skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since the theme is "working together is better than working alone", a group of octocats holdings hands/tentacles together would be nice. The octocats should be varied sort of like the ones here: http://octodex.github.com/ (maybe to a lesser degree, but the effect will be diminished if they all look the same).
Fall for what? Did you read the link?
They are. The new native app isn't out yet.
There are some US department of Justice data that shows stuff like 70% of people in prison being from fatherless homes and other things like that.

There was somewhere in about.com a collection of that sort of data.
That's Rich -Cartoon about Fiscal Cliff
Your mistake is looking for a "purpose" to try to understand.
From the article: "I quickly noticed how the room got it name as the walls and floor are completely covered in rubber over a soft cushion that was meant to absorb the blast."

The seats in the room also have seat belts. Looks like the room's designers expected a violent experience.
The Real Toll of Patent Trolls
I love Notch even more. Grumpy swede.
Facebook Speeds Up Android App By Ditching HTML5
Thoughts on Death Penalty
I find walking with the map on auto-rotate mode helps friends with spatial orientation problems find their way, as does using sat view.

Personally, I prefer "North Up" view, even in automobile GPS. I find this improves imprinting of location and orientation through the spatial relationships, leaving me better able to navigate without the GPS.
look at the footer
This stuck out to me too, but some googling of "Illonois" brings up a lot of census records from 1930 using that spelling. I can't find any concrete confirmation but maybe it's intentional and accurate?
PongSat: send ping-pong sized electronic experiments into space
It depends on the individual and her specific background, but for instance for girls of mothers that suffered from domestic violence there's a very high probability they'll end up with a violent husband, even though they keep telling themselves that they won't. Forgot how this syndrome was called, and this iPad is awful for doing Google searches.

Basically we are doomed to repeat many of same mistakes as our parents. You do have a certain control over your life, but eternal vigilance and self-awareness is required. I keep seeing this every day, as I'm now a father too. For example my father was a workaholic that didn't have much time for me. He was also very critical of other people's mistakes. I tend to repeat these same mistakes, even though I make an effort not to, but sometimes I just can't help myself.

It really depends on the individual though. I have at least one friend coming from a broken home and he's one of the most balanced individuals I know.
US, UK and Canada refuse to sign UN Internet treaty
AirBnB will eat nothing. AirBnB is thriving because of non-enforcement of existing laws, which were put in place by cities to protect the consumer, and because the IRS is not collecting taxes.

Relevant:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/your-money/a-warning-for-a...

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-27/airbnb-to-ta...

As soon as the hotel industry perceives AirBnB as a legitimate threat --we're getting there in NYC-- it will take action/lobbying to the next level, and it won't be pretty. For starters, they could ask the IRS to demand a full DB dump of all hosts to tax their (mostly illegitimate) income, which I suspect is not reported as such. The pool of available inventory will dry up in no time.

That said, I am wondering if he means that they can pivot and buy their own buildings to become full-fledged hoteliers.
> [2] Scala and Clojure being proof that it is still possible (though only to a lesser extent - tail call elimination and corecursion being an example where it fails completely).

In clojure, loop..recur and trampoline does the job. Tail recursion is not automatic, but still, it's there and quite straight forward to use with the added benefit of recur cribbing if your call isn't a tail call.
Thanks! Both those guys are fantastic tools, but leave a lot to be desired as far as permissions (all, not partial) and extensibility. As front-end apps for emailbox are open code, so anybody could quickly make an email app.
Doesn't work on Safari on iPad either, hopefully they notice the comments here and fix it.
What could possibly go wrong when using a device that is connected to the Internet as a 2nd form factor?

That's not just a criticism of this app: all the apps that advertize a device that is connected to the Internet as a "2nd form factor" is using deception to lure people in.

There's no way this is "Two-Factor" in the same way that a physical RSA token is "Two-Factor".
I'm the one bringing up Alex Jones, as a way of being derisive about people who equate the US and China on the auspices that "the US has made policy mistakes and China has made policy mistakes so what's the difference?". I'm sorry that I accidentally implied that you, specifically, were regurgitating Infowars points.

