skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
definitely - I've been riding to work in DC for 10+ years, but a shower is definitely a requirement to do it year round. I'm fortunate to work in a building now with a shower, but before that, I just got a membership at a nearby gym. The gym membership was cheaper than parking or metroing every day.
With nested categories/annotations it's now much-much simpler to store many links and then come back to them later.

Will be glad to hear your feedback!
It literally took me 10 minutes to change some colours and adjust some border radius sizes. That coupled with not using the big ticket bootstrap navbar left me with a site that was not obviously Twitter Bootstrapped. I am not a designer.
How about Linden?
I have looked in the past for a FreeBSD VPS host but I could never find anything satisfactory or as large as Linode so that I had some semblance of knowledge that my instance wouldn't disappear tomorrow.

Although, from a cursory glance the following seem to still be up from my last research tour around the internet: http://www.rootbsd.net/, http://bsdvm.com/, http://nqhost.com/freebsd-vps.html

One of the big issues I see is that virtualising FreeBSD doesn't always work correctly, last I heard there were issues with FreeBSD and multi-processing on top of Xen for example [2], and there is still no native hypervisor for FreeBSD [1] (I honestly wish they would steal the KVM stuff from OpenIndiana, KVM on Linux absolutely rocks!) and that means you will always be running on top of some other OS or HyperVisor such as KVM, Xen, VirtualBox, and others, so the full stack support for running FreeBSD on top of FreeBSD is still unfortunately out of reach.

[1]: That isn't entirely true, there is a project named BHyVe that is working on this, but I haven't heard/seen any updates since early 2011. Also, it requires that you mask off the memory to be used for virtual machines, unlike KVM and others... See: http://wiki.freebsd.org/BHyVe
[2]: http://www.hungryhacker.com/os/freebsd-on-linode/ (See comment about requesting vcpu's to be set to 1: "Linodes default to vcpus=4, which will choke FreeBSD at the moment. They won’t increase this setting of course, but they will happily lower it for you. Simply give them your Linode # and ask them to reduce vcpus to 1 and they’ll make the change.") Do note that the author used FreeBSD 8.1 so it is entirely possible that the limitation is now removed with FreeBSD 9.0
As your can't see upvote figures, I'd like to second explicitly.
Absolutely, and I am sorry if I implied otherwise.
Partially due to familiarity, partially due to other projects. Django will be handling the standard webapp things (registration, serving archives, etc). To be clear, there will be a lot of plain Python code handling the other aspects, with a goal being that you could relatively easily replace the Django parts with your favorite tech stack (say Flask or Tornado). Smaller parts making a greater whole.
Toronto as well. Couple of blocks north!
That is how I feel too. Never had any issues with HTML5.
24 miles in a day is a long day but feasible. I've done 18 miles walking, starting mid-morning and ending early afternoon. Running one way would shorten the time needed (though would also cause faster exhaustion, I presume).

The other sounds less likely...
I can get behind the headline. However, the implementation is seriously lacking. I'm not a designer. I can't find anyone who can explain to me the hows and whys of CSS without expecting me to already know CSS. So I just copy CSS that I like.

I've implemented Bootstrap on a new site. I see your colorschemedesigner.com link. Now, how do I get these colors from it into Bootstrap? Oh, the Bootstrap customize page. Which colors from Color Scheme Designer 3 go in which boxes? If I have to edit CSS, which files do I have to edit and why?

You're a designer and you think this stuff is "easy." Speeding up your database-centric app is easy, too. Use a proper RDBMS and correctly normalize your data. What? You don't understand? Yeah, that's how I feel when designers expect me to "fix" my Bootstrap-clone website.

Edited to add: On Color Scheme Designer, I find a set of colors I think looks nice and then look at the light and dark page examples ... and they look like ass. I have no patience to sit and find something that looks nice here and drop it in Bootstrap there and discover that it looks terrible. A lovely 'download Bootstrap CSS' link on this site would save tons of time.
Color theory is simple to apply with CSS. The type of veneer I'm describing goes way beyond that. Fortunately with CSS3, more of it is moving to the style sheet but it was very tedious until LESS and mixins came into the picture.

