skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And here's part 2: http://imprint.printmag.com/color/wonderful-color-wheel-part...
I like everything you've said about that.

I guess I want to be able to make a contribution which is actually a real thing used by real people, rather than a dead project somewhere in the corner so to speak. A good community surrounding it would be cool too - I wouldn't mind meeting some like minded and interesting people!

In honesty I don't really know what I want/what I would find interesting - that's why I'm looking for suggestions.
Very nice site design.
Facing a potential health crisis without insurance has got to be one of the biggest disincentives to starting a business.

Even if that disincentive is irrelevant to most entrepreneurs, you still have potential entrepreneurs with health issues. If X% of potential entrepreneurs have managed but costly health problems, the disincentive to starting a business must be much higher.
Thanks!

No, I don't really have this visceral reaction (or at least not nearly as much) to baby companies, but that is probably because none of their stuff that I've seen feels as starkly personal as this video. Maybe their stuff is 50% to 80% compelling, and thus doesn't make it into uncanny valley territory.

Also, because products more fundamentally require themes of babies / children / parenting, so discordance is limited anyway.

That's an interesting thought about the emotional exchange, I never thought of people in a company as recipients in an emotional exchange with their customers. Fascinating.
What I think would be a better solution that could fit in everyone's worldview (those that want a more socialized health care system and those who don't want a powerful federal government) is to have cities provide a public health insurance option that a person or business could buy into.

I think that the risk pool would be large and the members would be local (thus giving more rights to local communities rather than the federal government).

I think it could then encourage cities to be more healthy cities (less pollution, more activities for locals, encourage walking/biking rather than driving) in order to drive down health care costs for their citizens. Being a healthier city would then encourage people to move to there thus increasing the risk pool.

Citizens wouldn't be required to purchase through them but the plans could still be managed by private companies like Aetna, Cigna, etc. so that the plans could be used when local citizens travel to other parts of the country.
Great, now I just have to rip Unity out and shove Gnome 3 in there with a shoehorn.
As for blaming the tool for what the users do: I believe this has been tested in court with the Sony vs. Universal City Studios case (The Betamax case).

Since the recorder wasn't explicitly made for breaking the law, the makes of the recorder can't be held accountable.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Univer....
... and this means Google has a strong incentive to prevent the public from getting trapped in walled gardens (facebook, iOS, etc).

This a good thing, as it means they're powerful advocates for a more open internet.
Is anyone else running this in VirtualBox on a MacBook Pro Retina? Is it incredibly laggy for you too?
Show HN: blogpy - a simple static blog generator in python
> "disabling port 80 is a great way to handle this"

It's been a disaster for a bunch of people I know.

git is distributed by nature so they all had extra remotes they could use.

github's issues and other project metadata wasn't distributed, since that's github's alone.

So all of the friends of mine who are corporate github users who were using git in a distributed style (a minority of their overall customer base, I would suspect) are more screwed by the web app's absence than they would have been by a repository problem.

I suspect github made the right choice for their customer base overall, but I still find the anecdata interesting.
Server-Side JavaScript Injection
A distinction without a difference. I would be stunned to find out that more than 5% of US universities got a minority of their funding from the government , and who pays the piper calls the tune.

For my purposes state guaranteed and subsidised student loans count as they wouldn't happen without it and the restrictions placed upon which institutions' students are eligible are another example of government power over universities.
Countries with much broader safety nets for entrepreneurs are not producing the risky innovative companies that America is.

Could this be because countries with broader safety nets also have more regulation and make it hard to fire people?

