skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is frustrating. I've spent 10 minutes on their site, checked out the links, and still can't figure out how to browse their font collection. Am I supposed to sign up with this Edge tool to do that? By contrast, see http://www.google.com/webfonts. You land there and start working.
How? SSL...
I only skimmed the article; I'd assumed that was part of the scam (forward the extra $100 on via western union, or paypal it back to me on this different account, etc)
For some reason, on Chrome, the linked article is teeny (text is completely unreadable).

Anyway - it's funny how some of the best discoveries are accidental. I don't know anything about Don Stookey, but I'm guessing this played a large part of his induction into the inventor's hall of fame. But he didn't really do anything, he didn't set out to make the next best glass, but he accidentally did. Usually hall of fames are for decided effort to do something awesome (like a baseball hall of fame, you need some luck, but its a lot of skill and practice).

I've been wondering lately about the sheer number of cracked iPhone 4/4S/ will be 5 screens. If this glass is so great, why does it break so frequently from small heights? Does the metal casing around it transfer the blunt of the force to the glass and make it crack? I haven't seen too many other phones with cracked screens, would a plastic casing surrounding the glass absorb some of the fall?
Wireless is a shared medium. There is a limit to how much you can push through the air.

Laying fiber once is long enough to last at least 100 years (based on what we know now). Should we not lay fiber just because wireless may eventually be as fast?

A good decision now is better than the best decision later.
Exactly, stores in meatspace don't care too much about eyeballs (unless they're prominently placed ones - which double as billboards).

They care about $sales/sqft because they have to pay the rent and the stuff that pays better will get more shelf space. I'm doubtful, but it's possible that personalized coke bottles could end up selling other stuff too, but it better be like crack or it's not gonna get more shelf space.
I can respect that. It would be really tough for me to switch to another platform after Windows Phone.
I think if you view that data from outside China, it's not visible. That is, the details show up only while searching from within China.
Let me know how trusting everyone until you get scammed goes for you.
I think this is a great idea. I would love to buy an officially support Ubuntu laptop. The Dell Sputnik program looks promising.

http://content.dell.com/us/en/enterprise/d/campaigns/sputnik
Great to see a nice overview of best practise in app store screenshots. As an app-developer I also would like to stress the benefit of good screenshots. To add on these best practises I think you shouldn't do a real life example of the app in use without having some serious equipment (camera/lightning) and possibly "models". The author mentions to do this with care but my 2cents is just don't do it. I've only seen a few decent tries on this and generally that would be an app from a well-funded company that obviously spent a lot of effort/cash on it. Those screens set the standard in that genre and for a small developer to compete with that is not effective, do a digital less-is-more screen with good copy instead.
The USA is very sparsely populated compared to South Korea, Japan, or most of Europe. The Ukraine (mentioned in the video), is a really big chunk of land with a smaller population than the UK, but still appears to have more than twice the population density of the USA (eyeballing wikipedia numbers). This is obviously a big deal for any infrastructure project.

I'm not saying this is the whole (or even the main part) of the explanation, but it needs to be taken into account at least. In my opinion it certainly wouldn't excuse poor service in towns with 100k+ people.

When it comes down to it, internet access is crucial now, and it does enable other parts of the economy to flourish. If the government needs to step in to give it a push, it seems worth it in this case? After all, what is a government for if not planning for the long-term when individuals and corporations can't?
I like it. It's always been hard to give someone a stipend due since you might like a project but not have enough income to spare.

This way a number of people can make individual small payments that will add up.
3Taps Files Countersuit, Says Craigslist Is Anticompetitive
Passphrases are getting a lot more popular, and we can tell how good passwords are, so I wanted to build something similar for passphrases. Let me know what you think!
How come it doesn't recognize punctuated words like "don't"?
The Opera landing page is not just disappointing, it's downright offensive.

As someone who never used MySpace and is a fleeting Facebook user, I would've been interested in seeing the new product and willing to sign up and see if it's improved at all.