Don't forget split testing suffers from ceiling effect.
It is a crime to run your own currency in all countries members of the WTO (for good reasons). You are not allowed to use bitcoins to buy or sell any product in any of those countries.

Also, I'm not a believer in bytes carrying out value. You see, a dollar bill is just a paper that represents a value that's not that paper. Having a serial number of a bill "could" be the same as having a bill itself. That makes bitcoins completely impossible to regulate, it will have life by itself. Lack of regulation is not freedom, is stupidity.

Economies with distinct realities cannot share the same currency or indexed currency. See Greece and Germany. Argentina and US.

Currencies will cease to exist. I'll not be alive to see that, but in the future there will be only XP points (just like diablo!) and maybe commodities. Currencies will slowly die out. You will be only capable of producing XP points by working, products itself will never generate XP points.

Maybe I'm just childish, but that's how I see it right now. It's friday, have a great day!!!
Things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California
Ouch. They still make notebooks with the "nipple" mouse? I actually thought it was a Thinkpad from the 90's on the first pic.

BTW, who invented the term "ultrabook"? It's cheesy as hell. Reminds me of the "laser disc" days.
It's a single, unified place to host code with a known-to-be-good experience.
Jabe Bloom video on 'Failing Well'
... and this is why I LOVE lenovo.
From the Engadget review (http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/14/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon...):

"Maximum brightness here is 300 nits, a figure that's a bit underwhelming. It's a fair bit dimmer than the Samsung Series 9, for example, which clocks in at 400, and outdoor visibility in bright sunlight is virtually impossible here. But, Lenovo kindly opted for a matte display, ditching the glossy Gorilla Glass found in the prior X1."
Could you provide an example of this so us neophytes could learn from it?
Could be a typo?
Definitely a troll, this was the tell (where he refers to the UFC/combat fighting):
"those institutions are false and insulting to real martial artists. The people who take place in them worship violent demagogues."

Funny.
Perhaps, but unlikely. From what I gather, Linux doesn't yet play nice on the MBA, which is a shame. If that story changes significantly in the near future I would certainly consider getting one. (My current machine is a white C2D Macbook, triple-booting OSX, Windows and Ubuntu)
EDIT: actually, checking the documentation here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir4-2
paints a much more rosy picture than I remember, maybe it would be a viable option.
"Legal tender for all debts" means that if someone offers the currency for payment of debt, unless other terms have been previously agreed to, the payee must accept it.

The most common place you'll encounter this is at certain payment locations at which bills over a certain denomination (generally $20) aren't accepted, or credit/debit cards must be used. However these requirements must be stated in advance of creating the obligation/debt. I'd be interested to know how this applies, say, to automated toll collection systems as well.
Check out: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/features/

More specifically search for "Process Checkpointing".
If anything this story has nothing to do with SC2, and all the fact that this guy is a depressed addict. Anything would do, he just chose video games.
I should add that I think Twitter Bootstrap is perfect for building behind-the-firewall type of corporate/infrastructure apps. But using it bare on a public-facing marketing site?
Twitter Joining the Linux Foundation
Vim in my muscle memory
Circa January 22, 2011. Slow news day, apparently.
It's funny how when people use alternative dev tools to build UIs on OS X, people complain that the resulting applications "don't look like Mac applications", but that at the same time web applications are expected to look different from one another. What purpose does that look/feel diversity solve?
Yes. Of course. And there have been or will be stolen laptops at this event. The "security system" is easy to circumvent, if you do a little planning and want to steal something. The stickers are removable and re-attachable. You can register whatever, whenever you want. It is not done at the door. On my MacBook the serial number was taken from a screen, that I prepared.

But even the CCC had several years of congress with this kind of "security". So I am not mad at the organizers. We even had one congress where every participant had his/her photo taken. This actually had a major uproar and wasn't done ever again. I think maybe the organizers will learn and do things differently next time. At least I hope if they do this again in Berlin.

