skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter Bootstrap was made by @mdo and @fat for internal use at Twitter and released it because they thought it’d be useful for rapid prototyping of web elements or UI components (correct me if I’m wrong)

You can't beat people over the head for not going after aesthetic design one second, turn about face and then admit its utility for 'rapid prototyping' the next. If a team develops a product that isn't dependent on having a website that should be put in a gallery of beautiful designs, ready to be shipped to market, why would they bother waiting around for a designer?

Fucking ship it already.
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Same survey (maybe?) shows that U.S. gun owners on average own 4.4(ish) guns per owner. A quick search of the number of guns in the whole world gives me a wiki.answers.com reply of some 12 billion guns in the whole world (excluding .50 cal and above weapons) and wikipedia says the population of the world is around 7 billion. There are also surveys that show how gun ownership is at pre-1970s levels (at around 70ish/100 residents)
I am not the parent poster, but for me, yes, the infographic!
Good stuff! Now if only someone were to implement something like this as a front-end to editing Github's README.md files.
Author asks:

"I would start by measuring the magnitude of mass shootings as a problem. How does it compare to other issues such as preventable diseases, regular crime, terrorism?"

But is that the best comparison?

What about comparing it to frequency and impact in other countries?

When we want to evaluate the effectiveness of a treatment, we don't measure efficacy against the treatment to a completely different disease. So here, I think it would be more informative to have comparative study done across countries, societies rather than this distraction.

Author is basically saying, anything that is statistically small, does not deserve attention. So research into any low probability disease should be ended because there bigger fish to fry. I think we can do both.
Ah, my apologies. It is good content otherwise; I just had different expectations given the headline.
Who do you think marketed lady gaga before she had dozens of handlers?
Looks great. You know how to tread the fine line between 'minimal' and 'too minimal'
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need to connect this with Karma https://yourkarma.com/
You are a jerk for calling them jerks. If it is "pay what you want" then you are invited to do exactly that. If you want to pay nothing, you may do so. It is perfectly inside the rules of the event.
This article is missing an image of an old map with red lines connecting Italy, Guam, Hawaii, and Chicago.
YC dominates the list :)
I'm not surprised at all. I have a relative who sends out Christmas cards every year using cancelled stamps from those 1000 stamps for a dollar stamp collector starter kits. He has been doing this for 15+ years. It is amusing though to get a Christmas card in 2012 covered in multiple 8 cent Eisenhower stamps.

Apparently stamp fraud is not a high priority issue at USPS.
we don't markup postage either.

how does it work?
http://support.teelaunch.com/customer/portal/articles/888919...

how much does shipping cost?
http://support.teelaunch.com/customer/portal/articles/888869...
Just out of curiosity, is the list intended to be US specific or do they take non-US based folk into consideration?
Forbes is a joke and so are popular media publications when they attempt to discuss the "under 30" crowd. Generalize an entire demographic into only a couple of big trends. No thanks.
He's saying that things that have such a low occurrence that they're indistinguishable from statistical outliers are not good targets for generalized public policy, since the benefits are not provable.
CAH is one of the funniest and most enjoyable games I've ever played. I was shocked to discover it was pay what you want, and the cards were completely open to print for myself.
It isn't. That person put his name in as "Huge Asshole."
I don't understand your question. Mass shootings seem to be more rare in e.g. Europe. But how does that help anything?
Note that the humble bundle actually lets you increase your contribution "after" you've paid as well. They might be worth emulating there.
I find this very interesting since, while I am positive it has a mundane naturalistic explanation (like: the guy was really smart and had exceptional intuition), revealing the answers to questions that perhaps cannot yet even be formally asked is how I think I would go about proving that I was either from the future or another world.

Somehow get sent back in time a couple dozen thousand years? Carve a bunch of primes into the side of a cave somewhere, maybe throw in the Pythagorean theorem and a suspicious number of digits of Pi too. Messages that perhaps mean little to the contemporaries of the message.

Kind of fun to think about I think.
Played this for the first time on Saturday.

I had the "Haiku, pick 3" black card

which resulted in http://imgur.com/pcfgJ

I was laughing so hard that I was crying, just trying to read them out loud.
Ok, so I piled into star city purely because of FOMO. What are you going to do ? FOMO is real. You sit in Charlotte and say "I want to write cutting edge machine learning code in Scala", you get back emails from Managing Directors who make 400K saying "you've misspelt Scale as Scala" ( true, I swear ). The level of ignorance outside of SF/SV is staggering. Its ok if you want to do generic bread and butter crud apps in ruby/js/whatever, but if you want meaty sizeable R&D type work, you are not going to find it in Kentucky and the midwest outside of some very small pockets. FOMO is very real.
Going native is basically a form of optimization and thus only worth it when the improvement is large enough to warrant the investment.

