skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am also amazed the way StackOverflow manages such a huge knowledge base . Information is such nicely organised and unwanted content automatically gets trimmed out in the end.

It is such a beautiful product. I like it particularly for the way they broke the rules of conventional forums (Yahoo forums , Google Groups ) for technical discussions.
Math - Forecast vs Result
He has both on his site.
Lack of domain names isn't as much of a problem as it was 5-10 years ago, due to:
1) Mobile apps
2) Search (especially search-in-address-bar)
3) The fundamentally large namespace

I'd still rather have a domain like "tryfoobar.com" early on rather than foobar.ix or even worse, foob.ar or foubar.com. Provided foobar.com isn't a competitor, porn site, etc., and that I can make efforts to buy foobar.com/net/org/co.uk/jp/etc. with time if successful.

The only strong argument for (ab)using a ccTLD, IMO is URL shorteners.
> Pleasant tickle? Isn't it just 1/max(SHA-1)?

Only if there is a unique fixed point ….
I'm not at all clear on why this is at the top on HN. This triviality is more appropriate for other forums.
> Romney has, to my knowledge, not once stood on the losing side of an issue out of principle

You clearly have an issue in mind when Obama did this?

> Not being able to change his past at Bain, not that he didn't try, isn't a sign of backbone, it's just how 'the past' works.

By running with this past (it's very much an option not to run), he implicitly ran on a non-flop-floppable platform of "I'm willing to do stuff that's unpopular and will hurt".
I like the concept although I always hesitate to use ghost writers. If you really want my business, you have to show me the money. Demonstrate the expertise in your writers, their engagement (comments), their impact/retention (uniques/views), and their ability to write deeply interesting content.

What I saw was a collection of random, poorly-formatted writing samples, disorganized testimonials, and vague pricing details. Normally I'd just keep to myself and move along, but this is a service my company would potentially use in certain areas. So I think it would be a huge improvement if the site were focused on convincing me, as the owner and someone with irrational concern for our image, how you'll make us bigger/better/faster/stronger.
All it needs is a key showing what shade is 50/50. Unfortunately one isn't provided...
> all apply to companies in the stock market not a company sale

Nope. First off, companies in the stock markets sell, too. Second off, tax-free vehicles are used for investments in private equity, venture capital, real estate, etc.

> Investment vehicles, such as a 401k, do pay capital gains taxes just not on the sale they pay when the individual pulls the money out of the account.

Nope. It's all treated as regular income at the time of withdrawal, so former and current capital gains rates have no effect.

I agree with your argument on liquidity - I don't argue for it, I'm just saying that net effects from increased capital gains are far more subdued than apocalyptic scenarios people usually attach to them. Excess liquidity also generates bubbles, so there's a fine line you have to walk where even though you can get a no-documents loan to buy up dozen of new real estate properties, you probably shouldn't.
There isn't all that much urea in human urine - less than 3%.
I completely agree. A quick image search for "Star Trek tablet" shows rounded corners, not to mention that many books for young children (babies and toddlers) feature rounded corners.

It seems an obvious design, especially since screens are currently rectangular, for ergonomic use. Even my laptop screen has rounded corners (purchased 2009).

I can understand if they filed for specific dimensions. I would agree that copying the dimensions of an iPad (within 1/8 inch or so) would be blatant patent infringement. I didn't read the patent, so I don't know if this is, in fact, what the patent details.
AT&T iPhone 5 16GB black is the best selling iPhone 5 among variants.
The iPhone 5’s sales behavior on the second-hand market through the month of October. After analyzing about 100,000 transactions, we found that:
· AT&T’s iPhone 5 is by far the most popular variant
· Sprint was the least popular and had the highest depreciation
· White versions tended to be more expensive
· Storage value is depreciates significantly, especially with the 32GB models.

All of our findings can be found on our blog post at http://blog.movaluate.com/2012/11/05/iphone-5-sales-behavior-on-the-second-hand-market/

* The price reports are generated using data from completed transactions on eBay and other online merchant sites.

