skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! Was not aware of the networking part, nice to know.

The rendering engine is also much more than "just rendering". When I click two small links close to each other on Android Chrome, a small clickable popup containing a zoomed in portion of that part of the page will appear. Very useful for avoiding misclicks!
Several of the claims, such as the success of the UN's Millennium Development Goals project and the fact that we are currently living in a world free of war, are pretty easy to check for yourself.

Viewed in terms of what really are some of humanity's big goals - reducing poverty, warfare and disease - we are living in a wonderful time. Unfortunately, the article soft-pedals the environmental stuff a bit.
It's fine on iPhone 4 too.
He was in the right place at the right time and now he's rich. And that's the only reason why anybody is listening to him now, certainly not for anything else he's done.

This. A small percentage of people that make it big can duplicate that success. I've only met one such person in my life and he was the most dangerous business person I ever knew. Dangerous because he walked that line between legal/illegal and ethical/unethical, much to his profit. I realized after meeting him that I could never be him. I just couldn't make some of those decisions, because I wouldn't be able to live with myself.

I'm not saying all serially successful people are like this. It's one data point. I just think many successful people are in the right place at the right time, and many of the other successful people work the system in a way that most of us would find distasteful. Yes, I'm sure there are a small percentage of serially successful people that do it because they have the right stuff and demand our respect and admiration. I just haven't met any of them yet.
Haha likewise. This lets you try out new CSS properties as well, and makes it super easy!
Mimosa author here! I'll work on the website. =) I do think the tool is better documented than some of the others, and I was really going for having the docs rather than making them super pretty.

Mimosa is very pluggable (http://mimosajs.com/modules.html), moreso than Brunch, but slightly less so than grunt, though, to be honest, my grunt experience is slim. That said, grunt obviously has quite the ecosystem of plugins that all the others lack.
I can't wait to find out if this was part of an application, or some other prank.
Samsung to reduce investment in LCD
Two words: transit overlays.
Oh hell yeah, I just ditched my old Android for an iPhone and the lack of bus routes on its maps app was one of the major things I was missing. I was sort of getting along with HopStop but it was an awkward multi-step kind of thing. DOWNLOADING NOW.
yes good point - "progress" isn't quite single-dimensional. :)
http://codepen.io is another option that was mentioned just a few days ago. It adds JS to the mix, too.
This seems comparable to Fire.app (http://fireapp.handlino.com/, F/LOSS, my favorite) or CodeKit. I noticed that you are specifically pimping out Stylus rather than Sass/Compass, but it doesn't seem to be a problem to get Compass working if you copy the library in yourself.
Thanks! Even simpler fix for lazy: Inspect Element, right click on the element in the developer pane, and choose "delete node".
Now, if there was an easy way to kill/hide driving directions when I don't need it anymore, and return to the plain map, that would be great.
My father has substance abuse problems too (alcohol dependency for 20 years) and it has destroyed his relationship with my siblings and my mother, he's going to lose what little he has left very soon and I genuinely fear he's going to do something very similar to what is mentioned here. I am the only child that will talk to him without contempt and I have long since left home. He lost his own father very recently and that pushed him deeper.

What do I do? How do you deal with a situation like this?
Don't show street view, show the camera's feed and correlate it with street view, the GPS position and the compass in order to superimpose directions on the image.

Light condition changes would be a pretty tough problem to solve though.
Those guts that 'actually perform numerical calculations' as referenced by the above post are not only imperative, they're in Fortran, the language of Real Programmers.

Many packages have successfully used FP as a layer over those calculations, but that doesn't invalidate the original point you're replying to. Calling functions to add numbers is in fact that worst possible paradigm for performing the actual numerics.
I would imagine they were working from a standpoint of "this is the last major launch before the license is up.". Could you imagine if the google maps app was shut down? people would go bannanas.

>>Why couldn't they have spent that time getting data partnerships that apparently is going to solve all of their problems?

I would imagine they have been spending years on this already. Google has just been spending nearly a decade doing the same thing. When you are both world class development companies, a several year lead is insurmountable for a very long time.
This seems destined to cause a huge number of car accidents. Instead of looking at the road people will be staring at the screen watching to see if they have turned enough.
Navigation is a Google app designed specifically to interface with maps. It seems with the new iOS maps they have just build Navigation straight into the app.
How do people die? Global mortality and causes of death visualised
That Pier 39 San Francisco search is an Australia-desert-type disaster waiting to happen to tourists.
But the only thing varying is a scalar, is the point. The fact that you can write it as a vector is irrelevant.
In terms of driving, the five-roundabout perspective makes more sense (for reasons of right-of-way, as you say). In terms of algorithmic complexity, if we are considering distance traveled by the average vehicle, the two-nested-roundabouts perspective makes more sense.
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Yes for sure, we offer a free license to the 10 first that will ask :)
> Third I would say that goverment funding universitys and things like that is something diffrent from a goverment burocracy.

