skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When source code reveals an emotional life.
I really liked a recent post about the ASETNIOP keyboard layout. TLDR; it's a chording key layout with an iPad app and a javascript demo.

http://asetniop.com/Tutorial1.html

The basic method for building a good chording keyboard is to identify frequently used strings/words and map them to short key combos.

While the code is a horror to read (I assume it's human-transpiled from C to JS), the frequency data collected by the developer shows some interesting, and sad, patterns in their life. Patterns that I am sure are familiar to lots of people on HN.

Take this selection of frequent words:
wChars[231]="walked";
wChars[232]="took";
wChars[233]="talk";
wChars[234]="stock";
wChars[235]="lack";
wChars[238]="period";
wChars[239]="work";
wChars[241]="human";
wChars[243]="small";
wChars[244]="home";
wChars[245]="example";
wChars[246]="simply";
wChars[247]="played";
wChars[248]="book";
wChars[249]="taking";
wChars[250]="much";
wChars[251]="almost";
wChars[252]="problem";
wChars[253]="family";
wChars[254]="economic";

"economic problems"... "family problems"... "book taking much"... "almost [done]"... "took stock"...
I'm seeing trails on Chrome 23. They go away if I switch tabs and return. So it's not specific to Firefox at least.
Sears vs. The American Manufacturer
Graham isn't a conservative. He consistently splits from other Republicans. He's criticizing his own party as a party of "angry white guys" when he says this. Surely you don't think Graham considers himself on the same side as "angry white guys"! The article linked does not quote him as an example of racism, but rather as someone inside the Republican Party who is criticizing their own demographic.
Ah, the fun part of this is "interpreted as code". Which language? html, xml, js, css, json? Get that part wrong or slightly off, and what you sanitized for one isn't for the other. And sometimes there can be nested contexts.

While the idea of "taint" is useful, it is only half the battle. The other half is accounting for the context.
LG panel IR defect on new macbook pro retina
Where can I buy Windows 8 if it says "region unavailable"?
I live in Bolivia and I'm trying to buy Windows 8 and install it on my custom built machine. The links I found on the official page, by following the Buy button, just makes me download a .exe file to upgrade.

I cannot upgrade, I'm not running a legitimate version of Windows 7.

Where the hell can I just buy the damn thing? Why is Microsoft making things so incredibly difficult for customers?

Can any kind hacker help me out? :)

Thanks! I can't wait to starting making some Windows 8 applications.
What would motivate the carrier to foot the bill for access to a single domain if not some kind of sweetheart deal?

I think this bodes very badly for the internet. We need to maintain a model where:

1) I pay for access
2) I access whatever sites I want

If anyone but me pays for my access, they're going to want to make back room deals, make favored sites faster, make sites they don't like inaccessible, and generally destroy the level playing field of the internet.

This is a first step. "Let's search for that on DuckDuckGo." "No, that costs money. Google is free." Boom, innovation stamped out.
I've been using Teensy 2 for about a year and they're awesome!
I've seen foam footballs before...

I've played with it, my son has one. It has a weird way of bouncing, compared to inflated ones.
The downside of this is that now there are many more moving parts to carry forward.
Me too, 16.02 on Ubuntu.
I don't think a prediction of a Romney loss would significantly spur Romney voters. As one example of many in my life, a co-worker voted for Romney because Obama "tanked his 401K". These are not people who (on average) read real news, IMO. They wouldn't see the prediction.
httpie is a nice replacement for curl which, among other things, has built-in formatting so you can get pretty JSON / XML responses without giving up your ability to do things like displaying response headers:

https://github.com/jkbr/httpie
Thank you for your hints!
Later I will look at the pages you linked and I sure will try to improve my design.

