skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of these bullshit attempts to legitimize your idea aside - if you're really sticking to your mission of making this work, you should work on not making your text captions look so lazy. It honestly looks like someone screencapping Pinterest posts and writing text captions over them in MSPaint.
That's a great idea for kickstarter projects like this.
Really cool design, I love seeing seamless in browser 3D, can't wait till this is the norm.
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Your data do also inherently self-select unless you're conducting your research very carefully. Once you throw up a "FB required for comments" requirement, you're going to start shooing away many people who'd otherwise be interested in participating. Some/many will simply never come back.

FB has a penetration of roughly 50% of the population in first world developed nations, and that seems to be its zenith (usage has actually started falling in the US and other early-adopter regions). So you're excluding roughly half your potential participants.

How the FB usage pattern distributes across your target/desirable population is of course another question. I don't have the answers on that.
I've always been curious about trading options. It seems like now is a good time to buy the FB120818P00017000 put for example. I honestly don't see the downside to this. That option is trading at $4 for a block of 100. So investing $400 get's you 10000 options. If the price of the stock dips below $17 the option could trade at 48 cents in which case you've turned $400 into $2400 (minus transaction fees and taxes). On the other hand you could lose your $400 which isn't that bad. What's are the downsides here that I'm missing?
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For all the blather that gets thrown around about the DMCA, the safe harbor provision is what basically allows a large number of the biggest sites on the internet to operate. Do you think we would have a YouTube without it?
Yeah... that was my first thought – looks like a canv.as competitor.

However, I do not think it's sad in any way. In my book, entertainment is is useful.
I've had these only a few times over the years mainly back in the day for some of the reasons you mentioned. At this point I can't even remember the last time I encountered one.

For reference, for anyone interested (based on your comment), I just pulled this up relative to Mac OSX:

http://thexlab.com/faqs/kernelpanics.html
And how do you propose they run down the price? Someone needs to be buying on the other end, and there are a shortage of those. That's why the price sinks.

Besides, the Street made their money off of this deal a long time ago.
Yet another Pinteresting UI. Disappointing.
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Bitcoins in general are really interesting as a sandboxed, time-accelerated microcosm of capitalism. You get to watch the entirely predictable boom/bust cycle, inevitable follies, manipulation and theft play out in years or even months instead of decades.

Yet you still see people going "but this time the bubble's legit guys!"
I'll just leave this here: http://maqetta.org/
While the overall graphics and the general mechanism looks decent, the actual action of turning a page if very kludgy and glitchy. I found it difficult to get the pages completely turned since the book kept rotating a bit.
The whole section in the middle where you describe the relationship between Assange and the two women – I’m honestly not really sure what you want to say with that. Do you think those facts make it less likely that rape occurred?

None of the facts you presented would lead me to adjust the probability that a rape actually occurred down.

Most commonly rape happens between people who know each other, not in some dark alley between total strangers. The fact that the women knew Assange and even expressed that they liked him doesn’t make rape less plausible. I can’t see how that can be evidence for some sort of conspiracy.

Similarly, victims of rape becoming distraught with the process and essentially giving up on it – especially with one that is so very public – isn’t something that would surprise me, so I’m also not sure why that is evidence in favor of a government conspiracy.

I don’t really care whether Assange really raped someone (I think the very capable Swedish justice system is perfectly able to sort that out), I’m only interested in whether there is any evidence that points to a government conspiracy – and I honestly do not see anything.
No, it's not. She consented on the condition that he wore a condom. This meant that not wearing a condom made the sex non-consensual, and the normal term for non-consensual sex is rape. It was ruled that in England and Wales the behaviour would be criminal, too.
Is there any particular reason the link is HTTPS, especially considering that the page contains no sensitive content, and a warning about non-SSL content when it's loaded?
Not for me, ipad3 here and it worked fine
So does intermittent fasting: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/fasting-brain-function/#axzz2...

I mention that because I hate calorie restriction.
Oh get off your high horse already. This kind of Fox News argumentation breaking everything down to base emotions and 'I'm offended' rhetoric is offensive to anyone with an intellect.

Of course sexual assault is a serious crime!

Personally, I just find it interesting that only Strauss Khan and now Assange get this kind of persecution when it fits someone's agenda.

If you read something else - sort out your own demons.
What the internet truly needs right now is more image macros.
you may want to try http://tripease.info/en/

disclaimer: i know these guys
I completely agree that the UK statements about revoking the embassy's status are dumb on a massive level and they need to back off of that position in a hurry. I think Ecuador are abusing the asylum process but your point about what the UK's actions if they did it mean is completely right.

