skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>No it doesn't. There's a similar high level API, but that's it. Serving static files is part of snap-core, and done with serveDirectory/serveFile. Templates are part of the higher level snap module, and can be served in a similar style using heistServe.

https://github.com/snapframework/snap/blob/master/src/Snap/S...

While not strictly static, the heist snaplet silently adds a route that unconditionally serves templates in a fashion similar to a static serve.
As much as I cringed through the video, I think the style really works for them. :)

This is the sort of thing I love to see on Kickstarter. Best of luck!
As a data point, 15 percent of Swedish university funds come from private donations [1]. That's supposed to be equal to the US, though I imagine that other types of educational institutions get considerably less in Sweden.

[1]: http://www.sulf.se/Universitetslararen/Arkiv/2011/Nummer-101... (sv)
Get ramen profitable.
Visual Studio: Comparing Memory is Still Tricky
That's a pretty cool story :)
Is this related to the Moot?
It definitely would be a nightmare! But they have a big enough pool of hardware and users that it might be possible. As it is, there are inefficiencies because of the lack of choice. For example, I had some large instances because I wanted at least 4 ECUs, and needed 4GB of ram. I had to take on the extra memory even though I didn't need or use it. Now I am using high cpu medium instances, but would gladly pay a little more for an extra gig or two of memory.
Good job! Piece of advice from someone already at uni, you should write your reports in LaTeX.

I've been doing it for a couple of years now and I'm amazed how often professors complement the layout, structure and readability. Of course, the actual content matters to... But in fact, for a report written using LaTeX vs. Microsoft Word, in my experience the LaTeX version would certainly receive a higher grade.
I think, as tech-savvy, I overestimate what users can do or feel comfortable doing. This makes making things easier a nice challenge.

For example, a colleague needed to check if a link has rel="nofollow". The first solution is to right click on the link and click Inspect element (he uses Chrome). This wasnt a good solution because he gave up as soon as he saw code, despite it highlighting it for him. I wrote up a quick and dirty bookmarklet as a second solution which either shows a green "dofollow" or a red "nofollow" with a black BG. This was earlier this year and he still uses the same dirty little bookmarklet. It made me realise that there are probably thousands of things I take for granted which would slow down an average user almost to a stop.

To me, it seems to unearth these things, you have to question assumptions. I assumed anyone on this planet will have the capacity to right click a link and inspect the HTML and the contents of the rel attribute. I assumed the 10 mins writing the bookmarklet would be a waste of time. I was very wrong.
Why do you consider these to be mutually exclusive forms of input? Just because you can touch a screen doesn't mean that all other forms of input are no longer applicable.
Education is a big topic most places also in Scandinavia where it's more or less free.

But where there is active entrepreneurship in the US in this field, most of Scandinavia is copycatting others or developing government plans on how to improve education per. the PISA measurement scale.

The Scandinavian model is known for it's group oriented focus on learning where the new discussion is whether this is the right approach.

Among other things especially the tiger mom revolution from china is a big discussion and Canadas education system is very popular.

Finland seems to be the only Scandinavian country that is doing exceptionally well on the PISA scale.

My own personal believe is that there are to basic reasons why the quality of education seems to go down is.

1) Still too much focus on "learning by heart". It's obvious that you need to learn read, write and do basic calculation, but beyond that the most important thing to learn is, how to learn.

2) Parents outsources the job of raising their children to the pre-schools, kindergartens and so on. Forget about more money for education. If you can make parents more actively interested in their childrens education it will automatically raise the quality of the education they recieve.

More money for education is not going to solve those two fundamental problems.
Ask HN: Would you be willing to pay for this?
Hi,

some weeks ago i came up the idea to make a new kind of organizer for tasks, schedules, etc.

the primary feature will be the fact that it is made up as a RPG-like questbook. Every element shall be sound like you are playing a rpg, e.g. general tasks/appointment are called quests. the content of the quest shall be either written by the user or be one of pregenerated texttemplates where you only change variables, like "catch Anne" or "bring sugar to bob" (with more text of course). you shall be able to link quest items to your quests. These items shall be manageable in your personal inventory which is of limited space. this inventory also shall contain optional money container, where you can store the info about your gold. you can than tag quest progress with modifications in your inventory, like the quest "drive bob to the market" will result in "-10 Gold for fuel" or something like that.
each quest can also be failed (e.g. missed date) which will result negative influences in your statistic which records all your quest activity.

there are some more ideas, but i think the primary idea is made clear.

can you imagine this as a sellable product or do you consider this as a neat geek tool with no market which shall only be for free?

thanks.
If you know the word "utility", the people who actually seriously try to figure out the answer to that question live at:

* http://www.givingwhatwecan.org/
* http://www.givewell.org/
* http://80000hours.org/

None of these groups recommend giving to the Gates Foundation, btw. GF is better than average but it's not in the league of the best.

