com/post/28561281266/the-startup-ceo-starter-kit-by-carl-the-startup
Well, sure. But these fonts are already open source. So who would buy it when they can get it for free from Adobe? This is like the resellers of free software on ebay. Sure, you can sell to a few dummies. And it's a little annoying. But it's not something that's going to hurt Adobe or its image meaningfully. Why bother polluting your license with this restriction?
And while someone without a brain is trying to develop mobile UIs in CSS the guy with the brain will be cutting photoshop and writing code. CSS is madness.
And only slightly smaller than the UK in land area, yet has about 1/50th the population.
You can eat healthy as a vegetarian, you can eat healthy as an omnivore, but I highly doubt that this faux meat is going to be healthier than eating plain foods. Humans evolved to eat certain types of food, and this faux meat is far from natural. It's made in a factory, and the nutritional proportions are going to be all out of whack. It breaks Michael Pollan's first two rules: "Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food." and "Don't eat anything with more than 5 ingredients or ingredients you cannot pronounce."
We're talking about merchant fees here. Not what a credit card user pays etc.
wow, thanks for catching my mistake!
Regardless of the broccoli vs wheat or what have you, something your parent said was striking--namely, that there would be enough food for the world. Here's the rub: We don't have a food shortage problem. We have a food distribution problem. I mean, eat whatever the hell you like--I don't particularly care, but understand that logistics is the major problem in third world food supplies today, not supply.
Why?

I think it's a fallacy to think that the Senate has to pass lots of laws to be an effective organization. I think an even more stringent bar for legislation would produce better legislation rather than more of it.

It's supposed to be the great deliberator, let them deliberate until they have an idea worthy of 60% of the votes.
The Problem with Two-Factor Authentication
Where Is Bourne? Not in an Electronic Version
Can this font be self-hosted rather than use Typekit or other externally hosted services?
Designing Lispy DSLs: SCSS
Apple AirPlay and the Window of Obsolescence
Because your mom probably uses the same password on her knitting forum as she does for her bank website or email or ...
I've had the exact same experience.

The only situations I've really run across problems with color is with labeling or tagging, if colors play a critical role in distinguishing the tags. This was particularly bad in Trello before they introduced a color-blind mode. I actually dislike the way they handled it. Trello only allows 6 predefined colors for labels, and the colors they picked were particularly bad for those with red-green colorblindness (I could barely distinguish between the blue and purple, and could distinguish the red and orange side-by-side but not identify in isolation); they then introduced a color blind friendly mode that adds unique patterns to the most problematic colors (blue, orange, green). What bothers me about this is that it would have been extremely easy to just pick 6 colors that weren't problematic (red, dark blue, light blue, yellow, black; there, that took me under a minute, and the least you could do is consult a representative of 8% of your users for 30 seconds). Once they realized the colors they'd chosen were a problem for red-green color blind users, I understand why they introduced a new mode instead of changing the colors for everyone, since that would disrupt and confuse many people ("I don't know where I put the card, I just made it purple, and now there's no purple!"), but the problem could have been much more elegantly solved with a bit more forethought.

Summary: color blindness is only a handicap in situations where identifying color is critical. Situations like this aren't that common, but there are cases, and when you're going to put significant thought into picking a color palette it just comes off as lazy and irresponsible (unless there really isn't a good solution—e.g., picking a palette of 50 colors).
Launching a mobile/web service
any of you smartie pants got tips on how to market a .com to generate interest?
"But warrants make our job harder!" - FBI a few months ago.

In relation to your efficient Government comment.
Nice list, would love to see more marketing How-Tos!
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Every member of our team balances vision, client requests and maintenance. As a startup, we listen to great ideas and implement those ideas quickly. We work under tight deadlines and stay focused on bringing a great product to market.

