skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At work I create a lot of flowcharts, e.g. http://www.freshfreestuff.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/gli... . I usually use Gliffy or UMLet. The problem is, all of these have drag-and-drop interfaces where you have to use the mouse all the time-and moving back and forth from the mouse to keyboard is painful for me. It also means that making flowcharts takes much longer than necessary-it would be really useful to have sane default keyboard shortcuts like "create a node beneath the currently selected node."

So some method of using, say, Gliffy without having to use the mouse would be awesome.

Disclaimer: I am not a programmer and have no idea how interesting this is, I can only speak to how much it would help me.
They already kindof let you do that, the thing I can't find any simple way to do is download all of my friends photo albums that I'm tagged in somewhere. I don't really take photos, so most of my precious memories are in other people's photo collections. If someone makes that I may well even give them money.

It shouldn't be too hard, just a few graph API queries and a loop to call curl, but I've never got around to it.
You are forgetting the ad revenue here. this seems like a big opportunity to me.
That's a good idea! I'll look at incorporating some "historic" snapshots from archive.org
> They've said (r and rsc) that they want to wait and make sure they get generics Right in the context of the rest of the language

In this case, wouldn't it have been better to ship 1.0 with generics?

Retrofitting generics in a language already released with an existing code base sure doesn't seem like the best way to make sure the feature is "done right".
Coincidentally perhaps, both Corel and TurboCAD use accelerated graphics for rendering.
Hm. That's weird. I'm using http://github.com/madrobby/keymaster to hook up the keys to the same function also used by the slider itself.

Does the keymaster live demo at http://madrobby.github.com/keymaster/ work for you?
Looks super interesting, I had need for something similar a while back so I thought cool, let's try this out. But I am unable to find any sample code, is there any available? Can somebody point me in the right direction if so. I have not worked with ccv before so feels like a bit high learning curve without any samples.

Would be really cool if there were a rough guide on how the motorcycle tracking was done so that I could know in which end to start.
Sorry, but the skeptical in me says this comment reeks of advertising. I don't know if it was your intention or not, but it feels like you try really hard to establish "geek cred" and then make some grandiose claims about Windows 8. It seems like you were comparing Windows 8 to a really non-standard Linux environment and then out of nowhere you claim performance is at least 25% better to three DE's which weren't in your dual-head box. Odd.

Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof (some benchmarks, maybe), you are not providing any of that.
From my under standing that's pretty close. More specifically it has to do with the GPLv3's concept that the hardware cannot limit what you can do with the software. Its why the only GPL software still in OS X is GPLv2, and the only reason its still there is because it hasn't been replaced with a BSD licensed equivalent yet.

The largest example of this is probably CLANG. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clang
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> Languages like Kotlin are missing the point.

That's a bit harsh. JetBrains and the developers of the compiler are certainly aware of the Maybe/Option approach, they chose not to use it. Their approach is not as composable as Haskell's but much more practical and more readable in my opinion.

If anything, the fact that Option is still used so rarely in Scala is an indication that maybe, that experiment has failed.
Do you think there are no iPhones in Iran or North Korea? Hint: there are.

Even in USSR people managed to smuggle enough British LPs and Japanese tape recorders to kickstart a Rock movement. It's not that hard.

Compare this to major IT services (Amazon, iTunes, movie streaming) not available in quite a few otherwise rich and democratic, albeit small, countries; or even only available in a selected few of countries.
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You are contending that Photoshop requires Windows? You sure you want to go with that?
Really dislike this way of 'designing' with bootstrap. You need to be using the grid and setting relative values rather than fiddling with px sliders.
Agreed - I was about to give it a try, but I'd need to be able to create one (even watermarked) to see the quality of what's generated before I pay.
I agree. Andy lives here and has for all of his career.

On another note - he is a really great guy and has zero ego for someone that is so smart.
you should look into graphviz, this article posted a few weeks ago comes to mind: http://robrhinehart.com/?p=119
Trolling much? "El Pozolero" is not even mentioned in this article.
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Doesn't show ANYTHING without javascript....
True for harder drugs, yes, but not marijuana. Canada (and BC specifically) produces billions of dollars of marijuana per year. It's a fairly well known fact.
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what's the music that was used in the demo?
> Its not on the fence when MSFT issued Surface tabs to every staff member.

Quite the opposite, most Microsoft employees could only get a Surface RT in this first round if they went through the same retail channel that everyone else had to. I know two MS employees here in Atlanta who were telling me how they wished they could get one, but couldn't yet.
He says it will be MIT licensed.