In terms of the being charged thing, that's a technical distinction based on how the Swedish process works where you have to be formally questioned before you can be charged. As the UK judges at his appeal stated, it's misleading to say that, criminal charges have in effect been bought.

But that still doesn't justify storming the embassy.

I'm not saying that mistakes haven't been made in the past but Assange will, I suspect have far better legal representation and a far better PR apparatus than the Egyptian's had. This is a trial that would be in the glare of the world's media which makes any kind of cover up far, far harder.
It worked for me on iOS 6. I can't speak for earlier versions.
They can make more. They like more :-)
Given the possibility to enforce it being always on... why would MS ever want to make it optional? I'm trying to apply critical thinking here, but can't figure out any reason to explain it. At the level that kind of decision/deal is made, what could prevent it?

What's stopping them from pushing for that once secure boot is widespread enough?
Questions on ownership:

1. Does Y Combinator then own a stake in their product Makr, or in Disapora?

2. When Allerta went from Waterloo Velocity's incubator to inPulse (at Y Combinator) and then Pebble (with Kickstarter's help), which pivot does Y Combinator have an ownership in? The parent company, or the new product?

3. Did everyday.me get accepted into the YC class, or Noodle Labs (makers of everyday.me) receive funding?

4. If you start an unrelated side project while you're there, is it seen as a pivot? And does YC have a claim in that?
Considering the housing bubble peaked 5 years ago, way before FB was valued at $100B, and has been deflating ever since, I find your connection tenuous, at best.
Apple will get the courts wrath soon enough. The smartphone market is still so new relativly speaking.
Nope, you're remembering wrong. From the announcement of the second bundle [1]:

However, new this time is a customizable "Humble Tip" which goes to fund a new company Jeff and myself recently started: Humble Bundle, Inc.

[1] http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/12/Humble-Indie-Bundle-2---IT-S...
The best bike sharing program I've seen anywhere is in Copenhagen.

http://ruk.ca/content/how-use-copenhagen-city-bikes/

It's a free system, because the 20 kroner coin that is used to unlock the bike is released when the bike is returned. These bikes have 20-inch wheel, which are non-pneumatic. Single-gear with a coaster brake. And weigh about 50 pounds. Also built like tanks. As a tourist, it increased my enjoyment of the city by a factor of 10.
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Choice (e.g. being able to choose which browser, search engine, etc. you prefer) helps add to a positive user experience. Making users feel 'boxed-in' to using certain apps is a bit reminiscent of another large software company from years ago.
I haven't tried it, but you should be able to set the cornerRadius of the layer (a CALayer) of the main window. That would apply it to all subviews.
Relevant SMBC: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2388

Also, I don't understand why people always applaud the use of micro-usb. I have NEVER seen a single plug that didn't lose its ability to hold onto the slot after a month or so.
They should do it to make users happy. I'd like to be able to more easily use apps like Sparrow and Chrome, but it's tough when they can't be set as the default.
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Good riddance. Angie's List was one of -- if not the -- first companies to resume advertising on Rush Limbaugh's show after the boycott.
It's sad to say, but the majority of people cannot follow a logical progression more than a two or three steps. It's not even an issue of "smart" vs "dumb", as many of my quite clever coworkers have this issue. It seems to me to be predicated on the ability to keep a lot of state in your head. If in order to reach an answer you need to synthesize the results of two logical conclusions and you can't keep the first result in your head while you work on the second, you're going to get lost.
"'It certainly wouldn’t behoove and wouldn’t be in the shareholders’ best interest to dump the shares on the market all at once,' [Harding] said. 'I would assume that all of the investors that hold the 270 million-odd shares are probably rational, and probably realize that flooding the market with that kind of supply over such a short amount of time wouldn’t help their position.'"

This reasoning seems flawed to me: He seems to not understand that the rational choice for individuals acting independently is often not rational for the group as a whole. The Prisoner's dilemma, Bank runs etc. are all examples of how this can happen.

If everyone else is in danger of selling and pushing the price down, you're better off selling now before that happens... and of course, everyone else would reason the same way, making it a self fulfilling prophecy.

If the shareholders had some way to collaborate and agree collectively to not sell now, his statement might be correct - but I doubt this is even legal even if it was feasible.

Of course, if you're in it for the long haul, then other people's opinions of the stock price shouldn't matter: you just buy/sell facebook stock based on whether you think the future expected dividends justify the investment.
Tony Blair was Prime Minister when Pinochet was detained (pity the fool who calls him "Mr. T"). Thatcher, however, publicly opposed his extradition.
I agree. I never said that it wasn't.

