skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some guys just don't realize how artifical the problem is they pursue.

I'm wondering how much time will they devote to try to find the perfect coffin.

I mean, "some of the things that matter in coffin design are obvious, like the material and weight. Other things, which are arguably more important, are seemingly never even considered, like how the wood feels against your bones and skin, for example, or how the weight balances under the tombstone. The long term durability of each plywood is also important."
Your point about the coolness of the object is well taken, but I feel the same way about fast cars, neat smart phones, and camping supplies.
"The evidence for a link between Cannabis and increased risk of psychosis is increasing"

Yes, but only to those who are already disposed.
Yes, but when 50 million people buy 50lbs bulk lots from hundreds of Costco's (and other wholesalers) across the country, that approaches, maybe exceeds the manufacturer's.
The main problem with SRP being mentioned at all is that it has no meaningful security value in web application context. It makes sense when client does not entirely trust server, which makes no sense when you deliver client as bunch of .js files from the same "untrusted" server.
The first thing I noticed on your map (which is really nice, by the way) was that it's far more divisive than the per-state version. Most interesting.

I think this just highlights what people have been saying for quite a while now, that the political divide in this country isn't red states versus blue states, but urban versus rural. If you go to a level that separates those, as per-county does but per-state doesn't, you see a much bigger divide.
Interesting. To summarize, the article is arguing that if you pay for a service, you shouldn't be shown ads. What about your monthly cable subscription? What about Hulu? Even as a Hulu Plus member you are subjected to ads. Ads are simply another revenue model for parent company, in this case Microsoft, and for the channel, in this case the app.
News, weather, sports, and stocks are the ones I've noticed.
"not too happy about the same-sex marriage decision
...
Being a fiscal conservative"

Not to argue with your beliefs, but why call yourself a "fiscal conservative" if you're also a social conservative?

Generally people make the distinction only in the case that they do not apply religious mores to politics.
What is this, dcurt.is week? There were two on the front page yesterday.
also > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4755294
I think it is an overall societal drain, and we're just in the early stages of it.

Photoshop is an interesting example to me, because I count Photoshop as another model that has had to change with the times: it used to be for pure professionals only, at a time when professionals often worked for companies that bought their licenses. Like the sports tickets of software. Crazy expensive, but if you did it as a full-time job, it was more than easily absorbed. After all, it required expensive (and technically challenging) hardware to run it on, so that barrier was already crossed by potential customers.

Today, everyone's a designer. Alright, that's not a fair assessment, but the number of people who have design skills–ranging from minor editing to some real mind-blowing stuff–but don't depend on them to feed their family, is astonishingly high compared to just a couple of decades ago. People who never consider themselves graphic artists find a lot of utility value in Photoshop, or one of its offshoots.

So its old price point, relative to everything else, just doesn't make sense if broad adoption is their goal, unless they're totally happy to capture just the pure pro crowd, who, for perspective, can run it quite handily on hardware that costs what a night or two in a mid-grade hotel in any big city does. The technical and cost barriers have fallen dramatically.

So that's changing.

Now, consider if Photoshop were ad-supported, and had been so for long enough to where designers grew up with that being the new normal.

Then, imagine someone comes out with an ad-free image-editing program, with no ads, that costs a reasonable amount. In some ways, better than Photoshop, in other ways, probably not as specialized, not as built-out, but pretty solid.

I think there's a market there for the taking.

Adobe's trying to strike that balance, and I'm not here to say whether or not they're doing a good job at it with their current approach (that's a much longer post and I doubt my ability to think about it as clearly as I believe I can other segments of the industry), but my point is that well-made products at a reasonable price is something I still want to believe there's a huge market for.

And we tend to underestimate it because of all the sub-par stuff, our conditioning to which we don't even realize.

I'd like to think that enough humanity still has the innate thoughtfulness to be slightly skeptical when being pitched to trade hours of their life (that is, the money they earned by working) for a given product, to provide a market for it.

And if we've all reached the point where we'll happily trade our time, attention spans, compromise our abilities to focus and concentrate, and reveal a wealth of personal data so as to pay a bit less, well, then we get what we deserve. But that's probably outside the scope of this particular comment.

Edit: Fixed a typo.
Ask HN: is it better to ask for a password now or later?
Anyone have metrics on whether it's better to ask for a password immediately (during account creation) or after the user has already inputted their email?

For example, Heroku first sends you an email, and from there, you set up your password. Does this improve user signups, or is the traditional email+password at signup better?
It depends on what you want. The bootstrap container elements are 100% of the width but if you place things inside of them the have a small amount of padding.

Do have something specific you'd like to accomplish?
Education & Entrepreneurship: The Problems
I recall an article along those same lines. If I'm correct, it outlined this culture of rich, dcurtis-like backpackers who spend $50 on a five piece flatware set and live out of their suitcases. They insist their culture is one of minimalism and perfection, but it's actually just wanton consumerism.