As it stands right now, not only am I not going to use it based on this stupidity, I'm going to make sure none of the people I could've brought over from Facebook don't either.

Way to alienate people before you even finish the new design. Bravo. JT must be so proud.
NoPassword, a rails engine for authentication with no passwords
Monit does this pretty easily http://mmonit.com/monit/

You can monitor web services, processes, file modified dates, directories, loads of stuff all with email alerts and a web-front end too.
Value will vary from buyer to buyer.

Silly example: To junk collectors junk has value. But I think it's safe to say not everyone will agree with the junk collector.

Ethics really should not vary all that much from person to person. If it does then what's the point of even having a notion of ethics? The whole idea is to have some sort of common standard.

Value in this sense is nothing like ethics.

If we ask the junk collector if stealing is wrong, his answer should not vary much from the answer anyone else gives.

For some people, enriching investors using the most effective means possible (high growth; any legal business purpose is OK), seems to be well within the scope of "making society better".
50K is too much. That's in the luxury brand segments where car companies spent decades to build up brand awareness to justify the price. Put it in the 20K to 30K range and they will make a killing.

May be their production capacity can't handle the high volume so they price it to throttle demand.
Sure, but that doesn't really answer the question of where you draw the line in the proposed tests. I'm wondering just how safe you want something like this to be before you carry passengers, since 100% is obviously impossible to achieve, but the state of the art in that domain is apparently not sufficient.
True, but that's true in the US too. Unless you're suggesting many bookstores in Canada routinely offer a 25% discount on most books, my point still holds.
Right, nevermind...
I find these cultural pieces fascinating. One point that I'd love to know about in more companies is around how hiring is prioritized. Coby calls hiring "one of the most critical activities we do as a company" whereas at Valve it is the most important thing you can be doing.

Is this prioritization common (or key?) at exceptional workplaces?
Not really, in my experience. Losing chat messages or logs is among the worst things a chat application can do.

I take your point though, but I think consistency is still one of the most important attributes for anything that is going to store data. Why even use a database, if your data matters so little? Just throw it into memory or memcache.
Why do you think you have a guarantee of your money back? In the US FDIC insurance insures against the bank going under. If the bank refuses to believe there was fraud I bet you have very little recourse (i.e. they have a huge interest in claiming you transferred the money). In the US you can dispute credit card charges- but that is due to a separate act of congress.
I'm not seeing it ... I think endorsements are a pretty obvious function of a business social network and while there are a few similarities, the way LinkedIn implemented its features is in alignment with the rest of their site.

I'll state right now that I have been using LinkedIn for a long time (and have never heard of Zerply), but the OP seems a bit disingenuous since it's pretty obvious he's working there. How about ignoring LinkedIn (who's probably ignoring you or at least too busy to bother) and focus on delighting your customers?

EDIT - I just noticed that one of the other posts on your site is titled "Forget The Competition" ... here's the link if you'd like to read it: http://blog.zerply.com/post/27334086592/forget-the-competiti.... The good news is that I think your site has potential and would sign up if enough of my cohorts were there. Let's see what happens!
For some reason, on Chrome, the linked article is teeny (text is completely unreadable).

You probably once zoomed out on a previous Wired.com article: Chrome retains text zoom settings per-domain.

cmd+0 or ctrl+0 to zoom to actual size and reset.
Meanwhile, searching for a Broadway address a few blocks away from the Manhattan Apple Store in SoHo led to directions to Broadway in Brooklyn, NY.

I've used Apple products since 1993 (Centris 610) and even owned a Powerbook G3 trapped on ADB and a G4 Cube. I've put up with all sorts of weirdness from Apple over the years.

The point of technology is to help you do your job better. I saw my future of late meetings, getting lost on my way to meet clients in towns I've never seen, and missing flights during my travels.