(I honestly think that if Gates, Buffett, or Lucas truly deeply cared more about saving lives than anything, they'd just hand $10M to Givewell, and that as a test for $100M the next year. I don't see how anyone with $10B to give could possibly not think this was a good idea - there's more than enough Givewell track record to establish the point.)
Interesting, totally opposite for me. The text-indent is what demarcates the paragraphs and I found that really readable. Also Safari's reader mode also uses a serif font, for me anyway.
I've filed a bug regarding this : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=806311 Feel free to add your system information on that bug or describe what you faced or any other constructive input possible there. You can also CC yourself to follow along the progress.

Btw I tried this in the latest Firefox nightly and it seems that the nightly doesn't crash although the CPU usage does go up to 50%, so it seems that this bug has been fixed and will be released in the upcoming stable releases.
Doesn't look like it, but quite a silly name choice for a product around online discussions.
You should try https://github.com/mauricesvay/CheaterPress. No need to type the letters, simply upload a screenshot right from your iPhone instead.
hire an android dev and close a deal with a CPG.
Remind of certain detergent(s)
that my finger is precise enough to design with

So use a pen when you need precision. The designers I know that have Wacom cintiq screens love them to death.
Haha same here. Cracked me up :P
Also see https://github.com/mauricesvay/CheaterPress. It reads the letters directly from a screenshot.
I just had this epiphany. I tried to explain this too my friends but I still out nerd them and they aren't very excitable. I just bought one of the HiDPI monitor for super cheap and it does suck going back to the MBA screen, not just for real estate but quality (and Mac font rendering, bleck). What I can't get over is how much more productive I am. I can have three different bits of code side-by-side, a terminal with gdb, Chrome open with docs, all in one screen.

That's HUGE, at least for me. I'm constantly alt-tabing or changing workspaces on my Mac and every second I have to wait for that animation, or look at that variable name, or remember why it return an (int, error) not just (int), I was losing my momentum.

Honestly, I'm excited to start my full time job to buy another of these bad boys to use at work.
Could be an interesting app. Do it!
Some kind of interesting stuff, but at $500, and as a freelancer without a cushy corporate budget, I'll stick with Komodo.
IMO, a better way to rephrase your question would be: "Would you be willing to pay for this?" This will let you gauge whether you would have buyers or not.

Personally, it's hard for me to answer this question based on what you wrote above. It seems a little verbose. However, my initial reaction is no, I would not be willing to pay, because I feel the effort to record all this info has too much cost for the necessary reward (getting-things-done). However, that's just me and I may have misunderstood what you're trying to accomplish. :)

Gluck!
My guess is they are cookie-ing browsers and doing data collection/retargeting.
I guess it's typical but I've had this idea before. tptacek should stop by with his rant against javascript, client-side encryption.

The other trick to making this idea cool? Once you have the wiring hooked up to make Mega look like local storage (even though it's in the browser), you can wire that up to the PeerConnection Data Channel (once it's available) and literally implement peer-to-peer networks in your browser. There are limitations as you can't use aggressive discovery protocols like with a native socket, but it's still tantalizing.
the demo has no pagination (infinite scrolling instead--9, permalinks are awkward to find and without javascript you get an empty white page.
Apparently, you can build yourself a netbook with PixelQi's transmissive-reflective display of the OLPC. Not quite paper, but at least black&white without backlight.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/19/how-to-install-pixel-qis-...
Open chat with HTML5
Wow. Check out the updates page of that project: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2027072188/plasma-jet-el...
Sorry, but it is not a game, it is a convention that afaik holds true for ALL languages that use exceptions. Using exceptions for control flow is widely accepted as a code smell.
Show HN: My personal website. Tell me your reviews, especially the "print"
The ones I know do too. That's a different interface paradigm though.

Pen is not suitable a general purpose pointing device to use in conjunction with any type of (onscreen or physical) keyboard.

* Tap on the screen to set carat
* Put down pen
* Type
* Pick up pen
* Click something else

Just no good.

For design / illustration pen is fantastic. You don't even need to have a Cintiq, a standard tablet works almost as well. I'll bet you money though, when most designers are doing other things, managing files, browsing the web, writing, etc. they put down the pen and pick up their mouse.
You're right about the title, i fixed it, thanks.

the manual verbosity is also my mind blocking problem. i didnt come around with an idea to reduce the text the user have to enter to make such thing useful/correct working. it wouldnt make sense if such a tool degrades to a normal organizer because of the stuff a user enters.
This is one point to think about.
Another video: vim on eink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdmX52SCpG0

not glorious.
How's your comment even remotely related to the submission?
indeed. this particular service looks good, but reimagining is a strong word for what they've done if the screen shots are anything to go by.
What if every two years we now have a 100-year flood?
Was it this?
http://liquidtext.net/demos/
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4401550
We're shutting down ArcticStartup - please help my team find work
Or if you prefer article format: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2012/10/30/Cuomo-Extreme-weat...
I don't.