Are they what you already guess?
Why our online startup releases a print product, and how we do it.
Then you should reply with the bug ID and a URL to the bug that you filed and then the reporter can add themselves if they feel like they want to keep track of it.
I would also love feedback from anybody that's done a good scan of the Impala code or actually put it through its paces.
The fact that most states are close to 50-50 means the nation as a whole is more divided, not less: there are lots of people in every state on both sides.
HN Multiple Link Submission Code is Broken (notice the Jelly Bean links below)
Something is broken on HN - I just submitted the exact same story with the same name and it's not picking up dup links.
We can say:

Without using any knowledge about how they are
computed, & only using the fact that a hash is,
in effect, a result chosen uniformly at random
from a set of results, what is the probability
that ...

So in particular, consider a collection of numbers, and for each one, choose a target uniformly at random from the same collection. So for the set X you have a function f:X->X. What is the probability that there is a fixed point x such that f(x)=x?

This, by the way, is a very well known calculation/result in my area of math.
Santorum has said it is his hope this election cycle would push his websites above the frothy mix in search engine rankings. This would seem to be aiding that.
When you refer to activity, are you talking about activity on a website/demo you provided with the application?
Taken another way, this campaign would have clearly been -ROI if the Piano apps themselves ran it themselves. Although a mass-market television commercial clearly isn't the best way to reach a niche audience, I think it definitely says something about the market potential and profits of most apps these days.
How Nate Silver won the election with Data Science
[FreeBSD] - HEADS UP: Clang now the default on x86
I'm the author of the article — I'm happy to answer any questions or help anyone out if this is something they want try out too!
Microsoft doesn't want your money (but I do)
When You're Visited By A Copy Of Yourself, Stay Calm
Step Back
What's the point of "real property" except to get some government to enforce it? That doesn't mean you need to enforce it as strictly as you can possibly imagine. By and large there is no government enforcement of patents--it's all left to private suits.
Hmm, it makes me think twice about corporate blogs in general if they're not written from the horse's mouth. Credibility of all corporate blogs are undermined just by this post from a service.

Also, it is hard to see if they use ghost writers or not. Which, makes me even more skeptical.
Is creative thinking important in your career?
I, in general, like McCain, but even though I am slightly right of center, I was disgusted by the things he had to do and say to get the nomination. During primary season he played the part of far right fairly well.
ELECTION 2012: PRESIDENTIAL IPODS
As the election approached, we imagined Presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama psyching themselves up with each of thier appropriate tunes.
Simple Ruby-on-Rails blog
Reason to Fear the Cloud: Media Temple loses 4 years of Emails
The healthcare bill is a pretty high profile example of Obama standing by something that's a short-term political loser. Stimulus, arguably, as well.
Shouldn't this be called the definitive guide to session based authentication?
My laptop (purchased 2009) features rounded corners, as does pretty much every laptop, ever. Don't have to look that far...
Now Wikipedia Used to Predict Movie Box Office Revenues
There is no "type in traffic" aspect to a ship's chosen flag like there is with a domain name. Similarly there is no concept of a building a brand around a ship the way there is for a domain/business.
Yeah, "activity" being any indication that someone is reading the app. (e.g. Clicking on links, downloading attached files, watching the video, etc.)
There is no pure energy generator. All the generators are transforming one form of energy to another. The chemical energy from gasoline is transformed to heat (thermal energy) + mechanical energy + other forms of chemical energy (CO, CO2 and others). The mechanical energy is then transformed into more heat and electric energy (if we're talking about an electrical generator).

What makes gasoline a good energy "producer" is the simple way the chemical energy can be released and the percentage of usable energy (the efficiency of the generator). What makes other substances bad energy producers is the efficiency and complexity of changing the energy to usable energy (like mechanical or electrical energy).
Design of a Censorship Resistant and Decentralized Name System
The first comment on Ars Technica FWIW: (I take no stand, have no expertise, just posting someone's sober response so it'll be seen here.)

