skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha. Unfortunately for him, it became clear that most of his code was all sound and fury, calculating nothing. Well, that and he took forever to fix bugs because he couldn't really understand it either.

He was soon out on the street, and the rest of the team's policy of just rewriting bits instead of debugging them (it never took very long, and frequently resulted in 1/10 as many lines of code doing twice as much) had soon swept away most of his footprints.
i think the "come to silicon valley to become a entrepreneur" myth its looking the same as the 30´s "come to hollywood to became a movie star" myth..

The majority of those girls ended coming back to their little towns or showing the boobs in night clubs..

Why with the entrepreneur myth would be any different?
"The Principles of Newspeak was removed from the Nineteen Eighty-Four"

This does not surprise me; one of the themes of Chinese government propaganda is the superiority of the simplified writing system, and so I imagine that negative treatments of any simplification of communication would be censored. I saw a Chinese movie a while back, where the king commented on how difficult communication was because of the large number of traditional Hanzi symbols (he also commented that all he wanted was a unified China, which prompted to main character to abandon his attempted assassination of the king).
I don't think it would be THAT hard to add back in support for IE7. Also, I'm sure that not long after the release someone will make a forked version that supports IE7, since so many of us still need to support IE7.
> Dropped all things fluid. We removed the fluid grid system, fluid container, and fluid layout.

Damn. That is very handy when you want to have even sub columns inside of an odd-sized parent column.
The myth of the generalist
Does anyone know if Python bindings are on their way?
Up-front disclaimer: I don't use facebook, but the precedent of this upsets me.

It seems to me that a website can define the API by which you access their site (some subset of HTTP), but can they really make a definitive claim to how data is rendered on the client side once that data is fetched through legitimate targets?
via: http://www.functionn.in/2012/12/list-of-all-countries-in-all...

Very comprehensive list of countries in the following formats: Text, JSON, YAML, XML, HTML (Select, Flags), CSV, SQL, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQL Server.

I like that fact that you can export it to any other formats using the Exporter and extending it.
Bitcoin looks primed for money laundering
"At least in China, the "people" network is usually more trustworthy than the major media outlets"

Is it? When last I checked, the Chinese government paid tens of thousands of shills to post propaganda on blogs and forums.
Really great guide that seems to nail some of the basics. I can tell the difference between a great reading experience and a mediocre one, but I can never seem to pinpoint the reason for that difference.

Is there a tool that "evaluates" a page for some of these typography basics on a live website? Maybe a bookmarklet. I know at some point it becomes a matter of looking with a trained eye and personal preference, but many of the parameters could easily be computationally evaluated. E.g. measure, line height and paragraph spacing, color/contrast, maybe even visual hierarchy.
It is part of the Marketplace (bundled app store) in Firefox OS. I don't believe Persona is the main identity system in Firefox OS at the moment, but it's very possible it could be in a future version.
Q: Could you have gone forward without the new guys? "Being a non-technical founder..." sounds like "no."

Q: What is their risk/investment level? (from your reply to taude) "They've agreed to a pretty sizable percentage of ownership. None of us are receiving a salary at this point."

Are they founders? IMHO YES!

The company was dead in the water or nearly so when the two original founders bailed. The company did not (most likely could not) pay the two new guys for their services, so they are at the same risk level as you.

Given that "founder" is a honorary title and (presumably) does not cost you anything more to confer on them, don't be stingy and don't insert a perpetual irritant where there is no need to do so.
It doesn't mean you shouldn't obscure the system as well.
Why not celebrate both?

Beyond that, even if we accept the premise that it's easier for Zucker to give away $500MM than someone with little to donate a fraction of that amount, the money will absolutely have a great net impact on society as a whole. Isn't that contribution to the betterment of all worth a major celebration?

I think part of the problem is that it's hard to conceptualize what sort of impact donations as large as these will have. If we actually met the thousands of people that this gift will help out, and heard their stories of what a different it made, I think it'd be much harder to dismiss than it is a written number.
welcome to club hacı :)
V2.2.2 used ".jumbotron" AND ".masthead" for the hero unit in the docs, so I think they are just condensing that to one class.

See this screenshot: http://bluetide.pro/cPkH/5LohuilN
Where's the link directly to what it is that your product does? It took me a few seconds to figure it out. If it weren't for the HN link I'd never know.

What's the link to elepath doing in the middle of the floating guys? I had no idea what is was and clicked on it. It was something about pictures on the back of a chair. I had no idea how that connected with Moonbase.

Add a splash line or something or if this isn't the main landing page, can you link the main landing page?