Most of the size and scope of at least the federal government is things like this, not bureaucracy. The federal civilian payroll has held steady at 1.8-2.2 million since 1960, and payroll expenses account for less than 5% of the budget.
The copy & paste virus
Oddly enough I learned last week that there can be other political parties in china. It's just that the Communist Party is enormous by comparison. http://shanghaiist.com/2012/12/05/not_at_all_pointless_zhigo...
I'm in no way qualified to give you a professional answer, but from a human perspective, I'd start by talking to him and expressing the very fears you just described. Make him understand that it concerns you, and that you're there for him should he ever feel that inclination. Just being able to talk about things with other people can be a tremendous help when dealing with stressful situations. Make sure he understands that he's not completely alone.
This is exactly why we're doing this. Companies are still treating the iPad as a toy and its productivity features are lacking.

We started with a docking solution kickstarter - http://www.completedock.com/ which we planned to extend with a Surface-like keyboard solution. Then we realized productivity apps aren't up to snuff and that solutions using Apple TV and external keyboards might be the answer to some input and output issues.

We're actively brainstorming and trying to attack the problem on both the hardware and software fronts. This is our second attempt.

As for open platforms, they're a whole different story. Unfortunately most users don't seem to care enough.

The web however is quite open. You can access any website without an app store. Also, if we can get a web-based IDEs for web apps to work decently, that would be a step towards a more open iPad. Apple doesn't seem to mind web apps so this might actually work.
The more data they can associate with a given user the better.
Try logging in. The results may surprise you. If you use Chrome signed-in on your computer it will remember your recent map searches from your computer and pop them up first on your phone. Pretty useful feature if you ask me, and it will get rid of "the big nag screen"
The main thrust of his post is "look at this idea that no economists seem to be aware of". He makes his point by googling for this term that he made up.

He does not appear to be an Econometrician, nor a Statistician (I can't find his CV, which is odd), so the most likely answer is that he is wrong, and that this is a well understood phenomenon for which he doesn't know the proper technical term (viz., Multicollinearity).

This quote from his blog post sums it up for me (emphasis mine):

"And it really bugs me that people who know a lot more econometrics than I do think that you can get around the problem this way, when you can't"

[edit] - @cynicalkane - we are in violent agreement on the core theory, but equally violent disagreement on the extent to which his link-baity title & appropriation of Friedman's name is academically disingenuous.

Shall we call it a day?
There aren't enough humans that can do math, and there are more openings for jobs than intellectuals.

Programming is not necessarily a job for intellectuals, any more than painting or automotive repair is reserved for intellectuals. Have you heard of the balmer peak? This stuff we call code ain't that hard.

I don't like your complexity argument. If you are a gear in a watch you do not deal with complexity. You are well insulated, dealing with your 1 or 2 immediate neighbors. Most programmers are gears, they are attempting to deal with the complexity inherent in your company is a great way to procrastinate, waste time remaking the build system, and get fired. I am sure we have all see this happen.
Is the TV screen the next iphone?
I combatted this in two ways - first, I only looked at the top 433 reddits.

There are always going to be the same people cross-subscribed between A and B as between B and A. This graph is not of the number of people cross-subscribed between two reddits - it's of the sum (number of people cross-subscribed)/(users in A) + (number of people cross-subscribed)/(users in B). So if a lot of people in a tiny subreddit are cross-subscribed, they get a big boost from the first term, but almost no boost if they make up a tiny sliver of subscribers to reddit B.
Win95 is not built on the NT kernel, unlike Win2000+, and had no security groups. Everyone was admin all the time. Every process was admin.
It would survive a trip to another city. It caches your whole route. It just won't make any changes on the fly if you go off-route while offline.
Wow, didn't expect that ending... :(
s/shipwrecked/third world/

The original poster specifically mentioned that he was looking for problems to raise the standard of living:

I would consider any difficult yet solvable (in the near future) problem - that upon solving would ultimately raise some standard of living - to fall into the "important problem" category

In that context, a startup that made a device that could desalinize water cheaply would be solving an important problem. A startup that helped me share files between my phone and computer would not, though it would probably be more profitable.
Short answer is - you don't, really. There's very little one can do to help a grown-up person with a history of substance abuse. Unless you believe in God: but the efficacy of that approach is, clearly, impossible to scientifically verify.
Looking at those just makes me even more suspicious.

Compare http://scriptunasimages.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/wscriptu... to http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/shuttle041311/s_d1...

Perhaps things were repainted, but then why does the handle on the door work in the opposite direction?