I think most people don't understand what it means that this is a design patent - it's not the same thing as a "regular" patent (a utility patent). Design patents allow a company to get an exclusive right to the form of a functional object so that a 3rd party can't make a different device with identical appearance (well, not legally at least). Almost every company that puts the time into making a distinctive shape for their devices gets one: Microsoft has one for the Xbox, George Lucas got one for Yoda etc.

Design patents are extremely narrow - you have to do your level best to copy them exactly in order to be found in infringement. Plus, they specifically cannot cover functionality - that has to be covered by a utility patent, if it's going to be protected. This design patent only protects a "portable display device" (that's the wording in the Patent itself), and only one with those specific design elements that are shown in the Patent Figures.

I'd be shocked if Apple hadn't applied for design patents for all of its devices. This really isn't an issue."

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/11/apple-awarded-design-pa...
Whatever the politics is, I would never hire a designer that would use my site as a platform for his jokes. It is a breach of trust. If you hate him, don't take the job. If you take the job, do it honestly.
Carnegie Mellon CS and MIT graduates have highest salaries
I have a long long list of blog posts I haven't got around to writing. Creating the skeleton is easy, but filling in the details is time consuming. I can see a use for this service to get someone else to do that. I don't really see a big deal with this, so long as everyone involved is credited.
Journey – how jumping can be emotional
Dealing With Jerks
if you're already familiar with LINQ, i feel that the step isn't so big. With Rx you're doing with a collection (more like a continuous stream) what you do with a collection of data items with plain LINQ. There's a few things more to it; notably the difference between hot and cold observables (but that's pretty well documented on MSDN). So I'd start learning plain LINQ (at least the main methods, such as Select, Where, Aggregate, SelectMany, Take) and using it more in your code. Notice how closely they map to many functions in libraries such as Underscore.js.

Then, once you got that, imagine what you could do if you apply the same methods to repeatedly-occuring events. That's Rx.
>Nevermind that Obama has never expressed any interest in marijuana legalization

And up until very recently he never expressed any interest in marriage equality either. Your point?
I point this out in another comment, but that's a good point I hadn't taken into account. Getting hydrogen from urea is better than electrolysis, but there's not that much urea. Still, if the entire village contributed, it might be enough to charge cell phones and run LED reading lights, which would still be a huge boon.
I think that if 3-5% of the Internet population suddenly stopped querying Google, Google would have noticed before CloudFlare.
This is already one of my favorite articles about videogames, ever.
This "Meredith" also runs these meetup groups as well:

http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Startup-Pitch-Night

http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Startup-Pitch-Night

http://www.meetup.com/New-York-Startup-Pitch-Night

She's also a member of multiple meetup groups in NYC, so my guess is that she's likely a real person who lives in NYC, but just happens to want to be an admin for other meetup groups in random cities.

This was found by simply doing a reverse image search of her profile picture on google images.

She also the organizer of Startup Pitch Night, which explains her meetup affiliations. Her full LinkedIn profile can be found here:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/meredithmonroe

(the profile used the same profile photo found on meetup.com)
I suppose I should have said "possible threat". I do a lot of combat/defense training and after a while you become conditioned to assess those that are behaving oddly or breaking social norms. I tend to see his actions as somewhat agressive.

I don't think that is a very strange view to have. Even if you look back to early ancestors, monkeys and animals, most of them don't like being singled out or stared at for this reason[1].

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_attack#Factors_related_to_a...
>"states can't truly decide whether to legalize marijuana because at the end of the day, the federal government has legislation that supersedes local/state regulations in this manner"*

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the ninth amendment say pretty much the opposite of this?
I didn't say everyone.
The Hobbit Comes With an FAQ Explaining Why It'll Look So Weird
"A politician thinks about the next elections — the statesman thinks about the next generations."

