skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you happen to have the link to that? Must have missed that and I'd like to read it.
Ouch, you're right. I'm an idiot, sorry.
http://ilovetypography.com/2012/04/19/the-design-of-a-signag...
Ask HN: What online payment platform do you use in Europe?
With the high concentration of countries in Europe, the mix of online payment laws between the countries make it difficult for one system for satisfy all of them.

In a US where a large population is covered under the one umbrella, it is much simpler to go with somebody like Stripe.

So the question, what solutions are available for a Startup to consider when setting up in Europe?
In these cases monetization simply means: sell the start up to a bigger idiot.
Sure, it's always coming. Many of us were waiting for someone to make an "iPhone" for a decade. I used to explain to people at work that I shouldn't have to carry a Palm and a phone, for example. How long would we have had to wait if Apple didn't build it? Another 5 years? I'd like everything a half a decade sooner.

Apple gets ripped for not being innovative. What they really do is identify when good technology is ready for mass consumption then ship it. Remember when they went with USB? I was a PC user back then, building my own computers. I waited years before USB became widely adopted on affordable motherboards. Within 12-24 months I'd say Apple's entire product line will be Retina. Hopefully, there'll be enough buzz that it catches on with the Dell's and HP's.
Please change title to:
How we (almost) screwed the whole Apple community

kthxbye
This is the 0% case. No escaping and therefore not safe w.r.t. XSS attacks.
Women Gamers: Gaslamp Games forums are amazing
HTML5 and App Engine: The Epic Tag Team Take on Modern Web Apps at Scale
I can't believe this has gotten any upvotes for what qualifies as blogspam.
O'Hare is gigantic airport. And, I know from experience that some flights from O'hare to GRR are running tight,sometimes as little as 10 minutes before the connecting flight taxis. I once sprinted through O'Hare to catch a connecting flight to GR. So I'm not surprised at all by this.
+1

How many of these blogger/journalists have broken real stories? Future of Mac Pro anybody? Sure, they like to name drop and whisper about 'informed sources' but the truth is they have nothing of substance to report. Everything is gossip, speculation, or parroting of press releases.
we already support wideband and g722 specifically :)

welcome to the party
You really have to give credit to Airbnb - this series has been star studded and I imagine it does a lot to keep their recruiting pipeline flush. They're not pioneering some novel technologies or working on an everyday utility, but they have managed to create a great aura around their engineering group. Kudos to the team for yet another atypical marketing success!
Still doesn't address the key issue which was noone at United cared enough or had the initiative to deal with the problem of a missing child / missed flight situation and left the children unattended.
You are welcome to your opinion, but on your suggestion I just went and looked at John Siracusa's blog and for this entire year we have: 1: a discussion about various ways you can read his Mountain Lion Review. 2: How to cook pasta. 3: summer movies. 4: summary of 2011. That's it.

He writes also on Ars. In 2012, he has posted a single article, his review of Mountain Lion.

Might I ask, and I am being completely sincere, what DO you read regularly for "perceptive analysis of apple products" that goes beyond once a year OS reviews?
There are such things as services to ensure that unattended children are looked after. United have a duty of care towards the child. Let me put it this way - if a school "lost" a child, they'd be damned sure to raise a ruckus when they found out. United offers a service to ensure unaccompanied minors get to their destination, and they damned well better make sure it works 100% of the time. And if it doesn't, they'd better have smoothly operating contingency plans to fix the matter.
Doesn't this sound like many large internet companies? Paypal? Ebay? Google? Facebook? Yahoo? All of them seem to ignore their customers. At least that's my experience. They only seem to solve issues when either you have connections to someone on the inside or manage to get your story carried/notice on some major news website (HN included).
This is where you bill by the hour
Ask HN: Are Maps Really this Dangerous?
Background:
I work at a fairly big tech company. My team is working on a feature that will display maps and overlay data on top by shading in countries based on some metric. I have never worked on maps before, but I have seen this used in all sorts of websites. So our website doesn't seem to be breaking any new ground whatsoever.

