skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends a lot on the designer/buyer relationship. For example a friend of mine had for example his logo done through 99Designs but ended up getting the whole CI for his business done plus keeps coming back for follow-up orders. Therefore I would reframe 99designs as a way for designers to get clients without having to find cold-leads while at the same time being able to practicing their skillset/portfolio on real-world designs.
Was this meant to be funny?

If not you clearly didn't read the article, as this is basically an article about human evolution/genetic mutation.
My summary was snarky, but "illegal number" is a silly term intended to emphasize that "it's just a number (so how could it be illegal?)", which is as sophisticated as the legal arguments "it's just a plastic disk with certain reflective properties" or "it's just some markings on a piece of paper."

Your claim that bits having color "makes no sense from a technical perspective" sounds like more geek misunderstanding to me. There is no technical problem here -- only a problem of geeks applying technical results where they shouldn't.
> Otherwise, you are just violating fundamentals of living.

[citation needed] :)

If a user voluntarily chooses to buy a closed product, what's the harm? Freedom includes the right to make self-detrimental decisions.

Also, I don't see an obvious way to allow users to change your code without allowing competitors to steal your work, whether directly or indirectly. (And don't say patents, because those are far worse for innovation.) While there do exist successful business models for FOSS, they don't necessarily work well for every market need.

All I'm saying is, there are many ways to skin the macro-economic cat. There is not a default state of nature to revert to; there are only the cultural norms which we choose to establish.
It's in the URL, I wonder if Slate updated it because it was confusing. I also initially read it as "keep drinking (even in 2012)" when it's really "keep drinking into adulthood."
The Y Combinator application deadline is in 2 days.
Vintage mode is in a pretty ugly point in the uncanny valley.
Understanding the Kano Model - A Tool for Sophisticated Designers
Well, as another datapoint to study, asians are said to have a near 90% adult lactose intolerance rate. So whatever beneficial natural selection for Europeans that propagated the always-on lactase mutation, the same cultural/agricultural circumstances didn't hold true for asians.
'I don't have time' is just an excuse!Just do it right now!
You're absolutely right. In my native language, the relative key is called the parallel key. Sorry for causing confusion.

So, to clarify, I'm not claiming there is a III in the original key, I'm referring to the III chord of the relative major key.
It's an interesting article, on a topic I've read about before. I think the answer is that is no one answer - maybe milk became fashionable, and the guys who had a regular supply of milk attracted more females, and thus more offspring. Maybe it was fashionable and, if being consumed as yoghurt, somehow acted as medicine to a bacteria getting around at the time. Maybe it was fasionable, had medicinal qualities and gave you stronger bones, so you were more able to survive childbirth and things like battles or hardships.

I'm just glad I'm not lactose intolerant, so thanks to whoever in my billions of ancestors decided to keep at it.
There is a link to the second (and 3 .. 10) part at the bottom of the page. It's difficult to see because its color is light grey.
What makes you think $40 million is a lot? That seems like a very tiny amount to me, especially considering that most (nearly all?) is spent on technical requirements rather than editing.
I moved back to Dropbox after a month of use. The only thing that bothered me was google takes a long time to polish its product. Why should I be paying during all this period.
> Various ideas are being kicked around to explain why natural selection promoted milk-drinking, but evolutionary biologists are still puzzled. [...] Those who couldn't drink milk were apt to die before they could reproduce.

The success of the lactose tolerance mutation may be partly due to sexual selection[1]. It's been proposed that neoteny[2] is a key feature of human evolution. The ability to drink milk as an adult is a neotenous trait, and it may have been "accidentally" selected for when other beautiful features were sexually selected.

David Rothenberg's book, Survival of the Beautiful[3], argues that biologists are sometimes "blinded" by natural selection and ignore sexual selection.

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[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_selection

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoteny

[3] - http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtomics/2012/10/25/...
Data does not support your anecdote. SF has the 9th lowest smoking rate in the country according to one study [1]. California in general has the 2nd lowest smoking rates after Utah, which is impressive considering how big California is.