You ask, in effect, if the administration already had the ability under its war powers to detain people, why create a new bill that re-affirms that power? The answer is political. The conservative GOP wanted to re-affirm those war powers that benefited the CIA, and at the same time some (but not all) liberal elements of the Democratic party wanted to clarify and rein in those powers. There was a fight, and then a compromise bill, which, reading between the lines, attempts to punt the thorniest parts of the debate to the Supreme Court while creating an immediate statutory authority for CIA and DOD to continue doing what they're already doing.

Yes, this is a clusterfuck.

The problem in the US is that we were hit with one of the most damaging, best organized terrorist attacks by a non-state actor during the least competent administration of the past 50 years. Congress panicked and granted the Bush administration a wish list of military powers, and we're spending the ensuing decades gradually cleaning up after the resulting mess.

That's a problem. But it's not a sign that the US is gradually turning into a dystopian hellscape.

I don't care, except for two things. First, when people bring up the NDAA, they set off a "someone's wrong on the Internet" sensor that, as a nerd, I am unable to suppress. Second, as much as Internet psuedo-activists do not want to hear this, the "NDAA" issue is in fact a corner case in US policy. Indefinite detention of political dissidents in China is not a corner case. It is a daily fact of life, as it is elsewhere in the world.

You can make millions of dollars spinning conspiracy theories about the evils of the government and big corporations in America, and the reality is, nobody really cares. Try doing that in Russia; see how long it takes for you or your coworkers to end up dead.
Ask HN: Can we brainstorm a list of niche site ideas like Bingo Card Creator?
Patrick, Amy Hoy and tons of others are making good money on small niche sites and tools. I'd love to join them, and I'm sure others here would as well. I think it could be valuable to brainstorm a list of potential ideas like these.
I know lots of self-centered people that are parents.

What I mean is that it is hard to find women that actually WANT to live a life of sacrifice, living for the family, instead of living to themselves.

I've met some women that when I ask if they want to be mother they say:

"Oh, sure!"

And then I ask:

"So, when you have your 4 months old kid, you will stay at home to take care of it if your husband is rich enough for that?"

And then most of them reply:

"Hell no, the kid can stay in the creche, or watching TV with the babysitter, I must work."

Funnily, I have a friend that insists that she will even have a kid using sperm bank, and she will take care of that kid alone, yet she hates her mother because she feels her mother did not gave attention enough to her (her mother is a divorced lawyer, and the girl was cared by the house cleaning lady that lived in the house, when she has problems she still talk to that lady instead of her mother).
Yahoo: optimizing executives and board members through stochastic hill climbing since 2005.
Sales will suffer and when people find out that they can get it for free (especially if it's on a site with more juice than you on Google), they will fall off to nothing.

Not only that, but the people using it will be your biggest complainers and the cause of many headaches. OSS seems to have created a whole group of users that feel entitled to everything for free.

This has happened to me a few times already, so now I stick to pure services/commercial.
Transcriptic - outsourcing basic biology research work
You may be interested in my post from yesterday.

http://longposts.com/1990082
Sorry, but you too are showing breath-taking ignorance and considerable lack of sensitivity and tact, even with the clues staring you in the face.

Let me be just a little more blunt - it's not only the case that for some people having children is not easy, but in addition, it's a big deal that they CAN'T HAVE CHILDREN.

Now, have you got the point?
4chan is trolling nobody.