I've always kind of thought a combination of making it easy to hire people and let them go, along with strong safety nets (ie, good unemployment insurance and not having health care tied to employment) would be optimal.
Not me. I installed Windows 8 as a partition. It was a nightmare. There are four corners of the screen that seem to do different things when you point there. After about two weeks of casual use, I gave up and went back to Windows 7. My head seriously hurt trying to remember (guess) which corner did what, in order to go "back and forth" between the different UI paradigms (which by the way is UNNECESSARY to have more than one paradigm on my UI).
I have no interest in the new "tablet" paradigm that's being forced onto desktops. It doesn't make sense. I dumped Ubuntu for a similar reason (Unity was/is awful) - I put up with it in Ubuntu for about 8 months. I now run Windows 7 and Linux Mint.
Now you may argue that I wasn't committed to learning the new UI after only two weeks, but you know what? It either works, or it doesn't. I could learn to walk with a warn-out hip and a limp, but it doesn't make it ideal or optimal.
That can still add up a ton. I was thinking regional sharding where you might end up having records in a different region that are local to 'that region' queried by other regions.
Should also consider Google Hangout. Congrats on the launch!
Very cool! But I just clicked the up arrow a bunch if times and got out of the screen entirely! Then I waited a couple of minutes & I had 6 digit scores.
This addresses a larger issue, but the specifics discussed hit home with me. I started my company several months ago and lost my health insurance. After paying into the system for the last 8 years, I feel like I've just been giving my money away. I had always been under the impression that I could never be denied for insurance if I had an existing policy but obviously that was misguided.

I'm overweight, I'm a smoker, and I have high blood pressure. Starting a company could literally kill me (on top of aforementioned dumb decisions). The rich used to pay 90% taxes and we still had Vanderbilt, Carnegie, and Morgan.
http://www.economist.com/node/21559618
Isn't it possible that's just a handy self-justification, though?

If healthcare wasn't an issue, would it be something else?
The US already has the most lenient bankruptcy law in the world. It already has the highest "social tolerance" for entrepreneurial failure.

I'm in great health, and young, so I'm not worried about saving for retirement (yet). But starting a company is still really damned hard. It's years of hard work, too much time at the office, too much time away from friends and family. Too much fear that tomorrow no customers will show up, or they'll go to your competitors or you'll find our your DB backups don't work and you have to go out of business. It's fear that you're not managing employees correctly, or not hiring the right people, or not prioritizing the right things.

The government can't make any of those things go away. And the only issue it could help is money, which has terrible downsides to go along with it.
If you look in the source (http://bl.ocks.org/3914862) about 4/5 of the way down, they basically copy the core logic from Jake's Matplotlib version.
I switch from my native layout to the US layout for coding.
My brokerage won't even let me open the position without having enough money to cover the share assignment.
Very nice -- have you thougt of a screenshare feature on your platform?
The industry joke at the time this research came out was that if the regulators were serious about auto safety they should mandate a sharp dagger sticking out from the steering wheel aim directly at the driver's chest. People would drive very carefully!
I checked out Estonia from above and the colour doesn't match the examples on Wikipedia. I've also checked out the Australian flag, and it's eyeball-different - the blue in the real flag is closer to navy blue. The blue should be #002B7F, but a colour picker tells me that the 64x64 flat flag has a blue of #003399.

It's not a big problem in my opinion - no-one should be overly hung up about minor anomalies like that for web icons - but it's not true to say the colours are exact.
From what I can find, there are very few Somali immigrants in Finland. Approximately 10,000, so about 0.2% of the population. How is this a problem?

In addition, the statistics indicate that Somalis are crime victims much more often than they're perpetrators, mostly due to the high prevalence of hate crimes perpetrated by young white men. See: http://www.poliisiammattikorkeakoulu.fi/poliisi/poliisioppil...
Consider the organizational qualities that create successful startups: agility, speed and clear vision. Entrepreneurs live and die by efficiency and effectiveness. This is the exact opposite of what government programs give us. Believing that any government initiative will enable entrepreneurship is naive. Founders relying on a government cushion to lower risk will be inviting unnecessary encumbrance.

Government programs across the board, from corporate tax credits to welfare programs are universally gamed. Creating a government net to catch failing entrepreneurs will only increase the cost of doing business, while slowing down the pace of entrepreneurship.