[1] http://healthyliving.blog.ocregister.com/2010/06/18/what-cit...
>"Basically, it's taboo because designers get paid like $2 an hour there"

There are places in the world where it may be nigh impossible to get work as designer, and where the "low" wages of sites like 99designs are considered good wages.
You should try vanilla Silk, if you live somewhere it's available. Silk is the brand of soy milk that made me realize soy milk is better than cow milk.
Most of my consulting work comes through word of mouth and referrals from people who I've met at various meetup groups, hack nights, etc. Some leads come through the website from people searching from Ruby developers, but still the best lead is someone who knows someone who knows you!

Two podcasts I can highly recommend listening to are the Ruby Freelancers podcast (http://rubyfreelancers.com/) and the Business of Freelancing (http://businessoffreelancing.com/).

Another podcast that I have found deeply helpful is the EntreLeadership podcast by Chris Locurto, which is a follow-on to the business book written by Dave Ramsey. It's more focused on general business and leadership. So it takes a little more work to apply the principles to your freelance business, but it's very helpful as one thinks through the future when freelancing evolves into a business with a team and so forth.

I hope this helps!
I have to respectively disagree with you; a business can grow with part-time investment, it just won't be growing as quick as if it were a full-time position.

Sure, it might not have worked out this time, as many startups don't, but I'm sure he learned a lot and maybe he'll give it another go sometime.
I'll only use SpiderOak. I don't want the company I'm uploading personal files to, to be able to view my files.
Sounds like you'd have a hard time changing your price in the event a 99designs client becomes loyal to your work.

> Therefore I would reframe 99designs as a way for designers to get clients without having to find cold-leads while at the same time being able to practicing their skillset/portfolio on real-world designs.

That sounds great for a college student, but not for anyone actually trying to make a living.
These sort of news posts should be a game, take an article like this and put the top comment against an article about SOPA or any other internet "oppression" policy:

From a "Hacker Advocate" at Spotify

The internet needs policing

Really?
The designers only get paid if their design gets chosen. On top of that, you have clients that name their price, so you end up having races to the bottom for people trying to support themselves in their profession. Furthermore, the client has the last say in the design (they pick the winner), so instead of trusting a designer to create a solution that's the best for your business, you're going with your own (untrained) eye without any regard to what makes a design successful (a lot of people are incorrect in assuming that good design is anything that just "looks good", that's only part of it).
It already exists.
http://www.stoned-vienna.com/
I also read that it was trivial to make a "boot kit" for Windows 8 without secure boot. I actually think it a very big deal and hope many Linux distro's develop something similar.
Use the left and right arrows to navigate the beats. pressing each more than once controls how many beat sections you skip over.
This is a how I feel too, so many ideas that have fizzled and very few actually being finished, which after so many times gets really discouraging. Maybe this is your problem to solve, for yourself and for the rest of us?

I'll lend a hand anyway I can if you set out to solve this
-Mike
It's nice to hear that MS is making the preview aspect clear to purchasers so no one is misled. That was a great thing to do.

I heard the Siri comparison brought up on a podcast I listen to (something on 5by5, don't remember which show). The theory they mentioned was that while Siri was certainly the feature they really marketed for that revision, it wasn't the core feature.

So a more apt comparison may be if the iPhone shipped with a buggy phone app that got updated day one, but that's not quite an apples to apples comparison. And Siri was a big reason people bought the 4S, just like Offixe is a big reason to buy Surface.

With Google, that's just their MO. They release early and often, that's just part of their experience. Apple (to my memory) hasn't done that historically, but seems to be going it more lately. Siri is the obvious example. OS X 10.0 could be considered a beta, but it didn't even boot by default on the computers it was pre-installed on. The new maps and Final Cut Pro x could be argued to be beta too.

I guess it's becoming more common, which is kinda sad.
> A product can also feel rushed because it lacks important features.