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Quality assurance is vital to the happiness of our clients. As the QA Analyst, you will be responsible for auditing the quality of our newly created projects.The winning candidate will be able to perform Quality Assurance on projects and products, work with technical lead to define QA standards and assist with documentation of existing features via an internal & external knowledgebase

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I don't think that's a good idea (seems like it would be awfully hard to implement), but I don't think it's immoral or unethical.

Adobe Photoshop is available to college students at a deep discount. Hobbyists who are not in school have to pay more for the exact same product. That's a little uncool, but is it unethical?
Show HN: My first screencast. 2 hours spent for every minute of video
>"But more importantly, there no CEO alive with more experience in this domain than Zuck."

This is a big mistake in the corporate world: thinking that you need a CEO with specific experience. On that high of a level, business is business. There are plenty of corporate executives who could do as good a job or better at running Facebook.

But that's not to say Zuck doesn't have unique advantages having built the company. He is also going to learn as he goes; no one is born with CEO experience.
The Flexibility Paradox
We can agree on something. Congratulations, nevertheless. I suspect you worked very hard for this and it seems well deserved.
Show HN: Online Startup Accelerator - collaboration and productivity tools
Google tackles rogue Android app problem with new rules
Get out of the weeds. Communicating and collaborating is what powers all productive work!
Pennsylvania has one, too: http://pdc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsilfaani
Do you have a link for the HN discussion? My google-fu failed me.
Some context, from the intro section of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetics_%28Aristotle%29 :

Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς, c. 335 BCE) is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term which in Greek literally means "making" and in this context includes drama—comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play—as well as lyric poetry, epic poetry, and the dithyramb). He examines its "first principles" and identifies its genres and basic elements. His analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of the discussion. Although Aristotle's Poetics is universally acknowledged in the Western critical tradition, Marvin Carlson explains, "almost every detail about his seminal work has aroused divergent opinions."

The work was lost to the Western world and often misrepresented for a long time. It was available through the Middle Ages and early Renaissance only through a Latin translation of an Arabic version written by Averroes.
The fact that it's allowed at all is pretty fucking bizarre. Wasn't there a bill going through to make bills only have one law/subject?
This trend is extremely dangerous. I could not agree more.

There's the massive intelligence collection and physical detection effort against terrorists.

There's been a more constrained system of criminal and criminal activity detection and correlation using GPS tracking, phone surveillance, drones, license plate recognition, and data mining of government and commercial databases.

The two are merging. Soon, everyone will be terrified of free speech and free association. Speech may still be free, but the government can always find some law you're violating.

As Breyer noted in his dissent in favor of granting cert in Rubin v. United States [1], "the complexity of modern federal criminal law... make it difficult for anyone to know in advance just when a particular set of statements might later appear... to be relevant to some such investigation." Even if you're guilty of no crimes and you have good lawyers, is participating in some political activity worth getting charged and brought to court?

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/98-93.ZD.html
Sure if he's doing small transactions but in general you shouldn't be allowing people to use a credit card to make a $2 purchase, right?

What is defined (in this thread) as "most cash businesses" would be to me businesses that would typically allow someone to pay with a credit card.

That wouldn't be a local bodega allowing some to pay for a pack of gum with a credit card. It would be a business allowing cc use in a typical case where the per transaction charge is not significant and you don't stand to loose business because you don't accept credit cards.

Examples:

You run a restaurant and your average ticket is $45. If you don't accept cc's you will generally loose business.

You run an ice cream stand and your average ticket is $5. Less expectation of being able to (or needing) to use a cc for a small transaction like that. Chance of loosing business: significantly less.
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Don't do it. You're not banned.
the Ptacek point. Similar to the Wadsworth point, but different.

Now all we need is some guys from Stanford to demonstrate an algorithm that finds this.
I was kind of glad they added both firearms ban and abortion ban to the same bill, making sure it would lose.
Yes, I would have rather reported him to the police for stealing and put him in a juvie where he could master the art of thieving. <- this is the western solution isn't it?