Is the goal here to promote new businesses, or is that just an excuse to push for socialized health care? If the goal is provide health care, then the best option is to lower the barrier of entry for new businesses in the health field, whether insurance providers, healthcare practitioners or pharmaceutical companies. This is another topic, but there are many safe and legitimate ways to do this by cutting out corruption and waste.
That's the nice thing with screen mirroring, so you can just use VLC with the ATV to play all kinds of video formats.

But you are right that there are other boxes available and they all cost way less than $250.
Well done! I actually was planning on tacking this one myself using svg filters but I've been too busy. I didn't see Mike Bostock's comment suggesting the custom line interpolator and wasn't aware of it -- d3 is gaining some cool new functionalities!

Thanks also for the great references. In spite of being a big proponent of d3, I somehow missed the "Toward Reusable Charts" piece Mike wrote earlier this year, which succeeds where I have struggled. I've been using the standard prototypal approach to creating reusable and easily configurable charts, which can be cumbersome for the caller. This functional approach with closures is so much cleaner and more reusable. It's the only way I'll make my d3 charts from now on!
"Countries with much broader safety nets for entrepreneurs are not producing the risky innovative companies that America is."

I don't think that has any relevance to the question at hand. If we eliminated wasteful medical spending then we could literally insure every uninsured person at least 10x over. (Medical waste is ~700B per year, whereas it would cost about 50B to insure everyone.)
Absolutely agree. The hundreds of websites devoted to explaining how to achieve a X-column fluid layout are testament to CSS's failings in this regard - seriously, layout as a problem has been solved for 15+ years [1].

We're finally getting some progress on constraint-based layout in the form of the flexible box model (great modern browser support), and CSS grid layout, which surprisingly enough is coming from MS.

I agree, the fact that it's almost 2013 and we're still wasting valuable brainpower on f*ing around with what should be trivial layouts is a bit of a shame.

[1] - http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/constraints/solvers/ui...
...funny how I ended up on your profile from a random query on google and was just reading the bottom half of it and clicked comments ... and I find this.

I really support what you're doing by the way.
> Value is determined not by the amount of work put into it, but by the precedent set by the market.

directly contradicts:

> If everyone else is charging $2 for their apps, yeah, $20 is too much.

Let this sink in: Tweetbot for has been out for less than 24 hours. It is already #2 in sales and #2 in Mac App Store revenue.

The market completely disagrees with your latter statement.

What you're seeing here isn't that $20 is too much given that everyone else is selling at $2.

Rather, what you're seeing is that everyone else, operating under the received "wisdom" that apps are worth less than a cup of coffee, are leaving absolutely staggering amounts of money on the table by being afraid to ignore the nonsense and ask for real value in return for their work.
Public Radio is painfully liberal in some aspects. I work in the smart grid industry, so I have a podcast with all of NPRs energy stories, and 90%+ are favorable to green energy, solar energy, wind energy - and Anti-Coal/Carbon products.

Now, as it turns out, that happens to be my sweet spot, so I love listening to the echo chamber - but I realize there is a HUGE sector of society (perhaps enough to elect a president) that believes in Carbon/Coal/Oil/Pipelines as the foundation of the US energy economy. Those views, as a policy, are severely under-reported on NPR.

Now - I listen to NPR because I believe those alternative views are inane - but that doesn't stop me from recognizing NRP's bias.

Unfortunately, these days, people are so used to having their own (biased, in almost all cases) views dished back to them, that an unbiased news source is unlikely to garner much in the way of attention.

