skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That works.. sometimes.

I tried calling comcast and they don't serve my address (it's a large apartment building). I specifically told them that I could care less if they actually installed it; I just wanted an account so I could get the olympics online. They claimed they couldn't do that though; the service had to be installable or they could get fined by some entity.

My only legal option is to pay DirectTV something like $800 for a one year subscription. Not happening..

Can't even get the terrestrial DTV signal due to buildings in my line of sight.
HN has detection algorithms for voting rings and won't count votes in such cases. If a post is getting upvotes, it's typically legit.
I should have read it all the way through, sorry.
What are you talking about ?

There are plenty of alternate options to iBookStore. Nobody is forcing you to use it.
You want to feel unhappy or inferior? Just go to HN and find somebody who talks of stuff you don't understand (like cryptography).

I'm guessing you're pretty young. Here's a tip:

If someone knows something you don't, it's not a reflection on you. It just means they spent time to learn something different than what you learned. Don't worry: there are things you know that they don't.

The world is too big for you to know everything.

Learn what your strengths are and what your weaknesses are, so you can see how others can help you.

Believe me, when you and the guy who knows cryptography both appreciate what each brings to the table, you can create something great.
I made no mention of the product itself. InclinedPlane below further elaborates.
Show HN: Search engine for finding musicians (using AWS CloudSearch)
Every book store decides what they are going to sell.

I am in this case amazed to find a book store refusing to stock a book on professional writing because the book contains details of other book stores that a writer might find useful, or for them to suggest to the author that those elements be removed from the book as a condition of sale.

The comparison is absurd anyway as the main drive for the selection process of what to stock in a brick and mortar bookshop is the limits of physical space in a bookshop, which is not really an issue for ebook stores.
There is an urban legend that the only two profitable items in McDonalds are fries and soda. The rest is just there to sell these two.
> illegal without our permission

Unless you're in a public space, of course.

> absolutely no amount of "getting used to it" is going to change that.

The Amish believe something similar about phones in the house - the belief that a stranger being able to reach out and interrupt you at any point is detrimental. The rest of the world seems to have adjusted okay, though.
How can you say the model no longer works? The model just doesn't fit your view. There's no requirement to provide live streaming online. In any case they do have online streaming if you have a cable subscription, I've heard it could be a better service but it's there. The only people complaining about this are tech savvy, and if they were to get free viewing online with just some ads how many of those people would use some form of ad-block? How is that profitable for NBC? People act like they are entitled to view the Olympics for free when they're not. Even the British don't get to watch online for free as they all pay taxes to BBC.
Your whole argument is wrong.

If book stores are curating simply based on physical space then all of them would pick the top 1000 books in order to maximise profits. But they don't. They curate based on the type of books THEY want to sell and that represents them.
One of my friends built this:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mooed/id522311224?mt=8

provides you with different types of moods - related to anger, excitement, happiness etc. You can post the moods to Facebook as well as send your 'mooed' via sms to friends. Its actually pretty cool
This is a null business. Kill it now.
Haha. I'll drop you a line the next time I need a hand :P
That's not buggy, that's a text file with it's executable bit set, which is actually potentially dangerous.
x@rubynerd.net if you want :D
If you're out on a date, you're probably being recorded already. There are very few businesses that don't have security cameras.
What about debit cards?
There are many legal options one can change with the defaults command. Not all of them are present. Hence, it is not a superset of all configurations. Rather, it represents one person's preferences.
I don't think Firefox has stored bookmarks in HTML since the bookmark and history systems were unified in Firefox 3. Now they're stored in a single SQLite database. The schema is sensible, so it's easy enough for a programmer to work with, but it doesn't have the automatic portability/transparency of a text-based format like HTML.
>I didn’t go out and buy an antenna, but I was able to tune quite a few channels

Why not buy an antenna, especially an amplified one? That will run circles around using a shielded coax cable as an antenna.

>FAIL. There is no good way to watch the Olympics in the United States without a cable subscription

Sorry, that doesn't follow when you didn't even try a TV antenna.
Agree. There needs to be more info on how long delivery will take.
Sounds like a criminal case.
Menu Express was doing this in Nashville 15 years ago and they would pick up practically anything you wanted and deliver it to your door. Drivers had CB radios and everything.
SCSS Toolkit: Starter toolkit for SCSS projects
Surprised to see Ask.FM there. Didn't know it was so huge (and that their Twitter integration was so huge).
100% Responsive themes coming to Afterburner App for Wordpress
Let me preface by linking to a project of mine that is very much in the "things PHP is not great at" category - https://github.com/shaneharter/PHP-Daemon

Which is entirely why I have a disclaimer up top:
"Note: For many reasons PHP is not an optimal language choice for creating servers or daemons. I created this library so if you must use PHP for these things, you can do it with ease and produce great results. But if you have the choice, Java, Python, Ruby, etc, are all better suited for this."

