skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do have to appreciate what Kickstarter has done for crowdfunding, but http://www.indiegogo.com/ has been international since day one.
The funding will primarily be used for developer time. I'll admit it is difficult to come up with a good estimation for what your time is worth, but I felt $25,000 was a fair price for the time investment required.
Gary Vee Knows More About Customer Engagement Than You
Hmm, some recent thoughts of his on selfishness..
http://www.matthieuricard.org/en/index.php/blog/253_ayn_rand...
For EU citizens this is probably the same as "ordinarily resident", which broadly means having a UK address and spending over 6 months of the year at it.
Let's make a petition for someone to produce this e-ink open arm laptop. I'd buy one immediately.
Using a mental health problem to counter an argument that depends on rational thinking is rather pointless.

Elemenohpee was dismissive because there is no reasonable argument for valuing minor to moderate legal liability as more important than life itself. Pointing out that elemenohpee was dismissive is not going to help you win the argument. It just adds more evidence to the accusation of "intellectually dishonest" if you have nothing else to say in rebuttal, especially when you exaggerate it.
If you want all of EU, use another service, like Indiegogo, which has been international since day one.
Array allocation in C++
That's harsh. I thought "don't die" was strictly metaphorical. You did it most literally as well. I'd like to hear more about your troubles with ABC.

Stay strong.
cout << join(pm | transformed([](propMap::value_type pv){...

I'm sorry, but as "succinct" as it is, this is basically an unreadable bullshit. Reminds me strongly of a macro abuse in C.
Regarding hellbanning, I just checked nodrama's history as well and there are a lot of posts by nodrama since he/she was hellbanned. I tend to think before I post so even a small reply by me may have taken me five or more minutes to think about before composing.

It's sad to think of all the wasted time this person is spending posting here, all because he/she called someone's post "stupid". Hellbanning should be reserved for true trolls.
Google hit with $1b French tax bill
Environment Variables in Open Source Projects
It's one of the ways that I am available to my congregation. And they love the chat feature as they can catch me without having to call.

Haven't taken on anyone outside of the congregation yet. I suppose that could happen.
So, You Want to be a Front-End Engineer?
Very interesting article, great read!
That's why I always wait for http://asymco.com to do the math and fact-check the data and compile a pretty chart.
Oh, I'm sure it works. All I'm saying is that there are many ways to achieve a given neurotransmitter balance.

A doctor might give a cancer patient morphine to numb the pain but this has the side effect of encouraging the cancer to spread, among a host of other problems. A smarter doctor would give the patient cannabis to kill the pain and help fight the cancer.

It is important to remember that politics play a central role in the medical establishment which tarnishes a lot of what comes out of it. IMO, it helps to keep an open mind and take the recommendations coming out of it into account at the same time - balance is good.

I'm not just saying this based on anecdotal evidence, it's been documented - http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

>A pooled weighted average of 1.97% (N = 7, 95%CI: 0.86–4.45) of scientists admitted to have fabricated, falsified or modified data or results at least once –a serious form of misconduct by any standard– and up to 33.7% admitted other questionable research practices. In surveys asking about the behaviour of colleagues, admission rates were 14.12% (N = 12, 95% CI: 9.91–19.72) for falsification, and up to 72% for other questionable research practices.

That is an alarmingly high rate of bad science. How can anyone in their right mind listen to their doctor without questioning the recommendations they are given? It's irrational to do so based on the evidence.
This feels so gimmicky. If I had heard what it was you were doing, but not for whom or for what purpose, I would be inclined to believe this was either a joke or else attention-seeking for its own sake.
I don't know about smartphones, but you just need an old wrt54xx router to create a really nice mesh network.
http://hsmm-mesh.org/just-starting-read-this.html
Firefox and chrome are "most browsers"
Dropbox-as-a-Database
> Lately I've been focusing on programs that encourage broader use of version control systems, like git. The goal is to harness all the power that's been developed by developers for developers for managing source code, and redirect it to other purposes.