Something about the premature roots of something evil something.
Sort of; the author does go onto say how R&D could help "solve" both mental illness and mass shootings. There is definitely a cap on what can be done, so the suggestion is to bake the cost into issues that are already more statistically large and probably solvable.

Theoretically, he does compare to other countries, as the statistic is a rounding error -- not statistically relevant.
Congrats Limor!

I still want a Wave Bubble.
What's Emmett, chopped liver?
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Nice to see so many familiar names on the Tech 30 under 30 list, congrats to Dan Siroker from Optimizely, Anthony from Kaggle and Darian. (Disclosure: I was on the list last year).
Congrats to all the YC folks! Amazing to see how much they dominated the list.
No clue what $8m seed means but the tech guy behind this is an algorithm monster. Not sure how that translates to consumer facing apps but it will either be amazeballs or it will be Color 2.0. Time will tell.
It's probably just people who wanted to see if they would really send it.

And it's teens without credit cards.

So I doubt you could really compare it to other things.
"Mass shootings seem to be more rare in e.g. Europe."

History indicates otherwise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe
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You can modify Emacs so that it does something on every change in the current buffer, like for example save the change to disk if it's a file-backed buffer.

You could then have a script refreshing the browser on every file change (do it from outside Emacs, calling shell scripts from Emacs or anything 'non-Emacsy' from Emacs is too slow for the usecase here).

However you'll probably have to find a way for the 'save file on every buffer modification' to be very fast otherwise it's going to annoy you and prove impractical.

Btw I can't wait for someone to implement at least part of Emacs in JavaScript so that, eventually, users used to Emacs shall have the possibility to have a Web text editor that doesn't s*ck. Maybe using ClojureScript + the implementation of Emacs redone in Clojure (I think there's a project trying to do that right now).
It makes sense that data points correlate to your growth, but what's interesting is that data points do not necessarily mean higher value for your customers. If there was a metric that only required one data point to measure and that metric could be the basis for a successful company, people would probably use less data points and gain more value. But most people don't know what to measure, so they default to measure everything. Thats good for you, but doesn't necessarily mean its good for them.
The USPS thought the fake postage was real after the fake package came out of its properly-stamped wrapper once it was already in the USPS process stream. It's always easier to pass a fake at a point where everyone assumes the fake has already been verified.
Why did they not donate to Wayback Machine instead? Wikimedia is doing just fine and their fund raising is mostly for advertising and marketing. The site is at zero risk of running out of operating funds. Personally, I'd rather see money go to historic records than revisionist, popular encyclopedia.

Source: http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Plan/Movement_P...

Last financial report: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Financial_Reports/Financ...
His assertion that buying my children Christmas presents will be killing rhinos? Please. He ticks off a bunch of unrelated bad things that happen in the world as a result of consumption. He lists a bunch of stupid presents some people buy. And then he makes the illogical leap that if you give gifts you are guilty by association, trying to tarnish Christmas as it goes. This is almost perfect Guardian hard left sanctimoniousness.

Do you not have a cell phone because they are evil? I just upgraded to a nice new iPhone 5. I won't be disposing of it for many years. I wasn't aware that people tended to.

This shouldn't really be a HN story, as it is fundamentally political.
"Public policy should not be dictated by emotions."

But the media knows that a large share of their "news business" is driven by emotion. And so here we are all thinking about mass shootings.

And we know the media has an enormous influence on politics.
So add this all up and what do we have?

A terrible tragedy that affects a small community but also a lot of tangential effects, remote onlookers, politicians and an enterprising "media business".

I have a cousin who as a child was a student in a narrowly averted early grade school classroom mass shooting. Honestly, when I first heard about this incident in Connecticut I thought of him. I can only wonder what he thought about when he read about this incident. When it hits close to home, there might be hesistation to even talk about these things, they are so horrible. We might block them out. We might tell the children to close their eyes. We might try to pretend it never happened.

But for the media and the "news business", it's a different ballgame.
The last time I had a quick look at the numbers, global inequality is down due to global trade. It's really that the bottom bit of developed nations lost a bit to those in developing nations.
I can't downvote you, but that's a useless comment and you know it.
Odd that your experience has been so different. My progression has been:

1. The "elbow" technique. Worked OK for years, then spam began to rise.

2. A slight variation to defeat generalized bots. I changed the field label to, "Type 'humour' with American spelling." This held on for a few more years.

3. A hashcash-based solution, where a proof of work is generated using JavaScript in the client and required to post a comment. It's calibrated to take 20-30 seconds on typical computers, and doesn't start until you focus the comment fields so it's not burning CPU for people who just view the page. This is still working well for me. I get occasional spams, but from looking at the logs it appears almost certain that these are from real humans who are actually spending the 20-30 seconds waiting for the hashcash to compute. I only have to delete one or two spam comments a month for the moment.