Now, I don't think dcurtis meant this post to hate on shoddy, mass-produced items, and I wouldn't even say it comes across this way. It's the fact that most people don't have the luxury to invest the time and money in picking out the very best of everything they own. Most people get a decent set of flatware, a decent towel, and a decent backpack because we have non-materialistic things we need to invest our time and money in.
The Irony of the Presidential Election
Google's new search page design
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip_plate

I guess the original poster you're responding to wasn't talking about that since he didn't mention it in his followup to you, but I assumed that was what he was talking about when I first read his post and it didn't seem so weird to me.

I mean... lip plating seems weird to me, but the idea that some people in some tribes in Africa have different shaped mouths didn't seem weird.
You're arguing a different point. The particular claim of driverdan's that I was responding to way that research into flatware can be justified by being enlightening/interesting/exploratory on it's own merit. Hence his reference to wikipedia and hackers. You, on the other hand, are justifying based on the instrumental value of the quality goods. You don't think learning about the best camping stoves is worth knowing in-and-of-itself, you think it can be used to accomplished something else worthwhile: camping.

For what it's worth, I agree with you except that I am very suspicious. People, myself included, can trick themselves.
> I'm not familiar with GRW, Penrose's theory is obviously more than an interpretation

I have no desire to get into a debate on terminology. I've just been using the terminology that was taught to me in an entire semester-long class I took at MIT on QM and its various "interpretations". GRW was called an "interpretation", as was Penrose's. The term "interpretation" is also the term used on the Wikipedia page for "Penrose's Interpretation".

> the fact stands that there is no experimental way, even in principle, to distinguish between MWI and Copenhagen.

That is not a fact; your assertion is false:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation#Comparative_properties_and_possible_experimental_tests

See the text starting at "However, in 1985 David Deutsch published three related thought experiments which could test the theory vs the Copenhagen interpretation."
It's almost beyond parody: "when you have trust in everything you own, you don’t have to worry about anything. It’s liberating and an amazing feeling. My life was markedly better because of it."

Right, because sane people would otherwise spend a lot of time sitting around worrying about their stuff.

It reminds me of a Louie CK routine:

"I need the best Blu-Ray! What are you, the King of Siam? You deserve the absolute best everything? These machines are all the same, made by the same Asian suffering."
x86 has been a follow-on benefit to the evolution of OSX, particularly after Panther (10.3). Since OSX is based on FreeBSD, it was a short hop to x86 once they got the OS kinks ironed out (and their PowerPC arrangements expired).
Is Instagram about to be ruined?
I agree with Dustin's point that life is "markedly better" by having the best available. In saying that, I'm often happier to outsource some of the responsibility for deciding what is the best product to someone else than do the leg work myself. I just can't bring myself to get excited about televisions, cars, and most household appliances.

Would I find a product that better matched my sensibilities by carefully researching the market? Sure, but buying a product that's a 97% fit for twenty minutes of work is better than buying one that's a 99% fit for twenty hours of work. Or at least in my head that's how the cost-benifit analysis works out (this sort of thing is deeply personal, and I'm prepared to accept that other people's values are different).

The Wirecutter is great for this sort of thing (http://www.thewirecutter.com). Need a set of headphones? What's your price bracket? OK, get this pair.
Sexbots Will Give Us Longevity Orgasms
>Scientists, statisticians, economists, and engineers shouldn't be worshiped as sources of incontrovertible truth - they're just humans trying to do the best objective, accurate job that they can!

True, but they're a big step in the direction of progressively less wrong [1] from the traditional alternative punditry and 'gut' analysis [2].

If I were a movie producer I'd buy the rights to Moneyball 2, script it about this election, and recast the gossiping scouting staff as all the blowhards [3] and bs artists [4].

Nate Silver, Andrew Tannenbaum [5], Drew Linzer [6], Sam Wang [7] and the other modelers deserve a lot of credit for helping the public cut through the bullshit.

[1]: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/sci_cult/lesswrong/lesswrong/

[2]: http://blogs.wsj.com/peggynoonan/2012/11/05/monday-morning/

[3]:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/10/people-who-c...

[4]: http://drudgereport.com

[5]: http://electoral-vote.com

[6]: http://votamatic.org

[7]: http://election.princeton.edu/
That is a good blog post.
Without reading the patent, are we qualified to judge? The patent in question cites 227 previous patents; There might be more to it than "a rounded rectangle."
What Social Media Told Us on Election Day
This iceberg exists only in your head. The fact is that there's no McDonalds alcohol burger, and no McDonalds tobacco burger, and both alcohol and tobacco are legal. Other highly addictive substances - barbiturates, diazepam, etc. - are legal too, even though require prescriptions, but are highly available. No scary McDonalds burgers though. All this data - both on addictiveness and on availability - is widely and easily available. Try to think for yourself instead of parroting propaganda. It's harder, but it's more fun.
It's a mentality. I'm google so even though I'm too lazy to send a proper email, he'll still come crawling to me.
Tech companies in the PNW do not drug test, generally.
offensive bullshit.my partner is a prof...you ignorant fools

The ignorant fool is the one who thinks he has the right not to be offended by the truth. Or the one who generalizes from his personal interest.