I think you and amalag are misunderstanding 4chan's motives.
i think it's stupid ... putting the apple, windows, android logo on the frontpage, getting rid of their own playful brand element(octocat) completely. oh, and on top of that adding two meaningles illustrations that can only be seen as an insult to any thinking developer.

as a person who is kinda proud of having octocat as one of two stickers on my mac i have to say: it sucks and i cant identify with it.

tl;dr: get rid of the apple/mac/android logos, bring octocat back.
It still has no (prominent) search box on the homepage. Do I need to explain how dumb this is?
"I now have an entire life to live without him existing." Beautiful but sad words.
The Magical Mind of Persi Diaconis: Runaway magician turned math professor
The future of airline seating
Here is my feedback. I really like what you did, as you can see from other comments, there are already a lot of alternatives.

I would prefer sass and haml honestly. Other then that, I love how you make those mixins that seem very useful and I can see myself using it.

Videos are very good and show what are main features.
Federal judges affirm right to Caller ID spoofing if “non-harmful”
AirBnB will push back and fans of AirBnB will push back too. In addition to that, there is always business outside the US. Half the people I know who have used AirBnB used it to stay outside the continent. They'll hard times, no doubt, but I wouldn't immediately dig their grave and put flowers on it.
I'm really enjoying the shifts in yahoo at the moment. Hopefully it leads to better products and services for us the users and consumers.
Rosenwald is also the admissions building. It may very well be a fanboy applicant to the University.
The problem is that as more and more frameworks are used and required for employment (my current job requires one), there will be more and more developers that just mash frameworks together and don't understand the inner workings.

I'm glad I grew up in a time with no frameworks.
See also http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-473568/Welcome-sardi... and http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/runway-girl/2008/12/can-we... for economy bunk beds and http://www.airlinetrends.com/2010/01/26/anz-skycouch/ for economy three seat beds
iPhone/iPod only. No Android love, sadly. I really wanted to try this.
Kids (7-16) can pitch their ideas to Warren Buffet
They're pushing features like "launch your site within minutes" and "customize your site without needing to touch the underlying PHP code," which makes it feel like they're playing to the wrong audience. By the time someone is ready to spend $500/month on hosting, you would think they'd have someone on their team who isn't intimidated by Wordpress level configuration or PHP.
Facebook Developer Alerts on platform changes that could break apps, violations…
I'm all up for a offsite salsa cooking class as a team building exercise.
Ads may come to Instagram
I think it's more interesting in what it means for Google. I very deeply live in a Google ecosystem - GMail for personal and work, GCal, etc, but I have an iPhone. The new GMail app isn't magical or anything, but it is good enough for my usecases, now killing any incentive I had to go back to Android.

I'm glad they're not using their power for evil, but they seemingly aren't doing anything to make Android even just a little more attractive.
Student Debt Bubble Officially Pops As 90+ Day Delinquency Rate Goes Parabolic
Enron people labeled themselves "the smartest guys in the room"... and they were! But they were wrong on everything else. Very smart people are wrong all the time, because of conflicts of interest, because of ideology, because they don't have all the facts, because they're not trying to think rationally, etc.

(On how "smart" people are often wrong, see for example "The Psychology of Rational Thought" by Keith E. Stanovich.)

Regarding Mr. Andreessen, he's just advocating very conservative policies -- esp. less regulations. Less regulation may be desirable for ventures such as AirBnB, but that doesn't mean it's an absolute good. It at least deserves a public discussion and not just affirmations by one of AirBnB's investors...

(Also, "your mistakes make me wince" is not an argument ;-)
California's Berkeley to give college scholarships to illegal immigrants
Notch, I am sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing. You are strong. Thank you for all your awesome contributions to the the gaming and programming communities.
Introducing the "other half" of your iPad:

http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/ultrathin-keyboard-cov...

Leave it off when at home or in the hotel bed "consuming", leave it on when heading out to the coffee shop. (It bonds using the smartcover magnets.)
Microsoft’s share of the consumer market has dropped from 95% to 20% in 8 years
Lots of good stuff in the New Startup Ideas spreadsheet

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag-R_ZlGO21NdE9...
Not if you like making money on unnecessary purchases.
I respectfully disagree.

I used the word Jihad as it best reflects how personal it becomes to some people. It's not a matter of taste, but a matter of "being".