This is very interesting, especially his Kickstarter project[1]. I've always wondered how distributed revision control systems could be used in other domains.

[1] - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joeyh/git-annex-assistan...
In the "real world" I usually try to optimize for the average case, and deal with the "highly unlikely bad input" as a special case.

I'm still impressed with the new regex engine, but I have a pathological hatred of contrived examples.

It's not you, it's me.
He's specifically mentioned in the article, unsurprisingly.
Check out reddit.com/r/web_design/ and find some blogs that you like. Look at popular websites and deconstruct them. Find things that you like or don't.

In my opinion, good design is not going to be something that can be learned from a book or guide but is learned from trial and error. Design your app, get other people's candid opinions and refine. Then repeat. Be open to what they say and don't think too highly of your design as it will most likely suck at first. (Mine always do)

What can be learned from a book is the fundamentals and the language. Here are some resources to get you started:

http://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/inspiration/teach-yourself-...

http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/a-look-into-color-theory-...

http://www.graphicdesignblog.co.uk/top-mistakes-new-designer...

Also, it might be wise to expand your learning to general design instead of just graphic or web design. This will get you thinking differently about how to solve problems in general.
The only point that finds me in disagreement is the need for a code standard that decides well on which parts should be used and how. I don't understand: why limiting ourselves? Why choosing such a well-tested instrument and choosing NOT to use some of it?
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There is work underway in standardising this for SVG 2. But given the pace at which the standard process moves along it will still take some years :-)
I don't know how Exec will run their business, but typically in the UK an agency will supply a cleaner for you, who is typically a housewife or similar with time on their hands and wants to earn some extra money. If you're happy with the cleaner they supply, they end up working regularly at your house, for months or years.

All this time, the agency is taking a % cut for providing the original cleaner. After that, the additional value they add is zero.

So yes, it may be unethical to disintermediate the agency, but by this time you have been working with the cleaner for weeks/months, so you get a fairly good idea as to what sort of person they are.
Well, eventually it's going to come out as a bitmap—they'll still end up as pixels on the screen. Vector icons just give you the flexibility to do it really really well. Cache them, prerender them, I don't care what works best, just match the icon DPI to the screen DPI and we're good.
I'm not sure I completely agree with 12:

"Hack first, learn second. Dont try to learn a new language, instead, hack something together with what you already know."

It probably depends on what you want to get out of the hackathon, but I find most of the fun being gaining familiarity with cool new APIs.
Since you're violating Shutterstock's TOS I'd be curious to hear what you plan on doing with the logo and the "designer" who made it for you.
nitpick: it's actually 3MM/18MM = 16.7% of Market, assuming that the tablet universe only consists of the iPad and Nexus7.
Everyone is entitled to irrational behavior and act disproportional to the actual danger posed. My point, is simply to point out that it is irrational, but for those who are inclined to do so, there are methods to eliminate the risk by technical measures.
This

"if you think optimizing your Facebook page and Tweets is "optimizing for social," you're only halfway (or maybe 30 percent) correct. The only real way to optimize for social spread is in the nature of the content itself. There's no way to game email or people's instant messages. There's no power users you can contact. There's no algorithms to understand. This is pure social, uncut."

resonated with me.

The focus I see some folk have on social media feels very much like the black-hat-SEO focus of some companies. Everybody is trying to find the 'trick' to going viral... when the real trick is actually producing good content.

(it also goes a long way to explaining why email marketing is such an effective tool)
If you truly valued freedom from legal liability above your own life, wouldn't you just kill yourself rather than be exposed to the risk of say, driving a car around other people?
Disney Studios bought Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion
I've been on Ritalin since I was 10. I used to take it daily, now I just take it when I need to concentrate for extended periods of time. Thank you for your concern, though.
The HD4000 runs surprisingly well at HiDPI res, actually. Haven't experienced any lag myself, and when needed the integrated nvidia GPU kicks in automatically without a hitch.
Apple slips below $600 in first trading day after exec shakeup
Believe it or not (I'm mostly trolling with the video) I agree 100% and touched on this in the competitor/fear section of my application the other day.
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Show HN: Obama iOS App - My First iPhone Game
My first iPhone/iPad game was just approved on the App Store. I've been a web and .NET guy for 10+ years and this is my first game in OpenGL and Objective-C. The transition from the C# world wasn't too bad.