Source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4769947

Edit: witch means he owns the original code but you can do (almost) anything with it.
Why you cant build your own smartphone: patents
I'd love to see a decent Python implementation of this natural language processing paper: http://www.aclweb.org/anthology-new/D/D12/D12-1072.pdf
I live in Monterrey , México, The city go on, but the people is full of fear, that fear that no one could take, neither the police or the military, we just live our lives avoiding conflictive zones and trying to handle it.
Specially in this city the people have some guilty of part of it, we have a sense of "work if you want something" that idea come from our founders, but the lack of education, lack of tv content (here is very important), there is a extreme sense of religion in the zone that's other factor many of them don't try to understand why are in that way, just live their empty life's having beer and roast meat, watching soccer...

Is hard to tell how, but I think the problem is beyond the drugs is social, cultural and political, all of that combine did the big problem we have.
>expensive greenhouses

You might want to look into the margins on cocaine production. Either that or the person selling you your greenhouses is ripping you off.
If you click his name, he's an MS employee.
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Perhaps he meant the guys who did the actual work.
Should people also have their own power plants, wells, car factories and farms?

There are certain advantages when you "oursource" your basic infrastructure. As long as inter-device connections are still problematic (NAT, STUN, ...) and as long as harddrives die, I really enjoy being able to trade money for free time rather than setting up a redundant off-site backup system.
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I've never seen Discover either and it's quite normal to see AMEX not being accepted at small retailers in the UK
Why always 'low cost' from India, why not 'The Best'?
I want this[1], but a version that works online. Should support multiple calenders per user so that I can track more than one goal at the same time.

Have one dashboard view where I can see an overview of all my goals.

[1] http://seinfeldcalendar.com/
Can't we all just take a cartoon AS a cartoon? I don't think Munroe is trying to'smack down' frequentists here, it's all just for a little fun. Look at his own comment on the post: http://andrewgelman.com/2012/11/16808/#comment-109366
Using node_pcap, make an npm package to capture multimedia packets as they come over the wire and reconstruct them into the original multimedia file that the browser was streaming down and playing back bit by bit.
Biggest Obstacle to PostgreSQL Adoption: It is not Database X
The game "Super Bub" with single player mode.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGOtsu-TFM)

(http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/70649-ps1-homebrew-supe...)

There are other similar games, but this hit the "just one more game" sweet spot. I'm not sure how.
"It is not really about monetization. It’s about engaging your users and giving them ways to advance in game play, measure their progress and add an extra layer of fun into the game."

The author nails it right here but is wrong IMHO about the % of games that can handle virtual currencies gracefully.

Sometimes I just want to enjoy a good game without being herded repeatedly with a cattle-prod into purchases i don't want to make.

Too often, in-app monetization is a hack-job that takes away from the gameplay experience. One reason why the vast majority of "hardcore" games are pre-paid.

Our consumerist obsession with free has hobbled our producers' ability to create quality. I get excited about the new crop of companies helping gamedevs pay the bills without nickel and diming their players to death. I hope they will lead to a golden age for quality social games.
Ha, you're right. I just put up a notice for <noscripters>
I haven't done much with geographic data myself but I know Google has an API for plotting that kind of data :

http://gislounge.com/how-to-import-data-make-maps-google-fus...

Beyond that R is a very powerful tool for data analysis. I would recommend installing RStudio which provides a significantly nicer interface and is available for all major platforms.

In R it's easy to load a CSV data file, look at the data and subset it. It also has good tools for plotting. For exploratory analysis scatter plot matrices are often a good place to start. It's also easy to do linear regression with the lm command.

Beyond that almost every statistical and machine learning model you're likely to have heard of has an R implementation but the documentation is often not easy to read and you may find yourself needing to read research papers just to understand how to use some of the models.

In general R is extremely powerful but it has a steep learning curve. There are quite a number of websites now that have good tutorials for the basics though.

I don't know how large your datasets are. R may have problems dealing with extremely large datasets, though that partly depends on how much memory you have. If you have millions of rows or more you may want to randomly subsample your data so you can still use R to do some preliminary exploration on it but you may need other tools for building your final models.

Another site that may be helpful is http://kaggle.com. I believe they have published a number of writeups on modelling methods by winners of some of the data mining competitions they host.
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Oracle ADF Mobile: Java on iOS and Android
Production and distribution of drugs is as illegal (and a crime) as it always was here in Portugal, and we have busts regularly. We only decriminalized (not legalized) the possession of small quantities of drugs for personal use.
I'd pay $20/year if you build a reliable HN <-> e-mail comment gateway. I'd pay double if you convinced PG to let your app sync people's comment history. Use e.g. Gmail OAuth IMAP authentication, sync to a label, optionally sync bidirectionally (i.e. comment replies from Gmail), but that's only marginally more useful than getting e-mail archives of comments here.

Hell, if you write it in Python then I'll even donate the comments page parser I already have written (including a comment's original marked up plain text recovered from the HTML).

