skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That really seems to black/white for me: at some point you need to weigh the cost of starting over (along with the chance that starting over won't happen or will fail by default as people will say "didn't we reject this same thing last year?" without noticing the difference) with the cost of a compromise; imagine if absolutely everyone refused to ever budge or compromise on absolutely anything: if a single reason to disagree with a deal breaker... the world would simply be totally unworkable.

In some cases, (as some might argue is the case with 30 this year; I live in a town that is pretty much just a giant University, so I have gotten tirade after tirade about education funding), delaying by another year may also be too painful to bear for many people: some kind of relief, at least for them personally (as they are themselves voters, so imagine them making this choice for themselves at the ballot box) is required now, or you may as well just give up and not bother.

I mean, imagine if your choice were (combining the tradeoff I expressed for 39's largely innocuous energy funding clause with the despair many people felt surrounding 30) "vote for this thing that will continue to fund your profession as a lecturer and will keep college tuitions low enough that you will be able to afford to keep paying for your kid's education" or "vote no, get laid off, and tell your family things will be tight this year, all because someone threw in a rider that directs some of the funds to something you thought wasn't even bad, and probably needed funds anyway, but wasn't the most efficient way the money could have been spent"... would you seriously vote no? Would you judge someone else who did?
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but most of these brands are riding on their brand equity, not the superior quality of their apparel.

I think you're wrong in terms of disruption. The people who go by brand equity, in my opinion, are the uninformed consumer. This tends to be the 30 year old+ demographic, people who don't know how to exploit the internet. On the other hand, you have 20 year olds and younger that are extremely informed due to familiarity with internet discussions. The rate of information is incredibly fast in this case, and word of mouth can be a powerful thing. And this group is only getting larger and getting more buying power.

In fact, there's been a large rise in direct-to-consumer apparel retailers, and by all accounts they are doing very well. Take a look at Everlane for example.
To move beyond the ad issue. Maybe I'm not interested in watching the video (say a presentation) but only listen to it. Then I have a legitimate reason for not wanting the video to pause: doing other work in other tabs.
WebRTC and the Frictionless Web
This looks like a dangerous slippery slope. This year, it's sex offenders who have to register their on-line identities with the police. But once they get their database going, someone will have the bright idea to also add people convicted of identity theft (who arguably pose an even more direct threat on the internet), or mail fraud or securities fraud. And, of course, convicted drug dealers might also try to sell drugs to kids on the web, so no anonymity for them. In a few years, anyone convicted of the heinous offense of illegal file sharing might also have to register their identities.

Also, the definition of "sex offender" is very broad in the U.S. An 18 year old guy who received a nude photo of his 16 year old girlfriend on his phone could be a sex offender. We're not just talking about rapists and child molesters here.
Email Haiku
Don't forget Github. Most of their blog posts that aren't regarding new hires hit the front page.
It won't look red if you put that sheet of glass over a black piece of paper.

Ink is semi-transparent. So think of white paper as a light source, and the red ink absorbs all colors but red coming off the paper before it reaches your eye.

Nail polish isn't transparent, but it still looks red because it simply reflects red light. That light never reaches the paper -- it bounces off the nail polish and comes back to your eye.
It's always amazing to me to read about all those promising projects from Microsoft research groups, yet none of it seems to make its way to paying customers. I still remember the courier as well as that zero lag touch screen demo - super important stuff that could set apart Microsoft from their competition right about now. If only their management were as good as their engineers.
I'm not saying in general, I'm talking specifically about AA. With affirmative action and applying to something like grad school, a minority that is "qualified" can and will get a spot over a non-minority, that is "slightly more qualified."

In general, averaging across all of America, I'm certain it's an advantage to be white. I'm also certain it's an advantage to grow up to rich parents. I'm also certain it's an advantage to grow up in a good school district. It's also and advantage to grow up in a 2 parent household. It's an advantage to not grow up in the ghetto, white or black.