Good luck! I hope it works for you guys.
I think in general, more realism is a challenge for the director. I've seen many HD movies and television shows where it feels like I'm really on the set, rather than really in the place the movie is set in.

Anyway, I haven't seen the Hobbit or any HFR movie. But I do think that while extra realism in the filming process will ultimately be a boon to the art form, currently there are a lot of challenges. The realism just makes me feel like I'm on a set with a bunch of costumed actors and props rather than in the film's universe with its characters.

Realism currently makes the suspension of disbelief harder rather than easier. But when they finally figure out how to overcome that, watch out, because it will be awesome.
There is no lie. They offer the service for free. Nobody said they would never ever add ads. That's just being silly. What possible reason could people have for being angry with someone adding ads to this thing they are giving away for free.
> Responsive CSS is no longer separate.

Will we still be able to easily remove things like the "large desktop" size?
Persona is not a social network, though, just an identity system. But there has been talk of the Persona team potentially cooperating with the Tent (https://tent.io) team.

(edited to remove slangy word "rumblings")
I haven's seen the movie, but I think this is a case of history repeating itself.

http://www.oldmagazinearticles.com/pdf/Talkie_Town_USA.pdf (apologies for the low quality of the scan):

"Only last winter an extensive poll of film fans showed them relatively unsatisfied with sound pictures and desirous of once more seeing silent pictures."

We also have Aldous Huxley (http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/sound.cfm, about halfway down):

Silence is Golden

I have just been, for the first time, to see and hear a picture talk. "A little late in the day," my up-to-date readers will remark, with a patronizing and contemptuous smile. "This is 1930; there isn't much news in talkies now. But better late than never."

Better late than never? Ah, no! There, my friends, you're wrong. This is one of those cases where it is most decidedly better never than late, better never than early, better never than on the stroke of time....

I bet I could find similar reaction to the introduction of color movies, colour television, GUIs for personal computers, etc. (did anybody ever critique Gutenberg for 'form over function' on his bibles?)

In all cases, we had to discover how and when to properly use new technologies. This will not be different.

Also, I expect we will eventually go beyond 48 Hz, as 48 Hz is slightly below human perception thresholds. http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Flicker_fusion gives limits around 60Hz. Those are for bright lights, large areas, and peripheral. You will not normally see that with old-syle television sets and won't see it in most homes, either, but in cinemas, one can easily get there.
I don't think I saw it on the doc, but is there a projected release date for 3.0? It sounds like there is some pretty awesome updates coming, even though they seem more "back-end" related.
Tell us, what are the things you could learn at a library that could translate into earning income?
Funny, since British/Canadian accents tend to separate series of vowels like that more than American accents. (Similar to "about".) Maybe that played a part? :)
NDAs make sense in a lot of scenarios, just rarely do they make sense right at the beginning of a business relationship.

In my (marketing) work I have never had to sign an NDA to start talking to a company nor have I asked anyone else to do that, however once we move into actually working together then I have both been asked to sign and asked others to, frequently.
Wow, sorry your argument has nothing to do with the ToS. Peers really? And why is it that it is the CEO who answers and not those nice engineers?

Come on, the engineers made the product, the lawyers and the board made the company's legal arrangements. And they are utter bullshit.
Glad they are finally using icon fonts instead of PNG. Now we can make icons any color and add drop shadows if needed.
Sure. Here's the classic example: http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/...
The reason it appears "cheap" to some is that many associate the smooth motion of high(er) framerates with crappy shot-on-video productions, such as Soap Operas.
I don't see why you couldn't. It's pretty easy to find media queries in the CSS, because of the unique styling they have in the CSS file.
This looks like the same basic concept as Apple's Quartz Composer, which was/is really quite awesome (and comes with Apple's developer tools). Except Moonbase is javascript based, and I don't see any reason why it couldn't be made embeddable and (eventually) into a serious tool for web developers.

Moonbase feels a little toy-ish at the moment, but it doesn't need to. Quartz Composer has a bunch of programming-like features, including nestable sub-compositions, the ability to accept user input, iterators, etc, that make the system really powerful. I hope the moonbase people start copying as many of those features as they can.
"wouldn't fly with the consumers"

what do you base this on? Current mobile market certainly doesn't support your thesis.
Why must there always be a pessimistic view towards China on matters like this?

This is not a programming error. News of this programming to be aired had been circulating on the net several days prior to the actual airing around various forums and weibo. People have taken screenshots of the official CCTV6 scheduling of V at least two days before airing. Hence if it was actually a mistake it would have been taken down already.