My main point, which clearly wasn't well articulated, was STEP YELLING AT ME. I can't change it. Nor do I care.

Yell at Apple, or Google, or whoever can act on it. Boycott them all you want. Just don't vilify me simply because I happen to like the platform you happen to hate.

You do that, and I promise to not yell at you for the platform you like that I happen to hate (as an example, I honestly could give two shits about Apple or Android .... it's a god damn phone).
A better way to search for an app called "child books" would be to use quotes around it.[1]

But I agree, Google Play's search can still be improved. Currently a search for GTA vice city [2] places the actual game in third place behind other related apps. These apps are The important thing to note is that both these apps have 100,000+ downloads while the game is <50,000 right now. So the number of downloads is given a higher weight than name (as it should be.) But the actual game should get a better rank than other things. As time goes on and more sites link to the game and more people download it, this will improve.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=%22child+books%22&...
[2]: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=gta+vice+city&c=a...
To play the pedant, they haven't completely gotten rid of Octocat - check out the favicon.
It doesn't look like you tried very hard. I'm in the US so I cannot verify but there are mentions of Deezer accounts on the page. Either click the link to login with your Deezer account (there will be probably be a signup link nearby) or close the facebook box in front and click the signup link in the top right.
CRC32 used to be pretty common -- is there a typical replacement being used instead? Of course usual mantra is "it depends on what you're using it for", but I'm curious if there's a typical drop-in.

>Also, changing hash, unless done with care, will cause compatibility issues.

I'm not calling you out, but I'm interested in what kinds of compatibility issues you're thinking of?
Gerrymandering and Convexity [2011]
This has been discussed to death already, so without opening Pandora's box too much: (1) If a compiler can't automatically eliminate tail calls, that's either a design flaw or a bug, and (2) If I wanted to write a loop, I wouldn't be asking for recursion - even if they're executed in the same way by the machine, I'm expressing something different by writing my code that way.
Does the correct spelling (googol) also get cencored? What about with combinations with number? e.g. g00gle or goog1e?
So I am not being facetious when I say I don't understand I I guess your comment makes sense, but honestly... I still don't understand. The rocket explodes, a massive shockwave of expanding gas gets pushed down the chute into the middle room. The actual protected room has a vault-like door, is on springs, has massive padded chairs with seatbelts. That I get. But how does rubberizing the middle room help? How much of the shockwave can it possibly absorb?

I'm not rhetorically trying to say it's useless. I'm perfectly happy to admit that NASA's engineers have a better grasp of this situation than I do. I just don't get how it helps.
What the ad-supported business has going for (and against it) is that the results are roughly linear with investment -- it's a plausible business plan for an individual to make $1000 a month in ad revenue in their space time. The business plan isn't too different if you've got a company with more staff that takes $100,000 a month to support except it's harder to cherry-pick a niche that's more profitable than average.

A company like AirBNB has to make a nonlinear change in people's behavior to succeed, it has to cross some threshold, which produces a certain kind of risk and poses a certain kind of reward. Advertising, in itself, doesn't need to be disruptive to succeed.

For big brands you're facing the need for big investments to keep up your brand. For instance, ESPN spends a lot on IP rights, photographers and other things, and that is what makes ESPN a premium site. Again, you don't have this tiny investment that explodes, but a slow and steady crawl that, in their case, is surely subsidized by the huge multichannel TV business.
About crumbling families:

I am form Brazil, no-fault divorce was only allowed in the 70s (in comparison to US for example), and divorce rates rose very quickly.

Three years ago the divorce laws were made even more lax, and divorce rate tripled immediately (ie: one year after the law, the amount of divorce year-to-year was 3 times).

Most of my friends have divorced parents, I knew few people that actually have married parents, and frequently when people meet my family they say they are envious.

Also the marriage rates are plummeting too (and although the co-habitation rates are rising, it is not rising fast enough to compensate).
I retract my complaint about dropping pins. iOS maps requires tap and hold too. What threw me off was that Maps gives you the pin first then loads data. Google maps starts loading data then gives you the pin.