Unfortunately I still have to learn a lot of things about how to properly do web-design and the reason I posted my site here was exactly to get some feedbacks.
Thoughts on Entrepreneurship with Jason Fried
National government using its superior capacity for organized action to ensure that its most vulnerable citizens are taken care of is truly the greatest crime of this century.
It makes sense for NASA to avoid anything that would significantly decrease the public's opinion of them (as that would eventually lead to funding cuts). But I don't think their assumption that the death of astronauts/pilots would negatively affect their image.

Lets say Curiosity crashed into mars... that would be a HUGE problem for NASA (3 billion dollars wasted, people would say). But if a couple of astronauts died on the way to Mars... I think that would only strengthen the resolve of the American public. No politician would go on record saying their life was wasted. Instead, their death would be framed as heroic (rightfully so), and I think there would be a push to try again, and to try harder.

Given that logic, what NASA views as risk mitigation (send a robot to mars instead of a person, so we can get better at it before risking lives), is really is a very risky strategy from their organization's perspective.

There is probably data out there that backs/disproves my general logic here (sentiment of nasa after astronaut's deaths, vs after loss of robots). I'd love to see it.
Why only one? I would suggest you to compile a book with 4-5 small but real world examples that focuses on different parts of framework. Ideally, I would like to see :

1) A blog/to-do/HN clone as introduction.

2) Any social application that involves signup/login/user management/profiles/roles/authorizations/connection/communication etc.

3) An e-commerce application - May be a shopping cart.

4) REST API with OAuth2 support(as oAuth provider not just consumer)
All the things people are saying about this being a terrible legal clause are 100% true.

But that seems to be the point, doesn't it? It's a license that filters out people who care too much. How much is too much? According to this license, the threshold is "listens to this ridiculous license".

Maybe in practice that makes it a non-commercial license, or a "hobby project only", license, or perhaps in the extreme, a "nobody" license.

Who really cares? He owns the copyright, he can license it as he pleases.
>> People camouflaging in their living rooms so that the whole family can watch a movie?

The attitude that it would be okay to accept the license agreement with no intention of abiding by it's terms is just as bad IMO as the attitude that it's okay to market this technology in the first place.
In my opinion that's a much better title. Thanks for at least submitting it with an informative title.
Sting: Like Bono, without the douche?
Oracle is now publishing split-out patches for Red Hat kernels
Paying for What Was Free: Lessons from the New York Times Paywall
I've never played soccer with a ball made of trash but I'm sure that this ball would be seen as better by any child comparing it to a ball made of trash.

Sure first world quality soccer balls aren't necessary for children to have fun, but there is nothing wrong with an intelligent entrepreneur making them available to third world children.

If we all spent more time on projects like this instead of the next Twitter, or designing new weapons the world would arguably end up a better place.
AWS Glacier Speculation
Ugh, startup code, be glad they don't push all that crap up to Github. I'm more than happy that most sane contributors to open source have a filter on. Not every piece of internal code is needed or wanted be the community.
you can always bump your service name.

For example,

twitter#username
facebook#username

to

twitter-username
facebook-username
Full article can be found at the following link (pdf)
http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/cyber.2012.0251
The real pivot would be soccer-balls-as-a-service.
In 2000 Gore won 42% of the white vote and 90% of the black vote. In 2012, Obama won 39% of the white vote and 93% of the black vote.

So at most, Obama got an extra 3% of the black vote on account of his race, and lost at most 3% of the white vote. So on the face of it, a wash. Of course, the white electorate is over five times larger than the black electorate, so that's really -2.2%, +0.4%.

Even if Obama had performed at Bill Clinton's historically low 83% of the black vote, his popular vote total would have been only 1.3% lower. This may have been enough to make him lose the popular vote, but it would not have been enough to make him lose the electoral college (Mitt Romney would have needed to win the popular vote by 3% to have won the electoral college).
How I came to love big data
True! However what's amazing is that with a vision like this, he could have pretty easily funded this through Kickstarter... and given out indestructible soccer balls as a reward. I would've funded something like this in a second... it's a powerful vision.
Habey launches a tiny, fanless Ivy Bridge desktop PC
You seem to be right, but actually I am testing the response from the hn community.....