Problem:
We want to get feedback on this feature, but before we can let customers see it, we need to have a bunch of committees sign off that we aren't doing anything that will get us sued or use language/graphics that will offend people in a random part of the world. According to one committee, if we release these maps that use detailed country borders, we could get sued for millions of dollars and people could potentially be thrown in jail. They claim that this is a likely scenario because there are other regions in the world that define borders differently than the western world and we must present them maps based on how their governments portray the world. This means we would have to do some IP tracking and generate a custom map based on how each region should see that map and there could be dozens of different versions of the country borders.

We are looking to get < 100 customers to try this out in the U.S. and Canada. We are not looking to do a world-wide launch.

My questions for HN:
1) Is what this committee saying true? Can we really be sued or people thrown in jail for having software showing a potentially incorrect country border in a beta version of a website?

2) Do any of you run into these types of committees that enforce policies before you ship betas? If so, are they a good thing for your company? Or do they do more harm than good?
Because browsers already optionally store passwords, adding the "password same" warning would be quite a welcome feature (or add-on), for me anyways (in mobile browsers too).

I advocate the use of password managers, but they don't offer "password same" warnings either.

My point: it's a best-practice feature option which should be implemented widely. People can turn it off if they want.
Advanced Design for Engineers - UI/UX Talk
Wow. This is one thousand times worse than breaking guitars. I would love to see that band make another video about this incident. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo
They actually are, or they pretend to be. They charge a $99 unaccompanied minor fee.
You're probably right about a couple of things here. First of all, Apple's products are notoriously expensive. I've once got myself a list of hardware in the Mac Pro and looked up the individual prices of the components. It added up to roughly half of what Apple charges you. For that sort of money you have a huge margin of what you can do to make things quicker.

Also, laptops are not performance computers. The idea of a "high-end gamer laptop" makes me shiver and every time somebody asks me which laptop to buy for high-end gaming I'll tell them "a desktop". The thing is though, that a proper laptop is good enough for doing a lot of work-related tasks and definitely good enough for consumer use.

People like their laptops because they can carry them around, use them wherever they want. And they know that the price for this mobility is worse performance. Most people don't care though. It's quick enough for most things they do, so there's no reason to care either.

Personally I like my laptop, it's got a near-fullsize keyboard, a whopping 18.4" display and I don't care about a mouse at all, so the touchpad doesn't bother me. It's quick enough for everything I do, large enough to be comfortable to work on but still at a size that makes it somewhat portable.

Now obviously, if you've got performance computing to do, stay away from laptops. For everything else, they're just fine.
Are you fucking joking? Yes, perhaps the parents shouldn't have sent the kid, should have gotten a cell phone etc. But there is ZERO excuse for what happened to that child at the hands of United, in a service they provide and charge for. This isn't a black and white issue, though using percentages, fault is 85+% United, 15-% parents.
United are losing it at the moment. I had 2 flights the other week where they couldn't even get someone to move the walkway thingy in line with the plane so we all just stood around waiting after we landed. On one flight the pilot actually phoned because he couldn't get anyone on the radio.

They're really hit and miss with the service - it's either great or it's shit. Sometimes I really love them... I've had two flights where a host has gone out of their way to block off a faulty overhead light and a faulty in seat entertainment system so I could sleep, another flight where I didn't have a long enough layover to get food and they had no snack service so they gave me two main courses (and I wasn't even elite back then). Other times they're like a bad fucking movie - 6 weeks ago at 1am after a cancelled flight they just arbitrarily closed the elite line with "a dozen people left" and told us to go to the end of the economy line with 100s of people waiting in it already for reticketing and hotel vouchers.
Not questioning your personal experience but do you have any scientific studies not authored by vendors of the supplements that support this. I have an autistic son, and like most parents in this situation, helping him is my number one priority. However my understanding jibes more with this NIH study which shows no statistically significant benefits. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20804367

I'd love pointers to peer-reviewed studies in favour of this stuff, as I'd love to believe there's a simple solution like this... I just fear there isn't.