You want to contest something, do it with actual fact and logic. Not name calling.

I'll wager that all the publish-or-perish, empire-building psychopath profs I've encountered more than average out all the profs you know.
Or almost like a once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity from a Nigerian bank clerk.
Bevalley is a Yammer plugin to share and collaborate around business analytics.
If Windows adopted a freemium model I don't think it will attract many more users - I doubt there are consumers deterred form using Windows because of the price tag. I think this is the unfortunate future of desktop OSs though, with Ubuntu adding ads (or links to products they get a slice from) with local search results.
Universe Has Almost Stopped Making New Stars
I don't know how much you pay for water in your house, but I know how much I pay. 5x increase would be very substantive expense for me, coming very close to "prohibitively expensive".
Why is no body using your product?
>I think that's the point, since he's the author

Well I could be wrong, but I assume he was trying to make a broader point than "Hey everybody, these Yanagi forks are best for me".

I'd also imagine discussing any individuals particular preference for some random product, is of little concern to HN.

Without getting into the materialism debate or Curtis's obvious aestheticism bias, I thought some might be interesting in a discussion about

"What does 'the best' actually mean?"

My bias, would that I'm thinking about the question mostly from the perspective of businesses wishing to supply products or services to consumers.
The rage on the Amazon search results was especially because of file search keywords were being sent to Canonical and Amazon to show the ads. Here the ads are part of apps and as far as I can tell, no personal info is uploaded to Microsoft to personalize the ads.
Sounds expensive. I already pay ~$1/month in SMS fees for TFA on my Google account. If it cost me $0.20 every time I fatfingered my password, I would probably stop using your service. What's worse, attack #3 would cost the victim even more money, and it's one thing to get charged for your own screwups. It's another thing altogether to get charged for somebody else trying to hack you.
Congratulations for shipping! It's a huge milestone to reach and I'm sure it is nerve wracking to press that submit button on a 'Show HN'

Here are some of my observations after using the app for about 45 mins.

- First impressions are very strong. A great design aesthetic, pleasing to the eye (although a bit overwhelming as others have pointed out)

- After about 5-10 mins frustration started to set in for the following reasons:

-- Hard to use on a 1280x1024 screen (overlapping toolbars)

-- Re-size handles don't seem to do anything most of the time

-- Positioning elements was difficult and often seemed to require some mind-reading to try to work out how you intended to have the tools work

-- Was difficult to conceptualise the underlying structure of the document (I noticed the breadcrumbs which help to explain element nesting)

Seems that you're targeting the tool at designers. The tool has loads of potential for this user base, but I think it would be difficult for a designer to pick up as it is. The reason for this is that it seems to have a lot of required knowledge of bootstrap's underlying structure to make use of it. The kinds of questions a designer will be asking:

- Whats a 'Well'?

- Can I put a 'Row' in a 'Layout' or does it only go in a 'Container'?

- What's the difference between a 'Container' and a 'Layout'

If you're familiar with the code then this stuff is going to be obvious.. otherwise it will lead to frustration.

I think the best way to tackle this type of issue is by having the tool abstract away the underlying layout. This could be done by splitting the workflow into 1) Layout, 2) Components. Users could be given a set of existing layouts (let's face it there aren't that many ways to lay out a document), and then they move onto Component mode that then shows the options for adding buttons, forms, tables etc.

Having about 10 pre-built layouts would be plenty and any modifications could be done by splitting/merging columns.

On the other hand you could be targeting the app at existing coders who need a way to quickly do some visual layout without opening a text editor (nobody really wants to write another layout from scratch again right?). For this use-case I think the tool can already be quite useful as the developer already has a mental model of the code and how a document/layout should be structured.

Overall great stuff, hope things go well.

Cheers,
Eli
Materialism isn't just owning a bunch of stuff, it's being defined by it

Spending hours researching anything can be seen as a form of "geeking out". People can geek out on all kinds of things, like politics or sports or musical instruments or computer components or saltwater aquarium livestock (my weakness).

Dcurtis may or may not be a rampant materialist, I don't know, and it's really none of my business. The guy just geeks out on flatware. Seems a little strange, but whatever. Live and let live.
Buy the best, cry once.
While I can see your point, you might consider that by asking many people for their respective favorites, he seeks to get a list of a many options. This is simply driven by the assumption that if there are many nearly equal "really good" spots, then people will provide a nice distribution of them as personal favorites.
I think the meant the ads couldn't be removed.
Can't be too helpful, my biz isn't for sale and that's all I can offer. Consider trying to go to Demo Days for YC, 500, etc., and pitching teams there.
This post makes me think of many of the concepts from "zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance".