Sooner or Later, I will have to go to reddit for this.
Unless it's an official policy rejecting somebody using these tactics is impossible: everyone get the same written test and the "ticket" questions on the oral test are fixed and randomly chosen .

You can definitely make it less likely to be admitted for certain groups (e.g. people from out of city who would need a dorm room, there are only so many rooms) or more likely (e.g. minorities or "natzmen") but the article and comments imply the examiners had full ability to reject Jews. This was simply impossible.

Later is actually easier than former because while an unfairly low grade will have to be defended in front of several official committees an unfairly high grade will only draw attention of few students.

PS. Sorry to learn the oral test is gone. Though even during my time (91-96) the number of applications dropped dramatically and if this trend continued they probably have less applications than places by now.
How is anyone making that argument? From what I can see all people are saying is that making an obtuse licencing clause is a bit of an asshole thing to do. I can't see why anyone would disagree with that either.
Again, that 395 number is not the total number of tweets, it's the number of tweets that included geolocation data. That 395 was likely a subset of the total number of racist tweets.
Editor: Apocalyptic headline needed.
Journalist: Well game sales fit nicely, if we exclude two huge segments that are growing fast on top of it.
Editor: Deal

I haven't bought physical game in more than 3 years, anecdotal evidence around me points in the same direction.
And this ball probably isn't for) those people. Sort of how you can tell when a basketball or a football is not regulation, or one of those self-inflating ones. It's just not the same and won't satisfy a player who wants a "proper" ball (get them a regulation ball)
I think you might mean transcription.
TL;DR: ""
I hope these few nuggets about PhantomJS can help your app:

- Use JPG and not PNG (for renderBase64), we tested it and JPG gives a much more better performance, but then again it depends on how crisp you want your output

- (You may already done this either using PhantomJS or using image manipulation) Don't forget you can also scale the image using page.zoomFactor :)

- (Not sure how useful this one is for your case) You can clip the viewport too in PhantomJS

- PhantomJS seems to use a lot of memory (main page of twitter.com may resulted in at least 45MB of memory).

- CasperJS is probably the best wrapper of PhantomJS out there for now if you ever need to do something more complicated
Agreed, but HN has set a pretty high standard for sourcing, much to its credit. I wouldn't feel bad about posting ideological material from the WSJ, National Review, or NYT, but I would never post Drudge, HuffPo, Breitbart, Slate, etc. to HN, even though I check them out regularly just to get the temperature of the national discourse, and get a heads up on those occasional outlier stories that they're ahead of the curve on.

Besides, the foaming at the mouth, politics as bloodsport commentary can be a kind of entertaining guilty pleasure, kind of like outsider art: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_art
> but there is nothing wrong with an intelligent entrepreneur making them available to third world children.

Unless money is diverted from more useful projects to buying balls?

I don't have enough information to say. Personally, I think this is a good project.
Great summery, Sam. I feel like I was actually there.
How many startups will Facebook Gifts kill?
Is it "soft" foam, or "hard" foam like the author describes?

Do you think it could be durable as the OneWorldFutbol?
I can see this being useful for teaching environments, but I'm not so sure how useful this would be for actual scientific research.

Most universities tend to have their own computing cluster, which will make storing the (potentially large) datasets easier, and furthermore use of the CPU time is free!

Javascript ploting for the next set of graphs I need to produce for my research though is something I'm actually pondering about. It has the ability to be interactive which can be really helpful.
Opera had tabbed browsing way before anyone else, in 2000. And actually even before that by handling pages as MDI document windows in its early versions.