Again, not questioning that you feel your child has benefited - just asking what tipped the balance for you in trying this out and do you have any scientific studies you can point one to in order to research this more?
Split the bill among friends
How to Resist the Temptation to Lie and Cheat Your Way to the Top
Rising age of fathers explains much of the increase in autism rates attributed by discredited science to vaccines: http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=66820... Coincidentally, hormonal birth control came about about the same time as the MMR vaccine, raising the average age of parenthood.
I'm with Gruber. The display is sexy. And good typography is beautiful on it. But my experience with Safari at the Apple Store was that the FPS when scrolling through pages is noticeably low. (Also choppy enough as to be frown-inducing were native apps I tested, like REAPER.) I know it seems like a strange thing to complain about (who cares what FPS a desktop app runs at?), but it's something you have to see and feel to judge the impact on your overall experience, IMO.

Lion inverted trackpad scrolling so that when you drag your two fingers down, the content follows them, like there is a physical connection between your hand and the page. On the Retina MBP, that illusion was mostly lost for me. I'm actually curious to know if owners of the Retina display get used to this chugginess, or if it's still kind of a big deal, even after awhile.

I know only a little bit about hardware composition in WebKit—and webpages are definitely not assembled "entirely" on the GPU. I suspect that there are gains to be made there, just in terms of how much work is being offloaded. Even if desktop Safari were to do what my old iPhone 3GS would do—separate the thread handling scrolling from the thread doing the painting, so that you could actually scroll ahead of where the renderer had filled in content, and see a checkerboard pattern—might be a better feeling alternative. Then again, this could already be happening. I haven't kept up with WebKit changes. Credit to Apple for pushing the boundaries. But I want my buttery smooth page renders, damnit.

/end entitled whining
scary story.

Reminded me of this kid's story (almost same age):

http://overheadbin.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/07/25/12945121-rom...
Every font is designed for a purpose. Serif fonts are designed to help the brain recognize the different letters. Comic Sans was designed to be used informal. Helvetica was designed to be used in signage. Verdana was designed to be readable from (72dpi) computer screens. And so on.

So as screen resolutions increase a serif font can help the brain to recognize small letters increasing readability.
Yep, am considering debian, ArchLinux, gentoo. Ofcourse building all the packages i need on top of the base. Right now, that's how the priority stands, but might move up ArchLinux.
Just a heads-up, the `font-weight:700` on anchor tags causes some issues (Firefox 17, Win 7)

Your site: http://imgur.com/ZYObO
Without the font-weight rule: http://imgur.com/qfEaz
The Best Entrepreneurs Ask The Dumbest Questions
As of Safari 6 on Mountain Lion, scrolling is threaded and nonblocking on Mac, but it doesn't yet work for all pages. So yes, you can scroll ahead of what is painted. The most common exception is pages with fixed positioning.
"recovered" heh
The benchmarks were lightly threaded, for which Xeons basically offer no advantage - they let you have more cores in a machine, and that's about all. For rendering and encoding, the 12 core 2010 Mac Pros would still slaughter a retina MBP. No competition.

There are many impressive things about the retina MBP, but CPU performance is not one of them.
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That's a valid excuse for missing the connection. Not so much for anything else.
Was it running Lion or ML? I recall some reviews mentioning that ML had specific optimisations to improve scrolling performance.
Is this thing that interesting? Quota screwed again, end of story. Go from my main page and leave space for more hacky news. 629 points? this is starting to get crazy.
Tragic early death. Was he a smoker?
Dreaming of a Linux Ultrabook? Meet the New ZaReason UltraLap 430
To be honest, since I work all day writing iOS apps on a Macbook and have numerous iSquare devices I'm mostly content to form my own opinions.
Graphene’s behavior depends on where it sits
I really like the idea, but I feel weird about just giving them access to my usage data. Are there any solutions out there that don't involve cloud storage or monthly fees?