EDIT: Also, the "emergency egress route" has changed direction? In the Atlantic image, it is pointing "up" the door, indicating that people walk through it towards the camera (when the door is closed). In the Scriptunas image, it points to the left, which doesn't even make sense when the door is closed.
I'd hate to see that technology lost given how poor the alternatives for this are right now. Genius, as a comparison is just terrible. Musicbrainz is pretty much impossible to use (and terrible).
Exactly. The telcos want to charge Youtube (and others) more money for a faster connection to me, but I already paid for my connection to be fast.

Those aren't Youtube's bits coming to me over the wire though, they are mine. I paid for them, both in money to the telco for my connection through them, and to Youtube with my attention to their ads.
This is fun, I wish the notebook had a hand drawn picture of a Stargate in it :-) (I know I know, don't cross your franchises, always thought it would be an interesting in an Aliens Vs Predators sort of way to squeeze out another movie).

That this has happened now though, at a time when my college age daughter is being deluged with colleges trying to get her attention, suggests to me an attempt at a viral campaign by the admissions department to raise UChicago on the radar of prospective students.
No. The desktop is not cross-platform, cross-media and installation free. Your flippant dismissal of the real advances that the web brought to common computing renders your opinion moot.
I think Google actually locked Google Maps at 30fps though. In other words, I don't think it is actually drawing as fast as the processor would allow, were Google to remove that lock.

Otherwise I'd expect to see more fluctuation in the framerate of the app, especially when there isn't much detail on the screen (similar to Apple Maps, which is obviously not locked to 30fps).
Vergeet je verzekering tegen ski- ongevallen niet
Expensive in the US. Because we accept the ridiculous pricing and behavior of the telcos and convince ourselves we have it the best it can be. In Europe things are far more competitively priced. I have traveled a lot in the third world and mobile devices are everywhere with smartphones increasingly prevalent. Stopping on a third world convenience store this summer, lost and looking for directions, the scruffy kid behind the counter broke off from playing with apps to show me on the map... On his iPhone.
That gave me chills.

I'm constantly impressed by people that have the ability to share their personal life with the world in an honest way that reveals the vulnerabilities we all share as humans. It is so much more refreshing than the opposite, where we pretend our lives are perfect and we never experience moments of doubt or melancholy.

It is rare to see someone make a post like this. This is precisely what makes it so refreshing and beautiful.
Say hello to the new 1Password for iOS
"A study by the DOE Plutonium Vulnerability Working Group concluded that the storage containers used to store pits do not provide an effective containment barrier, and that the effects of aging on the pits, such as corrosion and cracking, are unknown."

Lovely. Glad to see they are taking the necessary precautions to protect the 12k+ pits of plutonium at the Pantex site
Show HN: AlbumColors.js - iTunes 11 Style Background and Text Color Generator
Let the crowd create your next billion dollar algorithm
How is he comparing them? From what I understand he's saying that both of them are illegal therefore should be shut down.
The only reason I use last.fm is the scrobbling, I'd love it if they'd focus on music analytics more than radio. The moody pdf report in their playground is amazing.
Are people using this/Brunch/Yeoman inside Rails apps? I can't work out the usecase - or do you use this in conjunction with a separate app generating your API?

Sidenote: the design is gorgeous.
I hope Google waits a few months and then rolls out a premium-purchase maps feature. Then, when Apple demands their 30% and Google refuses, Apple has to pull the app again and frustrate all their users again. Not saying that's what will happen, but I can dream.
It's just a legal disclaimer, it's not reality.
Someday a company will buy google just for its mapping capability and toss the rest in the bitbucket.

Sounds like you're exaggerating for effect but still ...

wat?

What company is at a scale to buy Google and kill its cash cow of search advertising? And why would they?
Congrats on the release. I just preordered a copy of your ebook. After writing articles on some networks, I've decided to start working on a monotouch ebook. Your tips of your process will come in handy.
Correlation, Causation, Independence
The algorithm requires that you compare the current iteration to the source image, how does that constitute good compression? Not to mention the final image required 904314 generations to reach it.
A Sad Reminder That Some Kickstarter Games Don't Work Out As Planned
I am very happy that my parents are married to each other, and my alive grandparents too, and that they don't have issues like this (what my father "abuse" is coca-cola, he rarely drinks, and noone smokes).

And I am very sad to see that all other families are crumbling.

I am seeking a girlfriend that wants to be a mother, and I am not finding, most of them are self-centered, and come from divorced families, the only girl that ever became my girlfriend (and is still a good friend) was the only one that I found that still had married parents.
Hey, sorry about dissing your site. It's not that bad and could be tuned up quite easily.

– The text shadows on the main page are a bit much. 1px offset is sufficient and the shadow color probably doesn't need to be so light.

– Grey boxes around text are too tight and probably shouldn't be so rounded.

– Headers on home-page are either too big or aren't given enough space. Whitespace! Don't be afraid to use it.

– Darker shadows on headers have the same problem – too much offset – just looks tacky.