I used Opera all through the long night of IE6 hegemony, although always ready to switch back to IE whenever a site didn't work in Opera. There was a good, actively developed, standards-compliant browser available that whole time. It just never caught on in terms of popularity and mindshare. I hardly even noticed Firefox until around version 3.
The guy making the ball didn't create the problem, except in a very indirect and academic way. He certainly can't stop the problem. But he can can make a contribution today. Good on him.
This is quite an idea. I'll have to sleep on it ;)

Thanks
GitHub and YouTrack 4.1: Even better (and smoother)
I built something very similar two years ago:

http://www.newschool.co/

I essentially abandoned the project, but I'd like to get back in it. If you're interested in working together somehow, shoot me an email at Miserlou57 at aol dotcom.
Minimum viable help.
> "So if we can all talk to each other across the world in real time, and we can all understand each other because of this technology, what exactly is the point of different languages anymore?"

A bunch of things. First and foremost: cultural representation. There are many things that are simple words in Chinese that have no English equivalent. The values and traditions of a culture are subtly communicated via its language, and even if we can instantaneously translate the literal meaning of what is being spoken, subtext will be lost.

This is why at a high level (beyond "where is the restroom") translation is a highly involved field.

Secondly is the usability of this system. Even if it is 100% accurate and immediate you'll just end up with the UN problem: communication becomes asynchronous because you need to wait for the translator. You'd say one thing, the other person would listen to your translator. He'll say something back, and you get to listen to his translator. It's a hell of a lot better than nothing, but there is still a tremendous advantage to being able to converse in real-time.
Amazing story. Love the game and love the idea!
Essentially they do the same thing as One Laptop Per Child. You buy one and a third world child gets one. They didn't go through Kickstarter but I think the model they use is more effective anyway.
This is awesome. Great article Sam!
Check out the guidelines here: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

They suggest you drop the number and go with something like "Uses for cURL everyone should know" instead.
Ask HN: What are the best resources you have used to teach yourself mathematics?
I feel that my background in math isn't as strong and well-rounded as it should be, so I'm requesting some assistance from all of you. If you've used any sites, books, or listened to any important recorded lectures that you wish to share, please do so.

The obvious resources are Khan Academy and such, but I'm looking for things that might not be as distinct or popular.

Thanks!
If its not an option for Debian, it is only because of their own peculiarity that it isn't. The type or magnitude of the "payment" is unspecified and open to any negotiation at all. They could even send him an email asking for a GPL license to it in exchange for rewards in the afterlife.

He may not go for it, but they are certainly capable of asking.
That's not too far from what an actual ball is. Much better than a trash & string ball.
I said it yesterday and I will say it again today: If you insist on playing semantic games and defining racism so weirdly I will happily admit to loving being racist in that way.

You mistake is to assume symmetry where there is none.
In Britain, the game is called "Association Football" to distinguish it from Gaelic, rugby, and other forms of football.

The game is officially, "soccer" in the U.S. [United Sates Soccer Federation] and Canada [Canadian Soccer Association].

FIFA calls the game beach soccer, "Beach Soccer." It is played under the "Beach Soccer Laws of the Game."

http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/52/76...
I agree. While I don't live in Rwanda, I have been there a couple times and played soccer both with college students and young children. In all instances, we played with the best ball available.
Well, thank goodness Oracle has such a commitment to the open source community.
That will only work with named vhosts. Outside of shared hosting / personal web servers, almost everyone uses IP-defined vhosts.
Build a factory "over there" and provide employment opportunities. This helps develop infrastructure in a sustainable useful way.

This also provides income replacement for the little children who are no longer stitching traditional footballs.

(http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-27/rest-...)

[1] Sorry for the "over there" which is a lazy perhaps offensive way to refer to the developing world.
How is Facebook Addiction Affecting Our Minds? (INFOGRAPHIC)
This is known as pitch accent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pitch_accent
Sure, if you're hypersensitive or just looking for a fight. I like a lot of YC companies.
Yep, you're right. Duly noted, thanks.
Ask HN: Salaries and cost of life In London
Hello friends,

I'm going to start interviewing for jobs as a Product manager and / or Marketing manager in London startups and the dreaded "What is your expected salary?" question is going to pop up.