I started building the app for iPad and then adapted it for iPhone and iPhone 5. The aspect ratio differences meant that loading background images got a little trickier but the basic game play algorithms worked fine.

The app was rejected at first as "crude/offensive" and it took a week to clear that up since it falls under the "political speech/satire" exception. It took another week to get my second rejection for "UI doesn't meet expectations." No one would tell me why but I think it was because my original buttons were translucent and the Apple HIG says to make buttons 3D and "touchable." Start to finish it was about 1 month from first upload to availabe on the app store.

Let me know what you think. Democrats, Republicans and Independents should all enjoy the game.

You can download Chief Chompers for Free here:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chief-chompers/id566462174?ls=1&mt=8
The place of residence is almost certainly a taxation issue. Within the EU, an EU citizen pays tax in whichever country he is "ordinarily resident" in, which is (broadly) defined as the address in which he spends over 6 months of the year.

If Kickstarter Ltd in the UK funded a project run from Spain, there would be additional complications as the Spanish government has the right to tax some portion of that income.
I'm using haskell for web development, although we're not the typical faddish startup.ly. I agree that the library thing is a non-issue. I've had absolutely no cases of wanting a library to do X, and it not being there. Quite the contrary the only library issue I've had so far is "there's 3 libraries for X, which one is the best?".
Moderation around here is hardly transparent, I doubt we'll see anything change any time soon.
It is only unreadable bullshit the first time you read it. If you use ranges, filtered and transformed for these kinds of tasks, it looks idiomatic.
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Nothing at all like that. I was prescribed it for ADHD as a child. Now, I take it if I'm cramming or spending all night in the lab. Generally, less than once a week.
Can you answer this question: Why do you need to look at the applicant's credit report?
Well, I liked C++11 a lot. But now I think I'll replace it with Go whenever possible. I don't really mind so much the verbose syntax. What matters is how difficult it is to write efficient code.

I recently rewrote one of my C++ projects(which uses C++11 features and Boost.asio) in Go. It took me half the time, less than 2/3 lines of code compared to the C++ version. This is expected. But most surprisingly, despite that I tried my best thinking about how to make it as efficient as possible in every detail when writing C++ version, and that I'm quite new to Go, the Go version still achieves nearly 100% higher throughput than C++ version.

Maybe my C++ skill sucks. But I guess I'll just let it suck.
The quest of being happy is a selfish quest. Selfishness is a good thing to me.

Helping other (altruism) is also a good thing - since it serves your own selfishness (makes you more happy to see people happy - especially if you made them happy). The only limit is the damage it may cause them (ex: encouraging sloth)

The only bad thing is sacrifice - sacrificing the others or even worse, yourself, is very rarely a good thing - a good rule of thumb is thus to avoid sacrifices.

(words from a libertarian who finds many interesting things in buddhism)
My Toshiba Portege ultralight back around 2001 had 1920x1200 on a screen about 12". After that I got 15.6" wuxga Dell Latitudes and now a Thinkpad W500 from a Lenovo outlet because their current offerings dropped down to short-screen rez.
Nice concept, seems well done too. Any chance you could add trance in addition to house, dub & dnb in the future?
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The changes to C++ are too little, too late. These changes should have been made years ago, and C++ has lost momentum and credibility. Is anyone comparing Python to c++? nope, only the other way around.
Warcraft Producer on Early Memories of Coding + Games He's Currently Playing
Programming is sadly still pretty much text-based. How many characters do you display on your monitor? Could you display as many with a smaller font on a smaller display?