The most ridiculous things like not bringing lighters or no smoking outside the Hanger was removed from the Term & Conditions.
I love the nipple mouse. I find it much less irritating on my wrists than a trackpad. Plus, it allows for a rapid transition between keyboard and mouse.
I'd dispute that any of my apps on OS X or Windows look the same, except those from related product families like Office. Safari doesn't look like Chrome. Mac Mail looks nothing like iPhoto, etc...
From novice to programmer in 10 weeks at Hackbright
I made a lot of windows applications using Borland Delphi a long time ago. I'd enjoyed. Maybe someone should make the same with Pascal what they did with Ruby and build a Pascal on Rails.
I would really love do that. It is indeed a logical step.

However I feel I need to start small and understand the market and customers first.

Thanks for your feedback!
The authors of SpeedTree, a game rendering middleware, had the same experience;

> We launched SpeedTree with just a few dozen tree and bush species, assuming that our customers would prefer to bypass the library and develop their own plants. But once our first licensees started sending us screen shots and demos, we were surprised to see many of our original trees in them, little changed from those we had provided in that first small library.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/130550/middleware_post...
If they are traded outside Disney. Yes. Other than that, that's not currency. That's just a paper stating that you already paid for something.
Ah, thanks. I was needlessly disappointed.
Kodak really wants to get out of the film business
> Don't ask me the medical reason why, maybe it's the same phenomenon as when people who haven't worked out for years start a program and quickly lose 10 pounds of water weight but then find the rest is harder to lose

It's because the body is extremely good at adapting to whatever you do to it. Even if you were riding for a hundred hours a week at maximum aerobic output, your body would slowly adapt and you would stop making gains (getting faster, losing weight).

Over a long period of exercise, you have to constantly vary what you are doing to your body so it won't adapt and plateau. Keep throwing different challenges at your body, and it will keep adapting in an attempt to deal with these new challenges.

Try sprinting home from work at max output a couple of days a week, then intentionally go for an extremely long ride on the weekend at a sustainable pace. Don't do the same thing day-in, day-out

Also, eat less calories if you want to lose weight.
Nope. It doesn't require compensation. And it applies even if your are laid off, fired etc. I've seen some that extend for 2 years. Its legalized slavery which is why California outlaws them.

There's even worse things out there for employees. I've read about ownership of all ideas/work clauses including outside of work hours while employed and enforced in a court of law. Imagine doing a startup nights and weekends only having it taken from you.
It's my observation that blows to the head are more likely on a bike than in either of those situations for two reasons - the speed and the position. When you're biking, you're going much faster than you would walk (I commute every day and often hit 40 mph). Second, in an accident, you often to go straight over the handlebars - the bike stops but you don't. That means head impacts are common. Cars have the same issues, but they have seatbelts that keep you from flying through the windshield or slamming into the steering column.
As for whether it's dangerous - in general I agree with you. I've been commuting by bike 2000 miles a year for 10 years, and have had only a couple of incidents, but when things happen, I'm glad I have a helmet. Similarly, I wear a seatbelt when driving, even though I've never had an accident that necessitated one.
Writing left-handed in a left-to-right script requires the hand to move over the ink that was just applied. This invariably means smudges. Writing right-handed (LTR) the ink has time to dry before the hand moves over it for the next line of prose.
A micro JS library to render charts using only html5 canvas
Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine
I remember Moshe Bar from his work at BYTE.

Brings back good memories of eagerly waiting for the magazine to arrive at the (more or less) local newsstand.
Using the Appearance Proxy to Style Apps
We Are the 99%(of the entrepreneurs)
Intel.
And the nipple is awesome. Much faster than swiping a finger across a trackpad.
When buying other items, do you expect to pay less when you pay in cash? After all, the retailer is making more money by avoiding credit card handling fees.
>>My friends even looked up to me, as they are monks who train Taoist Wudang Kung Fu in southwestern China. At one point I became a monk by my own right, and I was looked to for even spiritual advice.

>So you're such a badass that monks that train others in Kung Fu looked up to you at 18 years old? They also made you a monk and decided you were enlightened enough to give spiritual advice, despite the fact that you have very obviously poor impulse control?