I agree, when those features are (were) available and cost effective at the time of release, AND they are in fact added at a later date, which somewhat proves they probably should have been added in the first place.

i.e. Complaining the first iPad was "rushed" because it didn't include 4G/LTE is nonsense.

By that measure, I honestly can't think of an Apple product in the last 5 years that was "rushed", where-as it seems the Surface RT was/is.
WHOA: Meteorologist Just Completely Freaked Out About Hurricane Sandy
Google maps monitoring hurricane Snady
probably bitrate?
While that does make sense, it's a little odd that there are two places to find updates.
Cheat At Letterpress
> practicing their skillset/portfolio on real-world designs.

Just FYI, that kind of justification is offensive to designers. Practice and portfolio pieces don't put food on the table.
The Let's-Sell-Our-House-And-See-the-World Retirement
> Everywhere that agriculture and civilization went, lactose tolerance came along.

Odd that they don't mention physical displacement: invasion, dispossession, death. The gene would likely have coincided with other developments of civilization, such as weapon technology, greater numbers, greater cooperation, specialised soldiers etc. Maybe there's evidence against it, but odd it's not addressed, with a puzzlingly high "selection differential". Another factor might have been sexual selection, if the new folk were healthier looking etc.

Note they are talking specifically about the West - agriculture and civilization spread throughout the East without this gene.
Actually, I did check for updates as I explained repeatedly in the post. To get the Office update, you have to go to a different place - not the OS or app updates in Windows Store, but to Install Optional Updates. I wouldn't have thought to look there.
I've tried using Sublime with Vintage mode, and about 30% of the time I'm editing, I try a Vim combo and nothing happens. This isn't just for advanced Vim features -- it's for basic things like g_.
Re side loading - I thought Windows 8 RT was locked down as much as an iPad? You can't load anything unless it comes from the Windows store, right? And you can't root the device either.
My 15 Minute Rule to Productivity
There are some truly awful designs on there. They defiantly made the right choice.
Honestly, no. I bought the Surface expecting to ditch my iPad. I wrote the post and left the house to go furniture shopping with my girlfriend. I was totally stunned when it made HN and Reddit - I don't write for hits or publicity.
Can't you do something like that on Kickstarter?
I guess I must be missing something, because there's a rather obvious explanation of the article's central paradox: lactose has calories. To wit, it takes about 10kg of milk to make 1kg of hard cheese, i.e. 6000 vs 4000 calories. So if you have milk directly, instead of cheese, you get ~50% more calories. This would presumably make quite a difference for semi-starving pastoral populations in 10,000 BC.
The courts seem to put copyright on a roughly equal level with the first amendment, so any censorship caused by them is considered to be by design.

http://gigaom.com/2012/07/30/censorship-ok-to-fight-copyrigh...
Yes, clearly it's a conspiracy to promulgate Objectivism, and not a simple collection of four author's faces. The world must be so interesting to you.
U$2 an hour is really bad, even by my country's standard (I live in Uruguay, South America).

A salaried wage for a designer would be about U$5/hour. At my company they're paying a good designer U$ 25 an hour for freelance work, but of course they don't hire as many hours as a fulltime salaried employee would do.
2012 Photography Competition at the Department of Engineering (Cambridge)
I didn't get prompted for updates at all. I did the Windows RT updates through the Metro UI, the app updates through the Windows Store, and there's yet a third place - Install Optional Updates.
I read his "The Disappearance of Childhood" many years ago, I should put one of these in my queue soon.
Calories. Cheese has only about 60% the calories of a starting volume of milk. [1]

Plus, animals can graze on land you can't farm, and they're very portable.

[1] http://westhunt.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/the-indo-european-a...
I suppose that's why when I visit Hong Kong there's so few milk for sale, and at 4 times the price.