Life isn't fair, but at the end of the day at some point you have to be accountable for your decisions and all you can do is your best. Picking a winner based on skin color is not the right answer. We should always be picking the absolutely most qualified person for everything. That is something that clearly doesn't happen enough.
BlackBerry 10 maker RIM dismisses ‘dead on arrival’ comment
There is already a clothing manufacturer "Holden".

http://www.holdenouterwear.com/

I immediately assumed this post was related.
The $200000 government android app FaiL
Yeah, the only thing I have ever customized with Awesome is changing the default terminal to xterm. After that it just does exactly what I expect, and doesn't get in my way; I don't know what more I could ask for.
You can have both people saying what sounds like opposite things in a debate, and they are both technically correct.

Fact-checkers are not infallible, either. It's usually someone who doesn't know the issue at all looking it up on Wikipedia or interviewing an "expert" with his own biases to get an answer.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2012/11/05/the-ten-worst-fa... is from a conservative viewpoint, so read it with a grain of salt, but it's should be enough to make you skeptical of the whole process.
> No LTE doesn't affect people on non-LTE networks (eg all of Ireland)

Eg, all of T-Mobile, which is the only official launch partner for the Nexus 4 in the US.
Sponsored browsing and the infinite buffet
I really don't get this twisted logic:

It's impossible for a neutral arbiter to preserve its public legitimacy when ruling on subjects of partisan dispute in an election if there are only two disputing parties. Neither side will accept the referee's judgments.

So it works in sports, but doesn't work in politics for some reason?
If you ever need to go down market/pivot: replace the cameras with a microphone, add padding to the ball, add line out to the receiver, sell it to presenters who want to take questions from an audience.
Where is the 'order with your name' feature?! I don't want to pull my phone out of my pocket.
Show HN: 2 year bootstrap.  HTML5 app platform (Cloud IDE + App Store + Desktop)
What worries me is that GTK might end up breaking Xfce. It seems they don't care about anything else but Gnome3.
How Heroku's 'Vibe Managers' Could Transform Salesforce's Culture
For starters, setting 'focus follows mouse', last I bothered checking.
Quality seems to be making a comeback in the US, especially in menswear. We've entered an age where trial is cheaper than ever, and many online sellers offer nearly unconditional return guarantees.

The reason large luxury brands compete on image, and not necessarily on quality, is because they can. They've taken years to get there. Many of them are also public companies, so they're under intense pressure to expand profit margins and tighten costs. If Ralph Lauren can make a shirt for $5 and sell it for $50, and could make the same shirt for $2 and sell it for $50, they will take the latter option. Likewise, if they can make it for $5 and sell it for $100, they'll take that option. And if they can make it for $2 and sell it for $100, even better. They're creating shareholder value by doing so, and doing so at scale.

Conversely, startup clothing brands typically begin by addressing a specific niche, and addressing that niche's dissatisfaction with the status quo. A friend of mine runs an extremely successful tie company by following this strategy. You might think: why ties? Who actually wears ties these days, and does anyone actually care about their quality? Well, it turns out that, of the set of all people who do wear ties every day, some of the deepest-pocketed and most frequent purchasers of ties care a great deal about quality. Luxury brands have been pissing these people off by cutting corners on quality and coasting on brand image. So...enter my friend's startup, addressing this small but lucrative customer base. Bingo.

(Incidentally, Ralph Lauren himself started off selling neckties).
Apple has no reason to change anything either way. Is Apple going to change because I decide to not change it and submit again? Not likely. Maybe if every developer suddenly stops developing for them at all, but that seems unlikely since it is still the most profitable platform for apps by far. I continue to be annoyed by their policies, but it still pays my salary every month so I keep dealing with it.
On a counter anecdote, as I've mentioned in the past, my Nexus S on T-Mobile with "regular" HSPA gets faster "4G" internet speeds than my Galaxy Nexus on Verizon using LTE, and latency seems roughly the same.
'It's Not Worth It': Ad Exec's Brutal Rant Before He Died Of Cancer
Really cool. As a fan of high quality classic fashion, and as a Supply Chain professional, I have been waiting for this. I hope for the best.
Holden is the town we grew up in, in Maine. This company appears to make only snowboard gear. We hope people won't be too confused!
I quite enjoyed your talk in the last HN London, and encourage anyone in London to join the next one.
Why entrepreneurs hate wantrepreneurs
Gnome is heading to its demise. I don't really understand their point. They keep messing up with power menu. 3.4 was shipped without all power options. 3.6 doesn't have logout or hibernation/suspend. Notification system is messed up. It is always hidden and you can't really right click.