That's fine with me - I can live without stories of the Rapture, government taking our guns away, welfare queens, communist (muslim now?) menace, etc... I'm comfortable in my little liberal shell.
Visual Studio Premium is the first version with a profiler. It's currently $6200.
Looks like there is a way: Make a great product and sell it for a premium price.
Hey corny, if you check out the description on the github page you will see that I gave credit to Chris and his post on css-tricks. I'm a big fan of Chris and that post was definitely the inspiration for the grid.
Well, who knows how well the top grosser on the Mac App Store is really doing? It's not the iOS App Store. It seems to generally be dominated by Apple apps.
"Avoid the pain of Windows 8"

Before you get all bothered by this, go and read Bug #1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1
The statement was that there is no API for promoted tweets for third-party apps. If Twitter has promoted tweets, they have to get them from somewhere. That implies that there is an internal API where they get promoted tweets. I think I may be missing the point of the article, because it really didn't make much sense to me.
Can the Venture Capital Industry be Jumpstarted by Following Israel's Lead
Can't you just use a tablet and DRAW the graph like it was hand-made?

I don't understand...
And lots of wine is table wine which will not stored to evolve through the years, but drunken fairly quickly. I don't see why you wouldn't use screwtops for these wines.
Quick tip I learned: avoid false dilemmas.
A friend of mine had an external WD drive that I could not get to work Under Windows 7. It worked under Linux, but not windows.

I finally found out that there was an incorrect drive letter allocation (stuffed if I know why). We frigged around trying to allocate a drive letter through admin settings. We finally got it to work, but it wouldn't recognise the file system. We reformatted it and it worked fine.

Then there was the time the keyboard wouldn't work under Windows 7. It appeared and disappeared. It also worked under Ubuntu.

The point is that your mileage will vary depending on the hardware and operating system. I find Linux easier to fault find, whereas Windows is a disaster to fault find. My Windows faults normally end up with "just re-format it and start again".
I can do the work but since users of all of the other competitors have chimed in I'll ask you to compare/contrast with OneAll.com.
I know a few such people myself, and I don't even really know that many people. One category is people with issues from birth: one friend of mine has a congenital heart defect, which is well managed, but completely disqualifies him from buying health insurance on the open market as an individual. So he is basically forced, against his will, to work for a large corporation, so he can qualify for their group health plan. Note that this is due to something that happened before he was even born. To me, that's not how things should work in a country with real individual freedom and equality of opportunity.
Discriminated Unions
It's because we update the status site from our chat room via Hubot and whoever posted that particular update didn't realize that they didn't need to put quotes around the body of the message.
Multiple remotes are easy. Three lines in the config to push to Github and Bitbucket. Which is great if you rely on either service. It's everything else - hooks, wiki, issues, etc. - that get overlooked.
Hopefully he wasn't filling out the Sensei form...

I'm teasing. I'm sorry, it was too easy and I couldn't let it go.
In my opinion, this state of mind still exists in Canada. Entrepreneurship is being celebrated, but the default for many, many students is to get a job with a large corporation and get your stripes.
Ask HN: startup or small team within big company
For those of you who worked at startups or were members of small teams at big companies working on new projects, what differences do you see? How do they compare? What are the pros and cons that would make you want to join or stay away from one or the other in the future?

What advice would you give to someone at a big company wanting something smaller, less bureaucratic, more agile, and with engineers owning more of product/service?
Can you please cite sources for those numbers?
A thousand times this. We've distanced the individual from the costs associated with all things medical and, in so doing, have removed a lot of the power of having a free market.
Why is it $20? Because it's worth that much.

No, it's $20 because they decided to price it at $20, and they decided to price it at $20 for the reasons they stated.
Also, look like exist a invisible char limit in the textarea for sensei, I need to cut some text for the form to submit
I can confirm that offering good health insurance is an important part of compensation when hiring, particularly for older candidates. At my startup, a generous health benefit was implemented early on in an effort to attract more senior employees. Often people in their 20s find it less valuable.

Health insurance tied to employment is a bad idea generally but that is the state of USian reality and so we make the best of that. Employer-based health insurance was a side effect of government regulation during the second World War that lingered long after the regulation has disappeared.