What kind of salary I can expect in London? And what are the common perks? Oyster card, phone, computer, etc ?

FYI, back in Paris I was getting 50K € Gross / year as a Junior in boh of those position. I have 3 more years of experience now.

Thanks!
Unless money is diverted from more useful projects to buying balls?

Fair enough. If this project siphoned off money that would have been used to provide food or medical aid then it could be seen as a waste. But it sounds like there is a mix of corporate sponsors providing money and a One Laptop Per Child style "buy two, get one" program for the general public.
The solution: Stop playing startup in the walled garden. You're going to get boned every single time.

I don't even understand the logic here. Companies exist to make money. Companies who own the platform will notice you if you are profitable, pull the rug out from under you, and clone your business model so that they are more profitable.

It's not a bad thing. It's not evil. It's not even bad for the users - the company can probably offer a level of service that you can't because they have the keys to the kingdom.
How We Built USA Today's Election Night Maps
Really? The sentence the judge imposed might be extraordinary, but you can't believe idiotic driving is unusual.
Why do you respond when you can't even be bothered to read TFA? The criteria used to find the tweets was very clearly described in footnote 1.

Regarding your #4: just shut up.
Then I guess I love being a racist. Yay for racism! It's super-awesome.

Check your motherfucking privilege.
The reason the quote in 3) makes no sense is that it's wrong. :) The article gives a correct explanation in a footnote:

The formula for this location quotient is

(# of Hate Tweets in State / # of Hate Tweets in USA)
------------------------------------------------------------
(# of ALL Tweets in State / # of ALL Tweets in USA)
This is one of those situations where 80% of the commenters in the thread will think I am trolling because their sense of entitlement to anything they can read in on a Github page is so powerful that they forget they're talking about the time and effort of an actual human being.

If you feel like you can call someone an "asshole" for writing "use this software for good not evil" in their license, then, and I mean this respectfully but directly, you need to unplug for awhile and interact with actual human beings in the world.

Similarly, if you can write a whole blog post calling Douglas Crockford "childish" and implying that he's not only a hypocrite but hypocritically evil for working at Paypal simply because of something he put in the license of a piece of software he gave away for free, you are a whackjob nutbag and nobody should listen to you.

Here is a clue before 8 different HN'ers explain to me how damaging idiosyncratic license clauses are and why that justified this nutball post: you can write a post about why people shouldn't use a specific free library without calling its author names.
pass gyre into your constructor, and reference the local variable. kudos, i love scripts for the sake of scripts.
Would you rather have a ball made out of trash that falls apart when you kick it, a "proper" ball that gets torn to shreds, or this "not regulation" ball that can withstand any abuse you throw at it?

This seems like a no-brainer to me. These kids don't need a regulation ball, and they deserve better than trash.
Who's the picture of the guy in the banner? It doesn't look like "High Expectations Asian Father"...
Kudos for using SockJS! (sockjs-tornado, as I see) Shout if you run into any troubles.
Speaking as a black person, I can see cases where racist tweets would have been flagged, but weren't really racist. A black person (in some circles) could say, "Damn, that nigger Obama was reelected!" Is this racist? In this case, the use of "nigger" could be a term of endearment. It would have still been flagged during this survey.
An inside look behind Romney's loss: An epic failure of its Orca big-data app
As it currently stands, they would simply be unable to use HN if they were loading it at the same time, as the server would just ban them; do you feel that is really a better solution to the proposed delay?
Ask HN: Hacking - Personal Use or Public/Repeatable
I'm curious - when you hack together a solution to a problem (physical, digital, or both), are you more likely to focus on a solution that works just for your purpose or a solution that can be implemented for others too?

For those of you who do create personal hacks, what would it take to convince you to put in the effort to make your hacks repeatable (and/or public)?