One of many tiny projects that just need a few concentrated days that I've never gotten around to. I suspect you might find quite a few here willing to pay that same $20/year.
I think TS should take on this one :).
>A person, employee or not, posting about his positive experiences is to be expected.

He's not only an employee, he's a mobile product evangelist.
a roachspotting mashup: photo/video-api + maps api + real estate api :)
Any merchant that accepts credit card payments must be PCI compliant. Even if cardholder data never touches the merchant's servers, the merchant still falls under the scope of SAQ A[1].

1: https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/pci_saq_a_v2....
Version 2.2.0 :).
Show HN: Noon Pacific (for the lazy music lover)
Isn't the joke that if the sun did just go nova, then a $50 bet is meaningless?
Maybe weebly?
Nearly signed up, then i saw the "secured by Norton" Badge in the footer if the page.
Another economic explanation is that the US a country with an expensive currency with many poor people and other potential customers for your drugs. Even if your poor and your life sucks your few dollars can buy the passage of drugs from abroad. Maybe sometimes its too hard to resist.

European countries with where recreational drugs are still illegal are generally abuse less drugs because they have less income inequality. Even when you have only a few euros, you can afford to go to university and lead a pretty comfortable life.

This may all change with mass unemployment and poverty austerity will cause, although. I really hope this will not be a race to the bottom.
I do like this cartoon; it's a very nice representation of the problem with the viewpoint.

The main issue is that it make frequentist humans look like idiots. They're not.

Simply oftentimes lead astray -- as this example illustrates.

In particular, the epistemological fact that people misuse p-values must be exposed. Just because it is unlikely something happened by chance, in one way, in your model, does not prove your hypothesis correct.
From reading Oracle's web site, it is not clear how much an individual would have to pay in licensing to sell, for example, a single iOS application. Anyone know what the costs are?
Mathematics and proofs are a social process. Take a look at the classic paper by DeMillo, Lipton, and Perlis, Social Processes and Proofs of Programs and Theorems, available from several sources on the web.
With my particular phone (Droid2 Global) you can't root if you've upgraded to 2.3. Nor can you downgrade to 2.2 and then root. Basically I'm just stuck on castrated Gingerbread for the life of the phone.
Another thing to test is whether the app respects the portrait/landscape orientation. I use Ricky's app to vote and post, but I'll stick with Manuel's reader for everything else: it respects the page orientation, displays comment nesting clearly and allows me to collapse comment threads. Plus, it has a button to let me refresh what I'm reading, in case I want to do it more often than it already does automatically.
Good one kami
I think this is the second 'bootstrap designer' posted to HN today alone.

Here's my gripe with these things. It seems like we're going backwards. Years ago everyone used Frontpage and Dreamweaver to create their pages, which was fine. But it soon became apparent that handwriting your own HTML gave your far greater control and added way more value, and so use of these visual editors died down. But now they're back for revenge, except from the browser this time, and stuck with a totally overused css framework which in my opinion [when used at stock] completely devalues your design.

As a then designer who took the time to learn HTML and CSS during the WYSIWYG cull of the early 00s - which wasn't that hard - I just can't see why these editors are needed.
I can, even 10 years later, not because I'm gifted but because I had good calc teachers who consistently covered and circled back on those points. I know what you mean though.

But what I mean is that 25th time you're doing an integral to ram home some trigonometric identity or working out a fourier series for PDEs it's not because anybody hopes that this is the time you get the epiphany it's because the teachers need something for the grade books and you need to be able to do it during a midterm.

Assuming Wolfram wasn't engaged in just an attempt to sell more mathematica licenses I would assume that was kind of his point. If you dump the most of the endless repetition on to maxima/maple/mathematica you could actually spend the semester on the concepts and proving them instead of focusing so heavily on the student's facility at algebraic manipulation.

Now having had to do everything by hand I have the sort of knee jerk reaction that "well I had to do it so they should do it too" but then I also remember that it sucked giant balls. As I see it is students definitely need pretty solid facility at doing this sort of shit and so we get the classic: "where do we draw the line" problem, which means I should probably not be counted as a proponent of Wolfram, so much as maybe a sympathizer (in this regard; fuck NKS).

*also while I take didn't real, I did get a minor in math which included Basic Concepts of Mathematics, or as I tend to remember it "that semester of not being able to divide because it's not defined over the integer set" but it was certainly a purely proof oriented course, and my numerical methods 1&2 were at least 50% proof based, I've done the formal rigor thing.
The last few tech conferences I've attended tried to use txt voting from mobile devices. They forgot to include the destination number on the instruction slide and just listed the voting codes. Everyone just shrugged and started scanning twitter. Voting was light and it was frustrating to wait.