This isn't a typical font, however. This is a font that serves a single specialized purpose, which is better served by existing non-font tools that are also cheaper. An exceptionally difficult sales proposition if one wants to get beyond font geeks who buy it simply because it's cool (not that there's anything wrong with that; I certainly considered buying it simply because it was a cool hack).

The value of a product isn't based on what it is, it's based on how it's used.
> It's perfectly reasonable for Microsoft to hold on to their shares--even if facebook goes broke they still have billions in cash.

Common shareholders are last in line when a company goes broke.
Previous (and fairly recent) discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4365925
In the general case I would agree, but there needs to be a point where you can say that every effort was made and opportunity given and that the accused has actively refused to participate in the trial.

> And what would be the point? He can't be punished as he's not there so why not just wait until you actually have him?

I can see your point here, but after some time I would think that it would become difficult to continue with the case. Witnesses get hard to track down, evidence lost, etc..
There isn't anywhere this lets me put a chart that I can't today. Computers are capable of rendering non-font content, even if it sometimes seems otherwise.
Sounds like Unlimited service on Big Wireless Carriers.
Link to BBC report from the time
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/599526.stm
I don't like the fact that it broke all my KeePass passwords...
Some anecdotal evidence: I went searching for an app that would stream the radio stations in iTunes. Several pages in, I ran into a ton of radio station streaming apps - they were the same app, each wrapping a different radio station.

After 10 pages of that, I gave up.

Searching the App Store or the Play is a painful experience whether you're just browsing around to find something interesting or if you're looking for something that does a specific thing. The categorization isn't fine-grained enough and the "curators" will pretty much let anything thru without showing any signs of quality or originality.

The desktop software market still suffers from this a little bit, but enough time has passed that some standards for quality have emerged from the general consciousness. You release a desktop app, there are some gold standards to compare to.

If anything, the app market is going to be incredibly painful for quite some time.
You may be right, but I would be a little concerned about what form those "further problems on the world stage2 might take if I was a UK diplomat, or, worse, a local civilian employee, in a UK embassy somewhere interesting.
As I have written before, perhaps the greatest contribution the Bitcoin experiment will make to humankind is to teach you and me and our neighbors more about the realities of economics. Many of the ideas about how to mine Bitcoins, store Bitcoins, and trade with Bitcoins as a medium of exchange illustrate both the strengths and weaknesses of any other medium of exchange in a world full of human beings seeking personal advantage. Seeing the discussion of Bitcoins here on Hacker News reminds me of the last time that the price of gold (in United States dollars) crashed, and the arguments beforehand that such an occurrence was impossible, for instance. "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" is still an important principle of investment. Anyone could make a steady increase of wealth trading in almost any commodity, if only one could time the market. The trick with Bitcoin trading as with all forms of commodity trading is to somehow outsmart most other investors and time the market better than everyone else who trades Bitcoins. Good luck with that.

AFTER EDIT:

See a somewhat related story with interesting comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4391312

posted on Hacker News today.
Is it common practice to raid foreign embassies because of rape allegations? I was undecided about the allegations, but I think the current situation makes it pretty clear that this is not about the rape allegations at all.
I have a standard set of characters that I add to passwords. So far Craigslist has been the only site to really throw me for a loop. I try to be consistent but I end up using 'Forgot my Password' more than I should with them.

They are the only ones.
I think a huge factor is attitude to risk. The younger entrepreneurs are in the no-ties shoot-for-the-sky phase.
A larger proportion of people in the 30-40 range will be becoming more risk averse as they need to have financial stability to pay mortgages/support kids/spouses or whatever. But people tend to become more able to take financial risk as they get past young-kids stage, and develop enough of a savings cushion to go off on their own for a bit.
Wow, this is very interesting that they didn't go down the LESS/SASS route of file-level "global" variables, but instead chose to bind variables to elements and their descendents themselves.

Coming from LESS this seemed strange at first, but upon reflection it makes a ton of sense, and provides for fantastic flexibility.

Now to really make this useful, we just need mathematical operators for distance values (12px - 2px) and functions like darken() and lighten() on color values... or is that being proposed somewhere too?
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I don't think it is a fair comparison. There is a reason he went to the embassy of the world superpower and not Ecuador's embassy-- which China may have been much less likely to respect.
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For me, that is behind a login screen. I heard a little while ago about users who have a google account but aren't logged in being unable to access G+ pages; I'll edit after a cookie-clear and refresh (which may or may not help).

EDIT: De-cookieing helped, and I can now read the article without problems. Screw you, Google. Observers be warned.