Wonder what caused your site to suffer so much more.
What exactly is infinity?
Thats amazing, lets see some code?
Featured in Tech category is a YC reject :)
"If you look at a per capita rate, the rate of multiple-victim public shootings in Europe and the United States over the last 10 years have been fairly similar to each other. A couple of years ago you had a couple of big shootings in Finland. About two-and-a-half years ago you had a big shooting in the U.K., 12 people were killed.

"You had Norway last year [where 77 died]. Two years ago, you had the shooting in Austria at a Sikh Temple. There have been several multiple-victim public shootings in France over the last couple of years. Over the last decade, you’ve had a couple of big school shootings in Germany."

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/Lott-guns-Connecticut-shooti...
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we recommend at least iOS 5 or Android 4.1

I agree with you. I was going to ask this same questoin. From TFA, they stated above. Well, that really sounds like Mark Zuckerberg didn't know what he was talking about at the beginning of this year!

A lot of people are still on Android 2.X as you have stated, and a lot of people are on slow Android devices. I know several people on ZTE Blades running 2.3 which were available over a year ago for less than £100. Sure, not the snappiest of devices, but usable. What is the HTML5 version going to be like for these users?

Blah blah blah, hardware limitations, you can't limit yourself to lowest denominator etc. But Facebook HAS to support all these users. And it's not just users in the western world. There are millions of users in third world countries who pretty much exclusively access Facebook from mobile phones, usually not the latest spec (or even close) or most up to date s/w version (I doubt many would even know how to update it).

I agree that web apps are the way to go. But it is VERY much going to depend on your target audience.
I suppose you pretty much have to assume that once a package is in the system, it's valid, especially if it's got foreign stamps.
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Yet another anecdote from yet another polyglot. This came up today in a review:

> Java statement sequences are a monad, with a weird fold notation, for (blah : blahs) { ... }. I can live with weird notations ;)
I visited Phoenix a couple of weeks ago and was shown a gun collection owned by a previous member of the army. I was shown a pistol collection, then rifles, then semi-automatics. Really a quite staggering amount of hardware. When I asked what license was required to own this type of equipment he replied none. Without making a judgement on whether or not civilians should be allowed to own this type of equipment in the first place, should it not be an absolute minimum that people first obtain a licence to purchase guns. We don't allow people on the roads without a licence and they're not even designed to kill. A simple first step would seem to be requiring basic equipment/awareness training and a licensing process.
Are those real, but used, Eisenhower stamps, or fake ones?
Amazon's main edge over the competition (in more than just the electronics) has always been two things: price and convenience. I know many people (myself included) who have changed their purchasing habits because of Amazon Prime.

They're trying to do to digital goods what they did to physical goods, and so far they seem to be pushing forward quite well.

If you look at the Kindle device itself, it is made to be cheap. Even the entire "Special Offers" program is an attempt to focus on the rapid consumption of content. I'd argue that Amazon is one of the few companies that can successfully pull off a device with advertising baked in to the user experience.
I first met Ada at the Boston 2600 meetup in Harvard Sq in 1992. I think she was 14. Deth Veggie from Cult of the Dead Cow introduced her to me. He said he could tell she was going to amount to something big. Heh. Congrats Ada!
A little exaggerated but not far from true. Not speaking of gifts specifically- I'm amazed by the amount of junk toys and useless gadgets coming from China. I actually don't know what amazes me more- that someone thought: "Hey, it's a great idea to make this <useless piece of crap>" or that someone out there is actually buying that stuff.
You are right, knives don't count in comparing the amount of shootings. Also, Europe is not a Turkish mountain village.
Even so, mpwieher's comment still stands to some degree. At a rate of 190, NZ is still around the same level as other Western countries which range from 70 to 150ish. It's nowhere near the proportion of people imprisoned by the US at 730. That's a pretty big dropoff between first and second place.
Apologies on my end sir! I hate that as much as anyone
I think the source of the confusion is that you are conflating sharing of a [SPDY] connection with sharing of a resource identifier (a URI/URL). This is a misunderstanding. SPDY multiplexes multiple streams over a single connection (or more accurately, a session). Each stream is used in the HTTP layering case to correspond to a request/response pair for fetching a resource at a URL. So, even though a single connection is shared, different resources at different URLs can be simultaneously requested over the same SPDY connection.

In short, SPDY does not imply combining resources. Application level combining of resources is a common hack to work around lack of parallelization at the HTTP/1 protocol level, but as noted, it has deficiencies.
Bugs are the same thing. A bug is usually either worth fixing immediately (aka "next") or "never". Many bug trackers get clogged with stuff like "on IE7, the user dialog is 5 px to the right". It's either worth fixing right now or "never". Delete it, and if another user complains and it's recent enough that we remember the other story, then it bumps up the priority. But if it happens long after we all forgot it happened, it's still not important enough to fix.