I don't think screen resolution is the bottleneck in information transfer here.
What I find with C++ is that there are many languages inside it. Put 5 C++ programmers in a room and you'll probably end up with 6 different styles.

That the language may have some Python-esque tendencies (given very particular language, compiler and library versions, and a depth of knowledge not required in the Python equivalent) doesn't seem that interesting. Especially when you consider that 9/10 C++ programmers you meet don't actually code in that style and don't intend to.
> Tags are the future but only if someone would be able to automate them completely.

Which is why my dream bookmark manager has a "download and index bookmarked page" checkbox. Tags become optional - but you can still search for your stuff easily. A small-scale local information retrieval system would be way better suited to how we use bookmarks than manual tags, and we have some pretty awesome information retrieval models for closed sets of data that we can't use on the web.
Where/when ? I'd be curious to see something about that :)
Real Disaster Recovery Lessons from Sandy
Spending the last 24 hours in lower manhattan, I've learned some very real lessons about disaster recovery.
Nifty little tool. Not very useful list of commans though. Most of the time you type in more than just `git commit` or `git diff`. It'd be more useful to go over some more complicated commands like git revert, git cherry-pick, git bisect, git pull (vs fetch, merge). Things the novice git user may find useful.
It is available in the canary build of chrome. I'm not sure about the stable version.
Clear for Mac available 8th November
It seems that France has something against Google. This plus the story we heard couple of days ago where France may force the Google to pay for the privilege of linking to its news sites [1].

Or maybe France is just finally running out of money.

[1] http://bgr.com/2012/10/26/google-france-controversy-eric-sch...
I tried a couple of solutions and settled on jCrop as well. It's pretty easy to use, though there was an odd quirk in getting it show an area as precropped (i.e. if someone has previously cropped an image and you want to let them edit it) which I hacked like so http://stackoverflow.com/a/11958515/5958

If you actually want to see it in action, try the real jCrop homepage: http://deepliquid.com/projects/Jcrop/demos.php
Officially, Mr. Hollande and Mr. Schmidt discussed a bill being evaluated in France to make Google pay to for the right to cite news articles from French newspapers. Google opposes the proposal and warned it would exclude French cites from its search engine if France implements such a law.

French cities?
Oh wow I never even though about that.. A Star Wars movie without the 20th Century Fox/Lucasfilm pre-roll just won't be the same...
US Electoral Compass 2012 - data visualisation
Nice alternative to http://www.di.fm/ and Grooveshark.
I agree he was over the top, however...

Rational does not mean the same thing as sanity. Rationality means behaving in a manor consistent with your beliefs, desires, and the information you have. If you would much rather be killed while skydiving than driving your car taking you may do things that are not what most people would consider 'sane', but are still perfectly rational based on your goals and beliefs.
I did misunderstand it. But then the first point is even stronger. Those two lines are definitely not as short/clean/readable as "str(ord(s[0]))"
If that was true then first party software would support it well but it doesn't. A lot Microsoft's software cannot handle 150%.
Slightly hyperbolic link title, but great website nonetheless..

I also hope for an expansion of genres in the future
It's just because today YC applications were going to close. Because of storm 'Sandy' PG has pushed de deadline to Friday but don't worry because when the application closes no more info about "How to get into YC" will be published
Well, maybe - but it was a genuine semi-rant of a topic. I would say that though, wouldn't I?
Cracking up: what Reddit does to your personality
Very impressive!

