skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Love the execution. Would be great if it could have history snapshots in a git-style. I'm looking to replace my github-hosted markdown docs (fairly numerable # of files), and this looks awesome, just needs to feel more solid. would love to help develop it!
Strongly agree! blekko's Bill of Rights is a great expression of their values and of why we should all be using blekko.

blekko Bill of Rights

1.	Search shall be open

2.	Search results shall involve people

3.	Ranking data shall not be kept secret

4.	Web data shall be readily available

5.	There is no one-size-fits-all for search

6.	Advanced search shall be accessible

7.	Search engine tools shall be open to all

8.	Search & community go hand-in-hand

9.	Spam does not belong in search results

10.	Privacy of searchers shall not be violated
Empiricism is believing the data.

The west coast and northeast have had a hundred years to fall apart because of their terrible liberal policies. They're doing great. The south and mountain west are much less economically impressive, despite their 'business friendly' policies.

So you've explained away 2 with anecdotes superior to data. 48 to go. Get started.

Also, by crediting the gold rush 150 years ago as being more relevant to California's current-day economy than it's horrible liberal policies, you're essentially saying that the actual policies don't matter.
Nice of you to donate to Wikipedia.
Don't operating systems, like windows, have a secure memory space that only the core OS can access? Memory access violation?

Edit: I don't understand the complete issue, I just know there was something about accessing all the memory.
I remember waking up whilst learning about animation and thinking that I couldn't move because I had set up the world, view, projection matrices but not the model matrices for my legs and arms.
I didn't know that, thanks for pointing it out!
By that logic knowing Spanish, Portuguese and Italian wouldn't make you trilingual since they're all related with different "key words, library function names", etc. I mean vocabularies and small grammar rules.
Temporal logic programming with Clojure core.logic
> having a hard time finding me hours

In my experience/interpretation, this is code (intended, I suspect -- but it could be otherwise) for "start looking".

P.S. I don't have a management/HR perspective on this, but I also suspect it may be part of laying a formal paper trail and documentation for a subsequent layoff or termination.

If they can document an inability to find you / your role work, this lends credibility to their decision to to terminate. Their communication of this to you becomes part of the record.

P.P.S. It may also be considered, on the part of management, as a kindness. Rather than terminating you immediately, they are giving you... a "nudge" to start looking while you are still employed.

(Of course, should you find something else, this would also save them from a possible claim for unemployment insurance -- said claims having an effect on the amount of the premium they pay for that insurance, as I understand it.)
"major non-aligned player in the industry -- a technology without inventory"

Huh? What am I missing here? Amazon is a combination of own inventory and x2C inventory right?
Sure enough. Amazon does backends like no one else, but the KF doesn't look or work all that well.

On the other hand, the UI on the eInk Kindles works pretty well. It may not be a thing of beauty, but it's highly functional. Of course, there's a big difference between a special purpose UI designed to do one thing well and a general purpose UI that's intended to do many things.
It's a very strange comparison to me. JS is intrinsically tied to the DOM, HTML and Web technologies, the underlying VM has widely used open-source implementations (V8, WebKit, Gecko), and JavaScript is not controlled by any single company.
Forbes 30 under 30 is a joke. One of the characters on Bravo's "Startup Silicon Valley" was chosen a couple of years ago:

http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eeji45ikli/sarah-austin-host-...

Anyone that's watched that show can tell you what a joke/fake she is.