There are no leaders anymore.
Is this like blogmutt?
There's probably more value in the urine as fertilizer.
Hmm, I'm kind of amazed that kitte.nz isn't taken :)
Not to be down on the service, but I have to do some nitpicking.

There is a difference between "checkout" and "check out". "checkout" is not a verb, but a thingamajig. "the checkout page". "to check out" is a verb.

The first proper word on the blog seems incorrect. That doesn't inspire confidence. There are a few more problems with the text such as (preposition) words that appear missing, for example.
A century of snow in San Francisco
Apple loses Facetime patent lawsuit to VirnetX
What a wonderful rabbit hole your link provides. Cheers.
Government doesn't need to be bribed, voters do. It is pretty much "if you potheads want us to not put you to jail, there should be something in it for us too". Ideally, people should not be paying bribes to be able to do something that harms nobody and is their own private business. However, in the messed up world of American politics, it is what it takes - nobody cares about your freedom, but if you sweeten the deal with some tax dollars, it may be worth considering.

Government is running protection rackets in many areas, but in this particular one it is the voters who take the decision. I never heard an argument about legalize which based on freedom and lack of harm and medicinal uses, etc. alone and was successful. Add tax income to that, and your poll numbers are much better.
Added a mention of/link to Mozilla Persona.

IMO, it's the easiest way to handle authentication today, fully decentralized, secure, and with nice privacy guarantees. With it, you don't have to care about user names (just use email addresses), passwords and secure storage thereof, it mostly just works (and once it'll get linked into the big email providers in December or so, almost everyone will already have an account).
Good call. Map updated to include a key!
Is this all you do with your time on HN, post duplicate links? You're not actually helping and just cluttering the thread.
Totally agree. Which is why I wrote this post myself. I can only hope that my approach to the pain point felt 'honest', and that the content of my post was HN-worthy. We are absolutely not saying that you should outsource your entire social media presence. What we are saying is that consistency over time matters. If I wrote a post like this every day, Scripted would never ship another feature again. So I don't. I write a post like this every couple of weeks. But if we only posted every couple of weeks, a prospective client might show up to our blog, see that we hadn't posted anything recently, and think "I wonder whether they'll be as lackadaisical about customer service as they are about their blog". So we fill the gaps in our 'technical, corporate blog' with simple but engaging outsourced content. We allow you to 'set it and forget it', so that you only have to think about your blog when some crazy new topic pops into your head, and you can't control the urge to fervently hammer away at your typewriter.
Maybe that's because management is required for 95% of the employees who don't have a PhD and wouldn't know what to do next (no idea of the big picture) or just play on their worktime (no internal drive)?
(On iPad, it starts to load, then goes to onswipe.com... Black with forever spinning circle)
Gah, thanks. How annoying.

(edit: should be fixed now.)
Be assertive when in grad school
Ask HN: Any tech startup online discussion forums...
Are there any other tech startup discussion forums that are popular, beside this one?
the domain LadyGa.ga should be in trouble then
You're reading too much into it. We don't coordinate our efforts; applications are read independently in parallel.
There's a substantial price difference between buying 50 lbs of something you need 5 lbs of and buying 5 tons a month of the same.

There's Costco's bulk lots and then there's manufacturers's bulk lots :-)
Senior UX guy here... free advice:

1) Your demo button is killing your sales.

The drop between step 2 and 3 of your stats is the proof, although I immediately noticed the problem: People don't go "back" to make a sale, they go forward. When they click your demo button, they no longer have a call to action button to lead them to the sale. Recommendation: add a top bar that stays with them as they check out the demo. Regardless of how you solve this, it's worth losing sleep over it.

2) Changing the demo content (text) to be about the theme itself.

At least in the intro paragraph. I found it very disorienting after clicking the demo button.

3) Pick 3 selling points, not 9.