But there are enough reasons to use PHP (and enough people doing it) that good libraries like this socket library (and the Daemon library I linked above) are a really valuable contribution to the PHP community.
I'd try explaining what you do in a clear and concise sentence which should headline your landing page. A good indicator is whether or not a young child can understand it. Basically if users are confused, they won't stay and obviously won't sign up (even if it's free). Good luck!
Neat, but the frequent updates make it hard to read anything other than the major apps.
It's rather pathetic that the spontaneity we've come to incorporate as an essential part of our online culture is thrown out the window when it comes to the whims of the giant broadcasters. Maybe people didn't want to watch the show ahead of time, but changed their minds at the last minute. That's possible and desirable in nearly any other situation, but not the "look how much more important we big business sponsors are than you" games?
Apple's History of Skeuomorphism
Is Windows 8 Microsoft's Mac OS X 10.0?
That just came to me.

So many people bad mouthing Windows 8, left and right, but is Windows 8 launching equivalent to Mac OS X 10.0 launching?

I did not witness Mac OS X 10.0 launching and all the talking but from what I am seeing, Windows 8 can very well be the breakthrough of a new era of Microsoft's operating systems. The first step is always the hardest, is it not?
I think a pause button would be in order.
Ok at the risk of being further down voted, I am going to have 1 more crack at this.

It's not which. It's Unix and Linux as a whole.

This is exactly my point, I don't believe there is a Unix or Linux as a whole. Sure, there are Unix-like and Linux-like OS's out there and if you know 1 then you can easily adapt to using another. That is the point, you have to adapt. That is why unified standards are a good thing, you ideally only have to develop once.

Uhm, Unix and Linux do own the world. Desktop PCs are an anomaly in the computing world

I know exactly what anomaly means. We are just going to have to agree to disagree on this one. I would argue that before the Desktop PC revolution, computing was niche and elitist. Desktop PC's opened the world of computing to everyone and hugely accelerated the take-up and rate of innovation in all things computing. Additionally this Desktop PC revolution was driven by IBM, Intel and Microsoft, not Unix/Linux.

But personally, I trust Mozilla and Opera; if they felt the creation of the WHATWG was important for the development of web technologies, then it's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

I am not going to argue this one as I am not going to be seen as bad mouthing Mozilla or Opera, especially as I am a huge fan of Firefox and have great respect for both companies. Perhaps I am just old and scared of change but I fail to see how forking or branching HTML5 standards can possibly be a good thing. Browsing and HTLML5 in particular is an important foundation in future development and I just hate to see standards possibly diverging in this.
E-Commerce Fueling a 'Retail Robot' Boom
A cursory look at Faraday's wikipedia page suggests that he started off as an assistant to Humphry Davy at the Royal Institution and succeeded him as the Director of the Royal Institution and became the first Fullerian Professor of Chemistry without any teaching obligations. Faraday's accomplishments are hardly unacknowledged when he is considered as one the greatest experimentalists in the history of science. Maxwell's genius lay in unifying the disparate experimental observations of Faraday into the 'right' squiggles, predicting the existence of electromagnetic waves from his equations and in the process suggesting that visible light itself may be an electromagnetic wave; an achievement worthy of celebration in my opinion.
This page is basically a pass-through to taskrabbit -- nothing stopping you from contracting someone on taskrabbit to get you some In'n'Out in PA.
How to watch the Olympics, live, from the United States
I also thought this argument was obvious, even though people clearly didn't think so, but I'm glad you did such a good job explaining the point.

> when did learning become bad?

This is when you hit on what I think people mean when they use the "just get stuff done" argument. What they mean is they can get stuff done now, without having to learn anything along the way or think too hard.

Sometimes that's defensible, deadlines and real life and all. Most of the time it's defensiveness because they know they are getting less stuff done and that stuff is lower quality because they didn't take the time to learn better tools and stuck with the training wheels.

> hip guys in class who write cool code in Ruby or Python

How out of touch do you have to be to think that people are using Ruby or Python because they are hip unknown languages? I have literally gotten this same statement thrown at me (to be fair, he had two young kids so he really was out of touch and had good reason to be).
It's not an actual movie. It's a reconstruction of made from several photographs.

From: http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/trillionfps/

"... We use an indirect 'stroboscopic' method that records millions of repeated measurements by careful scanning in time and viewpoints. Then we rearrange the data to create a 'movie' of a nanosecond long event. ... However, due to very short exposure times (roughly two trillionth of a second) and a narrow field of view of the camera, the video is captured over several minutes by repeated and periodic sampling. ... "
You'd probably have to go to before WW2.

