skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry if it's vague--I think it was a "learning" related startup.
Yeah I wanted something with a bit more chrome and javascript hooks.
"Hey everyone! The IRS is using your check-in data to police the places that you frequent!"

I'm sure nothing bad at all would happen upon people reading that headline.
Physical Discipline by parents is not considered out of ordinary in India. To anyone who grew up in India, you calling a dad abuser is more offensive.
It does seem odd, especially since they have a Github organization account: https://github.com/adobe
John Carmack Keynote (Live at 2:30PST)
Wow...its beautiful!
Knight Has ‘All Hands On Deck’ After $440 Million Bug
Also, segmented stacks (http://llvm.org/releases/3.0/docs/SegmentedStacks.html). GCC already supports it.
I think better marketing towards regular users instead of developers would help to explain many of these questions. They really need to explain to people what value app.net is going to add and why it is better than the free, ad-funded, alternatives. They have not done a very good job of that and marketing the correct message can help.
I was one of those meat lovers that stayed away from meat after watching one of those videos that shows you how we get our meat (slaughter houses, systematic butchering of animals etc)…for a week.

I'll gladly gobble up any meat/vegan replacement that offers the same texture and 'chew-ability' as chicken (I've weaned off beef and pork best as I can, and try to limit myself to just fish and chicken for my inner carnivore). Not just for environment's sake but also I can sleep just a bit better at night.

We all have our vices – meat's one of mine. I look forward to the day when I no longer crave meat!
You can slice this the other way also: using check-ins for a particular person to track where they visit. If their reported income is low, yet they check-in regularly at expensive restaurants and travel the globe, you've probably got a tax cheat in there somewhere or another.

Seriously, I have no idea why we discuss some of this stuff. It only serves to give ammo for other people to monitor and control us in ways they never have before.
I might be the only sceptic here, but the fact that it seems that Valve has conflict of interest when it comes to Microsoft lately (see Gabe's comments) makes me doubt the authenticity of these results.

I'd love to see real performance improvements when it comes to Linux, but right now I just see a company that (it seems) has something to gain by smearing Microsoft giving out results without any methodology or explanation. They never even said how they avoided the typical pitfall of "FPS" benchmarking - making sure the GPU and the engine is actually drawing the same things (that means making sure all the same shaders are executed, similar extensions are used so that image quality is identical).

Until we get some confirmation in the wild I'll remain highly sceptical towards claims on the blog.
Nice to see crash report tools like CrashFeed integrated into PaaS!
Is that new? Back then it was two devs and two traders in a room. See a problem? Press the big red button. Deploy change. Press the big green button. Cowboy style. I STRONGLY recommend against doing it this way. I was young and stupid and I'm pretty sure it took years off my life.
OMFG Starbucks reported $3B in revenue this past quarter, but this store only has 10k checkins! Send in the G-Men, they must be laundering money!

Come on, seriously.
Yay gridlock!

Interesting how one week it's a bug, the next week it's a feature.
You just can't please some people. Yes, that gift horse's mouth is a little dirty. :-)
Haha, very true. That's why it isn't working. The initial price needs to be much lower to reach their goal. Over time, as the service grows, I think $50 is eventually a fair price. But, way too much for a fledgling service with unclear benefits to the user.
"In the case of VISA you'll get a payment 30 days later, so in VISA vs. cash, you're not getting the interest on the money,"

Wha? I get my Visa money within a day or two.
Statistically it's horrible, however, it's probably good enough that some politician will make the IRS do this and now businesses will concern themselves with ensuring they have the right number of checkins.

Luckily it should be a great business to ensure that local businesses get the right number of checkins.
Ask HN: Where to find artwork for landing page?
Hey all,

Throwing up a landing page for something I've been working on. I'm wondering where all of you normally go for images & artwork to use on a landing page? Something like Shutterstock?

Suggestions appreciated, thanks!
Um, no. There's a lot of misinformation on oil smoke points on the net unfortunately. Going way off topic here for HN, but see http://whatscookingamerica.net/Q-A/SmokePointOil.htm for an accurate chart. It's ~320F for EVOO vs ~400F for canola.

That makes a noticeable difference in the kitchen. Using olive oil you'll find yourself overheating more often. It's also more expensive, and imparts a flavor, which you typically don't want in your oil when sauteing or pan frying. If you want that flavor, pour a little high quality olive oil on at the end. I do that with something like a pan seared halibut, it's heavenly.

Thomas Keller mentions in his books (I believe both Ad Hoc and Bouchon) that he uses canola for sauteing and pan frying for exactly those reasons. (Grapeseed oil is great, he mentions, but very expensive. Peanut oil is typically used for deep frying.) He's probably the most technical of the chefs with numerous Michelin-starred restaurants so I'm inclined to take his advice.
There's so much work to be done in advancing the state of readability on the web. Widely available, properly drawn fonts do a lot to help.