I'm not saying everyone on that list isn't impressive, but I would certainly take it with a grain of salt.
Cards Against Humanity did something pretty amazing for Humanity.
That's tough to answer (pricing is tough!). As a single consumer, not much (e.g. under $20/month). As a business, potentially a lot more. If you're actually marketing it to enterprise or at least company teams, they're budget (and features they'd require) are different.
A 10 minute intro to Backbone.js
For a layman the abstract sounds like a computer-generated hoax.
dear scratchpad: http://scratchpad.io/j2la3taRYW#fullscreen
I agree - it's an amazing narrative of an interesting time. I wonder if contacting Xerox directly would lead to some more historical archives?
You know I never thought too much about Cards Against Humanity before this, it always popped up as a best seller on Amazon but I didn't feel like giving it a whirl. This story alone, is making me very intrigued on what the game is like to play.
Better Dictators than Elected Islamists
Similar experience here. We actually decided to scrap our Sencha app and go with a hybrid app where some UI components were done using native code and most of the app was done in vanilla HTML5/CSS3/Javascript. It's working out very well so far.
I'm sure many people will dismiss this as it's standard practice, the status quo has been set - though I feel when these kind of ethical issues are dealt with in a fair manner, then those platforms will be the ones who win in the end.
As a matter of federal law background checks are not required in sales between private parties. I'm not sure how you would implement a background check system that allows for private party sales while at the same time prevents people from fishing the database for dirt on their neighbors.

Of course there are some states, like California, that don't allow sales between private parties.
I wonder if this has anything to do with the selected audience for this card game...

i.e. Are the type of people who find these cards hilarious more prone to acting with "jerk" behavior?

Only a hypothesis, but worth a look, since my primary assumption is that this is a selective (and interested) audience given that it's an expansion pack.
Facebook Gets Into Local Search With “Facebook Nearby” For iOS & Android
Helping the Sandy Hook Community through the power of words
Also, regarding the «expertise» comment. I'm not saying you can't have an opinion, I'm just suggesting you can't fix the problem without more knowledge about the subject matter. You can say you want Wall Street regulated, but unless you have a huge amount of knowledge about the industry you have no idea what that entails or how to even go about it. Tell me, where would start and how exactly would that fix the problem?

It's the same with guns. You can say in few enough characters to fit in a tweet "get rid of automatic and semi-automatic guns", but it takes a deeper knowledge of the subject matter to know that that doesn't actually fix anything.

There are a lot more moving parts here. Just a few:

1.The WORST school massacre in US history did not use a gun. He used 3 bombs.

2. Mental health and it's treatments in the US. Many of the recent school shootings have been by people who were being medicated for mental health issues. Are these treatments helping? Are they actually hurting? Should we be doing more? Should some of them have been locked up?

3. School security. At this point, schools are target simply because of the other shootings. Different schools have different levels of security ranging from 0 to huge amounts. A few armed security officials sprinkled throughout schools could probably limit the damage somebody could do better than getting rid of semi-auto rifles.
"1. The display advertising ecosystem has, for years, been talking about data-driven display. The truth of the matter is, though, that most of the data is indirectly inferred and extremely low-quality. Companies like Google and Facebook tread very lightly when it comes to offering data for targeting for fear of massive privacy backlash, but it seems like Amazon could sidestep that. If Amazon is allowing implicit/indirect access to Amazon purchase history, it will be far and away better than anything else out there. More importantly, the unevenness of the data and of performance has really held back broader adoption -- if they're smart they may be able to bring over many of the holdouts."

This is very true. It's a quiet but widely accepted truth that "data" doesn't work for direct response advertising due it being too expensive and too diluted to drive results. If Amazon is able to solve this by selling their data direct, yes, it would be a big deal for DR.
Can't wait for this - 20yrs on the back burner and it's finally happening :)
You have two functions both of which grow to infinity, one of which is much better understood than the other. It turns out that if you subtract the two functions, they balance out perfectly so you end up with something converging to 4 instead of going to infinity.
It's a reference to the movie Idiocracy, which is set in a future where (among other changes) Starbucks is an erotic massage parlor: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fmUAFjqIPc4/T8aZMNekMfI/AAAAAAAAFB...
I have one of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Fone#F3

Solid as a rock, ridiculous battery life and dirt cheap :)
Instagram founder distorted the truth to expedite Facebook deal
Haha thanks so much!! That is awesome
I don't remember having any trouble with actually ordering the pack.

I do remember trying to bump the payment to $10 and not being able to. Adding an option to change the amount paid during checkout or making it much more obvious if there was one may have helped your "haul".
>That's a dishonest and misleading comparison.