On the earlier end, Stanford, UCLA, UCSB and Berkeley all trace their roots back to 1860s-1890s.

But you'd probably have to go back to before the gold rush to go to a time when there weren't many people in the bay area: san francisco had about 1,000 people living there in 1848, 25,000 by 1849, and was the 10th most populous city in the US by 1870, and had 300,000 by 1890.

Los Angeles blew up with the discovery of oil and entertainment and broke the top 10 in the 20's and the top 5 in the 30's.

You aren't wrong, the east coast had a lot more people, but they still do today.
The "manipulating the filesystem" section was very helpful. Also, huge props for making a text version of the screencast.
It'd be nice to have an explicit "save" link for stories and comments. I know that every story I upvote gets saved (and can be retrieved via my profile), but I'd like to be able to save things I find interesting w/o giving it an upvote/endorsement (and for users who aren't aware of upvotes getting saved in this way).
Show a real-time user count without any client-side Javascript
Author's anger is misdirected here. The core thesis of the TechCrunch article -- shipping some working PHP code is approximately a million times better than designing something mindblowing in Haskell that never actually ships -- is true. If your team can get a Python project out the door faster than one written in PHP, go with Python. And vice versa. Users don't care what language it's written in, so why should you?
Unilaterally resetting the scroll direction to the 10.6 standard is insanely presumptuous.
Defcon Day 2 Talk Notes – The DCWG Debriefing
The next logical step: you order from burgerexpress.com and they send what amounts to a taco truck to your house. Someone in back cooks the burger en route. Deliveries are scheduled such that each customer's burger is done just as the truck arrives at the customer's address.

Oh, and when some enterprising HN'er gets that working, I also want a Web 2.0 site that will let me create virtual Mongolian BBQ entrees and have them delivered with ingredient choices and quantities as specified.
This had to be on the front page today when both of the following were true:
1. I both really wanted an burger and
2. it's a weekend so they're not delivering.

Perfect
It could be Apple, Amazon, a public library, a restaurant. [...] Personally, I'd like all of these organizations to be upfront with their policies, but they usually don't take this approach.

Librarians do make more of an effort to be conscientious and transparent. There is considerable emphasis on ethics and the importance of an unrestricted public discourse in library-science degrees, and there is a general ethos that these things matter and should be considered carefully. The American Library Association is also quite active in trying to make sure that's carried out in practice, organizing public discussions of library-related ethics and decision-making, publishing best practices, and raising a ruckus or bringing lawsuits if necessary.
That is the creepiest avatar / drawing I have seen all month.
Latest Apple Ads Take a Turn for the Worse
Gah what a stupid article. Consider its foundational point:

"Pragma measured the effect by comparing the volume in certain stocks with the time it takes to execute an order. Longer execution times typically result in poorer results, since a stock's price can swerve away from where it was when the order entered the market. Such an effect is known in the industry as a "shortfall.""

If you are a "long term" investor you don't sell stocks to capture a few pennies here and there. You buy at price $X and hold it for a while, maybe you put in a stop order [1] so that if the shares start heading for the floor you will automatically exit. You set a value you want to see for your 'gain' and you set a limit order [2] when the stock starts getting close. The limit fires and you exit the stock. Even if it keeps rising and rising.

The basis for the claim in the article is that some HFT house might buy your stock when it hits the limit order price, because it is predicting it will go higher and then instantly resells it for a bit more than your price. You've cashed out already (closed your position) and they skimmed a bit of cream off the top. You didn't 'lose' any money at all.

For those not familiar with stock trading:

[1] A 'stop' order tells the firm holding your stock that if the stock drops below a certain price (the stop price) to automatically sell the security. So if you buy a stock at $10/share and you don't want lose more than 20% on it you might set a stop order for $8/share.

[2] A limit order goes the other way, you tell the broker that if the stock ever gets to a certain price to sell your shares. So if you are looking for a 10% return on your $10/share stock you might put a limit order in for $11/share. (or $11.25 if you want the 'net proceeds' to be $11/share).
Captchas Are Becoming Ridiculous
It still happens, but anecdotally it's dropping and fast. In the last couple of years we've seen people actually turn against such behavior, and that's the first step. Like another poster brought up, you don't hear phones ring in theaters any more - it took time, but the new etiquette is catching on.

> "They are a tool of social disconnection"

Balderdash. On the whole smartphones have been a net gain for socialization. Remember, certain people also lamented the loss of the hand-written letter, or the telegram, and predicted grave consequences for the nature of human interaction. None of which has come true. The need for social contact in humans transcends any technological imposition we can place upon it.