I turned around and walked out without a new iPhone 5.
I hope someone from Tesla is reading this. I really, really wanted to buy a Tesla. But the Roadster was too small, and the Model S is too big. At 196 inches long, it's almost as big as a BMW 7 series. The Right Size for an electric car is ~170-180 inches, about the size of a Prius (or a Lexus IS or an Infiniti G). I was a little dismayed to see that the next car in the pipeline, the Model X, bills itself as a blend of SUV and minivan. That is totally the wrong direction IMHO. You already have one very big car and one very small one. You need a compact-to-midsize to fill out the lineup, not a second huge car.
gittip and flattr are examples of an emerging gift economy. If that doesn't appeal to you, then you don't have to participate in it.

The point is not that people are receiving market rate for services rendered. It is a way to thank, and perhaps motivate individuals by showing an appreciation that is material beyond a simple thank you email.

Many of these people work on free software in their free time; free software that sometimes saves other individuals many hours of work. So what if all I'm doing is buying the person lunch? That is a generous expression and one that builds community and creates emotional and social incentives for the recipient.
> Given that it has no template language

Ahem...

http://golang.org/pkg/html/template/

It doesn't have its own equivalent of RoR or Django yet because most of the batteries needed for web development are built-in.
You're rationalizing. It's tax evasion, a crime, regardless of ignorance. Many states have a simple online form for it. That it's voluntary doesn't make a difference; paying property taxes is also voluntary for people who own their homes. These facts are highly relevant: when you're a tax scofflaw it's best not to point fingers at those merely lying.
Meeting A Troll
Yeah, I don't remember where I saw it but Elon Musk had mentioned that the main goal was to go from the Roadster to something affordable at a price range of $20k to $30k. Increase production and decrease price with each production run.
I think you and others are really being overly sensitive about this. Yes, they probably shouldn't have called your favourite browser outdated, but it's obvious that it was an oversight, and consequence of taking an informal tone with giving a message. A message necessitated by choosing not to support the major browser with the smallest market share in their "preview" release.

I like it when larger, more corporate sites go for an informal tone, even if they don't completely nail the humour they might have been striving for. It's a better direction overall than a stuffy PR-speak message, and getting bent out of shape about it just seems like an overreaction.
http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go

A very comprehensive list of the organizations using Go; I think it's kept reasonably up to date, but new ones are popping up on the mailing list from time to time.

For example, not to long ago we had the maintainer of pool.ntp.org asking some questions as he was rewriting some of the infrastructure for the pool from Perl to Go.
While I enjoyed your story, it's quite ignorant to ask people to be wary of "Nigerians in general". NOT every Nigerian is a scammer so making such a statement is unnecessary. There are many hard working Nigerians around the world.
Yeah, I always take snarky lists like this as an attempt to be hip or edgy, it fails both attempts here and just makes me think the developer, or whoever came up with that copy, an idiot. One thing is certain, they're not in possession of any ability in the comedy realm.
This problem is nullified by private browsing. I think the idea is BRILLIANT, as Google's already tracking all my 'legitimate' searches, and I find that most of what I Google are things I've looked at on other machines, or seen already.

The noise introduced by phrasing my query differently is a real problem in search that Google hasn't fixed yet.
If you haven't already, you should pick up Tom Mabe's CD, where he does some serious improv comedy with the telemarketers.
The story was in Walter Issacson's biography of Jobs.
This could be a session crossover issue. Here's IBM's documentation on it:

"In rare situations, usually due to application errors, session data intended for one client might be seen by another client. This situation is referred to as session data crossover. When the DebugSessionCrossover custom property is set to true, code is enabled to detect and log instances of session data crossover. Checks are performed to verify that only the session associated with the request is accessed or referenced. Messages are logged if any discrepancies are detected. These messages provide a starting point for debugging this problem. This additional checking is only performed when running on the WebSphere-managed dispatch thread, not on any user-created threads."

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/wsbroker/redirect?versi...
Just what I was going to reply, except better.