But ... Is it just me or is it just really inappropriate for a video demonstration accompanying an academic paper like this to begin with an unrelated 20-second commercial advertisement? Can INRIA really not host the demonstration somewhere that doesn't attach advertisements to their videos?
It's not exactly easy to read on a desktop either.
Agree. The technical methods to implement QoS, dual wifi networks (or tor funneling) is rather hard to do. I would like to see a UPnP program that you install on a server, and then it would autoconfigure the wifi-network if possible. Something like a "one-click and your done" solution.
Barista writes "Tip :)" in coffee, Twitter war, begin
Is anybody wondering: What's Jonah Lehrer doing now?
Previously discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4644820
It seems to me that you're using gmail wrong. Focus on one thing at a time, switching between random things isn't going to help and if you do need to do that use the tabs. I just can't be too sympathetic to complaining about how hard it is to switch between tabs. Learn to use the keyboard shortcuts and focus on tasks sequentially rather than randomly chopping between different tasks.
You're conflating two entirely different issues here (though you're not alone in that, the French government itself is likely to play one issue as a leverage to the other).

The French newspapers that are whining about google indexing their content, are already heavily subsidized by the government and have missed every conceivable opportunity to offer something worthwhile online or on dead paper. There are a handful of very vocal op-eds who keep advocating censoring or curating the internet, coming from the hurtful realization that anybody can express its not so special opinion on the internet - thus levelling the field (in France, like in most places I suspect, celebrity journalists mostly offer vapid copycat opinions).

So, I agree, they're despicable.

Now, there's an entirely different issue: how big companies can get away not paying taxes. This is what this news item is about.
I understand how much work goes into app development, but I can't help buy feel $14.99 is a bit steep considering.

I'd much rather just be able to edit a MarkDown nested list via any text editor. Im on a Mac, no need to reinvent anything, why not let the user's decide how they manage their lists.

If it were me, I'd have gone the Dropbox route, and just sync a very simple nested list, and call it a day.
Analyzing the Windows 8 Metro/Desktop interface train wreck
Again, it is more than easy to use an Android phone without using those. I know tons of people that use Android phones exclusively with personal accounts because they don't use Google for mail/calendar. You can even use maps without giving up your location, it just makes it damn near useless... but again... it's an unavoidable issue. For it to be useful, you're going to give up something, and if it's not to Google, it's to someone else.
Netherlands highways will glow in the dark starting in mid-2013
Actually, it wasn't so bad in 2006 when I was running Debian. I ran apt-get update && apt-get upgrade at 3 am via cron.
“Six Strikes” Evidence Re-reviewed to Fix RIAA Lobbying Controversy
Without wanting to inject too hyperbolic a representation of Apple. Please don't buy kids iOS devices. There's nothing wrong from an application or usability perspective, it's just that restricting them to an extremely closed platform is likely to have future ramifications.
ElimiDate - born for fun at SWLondon turned out to be a real issue
Wanted to share with you our project ElimiDate which was done for fun at Startup Weekend London but to our surprise it got tons of positive feedback & won whole competition. We decided to do it "for real" - basing on received feedback it seems that we're onto something ;-) First version of the app will be release within days. Comments are welcomed!
Also, names are not unique. Why John Doe #1 should have the right to remove John Doe #2 from search results?
The iPad Mini seems more like a product that iPad customers would buy instead of a bigger iPad, perhaps because they've always thought the iPad was too heavy, and they wouldn't mind the cheaper price (nor the slower performance and lower resolution that comes with it).

But from what I've seen so far, people use it exactly like a bigger iPad. It seems too big to use it as a 4"-7" device, covering it from the back with your hole hand. You'll probably end up using either with 2 hands, or by the side, like the bigger iPad, so there's not much improvement over the bigger iPad there. It is lighter, though.
I did the same thing except with Fiverr (6 logos @ $5). I wrote about it and showed all the logos I received here:

http://kevinohashi.com/26/10/2012/how-get-logo-30
> And the rest will follow once there is another massive invasion of their privacy.

I don't see why people keep clinging to this line of reasoning. There is zero evidence of this, and plenty of evidence to the contrary. Not enough people care enough to make any significant changes. The blogs and news articles try to paint a picture of user unrest over privacy issues, but it's all a fantasy.

People will leave when and only when it stops being the place where everyone else is. There will be no mass exodus. The only way facebook will lose its perch is through a slow trickle over many years.