Ubuntu Developer's are also thinking of switching from developmental build to stable build for Ubuntu. Nautilus has been put on hold. I will not be surprised that Ubuntu will fork Gnome and develop its own variant.

Transmission developer sums it up.
The Humble Bundle for Android 4
Cloud Modules use JavaScript but not on the client. They are used in Cloud Code (www.parse.com/docs/cloud_code_guide). You basically write JavaScript hooks and functions that run on the Parse servers.
Fair Labor Association too easy on Apple, Foxconn
I don't think it would be hard to keep losses low.

For police or military, after you've cleared the area, just pick them up.

For firefighters, attach a long string/wire to it, toss it, and then pull it back.
On DKIM strength
could you provide a link to this plan?
USB Bitcoin Wallet Development
Previous submission (no comments) 105 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4296021
How else are video content providers supposed to keep the lights on?

.. besides not using commercial ads and instead using image / text ones that take up much less precious bandwidth.
Why everyone has to compare to the iPhone? like it were a model to follow. It's like the Apple fans feel butt-hurt when someone it's stealing their hype. You can't do more than superficial comparisons, they're totally different experiences and app ecosystems.
> I wonder why do people making these kinds of videos keep uploading them to Youtube. Are they trying to get blocked to make a point? Because otherwise, it seems just stupid.

Wow, you have been on HN for over 500 days and have over 6k karma and can make a comment like that. Since they don't usually hand out karma in lucky packets I can only assume you are having a bad day.
Service and Healthcare: Man Fitted with Bionic Hand
If you want to build something, I think that's an excellent reason to learn Python and dive in. You don't need to become a generalist before you can build something useful which you can learn from. As mentioned in the article, having concrete pain points in your coding ("Why doesn't this work?" or "how can I X?") will help you appreciate the problems that various techniques solve.

Studying other languages exposes you to issues that you might not experience on your own, but on the other hand it's hard to apply your understanding of them all quickly. Python is an excellent language to learn first.

Learn enough of one language to be dangerous, code the minimum that comes close to what you feel you need (or a toy version of it), and then you'll have a much better idea of what else you want to learn. Good luck!
We pretty much do have abortion on demand in the UK, and the screening with doctors etc is pretty much a formality.

You could lower the limit based on survivability but still allow provisos for severely diabled children. I believe you can exceed the 24 week limit now in such cases.

I'd be in favour of a panel of doctors and scientists that get to review the limit every two years, based on advantages or otherwise in infant survivability.
I haven't had a chance to use Parse yet, so I'm curious: what's wrong with their JS library, and couldn't you use the REST API directly instead?
It is where I work. There was a bit of nervousness since most Microsoft shops are very adverse to change, but it's taking hold.
Dad patches Zalda to learn daughter that girls can be heroes
People 30+ don't use the internet?

http://pewinternet.org/Trend-Data-(Adults)/Whos-Online.aspx

20s and younger group is getting larger?

http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p25-1138.pdf

Everlane doing very well?

Launched weeks ago.

"Extremely informed" indeed.
Neither is the US population. Let's compare apples to apples for a minute. WA + OR ~= Sweden:
WA+OR population: 10.6 m, size: 170,000 sq mi
Sweden population: 9.5 m, size: 173,860 sq mi

Now, I think that's a pretty fair comparison. The roads can be pretty terrible in Washington and Oregon from my experience. That may be because federal money for roads goes to other less dense states, but these proportions hold up fairly well nationwide too. I think it's just a matter of less public funding, it's that simple.
People are willing to wash their hands off their ancestors' sins but without realizing the booty they keep enjoying from the same ancestors.
How fair is that a guy shackled for years is freed suddenly and asked to participated in a race as an equal?
I see what you did there...