– Title and description on homepage looks crammed into the top. Give it more space. Maybe smaller text.

– Red headers are way too bright. Tone it down.

– The bathroom-tile background image is kind of weird.

– Body text is too wide throughout the docs.

– More whitespace throughout the design would help (between all typographic elements), especially given your choice of a large, open typeface.
Excellent! I am downloading the app right now
Author here. The source code is up on github: https://github.com/chengyin/albumcolors
Thanks Steve, that makes perfect sense.
Abraham Lincoln was misquoted, or least he said so in his Geocities page.

Anyway, how stupid is Time to fall for this, unless they are doing it for the traffic and clicks?
I dated a woman from a family like this. Her dad was in Vietnam and his squad was ambushed and he managed to find a hiding place from which he was able to witness the entire rest of his squad murdered in cold blood. 3 days later he got the balls to leave his hiding spot and the alcoholism began when he got home after being discharged. Classic PTSD case.

Your dad needs to see a counselor to help treat the alcoholism and a therapist to try to eliminate any underlying psychological issues that might be feeding into the alcoholism if there are any.

My uncle died of essentially alcoholism.

You have the right to tell your dad, dead in the eye, that you fear for his life and that he does not have to continue this downward spiral. He will need to summon a will in order to beat it, though. It might help to also remove him from the environments that contribute to his problem, such as moving to a dry town.

It still amazes me that I used to drink more (was always moderate) but really tapered off lately for multiple reasons (most related to health) without much difficulty at all, yet some people get completely addicted to this thing. (I have nearly all German and Czech ancestry which might help.) Yet there is a game called WoW that I can't seem to tear myself completely away from, and there is a woman on this planet that is impossible for me to not have amazing sex with when alone (she shares the same vulnerability) who I unfortunately cannot be anywhere near anymore because we are not right for each other and must focus on other people...
Hacking the Little Alchemy game with only Chrome in less than an hour
Google refused to allow Apple access because Apple was unwilling to allow more Google branding and Latitude support. It was a breakdown in negotiations, not either side being selfish.
Use metal detector-like beeps instead of the graphic then.
Hayek addresses redistribution of wealth as well as central style planning. He even specifically notes that while they may differ at (sometimes important) points, the general cycles have very similar results. So while not many people still believe in central planning, they seem to have grasped the new theory du jour of "spread it around", and in the end that is just as dangerous. Even so, to ignore the lessons in the book simply because of a superficial difference in ideologies probably isn't wise.

I think you're rather over simplifying things. I'm no economist, but I make it my business to be at the least knowledgable about such things, and I feel recovery from the Great Depression was more of a combination of New Deal infrastructure, WWII profiteering and the resultant increase of wealth in US that was then transferred to Europe to aid in the rebuilding. But then again, that's probably one of the most complex economic time periods in modern history so I don't pretend to know everything.

To address the gold standard, there are indicators that removing the gold standard may have benefitted in the short term, but will hurt us in the long term.
The problem with digital magazine apps is they are pushing an analog business model into a connected world.

Publishing! = Magazines. What is publishing? It used to be we print with a period of Y on paper type X, be that daily newsprint (newspapers), monthly super calendered paper (magazines), every few years on acid free paper (hardcover), and weekly super calendered Kraft paper (comics).

With digital the lines between the different publishing families are simply erased. Content can be put out at any point in time, and on any format. Further, complete works don’t have to be published all, serialized content is back after having been almost dead for decades.

What publishing needs is a business model that helps them sell content of all sorts of length that comes out at all sorts of time. Magazines have always been content buckets, where the taste and choices of the editor in chief and the publications self determined constraints determined if you wanted to buy that bucket.

The magazine in the connected world is going to have the problem of most topics they pick to have someone write about will be outdone by many other places on the net and available for free. Take a blog like footnoted.com, they’re doing deep dive financial journalism better than the Wall Street journal.

The future of "The Magazine" is BoingBoing.net, they deliver a bucket of curate content filtered through the tastes and choice of their editors. They make income off ads, referral links, and sponsored posts for $5k a pop.
for sure, this was what i was aiming for. if i were better at cocoa dev i would have made a little mac app too.

I pimped out stylus and avoided sass/compass for very specific reasons. try using the roots-css library and let me know what you think. I'm hoping people find it to be a refreshing change of pace - the syntax is natural, extensive, and includes ui components.
Sorry, I should've been more clear on that. I was figured disease might be the biggest killer, certainly more than war anyway. Whatever it may be, I'm pretty sure it's not war.
I've been through this once. It was terrifying, and I wasn't even driving. It's a good system, but frightening to behold.
> And that's the only reason why anybody is listening to him now, certainly not for anything else he's done.

Attacking his character doesn't make your false dichotomy any more palatable. Why not have cheaper labor and a more effective labor force?