With only a quick look this looks like a really helpful contribution. I wonder if the name is a play on Open Sans.
Is there an example food here other than broccoli that takes less energy but has more similar macros (protein, carbohydrates and fat) to beef or chicken? A major reason a lot of meat eaters choose to eat meat is the high percentage of calories from protein (in addition to the taste, obviously). Broccoli may be cheaper to produce 500 calories but those calories are mostly just carbs which most people get more than enough of.
I was disappointed, too, that rouxbe wasn't on the list. It isn't free, though, and that seems to be one of their criteria.
I'm all for unique uses of programmatic data collection, but this is a huge, huge stretch, with no practical implementation details.
Or you think you are focusing on code, and just are too tired to notice context-switches or general slowness.
Well, perhaps it's already happening. After all, you're voluntarily publishing your location in real-time to the world when you check into Foursquare.

I find it interesting that we do this naturally and without thinking twice about it. Ten years ago the idea might have seemed preposterous.
Poetics by Aristotle
Fees are nowhere 8.5% I've never heard that and have had a merchant account since the 80's at several businesses.

Not taking credit cards will cost you business in a retail location.
The kind that has abortion and firearms clauses in a "Cyber Security" bill.
Because it's unclear with all the preamble, this is a release of 6 weights of the 'SourceSansPro' font in upright and italic styles. A monospace variant is a 'work in progress' that's not yet in the download package.
Your friend's rates seem a bit crazy. Square charges under 3%, and a dedicated merchant account can be less still.
I believe the US government was designed that way on purpose.

An efficient government can be a scary thing.
Is this really feasible? I don't fly a lot, but the last time I was at an airport, the only areas that invited you to sit down/have a meal were on the far side of the TSA checkpoint, etc.
400,000 American homes have dumped pay-TV so far this year
On Buying Fonts
Not an answer to your question but the profit estimator allows the user to replace the text in the final output at the bottom. I wouldn't make that an input since it's for display only. Header tag would probably be best. I click and highlight text as I read (habit) and I accidentally erased it. :)
tldr: just because lots of people use foursquare there should be a direct correlation between check-in's and revenue; this method should be used by the IRS when collecting taxes.

Are you serious? This is no way front page HN worthy. This is the worst thing I've read since that "wake up at 5am and eat a slice of ham to start my metabolism" trash.
For those wondering, the monospace variant is sadly not included, as it is currently under development.
I had the same reaction, this stuff makes me queasy.

I don't like tax cheats, but a tax cheat isn't going to imprison me for having the wrong opinions.
That's nonsense. There are 20k Starbucks in the world, this is one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbucks
How Real People Use Windows 8 - Old Man Sees it for First Time
Maybe this will help?

http://ballotpedia.org

Something that could keep track of that kind of stuff might be hard because everyone has a bias. But I agree tacking is important!
You are correct. Madison specifically put in circuit breakers to prevent the mob swinging wildly one way one month, then wildly another way the next.

To the degree that politicians have circumvented these circuit breakers, we're turning the system more into a winner-takes-all soundbite/24-hour-news-cycle fight.

It's a feature. My (subtle?) point was that when gridlock comes up most people have no idea what they're talking about. Usually "gridlock" just means "my guys are being thwarted by the other guys! That sucks!"
Most of players don't have OpenGL 4.2.

You'll get hundreds of bug reports about game crashing on start.

Testing on old hardware (for <50 000 triangle games it's Intel GMA and Geforce 4 MX and some old Radeon) is a good way to be sure it works on most of computers. Of course game needs to support those old cards only on lowest quality settings.
I submit that it is Elon's individual ego that drives him to strive for and achieve these goals. Its just that his goals seem broader to you than Arnie's. And to a large extent they are. But the goals are driven by his ego, and not some mumbo jumbo altruistic feeling.
That is the one study often used, but I haven't seen others. One study shouldn't be used to conclusively say something is bad or healthy. So are there similar issues in cultures that do consume more soy?
The main thrust of the argument has little to do with dietary choice, and far more to do with the negative footprint of factory farming.

Factory farming is a significant contributor to many negatives in the environment. Methane, fertilizers and hormones/chemicals that seep into groundwater, fresh water usage, and transportation are massive contributors to environmental damage.

Disclaimer: I'm a chef, I love meat, and I'm descended from farmers. I still believe this is the future, once someone nails the texture/flavour issue. I've been looking into in-vitro meat, but it still looks a ways off http://new-harvest.org/substitutes.htm

Being able to manipulate the fat content and marbling, re-introduce heirloom breeds, and all produced with a fraction of the footprint makes this a delicious opportunity.