Just kidding. But to contribute something to the discussion: I was just recently wondering when the best time to publish a "Show HN" would be. In that case, your content is what it is. The time factor would definitely be important then to help you get the "early exposure" that you'd need to even arrive on the front page in the first place.
Khan Academy recently released a computer science section:

http://www.khanacademy.org/cs
Moneyball for New York City: Strata Conference
Look Samsung in the EYE and tell them you're sorry, Apple. Sorry for what? OK that's better.
Obama's secret weapon this Tuesday was Mitt Romney.

John Huntsman, had he have won the primaries, would have won the election.
Nice talk From Art'sy Director, Matt Israel, at DataGotham: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9X3_8te4hs
Passwords That Drive Hackers Away
I've had the luxury of seeing the initial prototypes of at From Holden and was impressed. I feel like a fool buying $100+ shirts from places like Rag & Bone, but I do it because of the style + quality + fit. Looking forward to the first official run of From Holden so I don't have to feel like a fool again :)
I think its a step in the correct version if HTML5 is every able to compete with native apps on mobile. HTML5 needs better access to hardware elements. We can see two out of these five here - the camera and battery level.
The women living in Chernobyl's toxic wasteland
The "take me to artsy anyway" on the unsupported browser screen doesn't work. Just goes to the same unsupported browser page.
>Well, given that nothing else became a standard and their are a tad bit of people unhappy with Gnome 3,

Nah, that flag has flown. The time has passed where I would've moved to E17. I've since gone past that on to XMonad.
Microsoft Research shows breakthrough in speech translation technology
RIM, Samsung, and Sony add Ringmark support in their browsers
I sure don't. Various areas like the GNOME panel were visibly crutchy and full of historical assumptions/design. This was fixed with GNOME 3 but other areas were/are suffering various levels of undue abuse. If I were looking for GNOME 2 I'd be using XFCE instead (as many people around me are). In place I use OSX — both a more solid foundation and more configurable than GNOME3 — and Awesome/Arch — striving to drop all/most GTK and QT dependencies.
The energy released is stored in the chemical bonds of the material being burned.

Matter is neither created nor destroyed in the process. Some of it "goes up in smoke", but we can use plants to capture those things back out of the air (either the green things or energy intensive industrial ones) .
IMHO, graphite is a PITA to setup, and documentation is horrible.

If you're a Redis person, 37signals built a StatsD compatible version using EventMachine which stores data in Redis.

https://github.com/noahhl/batsd
But then how will I find a phone that doesn't have crap-ware preinstalled by the carrier by default, and allows a user to update to the latest version of the OS without going through the carrier?
Software is Eating Apple
Why Ems?
I spent much more than that for the jacket (a multiple). To ensure he got the sizing right he first made a cotton shell. When he was satisfied with that, he then cut the leather. I can imagine a similar process with other garments.

I'm clearly not an expert but I'm not sure if this would work on the lower end / high quantity end of the market. Especially at the start. I have a feeling that if I could guarantee my guy 10 jackets a month through the internet, he'd be extremely happy.
I love that Parse reads StackMob's blog: http://blog.stackmob.com/2012/08/rocking-twilio-sms-with-sta...
wish this could be the answer to all the gnome mess that has been going on lately...
Obama was averaging 50k likes per hour on election night
Pinterest Launches "Secret Boards"
Similar article on a better layout: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/11/iphone-ced...
Sphero + Augmented Reality
Cool looking app generator.
Metapatent
Sure, that's the way we research things today, but once it's in your pocket and it works, it'll happen on-the-fly. Just like how nobody sits at a desktop and prints out maps today. Also I use my iPhone for everything these days.