It is and it isn't when you're talking about policy prescriptions. I don't see why my ability to own a firearm should be restricted because people in other demographics can't use them responsibly.
It seems odd to me that they highlighted Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber, etc. under Music when there are plenty of successful internet-/self-created acts that are much more impressive in talent and ability to market. Seems unfair to people who don't have millions of dollars and dozens of handlers.

When I think 30 Under 30, I think people I don't know that are pushing the industry forward, not people that are shoved down my throat through old methods.
>It is so incredibly depressing to watch Amazon blow an amazing opportunity with shitty software.

They also seem to habitually make unforced design flaws. I have a third-generation Kindle (I think), which works well enough, but the Kindle Paperwhite looks attractive. But it only allows flipping pages through a finger swipe; there is no dedicated button.

That's a recipe for a screen covered with finger prints and schmutz. On my current Kindle, I probably use "page forward" about 49 times for every one time I hit any other button. A single, discreet "page forward" button would be a huge UI win. When I played with one in a Staples, this was an obvious flaw—so obvious that I sent an e-mail to kindle-feedback@amazon.com to tell them as much.

An iPad or iPhone are much more general devices, but a Kindle is mostly for reading. Leaving this obvious, easy button off the Kindle is really annoying, and I think it's symptomatic of Amazon's a) Apple envy, which b) leads them to make design decisions that try to ape Apple without necessarily doing it well, or without recognizing what problems Apple is trying to solve and what problems Amazon is, or should be, trying to solve.
When I visit "business type" offices, I am constantly shocked at the amount of wasted time that goes on that I see. The examples you cited are merely the tip of the iceberg. Part of the reason I'm a programmer, I think, is because I absolutely ABHOR wasted/duplicated effort. This "natural programmer laziness" has always pushed me to figure out the way to "automate out all the boring parts".

I think it's a huge market opportunity for a programmer to merely show some poor bastards how to NOT get by via emailing spreadsheets back and forth.
I really enjoy the flow and layout of this site. Is is a bootstrap derivative?
According to http://www.qualcomm.com/chipsets/snapdragon the Qualcomm Snapdragon APQ8064 has LTE "on select processors". But it's still a separate chip from from the WTR1605L LTE chip.

So the Nexus 4 may actually have two unused LTE implementations ?!
This 3-part series [1] on building a wine-cellar app (basic CRUD, REST, etc..) with Backbone is a great place to start if you've never done anything with Backbone before.

The code is available on github [2], the author is clear and concise, and there are a number of back ends supported (node/express, php/slim, java/jersey).

[1] http://coenraets.org/blog/2011/12/backbone-js-wine-cellar-tu...

[2] https://github.com/ccoenraets/backbone-cellar
Show HN: Holiday Songs - Send Holiday Songs To Friends
She was in the media category. For some people in that category being included in even a silly TV show is a desirable career move.
You could say that about any field that one is unfamiliar with. Heck, the most basic art concepts could seem like so to a blind man. Mathematicians have worked for ages on simplifying the concepts so every term is there because it helps a trained mathematician understand what is going on.
Internally, we still use real, actionable metrics to drive our development. We just don't report them to outsiders

-- Pretty much how the world works.
>More to the point, how is it that 15 months after being involuntarily committed Cho was worse than he started? That sounds a lot more like a failure of the mental health system than a lack of proper gun control.

Treatment for mental problems isn't an exact science. It may be that he would have been worse had he not been committed. Personally I don't want more restrictions on guns, but I find the argument that the mental health system is the point of failure in these kinds of crimes to be pretty unpersuasive.
Blows it away?

16 way vector integer processor - giving ~4 Gigaops of integer compute performance (see https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv/wiki/VideoCor... for how to access it from user land).

24 Gigaflops via the QPU (from the 3d shader pipe) - which we have people beavering away on to open up soon.

Yes the ARM is weak on this one, but don't underestimate the power of the functional blocks and the open source and reverse engineering community.