That's what threw me off.

Lack of POI data? The mapping data appears equivalent to the web app. Maps has more POI data it seems, or at least shows it without have to zoom in too near.
>There aren't enough humans that can do math

On what basis do you make that assertion? "Lots of people program who didn't bother to learn maths" doesn't mean they aren't able to learn maths.

>This stuff we call code ain't that hard.

Then why do we so consistently fuck it up horribly?
Pretty sure that's isomorphic to rule 17: Every win fails eventually
disagree that is has nothing to do with the site and everything to do with visitors. these are closely correlated - the content and reputation of a site very much dictate the type of visitors it attracts.

exchanges are very useful for buying ads but the strategy is the same - finding good sites that cater to people that are likely to buy your product or service.
I really like the concept/look of this app, here's hoping an Android version [1] materializes.

"From those visits, we had 3,200 users initiate 13,000 conversations powered by Mantaphrase."

Somehow, I'd have expected more conversations per user. Any insight as to how many casual versus frequent users you've ended up with?

1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4632880
Sounds great! Some thoughts:
Your email field doesn't support tags http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Address_tags and
When entering an address with tags it fails with no error.
or Captain Euro:

http://www.captaineuro.com/
Like others here, I was touched by the honesty of this. Thanks.
While I'm sad that you cannot find this ideal girlfriend (which I am also looking for) it's not a bad thing that you are at least finding out that they are self-centered. You want to find someone like yourself who looks forward to having a stable family.

Can you imagine marrying someone who's self-centered and you finally have kids? That could be disasterous. There could be lots of regret that you can't undo and you end up going down the path of divorce or worse.
GitHub is awesome, but why so many upvotes for a homepage redesign?

EDIT: Why so many upvotes for a comment about upvotes?
Agreed on the huge range of weights and styles. I experimented with almost all of them for http://peterjmags.com/ before settling on the current two for headings. Each variation that I tried had such a different impact on the overall design and "character" of my site. To me, that's the mark of a well-designed family of type.

And great work on the customer.io site! I was actually admiring it just yesterday after following your link in another thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4912268
Ezwebframe - Erlang thinks that the browser is an Erlang process
If they don't share your vision and aren't getting paid you're not going to keep them around for long. People are often eager to help their friends but then regret what they've gotten themselves into when the task becomes too large.

You either need to find people as passionate about your idea as you, or offer them some compensation that they care about. There's no easy way to get good work out of people for free other than telling them they get college credit for it or that it's the only way to advance their career.
Well, for starters, you're not using an iPhone and that's not what the Google Maps app for iOS looks like.

Regardless, your screenshot shows no evidence that the maps aren't vector based. You simply don't have the high-resolution data for that area and Google's UI is showing that to you by burring it. Apple Maps doesn't blur, it just doesn't show you any details. I like knowing that there is information I am missing, the blur is handy.
Okay, I'll risk being "that guy" who starts about adblock, but I seriously tend to forget that there even is advertising on the web, let alone that it is still a source of revenue for anyone else but Google.

I've always considered it one of those walking dead business-models, like printed newspapers, and it regularly surprises me the practice is still alive and well. I would be terrified to let my business depend on it.
Google’s Twitter accounts celebrate Google Maps’ entry to iOS
> But I still scrobble everything and it's cool to look back!

Unclear what you mean. They both scrobble, do you aggregate them together someplace?
Google gets a second brain, changing everything about search
Should have known that guy was awesome before Connections.
Is the traditional inbox getting old? re:me addresses issue
you know you could just read the shell script, which is one way that this install method is more transparent than an installer binary.
The Geddy framework for Node.js is doing some pretty cool things these days. It provides a good architecture for real time MVC apps.

Yammer is using it for it's file uploads service.

It's got a great website and it's docs aren't bad either.

http://geddyjs.org