I am pro China no doubt and it just saddens me that most views towards China must always carry a doubting overtone. If something good is happening, we as Chinese people applaud it. We sincerely wish the West to do the same, rather than passing off every positive change that China is making as mistakes.

Perhaps I'm reading into your comment too much, in which case I apologize.

Perhaps we are all reading into the matter too much...China isn't as horrid as how Western media portral them.
What if instead of braking Orion itself, it just drops off a lighter satellite that is able brake without expending so much energy?
Does Tom ever reply in that thread?
Yes, because the recent financial crisis proved how much we know about banks and their dealings.

Banks are one of the most opaque industries and are constantly devising (ingenious) ways around regulation.
How about dropping support for LESS and using SASS instead?
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Ah.The dots connect...this gives me a bit of insight into an earlier post on HN about facebook in Germany being forced to allow pseudonyms.
This tool seems to be inspired by Quartz Composer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_Composer), a Mac OS X tool for making animations that can be embedded in other programs. You can find QC in /Developer/Applications/ if you have Developer Tools installed. Moonbase’s interface is very similar to [Quartz Composer’s interface](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/QuartzComposer...).
You know why this is? Because there is no correct pronunciation in English for two consecutive consonants. Similarly, SQL is not pronounced "sequel", because it contains no vowels. TeX is not pronounced "teck" because there no letter chi in the Roman alphabet.

All these cutesy insider pronunciations only serve to confuse and alienate the uninitiated, it's elitist nonsense.
How does adding ads "insult, mislead, or deride their users"? This whole discussion is silly. 99% of the users will keep happily using the service with ads. They were smart enough to know they were coming eventually. A 1% very vocal minority will piss and moan on internet message boards about how pissed they are and how absurd it is that this coming isn't continuing to give away a nice service.

Everyone bitched when Facebook added ads, but guess what, they keep growing and people keep using it. Shocking.
It's Becoming Conventional Wisdom That Apple's Software Isn't Very Good
I was worried when I saw this, but the very next bullet point is:

>Overhauled default grid system. Now uses percentage widths, padding, and box-sizing: border-box instead of pixel widths and margins. Nesting and offsets remain the same.

Which sounds like they are actually making everything fluid, and removing fixed widths. Perhaps a good thing, although border-box means no IE7 support.
Ask HN: Where can I find a list of P2P Marketplaces?
Note: By "Person-to-Person Marketplace," I mean websites and/or apps that bring together two sides of market so they can transact with each other if they want. For example, Airbnb, GetAround (cars), TaskRabbit (tasks), etc.

I want to find or assemble (and maintain) a list of these P2P marketplaces and some information about them, such as what their marketplace is (cars, tasks, etc.), what locations they serve, where they are headquartered, etc.

Why? Because I am personally interested and I know others are as well. A list like this would be helpful to companies, users, other stakeholders, journalists, bloggers, students, law makers, etc.

In case there is no existing list of P2P Marketplaces, I've created this Google Doc and have started adding some information: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AojDSItu62isdFFZV0VmSTZMTmFOcHBsckdjb3p0LVE . Please check it out and add (or correct) any information you can.

Thank you,
Chris

PS: Since I've gotten the question before, I'll pre-answer it now:

The reason I call them "P2P Marketplaces" as opposed to "collaborative consumption" this or "sharing economy" that is that the companies I am interested in for this particular list are ones that:

1) create and facilitate orderly marketplaces,
2) between people,
3) and the people exchange with each other for money (not sharing or bartering).

Regarding the term "collaboration": In my mind, it doesn't fit quite right. To me, "collaborating" is more about individuals (or groups) coming together to create something, such as to a work product or school assignment or art work or musical performance or whatever.

Regarding the term "consumption": I doesn't fit either, IMHO. Plus, I just don't particularly like the words "consumption" or "consumerism" or even "consumer". I like "people" and "person" and "person-to-person." :)
I disagree. The front page design is perfect. Clean, simple and elegant. Those who can't work it out aren't going to use it anyway.
Pretty much exactly this (I've posted this statement nearly word for word several times in response to articles like this). Basically EC2 or Rackspace Cloud, etc. are very good for small startups running a handful or two of instances, or really large companies that need hundreds/thousands of instances under which scenario hardware might very well be the more expensive option.
Economists don't predict most events, because most events in economics are unpredictable. It's a subject of complex, chaotic systems.

If you take this as your starting point for critique (the weathermen didn't predict Weather Event X!!!), you will always win the argument because you're beating up a strawman. No economist has ever seriously claimed specific predictive power.