That is not as incredible as it seems. You can see his addictive and competitive personality in the martial arts training. I know people like that in the martial arts world.

Sometimes, in the East, you're promoted beyond your skill and competency in order to encourage you to grow into the role. If his teachers are genuine, they would have recognized his addictive personality to begin with. What's even funnier and sad is that, they would have accepted his shame in going a little crazy. It is surviving and healing from this that will allow him more empathy as his role as a monk in the future.

You're also making a very common mistake that seems to pop up in America, these strange notions about enlightenment and giving spiritual advice.

>Why didn't you try doing what you spent all that time in southeast Asia learning, and start doing martial arts professionally? You could be a martial arts instructor, stunt man, or any other profession that hires badasses of this caliber.

That's the same thing as jumping into the UFC. I feel the same way, and have avoided teaching, let alone doing stunts or getting paid to inflict violence and death. If he were as obsessed about Buddhism in his teenage years as he was to games and martial arts training (likely), then these professions would not have appealed to him.

Anyways, the post is to Gamers Online Anonymous. I'm glad there's such an organization out there. I doubt this guy wrote it gain sympathy from you specifically. Maybe the post is for sympathy, maybe it isn't. It doesn't matter, because the addiction is real.
I thought everyone remapped caps lock to control anyway, but maybe I'm in a vocal minority here? I can't stand it any other way, and it feels much more ergonomical. Do yourself the favor of trying it for a while.
The Mind of an Entrepreneur. A Chat with USC’s Ashish Soni.
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Somewhat annoyed that their three comparison computers are all Macbook Airs. Ignoring the fact that you're comparing different OS and most people will choose based on that alone, there are several decent Windows-based ultra-portable computers out there. The Samsung Series 9 was the first 'Macbook Air killer' and is still solid. There's also the Asus Zenbooks (as mentioned already) and the Toshiba Porteges (Z set), among others.
The constant need for focus was my biggest misunderstanding. I thought it would be like running, where you can listen your inner self, breathing, or enjoying the sight.

20km/h : human radar scanning hidden corners. no more looking at girls or you'll hug trees.
30km/h+: better have swift brakes, any surprise feels like a threat.

Somehow it almost makes biking moot as a vehicle, since there's no speeding bike only roads there will always be obstacles nearby (mom/baby, slow biker/runner, soccer balls). I really wish there was large scale plans to build bike pathways as those for tramways.
hzy has it right on the money. It's rock solid and reliable. The built in issues/pull requests/wiki are fantastic. Adding in a collaborator is easy. It's credentials I already heavily use.

Plus, I like github tons so I'm happy to pay.
Trust me -- I can text and drive at the same time. I'm a pro.
Ultrabook is easier to say then "Mac Book Air competitor".
Ask HN: Do you want special glasses for coders?
Hello HNers. I'm thinking to do a little business to sell glasses relieving computer eye strain for under $50. But, I'm not sure if there is the enough demand for them.

So, I'd like to ask you if you want them or not. Saying just Yes or No will really helps me :)

Glasses relieving computer eye strain:
http://www.jins-jp.com/st/functional_en/pc.html
Instruction manual with no charts? Pffft.
Stop being ridiculous
Holovaty: EveryBlock's hype 'definitely faded', but it's more popular than ever
I've taken the opposite route for my project http://iwaat.com. The HTML/CSS is all done from scratch with several elements stolen from Bootstrap (ex. highlighting around form fields). It also uses a background image from subtle patterns which really made all the difference vs. plain white/grey. I'm sure this workflow took longer than building off of Bootstrap from the start but I like the way it turned out.
Make it in advance, and make it in C.
http://speakertext.com/
Hope it helps
Never heard this term either previously, but I can relate to a lot of those traits. Thanks for the info.
Clickable: http://pinboard.in/

Extremely fast and reliable, no ads, & indexes full text of your bookmarks for search. Highly recommended & absolutely worth paying for.
No RJ45, No VGA?
There is a lot of old hardware / circumstances requiring this in a professional setting.
An adapter is not an option because I am going to loose it all the time.
UFO Lying On The Bottom Of The Baltic Sea?
I find it funny that you got downvoted by giving your consumer feedback. Fanboys everywhere.
The biggest loss (and it's a biggie) is the double-high escape key. The rest is a smaller set of biases from a better-designed keyboard over 7 rows to a less well designed one in 6.