EDIT 2: Is the downvote for any particular reason? My point was not unhelpful nor especially off topic; help, anyone?
Comments to the author/editor of the draft and w3c itself are best directed on the blog itself.
I guess, but my method only uses my brain. I can access my accounts using an internet cafe, someone else's iPod Touch, etc.
Your sole complaint about Amnesty is that somehow, they are too soft on Muslims. But their site is full of criticism about Muslim countries, e.g. http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/saudi-arabia - no indication that they are holding back at all with respect to actual reported human rights violations.

So what I can conclude from your post is that you are disappointed that Amnesty does not go beyond specific human rights criticisms to some kind of blanket condemnation of all Muslims, which would serve absolutely no constructive purpose except to satisfy bigotry.
I'd say S12's their best one yet, with Coco Controller, Double Robotics, Flight Fox far ahead in monetization (and business model development) stages than was previously seen.
I was recently in new Zealand and friends in their late 40s and early 50s were upset by the raid on a new Zealand citizen by foreign authorities, in new Zealand. Some of them used mega upload and some hadn't heard of it prior to the raid.

NZ told the us navy they didn't want their nuclear ships in the Harbour, which makes no sense to me, but does show that they have a spine. I wouldn't be surprised if the Mpaa doesn't get their way on this one.
The issue with claiming innocent until proven guilty is that that is one part of a due process which Assange's actions are making impossible to follow.

I'm not saying he's guilty (or innocent), just that when you halt due process, terms like this become a little less meaningful as they're one part of a larger thing which is being blocked.
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They also have an android app for downloading/updating all android games in your account.
Sure, but that makes Sweden pretty much the only party in this game to be able to break the deadlock without endangering Assange's life: just fly your prosecutor to London and question Assange. Decide whether to raise charges or not.

If not, revoke the extradition request. Problem solved.

The current situation is probably costing each country involved more time and money per hour than the travel expenses for the questioning trip would be.
Ecuadorian Anglo relations are currently strained over the sovereignty of the Falklands/Malvinas.

http://articles.cnn.com/2012-02-05/americas/world_americas_v...
The have Chrome for iOS now.
This works, but setting the cornerRadius property kills performance. It's preferable to overlay an image with black corners or to bake the black corners into your art assets.
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Linus refused to merge the kernel debugger patches for a very long time because he felt that if a bug could not be solved by thinking (and logging), then the code was too complicated.
He didn't choose Ecuador because he thinks they are great. They made an 'unofficial' offer of sanctuary to him back in 2010, and I am not aware that he has had any offers from anywhere else. I assume he doesn't really want to go there and is only buying time.
I don't think I am interesting enough or lucrative enough for someone to expend that much effort trying to hack my accounts. If they compromise my password on one service (and presumably gain access to thousands of other passwords), if mine is unique and others aren't, I'm betting the attack (on me) stops there.
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Thanks for the link. I found that by default, gentoo enables a lot of drivers (and they are not enabled as modules, but as part of kernel). I just made sure that I select the drivers required for my eee pc. It would have taken a lot of time to deselect the default ones. But, I am wondering whether kernel in Gentoo is just as bloated as other distros because of that.
For people who do not work at Google, is there something unusual (positive or negative) about Google's logging infrastructure?
You are not 'failing HARD at world peace' until you are at war, or making others go to war. Peace does not mean 'total lack of controversy or dispute'.
The most confusing part about this is that they don't seem to acknowledge the disappointment that the public might have after reading this. Diaspora did such a good job of capturing people's imaginations, but did a terrible job of communicating about its shortcomings. This just seems to be a continuation of that.
Apparently punter is less offensive than I thought. I previously equated it with something like asshole.
Microsoft requires that Secure Boot can be disabled by the user, but only on x86. On ARM, the exact opposite is true: Microsoft requires that Secure Boot cannot be disabled by the user.

Yet it's completely accepted on the market leader's products. Funny how that works.
Telefonica will use Firefox OS on feature phones with specs that are below Raspberry Pi.

There is a difference between running Ubuntu and just running a little OS using Linux kernel.
Correct. They're probably trying to calculate that number by assuming that every person who downloaded something copyrighted would have otherwise purchased it. Pure bunk.
Certainly no surprise. In the 10 years I've been married we have never paid for cable. Just never been worth our money to get 100 channels we don't want to see for 2 we do. They simply no longer have a good value proposition.
What is really being discussed here, without saying it explicitly, is whether it's OK for the United States to go after it's perceived enemies in other countries, for crimes committed outside the USA that violate USA laws, and bring them home to face trial, whether or not they are US citizens. And lets just call a spade a spade. It's clearly the "United States of Sweden".