The real question is the length of the roadmap, it's been decades that people have been working on this.
Very curious: if you haven't eaten a vegetable in 12 years, what do your meals usually look like?
Conversely if you have a grudge against a neighbouring business, make lots of fake accounts, check in there on foursquare to make the tax collectors think something is up.
Kixeye Ridicules Zynga/Pincus, EA & Kabam In This Profanity-Laced Video
I get that, though it's interesting that video games was their demo medium.
People confuse minimum viable product with low quality all the time. Minimum viable is really about the smallest set of features a customer needs to spend money on your product. It doesn't mean a low quality product rushed out quickly. A minimum viable product could still take you months to build, and require design help, if the features demanded were hard to build.
So what are some of the interviews of him that you have enjoyed? I've seen the one at [Pandodaily](http://pandodaily.com/2012/07/12/pandomonthly-presents-a-fir...).
500 calories of broccoli takes far more energy to produce than 500 calories of meat. Broccoli is bulky, it's mostly air & water and indigestible starch. It takes many pounds of broccoli to get 500 calories, whereas 500 calories of steak is only a few ounces. So unless that broccoli is hyper-local, transportation costs alone may make it worse. Even if it is hyper-local, I still suspect that broccoli is a worse way of converting solar energy into human energy than cows are.

Environmentalists usually compare meat to calorie dense vegetable sources, like grains & legumes. That's fair because it's impossible for a human to eat enough broccoli to stay alive -- it takes about the same amount of energy just to digest the broccoli as you get from it.

The "standard" metric for meat conversion is that it takes 12 pounds of wheat to make 1 pound of beef. But that's very misleading. Cows generally don't eat wheat. Naturally raised cows eat grass. Cows eating grass in midwestern North America is probably the closest we can get to its natural ecosystem, which used to be dominated by mammoths eating grass until they were killed off, then by bison eating grass until they were killed off. But humans can't eat grass. Cows have four stomachs and a rumination habit that ensure that it is efficiently digested.

Even feedlot cattle are much more efficient than the 12-1 metric would have you believe. The feed barley and feed corn varieties that are grown to feed cattle yield at rates 2-8 times better than the high-protein wheat varieties fed to humans. Not too mention the fact that when you feed corn to cattle you feed them the entire plant. Humans just eat the seeds.
We have to remember that our set of laws was designed with a huge amount of slack. You can have a speed limit that nobody follows because hardly anybody gets caught. Once you start catching everybody, you've changed the social dynamic just by following the rules more strictly.

This kind of thing is a huge deal. For decades politicians have spit-balled new laws that, even though passed, don't amount to squat because nobody can figure them out or enforce them.

The more we automate this stuff the more miserable all of our lives will be. This kind of thing is not good at all. Can emphasize enough how these technological developments are a terrible evil (and I love technology)
You are applying your YC bias to the word 'incubator'.

in·cu·ba·tor/ˈinkyəˌbātər/

Noun:

1. An enclosed apparatus providing a controlled environment for the care of premature babies.
2. An apparatus used to hatch eggs or grow microorganisms under controlled conditions.
It is a shame that so many people are unable to have conversations with their boss as adults, no matter how good/bad the feedback is.

Email is never a good way to have difficult conversations. Too many wires get crossed and meaning is extracted where there was no intent.

It would be nice if there were some guides on the page about how to have these conversations in person. 'Crucial Conversations' is a great starting place http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-Conversations-Tools-Talking-...
I remember having this same thought when I learned about the existence of "Islamic finance." Apparently, Islam has a strong doctrinal prohibition against charging interest, and there's an entire thriving sector of Islamic law and business dedicated to structuring transactions in ways that don't technically charge interest but still yield a return on principal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_banking

This reminds me of a little kid beating up his classmates on the playground being told by the playground monitor to stop touching them, and then turning around going back to tormenting them by starting to punch them and stopping just short of making actual contact, and saying "neener neener, I'm not actually touching you." Except here, instead of a playground monitor, it's...an omnipotent creator deity.
Credit card fees cost money and credit card companies don't let retailers charge a higher price for credit card transactions, so the retailer has to get the hit.