We actually threw up a web test and it got way less interest than the mobile version, probably because it was less novel on the web (other sites existed, though they didn't work).
Ah, I thought that's the whole state worked. I didn't realize it was up to the county (I'm only familiar with King).
So we should shackle the other guy for a few years to compensate? Two wrongs don't make a right.
One of the youngest entrepreneurs blogs his plans for world-beneficial success.
Found this here: http://apparelbykarma.com/what-made-apparel-by-karma/

Pretty interesting to be honest.
The X-Factor started in Hungary - Fan blog
Meals Marketplace Munchery Raises $4 Million For Expansion
I think its more an indictment of today's culture. This is completely anecdotal, but I think its becoming increasingly more fashionable to wear unknown brands, as long as the quality is there. Its a big departure from the Ed Hardy or Affliction brand craze that was going on a few years ago.
There's a whole world between making compromises, and doing almost exactly the opposite of what you were promising during election time.

Anyway, my point wasn't that there's something wrong with our political system, or that compromises are bad or something. Just that the fact that it's harder for parties to outright lie about the effects of their intended plans, doesn't automatically make them trustworthy.
Free book: Ruby on Rails 3.2 - A Beginner's Guide
Anyone know any desktop or web apps with similar functionality? I don't have any iThings and am bored with conventional color pickers.
Yep if you go for real luxury goods and pricing this makes sense (also the whole process of doing it).

5 years ago this was our first startup so we screwed a lot of things up (but also learned a lot!) :)
Txtr Beagle eReader avaialbe next eyar for only £8
Hi,

Founder here, Long time lurker of Hacker news. Wanted to officially launch here and thank everyone for all the great advices and articles over the years. We're really excited to offer a product like ours to developers everywhere.

Thanks!!

Eddie
Not working for me on Version 23.0.1271.64 on Ubuntu. I get an Aw, Snap after I select my instrument.
"Correct me if I'm wrong, but most of these brands are riding on their brand equity, not the superior quality of their apparel."

I think you are right that some consumers buy because of brand equity. But it certainly isn't 100% of the audience. Bonobos ($40M revenue company) is a perfect example. They broke through the noise and found an audience that wanted to buy based on fit + quality. Not until a couple year into the company did they really start to try to expand their brand equity.

I think there is a sizable audience out there willing to buy based on quality + fit and a lower price (I'm in that audience). But of course at some point to continue growing into a massive company you need to start developing that brand equity.
The Funding Challenges Facing Robotics Startups
Ironic, that given the attention to detail he put into ordinary items for what was a 3 month journey, that he picked a non-standard and problematic spelling for his startup "Svbtle".

Sure to cause problems in a few areas that could have easily been avoided with some research and attention to the details of properly naming your company.
Karma is currency to those wanting to write a controversial comment.
so don’t you dare question...XYZ

-- This is not really needed. the tone is ~petulant.
How colour cycling in the browser can deliver pretty, fast map overlays
Colour cycling is an unlikely technology to find in modern web mapping, but when performance is key, we found it the best bet. For when Canvas and SVG are just too slow...
Most Romantic Moving Story | move out cleaners around Melbourne
Ask HN: How can IBM's Watson replace Siri/other virtual assistants?
I was wondering if IBM's Watson is so smart then why can't it replace Siri or as a matter of fact other Virtual assistants on our smartphones. What can IBM do to allow Watson to be used by every human being? What technologies will be used to make Watson available on our smartphones?
3D Robotics Attracts $5M in Funding for DIY Drones
Suggestion: put all of the text in the video on the web page as text.

Right now I have no way of figuring out what it is beside (a) inferring from the name, and (b) starting another browser that's more stable when playing videos. Also, none of what the product does is indexable by search engines.
Banks’ Young Romney Donors Lament as Fox Damps Vodka Soiree
Because the author explicitly wanted "not to waste his time on banal unrelated issues" except those directly related to the project at hand.

He's not missing important concepts but deferring important concepts to learn other important concepts that lead to progress today.

You end up paying back that deficit one step and one layer of abstraction at a time:

Some of Brian's biggest forward mental leaps came when he took
a step back away from the day-to-day project grind, learned new
concepts in a course or from a book, and then thought about how to
apply them to SwearBuy.