Edit: see https://github.com/hermanhermitage/videocoreiv/wiki/VideoCor... for more info, or check the root wiki page. Volunteers wanted - all shapes - all sizes - all capabilities (join the mailing list, or come visit us on IRC).
> Time and time again, organizations with lots of money have decided to roll their own crypto to solve a problem they have. And it has almost inevitably failed.

Your last sentence is kind of hard to believe. I'm sure nobody ever even attempted to crack the vast majority of stuff that's encrypted out there.
You just failed Econ 101. :)
As Facebook Launches Nearby, Foursquare Continues Its Focus On Discover
Hey HN! Put together this site in the past week to let you send holiday songs to friends. Would love to get some feedback on the concept and things that would make the experience better. Apologies in advance for the forced FB login :-)
China Developers to Flatten 700 Mountains to Build New City
This list just makes me depressed that I'm nearly 40 and haven't done half of what these brianiac kids have done. Er, I mean, BRILLIANT!
As the call for tighter gun control heats up in the aftermath, it seems just as appropriate to see similar tragic events that did not involve (significantly) a firearm as a counter-point to the "without guns, these 20 children would be alive" argument that is already being made across the nation. This is a heated topic and both (all?) sides will have those that handle themselves tactfully and some that are crass. But just as swiftly as the gun control voices sprang up, others with different ideas will spring up. You can't tell one to STFU without telling them all to STFU. All we can ask for is tactfulness. I don't think there was anything tactless about this submission.
You pick the worst from a huge region and then use that to argue the case for the whole region (EU).

Just homicides:

http://chartsbin.com/view/1454

Intentional homicides:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentiona...

Using Sweden as an example to argue high rape incidence is ridiculous because Sweden classes things as rape that are not counted as rape in any other country in the world. See also: Julian Assange, aka the trouble of travelling unprotected in Sweden.

Check out the statistics on Australia pre and post the gun laws.

And if you have nothing better to do, a nice bit of reading on the trouble with flatly comparing the crime figures from various countries:

http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/Compiling-an...
Iranian computers targeted by new malicious data wiper program
I'm very excited about fixing wikis, and I'm really impressed to see that OP has some very similar ideas about it.

Because of this, I found it worthwhile to burn 1-2 hours to de-minify his Javascript, which mostly required figuring out what all his inlined JS libs are.

https://gist.github.com/4321959

To save you a click, here are the JS files he uses:

https://github.com/EightMedia/hammer.js/blob/master/jquery.h...

http://code.google.com/p/rangyinputs/source/browse/trunk/jqu...

https://github.com/jeresig/jquery.hotkeys/blob/master/jquery...

https://github.com/EightMedia/hammer.js/blob/master/hammer.j...

Modified version of http://code.google.com/p/jquery-elastic/source/browse/trunk/...

http://code.google.com/p/webapptools/source/browse/trunk/wat...

https://github.com/coreyti/showdown/blob/master/src/showdown...

https://github.com/coreyti/showdown/blob/master/src/extensio...

https://github.com/coreyti/showdown/blob/master/src/extensio...

https://github.com/coreyti/showdown/blob/master/src/extensio...

http://sharejs.org/channel/bcsocket.js

http://sharejs.org/share/share.js

http://sharejs.org/share/textarea.js
"Coming Soon" is Dead: 3 Rules of Product Validating Landing Pages
Sobering. It makes me realize that one of the internet movements which I appreciate the most, and also take the most for granted, is just how much more good design is stressed. Now if I find something which is ugly or non-intuitive, I really do take a step back and think about why things were shown to public like that.