I want to add that capital investments required to enter a market aren't usually an absolute requirement to produce the item at all, but just a requirement to be able to do so at a competitive price. You can almost always throw money at the problem and increase production, even if just marginally. For example, iPhone production is probably completely maxed out right now, but if for some reason it was worth a billion dollars to Apple to produce one unit beyond their current capacity, they could come up with a way to build an extra one that didn't involve spending months building a new factory first.
I would like an event recommendation app where I can connect ME + FB FRIEND(S) + PLACE + DURATION (i.e. friend visiting my town for weekend + kids. what to do?)

FB friends would be used to scrape their and my interests etc., to form intelligent recommendations.
He's at @mynameisjeff... looks pretty safe and alive to me.
The article does mention a $30k car (and loceng kindly pointed it out as well). I look forward to hearing more about it.
See also: http://80000hours.org/blog/12-salary-or-startup-how-do-goode...
From the Isaacson biography:

Jobs described the type of glass Apple wanted for the iPhone, and Weeks told him that Corning had developed a chemical exchange process in the 1960s that led to what they dubbed “gorilla glass.” It was incredibly strong, but it had never found a market, so Corning quit making it. Jobs said he doubted it was good enough, and he started explaining to Weeks how glass was made. This amused Weeks, who of course knew more than Jobs about that topic. “Can you shut up,” Weeks interjected, “and let me teach you some science?” Jobs was taken aback and fell silent. Weeks went to the whiteboard and gave a tutorial on the chemistry, which involved an ion-exchange process that produced a compression layer on the surface of the glass. This turned Jobs around, and he said he wanted as much gorilla glass as Corning could make within six months. “We don’t have the capacity,” Weeks replied. “None of our plants make the glass now.”

“Don’t be afraid,” Jobs replied. This stunned Weeks, who was good-humored and confident but not used to Jobs’s reality distortion field. He tried to explain that a false sense of confidence would not overcome engineering challenges, but that was a premise that Jobs had repeatedly shown he didn’t accept. He stared at Weeks unblinking. “Yes, you can do it,” he said. “Get your mind around it. You can do it.”
" he didn't really do anything"

I think what you are missing out, is that this invention came about from hard work, lots of experiments, and recognizing what he had on his hands when he saw it:

"Don Stookey knew he had botched the experiment. One day in 1952, the Corning Glass Works chemist placed a sample of photosensitive glass inside a furnace and set the temperature to 600 degrees Celsius. At some point during the run, a faulty controller let the temperature climb to 900 degrees C. Expecting a melted blob of glass and a ruined furnace, Stookey opened the door to discover that, weirdly, his lithium silicate had transformed into a milky white plate. When he tried to remove it, the sample slipped from the tongs and crashed to the floor. Instead of shattering, it bounced."

See Also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin#Discovery

"It was a fortuitous accident: in his laboratory in the basement of St. Mary's Hospital in London (now part of Imperial College), Fleming noticed a Petri dish containing Staphylococcus plate culture he mistakenly left open, was contaminated by blue-green mould, which formed a visible growth. There was a halo of inhibited bacterial growth around the mould. Fleming concluded the mould released a substance that repressed the growth and lysing the bacteria. He grew a pure culture and discovered it was a Penicillium mould, now known to be Penicillium notatum."
I Am Leaving Facebook, Why And How You Should Too
I was maybe a little snarky, but totally serious.
Nice idea. It won't run on my iPad 2, though.
Here is how I made django easier: http://amitu.com/importd/ :-)
There is a middle ground, it is called a simple, straight forward message, something like "We don't support your browser". No shark needed, no suggestions that the user "doesn't use the internet much" or are "at their parent's house". Though the idea of MySpace trying to put on a hipster front is hilarious in the irony. Really? MySpace still exists as an actual thing?
3Taps' Counterclaim to Craigslist
That'd be an interesting feature.
Beijing, Shanghai, and such do show up from the UK.
I will have to check the others when I get back to the big CN.
It is valuable to consider the you-centric position on why you need to charge a lot, but also keep in mind why your client gets more valuable out of you, in such a fashion that they don't mind you charging much more than a FTE over the same interval:

+ They can keep you for exactly as long as they need you, and then let you go, with no hard feelings.