I'll store my own data, thank you very much.
At least losing my Facebook profile (or even my money) isn't nearly as bad as losing a child!
Our 'purpose' is no more to satisfy the evolutionary process than water's 'purpose' is to satisfy the Water Cycle. Evolution isn't a thing with motives, and certainly doesn't have goals. It's a description of a process - it can't impart purpose.

What you've described is bland pop psychology that homogenises human behaviour into one stereotype; that everything we do is aimed at improving mating chances. We're a lot more complex than that.
> This isn't a black and white issue

How's it not? As you noted United charge for an unaccompanied minor service[0], the parents believed everything was squared and United completely dropped the ball. Had the service not existed they could have opted to not send the child to camp, try to get what to do drilled into her and sent her on her own or found somebody to accompany. Then they could have been at fault if things had gone wrong.

But here? I fail to see how any fault can be put on the parents. We can debate between the fault being 100% United or 80% United and 20% bad luck, but the parents? Not in the presentation of the article.

[0] And the complaint letter adds details:

> The United personnel who gave her the wristband and instructions told her very loud and clear to “only go with someone with a United badge on and that she would be accompanied at all times”.
> for the mere fact that it says nothing.

It says that marketing the concept of 'paid' web-apps in a professional way managed to attract > 500'000 USD in sales (as opposed to providing a solution for real user problems).

That's a fact, not speculation. Building something that people pay money for is hard. Failing to do that and asking people to buy the dream while at the same time doing heavy marketing criticizing the concept seems ironic, to say the least.
+1. My first reaction was similar too.
-- I am non-american so the Pacific Northwest connotation is weaker.but got the drift.
No, the two experiences are nothing alike. Those companies make it impossible to contact a human being in the first place.

This article very specifically touches upon how the United employees were asked directly by a scared child for help, and yet did nothing. There are a lot of other associated failures, but this is the central idea: that the individuals working for the company felt not even a little responsibility to help their customers.

Google, the company, ignores you as a matter of policy. That might be a dubious practice, but it is categorically different.
Smart Engagement Or Why Forbes Got It All Wrong
first twitter, now facebook.
Depends if you're maximising for revenue or signups. The number of signups decreased but the revenue increased significantly, making up for the loss in signups. Of course if you can increase signups now with the new pricing then that would also show revenue increase.
We request a credit card when the trial expires.
The main variables are the length of the beta testing and the involment of the beta testers community.

If you provide good support and listen to their needs, 10% is not unreasonnable but giving good support can be very hard, depending on the size of the community.

I would use 1% as a basis -assuming the service really serves a need- and go up from that, depending on the available resources for support.
Well, Arch: 1 Slackware: 1
or actually I'm running a server as Arch (besides a bunch of Ubuntus), so could be Arch: 2 Slackware 1

Clearly, we have a winner.
> United is not a baby-sitting service.

They are, the parents very specifically opted into (and paid for) United's $99 "baby-sitting" (unaccompanied minor) service. Let me quote from the parents's letter:

> The United personnel who gave her the wristband and instructions told her very loud and clear to “only go with someone with a United badge on and that she would be accompanied at all times”.