For those who haven't read it, it focuses heavily on the nature of quality (how it is both somewhat universal, and somewhat a matter of taste) and the spiritual nature that quality can contain.

to mapgrep, the first poster, I would suggest that not all things concerning or focusing on physical objects are materialism. One could even argue that dcurt is attempting to _avoid_ having to think about material objects once he has bought them, that this is what he means by "trusting" the things he owns.
Or: you're gonna lose it anyway, so don't sink too much into it.

The only things I'm willing to spend serious money on are shoes and teeth.
Sorry, I posted from my phone just before a meeting.

The device is called ReadySet and is a high-quality personal power generation unit with battery for storage. It can be powered by putting it beneath the rear wheel of a standard bicycle or the included 15-watt solar panel. http://www.fenixintl.com http://kck.st/LP5NjI
Is there no kind of object that speaks to you in a way that you invest non-trivial amounts of time in learning about it? Serious question.
I think a middle ground between Dustin's position and yours does exist.

Japanese people have found it, as their relation to material objects is ambivalent.

On one hand, they strive for perfection, such as found in this kitchenware example and their millennial craftsmanship experience.
The documentary Jiro dreams of Sushi is a perfect example of this philosophy.

But on the other hand, they have a term for describing the beauty of things imperfect, transient and impermanent, that's [Wabi-Sabi](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi).

Even In the aforementioned documentary, one can clearly see that the perfection Jiro seeks is achieved through numerous mundane objects, utterly imperfect in their nature. (The coal barbecue he uses jumps to mind for example)

I think that the quest for perfection has to be selective and targeted, not absolute, if you don't want to get lost in the way.

In this I don't agree with Dustin on this one.
I don't know how that app works, but I would assume that it generates more than one impression per download. I assume it shows adds before/during/after usage, not just at download or first run.
I'd agree w/ @benwerd, I think that an understanding of CS is a helpful background in understanding computing. Think of it as an equivalent of taking US History before practicing law.

Although I barely use much of the low level coding that I learned, I find that a deeper understanding is invaluable.
Chance. Maybe not good chance.
I'm trying to put a navigation bar inside a fluid container (like any static navigation headers), it doesn't seem to work :<
I'm sure it's using the UTC time to calculate this. The UTC never goes back.
I'd be more curious to hear your thought process, not to mimic it, but to see the facets that matter to you but would never have occurred/mattered to me. And conversely, to see the things that I value that others don't. I guess I'm mostly curious about other peoples' worldviews, and this seems a manifestation of that.
South Texas results aren't too surprising. There's a huge Hispanic population down there.
Steam for Linux Beta leaks early
Well, this is weird. I created this question when StackOverflow was just out of beta, hoping to steer it to more broader questions - guides, if you wish. This question really took off, but the format didn't, and SO mostly became a stack of incredibly specific questions and answers.

And now somebody, but not me, has submitted this question to HN. Under my name. I'm puzzled...
No, it's standard. The pipe needs to have room for both the steam to come in and the water to flow back. If you partially obstruct it, the steam comes in (because it has higher pressure), but the water can't flow back down and fills the radiator.
I like the loosely follow this philosophy without it taking over my life. finding a person/source you trust a ton and buying what they say is helpful, for example thewirecutter.com
Keep Track of Your Small Wins to Stay Motivated and Productive
The problem is a lack of choice. Hulu is free with adds and they have an improved service that costs money but still has adds. There however is no version of Hulu of is add free.

I would gladly pay say 30$ a month for Hulu without adds and some people would pay 100$ a month for the same privilege, but the option is simply not there. Netflix is currently cheap and add free, but the compete for the same content which puts a lot of pressure on Netflix to insert advertising just like DVD/Blue-ray etc and just about every other way to see most of this stuff.
so let me ask you this..uber and airbnb can they do business via paypal and braintree...they are a third party aggregator
Typography Spacing Research
>The whole point is that if another device managed to have the same dimensions and the exact same curvature it might be considered to infringe on this patent.

Infringing on an incredibly broad patent for a rather obvious shape is an easy thing to do.

>That is however very unlikely unless, as the comment at the top states, the manufacturers of said device were actually trying to copy the ipad design.

Rectangles, rounded or otherwise in the 4:3 to 5:4 range have been around forever. Clipboards, US Letter (paper), 4D / 6R / 8R / 12R (photo printing) to name a few.

The good old Galaxy Tab finds itself in that same crowded company above in terms of specific size, but closer to something like A4 paper, a Passport or the rounded rectangle of the common credit card in terms of ratio.

There's nothing novel about the absolute size or ratio of an iPad.