The first one should almost convince me by itself. Make them bigger and more visual. The rest are just extras. Make them look like extras.

4) Remember that you're selling design to designers.

There are beautiful Wordpress themes that are free. Yours looks ok, but not $30 ok. ;) TELL ME WHY I LOVE THIS, and tell me in the first sentence.

5) Screenshots suck. Use the image to show me or teach me something I need to understand about this product. Better yet, get a really nice background image and fill that baby blue area with it. Add some emotion, man!

6) By pitching it based on Underscores and Bootstrap you're immediately selling to a technical audience. In my experience, visual creatives are not particularly technical. Why is bootstrap good? What is Underscores? etc.

7) A/B test versions with and without the price in the buy button. You include the price when it makes the product more appealing. Yours is high. the A/B test will give you a very rough idea of how much effect that has on conversion.

8) Include the demo / buy links in the header of your documentation. Beside the logo, not in the top-right corner.
10 Basic Tips about Responsive Design
What other solutions did you look at for printing and distribution for your print product, besides MagCloud?

I've been looking at different printing options and always seemed to get weighed down by the trade-off between lower cost (e.g printing myself or finding a large volume printer with low costs) or something more on-demand like MagCloud, which costs a bit more but gives you greater flexibility.
Unfortunately .nz has the structured second level domains, so you'd end up with kitte.co.nz.
Maybe there's a media empire that can be built from people like this? We've always had such people in the media, but our tools and technology hold more potential power to individuals than ever before.
Tiny $57 PC is like the Raspberry Pi, but faster and fully open
Hm, you're right. I was actually under the impression ACA was fairly popular among the relevant groups, but it wasn't. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/six-charts-...
This is a bit of a misconception that I hear a lot. Affirmative action policies generally fall into one of a few categories, but most policies usually either take race or gender into account for 1) equally qualified candidates (scores and qualifications are the same are almost exactly the same) or 2) qualified candidates where one candidate may perform slightly worse than another (say a student that has a few dozen fewer points on an SAT score compared to another). Affirmative action policies in which an unqualified candidate be selected over a qualified candidate are very rare, if not outright illegal in many places.

Keep in mind the limitations of calling an individual qualified or not. In some scenarios, the metrics of qualification do not match the goal of the organization looking to hire or admit a candidate, or the metrics fail to measure other factors that are relevant to a given job or a seat for a student. Generally speaking, affirmative action recognizes these shortcomings, esp. as they originate from systemic problems in society that keep certain groups excluded or in minimal participation in such jobs and schools. Further, most of the issues that affect those that do not get additional consideration due to affirmative action come from outside of affirmative action policies: economic inequality, reduced access to funds to attend school, outsourcing and economic downturns, increasing job automation, the loss of some kinds of consuming manufacturing jobs, de-unionization efforts, etc.

Suffice it to say affirmative action policies are useful and are not the overriding problem in keeping people out of work or unable to continue their education. Rather, affirmative action policies are a kind of band aid policy that can be ended when larger social inequalities are reduced or fixed entirely.
Thanks! Fixed the "check out" issue. I don't see the other problems, but such is the nature of copy-editing your own writing.
If alcohol testing were like marijuana testing, almost every accident would be counted as a DUI.

Because of the underlying chemistry involved, most statistics involving marijuana-related incidents vastly overstate instances of drugged driving, use, etc. This includes not just DUIs, but also numbers like the DAWN reports.

Unlike almost any other drug, marijuana stays detectable in the system for 2 weeks on a test (for urine tests, which are the most common - in general, anywhere from 2 days to 3 months, depending on the type of test + usage habits).

Since the effects of the drug only last for ~2-4 hours, that means that "testing positive" for marijuana is useless at indicating whether the person is actually under the influence, or just happened to use the drug at some point within the last two weeks.

Contrast to most drugs - alcohol, for example, can only be detected for about as long as the person is impaired.
Bolstering our infrastructure
People with high speed Internet vote democrat