Sometimes people do point and say that most web 2.0 websites look similar and uninspired, but I don't necessarily think that is a bad thing.
HTML5 Definition Complete, W3C Moves to Interoperability Testing and Performance
D3 improved "Reusable Chart Pattern"
whatever... take it or leave it
I love articles like this. Ramanujan was a very interesting man and perhaps had some of the deepest mathematical insights of anyone who existed. People are still trying to figure out what the things he wrote down meant. If you want to know more about his life, there's a great book called "The Man who Knew Infinity" (http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Who-Knew-Infinity/dp/067175061...)
I don't see any reason why we couldn't overthrow our government. It happens all over the world on a regular basis. Don't confuse "don't want to overthrow the government" with "can't overthrow the government".
Nope, I made it by hand!
I'm 16, and this is my first (real) iOS App
This is the first app I've ever released on the App Store coded in Objective-C. Let me know what you guys think.
wow, nobody talks about this?
I would have tossed in a few extra bucks if I knew it was going to charity!
Care to refute his assertions at all? I'm as irritated by monbiot as the next person, but here I think he is pretty correct. The congo is indeed kept in a state of perpetual war by our desire for so-cheap-they're-disposable electronics. This is well known and well documented.
You can get a pretty good idea from the home page, where the header shows sample card pairs. It looks very similar to "Apples to Apples", if you've played that.
Forrester Cloud Report
I think the 256 bits are a buffer against non-brute-force attacks, such as undiscovered algorithm weaknesses which may speed up by some factor, the cracking speed.
For convenience, the complete HTML5 spec:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-html5-20121217/

...and the complete Canvas2D spec:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-2dcontext-20121217/

Personally, I'm not sure how to reconcile a "feature complete" specification with the notion that HTML5 is (ostensibly) a "living document" (http://blog.whatwg.org/html-is-the-new-html5).
We made those things with our own hands.
Hotels have that already. Drop all traffic except web, then route that to an authentication or EULA page, set cookie, etc.
User Experience Techniques for Building a Great Startup
Not if it means we have to give up freedoms. The problem just isn't that significant.
It's an adult version of Apples to Apples. Think MadLibs, except one player readers the "madlib" and the other players draw from their hand to answer.

Example:

"Alternative medicine is now embracing the curative powers of ______ " was read aloud in my group.

I played the card that reads "Literally eating shit" and won the round, because the question reader liked my answer the most.
It seems genuine, or at least more sophisticated than computer-generated abstracts usually are. It seems to repeatedly mention the same concepts which is something usually lacking in computer-generated abstracts, though it does mix seemingly tenuously related topics.

I have no idea what any of it means though.
A culture of fake originality
Thanks PG. I counted 29 names -- if there were only one more YC alum on the lists we would have 30 YC Forbes 30 Under 30.
I think he's assuming Amazon will rent its data for use across other inventory sources rather than build its own ad network.
Props to the FiveStar guys.
A couple of months ago I mentioned these same notions about the Facebook app.

http://jairaj.org/2012/08/27/facebook-for-ios.html

Although I have to admit that Sencha's implementation isn't all that great. If you're going to offer an alternative, at least make it better than the other option.
This seems to be focused on web app start ups. What the most important metrics to track for eCommerce?
Mildly disappointing ending to what I hoped to be some epic story/gimick/whatever.

Amusing that the USPS thought the vintage (fake) Egyptian postage was real though
My comparison was of a more practical nature and practically speaking the most distributed VM is the browser.

The browser itself used to be too slow for many use cases which led to Flash filling in the gap, but thankfully that's rapidly changing with improved JIT VMs and HTML5 standardization efforts (WebRTC e.a.) all leading to the eventual demise of Flash.

Hence; JavaScript is the new ActionScript.

P.S. They're both just ECMAScript flavors so in that sense I would say they're very close ;)
You guys missed Instacart :)

http://www.forbes.com/special-report/2012/30-under-30/30-und...
I don't have high hopes for the first generation of any Amazon product. The original e-ink Kindle was expensive, slow, ugly, and had an extremely limited range of books. The original Kindle Fire was slow and buggy too.

In saying that, Amazon could very well be the best company in the whole industry when it comes to iterating and improving. The current e-ink Kindles are pretty extraordinary products. When Amazon commits to building a product, they don't just give up if the first few attempts don't pan out, unlike some of their competitors (I'm looking at you Microsoft Zune).
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4934235