I do think the ergonometrics of using touch on a large(ish) vertical display - "Gorilla Arm"[1] - is a deal breaker for extended interaction.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4726394
Some form of templating would be nice too. Something to replace multi-line macros.
Not related to Christopher Poole in any ways.
Awesome. And I feel for this guy, knowing what the next four years is going to be like for him. Sitting in classes listening to an instructor spend a whole week explaining how a "for" loop works to students who for the most part won't be able to successfully write their own "for" loop by the time they graduate (with a 3.5 GPA in CS).

I wish there was a degree path in "software" rather than "computer science", since that's what a kid like this needs. Turning algorithms into code is clearly solved for him. But I bet a few years of turning "nothing" into "shipping software" would be a lot more useful (or at least a lot less of a waste of time).
Theres a link to a demo on the bottom to play with it.
Before Cook was CEO he was SVP of worldwide operations. It was his job to get those thousands of people and suppliers marching to the same beat.

And yes, speedy delivery time is an achievement. It might be for computers in this instance but militaries and countries are run on their logistics. While we take for advantage shopping for fresh food most people don't realise the amount of preparation that goes into getting fruit to ripen in the stores.

So no, I don't think Maps are hard. The hard part (data acquisition) has already been done. But it can't be a "hobby" either. If they were planning to do their own maps, and the purchase of C3 and Placebase years ago meant they were, they could have looked around and saw that Nokia, Microsoft, and Google, were shelling out serious cash to get it right Apple spending a tenth of that was naive.

As CEO, Cook was right take the blame. If he publicly passed the buck to Forstall I would seriously question his leadership.
Scaling that up to laptop or desktop screen size is a completely different set of motions.

Why do you assume the motions are different? Apple has already proven this with the Magic Trackpad for desktops.
If they do that, they have to be careful about countries that have data protection / privacy rights, and they might have to be careful about signing up companies/sites hosted in these countries, specifically, the EU
Moot = verb (used with object) to present or introduce (any point, subject, project, etc.) for discussion.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/moot

Cannot think of a better domain name.
"Of, by, and for the people" is not subjective. Neither is the people replacing the sovereign. Nor the nature of a community as a collaborative enterprise.
I see it took some good ideas from Stackexchange. Good. Since there's no contact email, I'm writing questions here:

1. Is it configurable, to get rid of "likes" and other cluttering elements?

2. I'd like to pay for not tracking my users. Is this possible?
"Moot" is an Old English word for a meeting, which I believe is still in modern usage. I've heard it used at any rate. So not that bad a name really.
can someone make an open source version of this
Struggling startups get a pass on HN. Struggling companies that were at the top of the food chain and tumbled to the bottom through hubris and a failure to innovate don't.
Hi there,

I'm in a similar position to Ewan, so this comment comes as a relief to me. I have a portfolio site that's also limited to only projects clients have approved to be made public. Whereas my LinkedIn has more information on what I've done.

I've sent an application with my LinkedIn.
None of that is taking place. SSO and some deeper private discussion options will be available for paid customers. Those options are not relevant for the vast majority of people that would use moot though.
Cool! Thanks for posting. I've wondered about creating a vim-style editor that would know more about a particular language. For example, I greatly enjoy using Surround.Vim (which knows about quotes, parens, and braces). It would be neat to add detailed javascript syntax, or perhaps to let libraries somehow specify new functionality / macros. E.g., annotating jQuery so that it loaded its own plugin to help in writing / visualizing jQuery-specific code. So I like the whole "structured editor" idea.

All the best!
Muse: The Brain-Sensing Headband
That's funny, I thought it was well understood that Houdart didn't write 99% of Houdini, but it's an improved version of the public domain Ippolit/Robbolito sources, the latter being GPL.

It's a bit like calling Alan Cox "author of the widely used Linux operating system".
I agree.

I only use the Apple magic trackpad for input in my Apple and Ubuntu computers.

It is an amazing device, all other trackpads I had tested(and I do it with every computer I see on the store) is shit compared with it, on laptops and stand alone.

But it takes some time getting used to it, specially for doing things like right clicking(15-30min in my experience with other people), so I don't see most of the people using it, unless you could make people to climb that learning curve.