This looks much better. And great design.
When I saw Johnny Mnemonic again recently, I thought to myself that he could probably get more done -- at less personal risk -- by swallowing condoms full of micro-SD cards.
They do have pre-authorization: https://www.paymill.com/en-gb/documentation-3/reference/api-...

It says you can trigger the capture to fire a bit later, though you'd probably want that to happen when you ship an order -- which you can do with the API by creating a new Transaction from your preauthorization: https://www.paymill.com/en-gb/documentation-3/reference/api-...
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Thanks, I'll read that post now. I'm actually going by Yudkowsky's post:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/ul/my_bayesian_enlightenment/

It might not have been the exact same one, it was one where he mentioned the riddle and how his friend got the wrong answer because he was a frequentist. That might be where most of my misconception arises from.
"Unsurprising" is the word I would use. Darfur got minimal coverage at the time when mass killings were going on, and Mexico is an even worse story - not only do you have a country approaching a degree of civil war, but the US public is effectively funding the criminal side. This is not something that's likely to play well on CNN.
lol! Don't do that, show some real content instead. :-)
More often than not it's a variation of b) not involving custom attrs (a matter of taste). It's the same kind of contracts you have to set up if you are also doing some heavy JS anyway.

Sometimes the design is forced upon the team (eg corporate intranet) and then one has to resort to ugly and brittle selectors but still I prefer that to slicing and dicing the design to add loops and conditionals – especially when the intranet's corporate branding change every 9 months :-/

(Thanks for rewording your reply)
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As a musician (not a singer), I communicate with other musicians largely via body language, but the audience is largely oblivious to it. Only another musician -- and mostly just those who have played with me -- would understand the difference between lifting my bow 1 cm or 2 cm off the strings of my violin.
Where the hell are you finding "non-techie"s that

A) use a VCS (explicitly not as like a transparent feature in some software package)

B) use one from a command line

because I'm pretty sure managing documents with hg from the command line qualifies you as "techie" at the very least "tech-ish"
I'd like a good bootstrap form builder. Preferably, one that I can gem install.
A lightweight micro-framework.
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I'd suggest adding hunks instead of committing them so you can review your staging area at the end. It's the same flag; just use 'git add -p' instead of 'git commit -p'.
Apple is also fine with people installing GPLed software on OSX. They just don't distribute it themselves.
A series of mock-ups showing one possibility for a policy-making system:

http://imgur.com/a/PK69j
I like this idea too, but perhaps instead of just "hackers helping hackers," maybe you could open it up to something like "hackers helping charities" to do some more good.
The reason they look so much like the VS templates (on which many are probably based) is that the VS templates implement the very precisely set out UI guidelines. Microsoft wants to have a set of very consistent UI patterns, which I wholly commend.
Since IFTTT (http://ifttt.com) uses the Facebook push notifications, you can actually auto-save pictures that your friends have tagged you in fairly easily. Granted, this is not for historic purposes, but will work from when you turn the recipe on.

https://ifttt.com/recipes/1717 is the original recipe that most people have modified that saves any pictured you're tagged in to Dropbox. I'm sure that it can be modified to upload all the pictures in the album (which you have access to).
Apple and HTC settled
Another Microsoft Surface gets run over by a car, survives
I've seen ultra-small PNY keys at Best Buy, scarcely larger than the circuit board itself. I think they're called PNY Micro Metal units.
Talk of Apple's doom always reminds me of the saying "economists have predicted 12 of the last 4 recessions."
Does the "Kingston" part on the left slide over to cover the contacts?
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This is like going to McDonald's and expecting a gourmet burger. The author bought an HP laptop, of course it's going to be full of useless crap.
Ask HN: Simple articles to explain the fundamentals of web biz to a non-techie
A non-techie friend of mine recently started generating some ideas to launch a web biz around the social domain she's involved in.

I think she has the potential to converge to something valuable (for that specific domain). But she is currently quite naive in terms of understanding how web businesses work in general. I'd like point her to some basic level articles about the following topics (and relevant extensions)

- how web advertising works. What are the options and tradeoffs?

- user generated content vs users only as consumers

- attracting and maintaining a user base, approaches to user identity on the site.

- what was the key to success for some of the popular web sites today

I've found it quite difficult to spot appropriately basic level articles in the sources I follow or am aware of. Everything out there seems to assume a certain level of understanding in these topics. I think it's fair to say I need to rewind her back to early 2Ks, and help her catch up with the times.

Thanks for the suggestions.
Not sure what the downvoters tried to show, but above statement is simply self obvious. Patent aggressors (which Apple is) relent only under the threat of defensive patent action. Thus, comparison with MAD is natural and expected. Don't be disillusioned, thinking that Apple is all white and furry. It has teeth, and hides them only when scared that they'll be beaten out.
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