However if your plumber or tradesperson gives a lower price for cash, then that's probably tax evasion.
in case the server didn't make it: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tyEeSk8...
The Art of Life Balance
I'm one of the founders of iSEC (acquired by NCC in Oct 2010) and I can confirm that we've had a lot more freedom than anybody actually expected. There should be a lot more collaboration between iSEC and Matasano as Tom pointed out, but they don't have to fear the NCC borg assimilating them just yet.
You can edit the CSS with Pixate in the exact same way. It doesn't get 'compiled away', the runtime optimizations happen behind the scenes. The CSS can remain in your project as a resource, much in the same way you reference your CSS in an HTML page.
I can see IRS building a fun little crawler. They already know everyone's name, address, place of employment, age, marital status, salary, the church they donate to. It would be interesting (and scary) to try to identify potential auditing target based on these check-ins and other stuff (from say, Facebook posts, twitter).
I've heard of tax inspectors counting the cars parked outside small businesses to get an idea of number of customers.
Amex and Diner's Club were the bad ones in my experience--regularly taking 30+ days to pay.
Photoshop is what the vast majority of all web and app designers use at some point in their process.
You otherwise would be handing your credit card to a stranger who can quite easily skim it.
I believe apple came up with a tricky way of doing this on their homepage.
Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:J2Nfrde...
They frame the benefits of their platform with too much ideology and too little practicality.

Developers can be very ideological, but when it comes to spending money, even we have to be somewhat practical.

The question in my mind, when I looked at their website, was "What can I build with this?" That's a question that should be answered by their pitch.

It would be a much more convincing pitch if they listed a few example application ideas and discussed the role that app.net would play in the implementation.

But as it stands, I can't really see what architectural pain point is solved by join.app.net, that couldn't be better solved by existing solutions like RSS, that are far less expensive to host.
This seems to me like it would be an interesting hypothesis for a an experiment, but a bad idea to suggest/encourage in any "real" (IRS) capacity. Academically the idea is interesting, but the thought of this being actually implemented is a little scary.

... but you could say the same thing about a lot of other areas of research, too. Face detection at Facebook's scale, for example: really cool academically and potentially really scary in application.
I'd say that few outside of America could write that sentence.

The difference between two neighbouring countries is a huge deal and apparent (regardless if you are a local or not) where you don't even speak the same language, have the same currency (the euro has of course changed that a bit (in Europe)) and for all practical purposes a complete different sets of laws and culture.

The reason for why many cities are notable is because they are the capitals of different countries. Their identity is based on their country. You can hardly say the same about different states in America (to the same extent (of course people that live in America have different accents and prejudices for people in other states etc., but to compare that to different countries?)).
Coffee (and beer) meetings power Vancouver too, and presumably any reasonable startup hub.

More important than knowing they're important is keeping them from consuming your week. Although they only take an hour, they're more expensive than that because they totally disrupt your Maker's Schedule.

My solution to this is to only schedule coffee meetings on Thursdays. If there are too many in a week to cram into a Thursday, they need to bump to the next week or further. Being connected is important, but building your product is much more important.
Again those you mention where hired for their style, a style they spent many years developing. They define the requirements so of course they can meet them.

That not the reality developers no matter how much you insist.

With regards to Frank Gehry. He is using some specialized software from the military to calculate some of those crazy shapes he do. If you throw in the development of that software as part of the scoping you begin to understand the complexity.

Banner ads are much more complex than you think since most of the times designers design, client approve and devs have to put it under 20KB.

You aren't really understanding the problems here.
Logged in now, thanks for the clarification.
The perils and pitfalls of “patient-driven” clinical research
An Andre To Remember (obit to andre hedrick)
Great point. I try to either do them Friday afternoons, when things are wrapping up for the week anyway, or early in the morning, before I get started with anything else.

And yeah, I do see beers as another option. Though the conversation is usually a bit more muddled - not a problem if you guys are friends, but sometimes less good if you are trying to learn something important or discuss something complex in nature.
a few days old. and it raises a few good points in the end.
Platform Hygiene
The actual fee charged could be close to 8.5% if you are charging mostly small transactions b/c they usually charge a percent plus a flat $0.30 fee.

Say you charge the customer $5: 2% + $0.30 is $0.40--8% of the total.
Service Providers And PaaS
That failure is not limited to democracy. It's a consequence of the barriers separating government officials from other people, including centralized information media (to which government officials have much better access than citizens) and in the case of democracy, the high cost of running an election campaign, inescapably making the pursuit of money from special interests the primary concern for elected officials.

The former barrier is being eroded as people have better access to and influence over the public forum. The latter remains a contentious issue to resolve.
Guchex - Beta List
Type Specifications and Erlang (new chapter of learn you some erlang)
It depends on your transaction amount, the fees can easily exceed 8.5%. When I had no change the other day and paid 45 cents at a parking station with a credit card I can guarantee the fees were more than 8.5%.
Naturally grown for cows means grass-fed. It has other meanings for different animals, but it generally means a diet & lifestyle comparable to what their wild cousins have.

Red meat studies generally consider hot dogs to be red meat. The very few studies that separate unprocessed red meat from processed red meat find that unprocessed red meat is just as healthy or even healthier than poultry meat.
"I don't think most foreigners would agree."

That is my point, in a nutshell: the knowledge is relative.