Look at Facebook, which is a favourite whipping boy of HN's, but they have changed the face of socialization. You are now capable of keeping up with many more people than ever before - and I call shenanigans on people who would claim this form of interaction is "cheating" (like a rolodex is cheating), or somehow less genuine (elitist bull).

To pre-empt an incredibly facile and common argument that relates to this: keeping up with more people is a good thing, and the whole notion that having fewer, tighter friends is unequivocally better is arrogance in the extreme, not to mention a huge case of false dichotomy.

So, back to smartphones. It has enabled a new, lower-barrier-threshold communication form (SMS/IM) that is not as intrusive, it has enabled incredible ability to keep in touch with a category of acquaintances which previously got no attention at all (Facebook/G+/etc), it has given us tools by which organizing large events is easier than ever before (GroupMe, Facebook), and finally realized the dream of vid-calling (FaceTime/Skype), as well as the tools by which we stay informed about important news of relevance to our daily lives (Twitter, Facebook), and hell, it's even helping us make friends and date (Meetup, OKCupid, Match, etc, all of which have deep mobile integration).

So what's that about smartphones been a net negative again?
The fact that you are listing "C/C++" as one of the languages you are proficient in implies that you are probably not aware of the vast complexity gap that exists between C and C++, and that contradicts with you being "proficient" in C++.
The folks managing the IPO all have egg on their faces

To the contrary, they have every reason to be delighted with the result! An IPO that pops dramatically after the beginning of trading means money left on the table that the investors and selling insiders (those "managing the IPO") won't get. It may be a disappointment to the rank-and-file employees with lockup agreements, and an awkward thing to explain to potential employees, but from the perspective of a pre-IPO stockholder, it was a great result.

As for whether this is 2000 again or not, time (and more data points) will tell. There were successful companies back then, too, that are still with us now. The transition to more traditional valuations will eliminate the indefensible businesses but bring stock prices, VC funding, and (as you point out) salaries to more sustainable levels.
I wouldn't run the whole script blindly. You will have to do more than one linear pass through the script to find and invert settings you later discover you don't like.

I recommend one close readthrough, uncommenting or commenting things you do or don't like, and then a full run. I do recommend running the script after a careful edit. It will save you time.
Twitter cuts off service to LinkedIn, API changes draw ire
Unfortunately, this tip doesn't seem to be working for the Olympics replays on the BBC's site (they all have a "try again later" every time I try to watch one).

Thanks for the tip, though, and kudos to Unblock-Us for being one of a VERY few sites that let you trial their service without giving them payment details.
Thanks for your passive-aggressive reply. My comment was directed at the author, not at you. I don't know what if any connection you have to the author.

However, you should note the content-free enthusiastic comment by LeonW, posted right after you submitted the article, in which he does not mention that he is the author's co-founder. You might also have noticed that many articles from this blog are similar: a catchy headline, a bunch of vague inspirational words on an uncontroversial subject, a token link to the conversion funnel, and a surprisingly high rank on the HN front page.

If you aren't even slightly suspicious that this article is 99% conversion fodder and maybe 1% altruism, I am not going to be able to explain it to you.
Which is yet another indication of the validity of my general premise: I'm looking for further experience.
You should be able to fix the readability of this without hiring a designer. Not that you shouldn't hire a designer, but you shouldn't wait to fix it before you hire one either. Since email is all about text, if it looks unreadable that's going to be a big turn-off. Read at least the next paragraph of my post!

To start, I would reduce the font sizes on your header-type items somewhat. It's clear that you're using large fonts and bold to emphasize key information (which is the right idea), but a heuristic I've found is that if you're using bold, your font doesn't need to be as big, or if you're using a large size, you may not need to be bold. When you do both, it's like an assault on the eyes, which you don't need here. Doing this alone would make your app like 75% better (note: I made that number up entirely and don't know very much about your app.)

Next, you could tone down the reds (I would change the hard red #F00 color to the softer pink-ish color, and then reduce the pinkish color further), and exchange the black on white for something else. For your icons, you could experiment with grays (I like to start with #333 and then go up or down), so they're less overwhelming.

Finally, add some labels for your icons. Remember how you made your fonts smaller before? Well that applies to these labels. They should be contrasty so you can read them, but otherwise it's fine if they're subtle.

A couple of minor points about your website: the proper name of your competitor is Gmail, not GMail. You should add more spacing between your icons and the text (it feels crowded currently.) Also, your circle arrow jobs are getting cut off at the bottom.

Finally part ii: don't forget to steal from others. Obviously I don't mean blatantly stealing a design, but just check out what other sites do. To do this effectively, you have to pick a particular thing and examine it closely. So for example, if you want to figure out how to do headers, go to other sites and see what they do to give emphasis to things without being overwhelming.