+ You don't require a 3 ~ 6 week spin-up period as you get used to e.g. how your new employer uses source control, the procedure for running acceptance tests, or the proper way to fill out requisition forms.

+ The search to find you took days, not months.

+ The interview(s) to bring you in takes one person minutes/hours rather than several people days.

+ The paperwork to bring you in takes minutes, not days.

+ There are some specialties where FTEs for that specialty are either a) extraordinarily expensive or b) unavailable for hire at essentially any price. The business might not be able to justify keeping one of them around for the year, if for no other reason than their salary would upset the apple cart with other employees, but might still get value out of tactical engagements.

+ Employers and employees have an expectation that employees will occasionally have issues which temporarily impair productivity and that this is just the nature of the beast. ("Dad is in-and-out of the hospital and I'm mentally checked out.", "Off to JavaOne this week.", "I'm pregnant, cya in a few months.", "We sprinted hard for the last six weeks and I'm in cooldown mode.", etc) Consultants sometimes have impaired productivity, too -- but employers don't have to pay for it, since consultants will typically attempt to avoid scheduling engagements during them.

* Consultants put up with a lot of things by charter which are socially awkward to ask of employees, for example, "We need you in Berlin the day after tomorrow."
Whats so disingenuous? I could easily of got someone else to post this for me if that was my aim. Im just sharing on HN what I've already shared on our blog and twitter. Not hiding anything here, I work for Zerply.
As for LinkedIn they have around 30 members of their core team logging into our site regularly, and have blatantly copied one of our core features and its copy. Do we care? Not really, as you said they are huge we are relatively small. Do we try to keep people honest, and at the same time boast of how proud we are to inspire the big boys, sure... why not =)
Tomorrow we go back to building a kick ass product and forget about it, until next time.
I think their rationale is: Their cars are very expensive. People would buy a 196 inches-long expensive car, they also would buy an expensive sports cars. They wouldn't buy an expensive Prius easily. Maybe they are using their high margins on those cars to have some chance against Asian makers in the future. But, sad truth is, they will develop the very tech that nissan, toyota, hyundai, et al, will use to kill them.
Ask HN: Can I sell for you?
Me: Freelancer looking for a full-time position. Very interested in sales and would love to gain experience. Can afford 2 hours a day between current freelance workload. Willing to work on commission only basis. I am northern California. Let's talk!
Hipsters on realtime
I found that disturbing too, so I looked up Jeff. His twitter account is active with recent tweets: http://twitter.com/MyNameIsJeff

Probably doing fine!
Tell Ben I said hi :D Good job mate.
Thanks for all the feedback! I just pushed an update taking into account some of your remarks:

* Preserved the default behavior of the "x comments" link: it now inserts an "Expand comments" link next to the default comments link, so that you can use HN the traditional way with Ypander installed.

* Speed increased

* Support of news.ycombinator.org

* Support of https
Am I reading right that it's 4 days from first contact to hire? That is extraordinarily fast.

I wonder how much of the work of screening candidates is done "for free" for Github tech hires, since most of the techs Github would want to hire are also users of the site.
any numbers on cost per mile just to get from point a to point b as compared to a gas-powered car?
> The Internet does not have such an obvious dark alley.

http://p3n1zp1llz.48djkhcd.com.shadyurl.info/freemoneyz.exe

;)

Edit: Forgot about this site, but perhaps it could be used as a training tool for family members you feel are not quite as savy as they should be: http://www.shadyurl.com/

Make a page that just says "Grandma, don't click links like that!", convert it to a "shady" url with shadyurl.com, then email it to your grandmother.
If you just want the comment collapsing enhancement, there are a couple of Chrome extensions that do this, and if you want it in Firefox, there are a couple different bookmarklet implementations that will do it.