I think this is only really acceptable if you are a very small team with very specific goals. I'm biased, as I work in QA, but these things are necessary because a lot of devs are pretty terrible at reading specs. QA will find scrolls of bugs, and having them all marked as 'next' is useless. You need things like priorities, you need things like Sprints.
I propose that one factor exacerbating the negative feelings around this particular product launch is that Google has failed to create a good customer experience during purchase (particularly order confirmation).

People don't like to wait[1]. In a world where Amazon gets orders to a person the next day, a checkout flow that doesn't set extremely clear expectations for the timing of order processing, fulfillment, and shipping will make people angry. Google forced consumers to work particularly hard to find this information. Here's the confirmation email I received: http://i.imgur.com/CbMSu.png

I'd argue that the design of this email is particularly poor, in that the ONLY thing I care about at this point is: when will the thing I bought arrive at my house. Every single piece of information other than: what was purchased, when it will arrive, and the delivery address should be moved much lower in the information hierarchy.

Embarrassingly enough, I sent Google customer support frustrated complaint that I hadn't received a notice about an expected ship date, only to have them (rather mechanically) direct me back to this original email.

Apple still does a great job at this experience. When a brand new iPhone is taking a couple weeks to arrive, the folks I've witnessed are usually not angry - they're excited.

[1](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/opinion/sunday/why-waiting...)
How long have you gone on a single charge?
Andreessen has it wrong. Tech degrees have always done well historically, doesn't mean there isn't any place for the humanities. I bet you Andreessen learnt lifelong soft skills from humanities courses he took in school.

Also, if he were right, why isn't all the innovation happening in tech only countries like India and China (where once you're in a tech degree, you don't really take any courses in the humanities)
Don't worry. Your cobelievers already did it.

I guess I just don't have the "sophisticated" European point of view that says that millions killed by government don't count.
> But it only allows flipping pages through a finger swipe; there is no dedicated button.

While true that there is no dedicated button, a tap will turn the page. Your thumb doesn't have to leave the frame/casing to initiate a page turn.
The staff of all workplaces change over time. That doesn't disprove my point at all. I have worked at some companies where I really enjoyed the people I worked with, but then one day looked around and realized most of them were gone, and soon after, I was, as well.

According to the article, if I like the job, I should just stay and new people would come in that I like. But that isn't true. The 'people I like' leaving is a harbinger that the company culture is changing.
I think the point is just as much that you don't need the best design in the world to be successful. Just get started, even if it's not the most attractive.
Is there an actual list of only 30 names? Trying to read through this, I see 30 in each category. I guess "450 under 30" doesn't have the same ring.
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Infographic on gun ownership around the world that was published by a Canadian newspaper after a public shooting at a mall.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/07/28/guns-ownership-aroun...

note that the black circle is not scaled by the population of the country so it isn't visually as useful as it could be.

Interesting take aways:

* 88.9 guns per 100 U.S. citizens
* 45.7 guns per 100 swedish citizens (next highest country in the world)
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"Mildly disappointing ending to what I hoped to be some epic story/gimick/whatever."

I started to wonder if it was some sort of publicity stunt by Disney to get interest into a new Indiana Jones movie after buying Lucasfilm.
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At least we're not shooting everything into space after Christmas. That's the only way we'll actually deplete resources. Wealthy posh people like Monbiot needs to make up things like scarcity so they can lecture us on consumption.

I'm not a big fan of buying lots of rubbish for Christmas, but it's purely because I don't really see the point and could do with saving the time and effort.
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that disclosure sounds like bragging, sorry
Because they already donated to Wikimedia.

Two good times to recommend alternative charities: (i) on threads where people ask, "where should I donate my money", and (ii) on threads about disasters, when you have an opportunity to spur donations to targeted charities.

You almost certainly didn't mean anything by this comment, but you generally want to avoid the appearance of litigating someone's good deed as a missed opportunity to do a better deed. Donations to Wikimedia are a good thing, worthy of congratulations.
> * 45.7 guns per 100 swedish citizens (next highest country in the world)

Swiss you mean? ;)

That said, a quick look at the list and it appears that no western country can compare to USA in firearm homicide per 100k citizens.
Now this boggles the mind. This could be explained by the Nexus 4 sharing the internals of the Optimus G, but why opt for the off-die LTE modem in the first place?
Pamela Fox (Coursera) came to Box to talk about how they use backbone.js -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThFg5LHTPy8
Congrats to Darian! Radius is doing some amazing things!