-- asian who drinks milk daily.
Some designers feel that sites like 99designs and design contests in general are not fair to designers, and erode the value of design work in general. In fact, some have gone so far as to create the "no-spec" movement: http://www.no-spec.com/faq/

I don't agree with this. There is a market for $300 logos that many designers won't fulfill.

I've ran several logo contests and one icon contest on 99designs for $250-$300 per contest. I'd definitely use them again for a logo.

While I received 150-200 submissions in each contest, there were around a dozen that I would consider acceptable. Many "designs" were either clip art, or very poorly made. I also got the feeling that submissions are shopped around. That is, submitted to other contests if they aren't accepted for one. I don't blame them.

My first contest winner was a guy from Pakistan, the second was an 18-year-old from Germany, and the third winner was from Indonesia. Another was from North Carolina. So most likely, you are off-shoring your work where $300 is a larger payday.

If you plan on running your own contest, you need to plan some time to work it. It is imperative to give feedback on each submission, and constantly rate them. This is the difference between getting 12 submissions and getting 120 submissions. Many of the people submitting designs are learning and really appreciate thoughtful feedback.

In most of these cases, I would not have hired a designer otherwise. It takes too much time, and it is hard to find a designer I'd trust to produce something I'd be happy with for a logo. If I was working on an entire site design with a budget of $5-10K then I would find a trusted professional.
Don't understand why publicfunction.com isn't in that list. :)
Coconut milk is more closer to cow's milk with regards to fat content, however almond milk is indeed excellent.
What did you fail to pirate?
My understanding:

You give some information about what you want.
You offer a prize for the best logo ($512 in this case.)
Anyone can submit a logo.
You pick your favorite, pay the prize money, and the logo is yours to use or not use as you see fit.

Even if you get no logos you like you're only out the prize money, which is a lot cheaper than a talented designer would cost. It's great for a business that needs a cheap logo, not so great for designers making a living from logo design.

I don't know who owns rights for non-winning logos.
I would agree that Office is probably a beast to port due to its long history and large code base, but that still doest explain why it should be considered an achievement for Office to run at all on ARM. ARMs are in the same ballpark as x86, clock for clock. It's not like its a 50x performance difference.

Mythbuster's argument just isn't making sense to me.
I think the line height looks cool, but IS a bit hard to read on longer posts. Maybe dial it down to 30px?
'Absolutely incredible': water pipe erupts over suburb
Drive was never an option as a Linux user.
Again, that can only work if either B or C is a derivative of A.
I would just like to point out that Stack Exchange doesn't use 99designs anymore. Here's just an example:

http://www.usabilitypost.com/2011/04/22/designing-ux-exchang...
Whoa, Chromium 18 under Ubuntu doesn't work as well as Chrome on OSX does. 18 is ancient, so I can't really complain; this is just information. I got visual artifacts until I deselected "Use WebGL." Now everything displays fine, but I can't type quote marks or commas. When I type ' or " I get ^. When I type , I get <. On OSX, I know I could type double quotes and commas. For what it's worth, I'm using Dvorak under both Linux and OSX.
This time we're at a new venue - the event space at Super Deluxe in Roppongi.

It is actually a huge space, so it should be very conducive to meeting people and having a chat.

Here's a couple of images:
http://www.shift.jp.org/guide/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/sup...
http://kualauk.coron.jp/blog/img/2286.jpg

Hope to see you there!
Also there is a growing rate (or alert rate) of allergy to milk protein.

Milk allergy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_allergy

Understanding and Managing Your Child's Food Allergies: http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Managing-Allergies-Hopki...
Rivers mean your justification algorithm is broken. It is true that the browser being broken isn't something you can change, but using CSS hyphens and falling back to something like hyphenator.js allows you to have justified text that is basically free of rivers in practice. It's perhaps not as easy as it should be, but it is possible.
When I take my kids places, I take the sim out of my iphone and put it in a dumbphone I got off ebay. It's like a time warp.
That's why I only use sites like Guru and vWorker. Development companies charge way too much for their work and take way too long. Seeing the attitude of devs on HN only solidifies my view: no, i'm not going to let you charge me to waste the day away with "daily billing," and no, I'm not going to pay for your day off and wait longer for my project just so you can have 4-day work weeks.
I will probably be scalded here for saying this here, but here it goes: this just dropped my appreciation of Jeff Attwood and Stack Overflow two notches.