I've got a W520 (old keyboard) and my wife's got an X1 (not carbon). There's enough of a difference in the keyboards that I'm hoping they bring back the old one as an option. The keyswitches in both are pretty good, but the layout's actually a big deal for me.
How long would the US government last if it started summarily executing people for possessing bitcoins?
Clickable link: http://www.jins-jp.com/st/functional_en/pc.html
Gaming. I had hacked my Sony PSP back when those were a new thing, and finding information on the process was tantamount to wading through half written forums posts from 10 year olds. Few people knew what they were talking about, it was often wrong or warned you about the wrong things, lots of people bricked their PSPs, but the prospect of free games lured in all the kids with no real income to try it. People who want jailbreaks for free games without knowing what it really entails.

Since iOS has become a huge gaming platform, it's no surprise that same PSP/NDS piracy consumer demographic has made the leap as well.
Interesting, spent some time perusing the Exceptions.plist file from what I can tell there's nothing explicitly hinky. Looks like it could be big brotherish, but most of the file looks, well helpful.

Most Browsers and BitTorrent clients are set to quarantine files that they create. A lot of keys for App Store categorization etc.
Going from Bruce Lee to "The Dude", all while under 25 struck me as fairly implausible too. I suspect this tale is rather well embellished throughout.
>What pushed me to quitting wasn't any sudden realization, but just a slow-building frustration with the whole idea of MMORPGs

Same thing built up with Minecraft for me. What a lost amount of time :/. So fun at the time, but there is only so many Legos I can afford to spend time on.
If anything - look at WordPress, Tumblr, Indexhibit/Cargo Collective and all of the other sites that rely heavily on themes. Spend a few seconds on Cargo Collective if you haven't and then think about all of the designers' portfolios you've seen that use that exact layout. Only reason you might not notice it off-the-bat is because the content is different and they're usually so minimal you think nothing of it.

Additionally, if you spend any time looking at the uploads to Dribbble, a lot of those layouts look similar to each other regardless of pre-existing templates simply because they needed to get something up fast or they just liked another person's concept so much that they took it and modified it just enough.

That being said, it'd take a few seconds to change that black bar to a brand color to make it look passably different.
I would have a hard time going backwards from 16 on my workstation :|

Sometimes heap dumps can exceed 8GB.
Lance Armstrong stripped of Tour de France titles by USADA
You didn't really respond to any of my points. I even linked to an example of a non-sensical license; a license that uses server-side language client side code, and which has things in its summary that are completely missing from the license.

You may have had your licenses reviewed by a lawyer, but that doesn't mean that the correct license is being applied to the correct product, or that there are no bugs in your license summary system.
ChuckMcM: what about using Bitcoin as a store of value or investment asset, in the same way people use commodities like gold and silver?

Just as it's perfectly legal to have any portion of your wealth invested in gold or silver, which you can freely buy and sell at any time, shouldn't it be legal to have any portion of your wealth invested in bitcoins, which you should be able to buy and sell at any time like any other commodity?

Edit: Note that the same argument can be made for bartering. According to the IRS, in the US, it's perfectly legal to barter any product, commodity, or service for another product, commodity, or service, so long as any taxes due are paid as required by tax law.[1]

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[1] http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=188095,00....
That's what I'm thinking too.
For the past year or so, I've been wanting to swap my MacBook Pro for an Air, but I'm becoming more hesitant now.
I just feel like OS X is going down the road of iOS, and their lawsuits as of late are rubbing me the wrong way.

Maybe I'll give Linux on the laptop an honest try.
I know for sure it won't be Windows.
There's an earlier comment about how this makes you a danger to OTHERS. If you're just a danger to yourself, that's that.