All an economist can give you is generalised statements of causality, most of which will be unobservable. Steve Keen was not the first to point this out. Quite a few economists from various schools have picked flaws with general equilibria models of macroeconomic phenomena (ie, using calculus to describe people, markets and countries).
Why a Fast-Growing Startup Tries to Keep Its Venture Funding Secret
That seems unlikely. They're still using Facebook. A few thousand people are paying App.net $50 a year and a billion people are using Facebook. I suspect people would rather have a few ads in their Instagram feed than start paying Flickr. Just a very vocal minority pissing and moaning because they can.
This is really awesome and I liked how clean and well put together the demo was.

I wasn't able to delete any sprites though.
From the announcement: "Migrating applications developed against the previous Qt version 4 is straight forward, mainly requiring a simple recompilation." So, I suppose that the PySide bindings will be ready in no times.
Bootstrap your Scala skills
It's not that the stories are western propaganda, it is that China is a really big place, and there is no uniform system of oppression, nor of censorship. Really, this is not much different from the USA, where laws can vary widely between states: I carry a pocket knife around in the state where I live, but I was nearly imprisoned for carrying that same knife in New York City when I visited family there. Likewise with China; in some regions, the citizens are more oppressed than in others.
you're right, I forget this often, and when they sent the notification to me it came from join.me, not the actual company.
_this_. And why drop support for FF 3.6 too? Is there a technical reason to drop support for older browsers or is it idealism?
Surely this can be said of any application that you give such permissions to with OAauth? We've already seen cases of people selling the information they gathered.
I agree 3 years is more than many.
A pitfall is it was with a small company so everything I learned (I learned a lot on the job) was the way they ran things and going from what the more experienced programmers said a lot of that was not how things ran elsewhere.

Even with 3 years though it seems that companies now want 5+ or more (it always seems out of reach).

Good luck with your project! What you described is completely foreign to me and I would feel much more lost than you I'm sure (more of a web but not mobile yet guy).
I didn't mean to start an argument about what is and isn't open. Certainly open is a spectrum and Android fits somewhere in the spectrum. What I meant by open-washing was the intent. It is my opinion that Google open-sources Android for the PR benefit.

> They certainly think plenty of people are smart enough to contribute (though that was a nice ad-hominen attack on the Android team).

It came out in the Oracle trial that Google didn't include Sun in the development of Android because they didn't think they were smart enough to contribute anything.
In my experience CentOS/Redhat is always a pain in the ass. I find Ubuntu/Debian awesome primarily because of the package management.
Cool reminds me a tool to build webGL / three.js stuffs. And all CAD softwares have this kind of interface for compositing.
In what sense does directing one's browser to issue HTTP requests towards a foreign endpoint imply payment? Am I "paying" HN for POSTing this comment?
Why Android might disrupt iPhone market share
This, although I would say that you are probably better off just investing in a low-fee index fund like Vanguard's Total Stock fund.

Even if you have an understanding of a sector, most people are horrible investors and a simple index fund will out-perform them.
I've always thought that this, rather than any misunderstanding of what makes up an OS, is why "GNU/Linux" never caught on.
How do you feel about me suing you for not sticking fingers into you ears when someone else is telling the story and you listen to it because of your curiosity I instigated?
It would be great to get a prospective date in those types of announcements.
Equinix's Journey From IPO To The Nasdaq 100 Through Near Bankruptcy
"Buy high, sell slightly lower" is not a great investment strategy.
I prefer not to code with a light background because it hurts my eyes. Strangely enough, my eyes don't complain when typing with a white background in a word editor.

Maybe it's because text editors come with lots of color?
I loved Freeman as Bilbo. I don't know the scene that Colbert showed, but I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
Right, in that case it's not a fallacious argument, but rather plain populism ;)
Does this add the semicolons back in?
I'm not sure I agree that "cutie" is any better than "cute". :-)
Boeing uses 20,000 lbs. of potatoes to check aircraft wireless network signals
Some of these like Glyphicons are already in Kickstrap (a Boostrap fork)
Here is actually a real issue with many of these startup type companies using EC2 or similar services... one of the very benefits that are brought up (not needing to have someone building and maintaining servers) is also the person whom generally would be taking care of those services (or abstracting them away with CM solutions).

Many times what I've seen is simply that position is simply 'filled' by developers whom have ideas about designing and securing scalable systems, but when it comes right down to it... they get hacked within some period of time because it turns out, they don't know these things well enough to take the place of someone whom dedicates their time to it.