I just cannot appreciate a developer using such a site, while a sizeable portion of developers also work on very similar premises compared with designers; hourly payment and no spec work. (i.e. we'll buy your application if we like it.) For some people, mostly executives and other business oriented disciplines, this is a fair deal as it is what the free market bears; they do not and will not care about long-term health of the industry, the other side of the stick, or the designer on the line. It just doesn’t click for them, and that’s understandable somewhat because they’ve never been in a similar situation before.

But a developer using this service knows exactly what this entails, they are aware of the concept of spec-work, and maybe even had to do it for some reason. My problem is not the amount of money per-se, but with doing work for nothing, hoping that it will pay in the future. A developer cannot claim ignorance. It’s just plain nonchalant lack of empathy.
What I envision when I see some of these -

Waterfall model: http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-stackoverflow...

Bubble sort: http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-stackoverflow...

Recycle bin: http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-stackoverflow...

Broken database: http://99designs.com/logo-design/contests/logo-stackoverflow...
I'm the same way. I just turned 40, and have been drinking tons of milk my entire life. It's really bad when I travel for business and don't drink much (or any) milk. I go on a binge until my body says "enough." I think I drank 1/2 gallon today alone.

And, just like you, I grew up on 2% until college, when I switched to skim. In the college dining hall, I would fill 3-4 glasses of milk with nearly every meal. My wife has teased me about it for years. :).
And the sugar content? that might explain it. =/ Almond is drinkable with 40% of the calories.
Maybe a stupid question, but how do they spend hugely more than they take in both years? Where's the extra money come from?
I think it cuts down the potential audience quite a bit. I already am not very interested in going to a bar, and watching a movie in one sounds even less fun. Most of the people I know who refuse to go to the movies cite cleanliness, noisyness, rude people, etc. as the reasons. In my mind, going to a movie at a bar ramps up all the negative aspects of the experience.

I'm expecting that many people will disagree with me on this, but I thought my view was worth putting out there.
I'm going to keep supporting Zigfu, release more products, and recruit people after I save enough money. I'm also working on secret projects that I can't talk about.
You can preserve cheese for much longer, and use it in much more foods.
Don't forget to check out HN Kansai as well for other HN events in Japan: http://hnkansai.org/
> The anti-circumvention provisions criminalize the distribution of not just software that can be directly used, but anything that serves as a tool to violate copyright.

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm going to speculate that if you upload image.bmp, a picture you took with your camera, that happens by coincidence to contain a key that can be used for circumvention, then you would not be prosecuted or convicted. In other words, it's not the number that's illegal.
This problem is solvable (actually solved by TeX 30 years ago).

Try to read the page on a narrow screen like mobile phone, you will know how bad it is without hyphenation.
Laboratory 2.0 – a monitoring system
re: SD vs HD, is dependent upon who you ask. The CEA, which represents the TV makers, says that anything with at least 720 lines is HDTV, thus enabling 1024x768 to be called HDTV. ATSC, which develops broadcast standards, says that HDTV should be 720 or 1080 lines at 16:9 aspect ratio, which implies 1280x720 or 1920x1080.

I think most TVs now are 1280x720 or 1366x768.
I heard you like Vim, but want an emacs-backend, without all the work.

http://emacswiki.org/emacs/ViperMode

You're welcome :D
Ask HN: can you get arrested for just attempting to "hack" a website 
So basically, I got caught injecting stuff in my school's website and got caught by their logs and they want to take me to court (In Canada).
Are they allowed to do that ? I didn't manage to grab any info or data at all and my Intentions was to test their webserver for vulnerabilities.
Thanks.
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