About touching the screen, I remember the Windows users talking about how touching the ipad "will never work" because the screen gets dirty, like the people from Linux that hated what iOS did until Android copied it, and instantly became the best thing since sliced bread.
Home Alone 2 is a very nice comedy movie.Kevin McCallister is back. But this time he’s in New York City with enough cash and credit cards to turn the Big Apple into his very own playground. But Kevin won’t be alone for long. The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are bound for New York too, plotting a huge holiday heist! Kevin’s ready to welcome them with more battery of booby traps the bumbling bandits will never forget!One year after Kevin was left home alone and had to defeat a pair of bumbling burglars, he accidentally finds himself in New York City, and the same criminals are not far behind.In the first movie, Home Alone.

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Absolutely not. We will never sell data and we hate ads.

In future we're going to charge for private posts.
I wonder what the solution is for an airline trying to follow this model of "better experience for a tiny amount more money".

It seems like you should be able to simply advertise the fact that yes, we cost exactly $20 more than the cheap guy. And here's all stuff you get for that (dignity, comfort, sodapop and your bags in the hold). And here's how small a fraction of your whole trip that $20 actually represents. And oh, here's how small a fraction of your whole trip the entire $179 you're paying for the flight is.

But there's just so much innumeracy and irrational behavior to overcome before you can get that message across. Try selling the above to the average flyer who will happily take the $159 seat on the airline that charges him $50 to check a bag over the $179 seat that doesn't have any added fees.

I hope somebody cracks it. It seems like you could do it with a whole bunch of published (and advertised) transparency in your pricing and value offered, combined with a campaign encouraging buyers to "sort by happiness" or whatever when browsing at kayak.com.
Industrial Revolution 2.0 in London's East End (video)
Typo - Fixed, but only because my back went out and I can't sleep.
The link is so hidden I couldn't have discovered it without looking at the bottom (coincidentally).
The steps to add Flipbooks on Facebook
How to display the generated flipping ebooks from Flipbook Maker on your Facebook pages.
Megaupload and the Government's Attack on Cloud Computing
yes it is true!
EFF Demands Answers About Predator Drone Flights in the U.S.
http://www.edutopia.org/mission-vision ( The George Lucas Educational Foundation )

"Our Vision

Our vision is of a new world of learning, a place where students and parents, teachers and administrators, policy makers and the people they serve are all empowered to change education for the better; a place where schools provide rigorous project-based learning, social-emotional learning, and access to new technology; a place where innovation is the rule, not the exception; a place where students become lifelong learners and develop 21st-century skills, especially three fundamental skills:

-how to find information

-how to assess the quality of information

-how to creatively and effectively use information to accomplish a goal

It’s a place of inspiration and aspiration based on the urgent belief that improving education is the key to the survival of the human race. We call this place Edutopia, and we provide not just the vision for this new world of learning but the real-world information and community connections to make it a reality."
1) Not in v1 but you can simply hide those like and other "clutter" with CSS since the forum is sitting on your site.

2) The data will reside on our servers and it's public. Later we'll have private posts too.
If you're in the EU brush and sick of this, brush up on your local implementation of the Data Protection Directive ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive )
its not that volatile right now, therefore your statement is invalid.
I'm the guy running the company, or the guy who used to run it. It's been an awesome ride and a great learning experience. Most importantly though, I think we've been able to positively affect the Northern European startup scene in a sustainable way.

The hardest part of all this is to let go of my fantastic team. If you have part time, or full time work for them - please get in touch with them through the contact details in the post.

Hacker News community - you've been instrumental in spreading our news as well.

Thank you everyone.
12 fantastic startup workplaces in Berlin
My guess is that ephemeral disks were dropped because of too many people losing data on them.

Not because of a fault, but because they don't know instance disks are ephemeral.

Permanent storage as a default is a saner default as well.
It's a sad development. ArcticStartup has been material in keeping tabs on the startup-scene in northern Europe.
Stack Exchange is a break for the norm for sure. I guess I don't really consider it since it's not something you can setup on your site to power your own forums and commenting.
Fedora 18 Isn't Looking Too Good, Anaconda Problems
How long until we have a macbook with 108,500 by 81,500 resolution?
Downloads of Scala plugin for IntelliJ rocket upwards
[edit] I think I wasn't clear. Scaling the direct on-screen manipulation up to laptop/desktop fundamentally changes the physical motions required.

The Magic Trackpad is indirect scaled motion like the inbuilt trackpad on a laptop. It's size is still within the range of easy and quick wrist motion unlike touching the desktop screen itself.

There's even push back against ever increasing phone screen sizes. They've gone beyond a finger's range of motion.
Looks good for starting out. Reminds me, has anyone heard back from startuppack.org?
I don't see how this is forums and commenting "re-imagined".
> Did they pay the original fine yet?

The fine is upheld, so I'd imagine so.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4167174