Abuser? my foot! Western society is good transferring responsibility to the society at large.
I just got one last night. I am overall very impressed, although I agree that it really is jarring to hit an app that's not designed for Retina.

Have you tried running the native resolution? It gives you tons of real estate and avoids the retina compatibility problem, assuming your vision is good enough :)

You can't get the native resolution from system preferences, but there are some utilities that make it pretty convenient to get at it: http://osxdaily.com/2012/06/18/3-ways-to-run-a-retina-macboo...

I recommend SetResX on that page, it's free and works really well, and just sits in your menu bar. Just watch out on the downloads page, there are a bunch of ads that look like the download link, make sure you get the right one.
Crazy life of entrepreneur
I fast everyday. By not worrying about food while I do web-development I've noticed not only am I less distracted and get more done, but I am also less tired because my body isn't diverting energy to digesting food. I'd get really sleepy after lunch usually.

I practice Intermittent Fasting. I typically fast for 16 hours and eat for 8. I've been doing it for about a year now and I love it.
Any ideas are welcome!
Facebook Stories, A New Social Site in Extraordinary Ways
Safe In Its Shell
They should atleast release the monospace as beta.
Microsoft OneScript
It's weird. I normally am very much more sympathetic to the policy positions of the Democrats (i.e., in terms of gay marriage, taxes, health care, etc.). However, the Democrats have allied themselves far too deeply with Hollywood, and since they are in power, they are obviously carrying water for the FBI and NSA --- which explains the SOPA and Cybersecurity laws. So for those issues, for me it's "Go Republicans!"

I do worry what might happen if long run the Tea Party with its populist message becomes the anti-SOPA, anti-Hollywood, maybe even anti-Wall Street Banks party, and the Democrats feel that they need to get their campaign $$$ from Hollywood and Wall Street.

One of the downsides of a two-party system, I suppose...
The issue regards naked access. At that time the broker had requirements. Now that two-dev shop has to worry about risk etc.
Our perception of color varies a lot based on context—size of the swatch, background color, surrounding colors, etc. It is unsurprising that even on sites with a seemingly-consistent color palette, you'd see a lot of variation. Colors that are "the same" will also vary based on how they're being used, e.g. I might use "the same" blue for a highlight as I do for a shadow, but if you look at the RGB values, they're totally different. The reason is that your brain is seeing a shadow, and separating the brightness component (reduced, since it's a shadow), from the color component. Man, isn't your brain incredible.

It would be interesting to take this script and make it so that it does some kind of clustering, or looks at different components of the color—for example, you could just count the hues. One might expect to see a lot variation in lightness, but relatively little in hue, for example. On the other hand, maybe it's not that scientific, and designers just grab a color picker and fiddle until it looks right.
Why? If that's necessary, Authy is doing it wrong. A client app ought to be able to request an auth token that Authy sends to the user without ever having to reveal the user's number to the client app.
I frequently eat chicken and I've tried Beyond Meat. It's very difficult to distinguish from real chicken (unless you char it). It feels juicy, it pulls apart just like real chicken, and the flavour is very similar too. I was really impressed, it definitely lives up to the hype. I can't imagine a better analogue for chicken.
Where Malware comes from... [INFOGRAPHIC]
Just correcting a minor math error... DEFCON 16 was in 2008.
Airtime fizzles despite Sean Parker's fame and connections
Can I ask why this is such a big deal. I mean besides the point that adobe is opening something up for "open source". Is there a lack of fonts?
I would hasten to categorize this as a Republican thing. Both parties filibuster to try and create opportunity to chastise the other party during election time.

It makes me sad to think all of the third party people can't get their stuff together and give us an alternative to the two party system we currently have.
Aeracode: South 0.7.6 released
This is something I've noticed more and more as technology started to become more available.

My 11 year old niece that has an iphone recently told me she's "more of a texter than a talk on the phone kind of person."
and here is the same thing for websites, and has a client-side application for download, too:

http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/
What is Apple’s Mystery ‘Tactical Data Center’?