As a practical matter, the ACA is unlikely to help. The net effect is that it seems to be increasing overall costs per employee to maintain the status quo, and there are costs down the road that have not even been implemented yet. A company like mine can hide the cost but I can see why it would be problematic for businesses that are sensitive to total employee costs. As long as businesses are paying for health insurance, the math of the ACA is pretty grim; all it did was move the costs around and add some new ones. It is disappointing that it sort of ended up being the worst of both worlds.
Writing code makes repetitive tasks easier: if you want to pump out hundreds or thousands or millions of variations on a graph (using different data, etc...) then drawing it by hand is infeasible.
I second this. Just went down with appendicitis - doctors call this a "routine" surgery. Well, the bill came to $50,000+...
The EFF has detailed information about this:

https://www.eff.org/issues/coders/reverse-engineering-faq
Fantastic stuff from John Cleese. Worth a viewing; a great trip into the toddler-hood of personal computing.
Strangely enough, I wouldn't take him seriously on a different network. Comedy Central is the only outlet I'm aware of where it's okay to take Romney, Oprah, Blago, Kim Jong-il, or Obama and ask anything from "Why didn't you take the stand at your own trial?" to "Are you planning a surprise party for us?".

Look at South Park... they aren't exactly journalists, but they aren't afraid to ... well you know. The point is they definitely aren't trying to sleep with their sponsors.

The Daily Show is comedy, yes, but my grandma will trust Jon Stewart before anyone on Fox or CNN. Because Jon doesn't make shit sandwiches. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shit_sandwich
As of 2010, we spent $1,038B on health care, $955B on pensions, $898B on education and $848 on defense.

The deficit was $1,293B, so education spending was a big chunk of it.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/piechart_2010_US_total
What if the data changes every day?

ie: plotting the number of bugs fixed over time
Flagged. Link-baiting, inaccurate title. Sure, it’s the source’s title, but linkbaitiness is commutative.
It draws a nice sine wave
http://so.danwin.com/test/xkcd-d3/
Ah, the Compaq Portable, one of the first IBM PC clones with a clean room reverse engineered BIOS. Phoenix did the same reverse engineering and sold it to others, creating an entire industry.
I don't think this is a fair comparison. You might as well compare a tablet running a web browser to a laptop running a 3D game.

For anything other than gaming, I don't even notice my Air has a fan (I agree it's -very- noisy when it's running, but the point is for the stuff you're going to do on a Chromebook the fan isn't going to be noticeable on any other laptop either), and that's the same for most modern laptops I've used.
No... Those folks had no income tax. Income tax came later.

The 90% bracket was extremely high when it existed and snared very few people.
Could you substantiate that claim? I did a few Google searches, and I find your remarks to be, well... just wrong.

As far as I can tell, there was a class action lawsuit against Yelp, which was dismissed, and a couple of other lawsuits from single business owners. I would imagine that any company the size of Yelp is going to get sued a few times, and I imagine a lot, if not all of those, are just bad small businesses.

Are you just scurrilously slinging mud, based on a single headline you read sometime in the past?

I find Yelp to be quite useful, and the people who I have met that worked there were good, hard-working souls.
You might also like its Markdown soul brother, http://gist.io/
Entrepreneurs have a tendency to go from where profits are highly taxed to pay for everybody's safety net to countries where they can keep more of their money.

A French engineer once explained to me how good the health care coverage is in France. But where is her high paying job? Not in France.
What a great quote.

I have a similar pet peeve with brownies. There are three major types: Cake, fudge or chewy. I do not prefer any type of cake brownie.
It could be that countries with a less risk-taking culture created the safety net due to that culture, instead of the safety net causing the culture.
Here is Mark Dowd's amazing BlackHat talk from 2008, that demolished MS' new ASLR protections.

I've linked the google quick view, so you don't have to trust the PDF link: https://docs.google.com/a/continuum.io/viewer?a=v&q=cach...
A Computer Lesson Still Unlearned
Makes me wonder if 'eval' still serves a legit purpose