I don't think this even needs additional emphasizing, it stands on its own.
I want to know who the the passengers were sitting next to this child were that didn't help her with her transfer. The lack of human decency is a cultural problem as much as an airline problem. What the fuck is wrong with people that don't talk to a child traveling alone and make sure she makes her connection. I blame humanity as much as the airline.
As someone who traveled many times as an unaccompanied minor (without a cellphone) in the early 2000s under United Airlines, American Airlines, and Northwest Airlines, I'm shocked to hear this story. I always felt safe and knew who was in charge of taking me from place to place. I'm astonished that United's service has deteriorated to this extent. Yes, it was only a very small sample size of United's service staff, but the fact that this situation happened does not bode well for the quality of their service and will hopefully spark something in the administration and leadership to revitalize the culture that currently tolerates such treatment. If not, well, there are plenty of cheaper airlines with superior service and United's marketshare and reputation will suffer. There's always someone willing to provide the service you do for less. You have to figure out what you can do better than the other guys and capitalize on it.
That still doesn't mean it's human nature, just that it's the nature of the dominating culture. If a sheep is eaten by a wolf, it doesn't mean that it's in the 'nature of animals' to eat other animals; that the sheep all along wanted deep down to munch on meat.
Why is a dynamic range compression app news?
At my company we use IP2Location (http://www.ip2location.com). They offer several databases with different data (from basic "IP-address to country" to quite comprehensive ones). You can get a DB as a CSV or binary file (in latter case the driver is required which also costs some money). The database is updated almost every month and you get free downloads.

In my home project I wanted to save some money so just bought the CSV file, wrote a tool that converts it to a binary representation (~1GB) and a driver (.NET) that can find records very quickly.
DoubleRobotics: Telepresence gets sexy (and made in the USA)
You can search for the article "Why Foreign Aid Is Hurting Africa", which says "Aid is an unmitigated political, economic and humanitarian disaster." I can't prove that aid including its free food form contributes to population growth. I'm confident that it does from my studies.

> This is evident in the drop in birth rate that tends to accompany development.

I would argue that development follows a dropping birth rate, not the other way around. Poor people with 4+ kids can't contribute to development or otherwise improve their future. They're too busy each day focusing on basic survival. Unlike many African countries, Italy solved their cultural/religion problem. Now they largely ignore the Catholic Church on contraceptive issues.
Well, HN isn't "the internet", it has its own traditions. I didn't down vote you, but, if I vehemently disagree with you, I'll certainly do so, regardless of how thoughtful and considerate your comment is. Likewise, if I see something in the grey that I agree with, I'll go out of my way to upvote it back to at least neutral.

In general, the vast majority of comments on HN fall within the bounds of good taste, so consider ones aggregate karma as a reflection of what the community here assesses the validity of your contribution as.
Perfect Apples that Never Brown
Just get rid of the css style for .blurred_answer_wrapper span.blurred_answer and add display: none to .blurred_answer_wrapper .signup_cta_on_answer. Not that I've had more than one Quora result pop up since that began, but css is easy ;-)
Show HN: JavaScript XSLT parser for JSON data
I'm being as polite as I can say this, but how is it that when you read this article you think it is yet another, "company ignore customer story?" I think most people read this and are appalled by the fact that United is so far over on the wrong side of the line that they can't even be bothered to worry about a human being anymore. They are so far gone that no one in the system cared that a kid is alone by him/herself. Imagine the shitstorm that would have happened had something happened to the kid.

But to answer your question, no. Paypal, eBay, Google, Facebook, Yahoo. None of these companies are in the business of transporting humans (at least not yet, and I guess yes only if you count those self-driving cars Google has).
Working on "helping you drive economically, everywhere". http://www.mylpg.eu
High throughput Java actors--much faster than Akka
I worked in Scala for 2 years and was constantly frustrated with the speed of the actors. So I rolled my own, in Java. Orders of magnitude faster, though the speed increase really has nothing to do with the choice of language.

Most of the speed gain comes from avoiding thread switching as much as possible. I developed the idea of commandeering, where an actor which sends a message to another actor that is idle can safely process the message sent on the same thread.

Additional speedups came from message buffering and the optional use of 2-way messages for implicit flow control.

Message passing between actors runs between 80 and 200 million per second on an i7, depending on the mode of delivery.

Currently looking for early adopters as I believe this is production ready.

https://github.com/laforge49/JActor